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The Bold Series Soy Candle | Travel Size | Amber + Iris | Manready Mercantile
Our Bold Series candles are made from a special blend of fragrance oils, 100% soy wax and cotton wick. We're going to pat ourselves on the back and say these are some of the best candles ever made!
Notes of nutmeg, bergamot, cardamom, leather and vanilla. Medium to strong scent throw.
- Clean burning soy wax
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- 4oz metal tin - 9 hour burn time
*CAUTION: Failure to follow instructions could result in fire hazard or injury. Keep wax free of matches, wick trimmings, or other flammable materials. Keep wick centered & trimmed to 1/8" to ensure even burning & prevent the flame from becoming too large. Burn only on a stable heat resistant surface for not more than 4 hours at a time. Keep out of drafts. Discontinue use when only 1/2" of wax remains on the bottom. Do not move candle while burning or if the wax is hot. Keep out of reach of children and pets.
Never leave a burning candle unattended.
Why soy wax?
All of our candles are made with soy wax. So, why soy wax? Soy wax is longer lasting compared to traditional paraffin wax by 30-50%. Soy candles are natural since they are made from vegetable oil. They're non toxic, meaning they don't release toxins into the air as they burn. The scent from the soy candles is more mellow than the scent from paraffin candles.
Why are our candles poured into whiskey glasses?
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And furthermore, as a small manufacturing business, we believe in recycling, sustain- ability, and that our products should have a positive impact. Additionally, by pouring our candles into whiskey glasses, our consumers can enjoy a cocktail in our premium glassware for years to come!
How to open our cans with a coin?
You can open any of our paint can candles with a coin. It's that easy!
How much is shipping?
Free domestic shipping on orders over $100.
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Selling Your Affordable Home
Affordable and Employment-based home sales are facilitated by the Housing Department and are sold through a Lottery Process. It takes approximately three months to sell a home unless a buyer cannot be found through the Lottery Process (very rare).
Step 1 - Letter of Intent to Sell
Submit a Letter of Intent to Sell - Affordable or Employment Based to the Housing Department. The Housing Department will email you to set up a meeting for the next step. You will also receive a Property Disclosure form to complete and submit to the Housing Department. Depending on the Restrictions, the Housing Department may need to do a preliminary inspection at this point.
Step 2 - Housing Department & Seller Meeting
Meet with the Housing Department to sign a facilitation agreement. If you have any improvements that you have made to your home, you may be able to receive some credit at the time of selling. Bring the receipts to this meeting along with the completed Property Disclosure Form.
This meeting will need to be no later than Friday at 2 in order to advertise in the paper and start the Lottery Process the following Wednesday.
Step 3 - Third Party Inspection
The Housing Department will hire a third party inspector to do an inspection on your home. You will receive a copy of the Inspection Report with a list of items (if any) that will need to be completed, repaired, or replaced before the final inspection.
Step 4 - Lottery Process
The Lottery Process begins on Wednesday and goes for two weeks. The Housing Department normally receives the Lottery Results (drawn by outside counsel) by the following Monday after the lottery ends.
The first household chosen in the lottery will be notified immediately.
Step 5 - Finding a Buyer
The household chosen first will have seven days to see the home and submit a complete application. As the seller, you will be expected to show the home during this seven day period. If the household chosen first decides not to go through with the purchase, the Housing Department will notify the second household, and they will also be given seven days and so on until a buyer is found.
Normally, the first household chosen will purchase the home, but there have been times when we have gone through several.
In the event all of the households that entered the lottery are not qualified or choose not to move forward, the seller can choose to move to First Come First Served and/or potentially lower their asking price. First come first served means that any household who qualifies can purchase the home if they are the first to submit an application.
Step 6 - Going Under Contract
It can take up to a week for the Housing Department to qualify the buyer. Once they are qualified, they will have seven days to review the contract and sign it. Once it is signed by the buyer, the seller receives it and signs it. The closing will be held on or before 45 days from the date the seller signs the contract. This provides some flexibility with the closing date, while still allowing time for inspections, an appraisal, and financing to be in place.
Step 7 - Final Inspection
The sellers are required to be moved out of the home three business days before closing. The home must be deep cleaned and ready for the new owner with all inspection items completed. Please view the JTCAHs Housing Department Expectations at Final Inspection. Please remember that a home is the biggest purchase most families make. It is standard real estate practice for the Seller to present a professionally cleaned home to the new owners at closing.
Even if a home is Affordable, this standard still applies. To ensure that homes in the community's Affordable Housing Program are well maintained for use by many generations, it is the responsibility of the Housing Department to confirm at closing that the home is adequately maintained, professionally cleaned, and respectfully presented to the new owners.
If the Housing Department finds items that were on the Inspection Report that were not completed or cleaning that was not done, you may be charged at closing and a credit given to the buyers. Also, if the Housing Department is required to make a second trip for the final inspection, a $50 fee will be charged to you.
Step 8 - Closing
Your closing will take place at the Title Company that was called out in your contract and provided the Title Commitment for Title Insurance.
The Housing Department will make arrangements for you to transfer the keys and any garage door openers and warranty information for your home to the new owners. Possession of the home by the new owners takes place on the day of closing once the papers are signed, money is transferred, and documents are recorded.

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Don't put on your fanciest running shoes or chic workout clothes for the Graffiti Run this weekend. Instead, don a white T-shirt to show off the colored powder that will bombard you along the 5K course.
This event, part of a national race series, is more about fun than speed, and it's suitable for runners and walkers of all levels. More than 4,000 participants have signed up, and this will be the first race for more than half of them, according to organizers.
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FoTW Our editor Joe Fay usually keeps a pretty low profile, but earlier this week he stuck his resolutely brunette bonce* above the parapet with this piece about a shouty Steve Jobs and MobileMe.
One carrot top was prompted to protest:
Joe, I am curious why you chose "like a red headed stepchild" as a description for Apples feeling toward mobileme. If you would be so kind as to; a) tell me what that cliché means to you. & b) Would you ever use "he stood out like a nigger at an all white diner" to get your point across? As a "redhead" I am offended by your remark. I once had a Boss who not only was a great mentor but also a good friend once say in mixed company to me. " I would rather be dead then red on the head like a dick on a Dog" everybody laughed and as much as I tried to save him he was fired from his 150k (15 years ago salary) per year job. Please choose your naritives more carfully.
Down in the commentard mosh pit, meanwhile, Francis Fish asked: "Can we stop that redheaded stepchild crap?"
He added: "Just because English people are scared of celts, doesn't make it ok. It's still racism. Bet you wouldn't say 'black stepchild'".
Quite right. Suffice it to say, Mr Fay has been dispatched to the naughty step to consider his own ethnic origins the next time he's supping Guinness at a lively céilidh surrounded by his 7000 Irish cousins.
While he's there, the news team is taking the opportunity to skive off to the pub to consider just what is the collective noun for a carful of redheads... ®
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Tasha Fierce edited the amazing 'zine Bitchcore from 1998 – 2001 and co-blogs at I Fry Mine In Butter. Her writing explores black invisibility and racism in feminist spaces, sizeism and fatphobia, black queer invisibility, and transgender issues and subverting gender roles. Also, she's my sister – okay not blood related – but she's my family.
I have a deep, abiding love of fashion and the various bibles that dictate the terms of such. No matter how many times I tell myself I'm not going to pick up another fashion magazine, no matter how many times I reflect on how damaging staring at anorexic-thin models in clothes I will never fit into is, and no matter how many times I cancel my subscriptions, I still eventually give in to the lure of "100 Accessories under $100 You Can't Live Without" and buy the damn magazines again. And start another subscription, because, you know, 12 issues for $8 is a really good deal.
So since my chosen career path is "fashion/beauty editor", and I have started my own nascent fatshion blog to hone my skills, I find myself needing to exist partially in that world that really wants nothing to do with me. At least, until the next "love your body" phase comes along and "plus size" models are all the rage — and even then, I don't exactly have the shape or height of your typical plus size model. Loving Chanel but knowing Karl Lagerfeld is hugely fatphobic, to the point where he can't even stand the thought of fat women wearing his diffusion line at H&M, causes serious cognitive dissonance. Writing about fashion requires looking at current runway looks and trends, and while plus size fashion has come a long way, it really pales in comparison to the variety, beauty, and creativity you find in designer clothes made for "normal size" women. It's extremely hard to desire the amazing looks but be unable to wear them. While low end retailers are going up to larger sizes, you still need to be at the smaller end of the fat spectrum to fit into those sizes, no matter how much stretch they put in their clothing. And even those who can get with the stretch would be hard pressed to fit into the non Lycra-infused items.
All this requires me to live in the "double consciousness" described by W.E.B. DuBois, not just in the fact that I'm a black girl living in a white world, but also in the fact that I'm a fat girl desiring to live in the fashion world. DuBois describes double consciousness as such: "[…] this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity." How accurate that is when applied to my relationship with a world so obsessed with being as small as possible, but that I at the same time love so much. Battling diet obsession becomes that much harder when you're doing research by reading magazines full of stories of severe calorie restriction just to fit into a size 2. And battling self-hatred is that much harder when l'm looking at runway looks I'd love to re-create but can't because the designers just don't see me.
But this is the field that I love, that I feel drawn to. So it falls on me to continue to love myself in the face of if not hatred or disdain, erasure and invisibility. Because I've chosen this. It's not something forced on me; this is not some other oppression. I can work to change the way the fashion world works, and thankfully there are a growing number of women doing that right now. Some may say it's a silly world in which to try to create some kind of movement for inclusiveness, but hey, what can I say. I love beauty in all forms, and there is beauty in fashion, just like there's beauty in fat bodies and the way we dress them. And I think, just maybe, if we can effect change in the fashion world, the larger world, which is very much influenced by fashion's ideals, might change too. That's the more noble purpose I strive for. And if I get to wear cuter clothes because of our success, well, I'm not going to object to that.


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UT System Regents approve tuition rates for health institutions
AUSTIN – The University of Texas System Board of Regents Wednesday unanimously approved increases to tuition at five of the System's health institutions.
Even with the increases, tuition for UT System health profession programs remains among the most affordable in the nation compared with peer institutions. Rates were considered for medical and dental schools, as well as schools of biomedical sciences, public health, undergraduate and graduate nursing and biomedical informatics.
For fall 2014, average increases across schools include 3.9 percent for medicine, 3.7 percent for graduate nursing, 5.6 percent for dentistry and 2.1 percent for allied health.
Health institutions developed tuition proposals after receiving student input and submitted them to the UT System Office of Health Affairs and Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D. for review. The UT Health Science Center at Tyler did not request tuition increases this year.
The Board of Regents also approved a new, innovative guaranteed four-year fixed tuition plan for the UT System's two dental schools. The roughly 19 percent tuition increase would apply to dental students who enroll in fall 2015 at either UT Health Science Center at San Antonio or UT Health Science Center at Houston. These students will have tuition locked in during their four years of dental school.
Currently, these two dental schools are among the least expensive in the nation, and even with the proposed increase in 2015, they would remain well below the national average for tuition costs at public dental schools.
Regents also approved a tuition increase in fall 2015 for the biomedical sciences program at UT Health Science Center at Houston. Faculty research grants cover tuition for virtually all of the students in this program, and new grant applications will include these increased costs, thereby minimizing any direct costs to students.
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REALESATE-ONTHE BLOCK- What's wrong? Some things the market won't bear
ADDRESS: 957 Locust Avenue
NEIGHBORHOOD: Locust Grove
SIZE: 2,700 fin. sq. ft., 150 unfin.
LAND: 0.34 acres
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10
LISTED BY: Joan Esposito, Roy Wheeler Realty Co., 760-1028
Desirable location? Check. Hardwood floors? Check. Rental unit, nice lot? Check.
Interested buyers? Oops- that's one thing this week's house doesn't seem to have, but it's not for lack of trying.
The agent describes the lack of interest as "a complete mystery." She says that while over 200 agents and prospective buyers have visited the house, no one has yet stepped up to make an offer.
Nothing seems wrong with the place from the outside. Facing Locust Avenue, it's a brick Cape Cod that from the front looks too small to contain five bedrooms and three baths. However, the driveway leading around back slopes down a slight drop-off which reveals a large basement level, source of the extra space.
The long, narrow lot boasts substantial gardens more typical of a county homestead than a parcel so close to downtown, but the greenery and the lot combine to create a secluded entrance to the separate apartment. The gardens are part of the reason why the owners have decided to sell– after 25 years in this house, they're ready for a condo with less maintenance.
There's no foyer beyond the front door– it opens directly to the living room on the left, opposite a small closet and stairs leading to the second floor. The living room has hardwood floors, as does the rest of the house, and one of two fireplaces. Beyond the living room, the dining room has a salvaged stained glass window, double doors leading to the deck, and access to the kitchen.
The kitchen is a little on the small side. In fact– perhaps one reason offers have been slow to arrive– it seems more suited to an apartment than a large house. While it borrows space from the dining room via a counter that acts like a low wall, that doesn't mitigate the fact that there's really not much room for more than one chef. But there have been some upgrades like recently installed Corian countertops.
Also on this level are two bedrooms and a bath. Pink trim in one of the bedrooms stands out, and the footed tub in the bathroom is an attention-grabber. However, it's only a bathtub; there's no shower on the first floor. Blue carpet on the stairs leading to the second floor may present a quandary. While it appears to have several years left in it, it's a powder blue color that may not be suited to all tastes. Of course, the hardwood beneath the carpet is always a classy option.
The two bedrooms and one bath upstairs are standard except for one odd element: an extra room has been fitted with a sink and a rod for hanging clothes. That room can become a full bath– to make a master suite– but it would entail loss of the bedroom closet. If left unchanged, it's just a master bedroom with a closet with a sink in it.
A large basement space contains workshop benches, the heating system, and a new washer and dryer, not the most convenient arrangement. A garden shed paved with flagstones connected to the space leads outside, and the rest of the basement is a separate apartment.
Starting with its eat-in kitchen, the apartment consists of three rooms in a line. There's also a small bathroom off the middle room, but it doesn't have a proper door: privacy is provided by a curtain. While the apartment rooms have their own fireplace, the low ceilings might make the space difficult to rent and more appropriate as guests rooms or an in-law suite. The wall separating the apartment could easily be removed, opening the space to the rest of the house.
With its closet sink and lack of foyer and central air, 957 Locust Ave is a house with some issues that needs a buyer who will either tolerate them or spend the money to fix them. Even discounted over 20 percent from its initial bank appraisal of $560,000, it's having trouble finding a new owner. Is this a symptom of a slower housing market or just simple bad luck?


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Justin is an asshole, he is sorry but who is surprised? In Halo was I always this way or just after drinking. I think I only ever played after drinking so I may owe more sorries than I can type.
Whatever, Warsaw I knew shit about your past and am sorry. Hope that fixes it. I say dumb things.
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Yeah I did. Somehow though with the M4 gearbox I had everything back in place but it still didn't work. The AK I just fubar'd it. Once I get a wee bit more money I'll figure something out.
Thanks, and also I'm terrible when it comes to gearboxes, every time I open one I fuck it up. The AK one I had I broke it, and the M4 gearbox I have I somehow fucked up the trigger to get it to shoot. The copper tip will only touch it slightly but not all the way in and I had it sent to the airsoft place near me to get fixed and some better grease on it.
No the AK I have has a metal receiver.
Ah crap thanks for pointing out a few things, I keep the AK models mixed up and I forgot to keep the VERY original Ak47 design in mind which mine. Bleh really though I want better looking wood seeing I wasn't thinking right yesterday.
What would you suggest I do with the one I got now? Other then new better looking wood.
AK-47s did not have side mounts in real life except for that one you saw on Tantal's site. I bought one of those to mount on a '47. It doesn't go in the usual spot and it's not meant for anything other than the Gen I night sight.
I thought the AK you bought already had the metal receiver. You bought one with a plastic one?
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Culinary Ambassadors: Condiments in the Philippines - Shrimp Pastes
Serious Eats' Culinary Ambassadors check in from time to time with reports on food fare in their homeland or countries of residence. Here's the latest! (Find out more about CA or join here!) —The Mgmt.
Most aficionados of Southeastern Asian cuisine are already familiar with the pleasures of fish sauce, but few are ready to dive head first into the heady world of fermented shrimp pastes. It's a shame because whether you call it belacan, terasi, or bagoong, shrimp paste is an umami flavor bomb that can transform sambals and stir-fries into something otherworldly.
Bagoong alamang is a shrimp paste native to the Philippines and especially prized by Ilocanos, who harvest the tiny krill shrimp for bagoong from the coastal waters around the country's Ilocos region.
In its raw state, bagoong is salty with undertones of sweetness and a strong smell that a novice may liken to a gym sock. But in small amounts its pungent flavor holds its own as a bracing dressing for sour fruits and vegetables like green mangos.
More often, however, bagoong is sautéed with aromatics to make bagoong guisado (literally, "cooked bagoong") and used as the base for dishes like pinakbet or as a condiment for kare-kare. When sautéed, bagoong's saltiness mellows, and the sweetness of the shrimp comes forward. A hint of bagoong guisado adds a delectable brininess to a pot of mung beans.
Fried with rice, it elevates humble leftovers to delicious heights. And as the key ingredient of binagoongan, meat cooked in bagoong, even Tagalogs and Visayans have to admit that the Ilocanos are on to something!
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NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Kanye West and Bruce Springsteen are to perform at the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit concert in New York.
Paul McCartney, Roger Waters and The Who will also be part of the lineup, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, The Madison Square Garden Co. and The Weinstein Co. announced Thursday.
The star-studded event is to take place Dec. 12 at Madison Square Garden.
"'12-12-12' is shaping up to be a showcase of music royalty. The response from the entertainment community to help those most affected by Hurricane Sandy has been nothing short of astounding. We expect to announce additional legendary performers in the near future and we are confident that the event will ensure those in need will not be forgotten, and vital aid will be directed to rebuilding our communities along the East Coast," event producers James Dolan, John Sykes and Harvey Weinstein said in a joint statement.


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The festival is the best epitomizes Vietnam's cultural identity
Meaning of Vietnamese New Year
The festival which best epitomizes Vietnam's cultural identity is Vietnamese New Year or Tet.
"Tet" is the phonetic deformation of "Tiet", a Sino Vietnamese term which means "Joint of a bamboo stern" and in a wider sense, the "beginning of a period of the year". The passage from one period to the next may cause a meteorological disturbance (heat, rain, mist) that must be exercised by ritual sacrifices and festivities. There are many Tets throughout the year (Mid-autumn Vietnamese New Year, Cold Food Vietnamese New Year, etc.). But the most significant of all is "Vietnamese New Year", which marks the Lunar New Year.
Vietnamese New Year occurs somewhere in the last ten days of January or the first twenty days of February, nearly halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox. Although the Lunar New Year is observed throughout East Asia, each country celebrates Vietnamese New Year in its own way in conformity with its own national psyche and cultural conditions.
For the Vietnamese people, Vietnamese New Year is like a combination of Western Saint Sylvester, New Year's Day, Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. It is the festival of Purity and Renewal.
Vietnamese New Year Customs
1. Clean and decorate the home
Homes are often cleaned and decorated before New Year's Eve. Children are in charge of sweeping and scrubbing the floor. The kitchen needs to be cleaned before the 23rd night of the last month. Usually, the head of the household cleans the dust and ashes (from incense) from the ancestral altars. It is a common belief that cleaning the house will get rid of the bad fortunes associated with the old year. Some people would paint their house and decorate with festive items.
2. Literally means "getting new clothes"
This is often the most exciting part of the Vietnamese New Year among children. Parents usually purchase new clothes and shoes for their children a month prior to the New Year. However, children cannot wear their new clothes until the first day of the New Year and onward. The best outfit is always worn on the first day of the year.
3. Farewell ceremony for the Kitchen Gods (Ong Tao)
Seven days (the 23rd night of the last lunar month) prior to Tet, each Vietnamese family offers a farewell ceremony for Ong Tao to go up to Heaven Palace. His task is to make an annual report to the Jade Emperor of the family's affairs throughout the year.
4. Lunar New Year's Eve
However, in a literal translation, it means "Passage from the Old to the New Year". It is a common belief among Vietnamese people that there are 12 Sacred Animals from the Zodiac taking turn monitoring and controlling the affairs of the earth. Thus, Giao Thua (New Year's Eve)is the moment of seeing the old chief (Dragon for 2000) end his ruling term and pass his power to the new chief (Snake for 2001). Giao Thua is also the time for Ong Tao (Kitchen God) to return to earth after making the report to the Jade Emperor. Every single family should offer an open-air ceremony to welcome him back to their kitchen.
5. The Aura of the Earth
Giao Thua is the most sacred time of the year. Therefore, the first houseguest to offer the first greeting is very important. If that particular guest has a good aura (well respected, well educated, successful, famous, etc.), then the family believes that they will receive luck and good fortune throughout the year. The belief of xong dat still remains nowadays, especially among families with businesses.
6. Apricot flowers and peach flowers
Flower buds and blossoms are the symbols for new beginning. These two distinctive flowers are widely sold and purchased during Tet. Hoa Mai are the yellow apricot flowers often seen in Southern Viet Nam. Hoa Mai are more adaptable to the hot weather of southern regions, thus, it is known as the primary flower in every home. Hoa Dao are the warm pink of the peach blossoms that match well with the dry, cold weather from the North. Tet is not Tet if there is no sight of Hoa Mai (south) or Hoa Dao (north) in every home.
7. Giving away red envelopes (filled with lucky money)
This is a cultural practice that has been maintained for generations. The red envelopes symbolize luck and wealth. It is very common to see older people giving away sealed red envelopes to younger people. Reciprocally, the older ones would return good advice and words of wisdom, encouraging the younger ones to keep up with the schoolwork, live harmoniously with others, and obey their parents.
This greeting ritual and Li Xi is also known as Mung Tuoi, honoring the achievement of another year to one's life.
8. Making offers for the Ancestors
This ceremony is held on the first day of the New Year before noontime. The head of the household should perform the proper ritual (offering food, wine, cakes, fruits, and burn incense) to invite the souls of the ancestors to join the celebration with the family. This is the time families honor the souls of their ancestors and present the welfare of the family.
Vietnamese New Year Foods
One of the most traditional special foods for New Years (Tet) of Vietnamese is Banh Chung or sticky rice cake. Banh Chung is made of sticky rice, pork meat and green bean, every ingredient is wrapper inside a special leaf which calls Dong. Making the Banh Chung requires care and precision in every step. The rice and green bean has to be soaked in water for a day to make it stickier. The pork meat is usually soaked with pepper for several hours. Squaring off and tying the cakes with bamboo strings require skillful hands to make it a perfect square.
Banh Chung is a must among other foods to be placed on the ancestors' altars during Tet holiday. In the old time, one or two days before Tet, every family prepares and cooks the Banh Chung around the warm fire. It is also the time for parents to tell their children folklore stories. Nowadays, families which live in villages still maitain making Banh Chung before New Years but the people in the city does not. They don't have time and prefer to go to the shop to buy it.
More festivals and ceremoies in Vietnam:
Vietnamese wedding ceremony!
Elephant Race Festival, Dak Lak
Let's enjoy Thay Pagoda Festival!
Huong Pagoda Festival, lost in a world of fairies
Co Loa Festival
Buddhist legend in Keo Pagoda
Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival - Hai Phong City Festival
Hung King Temple Festival
Saint Chu Dong Tu Festival
A meaningful pilgrimage to the Lim Festival
Full moon (Mid-Autumn) Festival
Doan Ngo Festival (Tết Đoan Ngọ)
Khau Vai Love Market Festival – beauty of love
Vietnamese New Year
Funeral ceremony
Ancestor worship
Tran Temple Festival, an atmosphere full of the "Dong A" spirit...
Vieng Market Festival
Kiep Bac Temple Festival
Full-moon Festival in Mekong Delta
Pilgrims flood Ba Chua Xu Temple Festival
Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts Festival
"Mua Vu Lan" – Mother's Day in Vietnam
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If you are looking for a setting that offers you world renowned chefs, a selection wine that would entice any wine lover and creative cocktails, the 3rd Annual Food & Wine All-Star Weekend is the event for you. While you can visit a single chef, try some wine or a cocktail, a package like this that brings so many chefs and so many flavors together in one weekend is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience that anyone in attendance will never forget.
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To The Best of Our Knowledge series contains five programs:
In the Beginning
Where do we come from? Fair question. Religious scholar Stephen Mitchell says the answer lies in humanity's different creation myths. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku says we're the reverb of a Big Bang from another universe. And, midwifery guru Ina May Gaskin gets down to where each one of us really comes from - mom.
Why Bother?
Catholic-nun-turned-unbeliever Karen Armstrong describes her path back to God. Cinema Nirvana: enlightenment lessons from Hollywood. Also, Parker Palmer on how to keep going when life stops making sense. And, that good old existentialist, Charlie Brown.
Are We Having Fun Yet?
At nearly 70, one high school English teacher discovers the joys of sex. Poet Billy Collins stops to smell the roses while our host, Jim Fleming, goes to Paris for a sumptuous chocolate tour. And, to the woods we go, playing jazz for the birds.
Pete Best has a few... He had Ringo's job just months before the Beatles' first hit "Love Me Do" came out. Also, world-renowned concert pianist Leon Fleisher reflects on the disease that destroyed his right hand. And, one man sets out to apologize to the descendants of his family's slaves.
The End
What happens when we die? Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen says much more than you think. Novelist Jim Crace says nothing, nothing at all. Also, Amy Tan's story of the murder that shaped her life as a writer. And, whistle a tune at the Grim Reaper with Monty Python's Eric Idle.
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The Devil Wears Prada beauty admits she wants to better understand the universe, reports The Daily Express.
She tells GQ magazine, "I'm interested in elementary particles. What I like thinking about is how time and space exist in the universe and how we understand it.
"Any spare time I have, I bury my head in a physics textbook. I'm learning. I'm reading a lot about Einstein. I like theories. I want to understand string theory. I am dying for someone to explain quarks to me!"
Dear Anne,
First, thanks for your fine body of work, beginning with The Princess Diaries, and everything since. I'm a fan, as well as a former actor who can therefore appreciate your skills.
So, you can talk to me! I would however also recommend your talking to the total expert, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Frank Wilczek, a recent article about which can be found by clicking here. Frank is THE MAN to talk to regarding quarks.
Also and as you'll see, he's currently writing a novel that will almost surely be turned into a Hollywood film. You could star in it! Dr. Peter Woit of Columbia University would make an excellent co-star.
I also recommend clicking here for background on Frank and Quarks. That article has been re-printed in updated form in Discover Magazine's "Extreme Universe" special issue currently on sale through late March 2010 at local bookstore chains.
I hope that helps! I live about 15 minutes from Millburn, NJ, your hometown,
and would be more than willing to explain in person should you decide to visit
your hometown in the near future.
Sincerely and wishing you good fortune,
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P.S. and UPDATE : David Gross also won that Nobel Prize with Frank, and works at
the Kavli Institute in Santa Barbara, in case you're stuck in Los Angeles (my
sympathies if so). Gross was Frank's thesis advisor.
easier to inculcate: Andrew Thomas' "What is Reality?", which is the clearest
introduction to Quantum Mechanics on the web, and PhD. in Physics Sabine
Hossenfelder's "BackReAction" blog, which is the most Human of science blogs.
If you get tired of guys like Jérôme in the replies below hitting on you, she is
one of the rare Women in Physics, and we all know how girls like to chat.
You can talk to me too that way, as I'm married and off the market.
I really do appreciate you for your mind. And your song in "Ella Enchanted,"
since I'm a big fan of Queen, and you were just lovely in it.
Ironically, as I type these words, I just watched you live announcing the nominees
for this year's Academy Awards. Well Done! "District 9" nominated for Best Picture?
"The closer you look, the more you find the proton is dissolving into lots of particles, each of which is carrying very, very little energy," says Wilczek. "And the elements of reality that triggered the whole thing, the quarks, are these tiny little things in the middle of the cloud. In fact, if you follow the evolution to infinitely short distances, the triggering charge goes to zero. If you really study the equations, it gets almost mystical."
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David Brooks, conservative columnist for the New York Times, spoke at the GSD this evening as part of the Kennedy School's 'Science and Democracy' series. The talk was called "Politics, the Brain, & Human Nature," and covered many of the talking points from Brooks' recent book, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement. It was much the same presentation that Brooks gave at TED, except that there were also three respondents (Max Bazerman from the business school, David Kennedy from the law school, and Steven Pinker from the department of psychology).
AND except for the fact that tonight, my friend Matt and I got answers to questions that we asked of Brooks, and live-blogged everything at utsun.org.
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Ahmet and Becir Osmani live in Zajas, a village near Kicevo almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Albanians. Following World War II the state's anti-Albanian policies, as well as scarce employment prospects, drove many of the local men to move abroad. Ahmet Osmani, the head of the family, left 40 years ago to work in Germany and send money back home.
"Life was simple and poor in the days after the second world war, which I experienced myself. Then we had the choice to leave. The whole village migrated to Germany… We were afraid to be in a foreign country, we did not speak the language. The Germans took us by the arms and showed us: this is a shovel, an axe, a pushcart."
After returning to Zajas, Ahmet Osmani now runs the small family farm with three of his sons. His other sons send money from abroad. Becir Osmani lives in the village with his father:
"Some want to work here, but they do not know what to do. They can work on construction sites, but jobs are very limited. Most of the villagers went to Germany.
If we had gone abroad as well, I believe that our children would not have returned. My father and two of my brothers, Agim and Bekim, we live off animal husbandry. This is a family tradition. None of us received proper education. I only finished secondary school."
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Community and technical college students received the official word today they won't be paying higher tuition this fall.
The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges voted this morning to freeze rates for resident and nonresident students. It will be the first time since 1989 that tuition will not rise at any of the state's two-year colleges.
"Congratulations everyone. History has been made," said board chairwoman Beth Willis following the decision. "This is very big. What a boon for our students."
Lawmakers, as part of last month's agreement on a new two-year state budget, pumped roughly $40 million more into Washington's two-year college system and barred tuition from climbing this fall for students who are residents of Washington.
But they left the door open for hiking the price for out-of-state students who already pay more than twice as much as resident students at each of the 34 colleges.
Over the years the board has matched any tuition hike on resident students with an increase for nonresident enrollees. Board members decided Friday they could be consistent with that practice by freezing rates for everyone.
It means tuition will remain at $4,000 per year for resident students and $9,235 for nonresident students in the 2013-2014 academic year. Those figures are based on a 15-credit load for a full school year.


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Enver Hoxhaj is a former civil society activist who became active in Kosovo politics, joining the PDK in 2004. Originally from Suha Reka, a rural municipality in Western Kosovo, Hoxhaj's parents migrated to Switzerland for work. He himself went to study at Vienna University (1994 to 2000), where he received his doctorate in history. Later, he lectured at the London School of Economics.
Since January 2008 he is Minister of Education, Science and Technology. The importance of education as a tool for social change and reform has always been his personal passion. Hoxhaj pushes hard to put education at the top of the government's priorities:
"As a new government, we have defined education as out highest national priority. That is why it is not only the task of the ministry, which I lead, but the responsibility of the whole government, to support education. We will try by all means, because of a larger budget that we have this year, to develop some specific curricula in the short and medium term, to have people who are able to work abroad, but also to have people to be attractive for future investors."
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The Phantom of the Opera: Music the star in this year's most guilty pleasure
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The Phantom of the Opera
With: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher.
Running time: 142 minutes.
Rated PG: Violence.
Like its older, musical-theater sibling, the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is already ringing up a chorus of catcalls on its way to making money hand over fist. Incredibly sumptuous and hopelessly romantic, director Joel Schumacher's cinematic chick lit is more closely related to James Cameron's Titanic than the movie musical mini-trend of Moulin Rouge and Chicago.
At $80 million, it could be the most expensive series of close-ups for singers who have a lip-sync problem. Neither that nor other credibility problems, however, can derail the vivid soap opera appeal of the tale's central romantic triangle. It's the year's most guilty pleasure.
Emmy Rossum, still going on 18 during filming, displays a young, burnished soprano as the heroine Christine Daae, a lonely member of the ballet corps in Paris's Opera Populaire in 1870. She is furiously contested by two would-be lovers, Patrick Wilson as her former childhood sweetheart Raoul and Gerard Butler as the possessive, vengeful Phantom.
The handsome Wilson, who starred on Broadway in The Full Monty and the latest revival of Oklahoma!, has a fine Broadway tenor voice. Former rock singer Butler, who doesn't look his 35 years as the Phantom, has a rough and undisciplined voice that, while serviceable, will make fans of the original stage star Michael Crawford wince.
Butler does exude sexual magnetism that feeds the movie version's heightened romantic intrigue. That peaks in a touchy-feely Point of No Return duet with a panting Rossum during an onstage performance, while Wilson looks on with envy from the audience. Yet no bodices are ripped, nor skirts lifted in this melodrama's most passionate moments. Its emotions are played out, as in the stage version, via Webber's soaring pop musical ballads.
This Phantom also is a tame creature as horror movies go, even by pre-Freddy Krueger standards. The Phantom's disfigured face looks no more horrifying than an adolescent case of acne, which makes it fairly easy for the heroine to vocalize her compassion.
Rossum triumphs in the musical's best lyrical moment, the dirge Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, sung by Christine to her late father at his grave. She also helps Butler get over the rough spots in their duets, particularly the pounding title song.
The movie gives the songs a full-blown symphonic orchestra treatment, three times the size of The Phantom's Broadway pit orchestra. Those anthems also swirl around many of the expanded action scenes via broad-stroked instrumental underscoring, not the least of which is the thundering organ overture. The instrumental enhancement gives an additional push to the invigorating choral highlight, Masquerade.
Schumacher co-wrote the screenplay with Webber, sticking to the layout of the stage musical while adding backstory from Gaston Leroux's 1911 pulp novel, and a bittersweet epilogue. Most notably, however, Schumacher's directorial touch rejects gothic horror in favor of romantic drama.
The best example of that occurs early on, when the Phantom first kidnaps Christine. As the music throbs, they float down a hallway of golden candelabras held by live arms, a blatant quote from Jean Cocteau's 1946 masterpiece Beauty and the Beast.
A flashback to the Phantom's boyhood, as told by his protector Madame Giry (a sympathetic Miranda Richardson), explains his deformity and genius. Short scenes during the hunt through the catacombs reference Leroux's lavish torture chambers, seldom included in any film or stage adaptation.
These and other stylistic flourishes don't always mesh well. Further, occasional credibility lapses (including the un-synced lip sync) help make for a rocky marriage between fantasy and reality. But a marriage it is, and one that offers a close-enough approximation of the world's most popular stage musical.
A lush scenic design and photography (with cameras that seem in motion as much as the ballet dancers) also create an inviting natural opulence that feels richer than today's increasingly digital environments. It's an inviting playground for repressed desire of an enduring favorite in pulp fiction to explode anew.


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Washingtonians took time off work the week of Aug. 22 to see the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. Standing on a 4-acre plot alongside the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, the new memorial depicts the civil-rights leader standing arms folded and holding a paper, part of a 30-foot stone edifice with an inscription from his 1963 "I have a dream" speech: "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
Almost all of the memorials along the National Mall are to presidents or wars: King is the first African-American to be memorialized there. President Obama is set to deliver a dedication speech at the memorial Aug. 28, with a quarter million expected to attend. A private foundation, working on this project since the 1980s, raised almost all of the $120 million for the memorial, with about $10 million coming from Congress.
The MLK Memorial became the subject of controversy when the King family insisted on receiving royalties for quotes and images in the memorial, amounting to over $800,000. Then the private foundation overseeing the memorial selected a Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, to sculpt the civil-rights leader, eliciting protests that an American-if not an African-American-should have done the sculpture. The foundation said artistic ability was the sole criterion for selecting the sculptor.
An estimated 1.5 million Catholic youth from around the world gathered in Madrid, Spain, for World Youth Day on Aug. 21. With the backdrop of high youth unemployment in Europe and youth riots in Britain, Pope Benedict XVI urged youth to find a "solid foundation" in their faith. "Many people have no stable points of reference on which to build their lives, and so they end up deeply insecure," he told the boisterous crowd, which had camped under the stars Saturday night for Mass on Sunday morning. On the papal plane heading to the event, Benedict said that youth need a moral foundation, but so do economic policies: "The economy doesn't function with self-regulation, but needs an ethical reason to function for mankind," he said. Benedict has visited Spain three times as he campaigns to reverse the decline of Catholicism in Europe.
The Obama administration announced on Aug. 19 that it would review the deportation cases of 300,000 illegal immigrants, giving those without a criminal background an opportunity to stay in the United States and apply for a work permit. Authorities say the move would free up immigration enforcement resources so that they can focus on illegal immigrants who pose a threat to the country, rather than cases of illegals who were brought to the country as children, have family in the military, or are supporting family members.
Critics say that by allowing the illegal immigrants to stay, the administration is failing to enforce immigration laws. Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, believes President Barack Obama is overstepping his executive power by "helping individuals violate federal law and avoid the sanctions that Congress provided." The decision comes after Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act, which could have created a pathway for young illegal immigrants with a high-school diploma to become citizens.
A fresh wave of violence in southern Israel that killed eight Israelis in mid-August launched a series of retaliatory strikes and jeopardizes the already frail relationship between Israel and Egypt. Palestinian militants crossed into southern Israel through the porous Egyptian desert and ambushed a bus on Aug. 18, killing six Israeli civilians and two security personnel. Israel responded with a series of airstrikes that killed 15 Palestinians-mostly gunmen Israel says were involved in the attack. While pursuing militants on the Israeli-Egyptian border, Israeli forces mistakenly killed five Egyptian security officers, sparking increased hostilities between the two countries. Egypt threatened to pull its ambassador from Tel Aviv, and Israel promptly issued a rare apology for the deaths.
Before the dust could settle, Palestinians in Gaza bombarded southern Israel with more than 80 rockets the weekend of Aug. 20, killing one person and critically injuring two others. Israel's new Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted some of the rockets.
Lea Malul, the public affairs director for Barzelai Medical Center in Ashkelon, said they are back to "abnormal living habits" once again: "Our people, patients, families, children, and all loved ones are constantly under attack, bombarded in their own homes, struck with severe fear and anxiety yet with a powerful will to continue with an attempt at some normalcy." According to The Washington Times, a U.S. intelligence investigation identified a new terrorist group linked to the bus attack: al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula.
Voting continues until Sept. 30 in the sixth annual WORLD Magazine Effective Compassion contest. The four regional finalists-from New York, Kentucky, Missouri, and California-will each receive $5,000, and the national winner will receive $20,000 more. Funding plus national publicity will allow all of these small, local organizations, and especially the winner, to increase their reach. Please visit worldmag.com/compassion to learn about the final four and vote for the one you believe most worthy.
A county judge in Illinois on Aug. 18 ruled against a bid by Catholic Charities to preserve its foster care and adoption contracts with the state. Illinois ended its contracts with Catholic Charities this summer after passing a law recognizing same-sex civil unions. The state had informed the organization, an arm of the Catholic Church, that its policy of limiting foster and adoptive parents to heterosexual married couples violates the new civil unions law. Three major Illinois dioceses sued the state, arguing that religious adoption agencies have specific protection under the civil unions law, which is titled "The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act." Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Schmidt didn't address the question of whether religious organizations with state contracts have religious freedom protections, but wrote in a three-page ruling that the state could decide to renew or not renew contracts as it wished. "No citizen has a recognized legal right to a contract with the government," Schmidt wrote. Catholic Charities handled 20 percent of the state's foster care and adoption caseload. Lawyers for the group are reviewing the ruling and "considering next actions," they said. As the case stands, Catholic Charities in Illinois will need to find other organizations to provide for the 2,000 foster children in its care.
"Was that just an earthquake? On the East Coast?" That was the sentiment of tens of millions of people on Aug. 23 after a 5.8-magnitude quake rocked their afternoons. The strongest East Coast tremor in 67 years lasted less than a minute but was felt from Georgia all the way to southern Canada. In Washington, D.C., located 84 miles from the quake's epicenter, sidewalks buckled, buildings rumbled, and thousands poured out of offices with stunned looks on their faces. The quake damaged the National Cathedral, cracked the top of the Washington Monument, and had some Pentagon evacuees recalling the 9/11 attacks.
But the quake mostly will be remembered for causing little serious damage or injuries. At its epicenter in Mineral, Va., a town of less than 500 people, the quake shattered glass and turned sections of buildings into piles of rubble. But it did not damage two nearby nuclear reactors. Soon after its bucking had stopped, most of the quake's action had shifted online. People posted pictures on Facebook showing images such as toppled lawn chairs and competed on Twitter for funniest description (Earthquake in DC. Do not panic. A Super Committee will be formed to at some point possibly decide what to do). A 7.3-magnitude quake that hit the Charleston, S.C., area in 1886 remains the largest quake ever to hit the East Coast.
Six months after the March assassination of Pakistan's Minister of Minorities Shabaz Bhatti, authorities have arrested no one in connection with the daylight killing, and have suggested that Bhatti, the top-ranking Christian official in the country, could have been killed by relatives in a property dispute. An Aug. 24 report by the Inspector General of Police laid blame on two militants connected with Tehrik-i-Taliban, who claimed responsibility at the time for the killing, but said they had fled the country. "Sharia Law prohibits Christians testifying against Muslims in court," points out Elizabeth Kendal of Religious Liberty Monitoring, essentially guaranteeing Muslims impunity for crimes against Christians, and "Sharia provisions are increasingly being enforced to appease politically powerful hardline Islamists, even though these provisions conflict with the law of the land" in Pakistan.
The Steve Jobs era at Apple is over-again. The aggressive and visionary businessman who overcame several setbacks to give the world the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad announced his resignation as CEO of Apple on Aug. 24. "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," said Jobs in a statement. "Unfortunately, that day has come." Jobs, 55, has been battling cancer.
Jobs began Apple in 1976 with engineer Steve Wozniak. The first Apple computer was a flop, but Apple II made the company a success. Forced to leave Apple in the 1980s after the failure of the Lisa computer, Jobs didn't return until Apple bought his second company, NeXT Computer. Apple under Jobs transformed the mobile market and became one of the most valuable companies in America. Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer since 1998, will take over as CEO of the company. Jobs will remain as chairman of the board.
The sun above Martha's Vineyard provided just some of the heat bearing down on President Obama during his 10-day August vacation. Critics questioned why Obama was paying an estimated $50,000 per week to rent a 28-acre compound while the nation suffers from a dismal economy. But presidential vacations and public criticism of them are a longstanding tradition: John Adams took heat in 1798 for spending about seven months on his Massachusetts farm. How does Obama compare to his immediate predecessors? Through 31 months in office, according to the Associated Press, Obama, not counting his most recent trip, has taken 61 vacation days. In that same span, Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days, Bill Clinton 28 days (with a 21-day trip upcoming), and George W. Bush 180 days at his Texas ranch.
University of Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summit is bracing for a new challenge this season: She announced on Aug. 23 that she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Summit, 59, has more wins than any other college basketball coach in history, including eight national championships, and she intends to continue coaching. "Obviously, I realize I may have some limitations with this condition since there will be some good days and some bad days," said Summit in an open letter to the university. "For that reason, I will be relying on my outstanding coaching staff like never before."
As college football season begins, even the most diehard fans can no longer deny that widespread cheating plagues the game. The latest scandal, courtesy of an 11-month investigation by Yahoo! Sports, alleges that a Miami Hurricanes booster showered 72 players with illegal benefits from 2002 to 2010. Those gifts from Nevin Shapiro included cash, prostitutes, jewelry, and expensive parties. Shapiro, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for his role in a $930 million Ponzi scheme, even alleges that he paid for an abortion after a player got a prostitute pregnant.
The NCAA is investigating, and some are calling for the death penalty for Miami's football team-the first such punishment since SMU had to shut down its program in 1987. Ohio State, Oregon, North Carolina, Georgia Tech, Auburn, and Tennessee are just some of the football programs overwhelming NCAA investigators these days. "High-profile players demand high-profile compliance," Paul Dee, then-chairman of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions, said last year while announcing sanctions for USC. Who is Dee? He was Miami's athletic director from 1993 to 2008.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's soccer team will host local Cape Verdean All-Stars in a match to benefit the Cape Verdean Football Federation and Coaches Across Continents. The game will be held at Harvard Stadium Friday, April 20 at 7 p.m.
Despite the unfortunate circumstances which prevented the Cape Verdean National Team to travel to the United States to play Harvard and Dartmouth, Harvard will continue to hold the charity event.
"We will honor our commitment and still engage the Cape Verdean community with our soccer match next week," said Carl Junot, The Virginia B. and James O. Welch '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer. "We are excited to host a team comprised of local Cape Verdean All-Stars and are looking forward to the event, which will benefit the Cape Verdean Football Federation and Coaches Across Continents."
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Instax Wide film made by Fujifilm?
The Instax does not exactly lend itself well to an easy modification, and has a lot of parts, so I opted to simply graft this self-cocking Old Pol scope camera lens and shutter on the front after removing the plastic optic and native shutter - they come out with a few screws. But, the internal baffling I fear may vignette the image. Also, the lens to film plane distance isn't that easy to control. There may be light leaks. The hot melt glue that holds that wooden Graflex black tripod mount won't fall off, though.
Results: Nothing to show from it. This lens is too long, and the internal baffles are in the way. I will have to find a smaller lens that can be recessed into the tube/snout of the 210. Looks nice though.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Old Photo Album Cover
Some of them are amazing, and I will post a few here and there. This image is just from screwing around with photoshop. It's a monochrome digi, with difference clouds, then with tint, then invert applied. This is an interesting font, quite Art Nouveau, which was in style around 1900.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
The Wollensak Veritar
I found this one at a garage sale several years ago. The lens is mounted in a large Alphax shutter that is so big that its top speed is only 1/50th of a second. But it is self-cocking, and works nicely. The white ring is an addition done by me - a machined Delrin ring, to cover up some corrosion, and to make the cap slip on and off very smoothly.
Posting this to cheer myself up, after hearing that FP100B45 is indeed off the air. If you want this wonderful stuff, you better get it now. It is hard to believe how quickly Fuji reversed itself on that one (or did that batch simply run out - they do make batches) . Of course we can't dislike them for making what was the best 4X5 instant positive in the first place! It blew Old Pol away in my opinion.
Now today we hear that TIP is planning to start up their 8X10 line next year. That's great news indeed, and one would have to imagine that if TIP grows, it might offer a 4X5 material too, to fill the looming gap. And what about packfilm? Can we expect more of that in the future, or none? Hard to say. With Phase One backs still costing $40K (for the full frame) we have a long way to go before we can make the jump, and those little sensors - they just don't cut it in the world of selective focus, image planes, Sheimpflug,
Scheimpflug!and so forth.
Now there is an inkling that the FP-3000B45 may make its way to the US soon! Yes, I have heard that, and if it does, I will get a case or two and use it for handheld shooting. A nice big negative like that might scan in well, though it will still have some grain. If you look at the hands below, especially the second image, you can see that I found a reasonable curve, and it does have a nice quality.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
A Fine Light Brew
The "head" of beer indicates some film retaining or wetting quality in the solution. Same with Reagent III, shown here in freshly mixed up form, with the soapy form of ammonia used as the pH buffer, thereby providing some of that soapy "head" you see.
The formula for Reagent III, adapted from the brilliant Donald Quaills recipe and tuned to the pH we use, consists merely of a standard developer, a fixer, and some ammonia. The soapy suds that are in the ammonia as purchased from the local grocery store seems to produce a nice wetting action, so no streaks, spots or stains are produced as the processed film dries. And just look at the results!
HC-110, Ilford Rapid Fixer, and household ammonia - all have their hazards, so if you are not totally familiar with the handling of soaps, detergents and other chemicals, do not do film processing until you are set up with the proper tools for your safety, such as gloves, a clean work area, and proper containers and eye protection. Ammonia in the eyes is bad and can damage them as can household lye (used for making soaps and lutefisk, the latter which should be avoided).
Do not drink this. This is a developer for film, not a beer or a drink of any sort. It only superficially appears to resemble beer, or another substance.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Large Format Lenses Being Snatched Up
But don't expect any real bargains soon. The prices seem to be holding on fine lenses. Shown here: A 240mm Symmar, in a Compur shutter, image shot with an old Polaroid Close-up attachment on a model 180 packfilm camera, with a +3 close up lens, on Fuji FP-3000 processed for about 25 seconds or maybe 2X as long as usual since it was warm. This is the scanned-in and inverted negative. Notice that there is a little "emulsion lift" on the right, caused by less than perfectly careful removal of the paper border just prior to scanning. The top image is a linear presentation of the as-scanned negative, and the bottom is a long toe version but otherwise linear scale presentation. If you look at the right edge of the lens you can definitely see solarization, and there is also evidence of it in the deep shadows in the lower left.
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Severe case of blocked highlights with Reagent III
Verichrome Pan, from England posted here, you will see the familiar super white highlights = blocked, dense portions of the negative. Something not seen with the Efke, but seen a little with TMX, and not at all with the Pan F.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Impossible! PX70 in Stereo
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
Comment Spam
Wow the amount of comment spam has really picked up. I wonder if it is because of the widget, below, with links to twitter, FB. You might try using those to comment on Twitter. hmmm, maybe if you click on the follow me on twitter box in the column to the right, then I will see them and won't have to delete a whole page full of spam. Just an idea. Obviously only good for a short comment.
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"Fujifilm recognizes that there is a need for black and white instant 4x5 film in niche markets such as large format imaging," said Kayce Baker, director of marketing, Pro Markets, Imaging Division, FUJIFILM U.S.A, Inc. "As long as there is a need in the U.S. marketplace for instant film, Fujifilm hopes to supply it."
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example of our test of this film here
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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I shot some new test photos with the Efke 25. Here is a result:
Got some flare in the center on my 65mm Super Angulon, but I am pleased overall.
I took four shots and developed as follows:
1. Traditional HC-110 1:50. Neg seems rather dense, something may be off with my old spotmeter.
2. Reagent 3 as documented in your blog, stand developed in a ziplok bag (in the dark.) Seems to have a decent result but some unevenness due in part I think to wrinkles in the bag touching the film.
3. Reagent 3 as above, but developed in rotary processor. Basically the same as #2, so I think you are correct that agitation makes little difference.
4. Reagent 3 with 33% extra HC-110. Slightly denser negative but not significantly different from 2-3.
My results with Reagent 3 and Efke seem to be slightly "foggy", it seems like the entire film base is not as transparent as it should be. Extended soak in sod. sulfite and refixing doesn't seem to have any effect. Any ideas about this?
With both the Efke and the FP4 the negs have a tan color rather than a blue-gray/blue-black. It is a stark contrast with the conventional HC-110 results. Similar to differences between sepia and selenium toning. Don't know if that is just a characteristic of this process.
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
tobiasfeltus - cameratech: Why I like the Aero Ektar.
tobiasfeltus - cameratech: Why I like the Aero Ektar.: "I know that the Aero Ektar is not the most ductile lens, but so far it seems to be the biggest piece of opitcal magic that I have ever playe..."
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More on "Polanegs" from Fuji FP-100C
Tobias Feltus has yet another refinement of the reclaiming of a color negative from the Fuji FP-100C color pack film material, which he has posted here.
Someone from Fuji has reported that their sales of this and the black and white materials are up, sharply. Surprisingly, this has apparently caused a problem for Fujifilm - too much demand for the FP-100B and FP-100B45 materials, so they say they might not be able to produce it.
No comment on the economic arguments posed by this report.
Go see Tobias here.
Someone from Fuji has reported that their sales of this and the black and white materials are up, sharply. Surprisingly, this has apparently caused a problem for Fujifilm - too much demand for the FP-100B and FP-100B45 materials, so they say they might not be able to produce it.
No comment on the economic arguments posed by this report.
Go see Tobias here.
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Earlier this week, scumbag extraordinaire David Patterson, whined incessantly that race has played a significant role in his negative media coverage and poor all around public standing. As if his utter incompetence and sheer buffoonery hadn't the slightest connection with his currant reality. This is just the latest attempt from a black politician to play the race card, further marginalizing the tremendous struggle and accomplishments from civil rights pioneers like Martin Luther King.
While down in Tennessee the first of several soulless animals, who happen to be black, had escaped the death penalty for the murder, rape, and torture of a young couple, who happen to be white. Letalvis Cobbins, heartless killer, no longer has to worry about being executed by the state; instead the guilty Cobbins will spend the rest of his days in jail, where he will eat, sleep in a warm bed, brag to all his cell mates abouthis manly merciless kills, living off of the tax payer's dime.
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It's the end of an era. The picture above is Dave Thomas, founder of the Wendy's restaurant, standing in front of the original Wendy's in downtown Columbus, Ohio. On Friday, this first Wendy's restaurant will close its doors for the last time. (Columbus Dispatch)
"This was a painful decision," Denny Lynch, a spokesman at Wendy's headquarters in Dublin, said yesterday after confirming the move. "The store is a walking history of the company."As you probably know, I've lived in Ohio most of my life. And, I've been to Columbus lots of times. Unfortunately, I had no idea the first and original Wendy's was in downtown Columbus. If I did, then I would have visited there often.
Wendy's had put off the decision to close the restaurant at 257 E. Broad St. for years, and acted only after determining that the building would require a costly upgrade.
Dave Thomas, who died in 2002, opened the restaurant Nov. 15, 1969, as Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers. It was named for his 8-year-old daughter, Melinda Lou, whose nickname was Wendy. The chain now has 6,600 stores.In many cities across the United States, many businesses are fleeing from the downtown area. Columbus is no different. There used to be a science center right across the street from this particular Wendy's, and then they moved as well.
The restaurant had its own set of problems. It lacked a drive-through, had limited parking and was not open in the evening because of the lack of dinner traffic.I definitely have mixed feelings about this. When people want to keep something just for a sense of tradition or sentimentality, I'm pretty harsh on them. "Sometimes you have to let go of the past and embrace the present and look to the future," I sometimes say to people.
The flagship store's closing will have far more sentimental impact than any financial effect on Columbus or on Wendy's, said Richard Steckel, economics professor at Ohio State University.
"A lot of people had their first dates there, and the people who work for the company are definitely attached to it," he said. "It's always sad to see a landmark like that go, but it's the nature of capitalism."
Even when people say that Dave Thomas himself would have agreed with this move, it doesn't make me feel any better. Maybe a new restaurant will be built and all the memorabilia will be placed there? Of course, the restaurant would be built in the suburbs and not in downtown, because that's probably what Dave would want anyway - For better business...


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