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Like all mammals, human beings can be cruel. As we create hierarchies, we use social or physical power to hurt, manipulate, and get what we want. But unlike other mammals, we periodically reconceptualize our cruelties, declaring behaviors that were once acceptable to be crimes against God and humankind. Campaigners transformed slavery, once seen as biblically endorsed, into the sin of sins. Wife-beating and marital rape, once judicious uses of husbandly authority, are now illegal domestic violence. These behaviors continue, of course—we're still mammals—but they've switched categories, from acceptable to punishable.
Consider bullying. Until recently, learning to handle even the nastiest of schoolmate struggles was treated as a normal part of childhood, a kind of social vaccination. If you couldn't navigate the treacherous waters of a school lunchroom, how would you ever swim through office or factory politics? In her carefully reported Sticks and Stones, Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon describes how that understanding changed as researchers and advocates made the new topic of bullying into a nationwide concern. The shift came after decades of effort, sped along by two events: the arrival of new social communication technologies, which have exposed once-hidden behavior, and Columbine, which was initially (and incorrectly) blamed on bullying. As Bazelon writes, "Before 1999, no states had laws that clearly addressed bullying; now forty-nine do."
In 2009, as Bazelon's children were edging toward middle school, she persuaded Slate to let her do a series on cyber-bullying. To her surprise, Bazelon found that the research showed no epidemic—both the amount of bullying and the percentage of American children who are either predators or prey have remained steady. But with Facebook, Twitter, texting, and other 24/7 technologies, the problem feels more pervasive, and it has become easier to prove. No longer is home a haven; outcast students can check on what their tormenters are saying at any hour. Humiliations that once might have been witnessed by only 2 or 5 or 20 kids are permanently displayed for hundreds, thousands, even millions to see. For better and worse, those watching include adults who, faced with this evidence, now have a harder time dismissing children's complaints.
A few months after Bazelon started her beat, Phoebe Prince—a freshman at a South Hadley, Massachusetts, high school—hanged herself. According to locally influential Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, she did so because a posse of mean girls "followed Phoebe around, calling her a slut. … The name-calling, the stalking, the intimidation was relentless." After a final encounter with the girls, he wrote, Phoebe went home and took her life. The local district attorney charged six students with such related crimes as statutory rape, civil-rights violations, criminal harassment, disturbance of a school assembly, and stalking. The infotainment media swooped in on the story about the pretty white teen's death.
But when Bazelon investigated, she found a far more complicated story. Phoebe, who grew up in Ireland, had recently been moved by her mother to South Hadley in part to get her away from her pattern of soap-operatic sexual entanglements, self-mutilation, and suicide attempts. Once there, she repeated her self-destructive drinking, drugs, emotional extremes, self-harm, and sleeping with boys who had girlfriends and would reject her. After each encroachment on other girls' boyfriends, girls—especially but not only the girlfriends—accused her of being a slut. One girl threw a soda can at her. As appalling as this "slut-shaming" was, Bazelon found no one who had hounded Phoebe for months. Rather, the troubled girl had had separate battles with separate peers. Having arrived as the exciting Irish girl, she had seemed dangerously attractive and powerful. No one knew, as Bazelon writes in Sticks and Stones, that underneath the veneer she was desperate and vulnerable.
Bazelon's reporting was controversial. Some found her sociological autopsy cold, even callous. I was riveted by the evenhanded call for a more accurate accounting. Why wasn't there more mental-health intervention for a teen with such a disturbed and disturbing history? Why was it easier to blame a "mean girls" posse than a school culture in which troubled children slide through the cracks? I admired Bazelon's willingness to take seriously recent advances in our understanding of bullying—and also to see that this shiny new concept can be misused and overused. As we know from social psychology, any new danger (West Nile virus, say) holds our attention far more than a humble one that's been around for a while (influenza), even if the familiar threat is more common and itself too dangerous to ignore. In this case, the new danger was taking the blame for more than it deserved.
Bazelon reports on three bullying stories. In her first week in middle school in Middletown, Connecticut, Monique McClain, a sensitive, high-achieving child of a working single mother, falls prey to two girls, Destiny and Cheyenne, who mock her "copycat" hairstyle, blow smoke in her face, and sit next to her every day on the bus to taunt, curse, and torment her. Her mother's attempts to intervene backfire. More girls pick on Monique, expanding their bullying into online posts. "I fucking hate yhu with all my heart. Yhur a bitch & … Yhur a fucking snitch & + I just wanna like beat you the fuck up."
Through Monique's story, Bazelon introduces the social science of bullying, beginning with its reigning academic, Swedish psychologist Dan Olweus. According to Bazelon, Olweus is to bullying what Catharine Mac-Kinnon is to sexual harassment: the researcher who defined it in 1969, made it visible as a problem, and has crusaded ever since to treat it. Olweus came up with the now-standard definition of bullying, with its three criteria.
[I]t had to be verbal or physical aggression that was repeated over time and that involved a power differential—one or more children lording their status over another. … A onetime episode of meanness or violence could be bad in the moment, but it was the repetition and the power imbalance that were most often associated with lasting, scarring impact.
Olweus's research, borne out by others since, revealed that about 5 percent of boys are "pronounced bullies," while another 5 percent are targets, or what he calls "whipping boys." Further research has supported his findings that bullying can lead to anxiety, depression, health problems, bad relationships, and susceptibility to addiction. Victims like Monique tend to fit a profile. They're sensitive and anxious, and if boys, they are physically weaker than others.
Bullies are more varied than victims. In Bazelon's taxonomy, they include the thug-in-training; the clueless bully who doesn't understand how he affects others; the hybrid victim-bully; the socially popular shark; and what students call the "Facebook thug," who trash-talks online despite meekness in person. Recent social science shows that too much online communication can be emotional junk food, isolating and inflaming aggressions, while new neurological research offers evidence, as if we needed it, that teens' brains are wired to be impulsive and tuned in to peer approval and are more vulnerable than the brains of children or adults to these effects.
Bazelon also uses Monique's story to explore ongoing power and relationship struggles among equals, which young people and researchers lately call "drama." A girl cuts a grade-school friend out of her clique. A boy dates someone else's girlfriend. Classmates take sides. That's drama, and letting students work it out—preferably with adult guidance but not intervention—can help build resilience and character. "Drama allowed for shifting power dynamics and competition over social status," Bazelon writes. "As the kids used it, the word described far more teenage conflict than the narrower definition of bullying, with its settled hierarchy of powerful and powerless."
But the line between drama and bullying can be thin, and it depends on the emotional wherewithal and social status of the two involved. Had Destiny and Cheyenne mocked each other's hairstyles, each would have given back as good (or bad) as she got. At Monique's school, more than a third of the students receive free or reduced-price lunches. Test scores are lower than the state's average, and the administration has basically ceded the buses and the halls to students. As Bazelon depicts it, putdowns were each day's lingua franca; strutting and social aggression were the way to survive. The other girls felt they couldn't afford empathy for someone like Monique. While the individual girls might indeed have been bullies from whom Monique needed rescuing, the real problem was the larger school climate. (After wrestling with her journalistic versus her human standards, Bazelon decided she had to intervene and helped Monique find another school placement.)
Transforming a school from cold to compassionate, as large a prescription as that might be, still isn't enough when a child is bullied specifically because he or she is disabled, gay, or has some other oft-persecuted quality. Bazelon tells the story of Jacob, an 11-year-old, effeminate, openly gay boy in a football-crazy town in upstate New York. When Jacob is mocked, pushed down the stairs, and has his belongings smashed, teachers suggest that he tone down his behavior. When Jacob punches one of his repeat tormenters, he's given detention and forced to eat lunch (for a week!) with his hater. When his life seems in danger, the principal suggests homeschooling.
Would calling all this "bullying" have helped? The work to protect LGBT teens started before concerns about bullying gained wider momentum. Beginning in 1991, a few brave gay adults (brave because they knew that, by talking about LGBT students, they'd be accused of being pedophiles or of "recruiting" in schools) launched gay-straight alliances that helped undo individual schools' hostility. In 1996, Lambda Legal won a landmark decision for Jamie Nabozny, who sued his Wisconsin high school for allowing other students to brutalize him, urinate on him, pretend to rape him in class, and kick him until he required surgery.
Nabozny's settlement, at close to $1 million, put schools on notice. Bazelon reports, however, that as late as 2009, a study found that 85 percent of LGBT kids still said they'd been verbally harassed at school. Nearly 20 percent had been physically assaulted. Evidence has accumulated showing that unless anti-bullying initiatives include specific attention to LGBT concerns, they won't help. Jacob's school hosted none of the proven anti--discrimination initiatives, no gay-straight alliances, no explicit naming of sexual orientation and gender presentation as grounds for protection. Jacob's world didn't get better until his parents transferred him to another school.
The message of the anti-bullying movement isn't, it turns out, about individual bullies or victims, although these must be dealt with. It's about the school at large. At Phoebe Prince's school, as at so many schools, "slut shaming"—the feminist neologism for making girls feel worse than boys about their sexuality—was chronic. Phoebe wasn't picked on in particular; any girl who stepped outside the accepted borders of female sexual behavior would have been given the scarlet letter "S"—even while boys were excused or lauded for their conquests. As Bazelon notes, that double standard hurts all girls.
Probing the gap between Phoebe's reality and the media oversimplification, Bazelon reveals a despairing girl turning to the wrong people for support, showing her burn wounds (perhaps from drug use, perhaps self-inflicted) to a counselor, but killing herself before anyone offered effective help:
Amid all the finger-pointing over bullying prevention, however, a key point got lost: Phoebe's death was preceded by the reddest red flag for suicide. That problem is depression. … Since bullying can contribute to making teens depressed, it's a risk factor. But it's not the only factor, or even necessarily the main one. … "That jump to causality is so easy and heart wrenching and sensational," Columbia University psychiatrist Madelyn Gould told me.
In Bazelon's reporting on kids' turbulent emotional lives, allegations are sourced and differing perspectives detailed with an investigative reporter's precision. But her focus on highly particular facts becomes a weakness when the book turns to potential solutions.
Since hostile use of social--networking technologies is part of the problem, Bazelon gets Facebook to let her observe firsthand the company's anti-bullying efforts. But a day at corporate headquarters that should be interesting is instead tediously detailed. She's startled that complaints can wait months for review and taken aback when employees spend mere seconds to rule on each abuse report. "Facebook shouldn't be in the business of dictating and enforcing community norms. People should enforce their own norms," Arturo Bejar, the director of engineering tells her. Bazelon concludes, "Facebook is expressing sympathy and giving good advice, but leaving it to kids to help themselves. I still wonder whether the company can hand off a large part of enforcing the site's rules to individual users."
Surely, by this stage in her research, Bazelon can offer stronger judgment. Do we need laws, rules and regulations, pressure groups? What public policies should the country be considering? She believes that problem bullying is an offshoot of a school culture in which students accumulate social power through cruelty; she advocates changing the equation by making that socially costly. Although she details different programs aimed at the problem, she fails to synthesize and tell us what works and why.
Perhaps this is the flip side of nuance. After reading Monique's story, I could see every participant's point of view. For Monique, her tormenters are social vultures, picking her apart for sport. From her mother's point of view, the administration's failure to stop her daughter's pain is heartless. Her fellow students can't afford to care about a girl who fails at the game they have to play every day. The heavily burdened staff feels it can't solve every private problem in a school overflowing with them.
But from the new anti-bullying point of view, the administration's failure to create a humane environment conducive to learning—not just for Monique but for all students who've learned to wear armor to get through the day—is an educational emergency. By the book's end, Bazelon had won me over to the idea that so long as we don't use the concept of bullying to foreclose discussion of other problems, so long as we think not just about individual bullies but about social climate change, this too might join other public revolutions in how we view formerly privatized cruelties like sexual harassment and child abuse. Bazelon closes by calling for a newfound focus on teaching character, empathy, and respect. No matter what the latest concept of cruelty, isn't that always the lesson?
Fri, 2013-03-01 13:25
I've been a fan of Emily's writings at Slate for years, and pre-ordered the book. I've been remarking on this wherever I've seen discussion of the book -- the thing that struck me as missing from her chapter on Facebook was any understanding of the site's _history_. It started out based around schools -- it's named after Harvard's "facebook", the reference guide to your fellow students. And when they launched, you could only register if you had a .edu email address associating you with a particular institution (initially Harvard, and later various other high-tier schools), and you generally only had access to your local group of users.
Facebook could go back to its roots. Start registering school district representatives with super-user accounts, including the ability to grant super-user powers to somebody at each local school. You end up with the guidance counselor, or simply some tech-savvy teacher or staffer, at each school, having an administrative and monitoring role for their school's pool of users. People registering an account who are under 18 would be required to associate themselves with their school (or whatever other authority or district monitors their schooling, if they're home-schooled). The local super-user would always reserve the right to look over the shoulder of their local kids (perhaps with a required notification, so they're not tempted to just browse everyone all the time, which would be invasive of kids' privacy), and the abuse reporting system would send reports to them first, so that they could give such reports the attention deserved, based on an understanding of their school's social context -- not just the two-second glance that FB currently feels is all it can afford.
Fri, 2013-03-01 13:28
Obviously people could register their accounts claiming to be over-18, but that's already an issue for under-13s, and various other "faked" accounts that violate the terms of service. And again, you would be able to move the reporting system so that somebody spotting an account in violation would be reporting it to the local guidance counselor, who knows the kids involved, and can look up their true age in the school's records -- you wouldn't have some kid, barely out of college, sitting in Menlo Park doing a two-second "boob check" on photos to decide whether somebody is over or under 13. (That segment of the chapter was probably the most appalling / embarrassing bit for FB.)
Sat, 2013-03-02 12:08
I agree wholeheartedly that looking at broader social change must be at the heart of this discussion, though there is no reason in particular that the climate in our schools and among young people couldn't lead the way, just as young people have led the way on other important issues (LGBTQ rights and ending the US involvement in Vietnam are two that come immediately to mind).
As a parent and a woman who is passionately interested in social justice issues overall and in particular the intersections between racism, sexism, lgbtq oppression and the lives of young people-- there are two issues that are seldom or is it never? raised in the discussions I have read about bullying. One is that if we are going to tackle bullying behaviors, I think we need to begin a very frank and difficult discussion about the ways that it is still perfectly permissible for adults to talk to and treat young people with deep disrespect in our homes, communities and in particular in our schools. I witness this first hand in my own daughter's "very good" inner city, urban bilingual public school-- a school that both I and she love-- but where I am at times shocked by the ways that the young people are treated without anyone batting an eye (except the young people themselves). And to be honest, I witness this in myself and in other parents I admire and respect-- how easily a tone of disregard, mistrust, disrespect or worse, takes over when we are tired, hassled or don't know what to do about an attitude or behavior we don't like. Many of the harshest things I hear young people say about one another (and then act out at each other) "she's just a liar", he's a spoiled brat", "she sucks", "he's just lazy and he's lying", "why don't you just shut up?" are things that I've heard either said directly or indirectly in some form, by the adults in roles of trust-- to our young people.
The second issue is that while I believe that bullying describes a set of patterns of behaviors that go on among young people-- in a certain sense bullying isn't just "generic" any more than sexism, racism or homophobia among adults is just generic meanness. We need to better understand and take seriously patterns of oppression among different groups of school aged young people. This is alluded to in the discussion of what has gone on for lgbtq young people and in the case of Jamie Nabozny-- but we need to get better at talking about and recognizing these issues as they play out among young people. We've begun to recognize the bullying that goes on in relation to lgbtq oppression. But when a group of white girls exclude girls of color, that is bullying but it is also racism. When girls of a more singular background are vicious to one another, an understanding of internalized sexism and often internalized racism (if the girls are girls of color) would be helpful-- for the adults and for the young people.
Overall, I think the point is that I think we can change things with and for our young people and perhaps our schools can even lead the way in being models of places of acceptance, respect and inclusion. But I also think it is naive to believe that we can leave our own racism, sexism, and in particular harsh attitudes toward our young people, intact and unchallenged-- and yet expect them to treat each other with warmth, trust, welcome and fairness.
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"We're going to make a good show for the people, and we will see what they say after the fight," Natal told MMAjunkie.com. "UFC, Dana White and Joe Silva know what they're doing to promote a fight, and if they made this the main event, they did it for a reason."
While others may harp on the quality of the Natal (17-4-1 MMA, 5-2-1 UFC) vs. Kennedy (16-4 MMA, 1-0 UFC) matchup, what many seem to forget is the "UFC Fight Night 31: Fight for the Troops 3" card takes place on a military base (where no tickets are sold, and active military personnel received complimentary commission) and is designed to raise funds for charitable causes. The event goes down Wednesday on FOX Sports 1 from Fort Campbell with preliminary card action streaming on MMAjunkie.com.
For Natal, serving as a replacement against a former Marine is not a problem. The Brazilian was able to fight in his home country earlier this year, and he believes that experience will actually be beneficial against Kennedy.
"I fought in Brazil my last fight, and the crowd was for me," Natal said. "It was hard to concentrate because I was so excited. This fight is going to be different. Now I have to focus. If the crowd is against me, I'm going to be more concentrated, stronger, and I'm going to fight harder and harder."
A victory over Kennedy would move Natal to 4-0 in the UFC this year, a record no other fighter on the roster currently can match. The 30-year-old is thrilled he has the opportunity to compete so often, but he's also looking forward to time off after his most difficult matchup to date.
"I have three wins in a row, four fights this year, and I'm very happy," Natal said. "I always make a fight a fight, and I'm going to do this one more than I'm going to rest, but I'm very happy to get one more fight this year."
While the active schedule has forced Natal to train full-time for essentially the entire year, that's not exactly a bad thing in terms of progressing his skill set.
Several aspects of Natal's game have turned a corner in recent months, he said, and he views the fight with Kennedy as his chance to show off an improved level of concentration inside the cage.
"I can be winning, but they can throw one punch or one kick, and knock you out," he said. "You have to pay attention, stay focused on the fight to the last second. It doesn't matter if I look great in the fight. It doesn't matter if I am in front of my hometown like my last fight. I have to stay focused."
Natal believes his newfound emphasis on focus is something that will be a major factor against Kennedy.
With five wins in his past six octagon appearances, the 30-year-old is starting to build a resume worthy of a top-10 ranking. In taking on a two-time Strikeforce title challenger, Natal believes after three years of hard work in the UFC, he's finally being given a chance to shine.
And whether or not people believe he deserves to be there, Natal sure isn't about to let the opportunity slip through his fingers.
"I'm going to beat Tim then I'm going to be in the top 10 for sure," Natal said. "It's going to be a very good fight for me, and it will be one of the best fights of the year."

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The ilium is the largest and upper most part, the ischium is the posterior-inferior (back-lower) part, and the pubis is the anterior (front) part of the hip bone. The two hip bones are joined anteriorly at the symphysis pubis and posteriorly to the sacrum. The pelvis incorporates the socket portion of the hip joint (the acetabulum) for each leg (in bipeds) or hind leg (in quadrupeds). It forms the lower limb (or hind-limb) girdle of the skeleton.
The pelvic cavity is a body cavity that is bounded by the bones of the pelvis and which primarily contains reproductive organs, the rectum.
The lesser pelvis (or "true pelvis") only includes structures inferior to the pelvic brim.
The greater pelvis (or "false pelvis") is the expanded portion of the cavity situated above and in front of the pelvic brim.
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In humans, biiliac width is an anatomical term referring to the widest measure of the pelvis between the outer edges of the upper iliac bones.
Biiliac width has the following common synonyms: pelvic bone width, biiliac breadth, intercristal breadth/width, bi-iliac breadth/width and biiliocristal breadth/width.
In the average adult female, it measures 28 cm (11 in). It is best measured by anthropometric calipers (an anthropometer designed for such measurement is called a pelvimeter). Attempting to measure biiliac width with a tape measure along a curved surface is inaccurate.
The biiliac width measure is helpful in obstetrics because a pelvis that is significantly too small or too large can have obstetrical complications. For example, a large baby and/or a small pelvis often lead to a caesarean section.
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Cumbrian taxi driver became drugs courier after floods ruined business
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A west Cumbrian taxi driver hid behind "a cloak of respectability" to become a drug courier in a desperate attempt to make some money after his business failed because of the west Cumbrian floods.
Anthony Burrough had never been in trouble before and was considered to be a pillar of his community until the day in November last year when police stopped him in his car on the M6 near Kendal.
When officers searched his car they found about £13,000-worth of skunk cannabis – an illegal class B drug – in a bag in the boot, Carlisle Crown Court heard yesterday.
The 44-year-old long-term cannabis user later confessed that he had agreed to transport the drugs because he needed money after his partner lost her job at the same time as his business was struggling following the 2009 floods.
Burrough, of Little Broughton, near Cockermouth, pleaded guilty to possessing the drug with intent to supply it, but only on the basis that he was acting as a courier and would not have been actively involved in selling it.
Prosecutor Alan Lovett said that, even on that limited basis, it was clear that Burrough had "played a significant role" in the drugs supply chain.
Mitigating, defence advocate Chris Evans produced a sheaf of testimonials from people attesting to Burrough's "responsible attitude to society". He said he was highly thought of in the Cockermouth area and had done much valuable community work there.
He said lack of money was the only reason Burrough – who has an eight-year-old daughter and two grown-up children – had agreed to get involved. "He had been asked numerous times before, and had always refused, but on this occasion he agreed," he said.
But Mr Evans added: "It was not done out of avarice. It was more the desperate situation he found himself in because of his financial circumstances."
Mr Evans said Burrough had lost his taxi licence as a result of the offence, though he still hoped to get it back.
Burrough left the court in tears after being given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 200 hours unpaid community work.
Passing sentence, Judge Peter Hughes QC told Burrough that his "warped attitude towards cannabis" had brought shame on him and his family.
"Those who think highly of you will have to re-assess their judgement of you in the light of what you have done," he said.
The judge said the fact that Burrough committed the offence while working as a taxi driver only made things worse.
"The fact that you are a taxi driver aggravates the offence because it gave you a cloak of respectability which would indicate to police officers that you were not likely to be the sort of person who would be moving cannabis around," he said.
First published at 08:58, Saturday, 12 May 2012
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk


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Anantara Bophut Resort & Spa
101/3 Bophut Bay, Koh Samui
Suratthani 84320
Bophut Beach
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Das Anantara Koh Samui ist ein perfekter Urlaubsort im romantischen Fisherman's Village am Strand von Bophut. Direkt am Strand gelegen, bietet es 82 Zimmer mit eigenem Balkon, Blick auf den riesigen tropischen Garten, den Pool und das Meer und moderne aber komfortable Unterkünfte im Thai-Stil - genau was Sie suchen in Ihrem Thailandurlaub. Die Deluxe Terrassen-Zimmer bieten im Erdgeschoss einen direkten Zugang zum Pool und die Anantara Suiten mit Doppel-Balkon und eingebautem Sofa bieten ein wundervolles Versteck, vom dem Sie nur träumen können. Getränke und Speisen werden im Restaurant Al Fresco Italian Full Moon mit Blick auf den Pool serviert oder lassen Sie sich in unserem exklusiven Wellnessbereich verwöhnen. Wir werden dafür sorgen, dass sie das Beste aus Ihrem Urlaub im Anantara Samui machen.
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Travel reviews for Anantara Bophut Resort & Spa
Date of stay:
Feb 15, 2012
Accommodation and facilities:
We stayed for 13 days and had the most relaxing time in a relaxed environment . The Spa is amazing. Highly recommendable. The staff were extremely helpful & joyful.
Reservation service:
Feb 19, 2012
written by:
E Caporali
Date of stay:
Sep 09, 2011
Accommodation and facilities:
Beautiful Hotel. Friendly staff - sometimes a bit too fawning . Excellent location. Outstanding restaurant. Was upgraded at no extra cost to villa which was absolutely amazing. Only criticism was that the outdoor bath did not work and they could not replace a faulty hairdryer. Gardens and facility well kept.
Reservation service:
Efficient - would be happy to use Sawadee again
Sep 13, 2011
written by:
Mark Freedman
Date of stay:
Jun 14, 2011
Accommodation and facilities:
The resort was beautiful. The staff was excellent. The only problem was that they did not service the room until 7 at night which is too late. Other than that it was a great place to vacation.
Reservation service:
Everything went well. No problems at all. Very easy.
Jun 17, 2011
written by:
Carrie Rimolt
Date of stay:
Dec 30, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
An excellent resort. My family were very well looked after by all staff there. Two bedroom suite with its own pool was beautiful. Food at the restaurant was expensive compared to local restaurants but not compared to normal Australian prices. Food was very well presented and of very good quality.
Reservation service:
excellent. quick response and dealt with many unplanned but needed changes promptly
Jan 20, 2011
written by:
jane sammut
Date of stay:
Aug 10, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
The staff and service was awesome!
Reservation service:
Aug 16, 2010
written by:
Micheal Roy Hasty
Date of stay:
Jul 25, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
very nice hotel. friendly and professional staff. Beautiful rooms and gardens.
Reservation service:
the booking went absolutely great: fast and simple
Aug 09, 2010
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Date of stay:
May 30, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
Stayed for the first five days of our honeymoon. Couldn t have been better. The resort and staff are top notch. Breakfast was great, swim-up bar drinks excellent, beach chairs and umbrellas nice, great location, and on and on. The sand is not as nice as at Chaweng, but it s such a nicer, more relaxed scene at Bophut and who cares about sand when you re sitting in a lounge chair most of the day. Fantastic job Anantara!
Reservation service:
Sawadee was extremely responsive and did a good job.
Jun 07, 2010
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Date of stay:
May 29, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
Resort was lovely. Staff were incredibly friendly, helpful and welcoming. Everyone was especially terrific with our 7 month old daughter, playing with her during meal times where possible so we could eat in peace. A short walk to the Fisherman s Village which basically provides variety in eating options but prices are very similar to the hotel. Note - suites do not have a separate bedroom - they are essentially open plan rooms twice the size of a regular room. This wasn t what we expected and if travelling with children who need to go to bed earlier than the adults is worth noting. Food at all 3 restaurants was very good. It is right on the beach (which is a lovely crescent of white sand but the water wasn t particularly clear - maybe to do with tides/wind churning things up). I recommend Anantara Boh Phut very highly - we had a wonderful 2 week stay there.
Reservation service:
Everything with our booking was clear and exactly as stated and we found the best prices here for this resort.
May 31, 2010
written by:
A. Nonymous
Date of stay:
Mar 17, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
The perfect place to relax
Reservation service:
Mar 19, 2010
written by:
Sebastian Le Poole
Date of stay:
Mar 11, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
great hotel,beautiful rooms. very friendly staff.The only dissapointment was : no sailboats! On internet they promise laser and catamaran en there were none!!This was a pity because we had chosen this hotel because of the watersports There was only one surfboard. If they will have sailboats I would come back!
Reservation service:
Bookingservice 10!!!!! if you mail , they mail you directly back with helpfull remarks
Mar 27, 2010
written by:
Alexandra Le Poole
Date of stay:
Feb 21, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
The Anantara Bophut Resort was a very pleasant surprise. Gorgeous Resort and impeccable service. Staff were exceptionally friendly and couldn t be more helpful. While the clientele may be a little stodgy preferring to sun by the pool and sea rather than swim in it, we enjoyed the water vey much. Bhoput is still a relaxed part of Ko Samui and has the Fisherman s Village and many restaurants nearby. Highly Recommended !
Reservation service:
As always - no problems !
Mar 05, 2010
written by:
Theodore Borek
Date of stay:
Jan 06, 2010
Accommodation and facilities:
Very good hotel, friendly staff. Highly recomended! I wish there were more annimation activities for the kids, but otherwise great place.
Reservation service:
Easy, smooth and even flexibale.
Jan 11, 2010
written by:
Kamyshny's (family with two kids)
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Open the door to island charm.
Windsurf across a bay as blue as the sky overhead. Smell a sweet and exotic mixture of wild honey and brown sugar being massaged onto your skin. Float in the seaside infinity edge pool by day and then perch over it to savour award winning Italian cuisine by night. Venture off the beaten path and escape to
Anantara Bophut Resort & Spa.
Blending Thai hospitality with Anantara style, Anantara Koh Samui sits along Bophut Bay, near the charming Fisherman's Village. Full of traditional wooden shop houses and pleasant cafés, this little enclave displays a relaxed elegance not found elsewhere on the island.
That relaxed elegance also characterizes Anantara's ambiance. Our 106 rooms and suites set in luxurious tropical gardens designed by Bill Bensley, as well as our restaurants and custom dining options, exude the rich simplicity that could only be Anantara Koh Samui.
Our boutique Koh Samui retreat re-imagines the exotic, flowing grace of Thai culture in its exquisite accommodation. Choose from three charming room types and an impressive five suite categories, all designed in vibrant contemporary Thai style, a rich colour palette of warm earth tones and spaces filled with natural light. Enjoy every modern luxury, enhanced by Anantara's signature amenities. Step onto your balcony or terrace to feel the island's soothing breeze and admire tropical garden or glorious sea views.
:: Premier Garden View Room - 26 Rooms ::
Room size: 32 sq.m. / room capacity: 2 adults (extra bed not permitted)
Located on the third floor with an elevated vista across our resort's stunning indigenous gardens, Premier Garden View rooms offer a charming island haven. Enjoy the option of a sumptuous king size bed or twin beds that are dressed in the finest linens, as well as a host of luxury creature comforts. Relax on the cosy sofa on your balcony and soak up the magic of tropical island life.
Room features
32 sq.m. of living space
Balcony with sofa
Views of tropical gardens
King or twin beds
Rain shower
Mini bar
Tea and coffee making facilities
Electronic in-room safe
Satellite flat screen LCD TV and DVD player
Work desk with power sockets
High speed internet access
Individually controlled air conditioning
IDD telephone with voicemail
iPod docking station
:: Deluxe Garden View Room - 26 Rooms ::
Room size: 36 sq.m. / room capacity: 2 adults + 1 child
Positioned on the second floor of our hotel, Deluxe Garden View rooms offer a spacious sanctuary with the choice of a king size or twin beds, and the convenient option of requesting an extra bed. Slide open the floor to ceiling glass doors and relax on your cosy sofa which is just outside in the open air. Then gaze over our lush tropical grounds while listening to your favourite iPod tunes.
Room features
36 sq.m. of living space
Outdoor sofa
Views of tropical gardens
King or twin beds
Rain shower
Mini bar
Tea and coffee making facilities
Electronic in-room safe
Satellite flat screen LCD TV and DVD player
Work desk with power sockets
High speed internet access
Individually controlled air conditioning
IDD telephone with voicemail
iPod docking station
:: Deluxe Sea View Room - 8 Rooms ::
Room size: 36 sq.m. / room capacity: 2 adults + 1 child
Drink in a panorama of Bophut Beach and the Gulf of Siam's tranquil waters from the comfort on your outdoor sofa, while enjoying the view from the second or third floors. Inside, Deluxe Sea View rooms are richly decorated to reflect our resort's enchanting location. Refresh under the cascade of your rain shower, and rest in a sumptuous bedroom of southern Thai inspired artwork and rich silks.
Room features
36 sq.m. of living space
Outdoor sofa
Beautiful sea views
King or twin beds
Rain shower
Mini bar
Tea and coffee making facilities
Electronic in-room safe
Satellite flat screen LCD TV and DVD player
Work desk with power sockets
High speed internet access
Individually controlled air conditioning
IDD telephone with voicemail
iPod docking station
:: Junior Garden View Suite - 22 Rooms ::
Room size: 44 sq.m. / room capacity: 2 adults + 2 children
Experience the perfect blend of generous space, exceptional design and superior amenities. Making the most of their ground floor position, Junior Garden View Suites feature a terrace with direct access to our resort's beautifully landscaped indigenous gardens. Inside, elegant Thai accents are matched by a contemporary sense of style, such as basins and closets "for him" and "for her".
Room features
44 sq.m. of living space
Views of tropical gardens
Direct garden access
Separate lounge area with sofa
King or twin beds
Rain shower
Dual basins
Dual closets
Mini bar
Tea and coffee making facilities
Electronic in-room safe
Satellite flat screen LCD TV and DVD player
Work desk with power sockets
High speed internet access
Individually controlled air conditioning
IDD telephone with voicemail
iPod docking station
:: Garden View Suite - 12 Rooms ::
Room size: 65 sq.m. / room capacity: 2 adults + 2 children or 3 adults / 1 child
Indulgent space, comfort and amenities characterise our Garden View Suites on the second and third floors. Two balconies are furnished with cosy sofas and reveal exotic resort views. The four poster king size bed is dressed in luxury linens and surrounded by tasteful décor. Your deep terrazzo that is large enough to share, and the bathroom space can be extended into the bedroom by sliding open the glass partition doors. While the addition of an espresso machine is just one of the many thoughtful touches that promise a true sense of luxury.
Room features
65 sq.m. of living space
Tropical garden views
from two balconies with sofas
Lounge area with sofa
Four poster king size bed
Deep terrazzo bathtub for two
Separate shower area
Dual basins
Mini bar
Tea making facilities
Espresso machine
Electronic in-room safe
Satellite flat screen LCD TV and DVD player
Work desk with power sockets
High speed internet access
Individually controlled air conditioning
IDD telephone with voicemail
iPod docking station
:: Royal Garden View Suite - 6 Rooms ::
Room size: 65 sq.m. / room capacity: 2 adults + 2 children or 3 adults / 1 child
Opening directly onto lushly landscaped gardens, our ground floor Royal Garden View Suites boast two terraces for a feeling of being at one with nature. These princely sanctuaries are lavishly decorated. The bedroom is beautifully furnished with a four poster king size bed, adjacent to a cosy lounge area with a sofa. While the bathroom features a terrazzo bathtub to share, as well as a separate shower area and dual basins.
Room features
65 sq.m. of living space
Tropical garden views from two terraces
Lounge area with sofa
Four poster king size bed
Deep terrazzo bathtub for two
Separate shower area
Dual basins
Mini bar
Tea making facilities
Espresso machine
Electronic in-room safe
Satellite flat screen LCD TV and DVD player
Work desk with power sockets
High speed internet access
Individually controlled air conditioning
IDD telephone with voicemail
iPod docking station
:: Full Moon ::
Take in views of la bella luna reflecting on the bay at this al fresco Italian restaurant situated by the pool. Familiar classics and new creations alike grace the carefully chosen menu, including dishes cooked tableside a multi sensory experience.
:: High Tide ::
Just as the incoming tide often brings new arrivals, so too does this stylish restaurant offer a variety of flavours in both an indoor and outdoor setting. Find a fusion of world cuisines at the extensive international breakfast buffet every morning, and then enjoy island-style Thai dishes in the evening.
:: Eclipse Bar ::
Unwind with a fresh cocktail on a terraced veranda. This chic yet relaxed bar is a great place to meet up with friends new and old, share an intimate drink with that special someone or enjoy the ambiance solo, martini in hand.
:: Library ::
Take a break from the sun, and settle into a cosy armchair with a good book and a cup of tea. Or sip on an island drink as you check email in quiet comfort. Our richly decorated library welcomes you to come in and take a deep breath of relief.
:: Dining by Design ::
Torches flicker next to a table set for two on the beach. The fragrance of Thai curries floats out of a garden sala. Choose among many romantic locations all over the resort for a private dinner designed by you.
:: Private Gourmet Barbeque ::
The smells of freshly grilled seafood waft into your bedroom from the feast on your terrace. Choose among four different but equally delicious barbeque packages, plus salads and dessert, for a unique dining experience without ever leaving your room.
Within slate and bamboo walls, the soothing babble of water forms the soundtrack to your Anantara Spa experience at Koh Samui. A destination in itself, the spa rests on 3,000 square metres and features six glass-walled treatment rooms, each with its own tropical water garden.
The harmony of natural elements continues with the diverse treatments offered on the spa menu banana and pumpkin body polish, the aromatherapy of Thai spices, mineral rich mud baths. Let our expert therapists revive your body and soul with local rituals and ancient remedies.
Signature treatment spa journeys
Chosen ones
Body treatments
Elemis treatments
Bath & steam rituals
Salon treatments
:: Meeting Facilities & Services ::
Four fully equipped meeting rooms :
Samui Grand Ballroom
Seats up to 150 people, theatre style.
Koh Samui Meeting Room
Seats up to 75 people, theatre style.
Koh Phangan Meeting Room
Seats up to 75 people, theatre style.
Koh Tao Boardroom
Seats up to 12 people, boardroom style.
:: Wedding ::
A walk down the aisle on white island sand the sparkle of the turquoise sea as the backdrop the scent of fragrant frangipani on the ocean breeze exchanging vows as the sun dips below the verdant island horizon.
Live the wedding of your dreams. Far from the crowds, away from the bustle and frenetic pace of everyday life, to a lush island paradise where time can stand still, sealing the perfect moment, the beginning of forever. Begin your life together in the luxury and stunning island beauty of Anantara Bophut - Koh Samui Resort.
:: Hotel Facilities ::
Beauty salon
Business center
Car parking
Conference / meeting room
DVD library
Facilities for the disabled
Kids club
Library & internet
Pool bar
Restaurant Thai / international
Wine cellar
:: Hotel Services ::
Airport transfer
Baby cot available
Babysitting (Charge)
Doctor on call
Dry cleaning service
DVD (Free)
Fax service
Laundry service
Tour desk
Wi-Fi internet
Private dining
:: Leisure & Sports at Hotel ::
Gym / fitness club
Snorkeling equipment
Steam room
Swimming pool outdoor
Tennis court
Thai cooking class
Windsurfing for rent
Yoga pavilion
Situated on a northern curve of the island beside Bophut Bay, Anantara Koh Samui is both conveniently located only a few minutes away from the airport and an escape from the bustling nightlife at nearby Chaweng Beach and from the rest of the world. Within the resort, abandon yourself to verdant stands of coconut palms, luxurious gardens, the warm sun, and all of those little touches that are distinctly Anantara.
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Posted 04 November 2012 - 13:57
Posted 04 November 2012 - 15:06
Which mode do you suggest I be in?:
High ISO, large aperture, experiment.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 15:45
Posted 04 November 2012 - 16:25
Tar for the advice
A and S are the modes you should always use, M is for when those don't cut it and you need to take control, remember, when shooting in raw, you can digitally increase the exposure level two levels without quality loss on the computer.
so since I said use a large aperture, set it to A mode and crank that aperture up, which is a bit backwards since large aperture is low number
The numbers that change from single digits with ¨ behind it to 1600+ is the shutter speed, ie how fast it takes the picture. in A mode you wno't see this, this one gets changed automatically
The number with a point separation is the Aperture, for night shot, keep isn't as low as possible, on your lens that is probably somewhere int he range of 2.8-4,3 ish, the reason for the range is that it is a "cheap" zoom lens, and on larger zoom you lose light and the aperture gets numerically higher, the actual aperture I believe is the same but it's more about the amount of light coming through.
You could also shoot in night mode, but then it might take to long to take the shots and be blurry.
So, Set your aperture to the largest opening/lowest number, in A mode, and change the ISO to really high, I believe your camera shoudl be able to handle 1600 with acceptable nose levels. at 800-1200 you'll have less noise but may need to sacrifice more blur.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 17:09
Posted 04 November 2012 - 17:25
I won't be taking photos of people.
yeah, 2.8 was a bit optimistic on a kit lens, 3.5 sounds more realistic :)the 1/xx number that change automatically in A mode would be the shutter time/speed.
nah, leave the rest as is, you "MAY" want to change metering mode to center weighted, but this is something you need to experiment with and depends on what you're shooting and how you want it to look. but if you use center weight it will use the center light where you point the camera and will probably shoot faster, not trying to make all the blackness around the target visible.
And experiment with the ISO beforehand and during to make sure it's not to noisy for you. but remember good apps like lightroom, or even Windows Photo Gallery can remove a lot of the noise, but it will smooth out a lot of details. basically faces can get more of a "glamour" shot look.


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