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OKLAHOMA CITY, October 12, 2012—Batman has lived in the pages of comic books, on television and within two movie franchises.
So what's left? "Batman Live" at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City, of course. So what exactly is "Batman Live"? After all, bringing comic book characters to the stage has been dangerous as we've seen on Broadway with "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark".
But "Batman Live" is no musical. The backdrop is a huge LED screen in the shape of a bat that takes us from scene to scene with pages of a comic book flipping to the next location.
The stage takes up over half of the arena floor with Gotham City locales spread throughout.
The show is a live-action performance with a story that begins with the different origins of Batman and Robin and how they came together. Within the production, the Dynamic Duo faces our favorite villains including Catwoman, The Riddler, Two Face, The Penguin and The Joker.
The live action show does not feature any musical performances though it does have a circus performance, a magic show and a bit of choreography mixed with fighting.
There are a lot of harnesses and flying around even though Batman was a glider, not a flier.
The story is coherent and the staging is really cool. It's more than a typical theater performance as the actors come into the audience to interact. The look is more Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher than Chris Nolan, but it still has a little bit of everything for all different types of fans.
But out of all the characters the biggest applause probably went to the Batmobile. Looking similar to the 1989 "Batman "vehicle, the Batmobile is sleek, black and has light up wheels.
As fans left the arena, one of the said, "That was kind of cheesy." And it is a little cheesy. But it is good for all ages and it's based on comic book where a guy dresses up like a bat and fights a clown in an arena with a car that has light up wheels.
What do you expect?
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We started stocking up on food, because of the uncertainty of the economy. Then when the events of Japan happened, then all of the terrible storms and tornado's ripped through the midwest... we thought it made even more sense to have extra food on hand. So we started with the vegetable buckets. (then we got one of the fruit buckets, and that's just as good to have. especially if you go camping. great to add into hot oatmeal, or make a fruit tea with) Great stuff in there! They're very light. Makes you think that there isn't much in them. Which is a bit decieving, because they're full. We haven't opened any of the packages yet.... obviously because we're saving them. On another note, if you need to transport them... they're light...
I opened one package to eat now, because if i purchase food for the future, i want to actually eat it sooner or later. The peaches are delicious, the packaging is great, and i stored the fruit in the same Overstock box, no wasted space. I could not find any indication on the packaging that it is actually organic, (which matters to me) so i wonder if it really is. The packages are dated 2011 which is cool.
I ate it. I'm sorry. I know you're supposed to hold on to these things against the worst-case end of the world scenario. But I can't keep fresh veggies at home--they go bad before I can use them--and yet I crave fresh veggies. So I'm sorry. I ate my emergency food. I'm a bad person, and y'all will probably be asked to take care of me in TEOTWAKI event, because I couldn't control myself. You don't understand. It was delicious. The broccoli (which claims 37 servings to a freeze-dried container about half the size of CostCo Craisins) tasted just like properly steamed fresh broccoli. Except it was crunchy. And delicious. I couldn't help myself. BR... OCCOLI!
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I would suggest opening the bucket to make sure the packages are sealed. Two packages in two buckets were not vacuum sealed. No major leaks or loss of contents so I vacuum sealed them myself. I can not speak to the taste or quality of the food as I have not tried them yet.
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Having just informed an astonished Lee Adama that she has found the way to Earth, Kara Thrace dives into the battle against the attacking Cylon fleet. Lee has no choice but to follow her.
The Cylons are winning the fight, inflicting terrible casualties. Admiral Adama orders every last pilot to join the defense, so rookie Sam Anders finds himself in a Viper's cockpit. He and the other newly self-aware Cylons within the fleet-- Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol and Tory Foster-- all fear that they might be taken over by Cylon programming at any moment.
Indeed, during the dogfight, Anders comes face-to-face with a Cylon Raider and, either because of rookie nerves or something more sinister, is unable to disengage his weapon safeties to shoot it down. The two Cylons stare at each other through the vacuum, and then the Raider turns and flees.
Seconds later, the entire Cylon fleet Jumps away, abandoning the battlefield. Adama and Roslin are relieved but confused. Only Tigh, Tyrol, Anders and Foster can guess what new development might have sent the Cylons running-- and they're keeping their theories to themselves.
Aboard the Galactica, Kara is greeted with both love and suspicion. More than two months have passed since her apparent death, but she claims that she's only been gone for six hours, during which time she blacked out in the storm that apparently killed her. She explains that she awoke near a planet whose description matched Earth's, lost consciousness again, and found herself at the Ionian Nebula.
Now she insists that she possesses a strong intuition, almost a mystical sixth sense, of the correct route to Earth. Although medical tests establish that she is Kara Thrace, her Viper is inexplicably brand-new ("fresh off the assembly line," Tyrol says), and its navigation computer's memory is empty. Roslin, fearing that this is all a Cylon trick, puts Kara under armed guard and orders the fleet to follow the route they'd originally planned, away from the nebula.
Meanwhile, Gaius Baltar finds himself swept into the seductive arms of a cult of people-- mostly young women-- who dote on him as a holy man. Their leader, Jeanne, asks Baltar to pray over her dying son, Derrick.
Overcome by the plight of the unconscious and grievously ill boy, Baltar offers a heartfelt prayer and pleads with God to spare the innocent child and take his life instead. Later, Baltar is attacked by men who are furious about his acquittal. As one of them holds a knife to his throat, Baltar proves the sincerity of his prayer by begging the man to kill him. Baltar is rescued and narrowly escapes the fray.
When he returns to the secluded dwelling of his cult, he learns that Derrick has awakened. Against the odds-- perhaps miraculously-- the boy has recovered.
Elsewhere on the Galactica, Kara grows more certain that Roslin is guiding the fleet in the wrong direction: She feels her intuition fading as the fleet Jumps farther and farther off-course. Making matters worse, Admiral Adama doesn't dare trust Kara, and Anders hints that he suspects she might be a Cylon (though he promises to love her anyway) .
Finally, frustrated and unnerved by everyone's skepticism, Kara escapes from her guards and sets off to make her case to Roslin-- by pointing a gun at her ... .
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Needy families enjoy holiday meal at Winsted YMCA
WINSTED — Close to 50 needy families received a hot noontime dinner for Christmas of roast beef, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, green beans with almonds, carrots and pie for dessert.
Led by Mayor Lisa R. Smith, volunteers served food Wednesday at the YMCA on Main Street and delivered meals to shut-ins. Volunteers included Rep. Jay M. Case, R-Winsted, and six members of the Gilbert School wrestling team, who were among those serving food cooked by the local Elks Club. Barbara Braunstein, a registrar of voters, Ray Rabago, a selectman, and Elks Club member Kim Schlosser and her daughters, Samantha and Tricia, delivered meals.
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Pretty Cork Stamps
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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize itUnknown
Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.Unknown
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offeMichel de Montaigne
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.Unknown
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the woundedTyne Daly
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is notEdward Albee
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.Harold Bloom
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.Hugo Black
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticismMichael Scott Horton
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.Kenneth Tynan
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.Winston Churchill
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.Ani Difranco
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would dieRobert Herrick
The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticizedHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.Kenneth Tynan
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.Eleanor Roosevelt
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.Mariah Carey
Literary criticism, now almost entirely confined to the universities, thus moves against talent by moving against the canon. Academic preferment will not come from a respectful study of Wordsworth's poetics; it will come from a challenging study of his politics - his attitude to the poor, say, or his unconscious 'valorization' of Napoleon; and it will come still faster if you ignore Wordsworth and elevate some (justly) neglected contemporary, by which process the canon may be quietly and steadily sapped.Martin Amis


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"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening."
Quote by James Dickey
Summer – Heather Mirassou
August thickened under the bleached sun
Ravens swimming in tilting trees
While lust ripens in fruit rain
-Walt Whitman Journal entry 1855-56
"There is no trick or cunning, no art or recipe, by which you can have in your writing what you do not possess in yourself."
In A Dream – Heather Mirassou
In a dream I felt the cool white
His sweet madness
Among anchor water lilies
The willows were trembling
A nest of twilight kisses
Where the stars are shivering
Scented sweet and wild
From violet forests
Our arms intertwine
With beads of love
Grandfather – Heather Mirassou
His brows like bended bows with curly-q's
His mustache like motorcycle handlebars
His eyes like green gin olives
His hair grey and wavy like ocean whitecaps
His hands immaculate and powerful like a surgeon's fingers
His figure debonair and statuesque like Fred Astaire
His smile cautious but genuine like Buddha
His memory a journey like the wine that ran in his blood
Dedicated to my grandfather, Ed Mirassou
Starry Night – Heather Mirassou
Blue secret garden
Faded milk and honey glitter
Take Me Home – Heather Mirassou
Take me home mama
To a place I once belonged
Hold my hand steady
And sing to me a song
My face filled with tears
All my family is gone
Take me home mama
To a place I once belonged
Under the grapevine canopy
You taught me to be strong
The hundred year-old oak tree
Dances until dawn
Take me home mama
To a place I once belonged
Heather Mirassou 2014
Repent – Heather Mirassou
So sexy before the shadows
Like silk against the light
Passion unbreakable
Gummed above the grave
Be watchful
There are ghosts under the mist
Shining awake
Saying goodbye
A phone ringing somewhere
For how long
Forget to go home
Wondering why
The vision has died
Eulogy for Mankind – Heather Mirassou
Quaking Thunder
Gigantic Showers
Hovering Shadows
Shot-Gun Shudder
Echoing Eardrums
Boiling Eruption
Volcanoes Spilling Souls
Smoldering Abandon
Seek Shelter
Dank Dark Cave
Strangers Withering Asunder
Toiling Dreamscape
Tantalizing Wicked Tales
Whisper Sweet Nothings
Come Hither and Wither
Silver, Spit-Fire
Gracefully Lingering
Densely Laden Air
Sailor Singing
Operatic Crescendos
Splitting Riptides
Hurricanes Funneling
Exploding Cyclone
Torpedoing Colossal
Pulsing Rainbows
Shimmer and Shine
Rain Drops of Jupiter
Naked Bubbles Bursting
Innocent Bouncing Babies Collide
Puppeteer Pelting
Dangling Dagger Darts
Bullied Bravado
Insanity Spies
Backlash Whipping
Tangy River
Tears of Shame
Oblivious Waterfall of Lies
Muddy Cowboy Boots
Charge Battleground
Sand Castle Crumbling
Slushing Sinful Soil
Blazing Nature
Fire Sizzling
Searing Burning
Valiant Storm Surges
Neck-Tie Noose
Murdering Mankind
Floating Aimlessly
Blind Ambition
Saltine Covered Waves
Flooding Sinful Memories
Scarring Hearts
Suffocating Imprisoned Souls
Suffer Slowly Silently
Fiercely Hung Alone
Cloaking Gravity
Arms Brave and Wide
Shuddering Sprits Howling
Cry an Invisible line
Tantalizing Tricks of Treason
Snare and Hook
Unsuspecting Young
A Serious Magician
Black Magic Celebration
Liberation Alive
Wild Engulfing Wilderness
Succeed and Survive
Skidding, Bouncing, Breaking,
Crashing, Gouging, Ripping,
Tumbling, Falling, Spinning,
Drowning Blackness
Fitful Raucous Rage
Succumb to Hell Fire Ash
Littering the Demonic Sky
Marvelous Truth…
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise, iron ball, egg, dark horse, shadow, cloud of breath on the air…
– from "Matins" by Denise Levertov
The Ink – Heather Mirassou & John Stevens
The indelible Ink flows from the pen
Gives life, hope and peace within
Or opens wounds and old scars
to tear down the spirit, behind the bars.
The Ink flows on to meet the eye
Fills the thirst to live or die.
It finds a path beyond emotion
Directs the heart, spirit, devotion.
The Ink can flow to encourage
or ravage the page to discourage
The ink brings tears of joy tomorrow
Or tears of grief and great sorrow
The ink will rise where it flows
Or it will fall where no one knows.
The heart of the Ink is yours and mine
When it touches the paper, it is divine
Kid's Play – Heather Mirassou
"King of the Hill" you begin to play
You bump, bump, bump and sway
You see a perfect high landing spot
On an upside-down horse trough
You hop, jump and fly slowly through mid-air
Your small hooves landing easily on two pairs
You strut your stuff on the cold steel effortlessly
Showing your body strength and dancing dexterity
As you put on your crown and look up at the sky
You friends bow down from side-to-side
You are "king of the hill" showing off your expert dance
She winks at you way up top and begins her sexy prance
She pretends to hide but curiously you see her peek
You join her in a private game of hide-and-seek
She quickly finds you hiding in the prickly hay
You blush and nuzzle her chestnut face
Her body slender and strong topped with white angora fur
You rub her lovingly as she lets out a soft lulling magic purr
She continues to flirt winking her eyes with her head hung low
You excitedly whisper sweet-nothings she agrees you may be her beau
You rub your tickling head against her horns beaming with pride
You motion to her, let's go play all seriousness aside
You join the other kids who are tryin to reach the sky
Together you dance and sway, jump, hop and fly
Revelation – Heather Mirassou
I am silver
I have no preconceptions
Unchanged by love or dislike
No cruelty only truth
She turns to the moon
That reflect her faithfully
Now I am like a lake
A mirror of revelation
It is her face that replaced the darkness
She has said goodbye to the young girl
In me I see an old woman
Where has all the bright company gone
My friends are gone
My protector's leave
I sit alone under an apple tree
Listening to false angles plea
If it were not for me
Death had not fallen on mankind
I am the whore Eve
And will never again gain reprieve
Silence – Heather Mirassou
What is this quiet soul to do?
My voice and fingers are stuck like glue
The boredom overwhelming my senses very alive
For hours and hours I dare strive
The silence is drowning me inside
I stammer and suffer begging for words to come to my sight
Sometimes I wonder if I should just give up this fight
Oh hearts of hearts please break these ties
So my soul may once again take flight
So that I might not die
Artist's Canvas – Heather Mirassou
Artist's Canvas
The artist strokes his canvas
His hues and tints of beauty
The orator of his creation
The perfect task of impression
Like a beam of sunlight
Rainbows illuminate
Glory and splendor appear
His vision is revelation
Twilight Bliss
Twilight Bliss
She whispers to heaven
No rainbows dampened
Young souls tossing
Pearl birds
Planet full of color
A purple myriad
Rejoicing iridescence
Whisper tears
Rustic turquoise
Revived sunlight
Fountain of harvest
Seas hypnotize
Goodbye twilight bliss
The Wisdom of Rilke – "The Poet's Guide To Life"
"Life has been created quite truthfully in order to surprise us
(where it does not terrify us altogether)."
" It is, after all, one strength within the human which we achieve everything,
a single steadfastness and pure direction of the heart.
Whoever possesses that strength ought not to lose himself to fear."
"To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before this one."
Lavender Moonlight – Heather Mirassou
Lavender Moonlight
Your skin glows
Like peach blossoms
As lovely as daffodils
In the purest hope of spring
My heart-strings follow each strum of a harp
Your voice a hypnotic melody
I leap like a cricket
at the whisper of your name
The evening floats
On a great parrot wing
I am comforted
With you by my side
I hold you tight
Like two twilight beams across the sky
In the listless evening
I listen for the last chime of the day
I lie with you
In lavender moonlight
Hand-in-hand we reach our destiny
For a mystical shower of love
Winter – Heather Mirassou
In the softest night
Free winter rises
Maiden blossoms sincere
Weary blossoms adhere
Winter grass is near
Naked tenderness is here
With tired kisses in the air
Goodnight springtime with care
Angel Hair Pasta
Angel Hair Pasta
Angel Hair Pasta
Virgin Oil encased
Oregano, Basil & Thyme
Fragrance ascend
Blonde strands flyaway
Garlic Shards dancing
Swim in the wind
Pulsing Beef Stake
Red River Flowing
Seeds flooding
Tightly wadded
Expertly wound
Atop her head
Angel Hair pasta
One Dirt Grave – Heather Mirassou
One Dirt Grave
She was only fourteen
Happy and vibrant
Awaiting her first kiss
Not noticing who was watching
Her neighbor odd but friendly
Obsessed with her loveliness
Coerced her to stray from safety
She fell into a pit
Dug well ahead of time
It was a heinous crime
She had no time to scream
Unable to fight
He smothered and sliced her
Never to be whole again
April Alive – Heather Mirassou
April Alive
Budding bright rivulets
Islands of green groves
Ardent foliage
Idle leaves
Common spirit wild
Distant naked hues
Spot a summit air
April desires
Contentment alive


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KY Green Building Leadership Summit
The US Green Building Council Kentucky is putting on an interesting event on Wednesday, June 25th at 11:00 am in the UofL Clinical & Translational Research Building. This is a great opportunity to hear from the CEO and founding chair of the USGBC! Time is running out, sign up asap at www.usgbckentucky.org/fedrizzi.
Great Streets Start with Strong Corners
Monday, June 1, 2014 by Patrick Piuma
Beautiful corner in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Queen Village
Walkability has worked its way into the lexicon of cities looking to revitalize and attract talent. These built environments that foster rich pedestrian experiences with vibrant streetscapes and a mix of amenities are not only sought after commodities, but also have been found to increase property values (Walking the Walk, CEOs for Cities), something that has not gone unnoticed by real estate agents. Tools such as WalkScore are being integrated into real estate search sites, used by buyers and sellers alike to capture the added value of proximity to transit, shopping, schools, parks, and more. Typically, more compact neighborhoods with a mix of uses score higher on walkability. However there are additional factors beyond existing amenities that contribute to high-quality walkable environments, specifically within the built form of a city or neighborhood.
One of these factors is the definition of the street. Many celebrated pedestrian environments have streets that create "outdoor rooms." These spaces have definitive streetwalls, generated by buildings with contributing elements such as street trees. Continuous streetwalls not only provide a sense of enclosure, but also visual interest. There is a finite distance people are willing to walk past empty lots and vacant buildings, often referred to as "missing teeth," before the street becomes unappealing for pedestrians.
Though not a unique problem for Louisville, there are an unfortunately high number of streets in our densest neighborhoods that fail to create these outdoor rooms. In the central business district, aside from West Main Street and perhaps Fourth Street, there are very few examples of continuous streetwalls on both sides of the street. Missing teeth along East Market, at significant locations in NuLu, break up what otherwise is a solid pedestrian experience. Even along Baxter and Bardstown Road, arguably one of our most successful walkable commercial corridors, there are gaps that present opportunities to strengthen the street in key places.
Third Street
Third Street, a street that is one block from the spine of our city along Fourth, is one example that illustrates our streetwall shortcomings. Along a half-mile stretch of Third Street, from Jefferson to Broadway, less than 42% of the street has buildings on both sides at any one section of roadway. If you don't include parking garages, that number drops to about 14%. To make things worse, the pattern of existing buildings shifts between the east and west side of the street so the pedestrian experience is further fragmented. This can help explain why there are so few pedestrians seen walking along this corridor.
The map above illustrates the fragmentation of the streetwall along Third Street. The red areas indicate the numerous surface lots and the blue show the parking garages. Though newer models of structured parking are incorporating first level retail or offices that reduce the negative impact they can have on the quality of the pedestrian environment, the examples along Third Street, such as the ~300 foot long street frontage garage image below, offer a marginal improvement to surface lot blight.
Beyond the incredibly poor streetwall along Third Street is a monumental failing of a linchpin of the street, the corner. The intersection at Jefferson is the only place where there are buildings on all four corners along this stretch (and that is only because I am including parking garages and a faceless convention center). This is important because strong corners can soften the effects of a weak streetwall by presenting travelers with a sense of massing and density. Strong corners provide the "cover" from which people judge the street beyond. Even surface lot bombed-out sections of street can be masked if it has strong corners with human-scaled buildings at its intersections.
The south-east corner of Muhammad Ali and Third, where the Urban Design Studio is located (pictured above), is one of the only examples of a solid streetwall along the half-mile corridor.
Unfortunately, right across the street is another massive parking garage and a surface lot on the south-west corner of Muhammad Ali and Third (picture above). Haven't seen the plans, but hopefully once the redevelopment of the incoming Embassy Suites is complete, something other than a surface lot and garage entrance will grace this important corner along the corridor.
Moving south on Third Street visitors will be greeted with another unfortunate intersection at Chestnut. The two expansive craters of surface lots on the east side of Third (above) completely destroy any sense that this is in a city setting. Regrettably there is almost a mirror image of this view just west of this location beyond Fifth or Sixth Street, both victims of previous urban renewal efforts.
At the end of this stretch of Third is Broadway. Aside from the excessively expansive road width or Broadway, this could be a great city streetcorner. Some beautiful historic mid-rise buildings grace three of the corners, however the sense of density is negated by a gigantic surface lot on the south-west corner in front of the Downtown Free Public Library. This site offers so much potential to re-weave the urban fabric along both prominent corridors. I would include an image of what building was on this corner, but I am afraid that it would bring some people to tears.
East Market
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Corners play a significant anchoring role even on streets that are otherwise very successful pedestrian environments. East Market between Hancock and Campbell is an example of a great walkable environment with an almost solid streetwall with most of the buildings meeting the sidewalk offering pedestrians great storefronts to view the activity at the various restaurants, offices, art galleries, and retail shops. The red areas in the map above indicate the two major corner surface lots that offer an amazing opportunity to strengthen street and elevate Nulu to a truly urban neighborhood environment. The green circle points out a corner building that manages to extend the pedestrian experience and provide an anchor to a section of Market that would otherwise fade off well before the south side of the 800 block ends.
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Though trees help obscure the empty lot at the north-west corner of Market and Shelby (see the left side of the image above), this empty corner lot is keeping the area down by destroying the sense of density right in the middle of NuLu. With a streetscape improvement project on the books and talk of a potential development on this site, NuLu could become one of Louisville's best examples of a vibrant pedestrian environment.
Just as a quick example, consider how different the entire streetscape would feel if there was a well proportioned building holding down the corner (see above).
The above image shows the Rye building anchoring what essentially is the current end of the retail corridor as a solid unit. Even with the expansive surface lot between the rest of the shops on the south side, Rye makes it possible to extend the perception of the district and imagine one day the continuation of storefronts, housing and other amenities being developed eastward.
Most successful urban neighborhood streets that promote pedestrian activity have buildings built to the sidewalk, particularly at their corners. However, Garage Bar (above) is one example of how a well executed design of the outdoor space, when used sparingly along the corridor, can not only maintain the dense urban feel of the street, but actually improve it and become a central focus of the area for pedestrian activity.
Baxter & Broadway
The Baxter Avenue and Bardstown Road corridor that traverses the many neighborhoods that make up the Highlands area of Louisville is arguably our City's best example of a vibrant pedestrian environment. When I moved to Louisville in 1997 this was the hub of 24-hour pedestrian activity with the largest clustering of restaurants, bars, shops and other amenities anywhere in the city. This still is largely the case, but fortunately downtown is coming back to life and other areas like NuLu, Clifton, St. Matthews and multiple other nodes have become destinations in their own right.
There are few breaks along an almost three-mile stretch of this corridor, however there is one very significant location at the corner of Baxter and Broadway that should be a prominent gateway to the corridor but simply falls apart. In the map above, the key features of the intersection have been highlighted.
The elegant entrance to Cave Hill Cemetery begins to provide a gateway by serving as a point-tower that can be seen by travelers heading east on Broadway for what seems like a half-mile (when trees are not fully leafed out).
The failure of this important node begins, however, with the surface parking lot on the north-east corner of Baxter and ends with the gas station on the south-east corner (see above). The gas station is currently for sale, so hopefully a developer might come along and figure out how to make this location into an asset for the walkability and pedestrian anchor leading towards downtown. There were some conceptual designs by urban planner Nick Seivers for this location a while back but I could not find a functioning link to that work.
There are a few other key locations along this corridor that could make an already amazing pedestrian environment that much better. As mentioned in a previous article, the bank property for sale adjacent to Douglass Loop on Bardstown Road would be another amazing opportunity to extend the pedestrian experience and further enhance walkability along the corridor.
Completing Louisville's streetwalls downtown and in other urban areas across the city will take decades and many streets will simply never be complete. Walkability and the development of rich, vibrant pedestrian environments is becoming a key ingredient in creating successful cities in the 21st century. In order to have the greatest impact on improving Louisville's walkability from an urban design perspective, we should consider a strategy that focuses on anchoring the corners along corridors that have the greatest potential to enhance the pedestrian environment. This approach could work both in existing successful areas, like the ones presented, as well as neighborhood corridors in need of revitalization. This approach won't work everywhere though, particularly along corridors that have no hope of becoming pedestrian filled streetscapes. However, as we begin to identify potential pedestrian rich corridors and create an inventory of opportunity sites for strong corners throughout the city, our hope is that this approach will add one more tool to move Louisville toward the vibrant walkable city it has the potential to be.
City Explorer: Memphis... initial thoughts
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Patrick Piuma
In our quest to explore other cities and discover the great things going on around us, with the hope of bringing some ideas and best practices back to Louisville, we had the great opportunity to visit Memphis, Tennessee last week. There are a lot of similarities between our two cities, both river towns, approximately the same size and population, each has three Fortune 500 companies, and so on. We had also heard that like Louisville, Memphis was on the upswing and good things were happening. However, we were blown away by the palpable optimism that was expressed by many of the people we had the good fortune to meet. Memphis has its problems, and like Louisville there were some incredibly dedicated individuals and organizations trying to tackle those issues, in creative and innovative ways.
What originally drew our attention to Memphis was the tactical urbanism initiative to activate a beautiful historic brewery building downtown through Tennessee Brewery Untapped (see above), a pop-up beer garden within the vacant building, for six weeks during Memphis in May. Slated to be demolished, the Mayor's Innovation Delivery Team partnered with other groups, individuals, and volunteers to transform the first level of the old brewery into a impromptu beer garden and event space. The idea was to bring attention to the building and test the viability of an incremental urbanist approach that, instead of trying to redevelop the entire building all at once, experiment with the possibility to scale back and just activate the ground floor.
Though we don't have numbers, judging from the continued large crowds of people enjoying the space, beer, food trucks, and entertainment every weekend since it opened, it has been a big success so far. Ultimately, the biggest win would be if the building is saved from the wrecking ball in August, only time will tell. However, there was a buzz about town that there was renewed interest in the property.
Having the opportunity to experience the Tennessee Brewery Untapped would have been worth the trip alone, but thanks to our incredible host Tommy Pacello from Memphis' Mayor's Innovation Delivery Team, we had the chance to tour several areas of the city undergoing change and meet with some of the interesting and passionate people behind those initiatives. Some of the areas we toured included Crosstown, The Edge, Soulsville, Broad Avenue Arts District, Cooper-Young, South Main Arts District, and Harbor Town. The areas covered the gamut from thriving neighborhoods to transitional zones to the economically depressed.
Crosstown is undergoing a major revitalization with newly activated storefronts adjacent to a planned redevelopment of the vacant 1.4 million-square-foot Sears Crosstown building (above). Pre-vitalization efforts include Pecha Kucha and MemFeast events. A number of great organizations and initiatives are going on here including Crosstown Arts that could serve as a great model for Louisville.
The Edge (above), an area similar to SoBro in Louisville and home to Sun Studios, is just outside the downtown and adjacent to the medical district. The area has a multitude of vacant and underutilized properties that could provide the bones for a vibrant makers district. The area is also part of Memphis' 2014 ULI Rose Fellowship focus similar to Louisville's 2013 ULI Rose Fellowship focus on 4th Street.
Soulsville, with its rich history of being the home to Stax Records in the 1960s and '70s has suffered significant disinvestment and urban decay. An organization of local leaders created the Soulsville Foundation to rejuvenate and restore the neighborhood with the establishment of the Soulsville Charter School, Stax Museum of American Soul Music (pictured above top) and Stax Music Academy among other initiatives. While there we had a chance to tour the brand new Memphis SLIM Collaboratory (above bottom) that rose out of the renovated home of Memphis Slim. Together these institutions are reshaping the neighborhood and providing incredible assets to the local youth.
The Broad Avenue Arts District is a great example of tactical urbanism revitalizing a commercial corridor. Through a 2010 demonstration project by Livable Memphis and other collaborators called "A New Face for an Old Broad," the street was reimagined with new parking and bike lanes painted (pictured above) to slow and change the traffic patterns to facilitate a pedestrian walkability. In conjunction with a two-day event that brought in street vendors and activated storefronts, the new arts district is rebuilding itself. These efforts can provide a roadmap for struggling areas in Louisville.
A neighborhood in the Midtown area of Memphis, Cooper-Young (above), resembled Frankfort Avenue or Bardstown Road with attractive storefronts in low-slung buildings creating a great walkable neighborhood.
The South Main Arts District (above) would be similar to Bardstown Road or a more established NuLu in Louisville. Along with the incredible array of shops, restaurants, bars, and other businesses, new residential developments and historic buildings under restoration made this one my favorite destinations to get a cup of coffee at Bluff City Coffee, walk, and windowshop.
We visited Harbor Town (above), which happens to be one of the oldest examples of New Urbanism in the country, though the developer may not have known it at the time. Similar to the New Urbanist development of Norton Commons in Louisville, this community is right on the Mississippi River adjacent to downtown. The neighborhood is lush with its +25 year old tree canopy and has aged well giving a glimpse of what Norton Commons will resemble in a decade or two.
While heading towards the South Main Arts District we walked through an area that struck me as strangely familiar. The area had an unexpected gravity that was jarring and even moreso when I realized I was staring at the Lorraine Hotel (above) where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Words cannot do justice to how that experience affected me, so I will just suggest that if you are in Memphis, you should visit the site and see what affect it has on you.
We spent a great deal of time in the urban core of Memphis. One of the first things I saw that caught my attention driving into the city and one of the last things I experienced before leaving were the streetcars. These beautiful historic trolleys passed gracefully by as I had a morning coffee (pictured above), rode my bike through downtown, visited the Tennessee Brewery, and shuttled me across the city one rainy night. They don't move faster than the buses in Louisville, they may not have seemed to have a consistent schedule, and I'm not sure if they have had the strong economic development impact on the neighborhoods in Memphis that other city systems have reported, but they add a rich layer of attractiveness to the city streets that they meander along and increase the quality of the streetscapes. With all of the interest generated through the Vision Louisville process around rail, we should seriously explore bringing streetcars back to our city. There are definitely many things to consider, but before anyone dismisses the idea, they should spend a weekend in Memphis and watch these colorful vintage pieces of art paint the streets.
Beyond the recollections above, we are still digesting the experiences and what possible connections our two cities have to learn from and build upon. Just today, while driving through Germantown, I noticed things about our city that were previously shrouded in familiarity. There are a lot of incredible opportunities in our city just waiting to be unlocked. I am sure what we saw in Memphis, if it does not provide the key, will at least provide the graphite to loosen the tumblers and open us to new possibilities.
100 Ideas for the Fourth Street Corridor
How can Louisville create an identity for, improve connections between, and foster desired development along the diverse districts of the Fourth Street corridor?
In late 2012, Louisville's Fourth Street Corridor was identified as the study area for ULI's Daniel Rose Fellowship land use challenge. Historically, Fourth Street served as Louisville's north-south commercial spine; connecting dense retail/entertainment venues, with insitutions, residences, and workplaces along a bustling streetcar corridor. This approximately four-mile stretch now traverses four distinct districts that pose their own unique opportunitieis and challenges. The Louisville Rose Fellowship team considered ideas for improving connections between, and fostering desired development and programming along the diverse districts of the Fourth Street corridor. Some of the broad themes that cam up in the analysis included:
• Reestablishing strong retail uses
• Catalyzing dense, mixed-use development
• Promoting physical ties between the educational institutions
• Reinvigorating the Fourth and Oak commercial corridor
• Connecting the South Central neighborhood to UofL development
• Strengthening the identity and connectivity of the entire corridor through urban design and consider transportation improvements, such as a streetcar route.
In early 2014 the University of Louisville's Master of Urban Planning Capstone students were tasked with developing catalytic ideas in support of the broad themes of the Louisville Rose Fellows. Through semester-long exploration of the corridor, the students generated 100 ideas to reinvigorate the corridor that are meant to serve as a starting point for comunity discussion and foster the development of even more ideas that could provide implementable initiatives to start activating the area now. In addition to the 100 Ideas, five "Featured Ideas" were selected to develop further.
View the website here and add your comments and thoughts to begin moving the discussion towards implementation and regeneration of a historically prominent corridor in Louisville today.
Opportunity to Strengthen Douglass Loop
Thursday, March 13, 2014 by Patrick Piuma
Catching the 17 bus at Douglass Loop on my way to work the last few weeks I kept walking by the PNC Bank building on the corner of Bardstown Road and Douglass Boulevard. When I noticed the building had a "for sale" sign I was overcome with this sense that there was an incredible opportunity here. The building itself appears to be in great shape. The architecture somewhat fits with the area and has a very typical "old is new bank" look to it even with the drive thru pretty well hidden from the main road. What I couldn't shake out of my head was that this was a prime opportunity and location for something better.
Strong corners in an urban area set the tone for the entire neighborhood. Banks, gas stations, fast food restaurants, basically buildings that rest in a sea of asphalt parking or drive thru lanes on corners destroy the sense of a walkable urban neighborhood. We unfortunately have a number of good examples of this type of development along our inner-city neighborhood corridors. It is true that the building only occupies roughly 180 feet of frontage and takes 30 seconds to walk past, but it is the potential of this corner that makes it so interesting.
What if instead of the bank building, a low to mid-rise mixed use building occupied the space? A series of storefronts or office spaces could line the street with a building that met the sidewalk. Above, two or three stories of apartments or condominiums with attractive balconies and/or rooftop decks could provide more residential units to build density at a historic commercial node. This building could bring together the Douglass Loop and strengthen the Bardstown Road corridor which begins to lose its urban neighborhood feel as you move south due to more autocentric uses that break up the fabric of the streetwall. Even though the bank building is fairly new it may be worth removing a perfectly good building to do something that would have a much bigger and better impact on the neighborhood.
The bank property reminds me of a conversation I had with an out of town urban designer while giving a tour of Bardstown Road. He was blown away by the length of the commercial corridor and how, save for a few places here and there, that the built environment formed an almost continuous and complete pedestrian environment. This bank property is an opportunity for a creative and innovative developer to capitalize on the location and provide an example for strategic town center development throughout the city. The property also could serve as a model of transit oriented development that our community sorely needs.


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Tomorrow, the first television ads in this year's gubernatorial campaign will hit the airwaves.
In the ads, Governor Phil Bredesen focuses on what the he considers to be the financial success stories from his term in office.
"…we balanced four straight budgets without raising taxes, we've proved we don't need an income tax, and we still increased funding for education, passed a health care program we could affort, and our rainy day fund has never been higher…"
But what the Governor calls a Rainy Day fund, Republican opponent, Jim Bryson, considers a surplus. Campaign spokesman Lance Frizell says that when Bryson's television ads begin, that surplus will be part of the central message, along with raising graduation rates and tackling illegal immigration.
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Frizell wouldn't say when television viewers could expect to see the first Bryson ads. But he acknowledged that the campaign will have to be very careful about how it spends money.
Because he was a state senator when he entered the race this winter, Bryson was not able to begin fundraising until the legislative session ended in June.
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Bredesen's pre-primary report listed nearly 4-and-a-half million dollars to spend.


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Fee-related earnings ("FRE") increased $13.1 million, or 19.0%, to $82.2 million for the second quarter of 2012 from $69.1 million for the second quarter of 2011, reflecting the aforementioned increase in management fees and lower levels of compensation, benefits, general, administrative and other expenses.
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This hot snack is simple to make and a great use of leftover turkey or ham
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- Easily doubled
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- protein
- 31g
- carbs
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- fat
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- saturates
- 12g
- fibre
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- sugar
- 5g
- salt
- 2.12g
- 2 small flour tortillas, about 20cm
- dash of olive oil
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- 100g cooked turkey or ham, torn into strips
- 100g cheddar, grated
- 2 spring onions, chopped
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Preheat the oven to fan 180C/conventional 200C/gas 6. Brush the tortillas with the olive oil and put them, oil side down, on a large baking tray. Spread evenly with the chutney, then scatter over the turkey or ham, cheese and onions. Bake for 8 minutes. Cut into wedges and eat while they are still hot and crispy.
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Today's news takes me back to those haunting lyrics that describe a lone lineman perched high on a telephone pole along an empty highway. The inspiration came to songwriter Jimmy Webb, known for his talent with a couple of other popular Campbell tunes, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Galveston," while driving from Kansas City to the Oklahoma panhandle. It was along that lonely stretch of pavement that he noticed a solitary fellow in a hardhat high in the sky talking into a telephone.
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Linemen have been working in the great outdoors since the 1840s with the widespread use of the telegraph, installing the first line along the railroad tracks from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland. The nickname stuck and made perfect sense for those brave men setting the wooden poles in the ground and stringing the wire along the way through history with the invention of the telephone in 1870 and the beginning of electricity dotting the landscape. It continues today, following the work that requires great agility and plenty of guts installing and maintaining telephone, electric, cable and fiber-optic lines that crisscross the country.
In Vermont, there's a race against time in getting the entire state wired for high-speed broadband and cell phone capabilities by 2013. It's part of a project that Governor Peter Shumlin has embraced, vowing to get modern technology to his entire state, in spite of the difficult terrain and sparse population in many areas. Navigating those nooks and crannies from border-to-border isn't easy and not always feasible for bulky utility trucks normally found on a
Enter Claude Desmarais, retired dairy farmer from Barton, Vermont, and his team of draft horses: two dependable Belgians, Fred and Pete; and three eager Percherons, Jack, Ben and Chief. "They're able to do what our trucks and other equipment can't accomplish," says Maureen O'Day, Area Manager of Construction for FairPoint Communications in Burlington, Vermont. "They can reach and cover miles of the backcountry without disturbing the land, getting the job done in record time.
"It would probably take 15 guys to do what Claude and one horse accomplish on any given day, saving us both time and money. They can pull 5,000 feet of cable with no sweat, usually rounding out a typical work day pulling 8,000 feet. Property owners along the way really appreciate the fact that we respect their land, and they love the idea of seeing a big draft horse in the neighborhood. When we're done, you can't tell that a crew has been there; the footprint on the land is miniscule. Many a time we're greeted with waves and hugs from everyone from babies to grandparents, often with baskets of apples and carrots. The crew has the same affection, carrying peppermints in their pockets and backpacks full of treats. Claude's horses are so friendly and help make the long hours and hard work fly by. It's been an honor knowing this truly gentle man during the 27 years I've been with FairPoint."
An example of the kind of popularity to which Maureen is referring recently occurred in Manchester, Vermont, when the crew was installing cable across the Batten Kill River in the downtown area. Soon a crowd of 100 people came to watch, including town officials, local TV crews, members of the Chamber of Commerce and reporters from the Bennington and Manchester newspapers. Everyone cheered and commented on the professionalism and skills of the crew and the infamous horse placing the cable in such a difficult situation. People were snapping photos on their cell phones and sending messages to friends on Facebook. This sort of thing doesn't happen every day.
Claude found out about this line of work from another teamster 30 years ago over a cup of coffee at a local horse sale. Being outdoors appealed to him, and any opportunity to work together with his horses was a bonus. He was hired on the spot and is proud to say he's never missed a day of work except for a short three-week hiatus when recuperating from hip replacement surgery in 2003–not bad for a fellow 68 years of age. He began the adventure with Bill, a Percheron that worked by his side for 20 years before retiring.
Claude rotates his team, working with one horse at a time. When he's on the road, a good friend and neighbor takes care of the other animals, along with his happy-go-lucky family of Plott Hounds. It's a year-round work schedule, usually with a typical assignment lasting six to eight days with a short break before heading out again. Wintertime brings some interesting challenges, especially walking on snowshoes, something Claude enjoys except when his horse steps on the back of his shoe, causing him to topple over. He swears they do this on purpose, getting a chuckle out of it.
"This kind of work requires the easy-going temperament that draft horses have," explains Claude, "especially when we're near the trucks and the air brakes go off or when a lineman in an overhead bucket makes a sudden move. This doesn't bother any of my boys at all. Neither do they care about the garter snakes that we occasionally encounter during the warmer months. I'm deathly afraid of anything that slithers and will be the first to flee, but it doesn't faze the horses one bit. They seem to get a kick out the fact that we humans have such fears."
On a recent assignment, Claude unloads and readies Fred for the task at hand. As he gently whispers a signal, Fred's ears twitch a bit, as if to say "OK," and he begins tugging on a length of cable from a mammoth truck-mounted reel. With a pull, the cable rises to a lineman, who loops it through a "lasher," a device that slides along the aerial line. It's the primary tool for laying the line, comprised of a metal cylinder the size of a block of firewood that binds newly laid fiber-optic to an existing line strung between utility poles. After laying the cable along the ground, the crew works backwards, sliding the lasher along the existing line 15 feet overhead to raise the new fiber-optic cable and secure it. When it jams or reaches a utility pole, the crew stops to run up a ladder or kick their way up the wooden poles using pole climbers (metal hooks bound to the insoles of their boots).
It's a sight to see–a crew of linemen scurrying about and Claude and his horse moving along the path. Fred is outfitted with a normal harness, and attached behind that, an iron whippletree, used for pulling. The aluminum hames are about all the technology Claude has employed since he first started working with the telecommunications company.
It's a peaceful line of work, usually affording Fred or any of the other horses Claude might have on assignment, time to stop and graze on flowering Trillium, dandelions or a tasty crab apple. It's a routine that moves along like clockwork. Claude walks along, getting plenty of exercise and an opportunity to chat with the fellows on the crew. He wishes he had logged the miles they've traveled with a pedometer or kept track of the steps along the way. Claude attributes his good health to being outdoors and on the move.
Thirty years on the job has forged many a friendship that Claude cherishes. He's been there to share the news about graduations, birthdays, anniversaries, the births of many a baby, and sadly, the passing of loved ones. He's watched young men grow up, learning the skills that make linemen proud. When he had his hip replacement surgery, Claude was touched and overwhelmed with all the get-well cards, best wishes and visits in the hospital. For him, this is more than a job; it's family.
The crew chimes in with great affection for Claude and the horses. There's something unique about having an animal on the job. Claude notices many of the guys stop to pat Fred or the other horses that happen to be there on a particular day, often sitting nearby on a lunch break. Being close to such a gentle giant seems to have a calming influence that's relaxing and a nice way to unwind. After Bill retired, everyone continued asking about their Percheron pal. They truly missed their buddy. It's the same with all the horses–each one seems to have an ability to connect with the crew, especially when a lineman leaves for another territory. There's always a bit of sadness when saying goodbye.
Claude is proud that his grandson, Dillon Wright, has chosen a career as a lineman. He looks forward to seeing him out in the field, catching up with family news and sharing stories about working with draft horses. This is something Claude relishes whenever anyone asks about Fred or the other boys. "I'm more than happy talking about the horses and answering questions about the different breeds, farrier work and how these animals continue to work and help mankind," he admits. "It's especially fun when someone encounters a draft horse for the first time. They're in awe of something so big and yet so docile. It's a great opportunity to explain more about the work on the line, and the logging and plowing we do back home. It's truly an honor sharing a lifetime together with these amazing animals. I can't imagine a day without my horses. And, who would ever think old-fashioned horsepower would be an asset to the marvels of modern technology? I still pinch myself on every assignment, grateful for the work all these years, happy for my health, and honored to walk side-by-side with the horses I love."
Perhaps if Jimmy Webb is ever driving through New England, he'll stop and see the cable-pulling horse moseying through the hills of Vermont with Claude and the crew. Imagine the song he could write about that!
Here's to all the linemen working the land–installing cable and keeping things in check every day of the year. And, when disaster strikes and the lines go down, they're back in the field, grabbing their hardhats and weathering the storm, bringing us light, warmth and keeping the lines of communication open. No matter what the conditions, no matter how dangerous the situation, these dedicated individuals are out there in thunder and lighting, hurricanes and tornadoes, raging blizzards and scorching heat–keeping us safe and secure in our homes. So, next time you see a lineman up there on a pole, stop and wave a grateful hello. They are truly worth a salute and a song!


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