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In an effort to improve my photography, I am participating in the Donna Hay Styling & Photography Challenge 2012, hosted by Simone at JungleFrog Cooking. Simone is an incredible food photographer herself, and this is one way she helps the rest of us try to get better.
Each month, Simone selects a recipe from the Donna Hay magazine. Then, participants attempt to recreate the photo as closely as possible.
The Challenge
This month's challenge gave us a choice of two images – Salted Rump Steak and Roasted Potatoes with Chimichurri Sauce (photos by Ben Dearnley). We could choose to recreate either recipe, or both. Here are the images we had to choose from:
My Results
As you can see, two very delicious looking pictures with lots of interesting textures, props and lighting. I had serious doubts my feeble photography skills could even come close!
But, I persevered. I decided to do the steak picture, since I have a round pizza stone that looks much like the stone in the picture. I don't have anything even remotely like that rack the potatoes are in, so I wrote that one off right off the bat (well, the picture. Of course, I made the potatoes anyway. Yum!).
Making the recipes was quick and easy (my notes about the recipes are below the recipes,at the bottom of this post). Setting up the pictures – not so much.
I didn't have anything like that marble-y looking background, so at first I just set my stone on my wooden kitchen table. A couple of shots immediately showed that that totally changed the whole color and feel of the shot. I pondered for a while, trying to find something to use as a background. Finally, I realized that my kitchen floor was about as close as I was going to come! So, I pushed the table out of the way, and moved the whole thing to the floor.
One major obstacle was the size of my baking stone, which is much larger than the stone in the original picture. This meant that my skewers were shorter than the stone (instead of longer), and if I just put the steak on there, it left too much stone all the way around. So, I moved everything on to the stone. That worked fairly well, I thought. Not exactly like the original, but close enough for government work.
After much tweaking and moving and cursing and trying to get a clean, clear, directly overhead shot without a tall tripod, I finally ended up with this picture. I tried my darnedest to get that little oil ring next to the jar of chimichurri, but the stone just sucked it up too fast. After the fact, I now notice that I've got the knife in the completely wrong place. But here's the kicker – I was fussing so much with the steak and the chimichurri sauce and the knife and all that – I totally forgot to put the potatoes in the second jar!!
I still cannot believe I did that. Sigh. What a dork.
Oh well. For a first try, I think it came out pretty well and I certainly learned a lot, which is, of course, the point! The biggest lesson? I need to spend a lot more time before hand thinking about how I want my pictures to look and styling the whole thing. Usually I'm so rushed trying to get a decent shot before the food gets cold, that my pictures come out kinda lame. Huge opportunities for improvement! This was a fun and interesting exercise and I'm looking forward to the next challenge.
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LONDON -- Three days after he was banned from New Zealand, Mike Tyson criticized the decision to revoke his visa because of his rape conviction.
The former heavyweight champion was to travel to Auckland in November before authorities on Wednesday denied him entry. Tyson had been hoping to perform his one-man show called "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth."
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"I just wanted to go down there and just have a show," Tyson said. "Unfortunately that had to happen. It's one of those things in life that happens. It's life on life's terms and everyone has to deal with that and those uncertainties."
Tyson had wanted to meet New Zealand's indigenous Maori people, the inspiration for his prominent facial tattoo.
"The people wanted me to come," he said. "If it was a fair organization, a fair fight I would be there but I got vetoed by the higher power."
Tyson served three years in prison after the 1991 rape of an 18-year-old woman in an Indianapolis hotel room. He said Saturday, while in London to launch new boxing gear, that the negative experiences in his life have shaped his character.
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Can someone please explain the advantage of no low pass filter? Thanks!
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That is exactly what I said before. Canon's ad agency rewrote the think different campaignAny idea what this may be about?
This was on a two-page spread ad in the New York Times today in the front section.
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This reminds me of a poor imitation of Apple's 1997 "Think different" campaign, when Steve Jobs returned.
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
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Hi I shoot outside a lot, and since my Einstein Flashes can't sync over 1/320, I usually take my Canon 600EX Flash with me.BL beat me to it, but as he says, what you're looking for is a plain old ND filter to "overpower the sun". A polarizer can be used, but can do quirky and unflattering things to skintones and generally don't cut enough light. Depending on the ambient light, you'll need a ND 0.9 or stronger filter to keep the shutter below 1/320s although you should really be shooting at 1/250s which is the 1D X's sync speed. You'll need the Einsteins with the ND filter on unless you have multiple 600EXs.
Unfortunately, even with the built in diffuser, the shadows are harsh. And with a Gary Fong Diffuser, which softens the shadows a lot, the flash loses output so it has to be set at a stronger level, therefore taking longer to recycle.
Another reason I like the on board flash is the High-speed sync, so I can shoot at F2.8 and not worry about shutter speed.
I want to know if there is a filter that will help me keep sync speeds under 1/320 and still shoot at F2.8 on bright sun light.
Basically, sunglasses for my Canon 24-70 II
Thanx for your help.
Also, generally speaking, the best way to shoot outdoors with a speedlite is to put your subject in full shadow (either open shade or with the sun behind them causing a solid shadow on their face) and then use a un-diffused flash in Av mode with high-speed sync so the camera will meter it as a fill flash. That or use reflectors to fill in the shadows like I did with this shot with nothing more than a 4' rectangular reflector. The sun provided a hair light, the reflector served as the main/accent light, and the open shade was the fill. A set of lights would have produced better results, but sometimes simpler is better.
You want a Neutral Density filter to cut down the light transmission so you can drop your shutter speeds to match your X-Sync.Hi, thanx for your reply. That's what I need.
When I use a 3stop ND, I can typically shoot at f/2 @ 1/250 outdoors on a sunny day so I don't have to use high speed sync.
A variable ND works great, but can get pricey.
I had 2 Lexar 1000X Professional CF cards literally die on me. One time after taking 500 irreplaceable
vacation photos and the second time after 2 hours of a paid shoot which I had to restart completely.
I went back to Sandisk Extreme Pro 1066X which hasn't failed me in 13 years.
Save yourself a headache and don't buy Lexar.
It's not an Anecdote. It's a fact. 2 cards from different batches failed. Also your beloved transcend also failed me.
You buy cheap, you get cheap.
And exactly how do you test a CF card thoroughly? There is no way.
The testing should be done at the factory. It's called quality control. I use the card normally and I perform 3 formats before working and you never know when the card is going to fail. There is no warning.
None of the software I have was able to see the cards so there was no way to recover any data.
At one time I was using 2 simultaneous cards just in case but it slows the çamera down so finally sandisk came out with a 1066x and now I have no problem.


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A lovely 2 Bedroom Holiday Beach Condo in Cha-Am
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A lovely 2 bedroom beach condo for rent in the prestigious Baan Ruen Rom Condominium. It is located in an idyllic setting a few kilometers north of Cha Am, close to Hotel de la Paix. This condo is absolute beach front built in 2006.
This 23 storey building offers many convenient facilities like the front office, room service, laundry, 24 hr security, swimming pool, fitness center and a sauna.
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A lovely 2 Bedroom Holiday Beach Condo in Cha-Am
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Cha-Am is located 170 km south from Bangkok.
Cha-Am is easily reached from Bangkok by bus, train, minivan, taxi
Cha-Am is one of the most popular Thai resort town.
Cha-Am is the tourist place where you can get goods and services at local price and guarantee the lowest cost of living.
Cha-Am is an attractive coastal town located 25km north of Hua Hin and around 170km south of Bangkok. Cha-Am has been a favourite holiday and weekend destination for Thai people for many years and this is still the case ever.Thai people visiting Cha-Am usually come from Bangkok for the weekend or public holidays. So the beachfront is very quiet during the day-week. Cha-Am is the ideal place to go for travelling with your family. They will love it and they will feel comfortable here, because there are a lot of activities for children and no bar scene.Cha-Am is appreciated for its quiet and laidback atmosphere, its 5 km long sandy beach, and its wide range of restaurants. There are many kinds of food available; seafood, thaifood, asian food, western food and of course "clean food good taste" On the beach road, you will find at least 6 stores 7-Eleven 24hours open. Expats and long term tourists in Cha-Am are mostly retirees from Northern Europe Scandinavian. There are also many from Netherland, Germany, France and England.
Attractions around Cha-Am:
Municipility, the main administrative area and old part of town is to the west of Petchkasem Road. Here you will find the Post Office, government buildings, police station and train station.There are a lively local fresh market, night market that is worth taking a look around. There are many beauty salons barbershops with local price and polyclinics with highly qualified doctor.
Nightlife is a small group of bars offering the standard hostess service and an increasing number of family-friendly establishments offering relaxed atmosphere and good food. Maruekatayawan Palace which is the old Royal summer residence. Its teak has been beautifully restored and is certainly worth a visit. It is located 8km south of Cha-Am. Constructed in 1923 by Rama VI, the palace is an excellent example of a raised-floor wooden palace.
Cha-Am Forest Park is shady relaxing place, and worth getting along to. It is popular for families and small groups. There is a thaifood restaurant with folk song live musick show in the evening. The park is located on the west side of Petchkasem Road about 1km south from the main Cha-Am intersection.
Golf courses, around Cha-Am you will find some of the best golf courses in Thailand or world class golf courses. Because they were built and designed to international standards. For example; Imperial Lake View Golf Club designed by Roger Packard, Palm Hills Golf Course & Country Club designed by Max Wexler and Springfield Royal Country Club designed by Jack Nicklaus. Here is the golfing capital of Thailand.
Why visit Cha-Am:
As Cha-Am successfully provides facilities for foreign tourists, it remains a Thai resort, with a large majority of Thai tourists. If you are looking for the "real Thailand", for an "authentic experience", this is the place! It is also convenient and possible to take one day trip to visit many places in central of Thailand.
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Beach or lakeside relaxation, Mountain nearby, Warm winter getaways
Getting There
Nearest train station: Baan Cha-Am, 4 miles
Nearest airport: Hua Hin Airport, 13 miles
Car is not necessary
- Long term rentals allowed (over 1 month)
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Blake Griffin for MVP???
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Should Blake Griffin be MVP? The kid is good to me but not as good as LeBron, Kobe, D-Rose, Rondo, etc. His team is terrible and will not crack the playoffs at this rate. It also looks like Griffin is trying to knock down individual achivements instead of team ones like, getting 30 wins and getting above .500. So the question is, is Griffin MVP? Will his team make the playoffs? Is he focusing too much on individual achivements? Feedback.
Griffin will be next yrs MVP when he and Eric Gordon and Baron Davis learn to work together a little better
Um No. There are too many other players that are more worthy.
None of the above. His team, while they may be on the right track, is bad, and he isnt nearly the all around player he needs to be...yet
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How did you end up in that tree?" I will admit to exceeding the limits of my learning curve. What happens indoors (especially with a heli somewhat "much" smaller) does not always directly translate/reflect on what happens outdoors. I really was doing figure 8's when I lost it. I have an anemometer onsite- It was zeroe'd out windwise at 8'. I can not attest to what was going on higher up (and then there was the Tx range thing; and the snow, ..., OBTW those lights are pretty bright which is a good thing). It flies a lot better outside in the quick mode. I was so nose heavy at the time I could fall forward. |
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As soon as I can. For the record, I live on an open north facing slope located within a ravine @~1400' in the hilltowns of western MA/USA. Zephyrs and upwind cow farts can really create challenges outside, there is no such concept as level outside (There will be after the next decent snow.), and then there is the snow. It's really neat to watch the powder snow blowout; it's not so neat to see those stock skids sink in the underlying snowbase on planned/unplanned landings (at least snow landings are generally on the level).
Those wiffle golf balls weigh in @ ~ 3.5 grams each. They will catch snow prior to liftoff, but it will drop eventually depending on the snow/ice mix. They do help with landing bouyancy, but they are heavy and can catch things. . So far the stock cowling is keeping everything dry. It's generally real quiet windwise right before the storm. . |
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GHogie- The gear-driveshaft connections are a design weakness IMVHO. I file down the upper gear screw areas a little bit on both sides to allow for those gear screws to insert into those outer driveshaft holes better. I insert a paperclip "tool" to help align those two screw holes and shaft holes. The lower gear must really be aligned and tightened to the inner driveshaft indent.
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Our article reveals the ambiguous relationship between the Kurdish women's movement and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). On the one hand, there are those women activists that believe that Kurdish political leaders have been instrumental in enabling the necessary reforms for women's rights. On the other hand, there are those who believe that Kurdish political leaders are an obstacle to achieving women's rights. Our article also sheds light on the tensions amongst women activists in Kurdistan as well as the challenges faced in uniting women activists in Iraqi-Kurdistan and in the rest of Iraq.
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NA and NP: The article examines the strategies of the Kurdish women's movement in Iraq in relation to Kurdish nationalist and "feminist"/women's rights agendas. In the literature on women's movements in the Middle East, there has been a tendency to argue either that nationalism and women's rights are compatible or that nationalism undermines women's rights. We argue that the relationship between nationalism and women's rights necessitates an in-depth and intersectional analysis of the specific context and historical moment in which women's struggles occur, the configuration of social and political forces that predominate, and the strategies adopted by women's movements in this regard. In the context of Iraqi-Kurdistan, the problem is not Kurdish nationalism per se, but rather the failure of Kurdish women's activists to engage with the wider political field of the "new Iraq," of which Iraqi-Kurdistan is an inextricable part. This makes women's rights in Iraqi-Kurdistan vulnerable to instrumentalization by Kurdish political elites.
Jadaliyya: How does this work connect to and/or depart from your previous research and writing?
NA and NP: This article draws on our wider research on the impact of the US-led occupation on Iraq since 2003, published in 2009 by University of California Press as What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq. In our book, we were not able to include all the data on Iraqi-Kurdistan that we had collected, which is why we wanted to write an article dedicated to the Kurdish women's movement. Although the nature of political, economic, and social dynamics of Iraqi-Kurdistan differ from those of central and southern Iraq, nevertheless, we want to stress that Iraqi-Kurdistan is inextricably linked to Iraq as a whole. Despite the very lively gender politics in Iraqi Kurdistan, there has been almost nothing written in English about this subject.
Jadaliyya: Who do you hope will read this article, and what sort of impact would you like it to have?
NA and NP: The article is aimed predominantly at students and researchers of Iraq, including Iraqi-Kurdistan. We hope that those researchers who do not normally engage with gender analyses of politics and society in Iraq will read this article. Women are not only half the population, but find themselves at the intersection of different discursive and material struggles in society. In other words, paying attention to women is not only a question of equity, but can also shed light on trends, dynamics, and tensions that may otherwise remain hidden by "gender neutral" approaches. We also hope that researchers and students of women's rights movements and feminism in the Middle East and the global south will read this article, both for the new empirical information about the Kurdish women's movement in Iraq and for the contribution to the debate over nationalism and feminism/women's rights.
Jadaliyya: What other projects are you working on now?
NA and NP: This is the last article written by us based on our joint research on Iraq since 2003. Since 2007, Nicola has been researching the gendered politics of in/security in the Arab world, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan and plans to write a monograph (tentatively) entitled, "Reconceptualising Gender, Reconceptualising Security in the Arab World." She has also been critically examining gender mainstreaming in international peace and security (aka UNSCR 1325), and has co-edited a special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics on this topic, published in December 2011. In addition, she is co-director of a research network between the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick (UK) and the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University (Palestine), funded by the British Academy.
Nadje has been involved in various projects related to higher education and women's rights activism in Iraq. She has been working with two teams of Iraqi-based academics on the specific problems and challenges faced by female academics in Iraq today. She has also been involved in facilitating networks and training between Iraqi academics interested in women and gender studies as well as regional scholars from Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon who have been involved in these fields for many years. As part of these projects, she has been trying to enable Iraqi academics and civil society activists interested in women and gender issues to meet and to engage in capacity building to allow for evidence-based research that would strengthen advocacy and campaigning. She has been involved in similar initiatives related to the social sciences.
Excerpt from "Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq"
With the fall of the Baath regime in 2003, many Kurdish women activists initially joined with women activists in the rest of Iraq to promote women's rights for all Iraqis. However, the violence that has engulfed central and southern Iraq as well as the Islamization of politics there, mean that a large number of women activists in Kurdistan have put their efforts into supporting autonomy for Iraqi Kurdistan as a means of defending women's rights there. Moreover, many Kurdish activists tend to emphasize their difference from Arabs through reference to their desire for women's rights (as opposed to what they perceive as a lack of desire for women's rights in the rest of Iraq). Even those women in Kurdistan who believe that it is important to work with women in the rest of Iraq are largely prevented from doing so due to the practical difficulties of travelling to/within the rest of Iraq. However, some women's rights activists from central and southern Iraq travel to Iraqi Kurdistan for meetings and workshops as it is much safer than other parts of the country.
The comparison with the rest of Iraq has made some Kurdish women more optimistic about the gains that they have made within the Iraqi Kurdistan region, whilst others remain critical of politicians within the KRG. Some women activists believe that Kurdistan politicians are marginalizing women's rights to concentrate on the "bigger national questions" of Kirkuk, oil, and federalism. Other women activists believe that these questions of Kurdish rights are also inseparable from achieving women's rights in Kurdistan. However, both the critics and the optimists believe that autonomy for Kurdistan must be respected by the government in Baghdad.
[Excerpted from Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, "Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq," Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 4.3 (2011): 337-353. Copyright © 2011 by Brill. Excerpted by permission of the authors. To view and download the complete article, click here.]
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Main reason why I chose the hotel is the location. Lots of places are walking distance. If not.... Just take a Taxi. Lots to do at the hotel as well.
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Bed, Bath, Aircon, For hot water in morning, get room in 2nd Tower.
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the grounds, the people, Valentine's day seating by the pool and music.
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Towering over Cebu City, Crown Regency Hotel features its own entertainment complex with a 4D Theater and roller coaster. Featuring panoramic city views from its indoor pool, it also offers a spa.
Located next to the food and shopping options at Robinson Mall, Crown Regency Hotel and Towers is a 20-minute drive from Mactan International Airport.
Classic rooms include cable TV channels and free Wi-Fi. Tea and coffee-making facilities and a hairdryer are provided. Private bathrooms have a bathtub.
Guests can work out in the hotel's fitness center or head for a billiards session in the game room. A business center and gift shop are available. Free parking is also available.
Sparkz Restobar offers sweeping views of Cebu accompanied by international cuisine. Other dining options include Kotie Japanese Restaurant, Starbucks and all-day dining at Glo Cafe.
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Service is good..
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Enjoyed the hotel's roof top attractions and restaurants
We liked the size of the bed (twin bedroom), can easily fit for a couple with 2 small children. Many facilities, great value for money and, if you intend to visit Cebu, location is ideal. Our son was happy with both wifi and TV channels for children.
Even we were at the 20th floor, we could hear the traffic. We had to use 2 elevators (the first one only to the 19th floor). If you want to see the fantastic view from the last floor, you have to pay for an activity or eat dinner at the restaurant at the top floor.
Shower was cold so if you don't mind paying alot of money to stay at a motel and have cold shower then you won't mind it here
Food was ok Room was spacious Staff friendly/polite
Toilet smelt of urine, after complaint it was not cleaned thoroughly and was only sprayed with deodrizer. Sofa bed was grubby Curtains could not be adjusted so the sun woke you up at 6 am in the morning The wifi kept cutting out and after the man fixed it it broke again We were overcharged with bill, still awaiting refund.
I have overcome my fear of heights because of the skywalk adventure.
the foul smell at the parking basement area
People at the front desk need better training. many people were not happy with them. They do not use common sense. I will not be going back the because of the staff behind the front desk. The not very helpful at all.
facilities not bad and all the other stuff brilliant.
Very easy to reach the center walking
Tv too small. Should have more chanel.
The rides
Unclean bedsheets,foul odor in the lobby and room
The staff were all friendly and helpful. There were at least four good restaurants serving first class food plus a Starbucks and another cafe on the premises.
The BEST part of the hotel is the location. Its close to a lot of places to eat, or to go shopping. There's also lots to do there. Restaurants on the upper floors, some rides/attraction for da kids on the top floor, and a shooting range on the bottom floor. Will definitely recommend to my friends nd family.
Nothing really. The lay-out of the building is a little confusing if u have to switch towers.
Location; facilities; dining; Pool (for a city hotel)
WiFi was poor. I stayed twice. Tower 1 is awesome. Tower 3 is a 2 star at best. The "Executive Suite" is nothing executive about it. I would definitely stay here next trip but Tower 1.
huge windows room size Is just right
Bath tub area leaks. needs new set of whiter new towels
the staff are always ready for any request.
The air purification of the lobby and the elevator. And not all elevators are working...
We loved the location of Crown. Nice view, amazing facilities & very nice breakfast.
What I didn't like about Crown is when we ask for a certain request, we need to follow-up again before they will attend to us. We stayed on the night of Christmas til New Year and unexpectedly we were ask for additional fee because of the New Year's Eve. I just can't get why.
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Camp Carnival offers designated activities to kids in three different age groups: 2 to 5, 6 to 8 and 9 to 11. Meals are also served, and include favorites like chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese. At night, kids gather for the Carnival Night Owls program (offered for an additional fee), where they get to stay up late while mom and dad enjoy a night out.
Other events include a Hairy Chest Contest (the whole family will laugh at dad for this one!), mixology competition, and singles meet-ups for all age groups.
Even if the ship didn't offer organized activities, you couldn't possibly be bored. Located at the top of the ship, a life-size chess set, kid's pool and giant waterslide await families. Beneath the waterslide is a new adults-only area, which features lounge booths (more like beds with shields that partially block the sun), a bar and a pool.
Another large pool with a hot tub can be found toward the middle of the ship, and is surrounded by lounge chairs, tables, a bar and a stage. If you're thinking what we're thinking, yes, you can sit in the hot tub just feet away from the stage as a live band performs.
At the front of the ship, you'll find a mini-golf course encircled by an outdoor running track. Directly beneath it is the fitness center, which includes several cardio machines and a limited selection of free weights machines. It also includes separate steam rooms and saunas for men and women.
At night, you'll be entertained by live shows, performed by the ship's singers and dancers. Kids will especially like the family-friendly comedy shows held at the Mad Hatter's Ball. They'll also like the Legends show, held on the last night of the cruise. This show features guests from the ship performing as musical icons such as Elton John, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley.
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According to legend, the mountain once swallowed an evil sorcerer who will be released on doomsday in a ball of fire that will hit the mountain top. The inside of the mountain will then open up, becoming a safe place to hide as the sorcerer goes on to destroy the rest of the world. In the meantime, some old coal mine shafts have been opened up as safe rooms.
On Friday a New Age group called "The Spirit of Rtanj" was holding a conference there. Participants, however, said they expect not the end of time but the start of a new time cycle. Locals turned out to sell brandy and herbs.
"There will be no tragedy, no doomsday," said resident Dalibor Jovic. "It was supposed to happen at 12:12 and I think that time has passed. So, we can now go on with our lives and be happy to be alive."
A small Turkish village known for its wines, Sirince, has also been touted as the only place after Bugarach that would escape the world's end. But on Friday journalists and security officials outnumbered cultists. This outcome disappointed local business people who had prepared a range of doomsday products to sell, including a specially labeled Doomsday wine and Turkish delight candy whose "best before" date was Dec. 21, 2012. One restaurant prepared a special "last meal" menu that included a "heaven kebab" and "forbidden fruit dessert."
Another spot said to be spared: Cisternino, a beautiful small town in southern Italy in an area of trulli, traditional dry stone huts with conical roofs. The notion that Cisternino could be a safe haven at world's end derives from an Indian guru, Babaji, who said "Cisternino will become an island" at world's end. His followers built a community in Cisternino centered on an ashram built in 1979. Hotel bookings are up this weekend.
Mayor Donato Baccaro told the AP that the beauty of the place has inspired many foreigners to live there. "This confirms that this place has a special energy," he said.
A fringe Christian group has been spreading rumors about the world's impending end, prompting Chinese authorities to detain more than 500 people this week and seize leaflets, video discs, books and other material.
Those detained are reported to be members of the group Almighty God, also called Eastern Lightning, which preaches that Jesus has reappeared as a woman in central China. Authorities in the province of Qinghai say they are waging a "severe crackdown" on the group, accusing it of attacking the Communist Party and the government.
Dozens of Michigan schools canceled classes for thousands of students to cool off rumored threats of violence and problems related to doomsday. The fears were exacerbated by the recent shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, which "changed all of us," the school system in Genesee County said. "Canceling school is the right thing to do."
Associated Press writers Florent Bajrami in Bugarach, France; Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow; Peppino Ciraci in Cisternino, Italy; Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey; Paisley Dodds in London; and Dejan Mladenovic in Mount Rtanj, Serbia, contributed to this report.
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I'm saying that if the company is already pulling in a reasonable degree of profit and they are faced with the decision of cutting out the health and well-being of patients in order to facilitate more profit, the choice to do so is wrong.
I don't know about patents, but copyrights are absolutely silly. Their purpose is to encourage the creation of more contributions to the world, but they work against that by preventing people from building off of the works of others for an absurd amount of time.I think our 10-year patent system for drugs is pretty good.
That's why that discussion is neither here nor there.
There are many practices things that businesses could do or stop doing that would increase their profits. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing for them to do or stop doing them.
And the free market dictates that consumers won't buy or be able to afford as much of same products when prices are raised. Not to mention other companies still produce it at established prices. So it's smarter to simply produce something that is already being bought at much better profit margins.
And anyway, the problem with drug shortages in general is quality and manufacturing problems. The shortage in the United States is also due to that.
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I did read that article. That might address shortages in America and simply be a coincidence. Says nothing of Europe.
Well, these companies have moral obligations to their shareholders as well. Why don't you ask the ESMA (EU version of the SEC) where the company's obligations truly lie?/ten chars
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Yes they are. Every minute spent making X drug at $4 instead of Y drug at $5 costs them $1.
I'm really not going to try to argue with you if you want to claim that an opportunity cost is the same thing as operating at a loss.Yes they are. Every minute spent making X drug at $4 instead of Y drug at $5 costs them $1.
This is an industry that has chronic problems with shortages. There is a shortage in America and there is potentially going to be a shortage in Europe, according to your article. Calling it a "coincidence" in order to argue/insinuate that Europe's facing shortages only because of it's healthcare system is rather silly.
So? The point stands. Getting even richer at the expense of human life and suffering.Well, these companies have moral obligations to their shareholders as well.
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In the same way that a pirated song is a lost sale.
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Both your title and the articles title are misleading. The cancer drug is not unprofitable. "But many of Germany's top providers have stopped making the drug because it is not as profitable as other, more expensive ones."
The drugs companies just know they can make far more money out of making other chemotherapy drugs and charge through the roof for them. Fluorouracil is profitable its just not as profitable as other drugs. That said if there is a demand for it some company will supply it even if it has to come from a different source than now (e.g. India).
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This quote turns my stomach, I can't believe they actually think & reason like this.
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Looking Forward, Looking Back [All Systems Go]
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Autonomic Computing
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Cited by: Papers (3)Autonomic computing systems are self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-organizing, self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-protecting, and they can address quality of-service, failure-recovery, and security issues with minimal human intervention. View full abstract»
Reinforcement Learning in Autonomic Computing: A Manifesto and Case Studies
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Cited by: Papers (23)Reinforcement learning is a promising new approach for automatically developing effective policies for real-time self-management. RL can achieve superior performance to traditional methods, while requiring less built-in domain knowledge. Several case studies from real and simulated systems management applications demonstrate RL's promises and challenges. These studies show that standard online RL can learn effective policies in feasible training times. Moreover, a Hybrid RL approach can profit from any knowledge contained in an existing policy by training on the policy's observable behavior, without needing to interface directly to such knowledge View full abstract»
Distributed Cooperative Control for Adaptive Performance Management
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Cited by: Papers (3)The authors' distributed cooperative-control framework uses concepts from optimal control theory to adaptively manage the performance of computer clusters operating in dynamic and uncertain environments. Decomposing the overall performance-management problem into smaller subproblems that individual controllers solve cooperatively allows for the scalable control of large computing systems. The framework also adapts to controller failures and allows for the dynamic addition and removal of controllers during system operation. This article presents a case study showing how to manage the dynamic power consumed by a computer cluster processing a time-varying Web workload View full abstract»
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Cited by: Papers (33)Self-management in accordance with high-level objectives that users can specify is a hallmark of autonomic computing systems. The authors advocate utility functions as a principled, practical, and general way of representing such objectives. In an effort to bring the promise of utility-based frameworks to the marketplace, they describe how they've implemented them in two commercial products so as to achieve efficient resource allocation in a prototype data center. They also address several challenges to commercialization stemming from the need to reconcile the two products' fundamentally different types of objectives View full abstract»
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Cited by: Papers (1)Being able to visualize both spatial and nonspatial data is becoming increasingly important to today's Internet users. Spatial data viewers and query tools can aid in visualization, but they should also let users access data instantly and with minimal effort. The authors explore new ways to allow visualization of data stored in a central server database on a simple client. They also consider usage scenarios in which transferring the whole database to the client for processing isn't feasible due to the amount of data on the server, insufficient computing power on the client, and a slow link between the two View full abstract»
Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications
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Cited by: Papers (17)Developers often use replication and caching mechanisms to enhance Web application performance. The authors present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of state-of-the art replication and caching techniques used to host Web applications. Their analysis shows that selecting the best mechanism depends heavily on data workload and requires a careful review of the application's characteristics. They also propose a technique for Web practitioners to compare different mechanisms' performance on their own View full abstract»
Open Pluggable Edge Services: An Architecture for Networked Content Services
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Cited by: Papers (5)The IETF's open pluggable edge services (OPES) working group focuses on rule-based, in-line transformation services of data flows between two Internet endpoints, such as Web servers and Web clients. The group has developed an architectural framework to authorize, invoke, and trace such application-level services. The framework follows a one-party consent model, which requires that at least one of the application-layer endpoints explicitly authorize each service. OPES services must also be reversible by request of the application endpoints View full abstract»
Workflow Planning on a Grid
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Cited by: Papers (3)Workflows are used in scientific, engineering, industrial, legal, and business applications to process many kinds of data, such as genomes, supply chains, and mailing lists. Workflows that involve thousands to millions of files and up to terabytes of data are a challenge that grid computing is tackling. Another challenge is how to automate the specification of large workflows to avoid human error - AI planning techniques can help. In this paper, we sketch how we're addressing these problems with the prototype workflow planning system we're developing at the University of Arkansas View full abstract»
Twelve Billion Bargaining Chips: The Web Side of the Net Neutrality Debate
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Cited by: Papers (1)Net neutrality - the issue of whether ISPs should be allowed to give (or, more likely, sell) higher-performance access to content or services from certain providers - has been a hot Internet public policy issue in the US. Some network owners (such as Bell South and SBC) indicate that they'd like to charge large content providers (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, and so on) extra in order to reach potential customers. Web users have a unique set of interests at stake in this debate, but they also have unexploited bargaining chips - roughly 12 billion, to be exact (or however many Web pages exist at the moment). The real threats to the Web's vitality and its hundreds of millions of users have been largely overlooked in this debate, however, as the legislative debate has overemphasized the interests of larger content providers and network operators. As the author illustrates, today's Web users need a neutral, nondiscriminatory Internet as an open platform to support the Web's operation. The good news is that as it moves from a read-only medium, in which most users are merely information consumers, to a read-write medium in which users post pictures, write public blog entries, and link to each other's profiles, active users might have an opportunity to preserve the Internet's open, nondiscriminatory (neutral) operation on which they depend View full abstract»
REST Eye for the SOA Guy
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Cited by: Papers (18)This paper discusses the representational state transfer (REST) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) debate. The author tries to explain REST from the viewpoint of someone steeped in SOA, with the intention of helping SOA people understand the value the REST camp so rightfully touts View full abstract»
From Here to There
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Cited by: Papers (4)In a previous paper, the author described where he thought the Web would be headed over the next few years. He speculated that the trend seemed to be toward the semantic Web, although maybe not via the shortest path of directly deploying semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL. For this paper, he presents some concrete examples of technologies that support this prognosis. One key idea of the semantic Web is the Web of data, in which richly interconnected data collections appear alongside (and integrated with) the collections of hypertext documents. However, the Web supports linking, and with the various data languages available (often XML based), a Web of data without semantic Web technologies is entirely conceivable. In a sense, we already have such a thing, although the data are usually binary files such as images and audio files, which seriously limits linking potential. Without the ability to join pieces of information and work more on the level of knowledge representation, this naive Web of data offers little promise in itself. There is a possible shift under way, however, from the Web as (mostly) a document repository with generally limited granularity of addressability, to the Web as a generic, moderately interlinked data store (which includes documents as a subset of data types) View full abstract»
Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant Ontologies
Publication Year: 2007 , Page(s): 90 - 96
Cited by: Papers (10)For years, ontologies have been known in computer science as consensual models of domains of discourse, usually implemented as formal definitions of the relevant conceptual entities. Researchers have written much about the potential benefits of using them, and most of us regard ontologies as central building blocks of the semantic Web and other semantic systems. Unfortunately, the number and quality of actual, "non-toy" ontologies available on the Web today is remarkably low. This implies that the semantic Web community has yet to build practically useful ontologies for a lot of relevant domains in order to make the semantic Web a reality. Theoretically minded advocates often assume that the lack of ontologies is because the "stupid business people haven't realized ontologies' enormous benefits." As a liberal market economist, the author assumes that humans can generally figure out what's best for their well-being, at least in the long run, and that they act accordingly. In other words, the fact that people haven't yet created as many useful ontologies as the ontology research community would like might indicate either unresolved technical limitations or the existence of sound rationales for why individuals refrain from building them - or both. Indeed, several social and technical difficulties exist that put a brake on developing and eventually constrain the space of possible ontologies View full abstract»
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The Haile Middle School Dance Team showed off their best moves at the Florida Dance Team Director's Association state competition Feb. 27 at Oviedo High School in Oviedo.
The Haile dance ensemble received a ranking of excellent with their hip hop routine to "I Can Transform Ya."
The trio of Sammy Hyatt, Katie Ciemniecki and Lauren McFarland came in third place with their jazz routine to "Don't Stop Believin'" by the Glee Cast. The trio was the only middle school team in their division.
Soloists Janessa Ware, Kristyn Klefenz and Tyrese Taylor also performed during the competition.
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