Silver Cloud Review, Activities, Eating, Leisure, Locations ? Cruise ...

This elite vessel is as a grand hotel, as gracious as a long-time friend?s home. Every all ocean-view suite gives a luxurious retreat. Each public space is intimate but inviting. It?s a heat feeling of residence upon the seas of the earth.

Aboard Silver Cloud guests will discover a most accommodating place to view Silversea?s world. Whether or not it?s scrumptious onboard diversions, world-class cuisine, memorable dining venues or staying related from anyplace, Silversea?s impeccable standards apply to every element of your voyage.

Sophisticated, well seasoned travelers who get pleasure from a low-key ambiance and quality service, without the glitz of bigger ships.

Onboard selection reigns ? the freedom to do every part or nothing. Pamper yourself at the beauty salon. Find the perfect bauble within the boutique. Check your luck in thecasino. Get pleasure from an invigorating workout. Curl up with a superb guide in the library. Or just absorb the sun on the pool deck. At Silversea, the selection is always yours.

Italians are well-known for the bounty of their tables and the sheer delight in sitting all the way down to a meal with good company. Listed here are dishes to intrigue both the palate and the spirit. Created from the freshest ingredients. Substantial and delightful. Traditional and imaginative. Perfectly paired with excellent wines, and completed with desserts that convey a contented murmur of satisfaction.

With by no means more than 382 like-minded worldwide vacationers, and an open-seating policy of dining when, where and with whom you need, you may be as private or congenial as you desire. Silversea options a wide range of dining choices on board together with The Restaurant (the main dining room), Saletta, La Terrazza (indoor/outdoor cafe, a Pool Grille plus 24-hour in-suite dining.

board the Silver Cloud, guests will find a wide array of stellar leisure ranging from energetic manufacturing reveals to classical music concerts in The Present Lounge; intimate piano recitals, jazz and cabaret in The Bar; and native performers and folkloric reveals that truly complement the wines, delicacies and cultures skilled in your voyage.

Each evening, The Bar and The Panorama Lounge offer dancing to a range of dwell musical types for every style, from ballroom and dinner dancing to rock and roll favourites and membership mixes. The Champagne Room gives the right venue to get pleasure from a number of cigars, distinctive cognacs, tremendous armagnac, beautiful grappa, uncommon classic ports and more.

Moonlight Films on deck are also offered on choose evenings. Each Silversea cruise features regionally particular lectures by noted historians, ambassadors, state leaders, authors and geographers ? all experts and each sharing particular insights into areas of the world they know intimately. Guest chefs and wine specialists additionally be a part of particular Culinary Arts and Wine Sequence Voyages.

You may learn the complete assessment at Silver Cloud Review. The spiffy little Silver Cloud, a member of Silversea Cruises trio of small luxurious ships (which expands to four when the Silver Whisper debuts in July) is the marginally older, practically identical twin of the Silver Wind (they were both launched in 1994). Whereas barely completely different in decor, she supplies the same fantastic cruise experience as her twin sister, Silver Wind and the bigger, newer Silver Shadow. A pure delight, every little thing in regards to the Silver Cloud is tops. She?s elegant with out being stuffy, enjoyable, but not too frivolous, splendid for couples who get pleasure from high-quality meals, sublime service and intimacy, and combined with the truly all-inclusive fare ? it?s like cruising on Cloud Nine.

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Friends in Gulf fishing tragedy; only 1 survives

This undated photo provided by Ashley Coen shows Ken Henderson during a fishing trip. Henderson's longtime friend Ed Coen died after their fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. The men treaded water for over 30 hours before Henderson decided to swim to a natural gas rig for help. Coen's body was later found by a fisherman. (AP Photo/Ashley Coen via Conroe Courier)

This undated photo provided by Ashley Coen shows Ken Henderson during a fishing trip. Henderson's longtime friend Ed Coen died after their fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. The men treaded water for over 30 hours before Henderson decided to swim to a natural gas rig for help. Coen's body was later found by a fisherman. (AP Photo/Ashley Coen via Conroe Courier)

This undated photo provided by Ashley Coen shows her father, Ed Coen, during a fishing trip. Ed Coen died after he and friend Ken Henderson's boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Henderson managed to swim to a natural gas rig for help more than 30 hours after Henderson's boat started taking taking on water and both engines failed. (AP Photo/Ashley Coen via Conroe Courier)

HOUSTON (AP) ? For hours after their boat sank, Ken Henderson and Ed Coen treaded water in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about life and death while struggling to survive. For more than 30 hours, it worked.

Then Henderson was forced to make a decision that would save his life, but not his best friend's.

"This is the last-ditch effort, but I'm going to go for help or you're not going to make it," Henderson told Coen, just before cutting the strap that connected them in the deep, cold waters off the Texas coast.

"I understand," Coen responded, giving Henderson a last set of instructions. "Kiss them babies for me."

It was Friday around 4 p.m. when they parted.

On Tuesday, days after the fishing trip ended in tragedy, Henderson recounted the harrowing tale for The Associated Press, alternating between sorrow, guilt and laughter as he recalled the last 30 hours of a man who had been his best friend for 25 years.

The saga began Thursday around noon. They had been fishing for a few hours when Coen noticed the 30-foot Scarab was filling with water. Henderson started four bilge pumps. Water sprayed everywhere.

Coen quickly unhooked the boat from one of the many oil and gas rigs in area where they had been fishing. Henderson revved an engine, but the saltwater that had leaked in kill them quickly.

"Mayday, mayday, mayday Marine 16," Henderson called over his Marine radio. He got no response.

He dialed 9-1-1 on his cellphone. There was no signal.

Suddenly, the bow went up. Henderson flew back. Coen jumped to the right, his sunglasses and cap flying off. Already wearing life jackets, the two ex-Marines grabbed extra life jackets and other floating items.

"The water was so cold it took your breath away," Henderson said.

Coen, a slim man, immediately began to shiver.

After failing to swim to a gas well nearby, the pair prepared for a long wait.

And they talked.

"We talked about stuff that I'll never talk about. We discussed things and discussed life. We discussed families. We just tried to keep ourselves occupied," Henderson said.

As night fell, they took turns laying on each other's chests, conserving body heat. They tied their life jackets together to ensure they wouldn't drift apart in the dark.

They dozed. Coen started hallucinating. Henderson tried to keep Coen's arms and legs moving. He called him a sissy to get him angry. But as morning came, Coen's situation worsened. It took time to wake up. He tried to light a cigarette that wasn't in his mouth.

"I came to the realization that one of us may not make it or that both of us may not make it," Henderson said. "I just felt helpless sitting there with him."

About 3 p.m., the pair drifted toward a manned rig. Henderson realized his friend wasn't keeping his head above water.

Henderson told Coen to kick to the rig. He pulled him as he swam, but Coen was sideways. Henderson told him to kick. Coen thought he was.

And so Henderson decided to cut the strap.

He swam for two hours, but lost his sense of direction. He was tired. Frustrated. Depressed. He rolled on his back and floated. It was after 7 p.m. when he woke up.

He saw another rig in the distance, and prayed for strength.

He swam, seeing ice and crystal trees in the water. He reminded himself constantly there were no trees. He made it past a blinking light, a milestone that pushed him on toward the rig.

It was 2 a.m.

On legs so weak he could barely lift them, Henderson slowly pulled himself up the rig's barnacle-covered ladder.

"I'm here. I'm on a derrick," Henderson said out loud.

He found a galley with food, water and a phone. He called his wife, and told her to call the Coast Guard. He said he was on rig 633A.

"It was over 50 miles from where we went in the water," Henderson said.

All he could think of, though, was Coen. Convinced his friend would survive, he told the Coast Guard where they had parted.

Two hours later, Henderson was ashore in the Coast Guard dispatch room when haunting words came across the radio. A fisherman had found a body in a life jacket.

Later, in the hospital, Henderson saw his friend. He apologized and asked for forgiveness. He promised to fulfill his wishes, make him proud and look after his girls.

"I felt like a part of me had died out there," Henderson said.

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Apple offers refund over Australian 4G iPad confusion

Confused over Apple's liberal use of the 4G moniker? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reckons you have a point and took those concerns to Apple Australia. The company has now responded to the country's federal court, offering to contact -- by email -- everyone who bought the retina-screened slab and promise a refund if they felt misled over its connectivity capabilities. Apple will also amend its point of sale details to explain that while it can connect to 4G (LTE) networks in the US and Canada, it won't connect to Australia's own next-generation network offered by Telstra. Apple also thinks that the existence of HPSA capability -- and its nebulous definition as either a third-generation or fourth generation network -- in the Land Down Under meant it could still hold onto those 4G credentials.

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Materials Inspired by Mother Nature: One-Pound Boat That Could Float 1,000 Pounds

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2012) ? Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of the substance could carry five kitchen refrigerators, about 1,000 pounds.

One of the lightest solid substances in the world, which is also sustainable, it was among the topics of a symposium in San Diego March 25 at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The symposium focused on an emerging field called biomimetics, in which scientists literally take inspiration from Mother Nature, probing and adapting biological systems in plants and animals for use in medicine, industry and other fields.

Olli Ikkala, Ph.D., described the new buoyant material, engineered to mimic the water strider's long, thin feet and made from an "aerogel" composed of the tiny nano-fibrils from the cellulose in plants. Aerogels are so light that some of them are denoted as "solid smoke." The nanocellulose aerogels also have remarkable mechanical properties and are flexible.

"These materials have really spectacular properties that could be used in practical ways," said Ikkala. He is with Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland. Potential applications range from cleaning up oil spills to helping create such products as sensors for detecting environmental pollution, miniaturized military robots, and even children's toys and super-buoyant beach floats.

Ikkala's presentation was among almost two dozen reports in the symposium titled, "Cellulose-Based Biomimetic and Biomedical Materials," that focused on the use of specially processed cellulose in the design and engineering of materials modeled after biological systems. Cellulose consists of long chains of the sugar glucose linked together into a polymer, a natural plastic-like material. Cellulose gives wood its remarkable strength and is the main component of plant stems, leaves and roots. Traditionally, cellulose's main commercial uses have been in producing paper and textiles -- cotton being a pure form of cellulose. But development of a highly processed form of cellulose, termed nanocellulose, has expanded those applications and sparked intense scientific research. Nanocellulose consists of the fibrils of nanoscale diameters so small that 50,000 would fit across the width of the period at the end of this sentence.

"We are in the middle of a Golden Age, in which a clearer understanding of the forms and functions of cellulose architectures in biological systems is promoting the evolution of advanced materials," said Harry Brumer, Ph.D., of Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He was a co-organizer of the symposium with J. Vincent Edwards, Ph.D., a research chemist with the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture in New Orleans, Louisiana. "This session on cellulose-based biomimetic and biomedical materials is really very timely due to the sustained and growing interest in the use of cellulose, particularly nanoscale cellulose, in biomaterials."

Ikkala pointed out that cellulose is the most abundant polymer on Earth, a renewable and sustainable raw material that could be used in many new ways. In addition, nanocellulose promises advanced structural materials similar to metals, such as high-tech spun fibers and films.

"It can be of great potential value in helping the world shift to materials that do not require petroleum for manufacture," Ikkala explained. "The use of wood-based cellulose does not influence the food supply or prices, like corn or other crops. We are really delighted to see how cellulose is moving beyond traditional applications, such as paper and textiles, and finding new high-tech applications."

One application was in Ikkala's so-called "nanocellulose carriers" that have such great buoyance. In developing the new material, Ikkala's team turned nanocellulose into an aerogel. Aerogels can be made from a variety of materials, even the silica in beach sand, and some are only a few times denser than air itself. By one estimate, if Michelangelo's famous statue David were made out of an aerogel rather than marble, it would be less than 5 pounds.

The team incorporated into the nanocellulose aerogel features that enable the water strider to walk on water. The material is not only highly buoyant, but is capable of absorbing huge amounts of oil, opening the way for potential use in cleaning up oil spills. The material would float on the surface, absorbing the oil without sinking. Clean-up workers, then, could retrieve it and recover the oil.

The American Chemical Society is a non-profit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 164,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

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New iPad power indicator reportedly two hours too fast

According to some recent reports, the new iPad battery level indicator seems to shows a full tank two hours and ten minutes before it’s actually charged to full capacity.?This

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Ancient civilizations reveal ways to manage fisheries for sustainability

ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2012) ? In the search for sustainability of the ocean's fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past.

In a study to be published March 23 in the journal Fish and Fisheries, a team of marine scientists reconstructed fisheries yields over seven centuries of human habitation in Hawaii and the Florida Keys, the largest coral reef ecosystems in the United States, and evaluated the management strategies associated with periods of sustainability. The results surprised them.

"Before European contact, Native Hawaiians were catching fish at rates that far exceed what reefs currently provide society," said John "Jack" N.Kittinger, co-author and an early career fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University. "These results show us that fisheries can be both highly productive and sustainable, if they're managed effectively." In contrast, historical fisheries in Florida were characterized by boom and bust, with serial depletions of highly valuable species for export markets. Today many species that were the target of 19^th and early 20^th century fisheries in Florida -- including green turtles, sawfish, conch and groupers -- have severely reduced populations or are in danger of extinction.

"Seven hundred years of history clearly demonstrate that management matters," said Loren McClenachan, co-author and assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Colby College. "Ancient Hawaiian societies used sophisticated tools similar to innovative conservation strategies used today, like marine protected areas and restrictions on harvest of vulnerable species like sharks." The difference, the authors explained, was in the way fisheries governance systems were structured. Regulations were developed locally with the buy-in of community members, but they were also effectively enforced with methods that now would be considered draconian. "Today, no management system comes close to achieving this balance, and as a result, resource depletion and collapse is common," said McClenachan.

The authors were able to characterize historical catch rates in Florida and Hawaii through an extensive review of archival sources, including species-specific catch records from the 1800s and archaeological reconstructions of human population densities and per-capita fish consumption back to the 1300s. Such information is relatively rare in coral reef areas. They then characterized management regimes associated with periods of high sustained yields using a variety of sources, including published work of Native Hawaiian scholars. This work revealed that sustainable fisheries existed during periods in which regulations were strict and socially enforced in ways that were often class and gender based. For example, many vulnerable species -- like sharks and marine turtles -- were reserved exclusively for high priests and chiefs.

Ancient Hawaiian societies depended entirely on local resources and needed creative ways to avoid resource collapse. For example, fishpond aquaculture was used to sequester nutrients and reduce pollution on reefs. In contrast, much of today's aquaculture requires large inputs of wild caught fish and antibiotics, often resulting in increased pollution. "Ancient Hawaiian society effectively practiced what we now call Ecosystem-Based Management, which is something that modern society often struggles to achieve," says McClenachan. "Incorporating some of these ancient techniques into today's policy may be the key to sustaining our fisheries."

The authors of the study, titled "Multicentury trends and the sustainability of coral reef fisheries in Hawai'i and Florida," point to the U.S. National Ocean Policy as an example of emerging attempts to manage ocean ecosystems more holistically, and local fisheries co-management as a modern way of including community members in designing effective fishing regulations. However, the authors caution that effective enforcement needs to go hand in hand with the development of local governance. "The ancient Hawaiians punished transgressors with corporal punishment," observed Kittinger. "Clearly, we don't recommend this, but it's easy to see there's room to tighten up today's enforcement efforts."

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