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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Crumb-Topped Pumpkin Loaf
But I took ZERO pictures. Terrible, I know.
But I do have a recipe to share. Now that Fall is within sight, I'm in a baking mood. So when I found this yummy recipe in Family Circle, we gave it a whirl. And it was de-licious.
Crumb-Topped Pumpkin Loaf
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsps. baking powder
1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup packed dark-brown sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup walnuts, finely chopped
1 tsp. confectioners' sugar (optional)
Heat oven to 350°. Coat a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Mix flour, baking powder, pie spice and salt in small bowl. Beat egg and sugar in large bowl. Beat in pumpkin, oil and vanilla until smooth. Make a well in center of flour mixture. Add egg mixture. Stir just until moistened and batter comes together. Fold in walnuts. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
Topping: Mix butter, brown sugar and flour in small bowl until crumbly. Stir in walnuts. Sprinkle over batter. Bake loaf at 350° for 50 to 55 minutes, until wooden toothpick tests clean. Cool in pan on rack 10 minutes. Turn out onto rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners sugar; slice.
Have a good week!
15 comments:
- jess said...
That looks AMAZING. I will definitely be trying that recipe soon :)
- September 20, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- Jeni said...
I have a few cans of pumpkin in my food storage just waiting for something like this....it's that time!
- September 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM
- Montserrat said...
I love anything with pumpkin in it. And I just happen to have 1 cup of pumpkin left over from making Spiced Pumpkin Waffles. Hurray!!!
- September 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Kathleen said...
very yummy! we'll try it out!
- September 20, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Laurel @ Ducks in a Row said...
OOOh - I love love pumpkin. We had pumpkin cake tonight,even. This looks just delicious!
- September 20, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Yum, Amber!
I have been wondering how you are doing and am glad I had a few quiet minutes this morning to pop over and see!
SO GLAD Josh's ears are doing better. That is fantastic news!
I'm also happy that you and Tony got to have a little getaway and go see Wicked! I know how much you loved it the first time, and it sounds like the second time did not disappoint. I would love to go to Seattle someday. You live in a great part of the country.
Congrats on all your canning! You SHOULD be feeling peachy! I am impressed.
I love that every day at 4:30 you get to hear the National Anthem (probably sing along to it too!). I think this is something your children will remember forever.
Good luck to the McIllece kiddos as another new school year gets underway. I hope they'll be very happy in their new place.
Say HELLO to Tony and your crew! My boys watch the FG video from time to time and I get such a chuckle out of hearing them refer to Tyler's friends like they know them. "Oh, there's Tony. Hey! That's Deric! ..." Tony is famous around here with the Borg Boys for his role in throwing a dummy off the roof of Hillcrest High School! You must be so proud! :)
- September 21, 2009 at 8:27 AM
- Georgia Girl said...
Yumo....I am going to have to make this cake. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Also love your banner...so simple and cute.
- September 21, 2009 at 8:57 AM
- Leenz said...
I love anything that is pumpkin! I will definitely give this one a try.
- September 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- The FOUR M's... said...
I've just been catching up on reading blogs (so many projects lately!) and I just wanted to say again that yours is so much fun! I can't wait to try this recipe, and you have such fun ideas for crafts, etc. Love love love! Anyway -- I'll keep my blog updated with any baby news that comes up -- thanks for the well-wishes! I so appreciate it!
- September 21, 2009 at 7:30 PM
- MooreInterest said...
Alright, girlie, you are seriously HARD to keep up with! From peaches to family to yummy bread. I am completely amazed! I am going to try this recipe for VT! It looks delicious! There's nothing like showing up with a sweet treat! Thanks for sharing!
- September 21, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Jenni said...
Oh yum! This looks like a great recipe! This is the second time today that I have wanted to back something with pumpkin in it! I will have to pick some canned pumpkin up at the store and try this recipe out soon! :)
I wish you lived on this side of the mountains! I would love looking at all your fall magazines with you, or crafting! I hope you are doing well, and having a good week!
- September 22, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- Eloise said...
I love anything pumpkin, and that bread looks absolutely fabulous! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
- September 23, 2009 at 7:09 AM
- Ruth Ann said...
Oh that sounds sooo delicious! Thanks for sharing...I'll have to try that soon! Have a great weekend!
- September 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Sydney said...
I'm going to have to copy this one down. All I can say is YUM!
- September 28, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Amanda P. said...
This looks so good Amber! I'm definitely going to try it. Thanks for the recipe.
- October 1, 2009 at 2:58 AM


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Are these
or mini Panettone:-).Panettone is an yeasted Italian fruit bread cylindrical in shape and has raisins and candied peel in it.I did not have a pannetone mould so tried to bake it with a small cup cake mould.
Sarah from Maison Cupcakes
challenged us to bake Pannetone for
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November challenge
The original recipe is given by Sarah
I just baked 1/3rd the quantity as given in the original recipe and omitted the eggs. Substituted brown sugar instead of white sugar....The colour was a little darker but tasted extremely good.Try this , you will love it.
All purpose flour 1 cup+1/4 cup
Brown sugar 1/4 cup
Yeast 1/2 tsp
Water 1/4 cup
Butter 2 tbsp
Chocochips 2 tbsp
Candied peel 1 tbsp
Raisins 2 tbsp
Prove the yeast in 1/4 cup of water to which 1/2 tsp of white sugar is added. Keep it in a warm place for it to froth.
Next take the all purpose flour and mix it with the brown sugar in a big bowl and add the yeast mixture to this and knead well.
Add the softened butter to this and continue to knead ill you get a soft pliable dough.Cover with a cloth and keep it aside for 2 hrs for it to rise well.
When it has risen. transfer this to a board and incorporate all the fruits and chocolate chips into this and knead again.
Prepare the tin by greasing and transfer this to a prepared tin.If you knead a cylindrical pannetone, place a cylindrical paper inside you small cake mould(4"). While baking it will rise in that paper cylinder.I baked this amount in two small cup cakes moulds, so it did not rise in the cylindrical paper:-(
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Preheat the oven to 190C
Place these cake tins and bake for 10 minutes.
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Take it out from the oven and let it cool on a wire rack
Serve when completely cooled
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ONARCHITECTURE- Handymillionaire special: 'The Lodge' goes on the block
Famed local architect Eugene Bradbury designed the Charlottesville Country Club on Rugby Road in the late 1900s. In 1950, the Chi Psi Fraternity bought the building, which has been known since then as "The Lodge."
Looking for a multi-million dollar fixer-upper? Your search may soon end. Recently, board members of the Chi Psi Fraternity house on Rugby Road, known as "The Lodge," voted to put the 100-plus-year-old property up for sale for "north of $2 million," says board member Paul Wright. The fraternity bought the house in 1950.
"The Lodge is at a crossroads," wrote fraternity president Rob Robertson in a fraternity newsletter last August. "Its very survival is at stake."
The far-from-frat row fraternity had just five pledges earlier that spring, and Robertson wrote that over $200,000 in repairs and upgrades (the Lodge is currently assessed at $903,700) were needed to remain competitive with other housing options for UVA undergrads.
"Structurally, it's in good shape," says Wright, "but it needs some work."
Although the fraternity's board considered other options for the Lodge, Wright says, they eventually voted to sell the property despite concerns that a new location might "disassociate us from our rich history and unique location."
Proceeds from a sale, says Wright, will help Chi Psi find a place closer to the other fraternities closer to Grounds.
If the 10,000-square-foot house could talk, it would have plenty of stories to tell. It was originally built around the turn of the century as a private residence (the pool was constructed in 1908, as inscribed in the concrete), and the building was later expanded and redesigned by famed local architect Eugene Bradbury in 1914 as the Charlottesville Country Club.
According to a 1915 article in the Daily Progress, the Country Club quickly became the center of Charlottesville fashion and society, hosting lavish dances with a guest list that included Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Alderman and nearly every other distinguished member of the legal, business, and academic communities.
The Club, however, was short-lived, and the property was sold to R.J.R. Bing, better known as Bobby Mainfort, who operated the place as the White Pine Health Resort which, besides the swimming pool, offered guests several cottages on the property for short stays.
Much later, according to Wright, the Lodge played host to other notables including Prince Albert, Ted Kennedy (whose local drunk driving record has become so legendary that Wright says there's a rumor that Kennedy's vehicle had a run-in with the pillars out front). More recently, Dave Matthews Band performed there in 1992. And, of course, the Lodge played host to over 50 years of frat guy shenanigans.
The Lodge's potential sale causes some people concern-– perhaps for good reason.
"I sure hope this is not going to be another preservation battle," says UVA architectural historian Daniel Bluestone, referring to a Bradbury designed building, Beta House, that was unceremoniously demolished in December by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation to make way for a gleaming new headquarters.
"A developer could likely get substantial tax credits for rehabilitation, and the building is well worth preserving," says Bluestone.
Wright says the lesson of Beta House demolition wasn't lost on his fellow Chi Psi board members, who don't want a similar fate to befall their beloved Lodge.
"We would prefer it not be sold to a developer," says Wright, "and would rather it be sold as a private residence."
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Day 3 and done ISCWest 2013
On Friday, April 12, Day 3 of ISC West, many were already heading to McCarren, but I was heading back to the show floor. And this year, though the crowd had thinned considerably, so were a lot of other folks.
Very decent crowd for Friday of ISC West.
While I had early rallies on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, I didn't have any official appointments until 10 a.m. on Friday. My first was with IMS/IHS's Niall Jenkins. We caught up on a few things including plans for TechSec 2014. Yes, plans are underway, and Amy and I have some great ideas—you'll hear all about them in September.
Next was a meeting with Matt Barnette of AMAG. I was supposed to go to the AMAG A&E and integrators' event in March. Unfortunately, lengthy flight delays derailed that plan—so I spent some time catching up on some news announced at that event. AMAG is all excited about their new Symmetry SR series retrofit controllers, which can be used to convert competitor's legacy systems to AMAG's Symmetry solution. "Our engineers used our existing hardware platform and changed the form factor so it's a direct pin for pin [upgrade] solution for traditional Casi Rusco solution," Barnette said.
A couple of years ago, UTC (parent company of Casi Rusco) announced that it would end-of-life its Secure Perfect and Picture Perfect solutions and would transition those customers to a product called Facility Commander. AMAG considers this change in UTC's roadmap as an opportunity to get those UTC (Casi Rusco) customers to instead transition to AMAG.
Back at the video studio, I did two more ssnTVnews interviews, one with Rob Hile, CEO of IFSS, an independent integrator in Florida and one with Levy Acs of American Integrated Security Group.
Hile and I talked about IFSS's successful migration to a services-based model, and Acs and I did a follow-up interview on this story I wrote last month about his ambitious growth plans.
The rest of Friday was spent walking the show floor and hanging around the ssnTVnews studio chatting with folks who stopped by.
What was the theme of ISCWest 2013? There was continued talk about mobility and cloud. More manufacturers are figuring out how to offer the two and integrators are starting to see possibilities for making money offering the same. The big theme it seems to me, however, was optimism. There was a vibe at this show I haven't sensed in many years and, frankly, it's not what I was expecting after the not-so-crowded ASIS show last fall.
I heard the same from nearly everyone I spoke to. Good to see; nice to be a part of.


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If you didn't grow up cooking your own frijoles, (or eating them for that matter), the process can seem intimidating. The closest I came to frijoles growing up was baked beans with hot dogs, or beans from a can for bean salad – an experience far different from Carlos's, which was eating home-simmered frijoles in some form almost daily.
Beans are a big part of most Latin American culture and cuisine – so much so that there are many Spanish "dichos" (proverbs) that mention them.
Dichos about Frijoles (Beans)
• "Estás como los frijoles: al primer hervor se arrugan". ("You're like beans: From the first boil, wrinkled." Said of those who are easily intimidated.)
• "Comes frijoles y eructas jamón". ("You eat beans and burp ham." Refers to people who are of humble origin, but presumed to be rich by others.)
• "Prefiero frijoles con amor que gallina con dolor." ("I prefer beans with love than chicken with sorrow.")
• "En política hay que ser como frijoles de olla, a veces abajo, a veces arriba…pero siempre dentro." ("In politics you have to be like a pot of beans, sometimes down, sometimes up … but always inside.")
• "A la mejor cocinera se le queman los frijoles." ("Even the best cook burns the beans" – meaning we all make mistakes.)
• "Con esa carne ni frijoles pido." ("With this meat, I don't even ask for beans." – This is a "piropo" or flirtatious saying a man might say to a woman.)
Learning to Cook Beans
All those beans may have put Carlos off because he isn't crazy about them – and so, for the first few years of our marriage, I got away with canned beans. Eventually, with Suegra always telling me the canned beans were a "pecado" (sin), I knew I had to learn to cook them.
It took awhile for me to get the hang of it. There were pots of beans that burned, pots of beans that never softened, pots of beans that were tasteless, and even one I forgot I had left soaking that ended up fermenting. While this doesn't sound encouraging to bean amateurs, it really isn't that difficult if you know what you're doing.
While I still keep the "sinful" latas de frijoles in my pantry, I make a pot of beans about once a month and they last as a compliment to several meals. We usually eat them as frijoles molidos or mixed with rice in a Salvadoran dish called "casamiento" ("marriage" in English. Cute name, right?) Sometimes I make black beans but more commonly it's frijoles de seda – the small red beans loved by Salvadorans. Here are a few Salvadoran dishes that require beans:
Other Salvadoran dishes that use frijoles:
• Frijoles Molidos
• Sopa de Frijoles
• Platanos con Frijoles y Crema
Ready to make your own pot of beans? Here's my method.
RECIPE: Frijoles Salvadoreños (Salvadoran Beans)
You need:
• 1 lb. frijoles de seda (it will say on the packaging. These can be found at Latino markets and look like small kidney beans.)
• 2 green onions, (roots chopped off)
• a few cloves of garlic
1. Pour beans into a large heavy bottomed pot. Sift through and remove any tiny pebbles or shriveled looking beans. Heat beans on stove with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, remove from heat. This is known as a "quick soak." Leave the beans in the hot water for 1 hour. After the beans have finished soaking, drain the water.
2. Add fresh water that comes an inch above the beans. Return pot to medium heat. Add the green onion ripped into large piece and garlic cloves, (these give the beans flavor.) DO NOT ADD SALT. Adding salt before beans have cooked will keep them hard.
3. Bring to a boil then cover and lower heat so beans simmer. It may take 3-4 hours before beans become sufficiently tender and you must make sure to add water when needed so pot doesn't cook dry. Remembering to check on the beans is the hardest part for me. If you're afraid you'll forget, (and believe me, you don't want your house to smell like burnt beans), consider setting a kitchen timer for 30 minutes each time you check them. When they're tender you can add salt to your taste.
If you want to try some variations, know that every family cooks beans differently. People add all kinds of things to the water while the beans simmer: green pepper, chiles, onions, ham, bacon, sausage, tomatoes, garlic, and cilantro seem to be the most popular ingredients in various combinations. Here are a few of the variations my friends use:
"My grandpa used to add patitas de puerco and lots and lots of garlic!"
– Leslie / Cocina de Leslie
"After they are done, I re-fry them with chorizo. Well soyrizo now but the flavor is still there."
– Ericka / Nibbles and Feasts
"We usually just throw in garlic and maybe a piece of pork."
– Monique / Blogs By Latinas
Once the beans are cooked you can eat them as is or you can make a lot of other dishes. Here is my recipe for Frijoles Molidos and in time, I'll be adding more!


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In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 28, 2009, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) agents and officers from the Fort Worth Police Department, conducted joint inspections of three TABC-licensed locations in Fort Worth to ensure compliance with state alcoholic beverage laws and local ordinances: The Rosedale Saloon located at 150 W. Rosedale, Cowboy Palace located at 160 W. Rosedale, and the Rainbow Lounge located at 651 S. Jennings.
The Fort Worth Police Department arrested 15 individuals for public intoxication, including nine males at the Rosedale Saloon and the adjacent Cowboy Palace, one male at an unlicensed location, and four males and one female at the Rainbow Lounge.
At the Rainbow Lounge, TABC agents placed one individual under arrest, Chad Gibson who was injured while in the agents' custody. Mr. Gibson was released to paramedics for treatment of alcohol poisoning and a head injury and transported to a local hospital.
"We are saddened that this incident occurred and extend our sincere hope that Mr. Gibson recovers quickly," said TABC Administrator Alan Steen. "I have initiated an internal affairs investigation to answer questions about how these locations were chosen, to review the agents' actions, and specifically to establish the facts surrounding Mr. Gibson's injury."
Anyone who witnessed employee misconduct is asked to contact Lt. Andy Pena, Acting Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility, at email@example.com or call 512-206-3405. Information about how to file a complaint against a TABC employee, and about agency policy on employee investigations, can be found on TABC's website at www.tabc.texas.gov.
"I take seriously all allegations concerning inappropriate or illegal behavior by our employees. We have in the past, and we will in the future, take action against any employee found to have violated agency policy or the law," continued Steen.
TABC conducts approximately 128,000 inspections of approximately 40,000 licensed locations statewide each year, looking for violations of the law. One of the agency's key performance measures is to inspect at least 78.5% of licensed locations each year. During a 12-month period, typically about 96% of licensed locations in Texas are inspected at least once. Licensed locations that have complaints filed against them or previous public safety violations may be visited more frequently.
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What are they waiting for?
Why haven't America's ailing newspapers, plagued by slumping circulation as readers flock to the web, begun charging for the news they are currently offering for free online?
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By now, the existential threat to newspapers is clear. Several major newspapers have been forced into bankruptcy; two venerable metros have recently closed (the Rocky Mountain News) or switched to online publication only (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Rapidly declining newspaper circulation figures suggest that the reader shift to the web is accelerating.
The publicly-traded New York Times Company, owner of the New York Times, has seen its financial position deteriorate and its stock price slide over the past several years as the disruptive effects of the Internet, coupled with the economic slowdown, has caused dramatic declines in print advertising. The suddenly cash-strapped company has been forced into a series of dramatic steps: borrowing $250 million from Mexican oligarch and billionaire Carlos Slim; threatening to shutter the Boston Globe, one of its newspaper holdings, if the unions there didn't produce $20 million in savings; and suspending dividend payments to shareholders (and to the controlling Sulzberger family members).
The picture isn't all bleak. The website of the New York Times (www.nytimes.com) attracts large numbers of unique viewers, some 19 to 20 million "uniques" a month. Even discounting that number for repeat visits (as media observers like Alan Jacobson argue is necessary), the nytimes.com traffic dwarfs the one million daily purchasers of the print edition of the paper.
Paying for the news
But the Times has resisted charging for its online content, unlike the Wall Street Journal, which reserves its news content for paying web customers. (Visitors can access the Journal's opinion and commentary at no cost.) While other newspapers dither, the Journal has announced it will introduce micro-payments for individual articles to its website in the fall.
In contrast, the Times has embraced the "information longs to be free" mantra, envisioning an advertising-only supported Internet future. The focus has been on building traffic and seeking to "monetize" this audience through advertising. (A brief excursion into paid content, Times Select, which charged for online access to New York Times columnists, was abandoned.) Yet the Times has discovered it can only charge online advertisers a fraction of what it gets from print.
Since online advertising revenue represents only some 10 percent of the company's revenue, it's puzzling why the Times hasn't moved towards a paid content model. A quick back-of-envelope calculation suggests that if 10% of current nytimes.com unique visitors could be converted to online subscriptions, the Times would add some 2 million paying customers overnight.
How much would this be worth to the Times? It depends, of course, on the price, on how much online subscribers are willing to pay for digital news. It's unlikely the Times can command the $600 or so it asks from print subscribers, but even matching the Journal's current online annual price of $103 would generate considerable revenue. While there might be some short-term drop off in online advertising because of lowered traffic, the Times could make the argument that the remaining visitors represent loyal and committed readers (with, no doubt, attractive demographics.)
And if the Times adopts an online subscription model, it's more than likely the rest of the newspaper industry will follow its lead. Establishing paid online content won't solve all of the economic and financial issues facing American newspapers, but it will represent a start in changing the dynamics.
Some newspaper publishers may hesitate at charging for news content because they worry Internet consumers won't pay for it. To the extent that what they offer isn't unique or relevant, they may be right—but there has always been a market for "journalism that matters." What matters differs from community to community, but those editors and publishers who can identify and deliver it should have a viable business, although not with the monopoly profits of the past. That does suggest that news organizations of the future, even elite ones like the New York Times, will have to be more focused in coverage and leaner in staffing.
What lies ahead?
Shifting to an online paid model isn't without risk, and without pain. Google and other news aggregators may steer visitors towards free content sites, reducing traffic to the newspapers' paid content. Everyone in the online news enterprise has to be prepared for a reduced audience. Any negative impact on civic discourse can be somewhat mitigated by following the Journal's practice of allowing free access to commentary and columns. In the short term, newspapers will most likely see their web presence diminished; publishers and editors will have to remind themselves that survival comes first, Internet bragging rights second.
In any event, it's not an attractive future for those who lived through the post-Watergate monopoly years when elite newspapers attracted the best and brightest to journalism, newspaper companies were awash in cash, and stock prices climbed. Today's sobering reality has encouraged many in the industry to cast about for what could be termed non-market alternatives: newspapers supported by government-subsidies or nonprofit foundations.
Are these non-market-based alternatives to a downsized, lean newspaper future viable? University of North Carolina journalism professor Penelope Muse Abernathy recently looked at four different scenarios for "saving" the New York Times in order to "preserve and protect its unique journalism and watchdog role in the 21st century." Three were nonprofit solutions: setting up an endowment to support the news department's annual $200 million budget; foundation support aimed at underwriting news coverage; and the purchase and operation of the paper by an educational institution. The fourth solution involved the intervention of an "angel investor" who "would be willing both to adequately compensate the Sulzberger family members and to assume or retire the debt and other liabilities." (Full disclosure: I worked with Abernathy at the New York Times Company when we were both in management roles there.)
On the idea of endowing the Times, Abernathy wonders who would invest the necessary $5 billion "…if there was the opportunity to buy all the assets of the Times for less (based on current valuations) and restructure the costs and debt load for the 21st century." On the second option, she questions whether the cyclical nature of foundation grants would provide enough stability for underwriting the news, and suggests that just to cover the annual costs of the Times' foreign news coverage ($60-$70 million) would require a $1 billion endowment from an "enlightened philanthropist" and additional grants and contributions.
The university option has drawbacks as well. Is there a university, she asks, willing to "devote considerable management bandwidth to transforming the Times business model, on both the revenue and cost side, in order to get the ROI more in line with other alternative investments it might pursue"? Considering the economic pressures on higher education, the answer is likely to be "no."
Abernathy touches only briefly on the angel investor or White Knight scenario for the Times, noting that the sale of the company to an individual investor could "precipitate a renegotiation with the unions and result in a restructuring of the Times' costs to make it more competitive and better able to survive and thrive in the digital age. Certainly an individual investor would have a better chance of maintaining the laser-like focus needed to implement transformational change." Finding an investor willing to take on the challenge, whose motives (vanity? power? political causes?) pass journalistic scrutiny, is problematic: a purchase engineered by moguls David Geffen or Carlos Slim could further erode the distinction between news and editorial at the Times, or present troubling conflicts-of-interest in coverage.
Market solutions and independence
Adjusting to the new market realities appears the best way for the New York Times and other newspapers to preserve their independence. It will allow them to avoid schemes where they are beholden to politicians (government subsidies), wealthy donors (non-profit alternatives), or White Knights with questionable motives (the Slim/Geffen option). Further, market pressures often spark innovation. Abernathy cites the thinking of Yale's Richard Foster on this question; Foster "argues that, historically, companies in the throes of creative destruction have been much more likely to achieve transformational change if they stay in the for-profit arena."
There is an audience willing to pay for news on the web. While the economics of paid content and some web advertising will not support mega-bonuses for publishers and lavish expense accounts for foreign bureaus, it should allow for focused quality journalism. It may also leave us with those civic-minded publishers who, as the old saying goes, seek to make money so they can publish newspapers, and not the other way around.
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Song of the Summer / Video Part of the Summer IV
September 24, 2014
In the summer of 2014, my Ibiza narratives from the previous installments of this post came to life—after a fashion. Ibiza was almost as #ontrend as Berlin, with Bieber, Kanye and whoever else fits into that milieu killing it on the infamous island all summer.
I wonder if he skated the prefab park there. He rides Hopps boards, you know! #bychoice
I once again failed to make the trip up to NY and/or the tf, but during my week at the Outer Banks, I found a Nat Geo poster documenting the scores of ships that have shipwrecked along that particular isthmus.
This kind of blew my mind.
I wonder of any pirates ever sailed from Ibiza (I think it was inhabited, by, like, sun-worshippers back in the 1600's though) straight through to North Carolina. That got me thinking that it would be tight as fuck if a Dan Bilzerian type sailed a yacht straight from Ibiza, across the Atlantic, and up the Hudson River to La Marina. I doubt Bilzerian would, though. Judging by the demographics of the young ladies in his insta feed, it's not his scene. The best hope for such a historic sea voyage is French Montana; he's in the extended Kardashian family now, so anything is possible (via Kevin Garnett, natch).
Back to Ibiza summer 2014, though–the only thing missing from the intense celeb. fraternizing was the creative element; alas, Kanye failed to set up shop in a studio with Bieber, the Kardashians, Selena Gomez, whoever else and a mountain of drugs to craft the definitive song of the summer. There were, fortunately, a handful of worthy candidates, and a slew of tight video parts. Truth be told, I think there were more vid parts than songs in the Evernote for this post. Does that bode well for the skate industry or bode ill for the music industry? ANYWAY, here's Song of the Summer x Video Part of the Summer 2014 (produced by DJ Mustard).
Chris Brown "loyal" / Bronze 56K "Enron"
Everyone in the region of VA in which I live has a Chris Brown story [nullus].
"Yo I saw Chris Brown riding his four-wheeler the other day."
"Chris Brown and Rhianna were at the Friday's by the mall the other day."
"Chris Brown was at the hookah spot last nite."
When I sat down to write this post, I tried to brainstorm all the bangers that Chris Brown had either featured on or put out over the past eight years or so. We got "Loyal" this year, "Fine China" last year, right on down the line back to 2006 'n shit. Kinda challenging off the top of the dome, but dude has been remarkably prolific for a long-ass time. Similarly, it's hard to list off the top of one's head all the clips that Peter Sidluaskas et al. have been pumping out dating back to the Flipmode video series.
Don't even get me started on that one clip he edited to "P*rple Rain." Anyone got the URL? The chances that Prince's lawyers are reading this are minimal.
ANYWAY, "Loyal" is effective because it retells literally the oldest story ever told (via Genesis 3:6). Although, truth be told, I think one of Jane Austen's novels tells the story of a wealthy gentleman who absconds with an indigent gentleman's lady friend.
Furthermore, Brown and Sidlaukas both have entertained a firestorm of controversy in their respective careers. Is Bronze fake seapunk, whatever that means? Do they really have an editorial point of view? In any event, his consistent ability to mine the deepest, darkest nostalgic corners of one's unconscious, like that Prevue Guide music that lulled you to sleep when you were too young and/or to much of a loser to go out on Friday nite, combine with sick-ass skating has proven as consistent a winning formula as any of Brown's performances. In addition, the use of HD in Enron marks the tipping point where VX footage no longer looks cooler than HD. Indeed, VX footage looks mad blurry now. Maybe that's just my Windows Vista home computer, though.
Tinashe "2 On" / Primitive Skateboards internet promo
If a modern-day Brian Wilson—with access to the internet, or at least Instagram—sat down to pen a modern-day "Caifornia Girls," the verse about California girls would depict them as wearing Jordans, streetwear, and smoking extremely potent weed. This is the vibe one gets from "2 On"–one of like 50 or 60 DJ Mustard jams that fuckin' powered the summer. Whether or not Mustard intended this composition as an homage to Cassie "Me & U,* it captures that vibe, in addition to that of day drinking in the summertime just for the fuck of it.
The Primitive internet promo, just one facet if the company's impeccably timed launch, showcased to upper echelon of modern-day Californian ledge/schoolyard skating. It's inspiring to see someone flying the battle flag for progression for progression's sake via Ternasky et al. And even though it surfaced as a separate internet clip, can we talk about this Carlos Ribeiro trick for a second. Dude could have a) made and b) ate a bodega-style sandwich sittin' on that ledge.
Wiz Khalifa "We Dem Boyz" remix / DGK Blood Money team montage
sailin' on…
"Hey! I'm here with my boys! This song is fuckin' about us, bro!"
Few Song of the Summer concepts have stood the test of time longer than making every girl in the club think the song is about them. "We Dem Boyz" utilizes a similar strategy, but for dudes. It also exhibits the classic SOTS characteristic of, after repeated exposure, forcing the listener to walk around repeating the chorus.
Like a mental patient.
The remix adds a verse from French Montana, who has become a staple of these yearly posts. Most effective dude to have on a remix, for sure. Unfortunately, what would have been a cool, subtle shoutout to Max B ("Ima keep it wavy 'til they free my man") turns super obvious and ham-fisted when the dude (Puffy, maybe) comes in and asks "Who that, Max B?" In any event, is Puffy's verse the first time a rapper has mentioned Serato? That seems impossible, but I refuse to consult Rap Geni*s.
ANYWAY, Just like the aforementioned remix, the Blood Money montage displays some dudes ripping over the same beat. However, it takes the concept to the next level by switching skaters when the ASAP Rocky song switches rappers. I might be wrong here, but I think this hasn't been done since the Let The Horns Blow am montage. In terms of the skating, I thought J Kwon was deaded for a while, but based on this montage, I assume that sessions still go off. That place and Eggs are the upper echelon of North American skating right now; the layout of the Koreatown landmark seems kind of claustrophobic, yet it facilitates all sorts of quick-footed Lotti-isms like Kalis's section. Furthermore, the small free-standing blocks make possible conceptual "farside" ledge machinations like Dane Vaughan's switch b/s heelflip to Sanchez grind (on record as being the preferred trick of this website). Trick of the summer for sure. But wait, don't forget about this dude…
Bobby Shmurda "Hot !@#$%" x Tiago Lemos "Welcome to Silver Trucks" part
You know a song has strong SOTS potential when it becomes a cultural meme like the Bobby Shmurda composition and its accompanying dance, which is even less of an according-to-Hoyle "dance" than the "lean back." It's pretty much that that thing you do when you're #feelinthevibe but, like, not totally white. But I digress. Hopefully Mr. Schmurda takes the money from his deal and literally runs, as suggested by Byron Crawford. Can you think of an artist whose first hit went along with a dance craze that went on to have a successful career? Hopefully he won't be remembered as the shmoney dance guy. In any event, dude has already made his mark on the summer of 2014 and #SOTS history with one song. And like Chief Keef's visual oevre, the video uses a "no girls allowed!" aesthetic that makes it almost like the rap version of a skate vid, or some shit.
Tiago Lemos made a similar impact this summer with one trick—switch backside tailslide the entire Korean Orthodontist ledge in that Silver Trucks welcome vid. Truth be told, I have only seen Silver tricks IRL once—at the Skatepark of Tampa. I don't get out much anymore, though. They're probably not that bad if you throw some Bones bushings in there. It's got to be borderline impossible to make a dent in market share when the leading competitor boasts the slogans "Fucking Hot" and "Fuck the Rest."
All-time, hall of fame, pantheon #marketingandbranding. **
A while ago, I suggested that all the Brazillian tech rippers pull a Plan B and start their own #superteam. As it happens, Boulevard is that team save Oliveira and Rodrigo Tx "da gawd." Hopefully they compensate Mr. Lemos for the hurting he put on Southern California ledges and other street terrain; there is no more apt description of his futuristic approach to the Trilogy era than, as those PWBC News dudes put it, "Enrique Lorenzo on high-grade steroids."
DJ Snake "Turn Down for What" / Pat "Sinner" Pasquale Theatrix part
Any second-generation ravers out there? Gotta be, right? One would assume that this would be more of a "thing" in the UK, where, based on that stellar house music documentary Pump Up The Volume, raving was more of a thing that "regular" people did on the weekends 'n shit.
Along those lines, my oldest son listens to dubstep sometimes and listed the genre as his favorite kind of music on one of those interest surveys teachers ask you to do on the first day of school. Suffice it to say, if he ever decides to attend a rave, party, or whatever they call them now, I'm going too.
To supervise, natch. Just like when your mom drove you to the Girls Girls Girls tour and sat there the whole time reading a Danielle Steele novel.
ANYWAY, just as "Turn Down for What" exposed a mass audience to dubstep/trap/whatever, the music supervision in Sinner's part in Theatrix exposed the genre to the skate culture writ large—with many decrying it as the worst music supervision #ofalltime.
However, in the new Attention Economy, a "sick" video part doesn't cut it anymore. In order to stand out on the first page of hellaclips and attain at last a ten-page thread on the SLAP messageboard, you gotta do something. "Crazy" video parts like this one (and the next one in this post) are like the SEO/clickbait of the skate vid medium.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. The part itself is sick—a modern-day take on Bootleg-era J. Strickland. Postmodern, post-genre skating. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cheer when the Trilogy manual pads reappear. Note: he performs the ender in the Axion 2.0 (RIP) version of the Aries.
There's gotta be some more of those in existence somewhere, like in the Circa (RIP?) warehouse or some shit. #liquidation
Furthermore, the slow motion stair-drop right before the caballerial reminds me of that one time, when I was skating a miniramp with dubstep playing, when some dude timed his drop-in to coincide with that moment the beat droooopppppppped. Hopefully this part will open the door for chill house #musicsupervision; I think that was a "thing" for a while in over 30's bro-cam internet clips. Palace has also been on that wave for a minute. Doesn't that dude Four Color Zack*** skate or some shit? He would probably music supervise a vid for product.
Grimes "Go" feat . Blood Diamonds / Dylan Reider huf shoe part
First we take Manhattan
Then we take Berlin
– skaters in 2014
Hey, remember in the World Cup when Rihanna backed a)literally every single team and b)literally whichever team had most recently scored? Most confusing fandom ever. Of course she ended up backing the eventual champs Germany, whose super fast offensive attack was like…hm…some natural phenomenon, maybe? I can't quite put my finger on it…
Grimes, who has been pumping out catchy-as-fuck tunes for a minute now, allegedly intended this composition for Rhianna; who knows why she declined. In any event, Grimes' **** rendition, the video for which just came out at the end of August, captured that melancholy summer vibe of skating a spot at sunset by yourself, wondering why no one else is skating and what the fuck is going on tonite, 'cause it's summertime.
Germany, and Berlin specifically, #trended hard this summer. Do the spots in Berlin look more #urban that those in the rest of the country? The marble ledge plazas that Lem Villemin skates always blow my mind, via #spotporn. For some reason I think those spots are all at the Mercedes-Benz corporate headquarters in Dusseldorf or some shit.
ANYWAY, Dylan's part which dropped in the depths of Fourth of July weekend and caused the internet to go nuts in a manner not seen since Paul Wall's verse on "Still Tippin.'" ***** Where to start here–the use of a #snowbunny in the editing process continued the #trend seen in Kids In A Candy City, the slow-motion, the black-and-white, the smoking, the blindside switch kickflip in LA. Truth be told, I almost included his Cherry part in this post but it came out just a few weeks too early. That part's picnic table NBD's display the kind of trick selection that populates Pupecki's part in the Menace video in an alternate universe. Dude is one subtly-branded Thrasher t-shirt and interview away from #SOTY.
Rita Ora "Never Let You Down" x Nick Jensen "Eleventh Hour" part
This summer, researchers determined that Scotland has the highest rate of cocaine use in the world. This kind of makes sense; gotta do something to pump out those chemicals in your brian that normally get supplied via sunlight.
I think that's a scientific thing.
Interestingly enough, Scotland also has a shockingly high per-capita rate of songwriters who write catchy-as-fuck tunes—Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Churches, The Pastels, The J&MC, Gerry Rafferty DA GAWD, and this dude Calvin Harris.
Someone should do a longitudinal data analysis study.
Harris wrote this song for Ms. Ora, an ethnically nebulous vixen who collaborates with Drake from time to time–like a lower-tax-bracket version of Rihanna, or some shit. Shoutout to that dude for figuring out a way to make millions of dollars in the modern-day music industry. This song got tons of burn on Sirius Hits One; I must have heard it upwards of 200 times driving back and forth to the pool. The chorus specifically captures the vibe of that all-time run Katy Perry was on about five years ago, before she stopped working with Bonnie McKee.
Speaking of Scotland, Is that "Bristo Square" spot in Edinburgh still around? That place looked fucking amazing. Along those lines, that Urbis spot in Manchester piqued my interest about a week ago, but upon further research, the ground looked kinda shitty and the ledges appeared to be a)skatestopped and b) not really set up well for lines. The idea alone of a MACBA-esque marble plaza in the centre of Manchester is interesting as fuck though; a little bit of Spain in the North. Just like the Hacienda, bro!
D'you know what I mean?
Fortunately for Nick Jensen and UK skaters as a collective, skateboarding performs a similar neurochemical function and is way healther and more economical. Gino once said that the song is 50% of the part, and this is an example of song and part working in perfect concert, like Jesus in Pretty Sweet. The best possible song for the footage and skater.
Jensen rips some of the bleakest, most British-looking spots in the Kingdom-including some holdovers from the Waiting for the World era. And if you haven't done so already, follow http://scienceversuslife.tumblr.com for more bleak UK skating nostalgia.
Drake 0 to 100/The Catch-Up / Jahmal Williams Static 5
"the rookie and the vet…"
When one reaches a certain age in skating, simply a)carving out time to skate and b)maintaining the physical ability to do so is a victory in and of itself. One may be considered an "OG" or whatever, but the struggle to maintain the simplest tricks in one's repertoire makes one feel like a little kid. Drake eludes to a similar struggle in this summer's two-part song.
Jahmal Williams' two-song part reflects a similar existential dilemma. First of all, truth be told, I have yet to fully digest Static 4/5; it's like the skate vid version of a prog-rock epic like Physical Graffiti or some shit, to paraphrase that dude who wrote for Grand Royal magazine. One's favorite part rotates from month to month and year to year. For now, though, 5 has been in heavy rotation, specifically Brandi's and Williams' parts. The Hopps team, a.k.a. The Dudes Who Skate Midtown A Lot, has an advanced understanding of the value of footage filmed under cover of darkness in that particular region of Manhattan. Case in point: that one marble ledge spot with the recessed lighting; I assume it's approximately a 6-second bust.
Furthermore, William's career arc—if you count his part in Stone Soup, dude produced two to three parts this year—serves as a template for street skating while knocking on the door of one's forties. Additionally, this part facilitated the great Rick flip comeback of 2014. The only thing missing from this tour-de-force? A Bieber guest trick.
Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go start a Slap mssgbrd petition to put him on rep flow.
HONORABLE MENTION: "Fight Night," that Wes Kremer part, and Dana Ericson's part in the RAW vid, the latter two of which probably deserve their own posts.
2013 Song of the Summer / Video Part of the Summer Retrospective
2012 Song of the Summer / Video Part of the Summer Retrospective
2011 Song of the Summer / Video Part of the Summer Retrospective
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*which someone should skate to by the way
**FULL DISCLOSURE: I ride regular Indy's, not even low/forged/hollow or anything like that.
***yes, I know he's not a house dj but still…
**** "Claire Boucher" is a name one would give a generic French Canadian female in a Mel Brooks film
*****to paraphrase @ByronCrawford
2013 Song of the Summer/Video Part of the Summer Retrospective
September 17, 2013
In the dead of night, a Bell AB-212 descends onto the heliport of David Guetta's Ibiza compound. A slim, tall African-American lady descends the stairs onto the tarmac. Her hair is styled in a mullet, or some shit.
A few minutes later, another helicopter lands, transporting a Caucasian female with an aggressive platinum blonde hairstyle. She looks like she could use a sandwich.
Neither has any idea why Mr. Guetta has summoned them. A few minutes later, when @mikewillmadeit, French Montana, Future, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Pitbull, and Katy Perry ascend the helipad stairs, everything becomes clear.
Their mission, should they chose to accept it: craft The Song Of the Summer 2013.
This did not happen, but it kinda did…
"Bookmark Me, Maybe?" – 2012 Song of the Summer/Video Part of the Summer Retrospective
September 30, 2012
Summer 2012 fucking killed it. I skated a bowl, then got hammered on the beach and jumped in the ocean–thus getting wavy in both a literal and figurative sense. I skated the TF in the rain, drank a beer across the street, skated the TF some more, then skated the World Famous Lenox Ledges. All things considered, this might have been the best summer since 1999, aka The Summer of Newport, when a busload of Brazilian girls rolled up on that most late-Nineties of spots as Wenning switch 360 flipped into the rays of the rising sun. The only thing missing was a consensus slam-dunk no-brainer Song of the Summer.


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Just minutes from the mega-resorts, the Springs Preserve is essentially a living museum. Home to the Nevada State Museum, museum exhibits focus on everything from Las Vegas history to desert wildlife to the dynamics of a flash flood. You'll want to set aside an entire day to take it all in. If you're looking to dig even deeper, immerse yourself in some unforgettable natural history with a trip to America's newest National Monument with a trip to Tule Springs Fossil Beds, just north of Las Vegas. Estimated to be 23,000 years old, visitors can peruse the grounds in hopes of spotting fossils of sabre tooth cats, mammoth, camel and dire wolf in the heart of the Mojave Desert. With your newfound desert know-how, you can venture into Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area or Valley of Fire State Park, each with spectacular rock formations and miles upon miles of trails to explore. Red Rock is also considered a rock-climbing mMecca for its hundreds of high-quality climbs on nearly perfect sandstone.
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If the only thing keeping you from making that Las Vegas sojourn is the perceived lack of ski slopes, think again. Mount Charleston, Nevada's fifth tallest peak, is less than an hour north of the city and boasts incredible skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing during winter months. Hiking and camping in the alpine forests of the Spring Mountains is a great way to beat the summer heat from the valley below.
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I had the pleasure of meeting with one of the talented Streets of Afghanistan photographers, Mariam Alimi, today in Kabul for lunch. I met her briefly 5 years ago, in November 2008, when I met all the Afghan photographers in Kabul for the first time at AINA Photo Agency to discuss the inception of the Streets of Afghanistan exhibition. I delivered her a copy of the book and over pomegranate juice and lunch we talked about the exhibition and the power of voice, the power of photography. As we talked about her career and how she started as a photographer in 2006, we talked about courage, and activism, and women's rights, and our cultures. Mariam said at one point when talking about her start in photographer, "I was not so brave as I am now." When I asked her to explain I was surprised to learn that it was intrinsically linked with the key photograph of hers that we used in the exhibition.
One of her first photographs was one she took in Heart, its one that we had in the exhibit and its one of my favorites.
This man was a poppy farmer near Herat decades ago, before the mujahedeen. During the civil war and the Taliban times he moved to Iran. While there he learned about saffron cultivation. When he returned in 2002, he starting planting saffron thanks to the help of an organization that gave him a few bulbs from the Netherlands. Each year his crop grew a little more and eventually he started sharing the bulbs with other farmers to cultivate. When Mariam met him it was to interview him as part of an organization to make a documentary about saffron cultivation. After they got done filming him, he asked if he could hear what he sounded like and they put the headphones on him and played back his interview. This photo was taken at the moment he first heard his voice and the look of pure joy hits me every time I see the photo.
But Mariam almost wasn't there to take the photo. As a single Afghan woman, she lived at home and had to ask her father's permission to go with her organization to Herat. She had never traveled without her family before, and she was scared to ask her father. She invited her boss, a foreign woman, to come to dinner and meet her family and in the conversations that followed, she asked Mariam's father for permission to come with her to Herat. He agreed to allow her to go, and it was the first step of a journey that changed Mariam completely. She continued to ask permission to travel and now she has traveled all around Afghanistan, and to many countries, including the United States.
When we started talking about how change for women in Afghanistan starts, she gave me a beautiful example that reminded me of my own journey. "Everyone when they are young thinks, "I want to change the world". As we get older, we realize that we should start by changing our country. But the difficulties make us realize that we should focus on changing our community. Then we realize that our own families are part of the larger problem so we should look at changing our family. Finally, with age and wisdom we realize, everything starts with us, as individuals, and that real change must happen from within each one of first. "
Mariam leads by this example. She is unusual for Afghan women of her age, one of the handful of female photographers in Afghanistan, she walks the streets by herself, meeting strangers, taking photos. When she speaks with young girls, they often say to her, "I am not as brave as you, I could not do what you do". Mariam tells them that it's not a matter of being brave or not brave. It's about taking a small step in the direction you want to go. Change yourself first, so that others see you for what you really are, and live your life in a way that reflects what you believe, and those around you change in unexpected ways in reaction to you.
You can see more of Mariam's work on her website and her work in the groundbreaking, Streets of Afghanistan exhibition, in the newly released book available through Hatherleigh Press and Random House. Streets of Afghanistan book


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All it took to get Aaron Eckhart to sign on to "The Rum Diary" was the promise of going toe-to-toe with Johnny Depp – and, yeah, that tropical setting.
"I think the allure of something like this is working with Johnny and working with Hunter's material," Eckhart tells PopcornBiz of his decision to join the cast of producer/star Depp's film adaptation of novelist Hunter S. Thompson's book. "It was a great opportunity, especially when you're sitting at home: 'Let's go to Puerto Rico and make a movie. It'll be six weeks. Don't worry about it.' That's easy to get through my mind."
The actor opens up to PopcornBiz about his coursework in Thompson, Depp and Hollywood acting, as well as his horrific next film.
U.S. & World
On Hunter Thompson 101:
"Years ago, it must have been when I was in college or something, the first article I ever read with Hunter was when he assigned to go to Hawaii to cover a marathon, of all things. And he accepted the job. And he never got outside of his hotel room. He just opened the minibar and just had a complete debaucherous time in the hotel room. Meanwhile, the marathon took place right outside his window. And then he just wrote what he saw and sent in the article and he was published."
On Johnny Depp 101:
"I learned how simple he is – how little he does for the effect that he gets on the screen, mostly. How he prepares and interprets a character. How he comes to set. How he makes his way through the day. What temperament he keeps. Always looking at people. It's not just Johnny. It's the same thing with Nicole [Kidman], or when I was working with Jack Nicholson or Morgan Freeman, Ian McKellen – whoever it is, always watching. I said to Morgan Freeman one time 'Morgan, how do you do it?' And he looked at me and he said, 'Forty years.' And so when I hear that I go, 'Oh, I haven't been doing it 40 years.' When you watch guys like this it kind of takes you off the hook, because you say, 'Oh, he didn't torture himself before the torture scene – He just went into the torture scene.' Johnny does this. I saw things that Johnny does to an effect that I sit there and analyze it afterwards and go, 'I see – Maybe I can do the same thing in a way. Make it my own.'"
On going from playing one classic character in "Pan" to another in "I, Frankenstein":
"'Pan' got postponed, in which I was playing Captain James Hook. Peter Pan was abducting children and Captain Hook was on his tail, so it flipped Peter Pan on its end. And now I'm playing Frankenstein in a modern adaptation. It's sort of what happens after Victor Frankenstein builds his monster, about Frankenstein's life and the monster afterwards. And then there's a couple things I have after that actually that are super-interesting. Large character-scale. Like, serious stuff, which I'm looking forward to. Things that have the big action pieces and this sort of stuff, but you also never get away from doing the character stuff. Getting back to the acting. Always staying close to what's hot in the acting. That's the most important thing for me."
On whether he has a special affinity for revisiting classic icons:
"No, I think Hollywood's interested in that. I think everybody's so scared to make a movie these days that they're going into the grab bag. For example I just talked to a Japanese journalist yesterday and said something about Frankenstein and, obviously, the Japanese have a huge history with Frankenstein. So it's an automatic sell. I think it's less about us as actors and more about studios and independent producers saying, 'How can I make this movie?' It's so difficult to make a movie these days that they have to go with the sure thing."
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Weekly business rail, with credit-managing tips, a look at the richest fictional characters and more.
Tip of the Week
The majority of Americans have not ranked paying down debt as their top New Year's resolution. But given the current economic landscape, many consumers should focus more on improving their credit standing in 2009 than ever before. Here are five easy ways to make a credit resolution stick:
- Always pay your bills on time. While it may sound like a no-brainer, making payments on time is essential whether consumers are trying to boost or maintain their credit score. Yet a 2007 survey by TrueCredit revealed that one in four respondents had missed making one or more on-time bill payments.
- Don't overspend. Keep debt below 35 percent of your limits. Although it can be tempting and easy to overspend, it's important for consumers to keep their credit card balances low and not to max them out.
- Keep tabs on your credit report. In order to maintain a "healthy" credit score and to position yourself best with creditors, it's important for consumers to monitor their report regularly to provide an up-to-date view on credit card activity and debt. It also enables consumers to identity possible signs of fraudulent activity.
- Monitor leases and loans closely where you are the co-signer. When consumers open a joint account or co-sign a loan, they are taking on legal responsibility for the account. Any activity on these shared accounts, good or bad, will be reflected in both credit reports.
- Long-standing credit card accounts can help your credit score. Consumers should be cautious when thinking about closing credit card accounts where they have been making punctual payments over a long period of time. In addition to lowering your available credit, canceling old credit accounts can also ultimately lower your credit score by making your credit history appear shorter.
The List
Each year, Forbes lists its Richest Fictional Characters list. Here are this year's top 15 richest. For an in-depth look at how Forbes made this list, go to Forbes.com.
1. Uncle Sam
2. Scrooge McDuck
3. Richie Rich
4. Gordon Gekko
5. Jabba The Hutt
6. Ebeneezer Scrooge
7. Tony Stark
8. Thurston Howell III
9. Bruce Wayne
10. Adrian Veidt
11. Jed Clampett
12. Artemis Fowl II
13. C. Montgomery Burns
14. Lara Croft
15. Mr. Monopoly
Number to Know
586,000: The number of jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 20, the highest claims have been since November 1982.
Quote of Note
"It's beyond the worst fears of retailers."
C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, in a quote to The Associated Press about holiday sales. Retailers are not expecting good numbers.
GateHouse News Service


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I recently got my copy of Gunther from Nick, and what a surprise I got, a hand drawn cactus envelope, some cactusclan stickers, and not forgetting Gunther!
The Stickers are gonna come in handy for adding some colour to my toolbox at work, or maybe my car!
Gunther himself is awesome, and no cactusclan family should be without him!
and if you have Gunther why not get Chester as well, you cant leave him out in the cold....right?
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yiiehhaaaa.. glad you got them safe and sound.
and thx for the nice post! ^_____^
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Since sales have been picking up with football season starting and Christmas will be here before you know it, I decided to put a guide together with my thoughts on what the best overall value tv sets this year are.
I am going to leave out the ultra high end/commercial grade tvs and just go with what you would commonly find deals on at Best Buy, Amazon, Costco, Sears, etc. I am going to write this guide under the assumption you are looking for a "big" tv, between 40-60"
When you are weighing your budget and what features you want these are the main ones to consider:
Resolution: 1080p or 720p. The number of lines of detail in the image. 1080p is not really important in tv sizes 40" and under because the image is just not largest enough for anyone but those with the best vision to make out the tiny detail
Refresh rate: The number of times per second an image is displayed. Also can be explained as how many times per second the picture is cleaned up. Plasma is a standard 600hz. LED/LCD come in at 120hz and 240hz. The entry level is 60hz. I honestly think this makes a bigger difference to image quality than the resolution does. I have a hard time discerning anything about 120, but it really is a large difference between 60hz and 120hz. Any LCD/LED you see with a number like 480, 720, 960, etc is a marketing mumbo jumbo number and is based on some kind of internal processing.
Contrast: I never look at contrast as an advertised number. There is no standard for measuring it. Sony says their LEDs have infinite contrast, and that's because they measure the light reading with the LEDs turned off. Of course that number won't be an accurate measurement of the overall ratio of light to dark. Any of the midrange or higher LEDs and mostly all plasmas have very good contrast ratios.
3D: More sets are 3D this year than before. 3D is a standard feature on many more sets as manufacturers try coming up with reasons for you to upgrade. There are two main types, active and passive. Active uses fancy glasses with lcd screens that sync to your tv set and only let light into one eye at a time. Passive are similar to the RealD glasses you get at the movie theater. At first plasma with active glasses was the only way to see all the lines of resolution, but LG has made huge strides with their passive Cinema 3D LEDs this year.
Connectivity: Getting on the internet is another thing manufacturers are pushing. Also the ability to use the tv as a digital media player, playing music and movies from your pc or from a usb drive. What you can do on the internet is another good question to ask. Is there a web browser or just connected widgets and apps? Is wifi built in? Can a wifi adapter be purchased?
I am going to list off a number of different model lines that are very popular this year. Some stores will sell an almost identical set with a slightly different model number. This is usually just to help enforce/defeat a competitor's price matching policy. Also around the holidays all of the stores will get a "special" version of a tv in. They come in colorful boxes (hint: colorful boxes are used on less nice tvs ) and usually have less hdmi ports, no internet connections, and less contrast.
These aren't necessarily the best new tv's available and I am not ranking them based on stated specs or calibration tools. Just my observations to give you an idea where to start when you head to the store
Samsung D6000 LED. There are four main tv's in 6000 series. Some stores might use different model numbers but these are the four feature sets. All are 1080p, 120hz, and internet enabled. These are by far the best selling line of tv's my store carries this year. They have many internet apps, motion settings, and can play the widest number of file types. The Yahoo Fantasy Football app was a pretty popular demonstration point last Sunday, with the app popping up to show off updated scores.
6000: 1080p/120hz/Internet enabled. 46" $1100; 55" $1500
6300: full blown web browser. 46" $1200; 55" $1650
6400: edgeless, higher contrast ratio, 3D. 46" $1400; 55" $1800
6900: edgeless, higher contrast ratio, 3D, full blown web browser. 46" $1600; 55" $2000.
LG LV5500: A direct competitor to the Samsung 6000 line, this guy includes the wifi adapter and a neat Wii style pointer remote for controlling internet apps. 46" $1200; 55" $1500
LG LW5300: A lower priced, high quality 3D LED. It lacks internet connectivity but comes bundled with a bluray player and four sets of glasses. 46" and 3D bluray player $1000; 55" and 3D bluray player $1500
Sony EX720: Sony is pricing this aggressively this year. I often see it priced BELOW the step down model when it's on sale. 120hz and 3D. 46" $1400; 55" $1800.
Sharp 830 series: Uses their Quattron yellow pixel technology that was heavily advertised last year. Sharp is a good value tv, all features considered. 120hz, wifi built in, internet apps. 52" $1300, 60" $1800. The 70" you see advertised is not part of this series but shares identical specs for the most part. You can find it around $2700-$3000.
Vizio XVT: The largest combination of features for the lowest price. 240hz, 3D, lots of internet apps, neat qwerty remote. Hard to price them because they are typically only sold online by big boxes and in membership warehouses, so promotional pricing fluctuates with them a good bit.
Samsung D7000 and D8000: Probably the nicest LEDs available. 240hz, wifi built in, comes with a $100 qwerty remote, 3D. The 8000 has some more ultra premium image enhancement capabilities. Both look really awesome. 55" 7000 around $2200, 55" 8000 around $3500. If you want an extremely nice LED and don't want to waste money just to say you own the statistically "best" one, go for a D7000.
Most of my customers buying plasma either want a 60+ inch model for a game room or are looking for a big tv on a tighter budget. Plasma gives you the biggest screen for the least amount of money, as well as accurate color, deep contrast, and fluid motion. They still have a bad reputation for burn in, although that is very uncommon on new sets. Performance in brightly lit rooms, however, is a definite mark against them. They can't get as bright to overcome sunlight and their glass screens reflect more of the light.
I am going to leave off the high end plasmas because I feel like if you're in the market for one you already know what you're looking for.
Panasonic S30/ST30. The T models add 3D support. I recently saw the 50" S30 on sale for $700. Limited internet options (includes Netflix, Pandora, and a few others) but a nice picture and good price. Typically the S30 is around $900 for a 50", $1400 for a 60"
Here is how I would generally rank tv types and models
1) great plasma:
- Panasonic VT30
- Samsung D7000
- Samsung D8000
2) great led:
- Samsung D7000
- Samsung D8000
- Sony HX929/NX720
- Sharp Elite
3) very good plasma
- Samsung D6500
- Panasonic GT30
4) very good led:
- Samsung D6400
- Samsung D6900
- Sony EX720
- Sharp LE830
- Vizio XVT
5) good led:
- Samsung D6000
- Samsung D6300
- Sony EX620
- Sharp 630
- other Vizio LED (models numbers tend to vary)
- Toshiba SL412
6) good plasma
- Panasonic S/ST30,
- Samsung 550
7) good lcd
- Samsung D600,
- Sony 520,
- Vizio ExxxVL,
- Panasonic Useries
8) ok lcd:
- Samsung D500
- Sony 420
- Panasonic C series
- Vizio
9) ok plasma:
Panasonic Xseries
- Samsung 450
- Zenith (owned/produced by LG)
10) basic led/lcd 720p by Samsung, Sony, LG, Vizio
11) all other lcd – Sanyo, RCA, Insignia, Magnavox, Dynex, Hisense, Sylvania, Westinghouse, Element, Emerson
I personally don't think any HDTV looks "bad." Some look much better than others, and display a much greater depth of contrast and smoothness in motion. The reason I ranked those brands last is not even so much for picture quality, it has more to do with reliability. I would put any of them in my bedroom or kitchen as a second tv but would worry about investing in one for daily viewing.
I am going to edit this for the Christmas shopping season with the best tvs available in the major black friday ads. Many of the stores are carrying the same items at the same prices. Some prices are door busters, some are valid all weekend. Ive listed them in descending order from best tv on down. Double check the ads for more info before you head out. The original list and info is hidden in the spoiler box. I will update as I have time w/ more tv's and other home theater gear. I will *** items that I think are particularly good values based on common selling prices. I'd guestimate that most of these are 10% off the "normal" sales price, and the best ones are more than that. HH Gregg's Samsung D6000 60" LED for $1499 is about $7-800 off the normal price.
This section is all tv thats are normal 2011 models
Samsung D7000 - 1080p 240hz 3D Smart TV LED
55": Sears, HH Gregg - $1799***
Sony HX729 - 1080p 240hz 3D Smart TV LED
55": HH Gregg - $1368***
46": HH Gregg - $998
Sony NX720 - 1080p 120hz 3D Smart LED w/ 2 pairs of glasses, Chronicles of Narnia, and 5.1 bluray HTIB
55": Sears, Best Buy - $1698
46": Best Buy - $1398
Samsung D6400 - 1080p 120hz 3D Smart LED
46": HH Gregg - $1149
40": HH Gregg - $999
Panasonic ST30 - 1080p 600hz 3D Smart Plasma
55": Sears - $1099***
Samsung D6000 - 1080p 120hz Smart LED
60": HH Gregg - $1499***
55": Sears, HH Gregg - $1099***
40": HH Gregg - $729
Panasonic S30 - 1080p 600hz Plasma tv w/ minimal internet services
50": Best Buy $599, Sears $699
LG LW5300: 1080p 120hz 3D LED tv w/ bluray player and four pairs of glasses
55": Sears, HH Gregg - $1199
47": Walmart, HH Gregg - $798
Sony NSXGT1 - 1080p 60hz LED w/ Google TV
46": HH Gregg - $799
40": HH Gregg - $599
Samsung D530 - 1080p 600hz Plasma
51": HH Gregg, Sears - $649
Zenith PV220 - 1080p 600hz Plasma
50": Sears - $499***
Panasonic X3 - 720p 600hz Plasma
46": Best Buy - $399***
42": HH Gregg - $499
Samsung D430 - 720p 600hz Plasma
51": Walmart, HH Gregg - $499
43": Walmart - $398***
This section is all tv's that are special holiday editions. Typically have less contrast and less input hookups. These are just the sizes I saw in the leaked ads, I know some of them exist in other sizes I'm just not sure who will have them and at what price.
Samsung D6003 - 1080p 120hz Smart LED
55": Best Buy - $999
46": Sears - $799
LG LV4400 - 1080p 120hz LED
55": Walmart $898***, Sears $999
47": Sears, Kmart - $679***
42": Best Buy - $499
Sharp LE632 1080p 120hz LED
70": Sears, HH Gregg - $1999
Sharp LE6300 1080p 120hz LED
60": Sears, HH Gregg - $999
Sharp E79 1080p 120hz LCD
60": Best Buy - $799***
Toshiba HT2U 1080p 120hz LCD
65": Walmart - $998
Samsung D5003 1080p 60hz LED
40": Sears, HH Gregg - $499
Samsung D503 1080p 60hz LCD
46": Sears, Walmart - $599
40": Sears, Best Buy, Walmart - $429
Samsung D4003 720p 60hz LED
32": Best Buy - $348
Samsung D403 720p 60hz LCD
32": Sears, HH Gregg, Best Buy, Target - $280
Hitatchi LE32H405 720 60hz LED
32": Kmart - $299


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Myrtle Florence Broome Collection
- Broome MSS
- Colección
- 1927-1937
415 letters written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.
Broome, Myrtle Florence
26 resultados con objetos digitales Muestra los resultados con objetos digitales
Myrtle Florence Broome Collection
415 letters written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.
Broome, Myrtle Florence
Arthur Cruttenden Mace Collection
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-2 (working with G. A. Reisner).
(2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
(3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923.
(4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923).
(5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.
(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2).
(z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).
Mace, Arthur Cruttenden
William Matthew Flinders Petrie Collection
Papers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.
Petrie, (Sir) William Matthew Flinders
Archibald Henry Sayce Collection
Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.
Sayce, (Revd) Archibald Henry
Card indexes used in compilation of the <i>Coptic Dictionary</i>, photographs, photostats, notebooks, notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, negatives, and casts.
Crum, Walter Ewing
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection
-Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
-Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
-Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour entitled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
-Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
-Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
-First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to 'My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E'.
Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
Lane, Jenny
Griffith Institute Postcards Collection
Antique and modern postcards from various sources.
Winifred Mabel Brunton Collection
Watercolour showing the initial stages of one of Howard Carter's excavations.
Brunton, Winifred Mabel
Jacobus Johannes Janssen Collection
Transcribed hieratic documents, photographs, annotated photocopies, notes on Deir el-Medina, unpublished material, etc.
Janssen, Jacobus Johannes
Notebooks, notes, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, and correspondence. There is a small amount of material amongst these papers relating to Westminster Abbey (correspondence).
Clarke, Somers
Typescript in 7 folders of a complete synopsis of Theban tomb scenes, also three letters.
Scharff, Alexander
Notebooks, notes, maps, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver inkwell. Made during Carter's career between 1899-1939. (This is material other than that directly connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun.)
Carter, Howard
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
Carter, Howard
Griffith Institute Watercolours and Drawings Collection
Original drawings by different artists and made for various publications.
William Arnold Stewart Collection
Journal, photographs, typescript, and various notes connected with Stewart's work on the reconstruction of some of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres for the Harvard-Boston Expedition.
Xerox of a typescript entitled 'Creative Work in Palestine. Technical and Crafts Education 1918-1946'.
Stewart, William Arnold
Norman de Garis and Nina Davies Collection
Papers, including notebooks, notes, tracings and squeezes, made in Theban tombs and elsewhere, photographs, collection of coloured hieroglyphic signs, indexes of scenes in Theban tombs, etc.
Davies, Norman de Garis
Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.
Černý, Jaroslav
1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].
2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).
3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].
4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).
5) Models, plaster and resin molds and casts for plaque depicting scene from lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1979) - the plaque is being sold in the British Museum shop since late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued c. 2010).
6) Model, plaster and resin molds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).
7) Models, plaster and resin molds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).
8) Album of newspaper cuttings entitled "Illustrations", mostly from the Illustrated London News, bound in illustrated binding by Harold Parkinson (c. 1930).
9) Drawings of reconstructions of the Theban tomb-chapel of Nebamun, now in the British Museum in London, including sketches, tracings and a measured perspective acrylic (1997) [by Richard B. Parkinson].
Parkinson, Harold
1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade 'portfolios' containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi's diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].
Bonomi, Joseph
Index of Late Egyptian Grammar, index for Egyptian Dictionary, and various other indexes. 18 notebooks containing copies of hieratic papyri and ostraca. Small watercolour. 2 boxes of family papers and ephemera, including personal correspondence, certificates, photographs, notes for Peet's books on Neolithic Italy, a couple of pages from an inaugural lecture, newspaper cuttings, a travel record small notebook, a Latin and Greek classes notebook, etc.
Peet, Thomas Eric
Francis Giesler Newton Collection
Article on churches in Sardinia, with additional notes and drawings, and watercolours and drawings of Italian towns, churches and architectural features, as well as view of the ziggurat at Ur. Non-Egyptological.
Newton, Francis Giesler
Oliver Robert Gurney Collection
Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.
Gurney, Oliver Robert
Correspondence, notes, unfinished lecture, small number of casts from Egyptian and Assyrian objects, portrait painting (oil on canvas, 79 x 104 cm, 107.5 x 133 cm with frame) by Richard Hooke (1820-1908), and a hand copy made by W. R. Dawson of Hincks, On Certain Egyptian Papyri in the British Museum, published in 'Transactions of the British Archaeological Association at its Second Annual Congress held at Winchester, August 1845'.
Hincks, (Revd) Edward
Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter's team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).
Burton, Minnie Catherine
Album of watercolours, drawings, and tracings of Egypt produced close to the end of Lloyd's life. It is a folio volume (33 x 44 cm, pages 32.7 x 43 cm), containing 135 watercolours and drawings (74 of which are full-page and 1 folding) and 10 tracings (8 folding). They are all mounted and most are captioned either on the image itself or on the mount. Captions on the mount seem to have been added when the album was put together after Lloyd's death. The album also contains a loose watercolour, a loose drawing and a loose lithographed portrait of George Lloyd by Prisse d'Avennes, who published it in his Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile (1848). One of the drawings in the album is a pencil portrait of Lloyd sketched by Prince A. Soltykoff.
Lloyd, George
Edward William Lane Collection
Drawings, notebooks, notes and correspondence.
Lane, Edward William
Charles Gordon Jelf Collection
Jelf, Charles Gordon
Robert Elcum Horsfall Negatives Collection
Negatives of Egyptian sites and monuments taken before 1914.
Horsfall, (Capt) Robert Elcum
Griffith Institute Stereoscopic Photographs Collection
1) 103 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, consisting of views of Egypt (49), China (50), Europe (3), and India (1).
2) Sawyer's View-Master Model B, black bakelite (c. 1944-1947), and twelve View-Master reels with seven pictures of Egypt each (© 1950): 3301 'Cairo, Egypt'; 3302 'The Famous Mosques of Cairo, Egypt'; 3303 'The Great Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, Egypt'; 3304 'The Tombs of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt'; 3305 'Treasures of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, Cairo, Egypt'; 3306 'The River Nile, Assuan to Cairo, Egypt'; 3307 'The Valley of the Nile, Egypt'; 3308 'People of the Nile Valley, Egypt'; 3309 'Sakkara and Memphis, Egypt'; 3310 'Luxor & El Karnak, Egypt'; 3311 'Ancient Thebes, Egypt'; and 3312 'Assuan on the Nile, Egypt'.
3) 50 stereoscopic glass positives accompanied by a handwritten numbered index of images and a Gaumont stereoscopic viewer. The positives were created in Egypt sometime between 1900 and 1914. Views include Alexandria, Cairo (street scenes and inside the Egyptian Museum), the pyramids at Giza, the Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, and Aswan.
Underwood & Underwood


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Stellar Photometry With DSLR: Benchmark of Two Color Correction Techniques Toward Johnson's VJ and Tycho VT
Roger Pieri
37 C rue Charles Dumont, Dijon, 21000, France
Received April 24, 2012; revised June 18, 2012; accepted August 17 2012
Modeling the Disk in the epsilon Aurigae System: a Brief Review With Proposed Numerical Solutions
Richard L. Pearson, III
Robert E. Stencel
University of Denver, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2112 E. Wesley Avenue, Denver, CO 80208
Received April 19, 2012; revised July 19, 2012; accepted August 7, 2012
Report From the epsilon Aurigae Campaign in Greece
Grigoris Maravelias
Physics Department, University of Crete, GR-71003, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Emmanuel (Manos) Kardasis
Department of Electronics Engineering, T.E.I. of Pireaus, GR-12244, Egaleo, Greece
Iakovos-Marios Strikis
Below you will find links to materials that were developed in the first three years of the Citizen Sky Project as part of the epsilon Aurigae observing campaign. Additional materials are available at the original Citizen Sky Website, which will remain intact as an archive of the Project's activities.
The AAVSO Binocular Program consists of 153 stars in the northern and southern hemispheres. They are mostly semi-regulars and Miras, with a few other types sprinkled in. Most of the stars range between 3.0 and 9.5V and can be observed best using simple hand held binoculars.
Recordings for all Astro-April online talks have been posted below!
To celebrate the achievements of the Citizen Sky Project and to introduce our participants to the wider world of astronomy, we planned a month-long celebration called Astro-April, which took place in April of 2012. We scheduled webinars throughout the month on various variable star topics. We also gave out many awards and prizes throughout the month.
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First workshop: Science and observing
The first Citizen Sky Workshop was held in early August of 2009 at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL. Here you will find links to videos and presentations from some of the fascinating talks that were held during that workshop.
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High Cadence Measurement of Neutral Sodium and Potassium Absorption During the 2009–2011 Eclipse of epsilon Aurigae
Robin Leadbeater
Three Hills Observatory, The Birches, CA7 1JF, UK
Christian Buil
Castanet Tolosan Observatory, 6 Place Clemence Isaure, 31320 Castanet Tolosan, France
Thierry Garrel


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