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The Ruins of Music
Music has a rather ephemeral materiality rendered in tangible things like CDs, cassettes, records, and perhaps even digital playlists, but its more compelling archaeological dimension is probably the historical landscapes of clubs and music districts that dot nearly every community. Local grassroots music tends to be relatively dynamic, but live music holds a tenacious if ever-transforming grip on the landscape: most communities can point to a distinctive soundscape of clubs, impromptu spaces, and places from churches to schools where music was the heart of local experience.
Music has had a profoundly consequential hold on youth culture for most of the last century, but many places' local musical heritages are in ruins or razed. The musical landscape is exceptionally dynamic: a parade of fringe styles continually step forward in nearly every place, articulating a host of local, generational, and social experiences. Most musical circles seek some modestly satisfying measure of relevance, creative community, and profitability, and some express broad if not universal anxieties and sentiments while others are simply more ephemeral sounds.
The fate of those contemporary musical landscapes is not simply a reflection of fickle tastes and unpredictable profits; instead, it is a testament to transformations wrought by postwar urban renewal, industrial collapse, suburbanization, and assorted other processes that have engineered cityscapes and reached well outside musical spaces alone. Music landscapes have been preserved in many places: Memphis' Beale Street declined significantly in the 1960's, but it never really disappeared; New Orleans' Bourbon Street may be one the city's most famous landmarks; and Austin, Texas' musical scene is spread into pockets that cover the city and include virtually every musical oeuvre. However, beyond a handful of tourist-friendly reconstructions, abandoned and declining musical communities hold an especially compelling—and wholly archaeological–mechanism to critically interpret American history. That musical heritage is dealt a significant challenge by continuing urban decline and the reality that many Black and working-class communities have been erased by postwar spatial projects, left in ruins, or are facing the wrecking ball.
Indianapolis, Indiana's musical history is routinely told with reference to Indiana Avenue, where African-American musicians began to congregate in significant numbers around the turn of the 20th century. The network of clubs on the Avenue is persistently heralded as a show of cultural resilience, and the rich world along the Avenue does say quite a lot about persistent African-American cultural traditions. However, concluding the narrative at that point risks disingenuously ignoring music's essential role in a local Black economy common to most 20th-century African-American communities; that is, music risks being reduced to an abstracted art and detached from a complex material and social world profoundly shaped by racism.
Music spaces along the Avenue were simply one dimension of a segregated economy that delivered essential goods, leisure, and professional services to African Americans who once lived all around Indiana Avenue. That everyday Black economy collapsed after World War II as urban renewal projects depopulated the area, the interstate sliced through its heart, and disinterested municipal administrators let the community's infrastructure—utility services, local schools, pollution management—collapse. The Madame Walker Theatre sits on Indiana Avenue today and quietly provides musical offerings, but the remainder of the Avenue has been almost universally uprooted. Visits to clubs like the Sunset Terrace (which opened on Christmas Eve 1937), The Oriental Café (advertised in 1938 as "Bronzeville's Swankiest Nitery"), or The Mitchellyne are today pilgrimages to parking lots or undistinguished postwar architecture.
There is absolutely nothing about that Indianapolis history that is unique, one of many musical spaces and leisure districts razed alongside the communities from which musicians came and the business places that served the area. Such narratives are not unique to predominately Black communities, but postwar urban engineers clearly took aim on African-American neighborhoods that had themselves been created by racist urban management.
Ironically, perhaps, contemporary planners and cultural heritage policy makers seem eager to celebrate African-American music history, and Indiana Avenue is now one of the city's six cultural districts, pinning much of its claim to fame on its jazz heritage. However, there is nearly nothing to actually see representing the neighborhood's musical heritage, with its clubs long-ago razed. Tellingly, the national embrace of jazz, blues, and early rock is not mirrored by an equally energetic hip hop preservation movement, which is simultaneously being unceremoniously dismantled in many places (there are archival and educational organizations like the Hip Hop Culture Center and Cornell University's Hip Hop Collection, but most of this good work is about hip hop culture and not hip hop place). Hip hop and rap are perhaps living traditions rooted in contested landscapes, so they may not be sufficiently distanced to neutralize their threat; when they are eventually domesticated by consumer culture their landscape may well be gone or in ruins. Much musical innovation occurs on social and spatial fringes that were already under fire by municipal planners and optimistic realty investors, so the claim for a noteworthy musical heritage may be insufficient to save these places. The modest and often-unpleasant clubs that incubated garage bands or launched genres like punk were in many cases makeshift spaces and short-lived, financially unstable enterprises that instantly declined, and raves and much electronic music has been the province of utterly transitory spaces; much of this musical landscape and performance space was intentionally ephemeral. Through the sober lens of heritage planning, the cost of saving small clubs or deteriorating housing projects may well be prohibitive and inspire little interest; some local communities may desire the blank slate that demolition and new construction promises.
Nevertheless, there is a compelling case to be made for a contemporary archaeology of musical landscapes and heritage that might reach beyond performance spaces alone to churches, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods where musicians' experiences were rooted and where they honed their crafts. John Schofield has perhaps led this charge, with studies of musical landscape in Cold War Berlin (in Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklin, and Stephen Wagg's 2014 edited collection on place and music, Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place, and Globalization), his edited 2014 World Archaeology collection "The Archaeology of Sound and Music," and a study with Brett Lashua and Sara Cohen of alternative musical histories in Liverpool. He has been joined by Paul Graves-Brown, whose 2012 "Where the Streets Have no Name: a Guided Tour of Pop Heritage Sites in London's West End" provides a detailed dissection of the relationship between place, musical heritage, the surviving musical landscape in London (in The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past).
In a widely reported 2011 study, Graves-Brown and Schofield examined the heritage implications of a London flat adorned with 1975 Sex Pistols graffiti. The straightforward and often-lewd marker art and the notion of celebrating punk history falls outside conventional aesthetic and heritage standards, and in the project's widespread popular press some observers were predictably contemptuous, such as Jonathan Jones' Guardian commentary dismissing the project as "clichéd dumbness." Nevertheless, the graffiti has been preserved nearly four decades because a series of residents valued punk's historical moment and its material history, regardless of dominant notions of historicity, and the public attention for the project confirms the widespread fascination with such relatively recent music histories.
The Detroit Sound Conservancy may provide a model for an ambitious musical heritage project that includes an oral historical project, blog, and sound landmarks preservation program, with the latter including a thorough analysis of the endangered musical landmarks in the city. Detroit stands in a somewhat distinctive position, marshalling a rich musical history while simultaneously confronting a dramatic decline that has left numerous musical landmarks under fire. United Sound Systems, for instance, is a recording studio that since 1940 has hosted John Lee Hooker, Bob Seger, and Parliament Funkadelic, but it is now under threat from interstate widening; the Vanity Ballroom, a 1929 Mesoamerican-themed big band dance hall that began to cater to rock acts in the 1970's, including Detroit staples MC5 and The Stooges, began a long vacancy in the 1980s and stands empty today; and the National Theatre is one of Detroit's last vaudeville houses, an exceptionally distinctive Albert Kahn design that opened in 1911 but is today a shell.
Among the best-known of Detroit's now-declining musical spaces is the Grande Ballroom, a 1928 dance hall that between 1966 and 1972 hosted many of rock's most prominent groups, including locals like MC5, the Psychedelic Stooges and their frontman Iggy Pop, and Alice Cooper as well bands including the Who, Cream, and Led Zeppelin (see Motor City Archives' Grande Ballroom play list). The documentary "Louder than Love – The Grande Ballroom Story" tells the story of the hall that is sometimes referred to locally as a rock Mecca, but it today has a hole in its roof (compare this 2013 urbex video).
There are myriad ways to conduct such projects. Students in Wayne State's Urban Archaeology Detroit program, for instance, produced videos on many of these Detroit landmarks for the Making Music in Detroit project. The musical landscapes included the Grande, Hitsville USA, the Brewster Douglass Projects, the Blue Bird Inn jazz club, the "Motown Mansion" (Motown Record founder Berry Gordy's home between 1967 and 2002), the Eastown Theater, and United Sound Systems (the project's You Tube page has links to more case studies).
An archaeology of musical landscapes is perhaps ambitious, but it might start by simply illuminating the prominence of musical performance spaces and recognizing their place in everyday life. Music itself is a transitory expression, and it may seem to leave few material "fingerprints," but it is hard to conceive of a historical narrative of musically rich places like Indianapolis and Detroit that ignores music. It seems impossible to examine the heritage of 20th century youth cultures without examining the centrality of music, and now many of those musical experiences have become historical landscapes in ruins or on the precipice of ruination. The contemporary fascination with places like Indiana Avenue and the Grande Ballroom is fueled by the prominence of music in so many peoples' experiences and landscapes, and perhaps archaeology's focus on the quotidian remains of such experiences might fuel a genuine preservation movement focused on music heritage told in broad and ambitious terms.
Russell W. Archer
2003 If these walls could jump 'n' jive : a study of buildings and sites associated with jazz music in Indianapolis and Richmond, Indiana (c. 1910-1960). Unpublished Master's Thesis, Ball State University.
Clyde Nickerson Bolden
2009 Indiana Avenue: Black Entertainment Boulevard. AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana.
Paul Graves-Brown
2009 Nowhere man: urban life and the virtualization of popular music. Popular Music History 4(2):220-241. (subscription access)
2011 Sex Pistols Graffiti: The End of the Future. The Guardian 23 November.
2012 Where the Streets Have no Name: a Guided Tour of Pop Heritage Sites in London's West End. In The Good, the Bad and the Unbuilt: Handling the Heritage of the Recent Past, Sarah May, Hilary Orange and Sefryn Penrose (eds). Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 7. Archaeopress, Oxford.
Paul Graves‑Brown and John Schofield
2011 The filth and the fury: 6 Denmark Street (London) and the Sex Pistols. Antiquity 85(330):1385-1401. (subscription access)
Brett Lashua, Sara Cohen, and John Schofield
2010 Popular music, mapping, and the characterization of Liverpool. Popular Music History 4(2):126-144.
Preston Lauterbach
2011 The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll. Norton, New York.
Lissa Fleming May
2005 Early Musical Development of Selected African American Jazz Musicians in Indianapolis in the 1930s and 1940s. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 27(1):21-32. (subscription access)
John Schofield
2014 Characterizing the Cold War: Music and Memories of Berlin, 1960-1989. In Sounds and the City: Popular Music, Place and Globalization, eds. Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, and Stephen Wagg, pp. 273-284. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
David Leander Williams
2014 Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legacy, and Legends of Indiana Avenue. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina.
Blue Bird Inn image from Carleton Ghloz
Eastown Theater image from memories_by_mike flick'r page
The Grande Ballroom 2009 image from Albert duce Wikimedia commons
The Grande Ballroom Interior image 2010 from Albert duce Wikimedia commons
Indiana Avenue 500 block undated image and Hindel Building image from Indiana Historic Architecture Slide Collection, IUPUI University Library
The National Theatre 2008 image from Andrew Jameson Wikimedia commons
The Vanity Ballroom 2010 image from Albert duce Wikimedia commons
Failed Ambition: Ruins, Gaze, and Public Housing
Much of our fascination with ruins—and perhaps some of our uneasiness—revolves around their stark testimony to failure, and perhaps no ruins aesthetically underscore the collapse of modernity more clearly than public housing. Public housing was born from a distinctive marriage of modernist optimism and racist and classist ideologies aspiring to remake the American city (and with many global parallels). Last week Detroit's Brewster-Douglass housing project went under the wrecking ball, another in a series of 20th-century housing projects—Pruitt-Igoe, Cabrini Green, the Robert Taylor Homes—that are routinely stereotyped as the epitaph for modernity's over-reaching ambition, xenophobic nostalgia, or the misplaced optimism of state-supported housing. Regardless of their legacy, the ruins and razing of public housing raise interesting questions about gaze and how we see and imagine particular sorts of ruins.
Ruins fascinate us because they energize our imaginations, providing material evidence of lost experiences while simultaneously underscoring the passing of that heritage. Those lost experiences assume meaning through an idiosyncratic mix of popular iconography, mass discourses, and personal spatial and material experiences that shape how we perceive places like Detroit (what Edward Said referred to as "imaginative geographies"). Every ruin fuels a distinctive corner of our imagination and tells a distinct sort of story, and the narrative of public housing ruination is distinguished in modest but critical ways from the tales woven about industrial decline, dead malls, or eroding post-Soviet landscapes. Read the rest of this entry
The Feral City: The Convergence of Ruins and Nature
Detroit's Brush Park was once one of the city's finest Gilded Age neighborhoods, a 22-block community of mansions that included a host of high style Victorian homes within reach of downtown. Referred to by one period observer as the "little Paris of the Midwest," Brush Park was home to some of the city's wealthiest residents between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century, when it began to gradually decline, transformed into boarding houses during the Depression and subsequently declining along with much of the postwar city. Today, only about 80 of the neighborhood's roughly 300 original structures remains standing. Some rehabilitated homes stand alongside others that are decaying as forlorn testimony to the neighborhood's former glory, and the remaining homes are magnets for artists, preservationists, and urbanites re-imagining the life of the city. Read the rest of this entry
The Optimism of Destruction: Demolition and the Future of the Historic City
In June, 1969 Edward Zebrowski held a massive party at Indianapolis' Claypool Hotel. The lavish Claypool opened in 1903, distinguished by its gargantuan lobby and opulent meeting rooms and the novel luxury of a private bath in each of the 450 guest rooms. Numerous conventions met at the Claypool, and in its strategic location blocks from the State Capitol the Claypool was home to both the Republican and Democratic parties and hosted a stream of politicians over three-quarters of the 20th century. On June 23, 1967, though, 300 Claypool guests including the visiting Tacoma baseball team were forced out to the street by a fire, and by the time Edward Zebrowski had his party in 1969 the hotel faced the wrecking ball.
That wrecking ball was swung by Ed Zebrowski himself, who ushered his guests outside at midnight to watch the floodlit building meet its end. Such theatrical demolition was Zebrowski's hallmark: in 1967 Zebrowski erected bleachers and had an organ player serenade the lunchtime crowd watching the dismantling of the 12-story Pythian building. His firm dismantled much of the city's aging architectural fabric over more than a decade of fascinating destructive spectacles, tearing down the Marion County Courthouse in 1962 (built in 1876), the Maennerchor Hall (1907) in 1974, and the Central State Hospital Department for Women (opened in 1888) in 1975. When Zebrowski was finished, he left a large sign in many of the empty lots proclaiming "Zebrowski was here." Read the rest of this entry
Imagining Heritage: Selfies and Visual Placemaking at Historic Sites
A variety of ideologues routinely reduce selfies to yet another confirmation of our mass superficiality. Instagram is indeed littered with scores of us primping for our bathroom mirrors and posing at arm's length for "ego shots": it seems infeasible to salvage especially profound insight into contemporary society from Justin Bieber's self-involved posing or Kim Kardashian's often-ridiculous stream of booty calls. Nevertheless, the countless online selfies register a self-consciousness about appearance that is likely common in every historical moment, and the recent flood of online selfies may simply confirm that we know we are being seen and we are cultivating our appearance for others. After looking in the mirror for millennia, digitization has provided a novel mechanism to re-imagine, manipulate, and project a broad range of personal reflections into broader social space.
Last week a New Yorker article fueled selfie critics who lamented the apparent narcissism of selfies at Auschwitz. The page was removed after a host of media decried self portraits at the concentration camp and rejected (or simply did not comprehend) the page's clumsy attempt to use irony to assess the holocaust's social meanings. The Israeli page collected youths' concentration camp selfies, and the images push irreverence and irony beyond many peoples' tolerance: the page included typical selfie poses of pouting expressions and stylized self-contemplation, but these selfies were at places like the iconic Auschwitz gates or had sarcastic added descriptions such as "Even here I'm drop dead gorgeous!" Read the rest of this entry
Imagining the Black Suburbs: Homogeneity and African American Suburbia
The postwar suburb seems painted in our collective imagination as a White nuclear family standing proudly in front of a standardized tract home and a chrome-accented American car. Fortunately a rich scholarship on postwar suburbia has complicated or utterly unraveled that and many other suburban stereotypes, underscoring the material, social, and historical diversity of suburban landscapes: we know suburbia included a multitude of architectural forms beyond the interchangeable Levittown box; the roots of the suburbs reach well into the 19th century; working-class families predominated; and we are paying increasingly more attention to the suburban experience along the color line.
In 1947 Henry and Della Greer were among Indianapolis, Indiana's first African-American suburbanites, and in many ways the story of the Greers and their neighbors might be told in many more places. Henry was a former hotel porter who worked as a salesman and real estate agent before opening the Demi-Jon Liquor Store on North West Street in December, 1935 (and eventually selling life insurance). His wife Della was an art teacher at Crispus Attucks High School, where she taught for 20 years beginning in 1936. The Greers blazed a trail into rural Washington Township that would find them neighbored within a decade by a series of African-American subdivisions. That suburban African-American story has been untold in many communities, swept aside in a broader moral narrative that decries suburban conformity and material homogeneity and seems unable to fathom how the suburbs have been so alluring to so many Americans. There is no shortage of outstanding scholarship on Black suburbanization (for instance, Andrew Wiese's Places of their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century), but as these communities transform and in many cases deteriorate their histories risk being ignored and lost on the contemporary landscape. Despite some wonderful preservation projects in communities like Addisleigh (New York), Berkley Square (Las Vegas), and Conant Gardens (Detroit), many communities seem slow to comprehend the consequence of Black suburban life in the postwar American experience. Read the rest of this entry
The Refined Doughnut: Taste, Class, and Doughnut Respectability
Albuquerque's Rebel Donut is among a wave of doughnut shops offering up a host of novel flavors, seasonal or organic ingredients, and culinary standards that aim to upset the caricature of the conventional mass-produced doughnut. Their donut gallery includes such flavors as Red Chile Chocolate Bacon, Nacho, Water Melon, and their Breaking Bad tribute, Blue Sky. Many of these gourmet doughnut shops go beyond novel flavors alone and embrace a philosophy of food consumption that is rarely extended to the prosaic doughnut. For instance, Seattle's Mighty-O Donut's vegan offerings include French Toast, Chocolate Raspberry, and Lemon Twist doughnuts made from certified organic ingredients. Few bakeries can rival Mighty-O's philosophical assessment of the doughnut, noting that when they started the business "our intention was to make an honest living while being mindful of people and respectful of the environment. We weren't interested in producing anything that would just end up in a landfill or contribute to the pollution piling up in the world. … We couldn't find anyone making a donut the way we envisioned. A sweet treat with no chemicals, no genetically modified organisms, and no animal products—something everyone could enjoy."
As we approach Doughnut Day on June 6th, the artisan doughnut shop has carved a foothold in cosmopolitan marketplaces. Gourmet doughnut shops appeal to a consumer imagination that relishes superior flavor, embraces culinary creativity, and fancies that the consumer has a discerning and educated palate. The gourmet doughnut invokes food as a culinary, political, and intellectual consumer experience.
That vision of food is routinely projected onto products ranging from craft beers to cheese to chocolate. Perhaps the distinction between gourmet doughnuts and a host of many other artisanal foods is the distinctly plebian nature of the doughnut: Doughnuts are routinely caricatured as mass-produced fare that lacks the complex ingredients of gourmet dishes and is beneath the consideration of skilled chefs. Doughnuts are often viewed as violations of body discipline, a conscious (if not conflicted) embrace of desire for a food that seems to possess little or no redeeming quality. Doughnuts are sometimes cast as "downwardly mobile" consumption, an embrace of the common by otherwise bourgeois consumers who see the mass-produced doughnut as a bridge to the masses or ironic consumption. We spend little time questioning the concept of a craft beer, artisanal charcuterie, or organic olive oil; however, because the doughnut is rhetorically constructed as a junk food characterized by its lack of redeeming qualities, the gourmet doughnut is often a target of popular curiosity. Read the rest of this entry
Burying Trauma: Cemeteries and Heritage at Central State Hospital
In September 1903 The Indianapolis Journal reported that Oliver S. Clay and his mother Charlotte "for years have lived in their home at 1405 East Sixteenth street, but on account of reverses, financial and otherwise, were compelled to mortgage their property for several hundred dollars, which, on becoming due, remained unpaid." In many ways, Clay's story of ill fortune might well be told of many of his early 20th-century neighbors. His father J.H. Clay had been the Pastor of the Bethel AME Church in Indianapolis until his death in 1892. After his father's death Oliver was an advocate for African-American education and a Black political party, and in the 1902 election he led an African-American movement to vote a blank ballot, telling The Indianapolis Journal that "if the white politicians will give the negroes recognition then he will advocate voting." However, like many Americans entertaining the American Dream, Clay's ambition and hard work ended in tragedy as he was evicted, institutionalized, and eventually relegated to a potter's field. The ultimate fate of his mortal remains punctuate both his unfortunate end and the way contemporary society routinely ignores the unpleasant histories at the heart of American life.
In 1901 the Public Library Bulletin reported on Clay's aspiration to turn his home into what he dubbed the Claysonian Library. Clay's collection included "the 315 volumes comprising the library of his father, the Rev. J. H. Clay, deceased, to which have been added by donation a sufficient number of books to make the collection 521 volumes, besides miscellaneous magazines and periodicals. The object is to cultivate a taste for literature among the young colored people, especially of the immediate neighborhood." Oliver Clay's neighborhood library was dedicated in April 1901 on what would have been his father's 51st birthday, and several months later he received a gift of 50 volumes from Congressman Jesse Overstreet. The library subsequently hosted regular events at the Clays' home and local venues, such as a lecture on the Emancipation Proclamation's 40th Anniversary in January 1903.
In August, 1903, though, the Indianapolis Sun reported that Clay "has, with the furniture of the institution of which he is founder, been ejected into the street." Clay moved his things back into the home and told the newspaper that "`You may say, mistah, that the Claysonian will be re-established in other quatahs soon and that the good work started by me will never die.'" In September a realtor returned in an effort to eject the Clays and once again "started to move the furniture out into the street. When he looked up he was gazing into the barrel of a revolver held firmly in the dusky hand of the Claysonian. `Claysonia forever!' cried Oliver Clay, `and if you dare to move anything from this house you will forfeit your life.'" Read the rest of this entry
The Disturbed Tomb: Memorialization and Human Remains at the 9/11 Museum
When visitors tour the newly opened National September 11 Memorial Museum this week they will be greeted by the relics of one of the world's most traumatic shared events. The Museum opens to the public May 21st, and its collection of material artifacts, images, and oral memories documents the September 11 and February 2003 attacks on the World Trade Center and examines the broad consequences of global terrorism. The museum sits in half of the World Trade Center's 16-acre shadow, a space that may perpetually play out the tensions between its roles as memorial landscape, history museum, forensics repository, cemetery, and tourist trap.
Much of the discussion about the museum has recently revolved around whether the site is an appropriate temporary or permanent resting place for human remains. Of nearly 3000 people who died September 11, about 1115 remain unrecovered and perhaps represented somewhere among thousands of unidentified human elements recovered from the site. In August 2011 the Medical Examiner held just over 9006 pieces of human remains (skeletal fragments as well as tissue), most of infinitesimal scale that an examiner described as the size of "a Tic Tac." In February 2013 this figure was reported as 8354 human remain samples, and on May 10, 2014 7930 remains were ceremoniously transferred to the 9/11 Museum to be placed in a "repository at bedrock on the sacred ground of the site." Those and any remains subsequently recovered will be subject to continuing forensic examinations "temporarily or in perpetuity." Read the rest of this entry
Unsavory Materiality: The Aesthetics of Institutional Food
Few dimensions of the material world have more sensory, tactile, and visual impact than food, a point that seems confirmed by the rich food studies scholarship, food advocacy groups ranging from sustainable agriculturalists to local food champions, and the avalanche of desserts on Pinterest. Nevertheless, somewhat less attention has focused on diners' experiences of institutional foods: that is, mass-produced foods like the cheese pizza and tater tots clouding elementary school cafetoriums; the nutritionally balanced but unsightly purees scooped onto hospital plates; and the reheated frozen food adorning plastic prison trays and military mess halls. Observers have long dissected a widespread sentiment that such meals are perceived as unappealing and discarded in massive quantities, but much of this attention fixes on food waste and does not always confront why we find some foods so unappetizing in the first place.
An enormous amount of food photography acknowledges the desires projected onto food and the depth of emotional sentiment invested in images. A 1996 survey of institutional diners examining negative perceptions of such foods found that consumers rated the "manner of food presentation" lower than every other factor; despite recognizing that many consumers found institutional foods visually unappetizing, though, the study focused on how that reception mirrors our negative stereotypes that precede their consumption, devoting little attention to the ways our visual and sensory interaction with food shapes its consumption. Observers often seem unable to fathom the idiosyncratic ways we actively perceive, eat, and discard food, and they routinely fail to understand that much of the desire we deny institutional foods is linked to their visual aesthetics. Read the rest of this entry


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Eemian Sea, former body of water that flooded much of northern Europe and essentially made an island of Scandinavia. This marine transgression occurred during the Eemian Interglacial Stage (130,000 to 115,000 years ago) of the Pleistocene Epoch (approximately 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). The sea deposited a thick sequence of sediments containing fossils that indicate water temperatures at least as warm as those of the region today. Late in the history of the Eemian Sea, climatic conditions became colder, as indicated by a change to cooler water animals.
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Lol a little to early to be talking about Nintendo's next console. Its always cool to speculate what it might be like though.
Lol a little to early to be talking about Nintendo's next console. Its always cool to speculate what it might be like though.
I really doubt nintendo are going to "drop" motion sensing after the WII, (thats if your saying something different meaning different from the already WII) Nintendo has obviously hit the right path with the WII, the new console prolly wont be called WII 2 but it will be an expanded WII.You could argue and say a Wii 2, but I don't think that will happen.
I still dont see nintendo adding DVD playback to any of their systems, they have said it a million times, they make gaming devices not media centers.
So, i think nintendo will overhaul the wiimote, more features, maybe full HD graphics, expand the WII connect 24 (including VC games etc).
there is no reason for them to make a "completly" new console, they only need to upgrade this one, oh and i hope the "WII 2" has backwards compatibility with WII games and GC ones. Maybe GC games will be hitting the VC for the "WII 2"
i agree
no to dvd playback
if you want to watch dvd, there are lots of cheap dvd player
why new console? wii is a big hit
nintendo need is just to upgrade the wii
me, all i want is full HD graphics
im just saying 'what if?' i love my wii i would never think of giving it up anytime soon. and i reckon they will make a completely different system to wii. just like gamecube went to wii. a virtual reality helmet would be awesome.
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Even though I heard that the Wii will be Nintendo's last console (BS hopefully)
The next Nintendo system will probably be like a virtual reality helmet where you control the game with your mind, Via a chip placed in the back of your neck. It might sound like science-fiction but they do have the chip implants for people but I don't think they are that sophisticated yet...
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I never said they would drop the motion sensing.Originally Posted by Dayoh
What I was saying is they probably won't name it the Wii 2, even if they do upgrade it.
Personally, I don't see them upgrading graphics and etc. anytime soon, considering what they are doing now is fine and a lot of the games look really nice.
Hence why I said DVD and new colors. People have been asking for them for months now, and I didn't say I agree with that upgrade either, but its more logical than upgrading graphics like you suggested.
Oh and when Quoting me, leave my name in there so I don't have to figure out who your referring to.
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A Review of the Costs and Cost Effectiveness of Interventions in Chronic Kidney Disease: Implications for Policy
AbstractGiven rising healthcare costs and a growing population of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), there is an urgent need to identify health interventions that provide good value for money. For this review, the English-language literature was searched for studies of interventions in CKD reporting an original incremental cost-utility (cost per QALY) or cost-effectiveness (cost per life-year) ratio. Published cost studies that did not report cost-effectiveness or cost-utility ratios were also reviewed. League tables were then created for both cost-utility and cost-effectiveness ratios to assess interventions in patients with stage 1-4 CKD, waitlist and transplant patients and those with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In addition, the percentage of cost-saving or dominant interventions (those that save money and improve health) was compared across these three disease categories. A total of 84 studies were included, contributing 72 cost-utility ratios, 20 cost-effectiveness ratios and 42 other cost measures. Many of the interventions were dominant over the comparator, indicating better health outcomes and lower costs. For the three disease categories, the greatest number of dominant or cost-saving interventions was reported for stage 1-4 CKD patients, followed by waitlist and transplant recipients and those with ESRD (91%, 87% and 55% of studies reporting a dominant or cost-saving intervention, respectively). There is evidence of opportunities to lower costs in the treatment of patients with CKD, while either improving or maintaining the quality of care. In order to realize these cost savings, efforts will be required to promote and effectively implement changes in treatment practices.
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Another World Is Under Construction
April 16, 2000 protests at the spring meetings of the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund (IMF) began five years of major
demonstrations against these institutions in the United States.
Five years later, on April 16, 2005, protesters again gathered in
the seat of the world's economic and military power to speak
truth to the power of these institutions. The protests in Washington
were the focal point of a weekend of action organized by the Mobilization
for Global Justice (MGJ), a Washington-based, non-hierarchical,
and nonviolent association of individuals and organizations that
works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability.
place during the Global Week of Action, the mobilization in Washington
acted in solidarity with over 10 million people in 80 countries
around the world raising their voices against an unjust international
economic system. In addition to hundreds of actions in the U.S.,
protesters in Washington joined students in South Africa, unions
in Egypt, workers and schoolchildren in Bangladesh, women in Chile,
farmers in the Philippines, social workers in Kenya, fisherfolk
in India, and millions of others around the world in calling for
an end to the institutions that have, for the past half-century,
employed the mechanisms of oppression, debt slavery, and imperialism
in the service of corporate and elite power.
from the World Social Forum, the theme of the weekend was "Another
World Is Under Construction," highlighting community alternatives
and resistance to externally-imposed policies in DC and around the
world. Another primary focus of the protests was MGJ's demands
of the World Bank and the IMF, demands that are informed and supported
by grassroots social movements around the world.
Group of 7
their coordination in the global economy, the finance ministers
of the Group of 7 (G7) countries (U.S., UK, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, and Japan) met the day before the Spring meetings of the
World Bank and the IMF. On the agenda of the G7 was debt cancellation
for impoverished countries, which had undergone protracted debate.
Whereas last year's G7 proposals for debt cancellation included
debt owed to both the World Bank and IMF, this Spring the U.S. Treasury
stopped talking about cancelling IMF debt, a critical component
of debt cancellation.
reiterate the demand for 100 percent debt cancellation for all impoverished
countries with no harmful economic conditionalities and using the
World Bank and IMF's own resources, MGJ—along with co-organizers
Jubilee USA Network, 50 Years Is Enough Network, Religious Working
Group on the World Bank and IMF, Africa Action, and American Friends
Service Committee—held a rally in advance of the G7 meeting,
urging the ministers to make the right choice.
lively crowd of about 150 people gathered on the sidewalk in front
of the U.S. Treasury building in downtown Washington, while speakers
made the case for debt cancellation, citing the illegitimate origins
of these debts, the prior repayment of the principal, and the destructive
effects of debt servicing and loan conditions imposed by the World
Bank and IMF on indebted countries. MGJ staged street theater that
examined the foundation of the G7.
also sponsored a teach-in for activists in the U.S. to share insights
and strategies with activists from the Global South. The teach-in
highlighted the similarities between economic policies in Washington,
DC and in the Global South, which are based on the same neo-liberal
philosophy that privileges the market and the economic interests
of the wealthy few over the lives of the majority of people in this
teach-in featured a panel of organizers from the Global South, including
Virginia Setshedi of the Anti-Privatization Forum (South Africa),
Victor Geronimo of COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union, and Drivers
Organizations (Dominican Republic), and Lidy Nacpil of the Freedom
from Debt Coalition/Jubilee South (Philippines). U.S. speakers included
Devin Walker from the DC Health Care Coalition, an organization
fighting for affordable health care for all residents of Washington,
DC, and Basav Sen from MGJ.
over 70 participants at the teach-in shared stories of struggle,
experiences, and strategies on issues they had in common, despite
their diverse geographical origins. The group focused on the privatization
of essential services; gentrification and displacement; affordable
housing; forced immigration; worker's rights; and the need
for increasing access to public health care and education.
Saturday April 16, the first day of the World Bank and IMF meetings,
over 1,000 protesters gathered in front of the headquarters of the
two institutions in a spirited rally featuring Setshedi, Geronimo,
and Washington's Reverend Graylan Hagler, a longtime leader
in the struggle for economic, social, and racial justice and the
peace movement in the U.S. Emceed by human rights activist and World
Bank critic Dr. Vineeta Gupta, the speakers presented damning evidence
against the two financial institutions, pointing to their dismal
records and their roles in exacerbating the poverty, health, education,
environmental, and economic crises in debtor countries.
protesters then turned their backs on the World Bank and IMF—in
solidarity with millions around the world who are rejecting their
policies—and marched out of downtown Washington, led by colorful
puppets and the energetic music of the Rhythm Workers' Union
and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. The march culminated at a rally
with more speakers, music, and spoken word performances.
resistance to the neo-liberal policies of the IMF and World Bank,
the speakers included Nacpil and Jonah Gokova (Zimbabwe Coalition
on Debt and Development) who gave stirring accounts of the international
movements for debt cancellation. Mario Cafiero, a member of the
Argentine parliament, spoke of his country's struggle against
IMF policies. Giving a local perspective were peace activist Katy
Nelson of the DC Anti- War Network and Vanessa Dixon of the DC Healthcare
days of action concluded with an MGJ-sponsored community action
project, co-organized with a local senior group, We Are Family.
On Sunday, volunteers visited seniors in Washington residences,
building intergenerational solidarity and connecting the dots between
global struggles against neo-liberalism and corporate greed and
local struggles against the same destructive policies in our own
continues to build relationships and coalitions with groups in Washington
and internationally. In the past year, MGJ has supported Washington-area
movements working for fair labor practices, including the Georgetown
Students' Living Wage Coalition, which recently won a living
wage for Georgetown University employees, and solidarity actions
with local parking lot workers.
beyond the April mobilization, MGJ is committed to organizing around
a myriad of other social justice issues while maintaining a focus
on the World Bank and the IMF, including:
campaign to tax the World Bank and IMF, which own over $1.4 billion
in property and who make $4 billion in profits, but which currently
pay the cash-strapped city of Washington no taxes
Free trade agreements,
including rallies during the meetings of the Central American
Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA), the U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA), and the World
Trade Organization (WTO)
in many events highlighting global processes and their effects
locally, including Bio-democracy events protesting the annual
meeting of the Biotechnology Industry Organization in Philadelphia,
Hope Chu has
worked with the Mobilization for Global Justice for the past two years
and is
on staff at the 50 Years
Enough Network in Washington, DC


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Cape Cod: Twisting in the Wind?
the foreseeable future. There are, however, 135 square miles of water area less than 50 feet deep ... These areas could accommodate 2,250-MW of wind power capacity (using 750 wind turbines)."
What do the Environmentalists Think?
According to LIPA, environmental groups are well behind the project. "Wind power is a win-win for Long Island," says Neal Lewis, executive director of the Long Island Neighborhood. "It is non-polluting ... Long Island environmental groups need to support this proposal and participate in a cooperative fashion in the review process." Sara J. Meyland, executive director and general counsel for the Counsel of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, agrees. "Making Long Island more energy self-sufficient by developing renewable, non-polluting energy capacity has been the dream of many environmentalists. ... Every effort to curb our reliance on fossil fuels helps the Long Island environment and global health. This announcement is an excellent way to celebrate Earth Day, and LIPA should be congratulated for taking the initiative to advance wind energy."
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Aren't there birds off the coast of Long Island? What about them? The study looked into the avian issue, and this is what it came up with. "Although avian impacts at wind power facilities have not been shown to be ecologically significant in general, virtually all of what is known about this subject comes from studies conducted for projects on land. ... A review of studies on avian mortality at more than 15 U.S. wind power facilities reveals relatively few fatalities overall, and no ecologically significant mortality rate at any site, with the possible exception ... [of] the Altamont Pass wind resource area of California."
However, much like on Cape Cod, marine and avian studies are planned before any construction begins. LIPA says that exhaustive research will be conducted in the months to come, including an impact study on the area where the turbines could be erected to see how construction would affect water foul, migratory birds, and marine life. In addition, a pre-proposal meeting for interested wind generation developers will be held on June 25 to gather information and begin the process of soliciting proposals for offshore turbine projects by the end of the year.
"Offshore wind generation for Long Island holds promise for the future," says LIPA Chairman Richard Kessel. "We're going to move forward with a more detailed evaluation of its potential so that we can develop some specific recommendations for the placement of wind generators off Long Island's south shore."
The transmission of the power generated by the turbines was also a concern in the siting process. Duffy said they had to "find a place that was close to an interconnect. The plan was to connect in Yarmouth, and then it's two miles in aboveground cabling to the Barnstable substation."
And what about complaints that the towers are nothing but an eyesore? Both Duffy and Olmsted don't see this as an issue. "There are probably very few days during the year that you'll be able to see that far," Olmsted says, "based on the atmospheric conditions. In addition, we


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Earlier in the week Anthrax's Scott Ian got zombified for Season 2 of "The Walking Dead", and he proudly posted an image on Twitter. He promised fans that there was more to come. He wasn't lying! Over on Ian's official blog he shared another image and the following ...
Anthrax's Scott Ian Gets Zombiefied for The Walking Dead
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Are you one of the few genre fans on the planet who somehow missed "The Walking Dead" during its ridiculously successful run on AMC last year? Or maybe you just want to relive the magic? In either case be sure to mark your calendar for this Friday, March 4th, as AMC is holding another marathon airing of the series on that day.
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Got thirty seconds to spare? Of course you do. Especially when said thirty seconds are being utilized to view another TV spot for "The Walking Dead" on Blu-ray and DVD! From the Press Release
The Walking Dead - Two New Blu-ray / DVD Clips For You to Feast Upon!
We're only a couple of weeks away from the official Blu-ray and DVD release of "The Walking Dead", the hit AMC series based upon the Robert Kirkman comic zombie epic of the same name, and to get you primed, we've got two new bits of clipage for ya! From the Press Release
Blu-ray and DVD Trailer Debut: The Walking Dead
We're just about a month away from the Blu-ray and DVD release of the hit AMC series based upon Robert Kirkman's zombie epic, "The Walking Dead", and to get you primed, we have a brand new trailer for you! From the Press Release
The Walking Dead Season 2 as Early as July?
We, just like every other fan out there, simply cannot stand the news that we may have to wait until next October to dig our claws into Season Two of the hit AMC original series, "The Walking Dead". Talk about a long time. However ...
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Official Blu-ray / DVD Specs Revealed: The Walking Dead
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Are You an Introvert or an Extrovert?
Get to the heart of what makes you who you are in order to best interact with others.
The Researchers: A. Lutz, J. Brefczynski-Lewis, T. Johnstone, and R. J. Davidson
Published In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 80 (3): e1897, 2008
Meditating can make you kinder.
Think about someone you care for and wish her well. Now send those good vibes to everyone, by wishing them happiness and freedom from suffering. You've just tried "loving-kindness-compassion meditation," aimed at opening your heart to others.
In this study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin examined the effects of loving-kindness meditation by comparing expert meditators (Buddhist monks with over 10,000 hours of training) to novices (volunteers with only one week of training). Using an fMRI, they tracked the brain activity of 16 monks and 16 novices in response to happy and sad human sounds, like laughing and crying.
Monks were better able to detect the emotions they heard, and displayed more activity in the part of the brain that processes empathy.
In other words, regular compassion meditation increases empathy—the ability to recognize, and even feel, others' emotions—a skill used to connect with other people. If you want to be a kinder, more caring person, meditation may be just the ticket.
The ability to empathize with others is key for great life satisfaction and fulfilling relationships. Daily loving-kindness-compassion meditation can help you hone that skill. Plus, meditation can lower stress, heart rate and blood pressure. So long, furrowed brows, hypertension and stress-induced aging. Say hello to healthy waistlines, clear skin and better circulation. You can find five minutes a day to reap those benefits, right?
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PARK, DINE & RIDE To Every Pavilion Concert Beginning June 1st FROM ROCK HILL AND LIBERTY! CD Trips, LLC is proud to partner with Big V's Park and Ride and local Sullivan County Restaurants to make your Bethel Woods Center for the Arts experience hassle free and fun! Just park your car in Rock Hill or Liberty and leave the rest to us! No driving in traffic! No hassle leaving the parking lot. Park your car, have a great meal at one of our fantastic Sullivan County restaurants before boarding the bus to Bethel Woods for their world-class entertainment and concerts. Just get on the bus and leave the the driving to us! Bus will depart from restaurant parking lots 90 minutes PRIOR to show time. Get dropped off at the Bus Loop at Bethel Woods. All P,D & R patrons will received a discount coupon for a Hot Dog & a Trout Town Ale at the BigV/Roscoe Beer Hospitality Wagon at the Concert. Enjoy the show from the lawn or the pavilion (CONCERT TICKET NOT INCLUDED). You don't have to leave early…..After the last note is played our buses will be boarding just 200 yards from the seating area avoiding the 1/2 mile walk to the parking lot. No fighting traffic to get out of the area then….BINGO… you're brought back to your car! Cost is $36-$41 depending on choice or restaurant dine & ride.
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A few years ago, I started hearing about a fan genre called "Twi-Rock." Similar to the way the genre "Wizard Rock" produced "Harry and the Potters," Twi-Rock gets its lyrics from the themes/heroes from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. I became obsessed with the whole Twi-rock phenomenon because, despite the series' weak female characters and thinly veiled religious values (Meyer has wiped Mormonism all over those books,) I couldn't help loving the fact that they were mostly nerdy teenage girls writing weird acoustic rock songs based on books (for instance, the guitar, bass and tambourine combo in one of the "Bella Cullen Project" videos I watched can almost be a weird love child of Kum-bay-yah generic Christian acoustic and The Fabulous Stains).
So I guess Twilight couldn't be all that bad if it was encouraging young girls to be passionate enough to write their own music within the safety of their romantic/vampire book sub-culture, right? For a while, bands with names like "Bella Cullen Project," "Forks High School", "Bella Rocks," " and "The Twilight Music Girls" started getting national attention, playing major chain bookstores, the Hot Topic Tour, and getting shout-outs from the likes of MTV.com and Seventeen Magazine.
But then, I forgot about Twi-rock for a while. And when when I checked back on it this week, I noticed new bands had stopped cropping up, and existing bands stopped posting new music or playing shows. According to the most recent post on the Twi-Rock Livejournal fan page: "Well, it appears that twirock is sort of winding down; hasn't been anything new to post, that I know of, in quite awhile. With the last movie(s) coming out soon, we may see a few more but it does appear getting it's on it's way out of fashion. That's okay, though, because all things come and go in their time."
Was Twi-Rock so intrinsically short-lived because because it is based on the most puerile adolescent emotions? Or because the material from the Twilight pool was too shallow to keep getting material from? Well, goodbye Twi-Rock. Maybe the new movie coming out this week will motivate some more of these bands to do stuff...if not, fans can find solace in the fact that 63-year-old Stevie Nicks has released a Twilight-influenced song called "Moonlight (A Vampires Dream)" on her solo record this year.
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La Fée Violine Cahors Château Armandière Malbec 2005, A.C., Southwest, France: A dark, brooding wine that's perfectly paired with the Twilight series of books. Opens with blackberries, dark spices, anise, fennel and a lovely weave of smoke. Very satisfying for those who love full-on flavour. 147967 12.50% D 750 mL $12.95 Score: 88/100. January 9, 2010 Full Review
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