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Louisville Names Winners in Competition to Creatively Reuse Abandoned Lots Across the City
Monday, April 28, 2014
Chris Bentley.
In January Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer implored local designers and developers to propose ideas for 250 of the city's several thousand vacant lots. Last week they announced four winners, which included gardens of dye plants for local textile production; a Habitat for Humanity–style homeownership program; environmental remediation via lavender fields; and meditation gardens made of recycled materials.
Boulevard of Broken Bourbon Bottles: Louisville Ponders Its Waterfront Again
Thursday, March 27, 2014
The Editors.
It's beginning to sound a bit like a broken record, but for the umpteenth time, the conclusion has been drawn that the riverfront interstate, I-64, in Louisville, Kentucky, is a problem. That along with a lot of other advice—some insightful, some, like, "duh!"—was included in a new $300,000 master plan for the city developed by the firms MKSK, Development Strategies, City Visions, and Urban 1. The more insightful bits include ways of reconnecting Portland and west side neighborhoods with the urban core. The obvious, but still necessary, include the 42 million (that figure is a bit of hyperbole) surface parking spaces. Have you ever flown into Louisville? The downtown looks like a mall parking lot. Mayor Greg Fischer, don't let this advice fall on deaf ears… again.
Louisville Looks to Fill Vacant Lots With Design Competition
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Chris Bentley.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer started 2014 off with a call to citizens: Help the city come up with creative ideas to redevelop vacant land. Local and far-flung designers are invited to re-imagine the land in a new competition. The winners of the Lots of Possibility competition will be awarded a total of $38,000 to put their vision into action.
Zip Lines Over the Ohio River? Louisville Designer Says It's Possible
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Chris Bentley.
Louisville, Kentucky has asked its residents for help in determining the future vision for the city, and citizens sent in thousands of ideas on how to improve Possibility City. Among the crowd-sourced suggestions were many promoting alternative transportation, whether improving bike infrastructure to building light rail to, well, even more alternative methods of getting around.
Local Russ Renbarger proposed what he calls RiverZips, a mile-long zip line across the Ohio River that would convey people between Kentucky and Indiana—more of a ride than an adventure, says Insider Louisville.
Lexington's 21c Museum Hotel by Deborah Berke Partners Delayed
Friday, September 6, 2013
Chris Bentley.
Those planning Lexington's 21c Museum Hotel say the $40.5 million project will take longer than expected, but should come sometime in 2015.
The growing Louisville-based hotel company bought the historic First National Bank building and an adjacent structure in Lexington's downtown last year, winning city approval for design plans shortly after. Once planned for office tenants, the boutique hotel in Lexington's downtown apparently sustained more water damage than previously thought. New York–based Deborah Berke Partners has been tapped to design the boutique hotel. The firm also designed 21c Museum Hotels currently operating in Louisville, Cincinnati, and Bentonville, AR.
NBBJ to Overhaul Lexington's Rupp Arena, Convention Center
Friday, July 12, 2013
Chris Bentley.
NBBJ's Los Angeles office will lead design on renovations to Lexington, KY's Rupp Arena and the city's convention center.
With more than 23,000 seats, Rupp is the largest arena designed specifically for basketball in the United States. NBBJ, which will be working in collaboration with Lexington-based EOP, elected renovation over expansion or replacement after studying the 3-year-old arena. Renovation, they concluded, would save the city $215 million in construction costs.
After Half A Century, Cincinnati's Roebling Bridge Welcomes Pedestrians
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Chris Bentley.
For the first time in half a century, residents of Cincinnati and Covington, Ky. can traverse the Ohio River on foot via Roebling Bridge, thanks to a pedestrian connector reopened June 4. The Roebling Bridge Pedestrian Connector ties Cincinnati's central riverfront, the site of some major mixed-use development of late, to the city of Covington.
The $430,000 project is part of The Banks' public infrastructure improvement program. Lane closures will accompany renovations on the north end of the bridge, where a new roundabout and traffic signal will take a few months to complete. Pedestrians, however, can walk on through.
Let's just hope a certain New York City mayoral candidate doesn't confuse the Roebling Bridge with its big brother in Brooklyn and snap a photo for his website!
Eavesdrop Midwest Goes to the Kentucky Derby
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Editors.
Maybe You Lost My Number: Eavesdrop wants to know why we weren't invited to your Kentucky Derby party, De Leon and Primmer. You guys are practically the only cool architecture firm in the River City! We were down in Louisville the weekend of the Derby and wandered (hungover, naturally) past your office on Sunday morning.
Tree Expert: Speed Art Museum Mystery Tree Likely A Youngster
Friday, February 15, 2013
Branden Klayko.
Over the past week, news of one allegedly-very-old tree cut down on the University of Louisville's campus where a wHY Architecture-designed addition to the Speed Art Museum is being built has tree experts in Louisville counting rings on a stump. Students creating a map of all 2,500 trees on the University's campus as part of Dr. Tommy Parker's Urban Wildlife Research Lab had estimated the tree was over 300 years old, generating an impassioned oped in the student newspaper. The Speed and local news sources looked further into the mysterious tree, using the stump and historical photos of the museum (above) to determined that the tree was really only 60 years old. Steven Bowling, Director of Marketing and Communications at the Speed Art Museum, also wrote in with this statement about the tree's removal:
As part of the Speed Art Museum's long planned expansion, the Speed and its architect, wHY Architecture, carefully analyzed the site and its space constraints. The goals were threefold: to protect the Museum's 1927 historic building to accommodate the Speed's growing audience, to link the expanded green spaces of the Museum with the University of Louisville Campus and to seamlessly integrate art and nature on the 6-acre site. During the planning phase, the Speed, together with the architects, reviewed several possibilities in consultation with landscape architects and an arborist to expand the Museum's footprint with minimal interruption to the historic building, the surrounding area, and trees within the Museum's footprint. In the final plan, the tree needed to be removed. Removal of the tree, which the arborist determined was 60 years old, allows the site to be re-graded and expands accessibility for all visitors to the Museum and its grounds. While both the Museum and the architects regret the removal of that tree, the new Speed Art Museum which will re-open in 2016 will provide students and visitors with expanded green space that includes an art park and public piazza, as well as the planting of more than 40 new trees.
Cincinnati is Recovering From the Swine Flu
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The Editors.
Dear readers, Eavesdrop had the opportunity to explore Louisville, KY—our hometown—and Cincinnati, OH (a.k.a. Porkopolis) over the weekend. It's been six or seven years since our last trip to Cincy and we have a couple things to say about it. It's kind of a real city, like dense and old, with just enough corporate headquarters looming over the skyline.
We finally got to see the HOK designed Great American Tower in real life and it's just as bad in person as its renderings. You may remember that we thoroughly made fun of its fugly, Princess Di inspired, steel tiara—something about lipstick on a pig. Let's update that to a more current comparison. That tiara is more Honey Boo Boo than Princess Di. Eavesdrop is not a fan of hats or tiaras on buildings—i.e. the Pappageorge Haymes-designed One Museum Park in Chicago with its sailor cap. The American Institute of Steel Construction disagrees, recently giving said tiara a design award.
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Movie News
Moriarty's Script Review! Anderson and Baumbach Live THE LIFE AQUATIC!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
I never read RUSHMORE. I read about half of THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS before I had to set it down the first time. I am a firm believer that Wes Anderson movies in screenplay form bear little or no resemblance to Wes Anderson films in the theater. The scripts are more literary. They're quieter. The films themselves are so exquisitely, carefully designed that half of the experience of watching one is getting lost in the corners, away from the things you're normally supposed to be paying attention to. The Dalmatian mice in TENENBAUMS. The band-aids in BOTTLE ROCKET. That room with all the board games seemingly ever made, all jammed in on top of each other. The wallpaper. The sets for Max Fisher's plays in RUSHMORE. None of that is in his screenplays. It's in his head until it's on the screen. So why in the world would I pick up a copy of THE LIFE AQUATIC, written by Anderson with co-writer Noah Baumbach?
Because, silly rabbits, I have impulse control issues. Look, all flurries of verbiage aside, Wes Anderson is one of the most interesting filmmakers working right now, the love child of J.D. Salinger and Hal Ashby. What really makes me sick about the guy is that he's basically my age. I know how I feel about myself and my status in the rank and file in Hollywood (I'm a guy who has never gotten a film greenlit, and that means I'm nothing but a question mark right now), and I am amazed to see guys my age or younger who have put it all together. I have boundless respect for the particular corner of the cinematic universe that Anderson's carving out for himself, film by fascinating film. He's like PT Anderson to me, or David Fincher, or Spike Jonze, or the Coen Brothers. He is a genre all by himself. And no matter how much I am convinced that I'm not going to really get the whole thing off the page, I still find that I'm intensely, almost preposterously curious about what Anderson's up to.
Basically, I broke down on the plane to Montreal. It's a long script, 140 pages, but it doesn't read like a long film. Instead, it almost feels like a sketch, a suggestion of the film that will eventually result. There's a deceptive simplicity to the way the script is built that makes you think nothing's happening at first. It is, though. Right up front, we meet Steve Zissou (Bill Murray, picking another winner to follow up this fall's LOST IN TRANSLATION), who is nothing like Jacques Cousteau. Oh, sure, he's an oceanographer who makes a series of documentaries called "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," all about his various trips. That's true. But Zissou is a barely functional human being who is propped up as a figurehead hero in a successful series of documentaries called "The Life Aquatic." His wife Eleanor (I'm guessing this is the role Anjelica Huston is going to play) is the real brains of the operation, and his partner Esteban (no clue, but Willem Dafoe would be a scream in the part) is the heart of the thing. At the opening of the film, Zissou is in shock as he premieres his new documentary. In it, Esteban is eaten by the elusive jaguar shark. Unfortunately, Zissou managed to drop the camera at the crucial moment, and Esteban's death was for nothing. The jaguar shark got away without ever being caught on film, and it took Zissou's hopes and dreams with it. He's at the end of his resources, not sure he will ever make another film. The premiere is a disaster, and his rival Alistair Hennessey (please let this be Jeff Goldblum... please let this be Jeff Goldblum...) relishes the opportunity to rub Zissou's nose in it.
In the midst of this darkest hour, Zissou meets a young man named Ned Plimpton (Owen Wilson, if I'm not mistaken), who may just be Zissou's long-lost son. Plimpton has money of his own, and agrees to finance a film about the search for the jaguar shark that killed Esteban, as long as he gets to go along and get to know Zissou on the journey. Factor in the various personalities that make up the crew of Zissou's ship and the people that they encounter along the way, and you've got more than enough ingredients for another quirky family comedy. Eccentricity abounds, and there are at least a dozen various character storylines to follow. Yet, somehow, Anderson manages to avoid this just being an ocean-bound TENENBAUMS. For one thing, this is an adventure movie. It's a very strange adventure, but just this structural difference makes this a whole new experience for Anderson fans. The heart of the movie is the relationship that develops between Zissou and Ned, and the way it's complicated by the introduction of a reporter named Jane Winslett-Richardson, from OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPLORER. This pretty much has to be Cate Blanchett, and she'll be perfect. Watching Bill Murray and Owen Wilson compete for her, and watching how she wrestles with her own feelings for each of them... this should be a treat. It's an exciting cast. It's got to be amazing on that set... the energy between these people.
I've heard rumors about a stop-motion animation unit having been set up to handle certain elements of the film, and I guess my first thought is, "What? What the hell kind of crazy-ass thing is that?" Don't get me wrong. I am a sucker for stop-motion animation. I just don't know how that's going to play in an age where most people are hypercritical of even the most photo-real digital work being done. Audiences have become harsh judges of FX work, and the slightest whiff of the fake brings out the bloodthirsty in otherwise rational fanboys. The notion of using an all stop-motion crew is pretty bold. Henry Selick tried for MONKEYBONE, but the studio lost its nerve and cut the budget and the schedule so dramatically that by the time the film was released, all the sequences that should have been filled with stop motion creatures were instead populated by actors in cheap costumes on shitty sets. Brilliant.
Maybe there's been a shift in perception, though. One of the coolest things Jon Favreau talked about when I was on the set of ELF was how he intentionally worked with the production designer of the film to get a very Rankin-Bass animated stop-motion feel to the world. I think they nailed it, too, and there's something really appealing about that aesthetic. I trust Anderson's taste implicitly by this point. I trust that he's going to create something really memorable with this script as the blueprint, and I'm excited to see it come together. If I got any of the cast mixed up above in terms of who's playing what, I am sorry. I tried to label things as best guesses if I wasn't sure. I haven't seen a good cast list that matched the actors up to the characters they're playing. I'm excited by the way I pictured the film as I read the script, but I'm more excited by the surprises I'm sure I still have in store when I actually see the world realized. All I got was a sneak peek, a little glimpse of what we'll all get later. But it was enough to tell you it's going to be something special, and I'll keep my ear out for anything to report on the film in the months ahead.
"Moriarty" out.
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Sept. 13, 2003, 7:09 a.m. CST
POSTHUMANS, coooooooooming soon!
by thx777b
Sept. 13, 2003, 8:20 a.m. CST
How can there be POSTHUMANS in 2005 ...
by godoffireinhell
... when the film has not even been greenlit? And I'd rather see Cliver Barker's DREAD anyway. Not that that one has been greenlit either but I like to dream ...
Sept. 13, 2003, 1:13 p.m. CST
by Live4Ten
You want Willem Dafoe to play a character that dies in the opening of the film? Why not Jeff Goldblum or Bud Cort or Peter Stormare?
Sept. 13, 2003, 6:18 p.m. CST
by evilreno
what the heck is posthumans?
Sept. 13, 2003, 6:23 p.m. CST
Kicking and Screaming
by Famous X
I can't wait to see what Wes Anderson's new co-writer brings to the table. Mr. Jealousy was sort of a let down.
Sept. 13, 2003, 8:42 p.m. CST
P.T. good. Wes bad.
by heywood jablomie
Why? Because PTA makes ugly donut shops, fluorescent lighting, blue rayon suits, the trivia/video games in cheesy bars in the Valley, and 1979 iron-on-decal t shirts beautiful, soulful, and sad. Wes is Little Lord Fauntleroy suckin' on a sucker. Feh!
Sept. 13, 2003, 10:43 p.m. CST
@ evilreno re: posthumans?
by godoffireinhell
Moriarty wrote a script titled POSTHUMAN and sold it to Revolution Studios for some serious $$$. He also wrote an adaptation of Barker's DREAD for Fox. But because he doesn't spy on himself we know nothing about either of the two.
Sept. 13, 2003, 10:53 p.m. CST
thanks, godoffireinhell
by evilreno
i had no clue. didn't think they were anderson movies. by the way, wes anderson is pretty damned great. rushmore is one of the few movies i could stand to watch repeatedly and bottlerocket was great too. i like 'the royal tennenbaums' as well, but not as much. i hope life aquatic is good. yippee. wow, i sound stupid in this post.
Sept. 13, 2003, 11:20 p.m. CST
Broken Glass
by Linus
While I am sad that Wes won't be writing this with Owen Wilson, I am very happy to hear that he's working with Noah Baumbach. I love the little stuff this guy has done, (although I do admit Mr. Jealousy wasn't that great.) But Kicking and Screaming is one of the great overlooked gems out there. Chris Eigeman placing the piece of paper with "broken glass" on the actual pile of broken glass, rather than clean it up himself? Brilliantissimo!
Sept. 14, 2003, 2:29 a.m. CST
All Revolutions Commercials
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Sept. 14, 2003, 11:32 a.m. CST
Okay, let's get the Wes Anderson quoting started...
by JQuintana
"Were you in the shit?" "Yeah, I was in the shit."
Sept. 14, 2003, 11:34 a.m. CST
And again!
by JQuintana
"Don't pay any attention to them, did you see what they were wearing?" "Yeah, it was pretty cool..."
Sept. 14, 2003, 11:38 a.m. CST
And again!
by JQuintana
"These are O.R. scrubs." "Oh, are they?"
Sept. 14, 2003, 11:44 a.m. CST
Goddamnit, do I have to do all the Anderson/Wilson quotes myself
by JQuintana
"112 pounds, black hair, glasses, oval face."
Sept. 14, 2003, 11:47 a.m. CST
by JQuintana
kumar: "I don't know man. i lose my touch..." dignan: "Did you ever have a touch to lose, man?!?!?!?!"
Sept. 14, 2003, 11:51 a.m. CST
Hotdamn, somebody stop me!!
by JQuintana
"I'm Jerry and this is my associate Cornelius."
Sept. 14, 2003, 11:58 a.m. CST
Been quoting the man now for more than 20 minutes non-stop
by JQuintana
Everybody knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What this book pre-supposes is.... maybe he didn't?"
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:01 p.m. CST
I am going to keep quoting Anderson/Wilson lines for at least an
by JQuintana
"Please stop belittling me."
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:04 p.m. CST
JQuintana (wiping sweat from brow) "Tag-team, anyone?"
by JQuintana
"Say a prayer for surf boy, wherever he is."
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:07 p.m. CST
I will continue to quote; defiantly!!
by JQuintana
"Can the boy tell time?" "Oh my lord, no"
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:15 p.m. CST
Come on guys, I'm dying out here, for pete's sake, I'm dying out
by JQuintana
"He's out. You're out too. And I'm not so sure I'm in either! No gang!"
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:22 p.m. CST
I just wet my pants, you bastards. All because no one would take
by JQuintana
"I don't give a shit about the Barraccudas, but fuck it, I'm building it anyway!"
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:26 p.m. CST
Nearing the hour mark. Pants currently "uncomfortable".
by JQuintana
"Hey amigo, you in the army, yes?" "No, I just have short hair!"
Sept. 14, 2003, 12:37 p.m. CST
Good night and god bless everyone. If I've entertained just one
by JQuintana
"And I can't fix the CAR because I don't have the TOOLS! And even I did have the tools I don't know if I could fix a car like this!"
Sept. 14, 2003, 2:13 p.m. CST
Anderson Quote!
by SuperDuperDude
"There he goes"
Sept. 14, 2003, 2:22 p.m. CST
by SuperDuperDude
"Dudley suffers from a rare disorder combining the symptoms of amnesia, dyslexia, and colorblindness, with a highly acute sense of hearing" <from across the hall> "I'm not colorblind am I?"
Sept. 14, 2003, 2:27 p.m. CST
Yet Another
by SuperDuperDude
"of course it's dark... it's a suicide note"
Sept. 14, 2003, 2:28 p.m. CST
Yes, I Know...
by SuperDuperDude
that they were all Royal Tenenbaum quotes... but that was my favorite of his movies. I'm looking forward to his next movie.
Sept. 14, 2003, 2:59 p.m. CST
Well I guess I'll join in.....
by magyarman
"Nah, it was the hand job."
Sept. 14, 2003, 3:05 p.m. CST
.....and one more.....
by magyarman
"I wrote a hit play and directed it. So I'm not sweating it either." I want to see the play "Little Juan and 40 Ounce".
Sept. 14, 2003, 4:45 p.m. CST
Did you just say you were on mescaline?
by CoolMonkeyHead
"I did indeed. Very much so."
Sept. 14, 2003, 8:19 p.m. CST
I like this one
by FloydGandoli
"Of course, your mother and I made certain sacrifices having children, but, God no."
"Someone should tell that Irish gorilla to keep his trap shut." "He's not Irish, he's Scottish." "Whatever. That mick just made my list of things to do today.
Sept. 15, 2003, midnight CST
did you just call me 'Coltrane'?
by Harold Spengler
What if I did? There's nothing you can do about it. You wanna talk some jive? I'll talk some jive like you've never heard!
Sept. 15, 2003, 1:09 a.m. CST
one for the team!
by imageburn13
will you marry me lae-chan?
Sept. 15, 2003, 1:11 a.m. CST
one more!
by imageburn13
"enough with the guns g, things are getting loco...ok, kisses and were out."
Sept. 15, 2003, 1:22 a.m. CST
and my favorite, really,
by imageburn13
"you were supposed to say the old man likes his canoli...'i didnt want to say it' 'DONT FUCK WITH MY PLAY!"
Sept. 15, 2003, 3:42 a.m. CST
"So were you in the shit?" "Yeah I was in the shit."
by DirtyDingusMcGee
Sept. 15, 2003, 9:06 a.m. CST
my turn again!
by JQuintana
Eli Cash: "Why would she have told you that, I wonder?" Richie Tenenbaum: "I might very well ask you the same question." Eli Cash: "And rightly so..."
Sept. 15, 2003, 9:07 a.m. CST
And another!
by JQuintana
"I know you, asshole!"
Sept. 15, 2003, 9:09 a.m. CST
And another!
by JQuintana
With friends like you, who needs friends?"
Sept. 15, 2003, 9:10 a.m. CST
And one for the road...
by JQuintana
Futureman: "Hold on, Bob, you're only going to make this take longer!"
Sept. 15, 2003, 10:42 p.m. CST
A quote
by Mudas
Wha - why is there tape on your nose? (Dignan) Exactly!
Sept. 16, 2003, 11:50 a.m. CST
The Life Aquatic
by CactusEd2003
I wish someone would post this screenplay on the internet. Anyone?
Sept. 24, 2003, 4:35 a.m. CST
One more before I go.....
by magyarman
"Where's that red one gonna go?"
Sept. 24, 2003, 4:39 a.m. CST
ok one more, really.....
by magyarman
"Piranha's, really?" "I'm talking to a guy in South America."
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Last week I was trying to figure out why my stomach felt so nasty and now I know.
After three days of being nauseous, my throat started feeling sore so I just figured I had a cold. I kept on with my daily activities (work and taking care of the kids) and by Sunday morning I felt pretty awful. So I headed to the Walgreen's Take Care clinic (because I don't have an adult doctor yet here) to find out if I had strep throat or what.
The verdict – Flu!!!
I can't remember the last time I've had flu. I always get my flu shot but we haven't gotten them this year yet. It's been over 100 degrees! I sure wasn't worried about the flu. Both Rose and Lilina have been sick too so they probably have had it as well. Somehow the boys have avoided it, which is good.
They started me on Tamiflu so we'll see if that helps. I've never taken it before. I'm hoping it kicks in fast because I just have too much to do!
At this point I feel like a truck has hit me. I will write as soon as I'm feeling better. Until then, talk amongst yourselves!
October 3rd, 2011
4:34 am
Hope you feel better soon kiddo.
October 3rd, 2011
4:41 am
Wow…hope you can get some rest! This IS my week to get my flu shot. I am not traveling and I need to get it taken care of.
October 3rd, 2011
5:41 am
ok im getting mine today! i kept thinking it was awfully early to get it..i think i usually get mine in october but they have been offering them for a month here…hope you feel better soon theresa..and sure hope the kids and michael dont get it!
October 3rd, 2011
6:47 am
that doctors prescribed Tamiflu for the regular flu virus and we catch it several times every year. We were only given it once when we managed to get that flu bug that was killing some people (swine ?). I learn something new every day. :-)
October 3rd, 2011
7:01 am
HOpe you feel better soon. I had the real flu in 1988. I was hoping for death. I called my kids in and said goodbye to them. The weight of the air on my skin hurt–felt like it was bruising me. My teeth roots hurt, and my hair folicles as well.
What saved my life was a jar of homemade, end of the garden soup from my neighbor. Really. God directed her to send it to me. I ate every bit, and immediately got well. Now, every summer, I go to the cannery and make as many jars as I can and keep it for emergencies! Wish you were closer, Theresa; I'd send you some.
October 3rd, 2011
7:27 am
Hope you feel better – but why in the world did you wait so long to seek professional assistance?
October 3rd, 2011
7:40 am
Off topic but I wanted to share:
I had a meeting in Wyoming this past week and my husband joined me. On the way home we sat next to a young man who was 23 and in the Army. We chatted. When the refreshment cart came along, he was going to pay for a snack and took out his credit card. I took mine out and told the flight attendant that I was going to treat him. The flight attendant said, "Just a minute…" He went to first class and came back and said, " A gentleman in first class is not going to eat his meal and he wanted you to have it…would you like it?" "Yes!" I was so excited. As much as I rag on the fact that some people today are self absorbed and typically say that they are going to do whatever THEY want and not even care what others think or do…just pleasing themselves, here we have a truly generous soul who is caring for someone else…a stranger to boot. HOORAH!
The young man told us that he had not eaten since breakfast and it was almost 5:00.
The passenger came back and thanked the young man for his service. Awesome!
TWG…I hope you feel better!
October 3rd, 2011
8:12 am
Theresa, hope you feel better. Now, time to do something about not getting anymore pregnancy scares:)!
October 3rd, 2011
8:34 am
Tamiflu was a godsend for my dd 2 yrs ago when she had both H1N1 and "regular" flu. Within 24 hours, 90% of her symptoms were diminished to almost nothing. I hope it works for you too BUT…it is supposed to be given no more than 48 hrs after flu symptoms appear…it won't work very well if it's prescribed after that point.
Like catlady, the last couple of times I've had the flu were so, so awful. Eight tattoos, 4 labor & deliveries, spinal meningitis…none of that compared to the flu. Worst thing ever.
October 3rd, 2011
9:38 am
@Theresa; Take care of yourself!
@MJG: I just love hearing stories like that!
October 3rd, 2011
9:49 am
Hope you feel better soon..
October 3rd, 2011
9:57 am
Feel better soon. Now onto the pregnancy scare. If you even thought you might be preg, you should definitely take another look at your birth control method(s).
October 3rd, 2011
11:15 am
"The passenger came back and thanked the young man for his service. Awesome! "
I have to admit that was pretty awesome. Much better topic than this silliness, too.
Not that many people in this country have that kind of class and generosity much anymore, or so it seems sometimes.
October 3rd, 2011
11:43 am
No matter your political beliefs, I think we can all agree that our men and women in uniform deserve the very best, and if we ordinary people can brighten a soldier's day with a simple meal or something, I can't think of any better gesture in our very divided nation.
October 3rd, 2011
12:35 pm
Feel better! My daughter went through the exact same thing. Last week throat was bothering her, but otherwise was feeling okay and then a couple of days later full-on Flu symptoms. She is on the mend and back in school today….hope it wasn't too soon. You know how sometimes everything seems okay and then it comes back harder. She hasn't called me to come get her so I guess she is doing okay.
October 3rd, 2011
12:52 pm
When I was in the military in the 1980's, I was spit at by another driver while I drove down the street in uniform. We were discouraged, if not prohibited, from wearing a uniform while in public unless on duty, due to public hostility toward the military. The military was not very well regarded in those days. We didn't even have any wars going on.
I'm all for good treatment of active duty personnel, but I tend to have the perspective that they're professional soldiers and war support staff, having volunteered for a job for which they're paid, pretty much like anyone else. Certainly there are heros that merit recognition; certainly there are folks in uniform that are just more folks in uniform. I think that a lot of civilians go a bit overboard on the 'support our troops' thing because, having never been active duty themselves, they don't quite understand it. Want to support the troops? Write your Congressmen and Senators about getting them out of these stupid and senseless wars. The best support they could get is to be brought home.
October 3rd, 2011
2:18 pm
@abc, my dad is a vietnam veteran and I grew up with a tremendous amount of respect for the military. He told me horrible stories of watching friends die. People tend to show their appreciation because we are aware of what they do for a living. Putting ones life on the line for my freedom is something that I appreciate and will always show when I can. Sure, they're paid, but it's not much. Sorry for what happened to you, but I am so happy when I hear stories such as this one.
October 3rd, 2011
2:42 pm
@RJ: nicely said. I couldn't go in -tried to get into the Air Force when I was younger and didn't pass the physical (eyes and ears). I work with ex-military, and know some active military, folks and I'm extremely thankful for what they do.
I do agree with one thing ABC said and that is to get everyone home.
October 3rd, 2011
3:28 pm
I took my Son for his 3 year check up last week. We both got the Flu mist. I had to pay out of pocket for mine ($35), but it is worth it to me to just get it out of the way.
October 3rd, 2011
3:47 pm
I was on a flight once with a soldier coming back from a tour of duty and the guy in seat 1A of first class, not only came back to thank him…he gave him his first class seat!! This was on a cross country flight, so that was a really nice thing to do.
October 3rd, 2011
4:35 pm
@ Lori…yes I have heard about that happening. I have also been on a flight where the pilot asked everyone to remain seated as a military person ( I do not remember which brand nor the rank) needed to leave quickly to escort the casket that was stowed below. We all waited ( me with tears in my eyes) and I could see them carry the casket out of the bottom of the plane.
My husband was Navy,when we were first married, and my father in law career Air Force. I did not grow up with ANY appreciation for military ( chalk that up on the list of things my parents did not know) but soon learned the sacrifices that were being made. I taught several students whose parents were in the Navy. There are many ways to support our troops and I never think we can do too much, having been a military wife.
We sometimes volunteer at the military lounge during the holidays in the airport. You can donate books ( that have already been read for them to read while they wait or fly) and bring food for the personnel to eat while they are waiting. Several are coming home for the first time in many months and I am happy to sit and chat with them. They have my utmost respect!
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That happened recently when Google Peter Norvig challenged internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee of the his idea for a Semantic Web.
If I can pull Mike Marshall away from his work on the next SEMLogic case study, I'll ask him to offer his thoughts.
UPDATE: Either Mike invented a time-machine or he's just ahead of the game when it comes to the Semantic Web – either way he tells me he gave his thoughts on the topic back in January.


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Stop, Drop, and Roll! A Fire Safety Unit Study
- Monday, November 02, 2009
October 9th marks the ninety-eighth celebration of Fire Prevention Day. This day was picked since it is the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. In less than three days approximately 300 people were killed, 100,000 were without homes, and the city suffered $200 million worth of damages. This fire started people to think about fire prevention instead of only firefighting.
One of the requirements for home schooling where we live in Pennsylvania is that annually we cover the importance of fire safety. Our family had an up close experience with this a number of years ago. I had ribs simmering on the stove that spring morning. As my sons and I headed to meet my husband for lunch, I thought for sure that I had turned the stove off before leaving our home.
After eating I felt prompted by the Lord to return home, even though I had errands to run in a neighboring town. When I turned down our street I immediately began to smell smoke. As I pulled up to our house, I saw smoke pouring out of the rafters. My first thoughts were to get our pets safely out and if possible to turn off the stove burner. I sent our boys next door to the neighbor to have them call 911 while I attempted to rescue the animals. When I opened the front door, smoke poured out. After one step inside I realized that the smoke was too thick to see through.
My next thought was to go through the basement where I could come upstairs and have a straight shot to the kitchen. I did manage to get the burner turned off before the firefighters arrived. I called for the dog, but was unable to locate her. I chose to go outside because of the thickness of the smoke was getting to me. I realized later that it was not very wise of me to go into a smoke-filled house. I had forgotten some of the important lessons that I diligently taught my sons each school year.
Within minutes the fire trucks arrived and were able to safely get our dog and guinea pig out of our smoke filled home. The ribs that I had been cooking before I left had completely boiled away while I was gone. We learned later that due to the grease content from the meat, and the heat from the burner, it was within seconds of explosively igniting. The clean up from this experience took many months.
Fire safety became a bit more important in our education program. I was able to point out to my boys the things that we did right during the experience, as well as the things that we did wrong. This fall is a great time to teach your children the importance of knowing what to do in case of a fire. Make sure to remind them that if they are witness to a fire that they know how to contact help as well as to stay out of the way of the firefighters, so they can do their job.
Oxygen, fuel, extinguish, smoke detector, smoke, fire, firemen, bucket brigade, fire hydrant, escape plan, blaze and rescue.
• Design a fire safety poster.
• Draw a floor plan and escape route for your home.
• Research the different type of fire trucks (historically and today) and draw a poster and label each one.
• Bucket brigades were often used to fight fires in the early days. Find out more about this and then draw a picture of it.
• Draw a cartoon strip that demonstrates a fire safety rule or tip.
• Research the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Pretend you are a reporter and write about how the fire started. Why did things burn so quickly? Could it have been prevented? What would you have done if you were there?
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BUDAPEST, April 15 (JTA) -- It has just been inaugurated, but Budapest's new, state-run Holocaust Memorial Center already is stirring up a society that has yet to deal fully with its Holocaust history.
A terrorism scare on the eve of Israeli President Moshe Katsav's arrival for Thursday's ceremony added further controversy to the opening of a facility that has been generating much debate.
Hungarian police on Tuesday arrested three Arabs for allegedly plotting to blow up "a Jewish museum" in Budapest. In addition to the new Holocaust museum, Budapest has a traditional Jewish museum in the complex that includes the city's main synagogue.
Police denied a link between the terrorist plot and Katsav's visit but nevertheless stepped up security around the opening ceremony.
In his remarks at the opening, Katsav praised the center, saying it would serve as a symbol of Hungary's readiness to accept responsibility for the extermination of more than half a million Jews.
"The only way to strengthen democracy and mold a new generation" is by honestly confronting the past and being willing to understand its implications, he said.
"It was a heinous crime that was committed by Hungarian people against Hungarian people," Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy said at the ceremony, The Associated Press reported. "There is no excuse, no explanation, only reconciliation."
Katsav presented the Auschwitz Album, a collection of 235 photographs mostly of Hungarian Jews taken at Auschwitz in 1944, to Culture Minister Istvan Hiller.
Ceremonies coinciding with the Budapest opening were held at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, at Auschwitz and at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. In just eight weeks in 1944, Hungarian authorities rounded up more than 430,000 Jews and deported them to their deaths, mainly at Auschwitz.
Tens of thousands of other Hungarian Jews died in forced labor battalions, on ghetto streets or in mass executions. In Budapest, homegrown fascist thugs from the Arrow Cross movement shot at least 5,000 Jews and dumped their bodies in the Danube.
Tens of thousands of Roma, or Gypsies, also were murdered.
Such history essentially was taboo during the post-World War II communist era.
Even since the fall of communism nearly 15 years ago, the subject of Hungarian involvement in the Shoah has been treated gingerly.
The opening of the national center for the study and commemoration of the Holocaust comes just two weeks before Hungary joins the European Union on May 1, a move that effectively confirms its transformation into a modern western democracy.
Organizers hope the new, state-run center may help Hungary navigate its future by spurring debate on a complex past.
"This is not a Jewish institution," said Andras Daranyi, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center. "This is a Hungarian institution, founded and funded by the Hungarian government."
Its aim, he said, is "to present the Holocaust as a Hungarian national tragedy" and "an integral part of Hungarian history."
Daranyi noted that Hungary's first anti-Jewish law, restricting university attendance, was introduced in 1920.
"Within 24 years, from that small-scale segregation this country went on to willfully assist in destroying a half million of its citizens," he said. Without addressing the responsibility of Hungarian authorities, he said, you "cannot discuss the Holocaust honestly."
In a country where Roma still face forms of discrimination, he said, "We must imbue young people with the conclusions of the Holocaust in a generalized way, so that people will no longer be discriminated against, segregated, destroyed."
Despite its lofty aims and high-profile inauguration, the Holocaust museum has drawn sharp criticism over its goals, its concept and even its location -- not to mention over local political maneuvers involved in its establishment.
The striking, $8.5 million complex centers on an ornate synagogue on Pava Street, just outside the city center. The site served as an internment camp in 1944-45 and stood derelict for many years.
Architects beautifully restored the building, using photographs from the 1930s as a guide. Its classic style provides a contrast to surrounding new structures whose broken contours, slanted walls and narrowing corridors are aimed at evoking a nightmare world.
When fully functional, the complex will include archives and databases concerning the Holocaust in Hungary. It also will include a memorial wall bearing the names of Holocaust victims; more than 40,000 have been inscribed so far.
A permanent exhibition tracing the development of the Shoah in Hungary will be installed next year to coincide with ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Critics, including prominent members of Hungary's Jewish community, have faulted organizers for building the center too hastily, without first working out details of its scope.
"Construction began in the fall of 2002 without anyone knowing what they wanted -- a museum with the necessary amount of space and where collection work is conducted; or a research and education center, where lecture rooms are needed; or maybe a memorial," wrote Szilvia Varro in Nepszabadsag, a leading Budapest daily. "In the end, they crammed it all into Pava Street."
She accused the museum curators of incompetence and said it was a "cultural scandal" that the permanent exhibition had not yet been defined.
Varro also said it was a mistake to center the facility around a synagogue owned by the Jewish community.
Among other things, she hinted that the decision was part of a "package deal" whereby the Jewish community could get the derelict building restored without having to pay for it.
Gabor Szanto, editor of the Jewish monthly Szombat, also criticized the decision to put a Holocaust center in a synagogue.
"A Holocaust museum cannot be in a place like this," he told JTA. "It does not allow for a modern museum. It mixes things. The synagogue was a religious building; the Holocaust was not religious."
It also undermines the aim of portraying the Shoah as Hungarian -- not just Jewish -- history, he said.
"The message it sends is that this is a place from Jews to Jews for Jews," he said.
The center opens two years after the opening of a controversial "House of Terror" museum, whose stated aim was to memorialize victims of both Hungarian wartime fascism and postwar communism. Critics claimed it implied that persecution under communism was far worse than the Holocaust.
Daranyi said he "hoped and expected" that the new center's opening would spark an in-depth and honest discussion of the Holocaust in Hungary.
"In Hungarian reality, public discourse on this is practically nonexistent," he said. Not even the fact that novelist Imre Kertesz won the 2002 Nobel Prize in literature for his Holocaust-related writings was enough to start the debate, he said.
Szanto agreed, but regretted that the museum was built before a more extensive debate had taken place.
"One very important aspect of a museum like this is a national coming to terms with the past," he said.
"The museum could be the starting point, but the debate should have gone on before it was built, because at the end of the debate you could have had some sort of result," he said. "What we have is a museum with no conception, built before a debate on the issue."
He added, "I'm afraid that everyone will be very happy that it is finished. They can say, 'Okay, it's over.'"
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Saturday May 11, 2013
Kid's Craft: Carve Your Own Pink and Green Scrimshaw Soap for children of all ages is from 10 a.m. to noon at the Martha's Vineyard Museum Library. Cost is $5 per child. Reservations required.
Saturday May 11, 2013
Celebrating Citizen Science is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary.
Learn to Download Audiobooks at the Vineyard Haven library from 10 a.m. to noon. Drop-in help with CLAMS library eBooks and downloadable audiobooks. Call 508-696-4211.
Saturday May 11, 2013
Electronic Recycling Day is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Old Edgartown School. For residents and businesses. Call 508-627-6198 or visit edgartown-ma.us.
Squirrels and Coyotes for ages 6 to 13 is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sassafras in Aquinnah. Bring a lunch. Call 508-645-2008.
Stories and Songs for all ages is at 10:30 a.m. at the Chilmark Public Library. Call 508-645-3360.
Toddler Story Time for ages one to three is from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Edgartown library. Call 508-627-4221.
Saturday May 11, 2013
Book Signing with author Thomas Dresser and his latest book Women of Martha's Vineyard at 11 a.m. at Edgartown Books, 44 Main street. Mr.
Saturday May 11, 2013
Lecture: Perennials vs. Annuals is at 11 a.m. at Vineyard Gardens in West Tisbury. Free popcorn and discount coupons. Call 508-693-8511.


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"Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful."
Nate's Note: Thank you all for the reviews! You're fantastic guys, really. Without further ado, we proudly present the second chapter of Stay. Oh, and the title's from Eminem. Now move over, babe. I too shall jellyfish.
"I think we should just be friends."
Her head snapped in my direction, the oh-so-familiar rant of why so-and-so was a bitch being cut off abruptly by my voice. "What?!"
I winced. Honestly, now that I thought about it, her voice grated on my ears and made my head throb.
The girl I was breaking up with was none other than social butterfly Marissa Thompson; a dark-haired Barbie in tight jeans and pink lipgloss. At first, I'd been pretty happy with myself for snagging her away from the other boys in my grade. For three whole months, the name Nathan Lynch was thought of with admiration and envy. Guys who'd never spoken to me outside of class were inviting me out on double dates, girls who'd never blinked twice at me were giggling and batting their eyelashes as I passed then in the hallway.
And I hated it. I'd had a taste of the popular crowd, and I'd found it bitter. Despite the charade everyone was putting on in front of eachother, it was easy to see that the whole group was built on jealousy and lies. As soon as a back was turned, a knife was brought out and stabbed into it with brutal force.
And now, with the last echoes of the dismissal bell still ringing in my ears, I was making my escape.
"I think we should just be friends," I repeated, knowing full well that she heard me. That was the funny thing about Marissa; she thought that if she made you repeat it, then your mind would automatically change its answer.
Mine didn't. After all the hell I had been through, nothing could make me go back.
She blinked, her glitter-coated eyelids fluttering as if I'd whipped out a bag of sand and thrown it in her face. "Why would you want to be friends? We're dating, Nathan."
Don't remind me. "Look," I sighed, nudging my locker door shut with my foot. The hinges screamed. "I just don't think we're that compatible."
"It's been three months! That's like, practically a year!" Marissa spluttered. I raised an eyebrow, wondering if she'd correct herself, but she plowed ahead without even a second thought. Wait- had there even been a first thought?
I huffed, sending the longer parts of my bangs fluttering away from my eye. They bounced back, just as I had trained them to after all these years. If only girls were as easy to train as hair...
Sigh. C'est la vie.
No. Don't think about that right now. Bad idea. Bad!
Focus, Nate. You can drool over him later.
That's right; him. Not Merissa, not Leah from third period. Him. Those green eyes that seemed so distant behind his glasses, as if he were seeing something far beyond the crushing grays of the school building. I wanted to get lost with him, to disappear from reality and find out what he saw. I wanted to learn more about him, and I wanted him to learn more about me.
I wanted him, but I couldn't have him.
I blinked, almost flinching as Marissa's voice pierced my thoughts. Couldn't she just leave me alone? Couldn't I just dream for a while? Her eyes were watering; dull and boring compared to the hues of olive and jade that I longed for. She was dull; almost completely obscured by that one boy who never spoke.
"I'm sorry, Missy," I said, not feeling the slightest bit guilty. "We're done."
She begged, of course. Even though I had only been a blip on her radar before, Marissa was determined to keep me. If word got out that the geeky Nathan Lynch had broken up with the Belleville Princess, she'd be dethroned.
"Please, Nate," Missy whimpered, her eyes crinkled to hold back the crocodile tears. "Don't leave me. I love you!"
Ouch. That one hurt. I had been prepared to keep in touch with her before, but that just crossed the line.
I scowled at her, yanking my bookbag off the floor with enough brutality to make my shoulder snap. "Don't say what you don't mean," I snarled, holding back the urge to slap her as I passed. I was not going through that, not after what I'd heard had happened to-
(I wanted him).
I broke into a run, desperately trying to escape the fog that settled in my brain. If I could just get outside, everything would be fine. I would go home, play some video games, and go to sleep. No need to think about-
Oh God. There he was.
I had pushed open the entrance doors of the school and rushed through them, barely noticing the rain drilling into my skin until my shirt was soaked through. I had always been fascinated by rain, but this time the earth-bound droplets were stuffed into the back of my mind like a forgotten toy.
He stood there, his small frame shivering as the rain splashed down on him. His brown hair had been turned into black tendrils around his face, twisting down to brush against his slender jaw. The water had fogged up his glasses, but I could still see the flicker of his irises behind the mist.
The boy jumped, his head whipping around to face me with a look that would've belonged in a horror film. Before I could stop myself, I made the nearly fatal mistake of staring back at him.
His eyes caught me first, as always. Then the blush that spread across his pale cheeks. Then the lips that were slightly parted in surprise.
... And then the purple marks that started on his neck and disappeared beneath the collar of his battered jacket.
I had heard the rumors about him. I had heard such awful things about what he'd done with what seemed to be a quarter of the school's male population.
Such awful things.
I ignored them. I simply let them slide through one ear and out the other, never to be seen again. I didn't want to accept that the tiny boy, the perfect boy who never said anything, was-
(Oh God. What is he?)
Ben was a prostitute.
We stood there for a while, doing nothing but stare until the edges of my socks began to get damp.
I wanted him.
But, apparently, so did everyone else.
"See you tomorrow," I blurted, already sprinting down the sidewalk that would eventually lead me to the quiet safety of my home.
He didn't move.
(Oh man. What if he's waiting for a 'client'?!)
As my brain scrambled to think of something to distract me with, I almost missed the faint voice that floated down the street.
"See you, Nathan."
Ben's Note: Yeah... We lied about Mikey being in this chapter. Sorry. ^^' Next week, perhaps? We cool? Cool like penguins? Cool like penguins that are hanging next to Simon Cowell's heart in the middle of winter?
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remembered my password
Hey Jason, I finally remembered my password….where are all the photos? things have changed a bit…how do I go about talking with someone from TPRA
1992 visit with Yanubi
2011 Reunion
Per Tena Carter: Reunion! Tembagapura Reunion in Vancouver, Canada on May 27-30.
1992 Tram Ride to Grasberg Mine from the Mill
Layout and Design changes
Currently, there are some layout and design changes taking place on the Tembagapura Blog. Each post, when called up as an individual post, will have some funky borders. Please excuse the mess during this process.
Art and Wilavi "Wilie" Schairer
I also pass along that our mother Wilavi (most remember her as Wilie) passed away on 2/15/2009 due to short battle with cancer. Dad (Art) passed away in November 1991.
We we there from '74-'79.
Irian Jaya 7.6 earthquake
The U.S. National Weather Service has reported a 7.6 quake in the "bird's head" area of Irian Jaya on Jan. 3, 2009.
Does anyone know if the jobsite was affected by this.
Wayne & Riri Clark
The Lopez Family
Hello to everyone from Tembags. We arrived in about January of 1982 and left in May of 1985. I remember with great fondness our good friends such as the Herrs, Crafts, Foulds, Rendons, Carters, the Johnsons, the Steels (sp?) and many others whose name, but not faces, escape me. My father, like many others, worked in the mine, my sisters Tamara and Vanessa and I attended the school where my mother, Twyla, was the General Music teacher. It would be really great to meet with others townmates we knew. For those of you on My Space, I've created a new group for the Tembagapura. Feel free to join by going to http://groups.myspace.com/Tembagapura [Jack's links are dead]. In addition, I am there under www.MySpace.com/paraaz [Jack's links are dead]. Love, Jack Lopez-Turner


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I'm part of a lively Facebook group called Expert Witness. It's named after music critic Robert Christgau's blog at MSN, which ended last fall. We all got to know Christgau and each other in that blog's comments section, and since then many of us have gone out to dinner with each other, or met at concerts, etc. Our Facebook group is a great place to nerd-out about music, and especially music brought to our attention by Christgau.
Within that context, I ran a poll asking participants to rearrange Christgau's A List of albums from 1994. As you may know if you've read this far, Christgau compiles a long Dean's List of his favorite albums each year, in order of preference. The lists from the seventies, eighties, and nineties were revised and printed for posterity in each of his Consumer Guide books (there was no book for the aughts). When revised, these lists were called A Lists.
As members of our group learned when we each got to know Christgau at the original EW (he does not participate in our Facebook group), his preferences change over time. (I had intended to discuss this in last week's blog post, but alas, I did not write last week's post as I had promised; I learned while writing that that topic is going to require far more work than a weekly blog post allows.) Beyond Christgau's tastes changing, each of our individual tastes also differ by some degree from this critic that we so faithfully follow, especially if the contexts of our individual lives help us find greater meaning in an album than someone who has had a different set of life experiences. So I thought I'd document those degrees of difference in a casual manner by hosting this poll: each participant sent me their top 20 albums of 1994, with the caveat that they could only choose albums from Christgau's A List. Here are the top 20 results, followed by some analysis, the results for albums 21-60, and some concluding thoughts:
There were 17 total ballots. The top 20 is listed below; here is a key: [artist], [album title] [total points] ([total mentions]). Points were assigned per their ranking on each top 20 ballot: number 1 on each ballot got 20 points, number 2 got 19, and so on. Christgau's A List from the 1990s Consumer Guide book is available here.
1. Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York 271 (17)
2. Iris DeMent, My Life 220 (14)
3. Pavement, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 214 (16)
4. Beck, Mellow Gold 201 (14)
5. Latin Playboys 184 (14)
6. Hole, Live Through This 174 (14)
7. Sonic Youth, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star 134 (11)
8. Sugar, File Under: Easy Listening 107 (13)
9. Garth Brooks, The Hits 101 (6)
10. R.E.M., Monster 99 (12)
11. The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die 98 (9)
12. Archers of Loaf vs. the Greatest of All Time 80 (8)
13. M People, Elegant Slumming 79 (6)
14. Sebadoh, Bakesale 75 (7)
14. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Sleeps With Angels 75 (7)
16. The Bottle Rockets, The Brooklyn Side 70 (7)
17. Beastie Boys, Ill Communication 69 (9)
18. A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto 69 (5)
19. Cachao, Master Sessions Volume 1 67 (7)
20. Aretha Franklin, Greatest Hits (1980-1994) 66 (7)
As you can see, everyone voted for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged—it received both the highest number of points, as well as the greatest number of mentions (it was included on all 17 ballots). Each album in the top 10 received 11 or more mentions, except for the Garth Brooks, which only got 6. This means that though Brooks was mentioned on fewer ballots, his album ranked very high on those particular ballots. Similarly, the number 2 by Iris DeMent got fewer mentions than Pavement at number 3, but those who voted for My Life tended to rank it high on their ballots, and thus it earned more points.
Comparing ours to Christgau's A List from 1994 (published 13-14 years ago now), we see that though he graded the somewhat-obscure dance compilation Handraizer an A, and placed it at number 16 on his own list, it was mentioned by only one of our participants and therefore ended up at number 48. Conversely, an album Christgau graded as an A- placed all the way up in our top 10: R.E.M.'s Monster. Similarly, the albums at numbers 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, and 19 were all also graded A- by Christgau (all albums listed in Christgau's A Lists are graded A- or higher, hence the title). Comparing top 10s, Monster and Sugar's album are not in Christgau's, and A Taste of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto and Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits are not in ours. Latin Playboys and My Life are graded A+ by Christgau, and though My Life ranked number 2 on both lists, Latin Playboys only made number 5 on ours.
In the grand tradition of Christgau's annual essay which once accompanied every year's Pazz and Jop poll (but is now published at Barnes & Noble Review each year), here are some stats he would likely bring to our attention: the rap album with the highest number of points is Biggie's Ready to Die. Though it had fewer points, the Beastie Boys actually received the same number of mentions. More data: every album in our top 12 can be claimed as American, whereas Christgau includes South African musicians at number 6, and a UK group at number 11. Of the 73 albums listed in Christgau's A List, we voted for 60 of them. Here are the rest of the results, followed by concluding thoughts:
21. Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, and the Furious Five, Message from Beat Street
22. Public Enemy, Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age
23. Soundgarden, Superunknown
24. Green Day, Dookie
25. Ass Ponys, Electric Rock Music
26. Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom
27. Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock
28. Khaled, N'ssi N'ssi
29. Cumbia Cumbia 2
30. Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil, Tropicalia 2
31. Digable Planets, Blowout Comb
32. Jimi Hendrix, Blues
33. Dave Alvin, King of California
34. Marshall Crenshaw, My Truck Is My Home
35. White Country Blues
36. L7, Hungry for Stink
37. Victoria Williams, Loose
38. John Fahey, Return of the Repressed
39. Pearl Jam, Vitalogy
40. Howlin' Wolf, Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog
41. Built to Spill, There's Nothing Wrong With Love
42. Bill Frisell, This Land
43. FU-Schnickens, Nervous Breakdown
44. Backbeat soundtrack
45. Hüsker Dü, The Living End
46. El DeBarge, Heart, Mind and Soul
47. Jon Hassell and Bluescreen, Dressing for Pleasure
48. Handraizer
49. Etta James, Mystery Lady
50. Matthew Sweet, Son of Altered Beast
51. Dark City Sisters and Flying Jazz Queens
52. Ahmad
53. Heavens to Betsy, Calculated
54. Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family, Spring of Sixty-Five
55. NOFX, Punk in Drublic
56. Sam Mangwana, Rumba Music
57. House of Pain, Same as It Ever Was
58. Beat the Retreat
59. Henri Bowane, Double Take - Tala Kaka
60. Moe Tucker, I Spent a Week There the Other Night
What does this all mean? A few observations: where our top 10 seems to lean rockist and towards albums over compilations, it's important to note that while we tended to agree upon the rock touchstones—hence their higher ranks—a look at the entirety of the results demonstrates the variety of each ballot. Similarly, the 13 albums no one voted for don't fit into a particular pattern either: in fact, no one voted for Veruca Salt's American Thighs, despite the fact that it was a hit, and that it could have been a token vote for female performers. Like the Dean's own list, our results don't break down easily into ideological categories.
However, it is telling that Christgau's bottom two albums are in our top 40: Ill Communication at 17 and Vitalogy at 39. These were definitely hits in their day, and remain touchstones to many, which makes their higher ranking in our poll expected. That said, I'd rather not conclude that they rank higher just because they're more popular. Christgau, hearing each for the first time at age 52, likely sitting in his New York apartment, will receive each differently than those of us who first heard them in an all-male dorm as a freshman in college (this guy right here). An argument can be made that the latter camp is drawn to these albums because we associate them with specific moments in our lives—it may be less about the music, and more about where that album fits into our personal narrative. However, it's also possible that those of us who memorized each in college were able to hear more in them than Christgau, who inherently has a built-in distance from both the artists and their expected audience.
Though I agree that we can approach objectivity when discussing art, I don't agree that we can achieve it, and neither does Christgau. So though I personally agree with him that these two albums are good but not great, despite my own immersion in both, I also concede that there may be more meaning to them than I have experienced, and that a good writer could convey that meaning to me and perhaps change my mind. Christgau has certainly done that for many of us over the years and decades we've collectively followed him. Why else would Latin Playboys be number 5? And if you're that writer, the one who could change our minds about Pearl Jam or Beastie Boys and who knows who else, please keep writing. We've been waiting for you. And we'll find you.


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By 1974 Michael Losang Yeshe, then nine, had spent almost half his life at Kopan. Olivia, his mother, now lived in Japan. One day Michael received a parcel from her. "Lama Yeshe heard about it and came to my room," said Michael. "'Where is the parcel?' he asked. 'Open it.' He looked inside and handed me a set of colored pencils. 'These colors, these are for everyone, not just you.' He pulled out a shirt and underwear. 'These you can wear.' Then he saw the fancy Mickey Mouse watch. 'You're too young for a watch; you don't know how to tell time. This for me. I keep for you.' If I had kept it, I would only have lost it, or traded it for comics or something a few days later. He never did give it back," said Michael.
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My dogs love these, but the chews do not last long enough for the price. My dogs went through these quickly. And yes, I had the correct size for the dogs. I paid $20 for one - not a value
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That was my experience, too, although they were too hard for my greyhound - he just refused to try. (Often a problem with him.) The other two just wolfed them down. A big disappointment!
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I am a dog walker. One of the customers gave it to their year old Golden who is a big chewer. She loved it but it did not last long and she immediately got diarrhea (maybe too much milk product for her).
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Department Position: 100% extension
Dr. Lewis is responsible for Iowa's extension urban entomology programs. He provides university outreach education on insect pest management in the areas of home and commercial vegetable and fruit production, landscape plants, turfgrass, greenhouses, and household pests.
Dr. Lewis provides information and training statewide through insect diagnostic service, pest management recommendations and consultation, extension bulletins and manuals, newsletters and news releases, continuing education meetings, courses and conferences, and applied research. He works with students interested in extension entomology and horticultural crops insect pest management. He has been active in applied research on turfgrass insect pests.
Selected publications:
Gleason, M., M.K. Ali, P.A. Domoto, D.R. Lewis & M.D. Duffy. 1994. Comparing IPM and protectant strategies for control of apple scab and codling moth in an Iowa apple orchard. Hort. Technology 4:136-141.
Gleason, M. & D.R. Lewis. 1993. Integrated Pest Management for Iowa Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Growers. 175 pp. ISU Extension, PDO-83.
Gleason, M., G. Nonnecke, D.R. Lewis & S. Parker. 1993. Spray timing to control Botrytis fruit rot, anthracnose and tarnished plant bug on day-neutral strawberries, 1992. Fungicide and Nematicide Tests. 48:74.
Agnew, M. and D.R. Lewis. 1993. NAPIAP Report: Pesticide use on Iowa golf courses, 1990. ISU Extension.
Lewis, D.R. & N.E. Christians. 1992. Insecticide evaluation for control of annual white grubs. In 1993 Iowa turfgrass research report by N.E. Christians and M.L. Agnew.
Hartman, J., R. Bissin, M. Gleason & D.R. Lewis. 1992. Video: IPM for midwest apple growers. ISU Extension.


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Pink and white 3DS XL available again in North America
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Nintendo took to the official 3DS Facebook page to announce that the pink and white 3DS XL will be available at retailers across the United States once again.
The Miami Vice-coloured handheld made its US debut in November through an exclusive partnership with online retailer Gilt, but was given a limited quantity run by Nintendo just in time for the holidays.
Demand for the pink 3DS XL soon caught up to its limited supplies, and the stock didn't last long into 2013.
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Nintendo didn't reveal much about the pink 3DS XL outside of the fact that it would "become available this week at stores coast to coast". There was no indication as to whether it would be a limited run or if it would be added to the permanent 3DS XL colour options
Nintendo's official 3DS page has no details on the pink and white XL, but Gamestop lists a price of $199.99 for the unit.
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