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mamara 6th will be held at Thao Dien Coffee in the 2nd Ward on December 8th! The Instagram page is also released!

mamara…Mamara is an event started from 2011 which concept is “Saigon expats’ housewives are creative” The event will be with full of Kawaii, Joyful, Enjoyable creations with each person’s expression of people, goods, space and time. December 8 (Thu) 2016 10:30〜14:00 38 Tran Ngoc Dien Dist 2 Thao Dien Coffee Check the instagram page where you can check works at https://www.instagram.com/mamara_2011/

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Google translate support neural translator, Japanese English translation quality improves dramatically!

What is neural translate? Google has announced Google Neural Machine Translation (Google neural machine translation:GNMT) system.This is translated by "Google Translate" service and its errow will be reduced to 55 – 85% Source: Google Translator employs neural machine translation system–English translations from the Chinese Finally Google followed by image recognition, speech recognition neural machine translation for the translation to take effect.Increase translation accuracy by treating the entire sentence as one translation unit not by word translation.Japan Japanese using Google translate this translation accuracy increases greatly. Try the new Google translate よろしくお願いします。 Nice to meet you. Maybe ever, Please do me a favor like translation should be had.Nice to meet you say

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Photo: Cholon’s Binh Tay market will be renovated soon.

Cholon’s Binh Tay maket will be closed soon for renovations. The old Binh Tay market was located at current Nguyen Trai street but it was moved to here due to fire. Then the current market was constructed at the beginning of 20 century. After 86 years, the city decided to renovate the building. Quách Đàm, a business person at the 20 century donated for the modernization of Cholon and now his statue stands at the center of the park within the market. The market is full of products. Even cosmetics are sold in chaos. People are working as usual. All these products are carried by hand. Local food I love

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Good article: Eating 10 kinds of noodles of Vietnam

Source: 10種類のベトナム麺料理を食べてまわる A Japanese blogger in Saigon, Nelson Mizushima published an article “Eating 10 kinds of noodles in Vietnam” This is a very interesting and useful article for expats or tourists in Vietnam. Although we know there are many kinds of noodles in Vietnam, everybody may not know what kind of noodles are eaten here. He reported with eating 10 kinds of popular noodles in Saigon at the same time. The article is in Japanese but you may read it with Google translate here  

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Bún Thịt Nướng: The layer of healty combination withvegetable, meat and noodle. Chị Tuyền – Bún Thịt Nướng

After a hard working day, I did not feel appetite for dinner then I chose Bún Thịt Nướng for my light dinner. Bún Thịt Nướng, grilled meat noodle consists of 3 layers, meat, noodle then vegetable. This is popular noodle food in southern Vietnam and I chose the famous Chị Tuyền to visit. Sometimes Vietnamese food has layers for example cơm hến famous freshwater clam rice of the middle Vietnam also consist of clams, rice then vegetable. In addition to grilled pork, fried spring roll is a famous topping for Bún Thịt Nướng but I felt not so hungry at this time and chose only grilled pork. Little bit sour

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How Vietnamese people pronounce TRUMP?

[fve] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyuM_aGcE4Y [/fve] It sounds like “CHUM” to me.  With the proper pronunciation, it should sound “CHAMP”.  Anyway it is difficult for Vietnamese to call the next president.

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Now AirTable has ‘Kanban View’. Helpful for project management

I loveAirtable. Flexible and easy to use online database. Today AirTable launched a new “Kanban View” The operation is very simple and easy. Just choose “Kanban View” and select the criteria to create a Kanban View. The following screen shot is a Kanban View categorized by Rank If you have a customer list, you can create a kanban with leads>visits>proposal>win or if you have a projects list, you can make it with estimate>win>delivery>invoice>complete. This view is suitable for databases with several steps to manage. AirTable is a free web service and I recommend this service to everybody who want to manage database online.

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Amazing web service! Change your mono chrome photo into color with AI in seconds.

Let there be color! Joint End-to-end Learning of Global and Local Image Priors for Automatic Image Colorization with Simultaneous Classification developed by Waseda University, Tokyo is really an amazing cloud service.  It turns black and white photo into color in seconds!: Let there be Color! The actual action is just drag your black & white photo image on the browser. Your black & white image will turn into colorized picture. This famous photo image, a  Japanese revolutionary in the end of Edo era, Ryoma Sakamoto carries a pistol and put on western shoes with traditional Japanese samurai costume.  With colorized image, his uniqueness is more apparent than black and white image. Photo repair

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I’ve applied Genesis Magazine Pro child theme for this blog

I have applied Studio Press’s WordPress Genesis framework Child Theme「Magazine Pro」for this webs site. Most part of CSS is still in default condition, I’ll customize the CSS step by step. The pricing for this template is only 33.71USD. I strongly recommend not to create template coding from scratch but you can get stable and SEO friendly template with this pricing. No worry about security because of periodical updates. This child theme make use of widget area to manage contents and it is a little bit hard to me to do customization but I will be used to it. We can find a lot of know-how about genesis frame work and

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