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Empire State Building Shows Off 16 Million Colors
New York's Empire State Building has a dazzling new look. An innovative LED system allows for over 16 million color combinations and effects like ripples and sparkles. Philips Color Kinetics's Jeff Campbell joins digits to discuss. Photo: Getty Images.
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Even since growing up, I've watched films in which the "bad guy" is repeatedly tracked down when they call the police or FBI or police force de jour. They always have "about 30 seconds". Regardless of whether those specific realisations are accurate or not, I've never understood what is going on technically when a phone is traced.
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A beautiful photo--of the Queen Mary, not the Lincoln SS-100X. Even though the crime scene car was available. Something to do with the height differential between the rear and jump seats, and the height-to-pavement.
More magic.
More confirmation of Gil's evidence!
The enclosed image shows the Carcano in evidence turned around the opposite way from the side-mount side. You can CLEARLY see from this side that there are ABSOLUTELY no mounting fixtures visible on the bottom of the rifle. Compare this to the backyard photo and you can see the difference right away.
I edited off the parts that said this was case cracking evidence due to standards of absolute proof.
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JFK63Conspiracy). This is basic stuff, and everyone here probably knows at least some of it already, but it is POWERFUL!
It may be the briefest and most compelling collection of evidence I've ever seen showing how thoroughly the FBI and the Warren Commission lied to America and the world about President Kennedy's assassination and the witnesses who saw it.
If I'm the only one here just discovering this ... well ... sorry for the interruption and NEVER MIND.
But if you haven't seen this before, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND CLICK HERE NOW!!! (I'd suggest starting with the FBI lied....)
Chief Justice Earl Warren: "Full disclosure was not possible for reasons of national security." – 1964
CIA accountant James B. Wilcott: Oswald received "a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work." – 1978
HSCA counsel Robert Tanenbaum: "Lee Harvey Oswald was a contract employee of the CIA and the FBI." – 1996


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By Pete Mazzaccaro
Five years ago, a group of banking professionals got together to open up a local bank in northwest Philadelphia, figuring they had indentified a market that was not being met by the larger banks in the area.
The group, including well-known names in the Northwest, like Trolley Car Diner owner Ken Goldstein, Elfant Wissahickon owner Bob Elfant and McCoubrey Overholser president John McCoubrey to name just a few, felt it was time again to have a local bank. The last really local bank in the neighborhood had been Chestnut Hill National Bank, but National Penn bank acquired it in 1993.
There was plenty of business out there, but no banks wanted to touch it, particularly in areas of Philadelphia that the bigger banks just couldn't understand.
"We sort of felt there was a niche that we could satisfy," said Jay Goldstein, CEO, president and director of the Valley Green Bank. "We expected people in Chestnut Hill and Mt Airy would identify with something that is local and want to identify themselves with that. That's worked out."
The way Goldstein puts it, Valley Green knew how to make good loans in places larger banks would just not venture, particularly in commercial lending, small business loans — the bread and butter, if you will, of Valley Green's business. Valley Green was a big part of the package that helped Weavers Way Co-op open in Chestnut Hill this year.
"There's probably not a piece of real estate that we don't know," Goldstein said. "We get the market and we understand it. Three years ago you couldn't find a bank willing to lend to someone who was going to buy a building on North 15th Street near Temple University and convert it to student housing. So we got the reputation to be willing to do it.
Last month, the Inquirer reported that the area around Temple is one of the best real estate investments in the city.
That scale has really worked out, according to Goldstein, who said that the bank's portfolio of loans and deposits has far surpassed the expectations Valley Greens founders and management had in mind when they started.
Goldstein points to the banks steady march up the deposit ladder to vie for 1st place among all the banks in the Northwest when the combined markets of Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill are taken into consideration. Since 2008, the bank has gone from holding 8 percent of the market's deposits to 20 percent.
According to Goldstein, if the survey of bank deposits were taken this month – the last reported were in July – Valley green would be number one. The Bank began with 11 employees and now has 33 staff members with a deposit base of $148 million, $129 million in loans and $162 million in assets.
"We're just really thrilled to have gone from nowhere to lead bank in market in five years," he said.
So why the success? Goldstein believes that people in the Northwest have taken to the bank's local identity. Every customer feels like an important part of a local bank.
"It's a reflection on the community here understanding what the value is of a locally owned bank in their own community," he said. "I think people buy into two things: (1) It's always easier to bank in a place where they feel like an important customer. (2) When we give back to the community, we give back in their community. We've made a concerted effort to be a good corporate citizen in NW Philadelphia."
But other factors have helped, too. Particularly the Great Recession that has socked many of the biggest banks in the last two years. Valley Green, Goldstein said, has maintained a healthy loan portfolio and has not suffered nearly as much.
"The benefit of the financial crisis is a lot of the bigger banks have not been in the position to provide loans to our customer base," Goldstein said. "A few years ago, we might have been competing with five banks for a loan. Today it's maybe one other bank competing for a loan of that quality. From a competitive standpoint it's been helpful to us."
Another big boost to the bank's bottom line came earlier this year when it brought in a management team that had been working for National Penn. Valley Green's Chairman, Al Thorell Jr., was founder and president of the Chestnut Hill National Bank and an executive vice president of National Penn.
They've done exactly what we were hoping they would do," Goldstein said, "Bring their relationships over to Valley Green. This year to date we have grown by 60 percent. Started year with just over 100 million in total assets and right now we're over 160 million in total assets, we were making 20 to 25 million a year in growth before. This year we could triple that, we've really solidified our place within our market, particularly on the lending side."
So what's next? Goldstein said the bank was not planning to expand the way the founders originally planned, with five or six branches around the region. New technologies, including check deposit scanners, allow the bank to serve more customers over a broader geographic region. Now, Valley Green Bank has customers across the Delaware Valley.
"If we have a customer in Chester County, there's no reason we have to build a branch around the corner," Goldstein said. "We're just as likely to loan to a business down the street as we are to a business in Chester County."
But it is ultimately about keeping the bank a "small town" bank even as it grows. It's the kind of bank where only one member of management in five years has left and that was because she got a job as a Villanova professor. It's the kind of bank where depositors know their branch employees and where the employee can wear costumes on Halloween. It's the kind of bank that helps open a Mt. Airy Farmers Market and sposners Friends of the Wissahickon events.
"We expected people in Chestnut Hill and Mt Airy would identify with something that is local and want to identify themselves with that," said Goldstein. "That's worked out."
And it has worked out – for the bank and the community.
Next Week
Valley Green Bank will be marking its fifth anniversary with a series of events during the week of Nov. 15. The lobbies will be decorated and serve cookies daily. Also both branches will have daily drawings for $50 VISA gift cards. Customers and visitors to the branches will have an opportunity to try their luck at "fishing" for $5 bills.
On November 17, the actual anniversary date, cake from local bakeries will be served throughout the day. And, in keeping with Valley Green Bank's commitment to the community, a donation will be made to Chestnut Hill's Meals on Wheels for their Thanksgiving dinners.


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Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American medical doctor, author, Republican U.S. Congressman of the House of Representatives and candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination. Paul is currently the U.S. Congressman for the 14th congressional district of Texas, which comprises the area south and southwest of the Greater Houston region, including Galveston. Paul serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Joint Economic Committee, and the House Committee on Financial Services, and is Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, where he has been an outspoken critic of current American foreign and monetary policy.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paul is a graduate of Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. Paul served as a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force from 1963 until 1968, during the Vietnam War. He worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist during the 1960s and 1970s, delivering more than 4,000 babies, before entering politics during 1976.
Paul is the initiator of the advocacy group Campaign for Liberty and his ideas have been expressed in numerous published articles and books, including Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom (2011), End The Fed (2009), The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008), Pillars of Prosperity (2008), A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (2007), and The Case for Gold (1982). According to University of Georgia political scientist Keith Poole, Paul had the most conservative voting record of any member of Congress since 1937. His son Rand Paul was elected to the United States Senate for Kentucky in 2010, making the elder Paul the first Representative in history to serve concurrently with a child of his in the Senate.


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VATICAN CITY — For the third consecutive year, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen to spend his summer vacation in the Castelli hills rather than travel to the northern mountainous regions of Italy.
The Holy Father departed Rome July 3, traveling by helicopter to his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, about 20 miles outside of Rome.
The Pope is said to be especially fond of the Apostolic Palace and gardens at Castel Gandolfo and usually stays there until the first week of October. He has also preferred to vacation closer to Rome since he broke his wrist while on holiday in Valle d'Aosta in 2009.
As is customary during his vacation period, which lasts four weeks, private and special audiences are suspended, as is the Wednesday general audience, which will resume on Aug. 1 at the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo. But on Sundays and solemnities during this period, the Holy Father will continue to pray the Angelus with the faithful who gather in the courtyard of his summer residence.
During his stay this year, the Pope will be devoting his energies to reading, writing and preparing himself for future engagements. Much of his time is expected to be spent working on completing the third and final volume of his book Jesus of Nazareth, which he began writing on his 2010 vacation. The publication of the volume, which will focus on the Gospel passages relating to Jesus' childhood, is not expected until the beginning of next year, at the earliest.
The vacation at the papal villa overlooking the tranquility of Lake Albano will be a welcome rest for him and present more of an opportunity for prayer and peace after recent trials. These have included the leaking of confidential Vatican documents, the arrest of his valet, setbacks in the talks between Rome and the Society of St. Pius X and troubles at the Institute for the Works of Religion — the Vatican Bank.
Apart from reciting the Marian prayer on Sundays, the Pope will still have a few engagements. Today, he will visit the motherhouse of the Missionaries of the Divine Word in Nemi, a town bordering another volcanic lake close to Castel Gandolfo.
At 6pm on Wednesday, the feast of St. Benedict, the Pope will attend a private concert featuring the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, performed at the Apostolic Palace by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The orchestra was founded in 1999 by Barenboim, an Argentine native of Russian-Jewish descent, and the late Palestinian critic and author Edward Said. Comprising musicians from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey and Spain, the orchestra seeks to enable a dialogue between the various cultures of the Middle East. The concert is being held in recognition of Benedict XVI's promotion of "active dialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims."
This will be the second concert Barenboim has performed for the Holy Father this summer. On June 1, he conducted the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala in Milan in the presence of Benedict, who was attending the World Meeting of Families.
Then, on July 15, the Holy Father will make a pastoral visit to Frascati, also a town in the Castelli hills, famous for its wine, which has been produced for nearly 2,000 years. The Pope will celebrate Mass in the town's own "St. Peter's Square" then return to Castel Gandolfo to pray the Angelus.
Once his vacation is over, the Pope is scheduled to meet folk groups from Bavaria on Aug. 3 and attend a concert organized by Caritas Regensburg on Aug. 11. In the morning of Aug. 15, as is customary, the Pope will celebrate Mass in the parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo on the feast of the Assumption. His final engagement at the papal summer residence will be to attend another concert, which will be performed by musicians from the Diocese of Wuerzburg, Germany, on Sept. 26.
The Pope will also be traveling while based at the papal summer residence. From Sept. 14-16, he is scheduled to visit Lebanon, the preparations for which, despite being near war-torn Syria, are continuing well. The Pope will be making the trip to deliver the apostolic exhortation of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East that took place in 2010.
Once back, from the papal villa, the Pope will fly by helicopter to the Marian shrine at Loreto in central Italy on Oct. 4. The aim of the visit is to entrust to the intercession of the Virgin the work of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization that will take place at the Vatican Oct. 7-28 and the Year of Faith, which also begins that month.
The trip will take place on the 50th anniversary of Blessed Pope John XXIII's historic pilgrimage by train to Assisi and Loreto on the eve of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.
Edward Pentin is the Register's Rome correspondent.
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House of Three was founded in 2009 by well-known designers Janet Hopkins, Heidi Swapp, and Rhonna Farrer. Until now, the trio have been producing digital products in their signature retro/vintage style and selling them through their website.
The new House of Three collection for Pink Paislee will be called Parisian Anthology. It is being described by Pink Paislee as including "designer ink resist papers, brooch brads, polymer clear stamps, printed corrugate shapes, and several unique embellishments designed with crafters in mind."
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Not the goal: Israeli football racism divides fans
JERUSALEM: As the roar of the crowd grew louder and hundreds of police kept a careful watch on volatile fans, a young Muslim football player ran onto the field, at once hated and embraced by supporters of the nationalist Beitar Jerusalem club.
Beitar's hardcore fans are furious over the club's decision to recruit two Chechen Muslim players - Gabriel Kadiev and Zaur Sadaev - and they made their feelings known when 19-year-old Kadiev entered the game on Sunday night, screaming their disapproval every time he touched the ball. Other fans cheered him but they were drowned out.
Until it signed the two players last month, Beitar was the only club in Israel's national league that had never fielded a Muslim or an Arab player. Ultra-nationalist members held up a sign declaring ''Beitar forever pure'' to protest against their arrival.
''My son is in the youth team of Beitar and I feel ashamed,'' said one middle-aged man, who did not want to be named, as the crowd chanted for the resignation of the team's coach and owner on Sunday.
His friend, 60-year-old Shabtai Barash, shared his concern.
''I am here in support of the players - I do not care if they are Muslim, Christian or Jewish …
''We are worried, we are afraid and we believe the police and the Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] need to show leadership and say something to these fans, who all support Netanyahu,'' Mr Barash said.
The extremist fans at Sunday's match between Beitar and the Israeli-Arab team Bnei Sakhnin at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium did not represent the club, he said.
''They are just a minority and we are here to raise our voice against them.''
But just a few rows along, in the yellow and black sea of Beitar fans, it was a different story.
''We hate the Arabs and we want them out,'' said 24-year-old waitress Reut, who did not want to give her last name. ''We are against the Muslims. We do not want them in our team, ever. This is my country, it is not their place.''
Her friends vowed to ''make their lives [of the Muslim players] hell until they leave''.
Sadaev and Kadiev have been abused and spat on by fans, and now travel with police protection. On Friday, Beitar's club premises were set on fire and police suspect the team's own fans.
The former prime minister and lifelong Beitar fan Ehud Olmert wrote an impassioned plea in the daily Yedioth Ahronoth for the racism to end, vowing not to attend another game because of the fans' behaviour.
''It does not matter if the fans who waved the banners actually realised what the broader significance of the phrase 'Pure Beitar' is and its connection to the terrible expressions used by haters of Israel and anti-Semites. The very use of this phrase expresses hatred, contempt, disgust, intolerance and zealotry of the darkest kind.''
Beitar has deep ties to the Likud Party of Mr Netanyahu. Its followers are mostly Mizrahi Jews who came from countries in the Middle East and North Africa and who have traditionally been economically disadvantaged and underrepresented compared with their Ashkenazi fellow-citizens.
On Sunday Mr Netanyahu said: ''We want unity, dialogue and cohesiveness. The last thing we want, and which we absolutely reject is violence, racism and boycotts.''
But the Arab-Israeli politician Ahmed Tibi, a member of the Knesset and a sponsor of the Bnei Sakhnin club, said political and sporting leaders had allowed racism to fester.
''We are not talking about 10 fans, we are talking about thousands of fans … and during the last year they shouted racist slogans inside and outside the stadium and no one really tried to stop them, not the police, not the club, not the attorney-general and not the Israeli Football Association,'' Mr Tibi said.
Israel was acting now only because it was embarrassed by the international focus on the treatment of the Chechen players, Mr Tibi said.
''Racism has become mainstream in society and Israel is not debating it or confronting it,'' he said.
Middle East Correspondent Ruth Pollard has reported on the Arab revolutions, the battle against the Islamic State, tensions in the West Bank and Egypt's power struggle. Her job has taken her to Libya, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia and beyond and in 2014 she won a Walkley Award for her coverage of the war in Gaza.


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Colorado keeps adding breweries – including a couple in the 'burbs this weekend
News roundup … with beery events this weekend below.
The number of breweries in this great land of ours soared past 3,000 at the end of June, according to the last report card issued this week by the Boulder-based Brewers Association.
The exact total was 3,040, marking what the trade association projected is the first time the U.S. has crossed the 3,000-brewery threshold.
We contacted the BA's staff economist, Bart Watson, for some Colorado-specific figures.


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Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903 - 1975 New Haven)
Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936
Artist's name and date inscribed below the image in graphite: Walker Evans 1935
Gelatin silver print, mounted on (contemporary) board
Image: 6 1/8 x 7 9/16 in. (15.4 x 19.2 cm)
Mount: 18 1/16 x 15 in. (45.8 x 38 cm)
Charles F. Olney Fund, 1969
The photographs of Walker Evans have deeply informed our collective image of the southeastern United States during the Depression. Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi is an image of material decay, vernacular signs, and social complexity--inseparable aspects of Evans's view of the rural South.
A building facade of tattered clapboard, paper, and cloth reveals intricate layers of neglect and use, disintegration and repair. Five men stand or sit in front of the structure, individuals in dress, posture, and physiognomy, while collectively indifferent to the camera. They each turn with intent to the left or right, to an invisible point beyond the frame of the image.
As in most of Evans's work, Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi is comprised of subtly calibrated contrasts at once material and cultural: slick, peeling advertisements and rough, disintegrating cloth; a man in a motorcar, overwhelming one-third of the image; and four black men, each claiming a bay of the improvised facade.
Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi was not meant to be viewed as an isolated image, but as part of a larger project of photographic documentation. Evans made the photograph during a brief period of work (1935-38) for the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration. The newly created section hired photographers such as Evans, Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Arthur Rothstein (b. 1915), and Dorothea Lange to provide the FSA with images that might help inspire national support for New Deal agricultural policy. 1 In addition to their use in official reports, the FSA photographs were published in large-format photo magazines such as Look and Life, and thus had an immense impact on the public vision of the Depression's effects in rural America. 2
A print of Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi was among the one hundred photographs that Evans chose for exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1938. Walker Evans: American Photographs was the first exhibition that the museum had devoted to the work of a single photographer. Evans took complete control of the installation, cropping, framing, and arranging the works according to a calculated plan of composition and sequence. In a significant departure from the photo-journals' captioning of images with observations of "human interest," Evans provided only numbers, which corresponded to a separate checklist of titles and dates. 3 The photographs' significance was thus dependent on the visual and thematic organization of the entire installation, and on the contrapuntal play between specific images. Evans placed Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi immediately after Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans of 1935, an image of a New Orleans matron standing cheerfully among the stripes of her barbershop storefront, framed by a tidy grid of ironwork balustrades, plate glass, cracking stone, and bright paint. 4
The exhibition was accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, also organized by Evans, although arranged differently than the exhibited photographs. 5 Evans chose only eighty-seven of the exhibition's one hundred works for the catalogue, and often substituted an image from a variant negative. Thus the catalogue's Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi was shot at a slightly different moment than the Oberlin image, and has additional incident--a barbershop storefront with stenciled signage--at the left. 6 The catalogue's essay, written by Lincoln Kirstein (in collaboration with Evans), is an important polemical document in the history of photography. It calls for a photographic practice at once socially edifying in content, and straightforward, detached, and undramatic in address. It also emphasizes the "intention, logic, continuity, climax, sense, and perfection" that informed Evans's organization of the images, thus producing "a powerful monument to our moment." Evans placed Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi within a sequence of images of common objects and interiors, and of portraits of men and women in rural or urban settings, alone or in groups, wealthy or poor, "with all their clear, hideous and beautiful detail." 7
A. Kurlander
Walker Evans was born in St. Louis in 1903 to a well-to-do, puritanical family. In 1922 he graduated from the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and began to study literature at Williams College. He left Williams after one year of study and moved to New York, taking on various odd jobs. In 1926 Evans moved to Paris, intending to become a writer, and attended literature classes at the Sorbonne. 8 He returned to New York in 1927 and clerked for a stockbrokerage firm until 1929.
Evans began taking photographs in 1928, using a small handheld camera. In 1929 he began a lifelong friendship with Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1997), then still a student at Harvard but already a force in American cultural criticism. In 1930 Evans's first publication of photographs appeared in a book of poetry by Hart Crane (The Bridge). He began to photograph nineteenth-century American houses, investing his subject with the descriptive, archival interest in vernacular detail that would characterize much of his later work. These works were influenced by the French photographer Eugène Atget, whose work Evans saw for the first time in 1930.
Evans's first commissioned work dates from 1933, with his documentation of the political unrest in Cuba. Around this time, he began to work with an eight-by-ten view camera. In 1935 Evans made his first expedition to the southern United States, and began to photograph antebellum architecture. In the summer and fall of that year he also took photographs for the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration, or FSA) in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the South.
In 1936 the writer James Agee requested that Evans take the photographs to accompany a photo-essay on sharecroppers, which had been commissioned by Fortune Magazine. Agee and Evans stayed with three sharecropper families in Hale County, Alabama, for three weeks during the summer of 1936. Agee's article on the experience was rejected by Fortune. In 1941, an expanded version of the article, along with Evans's photographs, was published as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Public attention was then focused on the war, however, and it was not until 1960, with the publication of another edition of the book, which included an expanded section of photographs, that the joint work met with great success.
After the 1930s' photographs of the rural South, Evans continued to expore photography as a medium for addressing and framing subjects of modern life. He used the large-view camera less frequently, replacing it with a two and one-quarter twin-lens reflex camera and a 35 mm camera. He took photographs in the New York subway with a camera hidden in his coat (1938; published in 1966 as Many Are Called); and industrial landscapes from the window of a moving train (1950).
In 1938 Evans's photographs were the subject of the first solo exhibition of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in 1971 John Szarkowski organized a retrospective there of Evans's work. Walker Evans died on 10 April 1975 in New Haven.
General References
Kismaric, Carole. Walker Evans. New York, 1993.
Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye. New York, 1993.
Purchased from the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, in 1969
This print
Selected literature on Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi from the same and variant negatives
Walker Evans: American Photographs. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, p. 52 (from a variant negative).
Brix, Michael. Walker Evans, America. Exh. cat., Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1990-91, p. 46 (from a variant negative).
Chevrier, Jean-François, Allan Sekula, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Walker Evans and Dan Graham. Exh. cat., Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 1992, p. 89 (reproduces a print in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, inv. 297.63; from the same negative as the AMAM print).
Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye. New York, 1993, no. 75 (reproduces a contact print from the same negative, but with a slightly different cropping from the AMAM print; location not given).
Technical Data
Printed on silver gelatin developing-out paper (see gelatin silver print, the photograph is most likely a contact print, not an enlargement from a smaller negative. Evans usually worked with eight-by-ten negatives during this period.
The photograph is dry-mounted on two-ply contemporary board with a strongly discolored core, probably acidic. The dry-mount adhesive has discolored, but there is no evident discoloration or fading of the image. Two small lumps in the lower right corner of the photograph have been caused by the accumulation of debris between the mat board and print. These raised areas are slightly abraded.
1. There is a vast literature on the FSA photographs. See Roy Emerson Stryker and Nancy Wood, In This Proud Land: America 1935-1943 as Seen in the FSA Photographs (New York, 1973), pp. 7-19, for a factual overview of the FSA photographic project from the point of view of its director, Roy Stryker; and also Maren Strange, "The Record Itself: Farm Security Administration Photography and the Transformation of Rural Life," in Official Images: New Deal Photographs (Washington, D.C., 1987). Evans's disputes with the project's overtly political agenda have been widely cited. See, for example, Michael Brix, Walker Evans, America (exh. cat., Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1990-91), pp. 10-13.
2. At least one variant of Oberlin's image of Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi was placed on file with the FSA: see Walker Evans, Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938 > (New York, 1973), no. 130. It has yet to be determined if or in what context the FSA published this image.
3. Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), pp. 160-61.
4. Reproduced in Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), p. 169, no. 76.
5. Compare the organization of the exhibition as discussed and reconstructed in Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), pp. 160-97, with that of the catalogue, Walker Evans: American Photographs (reprint, New York, 1975).
6. See Walker Evans: American Photographs (reprint, New York, 1975), p. 52.
7. Lincoln Kirstein, "Photographs of America: Walker Evans," in Walker Evans: American Photographs (reprint, New York, 1975), p. 187.
8. The detached realism of Gustave Flaubert and the ambivalent modernism of Baudelaire profoundly impressed Evans, whose later photographic work would be informed by these literary models.


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Mexico swears in president amid violent protests
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Enrique Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president on Saturday, bringing the old ruling party back to power after a 12-year hiatus amid protests inside and outside the congressional chamber where he swore to protect the constitution and laws of the land.
The chamber erupted in cheers after a morning of violent protests, with congress members chanting "President!" and "Mexico!"
Outside, protesters opposed to the new president clashed with tear gas-wielding police, but had mostly dispersed before he arrived. At least two were injured, one gravely, police said, and a police officer who was bleeding from the face was taken for medical treatment.
Leftist congress members inside the chamber gave protest speeches and hung banners, including a giant one reading, "Imposition consummated. Mexico mourns."
"One word sums up Dec. 1: The restoration. The return to the past," said Congressman Ricardo Monreal of the Citizens Movement party.
Pena Nieto had taken over at midnight in a symbolic ceremony after campaigning as the new face of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, repentant and reconstructed after being voted out of the presidency in 2000. The PRI ruled for 71 years with a mix of populist handouts, graft and rigged elections.
Before Pena Nieto's motorcade arrived later that morning, hundreds banged on the tall steel security barriers around Congress, threw rocks, bottle rockets and firecrackers at police and yelled "Mexico without PRI!" Police responded by spraying tear gas from a truck and used fire extinguishers on flames from Molotov cocktails. One group of protesters rammed and dented the barrier with a large garbage-style truck before being driven off by police water cannons.
"We're against the oppression, the imposition of a person," said Alejandro, 25, a student and protester who didn't want to give his last name for fear of reprisals. "He gave groceries, money and a lot more so people would vote for him."
Before the swearing in, leftist congressmen inside the chambers demanded to know what was going on in the crowds and urged police to use restraint. Congressman Rafael Huerta of the Labor Party urged the new government to protect the people.
Another banner read: "You're giving up a seat bathed in blood," referring to outgoing President Felipe Calderon's attack on organized crime and the deaths of 60,000 people in that offensive by some counts.
Despite the protests, the swearing-in atmosphere at Congress was far less chaotic than six years ago, when Calderon security unit literally had to muscle him past blockades and protesters to get him into Congress so he could take the oath of office after a razor-thin, disputed victory over a leftist candidate.
Calderon had worked hard for a smooth transition after his experience.
After the oath-taking, the new president headed to deliver an inaugural speech at the historic National Palace in the city's downtown. Pena Nieto also planned a luncheon for invited guests, including U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Prince Felipe of Spain and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.
Pena Nieto has promised to govern democratically with transparency. But his first moves even before the inauguration showed a solid link to the past. In announcing his Cabinet on Friday, he turned to the old guard as well as new technocrats to run his administration.
"I don't think there is any such thing as a 'new PRI,'" said Rodrigo Aguilera, the Mexico analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit. "There is a new generation of PRI members, but they don't represent any fundamentally different outlook."
Pena Nieto has pledged to make economic growth and job creation the centerpiece of his administration, with campaign manager and long-time confidant Luis Videgaray the point person. Videgaray, a 44-year-old economist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lead the treasury department.
Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, a 48-year-old former state governor who is known as a political operator and deal maker, has been named secretary of the interior, a post that will play a key role in security matters.
Pena Nieto has also promised to push for reforms that could bring major new private investment into Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the crucial but struggling state-owned oil industry. Such changes that have been blocked for decades by nationalist suspicion of foreign meddling in the oil business.


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Man Denied Job Because He Isn't A Born-Again Christian, Lawsuit Says
Religious organizations are legally allowed to reject job applicants because of their religious beliefs. But even if Voss Lighting believes, as its website states, that its "biblical mission" is to sell lighting products, that doesn't make it a religious institution under U.S. law.
So when Voss allegedly refused to hire someone for not being a born-again Christian, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission entered the scene, and handed the company a lawsuit.
In early 2011, reports the Tulsa World, Edward Wolfe applied for an operations supervisor position at a Tulsa outlet of the Nebraska-based company, according to the EEOC.
During interviews for the job that Wolfe failed to get, two managers allegedly asked questions "both subtle and overt" about Wolfe's religious inclinations -- like the name of every church he'd attended over the past several years, when and where he was "saved," and whether he "would have a problem" arriving early to attend Bible study before the paid workday began.
One of the managers was clearly agitated by Wolfe's replies, reports the EEOC. A manager also allegedly said that most of Voss' employees were Southern Baptist, but it didn't matter what church you attended as long as you were "born-again."
On its website, Voss Lighting says its mission is to sell lighting products "so that we may 'tell' everyone we can about God's soul-saving, life-transforming gospel message as Jesus instructed believers to do." It then goes on to list various Biblical quotes, ending with Colossians 3:23: "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men..."
The EEOC claims that Wolfe was denied the job because he wasn't Christian enough, which violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It filed its lawsuit in Oklahoma federal court. Voss Lighting denies the charge, saying in a written statement to the Tulsa World that the person who was given the job simply had more lighting experience, and that the company "looks forward to a judicial determination of the rights of the parties."
Although Voss Lighting apparently isn't claiming the right to discriminate on religious grounds, the issue of religious organizations' freedom to hire on that basis was raised recently at a Senate hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The measure would make it illegal to refuse to hire someone for being gay, bisexual or transgender.
"ENDA is just one more example of a growing trend where 'discrimination' laws collide head-on with fundamental rights of religious organizations," Craig Parshall, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Religious Broadcasters Association, testified before the Senate committee.
ENDA, like all anti-discrimination laws, has a religious exemption built in, so that religious institutions are allowed to hire only individuals who share the faith of the organization. A lighting company isn't a religious institution, though, no matter how spiritually motivated it claims to be.
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Cameron University staff members Shalla Cortez-Orndorff and Mary Potvin are the recipients of the Fall 2012 semester's Pickaxe Awards, which recognize full-time Cameron employees who have made an extraordinary effort on Cameron's behalf. Cortez-Orndorff is the supervisor of the Fine Arts Computer Lab, and Potvin is Maintenance Coordinating Clerk for the Department of Physical Facilities. Each received a $500 stipend and a certificate commemorating the award.
The Pickaxe Award is presented each semester to recognize full-time employees whose performance exceeds the expectations of their job descriptions. The award recipients have made a contribution and/or commitment that has resulted in a significant difference to Cameron students, visitors, or other employees, or whose commitment to their job responsibilities, department, or the university stands out as a clear example to all other employees. Award recipients must have been employed full-time at least one year at Cameron. Nominations were made by Cameron students, faculty and staff. Recipients were selected by the university's Executive Council.
Cortez-Orndorff was recognized for her generosity and her willingness to go beyond her duties to assist Cameron students with their assignments. One nominator indicated that she changed the Fine Arts Lab opening hour from 8 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. in order to accommodate students who had 8 a.m. classes. Other nominators referred to her as helpful and approachable, and she was cited to as "a good example of how Cameron employees should treat their students."
Potvin was recognized for her positive attitude and keen organizational skills. One nominator stated that she is always "smiling and friendly," while another called her "an indispensable member of the Physical Facilities team" who "goes above and beyond." Potvin was also praised as "the first line response to incoming work order requests and does a very good job assigning work orders to the various shops." She was also recognized for her dedication to helping fellow employees in need by organizing flowers, cards, and gifts.
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Brittany Bowe may be peaking at just the right time.
With the Olympic Trials for long track speedskating beginning Dec. 27th, the FAU graduate and native Floridian just wrapped up a torrid month of work.
Competing in four World Cup events from Salt Lake City to Kazakhstan, Bowe has racked up six medals including two gold and a world record in that time. She is South Florida's best bet for a medal in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia in February.
Along with teammate and best friend Heather Richardson, Bowe may also become the first woman to medal in speedskating since 2002 when another local product, Miami's Jennifer Rodriguez, took home two bronze in Salt Lake City.
Based on her strong showing, Bowe is all but a lock to make the U.S. team and take the biggest step yet to achieving her dream of being an Olympic champion.
"Oh yeah, I can taste it, that's for sure," Bowe told NBC 6 while training at the U.S. Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah.
It's been a whirlwind 42 months for the 25-year-old, who started her career as an inline speedskater and college basketball point guard before trading in her wheels and sneakers for ice skates in July of 2010.
In just that short time, Bowe, a native of Ocala, has become the new world record holder in the women's 1,000 meters.
Bowe set the world record on her home track Nov. 17th, finishing in one minute, 12.58 seconds, a tenth-of-a-second faster than the previous mark. In fact, she had top three finishes in the event in all four World Cup events in November and December.
The day before her world record in Utah, Bowe took home silver in the 1,500 meters.
An Olympic berth would cap off a momentous year. The former Boca resident won her first World Cup gold medal of her career in Germany in March during the early year events.
"When I first stepped onto the first place podium in Germany, it was the first time I felt victorious in a really, really long time," Bowe admitted. "And ever since then, I haven't wanted to get off that podium."
Making an Olympic roster has been the plan all along, but the former point guard is 8th on the Owls' all-time scoring list, 4th in assists and 9th in steals.
"I wanted to be an Olympian all my life," she said.
Bowe went to FAU on a basketball scholarship, putting her mark on the school's record book. During her senior year, Bowe was mulling a professional basketball career overseas.
"But you come to the realization of where you stand with things, and I knew I wasn't going to fulfill my Olympic dream through basketball," she said.
Luckily for Bowe, she had a second love in her life.
"When I was 8 years old, I was at the local skating rink in Ocala for a friend's birthday party. The inline skating team had practiced directly following this party and the coach must've gotten there a little early. She saw me racing around the track and invited me out to a practice. That's where it all started," Bowe recalled.
From 2002 to 2008, Bowe claimed 32 World Championship medals in inline skating and three Pan-American golds in 2007. Much of Bowe's life has been balancing hoops and skating.
"I grew up in the basketball gym with my dad. He taught high school and coached football, basketball and track. I could dribble when I could walk."
Bowe starred at the point for Trinity Catholic High School, earning runner-up honors in the 3A Player of the Year honors. Once speeding in sneakers was done for the season, Bowe would speed on wheels.
"I loved both of them. They never clashed. I always made them work and they were always fun for me," she said.
The balancing act continued through college. As graduation neared, Bowe felt herself at a crossroads.
"In February of 2010, I watched the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and I saw a lot of my friends and competitors from inline skating walking in the Opening Ceremony and competing and it just lit a fire within me. I need to do this. I'm going to move to Salt Lake City and try to make this dream come true," she said.
Bowe packed up her bags and left Boca and Ocala behind, heading instead to the elevated air of Utah.
"When I first landed here and saw the mountains, I was like, oh man, there's no beach. There's no ocean. What am I going to do?"
While Bowe was a prodigy on wheels, switching to a blade on ice would take some adjusting.
"The first time I put on my skates, I was out there hanging onto the wall," she joked. "Thankfully there were some ex-inliners out there who didn't make me feel as dumb as I thought I felt."
"It's taken a lot of hard work and a lot of time. You have 37 seconds, give or take, to give it your best. One slip up, one misstep, that's the end of it for you. It's very cut-throat. It needs to be perfect from beginning to end."
For now, the pride of Ocala continues to hone her skill, getting increasingly anxious.
"When I'm sitting around, just daydreaming, it's in my mind 24/7. It's something I thought about since I was just a little kid," she said. "The thought doesn't change. It's just the details that change a little bit."
With Sochi just around the corner, Bowe hopes the best is yet to come.
"The Olympics is the highest platform of being a sportsman," Bowe said. "And I want to be the best in the world and that's being Olympic champion."


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The endlessly discussed, yet-to-happen but highly feared Fed interest rate hikes are likely to be far more benign than investors imagine, if market history is a guide.
So says Northern Trust Asset Management's chief investment strategist James McDonald in a new commentary guiding the storied ultra-high-net-worth wealth management firm's clients.
McDonald argues that barring an unexpected inflation shock or the like, the Fed's well-orchestrated plan for rate normalization should not be overly disruptive to stock and bond markets, and indeed, can be profitably exploited through what he calls a "tightening trade."
Looking at the five tightening cycles of the past 30 years (1986, 1988, 1994, 1999 and 2004), the Northern Trust strategist shows that that the stock market has adjusted well, following an initial adjustment, rising during the 12-month period straddling the initial hike in four of the five cycles.
The one exception was the 1988 cycle, whose negative returns McDonald attributes to the October 1987 market crash rather than the fed funds cycle per se. Higher corporate earnings generally fueled the stock market rise during these cycles.
McDonald does not foresee a rate hike for some time though, noting that the data in four key areas—unemployment, inflation, wages and capacity utilization—are in the main far from signaling Fed tightening.
"Inflation is currently well below the levels at which prior rate hikes began," he writes; moreover, the fact that the current Fed is more concerned with growth and "the durability of the recovery" over inflation risk gives markets leeway in this area.
Unemployment data also provides cushion before acting. Even though the headline unemployment has fallen from 10% to 6.2% in the past five years, McDonald says that broader measures of unemployment and a dramatically declining labor participation rate do not suggest a need for hurry on the Fed's part.
Ditto for wage gains—which have averaged a meager 2% for all private workers in 2014. Only capacity utilization, which McDonald views as the "least impactful" measure, shows signs of maturation (as it is approaching its 30-year median) that would warrant some attention from the Fed.
In this still weak environment, "the fed funds futures market first signals a hike in July 2015 and has the hike fully priced in by October 2015," he writes.
As mentioned, earnings growth has tended to propel stocks higher during tightening cycles (after some level of correction occurring in the first two months of a rate hike). The asset classes that have performed best have been developed ex-U.S. equities, emerging market equities and global real estate.
More specifically, "defensive factors" — low volatility, dividend yield, quality and value — have tended to shine in rising rate environments. Being long these defensive factors and short small-cap and momentum is what McDonald refers to as the tightening trade investors should embrace.
In the current environment, McDonald would emphasize low volatility over dividend-yielding stocks, since the latter are currently expensive.
Fixed-income performance is more complex, but the key driver has been future expectations for interest rates. McDonald argues that, currently, interest rate increases are already priced into the bond market, so bonds should perform positively barring rate hikes that exceed expectations.
The Northern Trust strategist gives the example of a 10-yeaer bond yielding 2.4%, which he says can be viewed as a 5-year bond five years hence. Through that prism, "the current five-year rate of 1.63% could double over the next five years without a negative impact on the price of our original 10-year bond," he writes.
Though positive, bond performance should still be low by historical standards, McDonald cautions, because of the low starting point of interest rates.
"However, we do not anticipate material adverse price impacts from increasing rates. In fact, we continue to believe that the rate normalization process will occur at a slower pace than the market believes," he writes, adding that high-yield has historically outperformed in rising rate environments.
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Carnegie Medal Finalist
This past May On Paper was named one of three finalists for the 2014 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction by the American Library Association. (First prize ultimately went to Doris Kearns Goodwin for The Bully Pulpit; the runners-up were myself, and Sheri Fink, for Five Days at Memorial.) In its announcement, the ALA cited On Paper thusly: "Combining crisp technical explanations with vivid historical and contemporary profiles, Basbanes unfolds the two-thousand-year story of paper, revealing in the process that paper is nothing less than an embodiment of humanity." Read More On Paper was also named a Best Book of the Year for 2013 by Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Bloomberg News, Mother Jones, and the National Post of Canada. Hardcover and paperback copies are available in bookstores everywhere, and from any of these online vendors.
On Paper Reviews
"Buoyant, encyclopedic ... Celebrates paper in all its forms." - The New Yorker
"Every facet of this celebration of paper is engrossing and thought-provoking ... Paper, Basbanes avers, is nothing less than an embodiment and conveyance of humanity." - Donna Seaman, Booklist (Starred Review) (A Best Book of the Year)
"An absolutely fascinating tale" An engrossing, essential book that no book lover should be without." - Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
Also by Nicholas Basbanes
The Definitive Edition
When first published, A Gentle Madness astounded and delighted readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. Written before the emergence of the Internet but newly updated for the 21st Century reader, A Gentle Madness captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. Now a timeless classic of collecting, no lover of books can miss A Gentle Madness.
"[Basbanes is] our top writerly bibliophile [and now also] a philosopher of paper ... [He is] a power hitter whose grand slam brings home other recent appreciators of paper [and] provides the sweep of information that makes breaking down the 'Whither Paper' question clear and necessary." - Carlin Romano, The Chronicle of Higher Education
"A delightful and intrepid guide in this capacious history of paper. A lively tale told with wit and vigor." - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) (A Best Book of the Year)
"Pretty much irresistible." - Library Journal (Starred Review) (A Best Book of the Year)
"I will confess to being an enormous Basbanes fan, but this volume may well be his best." - Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg News (A Best Book of the Year)
"Fascinating. Reminds us that bound up in the most mundane of objects, there is the potential for the deepest of human expression." - Mother Jones (A Best Book of the Year)
"Nicholas Basbanes is something of a national treasure, bringing what is often called 'book culture' in front of us. In an age of the digital page, when books can be downloaded, when e-mail and twitter are developing a distinctive lexicon and rhetoric, when the book itself seems to be on its way out of our private and public culture, Basbanes returns us, again and again, to the importance of paper, as we knew it, know it, and, hopefully, shall maintain it." - Lewis Fried, The Key Reporter (The Phi Beta Kappa Society)
"[Basbanes] has poured his heart and soul into this splendid survey of a beautiful human invention." - Philip Marchand, National Post (Canada) (A Best Book of the Year)
"Basbanes demonstrates prowess as a perceptive, comprehensive researcher who combines instincts as a seasoned investigative journalist with a knack for spinning a yarn, using appropriately understated first-person narrative that highlights the subject and not the author. In fact, Basbanes utilizes a unique version of 'saturation reporting,' the phrase coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 to describe a type of new journalism practiced by a vanguard whose identifying characteristic was total immersion in the subject. Basbanes plunges into the multifaceted idea of paper, his adventurous inquiry so extensive (the bibliography lists 196 books) that readers indeed can be sure they are getting 'the everything' he promises." - William F. Meehan III, Information & Culture: A Journal of History
"Nicholas Basbanes is an especially congenial writer, a quality he displayed memorably in A Gentle Madness, his 1995 history of book collecting and collectors. He does it again most pleasurably in On Paper, a wide-ranging investigation into the 'everything' of that ubiquitous and indispensable construction of cellulose fibers whose history paralleled--and made possible--the rise of civilization." - David Walton, The Dallas Morning News
"On Paper concludes with an elegant chapter titled 'Elegy in Fragments,' about Sept. 11, 2001. In a grim contrast to ticker-tape parades, Basbanes writes, 'paper rain' fell after the attack on the World Trade Center. The tattered sheets bore witness to the ordinary and extraordinary lives of the victims, writ small and large in deposit slips, legal memoranda, and a call for help from a man on the 84th floor. And to the place of paper as 'artifacts of consequence.'" - Glenn C. Altschuler, Tulsa World
" ... paper remains in robust health. One reason is that it combines apparently irreconcilable properties--durability (it outlasts papyrus and floppy disks alike), portability (a precondition of modern postal systems) and foldability (one of Nicholas A. Basbanes's most engrossing chapters concerns origami). That trio allowed it to displace other writing surfaces that were fragile, unwieldy or both: clay, stone, papyrus, parchment, metal, bark, bones and even seashells." - Leah Price, Times Literary Supplement
"On Paper represents a new contribution to an ongoing dialogue about the future of reading and print ... Basbanes is more optimistic about the future of paper, in part because he has so thoroughly explored its past. As [his] book shows, paper, that most remarkable technology, has always been the most effective medium for capturing what is both practical and passionate about being human." - Christine Rosen, The Wilson Quarterly
"Nicholas A. Basbanes, 'a self-confessed bibliophiliac' (the term roughly translates as someone who loves, loves, really loves books), has made a later-life career of exploring the worlds of fellow book-obsessed souls and in the process has mapped a fascinating, little-discussed corner of cultural history. His first book, published when he was 52, was the surprise bestseller A Gentle Madness (1995), an illuminating, often amusing look at book collectors. His previous book, About the Author (2010), explored the creative process of writers. Now he turns his attention to the medium that enables his bibliophilia to flourish: paper." - Alden Mudge, BookPage
"natty, bright, and good-humored. Paper as an art form and paper as history are glories--there are terrific chapters on origami and its votaries, the story of rag to paper pulp to feed the needs of American colonists to behave seditiously in their newspapers, and how Islamic countries forsook the printing press out of reverence to calligraphy" - Peter Lewis, Barnes & Noble Review
"Beyond the fascinating history the author is drawn to the idea of paper, for it is a marvel of both medium and message, a tool both flexible and functional. A lover of the printed word will surely choose to read On Paper in a print edition, although a digital edition is available. Here's guessing that an ebook will likely leave you longing for the feel of paper as you read this remarkable story." - Helen Gallagher, New York Journal of Books
"Why is it that the field of papermaking has attracted so many memorable characters? Or maybe Nick Basbanes has just had a knack of discovering so many of the most colorful of them." - Martin A. Hubbe, BioResources
"Well known for his love of books and his scholarship in the area of book culture, Basbanes in his most recent work, On Paper, gives us a consummate look at the pages of books as well as reminds us of the myriad other uses paper continues to serve, even in a modern world that some have forecast to be a 'paperless society.'" - Lois Carr, The Wichita Eagle
"To his credit, and that of his publisher, Nicholas A. Basbanes put an honest subtitle to his newest work, On Paper. It is indeed 'The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History.' A prodigious and endlessly fascinating tome ... can be read either as a single work or nibbled on over time like a Whitman's Sampler. Even if Basbanes were not the accomplished writer of books on books that he is, this new work could sustain itself on the endless parade of conversation-starter tidbits." - James McGrath Morris, Santa Fe New Mexican
"With an accomplished background in investigative journalism, Basbanes deftly splices together countless disparate topics. Along the way readers come to know how cellulose relates to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and the crucial role paper played in the hands of top CIA exfiltrator Tony Mendez whose 'audacious plan' would eventually prompt the movie Argo. Less esoteric but just as fascinating are the chapters on the quotidian uses of paper. These facts and figures astound readers but the strength of On Paper lies in the author's ability to analyze this information and show the importance of paper to humanity. [It is] a joy to read, perhaps owing to the enthusiastic tone in which it is written. He has generously transformed his eight years of painstaking research into an entertaining book sure to gratify anyone curious about paper." - Akemi Martin, Hand Papermaking (Summer 2014)


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With less than three months until Team USA plays its first game on February 13th vs Slovakia in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, things are heating up in the battle to make the team.
The rosters for many of the countries will be finalized over the next four to six weeks and make no mistake about it, earning a spot on a team is a big deal to NHL players.
Washington Capitals fans will have both Alexander Ovechkin (Russia) and Nicklas Backstrom (Sweden) to watch in Sochi, but there is another Caps player that is making a strong case to be on an Olympic roster, USA's John Carlson.
That Carlson is in the running for a spot on the team is no surprise to Caps fans. #74 has been flat out dominant over the last few weeks and his 32:26 of ice time on Friday night in Detroit, including an eye popping 4:19 of play in the five minute overtime is quite telling. Carlson is a major reason that Washington is 6-1-1 in the month of November.
Team USA's GM is David Poile and he is the ultimate decision maker for the roster, but he will get help from others to include Team USA's head coach, Dan Byslma and Pens GM, Ray Shero.
Two quality NHL hockey writers, Pierre LeBrun and Scott Burnside, handicapped the Team USA roster on November 7th. In that post they list the following four players as locks to make Team USA's defense:
Ryan Suter (Minnesota)
Paul Martin (Pittsburgh)
Jack Johnson (Columbus)
Ryan McDonagh (New York Rangers)
Given that there are likely going to be eight players chosen on defense, that leaves four roster spots remaining.
In the mix to make the roster, based on who attended Team USA's camp last August, in addition to Carlson are:
Kevin Faulk (Carolina)
Kevin Shattenkirk (St. Louis)
Keith Yandle (Phoenix)
Brooks Orpik (Pittsburgh)
Dustin Byfuglien (Winnipeg)
Zach Bogosian (Winnipeg)
Matt Carle (Tampa Bay)
Cam Fowler (Anaheim)
Seth Jones (Nashville)
Danny DeKeyser (Detroit)
Erik Johnson (Colorado)
According to LeBrun and Burnside, they have Yandle, Shattenkirk, Faulk, and Orpik as the next four on their list. Carlson was further down on their rankings, but again, that list was done on November 7th and nine days later, we have more data.
The key for Poile is to have a crew that is playing as well as possible when February 13th arrives.
When talking to the former Caps GM out at Kettler IcePlex last August, it was clear to me that Poile is very concerned about the lack of success the Americans have had in the Olympics outside of North America and he pinpointed their ability to play on the Olympic sized ice, which is wider than the NHL rinks. This changes the game and puts a larger premium on skating ability.
It also, in my mind, puts more emphasis on having right handed players play the right side and vice versa with the left. Looking at the four locks to make the team in the ESPN article, one thing to note is that all four of those defensemen shoot left. So of the remaining four spots, one would have to think that at least three of them should be right handed shots.
The right handed shots on the above list are: Carlson, Jones, Erik Johnson, Kevin Faulk, Kevin Shattenkirk, Zach Bogosian, and Dustin Byfuglien.
Is Carlson in the top three or four on that list?
With the way #74's played over the last month, absolutely!
Carlson's four goals leads all USA defensemen (tied with McDonagh) and his 23:38 average time on ice puts him sixth overall out of the 16 players mentioned as possibilities. Carlson, and his defensive partner, Karl Alzner, routinely play against the top line of the opposition. So he's no stranger to top players like Sidney Crosby, Geno Malkin, Eric Staal, Martin St. Louis, and John Tavares that will be donning the uniforms of Team USA's opposition. There's a reason Carlson gets those assignments game in and game out, he's considered Washington's top right handed defender in his own zone.
Another reason Team USA should choose Carlson is his skating ability. The 2010 World Junior Championship hero for Team USA is extremely mobile and that is something Poile's team absolutely has to have in Sochi. I'm not sure a guy like Orpik is as effective on the big ice as he'd be in an NHL sized rink. Jones is a generational player and a raw talent, but he's only 19 years old and is only just this year playing against the top competiton in the NHL. It just seems too risky to choose him now with so much pressure on the Americans to medal. Seth will eventually be there, but now is not the time. I'd also pass on a guy like Byfuglien who has had conditioning issues in the past and isn't a super skater. He's another guy more suited to NHL sized rinks. Bogosian, with all of the potential he brought when drafted high in Atlanta and his great skating ability, just hasn't been consistent. Erik Johnson was super in Vancouver in 2010, but his game has been up and down recently and he is another much more suited to the NHL sized rink.
That leaves Carlson, Faulk, and Shattenkirk as my top three right handed shots. Carlson not only kills penalties but he also has a hard shot to bring to the power play. You can't play 4:19 of a five minute overtime without being in great shape and #74 routinely is one of Washington's best conditioned players. Overall, there is just no downside to putting Carlson on Team USA. He's played in big games at the NHL level and in junior competitions in enemy rinks.
Carlson is playing the best hockey of his career right now and he deserves a really good look from Poile, Bylsma, and Shero (the Penguins are in town on Wednesday). If they see what we've seen Carlson do over the last several weeks, win the loose puck battles in all zones, get his shots to the net, and shut down the top line of the opposition, they should come to the same conclusion I've come to:
John Carlson deserves to be on the Team USA roster for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.


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Roasted sweet potatoes are fabulous also.
Just peel, cube, and toss with a bit of olive oil.
Roasting brings out a veggie's sweetness.
I have recently fallen in love with this roasted broccoli recipe.
I'm not the world's biggest broccoli fan, but this one blows my mind.
It's that good.
And since I loved the roasted broccoli so much, I decided to try roasting some cauliflower.
I don't like cauliflower.
I haven't since I was a kid.
There are not very many things I don't like--I'm not picky anymore.
But cauliflower--ugh.
Until now.
I love it when it's roasted, baby!
It is sweet, and buttery and melts in your mouth.
I like it on my salad.
Or all by itself.
I make it a couple times a week.
I'm kind of obsessed with it right now.
Best part?
It's super easy.
Here's what to do.
Buy a head of cauliflower, or a bag of cauliflower.
Pre-heat oven to 400.
Break the florets into similar sized pieces.
Put them into a baking dish.
Drizzle with olive oil and stir to cover the cauliflower pieces with oil.
Sprinkle with salt. (add pepper if you like)
Bake for about 30 mins or until the cauliflower is tender.
Finish off with a dusting pf Parmesan cheese if you wish, or leave plain.
Told you--it couldn't be easier.
I suggest you give it a try as soon as possible.
Now, on to the pot.
I got a new, well vintage actually, enamelware pan.
Isn't that yellow color so happy?
My wonderful, wonderful sister gave it to me.
It's the same shape as the big paella pan, but in a smaller size.
I'm so happy with it.
I am so happy I have a sister who gives me such awesome presents--for no reason at all!
She's the one who started my collection in the first place.
This cookware is really great.
I use it at least 3 or 4 times a week.
Now I have 3 pieces and I really want to expand my collection.
I've been looking at a number of pieces on Etsy.
Here are some current favorites.
This one. (i don't have any of the covered pots yet)
This one. (isn't it cute?!)
This one. (i need the big one too, of course)
This one. (i dream of these pitchers)
And these. (heck yeah I want a fondue pot! and there are so many cool ones to choose from)
And this one. (be still my heart)
If you want to see lots more, go here. (i could have share about 20 more)
I guess I am kind of obsessed with vintage enamelware, too.
But if I'm going to obsess, I guess roasted cauliflower and vintage enamelware aren't the worst things to obsess over, right?
So, what's your current obsession?
Love from,