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Richardsville Elementary, a new LEED Platinum School in Kentucky, is getting extra credit by being the first zero energy school in the nation! Opening this month to much anticipation, the facility is a cornucopia of green building strategies and efficient technologies. The bread and butter of the school's success are tremendous efficiency gains coupled with a 300 kW thin-film solar array. Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects have done and astonishing job of reducing the building's energy consumption to one fourth of a typical school without breaking the bank.
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GO GREEN! (your planet will thank you later)
you pick up your trash after an afternoon in the park,you wait till dusk to mow your yard in the summer, you bring your own bags to the grocery,you recycle for goodness sake!! so, why are you still heating and cooling your home with the precious little amounts of the earths fossil fuels??? Geothermal technology allows the temperature of the earth to heat and cool your home. With this technology you not only receive hot water(yes..completely free..!!) but, also, your heating and cooling costs will lower dramatically most times, up to 60%!!!!
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September 3, 2010 at 12:09 pm
This is a great story! We just finished building the Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, CA which is seeking LEED for Schools Gold Certification from the USGBC.
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Help Im in school and need a print for a smoker or grill. Im want to make it out of stainless steel. Does any one have any blur prints on how to make one?
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Does any one have any prints on making a stainless steel smoker? I am in school and we have to make one but I don't have any prints can any one help me? I want one that is upright.
No prints.
Why not take a beer keg (stainless) and cut it the way you want to,, and create your smoker.
Where I live, the deposit is like 15 bucks.
Or used to be.
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I'm not sure what type of pit your wanting or how far your wanting to go. Here is a SS "smoker/grill" my bud built, actually he built 3, one for himself a two for his sons. Do not have any dimensions and since it is located in the country tis not accessable today, but will be going out there in a couple of wks. to hunt and could get some measurements if you like. I started on an old style keg, got as far as cutting in half but had other pressing projects, it would be classed as a pit, which I use for steaks and burgers. If you can find a SS 55 gal. drum, mine is a discarded Dr.Pepper drum, they make super grills.
Or ya could fab up one similar to this tailgater I generated, 10" sch10 SS.
Good luck
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Since a smoker and a grill are 2 very different animals, and you don't really put any specifics on what you want, such as size, it's hard to make suggestions.
check this out
there are a lot of homemade smokers there. Should give some good ideas to get started.Millermatic 180 Auto Set
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Thanks for all the ideas but we have to do one from start to the end i'm using 48x96 sheet of ss and it is 48x43. Im having a hard time with the insides. I have to TIG weld it

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posted Mar 24 2015 9:24AM
Spring has sprung in the ATX and the bluebonnets are a bloomin' which, of course, means it's time for me to be one with nature a la naturale. Yes, I along with thousands of other Austinites with nothing better to do are drawn to the blooming of the bluebonnets like zombies to flesh, capturing that special moment on film where we trample on nature posing for posterity. So grab your camera and your adorable children, puppy dogs or paper bags and head on out to your favorite bluebonnet patch on the side of the highway, risking life and limb for that gorgeous money shot. Say cheese!
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Taylor Swift On Top Of Herself
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posted Nov 21 2014 8:43AM
Just when you thought things couldn't get any better for Taylor Swift, she now is the first woman in 50 years to replace herself at number one on Billboard's Hot 100. That's right. Taylor's "Shake It Off" held the number one spot only to get topped by her latest release, "Blank Space." Why can't I be number one? I sing really good at karaoke but nobody says, "Hey UB you sing better than Taylor Swift?" People go on about Taylor this and Taylor that. It's always TALOR, TAYLOR, TAYLOR!
I lost 5 pounds the other day and can now fit into a size 10 dress but does anyone tell me, "Hey UB, you sure look hot in a chubby kinda way?" No. They just ask if I've heard the new TS album or if they can have some of my extra-large, double-cheese supreme pizza and I'm like, "Hell no!"
It's just not fair that some girls have all the luck while all I have right now are the cramps. Ugh! TALOR, TAYLOR, TAYLOR!
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iPhone 6 Top Ten
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posted Sep 9 2014 3:57PM
I was waiting in line for two days to be one of the first people to buy the new iPhone 6 but then I got arrested for urinating in public. Next time I'll be sure to first download the iUrinal app before I get in line again. In any event, here are the top ten things I heard while waiting in line to buy the new iPhone 6.
10. I heard iPhone 6 Plus comes with an app that protects you from the Ebola virus
9. Does anyone have an iPhone charger I can borrow?
8. I heard iPhone 6 is so advanced it makes it easier for the NSA to spy on me
7. I heard iPhone 6 lets you talk to Steve Jobs
6. Siri is way hotter than Cortana
5. I don't care what my husband says, size matters. I'm getting the Plus
4. Girlfriend, of course the iPhone 6 is smarter than you.
3. After this I'm going to start waiting in line for iPhone 7
2. If you let me cut in front of you, I'll let you sleep with my hot sister
1. Will you hold my place in line because I really gotta pee?
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Fo' Shizzle My Pizzle
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posted Jun 13 2014 4:01PM
The Texas Attorney General's Office recently filed a
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I didn't even know that pizzle existed. Okay, that's not entirely true. I do recall my first pizzle proposition but it was a long time ago and I firmly told the bull that I just wanted to be friends and that homie didn't play that game.
In any event, you all jonesin' for some pizzle will have to get it the ol' fashion way – call Pizza Hut for their Pizzle Pizza Supreme, available now for a limited time only.
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Man Arrested for Indecency with a Donut
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posted Jun 6 2014 2:21PM
Today is National Donut Day – a day when police officers everywhere can feel a little less guilty for eating inordinate amounts of donuts while the bad guys roam free. But please be warned that National Donut Day does not necessarily mean free donuts for all as Mr. Bob Polanco of Cucamonga, California would find out.
In celebration of National Donut Day, Bob visited his local donut shop and proceeded to help himself to donuts behind the shop counter thinking National Donut Day meant free donuts. Sally Peterman, who works the morning shift at Danny's Donuts, called police when she noticed Mr. Polanco licking un-paid donuts in what she described as "a disturbingly suggestive manner." Sally called the police after Bob was caught behind the counter licking and eating donuts and refusing to pay. "Who tongues the hole of a donut before they eat it? That's just gross" said Sally. Mr. Polanco said that although he regrets the misunderstanding, what goes on between and man and a consenting donut is nobody's business and that next time he'll buy the donuts first and then take them to a hotel room like a normal person.
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Justin Bieber Talks to the Unknown Blogger
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posted Feb 13 2014 10:35AM
Justin Bieber broke his silence regarding his recent arrest in Miami on January 23, 2014 and granted me an exclusive phone interview. As you may recall, Baby Bieber (as he's affectionately known here in the Mix studios) was busted by Miami-Dade Police for street racing and charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license. Blood tests would later reveal Baby Bieber was under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, Xanax and 32 ounces of baby food.
Unknown Blogger (UB):
Hi Justin. Thanks for taking time to talk with me.
Justin Bieber (JB):
No problem. My daddy just woke me up from my nap so I'm all rested and ready to rap. I am hungry though so do you mind if I eat my Goldfish® crackers while we talk?
Cool with me. We wouldn't want your tummy growling during the interview.
So I read the other day that you're trying to stop the Miami police from releasing video of you making wee wee in your jail cell. Can you talk about the whole jail experience?
[ JB crunching on his Goldfish® and not answering ]
Oh, sorry. Damn! I sure love me some Goldfish®. What was the question?
Can you share with me what it was like to be locked up in Miami?
Well I'll say one thing, there are no Goldfish® crackers in jail and I really had the munchies. Damn bunch of meanie cops.
I see. So I assume they let you make a phone call. Who did you call?
Duh! Who do you think I called? I called Selena Gomez but some dude answered so I just hung up.
And did the police let you call someone else?
Yeah but I just kept calling Selena but that same dude kept answering so finally I was like, "Hey A-hole. Stop answering Selena's phone and he was like this is not Selena's phone and I was like this isn't Selena Gomez's phone and he says no you jackass this is Chuck E. Cheese's!" I was like, "Sorry dude - must have hit the wrong re-dial on my cell, yo."
So the cops let you use your cell phone to make the call?
Well they didn't know I had it cuz I hid it in my… never mind.
So how were you generally treated in jail? Did they jack with you because you're a pop star or were they pretty cool?
The cops sucked but my cellmate was even worse. He kept saying I was his bitch and I was like "Oh no I'm not but if you have some Goldfish® crackers then maybe we could work something out," and he was like "Yo, listen here cracker, I got your Goldfish® crackers right here," and I was like "Ok bitch, then let me see them crackers" but he was just lying and really didn't have any crackers and I was about to start crying but went to my happy place instead and started singing "
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Wow. Sounds like you had a rough time. How are you doing these days?
Are you kidding? I'm doin' awesome! I got plenty of Goldfish®; I can crank call Selena as much as I want and I don't have to worry about someone sneaking up on me trying to play a game of hide the weasel – hate that weasel game!
Totes. Well on that note I gotta run but thanks for the interview and good luck with all your legal problems and stuff.
[ JB crunching on his Goldfish® and not answering ]
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Man Sues Facebook Over Legitimacy of His Facebook "Friends"
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posted Jan 24 2013 9:46AM
Thirty-eight-year-old talent agent, Roberto Santos, from Los Angeles, California is suing Facebook because most of his Facebook "Friends" don't really seem to be his friends. "I meet a lot of people in my line of work," says Mr. Santos "and many friend me on Facebook but when I ask them if I can borrow some money or if they want to be in a porn movie I'm making, I notice they un-friend me almost immediately. Real friends would say, "hell yes" because that's what friends do."
In his lawsuit against Facebook, the un-friended Mr. Santos claims that by using the word "Friend," Facebook misleads people into thinking that friend requests are from Facebook users who really want to be your friend, when in fact they just want to use you somehow or inflate their own ego by making it look like they have a lot of friends on their own Facebook page.
When asked what he hopes to gain from the lawsuit, Mr. Santos replied, "I want Facebook to add more descriptive categories like "Acquaintance" or "Not Friend" or "Friend but Won't Lend Money." Furthermore, Mr. Santos would also like the option to "No Like" something on Facebook in addition to the standard "Like."
Facebook could not be reached for comment.
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And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth?
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posted Dec 20 2012 4:11PM
As cockroaches are the most likely inhabitants of the Earth post 12/21/12, I decided to interview an ordinary cockroach I found roaming the streets. I was hoping for some thought-provoking insights of the impending apocalypse and I must say I was somewhat disappointed. Here is an excerpt from the exclusive interview.
Unknown Blogger:
Excuse me Mr. Cockroach but I was hoping I could ask you a few questions about the end of the world.
Mr. Cockroach:
Well, I was hoping to get started on the chicken wing I see over there but yeah, I have some time.
Unknown Blogger:
Awesome. So will the world end on 12/21/12?
Mr. Cockroach:
Unknown Blogger:
Would you care to expand on that a little bit more?
Mr. Cockroach:
Um, I'd really like to get started on that chicken wing.
Unknown Blogger:
I see. What if I bring you the chicken wing and you can get started on it while I ask you more questions?
Mr. Cockroach:
That would save me a lot of crawling. Thanks.
Unknown Blogger:
So is there anything we can do to stop the world from ending?
Mr. Cockroach:
[munching on the chicken wing with its "mouth" full] Buy a new calendar at Barns & Noble. Just cuz the Mayan calendar ended doesn't mean the world has to end.
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Wow! Thanks. I'll let you finish your chicken wing and I can run and tell the world.
Mr. Cockroach:
Whatever, dumbass.
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Lindsay Lohan Suspect in Sean 'Diddy' Accident
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs was recently injured in a
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in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. My unreliable sources tell me that speed demon Linday Lohan is a suspect in the Diddy case. Fans of Lindsay Lohan, and who isn't, may recall that our girl Lindsay was just let off the hook from a separate auto incident where the actress was accused of hitting a man on Sept. 19 while driving a friend's car on her way to a New York hotel nightclub just after stealing jewelry from said friend's apartment.
Speaking of stealing, Lindsay 'Sticky Fingers' Lohan is also in the news for allegedly stealing $15,000 worth of clothes from the set of 'Scary Movie 5.' Among the missing items are a Gucci purse, a Versace dress that says 'Kick Me" on the back and a dozen pair of crotchless panties from Victoria's Secret.
Sticky Fingers Lohan should be considered armed, well dressed and otherwise dangerously close of exposing her crotch. Should you happen to encounter Lindsay, please do not attempt to apprehend her by yourself. Instead, please call police immediately at 1-800-GETSTICKY.
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Dating Tips for Desperate Humans
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William Johnson of Clear Lake Michigan was not having much luck finding his soul mate via online dating sites, gun conventions or the local model airplane club he attends weekly. In fact, William was so disappointed he couldn't meet the right girl that he decided to try his luck with female raccoons instead. "I just couldn't find the perfect match for me," said William, "So a friend of mine suggested I try RaccoonHarmony.com and boy was I glad I did."
William posted his profile on RaccoonHarmony.com and was immediately contacted by several eager beaver candidates. William states they all seemed very nice but the one that stood out for him among the pack was Rachel. "Except for her fear of guns, Rachel and I have a lot in common," said the jovial Mr. Johnson. Apparently William and Rachel love to take long walks and poops in the park and woods near William's condo as well as foraging through neighbor's trash cans looking for table scraps and model glue.
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2 cups
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1 1/2 cups
vegetable oil
2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
3 cups
all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon
baking soda
1/2 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon
2 medium
Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and chopped
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chopped walnuts
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butter or margarine
2 teaspoons
1/2 cup
brown sugar
i hate when people change everything and then review the recipe poorly BUT i have made this many times (exact instructions first then made changes). this cake rocks. the glaze is delish. i find light brown sugar tastes way better in it than dark. i also baked it at 325 for 70 min. i used half white and half brown sugar and sub'd apple sauce in for 1/3 the amount of oil. (1/2 cup ap. sauce, 1 cup oil) i also increased cinnamon to 1 teaspoon. that's my fave way. made it for my aunt's bday. she hates sweets and had a second piece!
As written, this cake has too much oil. I cooked it at 325 for 70 minutes and doubled cinnamon, per reviews. I did not have any applesauce so I could not sub. it for the oil. It is worth trying again with the 1cup oil, 1/2 cup applesauce. Maybe then I can give it 5 stars. After baking, it still tasted too "wet" for me. Nice taste though.
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I've already made this cake twice this week because I just can't get enough of it!
I did take the advice of several reviews to bake @ 325 for 70 minutes, and used applesauce for 1/3 of the oil - thanks!
I also used the tips to put foil or a paper plate under the rack to catch the glaze drippings - until today.
Instead, I put the cake plate under the rack, then set the cake right on top of all the drippings - no mess to clean, no waste, and now underneath is saturated as well. Mmm-mmm!
I substituted 1/3 of the oil with applesauce, doubled the cinnamon, added a dash of nutmeg, substituted half of the white sugar with brown sugar, and half of the other half of white sugar with Splenda. To use as much of the glaze as possible, I put a large plate underneath the cooling rack as I drizzled the glaze on the cake, and then switched to a clean plate. Then, I drizzled the glaze that dripped onto the first plate. The only thing that seems off is the cooking time and temp. 325 F for 70 minutes was enough.
OMG! This apple cake is so moist and so delicious! It's the perfect fall dessert. I used half white sugar and half brown sugar and next time I would probably cut back on the oil because it was almost too moist. I used 3 Granny Smith apples and didn't add the walnuts to the cake but rather sprinkled them over top of the cake along with the caramel glaze which was fabulous. I did add just a splash of vanilla to that to give it more of that "caramel" flavor.
This was SOOOOO yummy! I used Splenda instead of sugar, the Splenda browqn sugar blend instead of brown sugar and added 2 extra apples. AWESOME, moist and sooooo tasty.
I made this cake for a co-worker's birthday and everyone loved it! They raved over the caramel glaze and loved the fact that it had apples and walnuts in it. I'll be making this for future family get-togethers, too!
I served this at a party and everyone raved about it and asked for the recipe! It was great because I made it the day before the party and just drizzled the glaze over it when I was ready to serve it. I doubled the cinnamon like others had suggested and only baked it for 70 minutes at 325. It was moist and delicious! I'll make it again for sure.
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Ana produced one of the finest volleying displays of her career as she dismantled American world No.61 Lauren Davis in the third round of the AEGON Classic in Birmingham.
Although her forays to the net were infrequent, the 26-year-old displayed sublime touch as she dominated from both the net and the baseline. She sealed victory in just 69 minutes.
Just as she had done against Mona Barthel in the previous round, Ana began the match slowly. She fell 0-40 behind in her opening service game but saved all three break points before holding and breaking Davis in the second game.
It quickly became clear that Davis was unable to trouble Ana - the American was comfortably overpowered by Ana's weight of shot and some wicked angles.
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The Chalet Isis is an excellently located chalet, close to the piste in the Altiport hamlet! Modern with the Savoyard design and the chalet comes complete with a sauna. The open plan layout of the dinning area and kitchen make for the chalet to be an extremely social place to be. Guests can gather round the dinning room table and talk with their hosts, getting the 'locals knowledge' on where best to go for those freshly groomed pistes. The open log fire place in the lounge provides a wonderful focal point to the chalet, where you can gather round and share the knowledge of those secret spots to ski.
All the bedrooms in the Chalet Isis are en-suite with either a shower or bath & WC. You can request which one you would prefer and if it is possible for us to accommodate your request not a problem at all. The chalet comes equiped with satellite TV, a DVD player so feel free to bring some films over for a bit of evening entertainment. There is a CD player too.
From the lounge area, you can walk through onto the large sun terrace which given that the chalet is located pretty much on the piste, you get some of the best uniterrupted views that Alpe d'Huez has to offer. Relax with a glass of 'vin chaud' and watch the last of the skiers make their way back down the slopes.
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Could someone tell me if the newer model Miller Maxstar 140, the ones that have a remote receptacle on them have a gas solenoid or do you have to turn the gas on and off via the torch knob?
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The Maxstar 150STL and STH have a gas solenoid that will turn your gas on and will give you a 10 second post flow that is non adjustable. Good enough for most cases.Flash me! I'm a welder.
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I realize that the 150's have the solenoids, I owned a STH but sold it. Got a deal on a 140 and was wondering if it has a solenoid , have not received the unit yet.


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Chalet Bouquetin in Plan Peisey, les Arcs has five bedrooms all with full en-suite facilities, two of them have use of a balcony. The open plan lounge and dining area has comfortable seating around the glass fronted fireplace. There is plenty of natural light from the French windows, which open onto the West facing balcony with amazing views from Plan Peisey across the valley.Chalet Bouquetin is situated just below Chalets Chamois and Marmotton, access is via two flights of steps (skis can be left at Chalet Marmotton). The ski slopes, Plan Peisey ski school, fast 6-seater chairlift and the Vanoise Express cable car from les Arcs to la Plagne are 150m from Chalet Marmotton.
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It's not about the playoffs wins, its about how you perform in the playoffs. People on this board tend to overrate and underrate Matt Ryan just because we passed him up. He has yet to do anything in a full season for me to say hes a great QB. All I see is a good QB.
ten qbs i would take over matt ryan...
arod, brady, p. manning, roethlisberger, stafford, brees, rivers, eli manning, joe flacco, tony romo, cam newton, shaub, michael vick, and even josh freeman (clutch gene). not to mention i would take the top 3 qbs in this years draft over him. He's not great, he's above average. i would love to see what those qbs i listed above him would do with his receiving core.
Matt Ryan just went over 100 tds already. About 25 a year. I'm still waiting on Jake Long to recover an offensive fumble for a TD.
I bet you anything, but if the qbs were flipped and matt ryan came to us and the falcons got chad henne, henne would be flourishing now. They have roddy white, Julio Jones and Tony Gonzalez, not to mention a really good O-line in place. Lets face it, its not the GMs that screwed up this franchise, its the coaches they brought in to teach the players we drafted. Blame Tony Sparano and Dan Henning!


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Martin Whitmarsh reckons the F1 teams are now facing their toughest feat of the season with six grands prix in just eight weeks.
Next weekend Formula One heads to Korea, the final leg of the Championship, and without a doubt the most gruelling as Korea is just race one in a spate of three double-headers.
"This final leg of the World Championship - in which we'll race in six grands prix in just eight weeks - is an incredibly tough physical feat," Whitmarsh said.
"After 13 races, and with the prospect of many more weeks spent on the road and thousands of miles spent away from home, it's essential to remain fit, focused and dedicated in order to stave off the inevitable burnout that comes at the end of such a long year."
McLaren, though, are hoping to make the best of it as the Woking team looks to retain fifth place in the Constructors' Championship. The team is 14 points ahead of Force India, who have faltered of late.
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"Having my education paid for was a huge weight off my shoulders," said Poirier, a second-year apprentice millwright from Sturgeon County, who received a Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AAIT) board scholarship for $1,000.
Poirier started her millwright apprenticeship through RAP at Sturgeon Composite High School. She graduated in 2012 and is continuing her education at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
"It's stressful enough thinking about courses and training, but worrying about money would have been a lot to handle," Poirier said.
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Raymond Massey, who has been chair of the AAIT board since 2002, said the scholarships originated when industry came together to help promote trades as a career path.
"A lot of post-secondary education has career pathways that include scholarships. At the time, trades didn't have anything similar, so we pioneered a program for Alberta," said Massey.
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Many private companies have donated to the scholarships over the years. A list of donors is available on the Apprenticeship and Industry Training website.
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Scholarships are generally for $1,000 — usually enough to cover tuition and materials — or $1,500 for top apprentices. If employers cover tuition, the scholarship can assist with living expenses and other needs that arise.
Support also exists for students, such as Poirier, who have had a head-start in their apprenticeship through RAP, which is offered in high school. RAP and CTS Apprenticeship Pathways scholarships recognize the accomplishments of Alberta high-school students participating in RAP.
The scholarships encourage students to continue their apprenticeship training after completing high school.
There are 500 RAP/CTS scholarships of $1,000 available each year. In 2011, 246 RAP scholarships were awarded. In 2012, the program was extended to include students who complete a CTS Apprentice Pathway, which is a defined cluster of course work and requirements that give students the equivalent of their first period of technical training.
To commemorate the scholarship awards, Careers: the Next Generation hosts an annual event for all scholarship recipients in Alberta.
Last year's banquet set an attendance record with 96 recipients, said marketing co-ordinator Amanda Lathrop. Poirier was the keynote speaker at the November 2012 event held in Edmonton.
Poirier also goes around to high schools, speaking as an advocate for the scholarship program.
"My message to students is: 'Don't overlook this amazing opportunity to have your education funded while you train in a trade,' " said Poirier from her parents' home in Sturgeon County.
Poirier's father is also a millwright, which is an industrial mechanic who services machines, such as turbines, compressors and pumps.
"In high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do, and thought what dad does seemed good," said Poirier, who admits she has an aptitude for the work — physical strength and good mechanical instincts.
Poirier began her apprenticeship working at the University of Alberta and will be starting a new job with Pro-Line in the new year. Second-year apprentice millwrights earn between $24 and $27 per hour on average.
"My boyfriend and I are hoping to buy an acreage in Sturgeon County soon," said Poirier. "Job stability helps. I'm going to continue my apprenticeship and continue to promote the scholarships to students because it can make all the difference between deciding on a trade and not."


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Lisa Nikodym
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August 31, 2005, 12:24:33 PM »
I use VueScan's feature that allows you to effectively build a profile for each film roll by scanning an unexposed bit of the negative first. It works *pretty* well (certainly far better than VueScan's canned film profiles, which are wretched, IMO). There's a page in the VueScan manual somewhere on how to do it.
If you don't do that, then, I agree, color correction with film scans is really frustrating. (One of the reasons I enjoy digital so much compared with film...)
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Mark D Segal
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September 01, 2005, 12:50:35 PM »
Ray, I'm doing an extensive amount of work on this issue, because I have a large legacy of colour negatives that I am converting to inkjet prints using the Minolta DSE 5400 - first model. I've been through everything you describe, and in fact I'm in the process of developing a write-up on a workflow that addresses colour negatives. The issues wouldn't be that dissimilar for positives, except that positives are much easier to colour balance, because there are IT8 targets for profiling positive films that don't exist for negative films.
My write-up will take some time to complete, because as your own experience indicates it is a bit involved. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel - I have produced A3 output that I truly think passes muster, and I shall soon be submitting for "peer review" to get a valued independent opinion. To anticipate some of my content, here are a few observations:
(1) There is no question in my mind that Silverfast Ai Studio is the best software option of the three you mention. If you will be doing a fair amount of this work, the outlay is worthwhile. It comes closest to giving you believable scans and has the most control points for achieving that objective. Better than Minolta DiMage Scan and VueScan by several country miles.
(2) That much said, it is quirky, with voluminous but poor quality documentation, which puts quite an onus on the user to figure it out. Their tech support people I must say are responsive where they can be. Taz Tally's Silverfast book provides value-added on the Silverfast manual, but it too leaves things to be desired. All said and done the learning curve is worthwhile if you will be doing alot of film scanning. The absolute first thing to beware of with Silverfast is that there must be ZERO blank space between the film and the film carrier for the image you are scanning, and the scan cropping frame MUST ABSOLUTELY fit within the actual image, otherwise you get garbage.
(3) Don't use the scanning software to get more than a roughly believable scan to start working with in Photoshop. None of the three software options holds a candle to Photoshop, and if you are working in 16 bit it just isn't worth the time messing around too much adjusting colour balance and luminosity in the scan software, except as indicated here. By trial and error select the film type that comes closest to believable results without further adjustments. Silverfast allows some fine-tuning of this preset. Use it to improve the preset and keep that recipe. Then for each image do a couple of basic adjustments for mid-range exposure and grey balance (using the grey "pipette"). These measures alone will provide a decent enough result to reduce the severity of further luminosity and colour balance adjustments that will be needed in Photoshop. I have not found a way to automate my way to "perfection" when working with negatives. It is an image by image process and takes time.
Silverfast does accept ICC profiles, so Jonathan's suggestion to make an ICC profile from shooting the GM Color Checker should not be dismissed out of hand - but it does require being able to replicate the film type and vintage effects and "appropriate" lighting conditions - so useful under some conditions, but not others - like everything.
(4) Don't use Silverfast for grain removal or sharpening; they vastly increase scan time and there are much better (more controllable) post-scanning solutions for those two requirements - e.g. Neat Image to clean-up the grain (auto-profiling each image and then previewing the result) and PK Sharpener Pro to recover any lost acutance. Both of these need to be used with care, which will be part of my eventual write-up.
(5) Use ICE at the scanning stage if there are black spots reflecting degradation from long-term storage. It even works with Kodachrome nothwithstanding that Minolta, for example, says it doesn't.
Hope this helps.
Mark D Segal (formerly MarkDS)
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September 02, 2005, 01:56:32 AM »
Dmerger, I forgot to mention - I don't know what size prints you are making from your Velvia scans, but unless you crop heavily or make full-frame prints much larger than A3, you are probably generating excessive file size and scanning time going for 5400 PPI on every scan.
Now here's an interesting workflow issue. The Dimage 5400ll defaults to 1350 dpi every time one starts a new preview. I find it annoying because other software, including Vuescan, remembers the previous setting. Why does Dimage Scan have this default? I can only presume it's because most users find 1350 dpi scans sufficient, or maybe it's because I overlooked the instructions that tell me how to set 5400 as the default resolution. (Quite likely
Whatever, since I'm not in a commercial climate producing one-off jobs for a client, I see little reason to scan at less than full optical resolution. Too much resolution is rarley a disadvantage, whereas the reverse is frequently the case, or can become the case if one later wants to make larger prints.
Since SilverFast has a steep learning curve, as you mention, then perhaps I should persevere with this software. I've noticed artifacts using SilverFast's ICE with Kodachromes, but none so far with Dimage Scan. But I do occasionally get a more pleasing color balance with SilverFast, using fairly automatic and simple adjustments.
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September 02, 2005, 10:51:26 AM »
Scanning at too much resolution can have several disadvantages - processing time, huge file sizes, downsampling for smaller prints - to name the ones that come immediately to mind. The appropriate way to work this is to visualize the extent of cropping you will do, estimate the largest size you are likely to make the print, then decide on the required INPUT PPI as a function of OUTPUT PPI in the range I discussed yesterday. It really is pointless scanning at excessive resolution. I would never set my default at 5400 PPI. I don't know how to change default settings on DSE 5400-II because I use the original 5400 model and have not used Minolta's software for some time now.
This might be good advice for some and a recommended work flow for someone who is still using film and needs to make prints quickly, but for archival purposes I see no point in scanning at less than full optical resolution. The time that matters is really about the same, and that's the time it takes finding and selecting the slides for scanning, cleaning them with isopropanol, dusting and blowing, possibly removing them from the slide mount if they haven't been centred properly or if the slide mount is simply cropping stuff that's important to the composition, carefully setting them in the film holder and making the adjustments to each individual frame in the preview before scanning.
Who wants to go through that more than once
. The fact that a batch of 6 negatives takes half an hour to scan at 8x instead of 10 minutes is not an issue. I can be doing something else in the meantime, like writing this post .
A few years ago, a 230MB file would have been painfully slow to process in Photoshop. Not anymore. My fastest computer has 6GB of DDR2 RAM and the next fastest, 4GB. Some of the slides I am now scanning were first scanned by Kodak at 2000 dpi about 11 years ago. It took a full 2 minutes to open an 18MB PhotoCD file in Photoshop 4. It now takes me 3 or 4 seconds to open a 230MB scan of the same image. That's progress .
I'll experiment a bit with Neat Image and PK Sharpener (which I haven't got yet). If there really are better ways of removing grain than GEM or SilverFast's GANE, then I should be using them.
Mark D Segal
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September 02, 2005, 01:50:38 PM »
Agree - if you guys are making prints in the range of 3 feet long dimension then it certainly makes sense to scan at 5400 PPI - ideally a bit more, but that exceeds the brains of the machine!
RAW scanning - I never got into that with Vuescan so I can't comment on it, but funny you should ask, I just finished a sequence of emails with Lasersoft Imaging and I now have a clear fix on how to set-up Silverfast for doing it. I shall try it. For negatives of course it will produce a negative image; for slides it will produce a positive. There are four adjustments involved. Please let me know if you want them. I'll send you all the gory detail with no warranties attached, because I just got the info confirmed and haven't tried it yet.
The better image quality (colour balance and luminosity) I see with Silverfast happens as a result of PRESCAN adjustments - not post-scan. When you get a better quality scan into Photoshop, you are already ahead of the game. As I said, I don't look for perfection at the scanning stage - just a very good jumping-off point for Photoshop. I leave the fine-tuning to Photoshop, which does it better. It saves ALOT of tweaking time to get a good quality scan into Photoshop and Silverfast like it or not just does this better - from my experience, and I am doing this day-in, day-out.
Mark D Segal (formerly MarkDS)
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September 02, 2005, 05:07:29 PM »
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Mark D Segal (formerly MarkDS)
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September 05, 2005, 10:23:20 PM »
A bit rich as a solution, but I guess it's too much to expect "one size fits all" in this domain.
The expense of SilverFast dwarfs the cost of the other programs. Nikon Scan and Dimage Scan are free sofware that ship with the scanner and Vuescan is exceptionally good value. Because the same version works with most scanners, I can consider it as free software for my Elite 5400ll because I'd already bought the software for my Nikon scanner. There seems to be just a one-off, lifetime payment for Vuescan which includes all future upgrades. There's almost no reason for not owning it if you have a lot of film to scan.
I find it strange that you have a mismatch between scanned image and preview. The scanner is made first and presumably LaserSoft then write the software to suit the scanner. With out a perfect, or at least very close match between the scanned result and the preview, all these very wonderful color adjustment tools of Silverfast are basically useless.
Whilst I think it unlikely that you've got the wrong settings in CMS, because you are more familiar with this software than I am; just in case, I'll give you mine
Color Management
Internal - ICM
Monitor - ICM
Output - RGB
Profiles for ICM
Input - Konica Minolta .... 5400ll
Internal - ProPhoto RGB
Grey - none
Output/Printer - greyed out
Rendering Intent - Rel Col
Embedded ICC Profiles
Embed ICC Profile - box ticked
Profile to embed - ProPhoto RGB
One other point, and you are probably already aware of this, it is possible to get oneself in a situation where the preview looks just right but the scanned result is
way out
. There seems to be some combination of adjustments, or perhaps a hangover from a previous set of adjustments that haven't been reset, that requires a fresh prescan. I haven't identified the cause, but the fact that it happened once in an obvious way implies that it could have happened more than once in a less obvious way that I didn't notice because I'm not in the habit of comparing each and every scan side by side with the preview.
Mark D Segal
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September 06, 2005, 07:48:20 PM »
Ray, OK, I've done it now - scanned a negative RAW with all the settings correct, got a wierd wine-looking negative image, reversed the a and b curves in LAB and that failed to convert it properly, so undid that and went to Invert in Photoshop, which got it into a wishy-washy positive mode, then went back to LAB and tried to improve it, which was futile. Conclusion: three cheers for scanner software that converts and adjusts beforehand!
My next test will be to try the settings combo you recommended that other day.
Mark D Segal (formerly MarkDS)
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August 31, 2005, 01:00:54 AM »
Having just acquired a Dimage Scan Elite 5400ll I've been busy comparing scans using different software; namely Vuescan, Silverfast and the software that came with the scanner.
It's a right mess, I have to say. The results are all over the place. I'm reaching the conclusion that one particular scanning software will do a better job than another
only in respect to a particular film type.
For example, Vuescan does a better job than Dimage Scan with regard to Ektachrome and Kodachrome because profiles of those films are available in the Vuescan sofware. In Dimage Scan there's no choice of film profiles.
Silverfast has no choice of slide profiles and (therefore?) Silverfast produces worse results than Vuescan in this respect.
When it comes to scanning negatives, Dimage Scan is best with Fuji Reala (for example. I haven't tried every film type), even though there is not a Reala choice. Vusescan is not as good, even thought there
[/u] a Reala choice. SilverFast is worse still and there's no Reala choice.
Total chaos as far as I'm concerned. To get the best scan from a particular slide or negative, I feel I have to create a separate folder for each image and scan it about 6 times with different software and settings.
Remember, these are old slides and negatives. I certainly can't remember the exact color scheme of the scene and I'm relying upon the software to give me a pleasing, natural and convincing result.
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August 31, 2005, 10:11:58 AM »
I don't think I want to go to that trouble, especially considering that most of the stuff I'm scanning will have faded to varying degrees. I was sort of hoping that the premier scanning software, SilverFast, would have included a greater variety of film profiles. That there's no Fuji Reala listed is surprising considering how expensive the software is.
The degree of control in Silverfast is quite phenomenal but I haven't the inclination or time to spend fiddling around with minute color adjustments which often don't get me as far as a single click on Photoshop's 'auto color'.
Frere Jacques
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August 31, 2005, 01:24:47 PM »
The purchased version of Siverfast comes with an IT-8 target for your particular scanner. You then create an icc profile for the scanner, not for each individual film type. (Although you certainly can do this if you wish!)
I have gotten some great results using Ektachrome VS, E200 & Fuji chromes (this photo is E100VS:
), but you are correct -- there is a large difference between the 2, especially for B&W. I shoot a lot of Ilford FP4 & PanF & Vuescan just falls down there. The TMax profiles though are quite good!
The other thing to do is to scan flat -- no cc whatsoever & then do the adjustments in Photoshop. With some images, this is the only way to get good results.
I hope this helps & happy scanning!!
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September 01, 2005, 09:38:55 AM »
Thanks Lisa for that suggestion. When I come across an unexposed frame, the tail end or beginning of a strip of film which I didn't bother to cut off, I'll give that a try.
Frere Jacques, you're right. LaserSoft have stuck Reala right at the bottom of the list of ISO settings, almost as an afterthought it seems. I'm still undecided though, about buying SilverFast. The before and after shots I've seen after calibration with an IT8 target are far too subtle to make much difference with the stuff I'm scanning. I'm still searching for a positive and consistent improvement that I had expected SilverFast would provide. In fact, with grainy and scratchy film, Dimage Scan's combination of ICE and GEM at 100% seems to do a better job than SilverFast's GANE and ICE or SDR.
But I'm still experimenting. Haven't tried B&W yet.
Clive Carpenter
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September 01, 2005, 01:51:07 PM »
Just to confirm Mark's suggestion not to try and perfect your image in the scanning software; it's so much easier in Photoshop, providing you get a good basic scan to start with.
Although I do not have any experience with the Minolta, I have been down the same route as Mark with a Nikon Coolscan 4000. I eliminated Silverfast on the basis that the software was excessively expensive for the results compared to Nikon Scan and Vuescan. After extensive testing I've settled on Vuescan, having created a profile in Vuescan with an IT8 slide from Wolf Faust for the films I tend to use. Very simple operation to create the profile and it does make a subtle difference to the scan. Of course, this information is of no use to you if you do not have IT8 slides for the films that you are scanning.
However, even without the profile, I found that the basic scan was good enough from Vuescan to provide a good base to continue in Photoshop. Having said all of that, there are some slides that respond better to Nikonscan than Vuescan and I have no idea why that should be.
I agree with Mark - forget grain reduction and sharpening until you get the image into Photoshop. The tools available are just so much better.
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September 01, 2005, 02:14:32 PM »
I also use the original Minolta 5400, but so far I've just used the Minolta software and scanned Fuji Velvia 50. I use ICE, exposure compensation and manual focus. I use exposure compensation primarily to get as bright a scan as possible without clipping, and sometimes to do some minor color correction. I always scan at 5400 ppi and 16 bit (sometimes linear). I also use Neat Image (I've made my own profile that I use for all my Velvia scans) and PhotoKit Sharpener. I make all other adjustments with Photoshop CS. I'm not interested in batch processing. I scan all my slides unmounted.
I've read a lot about SilverFast and VueScan, but I'm still not clear if they would provide any real benefits for my workflow. I've always assumed that I would get the best results by using scanning software just to make hardware adjustments with all post scan adjustments done with Photoshop, Neat Image and PK Sharpener.
Does SilverFast or VueScan provide more hardware control than the Minolta software? What can VueScan or SilverFast do for my work flow (no batch processing) that the Minolta software cannot?
The one area of improvement that I'd like is to be able to get more dynamic range, specificaly brighter scans without clipping. I assume that I'm hardware limited and that neither VueScan nor SilverFast will be an improvement in this aspect. Am I correct?
Dean Erger
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September 01, 2005, 04:07:49 PM »
Dmerger, I forgot to mention - I don't know what size prints you are making from your Velvia scans, but unless you crop heavily or make full-frame prints much larger than A3, you are probably generating excessive file size and scanning time going for 5400 PPI on every scan. Tests that I conducted with Harald Johnson are reported on pages 83 to 85 of his book "Mastering Digital Printing Second Edition". Harald and I concluded: "......there's a wide latitude of scanner settings to produce similar quality results" and ".........you don't need as much resolution as you once thought". More specifically, and this is corroborated elsewhere in the literature, anything in the range of 240 to 360 PPI (depending on image size) will deliver very high photo quality output.
For example, looking at the long dimension of an A3 print with a one inch border each side, one is scanning for 14.5 inches output. Say at 300 PPI, total pixels is 4350 (300*14.5). The long side of a 35mm film frame is 1.41 inches. Therefore if using the full frame, one would scan at 3085 INPUT PPI (4350/1.41). A far cry from 5400. One gets closer to 5400 of course the larger the final print and the more cropped the original frame.
I have played with manual and auto focus on that scanner and I am convinced manual focus (at least in my hands and eyes!) adds nothing to image sharpness. The auto-focus of the DSE 5400 is uncannily accurate in the sharpness of detail it reveals, including film grain unfortunately!
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September 02, 2005, 02:27:54 AM »
I agree with Mark - forget grain reduction and sharpening until you get the image into Photoshop. The tools available are just so much better.
Well, grain reduction in Vuescan is not as effective as GEM in Dimage Scan and Nikon Scan. Are you implying that Photoshop can do a better job than GEM or ICE?
I find if I want the smoothest result with a grainy, scratchy film with minimum loss of fine detail, then ICE and GEM at 100% plus sharpening at 100% in the Dimage Scan software produces very acceptable results. The sharpening is halo free and at least partially restores the slight loss of resolution without bringing back the grain.
However, given the time, I expect I could do a better job in Neat Image regarding grain and noise removal. But it seems a fact of life that all grain and noise removal techniques result in some loss of resolution. It's a matter of chosing the better of two evils, I guess.
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September 02, 2005, 08:40:30 AM »
Scanning at too much resolution can have several disadvantages - processing time, huge file sizes, downsampling for smaller prints - to name the ones that come immediately to mind. The appropriate way to work this is to visualize the extent of cropping you will do, estimate the largest size you are likely to make the print, then decide on the required INPUT PPI as a function of OUTPUT PPI in the range I discussed yesterday. It really is pointless scanning at excessive resolution. I would never set my default at 5400 PPI. I don't know how to change default settings on DSE 5400-II because I use the original 5400 model and have not used Minolta's software for some time now.
If you find Minolta DiMage Scan's version of ICE works better than that of Silverfast for Kodachromes , and if the Kodachromes are really dirty then perhaps use DiMage Scan, but in principle ICE should work in about the same way for both scanning suites, so perhaps there are some settings in Silverfast that it doesn't like. I have not yet tried scanning Kodachrome with Silverfast so I haven't seen the problem or had to work on a solution.
Once you've used Silverfast intensively for a week or two, and discover what procedure and generic settings work best for you, it does become quite easy and even somewhat routine thereafter. For each image, I seldom need to tweak much more than the grey balancer and mid-range luminosity to get a very acceptable scan for further work in Photoshop. Now that I bought it, pestered and lectured their tech support to near exhaustion and have a good enough handle on how to use it, I can't think of any value-added going back to VueScan or DiMage Scan.
Grain reduction and sharpening at the scanning stage is workable of course but in my view sub-optimal. It adds enormously to scan time and the tools simply don't provide the kind of control and reversibility that you have with software such as Neat Image and PK Sharpener (no visible halos at any print size you are likely to make). When you talk about choosing the better of two evils between grain reduction and resolution - this is exactly the point - the control that you have over these processes with superior software really does minimize the trade-off - in fact often eliminates it totally. ICE is a different story - it is aimed at removing sludge, crud and other impacts of emulsion deterioration; while this can be replicated in Photoshop it is more simply and effectively done with ICE at scanning.
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September 02, 2005, 11:12:21 AM »
Hi Ray - I see your point - the whole scanning process is indeed painful - one of the reasons I bought a used Canon 1Ds last year. What I'm doing with negs now is legacy stuff that I wish to seriously improve over what the commercial processors gave me. Within a wide range it's really a matter of comfort and personal requirements what scanning res to use - so if ultra-high res gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling, that's fine. I also do other stuff while the scanner is churning away, so nothing lost really. (For example, working my way through Dan Margulis' new book on working in LAB - a real "tour de force" in the overcrowded Photoshop literature.)
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September 02, 2005, 01:34:12 PM »
My goal is to get the best possible "RAW" scan from my scanner, without any post scan, non-hardware image adjustments, and then make all my image adjustments with Neat Image, PK Sharpener and Photoshop CS. So, what I'm really interested in is whether SilverFast or VueScan is capable of producing better "RAW" scans.
That's an admirable goal but I don't think it's possible. For example, if you are scanning film that's underexposed, in order to reduce noise in the shadows it's necessary to make an 'exposure compensation' adjustment in the scanning software. Dimage Scan allows one to do this and one then has to rescan the preview to see the effect. Nikon Scan has a similar feature they call 'analog gain'. It also requires a rescan to see the effect. The exposure or gain control changes the time period the film is exposed to the scanner's light.
Even in situations where there's a full histogram but overly dark shadows, you will find that moving the middle gamma slider to the left, in the preview's histogram, will result in less noise in those shadows than doing a straight scan and opening up the shadows in Photoshop.
I've also wondered if third party scanning software is able in some fundamental way to get more out of the scanner, increase its basic performance, but I haven't found this to be the case with any of the software and scanners I've tried so far. Alternative scanning software seems to me to be mostly about alternative color and contrast balance and different or more options to avoid later work in Photoshop. I imagine anyone who is a real whiz in Photoshop techniques could do an equally good job whatever scanning software they used (within reason
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September 02, 2005, 03:19:46 PM »
I guess I'm not making myself clear. Ray, exposure compensation adjustments are hardware adjustments. As I understand how it works, the adjustments shorten or lengthen the exposure time. I use those adjustments in the Minolta software. The result is a "RAW" scan in that no software only, post-scan image adjustments are made.
Mark, as I understand SilverFast and VueScan, as well as the Minolta software, all scaner adjustments (other than exposure compensation and ICE) are done by adjusting the data resulting from the physical "RAW" scan. Although such adjustemnts are selected pre-scan, they are merely post-scan data manipulation, which can also be done in Photoshop.
Mark, I'd be very interested in any info you received about RAW scanning with Silverfast.
Notwithstanding what I've said about wanting a "RAW" scan, I can see where there could be a real benefit in improved and/or custom profiles for slide film and my scanner. From what little I've read, however, it appears that custom scanner profiles are not very helpful.
Dean Erger
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- To view the 2014 subsistence rates table go to ERS Rules and regulations p.15
- Up to three months paid parental leave
- Travel: flat rate 200 EUR for 500km, 700 EUR for above 500km (towards each the fellow, the spouse and children)
Short-Term Fellowships
- To view the 2014 subsistence rates table go to ERS Rules and regulations p.15
- Travel: flat rate 200 EUR for 500km, 700 EUR for above 500km
31 January for Long-Term Fellowships
15 April & 1 October for Short-Term Fellowships


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The life of a professional blogger and stylist has its benefits — access to the hottest shows and parties, legions of online followers, days spent inventing new ways to dress, and the fashion sense that comes with full-time style stalking. But there can be downsides, too. As anyone who's pursued their passion for style would know, it can be expensive to follow your bliss. That's why some of the chicest, most popular stylists and bloggers are also some of the smartest and savviest shoppers. Case in point: Aramide Esubi.
Known for her beloved blog, The Sassy Peach, and her adorably wicked design sense, Chicago's Esubi has developed a couture taste on a fast-fashion budget. But this has also taught the stylist a few tricks — like hitting T.J.Maxx for on-trend staples and statement pieces. Like her fellow style blogger, Kathleen Murillo, Esubi is a huge fan of the store. Instead of offering up her tips on how to make the most of a trip to T.J.Maxx, this sassy peach wanted to show us how to style the perfect fall piece three ways — right there in the aisle. She took us to her local store for an impromptu styling session, where she offered on-trend fall dressing tips, raided the accessories department, and supplied us with one of the best arguments for wearing hot colors in cool temperatures.
Click on the slideshow to enjoy the day with one of our favorite savvy, fashion-forward young women.
Photographed by Heather Talbert; Hair and Makeup by Frances Tsalas.
Photographed by Heather Talbert