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Bethany Cosentino Talks Green Day, College Parties, New EP, May 9 UCSB Show
As a California kid who grew up in the '90s, the opportunity to go on tour with Green Day is a pretty big deal. Did you freak out a bit when you found out? Yeah, I was definitely shocked when we got asked. Like, I couldn't believe they wanted to take us on tour. I grew up listening to Dookie, so it was like one of my childhood idols asking to take my band on tour. It was totally awesome.
How did the shows go? They went really well. It was a weird adjustment for sure — to play on huge stages like that to audiences that don't really know who you are, in venues that hold over 10,000 people. That's not something we are used to, but it was a cool experience for us. Green Day have a lot of young fans, and young people seem to really like Best Coast, so there were some nights where kids would get really excited about us.
Have you noticed any major differences to touring behind The Only Place versus the tours you did for Crazy for You? The biggest difference is just our band really. We are a four piece now; it's Bobb, Brett, Brady, and myself. All names that start with B! I think we have a bit more fun on the road as a band now. Before it was kind of like we were burnt out, but we took a pretty long chunk of time off from touring in between albums and I think that got us excited about playing shows again.
Do you feel like you've adjusted to life in the spotlight? That is really something I don't know that I will ever get used to. It's really flattering when someone recognizes me out in public and asks for a photo or an autograph, but I'm still just like, "What? Huh? You know who I am?" It's not really a thing you ever expect to happen to you, so when it does, you just kind of can't believe it's happening. It's weird that people care about my personal life and my business because in my mind, I'm just the same person I was before this band even started.
The transition between Crazy for You and The Only Place was kind of a big one for Best Coast. How does the forthcoming EP fit in? The EP is kind of like the baby of Crazy for You and The Only Place. It's somewhere down the middle of both records. It's not too lo-fi, and it's not too hi-fi. The songs are a lot more upbeat than the last record, but there are two ballads on it. The ballads on the EP are pretty heavy, though. I was really inspired by Mazzy Star. You will hear that influence for sure.
Lyrically and thematically, how would you compare it to either of the two full-lengths? I mean, I write what I know about, and that's life. That's just how it's always going to be. I write about what I'm going through, or how I'm feeling — and that's what I've done with every piece of music I've ever written for Best Coast. The EP will be along those lines as well.
Can you share any details about it? We really don't have any information about it other than it's done, there are five songs and it was recorded in L.A. with our friend Wally Gagel. Wally recorded our 7" for Record Store Day and we really liked working with him, so we went back in to do the EP with him.
With The Only Place, you spoke a lot about returning home to write. Are you opposed to writing on the road? I don't write on the road. I don't like to write around other people. I feel like when you're writing a song, you're going through all sorts of stuff that is weird and awkward and embarrassing, and I just don't want people to hear or see me doing those things. Of course I could write in a hotel or something, but I don't really find that inspiring at all. I write all of my songs in my bedroom either sitting on the floor, or sitting on my bed. That is where I feel inspired.
Can you talk a bit about your songwriting process? I pretty much just sit in my room and mess around on a guitar until I come up with some type of melody or sound that I like, and then I start singing a melody along to it, and then I work on lyrics. After my demo or "draft," as I like to call them if the song is done, I send them to Bobb and he finishes them off. I give him a brief idea of what I want the songs to sound like in the final process and then he works on making that happen. We are truly blessed to have the kind of relationship we do musically. I don't know of any other band that operates the way that we do, but we have totally made it work.
You guys also put out a special 7" for Record Store Day. Are you a big vinyl collector? I used to be more of a vinyl collector, but now I'm kind of guilty of being one of those people that buys everything online. I like to own the physical copy of some records, but if I'm just hearing a band or an artist for the first time, I just usually buy their music on iTunes. I listen to music all the time when I'm flying, and considering I'm flying just about every single week, I need good music on my phone iPod to listen to.
Favorite record shop in L.A.? Amoeba. They just have everything you could ever think of and I've been going there since I was a teenager, so I have fond memories of it.
You guys have been playing a handful of college dates. Do you notice the vibe change when you're playing on campus? I mean, college kids definitely like to party [laughs], so some of our college shows can be really raging and fun. I think just playing to younger people in general is more fun. Adults kind of take shows more seriously and stand there and analyze what's happening onstage, and kids and young adults just want to have fun and listen to the music.
Full interview at Santa Barbara Independent: HERE


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Twelve faux marble statues, 6 on either side of the 72-foot screen, embody the American ideals of Individualism, Innovation, Independence, Self-Reliance and more. Watch and see how these ideals precipitated key events like the landing of the Mayflower, the Boston Tea Party, the winter at Valley Forge, the penning of the Declaration of Independence, the Civil War, industrialization and the Great Depression. Along the way, you'll also meet such luminaries as:
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An Upshur County third-grade teacher lived in South Korea for a year and tutored North Korean defectors.
Lucy Swecker, who was the recipient of a Fulbright grant, served as an English teaching assistant at Kyungpook National University's Attached Elementary School in Daegu, Korea from July, 2011 to July, 2012.
"Through my Fulbright Scholarship, I took on the role of people-to-people ambassador, exchanging culture through work as a teacher," Swecker said.
Along with teaching third to sixth grade in the elementary school, Swecker volunteered to tutor North Korean defectors. More than 900 defectors live in Daegu.
"Working with the North Korean defectors was an incredible experience," Swecker said. "When I asked one older tutee why she left North Korea she said she left because she did not have any hope and because she was hungry. Korean students were incredibly behind their South Korean peers in terms of technology and English language learning."
Swecker said the North Korean defectors were very appreciative.
"The students I worked with were thankful for our assistance, although overall, they were a little more reluctant to interact with Americans due to government propaganda."
She said South Koreans are very fond of Americans.
"They appreciate our country's support and are extremely interested in American culture," Swecker said. "The South Koreans I spoke with about issues said they are very interested in being a united country. They see the North Koreans as Koreans - they are one people."
While in South Korea, Swecker said she did not travel to North Korea, but said she visited the DMZ two times.
"While living in South Korea, I felt no immediate threat by the North, even though Kim Jong-il passed away while I was there," Swecker said. "They were concerned about what the new leader would do, but did not seem to be too worried. While speaking with my friends still teaching in South Korea, they have said there is little response. They are not sure what to think or how to feel."


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I suggest people re-read the forum rules.
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For example, in a thread about Holland and free agency, someone posting "They should fire Holland" is a valid opinion, even though it's not particularly well thought out and is an extreme reaction. But in a thread about some other topic, chiming in saying "Fire Holland" to mock that member is trolling, which will result in deletion of the post and punishment.
Make sense?
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Greeley Democrat Dave Young was appointed to four Colorado House committees by Speaker-designate Mark Ferrandino, completing the House committee of reference assignment process for the 2013 General Assembly.
"The House committees are where every piece of proposed legislation gets its most thorough vetting," said Ferrandino in a news release. "With this much expertise, experience, enthusiasm and energy on hand, I'm confident we'll produce excellent policy for the people of Colorado."
Young, who represents most of Greeley, Evans and Garden City in state House District 50, was appointed to the following House committees: Appropriations; Education; Health, Insurance and Environment; and is the vice chairman of the Public Health Care and Human Services.


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A proposal to ban so-called "dad coaches" from high school sports in Berkeley County has some residents riled up, and some athletic directors and coaches concerned.
The Berkeley County school board, which meets Tuesday night in Moncks Corner, is considering a proposal that would prevent volunteer coaches from coaching their own children at the varsity and junior varsity levels. More than 350 people have signed a petition at change.org to protest the idea.
"The children of Berkeley County deserve to have as many programs available to them as possible," Moncks Corner resident Sally Wofford wrote in the petition. "Banning parent coaches will reduce the number of teams."
The proposal came about, according to Berkeley County Superintendent Rodney Thompson, because of concerns that parent-coaches are showing favoritism to their own children.
"We have heard concerns and misperceptions about parents offering preferential treatment to their respective children on athletic teams," Thompson told the school board on June 10. "We want to protect our athletes and our volunteers from such allegations, which draw attention away from the integrity of the sport."
Jeff Cruce, football coach and athletic director at Berkeley High School, said there are about 20 parents coaching their own children in the athletic program at his school. Losing those coaches, most of whom are assistant coaches, would "decimate some of our programs," he said.
"It would devastate some teams," Cruce said. "It would hurt us, and it would hurt some other schools in the district. I would hope cooler heads would prevail and that in the long run, the board will do what's in the best interest of our kids."
Berkeley softball coach Boogie Grooms is himself a volunteer coach, though he has no children in his program. Some of his varsity and junior varsity coaches do, however.
"It would kill my whole coaching staff, basically," Grooms said. "And they are real good coaches, too. At Berkeley, we have quite a few volunteer coaches and we could not go out and hire coaches who are that good. It would really hurt our program to take them away from us."
Berkeley High is not the only school where parents are volunteer coaches. Hanahan High Principal Ric Raycroft estimates he has six coaches that fall in that category. About 10 coaches at Goose Creek High and 10 more at Timberland would be affected.
Raycroft said parent volunteers are important to high schools, and not just in athletics.
"We've had a lot of parent volunteers over the years, academically and athletically, and they are very important to what we do here," said Raycroft, a former soccer and wrestling coach at the school. "As for the impact (the proposal) would have, we'll make do with what we have. We're bound by policy and I support the mission of the school district. If that's the policy in place, we'll follow it."
Cruce said the experience provided by some of the parent-coaches would be hard to replace. For example, one high school in Berkeley County has a former Division I college baseball player and a former minor league player and coach helping with the baseball team. Both have sons in the program.
"Some of these volunteers bring a lot of experience and expertise to the table," Cruce said.
As for favoritism, Cruce said it's up to the head coach and athletic director to resolve such issues.
"There is a policy in place at Berkeley," he said. "When a coach comes to me with a volunteer coach he wants to use, we bring them all in and tell them the head coach is the CEO, and the volunteer coach is there to teach the fundamentals of what the head coach wants. If that is not done, they are no longer part of the program."
The proposed ban would not prevent staff coaches from coaching their own children, which occurs often. Cruce said in his experience, coaches are often harder on their own kids.
"That's because of the potential backlash," he said. "If you get on somebody, you make sure you get on your own kid. Those kids get it a lot worse than anybody else."
School board member Phillip Obie said the policy could send the wrong message to parents interested in volunteering at school.
"Here we are begging parents to get involved with their students at school, and when they do want to get involved, then we go and run them off," he said at the June 10 school board meeting. "I don't understand why we're doing that."
Superintendent Thompson said it could take up to two years for a revised policy to be fully implemented. Any proposed changes would go before the school board's policy review committee before going to the full board.
Dorchester County District 2, which encompasses Summerville, Fort Dorchester and Ashley Ridge high schools, has no policy against parent-coaches, a spokesperson said. Charleston County requires that all coaches be full-time salaried employees of the school district, county athletic director Dave Spurlock said.
Hanahan High School principal Ric Raycroft estimates he has six volunteers coaching their own children.×
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ROARING SPRING - Had things been a little bit different, Reggie Nevins might never have stepped down as the boys basketball coach at Central High School.
"I got out of coaching because my daughter [Alicia] was playing at the senior high level," Nevins said. "At the time, we were in the Laurel Highlands league, and boys and girls played the same night. It was a situation that I wasn't going to get to see her play.
"It felt like the perfect time to get out. But then, a couple of years later, we got right back into the Mountain League."
And, nine years later, Nevins is coming back, too.
Nevins was hired by an 8-1 vote at Monday night's Spring Cove School Board meeting to return as the Scarlet Dragons' coach, where he'll add to his Blair County boys basketball record win total every time his team comes out on top.
Nevins, 58, posted a 351-185 record in his first tenure, capturing a pair of District 6 championships when the school was in Class AAA; the Dragons now compete in Class AA.
Spring Cove athletic committee chairperson Amy Acker-Knisely said the school interviewed seven applicants to fill the position that came open when Bill Forshey, Nevins' longtime assistant who took took over at the start of the 2003-04 season, stepped down for health reasons.
"He has 35 years of experience. Actually, when I was a student in the mid-80s, he was the coach, and we had a very good team back then, and I've been exposed to him pretty much my whole life, living in the Cove," Acker-Knisely said. "People are very aware of his enthusiasm for the game. The one thing I will say that worked in his favor are people speak very highly of his teaching. The kids are very respectful, and they want to play for him.
"When I have a kid come to me and tells me they want to play for him, when you hear that kind of enthusiasm these days, it goes a long way. I think he's best for the program now, [although] we had some great candidates."
Nevins' players will be well-accustomed to him: He began coaching the Scarlet Dragon junior high team after only a year away from the bench.
"I really enjoyed myself coaching junior high, but you miss the playoffs and the postseason," Nevins said. "The group of kids we have coming back, although mostly an underclassman group of kids, they're a really fun group, a really neat group of kids. I enjoyed coaching them in junior high. They have great personalities. I probably would not have gotten back into it if not for those guys."
The Dragons went 13-10 last year, losing in the opening round of districts with a starting lineup that included four seniors. The roster, however, also included 13 sophomores.
"It'll be a challenge. There's not a lot of size there, but there's a lot of skill and athleticism. I'm looking forward to that," Nevins said.
John Biddle cast the only dissenting vote.
"I just preferred the other candidate," Biddle said.
Acker-Knisely declined to name any of the other applicants or to say whether there were other in-house candidates. She did say that the school typically lets the head coaches choose their assistants, and Nevins said he's already been talking to some potential members for his staff, including several former players.
While Nevins said he is closing in on the completion of his teaching career, he isn't putting any expiration date on his second term as varsity basketball coach.
"I'm interested in coaching for a while. I still coach baseball, as well, at the high school," Nevins said. "If things go as well as they did before and if I'm having fun and the kids are enjoying things and having success and enjoying me coaching, I'm planning on doing it for a while."
Nevins is a math teacher in the Spring Cove Middle School. He received a $4,848.35 salary with his hiring as coach.


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1. I won $25 Erin Condren credit from Aly's blog. I'll be purchasing one of those fabulous life planners this week!
WOW. definitely go pick up a lotto ticket! ;)
I think your luck is rubbing off...I just found out that I won a giveaway too!
WOW! You go girl! Those are actually REALLY good giveaways too!
Go get cha a lotto ticket! Bet you'd win! Have a good weekend!
You go girl!! Do what Morgan says - buy a lotto ticket! =)
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wow girl!! congrats!! let e know how that planner is because I REALLY want one!! happy almost super bowl #letsgogiants
Woah lucky you! I'm boycotting Super Bowl...hate the Giants AND Pats lol! I'm going to lock myself in my apartment and work on my thesis! Have a great time watching the game though =)
Your sticking to your no shop January certainly paid off! You won some good giveaways! Have a great weekend, Amanda!
oh and this post reminds me - how annoying is it every time Courtney says #winning on the bachelor?!
Wow look at you!! That is awesome, nice work! :) You will love your planner!
I gotta check out the life planner...sounds like something I could really use. Congrats on all your awesome wins girlie!
Dang girl!
Good for you :)
I won one giveaway this week! lol.
Happy Friday!
That's so awesome that you won! I love planners, good choice :) xo
Girl, you are having some MAJOR luck this week. Capitalize on that! :)
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Say what? I'm super jealous...I need to win one soon! Congrats!
OH MY WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy smokes Amanda girl...these are some awesome things to win!! UGGS!!! how fun! I would probably faint if I won those!
Wow, those are some good giveaways too! I have always had knock off uggs, but I would love a pair of real ones!
Awesome! I love the Erin Condren planners!
c'mere & lemme slap you for saying winning. ;) hahah go giants!
Is it okay if I fly to Connecticut to rub some of your luck off on me?! That'd be great!
Congrats on your wins :)
Wow girl!!! Lucky! Ive been dying for one of those planners. And how amazing to get a pair or ugg boots for free...of course, we don't really have the weather in Alabama to need them. I'm sure they will come in handy for you though!!! Happy January to you! Maybe February will be that good to you!
Wow that is awesome. Maybe you should play the lottery or go to Vegas! Haha. Congrats! I really need to check out those life planners that everyone is talking about!
Lucky duck!
Just now catching up on blogs! I have missed reading yours!! :)
More like study all day long weekend. Midterms are coming...
You are soo lucky! And Uggs!? That's an awesome win!
Look at you girl, you really are winning! Although that title made me think of Courtney from the Bachelor! Haha!!
You will LOVEEEEEEEEe your planner!!!! And seriously!? You def. should have bought a lotto ticket. LUCKY!


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Top Definition
(n) The unborn offspring of a homosexual male from the end of the eighth week after conception (between a sperm and feces) up to the time of birth which normally occurs through the anus.
After being troubled for many weeks, Robbie decided to abort the fecus after the first trimester.
di niggamac 12 maggio 2008
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a slang word combining fecal and fetus.
crap baby.
di pip 02 dicembre 2003
After two gay men have sex, sometimes one is impregnated through the anus. The name for a fetus passed through the anus is fecus. It's usually dead, but on a rare occasion, a live fecus may be born. A.K.A. Anal miscarraige.
Also see skleet, the verb of passing a fecus.
Also see skleet, the verb of passing a fecus.
Dude, I was taking a shit, and bam! There was this bloody fecus in the toilet!
di Grady123 02 febbraio 2008
Short for fecal matter. More fun to say than feces.
"There was fecus all over my straw after that nice glass of butt milk."
di Bat-Yam bat Teruma 30 gennaio 2008
A cross between the word fecal and anus. Often used by people who are obsessed with feces and who are prone to anal-retentiveness. Also may be used by people who have an obsession with saying the word "anus".
"I'm feeling like fecus today."
di lephermessiah 18 settembre 2004
the fecus looks funny in this light.
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"Granddad, granddad, let me borrow a couple of them blue diamonds..."
-Killa Mike in "Adidas"
-Killa Mike in "Adidas"
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This word is usually use by crips the street gang.The crips street gang usually call their girlfriends or wives this word,seeing how the crips favorite color is blue and the word diamond is pretty much saying that their girlfriend or wife is beautiful.
A good example is Snoop Dogg the westcoast rapper's wife she would be consider a blue diamond.
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Viagra, or any other general male erection pill. General use for younger males to bone all night.
I need some blue diamonds for an evening she won't forget.
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This is the street name for Viagra.
Hey man, do you know where can get my hands on some blue diamonds.
dodane przez Bigg Buss luty 15, 2005
A blue diamond is the girlfriend of a crip
See dat girl over there, she a blue diamond dey been together for a long time.
dodane przez BlueMama marzec 26, 2008
Blue Diamonds are the street name for Viagra.
Hey Doc, do you know where i can get my hands on some blue diamonds.
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Introduction of the New Cinemark NextGen Cinema Concept
Plano, Texas - Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), a pioneer in the theatrical exhibition industry with roots in Utah will open a new 14-screen, all-digital movie theatre featuring the new Cinemark NextGen cinema design concept in Farmington, Utah. The theater will be the keystone in a new preeminent lifestyle shopping center. The Station Park in Farmington is a transit-oriented development with a mix of entertainment, retail, restaurant, office and hotel space. With the opening of this theatre, Cinemark reaches an impressive milestone in the industry with more than 5,000 screens, making it one of the largest motion picture exhibitors in the world.
"Cinemark got its start in the greater Salt Lake area over 25 years ago, so the state of Utah has always been considered a second home," says Alan Stock, Chief Executive Officer. "This new Cinemark NextGen theatre will provide the perfect environment to enjoy all of Hollywood's summer blockbuster movies."
All of the stadium-seated auditoriums in Cinemark's NextGen theatre will offer a state-of-the-art viewing environment with wall-to-wall screens, 100% digital projection and enhanced sound systems equipped with higher quality speakers and 7.1 capable digital surround sound. Additionally, this theatre complex will contain a popular Cinemark XD Extreme Digital Cinema auditorium. Finally, the lobby will be designed around one of Cinemark's innovative self-serve concession stands offering freshly-popped popcorn, Coca-Cola fountain beverages and favorite candy brands.
The new Cinemark XD Extreme Digital Cinema auditorium will be the third in Northern Utah. The XD auditorium is the largest in the theatre complex and offers a complete entertainment environment featuring a wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor screen, plush seating and a custom JBL sound system with higher end components and 7.1 capable digital surround sound. The digital images will be delivered by a Doremi server and a Barco DLP digital projector. The XD auditorium will exhibit the newest movies every week, including 2D and Real D-3D pictures.
Cinemark has 432 theaters around the world, but when Alan Stock joined Cinemark in 1986, the company had only 8 theatres, a few of them in Utah. Today, Cinemark is one of the world's largest movie theatre exhibition companies with 5,000 screens in 13 countries.
About Alan Stock:
Mr. Stock resides in Plano, Texas, but still has family and a home in Utah. He has one son who is currently serving an LDS mission and another that attends Brigham Young University. As a teenager, while working at a drive-in theatre, Mr. Stock was first introduced to the exhibition industry. After returning from an LDS mission, while attending college at Weber State University, Mr. Stock continued to work in theatres and learned every aspect of the business from concessions to clean up, from selling tickets to running film projectors. Before long, he was named District Manager for Consolidated Theatres of Utah. "I was studying medicine like my father, but discovered that I truly loved the movie theatre business and the impact that the entertainment industry had on people," says Mr. Stock. "At Cinemark, our number one goal is to create the best movie-going experience possible for customers. If we do this consistently, our customers will come back to visit us again and again."
Cinemark also features other amenities such as online "Print at Home" ticketing, available at www.cinemark.com , which makes it easy for patrons to purchase tickets in advance from the comfort of their home or office. Customers are able to bypass lines at the box office and go directly to a kiosk in the theatre lobby. In addition, customers can sign up online to receive free weekly showtime e-mails that offer online concession coupons.
Cinemark's Management Team:
Mr. Stock is not the only Utahn among Cinemark's top leaders:
- Senior Vice President of New Technologies, Rob Carmony, is also a Weber State University graduate. Prior to joining Cinemark, he worked for Plitt-Cineplex Odeon Theatres.
- Vice President of Operations, Jeff Stone started working in movie theatres while attending Roy High School. Following an LDS church mission to Germany, he became a Theatre Manager in Layton for Consolidated Theatres. Stone started with Cinemark in 1985.
- Steve Owen started as an assistant manager of the Cinemark New Gate Movies 4 in Ogden in 1987. As part of the Cinemark leadership team, he is currently Vice President of Purchasing.
-Kim Phillips, a Utah native, is Cinemark's Regional Manager overseeing 282 screens in four western states. Phillips grew up working in Utah theatres and still resides in Syracuse, Utah with his family. He attended the University of Utah and Weber State University. Phillips says, "I grew up in the Utah market and I know it well."
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Public reaction to her plastic surgery confession last year also upset her. After finally admitting that in 1986 she had silicone injected into her upper lip – an impulsive decision she made with a girlfriend and likens to getting a tattoo – Rinna says, "I took a big hit for being honest. It gave everyone online permission to lambaste me. It hurt my feelings."
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A developer plans to revitalize two downtown buildings, each more than a century old, with a mix of apartments and first-floor space dedicated to bicycling.
The project, called the Apartments at the HUB, will rejuvenate 145 and 149 Swan St., between Michigan Avenue and Elm Street, said Jake Schneider, president of Schneider Development. The estimated cost is $13.5 million.
Schneider has experience in downtown apartments with projects like the Warehouse Lofts at 210 Ellicott St. and the Lofts at the 136, which converted the former Alling & Cory warehouse. Both of those are full.
Schneider sees continued demand as downtown living has grown in appeal in Buffalo. "It's been a slow process, but that has ramped up and gained momentum," he said.
The new project, which Schneider expects to open in spring 2014, adds a twist with the Western New York Bicycling Center planned for the first floor.
The Bike Shop, a retail bicycle and repair shop owned by Adam Trost and Rebecca Erb, plans to relocate there from East Aurora. The bicycling center will rent bikes to tour nearby destinations like the Larkin District, Canalside and the outer harbor. There will also be a bicycle fitness and commuter facility with lockers and showers, and a conference center for bicycle clubs and not-for-profit bicycle-related community groups.
Erb said the Bike Shop has been successful in East Aurora, but the owners have been eager to join the downtown scene, where the shop can reach a bigger audience. "We want more buzz. We want more people in and out of our door," Erb said.
Many members of the shop's racing team live downtown, she said.
The Bicycling Center will include bicycles and memorabilia loaned by James Sandoro, founder of the nearby Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum, for display in a Western New York Bicycle Museum at the property. "I've had a collection for years I've never really put on display because I never had the room," Sandoro said. "I think it adds another dimension to his endeavor."
Merge restaurant, owned by Schneider's daughters, will operate a cafe and bar, including an enclosed patio facing Michigan. "We kind of want to be known as the center of the bicycling culture," Schneider said.
Housing at the HUB will consist of 50 market-rate apartments, a mix of one- and two-bedroom units ranging from 1,020 to 1,345 square feet. The property will have a rooftop garden and a fire pit to encourage outdoor gatherings. The project will have 63 surface parking spots and 21 underground.
Schneider plans to complete his purchase of 145 and 149 Swan St. this week. A tenant of 149 Swan, Service Canvas, is relocating. The properties are otherwise vacant, except for some use for storage.
The project's "hub" name plays off the bicycle connection, as well as the two properties' location, Schneider said. "This is really the center of all the traffic patterns in and around downtown."
The building at 145 Swan St. was built in 1908; 149 Swan was built in 1896. The two buildings have a total of 80,000 square feet.
Schneider said he will add green space, and he is talking to the city about making physical improvements around the area, such as improved landscaping, sidewalks and lighting. More broadly, he is eager to see the city create a "greenway" that would link the Larkin District to downtown.
Schneider credited Sandoro with setting the tone for renewed investment in the neighborhood where Apartments at the HUB is taking shape. "He's done phenomenal work. If it wasn't for that [transportation museum], we wouldn't be here," he said.
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+ Beautiful site design, great educator resources
From the people at the University of Utah who brought you the beautiful and informative site Learn.Genetics, the Teach.Genetics website proves to be just as visually appealing and useful. The website is very new (in its Beta preview as of this writing), so interested readers should continue to check in as the site grows. In the meantime, however, there is still plenty to explore. The Print-and-Go lesson plan index page is an excellent resource for educators, as it provides all-in-one lesson plans, student worksheets, and answer keys. The topics are varied and fall under categories such as "The new science of addition: genetics and the brain" and "Gene therapy: molecular bandage?" In addition to the lesson plan index, there are also materials for an entire unit on heredity, as well as teaching materials to supplement the "amazing cells" and "epigenetics" curricula from the sister Learn.Genetics website.
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An oasis for all things amoeboid, AmoebaDB is a beautifully designed and very useful resource for researchers working with amoebae. A member of the EuPathDB family of websites, AmoebaDB follows the same format as the other sister sites; that is, the homepage clusters information into three options. The options are gene identification, identification of other data types, and tools. Users can search for genes by a number of metrics such as protein attributes, genomic position, and cellular location, while the "other data types" option allows users to search for isolates, genomic sequences, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), among other things. Under the "tools" section, one will find links to services such as BLAST and PubMed/Entrez. A newsfeed keeps site visitors up to date on release notices and other database-related news items, and an education and tutorials section will get you on your way to exploring this and the other EuPathDB websites.
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On the Superstars of Science website you won't find any references to Spider Man or Superman. Instead, the superheroes you'll encounter are highly influential and decorated scientists of our age, including many Nobel laureates. It is interesting to peruse the profiles of the scientists on the site, who span the disciplines of biochemistry, biology, chemistry, and immunology, among others. Users can search for scientists by name, institution, or keyword, and site visitors can also nominate a scientist for inclusion in this virtual Legion of Academic Super Heroes. The website is not without its flaws—for instance, users are currently unable to browse the collection of scientific superstars (the navigational links are broken). Additionally, the scoring system employed by the website (which awards points for academic metrics such as publications and public metrics such as Facebook "likes") is distracting and unnecessary. I don't feel that the emphasis should be on ranking these scientists—rather, all of these magnificent people should be equally celebrated.
+ Very large image collection– Some photos without much (or any) description
Who doesn't love looking at photos? To peruse a wonderful collection of photos specializing in natural history, visit The University of California, Berkeley's CalPhotos website. This site, which has been amassing photographer-submitted images since 1995, houses almost 400,000 photos documenting plants, fungi, animals, people/culture, and landscapes/habitats. Visitors to the site can either browse by category or can query the database by any of a number of parameters such as scientific or common name, location where the photo was taken, and photographer. Although the title of the site may lead you to believe otherwise, the CalPhotos collection is not limited to species/locations found in California. So go ahead and treat yourself to a vacation of wildlife and landscape viewing…right from your own home.
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What happens when single nucleotides within the sequences encoding ribosomal RNAs are mutated? That is the question addressed by the Ribosomal Mutation Database curated by faculty at Franklin & Marshall College. This database houses just over 1,000 records for ribosomal RNA mutations, supplying a brief description of the resulting phenotypes and the primary citations. The records are primarily from E. coli, with only fewer than 100 records hailing from other organisms. Database users can display the information in either table view (which displays 10 records per page, apparently sorted by base position at which the mutation occurs) or form view. The latter view displays only one entry per page, which makes it quite inconvenient to browse. (As users can filter the results by position, alteration, organism, etc. in either view, the form view seems unnecessary.)
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Sorry to disappoint all the dinosaur lovers out there, but these raptors are of the birds of prey variety. The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine is a clinic that provides care to sick and injured raptors. In addition to describing the clinic, the website for the Raptor Center also provides nice sections devoted to education, conservation, and miscellaneous raptor-related activities (an owl paper bag puppet, anyone?). The education section contains information about all of the raptors kept at the clinic as education birds, as well a page providing detailed information about 40 different species of raptors. The species-specific information covers identifying characteristics, range, habitat, nesting, and feeding habits of the birds. For younger audiences, the "just for fun" section of the website includes activity books, puppets and masks, and games (such as matching chicks with their adult counterparts).
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The other thing I would like to see or understand, if it is a dirty hit when done to a teammate and you are willing to get vengeance for it, why then would it be ok for you or your teammate to do it to another team?
That is often times why I find the B's to be so hypocritcal, the ***** about what happened to their guys as dirty and gutless, then do the same and say it is part of the game.
BTW F.Michael, I like watching them too, they have an exciting hockey team with the right combo of vets, youth, skill, toughness, and are really tough to play against.


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It is lovely Rose.My daughter went to USA for 3 months a couple of years ago and brought me back a GES paperweight as a memento. It is the same shape as yours, but clear with a lovely internal swirl and shimmer. It is packed away at present but I think it said it has volcanic ash in it from Mt St Helen's volcano. An interesting thought ! JAK
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Hi all! The tumor compressing my scalene muscle, at my neck and shoulder junction has grown smaller. I can feel the difference in size.
I wonder if it has to do with my new diet. In the past several months, I have adopted a Vegetarian diet.
I am on high fiber, low carbohydrate. I take wholegrain bread, oatmeal, bread from the bakery, and other things as long as they are not too fired or deep fried. I do not take fast food.
Partlally because I want a slim body and besides, I do not have much saliva to eat everything.
I also take Melilea Greenfield organic everyday for the fiber.
Did anyone experience tumor shrinkage by adopting a healthier diet?
Oh, and my optic gliomas are stable. Yay! Visual field result turned out the same as six months ago.
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A Crook County Search and Rescue dog team was back searching an area about 12 miles southeast of Prineville Tuesday for a man who disappeared late last month and has not contacted family since.
Robert Alan Bucknell, 55, has not been heard from since March 28, said Undersheriff John Gautney.
His tan 1989 Jeep Cherokee was found on nearby private property, but there was no sign of him, Gautney said.
Sheriff?s deputies impounded the Jeep and contacted family members to try to determine what might have happened to him.
Last week, the Search and Rescue dog team searched the area off Juniper Canyon Road near Art?s Place, without success. They were back in the area Tuesday, conducting a grid search, Gautney said.
?At this time, foul play is not suspected,? Gautney said in Tuesday?s news release, but ?the sheriff?s office is conducting this investigation as a missing person and examining all possibilities.?
Bucknell is described as 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
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The statutory requirement of discovery of mineral in place to support a valid location under the federal mining law was recently described as "the most perplexing problem now facing the hard-metals mining industry in connection with locating unpatented mining claims." Difficulty has been encountered in accommodating the nineteenth century statute to present-day prospecting.
Development of the problem has paralleled the advance in scientific exploration equipment and techniques and the increased effort and expense attending the location of valuable ore deposits. The postwar uranium prospecting race emphasized particularly the practical necessity for reevaluating the legal standards of discovery. While conditions pointing to a new look at the statute have rapidly expanded, only recently have appellate courts assessed discovery under the impact of modern prospecting methods. Related to the discovery question is the prospector's need for security of possession during his explorations but prior to an actual physical exposure of mineral within the confines of his intended claim. The effect of modem developments and possible alternatives to the requirement of discovery will be discussed to examine the usefulness of the concept in the face of current demands and conditions.
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Municipal judges opt to retire, stay in office
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LISBON — Municipal court judges Mark Frost and Melissa Byers-Emmerling are preparing to take advantage of a state law that allows elected officials to retire and continue in office....
Remember, Frost thinks if signs are not posted saying an action is illegal criminals might not be responsible. Then there is the bullets go up as fast as they come down remark.I'm sure there is a gun in the sky to fire every projectile that goes up back down to hit something. Time to retire for real and let a new person take the reins.
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"I am sure that nothing I say could convince these folks to accept the general practice as being right," he wrote."
LAF! Spoken like a true politician "stick it to the people" I work for. Maybe you should be saying...THANK YOU instead of rubbing it our faces.
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I always thought better of these two but I see they are not above stealing and morally, that is what it is. And just to clarify things, this money that does not cost the count government anything, costs the county tax payers a lot. All that is needed is a law that says if you retire you can't hold office, and if you hold office, you can't draw a pension from the government, with the exception being a Military pension.
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Frost is right. Corruption is what it is.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - It's hard not to look at it as the worst, and most embarrassing, loss ever for the Penn State football program.
If you consider what they played prior to 1900 football, then it technically wasn't the worst loss. There was a 106-0 debacle against Lehigh in 1889 and a 64-5 drubbing in 1899 against something called the Duquesne Athletic Club.
But in terms of modern football, the punishment that Ohio State unleashed Saturday night on PSU was historic in every way.
The No. 4 Buckeyes obliterated the Lions' defense in a 63-14 win before 105,889 fans at Ohio Stadium, better known as "The Horseshoe." It's the most points Penn State has allowed since the 64-5 game 114 years ago, and Ohio State's 686 yards of total offense are the most ever allowed by the Lions, surpassing the total of 656 by Doug Flutie and Boston College in 1982.
"Probably the worst game I've experienced," Penn State linebacker Mike Hull said.
Almost no one could have seen seen this coming. Not this bad.
There was some hope for Penn State going into the game, and for good reason.
The Lions (4-3, 1-2 Big Ten) were coming off a great and emotional four-overtime win against Michigan and had a week off to rest and heal up.
Ohio State (8-0, 4-0), meanwhile, looked mediocre last week in a sluggish 34-24 win over Iowa. And despite being ranked No. 4 with national title hopes, it had not dominated opponents the way Alabama, Florida State and Oregon have this season.
Those factors led many fans to believe the Lions could hang with the Buckeyes.
That, it turned out, wasn't remotely the case.
"That's a good football team. They deserve their ranking," Penn State coach Bill O'Brien said.
The 63-14 final was the same score that the Lions blew out Ohio State by during their undefeated 1994 season. That was one of the most memorable games in history for PSU fans, while Saturday's rout figures to be one of the most forgettable.
"I thought our guys made a good effort all night," O'Brien said. "I don't think anybody on our team quit."
The Buckeyes were just way too good in winning their 20th consecutive game.
Quarterback Braxton Miller completed 18-of-24 passes for 252 yards and three TDs, and he ran for 68 yards and two scores. Carlos Hyde carried 16 times for 147 yards and two TDs to complement Miller in the potent Buckeye offense.
"I just love where Braxton's at right now," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said.
"We've got to keep our foot on the pedal," Miller said.
The Buckeyes didn't run up the score, it was merely that Penn State's defense couldn't stop anything Ohio State's offense did. Meyer acknowledged that his players have been hearing about how teams ranked ahead of them have had blowout wins but said winning in a rout to impress pollsters "was not our mindset."
"I like where we're at right now," Meyer said.
O'Brien liked where his team was at after the Michigan win, but Saturday was a different story. The coach didn't spend time after the game talking about what went wrong and said he needs to watch the game film.
Unlike after the 20-point loss to Indiana earlier this season, this time O'Brien said he will answer questions about it during his news conference Tuesday.
"You guys bust my chops," he said of the media criticism for him not talking about the Indiana loss. "I'll tell you all about (this one) Tuesday."
Penn State did some good things on offense, with Bill Belton rushing for 98 yards on 22 carries and Allen Robinson catching 12 passes for 173 yards and a late 65-yard TD.
The Lions never threatened after quarterback Christian Hackenberg threw an interception on their opening drive. The Buckeyes had moved down the field easily for a TD on the game's first possession, and PSU was in position to match it before Hackenberg was picked off in the end zone.
Not scoring there proved costly for the Lions, and after one three-and-out, the Buckeyes scored touchdowns on their next five possessions for a whopping 42-7 lead at the half.
"Losing like that, it's tough," Belton said. "We're a better team than that."
Penn State has long prided itself on strong defense, but the Lions looked lost all night against the Buckeyes. Receivers were wide open the entire game, several times catching passes with no defender within 10 or more yards of them.
Miller picked apart Penn State's secondary, and the Buckeyes ran at will over and through the defensive line.
"Good quarterback, good running back, they made a lot of mismatches happen," Hull said.
Once things started spiraling out of control, Hull said, "At that point, we're playing for pride."
That still wasn't good enough to stop the Buckeyes. Nothing was on what turned out to be a shockingly disastrous night for Penn State.
"At the end of the day, it's a game," Belton said. "You've just got to bounce back."


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Democratic lawmakers from the state House of Representatives Policy Committee who heard testimony Tuesday at Lycoming College on the expansion of Medicaid said Pennsylvania will lose out on billions......
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Once again Rep. Mirabito shows he is so out of touch with reality it is laughable. His idea of America is the same as the President's. he is Rep Welfare State. Rep. Mirabito needs to go.
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"thousands of health care jobs that would be created"
And those types of jobs pay well unlike the service jobs that prevail around here.
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If we had all the HIGH PAY gas jobs that they said we would get, we would not need MEDICAID! Most of us anyway!
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I would fire this representative when his term is up. Anyone that believes the affordable care act is a blessing is uninformed. Where is all this "free" money coming from? This Mirabito doesn't care. As long as he can hold out his hand to receive it and then say...oh lookie! Lookie what I did for you...while we go broke giving our hard earned money to politicians and the delusional policies they support. Good luck Williamsport. I thought only the left wing of California was this bad.
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Rep Mirabito just wants to play with our money by giving it to his cronies. Then, he will tell us how wonderful he is for spending our money as his donors wanted.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
The Millions List: Judging the Judges
As with most immediately-contemporary lists like this, it is difficult to tell where "favorite" ends and "best" begins—many of the individual responses belong somewhere in between. Actually, that's not entirely true. A number of the responses are purely, simply gushers.
The inclusions and placements of the list are not really worth quibbling about, and itemizing the good books that were left off is about as easy as falling off a log. I'm not really interested in specifics, because there's a much bigger issue which the list raises: if ordered lists like this must exist, to whom should we be listening to fill them?
First of all, I just want to point out that, of 56 total contributors, it looks like 39 are writers of either fiction or creative non-fiction, or about 70%. And the majority of those are at a fairly early point in their career. This list is heavily shaped by that ridiculous preponderance of a single class. There are only three regular newspaper or magazine book critics (one of whom is Laura Miller, who should count as about a -4. So we're down to -1 book critics). There are two publishers.
And there are solid reasons why these classes might be better judges of something like this exercise. For one thing, I imagine book critics and publishers have to read a lot more fiction than a writer does, simply by virtue of the fact that it is their job. Secondly, they probably read a lot more different kinds of fiction than a writer does, again, simply because they're required to. Personally, I'd be a lot more interested in what Janet Maslin (or the employees of, say, Riverhead Press) thinks are the best books of the past decade than what Yiyun Li liked. Maslin must read a ton and in all kinds of genres. I think her idea of what the fiction of the past ten years is like must be a lot richer and more comprehensive than the piecemeal reading that most of us (including writers) pursue.
Additionally, as far as I can tell, every single judge is U.S.-based, and if that is not the case, then it's pretty darn close. More significantly, perhaps, all or almost all have been educated in the U.S. People have already pointed to a lack of works-in-translation, but that's not a problem that's going to be remedied just by including a few more 'globally aware' Americans. And the reason for that isn't just that we should be seeing more non-Anglophone fiction on the list, but because it might be interesting to hear what Anglophone fiction interests people in non-Anglophone countries.
Thirdly, there are no professors of literature among the judges. There are teachers of creative writing, but nobody who is in the employ of the university to teach, research, and publish on literature. I am getting the feeling that the lit-blogosphere isn't the friendliest environment in which to make this argument, but profs might have something interesting to say about the contemporary novel, and some have even done extensive research on it.
The writer-heaviness of the list accounts, I think, for the high number of short story collections included. I have my own opinions of the relative merit of story collections to novels, but suffice it to say that I find writers' rapturous passions over a competent short story to be a little overheated. The "ZOMG every word is perfect" aesthetic just grates on me. Sorry.
The writer-heaviness also, I think, accounts for why so many of the works included are of the hybrid variety—"literary fiction" that cleverly incorporate genre (SFF, thriller) elements—while there are so few (actually none) books which are actually categorized as genre fiction. Writers who practice this boundary-crossing (while keeping a strong "literary fiction" audience) are simply the most empowering models for aspirant writers: an ambitious young writer would be a fool not to like them. These hybrid books suggest the extent of a writer's powers (crossing or playing with genre boundaries is assumed to be a proof of the writer's talent and imagination) while also instructing on how to rein that power in before falling all the way into genre. "You can play with reality," these books say, "and if you do it like me, you can still be shelved in a respectable location in Barnes and Noble."
I'm not, let me repeat, saying that any of the choices made for this list are unworthy or stupid or "bad." What I'm saying is that they have been shaped by a strongly unified sensibility with almost no opportunity for alternative sensibilities to intrude. I find the stunning lack of diversity in background of the panel of judges disappointing, but not terribly surprising: if the list is really a "young writers' favorites" posing as "critics' measured judgments" that is probably right—The Millions is, after all, a sort of young writers' network posing as a lit-crit blog.
Edit: The Millions has also posted the results of a readers' poll. I did participate in it through Facebook (why not, right?), although only one of my choices made it—Gilead, at #9.
Edit (9/27): Rohan has posted her own list and thoughts, as has Matt at Las obras de Robertro Bolaño.
10 comments:
- Max said...
These are valid points. Regarding the makeup of the panel - it's true that there could have been much more diversity there, and if it had been logistically feasible, a much wider net would have been cast (this is part of why we did the readers poll).
But your criticism of the series and of (some of) the pieces within and of The Millions in general misunderstands what The Millions is all about.
Your characterization: "The Millions is, after all, a sort of young writers' network posing as a lit-crit blog." Thus is something we are actively and vocally not, and that's what I've been saying for years, since day one, essentially.
Many of us write, many of us have some kind of training in writing, but as it pertains to The Millions, quite a few of us have backgrounds working in bookstores, and our mission, consciously or not, comes out of that. The Millions exists to appreciate and to promote books - not specific books, but the idea of books and reading - and the conversation around books. I think this series fits very well with that mission.
This idea may seem facile to you and the crowd at "The Valve," but it is simply where we are coming from and there are quite a few readers out there who come at it the same way.
At any rate, I appreciate the comments.
- September 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- Garth Risk Hallberg said...
Yeah, Andrew, I have to call foul on the little fillip at the end.
Many of these points are well-taken, and I appreciate your open-mindedness about the results. (I personally thought, Cloud Atlas? Really?) But when we publish further results you'll see that almost every ballot named only one of the top five - we had something like 150 books mentioned.
What we've presented is not a unified sensibility in the sense that everyone voted in lockstep, but rather in the sense that part of the effect of a poll like this is, almost by definition, to disclose a place where different sensibilities are unified.
The most heralded book only got a plurality of votes. Thus the point - and I think you picked up on this - was not to be definitive ("Millenium" is obviously, I would hope, tongue-in-cheek), but to start a conversation.
Another way of looking at this is: if we had fatter Rolodexes, the panel might have been more to your taste.
But again, "a sort of young writers' network posing as a lit-crit blog" is true on neither count (from my own, admittedly interested, perspective), as well as being a rhetorical dead-end. And I don't think "posing" is a useful, or in the end accurate, term for inter-blog discourse. I hereby forswear it.
- September 25, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- bzzz said...
(I personally thought, Cloud Atlas? Really?)
I personally think, You consider The Corrections a better novel than Cloud Atlas? Really? Now I understand the phrase "There's no accounting for taste".
- September 25, 2009 at 4:52 PM
- Rohan Maitzen said...
Max, I guess I'd just say, as one of "the crowd at 'The Valve'" who also reads and enjoys the posts at 'The Millions,' that I am enthusiastically in favor of the mission you describe. I think Andrew is suggesting--indeed, he says pretty directly--that he thinks "profs" could be a valuable part of that conversation because they too read a lot of books (and devote a lot of time to promoting them, if in a somewhat different way).
Also, at the risk of gushing a little on Andrew's turf, I would totally have voted for Fingersmith as one of the best of the millenium so far...
- September 25, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- S. said...
The list is indicative of a certain aesthetic sensibility that is natural for the participants and the venue. Instead of calling this the "best" fiction, though, I think it would be more honest and appropriate to rename it "The Best Fiction That Has Been Reviewed in the New York Times" or something along those lines. It would account for the insularity and obviousness of the selections. This is not a jab at The Millions or its panel of judges in particular, but to the claustrophobic narrowness of M.F.A.-sponsored literature in the U.S.
Of the 20 books selected, I believe only 3 were translated into English. Yes, this is a far better percentage than the dreaded "3%" tag that we see so often, and yes, there are selections that represent the multicultural aspects of contemporary global culture, but doesn't the absence of works written in "minor" languages upset anyone? I'm not of the camp that believes a translated book equals a "good" book (there are plenty of terrible books that get translated), nor do I think there is a certain ratio we should aim for in order to feel better about ourselves as readers, but where are the French? Where are the Romanians? Where are the Africans?
There's a reasonable, if circular, argument that novels translated into English do not receive much coverage (because they are often published by small houses lacking the means to promote their books, and because "U.S. readers aren't interested in translations"), making it difficult for readers to learn about these works. But is ignorance an excuse we can tolerate? There are a number of astonishing works written in the past decade that will likely come to define our era in a more significant way that a lot of the books on this list. I will not pick on particular choices; as Andrew writes, there is a fine line between "favorite" and "best."
My hope is that The Millions, being the vehicle that it is, for better or worse, will somewhere down the line attempt to do a similar list that will expose its readers to a more global literature.
- September 25, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Andrew Seal said...
I'm glad you brought up bookstore employees--that's a category I didn't think to include. But then where are the bookstore owners or employees who aren't Millions contributors?
Okay, "posing" was mean. But increasingly over the past, say, year or two, I find the general image that The Millions offers of literary practice has become constricted and limiting. I mean, consider the titling of the post introducing the readers' list: "Best of the Millennium: Pros Versus Readers." What are most of the "Pros" professionals at? Writing fiction or creative non-fiction. And almost no other professional form of literary practice is represented adequately.
The literary world I get from reading your blog is that there are writers, who are professionals, and then there are readers, who are not professionals but who are passionate and engaged. I'm not—in italics—not saying that this is like the worst thing ever or will destroy reading or something. I am saying that it's missing out on the diversity of literary practice, and that doing so constructs some frustrating limitations which are evident from this list.
But I think you misunderstood me about the unity of the sensibility displayed: I didn't say that it was a consensus about what specific titles are "best," but about which forms (short story collections, hybrid fiction) are to be given special consideration. There are two short story collections on the readers' list (both falling in the bottom quartile), but five on the "pros" list. That's not a smoking gun of consensus, but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that what accounts for the significant but not overwhelming difference is the writerly domination of the panel.
Also, I have to point out that your line about the size of your Rolodex is just absurd—this is the internet, most people's email addresses aren't very many clicks away. Especially most professors.
Back to Max,
I'm sorry, but I don't see how The Millions doesn't promote specific books. Features like your monthly list of top-sellers from your site, like the Most Anticipated lists—all these not only have a strong overlap with the same kinds of books (and in many cases, just the same books) as general industry promotion, but are also very much about singling out specific (new or hyped) books to promote.
Now, some other features I will grant you do a great job of promoting reading very broadly (which, by the way, I definitely don't think is a facile goal). I'd say the focus you've made for the Year on Reading as not bowing to the "tyranny of the new" was awesome. I think the "Ask a Book Question" is generally great. I loved Lydia Kiesling's from back when she was doing it on her own site. But I feel (and I'll acknowledge this may be purely subjective) that there is now much more of a conflict on the blog between these type of features and the features which very much are about promoting some specific books which are being singled out because they're new and hyped and by young writers, or are by the favorite writers of young writers.
And that's honestly fine. There are clearly a lot of people who find that very worthwhile and for good reasons. But I think that on an occasion like this, when you're making a bigger claim for what you're doing, more ought to be done.
- September 25, 2009 at 10:02 PM
- Amateur Reader said...
Max - a more diverse panel was not "logistically feasible"? Are you joking? They have email in Germany now. Some other countries, too. Translators also have email.
- September 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
I think people are understating the time and effort required to put together a poll like this. Sure, lots of email addresses are out there, but who, specifically, should they have contacted? Putting together a list of professors and translators who would make sense as panelists would have added another degree of difficulty to what strikes me as already a fairly large undertaking.
The other thing people seem to overlook is the way polls like this inevitably push certain common denominators, so to speak, to the top. I haven't been able to finish The Corrections, but I'm not surprised it showed up on enough lists to be #1. Less well-known books are inevitably going to suffer. I can't think of any obvious way to remedy this in a poll of this size. As a result, what's really being demonstrated is what books are regarded by the most of a certain group of people as "the best." That may sound idiotically obvious, but I think it's actually a worthwhile thing to find out.
Of course, it's also worthwhile to think about the group that's being polled, and in that regard, this post serves a worthy purpose. It overstates the case a little bit, though -- there are 7 or 8 panelists who are primarily critics, I think, and a few others who are primarily editors (and a lot of panelists who wear more than one hat). Young writers are, in fact, the largest group on the panel, but not the only one. (And at the risk of sounding snarky and ad hominem, the post has a whiff of "Why didn't they ask us (i.e., academics)?" about it, does it not? Which is fine, but I wouldn't dress up that complaint too extravagantly.)
PS. Oh, also, the semi-decent number of story collections struck me as a feature, not a bug. There should have been more -- like one of Aleksandar Hemon's, e.g. (Nowhere Man would be my choice, and is somewhere between a story collection and a novel).
- September 27, 2009 at 10:56 PM
- Andrew Seal said...
According to the about page for The Millions, there are 11 active contributors, meaning that there could be considerable division of labor, and a much wider net.
And, while I don't think Nowhere Man is a short story collection, I'm with you on its deserving a great deal of consideration for a list like this--it was in the top 5 that I submitted as one of the non-pro "readers."
- September 27, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for the reply, Andrew. Perhaps you're right about the division of labor. And classifying Nowhere Man is tricky... "story collection" doesn't sound right, it's true, but as I understand it, the different sections were not written as a single book in the manner of a novel. Great book, in any case.
- September 28, 2009 at 1:13 AM


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Baseball Drops Home Finale To Western Michigan
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State baseball team mounted a late rally and had the potential game-winning run at the plate in the ninth inning, but dropped the regular season home finale to Mid-American Conference foe Western Michigan 9-7 Sunday afternoon at Ball Diamond.
The Cardinals recognized their senior class prior to the game in Ross Overstreet (Greenfield, Ind./Lincoln Trail), Tim Issler (Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier), Mitch Widau (Richmond, Ind./Richmond) and Cal Bowling (Muncie, Ind./Yorktown).
First baseman Billy Wellman (Portland, Ind./Jay County) was the offensive catalyst for the Cardinals as he hit a career-high two home runs in the loss while posting three hits and driving in three runs. Wellman, who leads the team with four home runs, is the first Cardinal this season to post multiple home runs in a game and the first since Kenny Mahala did last year against Bowling Green (April 10).
Western Michigan (20-24, 10-10 MAC) came out of the gate quickly against sophomore right-hander Jacob Brewer (South Bend, Ind./St. Joseph's). Brewer last just two thirds of an inning before exiting as he was charged five runs on three hits while walking three batters as the Broncos scored five run in the first frame.
The Cardinals (11-32, 6-15 MAC) struck for their first run in the bottom of the second inning against WMU right-hander Will Nimke. Wellman led off the inning by drilling the first pitch he saw high over the left field wall to make it a 5-1 contest.
The Broncos tacked on two runs in the top of the fourth inning against left-hander Devin Wilburn (Selma, Ind./Wapahani). After a leadoff walk, Wilburn allowed three straight singles including run-scoring hits by Jack Scanlon and Ryan McMillin to make it a 7-1 WMU lead.
Ball State answered back in the bottom of the fourth inning as once again it used the long ball. Freshman Brandon Estep (Selma, Ind./Wapahani) led off the inning with a single before Wellman crushed the second pitch he saw over the left center field wall for his second home run of the afternoon and fourth of the season to make it a 7-3 deficit.
After WMU added a run in the seventh, Ball State pulled within two by scoring three runs in the bottom of the eighth. Estep led off the inning with a walk and moved to second as Wellman singled through the right side. Sophomore T.J. Weir (Kokomo, Ind./Kokomo) posted the Cardinals' third home run of the game as he crushed one over the scoreboard in left center field to make it an 8-6 contest. The three home runs are the most in a single game this season for the Cardinals and the most since hitting four against Bowling Green (April 10).
The Broncos tallied an important insurance run in the top of the ninth inning to take a three-run lead and would need all of the runs to claim the victory. The Cardinals tried for a walk-off rally in the bottom of the ninth inning as Issler was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and Kevin Franchetti (Highland, Ind./Andrean) singled to put two aboard.
After two outs, Estep lined a run-scoring single into left field to narrow the gap to 9-7 with his second hit of the afternoon. Western Michigan went to the bullpen to face Wellman in a potential walk-off situation and left-hander Matt Nestor got him to fly out to the warning track in straight away center field to record his first save of the year.
Brewer (0-5) picked up the loss as he only last two-thirds of an inning and allowed five runs. Five Cardinal relievers combined to work the final 8.1 innings and allowed four runs. Bowling returned from injury to make his first appearance since April 6 and tallied 1.1 innings of no-hit baseball while striking out two batters. Nimke (3-3) picked up the victory as he allowed four runs on eight hits in 7.1 innings of work.
Ball State closes out the non-conference portion of the schedule Wednesday afternoon as it travels to Valparaiso to take on the Crusaders at 3 p.m. (CT).