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CP+ 2014: Fujifilm shows new 50mm teleconverter for X100S
I own it
I want it
I had it
Discuss in the forums
Considering that the converters are both pricey and bulky, I would have preferred more dramatic wide angular (24-ish) and tele-lens (80-ish), because the original fixed lens (35mm equivalent) can basically replace both 28 or 50 without much trouble. However, I don't want to be harsh on Fujifilm, which recently has been developing what photographers dream about, instead of developing what is convenient for them to develop (as most brands do).
I am VERY curious to see how this converter lens will affect the bokeh which is already pretty nice on the 100S.
I hope it will work on my X-100 and Fuji will offer an update to the X-1oo like they did for the wide angle converter!
It will, and there will be firmware added. This was confirmed.
I want
I don't get it. You take a fantastic portable camera, and screw on a giant lens to get to 50 mm. I would suggest you either buy a X-pro 1, or crop a little. I bought the X100-s for its simplicity. Works for 99% of the time. For the rest, I'll reluctantly carry my D800E (also not bad, but less user-friendly...)
Looks like Kai Wong from Digital Rev wearing the white gloves in pic #5?
Maybe David Hobby did convince him that X100s is a great cam after all. ;-)
"They all look alike!" :o) Kai would not go to Japan... the bloody producer would never approve the expense!
The traditional ff 35mm lens is my favorite focal length. However needing a portrait lens is the reason i dont own a Fuji x100s. Better off with the X-E2 and the proper lenses.
This has my attention! I like this concept, having wished the X100 had a 45mm or 50mm view of the world. I tend to like either a bit wider or longer than 35mm, and now both will be possible. I had been contemplating an X Pro, but now the X100s is suddenly a contender.
Gives that much more versatility to an already great camera. Just give it a sooner than later delivery date.
Looks like it's going to vignette the on board flash
Same lens on both cameras, and as with how the original wide angle converter works on both as well this should work the same so long as the new firmware is made available for the X100 as well, which, seeing how Fuji does stuff, should happen
Yes and yes.
As some have already stated, as this teleconverter goes on the front instead of behind the original lens, the light loss might not be that significant. It depends all on the huge front glass.
Thats great news Fuji! I've been waiting for this for too long. The x100 does everything except for classic portraits (MO). I currently use a DSLR to cover this area. Looking forward to see some sampleshots with hopefully some nice bokeh.
I had thought the converter makes a 75mm (FF, equiv.). If it is not more than 50mm, it's not worth the money and the inconvenience. You'd better forgo the converter and crop the image!
Cal, in a tight headshot, a 35mm (FF equiv) will render the subject differently than a 50mm (FF equiv). When you get in close, the wider-angle distorts the image more, while the longer focal length compresses the image and yields a more pleasing & natural-looking headshot. You can't get around that with cropping... and it's worth $300 if you'd like to create tight portraits with your X100S.
Perspective depends on only one thing, the subject to lens distance. If you use the 23/2 and the lens is the exact same distance as the lens with the new teleconverter attached, the perspective rendering of a cropped 23 mm image would identical to the perspective rendering of the teleconverter image. The out of focus rendering might be different and the pixel dimensions would be different. But not the perspective.
Beautiful. There's obviously some serious X series glass if you want to go that route, but this available X100S kit offers a lot of capability for the enthusiast.
Everyday, there are plenty of budding photographers tearing it up doing 55mm 5.6 portraits with their kit lens. This 50mm 3.5 will definitely be capable of amazing work as well.
Where are you getting f3.5 from? The lens says 135 on the front, meaning 135 format equivalent.
I agree. The lens is f2.0 23mm, which is roughly f3 35mm full frame equivalent. With converter it should shift to 50 mm full frame equivalent if I get it right. This would mean a factor of about 1,42, resulting in about f2.8 33mm APS-C or f4.4 50mm full frame, respectively.
Tele converters attached to the front of a lens don't affect the aperture in the same way as tele converters for interchangeable lenses (behind the aperture ring) do. F2.0 remains F.2
Thanks, thought it over now. You're perfectly right. But then why f3.5? f2 in ff equivalent would be about f3 (crop factor of 1.5).
My bad, I saw f3.5 in a few comments and then read the picture upside down:)
Yeah, this will essentially make the lens a 35mm f2 lens on the X100, has a FF equivalent of about 55mm f3.1.
Would like pictures that show the lenght and width without too much of a wide shot
When you mount a tele-converter in front of the lens it does not affect the aperture. The aperture will appear to be magnified when you view it from the front. It's the apparent size of the aperture that matters. So the maximum aperture will remain f 2.0. It's when the tele-converter is mounted between the lens and the sensor that the aperture is reduced.
I'm not sure 50mm equivalent is such a big deal. A mild crop will give you the same thing.
Fantastic news. I was wondering if they were going to go this way.
Unfortunately for them, they may have lost an XE-2/X-ProN customer due to this. :)
Edit: This makes me feel nostalgic in a new way: buying similar adapters for my coolpix 880/990 cameras in the early '00s
Great pricing, right there with the 28..
Totally, one of my favorite things is not having to ever expose the sensor.
Kinda sounds dirty.
Why did they not make this camera with a zoom lens? Pure mental concept to have two adapters. Just stick a zoom lens on it Fuji.
because then it wouldn't be an x100s. They have an x20 for that.
Try to find a constant f2 zoom lens on this category...
Ok so you don't want a zoom lens but you want to be able to have different focal lengths? Maybe the Sony a7r is a much better camera for you?
The X100(s) cameras are aimed for those who primarily shoot at 35mm equivalent but may want some minor flexibility, but still remaining in "normal" range. If you use a 28-50mm zoom lens instead, it couldn't be constant f/2.0 or would get huge for an APS-C sensor, and such a waste if you shot 35mm 80% of the time.
How do these attachments affect framing with the OVF?
As it clearly said in the article: There will be a firmware update that will add 50mm brighlines to the OVF when the converter goes on sale.
That's a lot of metal & glass to get to an f2 normal.
Hey, it's not f2, it's f3.5.
Gordon, why are you trolling?
No trolling. A teleconverter always decreases the resulting lens speed. The f-value is calculated from the diameter of the focal length divided by the diameter of the aperture. The teleconverter increases the focal length, but cannot increase the aperture (it is part of the original lens). So a 2x TC doubles the f-value.
Possibly he means that if you wanted to reproduce the perspective and depth of field as the x100s & converter offer at f/2.0 on a full frame sensor, you would need approx. 50mm and f/3.5 (although it's actually more like f/3.2).
Correct, Summi, but this isn't a teleconverter, which would go between the lens and the sensor. This is a teleside converter that goes on the end of the lens and does not reduce brightness. Big difference.
Aperture is not the hole where the blades are, but the hole at the FRONT. What is normally called the aperture is actually the diaphragm that limits the effective aperture by limiting the effective overall aperture size, as seen from the front.
A teleconverter reduces the aperture because it goes on the back of the lens while the overall size of the aperture of the lens doesn't change, but the focal length does. This is why aperture is actually written in f/x where f is focal length.
As this converter has a larger front element, the possibility of keeping the aperture at f2 remains.
f3.5? How do calculate that? The lens is f2.0 23mm, which is roughly f3 35mm full frame equivalent. With converter it should shift to 50 mm full frame equivalent if I get it right. This would mean a factor of about 1,42, resulting in about f2.8 33mm APS-C or f4.4 50mm full frame, respectively.
Sorry, Iwas too late with my last comment. I don't believe that. If the front lens would limit, it would be reproduced in the image resulting in a serious vignetting. The position of the aperture blades is the only one where any cutting cannot be seen in a sharp image (only in the blurred areas).
No it does not vignette and does not slow the lens down.
external teleconverters are however quiet more bulky.
T-stop will change since the extra elements will absorb some light. This has no impact on depth of field though.
Since this is an F2 33mm it will become an F2.8 50mm fullframe equivelant. At least in depth of field and light gathering.
The idea seems great: no loss of aperture (no typical teleconversion loss of two stops or more) and seemingly great Fuji optical quality. But my experience with teleconversion screw-on lenses have always been poor. I hope they have figured something out that has not been done yet.
f3.5 I'm afraid
Very Yabokkie-ish comment. You two related?
What the hell are you talking about? What is a Yabokkie?
I assume Fuji would not be releasing it after all this time unless it will also fit the X200.
Probably not, if the FF rumors are true. That's not to say there won't be an APS-C follow up to the x100s, even if they fork a FF line.
the addition of the 50mm equiv officially elevates the X100s into professional hss territory. Bravo Fuji.
Why no side view picture of it mounted?
I love the idea and definitely will buy this lens when comes out.
I am just intrigued by Fuji's strategy. X100s $1300, WCL (28mm equiv) $300, new 50mm equiv $300 Total $1900.00
Compare prices and lenses within Fuji cameras and the competition.
Very smart Fuji... very smart
"minimum aperture not affected" - yes, but what about MAXIMUM aperture?
Maximum aperture also not affected, just like the wide converter they already have on the market.
Dude, f3.5
gordon, read, and understand this and know that you are wrong.
For example, did you know that f isn't aperture, but focal length?
Metering the scene and applying some kind of crop factor would overexpose the image.
I almost bought a wide teleconverter for my fixed lens camera decade ago before I got my first DSLR a few years later. I am still glad to this day that I didn't make the purchase even though I had an itch to buy it for months.
In theory, it'll never perform as well as a descent prime lens on a ILC/DSLR but it's priced like one. When the X100S is replaced with it's successor in a short few years, you'll just be left with heavy glass with no compatibility with anything to be released in the future and no resale value. It will be in the box labeled "what was I thinking".
Amen. I went down this road with my C7070. Bought the tele and the wide converters. They weren't BAD, but the photo quality was compromised, particularly in the edges and corners. Maybe this converter is higher quality. Still, it makes no sense to me now to buy this type of thing rather than get an ILC.
The wide converter for the X100 is outstanding. Some even think it actually improves on the X100's lens, so it really just depends on how well the converters are designed.
if the quality is as good as the x100 wide converter, i'm sold. i love the 28mm wide. there is a small loss of contrast, and a bit of distortion, but sharpness is just as good as without.
it's mainly about having a little variety for me to shoot. the x100s is my only large sensor camera, so having a few focal lengths with very high image quality is about all i need. the pinhead zoom cameras and premium compacts have me covered otherwise
That's actually a really good point and something I forgot about doing myself. Well over a decade ago I had a wide angle converter I purchased for an Olympus c2100 which I shot besides my film slrs at the time. The zoom on the camera was only a 38mm equivalent so I wanted something wider. The quality wasn't bad, but I rarely ever used it because it was such a pain for me screwing and unscrewing it. Today I haven't a clue where that converter is (probably packed in a box and forgotten somewhere), while I still have and use some of my slr lenses which actually predate it.
Some may not mind or even perceive the inconvenience, but for me it was not the right choice. Additionally, for me, it's wiser to buy into a system that I trust to be around for years to come. I don't have the confidence fuji will still be making compatible cameras several years down the line, though I certainly hope so.
Well...if that ain't put a spring in my step ! Here...take it...no..no ..don't bother counting it.. it's all there . Now go on.. gimme !
Finally!!!! Yes!!!! yes!!!!
28-35-50 sync 1/4000 yeessssss!
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This is great!
I don't think the X100s with that 50mm teleconverter attached is going to fit in your jacket pocket.
Will this be 50mm equivalent, or 50mm x 1.5, for a 75mm equivalent?
If you look at the front of the converter, you'll see it says 'Equiv 135/50mm'. In other words, 50mm equivalent.
Is it just me who was expecting to see the obvious "sideways-on" photo of the converter mounted on the camera (to judge its overall depth once fitted), but found there wasn't one?
You can see that on Fuji's website. It's quite deep: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/accessories/lens/conversionlens/x100wideconversionlens/index.html
Edit: oops, that's the wide angle converter. Never mind.
Fuji guys, stop toying around.
Just install a lens mount on the next gen X100SS.
Isn't that called a Xpro1?
I prefer this way. We still have a leaf shutter with all the noise and high speed sync advantages.
Until one day someone's smart enough to build a system that includes a leaf shutter in every lens... Too bad it's better known as Leica S/Phase One. :(
^ Why do you need to build a whole new system for leaf shutters in the lens? Why can't you just make a new lens with a leaf shutter for any of the existing mirrorless mounts?
"X100SS" lol priceless
If Fuji is going to put a leaf shutter in every XF lens and sell them for a premium, I'm going to run to a store and get a 35mm f1.4, 60mm f2.4 macro... The 18mm f2 will not gain much though...
Most consumers would resent paying for a shutter over, and over, and over again. Those who would benefit from fast sync speeds are in the minority. Niche needs get met last in consumer markets.
People buy fixed focal length fixed lens compacts for simplicity and convenience. There is nothing simple or convenient about hauling around tele-converters because you really wanted an ILC or a zoom lens.
An X100s variant with a zoom lens would have made much more sense. And if it had a modest zoom range.... like 1.5X or 2.0X, then it could still be pretty small.
If canon would achieve fast focusing (As fast as Micro43 let´s say) clear shots at hand held 1/4 seconds or even slower...
That would be a very big and strong nail to fuji,leica,nikon,ricoh songle lens/aps-c sensor cam.s coffin.
That's a wonderful addition to the X100 system!
I was asking for it on Fuji Japan's FB page and they miraculously made my wish come true :-)
In my opinion;
- If you pay for a 1" sensor P&S, thanks to its optics. it is WASTE OF MONEY (excluding Sony Superzoom)
- If you pay for a 1" sensor ILC cam, it is WASTE OF MORE MONEY.
- If you pay for a APS-C sensor with stabile optics it is WASTE OF RESOURCES (that might exclude new canon G 1 X II, I don´t know yet!)
- If you pay for a full frame sensor camera, and your model is a mirrorless one, with stabile optics or inter-changable lens you* are A FILTY RICH DUDE !
And damn !! It would be good to have smilar money and taste as you have.
(*) You are not a pro, are you?
Pro; Person, who earns money from his photographic work.
As you see, a WASTE OF RESOURCES camera , is trying to excuse from its buyes by releasing converters.
Dude, why did not you buy its better version even more affordable ? (The fuji´s interchagable lens family) Don´t try to give me a speach of "But its pocketable and .... come on dude ;) someone put this beautifull lens in to a single lens jail, and you paid for it!!
^^ haha ^^
- If you pay for a 1" sensor P&S, thanks to its optics. it is WASTE OF MONEY (excluding Sony Superzoom)
So the origbal RX100 is a waste of money........
Best general use point and shoot is a waste of money yeah right
- If you pay for a 1" sensor ILC cam, it is WASTE OF MORE MONEY.
Nikon 1 is indeed an waste of money
If you pay for a APS-C sensor with stabile optics it is WASTE OF RESOURCES (that might exclude new canon G 1 X II, I don´t know yet!)
The G1X is not Apsc. it has an 1,5 inch sensor which is roughly similar as M43 sensors.
- If you pay for a full frame sensor camera, and your model is a mirrorless one, with stabile optics or inter-changable lens you* are A FILTY RICH DUDE !
The Sony A7 is not that expensive.
You sir make no sense at all.
i know that the practical intj type people at my workplace who scoffed at the concept and design of the x100 would be even more disdainful of people who purchased a monster teleconverter to add onto a fixed lens camera that is supposed to be discreet and compact.
but screw those people i want this. i love my x100s for the fun of taking photographs and this would add a little variety to the experience. 28, 35, 50mm.. x100s has me set for life!
Liked for an MBTI reference in a photo thread! :)
Yes, I would also like to have this. 50mm equivalent is an old favorite of mine, and I think I'm more eager to get this than their wide angle converter.
ENFP here and I like it, too.
Of course, being such means I impulsively clicked "send" before pointing out that I can't explain why I like it---I just do.
Also, there is no doubt my enthusiasm will inexplicably wane in the future.
It just will. :-)
I think it would be cool if Fuji went the way that Sigma did with the DP cameras and make three versions, 28, 35, and 50
This depends on the forthcoming firmware too, however, but I assume Fujifilm will release a FW update for the X100 as well.
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Any tips on how to get the word out that I am willing to rescue a few swarms?
Any tips on how to get the word out that I am willing to rescue a few swarms?
Call the police, municipalities, fire department, county extension agent, feed stores, etc . I get the most calls from the police dept and municipalities, and I get the least from the latter 2. I get more calls about honey from the extension agent.
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Type out or print out some postcards and send them to your surrounding police and fire stations as well as pest control companies. The postcard with your tel. number remains with them as a reminder for the moment when they actually get a call. OMTCW
I get 99.9% of all my calls from the swarm collection list of my state beekeepers assoc. definitely worth 20 buck a year, and that was just over 30 calls last year. The only call I have received from the fire dept was a cutout in a tree.
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Looking for ways to help a two year old with eczema.I've heard that Manuka honey may help but it could take a while.Any other thoughts or ideas would be appreciated,thanks
Looking for ways to help a two year old with eczema.I've heard that Manuka honey may help but it could take a while.Any other thoughts or ideas would be appreciated,thanks
I've been getting eczema in the fall for the last 4 or 5 years. My dermatologist originally prescribed steroids, unfortunately I am diabetic and after two pills my sugar level was dangerously high and I had to go to the ER to get it to come down. After that episode he suggested that I go to a tanning booth and try tanning. I have since gone to the tanning booth two or three times a week when the eczema starts in November. By late March the problem is usually gone. Two or three tanning sessions a week allows me to sleep at night and keeps me from scratching my skin off.
Since I am a regular customer I normally purchase the six months of unlimited tanning for $200. Otherwise I would have to go to the dermatologist'S office and pay a $15 co-payment for every trip.
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I've gotta say, sun exposure is the absolute best thing for mine, too.
I've had it all my life.. in adulthood primarily on my hands, but odd patches elsewhere. At present all of my fingers and one thumb are quite affected - swollen, sensitive and some weeping where I've not been able to resist abrading it.
Honey.. sad to say.. is about my worst nightmare. Worse than getting acidic fruit juice in the skin breaks, and can start a systemic reaction that will see me scratching everywhere and shaking, and sticking my hands in the freezer to try and stop the pain.
(and yes - I'm the primary hands-on beekeeper in the family... but I work with gloves at all times to avoid contact with the honey more than the stings).
Just be aware that honey might not be the magic cure-all, and if she shows any negative reaction to the honey - any increase in itching or pain, get it off straight away and don't assume it's a case of 'getting used to it'.
Just curious if sun helps, do you think there is a correlation to vitamin D?
Remember that honey can be dangerous for infants under 12 months of age. A 2-year-old is probably fine, but you might want to do some research before feeding a lot of honey.
>Remember that honey can be dangerous for infants under 12 months of age.
I'm not recommending feeding honey to infants, but I don't buy that number at all. Six months might be reasonable, (or any baby not on solid food) but most of the world has put honey in infant formula for most of time (including now for a lot of the world and as recently as the 60's in the US) with no noticeable problems. I don't know of a single case of botulism (the only concern) that has been definitively linked to an infant eating honey. The spores are everywhere and any raw food might contain them and the dust on the floor contains them in higher numbers than honey might.
That said, I assumed she was talking about applying the honey topically... perhaps I was mistaken?
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I have anecdotal evidence to offer:
I sold several jars of honey to a family at my daughters' school. They were specifically interested in using it to cope with hayfever allergies. Their youngest daughter has them, and struggles with eczema as well. They reported to me, delightedly, that her eczema had totally cleared up, and her hayfever improved when she started eating 1-2 Tablespoons of honey daily. They honey was used INTERNALLY, not externally. Now, what other treatments or strategies they may have been using besides honey are unknown to me. But when they bought more honey, THEY believed it to be helping her cope.
Michael Bush is correct. The warning about feeding honey to infants is due to the fact that (theoretically) honey is an un-pasteurized product, and therefore *could* contain botulism spores (which are present everywhere), which *could* infect and infant, whose digestive tract has not yet had time to build immunities to botulism. Since the law was passed requiring honey labels to carry that warning (some 75 years or so, I believe) there has not been a single recorded case of botulism poisoning attributed to honey.
I am unaware of other cases of eczema being helped by honey, but I haven't looked for them, either. I can only tell you that Heidi's happy Mom plans to keep feeding her honey on a daily basis, and is relieved to be able to cut back and discontinue steroid treatments, which she was NOT happy about.
>Since the law was passed requiring honey labels to carry that warning (some 75 years or so, I believe)
I am not aware of any law about warning labels and I know people were still putting honey in the infant formula when I was a kid and it was still fairly common in up into the 1970's. Does anyone know of a law requiring warning labels?
The thing that is bugging me lately is that it used to say "under six months" which was a reasonable thing since a child under that age is susceptible to botulism and honey is one source of raw food that in theory could contain botulism (no more so than any other raw food, but it is in that category of "raw food"). But then "just to be on the safe side" people started saying a year. Then they started saying a year and a half and then two years. If you are feeding a child raw food, they are already getting exposed and honey is no different. Not to mention it's in the dirt and kids eat a lot of dirt... but my frustration is that this makes honey look unsafe, when it is no more unsafe than raw carrots, and this "inflation" from six moths up to 2 years makes no sense. The next thing you know people will be saying no one should eat honey until they are 60 years old, after all why take the risk?
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Try this:
Now I can't find the specific reference I found before. Those more efficient at searching government regs and scientific journals might have better luck. I think the original statue goes back to the 1920s or so.
According to all the standards of the USDA and FDA, Honey is GRAS. Generally Regarded As Safe. But there is a TON of misinformation out there about it. There are a few cases of botulism with honey being IMPLICATED as a source, but none CONFIRMED that I could find. In several instances, it was implicated because it was one of the ingredients in something that caused botulism.
The spores are present everywhere - in dirt, on surfaces, etc. But by the time we've reached a year or so old, we have picked up enough spores to have developed immunities. Infants haven't. You're more likely to get botulism from improperly prepared home canned goods than honey.
I'm a lot more worried about the stuff in imported honey than I am about a botulism spore.
I'll end with a quote from Robert A. Heinlein here, as it seems appropriate.
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TURNING HEADS Big Rush waits for his ride.
The business model adopted by Pawtucket-via-Albany rapper Big Rush is simple: paying bills-via-rhyme skills.
"The goal is to make money with my craft in some shape or form," he told me earlier this week, "whether it's writing commercials, music, or jingles."
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Sean Rosch left his hometown of Albany (or "West Allah," as Big Rush refers to it) for Bryant University and received his marketing degree in 2007. When he was laid off from his boat manufacturing job in Cranston last year, Rosch decided to reignite his passion for rhyme-writing and use that marketing degree to market himself. Shortly after graduation, he set up shop in Pawtucket and continued honing his skills.
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"I, however, am pretty decent with my craft and always seem to turn a few heads when I'm on the mic."
You can't knock the hustle nor that causal confidence on It's Just Business. Things get off to a bumpy start early on, with Big Rush rapid-firing over uptempo dance floor beats, but settles in nicely later on with excellent latter-half cuts like "Lost In Time" and "My Darling Rhode Island," while the Masta Ace influence shines brightly on "One Breath At a Time" with a blue-collar line like "my bars make enough for my outfit/and I'll out-spit any fuck that you down with."
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I've seen a couple of these around the feeder the last couple of days and hope someone can help identify it. I think this might be a new secret weapon against the dreaded small hive beetles. Ha ha
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I've seen a couple of these around the feeder the last couple of days and hope someone can help identify it. I think this might be a new secret weapon against the dreaded small hive beetles. Ha ha
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Japanese hornet is what we always knew em as, dont know what they think about shb, but know they love to eat and feed thier young Honneybees. Get rid of em. G
are there 'baits' for them? they were more interested in drinking the sugar water - and leaving the bees alone.
Ive seen em snatch bees taking off of the landing board and go to a nearby limb and dismember and eat them. They are hateful, and if you get stung by one, wow, what a thrill. In my opinion makes any other sting feel like a massage. Some of the old timers around here talk of a bucket with some oily substance in it, with a light over the top. At night they hit the light then drop into the bucket. Im afraid I would lose straggling foragers to the light. Luckily for me there is a very small population of them this year here. They mostly live in hollows of dying trees from my experience, best thing to do is track em down and kill them at home. Good Luck. G
Well, I got 1 single..and a home run tonight. will kill them every chance I see them. thanks.
Just your every day European Hornet. There are no Japanese Hornets here....most likely.
Ok Jrg, european, they still kill honeybees right?
Nice shot Seapro, keep it up. Everytime you are at the mound and see one, envision A-Rod, and Plink him.
Oh trust me, you would freaking know if that was a Japanese hornet. The things can grow almost to the length of your palm and shoot venom at you that will dissolve flesh.
There's a reason all japanese video games have hornet enemies.
And yes, they will still eat honey bees. Bees get their protein from pollen. Wasps get their protein from whatever bug they can catch. Find the nest if you can, and hit it with some Raid hornet spray. I went through an entire can of the stuff this last weekend in the separate garage.
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They love to munch your bees. Never heard of them wiping out a colony like Japanese hornets though.
It takes a family to raise a family, it takes a village to really screw that up... Djei5
I don't normally fear wasps and hornets, but day-um. When a small caliber handgun isn't automatically considered ridiculous and overkill, that saying something.
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I had these eating my bees and followed a recipe I found on here... a 2L coke bottle and put 2C sugar, 2C water, 1/2C white vinegar and a 1/2 banana peel chopped up inside and shake, then cut a 1inch hole near the top of the bottle and hang it nearby. The 2L is quickly filling with drowned European hornets, bald-faced hornets and yellow jackets but only 2 bees have gone in there so far and it's been up for a week. I tried just stepping on one, and that wasn't smart. They don't die easily in dirt.
seapro, in your first picture, I see a bunch of dead bee's in an open feeder. From observing on this forum, I'ld say your doing something wrong to have so many dead bee's.
They appear to have nothing to stand on, and it also appears you are open feeding, drawing in outsiders to your location, another no no.
Just saying..............
Take away the source of open food and this might also fix your hornet problem.
you lose 2000 bees a day, a few eaten by hornets is nothing.


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The bedroom was specially designed to make you relax after a long day in the streets of Barcelona .
Note the decoration with warm colors, a king size bed extremely comfortable , handy storage spaces to allow you to feel at home .
From the bedroom there is a separate WC and a modern shower to relax or attack the day full of energy .
Obviously this exceptional apartment offers all the amenities : internet , air- conditioning, central heating .
A first choice apartment to discover or rediscover Barcelona.
住宿规定Check-in regular time between 13h00 and 20h00 , after 20h00 you will have a 30€ extra for late arrival, after midnight 50€, after 1hAM it is 10€ more per extra hour. Sunday and bank holiday check-in have an extra of 30€. Early check-in before 13h, if available, requires extra 20€. Late check-out can be possible for 30€ more until 17h00, please check that on arrival with your contact.
2.48€ touristic tax per person and per night is due on arrival!
Please respect the neighborhood.
Refundable Security Deposit 300€.
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Alain was very responsive to our e-mails before we arrived. James, his associate, was extremely helpful on our arrival directing us to the apartment. He met us there and made sure we had all the information we needed and gave us his phone number in case we had any other questions. We loved the apartment. It was beautifully furnished and decorated. It is in a quiet area, close to the Metro and within reasonable walking distance of the main areas. The only recommendation for improvement would be a kettle for boiling water. We would have no hesitation recommending this apartment and would be happy to stay there again on our next visit to Barcelona.
My wife and I stayed at Loft Casanova for 4 days in late May 2014. The. Apartment is great and in a fantastic location for walking the streets of Barcelona. Our hosts were helpful and punctual at both check in and check out. We would definitely stay again.
Wir waren vom 10.04.2015-17.04.2015 in der Loft Casanova. Die Einrichtung entsprach den Bildern aus dem Angebot. Sowohl Check-In als auch Check-out erfolgte problemlos. Zur Erkundung der City fährt um die Ecke der Bus und man kommt problemlos an die interessanten Orte der Stadt. Bei der Ausgestaltung der Ferienwohnung hat der Designer über den Funktionalisten gesiegt! Um an das Kochfeld zu kommen, muss man dann schon Möbel rücken. Aber es gibt ja genug Restaurant. Ein Wasserkocher für den Teetrinker fehlt immer noch, obwohl das ja schon mal bemängelt wurde. Trotzdem würden wir Anderen diese Loft empfehlen. Die Ausstattung ist sehr gut.
Super Wohnung, beste Lage nicht weit zur Metro, jede Menge Parkhäuser gleich um die Ecke.Ziemlich zentral aber trotzdem Nachts angenehm ruhig und leise.
Um die Ecke gibts gleich eine der besten Cervecerias von Barcelona das
Bier Cap bietet eine gigantische Auswahl an Biersorten auch als kleine Probiergrößen. Die Barcelona Card würde ich bei einem Kurzbesuch von 3-4 Tagen nicht empfehlen, sondern eher die Sightseing Bus Card oder aber vielleicht am besten nur eine reine Metrocard.
Auf jeden Fall ist diese Wohnung nur zu empfehlen denn sie rundet einen wundervollen Barcelonaaufenthalt stilvoll ab.
Everything was perfect. The guys we met at the apartment were very friendly and interessted to make our holidays as best as possible. When there was a question before or while our stay in the apartment, one call was enough. Of Course it wasnt the easiest part to get into the apartment (there are many stairs), but it was worth it. I´m sure for that price you cant get any better apartment in barcelona for 3 people. A underground-station around the corner, and a 5-minute-walk to a big supermarket (LIDL) makes it very ideal for us. We got on the first day of our stay a few informations about the next and best restaurants, bars (..). All in all it was great! And a little bit sport (walking stairs) before sleeping isnt unhealthy ;-)
Book now...- its worth it :-)
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
A nice and quiet apartment with terraces on both sides. That makes is special. The reception was correct and to the point. Central in the city and close to the metro. The basics - kitchen, bathroom, beds, etc - are good. Lots of stairs to climb, but that didn't bother us. Could be a bit more cousy. (A more atmospheric illumination and a small coffee table will do wonders.) The internet connection is sometimes (in the evening) slow, which is a pity. We enjoyed our stay in this apartment.
We stayed at apartment for 7 days with big crew which contain 9 person. Apartment is wonderful,clean, equipments is well and very close to the Sagrada Familia, the metro and carparking area which located under the plaça Joanic. Nearby, there are bars and supermarkets.
Owners very very friendly, helpful and correct.
Exactly we are recommend it.
Thank you so much Sandiago.
The apartment is at a great location. It's much more romantic than it seems on the photos. The view is great and full of inspiration. It's clean, we found everything we needed in the kitchen. The beds are comfortable, the temperature is ideal. Wifi connection is working just ok. Climbing the six floors added to our physical and mental well being. Thank you.
The apartment was nice, but the bathroom was very small. Anyway, we managed. There wasn't an electric kettle so we boiled water in pots! There was a misunderstanding with the owner regarding baby's cot and bedding - the bedding simply wasn't there. Otherwise no problems.
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Excerpt: "Mike Westhoff, the former special teams coordinator with the Jets, said the team's usage of Tim Tebow was an "absolute mess" in 2012, Conor Orr of the Newark Star-Ledger reports.
Speaking on WQAM this morning, Westhoff, who plans to have a second career as a television analyst, became the first coach to speak openly about how disjointed the team's plans were regarding Tebow.
"It was a mess, it was an absolute mess. You can say whatever you want but I was very, very disappointed."
He added: "There are things with Tim Tebow as an NFL quarterback -- he's very limited in some things. If you throw him right in the middle of a drop back passing offense he will look very, very average at best, but if you incorporate him into different facets of your offense, I think he can be a factor. That's what I felt like we were going to do." Read more...


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Sleeping Beauty - English National Ballet
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The Sleeping Beauty on The London Coliseum features some of Tchaikovsky's best-loved ballet music. Tickets for the Sleeping Beauty in London here!
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, Princess Aurora lived in an enchanted castle where fairies bestowed her with gifts of beauty, temperament, purity, joy, wit and generosity. The wicked Fairy Carabosse put a curse on Aurora; to prick her finger and die on her 16th birthday.
The beautiful and kind Lilac Fairy cast a spell to counter the curse so that instead of dying Aurora fell asleep for a hundred years. Only the touch of true love's kiss could awaken her and undo the evil spell.
Kenneth MacMillan's production of the popular classic is the perfect way bring some sparkle into your New Year. The Sleeping Beauty features some of Tchaikovsky's best-loved ballet music ever, including the Rose Adagio and the music used as Once Upon a Dream in Disney?s Sleeping Beauty.
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Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm
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Award-winning Binghamton University alum to give free reading
Award-winning author and Binghamton University alumna Diana Abu-Jaber will give a free reading of her new book, The Language of Baklava, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, at Borders Café in the Carousel Mall, Syracuse. The event is free and open to the public.
Abu-Jaber, who earned her doctoral degree at Binghamton University, was born in Syracuse, New York, to a Jordanian father and an American (Irish-German) mother. Her new book is a vibrant, humorous memoir of her life in upstate New York and Jordan weaved around vividly remembered meals: everything from Lake Ontario shish kebob cookouts to goat stew feast under a Bedouin tent. These recollections illuminate the two cultures of Abu-Jaber's childhood and the richness and difficulty of straddling both.
Abu-Jaber's first novel, Arabian Jazz, won the Oregon Book Award, and was a finalist for the National PEN/Faulkner award. She is also the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for literary fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. In addition, Abu-Jaber has published numerous short stories electronically and in literary magazines such as "Ploughshares," the "North American Review," and "Story." She has taught at the University of Oregon and UCLA, and is currently writer-in-residence at Portland State University, where she teaches creative writing, feminist voices, Middle Eastern literatures, and postcolonial literatures.
Abu-Jaber's reading in Syracuse is co-sponsored by Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University and the Binghamton University Alumni Association. For more information, contact 607-777-4700.


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A few months back, someone very close to me bought a 2009 Honda Civic sedan. My initial impressions of the Honda Civic is that it has impressive build quality for such a priced car. I find the looks to be sleek and futuristic and the car stands out in a good way. Honda did the 2009 model a favor by adding a new front bumper and tastefully done chrome exterior trim. I also have always been a fan of the Civic interior. The plastic is sturdy and all of the buttons and knobs are easy to understand and reach. The Civic's gauges are easy to read and the wheel is an absolute pleasure to hold. I have been doing a lot of city driving in this car and although it does lack the torque I prefer, the engine is smooth and driving position is great. I recently took the car on a substantial interstate jaunt and it did seem to loose a bit of it's composure when driven faster than 70 mph. As a passenger, I find the rear seat leg room ample, but the head room is not too great. The cloth is knit tight and the car's air conditioning and creature comforts performed well.Overall, I say the Civic is definitly deserving of all the acolytes it has recieved. The car has almost no low end torque, but is extremely efficient and smooth to drive once you get it up to speed. The handling is superb which is helped out by a contoured wheel (best I've held). There is little compromise when purchasing a Civic because it delivers in so many ways, which is why it is one of the best selling cars in North America.
The Civic is a good little car....but the looks are far from pretty.
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Cars usually with subjective shortcomings, because its such a trivial factor, usually sell well.
I saw a new Civic coupe from a ways off, and I was shocked that it looks better from a distance.Kinda like that real ugly chick that seems hot from a distance, but then is uglier than hell up close.
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F1_the marksman:I saw a new Civic coupe from a ways off, and I was shocked that it looks better from a distance.Kinda like that real ugly chick that seems hot from a distance, but then is uglier than hell up close.+1
Chevrolet Volt - Now this is one mean green machine
I like the honda civic a lot. But they seriously need to give it more low end torque. My neon also doesnt have any guts until you get it to about 2700rpm. but luckly it gets up to speed quickly!!
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The Civic is a good little car, I drove a 2002 with 50k miles on it and the only problem it had is that the power locks werent working.However, Id never buy one for me simply because theres a Mazda3, much more fun to drive, better quality materials and overall better looking interior and exterior and 30+hpbout the looks, Id say that they were drastically improved with the small facelift Honda gave it for 2009.
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Civic is a very good all around car. I like the exterior but the interior has an odd layout that is difficult to get comfortable with as an occasional driver. I suspect that as an owner, it would not be a problem. So far as C segment cars go, Civic is a great choice. Mazda and Volkswagen offer dynamically superior vehicles that compete with the Civic but I think the Civic is going to be a favorite of the non-enthusiast crowd.
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A Response to Alexander, Coyne and MacDonald
The BioLogos Foundation, with its commitment to the "integration of science and Christian faith" is one of many signs that the 150-year-old idea of a "warfare" between science and religion is ending. That language of opposition is unhelpful for several reasons.
First, it obscures the recognition that science at its core, is a religious activity, in the deepest and most literal sense of "re-ligious"—that which links. Religion and science both come from the uniquely human passion to see the diverse pieces of our experience as one supple and coherent body of knowledge: thus its connection with a word like "ligament", the tissue which holds the skeleton together. There is no science without scientists, and scientists are always and only humans, probing and coming to know an inexhaustibly mysterious cosmos by means of their own passions, beliefs, hunches and theories.
Second, and more specifically, the warfare language hides the fact that the modern tradition of empirical science has deep roots in the Jewish and Christian tradition. The point was first made clearly in Michael Foster's meticulously reasoned series of articles, "The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Origins of Modern Science", published in the resolutely positivist philosophical journal Mind in 1934. It was only as late medieval Christian thinkers distanced themselves from the Platonic idea that creation was an imperfect manifestation of eternal and perfect ideas in the mind of a transcendent God that they began to be able to appreciate the contingency of creation, and thus the necessity of investigating it empirically, not in terms of what a rational Creator must do, but in terms of what a personal and loving God wills to do. It is no accident that, for better and for worse, science is a plant which grew primarily in Christian soil.
Third, The warfare language implies that there were two kinds of knowledge: "religious knowledge", established only by emotion and authority, and scientific knowledge, established by experience, experiment and testing. If true this would be a disastrous situation, culturally and personally, since it would doom "religious" people to living in a pseudo-reality constructed from dogma and wishful thinking, and "scientific" people living in a meaningless world of emotion-free "facts" each of which they must establish for themselves. But of course neither the "religious" nor the "scientific" person lives in such a world. We live in oneworld, part of which we know on authority, part of which we know on experience. But its full meaning always eludes our grasp, and thus leads us into the uniquely human activities of art, science and worship.
These reflections on the relationship of science and religion cast some light both on Denis Alexander's recently-posted BioLogos "white paper" on the theological problems raised by thinking scientifically about "Adam", and some quite caustic responses to that paper by Jerry Coyne and Eric MacDonald on their own websites, writing on behalf of "science" against what they perceive to be the excesses of "religion".
Alexander, an experienced research scientist with a long career in immunology, begins by pointing out the usefulness of "models" in science, drawing attention to the fact that in periods of ferment and discovery it is often the case that two or more models exist side by side, in some tension, to help explain sets of data. He then suggests two models for resolving the apparent tension between the Biblical story, which speaks of the religious importance of one couple, Adam and Eve, as the progenitor of all humanity, and the emerging scientific evidence that humanity arose as part of an evolutionary process in which we cannot clearly identify one couple as the ancestors of all humans. The first he calls the "retelling model": in it the early chapters of Genesis are seen as the gathering, under divine guidance, the story of early humanity into one rich and subtle myth that includes all that we need to know about human persons and their relation to God, each other, and the earth. The other model, which he calls the Homo divinus model, is more complex and problematic: he suggests that out of a neolithic population of anatomically modern humans God chose two people to enter into personal communion and responsibility with their Creator; these were the historical Adam and Eve, the first human bearers of "the image of God," and thus the beginning of the Biblical story of sin and redemption that culminates in Jesus, the second Adam.
Both models allow us, says Alexander to deal with two sets of data: the facts about the human condition expressed in Genesis 1-3, and the facts about the physical origins of man (about which Alexander gives some intriguing details) emerging from DNA analysis. However, though he argues that there is room for both models within the BioLogos commitment to "the integration of science and Christian faith", he prefers the Homo divinus model.
Coyne and MacDonald are critical of Alexander's article for several reasons, some of them, I believe, quite legitimate. But the scornful and dismissive tone of their critiques diminishes their value. Both write from within that familiar fog of confusion (typical of both a-theist and religious fundamentalisms) which arises whenever we assume that the only relationship between religion and science is one of warfare. Ignoring the deep unity between the two keeps these critics from seeing Alexander's main purpose, which is to unite all that we are coming to know about humanity into one coherent body. Thus they take aim often at Alexander's very tentatively proposed Homo divinus model, and both articles are scattered with words like "obsessed," "ludicrous," "crap," "baseless," laughable," "simplistic", "charade" and "embarrassing". Such language doesn't hold much promise for learning or dialogue on either side.
Their most valid point, it seems to me, is asking why, when Alexander outlines a better model--"retelling" early human history as though it were the story of one couple--he goes to such effort to defend a more difficult one. And there are real difficulties with the Homo divinus model which Alexander (very tentatively) defends. It seems very odd to have a human population of many individuals, only two of which bear God's image; it is not clear how their relationship to God, whole or broken, would be then communicated to the rest of humanity; most seriously, it seems to me, the choice of those two alone, above all others, places at the very roots of human history the kind of arbitrary divine will which make some versions of "predestination" so hard to accept.
The main reason Alexander gives for preferring the Homo divinus model is that whereas it is abundantly clear from the anthropological and genetic evidence that the first humans appeared in Africa, the biblical story seems to begin in the Middle East. Yet as MacDonald points out, the real narrative line of the biblical story, in which particular places and people are important, doesn't begin till the end of Genesis 11, with the calling of Abraham. The biblical story is far more about the descendants of a historical Abraham and Sarah than it is about the descendants of a historical Adam and Eve, and Alexander (like many before him) gets himself into real difficulties by trying to carve out a historical place and time for early Genesis. All sorts of things about Genesis 1- 3 hint that it is quite a different type of literature than the narrative which begins with the story of Abraham—most obviously, the fact that Genesis 2 backs up and tells quite a different story about the origin of the human than does Genesis 1. But the most striking of these hints, as Alexander points out, is the name "Adam"—which is not only a generic name for humanity, but also a deeply significant pun on the Hebrew word for soil or dust: i.e., Adam from Adamah ("human from humus") underlining at the beginning of the human story the human task of earthkeeping. Eve's name also, "mother of all living" shouts that she is meant to be seen as a symbol.
One does not have to be a theological "liberal" (as both Coyne and MacDonald suggest) to recognize that Genesis 1-11 is not history in a normal sense of the word. For example, a recent book by John Walton, a scholar of ancient Near East religion who teaches at Wheaton College (hardly a "liberal" institution) in a recently published book, The Lost World of Genesis One, argues persuasively that Genesis 1 is all about function (how does this cosmos work) in terms of the science available in the day. He writes:
The most respectful reading we can give to the text, the reading most faithful to the face value of the text—and the most "literal" understanding, if you will—is the one that comes from their world, not ours.
On the one hand such an understanding removes any possibility of tension between "science" and the biblical text. It is not about science; or, to be more precise, those ancient writers used the science available to them to talk about things which they considered to be much more important: Is there a purpose to the cosmos? What is my purpose in it? How do I relate to the cosmos, its creator, my fellow human beings? The answers to these questions do provide an important "data set"; but for answers to questions like the age and physical origins of the earth, or of humanity, we use the data set from the best science available to us. It would be, as Alexander insists from the beginning, a mistake to regard the two sets of data as having nothing to do with each other. Thus the need for "models" to explore how they might be related.
Coyne and MacDonald find the Homo divinus model inadequate; so do I. Unlike them, however, I think Alexander's task is a very important one. Why, if a better model is available, does he cautiously support this one? Coyne suggests the real reason: Alexander is speaking to a group of people who are learning slowly, cautiously, how to bring the worlds of science and faith together, how to get beyond the "warfare" metaphor for their relation which seems to still inform the thought of Coyne and MacDonald. This is a painful process. A colleague of mine, for example, a senior and highly respected biblical scholar in the evangelical world, was just dismissed from a school where he was an adjunct professor for suggesting, mildly, the idea discussed above, that Genesis 1-11 is a very different sort of literature from the rest of the book, and therefore not to be judged as "historical" by the same standards. Change comes slowly in deeply held beliefs, and Denis Alexander is to be commended for his attempt, however flawed we might find it, to persuade a group of Christians that Christianity and science can indeed be integrated, that they help us describe and live in one world, not two.
That does not seem to be the case with Coyne and MacDonald; for whatever reason, they seem to believe that many essential parts of our humanity—passions, beliefs, commitments—are irrelevant to knowledge, which they seem to regard as a gradual, impersonal, accumulation of fact. Thus they are bound to see the task of BioLogos (and of many thoughtful humans)—the attempt to live in one world, not two—as futile. In the next post we will consider their thought, and the thought-world it comes from, in more detail.


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Cutting space and power usage with Dell blades
Read how two companies employ Dell blade solutions to transform their IT operations.
- Technology company Emerson virtualizes on Dell servers, eliminating 3,600 servers, reducing approximately 135 data centers down to 4, and decreasing the operating cost of its Windows serve environment by 15 percent per year.
- Wind farm developer RES assesses sites 20 times faster and cuts power use by around 75 per cent with Dell blade cluster.


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Select Committee on GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Opinion: Manganous Salts
The GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Database allows access to opinions and conclusions from 115 SCOGS reports published between 1972-1980 on the safety of over 370 Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) food substances. The GRAS ingredient reviews were conducted by the Select Committee in response to a 1969 White House directive by President Richard M. Nixon.
Manganous chloride, manganous citrate, manganous gluconate, manganous oxide, manganous sulfate
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SCOGS Opinion:
The conclusions in the opinion are limited to the use of manganous salts in foods for human consumption and do not concern the use of manganese in animal feeds.
The available information indicates that a wide margin exists between present intake levels of manganese as manganous salts and those levels that have been reported to produce harmful effects. Manganese is an essential nutrient that is required for the optimal functioning of several metabolic systems largely through its role as a prosthetic group or as essential cofactor. Divalent manganese is among the least toxic of the trace elements. As was indicated in the review of the experiments involving manganous chloride and manganous sulfate, the oral toxicity of manganese is low largely because of restricted absorption and the existence of a relatively efficient mechanism regulating intestinal excretion.
Manganese interacts metabolically with several other minerals including calcium, phosphorous, iron, and copper. Under most conditions, however, it is unlikely that the ratio of manganese to these elements is distorted enough to produce an adverse effect.
The only manganese salts known by the Select Committe to be in use as ingredients of foods for human consumption are the chloride and the sulfate. Despite the nearly complete lack of scientific reports on the biologic effects of manganous citrate and gluconate, the relatively low toxicity of the manganous ion and the innocuous nature of citrates and gluconates when used as food ingredients suggest that no health hazard would result from similar uses of manganous citrate and gluconate.
While there is good evidence of the short-term tolerance of manganous oxide as an added feed ingredient for poultry and livestock, no acute oral toxicity studies or long-term feeding studies of manganous oxide have been reported. In addition, the Select Committee has no information on the amounts of manganous oxide, if any, that may be use in food for human consumption in this country.
The Select Committe has weighed the foregoing data and concludes that:
There is no evidence in the availble information on manganous citrate, chloride, gluconate, and sulfate that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public when they are used at levels that are now current or that might reasonable be expected in the future. In view of the deficiency of relevant biological studies and information on consumer exposure, the Select Committee has insufficient data upon which to base an evaluation of manganous oxide when it is used in food for human consumption.
*Complete reports containing details of the safety studies that formed the basis of the opinions and conclusions and are available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161 (703) 605-6000.


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The Majestic Mount Washington Valley
Notchland Inn • Hart's Location, NH
Escape Kit
- A Two-Night Stay for Two in a Deluxe Room with a Shower, Sundays through Thursdays ($219) or Fridays and Saturdays ($275)
- Or, a Two-Night Stay for Two in a Deluxe Room with a Shower and Bathtub, Sundays through Thursdays ($249) or Fridays and Saturdays ($315)
- $20 Credit Toward a Five-Course Prix-Fixe Dinner Served Wednesdays through Sundays
- Daily Full Country Breakfast for Two
- Ceramic Notchland Mug
The Destination
Rustic in scenery and rough in character, northern New Hampshire's White Mountains are a symbol of New England's simultaneous grit and grace. Sunsets through the region's iconic birch trees make for an etherial scene, and miles and miles of wilderness appeal to that quintessential American value: rugged individualism. Skiers, mountaineers, and wildlife seekers will find a haven in these rocky hills, but the small towns that dot the valleys offer country-style comforts in homegrown artisan shops, restaurants, and coffeehouses.
The Digs
Tucked away in White Mountain National Forest, The Notchland Inn is a romantic country hideaway set inside an 1860s granite mansion. Each room is individually decorated, and all boast a wood-burning fireplace, a king- or queen-size bed, and elegant embellishments. Just outside, you can take a dip in any number of swimming holes that dot the Saco River.
The Diversions
• Sup on homemade delights with a five-course prix-fixe dinner or a full country breakfast for two
• Swim, fish, hike, or mountain bike through the Mount Washington Valley
• Indulge your adventurous side with rock climbing, kayaking, or ziplining
• Head into town for unrivaled antiquing and tax-free shopping at the Outlet Village Plus shops
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