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Posted 09.18.09 |
Critique: Ian Baldwin
The Past Is Promenade: On the High Line
[photo credit: Jenna Park via
Sweet Fine Day]
The High Line opened this past June, infusing New York with a commodity rare in a crowded city ruled by private capital: first-class public space. It sits, thanks partly to its own publicity, right in the middle of what has become the city's most fashionable neighborhood. Not since Bryant Park on 42nd Street was refurbished and refined in 1992 has a park come online with such visibility.
Endeavors like Bryant Park, and the comeback success of the city in general, have changed expectations in the past 15 years. The idea of converting a derelict rail viaduct into a green promenade, once audacious, now seems obvious. Even boring. "The only letdown," one blogger wrote, "is that [the High Line] rises to and exactly fulfills all the expectations presented by the years-long media blitz it inspired." The mission-accomplished ennui was echoed by a group of young women I overheard on the sidewalk the weekend the line opened. Walking on it was great, they seemed to agree, but there was nothing to do but walk on it.
Fine with me. On an increasingly crowded and increasingly generic island of 1.6 million, I am happy for more elbow room atop what must be one of the most unique public spaces in the world. I have walked the Promenade Plantée in Paris, the stone railway viaduct that was the model for the High Line's conversion, and the High Line is better.
It cuts through blocks, squeezes into the second floors of buildings, and even drops down to a giant window over Tenth Avenue, shoving casual strollers into the maw of urban terrain. There is a continuous slide show of infinite perspectives on the city side, the silver crawl of the river on the other. And for the moment, the scene is properly downtown, "the most extraordinary fashion promenade you can imagine," as a
New York Times
correspondent enthused.
Death Avenue
Before it was an open-source catwalk, the High Line was the first phase of a much larger project to move freight more efficiently into the city. The New York Central's freight yard ended at 59th street, so trains packed with butter, eggs, meat, milk, poultry and livestock for downtown wholesalers and meatpackers had to be pulled by steam locomotives down the middle of Tenth Avenue at six miles per hour, led by a horseman waving a red flag. Plans to eliminate this slow and hazardous process (Tenth was known as "Death Ave") had been drawn up as early as World War I. Robert Moses prodded the project forward in the 1930s, folding in an auto highway on the west side (the now-demolished Miller Highway) and the rebuilding of Riverside Park to carry the Henry Hudson Parkway and cover the railroad's tracks.
[photo credit: author unknown]
The High Line took the trains off the street, replaced the steam locomotives with electric ones, and offered onsite delivery via sidetracks spurring into buildings along the way. The "outstanding feature," according to the railroad in a pamphlet issued for the line's 1934 opening, was the enormous new freight terminal covering the western end of Houston Street. Here, 14 elevators carried freight between eight tracks at the second floor and 127 truck bays at street level. But the trucks ended up taking the railroad's freight business for themselves. Beginning in the 1960s, the half-mile section of the line running from the freight terminal to where it ends today at Gansevoort St. was removed. Service over the line ended with a now famous shipment in 1980, three boxcars of frozen turkeys (no account of the line's history can resist mentioning the turkeys).
The High Line stood silent above Chelsea for the next two decades, as developers and property owners lobbied the city to pull down the rest of the structure. From underneath it was decrepit, from above it was an incongruous strip of brown and green, from the trackbed it was . . . who knew? Its only visitors were graffiti writers, the homeless and occasional after-hours clubgoers evading the police.
But in 2001, there was a moment of collective discovery. Joel Sternfeld's
astonishing images
(published in Places, among other venues) revealed the secret garden of tall grasses and ballast gravel, skewed steel rails and crumbling concrete sidings that lay just out of sight from the street. Here was a slice of the city that had done nothing but sleep for 20 years, an accidental landscape evolved in response to climate and train-free habitation.
[photo credit: Jenna Park via
Sweet Fine Day]
In pre-9/11 New York, when money spun thick and fast into the new galleries, retailers, dotcom ventures and of-the-moment restaurants popping up in far-west Chelsea, the pictures seemed like a form of visual dissent. Here was entropy's dividend, an urban prairie where New Yorkers could make their stand against — or at least find shelter from the onslaught of — rampant upscaling. A nonprofit dedicated to park conversion had gotten up and running in 2000. Much media coverage and a design competition followed. The park opened a few weeks before the line's 75th birthday.
Slow Corridor
The High Line's form comes from its past as a route linking the last mile of urban commerce to a vast network of railways. The novelty of an elevated park is exhilarating, but the future of the space is less about the High than the Line. When the initial buzz and the weather cools, and the pathways become less clogged with New Yorkers impersonating parading tourists on the Brooklyn Bridge, it will emerge as neither city nor park nor movement infrastructure but as a hybrid creature formed from all three: a slow corridor.
You can walk along the concrete and gravel without feeling constrained, but you can't range far and wide as in an Olmsted park. The line allows you to move through the city with purpose as well as contemplation, enjoying the visual backdrop of the city while playing a role in its vitality. Other New York examples of the slow corridor are the Battery Park City esplanades, Dag Hammarskjöld plaza near the United Nations, and Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn.
[photo credit: Jenna Park via
Sweet Fine Day]
These spaces thrive on their integration with the city, and the High Line will need more connections to buildings and streets. Amenities like cafés and bathrooms are wonderful, but if complicated easement agreements and litigation fears limit the number of doors and stairwells feeding the park, then it will underachieve. Traipsing back and forth along the line, burrowing sideways and occasionally touching down on the sidewalk could become the West Side paseo, playfully subverting the sort of multilevel urbanism prescribed by architects and engineers in earlier decades.
Industrial Rehab
I grew up spending chunks of the summer in Seattle, where I used to clamber over the technicolor pipework in Richard Haag's
Gas Works Park
(opened in 1975). I had no idea of the park's radical significance to landscape design and cultural urbanism; to a child's mind it simply seemed logical that a disused gas plant should become a jungle gym. The High Line's great achievement is coaxing, from über-realist New Yorkers, a similarly obvious conclusion about a similarly underused steel contraption: "Why shouldn't we be walking around up there?"
This is happening not just in big cities. In Santa Fe, the railyards abandoned by the city's namesake railroad have been converted into a new district featuring parks, galleries, stores and a commuter rail station. Walking around it under the desert sun, one still appreciates the sprawl of what was. Skewed building alignments dictated by steel brachiations echo the time when the world came and went on the rails shooting straight and flat into the distance.
[photo credit: Jenna Park via
Sweet Fine Day]
Another industrial rehab is
Concrete Plant Park
, which has preserved a gang of silos and hoppers formerly used to make concrete mixes. Painted a dusky red, they stand high above lush new grass, trees and reclaimed salt marshes on spindly steel legs. You haven't heard of this recently opened park because it sits in the far less observed environs of the South Bronx (at the Whitlock Avenue station on the number 6 line, if curiosity moves you), along the nascent Bronx River Greenway.
These projects, among others, have shown that infrastructure's existence can productively outlast its original use by generating a singular sense of place. The High Line has shown that the rule can apply even in Manhattan, with its hyperactive real estate market, developer-friendly political culture and shrill public oppositionists.
Infrastructure's long-term value, whether used or disused, is tied to a place. It is a local and material response to societal and economic challenges. Today we spend so much time immersed in the mediating environments of networked society, staring at data through monitors and at highways through windshields, that we are prone to forget infrastructure's powerfully physical nature. Sometimes we need a remnant from the past to resurface, not as a token of an imagined Golden Age, but as a reminder that the past held other ways to move and communicate, and that the future will hold still others.
[photo credit: Jenna Park via
Sweet Fine Day]
This is the provocation embedded in Joel Sternfeld's photos: if left to itself, the entire city would be grown over in 20 years. A shocking thought, even to New Yorkers well acquainted with ephemerality. But the recent history of deindustrialization shows that urban spaces and urban technology evolve through an ecological process of selective abandonment and renewal, with decay, not vitality, as the default. Obsolescence is a question of when, delayed only by the constant labor of repair cycles and upgrades.
Ultimately infrastructure and city building require grand experiments to progress, and some of these will be judged failures in hindsight. The timidity of our current culture leaves no room for failure, and we build almost nothing of consequence. More often we are stagnant and uninspired, led by governments that pry open the public checkbook only to rebuild, with less imagination, the aging physical investments of the past — we've gone from the High Line and Riverside Park to the banal viaduct that carries what's left of the Miller Highway over Riverside South, shadowing the park below. So the sight of New Yorkers, grinning and sun-washed, atop the city's newest park, strikes me as bittersweet. It's a reminder that we've spared little of our own imagination, labor and capital to dream up our own High Line. Where are the brilliant successes and glorious failures that will make the next generations of New Yorkers grin?
Editors' Note
See also
Above Grade: On the High Line
, by Phillip Lopate, published on Places in October 2011 courtesy of
The Common
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the high line is well-executed but thoroughly unoriginal. It is another example of "the photoshopping of new york" (found on faslanyc.blogspot.com) and is ultimately a wasted opportunity. too bad, because it's an interesting, and extremely expensive, space.
interesting that places published this article the same month that much sorrier magazine, lam, published a piece that was at least a bit critical of the space. what does this article tell me? it is unoriginal and unenlightening.
10.16.09 at 05:50
I had been looking forward to the park for quite some time. Recycling such an awkward and decrepit structure seemed like such a thrilling idea especially in a city that requires going through a system of herculean red tape and logistics to build or renovate anything. On my first walk I couldn't help but feel I was on one of those airport walkways. The narrow path and the current of visitors does not offer any sort of respite you normally find even in the smallest sliver of a park. Sitting on a bench makes you feel like everyone is going somewhere and you're going to be late for something if you don't keep walking as well.
The surface materials, the seating, the lighting and the wild grasses are all carefully considered but the space will not lend itself to being somewhere to sit comfortably for a while. It hasn't had a moving vehicle on it for almost three decades but the purpose is still the same which is to move things and people along a path.
Raphael Del Rio
10.18.09 at 05:09
I visited the High Line for myself this past summer. I found it to be uniquely refreshing from the rest of the meat packing district. The nature versus industry idea always gets me excited. So knowing that when left alone all this vegetation grew is awesome. However the design of the High Line seemed to modern for me. It was very cemented with the walk way and the benched. I felt they could have done more in the design to tie it with the railroad without being too kitschy.
10.19.09 at 08:15
I've seen this project published a lot lately, but never with such a detailed explanation. Thank you for the post. I like the 'space' and think it works well with the industrial character.
Seattle Architects
10.21.09 at 03:34
I think in New York City finding fault is a hobby, and there are probably lots of things this project could have done, but those things don't prevent the High Line from being a fun place to meet friends and hang out for a while. You get to go upstairs, sit in the sun, sit in the shade, have a drink, watch the river, watch the cars, be a voyeur, and breathe. And the "amphitheater" at 10th is terrific. My only regret is that it isn't longer.
Now can we cover the entire FDR on the east side with one of these?
J Ake
10.22.09 at 11:05
i don't think anyone would debate that it's a novel and interesting public space. A linear elevated park near the water's edge through a formerly industrial heart of Manhattan is unique and amazing. But it was the "friends of the high line", the city, joel sternfield and others who conceived of that. That isn't a credit to the designers.
I like the amphitheater, but the views down side streets in Chelsea are much more interesting. the amphitheater could have focused on one of those.
10.22.09 at 05:25
Though I like the High Line quite a bit I do think most of my appreciation is a credit to the concept itself more than it is to the design or execution. To my mind the DS+R/FO design waters down the intensity which the High Line used to possess. I don't mean that in a sentimental way it was better when it was more "wilderness" but that the specific images which the High Line produced were either very attenuated linear perspectives or a series of extremely compressed transverse views. The current scheme's meandering breaks up the axial intensity of the 1-point perspective (without really offering much in the way of meandering), while also discouraging the transverse view. In fact it is only the Standard and its bill-ding-board/bridge which provides any really unique experience that might produce an interesting re-imaging of the city along the entire Line.
10.26.09 at 08:32
I think the comments, which I appreciate, speak to the difficulty of practicing design in New York and the economist's phrase that there's no accounting for taste. I happen to like the park, but to be frank, I wouldn't be at all unhappy if the High Line was still bearing freight trains. In many ways that's a compelling urban proposition, and maybe even appropriate given the recent ignition of interest in locally-sourced consumables.
But in the real world any type of truly "public" public space is welcome, and though you could always do some things better, time and money are limited quantities. To me it's this issue of infrastructural/industrial re-use and what it says about us, rather than judging the design itself, that I'm interested in. I will be very interested to see how the space evolves once the hype fades away, and I think New Yorkers are capable of making the space more interesting the more they claim it as their own.
Ian Baldwin
10.28.09 at 10:50
There's a lot of focus on the execution of the project, but less about its impacts - and I think that's ultimately what the High Line project is all about. Even if it's not technically perfect, it created a pretty interesting boom in the area, with over 30 new projects in development. I also think another success is the fact it all started with a writer and a painter getting together and discussing this huge project - and it suddenly became real with the administration's approval. I think we can't simply judge the success or the failure of a project based on the final result of the structure itself; it's the future impacts of the project that will tell whether it did succeed or not.
Daviel Lazure Vieira
11.02.09 at 08:10
I would argue that the high line is definitely not a "public" public space. Far from it. The concept of putting an accessible space up there was wonderful. No one disputes that. But it was a bit of a disservice to the community, except those with a real estate interest in the area. But then, that is the essence of practicing in NYC these days.
And their budget for that project was huge. Money was not a relevant parameter.
I think the author has a good point- the issue of repurposing the industrial infrastructure and what it says about us (the designers, the public, and the power players) is what is interesting. But I would argue that the extremely strict uses allowed up there is a shitty limitation necessitated by the over-reliance on precious details and planting and presenting a pretty image of wildness that could generate those 30 new development projects alluded to.
It's a great economic generator and a disingenuous public space.
11.03.09 at 02:10
What I meant by "public," was that it's an actual city-owned park and not a quasi-public or private space with easements, as in the case of the city's privately-owned public spaces (which anyone who's walked through midtown will know are with a few exceptions cynical and bleak). The High Line began as a grassroots project, I don't think that because some developers had the sense to jump on the bandwagon makes it a less worthy idea. It is operating on the conservancy model of central park, which in my mind raises some potential red flags with respect to the openness of access and programming in the future, but I think it's overkill to call it a disservice to the community.
I suppose this is the other reflective quality of the project, that it's something of a glass-half-full/half-empty moment. In my view, it's a net positive that the High Line happened at all, not least for its symbolic opposition to the American preference for built environments of bland newness or twee historicism.
Ian Baldwin
11.07.09 at 02:45
I thought by "public" public you meant democratic. I am not disputing the idea of the high line (that it should be turned into a public park), just the design concept.
It is true that it is wonderful for some groups so perhaps I shouldn't use the term community in general. But there certainly are user groups that are excluded, both by policy and by design.
The overly-precious details and James Corner's heavy-handed use of metaphor notwithstanding (those platform benches on the rails are the old train cars. Get it? they even haul "cargo") it is a beautiful place. But maybe it is what it should be- a beautiful museum piece. I just thought it would be more.
11.10.09 at 08:07
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Defense has been at the top of the list.
During the Bulldogs' current 20-game losing streak, which has spanned the last two seasons, Carbon Hill has allowed a staggering 1,039 points, an average of 51.95 points per game. The total is the highest in the state by a wide margin.
New defensive coordinator Bryant Garrison looks to bring respectability back to the Carbon Hill defense. Garrison, who will face a more manageable schedule for the 2014 season, was brought in by new head coach Woody Smothers last month.
"When I came here, my first and foremost goal was to get a defensive coordinator," Smothers said. "As a head coach, I was going to be doing the offense and it would be a disservice if I was going to do it all. I interviewed Bryant and talked with some people. I didn't hear anything but positive remarks about him. He really impressed me in his interview. I think Bryant has the type of character that's going to create a positive influence."
Garrison will also serve as the school's baseball coach. He takes over for Hunter Smothers, who coached the team last year.
On the football side, Garrison is part of a new staff at Carbon Hill. Smothers is the school's third head coach in as many years. Two holdovers from last year remain on the staff, Ray Sherer and Les Stovall.
"I know they've had several coaches over the last few years" Garrison said. "It's kind of hard for anybody, whether it's coaches or players, when you are not having continuity year after year. It's hard to get in the groove of things and know what to expect from your coaches. They had a rough draw last year. It's going to be rough again this year, having to learn a new system. But the kids are really hungry. They are eager to work. They've done all we've asked them to do so far."
Garrison comes to Carbon Hill after one year away from coaching.
He is a 2000 graduate of Marion County High School, where he was an honorable mention All-State quarterback during his senior season.
To start his coaching career, Garrison spent six years at the University of Alabama.
He was an equipment manager for three years and served as a graduate assistant working with defensive backs on Nick Saban's staff for another three years.
"It was a lot of work. There was definitely a lot of time put into it. It was well worth it. I learned a lot of good working habits and a lot of information in general," Garrison said.
Following his time at Alabama, Garrison worked one year at Lincoln High School in 2012-13.
Now he is back on the field after a one year hiatus.
"I'm really excited and kind of anxious at the same time. I'm getting my feet wet right now, meeting with all the coaches and also coach Smothers. He's really on point with the direction he wants to go. He lets us know what he wants done and we do it," Garrison said.
The new coach got some work in with his team at a passing camp last week at Sulligent.
"We only had one day with the defense, but the kids really picked it up fast. At a 7-on-7, it's just playing ball. They hustled and they tried. The main thing is that they competed, had fun and got better," Garrison said.
His defensive philosophy is simple.
"We are going to be very aggressive and attack. We're going to fly to the football and have a lot of fun while we're doing it," Garrison added.


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Davis Bertans has terminated his contract with Partizan Belgrade! He is now a free agent!— Artūrs Kalnītis (@ArtursKalnitis) July 3, 2014
Former All-Star forward Danny Granger has decided to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10531123/danny-granger-decides-sign-los-angeles-clippers
So I have two trades that I was messing with, let me know what ya'll think. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine The Lakers-Suns trade has been in the works, maybe we could help facilitate. Picks/euro stash added as necessary. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine Chicago gets $23million in expiring contracts and a serviceable center going forward. The Lakers get to spread out talent for Gasol who will most likely leave in the summer. Boozer will be a decent trade chip next year, and Gibson is on a reasonable contract. Picks/euro stash added as necessary (probably to LA).http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine
9. Marco Belinelli spilled the beans and revealed he's going to be one of the six guys invited to participate in the 3-point shootout, my favorite All-Star event.http://grantland.com/the-triangle/10-thoughts-about-the-nba-all-star-game-selections/
not a quote but was listening to espn radio and Colin said Cleveland and the Lakers were in talks to trade gasol for bynum so they could wave bynum and clear cap space.espn radio
Free agent Jason Kapono has been working out with the San Antonio Spurs this week, league sources tell Y! Sports.@WojYahooNBA
San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker is suing a New York City club and its operators for $20 million over a scratched retina he says he suffered during a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake's entourage. The suit was filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday. It says the W.i.P club in SoHo and its operators were negligent in security and supervision, which allowed the fight to take place.Via NY Daily News
New Orleans trades Emeka Okafor and Trevor Ariza to Washington for Rashard Lewis and the #46 pick.Jonathan Givony (the guy who runs Draft Express)
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Dietitian's tip: Lentils are mainstays in southern India, where pungent spices give distinction to many dishes. If you can't find yellow lentils, use yellow split peas.
Toast only the white sesame seeds before using. To toast, place the sesame seeds in a small, dry saute or frying pan over medium heat. Cook briefly, shaking the pan often and watching carefully to prevent burning. Remove the seeds from the pan as soon as they begin to turn brown. Set aside.
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Ellamae Harrelson Hiltibidal, 92, of Mt. Vernon, passed away Sunday afternoon Dec. 1, 2013, at White Oak Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Mt. Vernon.
She was born in Hamilton County on May 13, 1921, the daughter of Edgar and Lou (Bennett) Harrelson. She married the Rev. John Hiltibidal on Oct. 26, 1941, and he preceded her in death on March 9, 1999.
She was a licensed Free Will Baptist Minister. She served 10 years as Illinois State President & Field worker for Illinois Free Will Baptist Woman's Auxiliary (Women Active for Christ).
She graduated from McLeansboro High School in 1941, where she played violin in the symphony. She was a member of Pleasant View Free Will Baptist Church since 1941, and attended Mt. Vernon First Free Will Baptist Church in later years.
She has always been gifted with lots of talents; singing, sewing, crafting, painting, quilting, den mother for Boy Scouts, church work and a good friend to lots of people.
She is survived by four children, Anita Bain and husband Bill of Benton, Ky., Mary Lou Seawell and husband Holt of Mt. Vernon, Wash., Ruby Lynn Smith and husband Adrian Leon of Bluford and John Stephen Hiltibidal and wife Julie of Stockton, Calif.; grandchildren: Danya Maas and husband Larry, Jon Bain and wife Lynn, Carol Bain and friend Chris Gates, Greg Bain and wife Mary, Beth Lantz, Christy Seawell, Greta Mae Laguna and husband Chris, Heather Chalos and husband Stevie, Master Sergeant Adrian Lee Smith U. S. Air Force, Nancy Withrow and husband Ed, Jordan Hallet and husband Josh, Amy Hiltibidal and Audrey Hiltibidal; 18 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and foster sisters, Daisy and Barbara.
Mrs. Hiltibidal was preceded in death by her parents; husband; and siblings, Roscoe Harrelson, Ralph Harrelson, Roy Harrelson, Leda Daily, Melba Hiltibidal and foster sister, Alice.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Mt. Vernon First Free Will Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon with Bro. David Shores and Bro. David Burgess officiating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in McLeansboro.
Visitation for Mrs. Hiltibidal will be from 4 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Mt. Vernon First Free Will Baptist Church. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the cemetery.
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Largo, FL — Carl Eugene Goodridge, 73, of Largo, Fla., passed away after a brief illness at Morton Plante Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., on Friday, August 23, 2013. Carl, formerly of Peabody, Mass., was the son of Gertrude and Lester Goodridge. He is survived by his two sons, Mark Goodridge of Leominster, Mass., and Scott Goodridge of Keller, Texas; three adopted sons, Stephen Trowbridge of Boca Raton, Fla., Alan Trowbridge of Florida, and Tommy Trowbridge of Denton, Texas; and one stepson, Scotty Swan from Clarksville, Tenn.; two brothers, Lester Goodridge of Acton, Mass., and Alan Goodridge of Toledo, Ohio; one sister, MaryEllen Goodridge of Las Vegas, Nev. He is also survived by 3 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Patti Goodridge, on June 21, 2012.
Carl owned his own company installing burglar and fire alarms until his retirement in 2004. He served in the Army as a Military Police Officer from 1960-1963. He also loved the fire department, as his father was a Peabody, Mass. firefighter. He was an active member at the Elks Lodge in Peabody, Mass., and Seminole, Fla. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
ARRANGEMENTS: Services will be held Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 1 p.m., at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Peabody, Mass. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the Wounded Warrior Project.


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The explosion happened Sunday, Oct. 20 at about 3:30 p.m.
The Houston County Sheriff's office got a tip from a caller about a meth lab explosion in rural Houston County. The caller indicated that a 50-year-old man was severely burned during the explosion and was seeking medical treatment in La Crosse. Officials learned later that the man had to be transported to a burn center for treatment.
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It may seem redundant to say that video took top honors when the MTV Video Music Awards were broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on August 31, 2006. But video was indeed one of the major design elements, from LED screens in ornate gilded picture frames creating kinetic décor on stage, to the proscenium arch and the side walls of the world-famous Radio City auditorium literally wrapped in digital wallpaper. Combined with wow-factor lighting designs by Allen Branton, this year's VMAs show took off in new directions, as stars such as Beyoncé, Shakira, and the Black Eyed Peas strutted off the stage and out into the house, in a celebration of hip-hop culture and the bling generation.
They wanted to bring the stars into the middle of the crowd. This lends more energy to the show, and you need a lot of energy for it to come through on TV," Branton explains. "They brought in a new producer and director this year," he adds, referring to Hamish Hamilton and his team, who made the show more like the MTV Europe Video Music Awards. This was also the first year that London-based architect/scenic designer Mark Fisher designed the show, although he has worked on numerous other projects for MTV in the past.
From wailing sirens and wildly rotating police beacons for Beyoncé to a bare stage revealing the back wall of Radio City Music Hall for Christina Aguilera, each performer on the show has a unique look. Justin Timberlake opened the show with a big scenic look of his own, with Element Labs Versa Tubes on the front of a giant mirror ball cut in half, with the band sitting inside. After the first song performed in front of the ball, it rotated to reveal the band and a linear array of color changing Versa Tubes. "All of the acts put the lighting in our hands," says Branton. "I speak to each artist about his or her time slot in the show, what song will be performed, and what the production elements are going to be. Sometimes the artists add props or an orchestra or 30 dancers. It's like a nuclear arms race: they all want to look their best."
Branton describes Fisher's set as "a Pictures At An Exhibition scenario," with the video screens inside the floating gold-leaf picture frames. Placed among the frames were concentric half-circles of truss, creating scenic arches increasing in size from downstage to upstage as lighting positions for automated luminaires, along with overhead and front-of-house trusses. "There was so much scenery, the lighting rig was not hung to make a statement," says Branton. "It was a more utilitarian situation."
In the auditorium itself, the lighting was two-pronged, with a central "spine" or 60'×40' grid over the center of the room, augmented by low side light positions, and as the artists strutted down the central runway, they were accented with followspots. Branton's color choices were driven by the video content. "I got storyboards from the people who created the video, and we basically tried to compose our cues to be complementary to what would be seen," he explains. "The light levels had to be bright enough for television yet not wash out the video. We used the Pegasus high-def truck from MTV, and you don't really need all that much light anymore."
Branton notes that the most difficult element was the video projected on the sidewalls of the auditorium, with images up to 100' wide. "We made tests over the summer to work out how much it would take to make that wall bright enough," he says. "The lighting was keyed to the brightness of the wall. We base-lined everything to that. With television, we always choose something as the exposure level, then trim the levels from all the camera angles so it looks natural to the viewing audience, although not very natural in real life."
The lighting package, provided primarily by New York City-based Scharff Weisberg (John Healy, project manager; Chris McMeen, sales), is 95% automated with a range of Vari-Lite luminaries including 62 VL500Bs, 54 VL2500 spots, 51 VL2500 washes, 30 VL3500, 10 VL1000 TS, 40 VL3000 spots, and 41 VL3000 washes, plus 25 Martin Professional Atomic Strobes with color scrollers, 60 Altman SpectraPARs, and 70 Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12s. The conventional side of the package included 36 ETC Source Four ellipsoidal spots, 30 ETC Source Four PARs, and standard 1kW PARs. Syncrolites hung on upstage trusses were used as backlight in certain numbers (including those for Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé) when the scenic arches were not used.
Chris McMeen, director of theatre and special events at Scharff Weisberg, coordinated the lighting package, including 360 custom glass gobos made by Apollo for the VMA show. "These are now in stock, and include specific breakup patterns that Allen Branton requested. Some were used as aerial effects in the VL3000s," notes McMeen. Some of the images lingered dramatically behind the performers in fog provided by eight Martin/Jem ZR33 Hi-Mass fog machines.
The show was programmed and run on a pair of MA Lighting grandMA consoles, with eight grandMA Network Signal Processor units (see full list on page 38). The lighting directors/programmers were Kevin Lawson and Felix Peralta. "The biggest challenges to the lighting were the restrictions created by all the projection in the house," says Lawson. "We had to be careful about ambient light levels and where we could position the lights. We wanted the grid in the top center of the room to be as far out of the main picture as possible."
With the stage runway jutting out into the house, the audience on each side had to be lit as they were often seen on camera. VL5000B incandescent wash lights were used to light these VIP seating areas. "It was like a giant mosh-pit environment on the floor," notes Lawson. "The lighting challenge was to create a separation between the beautiful people and the fans. The audience lighting was darker, less about faces and more about bodies and energy. It was almost more like a rock concert than an awards show."
"You were surrounded by video anywhere you looked," says Mark Fisher, who notes that the basic theme of the show was "fame, luxury, and wealth as seen through the eyes of these musicians. There is a whole language of luxury that is part of the pop MTV generation, and for them, fame means having your photograph everywhere, and wealth means extravagant jewelry, clothes, and shoes. It's a celebration of a culture that believes that happiness can be bought."
To cover the stage with the video "photos" of the rich and famous, Fisher created a flown array of 16 LED video screens of various sizes, each mounted in a classical ornate gilt picture frame (built by Global Scenic in Los Angeles) and flown from CyberHoist CH1000 one-ton motors and CH500 half-ton motors. The screens, nine of which were constantly in motion throughout the show, were used to show a combination of IMAG footage, specially created graphics, captions, and visual effects. Kish Rigging, main rigging contractor to the MTV Video Music Awards, used a CyberHoist/InMotion 3D motion control system to accomplish complex, multi-cue movements with straightforward, user-friendly programming, near-silent operation, and millimeter accuracy. "It provided the MTV VMAs' design team with flexibility and precision of movement that no other system could come close to," says Kish Rigging's project manager JR Cassidy. The system was supplied to Kish Rigging by Flashlight in Holland, along with senior programmer Jim Allison and technician Pieter Jaap Visser.
As if the video screens in the frames and the large video images on the sidewalls were not enough, Fisher engaged the talents of Tait Towers in Lititz, PA to design thousands of ingenious custom brackets that could attach additional screens to the balcony fronts and choral stairs on each side of the stage, without causing any damage to the auditorium. Additional gold frames were used behind the presenter positions as well, adding video to just about every shot of the show and creating an interesting contrast between the cutting-edge video "pictures" and their ornate gold frames. Tait Towers also created the runway and a special stage lift for Beyoncé.
"We worked closely with Allen Branton to determine the lighting positions," says Fisher, whose concepts were coordinated by NYC-based art director Anne Brahic. In this case, the lighting and video worked hand-in-hand to create an eye-popping environment for each star, such as Shakira dancing barefoot dressed as the star of a Bollywood movie or Beyoncé in thigh-high black boots and a trench coat in a simulated jail breakout scene. The video content was implemented by a team including producer Lee Lodge and director Richard Turner.
The video screens and projectors were provided by the DeKalb, IL-based Nocturne Productions, who also had a playback trailer parked outside. To project the 100'-wide × 30'-high images along the side walls, Nocturne opted for nine 20K Barco FLM R20 projectors per side of the auditorium, in three triple stacks, with Synergix edge-blending software to create a seamless image. Six additional projectors of the same model were placed at back of the balcony to project on an act curtain, or light gray scrim, hanging just in front of the first electric, and four more projected the images on the eyebrow around the proscenium arch.
The gold frames were filled with a total of 553 Barco ILite 6 LED tiles creating images of varying sizes, with a total of 512 Barco ILite 10 LED tiles serving as "zippers," or long narrow screens on the balcony fronts and just under the large images on the walls. "The designers wanted to create an all encompassing video fill for every possible camera angle and really tie the room together," says Dave Panscik, project manager for Nocturne. To drive the images, a total of 21 Barco D320 LED Processors were located behind each screen. "I was teasing Michael Tait," Panscik adds. "They provided such great functional design; everything was incredibly accurate, as always."
Video content playback was via seven high-definition Grass Valley Turbo iDDR (Intelligent Digital Disk Recorder) units with images routed through Vista Spyder video processors for the high-definition feeds to the side walls, eyebrow and zippers, and through Barco's Encore video processing system for the standard definition LED images in the picture frames. "Projecting right onto large off-white walls presented quite a challenge," says Dave Lemmick, director of engineering for Nocturne. "The Barco 20K had just been released and it was big enough and bright enough. It was so cutting-edge we called it bleeding-edge."
MTV's Video Music Awards are not traditional in terms of televised awards show, and this year's high-concept production raised the bar even higher. Lemmick sums it up: "The designers wanted to take you out of Radio City Music Hall and into a sphere of imagery that was not just eye-candy, but footage in tune with each artist and each award, including graphics and words." As a result, the venerable 74-year old Art Deco venue was transformed into a veritable temple of pop culture and digital imagery.
MTV 2006 Video Music Awards Equipment and Crew Lists
Lighting (Scharff Weisberg, Syncrolite Inc., TriCity Photon Research)
62 Vari-Lite VL500B
54 Vari-Lite VL2500 Spot
51 Vari-Lite VL2500 Wash
30 Vari-Lite VL3500 Spot
40 Vari-Lite VL3000 Spot
41 Vari-Lite VL3000 Wash
10 Vari-Lite VL1000 TS
32 Morpheus PanaBeam XR2 Wash Light
20 Martin Professional MAC 2000 Wash
10 Syncrolite SX3K
10 Syncrolite MX1000
120 Element Labs Versa Tube
60 Altman SpectraPAR w/MFL Lens
70 Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12
36 ETC Source 4 Ellipsoidal
30 ETC Source 4 PARs WFL
30 PAR64 Black, 1kW
3 6-Lamp PAR Bar, VNSP
4 2kW Fresnels w/ Screens and Barn Doors
12 1kW Mini-Broad as Footlight
24 Silver Birdie
5 ETC 48 channel Sensor Dimmer Rack
2 ETC 24 channel Sensor Dimmer Rack
3 Strong Super Trouper Followspot
3 Strong Short Throw Super Trouper
5 Lycian Stark Lite 1271
2 MA Lighting grandMA Console
8 MA Lighting Network Signal Processor
25 Martin Atomic Strobe w/Color Scroller
4 Reel Efx DF-50 Hazer
2 Martin/Jem ZR33 Hi-Mass Fog Machine
2 Reel EFX Fan (plus 6 Box Fan, 2 Snail Fan)
Projection Equipment (Nocturne)
553 Barco ILite 6 LED Tile
512 Barco ILite 10 LED Tile
21 Barco D320 LED Processor
28 Barco FLM R20 Video Projector
6 Vista Systems Video Processor (3 353s and 1 each 364, 344, and 240)
6 Barco Encore Video Processor
7 Thomas Grass Valley Turbo iDDR High Def Digital Disk Recorder
2 Sierra 16×16 HDSDI Router
1 Sierra 32×32 SDI Router
1 Sierra 18×18 DVI Router
Production Credits
Production/scenic designer: Mark Fisher
Lighting designer: Allen Branton
Lighting directors: Tom Beck, Kevin Lawson, Felix Peralta
Head gaffer: David Oakes
Gaffer: Brad Hafer
Crew: Russel Keitel, Brett Pulwalksi, David Hunkins, McClain Moss
Lighting coordinator: Liberty Bock
Lighting assistant: Brian Tylke
Nocturne Video Crew
Screen playback engineering: David Lemmink
Assist screen engineer: Bob Larkin
Project managers: David Panscik, Robert Cooper
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Why Raising the Minimum Wage is Good for Everyone [OPINION]
Apparently the President hasn't forgotten about his State of the Union call to raise the minimum wage. We haven't heard much about raising the federal standard since February, so it was nice to hear it come back up in his recent economic policy speech. Obama is calling for a new minimum to be set at $9 an hour.
Closer to home, South Dakota Democrats have proposed an initiated measure that would raise the state minimum to $8.50 an hour and peg it to inflation after that. Tying the minimum wage to inflation is an awfully good idea.
Despite the fact that raising the minimum wage is tremendously popular, recent national polls show it having around 80% support, it doesn't happen very often either nationally or here in South Dakota. Hopefully Congressional Democrats decide to take a page from their South Dakotan brethren and put an inflation clause into the national legislation.
If the Democrats' idea does finally get onto the South Dakota ballot, you can expect the opposition to bring out the big guns to try to prevent it from passing. The prospect of perpetual yearly increases in the minimum wage will not sit well with people who pad the bottom line and line their pockets by paying their employees as little as possible.
Those business owners are likely to contribute a bit of that largesse to keep exploitation alive and well, so the airwaves and mailboxes will be flooded with all the well-worn myths about the minimum wage. We may as well dispel a few of them right now.
Minimum wage jobs are not just for teenagers. It fluctuates from year to year, but about 50% of the people making minimum wage are over age 25. More importantly, about 25% of all workers in the US make $10 an hour or less.
When the minimum wage goes up, these people tend to get raises as well. More money in the hands of 25% of our population means a lot more spending, and ultimately a healthier economy.
Minimum wage jobs are not just a holding station for people who will eventually realize they need to go to community college, find better jobs and eventually earn more. Supporter that I am of getting an education, we need to realize that even if everyone currently making less than $10 an hour went and got a college degree tomorrow, it would not mean that there would be good paying jobs waiting on them.
Again, it changes from year to year, but around a quarter of people being paid very low wages have finished a degree of some sort, but haven't been able to find better employment. There is always a need to fill positions in the low wage end of the service sector, and a nation full of college graduates would only mean more highly educated order takers working drive thru windows and waiting for something to open up in their field.
At $7.25 an hour, a full time employee makes around $14,500 a year. Running it up to $9 would only increase that to about $18,000. That is still a number that is well below the federal poverty guidelines for a family of four, but at the very least, a two parent household would stand a decent chance of paying for rent, daycare, and having a car.
That is what this debate is all about; making sure that anyone who puts in a forty hour work week can afford the basics at a minimum.
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How hard is it too plumb in 2 hydralic hoses in to the touch control? I have seen pictures of this done on c models, but cannot make out the actual details. Whitch line is the supply and whitch is the return to tank?
I believe its done with the same aux. block used on the Cub touch control but I have not actually done it myself.
Well, if you have a Fast hitch, it will be much easier I think, my C has the same valve setup with a loader that our Super C has with the fast hitch, if I get a chance tomorrow, I will take some pics and find out....
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With the recent events in Newtown, Conn., my heart is hurting, and my soul is wishing there was another place it could be. As tragic as this situation is, it doesn't have to be this way. We often wonder why and say that he had a troubled childhood.
There are many people who had less than idyllic childhoods. I'm one of them, having been raised in orphanages and reform schools, Whites Institute and foster homes. Wasn't fun, but I had a place to stay and was fed.
Anyway, I knew what discipline was and had to go to church every day of the week and twice on Sunday. I didn't grow up to be especially religious, and I didn't go to church every Sunday, but when I ran into troubled times in my life, I knew where to go for help, and although I wasn't sure I would get it, I had faith that God would be there for me. And I wasn't wrong.
I'm an old man now. But with the recent decision the Supreme Court made ruling that prayer is unconstitutional in school, it's no wonder the younger generation is having problems. Their moral guidelines were taken away from them, and they have no one to turn to in difficult times. What a shame. Why didn't anyone challenge the Supreme Court's decision.
Then we wonder why there are gangs, bullying, rape, dysfunctional families and a multitude of other crimes. It wasn't like this in the '50s. Give people the right to express their beliefs whatever religion they belong to. Then maybe things will improve and families will not have to live through the unimaginable pain of losing a child. To the families in Newtown, all I have to offer is my sorrow, my tears and my prayers.
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Ted Olson: Proposition 8 Decision "Judicial Responsibility in its Classic Sense"
by Charles Lemos, Sun Aug 08, 2010 at 05:03:54 PM EDT
Via Think Progress.
In this exchange, Ted Olson, who along with David Boies successfully led the legal challenge that overturned Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California, told Fox News' Chris Wallace that it's not "judicial activism" when a judge follows the Constitution.
"Where is the right to same-sex marriage in the Constitution?" asked Wallace.
"Where is the right to interracial marriage in the Constitution, Chris?" replied Olson.
"The Supreme Court has looked at marriage and has said that the right to marry is a fundamental right for all citizens. So you call it interracial marriage and then you could prohibit it, no? The Supreme Court said no. The same thing here," Olson argued.
"The judge after hearing three weeks of testimony and full day of closing arguments and listening to experts from all over the world concluded that the denial of the right to marry to these individuals in California hurt them and did not advance the cause of opposite sex marriage," Olson added.
"This is what judges are expected to do. It's not judicial activism. It's judicial responsibility in the classic sense," emphasized Olson.
As Olson and Boies have demonstrated minority rights cannot be subject to popular votes.
Olson shot down every single argument that Wallace tried to advance. In the end Wallace conceded, "Mr. Olson, we want to thank you so much for joining us today. We'll keep following your lawsuit. And I gotta say, after your appearance today, I don't understand how you ever lost a case in the supreme court, sir."
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There is already lots of talk about what happened in Dallas 50 years ago, but sadly, most have forgotten the tragedy that rocked the city 25 years ago.
It's this week's Uncut commentary.
By this day in 1988, two Dallas police officers had already been killed. Officer James Joe was murdered by criminals at an apartment complex. Officer John Glenn Chase was gunned down by a mentally-ill homeless man.
At the end of February, Officer Gary McCarthy was also killed when he was shot by armed robbers.
It was a tough year. Race relations were very tense at the time, and some whispered about a possible link.
There was none.
If the year wasn't bad enough, a fourth officer fell in August -- Walter Williams, killed in an ambush.
Reeling from the unprecedented loss, we limped toward the end of the year, praying our misery had come to a end. And we almost made it...
Thirteen days into December, undercover Officer Lawrence Cadena was killed by drug dealers.
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Sara's Tech Tips: Spring Cleaning Your Gadgets
February 20, 2011 at 10:16 am , by Ladies' Lounge
Editor's Note: We're excited to introduce LHJ's new tech contributor, Sara Haines of NBC's Today show! This month she's got some great tips for spring cleaning your tech clutter.
Chances are, you've got an old cell phone or two stuffed in a drawer. Maybe you have an outdated TV gathering dust in the basement or a printer that doesn't really work any more. Most of these gadgets can't even be fixed (or in many cases it's cheaper to buy a new one). Or maybe your kids had to have that new game system and quickly forgot the old one. But what should we do with all this tech clutter? Unlike your usual spring cleaning, it's not as simple as dropping these outdated tech toys into the trash. Some of the materials, like the cathode ray tubes in televisions, can be hazardous in landfills, and other items that still work can be donated instead of ditched. Here are my three favorite tips to help you "spring clean" responsibly when it comes to your has-been electronics.
Company "take back" programs. Many big chain stores (such as Staples and Best Buy) and manufacturers (like Apple and Sony) have beefed up their "green" game by offering incentives or resources to recycle old consumer gadgets. Check out Engadget to find the most comprehensive list (including stores, manufacturers, and government agencies) for these "take back" programs.
Recycling. The resources are available for electronic recycling vary depending on where you live, but many gadgets can be recycled. Here are a few sites that can help you find the best options for your area. Earth911.com and MyGreenElectronics.org both allow you to search for a recycling center by ZIP code. ElectronicsRecycling.org is also a great resource to find collection events taking place locally.
Tech patience. Practice self control when it comes to new gadgets. It may be hard for you (or your husband or kids) to pass up that shiny new gizmo, but holding out for the second round of a product gives manufacturers time to work out early developmental glitches. Buying later also practically guarantees a lower price. Patience is a virtue that will reduce electronic waste while saving you money!
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As you can see from this graph, whole wheat bread contains much more of some nutrients than enriched white bread. Magnesium, potassium and phosphorus are shown, but fiber, and zinc are also found in greater amounts in whole wheat bread.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan is sharing the Big Ten title with its two biggest rivals -- and that's just fine with the Wolverines.
Coach John Beilein's team celebrated its first regular-season conference championship since 1986 on Sunday, finishing in a three-way tie with Ohio State and Michigan State after the Buckeyes stunned the Spartans on a last-second shot in East Lansing. Michigan State will be the top seed in the Big Ten tournament, followed by Michigan and Ohio State.
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My kids and I gave my husband a cool new book that's just been released, Geek Dad, by Ken Denmead. The subtitle is "Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share." I've not really had much time to look through it, but something tells me there's a few ides in thee that might be great in-class activities. I'll keep you posted.
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ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia regulators want to hire more staff to monitor the rising construction costs on a first-of-its-kind nuclear power plant.
The chairman of the Public Service Commission, Chuck Eaton, said he is asking state lawmakers for roughly $180,000 so his agency can hire two more staffers to track the costs of building Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta.
The PSC regulates the prices charged by Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power, which owns a 46 percent stake in the two reactors under construction. The project's construction plan is tracking hundreds of millions of dollars over budget.
Regulators want to hire the extra staffers so the agency can carefully keep tabs on overruns. The commission can block Georgia Power from passing those extra costs to customers.
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On Wednesday, umpire Mark Wegner tossed White Sox pitcher Jose Quintana without a warning, after some purpose pitches had been thrown. White Sox broadcaster Hawk Harrelson went into an epic rant.
Friday, there's word that Commissioner Bud Selig and White Sox managing general partner Jerry Reinsdorf have spoken to Harrelson about this. From ESPN Chicago:
"I talked to Bud Selig yesterday," Harrelson told ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine on Friday morning. "We had a talk. Actually, Bud talked and I listened. If it was a prize fight, they would have stopped it in the first round.
"I also talked to Jerry, and I listened to him as well. That's all I really have to say."
Harrelson is an employee of Comcast SportsNet Chicago and WGN.
Senior vice president of sales and marketing Brooks Boyer said Harrelson will talk about the outburst on Friday's broadcast.
That, even if you're not a fan of Harrelson, should rate as must-see TV. The White Sox host the Mariners Friday in a game to be televised by Comcast SportsNet Chicago at 7 p.m. CDT. There is one thing that has been promised:
Boyer said an outburst like that won't happen again from Harrelson.
"I could certainly be wrong but I think this was a good way for him to understand the importance of what's going on on the field," Boyer said. "I think moving forward those type of bursts and snaps will be limited if not eliminated."
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I have an GUI application make with Qt creator and QT mobility location api. My application catch GPRMC frames from a file text,
print a circle point on each coordinates point and trace lines between points to print my run.
My problem is that i would like to move gps coordinates to move it on the next road. It will allow me to stay in road traces.
I tried using QGeorouting manager in order to calculate path between 2 points but if points are next instead of on the road,
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East County women run Marine Corps Marathon
Date: November 4, 2009
by: Pam Eubanks | News Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — They breathed in amazing sites and exhaled great reward.
On Oct. 25, East County residents Julia DeCastro and Leslie Swart wound their way through Arlington Cemetery and Georgetown University, along the Potomac River and past the U.S. Capitol toward the finish line of the Marine Corps Marathon held in Arlington, Va.
"It's a huge accomplishment, and to see the city and the people there running is amazing," said DeCastro, who ran in the race last year for the first time. "It's definitely a 'Proud to be an American' marathon."
The race was Swart's first competitive try at a 26.2-mile run, and she couldn't have had more fun.
"There's a crowd the whole entire race," she said. "It's just amazing. At the end, you're running up a hill, which is an extremely steep hill, but everyone at the end of race is just really cheering you on."
Swart said they could have finished with a better time, but she slowed the pace.
"My phone has video on it, and I was trying to get my family to share in my experience," Swart said. "I kept clicking and sending it while I was running. I got some good footage. It's just so exciting."
The women ran in honor of Marines who were killed in combat this year.
"This year is cool because we (got to run for them)," DeCastro said.
DeCastro and Swart became friends after meeting at the YMCA about a year ago. Around that time, DeCastro, who had run several half-marathons, decided to run the Marine Corps Marathon with other friends from the YMCA.
They returned with stories of people running with prosthetic limbs and of parents carrying their children across the finish line.
The excitement was contagious.
"I didn't have any intentions of doing a marathon, but when they came back, they were so excited," Swart said. "I decided I would just do (the training) with (Julia)."
Three times a week, they laced up their tennis shoes and hit the pavement by 4:30 a.m.
Although the training schedule was intense, Swart said she was content simply running with her friend as moral support and companionship. But then, at practice mile 18, she reluctantly agreed to run this year's race.
"And it didn't want to commit then, either," she said. "I've just really enjoyed it and the comradery and having a long run done before you start your day."
With the race over, Swart said she and DeCastro will continue training, though now they'll probably work toward improving their time rather than just finishing the race. Because as much as she resisted running a marathon, Swart now is eager to try others.
"I've got the bug now," she said.
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