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Well, I work with computers all day every day and I've turned into a Luddite with regard to the rest of my life. I got rid of my cell phone years ago because the danged thing just wouldn't leave me alone. I love using my great grandfather's Weston light meter, converting from Weston emulsion speed to iso, converting the F value to a U.S. [universal system] aperture value on my 90 year old Kodak autographic with pre-flashed paper loaded... carefully leveled on the tripod, looking through that "mirrored" viewfinder, and firing it off with a cable release and counting off the seconds... Then I get the delicious thrill of wondering what it will look like when I develop it. I know a lot of you folks here do a lot more than that all the time with your photography.
But I was at a party a few months ago and someone handed me their phone and asked me to take a group picture. I didn't know which way to hold it, and then when I finally held it right, I had my fingers over the lens ( I had no clue where the lens was ). You were supposed to sort of tap at the screen to make it take the photo. So I guess I'm just the reverse of your experience. I'd be thrilled if a tourist handed me a manual focus camera, and giddy if they also handed me the light meter to get the exposure right...
I have a Weston light meter too, and it seems to work just fine.
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Tour to Isla de La Plata
I booked the tour to Isla de La Plata through the hotel where I stayed, Hotel Pacifico. The full day tour was $40 (July 2012). I was picked up by someone at the hotel just after nine in the morning and we walked on to a travel agency further down the Malecón. There we waited for everyone to arrive, 16 tourists and two guides altogether, before we walked on to the boat Palo Santo.
The boat tour to Isla de La Plata usually takes one hour, but during whale season it might take longer if you see whales and make stops. On our way to Isla de La Plata we only saw one whale, but we were much luckier on the way back.
Just before arriving to Isla de La Plata we got a muffin, a banana and a water bottle. I ate the muffin and banana before we started the hike to get some energy, as we were not getting anything else to eat until we were coming back to the boat. We all hiked together up to a view point where several trails began. One group was taking the west loop which is 5 km and the other group the east loop which is 3.5 km. We all enjoyed the trail we chose. Coming back to the boat we went aboard and got our lunch there, as the boat took off.
For lunch we got two sandwiches, one with tuna and the other with cheese and ham. We also got watermelon and pineapple to eat and coca-cola to drink. There was more water on board so we could refill our water bottles.
We didn't go very far but stopped in a small bay so that the people who wanted to could snorkel. I had recently had an operation and could not snorkel, which was a disappointment for me. Not many people were interested in snorkeling though, and if I had gone snorkeling I might have been disappointed anyway, as they only snorkeled for 20 minutes and they didn't see very much (we were not very close to the shore and the water was several metres deep). We saw a big turtle swimming under the boat though. When it is not whale season they usually do more snorkeling during the tour, but now we were going to look for whales on the way back.
We were very lucky on the way back and saw many big Humpback Whales. The first ones we saw we saw the back or tail of, some near the boat and others further away. Closer to Puerto Lopes we saw a group of whales jumping, coming up with their nose first, turning and landing with a big splash. It was a spectacular sight. It was really impressive and I'm happy to have seen this show!
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The Campus Kitchen at Kent State University Celebrates its Grand Opening Feb. 23
The Campus Kitchen at Kent State University, part of a national food recovery effort to feed hungry families, will celebrate its grand opening with a public event Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. The event will take place in the Beall Hall cafeteria on the building's second floor, and will feature foods representative of those that will be prepared in The Campus Kitchen at Kent State.
The Campus Kitchens Project is a national network of college campuses that recovers food items from cafeterias and events and prepares hot meals to feed the needy in local communities. There are approximately 30 Campus Kitchen sites in the United States; Kent State is the only college in Ohio chosen to participate in the project.
The Campus Kitchen at Kent State will recover food from cafeterias and community donations and engage students as volunteers to prepare and deliver meals to local feeding programs. The kitchens are entirely student run with students planning menus, collecting food, running cooking shifts and organizing meal delivery. Volunteers are trained in food recovery, safe food handling and learn basic cooking techniques.
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I was hoping the Tholian set would add a special set bonus on Tholian ships to one of the sets, but so far I haven't seen this. It seems like a glaring oversight, and though the special ship-set bonuses are farily minor, I do think that without one for the Tholian ships there is a lack of parity.
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What Can Pictures Tell Us About Web Pages? Improving Document Search Using Images
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Traditional Web search engines do not use the images in the HTML pages to find relevant documents for a given query. Instead, they typically operate by computing a measure of agreement between the keywords provided by the user and only the text portion of each page. In this paper we study whether the content of the pictures appearing in a Web page can be used to enrich the semantic description of an HTML document and consequently boost the performance of a keyword-based search engine. We present a Web-scalable system that exploits a pure text-based search engine to find an initial set of candidate documents for a given query. Then, the candidate set is reranked using visual information extracted from the images contained in the pages. The resulting system retains the computational efficiency of traditional text-based search engines with only a small additional storage cost needed to encode the visual information. We test our approach on one of the TREC Million Query Track benchmarks where we show that the exploitation of visual content yields improvement in accuracies for two distinct text-based search engines, including the system with the best reported performance on this benchmark. We further validate our approach by collecting document relevance judgements on our search results using Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results of this experiment confirm the improvement in accuracy produced by our image-based reranker over a pure text-based system.
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The Directorate of Enforcement has provisionally attached property belonging to Thadathil Jobby George of Kallara, in Kottayam district, who is under investigations for allegedly conning people of money by promising various services.
It is suspected that the properties were brought using proceeds from money laundering. The properties will be attached over the next six months under Section 5 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
It is learnt that Jobby George had done transactions worth Rs. 8 crore through various accounts over a period of one and a half years without even having a Permanent Account Number (PAN) or paying any income-tax.
One of the first complaints against Mr. George had its origin in a 2010 deal in which a businessman in Muvattupuzha claimed that he had paid Rs. 15 lakh to the accused to obtain admission for his son in the New Castle Medical School in England.
The property attached include an apartment owned by Mr. George in Kadvanthara; an acre of land at Kallara in the name of his mother Alice George and an adjacent plot of an extent of 80 cents owned by his father T.L. George.
Mr. George will also face criminal proceedings in connection with the complaints filed against him by people who were allegedly cheated by him.
According to reports, Mr. George is also wanted in connection with the assault on Aneesh Palaikkamattam, member of the Kallara panchayat. The incident took place on September 11 and he is reported to be in hiding.
He and his wife Sunimol had surrendered before the Muvattupuzha deputy superintendent of police M. N. Ramesh on December 11, 2012 after he was wanted in connection with the complaint by the businessman in Muvattupuzha.
Investigations had showed that the NRI accounts operated by Mr. George logged transactions worth less than Rs. one crore before the scam. The volume of transactions went up to as much as Rs. 13.5 crore between August 2010 and June 2012.


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By Ed Owen, brandrepublic.com, Friday, 03 August 2012 08:45AM
AMV BBDO makes three new management appointments and former McDonald's and Pizza Express man Steve Easterbrook is to lead Wagamama in this week's round-up of people moves across advertising, marketing and media.
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has further appointments, adding to its senior team Michael Pring – former Dare managing partner, joining from Leagas Delaney, where he was the international managing partner for just three months, Clive Tanqueray one-time AMV head of account management, joins from SapientNitro, where he was client services director, and Tom Vick, former joint managing director of JWT London, as managing partners. (Campaign)
Cheil UK has appointed Richard Hale, former digital creative director at Fallon, as its first digital creative director as it continues its aggressive drive for new talent. (Campaign)
VCCP me (formerly SFW) has poached CMW's creative director, Jamie Bell, to become its creative partner. (Campaign)
Former boss of McDonald's in Europe and Pizza Express chief executive Steve Easterbrook is to become chief executive of Wagamama, the Japanese-inspired restaurant chain, which is looking to expand its franchises overseas. (Marketing)
HMV chief executive Simon Fox will leave the group in September, to be repalaced by Trevor Moore, who led Jessops following its dramatic exit from the London Stock Exchange three years ago. Moore steered Jessops back out from disaster, and will face a bigger challenge at HMV. (Marketing)
Nestle marketing controller Phil Toms has joined Wells and Young's as director of brands, having run Shreddies and Cheerios, and developed the 'Knitted by nanas' campaign. At the new post he will have responsibility for brand marketing, PR and consumer insight. (Marketing)
General Motors' chief marketing officer Joel Ewanick has resigned from the company with immediate effect after less than two years. (Marketing)
Mindshare has hired Chris Green, the brand and business planning director at Hypernaked, as its global head of strategy. (Campaign)
Yahoo has hired Disney's group account executive Steve McHenry as its agency group head for Yahoo UK, following a period of change at the UK business. (Media Week)
Meanwhile, Yahoo's global head of media and former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn is departs the company weeks after losing out on the chief executive role to Google veteran Marissa Mayer. (Media Week)
UTV Media, the owner of TalkSport, has appointed former Chrysalis Group chief executive Richard Huntingford as its new chairman, replacing John McGuckian who was ousted following claims of bias. (Media Week)
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Bummer. I generally do my browsing on my iPad. I guess 3D models are just gone for me, and others like me. I thought even Adobe was stoping development on Flash and switching to HTML5 instead.
Your new model viewer doesn't work on my iMac. It's unable to load anything even though I've installed the latest Flash version 3 times. Just a blank window, no image at all. It's broken in both Safari and Firefox. I work in Flash myself and have never had any problems with the Flash Player until now. It's an older machine (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with 4GB of RAM and ATI Radeon HD2600 graphics card) but like I said, everything else I do in Flash always works fine. Also, as someone else mentioned, Flash is well on its way out. You'd have done better to go with HTML5 and Javascript, because you're going to have to soon anyway.
It is not working for me on my Mac. I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.18. I cannot upgrade to the Adobe 11.2 as it has a Mac OS X 10.6 or higher requirement. Is there any hope your model viewer will work on Flash 10.3?
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OVER the last week or so, I had an interesting Facebook conversation with a friend in the Philippines about our respective elections and areas of concern thereof.
I got to know this person, who works in the House of Representatives committee on suffrage and electoral reforms, during an exchange programme to observe the
United States presidential election last November.
One of the things I learnt during that trip was the introduction of automated elections in the Philippines as a key step in reforming the electoral system.
This was first implemented in the Philippines' 2010 elections and subsequently used again in this year's mid-term elections, which coincidentally were held just eight days after our own momentous 13th general election.
With automation, votes are counted and the results transmitted electronically within hours after the polls close, thereby preventing fraud or manipulation of results during the counting process.
This stands in stark contrast to previous elections when it would take days or even weeks before the results were known.
Automated elections on their own are not the be-all-and-end-all in solving systemic electoral flaws. However, they represent significant improvement by helping to eliminate fraud in the counting and tabulation of votes, which are a vital part of clean and fair elections.
As the former Chief Justice of the Philippines Supreme Court Reynato Puno said: "Full automation will not completely cleanse the dirt in our electoral system. But it is a big leap forward which can lead us to the gateway of real democracy where the votes of the people are sacred and supreme."
My friend told me that it took the Philippines almost two decades to "fight it out tooth and nail in Congress" for automated elections.
"It was not easy. But it happened. We Filipinos have long struggled for elections that are clean and honest. Manual counting and canvassing never follow the rule of mathematics. It only follows the rule of money and lust for power. Now, politicians cannot do anything about it as they can't bribe machines which count, canvass and transmit the votes. They invest heavily on vote buying instead," she said.
She was responding to an article about the Malaysian election results, which pinpointed the influence of money politics on impoverished rural voters as a factor contributing to Barisan Nasional's victory.
I was intrigued by her comment which seemed to imply an increase in vote buying since the introduction of automated elections in her country. Other posts on her timeline also seemed to indicate that varying amounts were offered for votes in different polling districts.
When I asked her about this, she replied that vote buying had long been present
in Philippine elections but was now
"We have an accurate count but the
manner with which people choose candidates is largely dictated by how much they receive from those they are supposed to elect," she said.
We concluded that a lot remained to be done in our countries, not just in terms of system reforms but also voter education.
Last week I wrote about the urgent need for electoral reform in Malaysia, in particular with regard to the delineation of our parliamentary constituencies, which are grossly disproportionate and make for an uneven playing field.
As dissent continues to rumble over the election outcome, partly as a result of this inequality and partly from allegations of
fraud and irregularities, from admittedly
difficult-to-prove phantom voters to vote buying, it is imperative for reforms to be made to our election system to make it more
equitable for all contesting parties, candidates and the electorate.
Nonetheless, looking at the Philippines' experience, reforming the system alone is not enough. It must be accompanied by reform in the attitudes of politicians and voters towards elections.
Without this, politicians will continue to try to win elections by whatever means they can and the rural electorate may still fail to grasp the significance of their votes.
A major talking point which has emerged from our election outcome is the urban-rural divide and the attendant lack of political understanding among rural voters as well as their susceptibility to money politics.
It's going to require a long-term commitment, I feel, to educate these voters about elections and not to sell their votes.
But at the same time there is also a need to educate politicians not to commit fraud in the first place. Politicians must be made to realise that it is unfair, unacceptable and illegal to induce or intimidate voters into voting for them.
The events of the last week have shown that Malaysians want clean and fair elections, from the system itself to the process of voting, counting and tallying of ballots and announcement of results.
An automated system can resolve some
of these concerns, but whether or not we decide to consider it, we can and should startchanging hearts and minds with regard to elections.
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