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Best Western Mason Inn
9665 S Mason Montgomery Road,
Mason, Ohio, 45040-9397,
United States
Phone: 513/336-7911
Fax: 513/336-8873
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Hotel Ratings:
AAA-2 Diamond
Pet Policy:
No pets allowed
Hotel Amenities:
100% smoke free hotel
Complimentary breakfast
Complimentary full breakfast, pancakes or waffles, oatmeal with toppings, eggs, sausage, yogurt, breads, donuts, muffins, bagels, English muffins, hard boiled eggs, tea, coffee and juice
Indoor pool, heated
Hot tub
Exercise facility, open from 6:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. one treadmill, one exercise bike, one elliptical and weight machine.
Weight lifting equipment
Guest Room Amenities:
Cable or satellite television, CNN or other 24 hour news station
AM/FM alarm clock
AM/FM radio stereo
Coffee/tea maker
Area Information:
3.00 mile(s) from Kings Island, is the largest amusement and water park in the Midwest!
3.00 mile(s) from Beach Water Park
10.00 mile(s) from Cincinnati Zoo, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is the second oldest zoo in the United States with 70 acres including a children's zoo.
10.00 mile(s) from Great America Ball Park, is home field of the Major League baseball team the Cincinnati Reds. It opened in 2003, replacing Cinergy Field.
10.00 mile(s) from Cincinnati Museum Center, three museums in one building. Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History and Science and the Cinergy Children's Museum.
12.00 mile(s) from Newport Aquarium, features 60 exhibits and five specially designed underwater tunnels.
5.00 mile(s) from Wake Nation CIninnati, Water-skiing and wake-boarding via a boat-free cable pulley system. Plus a concession and viewing area.
30 mile(s) from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
50 mile(s) from Dayton International
0.50 mile(s) from Strayer University
16.00 mile(s) from University of Cincinnati
16 mile(s) from Xavier University
32 mile(s) from Miami University
7 mile(s) from Sinclair Community Colleg
From: Columbus. Take Interstate 71 South, Exit 19 at the ramp make a right. The Best Western Mason Inn is on your left hand side within three blocks.
From: Cincinnati. Take Interstate 71 North, Exit 19 at the ramp make a left. The Best Western Mason Inn is on your left hand side within one half mile.
From: Dayton. Take Interstate 75 South. Then take Interstate 275 towards Columbus, Ohio, travel approximately five miles. Take Interstate 71 North, Exit 19 at the ramp make a left. The Best Western Mason Inn is on your left hand side within one half mile.
From: Indianapolis. Take Interstate 74 East. Then take Interstate 275 towards Dayton - Cincinnati. Continue on Interstate 275 towards Columbus, Ohio. Take Interstate 71 North, Exit 19 at the ramp make a left. The Best Western Mason Inn is on your left hand side within one half mile.
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.4 mile(s) from Atos
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1.3 mile(s) from Cloplay
1.5 mile(s) from Proctor and Gamble
2 mile(s) from Deerfield Towne Center, With over 50 national retailers, specialty boutiques and great dining destinations, Deerfield Towne Center is Cincinnati's premier lifestyle shopping center. Stores include Gymboree, Dicks Sporting Goods and bed bath beyond.
0.50 mile(s) from Kenwood Town Center, Kenwood Towne Centre is a shopping mall located at corner of Montgomery and Kenwood Roads, adjacent to Interstate 71, northeast of Cincinnati.
17 mile(s) from Newport on the Levee, Newport on the Levee is an urban retail and entertainment center located in Newport, Kentucky just minutes from downtown Cincinnati.
6.4 mile(s) from Ikea
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"This is the second time we've sponsored this event and consider it a great night of boxing and a great program for our boxing fans," says Alex Czajkowski, Marketing Director, sportsbook.com. "sportsbook.com continues to grow its list of top-tier sponsorship programs that now includes boxing, golf, UFC and bull riding, among others."
In addition to being the title sponsor of the event, sportsbook.com is offering odds on the match, favouring Bernard Hopkins to win with 5-8 odds. The 40-year-old Hopkins, aka "The Executioner," hasn't been defeated in over 20 years and has defended his title 25 times.
"This will undoubtedly be the biggest fight of Eastman's life," added Czajkowski. "Since 1993, 21 fighters have tried to defeat Hopkins without success. But Eastman is faster, younger…and he's prepared. But this is championship boxing and anything can happen."
The fight takes place Saturday, Feb. 19th at 9:45 p.m. ET.
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Additional Sportsbook.com odds on the fight:
Eastman by decision 9-1
Eastman by KO – TKO – DQ 9-1
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Hopkins by KO – TKO – DQ 11-4
Draw 23-1
sportsbook.com is also offering a free, collectible, Sportsbook.com boxing T-shirt for customers who win with any bet on this card.

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When Ben Board saw the image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead face down on the beach, he was distraught – but he also knew that he was in a unique position to do something practical to help save more children from drowning.
As well as being a father-of-two, Mr Board works at Unique Seaflex, an Isle of Wight firm that manufactures life-saving, sea-rescue equipment. He knew he could act quickly and for the last two months, with the firm's support, he and and 10 colleagues have been working into the night to perfect a revolutionary, yet simple, life-saving device.
Many of the more than 2,800 refugees who have died in the Mediterranean drowned after their unseaworthy boats capsized within sight of rescue craft or passing merchant vessels, leaving hundreds of people in the water and overwhelming rescuers.
Mr Board's solution is the Centifloat, a 16-metre, tube-shaped float, with more than 60 grab handles, that can be inflated in three minutes and thrown over the side of high-sided container ships and ferries.
"The problem is that most boats in the Mediterranean - other than the few specialist rescue vessels - aren't able to do much practically to help if they come across 200 or 300 people in the water after their boat has capsized," he said.
The decks of merchant vessels in particular can be up to 20 metres above the water and most vessels only carry enough rescue equipment for their small crew.
"The idea behind the Centifloat is that one or two of them can be thrown over the side quickly to offer time for struggling refugees before rescue boats and helicopters arrive at the scene. And if you link two together it's possible to get children and frail people up out of the water," he added.
So far the small team behind Centifloat, which was originally designed to help 100 people but has been shrunk to make it more manoeuvrable, has shipped four of the £1,500 floats to the Mediterranean where they have been used by the volunteer-run Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) Foundation to save "dozens of lives".
The refugee crisis - in pictures
The refugee crisis - in pictures
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A Syrian refugee holding a baby in a lifetube swims towards the shore after their dinghy deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos
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A refugee raises a child into the air as Syrian and Afghan refugees are seen on and around a dinghy that deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos
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Syrian and Afghan refugees fall into the sea after their dinghy deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos
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A refugee cries as he holds a child on the Serbian side of the border with Hungary in Asotthalom
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Refugees stand in front of a barrier at the border with Hungary near the village of Horgos, Serbia
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A refugee from Syria prays after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos aboard an inflatable dinghy across the Aegean Sea from from Turkey. Greece sent troops and police reinforcements to Lesbos after renewed clashes between police and migrants, the public broadcaster said, while Syrian refugees on the island were targeted with Molotov cocktail attacks
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Police try to stop refugees going under a fence to board a train at a station near Gevgelija, Macedonia. Several thousand refugees in Macedonia boarded trains to travel north after spending a night in a provisional camp. Macedonia has organised trains twice a day to the north border where they cross into Serbia to make their way to Hungary
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Refugees push each other as they try to board a bus following their arrival onboard the Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ship at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece
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Refugees are welcomed by locals after their arrival at the main railway station in Frankfurt, Germany. Over 1,000 more refugees arrived in Germany to cheers and "welcome" signs, but calls grew for a European solution to its worst refugee crisis since World War II
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A young Syrian boy arrives on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing in a dinghy with other refugees from Turkey
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Refugees walk on the railway tracks between Bicske and Szar, some 40 kms west of Budapest, trying to reach Germany
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Hungarian policemen stand by the family of refugees as they wanted to run away at the railway station in the town of Bicske, Hungary
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A family is arrested by local police after their local train coming from Budapest and heading to the Austrian border has been stopped in Bicske, west of the Hungarian capital
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A man is arrested by local police after his local train coming from Budapest and heading to the Austrian border has been stopped in Bicske, west of the Hungarian capital
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More than 2,500 refugees have died trying to reach Europe this year and the struggle continues as they travel through the continent
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Refugees protest in front of a train at Bicske railway station. Hundreds of people, were stranded on a train in Hungary for a second, demanding passage to Germany in a standoff with riot police
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Syrian refugees arrive on the shores of Lesvos island
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Syrian refugees on the Greek Macedonian border
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Refugees storm into a train at the Keleti train station as Hungarian police withdrew from the gates after two days of blocking their entry
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Refugees storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest
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Refugees cross the border between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia. The Gevgelija-Presevo journey is just a part of the journey that the refugees, the vast majority of them from Syria, are forced to make along the so-called Balkan corridor, which takes them from Turkey, across Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to Hungary, the gateway to the European Union, September 2015
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A refugee helps up an exhausted fellow refugee as they cross the border between Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, September 2015
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People breaking through a police cordon and crossing the border between Macedonia and Greece, September 2015
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Refugees pass the border between Macedonia and Greece, September 2015
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A Macedonian policeman carries a child across the border between Macedonia and Greece, September 2015
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Syrians sleep on railroad tracks waiting to be processed across the Macedonian border in Idomeni, Greece, September 2015
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A Czech police officer marks a refugee with a number after more than than 200 refugees were detained, mostly from Syria, on trains from Hungary and Austria at the railway station in Breclav, Czech Republic, September 2015
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A baby is lifted on to the Norwegian vessel 'Siem Pilot' during a search-and-rescue mission off the Libyan coast, September 2015
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Budapest's main international railway station ordered an evacuation as hundreds of people tried to board trains to Austria and Germany, September 2015
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People wave their train tickets and lift up children outside the main Eastern Railway station in Budapest, September 2015
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People protest at the Eastern (Keleti) railway station of Budapest, September 2015
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Refugee children sleep in the surrounding green area of the Keleti railway station in Budapest, September 2015
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Syrians cross under a fence into Hungary at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, August 2015
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Refugees who have just crossed the border from Serbia into Hungary walk along a railway track that joins the two countries, August 2015
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Police arrest refugees at Cobham Services on the M25 in Surrey, August 2015
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Men hold a boy as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and fellow refugees during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, August 2015
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A Syrian father holds his children close as his arrives on the Greek Island of Kos, August 2015
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A tourist offers water to Iranian refugees as they arrive by paddling an engineless dinghy from the Turkish coast (seen in the background) at a beach on the Greek island of Kos, August 2015
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A Syrian holds his 30-day-old baby on an overcrowded train as they travel through Macedonia. Tens of thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, use the Balkans route to get into the European Union, passing from Greece to Macedonia and Serbia and then to western Europe, August 2015
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A man rests on a platform at the train station in Gevgelija, on the Macedonian-Greek border, August 2015
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Refugees react after boarding the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) ship MV Phoenix some 20 miles (32 kilometres) off the coast of Libya. Some 118 refugees were rescued from a rubber dinghy off Libya. The Phoenix, manned by personnel from international non-governmental organisations Medecins san Frontiere (MSF) and MOAS, is the first privately funded vessel to operate in the Mediterranean, August 2015
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Authorities are being overwhelmed as they try to fight off hundreds of refugees, prompting France to beef up its police presence, July 2015
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People escape from the French Police as they try to catch a train to reach England, July 2015
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A man jumps over a fence as he attempts to access the Channel Tunnel, in Calais, northern France, July 2015
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Two men cling to the roof of a freight truck as it leaves the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone, July 2015
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A man climbs a security fence of a Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles near Calais, July 2015
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Men help a man squeeze through a gap in a fence near the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles in Calais, July 2015
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Refugees climb in the back of a lorry on the A16 highway leading to the Eurotunnel in Calais, June 2015
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A police officer sprays tear gas to men trying to access the Channel Tunnel on the A16 highway in Calais, northern France, June 2015
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Men jump out of a lorry after being discovered by French gendarmerie officers, June 2015
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A man sits under the trailer of a lorry, June 2015
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A Belgian navy sailor passes life vests to refugees sitting in a rubber boat as they approach the Belgian Navy Vessel Godetia, June 2015
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People on the Belgian Navy vessel Godetia after they were saved during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast, June 2015
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Iraqis wait as they are detained by Hungarian police after crossing the Hungarian-Serbian border illegally near the village of Asotthalom, Hungary, June 2015
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Syrian refugees walking on train tracks through Macedonia on the Western Balkans migration route, after entering Europe through Greece, June 2015
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A group of people huddle together during an operation to remove them from the Italian-French border in the Italian city of Ventimiglia. Italy and France engaged in a war of words as a standoff over hundreds of Africans offered a graphic illustration of Europe's migration crisis. Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano described images of refugees perched on rocks at the border town of Ventimiglia after being refused entry to France as a "punch in the face for Europe", June 2015
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A man is carried by Italian police in Ventimiglia, Italy. Police reportedly removed refugees from under a railway bridge, June 2015
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A Syrian child holds a drawing as he waits to disembark from Belgian Navy vessel Godetia at the Augusta port, Italy. Around 250 refugees from Syria arrived at the Sicilian harbour from a Damascus refugee camp, June 2015
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A dinghy overcrowded with Afghan refugees arrived on a beach on the Greek island of Kos, May 2015
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An Afghan child is helped off a rib on the Greek island of Kos, May 2015
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An Afghan girl holds the hand of a woman as they arrive on a beach on the Greek island of Kos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, May 2015
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Refugees crossed part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, May 2015
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Afghan refugees arrive on a beach of Kos, May 2015
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Rescuers help children to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy in April 2015
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A boat transporting refugees arrives in the port of Messina after a rescue operation at sea, April 2015
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Armed Forces of Malta personnel in protective clothing carry the body of a dead man off Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoretti as surviving refugees watch in Senglea, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, April 2015
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Rescued people talk to a member of the Malta Order after a fishing boat carrying refugees capsized off the Libyan coast, is brought ashore along with 23 others retreived by the Italian Coast Guard vessel Bruno Gregoretti at Boiler Wharf, Senglea in Malta, April 2015
Earlier last month, in one incident 10 miles off the Libyan coast, the floats were an "integral part" of an operation to save 604 refugees from a perilously overloaded wooden boat.
This weekend the team at Unique Seaflex finished a run of an additional 14 life-saving floats that it is hoping to ship out to MOAS and Doctors Without Borders vessels in the region, as well as providing them to the over-stretched Greek coast guard on the island of Lesbos, where more than 200,000 refugees and migrants have landed since spring.
It is a "pretty cheap way to save lives", according to Mr Board, who says rescue agencies are keen to get more into operation as they expect large numbers of refugees and migrants to continue attempting to make the dangerous sea journey for months to come. More than 500,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean so far this year, according to officials from the International Organization for Migration.
"The overriding thing for us was that the political situation isn't going to be resolved quickly and our contacts on the ground say they expect boats to come through the winter, and this was something we could do to help right now," said Mr Board. "I can't do anything about the bigger problems in the world, but I could do this."
The Centifloat float was funded entirely by the donations from suppliers and staff working for free, but the team are now trying to raise £15,000 to pay for additional life-saving equipment and life jackets to send to the region (crowdfunding.justgiving.com/Centifloat).
"We are proud of what we've done but we are just doing what anybody else would do in our situation," Mr Board said. "These people desperately need our help. How could we not offer it?"
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How many times did we see Boris Diaw drive to the goal and then, inexplicably, pass the ball back out? Way back out? How many times did we see him wide open for a lay-up yet nervously not take the shot, instead choosing to pass to an incredulous teammate. (That is, the teammate couldn't believe his eyes when Boris refused an easy basket, the result being a bobbled ball and a turnover.) Diaw may be getting paid mega-bucks, on the heels of his most-improved NBA player trophy for the 2005-06 season, but he's too shy to be a major NBA player.
We're saying, how many times must he fail to impress before the Suns trade him to somebody who wants him — say, Mike D'Antoni's New York Knicks? D'Antoni, who failed to win a championship with his system, owes us that much. We're not one to lash out at the French, but Diaw's the kind of player who makes you wonder whether the whole country's made up of a bunch of sissies. Hey, it's not that he hasn't played well on occasion. The guy's had three triple-doubles. Last year, in game four of the first round of the playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs, Diaw almost achieved another one (20 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists) in 44 minutes.
Why he hasn't turned in performances like this regularly is a mystery; he's avoided serious injury. We think he lacks heart, intensity, confidence. He surprises even himself when he plays well and hasn't the swagger to carry the success into the next game. The idea that the best man to fellow basketball Frenchie Tony Parker (Mr. Eva Longoria) could play point forward regularly and allow Steve Nash major breathers is just crazy. How many turnovers can the team stand? How many missed opportunities for easy buckets? Please, Suns, put Boris out of our misery.
According to Kevin Smith's 1999 religious farce Dogma, the almighty God regularly descends from the heavens (taking on the corporeal form of Harold and Maude actor Bud Cort, of all people) to indulge in one of his few vices: Skee ball. No, seriously. And though we haven't been a regular visitor to church in decades, we can at least share in the heavenly father's (alleged) passion as we roll wooden balls up the ramps of the skee-ball machines and rack up high scores at GameWorks. The reason we're milking the tickets out of the four skee-ball machines here versus any of the other arcades in town is because of the primo redemption prizes available, including a portable DVD player (30,000 points), an Xbox 360 arcade pack (49,000 points), or a mini motorcycle (55,000 points). It's not the kind of gear you can get at the neighborhood Peter Piper Pizza, we assure you. Sure, it's probably gonna take us until the second coming to score enough tickets to land these big-ticket items (and it may be cheaper to just buy the stuff from the store), but, hey, we're scoring points with God, too.
Kids seem so appealing on paper. Someone to carry on the genetic line, to worship you like a god (until they're 5), to support you in your dotage. In practice, at about noon on any given Saturday afternoon, with the weekend yawning eternally in the distance, the attraction starts to wane. This is why a lot of very smart people got together and created the parent-saving marvel called the diversion. This comes in many forms, from the newly installed splash zone at the neighborhood pocket park (your tax dollars at work) to the off-the-grid theme birthday party (reference the S.S. Titanic bash in the flick Keeping Up with the Steins).
Our favorite way to pass the hours is a trip to Enchanted Island, the Encanto Park landmark that's been diverting desperate parents for years. Besides being situated in the great outdoors and having nothing whatever to do with video games, the Island boasts nine kid-pleasing attractions, including the restored, 1940s-vintage Encanto Carousel, the C.P. Huntington mini-train, the Dragon Wagon rollercoaster, the Rock 'n' Roll teacups, bumper boats, a parachute drop, and the Red Baron airplane ride.
The gem at this place has got to be the vintage carousel. Constructed by the Allan Herschell Company in 1948 and dubbed "Little Beauty," this majestic merry-go-round was saved from the scrapheap after the demolition of the original Kiddieland theme park in the late '80s, thanks to the efforts of a group of locals who pooled their money and their efforts to purchase the carousel and restore it to its original magnificent majesty. Good job, people. Go for a spin on us.
Got an itchy trigger finger, ace? The high-caliber staff at Shooter's World knows just how to scratch it. If you're not packing your own piece, this west-side pistol palace can let you exercise your Second Amendment rights with firearm rentals available for $10 for the first handgun, $6 for each rental after that (shooters must be 18 and over to rent rifles and shotguns; 21 and over to rent handguns). Once you're locked and loaded, take aim in any of the facility's 24 indoor lanes, which are available for $14 per hour, per person, and are perfect for you to play Dirty Harry with the three kinds of targets available. If you don't like the standard bull's eye or silhouette targets, try taking aim at a photo target of your choosing, including that rat bastard Osama bin Laden, a menacing mugger, and even a little old lady wielding a shotgun. Who knew they had armories in Sun City?
Mountain biking at night seems crazier, in theory, than it actually is. Just as in the daytime, it requires zooming up and hurtling down steep dirt tracks, all the while flanked by cholla cactus and pointy boulders. It sure isn't any safer at night, but it's not as risky as you might think if you have a burly lighting system. A while back, we threw down for an expensive Niterider 15-watt lamp with a rechargeable battery, but we got our money's worth out of the gadget.
Our night fun hunting ground is Desert Classic trail, a nine-mile-long dirt roller coaster that hugs the southern foothills of South Mountain. Full disclosure: At night, we mostly ride the trail from the parking lot at the Pima Canyon entrance to the big, white water tanks about three miles in. Though there are a few tricky dips into dry arroyos on this section, the trail up to the tanks is well worn, without many rocky, technical parts. Desert Classic at night isn't the crowded highway it is in the day — on warm summer evenings we're often the only ones out there. Not that we're alone: Sometimes the coyotes come out to play. Once, one of the mangy mutts trotted to less than five feet away as we stood next to the trail, adjusting the iPod. As the light passes over a dark stretch of single-track, we'll also spot the occasional mouse, rabbit, or rattlesnake. Yes, rattlesnakes — that's on top of all the other objective dangers, such as hitting a rock you didn't see because it was, well, too damned dark. But there's one other thing we like about Desert Classic for night riding: If something bad happens, civilization is just a hop, limp, or crawl away.
It's confession time: We indulged in a rather nasty bout of road rage the other day, and it wasn't pretty. Our dirty driving deed went down after some schnook sideswiped us rather abruptly, causing our blood to boil. Instead of declaring, "Live and let live," as any sane person would've done, it was decided that a little roadway revenge was in order. We proceeded to floor it, T-boning them straight into tomorrow, and setting off a six-car pileup. Uma Thurman in full-on Kill Bill mode couldn't have plotted better payback. And the only reason that we're not cooling our heels in a jail cell right now is because this vehicular vengeance involved the bumper cars of the Ram Rods ride at Castles -n- Coasters instead of automobiles. You, too, can unleash your own personal demolition derby, driving like a maniac behind the wheel of the electric-powered coupes and fitting in as much smashing and crashing action as possible during the 10-minute experience. Single rides are $5.50 each on weekdays before 4 p.m. (prices increase in the evening and weekends, as well as for unlimited ride passes; call for rates), leaving you plenty of green to cover the chiropractor bills for your whiplash.


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Dinner and a Movie
The tried and true classic date combo remains a favorite for Miamians looking for something to do. But it can be a pain in the butt if your favorite restaurant has a line out the door and your movie theater of choice is swamped with parents who really shouldnt be taking their crying babies to the midnight screening of the latest action thriller. If youd like a date night that can reduce stress and improve your chances for a goodnight kiss, consider classic movie night at Indochine.
Hosted by movie critic Carlos Gonzales, the weekly offerings are eclectic and old-school. Tonights screening is Robert Bressons Pickpocket, a 1959 French masterpiece that helped to inspire Scorseses Taxi Driver. After the movie and Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisine, stick around for music by Nova. The flick starts at 8:30, the tunes begin at 10:00, and a late-night happy hour runs from 11:00 to midnight.
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Sigrid Holmwood's unique approach to painting is most vivid in its use of colour. Neon tones garishly clash with her subject matter of historical reenactments of vanished traditional life, and museum workers in Skansen Museum on the island Djurgården in Stockholm who dress in traditional garb to better illustrate life in the historic buildings that populate the island and make up the museum.
Church Boats depicts an enactment of a midsummer festival from Rättvik, in the region of Dalarna, where villagers cross a lake to attend church in boats adorned with wreaths made from birch. The yellow paint used in the scene is made from birch leaves. Its style and hues are reminiscent of impressionism. "I am interested in 19th c. themes, Holmwood says of her nostalgic aesthetics. That's the period when they started to feel rural culture was being lost, and artists made a real political gesture against the city. Van Gogh went to Provence to live with peasants, and likened the act of painting to the peasants ploughing their fields. I like the idea that there is a history of artists doing that, artists trying to rough it. The psychedelic colours refer to the hippie movement, going back to the land, living in communes, which is a similar sentiment. I think these 'hippie ideas' are having a resurgence today with people growing their own vegetables in allotments and the 'slow food movement'... I think of my work as being a 'slow painting movement'.
Holmwood's Swedish scenes were often developed from sketches she made of the interpreters at the Skansen Museum on the island Djurgården in Stockholm. The island houses actual historic buildings transported from all over the country. The museum's gallery guides wear traditional dress and demonstrate antique tools and olden-day skills. Mother and Child is a portrait of a woman taking part in a live diorama in a house representing the area of Darlarna. Holmwood was interested in this scene's suggestion of heritage, the knowledge and experience passed from one generation to the next, giving formation and grounding to contemporary identity.
Sámi Couple features museum invigilators portraying the indigenous people of the northern Nordic areas in a nomadic tepee setting. Holmwood considers her work in relation to an increasing trend to integrate history into representing everyday life, and cites interactive museum displays and television documentaries as examples of this movement. She describes her intensive processes as an experimental archaeology, discovering the nature of materials by really using them. Despite her ongoing research, Holmwood's days in her studio are mainly spent painting; extracting pigments is a long process that doesn't require constant attention. As she often works with organic materials such as milk and eggs, she mixes her paints at the beginning of each day, but never makes notes. Her paintings often incorporate very pure pigments as composite colours can't be exactly reproduced.
In England Holmwood is a member of a Tudor re-enactment group; at their meetings, held at historical preservation sites around the country, they live an authentic 16th c lifestyle and re-learn the life-skills of the past. "We don't pretend to be in the olden days," Holmwood makes clear. We are modern people discovering how things work through doing it. The group collaborates in historical research and shares their knowledge. In the club, which includes ironmongers, leatherworkers, clothes weavers, Holmwood is, of course, an Early Modern artist. Holmwood explains: The 16th-century is technically Early Modern rather than Medieval. It's the beginnings of contemporary art. The art market and the first stock market emerged in Antwerp, and genre painting such as peasants and landscapes started to develop. The development of artists painting peasants through art history is a reflection of increasing urbanism. Frying Fish was completed during an excursion to Avoncroft in Bromsgrove, and pictures a friend cooking kippers. Reminiscent of Gauguin's rustic exotica, the ceramic-like painting technique replicates the actual glaze effect of the jar seen on the counter.
"Making Lye is based on a re-enactment we did in London." Holmwood recalls. "Lye was used for soap, and is made by pouring water through wood ash. We were making it to show how people did laundry; however, lye was also used in making pigments." In depicting this ritual, Holmwood draws from both the chemical and creative traditions of her craft. The composition, subject, and ephemeral tones of this piece can be compared to Barbizon painters such as Jean-François Millet, whose canvases championed the modest life of the countryside, and the value of nature and labour. Holmwood's classical scene harks back to a time when life seemed a lot less complicated; its simple, unassuming beauty derived from the time-honoured virtue of taking pride in one's work.
I use things made by hand by other people, Holmwood adds, such as paint brushes, reproduction period pottery, wooden bowls, hand blown glass, all mixed in with modern things. I like the idea that I'm partaking in other peoples' crafts and skills. Holmwood's historical investigation is carried through in her chosen subjects and aesthetics. Half Swedish, Holmwood is inspired by the 19th-century peasant painters of the Darlarna province, whose folk art is a national symbol of Sweden. Based on an archive photo of the actual last peasant painter, the figures in The Last Peasant Painters Peeling Potatoes (Old Woman Mill) are sat in front of a typical Dalecarlian composition. The image seen on the wall is based on a folk legend of old women who are ground up in a mill and emerge rejuvenated. I painted the woodwork using a technique which these artists used to represent mahogany, Holmwood reveals. It's paint glazed with a sour milk and pigment mixture and sealed with oil. It gives a psychedelic effect.
Sigrid Holmwood strives to get to the absolute heart of painting: not just as an activity, but as a material substance, entrenched with history, inherited knowledge and innate meaning. Holmwood's Technicolor canvases seem oddly contemporary, especially considering how they're made. With anorak enthusiasm, Holmwood trawls centuries-old archives and internet forums and consults conservationists, chemists, and herbalists to revive the lost recipes of paint-making. Her pigments and glazes are concocted entirely from scratch and include all manner of ingredients both common and exotic, from precious stones to ground up bugs. "I use these traditions playfully, and expand upon them," Holmwood explains. I'm less interested in actual recreations than their modern possibilities. In Hugging A Goat, for example, I mixed fluorescent pigment in egg tempera.
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Born in 1978 Hobart, Australia
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A Peasant Garden, ASC Gallery and garden, London
Peasant Painting, Halland Konst Museum, Halmstad, Sweden
Journey to WuMu - Paper Paintings, Paintings and workshop, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (in collaboration with Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou and Beijing)
Painted Performances, Upton House, National Trust, Banbury, UK
The Astonishing Adventures of Lady Indigo, Performances and workshops, Vitamin Creative Space, The Pavilion, Beijing, China
1847- Painting, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Past-times and Re-creation, Transition, London
Self-sufficient, Contemporary Arts Projects, London
La Pittura Sale sugli Alberi , 42contemporaneo, Modena, Italy
Anti-Social Realism, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
History painting, The Function Room, London
Detail, (curated by Andrew Bracey), H-project Space, Bangkok, Thailand and Transition Gallery, London
Stag: Berlin/London, (curated by Katrin Plavcak - Cullinan Richards)
Dispari and Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy
The Foraged Book Project Volume One: Briefs and Proposals, (curated by Fergus Drennan and James Wood) Primary, Nottingham
Passage, Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Tattoo City, Castlefield Gallery Manchester,
The Saatchi Gallery in Australia, Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Polemically Small, touring Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, and Charlie Smith, London
Newspeak: British Art Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London
John Moores Painting Prize 2010, Walker Gallery, Liverpool
Miasmas, ASC Gallery, London
The Artist's Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (see other resources page)
Back to the Future: young artists look to old masters, at Robilant and Voena/ Stair Sainty
Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London
Annely Juda: a celebration, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Artificial Glory, Standpoint Gallery, London
Cunning Chapters, The British Library, London
The Spiral of Time, APT, London
Responding to Rome, Estorick Collection, London
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005, Jerwood Space, London (touring)
Spiral of Time, OHOA, Reading
Hand in Hand we walk alone, Clapham Art Gallery, London
Pocket-Scopic, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
If you go down to the woods today…, Rockwell Gallery, London
Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome, Italy
Extra-Natura: Konst! Scopriamo la Svezia, 42contemporaneo, Modena, Italy
Compass, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003, Manchester, London
Vaguely Romantic, Rosie Wilde, London
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It's that time again…the MVP Global Summit is happening this week in Seattle and Redmond. The first Summit was one of my favorite experiences so far working at Microsoft–I love talking to customers and hearing it "from the horse's mouth." It's not often that I get to actually meet with people face-to-face, so to actually get to meet the people behind the forum posts and emails is extremely exciting.
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BACTERIA Probiotics are life-promoting. They are beneficial bacteria. Friendly bacteria help us digest our food and absorb nutrients effectively. N S A How is this connected to NASA? Bacteria are organisms, living things.
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M: Many of you have asked about an old demo that is floating around. The song is called "She Couldn't." We recorded it in 1999 during the making of Hybrid Theory, but it never made an album and was never released by us. For legal reasons, that's all I can say about the song, but I hope this clears things up!
Posted by soaring man: I think it would be cool if you keep introducing independent artists (like you did with "promote yourself"). It's a priceless thing for new artists.
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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 97 BC. He had been praetor by 100 BC.[1] His consular colleague was Publius Licinius Crassus. During their consulship, the senate passed a decree banning human sacrifice.[2] Despite the fame of the gens Cornelia and his attainment of Rome's highest office, little is known about this Lentulus.
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Earlier this week, Microsoft released their completely free anti-virus/anti-spyware solution, and we already gave it a thorough review—but it deserves our official endorsement, and that's right here.
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Prezzo - Thame
12A Buttermarket, Thame, OX9 3DX +44 1844340019
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- Huvudrätt: £9
- Matkostnad: £17
- Öppettider
- Sunday to Thursday: 11:30 - 22:30 Friday to Saturday: 11:30 - 23:00.
Friendly staff. Great pizzas. Loved the fusilli pasta dish. Kids love the new menu
Hazel Gleed
10 november 2015
från Aylesbury Vale District
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3 courses & a glass of wine, £30 for 2 people
3 courses & a bottle of prosecco, £55 for 2 people
Full of character and history, this Prezzo is housed in a beautiful Tudor-style building. In the centre of Thame, Prezzo provides the perfect setting to enjoy modern Italian cuisine.
The Prezzo menu presents a range of exciting dishes, crafted using the season's best ingredients. Sample meat & fish dishes like chicken Milanese or sea bass, along with classic pasta recipes, hand-stretched, stone-baked pizzas, and risotto.
All the favourite antipasti dishes are on offer, as well as speciality folded calzones, and piled-high 'la famiglia' pasta dishes, designed for sharing. Start your visit with a fruity, fizzy pre-dinner aperitivo from the Prezzo cocktail list, and finish with an indulgent Italian-style dessert.
Close to the High Street in Thame, Prezzo is in a picturesque setting and has a warm, lively ambience. A popular Italian restaurant, this Prezzo is a local favourite for contemporary dining.
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((((( 10 november 2015 av Hazel Gleed från Aylesbury Vale District
Friendly staff. Great pizzas. Loved the fusilli pasta dish. Kids love the new menu
(((** 5 november 2015 av Lisa Cooper från Oxford
Good food but very tight space around tables meant it felt very overcrowded. One of our meal orders was forgotten too
((((( 4 november 2015 av Malcolm Benham från Thame
Excellent service and food
((((( 4 november 2015 av Don Carey från Haddenham
Very Good
(((** 14 juli 2015 av Joe Mutter från Aylesbury
A bit disappointed. Staff were very courteous and attentive. One of the main courses was not what was ordered. Mushroom starter was overlcooked, risotto was oily. Just not the usual standard we have come to expect. Also concerned as two fire extinguishers were missing from wall beside our table. Space was tight as a third chair had been put at out table which obviously restricted passageway. However safety should always be paramount! Would not recommend based on last evening's experience.
((((( 3 juli 2015 av Jacqui White från thame
great service
good food
((((( 29 juni 2015 av Val Moxon-groves från Thame
I recommend this Prezzo in Thame, Staff very helpful and friendly and hard workers. We went to celebrate my husband's birthday. They were happy to take the cake we made for him and a balloon which they put on the table, so when we arrived it was a lovely surprise for my husband. Thank you for making the evening special.
(((** 20 juni 2015 av Rosemary Johnston från Rochford
This was our first visit to the Thame restaurant. Food was lovely, and the servicewas really good to begin with, although it did slow down towards the end. There were some new dishes on the menu which was a treat. The restaurant was probably the noisiest we have been to, and it did put us off a bit. The maitre d' found us a different table, which helped a bit, but this is not a restaurant for a quiet meal!! I would still go back, but would take ear plugs next time!
((((( 14 mars 2015 av Jan Warner från henley on thames
very good service, food, drinks, and location.
(((** 7 februari 2015 av Alison Stephens från Thame
Have been here several times. Food and service is excellent. Can get rather cold near the windows. My only criticism is food being served across you .
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Scuba diving in Green Rock
Located north of Koh Nang Yuan, Green Rock consists of several interesting rock formations with small caves, crevices, short tunnels, and swim-throughs worth exploring. There is an interesting night dive: the triggerfish secure themselves in the smaller crevices for the night and the parrotfish sleep in their cocoons while the nocturnal community comes to life.
When to go
Diving is available all year long, with the water temperature ranging from 25-29C/77-84F. The high season is from February to September.
What to see
Some of the marine species are grouper, blue-spotted stingrays, yellowmargin triggerfish (can be aggressive, especially if protecting their nests during the spawning season), parrotfish, and green and hawksbill turtles.
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UV Night DiveUV (ultra violet) SCUBA is a relatively new discipline. Scientists have discovered that under certain light wavelengths some species of marine species exhibit a phenomenon known as fluorescence, where the coral and fishes themselves appears to glow in crazily bright colours. Corals that normally appear dull brown in the daytime or under white light can take on vivid rainbow hues. Join us for one of these disco-tastic adventures and using our special blue light torches and funky visors you'll see a magical array of psychedelic colours- fluorescent oranges, blues, yellows, greens, reds and purples. With glowing coral, sponges, fish, shrimps, crabs and other sea life, you won't be disappointed. By the way, this is not bioluminescence that you see on some night dives, it is only visible using the blue light torches and mask filters. The phenomenon of coral fluorescence is still full of mystery and the reasons why certain coral fluoresce are to this date unknown, which we think just makes it even cooler! Whether you are an advanced scuba diver and want to experience the deeper UV 'trip' or simply want to snorkel and see this amazing spectacle from above, we guarantee you won't be disappointed. Either way it will be a fun, memorable experience. All sessions are led by our professional, highly experienced, PADI & SSI diving instructors and we maintain maximum group sizes of 4 to ensure your safety and enjoyment. You must be at least Advanced already, or at minimum have prior experience of night or limited visibility diving.
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Comments about Samyang 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC Tilt-Shift Lens for Nikon:
I bought this lens for architectural photography and I'm thrilled with it. The ability to tilt and shift simultaneously is a tremendous advantage over the Nikon, to say nothing of the 67% savings in cost. Sharpness is excellent between f/8 and f/11, and distortion is minimal and easy to fix in post. Colors, saturation and contrast are excellent.
Comments re: flimsy knobs and slippery adjustments are all accurate. To get around this I simply hold the barrel and lift it up or down instead of using the knobs. It works quite well in this regard.
I highly recommend this lens.
Comments about Samyang 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC Tilt-Shift Lens for Nikon:
First of all, this lens is completely manual. The aperture controls of this lens are on the lens and are not accessible on the camera. There is no metal ring for the camera to control the aperture of this lens. I knew this before I purchased this lens so I was fine with this. If you have a camera that does not meter through the lens you will not have metering (like crop sensors D5300 etc). When you make the aperture smaller from the aperture ring of the lens the view through the camera gets darker. So, at this point you will have to take a few pictures to make sure you are in proper metering. No big deal with a digital camera. The lens is big and sort of square. I have a D600 and I can get to everything on the lens though it does get a little tight. There is a lot of cool stuff you can do with this lens. Just search tilt shift on youtube for examples. Compared with the $2000 price of the Nikon tilt-shift this is a very good option. If you have the money this is a good lens to purchase.
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Comments about Samyang 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC Tilt-Shift Lens for Nikon:
I use this lens as my preferred option for landscapes. As such I make use of the tilt and shift functions for a majority of the images I make with the lens. Between f8 and f16 the sharpness is quite comparable to the Nikon version when movements are used and the ability to adjust the shift axis in or out of plane with tilt makes it more versatile for landscape use. Construction is good although not as robust as the Nikon and as noted elsewhere this is strictly an all manual lens.
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Comments about Samyang 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC Tilt-Shift Lens for Nikon:
Be prepared for old time memories to flood into your brain. I have not used a so non-automatic lens for so long it is a relearning, and my standard form of camera operation is manual.
That aside, pleased with sharpness, and with the quality of construction. Could it be better? Yes, and I could be driving a Ferrari.
It would be an absolute bonus to have the aperture setting visible in camera.
As noted with others, hang on to the lens during adjustments. Expect it do its' job, not what you might dream. Very specialized in performance & usage, but I am determined to push its' niche towards my goal which includes my niche, people.
Expect to use a tripod virtually all the time.
Comments about Samyang 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC Tilt-Shift Lens for Nikon:
I haven't had the chance to use this lens for a real shoot yet, only to test it out in a couple of different settings. Here is a quick synopsis.
- it is fairly sharp and DOF / contrast appear good at middle apertures (f5.6 - f11).
- vignette appears well controlled (I think I'm seeing just a touch), and at f8 - f11 the corner sharpness looks pretty good.
- the tilt and shift range is good.
- the focus ring is smooth with not too much / not too little resistance.
- the locking knobs are a bit small.
- when shifting, there is little to no friction so when the lock is loose the front of the lens just drops.
- build quality doesn't seem bad, but certainly not as good as Nikon or Canon equivalents. The vast majority of the lens body is plastic with just hints of metal.
- f3.5 is usable with the understanding that wide open has trade offs.
All of this review is based on observations, not scientific measurements or test charts. I did a couple of interior shots of my office (shifted and not shifted) and some exterior shots of a couple of buildings (shifted, not shifted, and one with tilt). Focus on the shots was at or near infinity on the lens, and some of the viewpoints include very near objects (walls) while others most everything was at a distance. I shot at a few different apertures as well to see how the lens fared wide open and stopped down.
Wide open is decent but not great. I will have a little more about that below. Stopping down to f5.6 increased the DOF and contrast noticeably and sharpness a bit, f8 increased the DOF and sharpness a bit more, and f11 increased both some over f8. Past f11 things started to go backwards, the DOF at f16 is a little greater but the sharpness and contrast dropped noticeably, which took away from any gains in DOF. f22 saw even more sharpness loss and I didn't notice any increase in DOF (it actually looks shallower, but could be due to the loss of sharpness). So the sweet spot for this lens (at least at infinity focus) appears to be f11 - with the caveat that I was shooting whole stops so technically the real sweet spot might be f9.5 or f13.
A little more on f3.5. My initial thoughts on the photos at f3.5 were that they didn't look so good, but I think that was mostly because I was seeing the extreme lack of DOF which in the type of shots I was doing wasn't a good thing. Stopping down to just f5.6 increased DOF considerably (more than I expected) which made everything look sharper. But in looking more closely at the point of focus in the f3.5 and f5.6 shots, there is a difference in sharpness but the f3.5 shot is still pretty good. There is also a difference in contrast but again the f3.5 shot is not too bad. I didn't buy this lens to use wide open (I'm sure most others won't as well) so it isn't really a concern for me, and for those times I might want a shallow DOF detail shot or more artistic shots using this lens I think it would still deliver good images at f3.5.
Only time will tell but I think this lens is a good alternative to the more expensive name brand options. Would I rather have one of those name brands? Sure I would, but at half the price I'm so far satisfied with the Samyang. The shift mechanism having some resistance so that it could be unlocked yet remain in place would be nice, though I don't think that is too big of a deal. The main concern I have is with the build quality and how well it will stand up to real world use.
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Comments about Samyang 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC Tilt-Shift Lens for Nikon:
This is not a lens for everyone, but if you're reading this, you know that. I find it very useful for three specific situations: To increase the depth of field without stopping down into diffraction (f11 max), To control perspective distortion when forced to aim upward (such as when photographing buildings), and To seamlessly shoot panoramas. Yes, you can do all of these in post without a tilt-shift lens, but you will sacrifice quality.
How does the lens perform? Optically, I am very satisfied with the results so far, although I will admit that getting the most from the lens takes some practice and effort. The lens is sharp, when not taken to the extremes, and contrast is good. Flare can be an issue, so keep the lens shaded when possible. It does not come with a hood.
Mechanically, the lens could be better. Cramming four knobs and two levers together makes adjustments a challenge, especially for people (like me) with big hands and clumsy fingers. Forget it, if your fingers are half frozen in the winter. Bigger knobs would have been nice, as would have been locking knobs that had a gradual resistance, rather than just fully locked and fully unlocked. I find that just unlocking the tilt or shift and then moving the lens into position without fiddling with the knobs works best for me.
By the way, the lens can be shifted fully upward on the D800 without interference with the camera body, but you will not be able to rotate the lens on the mount with it so shifted.
This is my first foray into tilt-shift territory, so I do not have a frame of reference for comparing this lens against the Nikon equivalent. For me, cost was a factor, since this lens will get limited usage. I am satisfied with my purchase.


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Story of 7 women who fought for rights narrated
Story of 7 women who fought for rights narrated
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The story of seven women, who survived threats to their lives while campaigning for women's rights, was narrated at a gathering held in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, on Saturday.
Arranged by Sweden, the gathering under the title "seven" was attended by provincial heads of women's affairs departments of northern provinces, women's rights and civil society activists.
Swedish civilian representative in the north, Henrik Hollin, who narrated stories of seven women from as many countries, said the aim was to enable Afghan women to find ways on how to achieve their rights.
He said the seven women belonged to Afghanistan, Nigeria, Russia, Ireland, Guatemala, Holland and Pakistan. From Afghanistan, the story of Farisha Azizi, was read out. Azizi faced a lot of problems after she raised her voice for women rights during the Taliban regime.
She currently lives with her two children in the US, where she has been granted political asylum and is an active women's rights activist in Afghanistan.
Sar-i-Pul Women's Affairs Director Nasima Arzo said such events could help women realize their rights in Afghanistan. She said women in her province were faced with many problems like the lack of health and education facilities, besides security threats.
Arzo said there were a lot of women facing the same situation like Farishta Azizi if they were looked for in villages.
Deputy governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat said Afghan women had themselves to fight for their rights, praising Sweden's efforts at creating awareness among Afghan women about their rights.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About ImitationQuotes about: Imitation
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
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Sutherland's vision for the game is to be taken up by China and the US, while the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is pushing the game into new and untapped markets in soccer-crazy South America.
''I could see Twenty20 working in new markets such as China and the United States,'' Sutherland said. ''We, at CA, are already working together with the Asian Cricket Council and have in place well-advanced coaching programmes in a bid to fast-track the game in that part of East Asia.'' ''Cricket for the first time will be played by both men and women at the Asian Games in 2010, with the host nation, China, fielding teams in both competitions,'' he said.
As for the International Cricket Council-sanctioned IPL tournament, Sutherland said, ''It has plenty to offer. India as a nation has a huge appetite for cricket, but whether it is financially sustainable we won't know for a few years yet.'' The franchisees will want to see a return on their investment.
Do I believe Twenty20 is good for the game? The jury is still out.
''The Indian cricket board and the business people behind IPL- didn't go into this multi-million dollar venture with their eyes closed. It's all very well to have a whole lot of hype around a competition, but in order to be sustainable, it needs to have its own virtual cycle that would keep all the parties happy, he added.


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Flamini rejects Gattuso claim
Mathieu Flamini is flattered by comparisons with Gennaro Gattuso but insists he is a very different player to the Italian.
Last Updated: 20/02/08 9:48am
Mathieu Flamini is flattered by comparisons with Gennaro Gattuso but insists he is a very different player to the Italian, ahead of Arsenal's game with Milan on Wednesday.
A UEFA Champions League last-16 tie pits together two of Europe's premier playmakers - Cesc Fabregas and Kaka - in a match-up that has occupied the column inches in both England and Italy.
But an intriguing subplot will be the more physical battle likely to ensue between in-form Flamini and Milan's own pugnacious performer Gattuso.
Flamini's team-mates have christened him 'Gattuso' in homage to his Italian counterpart, but the 23-year-old believes they are not as similar as others believe.
"I don't think so," he told The Independent, when quizzed on whether it was a fair comparison.
"It's true they call me it and he's a great player. I don't want to sound disrespectful to the guy because he's amazing but I think I'm a different player to him. I'm more attacking.
"We try and play a little more football. And, anyway, I want to make my own name in the football world."
Flamini's rise from bit-part player at Emirates Stadium to Fabregas' partner-in-crime was been meteoric; given before this term he was very much a utility player who stepped in when others were not available.
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However, such has been his importance to the club's excellent campaign to date, Arsene Wenger is desperate to tie him down to a new five-year deal.
And having usurped Gilberto as a first choice holding midfielder, Flamini is eager to concur on fresh terms.
"I worked hard for three-and-a-half seasons and gave everything but I had to wait to become a regular player.
"It's true we are talking. I'm very happy at Arsenal and hope that everything is going to be okay. I hope to stay."


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Pros: Small and Very Friendly ship just out of Refurb
Cons: Noise above outside stateroom on Deck 4 emanating from non public area of Deck 5 at 5.30 each morning till halted by complaint
Recommends Vision of the Seas? Yes!
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UPDATE 4-BlackBerry to ask regulators to probe report on returns
* BlackBerry questions methods used in research report
* Detwiler Fenton report talks of high return rate
* BlackBerry shares close slightly higher on the Nasdaq
By Euan Rocha and Emily Flitter
TORONTO/NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) - BlackBerry plans to ask securities regulators in Canada and the United States to probe what it said is a "false and misleading" report that consumer return rates for BlackBerry's new Z10 smartphone have been especially high.
The Canadian company, which has pinned its turnaround hopes on its new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones, went on the offensive on Friday after the report from Boston-based research and investment firm Detwiler Fenton sent its stock tumbling on Thursday.
BlackBerry said return rates for its flagship Z10 devices have been at, or below, its forecasts and in line with industry norms.
"To suggest otherwise is either a gross misreading of the data or a willful manipulation," Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said in a statement. "Such a conclusion is absolutely without basis and BlackBerry will not leave it unchallenged."
BlackBerry said Detwiler Fenton had so far refused to share its report or its methods. It said it would present a formal request for an investigation to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and to the Ontario Securities Commission, which is Canada's major securities regulator, over the next few days. Continued...


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