Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Sir Paul McCartney Was Worth £400m ...

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Mills awarded £24.3m settlement ...

Heather Mills spoke to press on the steps of the court
Mills welcomes deal Heather Mills has been awarded £24.3m in her divorce settlement with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney.
Speaking outside London's High Court, Ms Mills said she was "glad it's over" and "it was an incredible result to secure mine and my daughter's future".
As part of the deal, Ms Mills will receive £14 million for herself and £2.5m to buy a house in London.
The couple failed to reach an agreement in court last month, leaving the judge to determine the final figure.
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DIVORCE SETTLEMENT ...
£16.5m lump sum, including
£2.5m to buy London property
£7.8m assets ...

£35,000 a year for daughter Beatrice - plus nanny and school fees
The settlement will also see the former Beatle pay their four-year-old daughter Beatrice's nanny and school fees and will pay Beatrice £35,000 a year.
The judge awarded a lump sum of £16.5m and assets of £7.8m.
The summary judgment stated that Ms Mills had sought £125m and been offered £15.8m by Sir Paul.
READ THE JUDGEMENT SUMMARY ...
Summary of the judgement in the Mills-McCartney divorce case (18k)
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The judge ruled that Sir Paul was worth £400m, whereas Ms Mills claimed the singer was worth some £800m.
Speaking on the steps of the High Court - surrounded by a media scrum - Ms Mills insisted she was "very, very happy" with the decision ...

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Pictures revealed right-befor your eye's ...

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Photography: Developing the picture process
You take a studied negative exposed and viewed by transmitted light that will always reveal more detail than a print viewed by reflected light and you are looking for creative expression low densities midtones and finally highlights of the image…
Making an enlargement…
Determine exposure: Decide on the size of the print you want to make and raise the enlarger to the necessary height and place the negative in the negative carrier after dusting the negative and the lens making sure it is clean. Papers come in a variety of colours from a pale cream to cold tones. Place your paper in this case, fibre based paper or any fine grade printing paper shiny side up in the easel to focus on, ensuring that the plane of focus is exactly where you are going to print. Using a grain magnifier to critically focus on the grain negative and make test strips to determine the optimum expose time eg 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, etc…-
Developing and printing…
Place the paper in the Developer solution, soake and agitate the Chemical. Generally it needs 1 to 2 minutes depending on your creativity and once the time is over, use the bamboo tongs to lift the paper out and drop into the Stop Bath, do not let the tongs touch the stop chemicals or it will contaminate the developer when you put it back there. Let the print sit in the Stop Bath for about 15 to 30 seconds depending on the paper, fibre based papers need longer and then transfer with a separate pair of tongs to the Fixer. Time depends in the Fixer, about 5 minutes. Once the print is fixed, it needs to be Washed in cold running water. Print washing of fibre based paper can take a long time 15 to 30 minutes as can a washing aids…-
Rendering the process…
The Printing proceeds in exactly the same fashion as film, except that since paper is orthochromatic you can work under the dark room safe lights and watch the image come up in the developing solution and this part is truly mythical and your never lose the fascination for watching the chemicals render and reveal the picture processing right before your eyes … Hang-out to dry!

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