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NCL Freestyle is very good and the food was excellent
Overall the total trip was beyond our expectations. Great value, food was better than lead to believe. The crew was supportive and super friendly. Customer service was excellent.
Our room was small but well configured for two people. big bathroom. Stewart was super and keep our room clean and entertained.
Ship was easy to ride, no sea sickness on this journey. very clean and interesting to walk around.
Crew was beyond expectations too. They were super friendly, asked if we were happy and made sure we felt at home. The Sr. staff was out there working with the crew to make sure the vessel was clean and safe.
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The Oakes Children's Center for their own autistic children over 40 years ago.
In 1962, there was no community-based educational program available for autistic children.
The only option at that time for these six pairs of parents was to institutionalize their own children.
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Jimmy Kimmel Makes Fun of Tempe, a.k.a., Wiener Spray, Arizona
It looks like we're not the only ones who found the humor in a premature-ejaculation spray being named Tempe.
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, an Arizona State University dropout, had a bit on the spray on his show last night.
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As we mentioned earlier this week, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported that a the penis spray "has been judged safe and effective by the European Medicines Agency and is expected in bedroom cabinets early next year."
The name: Tempe -- short for Topical Eutectic Mixture for Premature Ejaculation.
ABC apparently doesn't like the embed feature, so you'll have to click here to see Kimmel's bit, starting at the 5:05 mark, in which he makes fun of Tempe -- now known as Wiener Spray, Arizona.
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Velvet Underground: Film Festival Foodie options, Keith Haring Miami and Sake to Me.
Those who read South Beach Wine & Food Festival founder Lee Schrager's tweets know that his fancy for food is contagious and can make people hungry or full depending on what's on his menu that day. Taking his love affair with food to a cinematic level, Schrager has partnered with the Miami International Film Festival to present Lee Brian Schrager's Culinary Cinema, kicking off at noon on Sunday, March 3 with a Franco Brazilian brunch at Juvia (1111 Lincoln Road) followed by the North American Regal Cinemas premiere of French flick Why Did You Leave? Tickets for brunch and screening are $100. The foodie film fest continues at 7 p.m. Monday, March 4 with a Miami Beach Cinematheque (1130 Washington Ave.) screening of Oma & Bella and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9 with a screening of butcher flick and best feature film of the 2012 NYC Food Film Festival, Meat Hooked. Can't make the movies but like to eat? The Miami International Film Fest's CINEDWNTWN restaurant program offers dinner and a movie discounts at Tuyo, Azul, Close Bistro & Cafe, DB Bistro Moderne, Zuma and Fratelli Milano. For more information, go to www.miamifilmfestival.com.
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From March 6 through March 10, over 200 pieces of work from the private collections of the 1980s pop/graffiti artist and social activist Keith Haring will be displayed at the Moore Building, 4040 NE 2nd Ave., in the Design District. To commemorate this retro-fabulous downtown NYC circa 1984 affair, the Veuve Cliquot Airstream will be parked outside the exhibit and will be open to the public beginning at 11 a.m. (until 9 p.m.) Thursday, March 7 through March 10, offering flutes ($16) and bottles ($100) in the Airstream cum Champagne Lounge. Now that's what we call street chic.
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For some, Monday is a tough pill to swallow, but to ease things through it and into the Jan Brady of weekdays, aka the neither here nor there day that is Tuesday, Kitchen 305 (16701 Collins Ave.) is hosting a new Monday night to do. Sake to Me Mondays features an interactive sushi making class, mixology lesson, three course dinner and sake-tini pairing for just $35. Almost makes Monday something to look forward to. As for Tuesday, sorry, Jan, it's all about Marcia, Marcia, Marcia, aka Fridays. For reservations, call 305-749-2110.
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There's nothing or no one normal in Florida, but there is a chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which is hosting the 15th annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 2 at Tobacco Road (626 S. Miami Ave.). Headliners include Johnny Dread, Sweetbone, The Nag Champions, Dusthead, and a long list of other artists and bands supporting the cause. Speakers include Florida State Senator Dwight Bullard, Florida State Representative Katie Edwards, comedian, former Miami Beach mayoral candidate and cause champion Steve Berke and more. Tickets are $12.
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On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)
By Ben Kepes on August 8, 2012
Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I'm not going to make a song and dance about AWS' woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages. I will say that with Cloud Computing outages are more obvious than with traditional on-premise infrastructure. […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enstratus, george reese, NetworkWorld
The Future Ain't Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors
By Ben Kepes on July 3, 2012
We all, commentators, vendors and customers, need this cloud thing to happen safely and consistently. Dogmatic messages like these ones do nothing to increase the comfort level of prospective or actual cloud customers. Vendors, please stop it now. That is all.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Chris Hoff, cloud computing, enstratus, heroku, McCarthyism, openstack, PistonCloud | 2 Responses
VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis
By Ben Kepes on July 2, 2012
News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally announces the fraught with stress acquisition of Quest and marks a rapid heating up of the […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, bmc, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, dell, DynamicOps, rightscale, vmware | 2 Responses
How to Synch S3 Buckets in AWS and design for failover
By Dan Morrill on July 1, 2012
News of Friday's problems with the Virginia Data Centers power system taking down sites like Netflix and Pinterestshows that sometimes not programming for fail over or data center failure is a pretty foolish thing to do. Especially with costs somewhat reasonable per gigabyte in Amazon's S3 system. Anyone who does not program for fail over […]
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HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta
By Ben Kepes on April 10, 2012
Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it's CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a private beta offering built on top of OpenStack out in the wild. Today it becomes obvious […]
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Wig Wam Bam.
By Christian Reilly on April 3, 2012
So, in perhaps one of the worst kept embargoes of 2012 to date, Citrix finally announces their intent to join the ASF (Apache Software Foundation) and "donate" the Cloudstack code to the open source community. Anyone with the requisite amount of brain cells to challenge algae could have seen this move coming and, despite it […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, apache foundation, apache license, aws, citrix, Citrix Systems, cloudstack, openstack | 2 Responses
Solar power in the data centre – solution or window dressing?
By Paul Miller on March 19, 2012
Most of us recognise that the Earth is warming and that — despite our planet's temperatures having dramatically risen and fallen before — we humans must accept some measure of responsibility for the current changes. Already consuming at least 1.1-1.5% of global power, and only forecast to grow ever-more rapacious, the data centres that power our information […]
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Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud
By Ben Kepes on February 28, 2012
At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud. In the space of 12 months Zynga has gone from 80% of workloads being in the […]
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Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies' Sitrep
By Adron Hall on December 12, 2011
I'm sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I'm flipping pages, sort of, it's an eBook on my Kindle App. I'm reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms, Strategy, Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, appfog, appharbor, Apple, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloudability, Cloudbees, Cloudfoundry, engineyard, heroku, howard hughes, Joyent, Macintosh, mongohq, mongolabs, nodejitsu, nodester, opscode, phpfog, Puppet Labs, steve jobs, The Future, utility computing | 3 Responses
How is AWS Failing to Service Webscale Applications?
By Randy Bias on November 16, 2011
I've made the argument on numerous occasions that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is essentially the quintessential cloud computing offering, particular for infrastructure. To boil down my argument again, it's essentially: Cloud computing is an entirely new model for IT This model displaces 'enterprise computing' (or 'client/server') just as that model displaced 'mainframe computing' "Enterprise clouds" […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Quora
What is Amazon's Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train?
By Randy Bias on October 14, 2011
We can all see it Amazon's continued growth. The 'Other' line in their revenue reports is now the #1 area of growth for Amazon, even above consumer electronics. Their latest 10-Qreported 87% year-over-year growth, well over their consumer electronics business. Per predictions from myself, UBS, and others, AWS is staying on-track for 100% year-over-year growth, revenues in the […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon ec2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, aws | 1 Response
OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included
By Ben Kepes on September 23, 2011
Yesterday OpenStack rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed "Diablo". Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally answering those who say it isn't yet ready for real world implementations and specifically includes the following additional components; OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) OpenStack Compute additional functionality OpenStack Image Registry One aspect of the release that […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, enstratus, george reese, opensource, openstack, rackspace, rightscale | 1 Response
Is the Stack Dead?
By Ben Kepes on September 14, 2011
For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can be differentiated. Traditional thinking (if one can have traditional thinking in a space as young as […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, CloudComputing, CloudU, netsuite, openstack, San Francisco, software as a service, structure 2010, vmware, werner vogels | 5 Responses
OS Bridge Day #1: Hacking for Freedom
By Adron Hall on June 21, 2011
Keynote: Hacking for Freedom
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Day #1 has kicked off with a bang. A keynote that really pulled at the heart strings for the love of freedom and liberty! The notion of technology being involved directly to those pushing for their freedom in other parts of the world is huge. Below I've snagged… read more…
Posted in Featured Posts, General, Open Source, Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Android Developers, Apple, conference, Freedom, hack, hacking, hacktivism, IOS (Apple), liberty, open source software, os bridge, osbridge, oss, portland, simpledb, Telecomix, Unknown Code Ramblings, Urban Airship, wikileaks
What happens in Vegas…
By Christian Reilly on May 9, 2011
As I board the plane to head to Las Vegas for 2011′s Interop and Enterprise Cloud Summit, predictably, yet somewhat rhetorically, the great AWS outage post mortem continues to rumble on. Exactly two weeks after the event, blog after blog and article after article continues to serve up a veritable range of delights from the […]
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Nestlé boosts profits and forecasts strong growth
By John Reynolds, brandrepublic.com, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:56AM
Nestlé, the world's largest food group, has more than doubled its net profits to 34.2bn Swiss francs (£22bn) following the sale of eyecare specialist Alcon in 2010.
The Swiss food giant's net profits were up from SFr20bn (£12.9bn) the year before, and the company has forecast organic sales growth of between 5% and 6% in 2011.
Nestlé sold its remaining stake in Alcon to pharmaceutical company Novartis for $28.3bn.
Revenue at Nestlé came in at SFr109.7bn (£70.5bn) for the full year.
The company, headed by chief executive Paul Buckle, said it was "well placed to face uncertainties ahead, including volatile raw material prices".
Nestlé, like its rivals, faces a quandary over whether to raise its prices or reduce internal costs to combat rising prices of sugar, coffee and grain.
Unilever, for one, has said it was confident about passing on higher prices to consumers.
Nestlé, whose brands include KitKat, Nescafé, and weight-management product Jenny Craig, reported revenues of SFr21.6bn (£13.9bn) in Europe.
The group highlighted Great Britain as one of the countries having "particularly positive years".
Across Europe, brands including KitKat, Maggi Juicy Chicken and Nescafé Dolce Gusto were signalled as performing well.
In November last year, Nestlé opted to launch Maggi Juicy Chicken in the UK, to take on the dominance of Unilever's Knorr.
Nestlé's water brands, which include Vittell, were said to have performed well in Europe, and boasted double-digit sales rises in the UK.
Its coffee brand, Nespresso, which uses George Clooney to front its advertising, passed SFr3bn in sales for the first time, the company said.
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