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Interesting. I am thinking about doing a similar slide show with stills. What resolution – and also what frame size were your stills? I've read they should be 72 dpi (ppi) and a variety of sizes. I want to burn a dvd and then project that onto a large screen.
They were in a variety of high resolutions in iPhoto. The final iMovie resolution is 720 x 540, which looked fine on a 20-inch color television.
"high resolution" – so not 72ppi? I am doing this for a "slide show" for a non-profit that uses Windoze Movie Maker — and will be projecting on a large screen. I've read that iMovie wants 72 ppi. I've heard anywhere from 72ppi to 400 ppi for the W MM resolution and am completely confused. (My D70 pix are 300ppi and can be upscaled, but I thought that size resolution was for prints!)
The photos were all kinds of resolutions, from 72 to 180 to 300. iPhoto took care of all the downsampling when it exported in QuickTime movie format. That's what I brought into iMovie. Hope that helps.
It does, thank you, indicating there should be downsizing to prob. 72 – hurrah for Macs! And, btw, thanks for your books – I've appreciated the QuickStart guides, incl. to Tiger!
Thank you for your articles helpful hints.
After saving the slideshow as iDVD and quitting it (as your suggestion-I don't want to use the iDVD templates… they look cheesy to me and they are not what I need anyway…) I opened iMovie but could not drag the iDVD project into it… It aapears gray and I can't select it.
Can you elaborate more on how to accomplish it? Since yesterday I've been trying to do a slideshow using photos with music for a presentation. iPhoto's slideshow, once exported to burn a disc had a poor quality even in the large res and did not work for me.
Marilu, I think you misunderstood me. You should be using iPhoto to create the slideshow and then save it for iDVD using the following iPhoto command:
Share > Send to iDVD
This does not create an iDVD project. It creates a QuickTime movie. You can then bring that QuickTime movie into iMovie for further editing.
Hope this helps!
Thank you Maria!
Now I got it ;-)
When you import the Quicktime move into iMovie, how do you then add title screens before certain shots? I'd like to do this but when I improt the QT Movie I made in iPhoto it appears as just "one" frame and I can't figure out how to add title pages as you can when you have individual still shots and can put a title page between shots. I can't figure out how to edit the QT file because it is already one file. Thanks!
If I create the slide show in iPhoto and import the QT file into iMovie, can I then add title pages? I just need a few to add before certain photos. I know how to do this in iMovie between photos, but am not sure how to do it in the imported QT file because it is one long piece instead of photos that I can insert things between. Do I need to split it then add a title page? Thank you. good info on this site!
d. kelly
I have been looking for an answer for this Ken Burns bug and without a doubt yours has been the best help above a lot I have been reading this week! I have a question though, have you tried or do you think it is possible in this way to insert video scenes in between the photos?
And is so nice of everyone to be sharing solutions and answers, but don't you think it blows anybody's mind that this guys in Apple are so irresponsible that make you spend $80.00 USD for an iLife 6 that in the beginning does not even do right what the previous version could? How come we are all trying to solve what their developers should be doing? It doesn't sound fare to me…
Thank you… you saved the day.
I agree with you about fixing bugs, Ilena. I'm really bothered, in fact, that Apple knows about problems in its software and is apparently not interested in fixing them. It's not just this problem, but it's the iPod podcast playlist problem I've written about elsewhere in this blog. Many people are unhappy about the problem and they're complaining in Apple's support forums, which they monitor. But Apple isn't stepping up to the plate to fix the problems. Instead, they seem busy updating other software to close up perceived security holes.
Oh, well.
In answer to your question, if you create the slide show movie in iPhoto, you can then bring it into iMovie and add additional clips, transitions and titles (as Kelly asked). You can also edit and split the iPhoto-created clips in iMovie to do other things with them.
Me, I've decided I've had enough of iMovie. I bought Final Cut Express for my movie editing needs.
Perhaps that's what Apple expects all of us to do.
Thank you very much for your comments. I guess that in the end I must check on Final Cut Express, which I thought was more complex…. Go figure! ;)
Have a terrific day!!!!!!
And thanks again… really.
Hi, Thanks for the great tips here. I've got my quicktime movie and the iMovie project. What I can't figure out, is how do I burn this to a DVD to watch on a television with a DVD player? In iMovie, when I go to Burn Project to Disc it says it's just burning a copy of the project to the disc, NOT making a video that can be watched from a DVD player. Any suggestions would be most helpful.
Hi, Mina! You need iDVD (also part of iLife) or some other program that can author DVD projects.
Great! Thanks. I have iDVD. Do you know of a way to bypass the cheesy themes, so I can just have my simple movie? Thanks so much!
I don't know the answer to that question. I think you might be stuck with one of the cheesy themes. Do what I do: pick the one that's the least cheesy.
Good luck!
Thanks. Great site, I found it through a google search. Also recognize a bunch of photos as I just returned from vacation in AZ (Sedona and Payson) Thanks for your help, VERY much appreciated.
Hi Maria,
I am confused about your description of saving a iPhoto slideshow, you said:
Saving the Slide Show as an iDVD-Ready Movie
This is the painfully simple part of the job. Just choose Share > Send to iDVD.
iPhoto will create a slide show movie in QuickTime format and save it to your hard disk in the Movie folder. This may take some time — enough for a coffee or bathroom break.
When iPhoto is finished, it launches iDVD and places the movie in whatever Project was last used. You can use it there if you like or do what I did: delete it from the project, close the project without saving it, and quit iDVD. Then open your iMovie project and drag the icon for the movie into it. You can then add titles and chapter markers and other iMovie things to fancy it up.
My understanding is that you have to choose File> Export in order for your iPhoto slideshow to be saved as a Quicktime Movie. What is the difference between this an choosing Share> Send to IDVD?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Mike.
I think there is some confusion about the application being used to create the slide show.
My instructions are for using iPhoto to create and save the slide show as a QuickTime movie. Are you, perhaps, thinking that I was talking about creating the slide show in iMovie?
My article is a mostly workaround for the Ken Burns effect bug in iMovie. It gives you most of the controls you'd have in iMovie (transitions, effects, Ken Burns Effect, timing, etc.) and lets you preview it before committing it to disk.
Or are you just saying that the File > Export command AFTER creating the slide show (in iPhoto) appears to be another way to export a slide show as an iDVD movie? If so, you are correct. But I think the exported movie's resolution and quality is higher when exported using the Send to iDVD command. The Export command apparently limits you to 604×480.
Hope this helps! Sorry for the confusion.
Thanks for the timely response, I understand your concept, I also like the Ken Burns effect and plan to use it it a slideshow, and will follow your procedure.
I put together a slideshow in iPhoto using random transitions without the Ken Burns effect, and had music from iTunes library, I sent the slideshow to iDVD, used a theme and burned to a DVD-R 8x. I was not pleased with the quality of the DVD at all. When previewing the slideshow in iPhoto it was crystal clear.
My camera is a Nikon D70, takes great pictures. I have a Mac Mini with Intel Core Duo, 1GB Ram, with SuperDrive DVD player, I have all the latest updates for Max OS X 10.4.9. Any comment on poor quality DVD burn would be greatly appreciated. This was the first DVD that I burned on this system.
Thanks again, Mike.
Mike, I sure wish I knew the answer. I also followed the procedure to create slide shows in iPhoto and bring them into iDVD to create a DVD. Although the quality was better than when I tried doing it from iMovie, it still wasn't what I'd consider GOOD. I think that when you're starting with 7 megapixel or better images taken with a decent camera, you should get better results.
I'm still experimenting with this. If I come up with any good solutions, I'll probably blog it on this site. In the meantime, if you learn anything that can help us, please do comment about it here.
Good luck!
Thanks again for responding.
I enjoy your posts, keep up the good work.
I created a slide show in i photo (i life 06) and tried to import it to i movie, but received the following message:the file could not be imported: QickTime couldn't parse it:-43. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong.
You might not be doing anything "wrong" at all. It might be a file corruption problem. Maybe one of the photos is bad? I've never seen that message, so I really don't know what's going on.
My advice: try making a smaller slideshow with different photos. See if that works. If it does, one of your photos in the original show might be bad. If it doesn't, you either have a problem with iPhoto or QuickTime.
Hope this helps, at least a little.
I share the comments from the last couple of posts – I have never been happy with the outputted quality on DVD from a slideshow. They look great on the monitor but pretty awful on the TV – the picture I use are, in the main good quality crisp images. I read somewhere that there is a "mask" that you have to apply to Quick Time to improve the quality. Does anyone know what the mask is and how you apply it? It seems strange that a wonderful programme like Iphoto (and it is!) is let down by the next stage in the process of converting to a movie and burning onto a DVD.
Is there a way to export my iPhoto slide show to my web site, either directly or via the apple site?
Is it possible to use more than one song when producing the slideshow in iPhoto for transport to iMovie? I can't find a way to use mor ethan a single song – I would like an automatic transition from one song to the other as the slides progress. Any deas?
Scott, I don't think there's a way to export an iPhoto slide show (as discussed here) directly to your Web site. You'd need an FTP client to upload the slide show's MOV file.
Al, it's a lot easier than you might think! Simply create a playlist that has the songs you want, then select the playlist (rather than one of its songs) as the music for your slideshow.
In answer to Mina's question "Do you know of a way to bypass the cheesy themes" (comment 14), I think I know one, although it has a flaw. In the iDVD project, if you click the "Map" button, you'll see a map of all the parts. The first one is empty and says "Drag content here to automatically play when the disk is inserted". You can drag your movie inthere. that part will play when you insert your DVD, which is your actual movie.
The flaw is, that when your movie ends, you'll end up in a cheesy theme, I didn't succeed in removing that…
Oh, and I'm still using iLife '05…
Thanks for all the information on creating slideshows on DVD.
If I want to divide an iDVD slideshow into "scenes" (ie group the slides in categories accessible from the menu screen of the DVD), which of the following is best?
1. To create short individual topic slideshows in iPhoto to transfer to iMovie and put then together as one long movie and add chapter markers
2. Tto create one long (multi-topic) iPhoto slideshow to transfer to iMovie and split it in iMovie and add chapter markers at each split?
Either method will work. I think it depends on how you want to handle the music. Splitting them in iMovie AFTER music has already been made part of the show might not be possible.
Why bother with iPhoto and iMovie at all, when you can create and burn your slideshow directly in iDVD, complete with transitions and music?
Tony, I tried this and didn't like the results. Of course, that was with iDVD 06 — iDVD 08 may have better controls. I haven't played with it yet.
Excellent discussion regarding creating a movie from a slideshow! I could not figure out how to get more than one song for music background, so thanks for the crucial hint of selecting the playlist instead of the songs!
I too have been somewhat unhappy with the quality of the final DVD compared to the original iphoto slideshow, but I think it may just be a feature of the final quicktime resolution (720×540). It would be nice if Apple would add a toggle to up the quicktime resolution to 850 or even 1000. This seems crucial as more of us get HDTVs
Paul, this is one reason why I make my slideshow in iDVD and burn directly to a DVD. In iDVD you can set higher resolution and it will not downsize them like iPhoto does.
I recently did an iDVD slideshow for a local photo club at 1024 pixels x 768 pixels because that is the resolution of their digital projector. It worked just fine.
Well, on iLife '08, you would actually have to not click the slideshow button on the botom( there isnt one) but click the plus sign and click slideshow and it will have the name nad click make and it will work the same way.
i can not figure out how to adjust the time that a single slide plays. i would appreciate a hint.
Ricky, see Step 7 above under "iPhoto to the Rescue."
Keep in mind that all of these instruction apply to iLife '06 programs. Things may have changed in iLife '08. I haven't had time to check yet.
I'm new to iLife and DVD authoring in general but I came across a problem in iDVD 08 which apparently has been around since the very first version. When I created my first slideshow with background music and transitions, I burned to DVD and when I played it on my DVD player through my TV at each transition there was a break in the background music.
I've since learned that this is due to some DVD players (not all) treating each slide as a chapter. The only way to rectify this is to create a slideshow in iMovie.
Greta site by the way Maria, keep up the good work.
Regarding the cheesy themes :-
In iDVD 08 (i'm not sure about previous versions) you can turn off ALL drop zones and change backgrounds to either still pictures or full screen movies. You can then customize your menus to suit your needs.
You are limited only by your imagination!
First of all I'm not sure if this post even belongs on this forum. But even if no one can answer my question about why this is happening or how to fix it the information I am giving you is probably usefully.
OK. So I got all the IPhoto sideshow stuff down and the transfer to IDVD is just a click of a button but I hate that IDVD can't do a menuless dvd. Yes there is a way to make an autoplay DVD in IDVD but it didn't work right on anything but my mac once I burned it.
Anyway, the quality of the video/slide show is perfect when you go straight from IPhoto to IDVD.
But the slide show I'm making is in loving memory of someones mother who died and a menu is not appropriate. So I'm forced to move to DVD Studio Pro because making a menuless DVD in this program is simple, easy, and works great.
Unfortunately there is a very noticeable amount or quality lost when making the transfer from IPhoto to DVD Studio Pro.
The exported (640X480 QT) movie looks great in QT but as soon as it goes into DVD Studio Pro the quality drops. I tried the QT exported for IDVD (slightly larger files size and dimensions) in DVD Studio Pro and I get the same quality loss (it actually looked worse).
I then tried running both the QT's through Compressor with the proper DVD settings (even bumped up the bit rates a little bit) without any luck on keeping the best quality.
My question is: Why is there such a significant quality drop in the video when using DVD Studio Pro? How can I avoid this loss of quality? Has anyone else had this issue?
As an alternative is there a program that will allow you to burn a VOB file to a dvd without a menu and without loss of quality (no re-encode)? The VOB on the DVD made by IDVD looks great.
Hmmmm. I wounder if you could create a disk image of the menuless DVD and swap the low quality VOB for the high quality VOB within the disk image then reburn the image with the better VOB…. I'll give it a shot and get back to ya all.
LOL. My last scenario/idea totally worked (not perfect but it worked). You can copy the high quality VOB created by IDVD from the video TS folder of the Disk image and replace the VOB in the DVD Studio disk image.
Unfortunately it's a little tricky since disk images are read only. Here are rough steps of what I did.
1. Make you IPhoto slide show
2. Share it from I Photo to IDVD
3. Go into the "DVD Map" view of IDVD and drop your slide show movie into the automatically play box then from the file drop down menu select save as disk image chose your location and hit save (don't worry about your menu in IDVD because you wont be using it anyway Just drop your movie on the automatically play box)
4. Once the images saves double click it then open the mounted drive on your desktop, go into the video ts folder and find the VOB file that contains your movie. (vob's will open with VLC player which is a free player available on the internet)
5. Copy that VOB to your desktop
6. Next make your menuless dvd in DVD Studio Pro (i'm not going to go into how to do this unless someone asks me too. Its easy but a little confusing)
7. Once you have your dvd ready to burn in dvd studio select build from the top icons. (this creates you dvd's audio ts and video ts folders in the location you specify.)
8. Now you go into the video ts folder you just made from DVD Studio find your video VOB and copy the name.
9. Go back to the high quality VOB on your desktop from IDVD and paste the other (DVD studio VOB) name on it. Basically make sure you high quality VOB is named the same as you low quality VOB!
10. Now replace the VOB in your DVD studio video TS folder with the one on your desktop. (make sure you replace it)
11. Almost there. Now go back into DVD studio pro and select the format button. Point the source to the folder that contains your newest audio ts and video ts folders from DVD studio and hit burn.
now for the issues. Chapters/markers seem to be very problematic when doing this. I had chapters/markers in both the IDVD project and the DVD Studio project and if you try to skip forward or back on the dvd it usually skrews up. Probably because of having chapters/markers in both programs. Other then that it seems to work great.
I can elaborate on anything I'm talking about but keep in mind this not beginner stuff and by no means is it conventional, but it works (you can get a very high quality sideshow with no menu)! So if you have no prior knowledge, your not willing to waste some DVD's (I wasted at least 5 tonight), or your not willing to push your tech knowledge to the limit do not listen to anything I'm saying and deal with the quality loss of dumb menu's in idvd.
Hope this helps someone out there!
Great stuff. I have a couple of (definitely) stupid questions. What versions are you using of iPhoto, iMovie and Idvd? My very old versions doesn't have all the features that you refer to.
Version 6
Thank you for the great information on making a slide show in iPhoto! With your instructions, I was happy with the final result of dropping the resulting QT movie file directly into iDVD '05 (even playing on my widescreen TV). There's one thing I can't figure out: Even though I selected "4:3, iDVD, TV" for the slideshow format in iPhoto, the photos are "squeezed" a little (narrower than the original photos) once I drop the resulting QT file into iDVD and preview it. It's not so bad that I absolutely can't live with it, but it would be nice to have the ratio of the original photos. Any suggestions?
I bypassed iMovie with the iPhoto/QT movie, because the resolution of the photos (when creating a totally different project) was really rough by the time I burned it to a DVD via iDVD. Please use layman's language for me in your answer – I am pretty hopeless when it comes to understanding the tech side of all of this!
Update: I happened to look at the slideshow (I was describing in my previous post) played in the QuickTime application, and it is fine. The "squeeze" I mentioned apparently happens in iDVD and shows up in the preview before I burn. I can't find any settings in iDVD that look like they might apply to correct the problem.
Thank you again!
I've been reading the posts and they're really informative, can you explain to me how to make a photo slideshow using final cut express?
JP, no, I'm afraid not.
thanks a lot–this was very helpful!
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Whoops! Just answered my own question. When I drag the bottom right-hand corner of the window, BEHOLD! The 'settings' button! I am now willing to answer questions on the advisability of simultaneously making slideshows and drinking beer.
I also have been creating slideshows in iPhoto and exporting them to iDVD and burning them with the iDVD software option. I agree with posters who said the image quality degrades on even the finest LCD Mitsubishi tv after burning on Promaster dvds. I also tracked down the degradation was just as bad in iDVD before burning. I have 10 megapixel resolution photos, and they are degrading from the export to iDVD. AppleCare rep today told me it's a known issue in iPhoto export of slideshows. Now, I see it less if I use no Ken Burns effects at all, but then, duh, all you have then is a little slideshow. My husband doesn't notice it, but I sure do. Also, if I play the same slideshow on the iPhoto program, not off the dvd, it is perfect. If I run the dvd on the same iMac, it's not so good. I would be willing to pay to get better quality, anyone know of any other software that doesn't shake on zoom images once processed for burning?
I found the picture quality to be higher and best quality if I did the slideshow in iPhoto rather than in iDVD even on best quality widescreen settings. I also found that in iPhoto if you select to fill the screen, it crops off things you may wish it hadn't (if you are artsy about your photos or careful about content and no-crop zones). That's just a FYI.
Any pros out there? I know there's a cleaner way to view zooms than this. It's too shakey, especially on fine lines and even more so on fine lines with high contrast and all black edges, especially vertical shots.
Help appreciated.
PS I don't know how you say to take a coffee break while the images process… I did a full dvd in iDVD and it takes about 5 hours to process the images from imported slideshows for me! And, one out of 5 times, it completely crashes part way through.
I was using all three iMovie, iPhoto, and iDVD and couldn't decide which was the least complicated way to create a movie of all my still photos to play on TV. This site is great. My understanding from this site is that it is better to create the slideshow in iPhoto and then drop it into iMovie for more manipulation. I found the slideshow in iDVD doesn't allow do very much.
The one problem I'm having is that my iPhoto slideshow plays fine in QT, but when I dropped it in the iDVD project, the music will not play. I read the instructions above and the checkbox is selected to play the music. Can anyone help me on this?
I have spent hours creating a slideshow in iphoto, timing each slide individually to songs on my itunes play list. It is perfect on my PC. When I burn it to disk by sharing to idvd, not only is the quality poor but my music is no longer timed to my photos! Is there a way to fix this,or other software that works better burning iphoto slideshows to a dvd?
I have high resolution pictures in my iPhoto slideshow. If I go form iPhoto slideshow to a slide show movie in QuickTime format which is a lower resolution and then to iDVD I get a lower resolution DVD. Do you know if it is possible to create an iPhoto slideshow and place it directly in iDVD with the same resolution and then make a DVD? iDVD always want to add a lot junk to the slideshow.
I followed the steps from iPhoto – made three slideshows with music, and port them one by one directly through "Share – iDVD", and the burnt DVD played well with my home DVD player on a LCD panel TV, and the menu feature actually worked well for three slideshows in one DVD.
I skipped the step of iMovie because I had tried it, and the end result of resolution did not make any difference at all. (iLife 2008).
Just wanted to say a BIG THANKYOU FOR MAKING ME WASTE 4 HOURS OF MY LIFE MARIA, iMovie does not import .mov files SO TO ALL = BE AWARE THIS POST IS A WASTE OF TIME!!!!
Lee: Wow. You just wasted another few minutes of your precious time writing this comment!
If you would have READ the entire post before "wasting your time" you would have seen that it's an old post created with older versions of the software. Don't blame me for writing something years ago that so many people obviously benefited from. Blame yourself for wasting your time when you had newer versions of the software.
I have a question about using Iphoto & importing into IDVD. I'd like to know how to keep the order I have placed my images in using Iphoto and then importing into IDVD. When using the IDVD wizard to create a slideshow it randomly re-orders the photos. I'd like to keep them in the order I have them in Iphoto. Does anyone know how to do this? I appreciate your response as this is doing my head in and i'm new to using a MAC.
Many thanks.


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Bernard Deutscher was my great grandfather born 7/22/1863 in Stanislaw Austria and died 8/13/1931 Queens, N.Y. On his marriage certificate his mothers name is listed as Clara Hyde born c1832 in Austria/England? and died in Stanislaw Austria. His father is listed as Isaac Deutscher. There is an Isaac Deutscher born c1831 in Krakow, died 12/8/1890, who married his cousin, Mary Mundel Deutscher born 10/7/1830 Krakow and died 2/19/1909 in Krakow. They had 9 children and there starts the line of very many Deutschers. I don't think this is the Isaac Deutscher who is the father of Bernard. I am looking for Clara Hyde and the Isaac she was married to. On Bernard Deutschers head stone is listed, in Hebrew, Isaac as the name of his father... Still, I'm beginning to doubt the last name was Deutscher. Any ideas?
Does anyone have any idea how to find Clara Hyde?

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When many local cinephiles heard word that the legendary Winchester Drive In Theatre was hit hard by last year's epic spate of tornadic activity, an aura of sadness spread throughout the community. After all, the drive-in was a celebratory gathering place for movie fans looking for nostalgia and families looking for inexpensive entertainment, as well as an integral part of the Oklahoma City landscape, a piece of the past that, sadly, is pretty much dead in America.
"I have been out here since 1968," Winchester owner Lindy Shanbour said. "This place is my home. I love going out here, I love people coming out here and I love watching the kids grow up. There's a lot of feelings in the Winchester, a lot of memories. I could have sold it after the tornado, but that wasn't the way I wanted to go."
Instead of closing the curtain on the business, Shanbour decided to rebuild, which included repairing the destroyed screen, installing new projectors and fixing a large amount of holes in the roofs. Film fans can see his dream realized once again when the Winchester opens its doors Friday, just in time for the upcoming summer movie season.
Besides the unpredictable weather, Shanbour added that some of the other killers of drive-ins include daylight savings time, the cost of keeping up with technology and the winter season. But if the response on social media (and real life, of course) is any indication, it's a cost that Shanbour is willing bear for many more years.
"Have you seen our Facebook? Over 14,000 comments! People are excited about the new season," Shanbour said. "But I also get letters and phone calls from people all the time telling me thank you for keeping this drive-in open. I have also seen a lot of kids grow up, and they always remember and they bring their kids. It's why I can't think of doing anything else."
While, at press time, a list of the first pair of features wasn't available for the one-screen drive-in, Shanbour promises a summer full of blockbusters with an emphasis on family films, which have always been a hot ticket for the Winchester. He cited films from Disney and recent hits like Madagascar as being the "best for business."
Though film culture has changed since the grand opening of the Winchester — its first lineup included the decidedly adult World War II comedy The Secret War of Harry Frigg starring Paul Newman as part of a triple bill — Shanbour reiterates that his love of movies and the Winchester itself will be a part of him for the rest of his life. As long as he's around, it will stay open, tornadoes be damned.
"I could go on and on and talk about the Winchester for hours," Shanbour said. "I love talking to anyone about it, even the people who come from out of town to take pictures of the cowboy and the concessions. Half the people who come through those gates out there thank me for keeping it open. It's a part of Oklahoma, and that feels good."


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This morning I hiked up the Anne U. White Trail through Four Mile Canyon and along Four Mile Creek. This is a lovely forested canyon and trail is just a couple of miles from north Boulder.
I made sure to get an early start for two reasons. I knew the day would get hot, because the weather prediction was for the temperature to reach 94 degrees. But by hitting the trail early the weather stayed cool enough for my whole hike. I also had an article due by 2:30 this afternoon, which was the same time I had an appointment with my acupuncturist, who comes to my apartment.
I met my obligations even though I got to this pool below before the sun highlighted it and had to wait an hour for this view. In the meanwhile I took 31 other shots of this scene:
On the way up the trail I passed thousands of flowers in bloom. The sun had just hit these:
Ever the optimist, when I saw this ladybug resting on a harebell, I quickly set up my tripod and camera and hoped that she would wait for me. She did:
Back almost to the trailhead I spotted some lush dandelion greens growing near the creek. I picked a large bunch of them.
This was a much better conclusion to a wonderful hike than the last time I hiked this trail. When I was here last August, I found thousands of butterflies. I didn't see any today. But right where I found the dandelion greens today, a bee or wasp stung me that time, and the sting hurt for a couple of weeks.
No bugs found me today, and I didn't photograph the dandelion greens. Instead, I ate half of them in the salad that I had at lunch.


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Sanofi launches new antimalarial drug
Washington: The pharmaceutical company Sanofi has launched the large-scale production of a partially synthetic version of artemisinin, a chemical critical to making today`s front-line antimalaria drug, based on a breakthrough discovery made twelve years ago.
And Professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley, laboratory, is seeing his dream finally come true.
The drug is the first triumph of the nascent field of synthetic biology and will be, Keasling hopes, a lifesaver for the hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who each year contract malaria and more than 650,000, most of them children, who die of the disease.
Synthetic biology involves inserting a dozen or more genes into microbes to make them produce drugs, chemicals or biofuels that they normally would not.
Keasling and colleagues at Amyris, a company he cofounded in 2003 to bring the lab-bench discovery to the marketplace, will publish in the April 25 issue of Nature the sequence of genes they introduced into yeast that allowed Sanofi to make the chemical precursor of artemisinin.
The yeast strain developed by Amyris based on Keasling`s initial research and now used by Sanofi produces a chemical precursor of artemisinin, a compound that until now has been extracted from the sweet wormwood plant, Artemsia annua.
Artemisinin from either sweet wormwood or the engineered yeast is then turned into the active antimalarial drug artesunate, and typically mixed with another antimalarial drug in what is called arteminsinin combination therapy, or ACT.
Global demand for artemisinin has increased since 2005, when the World Health Organization identified ACTs as the most effective malaria treatment available.
Sanofi said that it is committed to producing semisynthetic artemisinin using a no-profit, no-loss production model, which will help to maintain a low price for developing countries.
Though the price of ACTs will vary from product to product, the new source for its key ingredient, in addition to the plant-derived supply, should lead to a stable cost and steady supply, said Keasling, who also serves as associate director for biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as CEO of the Joint Bioenergy Institute in Emeryville, Calif.
Keasling encourages other companies to license for free their synthetic processes to make artemisinin in order to ensure that needed doses are available worldwide.


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For VCU, A New Meaning for 'Swag'
Virginia Commonwealth's basketball team, for all it has accomplished on the court in March, can brag yet another achievement. The Rams have taken a new term from slang to meme. The 11th-seeded Rams have adopted a one-word motto as something of a mantra throughout their improbable postseason run: swag. Sneaking into the NCAA tournament, first of all, was swag. So was beating teams from the Pac-10, Big East, Big Ten and the ACC. Before the Elite Eight, VCU coach Shaka Smart told his players they were going to knock off the Big 12′s best (swag). Then they did just that, toppling Kansas to make the Final Four (swag swag). All of this raises an important question for basketball junkies unfamiliar in the ways of swag. What exactly does it mean?
"It's you being you—doing what you want to do and not worrying about what anyone says," said Brandon McCartney, the rapper known as Lil B, who popularized the term. "Swag is being you. This is me, talking how it is. This is my swag."
And swag swag?
"Swag swag, that's that trademark," he said. "Everybody says swag once. I say swag swag, twice. That's how you know it's me. Swag swag. It's that ultimate bam-bam. You know what I mean? That double dosage."
(Neither is to be confused with the other slang definition of swag: freebies handed out at parties or conventions, or "stuff we all get.")
The 21-year-old McCartney hails from the West Coast, though he has performed with the Southern rapper Soulja Boy, responsible for the popular single "Turn My Swag On," and his manager has roots in Richmond. Yet this upstart VCU team has taken to his colloquialism as if he were a proud alumnus decked in black and gold. After the Rams upset Purdue in the round of 32—swag, but not quite swag swag—they rejoiced in the locker room with something called the Cooking Dance, also credited to Lil B, who was immediately alerted on Twitter. On Tuesday, Lil B required just three characters to express his loyalty: "VCU," he tweeted.
In a way, of course, Smart's team epitomizes McCartney's notion of swag. Earlier this month, college-basketball experts lambasted the NCAA tournament's selection committee for including VCU, a 9,999-1 longshot to win the national championship at one point this season. ("That's the biggest number we can put in the computer," said Jay Kornegay, the Las Vegas Hilton's sports book director.) Because VCU was relegated to a play-in game, the school wasn't even entitled to its own line in many brackets. Yet Smart, VCU's 33-year-old head coach, turned this rhetoric into motivation for his team, which won five straight games in one of the most remarkable streaks the NCAA tournament has ever seen. Lil B, who doesn't consider himself a basketball fanatic, wasn't all that familiar with the details of its Cinderella run, but he admitted that he sympathizes with VCU because of it. He's even considered hopping on a plane and showing up unannounced on campus.
"I'm rooting for everybody, but VCU is who I'm rocking with right now," he said. "They're the underdog. I've got faith in the underdog. Swag out, everybody."


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Give a little back
Kate Barrett | Thursday, September 13, 2007
As part of our family's humble effort to go a little green, we get most of our produce through a small local farm. We know the owners from our parish and school, and we like the fact that our eggs and vegetables only have to travel 10 miles to get to our plate, instead of the national average of 1,500 miles for the food which makes up a family meal.
At this time of the year, the wooden basket Brett or his wife Kathy brings over each week is absolutely overflowing with their harvest. Just this past week we received beautiful tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, several kinds of cucumbers, carrots, green beans (and, in fact, purple beans), leeks, onions, lettuces and rainbow swiss chard. My initial reaction to their deliveries lately has been delight, mixed with mild panic. I imagine not being able to close the refrigerator door once I have unloaded it all (sometimes I don't even have to imagine it as I watch the door insistently swing back open). I spent a good part of last Friday prepping and freezing zucchini for zucchini bread, carrots for carrot cake, and vegetables for soup, so that we can enjoy some of this September goodness in the gloom of January and February.
Maybe the door to the little fridge in your room won't stay closed after you've loaded it up with Diet Cokes or Mountain Dew (or other beverages of choice), or maybe the extra granola bars or Pop-Tarts keep falling off the shelf … or maybe you brought too many clothes, or some bigger items to school with you, forgetting just how small 10′ x 10′ really is. On our way to a Mass in the Alumni Hall chapel the weekend before school started, my husband and I walked down the halls and found ourselves surprised all over again at just how, well, challenging it would be to fit two guys and all their stuff into one of those rooms. When I lived in Farley, the rooms seemed bigger (sorry, Alumni guys), but maybe that's just because the standard sizes and quantities of what we were trying to squeeze in were smaller. Every so often somebody had a little TV in their room; nobody had their own computer; most roommates just shared those little boom boxes that played cassette tapes. When my brother was a senior and moved off-campus, he and his six roommates all went in together and bought a "house VCR," because no one had their own. I believe their one video was "This is Spinal Tap," which they watched over and over.
Now, this is not meant to be one of those "I walked to school in the snow, three miles, uphill both ways" essay/lectures about how good you have it now compared to the late 1980s. But maybe your room looks a little like my fridge: You can barely get the door closed for all the abundance that's within. The lines between what we need to have in college – or our post-college homes – and what we just want to have in college – or in our family room – have been blurred. Do you really need everything you brought with you this year? Would your room actually be more pleasant without so many possessions? Would you actually be more pleasant? I have found that, faced with an abundance of anything, whether food, clothes or even time, the most satisfying option is to give some away. Give heaps of it away, in fact. In my own family, we are grateful to be able to bring non-perishable foods to church each week for our parish food pantry. I'll certainly be sharing some of those carrot cakes (at least until my friends start running away when they see me coming).
The rooms aren't getting any bigger, and you haven't even brought out your winter gear yet. You can complain that these halls were built when people hardly brought any stuff with them, or you can release some of what you don't need. Which, for most of us is, let's face it, almost everything. So lighten up. You'll be glad you did.
This week's FaithPoint is written by Kate Barrett, director of resources and special projects in the Office of Campus Ministry. She can be reached at [email protected]
The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.


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Danville's Iron History
Danville was an iron town. It had been one practically since its founding in 1792. The entire community's lifeline psychological as well as physical radiated from this single economical base. As a result developments within the iron industry noticeably altered Danville's way of life.
Blast furnaces, forges, foundries, and rolling mills were all familiar sights in a town involved in producing iron. A few of the many mills that existed in Danville throughout the 19th and 20th centuries included:
Montour Iron Works
Columbia Furnaces (Grove Brothers)
Rough and Ready
Kennedy Van Saun Site
Danville Stove & Manufacturing Co.
The Montour Iron Works
The Montour Iron Works in 1840 in Danville, Pennsylvania, was a company owned by stockholders. Their holdings included iron ore mines, a limestone quarry, blast furnaces, puddling mills, two (2) large rolling mills and a narrow gauge railroad to transport the raw materials from mines and quarries to the furnaces.
The owners also built over 300 Company homes, owned and operated a Company Store and a grist mill.
On October 8, 1845, the first T-rail rolled with iron ore, smelted with anthracite coal was produced at this mill.
The Montour Iron Works was the largest mid-nineteenth century rail mill in the country.
In the 1850s, there were more rails produced at this iron mill than any other in the United States.
The North Branch of the Pennsylvania Canal was located near the mill and brought thousands of tons of anthracite coal, one of the ingredients necessary to produce anthracite iron, from the northeast fields to their wharves.
The Montour Iron Works, after many changes of managers and ownership, became the property of the Pennsylvania Iron Company in 1861. At that time, Thomas Beaver, one of the stockholders, became the resident overseer of the company, a position he held until 1876. It was at the beginning of their ownership that they built a grist mill to supply flour and feed to their Company Store. The Iron Mill had its most financial successful period during the Civil War, operating at full capacity, manufacturing railroad iron.
Thomas Beaver, later a generous benefactor to the town of Danville, sold his interest in the Penna. Iron Company in 1876, reserving by purchase the Mansion on the Hill.
The Pennsylvania Iron Company was sold to a corporation that included the Philadelphia Reading Railroad in 1880. It was renamed the Montour Iron & Steel Co.
In 1895 the Reading Coal and Iron Company became the sole owner of the Montour Iron and Steel Co. when they purchased the entire operation at a sheriff's sale. The Reading Iron Company existed until 1936 when they became insolvent. After 98 years of producing iron products in Danville, the mill was dismantled in 1938. The Danville Area School District Middle School sits on the site of the once stupendous Montour Iron Works.
The Grove FurnacesThe Grove Furnaces were situated at the east end of East Mahoning Street in Danville and the owners, Michael and John Grove known to everyone as the Grove brothers were among the best known 'furnacemen' in the state. Their first furnace was built by George Patterson in 1839 and was one of the first anthracite furnaces in this country. The Groves purchased it in 1840 and built a second furnace in 1859-60. They were very innovative in this endeavor. These two (2) furnaces, known as the Columbia Furnaces, had a capacity of 12,000 ton per annum.
The brothers assumed the superintendency of the Montour Iron Works while continuing to operate their own business from 1850-1857. The Columbia Furnaces became idle in the late 1880's and subsequently dismantled by the end of the century.
Their magnificent residence, named "Castle Grove" was built in 1867 and in 1919 became the home of the Sisters of Saints. Cyril and Methodius.
Rough and Ready Rolling Mill
The Rough and Ready Rolling Mill was built on the site of an unfinished nail mill erected by Burd Patterson, one of the early pioneers in the iron industry.
William Hancock and John Foley had come to this country in 1844 from their native England to share their expertise in iron rail production with the owners of the Montour Iron Works. They purchased the Patterson mill for the purpose of making merchant iron in 1847 and named it the Rough and Ready after the old general, Zachary Taylor.
In 1850 they started producing railroad iron and were soon manufacturing six thousand (6,000) tons of railroad iron per year.
Names of other Companies that occupied this site:
1867National Iron Company
1874 Hancock Steel and Iron Company
1879 The Glendower Iron Works
1887 The Mahoning Rolling Mill
1898 Howe and Polk Structural Tubing
1915 Danville Structural Tubing Company
1928 Charles M. Schwab took possession of the D.S.T. Co. and renamed it Danville Structural Steel Co. He rebuilt their #1 Mill at the corner of Railroad and East Market Streets.
1930 The Danville Structural Steel Mills were turned over to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
1942 U.S. Government took possession of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. for war time production under the Rheem Manufacturing Company
1945 to present- many small companies occupied this site at different intervals until Thompson Products purchased it in 1951. T.R.W. is the present owner of this mill.
Kennedy Van Saun (Mesto Minerals) Site
1906 The Danville Foundry and Machine Company was founded on a portion of the National Iron Company Area. They manufactured fire escapes, building fronts, bank grilles and similar wrought iron products
1919 Now the Danville Iron and Steel Company, they entered into an agreement with Kennedy Van Saun Manufacturing and Engineering Corporation of New York City to be their sole manufacturer of KVS products (Crushers, Screen, Conveyors, Rotary Kilns, Ball Mills, Hydrators, Belt and Bucket Elevators, Pneumatic Conveyors, Scrubbers, Incinerators, etc.)
1933 After serving as their subcontractor for 14 years Danville Iron and Steel merged with Kennedy Van Saun Manufacturing and Engineering Corp. KVS made a variety of Mineral Processing Machinery and became the world's leading supplier of lime calcining Plants, including rotary kilns, preheater and coolers, a status they still hold today.
1942 At the outset of WWII, K.V.S. started the ordnance department which made mortars, mortar shells, armor piercing shells and other projectiles from 60mm to 105mm until 1971. In 1950 the department was relocated into the former buildings of the Danville Stove Works.
1961 to 1989 KVS was operated as a subsidiary of McNally of Pittsburgh . In 1989 KVS became part of Svedala Industries of Sweden and today it is part of Metso Minerals, Inc. of Finland.
1999 Allis Mineral Systems, formerly the Mineral Procession Div. of Allis -Chalmers of Milwaukee, also a division of Svedala, was closed and merged into Svedala's Danville Office.
Thank you to Mr. David Richards for supplying the information on the KVS site
Danville Stove and Manufacturing Co (Beaver Stoves)
Seven shareholders formed a corporation in 1882 with a capital of $20,000 and named it the Danville Stove and Manufacturing Co. Thomas Beaver became a major shareholder soon after the company was founded but he was not one of the original seven. Their motto became "Beaver's the Best".
Many of the models of stoves cast at the Danville Stove and Mfg. Co. carried the Beaver name and were shipped all over the world.
The U.S. Post Office cast iron mail boxes, one of their products with the familiar beaver logo, could be found throughout this country. Today there is one located at Disney World in Florida. Production ceased in the early 1940's and the property became part of the K.V.S. complex in 1951.
Danville, Pennsylvania ~ An Iron Town was written by Helen 'Sis' Hause and Lynn Reichen. The Editor was Jean Knouse.


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Artist: En Vogue
Album: Soulflower
You keep on givin' it up, baby
Ooh, and I like that
(Hey baby ooh)
You keep on givin' it up, baby
Ooh, and I like that
That's right
Ooh, excuse me please, are ya from my dreams
You chocolate brutha suga spice
Can I take ya out tonight?
Did ya come from far
From a shinin' star,
So fine, cute and innocent
Where's your halo, where's your wings?
Heaven (Hey baby ooh yeah)
Hasn't been the same (Now baby)
Since you been gone (Since you been gone)
Heaven, Heaven, Heaven, Heaven Hea-ven (Ooh)
Hasn't been the same (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
(Oh baby)
Since you been gone (Since you been gone, ooh)
Verse 2: Cindy
I don't mean to stare
Extra ordinaire
You gotta be an angel child
Can ya stay awhile?
I'm so into you and I feel ya too
There's something 'bout your energy
Liberating, sets me free
You keep on givin' it up (Oh no don't go baby)
Baby (It's no mistake we're standin here, move a little closer dear)
You keep on givin' it up (Oh I like your style)
(Baby just give me the time and I'm gonna make you mii-)
Heaven (iii-nn-)
Hasn't been the same( nn-ee)
Since you been gone (Since you been gone)
Heaven, Heaven, Heaven, Heaven, Hea-ven (Oh no it hasn't been the same)
Hasn't been the same (Oh why? Oh why?)
Since you been gone (Ooh-ooh)
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Oooh and I like that
Ooh-ooh and I like that
You keep on givin' it up
You keep on givin' it up
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