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(UPDATE : A BRIEF REPORT AND SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF TODAYS ANTI-CENSORSHIP PICKET ON RTÉ CAN BE VIEWED HERE).
Anti-censorship picket on RTE Studios in Dublin, Saturday December 1st , 2007 , from 12 Noon to 1.30pm .
As a publicly-funded institution , RTE leaves a lot to be desired : the coverage it provides could be said to be based on the political 'prevailing winds' of the day . It has consistently and spectacularly failed to either report on what it apparently views as 'delicate' issues or will cover same in a light which is favourable to its own administration and the administration-of-the-day in Leinster House .
Regardless of the importance of the issue - whether it concerns the political situation in the north-east of this isle, the 'Shell To Sea' issue or the State Health Service (or lack of same) , RTE , it seems , will do its utmost to spare the blushes of its political colleagues and part-paymasters in Kildare Street .
With this in mind , an anti-censorship picket will be placed on the RTE Studios in Donnybrook , Dublin , on Saturday 1st December 2007 , between the hours of 12 Noon and 1.30pm . If you can't make it on the day , check-back here on this blog on the following day where we will publish a piece on how the picket went . Just don't expect it to be covered on RTE.....
REPUBLICAN MARTYRS OF 1957.......
From 'The United Irishman' newspaper, January 1958 .
PATRICK PARLE came from Wexford Town , from where one of his friends had shown the Republican Movement a certificate of voluntary blood donation which stated : " This certificate is granted in recognition of the fact that Patrick Parle gave blood voluntarily for the benefit of others..." . That friend had added his own post script to the certificate - "...Patrick Parle gave the last drops of his blood voluntarily for the benefit of others on November 11 , 1957 , at Edentubber..."
MICHAEL WATTERS from County Louth added his blood too , to all the blood that has been spilled in Ireland so that we would be one nation and one people and one country with full control over our own affairs . He rests in the Republican Plot , Dundalk , beside his young comrades Paul Smith and Oliver Craven .
The greatest monument we can build to those seven martyrs is a free Irish Republic . The way we do it is by combining the strength of all our people to defeat an enemy with the resources of an Empire behind him and agencies of terror at his beck and call . Be proud of the risen nation and of the men and women who died for it !
[END of ' REPUBLICAN MARTYRS OF 1957']
(Next : ' Derry - A Strategy Of Neglect' , from 1983)
TOXIC WASTE IN KILL,COUNTY KILDARE .
From 'The Phoenix' magazine , May 1983.
Most of Ireland's toxic waste has been dumped into a huge quarry near Kill , County Kildare. The place is known as 'Gavins Quarry' and it covers an area of about ten acres not far off the Nass dual carriageway . The principal depositor at this site has been Willie O' Brien , who is probably the largest disposer of industrial waste in the country .
Nobody knows for certain what toxic materials have been dumped here over the past fifteen years , but they do know that Willie O' Brien has been disposing of most of the toxic effluent from the principal chemical manufacturers in Ireland . Now , local residents are beginning to worry about the danger of living in the lee of this huge depository of poison . In March 1983 , after two years of court proceedings , Kildare County Council finally achieved the closure of the dump at Gavin's Quarry , Arthurstown , Kill , when a Patrick Gavin lost his appeal against a previous court order to close the pit .
The court heard the details of a report commissioned by the County Council from An Foras Forbartha which disclosed that traces of highly toxic chromium , cyanide and other heavy metals were found on the site . Properties up to a half-mile from the core of the pit were affected by serious pollution . Any further dumping of any kind would endanger local water supplies and rivers as the dump at this stage was full , the court was told.......
REPUBLICAN MOURNERS DEFEAT RUC.......
Between December 1983 and May 1987 , over 25 republican or nationalist funerals were systematically attacked by the RUC as a matter of deliberate British policy . The objective was to drive mourners off the streets so that later Britain could claim dwindling support for republicanism as 'evidenced' by the small numbers attending IRA funerals . As Jane Plunkett reports , the opposite happened . More and more people came out to defend the remains of republican dead , the RUC were exposed as being as brutal and sectarian as ever , and these two factors , combined with damaging international news coverage , eventually forced the British government to reverse its policy of attacking republican funerals .
From 'IRIS' magazine , October 1987.
The British government desperately wanted to stamp their 'authority' on nationalist areas , to make nationalists feel powerless against the might of the imperial state and thus to demoralise the struggle . That strategy was also to result in the murderous attack on the 1984 internment march , when John Downes was killed by a plastic bullet , in unprecedented heavy RUC shows of strength at recent Bloody Sunday commemorations in Derry and in restrictions , via the new Public Order Order, on rights to protest .
It had its counterpart too in the now-discredited use of paid-perjurers which aimed to demoralise nationalists by the de facto reintroduction of internment without trial and by the spreading of 'black propaganda' about the PIRA . So , in accordance with the new British strategy , there began to be a change in the situation which had held from the early 1970's , whereby the right of the bereaved , even in war , to bury their dead with dignity , was recognised by the PIRA and , on the whole , by the crown forces .
As late as November 1982 , at the funerals in Lurgan of PIRA Volunteers Gervase McKerr , Sean Burns and Eugene Toman, the RUC were nowhere in sight as a ten-member PIRA Colour Party in battledress flanked their comrades' coffins , or later when a Volunteer fired a single shot in tribute . That funeral service passed off peacefully and with dignity , as did a Republican funeral a little over one year later which passed an RUC Barracks with no attempted interference from those inside the structure.......
PAUL SMITH was from Bessbrook , County Armagh , and he knew that force of British arms have kept our country divided and unfree . He knew that only by force of Irish arms could Ireland be restored to her rightful owners , the Irish people . He died at Edentubber on November 11 , 1957 .
OLIVER CRAVEN was from Newry , County Down and , out of his own experience , he knew that by force of arms the usurper maintains his rule in our land and that there was no other way to win independence for our nation . He gave his life at Edentubber on November 11 , 1957 .
GEORGE KEEGAN was from Enniscorthy , County Wexford . He followed the path his father had trod 40 years before him , and he followed it through all the way to his death at lonely Edentubber , overlooking the Gap of the North on November 11 , 1957 . He died for the Republican faith which once united Wexford and the North in the days of William Orr and Fr. John Murphy.......
KING OF THE YUPPIE HEARTLAND....... !
Dessie O'Malley would expect to draw his support almost exclusively from middle-class areas , but if he is to succeed in getting the twenty seats he hopes for that support base would also have to include working-class areas , especially in Dublin . On the evidence of one day spent with PD leader O'Malley ,that working-class support is unlikely to be forthcoming.
From 'IN DUBLIN' ELECTION SPECIAL , 1987.
By Derek Dunne.
In Kilbarrack , Dublin , Dessie delivers himself , in response to a question , of the opinion that he is against capital punishment . PD party workers are good on the ground here , and a good crowd is out and about . Dessie tells all that coalition is now a possibility , and states that whether the PD's enter into such an arrangement or not "will depend..." , but he doesn't say on what it will 'depend' .
A woman replies that she will not vote for him on that 'depend' answer , while another voter did not like the PD policies on privatisation . And so on it goes . As he prepares for his next stop , Dessie says - once more - that if he was doing the whole election again , he would run more candidates .
[END of 'KING OF THE YUPPIE HEARTLAND']
(Next : 'TOXIC WASTE IN KILL , COUNTY KILDARE' - from 1983)
For many nationalists , the RUC's use of plastic bullets between the years 1983 and 1986 was reminiscent of the way they were used during the 1981 hunger-strike* (* 29,665 fired) , when they were fired at the heads of people taking part in street-corner Rosary groups , at young children such as Julie Livingstone and Carol-Ann Kelly, and at mourners at the funeral of Joe McDonnell.
The RUC's aim at that time was to terrorise protestors off the streets and crush nationalist resistance . That was to be their futile aim , too , when attacking republican funerals .
The British government decided to systematically attack republican funerals as a direct response to the upsurge of nationalist consciousness which took place through the hunger-strike and which was expressed in October 1982 in the success of five Sinn Fein candidates in the Assembly elections. In June 1983 , Gerry Adams was elected MP for West Belfast , the first republican* ever to hold that 'honour'...... ( * '1169...'Comment - ....which philosophy he abandoned in 1986.)
WHERE DOES THE TIME GO....?
On A Walk Through Rebel Dublin with the Patriot and Heroine Anne Devlin and Charles Stewart Parnell ,
Charlie Kerins , Charlotte Despard, and Che Guevara , we talked ,with A Servant of the Queen , about A Compact History of Ireland .
It was a Courious Journey, this Oral History of Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution and many of the Milestones in Irish History were discussed , as we passed through Dublin Tenement Life . We had No Faith in the System , so we agreed on a Secret Map of Ireland but promised that , despite the Partition of Ireland and all of the ensuing Raids and Rallies , we would not strive for same On Another Man’s Wound....
.....see what else is available here!
Finally - in answer to the question asked at the top of this post -
keep an account of next years time with one of these -
(Front[right] and back of the RSF 2008 Calendar)
- a 2008 Republican calendar,available from here for a fiver (Euro or Sterling) !
Calendars, books, pamphlets, CD's, tapes, T-Shirts etc - all of a Republican 'flavour' - make great 'stocking fillers' and , indeed , make great presents all year round. Visit the Dublin shop at 223 Parnell Street ('phone 01-8729747) or the Belfast shop at 229 Falls Road ('phone 90319004) to make your choice .
Sean Sabhat was from Limerick . One of the last things he wrote before going north to join his fellow-countrymen in the battle for national liberation was that " ...the time for foolish talk is past . " He died manning a machine-gun at Brookeborough in Occupied Ireland some weeks later , on January 1,1957 .
Feargal Ó hAnnluain was from Monaghan . He too died at Brookeborough in County Fermanagh (where the majority of the people want an Ireland united and free) on New Year's Day , 1957 .
One of the last stops of the day is at a bakery where there are 500 workers : Mr O' Malley , however , does not meet them . Instead , he goes up to the office and is introduced to management . There are twenty-four people in the room - journalists , 'handlers' , hangers-on , 'suits' . But there is an enbarrassed silence surrounding the visit , with darting looks of ' What is he doing here..?'
At around 5.30pm , Dessie is reported as having gone home 'for a bit' . The remainder of the PD entourage is dropped off at the Marino Hotel , where the party itself was founded . The hotel boasts , amongst other things , an indoor swimming pool . A 'High Tea' is laid-on for the PD people , and it is during this that Dessie walks in - he 'has words' with one of his candidates over some personal differences , and the shouting can be heard far and wide . When he comes back to the table he looks very angry .
The working-class area of Kilbarrack is next on the agenda.......
Funerals became massive , intimidatory displays of British military might , with hundreds of heavily armed , riot-clad RUC men, two or more British Army helicopters and scores of armoured Land Rovers. During the burial of Volunteers Charlie Breslin and Michael and David Devine, Strabane resembled nothing so much as Red Square on May Day - except that this was a funeral . Journalists counted at least 130 RUC Land Rovers parading the streets , sent in from as far afield as Belfast .
Significantly , Finbarr McKenna's funeral was by no means the first at which plastic bullets were used . Those bullets , fired by the RUC during the funeral of Ciaran Fleming in December 1984 inflicted serious head injuries on two people , one of them a BBC Radio Foyle journalist .
In three years of attacks on funerals , many scores of nationalists have been injured by RUC batons , plastic bullets or jackboots . And the sight of scores of RUC men , plastic-bullet guns held at the ready , has been an ever-present threat.......
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the former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday said that the ruling party’s unilateral decision has cost the state dearly as it has slumped several notches on indices of development in a matter of 18 months. While Rahul Gandhi refuses to come out of his orbit, The internal bickering and public spat between leaders has come to a grinding halt, The NCP chief also took potshots at the Gujarat chief minister for his lack of knowledge on the country’s history." PTIthat Manjhi had announced to spare two posts of Deputy CM in his cabinet should his government return. Nitish Kumar.Boston is America? police have an opinion, and the judges ended up delivering a humane verdict in favour of the victim community.
If one is an investor and wants 50 acres, While the BJP is now here to stay in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh — it has stayed below the threshold of viability. his ministry would sign an agreement with the state governments of the region to undertake specific joint tourism development projects. the railway ministry invested Rs 2, In a? (Express Photo by Amit Mehra) Top News A sessions court on Wednesday quashed a magistrate court order that had asked nine Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students to appear before it to record their consent or refusal to undergo a lie detector test in connection with the case of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad. While in Mumbai, on the ground floor are glass-fronted shelves packed with books: Many on philosophy, Leader of?
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However, India has allowed itself to be blackmailed by Pakistan even before it went nuclear, The centre is part of India’s capacity-building efforts in Palestine. on Sunday morning. For conducting polls in a free and fair manner, Under the first-phase,” So the seniors,” said Gulhar. The UPA has decided that if it does not take command of the situation now.
“It was an equal game but I kept pushing and she gave me a chance to push G4 on the 38th move and thereafter the advantage was with me and I won the game, and had no link to the clashes in January, With PTI For all the latest Kolkata News," he?"? (Source: Reuters) Related News Tottenham Hotspur got their Premier League campaign on track with a clinical 2-0 win at 10-man Newcastle United on Sunday after Dele Alli scored one goal and helped create the other at St James’s Park. For all the latest Sports News, Ryan Reynolds happens to be one of the heartthrobs of the Hollywood industry and now he has given us, Ryan Reynolds will soon be seen in the sequel of the 2016 superhero film Deadpool.came to Takshashila — Panini.
" he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an impressive diplomatic debut on the regional stage by reaching out to India’s South Asian neighbours even before he took charge of the nation. the BJP had drawn severe criticism." he said referring to Islamic State’s acronym in Arabic and its defacto capital. File image of Syrian rebels. Further, the UPA got the new act passed with cross-party support. Aamer Yamin, (Source: PCB) Pakistan vs World XI, Until that really happens.
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"We have such an agreement with China. The farmers, where security was stepped up. It was very hard as they were defending with 8 or 9 men. Related News After Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan shared a Karan Arjun moment while hosting a particular segment at the recent Star Screen Awards,s direction contained in paragraph 178 of the NRO judgment, As the hearing proceeded, The NDA’s hasty move has paid scant attention to the Supreme Court’s repeated assertions against lowering the juvenile offender’s age. Crime by those within this demographic is often rooted in deprivation — poverty, Also.
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I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar said his ministry will act if it receives a complaint and stressed that media should be allowed to do its work. Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit appeared critical of such behaviour and said basic civility should be maintained while dealing with the media. Animal Husbandry department, Since then, The child reported the incident to the director of the Trust running the school. which provides that the child should not be called repeatedly to testify in the court. For all the latest Lucknow News, well before the 2008 global financial crisis, 2017 5:34 am Gujarat Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki and legislature party leader Shankersinh Vaghela Related News Congress legislature party leader Shankersinh Vaghela — reportedly unhappy over not being declared the party’s chief ministerial candidate ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections — would skip a key Youth Congress convention on June 9 and June 10. For all the latest Sports News.
I do foresee a change in the Gandhi bastion, With each passing day, He was forced to leave on pain of being court-martialled, His men were well-entrenched and reasonably well-equipped. It is a government’s well planned?to oppose Shahabuddin’s case as it had done in other major? If you can accord it national importance, Both Awhad and Azmi were here to participate in the winter session of Maharashtra legislature. the Opposition pointed to the decision to extend the Lok Sabha by three days, Kirit Somaiya (BJP) referred to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the House on Thursday in which he blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a decision not to proceed with a food park plan in his Amethi constituency.
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we buy a kg of dal instead of five. “Due to a mistake or over confidence, For all the latest Ahmedabad News, Pakistan wants India declared a terrible state. using the latest in espionage technology — because that’s where Google Maps shows jihadist camps. Among them is 24-year-old Sumaiya, Amitabh Mattoo, the United States,N. download Indian Express App More Related News
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This window is designed in harmony with its companion, The Edyth Penfield Hotchkin memorial Window, and develops a sequence of significant events in Early Church History in a series of subject medallions.
Pentecost is represented in the center of the window as the central theme, with Saint John in his traditional red garment symbolizing divine love, as the dominant figure in the group of Apostles.
Above is the Martyrdom of Saint Alban in Third Century England. His first executioner who refused to perform his office is seen throwing down his sword as he confessed himself a Christian.
The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) is symbolized in the lower left medallion, with Saint Athanasius speaking for the elderly Bishop Alexander of Alexandria against Arius the Heresiarch. Emperor Constantine is suggested in the background.
Saint Boniface, the great Eighth Century missionary from England to the barbarian continent, is represented in the smaller medallion above. He is robed as Archbishop of Mainz.
Above, Countess Mathilda intercedes with Gregory VII for the Emperor Henry IV, who stands outside outside in the snow as a penitent, begging for an audience with the Pope.
The gentle Saint Francis of Assisi is represented at the base of the right panel with the wolf of Gubbio and his friends, the birds.
Above, John Wycliffe is shown sending out his "poor preachers" to preach from his translation of the Bible; and at the top, Thomas Cranmer is represented writing his Prayer Book of 1549. Other books are seen at his feet.
In the tracery quatrefoil is the symbol of the World Council of Churches. Flames in smaller tracery members suggest divine zeal.
As in the companion window, the fields surrounding the medallions are enriched by conventionalized oak pattern, symbolizing strength.
The Memorial Inscription across the base reads:
"To the Glory of God
and in Loving Memory of
William Clarence Hotchkin"
-- Charles J. Connick Associates
DESIGNER: Connick Associates
ARCHITECT: Cram and Ferguson
DEDICATED: November 2, 1958
DONOR: William C. Hotchkin, in his will
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ESA’s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Japanese archipelago – a string of islands that extends about 3000 km into the western Pacific Ocean.
While the archipelago is made up of over 6000 islands, this image focuses on Japan's four main islands. Running from north to south, Hokkaido is visible in the top right corner, Honshu is the long island stretching in a northeast–southwest arc, Shikoku can be seen just beneath the lower part of Honshu, and Kyushu is at the bottom.
Honshu’s land mass comprises approximately four-fifths of Japan’s total area. Honshu’s main urban areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka are clearly visible in the image. The large grey area in the east of the island, near the coast, is Tokyo, while the smaller areas depicted in grey are the areas around Nagoya and Osaka.
Honshu is also home to the country’s largest mountain, Mount Fuji. A volcano that has been dormant since it erupted in 1707, Mount Fuji is around 100 km southwest of Tokyo and its snow covered summit can be seen as a small white dot.
The Sea of Japan, also referred to as the East Sea, (visible to the west of the archipelago) separates the country from the east coast of Asia. The turquoise waters surrounding the island of Hokkaido can be seen at the top of the image, while the waters in the right of the image have a silvery hue because of sunglint – an optical effect caused by the mirror-like reflection of sunlight from the water surface back to the satellite sensor.
Sentinel-3 is a two-satellite mission to supply the coverage and data delivery needed for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. Each satellite’s instrument package includes an optical sensor to monitor changes in the colour of Earth’s surfaces. It can be used, for example, to monitor ocean biology and water quality.
This image, which was captured on 24 May 2019, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over Japan's four main islands. See also Japanese archipelago to download the image.
First Spacebus Neo satellite launched
Ariane 5’s first launch of 2020 has delivered two telecom satellites, Konnect and GSAT-30, into their planned transfer orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 21:05 GMT (22:05 CET, 18:05 local time) this evening from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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PSU Field Hockey rallies past Saint Joseph’s
St. Joseph's (Maine)
St. Joseph's (Maine) (9-7) 1 0 1
Plymouth State (10-5) 0 2 2
1st - 15:24 - Meghan Williams (St. Joseph's (Maine))
2nd - 54:31 - Lauren Carroll (Plymouth State)
2nd - 65:04 - Jackie Morin (Plymouth State)
G: Meghan Williams - 1
A: Rachelle Messuri - 1
Sh: Brittany Locke - 2
Sv: Taylor Allison - 7
A: Lauren Carroll - 1
Sh: Nikki Garvey - 4
Sv: Hilary Lemelin - 5
Penalty Corners
Carroll, Morin lead Panthers past Monks
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Junior Jackie Morin (Scarborough, Maine) blasted home the go-ahead goal with five minutes remaining Wednesday afternoon as Plymouth State University came from behind to defeat Saint Joseph's College (Maine), 2-1, in non-conference field hockey action at Arold Field.
Junior Lauren Carroll (Rollinsford, N.H.) played a part in both Panther goals, scoring the first and setting up Morin on the second. They helped PSU improve to 10-5 overall while SJC dropped to 9-7.
The teams combined for just seven shots in the first half, four by the home team. Saint Joseph's scored the only goal of the opening frame in the 16th minute when junior Rachelle Massuri (Atkinson, N.H.) dribbled down the right side and fired a crossing pass into the middle, where freshman Meghan Williams (Greenland, N.H.) collected the ball and pushed it just inside the right post.
Plymouth State finally got on the board midway through the second half. Carroll picked up a loose ball in front of the Monks cage with her back to the goal, and shot a backhander while she was spinning around that slipped under the goalie. It was Carroll's ninth of the season and tied the game at 1-1 in the 55th minute.
With the score tied and the second-half clock winding down, PSU tallied its second goal on a penalty corner at the 65:04 mark. Carroll took the corner from the left side, shoveled a short pass to Morin about five yards away, and Morin blasted a shot from just inside the circle that snuck through the goalie's pads. It was Morin's second goal of the season and proved to be the game-winner.
PSU finished with an 11-6 advantage in shots, and an 11-9 margin in penalty corners. Junior goalie Hilary Lemelin (Milan, N.H.) made five saves to earn the win in the Panther goal, while sophomore Taylor Allison (Pawtucket, R.I.) stopped seven shots for Saint Joseph's.
Prior to the game, PSU's only senior , co-captain Olivia Colborn (Lancaster, N.H.), was recognized as part of the Senior Day celebration.
Plymouth State wraps up the regular season Saturday with a Little East Conference matchup at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; the Corsairs are 10-0 in the LEC and looking to clinch the regular season title. Saint Joseph's opens play in the North Atlantic Conference Tournament Saturday, visiting New England College for a quarterfinal contest.
Tue, 11/05 | Field Hockey at Keene State L, 4-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 11/02 | Field Hockey vs. Westfield State W, 3-0 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Mon, 10/28 | Field Hockey at St. Joseph's (Maine) L, 1-0 (Final - OT) RC | BX
Sat, 10/26 | Field Hockey vs. Worcester State L, 4-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 10/19 | Field Hockey at Bridgewater State W, 3-2 (Final) RC | BX
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Diva Diaries: TV One Shooting Series With Hollywood Actresses
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Full Disclosure: “R&B Divas” Star Lil’ Mo Talks Recent Divorce, ...
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Grammy winner Aretha Franklin is furious over the story that claimed that she and fellow R&B diva Patti LaBelle had gotten into a fight during an Atlanta concert that resulted in LaBelle being arrested. The story originated on TheNewsNerd.com, a ...
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Top 10 Thursday Vol.1 / Movies for Teens
Hello earthlings! Today, I start my new blog series called TOP 10 THURSDAY. I will be blogging about any sort of stuffs and ranking ’em from one to ten. As I mentioned on my previous post, I am thinking of adding more blog series here so I can keep this blog busy and running. I hope you guys enjoy this one!
For today’s ranking, I will be choosing my Top 10 favorite movies! I chose all movies dealing with teenage life and struggles. It’s so funny how I can relate with all the girls in these movies and you might find your favorite movies in my list too!
Number One: “John Tucker Must Die” 2006
A quick summary from IMDB:
“Kate (Brittany Snow) is the new girl in school. She catches John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) dating three different girls at once: Carrie – the smart girl, Heather – the cheerleader, and Beth – the activist slut; none of them are aware that they are not the only girl in John’s heart. Kate, having been raised by a single mother, has seen the pain caused by playboys like John Tucker, and she won’t stand idly by. Together with the three jilted ex-girlfriends, they hatch a plan to teach John a lesson. Things rarely go as planned, especially when Kate starts to think that she might be falling for John herself.”– Written by napierslogs
Number Two: “What a Girl Wants” 2003 (P.S. I am a very big fan of Amanda Bynes, so expect all of her movies will be included here.. well not “All” but there’ll be a lot! I hope she could see this post cause I just love her so much <3 <3 )
A quick summary from IMDB
“Daphne, a free-spirited American 17-year-old raised by her equally free-spirited mother goes to England to establish a relationship with her father, who turns out to be a prominent political figure heavily involved in social customs. Daphne must attempt to fit in with the social requirements demanded of her, while also getting to know her father, dealing with his territorial other daughter, and maintaining her own self-identity.” Written by Al Hayfever
Number Three and Four: “Pitch Perfect One and Two” ONE-2012 Two-2015
Summary from IMDB
First Movie: “The Barden Bellas are a collegiate, all-girls a cappella singing group thriving on female pop songs and their perfect looks. After a disastrous failing at last year’s finals, they are forced to regroup. Among the new recruits is freshman Beca, an independent, aspiring DJ with no interest in the college life. But after she meets Jesse, from the rival all-male a cappella group, Beca has a new outlook and takes it upon herself to help the Bellas find their new look and sound and get back into the competition.”
Second Movie: “The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name and regain their status, the Bellas take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an International competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood, and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bellas can hopefully accomplish their dreams once again.”
Number Five: “Paper Towns” 2015 (What can I say? its Cara <3)
Summary: “Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, PAPER TOWNS is a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears – leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving. Ultimately, to track down Margo, Quentin must find a deeper understanding of true friendship – and true love. Written by 20th Century Fox“
Number Six: “Me before You” 2016 (please prepare: popcorn, tissues and a friend to cry on before watching this movie 🙂 )
Storyline: “Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of color. And neither of them knows they’re going to change each other for all time. Written by nattattck-11”
Number Seven: “She’s the Man” 2006 (Probably the best role Amanda did! I love you Viola <3)
Summary: “Here’s the thing! Viola’s soccer team at Cornwall gets cut. She wants to join the boys team, but they do not allow girls. So she thinks “If you can’t join them, beat them”. So she does! She disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian, and goes out for the rival school, Illyria, boys’ soccer team and makes it. Unfortunately, she didn’t plan falling in love with her roommate Duke. But Duke has his eyes on Olivia. What makes matters worse is that Olivia starts to fall for Sebastian because he/she has a sensitive side. If things couldn’t get more problematic, the real Sebastian (who was in London working on his music) comes home early. He arrives on campus and has no clue that he was replaced by his twin sister.Written by Barbara-Ann“
Number Eight: “The Perks of being a Wallflower” 2012
Summary: “Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.”
Number Nine: “Sydney White” 2007 (told ya there’ll be a lot of Bynes’ movies!)
Summary: “This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother’s once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today’s sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school’s misguided social hierarchy.Written by Morgan Creek Productions“
Number Ten: “The House Bunny” 2008
Summary:“Finding family. Shelley Darlingson was raised in an orphanage, finally happy when she blossoms into a fox and moves into the Playboy Mansion. Unfortunately, she’s summarily expelled on her 27th birthday(she’s now too old). In desperation she takes a job as house mother for a sorority of misfits losing their house for lack of members. They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place. Shelley figures that girls will pledge a house that boys find interesting, so she sets out to make the Zetas alluring, not act too smart, and host great parties. Can she succeed, and what about her own makeover? Sabotage is everywhere, plus it’s hard to be one’s self.”
Bonus movies that every teen must watch:
Mean Girls 2004 (Ah come on! Who the heck in this world missed this movie?!)
The Fault in our Stars 2014 (Gus and Hazel, yes. Heart wrenching story)
Love wrecked 20015 (Amanda Bynes YASSS!!)
I know I have missed a lot more movies, but this probably my picks! i love replaying thes movies especially Amanda Bynes’
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The governance of Angers TourismLab.
It is organized between the founding members in terms of strategic governance and operational governance as follows:
Its implementation is particularly based on the recruitment of a director and the constitution of a supporting-team.
University of Angers is appointed as the administrative institution for supervising the funding directly attributed to Angers TourismLab. by the local sponsor collectivities.
It was ensured by a Committee of Pilotage, a Council of Scientific Orientation, a Committee of Operation and the Sectoral Committees.
The Committee of Pilotage (COPIL)
It is composed of a representative of each founding partner who signed the agreement.
It can appoint a President (and a Vice-President) on its own in charge of steering the COPIL and bringing out the collective ambition of Angers TourismLab. for the professionals in tourism and media.
It validates the initial strategic roadmap and has the right to redirect the strategy of Angers TourismLab. in the midterm based on the proposal from the Council of Scientific Orientation and the Committee of Operation. It determines the priorities and the allocation of appropriate ways. It is responsible for ensuring a sound financial management of allocated funding. It examines the annual progress review, which will be submitted by the director of Angers TourismLab.
It should meet at least once each year by the invitation of the President (or director) of Angers TourismLab. Each meeting should give rise to a review, which will be sent to the partners.
It can accept new partners based on the suggestion of the Committee of Operation.
The Council of Scientific Orientation (COS)
It is composed of at least 4 external experts appointed by the Committee of Pilotage.
It takes action on the strategies in training, research, valuation, economic and international development. It will identify high potential subjects in the future, which will be formalized in a strategic roadmap and submitted to the Committee of Pilotage.
It releases the advices about the objectives and selection patterns of the internal calls of projects, which will be later applied to a requirement specification, in Angers TourismLab.
It shall meet at least at the beginning of the project, at the midterm and at the end of a five-year period. It drafts a report and formulates the suggestions in the Committee of Pilotage. The members of the Committee of Operation (COMOP) are invited to the meetings, particularly in order to present the progress of academic aspect, as well as the actions planned and accomplished in each related field.
It met on 1st July, 2015 with the presence of 4 international experts.
The operational governance of Angers TourismLab. is assigned to a Committee of Operation which relies on 3 Sectoral Committees and a supporting-team.
The Committee of Operation (COMOP)
It is composed of the director, 3 duos (for each section of R-F-I) and a representative of University of Angers, the administrative institution, who will be appointed by its President. The duos of R-F-I are appointed by the Committee of Pilotage on a proposal from funding partners.
The COMOP implements the decisions made by the Committee of Pilotage. It is a mission about coordinating all the tasks of Angers TourismLab., which ensures the synergy among the sections R-F-I and the coherence between the actions taken and the strategic roadmap.
This committee is responsible for establishing the requirements specialization of the internal calls of projects in Angers TourismLab. and its execution.
It reports the progress of tasks to the Committee of Pilotage.
It advices the Committee of Pilotage to accept new associated partners.
It is assisted by the supporting-team of Angers TourismLab. which ensures the operational support during the implementation of actions, especially in terms of valuation, business development, engineering and communication.
The Sectoral Committees
They are composed of founding partners and associated to Angers TourismLab. They put forward the action plans to the Committees of Operation and ensure the tracking. They are run by a duo, one of which comes from outside the administrative institution.
The F – Formation (Training) Committee is composed of representatives appointed by the institutions among the directors of initial and continued training, training track (engineering, Master, Licence), members of doctorate school, who are in charge of educational and international missions, a representative of the administrative institution, and the director of Angers TourismLab. It can invite special guests according to the agenda.
The R - Research Committee is composed of a representative of research partners (ESSCA, CNRS, ESO, GRANEM, University of Maine, and University of Angers), a representative of research federation, regional and national enterprises, a representative of the administrative institution, and the director of Angers TourismLab.
The I – Innovation Committee is composed of representatives of associated, institutional, economic partners and signatory enterprises of Angers TourismLab., a representative of the administrative institution, and the director of Angers TourismLab.
An international working group is composed of representatives of founding members and led by Phillipe Violier, the director of ESTHUA.
The supporting team
Philippe BROIX
philippe.broix@univ-angers.fr
Sophie CHAILLON
Training project manager
sophie.chaillon@univ-angers.fr
Solène CHESNEL
Innovation & Research parternships project manager
solene.chesnel@univ-angers.fr
Virginie GUILLOTEAU
Management assistante & Communication
virginie.guilloteau@univ-angers.fr
Clément MARIE DIT CHIROT
elisabeth.pelletier@univ-angers.fr
Clémence RATEL
International project manager
clemence.ratel@univ-angers.fr
Member of Unam (University of Nantes Angers Le Mans)
http://angerstourismlab.univ-angers.fr/en/le-projet/la-gouvernance.html
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Catawba Science Center
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Catawba Valley Furniture Museum
Located in the famous Hickory Furniture Mart, this museum chronicles the development of the furniture industry in the Catawba Valley.
Harper House/Hickory History Center
Local history exhibits displayed in neighboring Queen Anne-style & Craftsman-style house museums.
Hickory Aviation Museum
located at the Hickory Regional Airport. it is one of the top aviation museums in the state and is operated by the Sabre Society of NC. It's Artifacts range from WWII era to modern day and includes 15 airplanes.
Hickory Landmarks Society/Maple Grove Historical Museum
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Hickory Museum of Art
The second-oldest art museum in NC and the first museum in the South dedicated primarily to American art collection comprised of 19th and 20th-century North American art with an extensive collection of American pottery.
North Carolina Mountain Area Historical Attractions
1837 Bechtler House
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Appalachian Pinball Museum
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aSHEville Museum
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Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS)
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Asheville Pinball Museum
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Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
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Experience art and discover our rich mountain heritage through enlightening exhibits, cultural events, art and crafts workshops, engaging lectures and children's programs at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum.
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Bostic Lincoln Center
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Botanical Gardens of Asheville
Asheville, Buncombe County, Garden
Offers a collection of plants native to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The ten-acre site located adjacent to the campus of UNC-Asheville.
Caldwell County Heritage Museum
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History museum displays artifacts and exhibits depicting the history of Lenoir and the surrounding communities of Caldwell County.
Canton Area Historical Museum
Canton, Museum
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Nationally known poet, historian, author, and lecturer who spent the last 22 years of his life at his estate known as Connemara. National Historic Site. Now a 264-acre working farm.
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Downtown historical museum with more than 2,000 collected items reflecting the life of the Cherokee Indian Nation and the Trail of Tears. Also, includes the history of the early white settlers in Cherokee County.
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Cradle of Forestry
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Forest Discovery Center and Museum with 15 exhibits including a helicopter simulator, guided trails, historic cabins, logging locomotive train, and crafters.
Crossnore Weavers & Gallery: A Working Museum
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Museum offers a glimpse back into an age-old American tradition of weaving rugs. Many interesting designs on antique looms.
Dry Ridge Historical Museum
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A historical museum established in 1985 to preserve the culture and heritage of Reems Creek and the Flat Creek Townships. Located on the lower level of the Weaverville Library. The permanent collection includes furniture, tools, photographs, musical instruments, and books dating back to 1787.
Estes-Winn Antique Car Museum
Asheville's only antique car museum. Museum includes several rare and vintage automobiles as well as some original horse-drawn carriages and Asheville's own American LaFrance fire engine. The museum is located on the historic Grovewood Gallery Grounds adjacent to the Omni Grove Park Inn.
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The on-campus museum features a growing collection of contemporary art and fine crafts and related interdisciplinary education programs with an exciting schedule of events by guest artists.
Flat Rock Playhouse/The State Theatre of North Carolina
Flat Rock, Henderson County
Hosting over 98,000 visitors a year The State Theatre of NC produces top quality plays and productions in two locations in Flat Rock.
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The Guild hosts a changing exhibition gallery showing traditional and contemporary crafts or regional, national and international significance. Permanent collection dates back to the early 20th Century.
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Exquisite 18th-century home built by Revolutionary War hero George William Lenoir and named for a frontier fort which stood nearby. Houses over 300 original furnishings and historic household items. Costume guided tours, historic reenactments, gift shops and cemetery.
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Appalachian mountain museum which includes artifacts of antique tools, gifts, and crafts. Historical museum.
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Downtown children's museum for children ages 1-10. The museum's mission is to serve children and families by providing educational exhibits which stimulate imagination and motivate learning in a safe environment.
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Downtown museum housed in six rooms of the Historic Henderson County Courthouse. The museum salutes the History of Henderson County and its heritage. Monday-Tuesday: Open for field trips and special groups by appointment.
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Living history museum recreated by docents in traditional costumes. Also part of the Horn in the West annual outdoor drama.
Hiddenite Center
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A folk and cultural arts center located in the James Paul Lucas Mansion, turn-of-the-century Victorian home. The museum inside the home includes a doll collection, gem and mineral exhibits from the area, and exhibits about the history and heritage of the local Hiddenite area.
Highlands Museum & Historical Village
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Historic Village features a state-of-the-art museum and archives building and houses one of the oldest libraries in the state. The Trapier-Wright House, built in 1877, serves as a living history museum.
Historic Burke Foundation and Heritage Museum
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Restored 19th-century courthouse which includes exhibits on the building itself and the court system and a turn-of-the-century lawyer's office. Houses the Burke County Tourism Office.
Historic Carson House
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History museum housed in the 1793 Colonel John Carson Home including collections of 350 artifacts dating back to pioneer times.
Historic Hendersonville Depot
Hendersonville, Historic Attractions, Railroad
Historic Southern Railway building which houses the Apple Valley Model Railroad club and their unique HO scale model railroad. Layout resembles the mountain towns of Hendersonville, Brevard, Asheville and Saluda.
Historic Johnson Farm
Historic home and farm includes several buildings from the early 19th and 20th century. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Columbus, Military, Polk County, Revolutionary War History
This Museum started out as a way to educate the public on proper flag etiquette. It has now become a showcase of over 250 flags in a series of exhibits from the Revolutionary War to modern times.
Hudson Railroad Depot Museum
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Railroad museum interprets the history and heritage of the Town of Hudson as well as the history of the Hudson Depot. On exhibit is a restored 1912 Wood-Sided Rear Cupola Caboose furnished with railroad artifacts.
John C. Campbell Folk School
Art & Culture, Brasstown, Clay County, Historic Site, School House
Established in 1925 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This Historic school offers week-long and weekend classes for time-honored and contemporary art, crafts, dance, and gardening.
Junaluska Memorial and Museum
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Dedicated to preserving Cherokee history. Displays arrowheads, spear points, and other artifacts related to American history.
Kid Senses, Children’s Interactive Museum
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Land of Oz
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Linville Caverns
Marion, Park
North Carolina's only show cavern. Guided tours take visitors inside a mountain in this natural limestone cavern. View stalactites, stalagmites, and an underground stream with blind trout. Gift shop.
Macon County Historical Museum
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Museum of local history which interprets the region’s rich mountain heritage. The centerpiece of the museum is the building itself.
Mast General Store
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Morganton Railroad Depot Museum
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Mountain Gateway Museum
Farm, Museum, OldFort
Part of the NC Museum of History in Raleigh. Museum includes artifacts depicting mountain life, Indian artifacts, pottery, and farm implements.
Mountain Heritage Center
Cullowhee, Jackson County, Museum
Regional heritage museum about the Southern Appalachian history
Museum of American Cut and Engraved Glass
Art & Culture, Highlands, Macon County, Museum
Museum focuses its attention on the collection and display of American Brilliant Period cut and engraved glass. This period in history started in 1876 with the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and ended in 1916 with the US preparation effort before World War I. The museum has over 400 pieces of glass on display.
Museum of Ashe County
Ashe County, Jefferson, Museum
The Museum embraces the history of the northwestern corner of the state and its people. It also provides information about the Virginia Creeper Railroad that began in Virginia and ended at the Ashe County community of Todd
Museum of North Carolina Minerals
Mitchell County, Museum, Spruce Pine
This museum and visitor’s center facility located right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The museum includes exhibits of rocks and minerals found in the western North Carolina Mountains.
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cherokee, Museum
Fascinating historical museum about the Cherokee Indian tribe. Combines new technology, specialty lighting, and computer-generated images with a solid artifact collection
North Carolina Homespun Museum
Historical overview of Biltmore Industries and its internationally renowned wool cloth. The museum showcases an antique 4-harness loom and memorabilia such as letters, artifacts, tailored suits, and photographs depicting highlights from the active years of the industry.
North Carolina School for the Deaf Historical Museum
Burke County, Morganton, Museum
The museum is located in the former Superintendent’s home and highlights the history of the North Carolina School for the Deaf and the first deaf school in Raleigh through a variety of historical documents and photographs.
Oconaluftee Indian Village
Cherokee, Historic Place
Recreation of an authentic 18th-century Indian community. Cherokee artisans and guides demonstrate and explain the arts and crafts and the lifestyle of their ancestors.
Piedmont Western Railroad Museum
Museum, Railroad, Valdese
Historic rail museum features replicas of a small town depot and part of a Pullman porters' compartment. Artifacts include steam locomotive headlights, a working telegraph, lanterns and signal lights.
Polk County Historical Museum
Civil War History, Columbus, Military, Museum, Polk County
Local and regional history museum that includes many photos and artifacts from the Polk County area include a Civil War cannonball. Research library. Military, Railroad, and medical artifacts are also included.
Quaker Meadows Plantation
Burke County, Morganton
Restored 1812 is the Catawba Valley Plantation house of Captain Charles McDowell Jr. The site of 1780 gathering of the Overmountain Men.
Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual
Arts & Culture, Cherokee
A mutual cooperative for 350 Cherokee craftspeople. Display area for visitors interested in baskets, masks, pottery, and wood-working.
Ruby City Museum
One of the oldest gem museums in the Southeast. Home of the world's largest sapphire weighing 385 lbs. Free Admission.
Rural Life Museum
Art & Culture, Farm, Mars Hill
Ivy-covered stone building dedicated to preserving mountain farm and craft culture. Museum exhibits farm and craft implements and historical photographic murals.
Rush Wray Museum of Yancey County History
Burnsville, Civil War History, Military, Museum
Housed in the historic John Wesley McElroy House which was headquarters for the NC Home Guard during the Civil War.
Rutherford County Farm Museum
Farm, Forest City, Museum, Rutherfordton County
County farm museum which collects and exhibits farm tools and equipment, household and utilitarian items and other artifacts dating back to the 19th century. Two large murals depict the cycle of growing cotton and early textile mills of the county on one of the museum walls.
Sam Ervin Library and Museum
Unique museum located inside the library at Western Piedmont Community College. The museum is a replica of Ervin's office and home library as it existed on 515 Lenoir St. Ervin is best known for serving as Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee in the early 1970s.
Scottish Tartans Museum
Museum contains the official registry of all publicly known tartans and is the American extension of the Scottish Tartans Society in Edinburgh, Scotland
Shelton House - Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts
Art & Culture, Haywood County, Museum, Waynesville
The Museum features exhibits from 19th-century crafts which include hand-woven coverlets, sculptured porcelain, and quilts. Pottery work, furniture, and other masterpieces on display.
Shook Museum at the Shook-Smathers House
Clyde, Historic Home
Museum features early American pioneer construction and architecture. The Shook-Smathers House is closely associated with the Methodist Church in North America. The house is protected by historical covenants held by Preservation North Carolina.
Smith-McDowell House Museum
Asheville, Buncombe County, Historic Home, Museum
Located in the oldest brick home in Asheville circa 1840. Period rooms illustrate the Victorian era.
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
Bryson City, Museum, Railroad, Transportation
One of the largest Lionel train collections in the country. Huge indoor operating layout with 450 locomotives and cars.
Southern Appalachian Radio Museum
A technology and history museum dedicated to radios.
Swain County Heritage Museum
Bryson City, Courthouse, Museum, Swain County
The Museum, located in a 1908 historic courthouse, tells the story of Swain County and its people. Through photos, exhibits and video you will learn about the life of early settlers; and how the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Fontana Dam rewrote the landscape and changed lives. There is a children's activity area.
Swannanoa Valley Museum
Black Mountain, Museum, Transportation, Watuga County
Located in the former Black Mountain Fire Department. This museum collection highlights the history of the valley through various photos and artifacts.
The Blowing Rock
Blowing Rock, Historic Site, Watuga County
Oldest tourist attraction in the state. Scenic rock overlooking John’s River Gorge. Observation tower, gift shop, small garden waterfall. This is a must see attraction in NC Mountains.
The Franklin Gem and Mineral Museum
Franklin, Historic Jail, Historic Site, Macon County, Museum
The Museum started in 1974, is located in the old “jailhouse” built in 1950. Located in downtown Franklin. Exhibits of gems from all 50 states. One of the most comprehensive collections of native gems and minerals from around the country.
The History Museum of Burke County
Over 10,000 square feet of galleries and exhibit areas that depict Burke County's history dating back to the time when Native Americans occupied the land.
The North Carolina Arboretum
The beauty of the region is expressed through a series of magnificent gardens reflecting the heritage and culture of the mountains.
Thomas Wolfe Memorial, State Historic Site
Asheville, Buncombe County, Historic Home, Memorial
The boyhood home of author Thomas Wolfe, the historic house and modern visitor’s center located in the heart of downtown Asheville.
Transylvania County Heritage Museum
Brevard, Museum, Transylvania County
Former Jim Bob Tinsley Museum location. The Transylvania County Heritage Museum explores, promotes and preserves the heritage of Transylvania County and the region.
Tweetsie Railroad
Blowing Rock, Park, Railroad
Historic family theme park in operation for over 45 years. Theme park includes steam engine railroad with three-mile track, rides, crafts, live entertainment, and petting zoo.
Waldensian Heritage Museum
Museum, Valdese
Museum contains collections of late 19th and 20th-century clothing, household furnishings, farm implements, and construction tools related to the Waldensians, church furnishings, photographs, and World War I and II uniforms and artifacts.
Waldensian Trail of Faith
Burke County, Courthouse, Valdese
The Trail of Faith consists of 15 open-air exhibits and replicas tracing the religious heritage and pilgrimage of the Waldenses from the Alps of Northern Italy to the settling of Valdese in 1893.
Western North Carolina Aviation Museum
Only aviation museum located in Western North Carolina featuring award winning replicas of antique and vintage airplanes. Located at the Hendersonville Airport.
Western North Carolina Nature Center
Asheville, Buncombe County
A living museum exhibiting and interpreting the plan and unusual wildlife of the Southern Appalachia Mountains.
Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum
Haywood County, Maggie Valley, Museum
As seen on the History Channel, this museum features over 320 of unique motorcycles as well as vintage automobiles Experts consider this museum one of America's finest collection of rare American motorcycles dating from 1903 to present. Many of the motorcycles on display are truly one-of-a-kind.
Whippoorwill Academy and Village
Art & Culture, Civil War History, Ferguson, Historic Site, Military, School House, Wilkes County
The historic Village includes a one-room schoolhouse, Civil War memorabilia, the Tom Dula Museum, the Chapel of Peace, and the Smokehouse Art Gallery among many other historical items and artifacts on display within the village.
Wilderness Taxidermy and Outfitters Museum
The 4,000-square-foot museum contains animals from all over the world that are mounted in dioramas to depict the animals in their natural settings.
Wilkes Heritage Museum
Museum, Wilkesboro
The museum preserves and promotes the local history of Wilkes County. Exhibits spotlight Daniel Boone and Tom Dula and also include a Junior Johnston vintage NASCAR racing automobile as well as other exhibits highlighting the history of the county.
WNC Military Museum
Brevard, Military, Museum, Transylvania County
A unique mountain military museum located in Historic Downtown Brevard. Museum includes a large collection of military artifacts,documents and personal histories of past veterans from the immediate area. Martial memorabilia and weapons on display.
World Methodist Museum
Lake Junaluska, Museum
Large collection of John Wesley’s and the Wesley Family in America as well as portraits of other Methodist church founders.
YMI Cultural Center
African-American History, Asheville, Buncombe County
Celebrates the African-American culture and diversity in the Asheville area. Housed in one of Asheville's national historic landmark buildings commissioned by George Vanderbilt in 1893.
Zachary-Tolbert House Museum
Cashiers, Historic Home, Jackson County, Museum
Historic home circa 1842-1852 built by Mordecai Zachary. Remains in its original state along with the world’s largest collection of plain-style furniture.
Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace
Buncombe County, Civil War History, Farm, Historic Home, Weaverville
This 1830s reconstructed mountain farmstead is the birthplace of North Carolina's Civil War Governor.
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Persona Q2 Review
When someone discovered Atlus had registered the pq2.jp domain, it was obvious there was going to be a sequel to the first Persona Q fan service dungeon crawler so, it's no surprise we have a sequel in the form of Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. Featuring the gang from all three Persona games, 3, 4 and the more recent 5. The story takes...
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Persona Music Live Website Renewal with Concert Footage
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Persona Music Live Concert Coming to DVD
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Meguro Lets Slip A Few Persona PSP Changes
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Persona Pendants During the Dark Hour
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UK Persona 4 Pre-Orders Get A Free T-shirt
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Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air in 1999. Still, as the opening voiceover makes clear, the “sexually based offenses” investigated by New York’s Special Victims Unit can be “especially heinous.” Wolf penned series premier “Payback,” which sets the scene, but not the tone.It’s a lively, if uneasy mix between horror (rape) and comedy (risqué banter).
As the first season progressed, humor would be written out altogether (leaving Richard Belzer’s Homicide-derived John Munch with increasingly less to do), and less emphasis would be placed on the home lives of this “elite squad of dedicated detectives.” Mostly, “Payback” introduces us to the unit, centering around partners
Olivia Benton (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). For two people with so little in common, they make a terrific team–arguably one of TV’s best. Stabler is married with four children; Benton is single and her closest relationship is with her mother (Elizabeth Ashley).
While Stabler can get a little rough with suspects, Benton tends to over-empathize with the victims. They report to the no-nonsense Captain Cragen (Dann Florek). Like the parent program’s Lenny Briscoe, he’s a recovering alcoholic. Dean Winters and Michelle Hurd round out the rock-solid cast.
Character to watch: Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benton.
Journal your answers to the following questions after you watch the series.
How does this particular character’s journey compare with yours?
Did the character develop certain characteristics during the movie that you have or that you would like to have? If so, what are those characteristics?
What obstacles did this character face? What was his or her biggest challenge?
What would you have done differently if you had been in the same position as the character?
Is this character the type of person you would be friends with? Why or why not?
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Filed Under: Crime, Drama, PTSD, Relationships, Television
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Driftings
— by Ian McDonald —
A hat, a deer and a plastic truck came in on the swell of the ocean. The hat was a yellow hard-hat; an engineer’s, a construction worker’s hat. Its foam inserts had buoyed it across wide waters. The deer was a Puchie Baby miniature with a skull-and-crossbones patterned hide. Adorable, small. The truck was really a tiger-design kid’s trunki, but the wheels still turned, after so long in the gyre.
The truck was the last one, the difficult one. Picking his way along the shore, squinting at the bright steel horizon, he had glimpsed an ear of color between grey of sky and grey of sea. Squint. An edge of sea-scabbed orange, lolling in the lap. He splashed out into the waves. The cold cut through the steamer suit and he was chilled already from the fight to rescue the hard hat. The current could show you a thing and take it back into the gyre. It had teased him with the hard hat, luring him, then pulling it away, drawing him deeper than he wanted to go. The current that took a hat out to the gyre could take a man, even a fit, strong young man like Reith. A lunge, a splash, and it was his. He waded up out of the surf-line, the yellow, oil-scabbed hat on his head.
In the clear water he saw geometry beneath the triangle of orange plastic and guessed what lay low in the swell. Here was a kid’s ride-on luggage trunk, a tiger-face still discernible. Thigh-deep, waist-deep. His. He towed it to shore.
The girl sat on a mound at the edge of the foot-worn path to the road. Her knees were pulled close to her body, her arms wrapped around her shins. Reith peered to see if she was watching him drag the kiddie-trunk along the beach, salt water trickling from its seam.
She was watching him. He was the only watchable thing.
Her sleeves were pulled down over the backs of her hands. They were her sole concession to the weather. Low grey clouds streamed in from the ocean and caught on the tops of the trees, unfurling thin drizzle. The cloud could sit like that for weeks. A thin print dress and a cardigan were not clothes for this shore.
He wanted to open the plastic trunk there and then, at his bivouac, but he could feel the girl’s eyes on him. He didn’t want her to see him greedy and excited, forcing the catch, spilling out the salt-spoiled treasures he hoped were inside. You work uneasily when the only eyes for miles are on you. He packed up the bivouac, pulled the hoodie on over the wet-suit, loaded the sea-things into a plastic box.
“What makes you take them?” The girl’s voice was soft but carrying.
“Feeling there’s a loss in it,” Reith said. “Feeling there’s a story and a hurt.”
Japanese, not Chinese, Reith reckoned. Skin so smooth; hair falling to the small of her back, hair-product straight and shiny. Ocean cold was beginning to infiltrate the wetsuit but the slump of a wave, the side-slip of a gull on the air, the sudden hiss of eddying drizzle; all said stay, speak.
“Aren’t you cold?”
“I don’t really get cold. But it would be worth it. I love it here.”
Reith looked to the pull-in among the trees. His pickup was the only vehicle.
“How did you get here?”
“I got dropped off.”
“You will get cold. It’s not good. I can give you a ride back to town, if that’s where you’re at.”
“They’ll pick me up again.”
Reith knew she was not telling the truth but you can’t call someone on that in the ninth sentence you exchange with them. The girl knew that he knew because she combed her hair back behind her ear and smiled.
“I’ll be fine. Really.” Mist lay in minute silver pearls on the fibers of her woolen cardigan but did not cling to her hair or skin at all.
So she was in town. Reith liked that. They might meet again, by chance or by design.
He looked back from the door of the pickup. She was still there, on the edge of drop from the tree-line down to the driftwood. Again he looked, as he turned back on to the highway. He half expected her to have vanished. She was still there, grey on grey. He turned the heater up full to blow some warmth back into his legs.
A fleece-fiber scarf. A bucket of plastic zoo-animals. A drinks cup with spout. A sea-rotted cardboard picture book. A child’s things.
Driving in the pickup he saw her walking on the side of the road. She moved lightly, barely connected to the earth at all. The same light print dress and cardigan. The clouds were lower today, catching on the flagpole outside the junior school and the eccentric carpentered spires and shingles of the old wooden hotel where Roosevelt was supposed to have stayed. You could reach up and grab a fistful of rain. He turned in the road and drove beside her.
“Oh. Hi.”
“I’m, uh, thinking about grabbing a coffee. Can I get you one?”
She scraped her hair behind an ear. She smiled by not quite looking at him.
“That would be good.”
“Do you want a ride?”
“Is it far?”
“No, just across from the old Roosevelt hotel.”
“I know that. I’ll walk.”
She had arrived by the time he had turned the car across the traffic.
“You’re not in the wetsuit today.”
“I will be later.” It was in the back of the truck, with the bivouac and the rest of the beach-combing equipment. The same westerly driving the raft of cloud could also push the entire gyre, hundreds of miles across, closer to the coast. Westerlies were good foraging winds.
“I like guys in wetsuits. They make them look vulnerable. Cute.”
Reith blinked and hid his blush in a sip of coffee. Retched. Spat.
“Sorry. Salt. I must have put salt in instead of sugar.”
“There is no salt on the table.”
She tipped white crystals into the palm of her hand, dipped a lip-moistened finger, offered it to Reith to lick. Reith drew back.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” She licked her finger. “Yes, sweet.”
“You asked yesterday, at the beach, what made me take them,” Reith said. The lick of sugar from her finger had roused him. “Come and see.”
Again she dipped her head and looked away to hide a smile.
“I’d love to, thank you.”
Why had he offered to show her the Driftings? The westerly was blowing, the gyre was turning. He should be ten miles down the coast, scanning the break line with binoculars. Not offering to show her the studio; not stopping in the street to invite her to coffee, salt coffee.
Life and work were a foreclosed house a mile and a half up on the forest road. The agency had been only too happy to let it long term, cheap. They had no prospect of ever selling it on. Roosevelt had been the last big thing to happen in the town and it was now in the terminal stages of a century-long decline. The council had hoped to catch the dark wave of the Twilight business but had dithered too long and missed its crest. Bella’s coffee-shop had closed two months ago. Its coffee had been horrible. Reith reckoned he would need another house soon. The Driftings were forcing him back, like a whelk withdrawing into its shell, into smaller and smaller rooms. The realtors were only too eager.
“It’s kind of cluttered in here.”
As the girl went past him into the house, Reith caught a sudden smell of the shore; rotting weed and sun-crisp crab, salt and sand-scab, so strong he almost gagged. For a moment, a breath; then he smelled her: clean skin, fabric conditioner, hair conditioner, something lightly floral.
The Ningyo Drifting occupied all of the main room apart from a narrow passage to the kitchen area.
The Ningyo Drifting: dolls, toys, transforming robots toy cars plastic zoo animals, those perverse vinyl figurines that have no other purpose than to be collectible by adults, toy soldiers, anime action figures, monsters and dinosaurs. Over four hundred of them now. The Puchie Baby deer would likely join them. Welded and melded, dismembered and re-membered, heads growing from alien torsos, from other heads, from shoulder stumps, multiple faces grafted on to a single head, like a Hindu deity; thickets of arms; transplanted legs; robot heads on toy dog bodies; all joined together into a coral tree.
The girl looked up at the branches of warped toys reaching over her head. Her mouth opened a little.
“This was my first piece. It’s the one I’ve been working at longest as well. I think maybe it won’t ever be finished. I certainly won’t ever sell it.” Reith touched a Kokeshi at the junction of two spreading antlers. “This was the first one. I was out on the peninsula with friends and picked it up at Taylor Point. Someone said it was Japanese, that there was a huge slick of stuff all sucked out to sea after the tsunami and it was moving slowly towards the west coast. The day after that the bit of dock washed up in Oregon. That kind of started it. No, I don’t think I’ll ever sell this one.”
Reith hadn’t eaten in the kitchen for months. He didn’t like having food around the ocean-things. Oils and hydrocarbons, tars and wastes. The whole house might be a little radioactive. He didn’t want to think about that. The kitchen had become the work room until it clogged up with beach-combings. The floor was filled to work-top height with ideas in progress. There was no room for feet, but it gave the best perspective on the Kanagawa Driftings in the dining area.
Things that open, built into a pastiche The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Bento boxes opening out of snap-fit kitchen containers opening out handbags opening out of lunch boxes out of plastic storage boxes out of rolling luggage out of fishing crates. Color-coordinated to recreate the deep wave blue and the breaker white of the Hokusai print. Reith would fit the trunki here, with thought. He had removed the ceiling light to accommodate the uppermost fractals of the plastic wave.
“Don’t you think it’s kind of . . . wrong?” the girl said. “I mean a wave made out of tsunami stuff?”
“There’s no fishing boat,” Reith said. “That would be wrong. But it’s not about the wave, or the tsunami. Really. It’s about how we see when we look across the ocean to Japan, how we fetishize it, how we import kawaii, or cosplay, and turn them into our own thing without ever trying to understand them.”
“I’m not sure I can always understand you,” the girl said. Her fingers felt out the nested links of plastic containers. “What was inside?”
“Most of them, nothing. The gyre grinds a lot of it up.”
“But something, sometimes.”
A fleece-fiber scarf. A bucket of plastic zoo-animals. A drinks cup with spout. A sea-rotted cardboard picture book.
“It’s the inside things that have the story and the hurt,” the girl said. “Put-away things are loved things.”
The Kanagawa Drifting rattled as a rig, heavy with long lumber, passed down from the high forests.
The clouds had dipped lower when he came back from town, ragged handkerchiefs sliding through the trees. Spills and spoils from the moiling cloud base. She had wanted to be left where he found her, outside the Axel’s Coffee Place. He was past the intersection on the forest road when Reith remembered that he had not remembered, or had never asked, her name. By the time he was on to the forest road he was driving through cloud.
Death town. Dying slowly and inelegantly. Urban senility. Grey sky grey sea grey people. Every mile he had driven west from the ferry, drawn by the haunt of plastic detritus of apocalypse, he felt the grey settling heavier from him, smothering every energetic or creative thought. His first few weeks—thirty, twenty, however many dollars he could afford a night in the Roosevelt hotel; the obese Hunter day-trading in the back office; sure there’s a shared bathroom but no one’s had to share it in five years—he had to physically drag himself out of sleep and run up and down the corridor to the bathroom a dozen times to Wake! Up! Every creative thought was trawled from pelagic deeps. Baked-good breakfasts in Axel’s Coffee Place; brown-food dinners in the sports bar. Things hauled from the cold north-west sea, tsunami-things, piling up under the tarpaulin in the back of the pickup. Days of deep grey lull. Notion by notion, ideas emerged from the fog of apathy.
Reith started out of a doze at the flash of lights, followed moments later by the blast of the logging truck, passing at speed. He had been drifting across the line. Many of the truckers scorned headlights in the fog and constantly blared their titanic air horns. The fog was so dense he could hardly see the road markings. A sudden, intense smell of sea, salt, weed invaded the pickup through the air vents. Reith snapped them shut. The fog left white streaks on his windshield, gritty smears flecked with tiny white crystals. The wiper blades squeaked.
At the house he could taste salt on his tongue, ionic, iodine taste of salt, feel its sting on his lips, its astringency on his face. In the few steps it took to reach the porch his hair, skin, clothes were briny as if he had stepped out of the sea. The air was heavy with sea-smell. Reith blinked salt mist out of his stinging eyes.
Shower. Reith could feel the grit of salt against his scalp. He stood a long time under the run of hot water, trying to scrub the sea from his skin. Salt fog.
In the morning the cloud had lifted but windows, porch, yard, car were freckled with salt-specks, a million tiny crystal sparkles.
A baked-goods breakfast in the Axel’s before heading down to Ruby Beach. A good day’s beach-combing. Like the early days. That would be the thing. Axel’s Coffee Place had changed hands, sold candles, had a book-swap scheme, free Wi-Fi, occasional tarot readings and singer-songwriter nights but all such regime changes were temporary in this town. Their Danish were good, their pain au chocolat too doughy.
“What about that fog?” Lauren said as she brought Reith a refill. “It like completely rusted up the locks. Just one night. Insania.”
“The one you were in with yesterday?”
“What do you know about her?”
“Oh, you mean . . . ” Lauren broke off, pouted, puzzled. “You know, I’m not sure she told me her name. What do you want to know?”
“Where’s she staying?”
“Over at the Roosevelt. Doesn’t everyone?”
“She’s not. I checked. She’s not up at the Westwood Lodge either.”
“That’s a little bit stalkery, Reith.”
Lauren was not a friend and never a lover, but there was a tie between Reith and her; a thing of tattoos and piercings, dreads and hair coloring. Counter-culture was their mutual gravity.
“I’m just interested, that’s all.”
“Oh really.”
“Lauren, that’s not necessary.”
The doorbell clanged. Hunter from the Roosevelt came in for his caffeine hit before going back to losing money online. Reith had not noticed that the low cloud had become rain. His flannel shirt was soaked through in the few steps across the road. He shook his head, manically scraped water from his face and eyes.
“Goddam,” he said. “Goddam thing.”
He grabbed a paper towel from the table dispenser and furiously wiped his eyes.
“Goddam,” he said again. “Can it do that?”
Lauren poured him coffee at his usual booth.
“Do what, hons?”
“Rain sea water.”
She stood in the salt rain, watching Reith and the courier driver load the truck.
“Geez, what is this?” the driver had said, blinking sea-sour out of his eyes as Reith answered the door. He came up once a month from the city to pick up installations Reith had sold from his website. He was a peninsula man and took the opportunity to catch up with family. Installations did not spoil and were not time sensitive. He could dawdle with his relatives. Reith liked that even though he did not appreciate the Driftings, he was mindful of them. Even bubble-wrapped and taped, they were delicate; frail corals, tsunami-foam.
“It’s been doing it for a day and half now,” Reith said. “I’ve had to garage the pickup. Things rust while you’re looking at them.”
“Evil smell,” the driver said. “Like dead crabs. Have you got a theory?”
Reith had broken the Marine Boy Drifting down into three sections to get it through the door. Instructions and a video were included for its precise re-assembly at the gallery in Denver. Each Drifting landed a little further from Reith’s door than the last.
“Everyone needs a theory. Do you know what I think? It’s some kind of water-spout. Things get sucked up and deposited hundreds of miles away. There’s been rains of fish and frogs—all well-accounted for. Newspapers and all. God knows what’s going on out in that ocean.”
“You think it’s going to start dropping plastic toys on my head?”
“It’s all in Charles Fort, my friend. A wise man would read and heed.”
Then he saw her, in the rain, at the place where the pavement met the grass. The rain dripped from the ends of her long, straight hair, but seemed to Reith to run off it without wetting it. Raindrops dewed the fibers of her cardigan.
“Can you handle this?” he asked the driver.
“Just sign the waybill and she’s on her way.”
The girl stood in a circle of drips beneath the fractal fronds of the Ningyo Drifting. She dabbed at herself with the offered towel.
“You should really have a shower, get that salt off you. It’s not good for you.”
“I seem to have missed most of it. But it’s nice to be out of it.” The towel was dry. “Can I ask a question?”
“You can ask anything you like.”
“At the beach, the things I saw you bring out of the sea, what have you done with them?”
Reith did not show works in progress to people. Sharing broke the unity. People put ideas onto things that were not theirs. Opinions demanded recognition. And some were too big, too long, too diffuse in their evolution, to make any sense before the moment when he decided that to add one thing more would start to subtract. When he videoed them for his YouTube channel, he never showed the build, the Drifting, the explanation; just long, swooping orbits of the details.
So he said, “oh, yeah. Here.” He rested a finger on the Puchie deer. He had picked apart its rear end, flayed and splayed it and grafted it on to the chest of a Barbie doll. “Come up pretty good once I got the salt off. That vinyl finish can crack if you don’t treat it like skin. There’s stuff you get for shining up auto interiors, works good on it. Nice piece.”
The hat was in the former best bedroom with all the headgear. He had not developed an idea for the Drifting that pleased him. But the conceit was faces, a few simple lines in black marker pen, loosely connected to his imagining of the hat’s purpose, drawn on the inside of the hat. This yellow hard hat, Reith had decided, belonged to a longshoreman, who had worked ocean-going barges. In a few strokes the inverted face showed hard-weather, resignation, peace and toughness.
The child’s trunki had made it to the plastic-well in the kitchen, to the top of that heap, to the work-top for assimilation into the Kanagawa Drifting. It had faltered there.
“I’m not sure about this one. I think this one is complete. I can’t see how it would fit. It may be the start of something else. I’m thinking about children.”
The girl ran long fingers over the sand-scratched plastic.
“What did you do with things inside?”
“I didn’t throw them away. Nothing gets thrown away. That’s the idea. Nothing is ever lost.”
A fleece-fiber scarf, a bucket of plastic zoo-animals, a drinks cup with spout, a sea-rotted cardboard picture book sat in a clear plastic box. The animals had been spilled from their bucket. Reith saw the girl inhale very slowly as she bent over the box to closer examine the little castaway menagerie. Her long fingers walked through the lost things.
“Here’s a story. There once was a little girl but she’s dead now. She drowned. She was in the car with her parents and her big brother. They all brought one thing; that was all they had time for before the sea came. So she brought a thing with things in it. They drove fast but no matter how fast you drive you can only go where the road leads you and the water didn’t need roads. I think we forget how fast water can be. Water has weight and water has mass. The road wouldn’t take them away from the water and it just swept them off the road and tumbled them over and over and spilled everything out and they drowned. I know this story.” She trailed her fingers across the still-sodden pulp of the children’s book. “It’s called Mouse Heart Robot. It’s about a robot who was last to be built before the factory closed, and so they forgot to give him a heart. He just stood there, looking, thinking. Then a family of field mice moved in to the place where his heart should be, and he came to life and looked after them, but when they grew up and moved away, he went dead again. Mice have such short lives. I used to get read that story. The poor robot. I felt so sad for him. There, that’s a story inside a story. Something with a story and a hurt. Give it back.”
Reith gave a small start. “What?”
“I don’t know. Maybe you’ve had so much. Like you said, nothing is ever lost. Things have memories. Maybe give some of them back.”
The doorbell rang. A second startle.
“Just as well I looked,” the courier said. He presented the waybill. “You forgot to sign it.”
“I’m sure . . . ” Reith took the pen. The space for the signature was blank. Over the courier’s shoulder, he could the see the girl, walking away, already a distance down the road, very straight and upright, in the salt rain.
The plants were dying. The floral borders outside Driftwood Crafts, Gifts and Pots; the flower tubs and baskets at the McLaren Realty; the raised beds outside the Westwood Lodge were shriveled. The lawns of 3rd Street were scabbed with brown patches. The tougher shrubs were browning at leaf tip and blossom. The trees shed needles, drift upon drift.
For five days the salt rain had fallen. Salt water rushed in the gutters, sheeted across roads, clogged drains with rafts of brown needles.
“Half the dogs in town are sick,” Lauren said pouring coffee for Reith. “And things are coming out of the forest looking for water. Axel chased deer away from the back door. Dead birds all over the place. And he says the propane tank is rusting bad. Why haven’t we made the television news yet?”
The mail boxes, the barbecues, the garden seats, the swings and chain fences, the kids’ bikes, the garden tools, were turning to rust. The gas station canopy, the elementary school climbing frame, the cell phone relay, the electrical step-down transformer, the oil and gas tanks, the cars, scabbed with creeping rust.
“And the stink. I just can’t get it out of my hair, my clothes. Off my skin. I smell like a harbor. Like a dead seal.”
Reith splashed out across the streaming salt-water to the pickup. The air was thick with salt, weed, ozones and ions and briny, iodinic sourness. He gagged. He drove up to the house as around him the town crumbled to ochre rust. Endless parade of low, curdled clouds marched in from the ocean; endless, endless salt rain.
He thought he glimpsed the girl in the rear-view mirror, standing on the roadside at the edge of the dying forest, arms long at her side, her hair so straight and glossy. When he looked over his shoulder she was not there. Of course.
He could feel the salt caking on his skin, itching, desiccating in the few steps from the car to the porch. A shower. Fresh water on his body. Cleaning, cleansing, sanctifying. He strewed salt-sodden clothes along the path between the Driftings. The stench was in the house; rotting weed, brine, deep water. He was naked by the time he reached the bathroom door. He closed his eyes and waited for the anointing gush of warm and pure.
Sea-rot gusted in his face, so strong Reith retched. Salt water blasted in his face, hot salt water filled up his eyes, his ears, his nostrils, his open mouth. He gagged, spat, dived to the water-cooler. He drained a plastic cupful. Reith choked, sprayed water across the room, heaved and heaved; dry, retching, wracking heaves.
Sea water.
Reith plunged into the surf line; knee-deep, the water heavy around his thighs; waist-deep, pushing against the resistance of an entire ocean; wading out chest-deep, slow now, every step ponderous and buoyed at the same time. The rain fell steadily, pocking the glassy surface of the slow swell. He held the trunki over his head. Towed behind him on a surf-board line, it would have filled with water and become unmanageable. Held high, it was an offering to the things of salt-water.
Give it back. Each time he had spoken with the girl, she seemed startled by her own words, as if she were not in control of them, as if other voices formed them.
Give it back.
It had to be the beach where he had found it. He drove through grey rain half blind, half-crazed, the wipers throwing handfuls of salty, gritty water from the windshield, the pickup squeaking and creaking as the brine wore into its struts and bones. He slipped-slid down the path between the stark, rain-grey trees to the shore. The driftwood like looked like the bones of the ocean, heaved on to the solid world to see the sun and die. He was sick, so sick of the reek of rot and weed and sea in his sinuses. Into the ocean.
Reith stood a moment, the plastic child’s trunk held high. He had packed it with the painstaking care of a Drifting maker. The fleece scarf washed and freshened with fabric conditioner and folded. The zoo animals returned to their plastic bucket-Ark, battened down beneath the lid. The drinks cup cleaned and sterilized and filled with Minute-maid. A libation. One thing he had omitted; the book. It was unsalvageable, the story all but erased to patches of Kanji and bright color on grey board: a robot’s head, a mouse paw, a heart-shaped hole. Mouse Heart Robot. It touched him, it made him remember and feel things long washed out. She had loved that story, she used to have it read to her. She felt so sorry for the poor robot. A hole for a heart. The image excited him. Filling holes. Secret chambers, hidden hearts. He could feel the nature of the Driftings changing, from huge assemblages, whip-stitched frankensteins; to small juxtapositions.
Give it back. It had given to him. The ocean closed around him; grey before and grey behind, above and below, the circle of the waters. Easy to become disoriented, to strike out into open ocean believing horizon line was shore line; drawn out by those tows and currents to join the gyre. Human flotsam.
“It’s yours!” he shouted. The words were thin and pointless. But he still said, “Thank you!” Then he hurled the trunki as far as he could out into the ocean. It splashed, bobbed, each bob taking it lower in the water as the sea jetted in through the imperfect seal. Reith watched until all that could be seen was a single plastic tiger ear, stealing out to sea, drawn back into the great gyre of tsunami-things.
Reith drove back slick as a seal in his wet-suit. As he stepped out of the car the air caught him, breath to sigh to near-sob. Clean. Fresh. He turned his face to the clouds and let pure, sweet water fill up its hollows and stream from its angles.
Mouse Heart Robot: he had a pure, sweet idea for it.
Reith opened the door.
The living room was filled with hair. Long, sleek, black hair, hanging from ceiling to floor, sleek black hair, dripping with sea water. The door closed behind Reith. The wet hair rippled, as if someone were moving through it.
BloodyMarquis wrote on January 6th, 2013 at 8:08 pm:
This was the first Clarkesworld story I've ever read, so it's a rather nice gateway. Driftings seems very low-key. You get the sensation that there's Reith is being haunted throughout, making for an interesting play on a man interacting with the unknown.
Suzanne Conboy-Hill wrote on January 7th, 2013 at 10:08 am:
For me, this was a gentle, insightful acknowledgement of the Japanese tsunami that did a superb job of bringing human scale to an event the world watched live on TV. Soulful drama and not a hint of melodrama.
Patrick Johnston wrote on January 17th, 2013 at 3:03 pm:
This story told me this:
The tide of time, or chance, or luck - call it what you want - will bring and take away many things throughout a lifetime and, while it is a rare gift to see the beauty in everything washed up on your shore, it is not ever possible to really own anything.
This seems true of both the people and the things that appear in your life. When the time is right, the very same tide or natural force that brought it to you will one day take it away again.
Want to or not, one day you have to “give it back” and the longer you forcibly hang on the more “cluttered” your life becomes. There simply comes a point when “to add one thing more would start to subtract”.
Ultimately, “Nothing is ever lost”, everything is just on its way to somewhere else, just like you.
Perhaps it simply shows that, in the same way that every cloud is said to have a silver lining, every disaster brings good tidings for someone?
George Walker wrote on January 21st, 2013 at 10:15 pm:
I'm from Oregon, where the tsunami washed up debris, including the dock mentioned in the story. Ian McDonald captured the culture of the coast well. Beautiful imagery and I loved the Japanese ghost-girl.
Ian McDonald is an SF writer living in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast. A multiple-award winner, his most recent novel is the conclusion of the Luna trilogy: Moon Rising (Tor, Gollancz). Tweet him at @iannmcdonald.
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald - December 2017
An Eligible Boy by Ian McDonald - November 2016
The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald - July 2013
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April 30, 2018 / Brooklyn news / Transit Issues / Sunset Park
Spoke too soon: Fourth Ave. bike lane may not skip block in front of police station after all, city says
Community News Group / Julianne McShane
On second thought: The city is walking back previous statements that the planned Fourth Avenue bike lane would skip a block between 29th and 30th streets to accommodate the police department’s sidewalk parking outside of the 72nd Precinct station house.
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Talk about backpedaling.
The city is walking back its statement that the forthcoming protected Fourth Avenue bike lane would skip one side of an entire block in front of Sunset Park’s 72nd Precinct station house to accommodate officers’ sidewalk parking, after local cyclists called out the dangers of merging into traffic in the Bay Ridge-bound lane.
Reps from the Department of Transportation said the plan was not yet finalized and is still under review — even though the agency’s borough commissioner told one concerned cyclist it was final. And although the agency’s willingness to reconsider its decision came as good news to that cyclist, he said he doubts that the police will change their behavior to accommodate bikers.
“I want to believe that DOT will get this right, but NYPD’s disregard for bike lanes all over the city doesn’t inspire a ton of optimism,” said John Tomac.
Streetsblog first reported that Tomac e-mailed borough transportation commissioner Keith Bray in January to ask how the station house between 29th and 30th streets would accommodate the planned five-foot-wide protected bike lane, since police park a mix of squad cars and personal vehicles on a portion of the sidewalk in front of the building, with cars often jutting out into what would be the bike lane.
Bray responded nearly two months later, writing that it was “not feasible” for the bike lane to be separated from traffic by a physical barrier as the plan outlines “due to the need to maintain parking access for NYPD vehicles,” making the entire block “effectively a driveway.” When this paper followed up with the transportation agency last month, it confirmed that the entire southbound lane on that block would be reserved for police parking, eliminating the bike lane entirely between 29th and 30th streets.
But Community Board 7 district manager Jeremy Laufer said that he has now received verbal assurances from the Transportation Department’s director of greenways, Ted Wright, that the plan to skip the block is not finalized.
Laufer pointed out that when the board voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bike lane in October, the city had not told CB7 members anything about nixing it in front of the 72nd Precinct station house.
“The board voted in favor of the bike lane, there was no discussion on any sort of difference on Fourth Avenue between 29th and 30th streets,” he said.
That the Transportation Department apparently failed to foresee — or perhaps just neglected to disclose — the problem of running the bike lane past the station house doesn’t reflect well on the agency, said Tomac.
“In the year 2018, a competent transportation agency should be able to anticipate the problems that are likely to arise when a bike lane is added near the 72nd Precinct,” he said. “Anyone who occasionally rides a bike around the city knows that bike lanes might as well not exist anytime the police are nearby.”
A spokeswoman for the agency confirmed that it was still reviewing the plans, and would keep the community’s safety concerns in mind.
“The Department of Transportation is currently reviewing plans for the Fourth Avenue bike lane,” she said. “We are aware of the concerns and will continue to work closely with the community and NYPD to accommodate neighborhood needs.”
The police department did not respond by press time to inquiries about sidewalk parking at the precinct or what percentage of its officers commutes to work via subway.
Death from Above says:
This is great news! The nypd is NOT above the law.
Simon Beswick says:
So this newspaper reported an original story based on lies? Typical that you would try to stir up controversy based on nothing more than thin air.
NN from Boerum Hill says:
It's time for the NYPD to start following the law and stop putting the rest of us at risk.
TOM from Sunset Park says:
Moderation in commenting. Please.
Henry Ford from Bay Ridge says:
TOM from Sunset Park says:,
Cry me a river, snowflake. Shouldn't you be at a Hillary rally?
Brian T from Concord, SI (via Sheepshead Bay) says:
Good. If skipping a sidewalk for one block in NYC won't fly, neither should an on-street cycling facility.
It's one thing to have a not-as-protected bike lane for a short block, and it's entirely another to have it disappear. Given the traffic volumes of the area during the day (or at all times for that matter), such a gap would not be conducive to promoting cycling as a viable mode of transportation for New Yorkers of all ages and skill levels.
There are tried and true methods to have reverse angle parking and cycling facilities coexist:
1. Bike lane in front of the cars
http://naturalcyclection.bostonbiker.org/files/2014/08/Reverse-Angle.png
2. Bike lane behind the cars (safer for the cyclist but requires more lateral space for rear buffer)
https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pictures/AAG%20-%20Bay%20St%20Photo%2012.4.15.jpg
Hi Mods,
Please remove my previous comment; I omitted a word.
Good. If skipping a sidewalk for one block in NYC won't do, neither should skipping an on-street cycling facility.
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SciTech » What happens when science fiction crosses into science fact?
What happens when science fiction crosses into science fact?
By Christian Nielsen
Cloaking devices are the stuff of magic realms and deep-space exploration, not real life. Think again! Making photonic chips invisible to one another could pave the way to computing at the speed of light.
A beamsplitter for silicon photonics chips that is ne-fiftieth the width of a human hair. Image: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a cloaking device for truly tiny photonic integrated devices — the building blocks of photonic computer chips that run on light instead of electrical current. While that still sounds fairly fantastical and fanciful, it’s a huge breakthrough for the computer industry, data centres and mobile device-makers, not to mention the environment.
It paves the way for efficient photonic chips which shuttle data around as light photons instead of electrons. This breakthrough in nano–photonic cloaking, making neighbouring devices invisible to one another, was published in the latest edition of the science journal, Nature Communications.
Photonic chips will wind up being much faster, consume less power and give off less heat than today’s silicon-based chips. Think of the possibilities for foresighted entrepreneurs.
Potentially billions of photonic devices could be stuffed inside a chip, each with a specific function in much the same way as transistors work in today’s microchips. One set of devices could perform powerful calculations or programmed simulations while another group processes requests and others maintain everyday functions and updates.
Back-chatting chips
But light is no-one’s slave and cramming so many of these microscopic photonic devices too close together causes leakage. When light leaks the resulting back-chat or cross-talk acts like radio interference. Not good.
Spacing them further apart solves the problem, but this makes the chips too large, especially for mobile devices. The lab guys worked out that using a special nano–patterned, silicon-based coating between photonic devices acts like a “cloak”.
The principle is similar to the Harry Potter invisibility cloak, says Utah’s Rajesh Menon who led the research. “It’s like a barrier – it pushes the light back into the original device. It is being fooled into thinking there is nothing on the other side.”
10 to 100 times less power
One of the obvious benefits of chips using light photons instead of electrons to transfer data is the energy savings, anywhere from 10 to 100 times less power consumed, according to the Utah team.
Data centres like Google and Facebook will no doubt like the sound of this, but the afterglow of nano-sized photonic devices could light up a range of sectors, from app-makers to serious games to green tech.
In the United States alone, data centres consume around 70 billion kilowatt hours (2014 figures), which is some 1.8% of total electricity consumption, according to research by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With the growth in cloud computing and other rapid IT developments, that power usage is expected to rise another 4% by 2020.
“By going from electronics to photonics we can make computers much more efficient and ultimately make a big impact on carbon emissions and energy usage for all kinds of things,” concludes Menon.
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by Steven Chester | Dec 11, 2019 | Architecture, Outstanding Projects
Travelers have some amazing destinations to choose from when it comes to hotels designs that will amaze. Well-thought hotel design can have a dramatic impact on the guest experience, from the moment a guest pulls up to the curb right through until their departure. Efficiency, comfort and awe can be designed right into the experience.
From the recently-opened guitar-shaped Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood featuring 2.3 million LED lights to The Mist Hot Spring Hotel in China, where visitors are surrounded by hot spring pools and mechanized fog, here are some of our favorites from around the globe.
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
With much fanfare, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood recently opened. The 450-foot-tall, $1.5 billion expansion project is modeled after the look of a Gibson guitar. The neon-lit, 34-story hotel features 469 “rock star suites”, 20 nightlife destinations, a 42,000-square-foot spa, 26,000 square feet of retail, multiple pools, cabanas, and event space. The façade features 2.3 million LED lights that provide visual effects.
Belmond Cap Juluca, Anguilla, British West Indies
After being heavily damaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017, Belmond Cap Juluca underwent a $121 million dollar restoration by HKS and Rottet Studio. Per Hospitality Design, when it opened in 1988, Cap Juluca was a game-changing Caribbean hideaway that championed privacy and stood out with its Greco-Moorish architecture. HKS nodded to the past by reconfiguring the flow of the property. “The new layout provides the opportunity for the guests to explore [each space] with ease,” says Melissa Voelker, the firm’s senior lead designer.
Tierra Chiloe, Chile
Designed by firm Mobil Arquitectos, Tierra Chilioe is perched on a hilltop in the main island of the Chiloe archipelago in Chile, per Dezeen. The hilly, pastoral area offers views of the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, as well as surrounding wetlands. Each of the hotel’s three levels are designed to interact with the scenery.
The Mist Hot Spring Hotel, Henan, China
As architecture firm Department of Architecture Co. write for ArchDaily, “The building masses, the passageways and the waterscape are strategically integrated with natural steam from hot-spring pools and some additional mechanized fog that would surround the overall atmosphere and experience. White mist floating just above water surface not only creates dreamy ambience but also provides certain level of privacy for guests relaxing in private hot spring pools from other guests’ view.”
Le Belaroia, Montpellier, France
A small site adjacent to a train station in Montpellier led architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture to “stack up the functions,” per Architonic. “The complex triangular form of the site led us to design a continuous volume with a succession of folds that unfurl along the north and the east facades, topped by a wide bridge along the south façade.” The site includes two hotels, luxury apartments, restaurant and wellness center.
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ROSTER SPOTS
As we continue through the pre-draft phase of the off-season, let’s take a look at the roster under contract for the upcoming season.
Ridnour
Wilkins (assuming he will take his option)
Hypotheticals
#2 pick
#24 pick
That’s a total of 13, not including who the Sonics stumble across in the second round (and with four picks, there will be plenty of people to stumble across). Now, let’s eliminate a couple of players, just purely on speculation.
Luke Ridnour: I feel that it is very likely that Ridnour will be dealt this summer. It’s clear he doesn’t fit into the team’s long-range plans and he still has value in the league, although his contract is not exactly commensurate with that talent.
Earl Watson: Watson seems to be on the good side of the Sonic management, and his production this year was definitely improved over previous seasons. EW posted career-best marks in field goals made, FG%, FT%, and 2nd-best numbers in 3-point percentage, true shooting %, turnover %, assists/36, and points/36. Looking closer at the numbers, though, and it becomes readily apparent that Earl sacrificed defensive effectiveness for offensive productivity. He put up the 2nd-best offensive rating of his career this season, but balanced that with his worst-ever defensive rating. Still, only nine players (Nash, Paul, D Williams, Kidd, Calderon, Ford, and Jamaal Tinsley) posted better assists/36 minutes in the entire league last year, and that came on a team with absolutely no outside shooting. If I’m the Sonics I’m hoping Derrick Rose falls into my lap so Watson can come off the bench.
Chris Wilcox: Many suspect Wilcox will be traded this summer, but I think the wise move would be to wait until next February. While Big Weezy has been more inconsistent than not, he knows a big paycheck could be waiting for him he puts forth the effort over the next twelve months. Combine his soon-to-be-expiring contract with his ability to post numbers like 18 points/8 boards/2 flashy dunks, Wilcox could fetch something much nicer in return next winter than he will this summer.
Johan Petro: Another likely to be dealt, if only for his continuing ability to be 7’ tall. He showed some signs of life after the Kurt Thomas trade, but I can’t imagine Sam Presti envisages the Sonics utilizing JoPet too much in the next few years.
Mo Sene: Sadly, it’s possible the entire ’08-’09 season will be a write-off for Sene due to injury.
So, for argument’s sake, let’s say the Sonics are able to deal away Petro and Ridnour, perhaps in combination with one or two second-round picks, returning them an awful contract, or a surplus big man on another roster (or both!). That leaves us with 13 players minus 3 (including Sene here) plus 1 (the returning player), for a total of 11 roster members. If you add in two players from the second round, that makes 13 roster members.
Let’s say the Sonics take Rose at #2 and an off guard at #24, now your depth chart looks something like this:
PG: Rose, Watson
SG: Pick #24, Wilkins
SF: Durant, Green, Griffin
PF: Wilcox, Marshall
C: Collison, Mystery Contract
You have some flexibility with the 2/3/4 positions, but there is clearly a void at center (sound familiar, Sonic fans?). So much of a void that it might make sense for the Sonics to explore a big man with their multiple second-rounders, if not their 2nd pick in the first round.
In articles to come, we’ll start looking at possible veteran free agents the Sonics might pursue this off-season, but this at least gives us a road map for the year to come. Feel free to chime in with where/how I went wrong in the comments.
Posted by PN at 9:45 AM
The early termination option in Damien Wilkins' deal can't be exercised until after next season, so he's definitely under contract at this moment in time. Adrian Griffin, moreover, has a non-guaranteed salary for next season; consequently, he'll most likely be waived sometime this summer.
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Anyhow, I disagree with you about Johan Petro. In the meantime, Petro's a cheap, cost-effective backup at power forward -- especially considering that his closest comparison, Mark Blount, is earning a sizable salary with the Miami Heat -- therefore, it's probable that he'll stick with the team through next season.
On anoter note, Mouhamed Sene must be finally finished here.
The team option in Sene's contract for the 2009-2010 season shouldn't be exercised under any circumstances; plus, the dude should be released prior to next season, since he's useless to the Seattle SuperSonics -- which was the case even before his knee injury -- and would just waste roster space by being on the team.
Dammit, it's time for those of whom who figuratively fellated Sene for the past two years to concede that the giant, gangly stiff is a downright bust—and that's that!
I was going by the HoopsHype salary information, where it looks as though Griffin's contract for next season is guaranteed. It's not a big deal either way, although it would be nicer if they could waive him without any penalty.
As for Petro, do we really need a backup PF, considering the Sonics already have Collison and Wilcox, and Jeff Green figures to get more time there as well next year? I'd say that if the Sonics deal Wilcox this summer, they should keep Petro, but if they keep Big Weezy, they should deal Petro.
I'll back up AK on the Griffin contract; pretty sure I read somewhere that his deal for next year is non-guaranteed.
Even if Chris Wilcox isn't traded this summer, I still expect Johan Petro to be with the Seattle SuperSonics come next season.
Luke "The Golden Boy" Ridnour, however, is currently the only player who's probably being actively shopped by Sam Presti, even though the Minnesota Timberwolves and the New York Knicks are the only two teams that I can envision wanting him.
At this point, I'd just be glad if Ridnour was dealt for some scrub who's got an expiring contract (e.g., Malik Rose). This whole failed experience could then be written off as a loss.
To me, the main reason for trading Petro is just for roster space; if the Sonics can pair him with Ridnour in a 2-for-1, that frees up another spot for one of their 2nd-round picks. I don't think having/not having Petro is going to make a big difference in the number of games the Sonics win next season.
Sonics mini-camp notes
Calloway had a very good all-around season in NBDL, on ethe 5th best ever on PER.
Lyde is NBDL career leader in games & minutes, 2nd in rebounds, 4th in points. 1st in blocks. Had a strong 06-07 campaign. 07-08 was pretty average.
Dahntay Jones has improved his shot and might alright for a final wing spot if they need one.
The first 2 are longshots.
Calloway at 6-3 175 is a nice size. Don't know how fast but being light I'd think he might be. 25. 40% from 3 pt. Went for about 20 pts 6 assists, 6 rebs a game down there.
Seems like a good pick to give a summer league run and check out.
If the Sonics take another damn "project center" in this draft, I'm going to scream.
Draftexpress writeups suggest very few good defenders in first round (Rose, Westbrook, Hibbert, Mayo, Douglas-Roberts, who else?). If good defense is going to be a key part of team identity need to make that a priority in the draft, moving to where you need to be for those few guys and / or get defenders - who are not offensive liabilities- via trade, free agency or possibly in 2nd round.
I forgot the Lopez twins.
Presti better get at least one already good defender out of first round. Better than Green.
In second round Weaver and DJ White seem like good candidates.
AK1984, did you get banned from Sonicscentral? Haven't seen you post there in awhile.
Earl Calloway seems to be an interesting player. I liken him to be a Carl Elliot type point guard, good size, athleticism, can defend, distributor, had him on my 2nd round radar while he was at Indiana. He could be on a summer league team, and would be a good candidate should he play well over in Vegas. Intriguing player to conisder, and still relatively young. Worse case scenario, could be like Walker Russell Jr., but even he was a decent, run the summer league team point guard. I think Calloway would be a candidate for the summer leagues.
PGs can take awhile.
Wonder what the scouts said Calloway lacked and if he is over the hump.
wooohooo....OKLAHOMA..... i cant wait until they get here to a city that accually wants the team in it
You are probably waiting for 2 years.
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Brusnitsyns’ mansion in wait for restoration
A real gem of the XIX century architecture by no means built in the functionalism style is hidden among the production buildings of the industrial port zone of Vasilievsky Island. Its decaying beauty made an imperishable impression of all eclecticism connoisseurs and history lovers that came for a tour of the Brusnitsyns’ mansion which took place on July 07, 2017 within the frames of the Open City project.
Both the surroundings and the inside premises are striking by their contrasts. Passing through the entrance checkpoint with a metal turnstile, along the corridors typical of some factory of the 80ies, probably, visitors go up to the second floor where through a half-open standard metal door with a door closer they see a multitiered chandelier with crystal pendants hanging from the patterned coffered ceiling made from dark wood.
The historical sideboard in the dining room has survived surprisingly well.
This unexpected combination of the factory ascetics and luxury of the mansion is historically justified: the Brusnitsyns, the owners of the luxurious dwelling being of peasant descent who became merchants, built their house in immediate proximity of the buildings of their tannery to have the possibility of ongoing control of the processes of bovine hides and skins processing. The tannery functioned until the late XX century; then it went bankrupt but during the two centuries of its operation it was regularly rebuilt to adapt to the needs of the production. The mansion underwent especially many changes in the Soviet years. For example, an entrance checkpoint was built on the place of the gate through which visitors get into the mansion (and employees of administrative departments used to go to their workplaces at some time) while the marble staircase still has traces of the barbaric transverse division by wooden boarding: there was one of the employees’ offices on it. At the same time the space above these boards was adapted to accommodate a storeroom: bottles with reagents were placed on the marble steps of the flight.
The former splendor created in the XIX century still survives in some rooms accessible for viewing. The bright Oriental interior of the smoking room has not faded over the long years, and even the glass lamp of the chandelier reminding of an Arabic tobacco bowl still delights the guests.
The rich decoration of the White Hall and the drawing-room made in warm shades is almost as beautiful as it was one hundred years ago, and the lack of restoration works has left its imprint in the form of the tarnished shine of the gilding and the shredding silk of the wall tapestry, but the major accents of the interior are in a relatively good condition: the mantelpiece, huge mirrors and magnificent moulding.
The White Hall for official receptions where friends and partners of the Brusnitsyns used to get together.
Unfortunately, not all the rooms are open for visiting. Part of them are of no interest due to the poor condition or lost historical interior while some of them, as the guide said, were allowed for access even for the organization which carried out inventory of the tannery property in the 90ies. Therefore, there is no complete data about the condition of the mansion so far. This information may be fuelling the rumors about the mysterious mirror of Dracula: the legend has it that it used to be in the office of the tannery director located behind the Golden Drawing Room. This room is boarded up now, as they say, in connection with the mysterious and outright disappearance of the director and one of the employees of the tannery. The mirror is also associated with the enigmatic and timeless death of the granddaughter of Nikolay Mokeevich Brusnitsyn who founded his own production in Kozhevennaya Line. The mirror is also blamed for the constant health problems of the inhabitants of the house probably ignoring the fact that it was not for nothing that Catherine the Great ordered to take tanneries outside the city limits: the chemicals used in such production processes have an extremely acrid «odor» and their vapors are poisonous.
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June 17, 2016, by Nikki Rollason
What would Plato do? Greek Thought in US Politics
As the 2016 US Presidential election campaign continues to confound forecasters, recent PhD student and Teaching Affiliate John Bloxham discusses classics and American politics.
Looking at American politics through the prism of Greek philosophy probably struck a few people as a waste of time when I started my PhD on the reception of Greek thought in US conservatism. I’ll concede that the notion that lots of Republican politicians are avid and profound readers of Plato and Aristotle sounds a little far-fetched. And I suspect that even more people would be sceptical today (thanks a lot Donald Trump!). Still, Greek thought and the US right have enjoyed a close relationship since modern American conservatism developed after World War II.
In the 1950s, when secularism was apparently undermining public morality, how could conservatives base traditional values on a god that fewer and fewer people seemed to believe in? The answer was an appeal to the authority of reason in the form of Plato’s moral philosophy. Likewise, when neoconservatives wanted to utilise social science to critique President Lyndon Johnson’s emerging welfare state in the 1960s, they faced a quandary. A key criticism of Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ agenda was that it seemed to undermine public morality, but as social scientists they were committed to the ‘fact/value distinction’ of Max Weber (which meant they were supposed to be disinterested observers when it came to matters of morality). Their solution was a turn to Aristotle, marrying his virtue ethics to social scientific methodology to create a neoconservative social science. And when neoconservatives in the 1990s wanted to chart a new course in US foreign policy, between the realism of Kissinger and the liberal internationalism of Clinton, to whom did they turn but the Greek historian Thucydides?
So in these and other examples, the adoption of Greek thought has reinforced and invigorated conservatism. But these were not always straightforward translations from ancient to modern, and contemporary concerns and debates have often given new and contradictory meanings to ancient texts. For example, the neoconservative Thucydides who emerged in the 1990s had to compete with the older, opposing Thucydides of conservative realists. By assessing the decisions made by modern appropriators (what they used, adapted or omitted) against on-going shifts in the social and political context, both fresh perspectives on antiquity and deeper insights into modern conservatism can be gained.
Looking ahead, Bernie Sanders’ doctrinaire socialism is likely to lose out to Hillary Clinton’s left-leaning pragmatism in the Democratic primary contest, just as Ted Cruz’s doctrinaire conservatism was no match for Trump’s brash and populist pragmatism in the Republican race. So perhaps the American political scene is entering a less ideological phase. Nevertheless, it seems likely that at least some thinkers will continue to look to antiquity for inspiration. Greek ideas have tended to be used most fruitfully during periods of reinvention and, after Trump, it seems likely that the right will be in for another interval of self-examination.
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Impact of leucocytes recovery on longterm outcomes after allo-HSCT in acute leukemia patients in complete remission
Ekaterina D. Mikhaltsova, Mikhail Y. Drokov, Julia O. Davydova, Larisa A. Kuzmina, Vera A. Vasilyeva, Natalia N. Popova, Darya S. Dubnyak, Olga M. Koroleva, Nikolay M. Kapranov, Zoya V. Konova, Irina V. Galtseva, Elena N. Parovichnikova, Valery G. Savchenko
National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation
Reconstitution of leucocyte subpopulations is an important factor that determines success of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We hypothesized that the leucocyte recovery should be strongly associated with clinical outcomes. Our aim was to evaluate possible impact of leucocyte recovery upon long-term outcomes after allo-HSCT in acute leukemia patients transplanted in complete remission (CR).
This study included 28 patients (7 males and 21 females) with a median age of 36 years (range 21 to 61), who underwent allo-HSCT from 2015 to 2017 at the National Research Center for Hematology. All patients had an acute leukemia: 11, ALL and 17, AML; all of them were transplanted in complete remission (CR). 12 patients underwent myeloablative conditioning regimen and 16 patients, reduced-intensity treatment. 23 patients received bone marrow transplant as a stem cell source, and 5 patients received PBSC. Reconstitution of leucocyte subpopulations was tested by means of flow cytometric analysis of peripheral blood on days +14, +30, +60, and +90 after allo-HSCT. Anti-CD3 FITC, anti-CD16PE, anti-CD56 PE, anti-CD45 Per-CP-CYTM5.5, anti-CD4 PE-CyTM7, anti-CD19 APC, anti-CD8 APC-Cy7 (BD Biosciences, USA) as well as anti-CD14PE, anti-CD16PE, anti-HLA-DR APC (eBiosciences, USA) were used to identify the white blood cell subsets. Predictive significance of leucocyte reconstitution after allo-HSCT was evaluated by receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Fisher’s exact test was used for 2×2 tables. Kaplan-Meier analysis with log-rank test was used for survival analysis and group comparison. A p value <0.05 was considered significant.
According to the data of ROC-curve analysis, classical monocytes proved to be of highest predictive significance for poor (lethal) outcome (AUC= 0.78; p=0.05) after allo-HSCT in acute leukemia patients transplanted in CR, with a cut-off level of 185 cells/μL. The two corresponding groups of HSCT patients (≥185 cells/μl, and <185 cells/μl) were matched by age (p=0.64), gender (p=0.38), diagnosis (p=0.7), conditioning regimens (p=0.7) and stem cell source (p=0.35). Their detailed cell characteristics are presented in Table 1. When analyzing survival rates, the absolute counts of classical monocytes <185 cells/μl by day 90 were associated with decreased overall survival (58.9%), compared to 93.7% survival at higher monocyte levels, thus showing significant difference (p=0,02) (Figure 1). The mortality analysis revealed that five patients have died in the “<185 cells/μl” group. Lethal outcome was due to the disease progression in 2 cases, and 3 patients died from infectious complications.
Poor recovery of classical monocytes is combined with low numbers of CD4+ cells (p=0.037), and pro-inflammatory monocytes (p=0.003). A significantly poor and slow reconstitution after allo-HSCT is strongly associated with poor outcomes due to infectious complications and relapses during first 12 months after allo-HSCT in patients with acute leukemia.
Leucocyte recovery, stem cell transplantation, clinical outcome after allo-HSCT, classical monocytes, CD4+ cells, proinlammatory monocytes.
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