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Is affinage all hype?
Link to the full story from the NY Times. (Read till the end to see the results of the taste test.)
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Quick! Free Tickets to an Irish Cheese Tasting in NYC!
This will be the kick-off event for a month-long Irish cheese promotion that Murray's is conducting. As part of the festivities, Murray's will be featuring Irish cheeses throughout November and hosting tastings with cheesemakers from the country.
What: A free guided tasting of Irish farmhouse cheeses
8 Cent Mac 'n' Cheese!
Attention cheese-loving New Yorkers: this Tuesday (7/29), Supermac is teaming up with 8Coupons.com to offer 8-cent mac and cheeses, available all day. Supermac is a mac and cheese mecca here in New York City, offering no fewer than 13 different varieties of the dish.
I've never been to Supermac (and I call myself a Curd Nerd?), though I have been a few times to their very similar downtown competitor S'Mac, which is a great restaurant itself. But it's pretty tough to resist 8-cent mac and cheese, so I'm definitely going to go try it. The website that's co-sponsoring the event seems interesting too; the premise is that you can text-message coupons to your cell phone, and redeem them at stores simply by showing the cashier the text on your phone. Pretty cool idea, and I downloaded a bunch of other coupons for a kosher deli near my office.
I'll be sure to give a full review of Supermac's offerings in the comments below. Check back on Wednesday!
Artisanal Offers Same Day Delivery in Manhattan (via Rickshaw!)
This is a really cool service and I hope it does well so they can add more neighborhoods. Only certain items can be ordered online, but you can place a custom order by calling the toll free order line (1-877-797-1200).
I'm not located in the delivery area, but if anyone is and has tried out the service, please leave feedback in the comments below!
Obikà Coming to New York City
Purchase Mozzarella di Bufala for $9.99/lb at iGourmet.
Video: The Amateur Gourmet Visits Murray's Cheese
This week the Amateur Gourmet has a great video up that chronicles a recent visit he made to Murray's Cheese. In it he learns about the main differences between cow, goat, and sheep's milk cheeses, about what distinguishes real British farmstead Cheddar from others, and about one of the best French blue cheeses available stateside, Persillé de Malzieu. Nathan, the cheesemonger featured in the video, has helped me on a number of occasions lately, and is a really great, friendly, knowledgeable guy.
Immerse Yourself in Cheese
Murray's class, called Cheese U, is an intenstive six-week course designed to give attendees a well-rounded education in all things cheese. The class starts with an introduction and orientation, and continues with a detailed look at the different types of milk used to make cheese, the history and geography of this great food, followed by a look at cheesemaking, affinage (the art of aging cheese) and beverage pairing. The course is pricey at $795, but in addition to the classes themselves you get a "required reading list," take home assignments, a final exam and a Certificate of Achievement upon completion.
Artisanal's Master Class: Intensive Class for Professionals is largely geared towards food professionals (and comes with a correspondingly high price tag at $1200), but promises to spend a full 2 1/2 days covering "the entire world of cheese, from milk types to cheesemaking, affinage to appreciation, placing an emphasis on service, selection, and proper care of cheeses for the foodservice professional." With instructors like Max McCalman and Daphne Zepos, this class should prove to be truly enlightening.
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Kroger & Murray's Strike Cheese Deal


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One single waistbead on cotton thread. Beads are approximately 34 inches long. To adjust, measure waist by holding both ends of your waistbead and wrap it around your waist. Remove excess beads and tie cotton thread in a knot around your waist. If desired, cut or burn excess thread off the ends of your waistbead.
For waist size larger than 34" , purchase two and connect by tying ends of separate beads together. Remove excess beads.

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Astigmatism is a condition that results in blurred, unfocused, or fuzzy vision. The cornea (the front surface of the eye) or lens (located behind the cornea) has an abnormal or irregular curve.
There are two common types of astigmatism:
- Corneal astigmatism—misshapen cornea
- Lenticular astigmatism—misshapen lens
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The precise cause of astigmatism is unknown. It is often present at birth and may coexist with nearsightedness or farsightedness. Sometimes, it may occur after an injury or eye surgery.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of astigmatism include:
- Heredity—a family history of astigmatism, eye disease, or disorders such as keratoconus
- Eye surgery—certain types of eye surgery, such as cataract removal
- A history of corneal scarring or thinning
- A history of excessive nearsightedness or farsightedness
Some people with astigmatism may have no symptoms. In those that have symptoms, astigmatism may cause:
- Blurred or distorted vision, which may cause you to squint
- Headaches
- Lightheadedness
Symptoms vary depending on the extent of the astigmatism.
Your eye doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. An examination of your eyes will be done.
Tests to evaluate your eyes may include:
- Visual acuity assessment test (VAT)—to assess distant vision
- Refractor test
- Keratoscope—to detect and measure the presence of corneal surface curvature
Treatment options may include the following:
Corrective Lenses
Corrective lenses, such as glasses or toric contact lens, are prescribed to offset the eye's visual abnormalities or defects.
To correct severe astigmatism, your eye surgeon might use special knives or a laser beam to correct the abnormal or irregular curve of the cornea.
There are three types of surgical procedures that an eye surgeon might perform:
- Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK)—laser beams are used to reshape the abnormal or irregular curve of the cornea
- Laser-assited in situ keratomileusis (LASIK)—laser beams used to reshape the curve of the cornea by removing corneal tissue
- Radical keratotomy (RK)—small incisions (cuts) are made partial thickness into the cornea
- Laser-assisted subepithelial keratomileusis (LASEK)—not as commonly used, but it may benefit people with thin corneas, or those at high risk of an eye injury
There are no current guidelines to prevent astigmatism. See your eye doctor for regular check-ups.
National Eye Institute (NEI) http://www.nei.nih.gov/
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind http://www.cnib.ca
Goss DA. Refractive error changes in mixed astigmatism. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 1999;19(5):438-40.
Holladay JT, Moran JR, et al. Analysis of aggregate surgically induced refractive change, prediction error, and intraocular astigmatism. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2001;27(1):61-79.
Komaroff AL, ed. Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; 1999:423-425.
Kymionis GD, Aslanides M, et al. Laser in situ keratomileusis for residual hyperopic astigmatism after conductive keratoplasty. J Refract Surg. 2004;20(3):276-278.
Miller JM, Dobson V, et al. Comparison of preschool vision screening methods in a population with a high prevalence of astigmatism. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2001;42(5):917-924.
Pesudovs K. Autorefraction as an outcome measure of laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2004;30(9):1921-1928.
Taneri S, Feit R, et al. Safety, efficacy, and stability indices of LASEK correction in moderate myopia and astigmatism. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2004;30(10):2130-2137.
Tobaigy FM, Ghanem RC, et al. A Control-matched comparison of laser epithelial keratomileusis and laser in situ keratomileusis for low to moderate myopia. Am J Ophthalmol. 2006;142(6):901-908.
Varley GA, Huang D, Rapuano CJ, et al. LASIK for hyperopia, hyperopic astigmatism, and mixed astigmatism: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Ophthalmology. 2004;111(8):1604-1617.
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Occassionally, even Leica products need someone to tend to them. That is why Leica maintains a worldwide service network of factory-trained experts. They will take special care of your personal Leica product anywhere around the globe.
In addition to our equipment and accessories as well as pick-up services, we are glad to offer various printed brochures for your reference. And owners of Leica X-Cameras can make use of various redesign options for their camera with Leica X à la carte.
Equipment & Accessories
Leica Customer Care offers further services and support. All over the globe, our distributors will help you to order equipment and accessories that are no longer available via the catalogue. They can provide information on availability and delivery times for the products you require.
Redesign your Leica X
Times change, as well as personal taste. That is why you are able to upgrade your existing Leica X to your preference by adding a personal engraving. Owners of Leica X2 may individualise their camera even further with an alternate leather trim.
One personalisation option is a custom engraving on the flash cover or the top cover of the camera. Add or alter engravings such as signatures or names. These give your Leica X1 or Leica X2 a truly personal touch.
Leather trim
Choose from a wide and rich variety of leather trim options to redecorate your Leica X2. To modify and redesign your current Leica X2, we offer you the same variety of colours and styles which you find when designing your new camera in the à la carte programme. For more information please contact your Leica Dealer or Customer Care.
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In 1957 the Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, ordered the state's National Guard to prevent the integration of Little Rock Central High School by nine African-American teenagers. President Eisenhower was slow to react and enforce the Supreme Court's decision, Brown vs Board of Education. Twenty days after the initial incident the President federalized the Arkansas' National Guard and sent in army's 101st Airborne Division to help the nine students enter the school safely. This event marked the first time racism in the South was on network television for the entire country to watch over almost a month long span.Click Here for more videos of Charles Mingus.
Charles Mingus wrote the song 'Fables of Faubus' as a response to this event and show his anger and disgust at the racism endured by black people in America. The song was first recorded for Mingus' album Mingus Ah Um in 1959 on the Columbia label though they would not allow the lyrics to be included. In 1960 Mingus was able to record the song on the Candid label with lyrics on his album Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus. The lyrics include a call and response between Mingus and drummer Dannie Richmond.
"Mingus, as you know, was outspoken. He used the bandstand as a soapbox to communicate what was on his mind—about the ills of society, the inequities and the social injustice. He spoke out at all times, not just about people making noise in clubs during performances but also about political and social issues. This was a musical communication about his feelings, not to be confused with political protest. Mingus only wrote six or seven political compositions with lyrics, but he was not didactic. His purpose with his music wasn't to confront social injustice. He was too much of a composer for that. But he did vent on the bandstand vocally about anything he felt was wrong or unfair. Back then, that took courage." - Sue Mingus
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Incident reports
Hillsboro police
Oct. 13: Police handled a dog complaint and a traffic complaint.
Oct. 14: Officers took reports of a lost wallet and a stolen bicycle. The bicycle was later recovered.
Oct. 15: Police addressed reports of an abandoned vehicle, a possible abandoned vehicle took reports of a suspicious person, the fraudulent use of a bank account, and an animal welfare concern.
Oct. 16: Officers checked on suspicious activity, and took reports of identity theft, and a suspicious odor.
Oct. 17: Police performed a welfare check and checked on suspicious activity.
Oct. 18: Officers took a criminal threat complaint.
Oct. 19: Police recovered an abandoned bicycle at the sports complex and took a report of several people running through town being disorderly and trespassing.
Marion police
Sept. 30: Police responded to a report of a possible lost child and assisted in a search for the child. The child was later found safe. Officers responded to a call of a rabid horse; the horse had to be put down. Police responded to an Oasis runaway; the runaway was later found at Marion Central Park and was released back to his guardian.
Oct. 1: Officers took a report of a found guitar and clothes in someone's backyard, and took a report of an abandoned vehicle in Casey's parking lot, and responded to a fight at the aquatic center.
Oct. 2: Officers provided a welfare check where they located a juvenile and took the child to school, and took a report of a gas skip at Ampride, and took a report of a non-injury accident. Officers took a report of possible harassment and theft of property; the property was later recovered.
Oct. 3: Police took a report of theft and burglary and assisted Marion EMS with a possible combative patient. Police assisted Marion County Sheriff's Department with suspected trespassing in Florence; juveniles found were issued a warning for curfew violation.
Oct. 4: Officers took a report of a 911 disconnect; everything was found to be OK, and took a report for possible dog neglect.
Oct. 5: Officers responded to a call of alleged domestic violence, and attempted to arrest Willaim Alkire. Alkire resisted and was tazed by officers. Alkire was detained on suspicion of domestic assault, battery on an officer, assault on an officer, domestic assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and interfering with an officer and taken to Marion County Jail. A mental evaluation was done on Alkire and he was transferred to Larned State Hospital.
Oct. 6: Officers took a report of a person who would not leave a house when asked.
Oct. 7: Officers were informed of possible dog neglect, assisted Meade County Sheriff with information on a former resident, and assisted Marion County Sheriff's Department on a vehicle rollover. Police responded to a second rollover accident south of town and responded to a commercial alarm at Casey's General Store; an employee set off alarm accidentally.
Oct. 8: Officers took a report of a dog bite; the dog was found to be in the Florence area and a citation was issued to a homeowner for trash and junk in his yard on N. Cedar St. Police took a report of possible harassment and stalking, and took a report of assault.
Oct. 9: Officers attended Walk to School Day, and assisted students across the street, and responded to a non-injury car accident, and arrested Dustin Shiplet, 30, on two charges of registered offender violation. Officers took a report of a possible break in, and found everything to be OK.
Oct. 10: Police responded to a call of an out of control student at Oasis.
Oct. 14: Police took a report of telephone harassment and are investigating the matter. Police took a juvenile complaint with which they are assisting.
Oct. 18: Alan Hatton, Peabody, was arrested and charged with failure to appear on an El Dorado municipal warrant.


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Let Me Help a Sista' Out
- print on plain paper first
- I used solid sheets of "label paper" like this. Be sure you get ink jet paper for an ink jet printer or laser paper for a laser printer.
- which allows for fun square or star shaped labels too... the sky's the limit
- make your margins smaller so you can squeeze more on a page
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The Food Network star and host of Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee won't be moving into the governor's mansion or assuming the title of First Lady, like we here at Pol Position had hoped for when Cuomo defeated Carl Paladino.
In fact, she won't even be moving to Albany, opting instead to stay in the Mount Kisco residence she currently shares with governor-elect Andrew Cuomo. She isn't even going to have any official duties, but as we said last week surely her knack for throwing lavish parties on a shoestring budget and time-saving tricks could be put to good use in the State Legislature, who seems to have serious trouble fiscal responsibility and getting things done in a timely manner.
Perhaps this is a nod to the state's social conservatives, who might raise a stink if Cuomo gives the impression of turning the governor's mansion into his own illicit love shack, but the couple of four years has been nesting for quite some time now, and he still got elected. (Of course, his strongest opponent was completely bat-nuts crazy, so we're not putting too much stock in his landslide victory just yet.) And with all of the work to do up in Albany, the last thing Cuomo needs is a nagging issue, no matter how trivial, following him around everywhere.
So the state, dare we say the world, will have to wait for Sandra Lee's official introduction into the world of politics. Oh well, now she'll have more time to teach you how to make a two-minute taco salad with only a bag of Doritos, a jar of salsa, and a tub of sour cream.


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Fresh scandal hits the Socialists
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A fresh corruption scandal hits the Socialist party - while Nicolas Sarkozy's old rival Dominique de Villepin announces he will be running in next year's presidential election. The papers also react to last week's eurozone deal - but can't agree on whether it's good for France.
The Socialist Party has been hit by another corruption scandal, involving a mayor in the north of France - and giving the right wing Le Figaro plenty of ammunition.
Liberation headlines on the diversity of the Socialists' parliamentary candidates - saying they've finally woken up the need to represent ethnic minorities.
And the business papers can't agree on whether the new eurozone deal is good or bad for France - La Tribune says it shows the way out of the crisis, while Les Echos reckons the road is still rocky ahead.


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Washington, D.C. (May 2, 2011) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Senior Assistant General Counsel Maya J. Bermingham issued the following statement today on the myriad factors that contribute to drug shortages:
"Drug shortages can occur at any point of the supply chain and may be traced to a number of different causes. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other experts, drug shortages can occur for any number of reasons ranging from natural disasters; shifts in clinical practices; wholesaler and pharmacy inventory practices; raw material shortages; changes in hospital and pharmacy contractual relationships with suppliers and wholesalers that can cause fluctuations in the availability of certain products; adherence to FDA-mandated distribution protocols, which can impact patients' timely access to medicines; individual company decisions to discontinue specific medicines; and manufacturing challenges.
"PhRMA's member companies recognize the importance of avoiding unexpected disruptions in the supply of needed medicines to patients. To achieve that goal, PhRMA companies are committed to maintaining good manufacturing practices and working closely with the FDA, supply chain partners and providers when unexpected shortages occur.
"The lifeline of America's biopharmaceutical research companies is the safety, integrity and market availability of the medicines that they develop. PhRMA and our member companies share the commitment of the FDA in promoting patient health and safety.
"What's more, PhRMA organized and leads the RxResponse program, uniting the entire drug supply chain in a coordinated effort to ensure patients' timely access to medicines during a natural disaster.
"A number of PhRMA member companies also participate in groups, such as Rx360, a consortium of regulators, pharmaceutical executives, supplier executives and members of professional organizations working to develop and to implement enhanced global quality systems and processes to help members ensure product quality and authenticity throughout their supply chains."
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $49.4 billion in 2010 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $67.4 billion in 2010.
Find PhRMA Online:
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Terror strikes roads
[Bangla Daily Star] Even before the sun broke through the winter fog, thousands of BNP and Jamaat activists took absolute control of Dhaka's entry points yesterday and went on the rampage, bashing and torching vehicles, and sending terror down the spine of city dwellers.
At least two people were killed during the violence. A Jamaat activist died in Sirajganj town during a clash with Awami League activists. In Dhaka's Sutrapur, a tailor died in the beating by
Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
activists who mistook him for a blockader.
The opposition has called for a countrywide dawn-to-dusk
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
tomorrow and demonstrations today protesting what they said government sabotage of their blockade programme.
The BNP activists emboldened by their Jamaat and Shibir allies, overran a few ruling Awami League activists who tried feebly to resist the blockaders. The Awami League activists had firearms with them, but in most cases they tuck their tails and
bravely ran away
. The law enforcement agencies mostly remained silent spectators, as if in a truce with the rampaging activists.
Later, the Awami League activists made a comeback with the protection of police and chased and beat up the blockaders. In some areas, opposition activists engaged in
with police and ruling party men.
In one terror strike, the blockaders threw a Molotov cocktail from an under-construction building on a police patrol car on Panthapath in the capital. The car went up in flames and three
were maimed
The city took a deserted look and hardly any vehicles plied the streets as the blockade turned into something tougher than hartal.
Some of the violent incidents had the telltale signs of the recent Shibir attacks. The blockaders came out of alleys very early in the morning, vandalised and torched vehicles in their blitzkrieg attacks and then vanished. Vehicles parked in front of hospitals and even inside residences were not spared in some cases.
Clashes between blockaders, ruling party men and law enforcers took place in and around the capital and other places in the country. More than 70 homemade bombs went off, around 50 vehicles were torched, including five police vehicles, and over 150 others were vandalised yesterday.
At least 250 people and 40
were maimed
There were reports of
in Sirajganj, Narayanganj, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna, Lalmonirhat and Laxmipur.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam, however, termed the violence a government sabotage.
At a
at party's central office at Nayapaltan, he claimed, "Four people were killed, 665 were
tossed in the clink
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
and over 600
were maimed
across the country."
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Assistant Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Gazi Rabiul Islam said 162 people were arrested in connection with the violence.
BNP's national standing committee and the 18-party alliance last night sat at BNP Chairperson
Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
's Gulshan office to decide their next course of action.
Fakhrul disclosed their decision on the hartal after the meeting and said it was called to protest the government's effort to obstruct yesterday's blockade.
He said they would stage demonstrations today as well.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance on November 29 called the blockade from 6:00am to 2:00pm yesterday for detaching the capital form the rest of the country to press home their demands. Their demands include restoration of the caretaker government system to oversee the next parliamentary elections.
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text: Tracing the development of nuclear weapons from the first atomic bombs to the enormous hydrogen bombs exploded by the United States and Russia, this documentary presents a clear picture of the destructive power of thermonuclear weapons. It contains extensive film footage of the U.S. Castle-Bravo and Russian Tsar bomb tests. Interviews with U.S. physicist Harold Agnew and Russian scientist Boris Altshuler provide insights into the development and testing of their countries' hydrogen bombs. Author Richard Rhodes furnishes excellent explanations of the weapons and their effects. The film also describes the impact of radioactive fallout from the testing on U.S. servicemen, the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel, The Lucky Dragon, and inhabitants of the Marshall Islands test sites.


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#235: Rec: Double-Baked Potatoes With Mushrooms And Cheese
Posted by: Curious1 at 2:44 pm on Dec 26, 2005
from Epi while I'm at it, they're delicious and went well with standing rib roast. I used Boursin garlic and herb instead of cream cheese because I had it. Hey, two for one at Publix, how could I resist?
This rich, creamy version of twice-baked potatoes can be assembled and refrigerated one day before the final baking.
6 small russet potatoes (about 7 ounces each), scrubbed
5 tablespoons butter, room temperature
12 ounces mushrooms, coarsely chopped
2 large green onions, chopped
3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature (about 1/2 cup)
1/3 cup sour cream
1 1/4 cups coarsely grated white cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 375°F. Pierce each potato in several places with fork. Place all potatoes directly on oven rack and bake until tender, about 1 hour.
Meanwhile, melt 1 tablespoon butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add mushrooms; sauté until beginning to brown, stirring frequently, about 7 minutes. Add green onions; stir until wilted, about 1 minute. Set aside.
Using oven mitts as aid, cut each potato lengthwise in half. Scoop cooked potato flesh into large bowl, leaving skin intact. Add cream cheese, sour cream, and remaining 4 tablespoons butter and mash well. Mix in mushroom mixture and 1/2 cup cheddar cheese. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mound mashed potatoes in potato skins. Sprinkle each half with 1 tablespoon cheese. Place on baking sheet. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)
Preheat oven to 375°F. Bake potatoes until heated through and cheese melts, about 25 minutes, or 35 minutes if potatoes have been refrigerated.
Makes 6 servings.
Bon Appétit
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Three bright planets and two bright stars form a beautiful lineup in the western sky over the next few evenings. This is the view about one hour after sunset. [Tim Jones]
You are here
Evening Lineup
A beautiful lineup of bright planets and stars slants across the western sky the next few evenings. The whole array is in good view by 30 or 40 minutes after sunset, and remains in view until late evening.
The anchor for this lineup is the planet Venus, the brilliant "evening star." It's fairly low in the sky as night falls, but it's so bright that you just can't miss it.
The other members of the lineup are fairly evenly spaced, to the upper left of Venus.
As you move in that direction, the first one you come to is Regulus, the brightest star of Leo. The rest of the lion stretches above Regulus.
Number three in the lineup is the planet Mars. It's the same brightness as Regulus, but it shows a distinctly orange color. Over the coming months, Mars will fade a bit as it drops lower and lower in the sky. But it'll remain in view through about Thanksgiving.
Next up is the planet Saturn. It's about the same brightness as Mars and Regulus, but has a yellower color. It, too, is dropping back toward the Sun, but in a bigger hurry than Mars -- it'll disappear by around Labor Day.
And finally, at the upper left end of the lineup, look for Spica, the brightest star of Virgo, standing high in the southwest. It's about the same brightness as all the other members of the lineup except Venus, and it has a slightly bluish tint.
So enjoy this beautiful evening lineup. And if you need help finding it, we have a chart on our website, stardate.org.
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Sep 14 2009, 01:43 PM
Post #16
Group: Legendary Designer
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From: South Africa
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I'm not a TMC participant but I always follow the competition and I have an opinion about this …
and once I have an opinion it's hard to shut me up – even with an axe (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
I think you should consider looking at things the other way around.
Instead of starting a beginners competition … start an advanced competition (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)
Let the beginners, Rising Themers and Gifted Themers compete in the normal TMC.
But once you're a Certified Themer or Legendary Themer you are only allowed to participate in the Advanced themer competition.
That way beginners can still get plenty of help from Rising and Gifted themers without having to compete against Certified and Legendary themers.
And of course an advanced competition will be easier for the competition managers to handle since they can pretty much take care of themselves (except for the vote counts, etc.). If there are not enough certified and legendary themers you can of course set different criteria for entrance to the advanced competition. Maybe by invitation only or something (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)
Well that's my thoughts on this … hope you don't mind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)
Sep 15 2009, 01:06 AM
Post #17
Group: Rising Themer
Posts: 4056
Joined: 21-September 08
From: Pakistan(Quetta)
Member No.: 3412794
only one vote so bye bye TMC forever
Sep 15 2009, 01:15 AM
Post #18
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From: Malaysia
Member No.: 131119
only one vote so bye bye TMC forever
Did you take a look at how Atalantos, angelnaina & hungnc started in TMC? If I'm not mistaken, they haven't got more votes than you when started too. See what they become today? Votes & winning will come to those who continue tuning their theming skill. You will be one of them one day too if you continue working. My 2 cents. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grouphug.gif)
Sep 15 2009, 02:06 AM
Post #19
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only one vote so bye bye TMC forever
Did you take a look at how Atalantos, angelnaina & hungnc started in TMC? If I'm not mistaken, they haven't got more votes than you when started too. See what they become today? Votes & winning will come to those who continue tuning their theming skill. You will be one of them one day too if you continue working. My 2 cents. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grouphug.gif)
i am agree with AW. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) .i more thing i waan to say sucess never comes easily..u have too work hard and some time harder and then see,sucess will b ur's.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
hope u will too work hard to achieve ur's goal.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Sep 15 2009, 02:15 AM
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only one vote so bye bye TMC forever
Did you take a look at how Atalantos, angelnaina & hungnc started in TMC? If I'm not mistaken, they haven't got more votes than you when started too. See what they become today? Votes & winning will come to those who continue tuning their theming skill. You will be one of them one day too if you continue working. My 2 cents. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grouphug.gif)
First of all I want to say congrats to the winners well done
and on a more serious note.......
to be honest I in part understand what find Girl has said, although i completley respect the judges votes, the winners completley deserverd the win. However I do feel I have to question the public votes.
If You look at the graph with the public votes Galmed, sinner, Krakit, pg001 and bisomar have been given 1,2,3,4 and 5 votes respectivley where as find girl nor myself have recived none from the public.
In my opinion If themes which have a number of issues and problems get votes and themes which are fairly good do not get any public votes, it makes me question the whole public voting system.
Im really sorry if I have offended anyone by bringing this up, but i just wanted to voice my opinion, though in closing i would say i wont give up entering the competition as i really enjoy them as it helps me learn.
agin im sorry if I have upset anyone that was not my intention
Sep 15 2009, 02:50 AM
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Ok, looks like I have caused a fire again. AW is running to find a fire extinguisher ... (IMG:http://www.emoticons.free.fr/smileys/Emotion-Scare/scarerun.gif)
Let me say this, the TMC is not perfect. It had never been and it might never be. The voting is not perfect & I cannot word it any better than what Dr_Megabyte has explained. People have their own preference & no matter how professional we think we are, subconsciously our emotion affects out votes, our decision. What we can do is raise people's awareness of how this is happening & urge you to be as objective as possible during voting. Another thing is we strictly forbidden cheating (2 accounts voting for each other) & act on it. If one member continuously vote for same themer we will talk to him/her about it. Then this year, we introduced judge voting. We do these to try to be fair to everyone (but you know this, life is never 100% fair & square. Just look around you ... plenty of examples ...). Public voting might not be fair to everyone. If anyone has ideas how we can improve it, let us know. You have my ears.
What we do know & I have stressed this a lot of times now. TMC is a platform to make friends with other M9ers who share the same passion in theming, exchange ideas & feedback, improve skills, and have fun. Try to ask those who have been with TMC for some time & have the right mindset, they will tell you that TMC has enabled them to achieved 5 things mentioned above.
I just wanted to voice my opinion, though in closing i would say i wont give up entering the competition as i really enjoy them as it helps me learn.
Sep 15 2009, 04:41 AM
Post #22
i agree with You Arthur.
Anuj, i Understand Your Feelings too. But Public Voting is Something that You can't change.
There are Tons of People Voting, of whom, All have their Different Opinions regarding their
Different Tastes. You can't Really Question them Until its supposed to be a Communal Affair.
No Offence meant Anuj.
But, Yes i do agree with You here, that YOUR Theme and Sonia'z Theme was Way Better than
mine. And i really Think, You Guyz Deserved more Votes than me.
But, i am Glad Your not Mad at that. And You Enjoy Theme Making. After All thats what matters.
Enjoying the Moment, bonding together and to Think of it.
Girlz and Guyz! We are a Team. We are a Very Creative set of People who are supposed to be
Proud of Ourselves for being a Part of a Community that Offers Us Skills and Entertainment like Such.
As i always say.
You ALL are Great Themerz.
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Sep 15 2009, 10:18 AM
Post #23
Group: Certified Themer
Posts: 861
Joined: 29-August 07
From: Tehran-IRAN
Member No.: 1858984
only one vote so bye bye TMC forever
This Theme Was My First Theme At TMC (TMC 189). I Had Only 3 Votes Between 7 Participants! Finaly I Won My First Podium At TMC 198 Between Only 7 Participants! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/whistle.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/1.gif)
You Had 1 Vote This Week But Between 18 Participants. You Are Really Good Themer. Just You Must Work More.
Sep 15 2009, 09:26 PM
Post #24
Group: Rising Themer
Posts: 481
Joined: 15-February 08
From: Australia
Member No.: 2704166
only one vote so bye bye TMC forever
ok im sorry, but have to have my say, That is a really bad attitude!
As everyone else has said , TMC is not just for winning its for learning and improving, you got one vote!
Thats not bad...at least you got that one vote, Ive seen many tmc's where ppl havent even gotten that!
be proud of your work ask for advice and opinions and DONT GIVE UP SO EASILY! I hope you dont give up
that easily in life!
As for splitting I think its a bad idea, For me personally (and im not the greatest themer) i love competing with ppl
like Naina, Shalu, Sam, Gault, mom, NVDVS1, Branislaw, BBT (i know there's soooo many more of you, your all great)
ive learnt so much from all of them! Bur its not just that, its the interaction, the support, the joking around, just the whole
atmosphere really!
So findgirl dont give up! We all have to start somwhere and to start with one vote....well you can only go up from there!
Sep 16 2009, 08:28 AM
Post #25
i agree with You Daisy.
Sonia, Don't Give Up soon.
Its Just Timely Matters.
You know i got 3 Votes which i never Deserved.
You got one Vote. And That kind of makes You no.1
i mean, if You look at the Positive Side.
i got 3 Votes that makes me no3 Themer. i mean that actually reflects my Skills. i am a 3rd grade Themer.
You got one Vote, which means You are no.1...
i know that sounds Stupid. But there are ways when at the Sickest situations You have an Opportunity to Learn to
be Happy. See, i just gave You the Tag of being No.1 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap.gif)
Dosen't that makes You Unique.
Come On, we are all with You Sonia.
We All Love You.
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Sep 22 2009, 10:40 PM
Post #26
Group: Partial Members
Posts: 69
Joined: 1-September 09
Member No.: 5872486
i am beginner too...
i thing it is (IMG:style_emoticons/default/10.gif) idea to have a separate tmc for the beginers..
Sep 26 2009, 08:17 AM
Post #27
Group: Legendary Themer
Posts: 4046
Joined: 14-May 09
From: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Member No.: 5150223
I'm Also A Beginner...........
I Think I Like To Learn More & More...........
So I Like To Participate With Great Themer Together............
This post has been edited by shaon007009: Sep 26 2009, 08:26 AM
Sep 28 2009, 12:17 AM
Post #28
GUYZ can we Talk about SONY ERRICSON THEME Competition as a Singular thing Here.
Because for me, it gets Difficult to Compare an SE theme with a Symbian Theme. And After all,
there is a Contest held for the Symbian based phone then Don't You guys think that, SE should also
have some Respect here. NO OFFENCE to SYmbian. But, maybe we can have a Seperate Forum and
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The award was based on the chapter's science outreach activities on campus and within the local community. Some of the SPS chapter's activities include collaborating with other science clubs in the KidsZone during football games and participating Bear Facts Days to introduce potential students to the department. SPS students volunteered at EcoFest which is sponsored by the City of Conway.
The SPS chapter presently has a membership of 36. All student classifications can join the chapter.
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Known throughout the region for their popular science demo shows, the University of Central Arkansas invites elementary schools to take a field trip to the campus to view science in action through one hour showcases followed by a planetarium show. The University of Central Arkansas also showed Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey live in their planetarium, in addition to holding a variety of smaller scale outreach activities including booths at a variety of student fairs to promote the organization, recruit new members, and share the wonders of physics.
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The Black & Gold return home for their second home match of 2014 after opening the season with a pair of victories away from Crew Stadium ... the Crew is looking for wins in its first two home matches to open the year for the first time since 2010 when the club went 4-0-0 at Crew Stadium to begin the campaign ... in the three years since, the Crew went 3-0-1, (2011), 1-2-1 (2012) and 1-1-2 (2013) through its first four contests at home.
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation is set to honor Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
The foundation is scheduled to award the Lincoln Leadership Prize on Wednesday evening in Chicago.
Spielberg directed the Academy Award-winning movie "Lincoln."
Sally Field, who portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln, will present the award.
The foundation says the prize is given to those with character, conscience and a commitment to democracy and service.
Foundation directors say they're honoring Spielberg for his accomplishments in film and philanthropy.
Previous recipients include former President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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To some Ravens fans, the thought of Billy Cundiff continuing to be the team's kicker – after he hooked wide left a 32-yard attempt in January's 23-20 loss to the New England Patriots in the AFCchampionship game – was an unappealing possibility that demanded action.
So Sunday's news that the organization had terminated Cundiff's contract was a satisfying outcome to those same fans. And history shows that Cundiff isn't the first kicker to lose his job after faltering in the postseason.
** Don Cockroft sent a 30-yard try wide left, kicked a 47-yarder just short, and missed an extra-point attempt. The Cleveland Browns eventually lost, 14-12, to the Oakland Raiders in a 1980 AFC divisional contest, and Cockroft never played in the NFL again.
** Doug Brien was unsuccessful from 43 and 47 yards with less than two minutes left in the fourth quarter, contributing to the Jets' 20-17 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in overtime of a 2004 AFC divisional game. Brien was waived by New York and played in three games for the Chicago Bears in 2005 before dropping out of football.
** Mike Vanderjagt blocked a 46-yard try wide right with 18 seconds remaining in the Indianapolis Colts' eventual 21-18 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in a 2005 AFC divisional game. The Colts cut Vanderjagt, who played in 10 contests for the Dallas Cowboys before moving to the CFL and then retirement.
To be fair, there are also a few who bounced back from disappointment to continue enjoying fruitful careers.
** With the Minnesota Vikings owning a 27-20 lead with just over two minutes left in the 1998 NFC championship game against the Atlanta Falcons, Gary Anderson sent a 38-yarder wide left. The Falcons surged back to win, 30-27, in overtime. Anderson enjoyed four more productive seasons with the Vikings and two with the Tennessee Titans before retiring.
** Three missed field-goal attempts in a 17-14 loss to the New York Jets in a 2009 AFC divisional game haven't prevented the San Diego Chargers' Nate Kaeding from currently ranking as the most accurate kicker in NFL history.
** David Akers rebounded from two misses in the Philadelphia Eagles' 21-16 loss to the Green Bay Packers in a NFC wild-card contest in January 2011 to break the league record for field goals in a season with 44 as a member of the San Francisco 49ers last season.
"You get more credit than you deserve when you make it and more blame than you deserve when you miss it," Brien told The Sun in an interview last week. "If you can't deal with that roller coaster and internally stay even-keeled, then it's probably not the position for you."
Being uniquely familiar with Cundiff's dilemma, Brien sent an email to Cundiff after watching on television Cundiff's miss against the Patriots.
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In the Fifties and Sixties Urban Renewal came to Boston in the form of the draconian Central Artery, Charles River Park and Government Center projects. Together, these efforts were heralded as The New Boston. The next phase in Boston's evolution is now unfolding in the guise of the Big Dig. This is partly a rollback and partly a further evolution of the ideas that underlay The New Boston.
Here is what Urban Renewal replaced.
Medieval Boston
Most people think of Boston as a dense city, and it is, especially by American standards. Today's city is, however, a pale shadow of the medieval maze that was Boston before large-scale modern planning and spatial concepts entered the picture.
First the Central Artery elevated expressway project (1959), then the infamous West End clearance (1961) described in Herbert Gans' Urban Villagers, and finally the Government Center (1963ff) introduced the modernist concept of infinite space into the form of the city.
Medieval Boston survives in the crooked street patterns and canyonlike spaces of the North End and Financial District, but those who do not remember Scollay Square, the West End, the Waterfront and Haymarket from before Urban Renewal are rarely prepared for the reality that survives today mostly in photographs:
Hancock Tavern, 1900
Creek Square, 1896. This street survives in the heart of what is today referred to as the Blackstone Block, though the buildings that fronted it are now gone.
Elm Street, 1920. Faneuil Hall in foreground and the beaux-arts skyscraper Custom House Tower beyond. These two historic monuments are still with us; everything else, including the street, has vanished into infinite space. Faneuil Hall: before it was revered as historic, Pillsbury thought of it as good billboard space.
Faneuil Hall Square, 1925. That is the apron canopy of Faneuil Hall at lower left—needed because the ground floor was a functioning wholesale food market. Both canopy and the function that required it survived until about 1975. Every single thing in this photograph has now vanished.
Coca Cola at Faneuil Hall. The building that hosted the sign would now be in the roadway of a widened Congress Street.
Bowdoin Square, 1929, gateway to the doomed West End beyond.
Faneuil Hall Square, 1860. The Feather Shop was a genuine English medieval building dating from the 1600's. The reconstructed Paul Revere House has similar lines.
Dock Square, 1900, looking towards Ames Building, an early skyscraper (1889). Note the sign hawking rooms on the left-hand building; people used to live here.
Quincy Market, 1920. Though cars were more common by this time, horses were the preferred conveyance of produce peddlers. Quincy is still a market of sorts; the Rouse Company, prodded by architect Benjamin Thompson, turned it into the first Festival Marketplace (1976); the above building functions today as a vast food court.
Blackstone Street, Haymarket, 1933. Buildings on the right demolished for Central Artery ramp, ca. 1957; buildings on left mostly cut down to one story, some with basement retail when Haymarket in session. The bend in the street is still there, of course, as is Haymarket, though it looks a little different.
North Street was a major link from Dock Square to the North End in 1885, and is poised to become so once again now that the elevated Central Artery is coming down. The artery cut North Street in two; it is discontinuous but it can be found both north and south of the highway. Buildings on the right are all gone, victims of an Artery ramp; a hotel gobbled up most of the ones on the left, but guiltily mimicked them in general form.
Atlantic Avenue, 1905. Loitering menacingly down by the waterfront, these guys seem like the spiritual forebears of coke dealers. This area is now a waterfront park.
Medieval Boston survives in the crooked street patterns and canyonlike spaces of the North End and Financial District, but in the West End, Scollay Square, Waterfront and Haymarket, the Middle Ages were bulldozed into oblivion by Urban Renewal, the New Boston and most of all, the Central Artery:
Before Urban Renewal, as now, one epicenter of the city was Dock Square, site of Faneuil Hall, built as a produce market with public meeting hall above. Here the Continental Congress met and took steps toward American independence. Here also, before landfill, the residential North End met downtown for commerce and public activities. The Waterfront was the third participant in this colloquy, but it has since been ordered into the distance by landfill and other large-scale planning gestures.
Dock Square, 1928, Faneuil Hall at right middleground. If the present City Hall had existed in 1928, this would approximate the view from the mayor's office. (Faneuil Hall's first designer was the portrait-painter, Samuel Smibert, 1742. In 1805, Charles Bulfinch enlarged the structure and added a third story). A statue of Samuel Adams has displaced the premium ham.
Faneuil Hall, 1923, with Quincy Market beyond. The Harbor—fully connected to the city—appears in the background. In true medieval fashion, mansards and additional stories are beginning to appear on what is today called North Market Building—really numerous buildings until 1976, separated by party walls and property lines, but intended by architect Alexander Parris to be unified by identical façade treatments to create the illusion of a single vast structure. The owners had their own ideas.
Visually, Quincy Market's South and North Buildings were conceived by their architect to appear unified, much as they do today, after their "restoration". Functionally, however, these were dozens of near-identical buildings separated by party walls and property lines. They were developed in small increments over time, and hence they never actually achieved the unified appearance they have today, because by the time the last unit was built numerous variations, modifications and individual designs had cropped up to disrupt the overall order. Thus the intended Baroque unity was organically medievalized.
The effects of this process of individuation are clearly visible in the depression-era photograph. Most owners have added mansards, extra stories, alternative façade treatments or otherwise modified the basic unit design, so that "North Market Building" and "South Market Building" can not clearly be discerned as entities. By mid-Twentieth Century, one or two units had even evolved into miniature deco skyscrapers of seven or eight stories, complete with elevators.
These were all re-regularized and re-clad by architect Ben Thompson when the Rouse Corporation converted Quincy Market, the wholesale meat market, into Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the retail shopping mall. Internally, Thompson and Rouse unified the buildings with corridors piercing the heavy party walls, at the same time as they also unified the exteriors.
You could say they restored the market buildings to their original historic condition (although before 1976 this condition was only fully realized in the original architect's mind and drawings). Or you could say with equal justification that Thompson and Rouse really erased the effects of history by restoring the buildings to an appearance that they never actually had.
Which approach, in your opinion, is more faithful to the muse of history?
In the other direction, the view from the Custom House Tower shows Quincy Market in the foreground and looks past Faneuil Hall toward Scollay Square:
Striking is the medieval way space runs in the streets as rivulets defined by buildings. From the standpoint of figure-ground, this is the exact opposite of suburbia, where individual buildings sit objectified in infinite space that extends from here to Nepal and beyond.
The streets look like canyons eroded into the city's relatively uniform-height roofscape. This uniform height was set by how high people were willing to tromp up stairs. Buildings erected after the elevator's invention are clearly identifiable; they are the ones over five stories.
Aside from Faneuil Hall, the three market buildings and a few diminutive structures in the Blackstone Block, all buildings in all above photographs are now gone. They were removed wholesale in the 1960s according to a Government Center master plan drawn up by I.M. Pei at the direction of Redevelopment Director Ed Logue, creator of the New Boston. Here is a 1975 view of the same scene, also from the Custom House:
Brobdignagian Fortress Boston hulks sculpturally in its vast brickyard, where formerly teemed hundreds of tiny buildings. In Modernist guise, Baroque absolutism has displaced the fine grained human scale of the medieval city. Where there had been trickles of space there is now spatial infinity, stretching to the far reaches of the Universe. Within this ocean of space, all objects must be seen in the round as sculpture, and they had better be big, to stand up to all that emptiness.
A lengthy (five pages) and interesting thread on City Hall,its plaza, and efforts to replace both:
Renewed Boston
Another centerpiece of Logue's clean sweep was the clearing of Scollay Square, which was then noted for burlesque. The old buildings survived until Logue's giant demolition derby. This was conceived as a one-shot silver bullet to simultaneously cure social ills, physical decay and economic stagnation—all by removing offending buildings. Here are the offenders in their less racy days:
At the end of the street you can see the Old State House (1713), in front of which occurred the Boston Massacre (1770). The Chicago School skyscraper to its left is the Ames Building by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge (1889). When built, this was the tallest office building in the world outside New York, even taller than Chicago's loftiest. These two buildings survived Logue; everything else was cleared.
Scollay Square, before and after.
Logue abolished not only buildings but streets. Superblocks were all the rage, and Boston got maybe the super-est block of all: the Government Center. Two hundred and seventy-something tiny buildings were replaced by three. An aerial photograph tells you about their scale. These three buildings are not very tall, but their footprints are huge. It is the increment of development that determines scale, not height. And the idea here was to create a zone of monumental scale:
To City Hall's right, wedged between a small park and a highway ramp, survives the Blackstone Block (really the Blackstone Blocks), where about fifty ancient one, two, three and four story buildings huddle together in about the same footprint as leviathan City Hall.
City Hall and part of its Plaza: bigger than Siena.
Across the expanse of brick lies the yawn-inducing John F. Kennedy Federal Building by celebrated Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and self-proclaimed inventor of Modernism:
The red-brick plaza of Government Center was to be the pivot of Boston, Hub of the Universe. It was strewn with huge buildings. Unlike the equally huge buildings in the Financial District to its southeast, these were not interspersed with small, old survivors clinging to a medieval street pattern. Therefore (if you should want to) you can get plenty of unobstructed view of them to appreciate their monumental grandiosity:
Until the advent of giant containerships, Boston was a bustling cargo port and home to a large fishing fleet. The Waterfront connected seamlessly to the rest of downtown Boston; it was simply where the city met the sea. You often didn't notice when a street sneaked onto a wharf. Here State Street becomes Long Wharf:
Long Wharf, 1930
Long Wharf, 1927
There was, however, a Chinese wall of sorts: the Atlantic Avenue El.
Atlantic Avenue with El and Fishing Fleet. The magnificent granite wharf buildings date from the 1840s, and survive as luxury housing. You can clearly see that though unified compositionally they were actually numerous buildings separated by party walls and property lines. Over time, owners raised their roofs and otherwise modified their exteriors to suit their needs, thereby organifying the streetscape.
Atlantic Avenue, 1937. Giant wharf buildings on the right.
Atlantic Avenue El at Street Level: not nearly the obstacle of an elevated highway
Atlantic Avenue, 1942.The car takes over: gas station on the right, and a big notice announcing the El's impending demise.
The El came down later in 1942. Here only the stanchions survive. Mussolini would have capped them with big globe lights, and maybe gold-plated eagles.
The El fell to the wreckers, but some of its genes were passed on to the Fitzgerald Elevated Highway, aka the Central Artery. The elevated road replaced the elevated train in 1959.
Like the Government Center, the Central Artery was conceived to propel Boston's moribund economy into a shining future through a huge infusion of government money. The idea was that a truly progressive place had superhighways, not rickety old streetcars and subways. And as in the case of the Government Center, here was a chance to demolish some buildings that looked ugly and unprogressive. In all, 1000 buildings were taken down, and 20,000 residents displaced. The city was sundered:
The Central Artery provided Boston with its biggest-ever Civil Engineering project. Burying it has been bigger still: touted as the costliest public works project of all time. In inflated dollars, the Big Dig cost more than the Panama Canal, built when money was money.
The newborn highway was named for John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald. He is perhaps best known as the father of Rose Kennedy, for whom in turn is named--fittingly enough—the highway's successor, the soon-to-be Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Being deceased, Honey Fitz couldn't show up for the 1959 dedication, so he sent a pair of doubles:
The Urban Village Bites the Dust
The automobile's campaign to widen Boston's medieval streets had begun in the 1920's. Well before the Central Artery was proposed, Boston greatly enlarged Cambridge Street, thus severing the West End from Beacon Hill:
Cambridge Street widening, 1926.
If they had been linguistically punctilious, they would have renamed it Cambridge Road, or perhaps Cambridge Highway. But it still had to do double duty as a pedestrian route for Beacon Hill and the West End to get downtown. Truth is, it never made a good highway because there were too many cross streets, and after widening it ceased to be a good street for pedestrians because there were too many cars:
Cambridge Street, 1930, after widening.
Cambridge Street never recovered. It was the gate through which they hauled the Trojan Horse. Gas stations and parking lots began to appear, and it's been a disheveled mess ever since, neither quite city or suburb, the edge city stranded in the urban core, Tyson's Corner transported to Georgetown:
Cambridge Street, 1955
Cambridge Street, 1956
Cambridge Street, 2003
Separated from the cachet of Beacon Hill by widened Cambridge Street, the West End teemed in picturesque shabbiness. The shabbiness masked a vital, healthy working class community, knit together by social ties and a medieval physical closeness.
West End, July 1958. Cambridge Street is the broad thouroughfare at right, marking the boundary of West End and much tonier Beacon Hill. If you are familiar with Beacon Hill, you know it to have a medieval density and diminutive scale. You can see from the photograph that the West End possessed these traits in even greater measure. The streets were canyons.
This place bred, among others, movie stars. The planning authorities, offended by its resemblance to medieval Paris, said it bred crime.
Leonard Nimoy, of Star Trek fame, third row right.
Ruth Roman, second row, second from right.
Italian-American social club.
By March 23, 1959, the West End was disappearing rapidly, receding like a hair line:
By September 1960, it was gone. Expunged. Annihilated. Erased. Cleared. Ready for Urban Renewal:
"An Obsolete Neighborhood," declared the Boston Redevelopment Agency literature, displaying a figure-ground to kill for, "And a New Plan":
Actually, not so new. Here was the Ville Radieuse, Corbusier's revenge on the city. Remember, his proposal was to tear down Paris and replace it with skyscrapers in a park. That's exactly what the planners did in Boston. The West End became Charles River Park. Hundreds of small buildings were replaced by fewer than a dozen big ones:
A traffic-clogged expressway cuts off the project from the river, but nobody minds. As the sign on the expressway famously taunts commuters stuck in traffic: "If you lived here, you'd be home now."
Suburban living in the city, without a lawn to mow. A doorman, a parking space, security, peace and quiet, and a pool. What more could you want?
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