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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You're going to have to help me out, Mr. Gruss. I am three episodes away from the end of Season 1 of Homeland. Don't blow it for me. The episode I just watched — I don't recall that this was controversial at the time. Watching it last night, how could it not have been controversial? Check out today's transcript for the rest…
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Mike: You're going to have to help me out, Mr. Gruss. I am three episodes away from the end of Season 1 of Homeland. Don't blow it for me. The episode I just watched — I don't recall that this was controversial at the time. Watching it last night, how could it not have been controversial? I'm talking about the episode — you've seen all of both seasons, right?
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AG: Correct.
Mike: I'm talking about the episode where Sergeant Brody is in Iraq and he's teaching English to Issa, the arch terrorist Abu Nazir's child. The relationship starts off a bit rocky. The boy is about, I don't know, eight, nine years old. The arch terrorist has rescued the Marine and asked him, in exchange for sparing his life, to teach his son how to speak English. I still don't know why, but in any event. The captured Marine takes to the task and teaches the boy English, grows fond of him during his tutoring. One morning, he sends the tyke off to school. Shortly after — I guess the school is very near to where the arch terrorist's house is, or abode, or whatever it is. Sometime during that morning, a horrific bomb goes off and shatters all the windows in the house and just rolls him across the floor from the concussion blast. He runs over to the schoolyard to find the young Nazir, Issa Nazir, along with about, it's just a graveyard of kids. It's a gruesome scene. There's one kid that survived. Did you catch the one kid that survived that had his arm blown off?
AG: That was a gruesome scene.
Mike: Let me get to the chase. We talk about having drones indiscriminately drop ordnance on alleged terrorist masterminds' or agents' homes in Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and what have you. How do you know that they actually hit the targets? What if they did that to your house, or trying to hit your house and instead hit a neighbor's house or playground nearby or something to that effect? This is the scenario that's played out in the TV series Homeland. A bomb actually is directed at the arch mastermind terrorist's home. It misses the house where the Marine is inside and instead blows the school next door to kingdom come.
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Then, to add insult to injury, the Vice President of the United States — the press gets wind of the attack because the people in Iraq don't like dozens and dozens of children being blown to kingdom come that were attending school. The word gets out that it didn't hit a terrorist's house and instead it hit a school. It hit near some houses but actually hit a school. The acting vice president goes on television and says: We took out a terrorist. We did the world a favor. One of the reporters asks the question: The people in Iraq say you hit a school and they've got the bodies to prove it. The vice president says: That is a lie. They killed those kids and put them there to make it look like we did it. This is the setup to the future. They cut to another scene and there's arch terrorist mastermind Abu Nazir. Is he an arch terrorist mastermind? I'm assuming he is. I haven't seen that he's done anything yet.
AG: He's terrible, yeah.
Mike: Okay. So this terrible, rotten jihadi is in a scene with the American Marine and they are surveying the landscape of what was once formerly a school. Then they go inside and they're watching the vice president on television talk about how the Iraqis had planted the bodies there. The arch terrorist turns to the Marine and says, "Do you see this? And they call us terrorists." Then that episode kind of ends. Don't tell me what happens. I've got disc 3 and I'm going to watch it this weekend. How could that have not been controversial at the time? Maybe it was.
AG: What aspect are you looking for the controversy from? The series starts off with the attack that Nazir masterminds that Carrie gets involved with and how she gets nuts from.
Mike: This is the one that happens in Iraq at the beginning when she's trying to get her informant out of the jail?
AG: Yeah. It's been two years now since the first season. I think Carrie talks about other terrorist attacks he's masterminded, that have occurred. She's in that jail trying to get the guy to spill the beans.
Mike: Right, and he kind of does.
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AG: I guess where the series goes over the next couple episodes — the second season is so crazy it's unbelievable. Not as if any of this stuff is, particularly the last couple episodes of what happens the rest of the first season you're going to watch, but literally, what happens in the second season is so out of the realm of possibility. If people have seen the second season, the cell phone scene is so out of the realm of possibility that I think people are like: Okay, we've kicked the can on what this series shows in terms of real-life situations. We'll just enjoy it for what it is, which is an hour-long episode every Sunday night.
Mike: What I think is shocking about it is they portray a drone strike and the effect it has on people and on children and what not that are not jihadis. There's death and mayhem, kind of like what we talked about before and we know this actually has happened. The way we perceive it is: Those people shouldn't have been living near terrorism. It's their fault. They deserved it. Then I always say: They deserved to die, really?
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AG: But do you get into the — if you look at that and the parallels, is Nazir a bin Laden-type character in this series? Do you have the tough mental exercise going through — I think bin Laden was alive when they were filming this.
Mike: It was three years ago, so he would have been alive.
AG: In particular this scene with the bombing that kills the kids, if you had an opportunity to bomb what you thought was bin Laden, in the series that's his home and his kid lives there, do you have the tough moral exercise of, in a similar situation in real life, if bin Laden had been in a schoolhouse or a group of homes where there are innocent kids and there was the chance you're going to kill them, do you still take that opportunity to bomb that house?
Mike: If you're asking me, I'm going to answer the question no, I'm not going to bomb the house. If they're in a school, there ought to be enough SEALs and Rangers and other special ops. If you can get there by drone, they ought to be able to covertly get there and do the same job without killing children.
AG: But what happens when —
Mike: Collateral damage, to me, morally, from a Christian just war point of view, unacceptable. I'm going to say no.
AG: Right. I get that. I guess the response would be: What happens if you do plan for a SEAL or Rangers —
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Mike: And it falls through?
AG: And they end up dying?
Mike: But they volunteered for military service.
AG: You're kind of weighing what life is worth more than another.
Mike: No, I'm not.
AG: At the end of the day, is an American life worth more than an Afghani child's life if the end result is bin Laden is dead?
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Mike: You're getting into that moral relativism. If the children are actually engaged in the activity, knowing full well they are engaged in the activity, then they are as culpable as anyone else. You're proceeding from the point of view that the only way to deal with someone like bin Laden is to drop a bomb on him or take him out or kill him. It used to be that when we would execute these sorts of orders, the first order of business would always be to try to take the, especially if it was a pirate or something of that sort, to try and take them alive. If you want them to stand trial for piracy crimes or crimes against the law of nations or on the high seas, we would have done what we could do —
AG: But that's changed with suicide vests.
Mike: You're right.
AG: I don't know. I can see the argument that we don't want to risk the lives of our men and women, you're right, you do get into the moral relativism. If the possibility of a SEAL dying during this mission, is that worth more than possibly killing a completely innocent Afghani child? Yeah, you're going to have that tough "what life is worth more?" discussion.
Mike: Did the nine-year-old sign up for military service or is the nine-year-old saying: It's going to be a pretty good school today. I hear we're going to move onto the second part of the alphabet. The SEAL signed up for the death, mayhem and destruction; the kid did not. See, that's why this is controversial. I can tell you the answer to the question, if you ask John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, Dianne Feinstein, Bob Menendez, Bob Corker, probably Obama, Bill Kristol, anyone who's ever been on Fox All Stars, any of those guys, not only will they drop one bomb, they'd drop a cleanup bomb just to make sure. If they had any infrared images moving or hearts still pumping down there, they'd probably drop another one just to make sure they took care of the situation. That's me answering the question. That's not the United States, because we know what our answer is: Kill 'em! Bomb 'em! Bomb 'em!
AG: You don't have to wait to see how terrible Nazir is for too long in the series. While the third season beings this Sunday, I will be checking in with the series finale of Breaking Bad instead. I'll have to catch up on that as well.
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Mike: Breaking Bad is over. Dexter ended Sunday night. My daughter last night asked me, she said, "Dad, your show Dexter ended last Sunday night, didn't it?" I said, "Yeah." She said, "What are you going to do?" I said, "What do you mean what am I going to do?"
AG: It ended badly, right? I saw a lot of criticism.
Mike: I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it. Don't play spoiler. I do know, I saw a screen cap of the final scene. I do know that he winds up being a lumberjack or something stupid like that. I don't want to know. She said, "What are you going to do?" I said, "That's an interesting question." Mrs. Church and I started watching Dexter in Season 1. We weren't bandwagon jumpers. I cannot remember what made me want to watch it, probably because Michael C. Hall was in it. He's such a good actor. He's good in anything, except when he's playing the homosexual guy in Six Feet Under. He was even good in that. That's just not my cup of tea. I turned it off and stopped watching it then.
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I watched that show from its inception, from the first episode on. I haven't missed a solitary episode of Dexter. Yeah, there is some anti-cult going on in there, but there is also some cult. It's not God cult. They even dealt with God in one season and tried to compare a moral code from God with the code that's handed down to Dexter to try to keep him from killing innocent people and instead to kill those that escape justice, which they have so richly earned. It won't be on anymore. It'll just be on in reruns. It would be kind of like if a radio show ended. You kind of get attached to these things. Here's another comparison, much like when J.K. Rowling had to bring the Harry Potter series to an end. I'm sure back in the day when J.R.R. Tolkien had to bring the series of The Hobbit to a close — I will say this, though.
The attachment to literature, even though it's not really literature, it is acted out literature, but it is fiction. It is theatrical. The attachment to literature is probably one of those things that we don't talk enough about. I don't mean gossipy about what this star is doing or that star is doing. I think it's a healthy exercise, even though this is fiction, for conservatives and those that pine away from conservatism, or if you fancy yourself a progressive or liberal too, to engage in literary fiction and to talk about the actual and discuss and process the actual story. Again, not the stars, not the gossip, not all the celebrity hero worship, none of that stuff, but what's going on in the actual story. That's why the conversation we just had about Homeland, and over the last eight years I've talked many, many times about the morality or lack of morality that is Dexter. You're watching Breaking Bad. That's a morality play. Brian Cranston is playing a teacher who people trust with their kids. If they knew he had a trailer and was making the most pure form of methamphetamine ever made, or whatever it is he's making, they may not trust him with their kids anymore. All of good literature is a morality play, I guess is my point.
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As I said, we probably don't have enough of that discussion because instead we're obsessed with politics, and instead we're obsessed with political process. There's more to life than just politics. When people talk about and ask about: What do you think a founding father would do in this situation? [mocking] "I'll tell you what, he'd get a gun and he's start shooting." There are bumper stickers out there "The Founding Fathers Would Be Shooting By Now." I also bet you the founding fathers would be saying: You know what I think? I think you should probably have a dialogue with those nuts from Iran. Anyone that wants to talk to you, you should probably talk to.
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Don't Get Sucked In By The Rip This Summer
Robert Brander and Associate Professor and UNSW
On average 21 people drown each year in rip currents on Australian surf beaches.
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Arsenal look set to miss out on Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, 33, after his partner claimed she will not leave the Spanish capital
( Daily Express )
But the Gunners could still sign Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata and are prepared to battle with Tottenham and Inter Milan for the 21-year-old's signature
( Daily Mail )
l Barcelona have reached a verbal agreement with long-standing Manchester United target Marco Reus, 25, and will present an opening offer of £28m to Borussia Dortmund for the forward
( Talksport )
Meanwhile, United are prepared to accept as little as £12m for midfielder Marouane Fellaini, 26, who they signed for £27.5m from Everton a little over a year ago
( Daily Star )
Chelsea are attempting to sign midfielder Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona in a deal that would ensure his former club - Arsenal - do not receive half of the Catalan side's profit on the player
( Daily Telegraph )
Goalkeeper Pepe Reina will return to Liverpool as Italian club Napoli cannot meet the Reds' demands to make the 31-year-old's recent loan move permanent
( Metro )
Manchester City will make Porto defensive midfielder Fernando, 26, their player by the end of the week, while the free signing of Bacary Sagna from Arsenal is also set to be completed
l Everton are hopeful they will hold off competition from Arsenal to land 33-year-old striker Samuel Eto'o from Chelsea
Liverpool's 20-year-old forward Suso will move to Porto and be reunited with his former international youth coach Julen Lopetegui, who manages the Portuguese side
Mauricio Pochettino will make Napoli midfielder Blerim Dzemaili his first signing as Tottenham manager. The 28-year-old is currently at the World Cup with Switzerland
Arsenal and QPR are interested in signing 29-year-old ex-Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong, who is currently at AC Milan
( The Sun )
Sunderland have made a £4m bid for Swansea centre-back Ashley Williams, 29, whose contract with the Welsh club expires next summer.
( Times )
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says he came close to managing England in 2008 after the sacking of Steve McClaren, but his wife talked him out of the move
Netherlands boss Louis van Gaal, who will take over as Manchester United manager after the World Cup, could keep Nicky Butt, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes as part of the Old Trafford club's coaching staff.
( Guardian )
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Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere is confident his club team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will overcome injury to play a key role for England at the World Cup.
( Goal )
England will give Italy far more to worry about than they did in their defeat at Euro 2012, according to manager Roy Hodgson, who says his side must spend more time attacking
( Daily Mirror )
Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo was a star performer when his country knocked England out of Euro 2012 on penalties but Hodgson says he has a plan to combat the threat of the 35-year-old when the two teams meet again on Saturday.
( Independent )
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says England striker Wayne Rooney, 28, is at the right stage of his career to have an impressive World Cup
England's Southampton midfielder Adam Lallana, 26, is not content with simply being a squad member at the World Cup and says he is inspired by the surroundings international football provides.
Ross Barkley was sarcastically applauded by his team-mates after the 20-year-old Everton midfielder was 15 minutes late for England's bus to training on Monday
There are safety concerns over the Arena De Sao Paulo, which will host the opening game of the World Cup between Brazil and Croatia on Thursday, as it has yet to be tested close to its full capacity.
( The Times )
A football-crazy artist has created some of the World Cup's most striking moments using Subbuteo figures. David Beckham's 1998 red card, Maradona's 1986 "hand of God" goal, and Terry Butcher being bloodied in an 1989 qualifier are all featured.
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An algorithm uncovered six previously unknown types of dolphin clicks in underwater recordings from the Gulf of Mexico, researchers reported in PLOS Computational Biology on Thursday.
Dolphin tracking is normally done using planes or boats, but coauthor of the study Kaitlin Frasier, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography says that it is too expensive. A cheaper way is to go through seafloor recordings — which pick up the echolocation clicks that dolphins make to find their way around, search for food, and socialise with others.
By comparing different click types to recordings at the surface — where researchers can see which animals are making the noise — scientists can learn what different species sound like, and use those clicks to map the animals' movements deep underwater.
However, experts come across difficulties when sorting through the recordings, mainly because the differences between the clicks are very subtle to the human mind.
"When you have analysts manually going through a dataset, then there's a lot of bias introduced just from the human perception," says Simone Baumann-Pickering, a biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was not involved in the study. "Person A may see things differently than person B." So far, scientists have only determined the distinct sounds of a few species.
Frasier and her colleagues outsourced the job to a computer to sift through the clicks more efficiently and precisely. They fed an algorithm 52 million clicks that had been recorded over two years by near-seafloor sound sensors across the Gulf of Mexico. The algorithm grouped clicks based on their similarities in speed and pitch — the same criteria human experts use to classify clicks.
"We don't tell it how many click types to find," Frasier said. "We just kind of say, 'What's in here?'" The algorithm picked out seven major types of clicks, which the researchers think are produced by different species of dolphin. Frasier's team were able to recognise the clicks of one species called Risso's dolphin, and believed another group of clicks to belong to the short-finned pilot whales that frequent the Green Canyon south of Louisiana. Another type resembles sounds from the eastern Pacific Ocean that a dolphin called the 'false killer whale' makes.
In order to confirm their suspicions and findings, the biologists need to compare their computer-generated categories against surface observations of these dolphins, Frasier said.
"It would be great to be able to confidently assign certain species to each of the different click types, even if more than one species is assigned to a single click type," said Lynne Hodge, a marine biologist at Duke University who wasn't involved in the study. More effectively monitoring dolphins could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long-term effects of anthropogenic climate change.
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This beautiful circular plaque has a copper effect finish and comes with a twine loop attached ready for hanging. The plaque depicts a moon gazing hare. A stunning plaque that will go indoors or outdoors.


Gabriella DeLuca loves coming to school every day. The Huntington High School senior is involved in a little bit of everything and she couldn't be any happier.
The teenager's senior year courses include Advanced Placement Calculus AB, AP Government and Politics, AP Micro-Economics, AP English Literature and Composition, Physics, Honors Italian, Honors Orchestra and Project Adventure.
Ms. DeLuca hasn't made a final decision about where she wants to attend college. She is still considering her options and learning more about the possibilities and what each school offers.
Gabriella DeLuca (back, right) with Habitat for Humanity members on a build.
Gabriella DeLuca (botto, left) with Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans.
Gabriella DeLuca (second from right) helps out at bake sale in the school lobby.


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Matthew Decker (born March 6, 1981) is an American theater director, screenwriter, and playwright from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. With Erin Reilly, he co-founded Theatre Horizon in 2005, a professional theatre company in Norristown, PA where he served as Co-Artistic Director.

Decker has directed regionally at Theatre Horizon, the Arden Theatre Company, the Lantern Theatre Company, Cardinal Stage, 11th Hour Theatre Company, and Villanova University. For eight seasons, he served as the Associate Artistic Director at the Arden Theatre Company.

Decker is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he studied at the Atlantic Theater Company. He is a three-time Barrymore Award winner for Outstanding Direction of a Musical.

In 2023, it was announced that he would co-pen with Ayad Akhtar the libretto for the stage musical adaptation of Damien Chazelle's 2016 film La La Land, which will be directed by Bartlett Sher, with Justin Hurwitz and Pasek & Paul returning as songwriters.

Awards
 2016 Barrymore Award - Outstanding Direction of a Musical (The Stinky Cheese Man)
 2015 Barrymore Award - Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Into the Woods)
 2014 Barrymore Nomination - Outstanding Direction of a Play (Circle Mirror Transformation)
 2011 Barrymore Award - Outstanding Direction of a Musical (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

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1981 births
Living people
Tisch School of the Arts alumni

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Low-Level Flights to Image 3D Geology in Northern Arkansas
Editor: In the public interest and in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration regulations, the USGS is announcing this low-level airborne project. Your assistance in informing the local communities is appreciated.
Attribution: Energy and Minerals, Mineral Resources Program, States and Territories, Region 4: Mississippi Basin, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
Big Thompson Floods of 1976 and 2013 - A Visual Comparison
The Big Thompson Floods of 1976 and 2013 shown visually. The inundation images reflect the location and peak streamflows at certain points between Estes Park and Loveland, Colorado.
Attribution: Land Resources, Water Resources, Floods and Droughts, Land Change Science Program, Colorado Water Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
Follow National Wildfire Information in the Palm of Your Hand: GeoMAC Goes Mobile
The public can now access information about active wildfires across the country using a smartphone.
Attribution: Environmental Health, Natural Hazards, Wildfire Hazards, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Energy Release Online Public Dataset and Viewer of U.S. Wind Turbine Locations and Characteristics
Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the American Wind Energy Association, released the United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) and the USWTDB Viewer to access this new public dataset.
Attribution: Energy and Minerals, Energy Resources Program, Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
Date published: November 17, 2017
New Map Showcases the Recreational, Mining and Historical Heart of Colorado
Bringing together decades of research and mapping, the U.S. Geological Survey just released a geologic map and companion pamphlet featuring the Arkansas River Valley region in north-central Colorado.
Attribution: Land Resources, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, States and Territories, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
New Tool Allows Users to Explore Mountains Worldwide
A new tool that gives users the most detailed view yet of the world's mountains is now available from the USGS. And it's as close as your computer or cellphone.
Attribution: Land Resources, Land Change Science Program, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
New USGS Report Uncovers the Underground Geology Along the Rio Grande
A new U.S. Geological Survey report describes the below ground geology of the Rio Grande transboundary region of New Mexico and Texas, United States, and northern Chihuahua, Mexico.
Attribution: Land Resources, Water Availability and Use Science Program, States and Territories, Region 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
Point and Click to Track Wildfire Activity in the United States
Keep tabs on wildfire activity via this U.S. Geological Survey website, GeoMAC.
Attribution: Land Resources, Core Science Systems, Natural Hazards, Wildfire Hazards, Rocky Mountain, States and Territories, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center


Join us this week to make an adorable clay handprint turkey. Cost is $10 per turkey. We will make them this week and paint next week. You can come at 1:00 or 2:00.
Join us this Friday evening for Kids Night Canvas. We'll be painting a cool Halloween design and munching on pizza and spooky snacks!
Join us today to paint ornaments with acrylic paints that will then be given a glitter coating and sent home with you!! Ornaments are $7-8 +tax.
We will be open from 10-12 this morning for pick-ups and gift certificate sales!
We'll be offering our wonderful 9" x 12" platter for only $25 today. Come in and make a great serving piece.
Join us at 1:00 today to paint our Troy the Snowman canvas! $25 per canvas. RSVP, please.
Join us this Monday evening for some pottery painting or glass fusing WITHOUT the hubby or kids in tow! Bring in your snacks and beverages and relax while painting your masterpiece. RSVP requested but not needed. We will be open from 6-9 p.m..
Drop off the kids for an evening of munching on pizza and painting our adorable Jelly Fish Canvas! Chase away the winter blues with our warm water friend. Only $25+ per kid. No Parents Allowed!!! Register soon to grab your spots!
Join us this Thursday for Clay Owl Plaques! Designing your own owl will be a hoot! Only $10 per kid.
Come join us to make this sweet Valentine Tree Canvas while raising money for a great cause. Light refreshments will be served and instruction will be given. We even have patterns you can trace on to help guide you through making your masterpiece!
Join us this week to make an adorable Candy dish for Valentine's. We will be using the "paper technique" to make our heart design on the dish. Cost is $10 per dish and please RSVP.
Join us this week to make a Heart Treasure Collage. This will be our first resin project. I have lots of fun things to include in your collage and you can bring something of your own to include. Prices includes all materials. Cost is $12. You will be able to take projects with you that day. Please RSVP to save your Heart Dish.
T'was the day before Valentine's and time to go out with your Gal friends and have a great Girls Night Out!!! We will provide desserts, you proved any other munchies and beverages! We'll have pottery painting and glass fusing available. RSVP to save your spots and so I know how much chocolate to buy!!
Mixed Media Canvas-Part 1: Today we will be making the clay letters and shapes for our mixed canvas project and start painting the background on the canvas. This is a two part class with the final steps next week. Each week is $10.
Mixed Media Canvas-Part 2: This week we will be finishing the canvases we started last week. We will paint the clay letters/shapes we made and finishing the canvases. Once everything is painted we will attach the clay pieces to our canvases! Cost is $10 this week.
Join us today to paint your own Tic Tac Toe Board, complete with pieces to use! $10 each.
Closed Today! Attending training to learn new stuff!
Join us this Friday evening for our Koala Hugs Canvas!! And pizza..drinks...snacks! Only $25+ per kid and limited spaces! This has a bit more detail than our last one so ages 8 and up are advised.
Closed Today to attend training to learn new stuff!
Join us this week to make a Fab Floral Canvas! Only $12 per canvas.
Join us this week to make a fun ZenDoodle pencil cup. This is a fun technique you can use on many different pieces. Only $10 per pencil cup.
Join us this week to make this great fused glass cross! You pick you colors and design your cross. We'll have it back to you for Easter and to enjoy in and window all year long. $12 per cross.
Join u this week to make one of these adorable Bunny Plaques. 12" tall! Only $10 each but supply is limited. RSVP here or FB to save one for yourself!
This month we will be painting the Friendly Frog canvas! $25 per kid for painting and pizza. Reservations needed and limited space. NO Parents Allowed!!
Join us this Sunday at 3:00 for our Ribbon of Hope canvas fundraiser benefiting the Missy's Angels Relay for Life team! Light snacks provided. RSVP to reserve your canvas! $35 per person. This is a great new design you can customize with any color ribbon.
Join us this week to make a fused glass sun catcher or cross. $12 per item.
We will be open 11-6 during the festival. It's a great time to take a break and make your Mother's Day presents!!!
We will be open 11-5 during the festival. It's a great time to take a break and make your Mother's Day presents!!!
We will be closed for staff to celebrate Mother's Day with their families.
Join us tonight for pizza, snacks, and painting this great neon peace sign canvas!! $25+ per kid. Reservations needed!
Join us this Saturday in Old Town for lots of fun activities for kids! We'll have canvas painting and some specials too!!
Summer is coming! Don't forget to sign your kid up for our summer clay camp program, Pound-Paint-and Create, offered through Frederick County Parks and Rec.. Check out their flyer for details and dates. These camps fill up fast!
Join us Friday and Saturday to paint this great beer stein for only $18. It's while supplies last so don't dilly dally!
WE will be Open this Monday from 12-5! Come paint a pot and enjoy the celebration in Old Town.
We will be closed for the fourth.
Come in between 3-6 p.m. to paint our rectangle tray for only $20!!
Join us anytime between 3-6 and paint this great beer stein for only $16!! These things are big and AWESOME!
We are open today from 11-5! Come paint something cool!
Join us this afternoon for a Relay For Life Fundraiser and paint a great serving platter! Only $35 per platter and light refreshments will be served. The platter is 8"x11" and prefect for decorating for any of the upcoming holidays! Reserve your platter now!
Kids back in school and we are settled into our new spot!
Kids In School? Canvas painting anytime!
We offer walk in canvas painting all week long. Just come in, pick out your design, and we'll guide you through making your painting.
Join us this Sunday afternoon and learn all about glass fusing by making this great looking fall tree dish. Class starts at 3:00 and costs $26+tax, includes all supplies and fusing. Come see how fun and easy it is to do glass fusing.
We offer time slots on Saturdays and Sundays and the cost is only $14 per kid for pottery and $15 for canvas.
We will be closed to recover from a crazy busy summer!
Homeschool art is back this week!! Remember the paper technique tulip plates from this spring? Well. we are doing those but using leaves this time!!! Only $10 per plate! come in on Wednesday or Thursday.
Join us this Friday as we create a Fall Tree Canvas and, as usual, munch down on some pizza!!! Only $25+ per kid. Call or sign up here to reserve.
We offer some wonderful fall and Halloween canvas designs. Come in anytime to paint one!
Join us this week to make a great leaf dish for fall. You will be able to choose your leaf design and paint your clay project that day or come back in two weeks to paint it. $10 per kid.
Now is the time to get your ornament fundraiser scheduled! This is a great way for parents and kids to make memories while raising money for your organization. Call for details!
Join us this week to make a flighty bat mobile. No, not one for Batman, but a cool one with flying bats for Halloween. $10 per mobile.
Join us this week to make a spooky ghost bowl. We'll be using the paper technique and your choice of colors for this design. $10 per bowl.
And we are back to canvas with this week's design, Harvest Moon. We'll have some curious bats flying in the moonlight. $12 per canvas.
Now this is a really cute one! We will make a clay pinch pot for the turkeys body and then use hand-prints to make the turkey's feathers out of clay. Too Cute!! $10 per turkey.
This week we will be getting ready for Thanksgiving by making some clay napkin rings! These will look great on your holiday table. $10 for 4.
Bass-Hoover ornament night for students at parents at B-H!
Join us this week to make a clay manger scene with Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus. These are adorable and something you'll treasure for years. Cost: $10.
Join us to make this great holiday sign and get ready for the season. This is a super easy design and you can copy our colors or choose your own. Only $25 + tax and we even and the holes and rope for hanging. Buy your ticket now to claim your board. We do have a limited supply.
Ladies, this is your night to come create with no men and no kids tagging along! 6-9 p.m.. RSVP appreciated.
We will be opening at 10 a.m. on Plaid Friday! Make your reservation for 10:00 and receive 25% off every completed item you paint! Reservations are a must, call the shop to reserve your chair(s), and you must arrive by 10:15. This is a great time to get those awesome handpainted presents done!
Join us this morning to paint this adorable Santa Canvas! Special price of only $20 + and you take it home today! Reservations are needed as canvases are limited. Have fun using colors of your choice and decorating his hat the way you like!
Today ONLY! Purchase a $50 gift certificate for only $40!! Certificate must be picked up in the studio. You can buy one $50 or two $25.
This week is a favorite-Glass Ornaments! We have the base sizes ready for you to choose a shape and design your ornament. $10 each.
This week we will be making a plate with a Christmas Tree design using fingerprints! This is a fun design to do and great for the holiday season. $10 per plate.


In partnership with the Praxair Rooting for America Program, Hatfield Township has maintained a tree/plant nursery on Stratford Ave. near Hatfield Village since 1995. Through the years, the nursery has been a resource for permanent plantings on Hatfield parkland and public open space. Although the Rooting for America Program has ended, Hatfield Township has made the commitment to continue a nursery, and has developed a new site convenient to water and electricity. The site is part of the Township's park system, and guests are welcome to visit -- to use its resting benches or walk its grounds.


Posted on April 22, 2012 by N.P.
Nirala author and poet Yuyutsu Sharma has been invited to be part of Poetry Parnassus happening at Southbank Centre from 26th June to 2nd July 2012.
Poetry Parnassus is set to be the biggest poetry festival ever staged in the UK. The Festival will be part of Southbank Centre's Festival of the World, the Cultural Olympiad and the London 2012 Festival. It will be a global gathering of up to 204 poets from every Olympic nation – with the world's most exciting poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, dancers and musicians.
Yuyutsu Sharma shall read at several venues and do workshop focused on his new book, Nepal Trilogy, Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang (www.Nepal-Trilogy.de, Epsilonmedia, Karlsruhe, 2010), a 900-page book with German photographer, Andreas Stimm and Milarepa's Bones, Helambu:33 New Poems, (Nirala, 2012) & Annapurna Poems (Reprint, Nirala, 2012).
Yuyutsu Sharma's New Book Reading!
Posted on April 20, 2012 by N.P.
South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the University of Toronto.
(3rd St stop and Ave. A).
the oldest continuously running monthly poetry series on Long Island, held the third Friday of every month, 8 pm.
Huntington Historical Society Barn in Huntington Village (corner of New York Avenue and High Street, one traffic light south of Main St).
Since the mid 1990s, the historic barn has been host to poets and performers drawn from local, national and international sources.
Hosted by George Wallace and co-host Barbara Reiher Meyers. $5 suggested donation. Open Mic. Bring your work. It'll be a great time!!!!
By car: LIE to exit 49 N (rte 110) to Huntington Village.
By Train: LIRR to Huntington Train Station.
Posted on April 15, 2012 by N.P.
7 P. M. – 8:30 P. M.
Please click on the link above for flyer attached as a Word document.
Trause will be reading selections from his book in the hometown of America's great poet, William Carlos Williams.
may be providing live music for the celebration.
Dizzy from diving into John J. Trause's new collection of surprising poems, I urge you to enter!
Let the title swirl and turn you into his wild array of inventions. Witty, ribald, arch, they tease and entice. They are smart poems. With eclectic topics, he applies a scholar's encompassing mind and an artistic eye for colorful detail. Trause is not only a prosodic humorist, he is as ever a proficient scholar, and these poems prove his rigorous power. Note his classical and Biblical knowledge, the many languages at his command, and the contemporary scenes he pulls into focus—even on a mocking tour of north NJ towns! These poems take a reader traveling through many lands of rhyme and reason; hurry to see what Trause finds "Outside the Zoo" in the poem of that title, enjoy his complex vocabulary, laugh with his riffs. Don't let the abstruse words retain you from the lively banter. Run and climb. I tried to swim through, but found myself riding the waves. These poems will entertain you, make you study, make you gasp. You may turn round and read again, they will make you a little wiser than before John J. Trause took hold.
After the reading the festivities continue at a local restaurant.
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Posted on April 13, 2012 by N.P.
Yuyutsu Sharma, the renowned India-born Nepali poet from Kathmandu, Nepal, will be featured at Cinematique at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 12. Yuyutsu, whose poems have been translated into nine languages, most recently performed at New York University and Baruch College. He has published nine volumes of poetry and performed at major colleges and venues throughout the world.
The reading will be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation of photographs of Nepal and a talk by Yuyutsu about his homeland, his poetic activities, his magazine, Pratik, and press based in New Delhi, where he edits the works of international authors.
The event is open to the public with a ticket price of $7 ($5 for members of Cinematique). It is cosponsored by the Creative Happiness Institute, Inc. and the Tomoka Poets, both local non-profit arts organizations. Cinematique is located at 242 S. Beach Street, Street, Daytona Beach.
For more information, contact Cinematique at 386-252-3118 or Dr. Axelrod, axelrodthepoet@yahoo.com or 386-492-2409.
Posted on April 2, 2012 by N.P.
Immerse yourself in songs from China, music from Ireland and Chile, Himalayan poetry and more. Join us for this special evening of music and inspirational poetry shared by TC students and notable guests as we serenade into the opening of International Week 2012. Admission is FREE. The event will be followed by a reception.
TC students/staff performers: Marie-Louise Bowe, Maryanne Chacko, Yuewen Jiang, Anne- Marie Hildebrabdt, Ceri Hui, Lea Lei, Natalia Saez, Kai Chung Tam.


I like so many others have been incredibly saddened and disturbed by the outcomes of last week's vote. Amongst the many emotions, particularly those of loss, anger soon emerges at the intellectual vacuousness of those who have been placed into the roles of leading the country. What is more, few commentators see it is the systemic failure of the 'UK governance system', a failing that has been ongoing for many years...as this article from Philip Pullman illuminates.
Dear X, thanks for your note! I hope you don't mind but I am so sore and disturbed that I cannot help adding some comment on what's afoot.
A brief grieving: How does a govt that got around 24 % of the vote in the last elections now dare to act and speak in the name of the nation after leading it into an unecessary referendum to resolve an internal party struggle? ?
How is it that neither the left nor the right of the political specturm understood the consequences of the damage to [male, white] identity as secure employment in mining, agric, ship building, steel etc. left the towns, docks, and rural areas? How is it that the elderly, with dreams of empire and former glory, can have such influence on the future of a country? How do the nation's great and good get away with outrageous lies without accountability?
How is it possible for a nation to contemplate electing as the new PM someone who has no admin ability, and who has lied time and again in his quest for power? [his personality and abilities are well known on the continent and for sure, tho some in the UK might think he can re-unify the differences in the UK, he would not be seen as a responsible or competent person to lead negotiations with the other 27 countries, thus increasing the likelihood of worse coutcomes].
And whatever side of the debates anyone stands on, it's simply terrifying that there appears to have been so little preparation for, and understanding of what the social, political, economic and constitutional consequences of a referendum might be - utterly, utterly irresponsible.
The debates now seem focussed on matters internal to the UK. In following these debates, I am also constantly struck by how little understanding of or consideration anyone in Westminster or the country at large - or the BBC - has given to how members of the other 27 countries might actually perceive the issues, and the consequences,or, come to that, how Commonwealth countries, the US, Russia or China might view these events.
I live in the NL and I am sure that the UK will not be able to get both access to the single market and control of free movement, nor access to the single market without financial contributions, nor access and a rejection of the European Court of Justice. And [almost!] worst of all, as a resident of more than 15 yrs in the EU I do not have the right of vote. This is in itself surely a scandalous denial of basic rights to over 2 million Brits; there are now in effect two classes of British citizenship. Democratic provisions seem to have fallen down big time - bah! and boo!


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James Corner Field Operations and nARCHITECTS team up to revamp 10-acre park in the heart of Cleveland
The $50-million project also includes a small cafe designed by New York–based nARCHITECTS with local architects Westlake Reed Leskosky. Initiated by nonprofit organization The Group Plan Commission, the Public Square is a major part of larger mission to connect Cleveland's public spaces to Lake Erie.
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Cleveland's downtown is more welcoming thanks to a civic space replacing a formerly traffic-choked intersection. The Public Square is a recently completed 10-acre park designed by James Corner Field Operations (JCFO). The $50-million project also includes a small cafe designed by New York–based nARCHITECTS with local architects Westlake Reed Leskosky. Initiated by nonprofit organization The Group Plan Commission, the Public Square is a major part of larger mission to connect Cleveland's public spaces to Lake Erie.
The design joins four smaller traffic islands situated between the wide lanes of Superior Avenue and Ontario Street in the heart of the city. As part of making the space more pedestrian friendly, Ontario Street was shut down in that section, and Superior Avenue, which still bifurcates the area, was altered and restricted to public transportation. A butterfly-shaped path encircles the site and is flanked by curving park benches designed by JCFO. Within the paths, small hills produce an outdoor amphitheater and provide a lookout over the surrounding traffic.
The Café Pavilion, the final piece of the square, includes a large kitchen and a modest interior dining space. A 60-foot glass facade looks out onto the Public Square and a large fountain. A curated art wall covers the opposite facade, while triangulated metal panels wrap much of the rest of the exterior. Side windows, impressed into the form of the building, allow for views from the street through the dining area and onto the square. The only other structure in the square is the 125-foot Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, dedicated to those who fought in the Civil War. Built in 1894, the large monument once occupied one of the quads divided by traffic, but it is now integrated into the corner of the Public Square.
By adding a more inviting green space into the center of the city, the designers are taking part in an effort to revitalize Cleveland's downtown. Before the park even opened, programs and events were already planned for the square, including hosting the performance season of the Cleveland Orchestra. A temporary outdoor installation by Milan-based Cracked Art was also commissioned by LAND Studio, the nonprofit landscape and public art agency that managed the project. The National Endowment of the Arts awarded arts organization Cuyahoga Arts and Culture a $50,000 matching grant for additional arts programming for the Public Square.
Like many recently built civic spaces across the country, the public–private partnership behind Public Square raised both the public and private funds for the needed $50 million for the project. Similar projects, such as Chicago's Millennium Park and Houston's Discovery Green, though both larger than the Public Square, have been wildly popular, much to the benefit of the surrounding cities. Others point to the success of JCFO's High Line Park in New York as a good sign that the square will have the positive impact the city anticipates. In any case, Cleveland has a little more public space to enjoy—and a little less traffic to avoid—in its downtown.
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Cleveland Triennial names Jamie Hardis as exhibition director and Lisa Kurzner as associate curator
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art has announced its exhibition director and curatorial fellow for the 2018 exhibition. Jamie Hardis was named as exhibition director and Lisa Kurzner as the associate curator. FRONT is a city-wide exhibition that takes place in museums, galleries, and unconventional sites throughout Cleveland. With the title of "An American City," the inaugural exhibition is set to open in July 2018. "I am pleased that we were able to find strong Cleveland-based talent to fill these important management and curatorial positions," said Fred Bidwell, executive director of FRONT Exhibition Company, in a press release. "Jamie and Lisa's experience with the Cleveland-area arts institutions who are our Presenting Partners and their understanding of the local artistic community will allow them to be immediately effective and continue our already strong momentum toward our inaugural exhibition." Jamie Hardis's role will be to manage and coordinate the exhibition while working closely with Lisa Kurzner and the co-artistic directors, Jens Hoffmann and Michelle Grabner. Her experience includes exhibition management and administration; she has previously served as director of operations for the building of MOCA Cleveland. Hardis was also MOCA's director of exhibitions. Lisa Kurzner will work with Hoffmann and Grabner as part of a two-year fellowship. A Cleveland resident, Kurzner has experience as a curator, gallerist, and research scholar in American and European modern art. She has worked at Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Contemporary Art Society, London, and The British Council in Brussels. She has also worked with local institutions including Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, Transformer Station, Columbus Metropolitan Library, and Metro Health Hospital Systems as an independent curator. "Lisa's knowledge of the region's artistic community will be so important to our work," said Michelle Grabner, FRONT co-artistic director. "Although we will be bringing many international artists to Cleveland, we are eager to engage and discover area's artists and create meaningful and relevant conversations between their work and outside perspectives. Lisa will be our eyes and ears in Northeast Ohio for the next two years and she will help us create an exhibition which is both of the world and authentically rooted in the community."
Federal Transit Administration demands Cleveland pay back $12 million
The Federal Transit Administration has sent a letter requesting the repayment of $12 million from the Cleveland RTA. The request comes after bus services were taken off Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland as part of the Public Square redevelopment. The letter states that the RTA is in "breach of a grant agreement" from 2004 and that they have 30 days from December 20th to pay back the $12 million. The FTA had warned the RTA and the City of Cleveland in previous letters that there would be consequences if Superior Avenue did not open to traffic after its renovations were complete. As per the 2004 grant agreement, a "bus rapid transit line along Euclid Avenue would end in Public Square," according to cleveland.com. In a press conference in mid-November, Cleveland's Mayor Frank Jackson and RTA Manager Joe Calabrese alluded to the square staying closed. The street was originally set to reopen in August but remained closed as the city and the RTA discussed possible options for the street. In the past, the square was been divided into quadrants, with Superior bisecting the park. As part of the park's renovation, Superior was designed as a bus-only street. The city and the RTA have yet to announce whether the street will remain closed permanently, or whether there is a timeline to reopen it. The $50 million overall renovation of the Public Square was recently completed. The 10-acre park was designed by James Corner Field Operations (JCFO) with a small café designed by New York-based nARCHITECTS with local architects Westlake Reed Leskosky. The new park is being seen as a boon for the revitalization of the downtown, and a major step in connecting the city's public spaces to Lake Erie.
SHoP to give the Cleveland Cavaliers' basketball arena a huge overhaul
New York–based SHoP Architects working alongside Detroit-based stadia specialists Rossetti are to give the Quicken Loans Arena a massive makeover. The stadium, known as "The Q," has been open since 1994 and is home to the Cleveland Cavaliers. While a new arena would cost up to $750 million (according to Quicken Loans), the proposed refurbishment is set to total $140 million.
The Cavs will pay $70 million of this, plus any overrunning constructions costs. The rest will come from the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and Destination Cleveland. Work will begin next year and the stadium will remain open during this period; the Cavs will keep The Q as their home until 2034.
Despite only being 22-years-old, The Quicken Loans Arena is one of the oldest facilities in use on the National Basketball Association circuit. SHoP and Rossetti's design features a new glazed facade which stretches the stadium's footprint closer to the street edge. This fenestration reveals an undulating arrangement of what appears to be wood panels which, given their location well inside the facade and north-facing orientation, don't seem to serve any shading purpose. Aside from aesthetics, entrance and exit gangway areas will witness an increase in space, thus aiding circulation—a necessity considering The Q hosts more than 200 events every year.
"The $140 million transformation, half of which the Cavalier's will be paying, ensures that this public facility will remain competitive in the future," Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson said in a press release. "This investment provides an innovative solution for extending the use and impact of The Q for years and years to come without the need for a much more expensive new arena. In addition, the seven year extension of the Cavalier's lease through 2034 will represent one of the longest tenures in the same facility in all of sports." Mayor Jackson, however, appears to be forgetting the wealth of stadia (for rugby, soccer, and cricket) in Europe and Australia that have endured for well over a century. Even Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago—home to the Red Sox and Cubs baseball teams respectively, surpass 100 years. Heck, the Indians' Progressive Field—a mere 200 feet away from The Q—opened six months before its basketball counterpart (sorry Jackson). Meanwhile, NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum said: "We understand the impact this project will have in continuing the great momentum we have all seen recently in the city. We look forward to holding our week of NBA All-Star events in Cleveland in the near future following the successful completion of The Q transformation project."
SlenderWall: A high-performance architectural cladding system
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Architectural precast panels are durable, factory-made for quality, and offer an unlimited vocabulary for the architect's expression. However, they can sometimes produce challenges to a construction project due to their weight. SlenderWall is a relatively new product designed to simplify architectural precast construction. It incorporates the design flexibility of precast into a lighter-weight assembly that also includes a vapor barrier, insulation, and interior framing studs.
Facade Manufacturer Smith-Midland Corp. (producer); Easi-Set Worldwide (licensor)
Architects Kaczmar Architects Inc.
Facade Installer Forest City Erectors, Walsh Construction (contractor)
Location Cleveland, OH
Date of Completion 2016
System curtain wall
Products SlenderWall by Easi-Set® Worldwide (precast concrete in acid washed finish)
Chris Grogan, a representative with Smith-Midland Corp., a licensed manufacturer of SlenderWall panels, said that since the assembly is essentially an architectural finish concrete product, the aesthetics of the panels can be fully customizable just as with typical precast panel construction. "There's an infinite number of mix designs and the forming process is very similar to standard precast. The only difference is the framework which incorporates interior framing studs. The way we finish the panels is the same as well." SlenderWall is technically a lightweight curtain wall assembly that is thermal and fire code compliant. It is an entire envelope system packaged into a monolithic, panelized unit. This equates to fewer trades in the field who deal with the assembly of a building's facade. Grogan refers to SlenderWall as a "turnkey" approach to construction: "The product eliminates a lot of time and effort and potential risk for the contractor in the field. Now he has to worry about one trade, rather than four or five." The system's two-inch exterior precast panel is composed of architectural concrete and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers with welded-wire reinforcement. Stainless-steel fasteners attach this exterior concrete face to 14- and 16-gauge, G90 galvanized steel studs in a way that creates a thermal air gap filled with factory-applied, closed-cell foam insulation. The product is marketed as a lighter-weight version of traditional six-inch precast—at only a third of the weight—and was initially produced to replace typical precast systems. This is exactly what happened at the Holiday Inn on the Cleveland Clinic campus in Ohio, where a decision was made to convert the designed facade from traditional precast to an integrated wall assembly due to the cost of craning heavier panels eight stories into the area. The decision to adopt SlenderWall into the design resulted in a design-build delivery format for the entire building envelope. The nine-story, 276-room hotel, designed by Kaczmar Architects, Inc. (KAI) integrated Cleveland Clinic's architectural guidelines, which called for a minimal palette with specific wood trim detailing and modern detailing. Traditional precast detailing at the base of the building, also manufactured by Smith-Midland, was able to produce a compatible aesthetic. Typical jobs that use the SlenderWall product involve high levels of coordination among the contractor, the architect, and licensed manufacturers like Smith-Midland, which ultimately lays out the panels to meet project-specific structural and aesthetic requirements. This is the lengthiest part of the process, according to Grogan, but results in a highly efficient factory-controlled fabrication process, and a fast-tracked construction process in the field. Cost savings are maximized when highly repetitive high-rise designs are able to incorporate larger format panels, and a single set of plans and details will take care of the entire building envelope. Contractors eliminate the scheduling and warranty issues that arise when multiple insulation and interior framing crews are required—and, in high-rises, the challenges of bringing in the oversized cranes necessary to lift significantly heavier architectural precast panels into place (as was the case for the Holiday Inn) are eliminated. Aside from the Cleveland Clinic Holiday Inn, other projects include ETS Montreal, a student-housing complex with three-color panels in 32 different window configurations and factory-applied R-21 closed-cell foam and factory-installed windows. And, due to its light weight, SlenderWall is easily installed on job sites with reduced access such as with Hyatt House, a $90-million 13-story hotel on Jersey City's waterfront. The re-cladding of a nine-story building on the Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore Campus also benefited from the lightweight SlenderWall system. Its 30 pounds-per-square-foot specification and unique composite construction allowed for re-cladding to take place without the removal of the old fascia. There was also no need for additional superstructure or foundation costs and the facility was able to stay operational during the exterior renovation.
Art triennial announced for Cleveland
Cleveland will host a new contemporary art triennial in 2018. FRONT International: Cleveland Exhibition for Contemporary Art will bring together works from the collections of multiple Cleveland art institutions. FRONT will be displayed in museum exhibitions and unconventional sites throughout the city. More than 50 artists will produce site specific works, public programs, a temporary academy, a web-based Midwest art journal, along with solo and group exhibitions. The exhibition will commission 20 new works from local, national, and international artists. The curatorial team will also nominate six international artists for the fall 2017 Cleveland Foundation's three-month artist residency program, Creative Fusion. Main venues for the exhibition include: the Akron Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, SPACES, and Transformer Station. Set to run from July 7 through September 30, 2018, the inaugural exhibition will be entitled An American City. Co-Artistic Directors, Michelle Grabner and Jens Hoffmann, plan to rethink the conventional triennial exhibition model. Presenting partners for the exhibition will include the Akron Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, LAND Studios, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Sculpture Center, SPACES, Cleveland, Transformer Station, and Zygote Press. Substantial gifts have been committed by The Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation. "Cultural identities are multilayered, conflicted, and vary in hyper-local ways. An American City investigates the complex processes by which Cleveland is being constantly undone and rebuilt," Grabner and Hoffmann explained. "Treating the city as both paradigm and physical site, this citywide initiative will tease out the ways in which contemporary experiences of an urban location are shaped by historical and current events, and uncover how the city's collective memory and sociopolitical imperatives can define artistic and curatorial production."
Cleveland Public Square reopens after major renovation by James Corner Field Operations
After several years of planning and 15 months of renovation, Cleveland Public Square reopened to the public last Thursday. The dramatic $50 million restoration of the 6-acre park offers a variety of opportunities for public programming and activities; it has even helped prompt a series of residential and commercial construction projects in the city's center. James Corner Field Operations has completely transformed the park: Ontario Street is now permanently closed between South Roadway and Rockwell Avenue; Superior Avenue is used exclusively for transit; corners of intersections and formerly paved areas have been converted to green lawn. The design also includes a fountain in the park's center which will serve as an ice rink in the winter, a wide range of vegetation, and extensive walkways. LANDStudio and the Group Plan Commission, two civic groups, oversaw the project's financing and construction. The extensive restoration consisted of the reconstruction of water, electrical, and communication infrastructure below ground and above ground construction that converted the roadways into a pedestrian corridor. The opening comes just before the Republican National Convention to be held in Cleveland.
Colorful animal sculptures coming to Cleveland's Public Square
Nonprofit Cleveland-based LAND Studio has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation to install temporary outdoor art over the course of three years. The installations have been designed by Italian art collective Cracking Art Group. Art will be displayed in the city's Public Square, currently in the final stages of a $50 million overhaul by New York Firm James Corner Field Operations. The Mall and balconies and garden of the main Cleveland Public Library will also be used as locations. Based in Milan, Cracking Art Group are well known for interspersing brightly-colored oversized animals across the city. Clevelanders can expect huge yellow snails or mobs of pink meerkats to invade the ten-acre civic space, adding a vibrant dash of color to the scene. Other animal additions include groups of swallows, wolves, frogs, and a red elephant, are set to be the showpiece focal point of the installation. Rising to some eight feet high, the elephant, the symbol of the GOP, will welcome Donald Trump and co. to the area for the Republican National Convention this year on July 18. Being made from plastic, the colorful animals will not be fixed to the ground, allowing for children to interact with them though LAND Studio acknowledge that this means some could be stolen. Others, meanwhile, will be weighed down with sand to keep them in place. "The choice of recyclable plastic for its aesthetic appeal shows acceptance of the inevitability that our world is becoming increasingly artificial," say Cracking Art Group on their wesbite. "The artworks are designed to inspire a community-wide conversation about the importance and the environmental impact of recycling, while leaving a potent artistic trace." Before the installation can go up, however, the the city's Landmarks Commission has to award approval to the finalized proposals, though it was reported that "stakeholders, including the city, have already weighed in." Even when the animals leave the area however, LAND Studio, who are working alongside fellow stakeholders Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, James Corner Field Operations and Nelson Nygaard hope that their colorful impact will remain with Public Square that they will essentially inaugurate. "Public Square will be transformed from four individual quadrants into a singular public park that can be used throughout the year for a wide range of programs and events," they say. "Landscape and design will create a soft colorful space that invites people in and encourages them to stay. The Square will include pedestrian pathways, green spaces for concerts and events, areas to sit and lounge, a water feature, a café and restrooms. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument will remain, but will be integrated into the overall park and become more accessible." The display by Cracking Art will feature 376 of the group's standard creatures, plus a bright red elephant, standing more than, which begins July 18.
Architects Get Graphic At The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) will be the location for the Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture Symposium on April 1st. Organized by Kent State University College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED), the symposium will explore the relationship between architecture and comics. The influence of animation, cartoons, comics, illustrations, and storyboards will be discussed in two sessions and a keynote discussion. Participants will include architects, illustrators, and educators. Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture will be the first event of an annual series that will explore architecture and different narrative media. The first session, starting at 1:00 pm in CMA's Gartner Auditorium, is entitled "Hot Technology." The session will include short presentations and a discussion between California-based architect Wes Jones, London-based architect and illustrator Alison Sampson, and Archigram's Michael Webb. The second session, entitled "Cool Diagrams," will start at 3:00 pm. This session will include presentations and a discussion between University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Architecture Director Robert Somol, Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular, and Dutch cultural anthropologist Mélanie van der Hoorn. A closing keynote discussion will feature acclaimed comic book artist Chris Ware and Françoise Mouly, art editor of The New Yorker. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are encouraged. For those not able to make it to Cleveland, the entire symposium will be live-streamed online. The proceedings will also be archived on video, and produced into a short video documentary. A book is also planned documenting the event.
The 2015 winners of the Rudy Bruner Awards serve up a healthy dose of urban excellence
The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence has announced its 2015 gold and silver medalists. For the past 27 years, the biennial competition has honored "transformative places distinguished by physical design and contributions to the economic, environmental and social vitality of America's cities." This year's gold medal—and $50,000—goes to Baltimore's "Miller Court," an abandoned industrial facility that was transformed into a mixed-use building with housing, and a focus on fostering teachers and education-focused non-profits. The transformation was spearheaded by the Seawall Development Company, Enterprise Community Investment, and Marks, Thomas Architects. The project was completed in 2009. "Aware of the challenges facing the Baltimore school system and professionals entering the field through programs like Teach for America, Seawall sought to build a safe, welcoming community for teachers and a home for allied nonprofits that would strengthen the neighborhood and city," the Bruner Foundation said in a press release. "Attracting national attention as a model, the project has generated additional investment in Remington and has been replicated in Philadelphia." Below are the four silver medalists, each of which received $10,000. Falls Park on the Reedy Greenville, South Carolina
From the Bruner Foundation: "The renaissance of a 26-acre river corridor running through the heart of Greenville, restoring public access to the falls and greenspace and catalyzing adjacent downtown development. (Submitted by the City of Greenville)"
Grand Rapids Downtown Market Grand Rapids, Michigan
From the Bruner Foundation: "A new downtown public space promoting local food producers and community events, entrepreneurship, and education about nutrition and healthy lifestyles. (Submitted by Grand Rapids Downtown Market)"
Quixote Village Olympia, Washington
From the Bruner Foundation: "A two-acre community of 30 tiny houses and a common building that provides permanent, supportive housing for chronically homeless adults. (Submitted by Panza)"
Uptown District Cleveland, Ohio
From the Bruner Foundation: "The redevelopment of a corridor linking art, educational and health care institutions with surrounding neighborhoods, creating outdoor gathering spaces, retail shops and restaurants, student and market-rate housing, and public transit connections. (Submitted by Case Western Reserve University)"
Plans unveiled for the Red Line Greenway, Cleveland's answer to The High Line
A video released last week gives Clevelanders the clearest picture yet of plans for a greenway beside the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority's Red Line. The idea has drawn comparisons to New York's High Line or Chicago's Bloomingdale Trail (aka The 606). The Rotary Club of Cleveland on Wednesday revealed their plans for the Red Line Greenway, a 3-mile linear park that would run from the Zone Recreation Center at West 65th Street to downtown Cleveland using a right-of-way next to the RTA's Red Line. At a meeting last week, Rotary member sought public input on the $13 million project, over which they've signed a memorandum of understanding with Cleveland Metroparks and RTA. A fundraising campaign is forthcoming, said supporters including the Rotary's Leonard Stover. The federal government has provided the three-phase project a $2 million grant—a little less than half the cost of the first leg, an extension from the RTA viaduct west to West 41st Street. Construction would not begin before 2019, Stover told Steven Litt of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Litt has the Rotary's full presentation on the newspaper's website.
Cleveland delays $25 million lakefront bridge for pedestrians and bicyclists
An iconic pedestrian bridge planned for downtown Cleveland has been delayed, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Steven Litt. Originally planned to be ready in time for the Republican national convention in 2016, the $25 million steel bridge would connect the northeast corner of Cleveland's downtown Mall to an open space on the shores of Lake Erie between the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Great Lakes Science Center. Passing over two other designs, the Group Plan Commission also indicated a preference for a cable-stayed bridge designed by architect Miguel Rosales of Boston. But now the bridge, which will accommodate bicyclists and pedestrians, won't be complete until 2017, officials said. Cleveland and Cuyahoga County each agreed to pitch in $10 million for the project. The state of Ohio will pay the remaining $5 million.