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Detrek Browning stayed true to FMU and became the school's all-time leading scorer
In an early January game against Clayton State, Detrek Browning waited calmly behind the three-point line while teammate Brandon Parker battled for a loose ball in the lane. Eventually, Parker swatted the ball towards Browning, who gathered it in, paused to set himself and casually flipped in a three-pointer that etched his name into a prominent place in the FMU record books. With that relatively unremarkable basket, Browning became something quite remarkable — the leading career scorer in the school's almost 50-year-old history.
That the record-setter came on a routine play is not surprising. Browning's calling card as a player is his ability to score, seemingly without effort; to make a unique ability to find ways to put ball basket appear quite ordinary.
What was remarkable about the play is that Browning was around to do it at all.
FMU Basketball standout Detrek Browning
The dynamics of college basketball at all levels have changed dramatically in the past decade. Players move regularly and easily from school to school, looking for the next bit of slightly greener grass; and there is not much hard-working coaches and schools can do about it. Their path is fraught with peril.
Bring a player along too slowly and he will leave for a situation where he can play/shoot/start more often. But, bring them along too quickly, develop them too well – and this is especially true for programs at Division II schools like FMU — and bigger schools will come calling. They can't recruit a player, per se, until he puts his name on the NCAA's official transfer list (which numbers each year in the thousands) but word gets around. Pssst. If your name is on that list. …
After he averaged 20.1 points a game for FMU in 2015-16, officially his sophomore season, word got around to Browning. There were schools out there – Division I schools – who were interested. And Browning knew the drill. Friends, foes, even some of his teammates, had gone that route.
"I was hearing from a few people," Browning says, "and people were in my ear, telling me to go, that this was my big chance. But …"
But?
Browning shakes his head, shrugs his shoulders. The big decision, he says, was really no decision at all.
"Man, after all (FMU) has done for me … I mean, they were there for me when no one else was," says Browning. "And the people here have always been great. This is where I belong. I wasn't going anywhere. I guess maybe coach was worried, but I wasn't leaving. "
Gary Edwards, Browning's coach at FMU, admits to some nervousness during the spring in question. But those days are long past now and recalling them now brings a smile to Edwards' face.
"Detrek's done a lot of neat things here, made a lot of big plays, and he'll always be one of my favorites," says Edwards, "but if you ask me what I'll remember most that's it. It's that loyalty that Detrek showed. That's a rare quality. It's better than all those points he scored."
Things happen
Maybe Detrek Browning never should have wound up at FMU in the first place.
He wasn't exactly a secret coming out of Irmo (S.C.) High School, just north of Columbia. Irmo, led by legendary coach Tim Whipple, is one of the premier high school basketball programs in South Carolina and Detrek Browning did nothing during his time with the Yellowjackets to lessen that.
Browning played three varsity seasons at Irmo and helped the team win two state championships. In his senior year Irmo went 29-0 — Whipple's only unbeaten squad in 37 years at the helm — and captured Whipple's fifth state title.
Browning may not have been — may being the key word — the best player on a team that also included University of South Carolina recruit Justin McKie. But he wasn't a secret. He was receiving significant recruiting attention by his junior year and had a number of Division I programs giving him long looks.
But … things happened. One program that seemed like a sure thing signed another guard and never called Browning again. Another changed coaches. And so on.
Whipple says it was clear to him — then and now — that Browning belonged on a Division I roster.
"Oh, there's no doubt that the could play at that level," says Whipple. "But you know, coaches look at things … it's tough. He (Browning) was a little small maybe, kind of got in that in-between thing position wise. Was he a point guard or a shooting guard? He didn't play much point for us until his senior year. But maybe he's a little small for a D-I shooting guard, maybe he's not that fast … So …"
So, early that year, one Edwards' assistants at FMU saw Browning play and suggested the Patriots make a run at him. Edwards saw him and quickly agreed — "best point guard I saw all year," Edwards said.
Edwards found out Browning's recruiting had taken a funny turn and put on the full court press. When Browning came for his official visit, Edwards offered him a full scholarship on the spot.
Browning held out for a little while, waiting for the "better" offer that never came. Eventually his own good sense — all who know him see him as an extremely well-grounded person — and a little hectoring from his mom made him a Patriot.
"I kept thinking, 'maybe a bigger school will offer me something,'" Browning says. "Meanwhile, mom is saying, 'are you crazy? They're offering you a full scholarship. They really want you. You know what? She was right."
Red-shirt tears
One more test remained.
Though a polished player for a freshman, Browning arrived on the FMU campus to find Evrik Gary — the number three scorer in school history — already ensconced in the point guard role. Edwards and the Patriot staff persuaded Browning that the thing to do was sit out — redshirt is the term — his freshman season, just as Gary had done.
The move made sense, but it's easier said than done. Redshirts spend all the practice time that regular players do but don't get to play in the games, can't even travel with the team to away contests.
"You're really on your own a lot of times and have to stay focused to keep working on things, getting better, on your own," says Browning. "That's a good thing. There's a lot to get used to moving from high school to college. It helped with basketball, with school, with everything. I tell everyone now 'Redshirt. That's the way to do it. It's the best thing I've ever done.' But it's not easy. I'll have to say there were a few nights where a few tears were shed. "
Conserving energy
One point — not the first point, but a point all the same — that Browning would make about his game, about the way he plays basketball is that he can dunk the ball.
"Most definitely," says Browning. "I actually have two dunks in games (at FMU). I guess there could have been more — fans would like it — but it's not something I was ever that excited about. A bucket is a bucket. I'd rather conserve my energy."
Good at energy conservation. Now there's a line that doesn't show up on many scouting reports. But that aspect of Detrek Browning, basketball player, says about as much about his game as any. He glides around the court, under control, moving from place to place — moving from the right place to the right place — with a studied nonchalance that lulls opponents, fans and even his own coach into a state of disinterest.
"He's one of those guys," says FMU's Edwards, "where you pick up the stat sheet afterwards and you say, 'Twenty-five points? How'd he do that? I didn't see that.' He's very, very smooth."
Browning's chief skill is an absolute intangible. He has innate understanding of the game that allows him to see plays before they develop.
"It doesn't just happen," explains Browning. "I've had some very good coaches. And I do think about all the plays. I just think about them five or 10 seconds before they happen."
Which is five or 10 (or more) seconds ahead of most.
Speed, shooting kill
The awards and honors are piling up fast in Browning's final season. He's been the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Week four times (through January), set the FMU single game scoring mark (41 points) in early January and is clearly poised to post-season accolades as well.
It's all well-deserved, but still surprising all the same for Browning seldom looks like the best athlete on the floor. The 6-0, 180-pounder is a little stocky as basketball players go, and doesn't have the chiseled musculature of some. His two dunks aside, he is not a great leaper, and he's probably not the fastest guy around either, although as dozens of oft-burned Peach Belt Conference foes would attest, he is plenty fast enough.
Browning comes from a very athletic family. His mom (Carlissa), various uncles and aunts and cousins all played college sports. His brother is a good bit heavier than Detrek, "but can still beat me in a race. He can fly.
"My uncle (Milton Kershaw) who played football in college and is just crazy fast, taught me early on that speed kills," says Browning. "It's the most important part of most sports. But it's not necessarily who is fastest. It's who can be fast when they need to be."
Browning is a fine defender (he will finish his career among FMU's all-time leader in steals, too), but what sets him apart are his offensive skills. In Browning's mind — a good place to start for analyzing basketball — the key skill is shooting. He has simple mechanics and feel for the shot that came to him almost from the moment he took up the game — he hit a long buzzer beater to win the championship game in his first year of organized basketball at age 12.
"If you can shoot the basketball, I mean really shoot it, you are basically unguardable," Browning says. "Try to stop the shot and it's a fake and I'm by you for a pull up (jumper) or a layup. Try to stop that and …. "
His voice trails off. Another basketball thought has popped into a mind that processes such information at an astonishing rate.
"It's always amazing to me the number of basketball players — Division I players — really can't shoot," says Browning. "That's kind of the point of the game isn't it?"
The Gary plan
Browning plans to follow in the footsteps of his former teammate Gary and play basketball professionally for as long as he can. Gary has been on an oddball world tour since he left FMU — Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Dubuque, Iowa and now, Cyprus — but he's got a suitcase full of memorable experiences and … he's still playing. The dream is still alive.
Browning understands. He knows he can play at a very high level and is eager to prove it, even if that means traveling some strange roads and learning even greater patience.
Whenever that is done, Browning suspects his long-term future lies … in coaching. He's a Dean's List student who'll graduate in May with a degree in Psychology, and reservoir of knowledge that he thinks will translate nicely in that field.
"I seem to have a pretty good understanding of basketball," says Browning. "I think that (coaching) could work out."

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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин; sometimes transliterated as Skryabin) (January 6, 1872 – April 27, 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin began composing in the style of the lush romanticism of Frédéric Chopin which favored a tonal center. However, he later evolved to a new and sometimes strident use of the 12 tones without any fixed center. He used the art of modulations and all the tones of the chromatic scale towards an absence of a tonal center or atonality. This music which turned away from the traditional consonance, disonance, and tonal resolution was Scriabin's way of embracing an equality in all things wherein each entity had an independence which was initiated and concluded in true freedom without a reminder from the past.
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Scriabin was born into an aristocratic family in Moscow on Christmas Day 1871 according to the Julian Calendar. When he was only one year old, his mother, a concert pianist, died of tuberculosis. Scriabin's father left for Turkey, leaving the infant with his grandmother and great aunt. From an early age he studied the piano, taking lessons with Nikolay Zverev, a strict disciplinarian, who was teaching Sergei Rachmaninoff and a number of other prodigies at the same time.
Scriabin later studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev, and Vasily Ilyich Safonov. He became a noted pianist despite his small hands with a span of barely over an octave. Feeling challenged by Rachmaninov, who had exceptionally large hands, he seriously damaged his right hand while practicing a piece by Liszt. His doctor said he would never recover; he wrote his first large-scale opus, the F minor sonata, as a "cry against God, against fate." Unmoved by the requirement to write several pieces in forms that did not interest him, Scriabin failed his composition class and did not graduate. Ironically, the one requirement he did complete, an E minor fugue, afterward became required learning for decades at the Conservatory.
Scriabin married a pianist, Vera Ivanova Isakovich, after graduation and had several children, but he eventually abandoned his wife and teaching position for an attraction to a young pupil, Tatiana Fyodorovna Schloeze, with whom he had a son named Julian. That son was also a prodigy who painted, wrote poetry, and composed several sophisticated pieces before drowning in a boating accident at age 11.
Scriabin, previously interested in Friedrich Nietzsche's übermensch theory, also became interested in theosophy, and both would influence his music and musical thought. In 1909-1910 he lived in Brussels, becoming interested in Delville's Theosophist movement and continuing his reading of Hélène Blavatsky (Samson 1977). Theosophist and composer Dane Rudhyar wrote that Scriabin was "the one great pioneer of the new music of a reborn Western civilization, the father of the future musician," (Rudhyar 1926b, 899) and an antidote to "the Latin reactionaries and their apostle, Igor Stravinsky" and the "rule-ordained" music of "Arnold Schoenberg's group." (Ibid., 900-901).
Scriabin was a hypochondriac his entire life. He died in Moscow from septicemia, contracted as a result of a shaving cut or a boil on his lip. For some time before his death he had planned a multi-media work to be performed in the Himalaya Mountains, that would bring about the armageddon, "a grandiose religious synthesis of all arts which would herald the birth of a new world" [1] This piece, titled Mysterium, was never realized. Scriabin wrote poetry also, which was generally tied to his compositions, and it is not taken seriously by itself.
He was possibly the uncle of Vyacheslav Molotov, the Russian politician and eponym of the Molotov cocktail. Molotov's original surname was Scriabin. However, Simon Montefiore in his biography of Josef Stalin, states that despite the shared family name, Molotov was not in any way related to the composer.
Pianists who have performed Scriabin to critical acclaim include Vladimir Sofronitsky, Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter. Horowitz performed for Scriabin, in his home as a youth, and Scriabin had an enthusiastic reaction, but cautioned that he needed further training. Horowitz, as an elderly man, remarked that Scriabin was obviously crazy, because he had tics and couldn't sit still. Despite Horowitz' assessment, Scriabin held the rapt attention of the musical world in Russia while he was alive.
Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano. The earliest pieces resemble Frédéric Chopin and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude and the mazurka. Scriabin's music gradually evolved during the course of his life, although the evolution was very rapid and especially long when compared to most composers. Aside from his earliest pieces, his works are strikingly original, the mid- and late-period pieces employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The development of Scriabin's voice or style can be followed in his ten piano sonatas: the earliest are in a fairly conventional late-Romantic idiom and show the influence of Chopin and Franz Liszt, but the later ones move into new territory; the last five being written with no key signature. Many passages in them can be said to be atonal, though from 1903 through 1908, "tonal unity was almost imperceptibly replaced by harmonic unity." (Samson 1977) See: synthetic chord.
Aaron Copland praised Scriabin's thematic material as "truly individual, truly inspired," but criticized Scriabin for putting "this really new body of feeling into the strait-jacket of the old classical sonata-form, recapitulation and all" calling this "one of the most extraordinary mistakes in all music." According to Samson the sonata-form of Sonata No. 5 has some meaning to the work's tonal structure, but in Sonata No. 6 and Sonata No. 7 formal tensions are created by the absence of harmonic contrast and "between the cumulative momentum of the music, usually achieved by textural rather than harmonic means, and the formal constraints of the tripartite mould." He also argues that the Poem of Ecstasy and Vers la flamme "find a much happier co-operation of 'form' and 'content'" and that later Sonatas such as Sonata No. 9 employ a much more flexible sonata-form. (Samson 1977)
Influence of color
Synesthetic colors, described by the composer
Though these works are often considered to be influenced by Scriabin's synesthesia, a condition wherein one experiences sensation in one sense in response to stimulus in another, it is doubted that Alexander Scriabin actually experienced this [2] [3]. His color system, unlike most synesthetic experience, lines up with the circle of fifths: it was a thought-out system based on Sir Isaac Newton's Optics. Indeed, influenced also by his theosophical beliefs, he developed it towards what would have been a pioneering multimedia performance: his unrealized magnum opus Mysterium was to have been a grand week-long performance including music, scent, dance, and light in the foothills of the Himalayas that was to bring about the dissolution of the world in bliss.
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In his autobiographical Recollections, Sergei Rachmaninoff recorded a conversation he had had with Scriabin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov about Scriabin's association of color and music. Rachmaninoff was surprised to find that Rimsky-Korsakov agreed with Scriabin on associations of musical keys with colors; himself skeptical, Rachmaninoff made the obvious objection that the two composers did not always agree on the colors involved. Both maintained that the key of D major was golden-brown; but Scriabin linked E-flat major with red-purple, while Rimsky-Korsakov favored blue. However, Rimsky-Korsakov protested that a passage in Rachmaninoff's opera The Miserly Knight supported their view: the scene in which the Old Baron opens treasure chests to reveal gold and jewels glittering in torchlight is written in D major. Scriabin told Rachmaninoff that "your intuition has unconsciously followed the laws whose very existence you have tried to deny."
While Scriabin wrote only a small number of orchestral works, they are among his most famous, and some are frequently performed. They include three symphonies, a piano concerto (1896), The Poem of Ecstasy (1908) and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910), which includes a part for a "clavier à lumières," also known as the Luxe, - which was a color organ designed specifically for the performance of Scriabin's symphony. It was played like a piano, but projected colored light on a screen in the concert hall rather than sound. Most performances of the piece (including the premiere) have not included this light element, although a performance in New York City in 1915 projected colors onto a screen. It has erroneously been claimed that this performance used the color-organ invented by English painter A. Wallace Rimington when in fact it was a novel construction personally supervised and built in New York specifically for the performance by Preston S. Miller, the president of the Illuminating Engineering Society.
Scriabin's original color keyboard, with its associated turntable of colored lamps, is preserved in his apartment near the Arbat in Moscow, which is now a museum dedicated to his life and works.
A comparison of the creative trajectories of Rachmaninov and Scriabin has fueled psychoanalytic speculation on the distinction between talent and genius(Garcia 2004).
↑ AMG [1] Retrieved July 24, 2007.
↑ *Harrison, John (2001). Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing, ISBN 0192632450: "In fact, there is considerable doubt about the legitimacy of Scriabin's claim, or rather the claims made on his behalf, as we shall discuss in Chapter 5." (p.31-2).
↑ B. M. Galeyev and I. L. Vanechkina (August 2001). "Was Scriabin a Synesthete?", Leonardo, Vol. 34, Issue 4, pp. 357 - 362: "authors conclude that the nature of Scriabin's 'color-tonal' analogies was associative, i.e. psychological; accordingly, the existing belief that Scriabin was a distinctive, unique 'synesthete' who really saw the sounds of music—that is, literally had an ability for 'co-sensations'— is placed in doubt."
Samson, Jim. Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. ISBN 0393021939
Baker, James M. The music of Alexander Scriabin, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. ISBN 0300033370
Baker, James M. Alexander Scriabin, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Library, 1994. OCLC 14935257
Bowers, Faubion, Scriabin, a Biography, (Second, Revised Edition) Dover Publications, 1996. ISBN 0486288978
Garcia, E. E. [2] "Rachmaninoff and Scriabin: Creativity and Suffering in Talent" 2004. Retrieved August 15, 2007.
Lincoln, Frank. Alexander Scriabin, W. Long Beach, NJ: Kultur, 1993. ISBN 0769720129
Nagy, Andras M. Numerology 101: Pythagoras Explained, 2007. (A CD-ROM was made to explain Pythagorean Numerology and help with your meditation with the piano works of Scriabin.)
Plummer, Harry. "Color Music - A New Art Created with the Aid of Science, The Color Organ Used in Scriabin's Symphony Prometheus". Scientific American, (April 10, 1915)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei. Rachmaninoff's Recollections Told to Oskar von Rieseman, (translated by Dorothy Rutherford) New York: MacMillan, 1934.
All links retrieved March 3, 2016.
Scriabin Society of America
Was Scriabin a Synaesthete? by B. Galeyev & I. Vanechkina
Scriabin in Aspen No.2 on UBUWEB (A short biography by Faubion Bowers; four preludes and the tenth sonata available for download)
Scriabin's Sheet Music by Mutopia Project
Alexander Scriabin at MusicBrainz
Free Public Domain Sheet Music by Scriabin at IMSLP
Alexander Scriabin history
History of "Alexander Scriabin"
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When Jesus entered Jerusalem the week He was to be crucified, the crowds surrounded Him shouting, "Hosanna!" meaning, "Save Now!" Throughout this time, many Jewish people believed the Messiah was to come help them overthrow Roman rule and grant Jews freedom once again.
When they thought of rescue and freedom, they looked at the most obvious sign of oppression they experienced. We do the same thing all the time, don't we? If This could be gone, my life would be so much easier! If This Person would just stop, I wouldn't have to feel like this all the time!
Jesus redeems our lives in ways we do not expect and frankly often leaves many of the sorrows we've come to most want Him to remove. Peter is not alone in his exasperation here, is he? Merely human concerns feel awfully important most of the time. And most of our human concerns probably are much smaller than overthrowing an empire!
Jesus teaches us again and again how to get out of our own way and listen to Him. He knows what we need rescuing from far better than us. If you find yourself angry or upset with His saving capabilities this week, pray this morning for the grace and patience to listen to His instruction in your day today.


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NBA: What would it take for The Warriors to fall?
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The Golden State Warriors have been the premier franchise of the NBA since 2015. They have won two championships, won multiple MVPs (Steph Curry), and set NBA records. They've done it all, but they still want more, as in the NBA title again this year. This time will be their second run the Warriors are going for back to back title, the first time was snatched from their grasps last minute by the Cavs, and if the Cavs didn't win that championship, the Warriors would be going for an unprecedented 4th NBA title. This team is already arguably the best basketball team of all time. But are we starting to see the cracks in the foundation?
The turnaround didn't start when Steph Curry walked in those doors, in 2009. The Warriors were still in rebuild mode, and known as a perennial lottery team. Ankle injuries plagued Steph early in his career, and it didn't seem like he was going to become a star in the NBA. But Steph was determined, and with the help of the forward thinking Golden State front office and training staff, trained Steph to move, run, and play the game different so there wasn't as much strain on his ankles. Steph started to stay healthy, and became more of a leader. With the additions of players like Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Andre Iguodala, the Warriors looked like a team on the rise.
The 2014 NBA playoffs matched up the young Warriors against the older, stronger Los Angeles Clippers, in the first round. The Clippers were one of the team's picked by experts and pundits to win the title that year, and the Warriors were just a team that had a bright future. The Clippers won the series in 7 games, but the games were highly competitive and it was obvious the Warriors would have their time soon enough. Fast forward another year to the 2015 playoffs.
Golden State finishes with the best record in the West, but still slotted behind teams like San Antonio and Los Angeles. Golden State ran through the NBA Playoffs beating every team that was in their path on the way to their first NBA title since 1975. The Golden State dynasty had begun. The Warriors would lose the NBA title next year to the Cavs, but that was a minor blip in their dynasty run. Golden State responded after the devastating loss by adding, arguably, the best player in the NBA, Kevin Durant.
The Kevin Durant addition solidified the Warriors top spot in the NBA for Golden State, and the next year, they added another NBA title to their resume. With the young core of Curry, Durant, Thompson, and Green all on the team and not leaving anytime soon, this team looked unstoppable for years to come. There wasn't a team in the NBA that could matchup with what the Warriors had. The only thing that seemed like a possible roadblock was poor health. The Warriors are not only talented, but incredibly fortune for the good health the team has had. Good health is as much luck as it is good conditioning and training staff. It seems like this might be the year the fortunes are starting to turn.
It's getting late in the 2017-2018 NBA season, and the playoffs are looming. The Golden State Warriors are going to make the playoffs but there team hasn't been its normal self so far this year. That can be attributed to a few things: fatigue, lack of motivation, or other teams getting better, but that most obvious aliment has been the injuries to key contributors this season.
The "Big 4" of Curry, Durant, Thompson, and Green have all been sidelined for significant time this year, and that team has suffered for it. Curry's ankle are giving him trouble, Thompson has broken his thumb, Durant is struggling with an abdominal injury, and Green has been nursing a groin injury. Most of these injuries have been spread out, and there hasn't been much overlap, but as the season goes on later and the players keep falling.
Are the Warriors still the favorite to win the title? Probably. They're still the team to beat, and not being at full strength might not stop the Warriors from winning it the title. Steve Kerr, Golden State's head coach, is going to have to give his team time to heal up for another deep run in the playoffs. This will the fourth year that the Warriors will be competing for the NBA title, and that is a lot of miles of all these players' legs. Kerr is a master coach, and is very good at spacing out minutes to ease his star players back into the lineup.
The Warriors should be able to cruise through the first few rounds. That will give players like Curry, Thompson, and Green to heal enough to show up when the games will get tougher. Golden State is more than just the "Big 4". This is a deep team made up of veterans that know what needs to be done. With the leadership of Kerr and the core players, Golden State will be looking for their second title in as many years.
It's probably a little too early for the "Is It Over For The Warriors" article, but these injuries are starting to pile up. It's starting to be worrisome for the Bay Area fans that have become so accustomed to winning NBA titles on a yearly basis. It's fun to appreciate greatness when it's happening in front of our faces, but sad to think that it has to come to an end, eventually. The Warriors will be in the thick of the title run this year so don't look for their championship pedigree to come crashing down yet. But it is coming soon, and this year has been a preview of that. Let's try to enjoy it while it lasts.
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Der Black Fork ist ein nur 6 km langer Quellfluss des Cheat River im Osten des US-Bundesstaates West Virginia.

Er gehört zum Einzugsbereich des Mississippi River und entwässert ein Gebiet von 1295 km². Er entsteht durch den Zusammenfluss von Blackwater River und Dry Fork in Hendricks. In Parsons fließt er der Black Fork dann mit dem Shavers Fork zusammen und bildet mit diesem den Cheat River.

Geographie

Über Cheat River, Monongahela River und Ohio River gehört der Black Fork zum Einzugsgebiet des Mississippi Rivers und entwässert ein Gebiet von 1295 km². Auf seiner kompletten Länge verlaut der Fluss innerhalb des Tucker Countys. Nachdem er bei Hendricks durch Dry Fork und Blackwater River gebildet wurde, fließt er in nordwestlicher Richtung über Hambleton nach Parsons, wo er sich mit dem Shavers Fork zum Cheat River vereinigt.

Namensgebung

Der U.S. Board on Geographic Names hat 1930 den Namen des Wasserlaufes auf "Black Fork" festgelegt. Nach den Angaben im Geographic Names Information System war der Fluss historisch auch als "Blackwater Fork" bekannt und wurde auch als Teil des Blackwater Rivers bezeichnet.

Siehe auch

 Liste der Flüsse in West Virginia
 Blackwater Canyon

Literatur

 Julian, Norman. 2006. "Cheat River". The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Ken Sullivan (Herausgeber). Charleston, WV. West Virginia Humanities Council. ISBN 0-9778498-0-5.

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Tucker County

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Early in 2005 I was living in California and I made the decision to look for property within an 8 hour drive of where my son and his family live. I knew which states I did not want to live in so that left Kentucky, Tennessee and western North Carolina for my search. I took a three week vacation from work and drove over 1500 miles looking at property. I had a list of "must have", "would like to have", and "won't even consider". After looking at property every day for almost two weeks, I was no closer to finding my dream…. until I came to Fredonia Mountain Nature Resort. I was awed by the beauty of the area, the wonderful trails here, and the perfect lot, like it was made for me – I found exactly what I wanted. This place had all of my "must haves and "would like to haves" with not one negative. I knew I had found my home at last.
I have miles of trails and roadside to ride my horse, I love where I live, and I have wonderful neighbors. I love sitting outside at night when the moon is full and the leaves on the trees have a silvery glow -- the woods turns magical. I love watching a doe amble down the road with her twin fawns. I love the quiet and the peace here, and the beauty of every season. For me, it's like a bit of heaven on earth.
There was something special about this place the very first time we visited. We did look at several other places both before and after our first trip here. Truth be told, we put a down payment on a piece of property here and then went over to Townsend TN and put down money on property there. In the end, we canceled on both places, but several months later we were drawn back here. The original property we had looked at here had been sold but we found our perfect lot when looking again with Mark. We love the peace and quiet we have found here and the amazing scenery. The hiking trails are a huge bonus and we just love exploring the mountain. The other thing we really liked is how friendly all the people living up here are. We enjoy going to the pot lucks and meeting such wonderful and interesting people. I will never regret our move here. We spend lots of time out on our front porch and if you drive by and see us, stop in and say "howdy."
Having vacationed in Tennessee as a child, I had fond memories of Tennessee and of the beautiful mountains and streams so after searching the internet, I found "LandinTennessee.com". We bought property in 2005 and planned to build and retire in a few years but being from New Orleans, along came Hurricane Katrina, so when we evacuated we drove to Dunlap and decided to buy a house that was already built so we would have a place to stay until we could return to New Orleans. We spent every vacation and long weekend we had here until we retired at the beginning of 2010 and moved here permanently and have never looked back. It's a wonderful community of people besides being breathtakingly beautiful and a joy to experience every day. I feel blessed every day I spend here.
The Sequatchie Valley has to be one of the most beautiful places on earth. After two visits to Dunlap, in August of 2004 my wife Susie and I purchased a two acre lot in the Stone Creek subdivision of Fredonia Mountain Nature Resort. We moved to Dunlap, Tennessee from Fresno, California after retiring in 2006. Our log home sits in the midst of a hardwood forest. Wildlife is abundant with songbirds, deer and wild turkeys everywhere. Fishing is possible just a short one minute walk to a lake near our home. We thoroughly enjoy the amenities, security and privacy the Resort provides as well as the access to nature.
Most importantly are the friendly neighbors who share living in the Resort with us. You will never meet nicer and friendlier people. We often cross paths while using one of the many nature trails. Everyone takes the time to say "Hello" or engage in a short visit. We have also established some great friendships with others who live here. Moving here was the best thing we have ever done in our lives.


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College Students Picking Pot Over Drinking in States Where It's Legal
FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Are college students choosing marijuana instead of booze when both are legal?
New research suggests they are: In states where pot is legal, college kids use it more, but binge-drink less.
In states with legal marijuana, college students were 18% more likely to use it in the past month than in states where it's illegal, Oregon State University researchers report.
From 2012 to 2018, the rate of pot users rose from 14% to 17% in states where it was illegal and from 21% to 34% in the states where it was legal.
Using the National College Health Assessment survey from 2008 to 2018, researchers examined data on more than 850,000 students from 135 colleges in seven states where marijuana was legalized in 2018 and 454 colleges in 41 states where it was not.
They found that older students, ages 21 to 26, were 23% more likely to use marijuana than their peers in states where pot wasn't legal.
The effect was also stronger among women and students living off-campus. That might be because schools honor federal drug laws that classify marijuana as an illegal drug.
The team's report was published Jan. 13 in the journal Addiction.
A second study published recently in Addictive Behaviors by the same researchers found that after pot was legalized, there was a greater drop in binge drinking among students 21 and older than among similar students where pot was illegal.
Why binge drinking went down isn't clear, the researchers noted.
"So in these two studies we saw changes after legalization that really differed by substance," said research leader David Kerr, director of graduate education at Oregon State University's School of Psychological Science.
"For marijuana, we saw state-specific increases that went beyond the nationwide increases, whereas binge drinking was the opposite: a greater decrease in the context of nationwide decreases," Kerr explained in a university news release.
For more on marijuana, see the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
SOURCE: Oregon State University, news release, Jan. 13, 2020
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Sunday we headed out on the Independence II for a trip to the Stolt. Once again NOAA was able to show their inability to provide an accurate forecast (2-4). The wind was light and variable as we left the inlet. It looked to be a great day. Arriving at the wreck the sea was almost flat with just a hint of a breeze. Terry jumped in to tie. We could see him clearly as he dropped down. Once he signaled that we were in, we started to pull up the slack on the line. We could see that Terry had left one of his bottles by the anchor. That's 60′ of visibility! Nice!
The plan for the day was two fold. The first was to give my drysuit it's first salt water bath. While I've had it almost a year, I was waiting for my old suit to fail before switching to the new one. At that point, I could send the old one in for some repairs/alterations. I gave up waiting, and used the new suit. The second part of the plan was to do my first penetration dive on the Stolt. I've been to the wreck many times, but never went inside. This was mainly a result of arriving without a suitable dive buddy, or one with other plans.
Divers were already rolling in as Louis and I got our gear together. We dropped in and did some buddy checks at 15′. We could already see the wreck below us, and to our surprise there was almost no current. REAL Nice! With the light current, it might have been a nice time to head out into the sand for some scallops, but that was not our dive plan. We dropped down slowly looking for an entrance into the wreck. There was a thermocline about 110ft. Below that the vis dropped off quickly. We could barely see the lights of divers on the bottom. We stayed just above the thermocline and headed aft. Reaching the stern, we found a suitable entrance, about 4 ft square. I tied off my reel, and headed inside.
With the wreck laying on the starboard side, directions were confused. The deck was to our left and the port side above us. The entrance opened into a room about 20ft square. The walls were bare, but covered with rust. The bottom was covered in silt and mussel shells. Here and there were large starfish clinging to the "walls". I expected to see fish swimming about, but there were only a couple cunners hiding in corners next to an opening. Passing through a hatchway at the end of the room we emerged into a large area with huge equipment hanging from what had been the deck. While the water seemed clear, our lights could not penetrate to the far bulkheads. On our right light poured in through huge openings, so much for the reel.
We spent some time swimming around the gear in this space. We could not see above us to the port side of the ship. From what we could tell this was the engine room. What appeared to be a series of huge rocker valves were lined up in the center. The water was completely still. In this circumstance being on rebreathers has some real advantages. First we did not send up any bubbles to disturb the silt above us. Second the buoyancy was effortless. We floated around the the room in erie silence. Third, we could easily talk to each other, although our voices were a little squeaky.
We investigated a few other openings as we wandered around the room. We stopped here and there to searched the bottom for fallen items. Time went quickly, and Louis signaled time to turn around. He headed out before me as I reeled up the line. I stopped to grab something out of the silt, then untied the reel and headed out. As we headed up and forward, toward the line, we ran across another opening to a 20 square room. This one had stands welded on the floor for tables. We search it quickly finding tiles still stuck to the deck. We tried to find some loose ones, but were not successful. I'm sure there were some buried in the silt, but I was not prepared to look for them (new suit).
We continued to head back toward the anchor, peering into each hole along the way. As we hit the break, a large Tog swam around from the other side and almost ran into me. Of course, I had not weapon in hand. Reaching the top (port) we noticed a large opening right there on the other side of the tie-in. Ok, That's the plan for the next dive. Deco went quickly since we had not been all that deep. With the slack current, we could hang by the line and watch the plankton.
Back on the boat, we feasted on another of Barson's fine platters. I really have to stop bringing Wawa lunches. The time went quickly as we exchanged stories of what was seen. Some spoke of swimming through the wreck and silting up the compartment, other spoke of lobster. Terry had been out in the sand looking for scallops, but reported on a mass migration. Either the scallop boats had dared to come close, or the scallops had packed their bags and gone north for the winter. Either way he was empty handed. Next time he was going for that Tog. The wind had picked up. The flags were whipping, and the 2 foot waves were already forming white caps.
Back in for the second dive. Louis ran the reel this time, tying just below the anchor. The passage lead down. It almost felt like we were walking through the passageways and hatches of the ship as we passed from the port to the starboard side. We had to turn occasionally, but there was always plenty of room. This is a plus for someone my size. We looked in several small rooms, but continued through the larger passageways.
Suddenly I noticed that the water was not as clear. Had we hit a compartment the others had silted up? I did not think so since the vis was still good, but here and there were wisps of silt. Soon, daja-vu set in, and I recognized one of the side rooms we investigated in the earlier dive. Turn right, and yup, there's the engine! OK, back to the entrance. We checked out a few more side passageways, but generally headed back up. Louis unclipped, and we started looking for another way in. We check out a ladder way we had seen before, but it was a little tight. We were running low on time, so we went to phase two of the plan: grab some mussels on the way up. By the time we reached the line we both had a good bag. The line was now being pulled up and down with good force. The seas were picking up. Louis finished deco and got aboard. Always happy to do more deco rather than less, I waited with the last diver as he finished up.
We broke the surface in 5-6 ft seas. Boarding the ladder in 6ft seas with 50 lb of mussels is going to be fun (note to self, bring equipment line). We got onboard and started stowing gear on the pitching deck. Terry pulled the hook, and we got underway. I stayed in my suit and cleaned mussels on the back deck. The spray over the side was enough to wash down the deck. We were riding almost directly into the waves, so Capt Frank cut back on the speed. We still made good time, as I finishing up just as we hit the inlet. One stop on the way home for a bottle of white, and then there's an evening of cooking mussels in garlic and wine.
There's nothing like watching the sunset from the deck with a glass of wine, a bowl of mussels, and wet dive gear all around.


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The planet was as inhospitable as ever, the wind howling as it blew across the terrain, stirring up dirt clouds and whipping against the sides of buildings. It left all who felt it's embrace, chilled to the bone, Lotor fighting back shivers as he tightened his cloak around his body. The girl to the right of him had no protection from the elements, Romelle badly trembling as she stood next to him in the bikini like garments of a harem slave.
He didn't offer his cloak to her, caring little for her comfort, all but ignoring her as the former princess of Pollux shuffled closer to him in an attempt to steal some body heat. She was bold in her touches, seeming oblivious of the foul mood that surrounded Lotor as she placed her hand on his arm. Lotor stepped forward, shrugging off her hand, a blatant refusal in his eyes. Romelle looked at him, and she couldn't hide the hurt in her face, Lotor snorting and turning away from her. It was time she learned she wasn't special, wasn't any different from any of the other women in his harem.
He marched down the ramp, soldiers to the front and to the back of him, Romelle taking quick steps to keep up with his fast pace. Somewhere in the back of his ship was Allura, the girl hidden among the other harem slaves. He hadn't seen her since she boarded the ship, Lotor doing his damnedest to keep away from her. It was proving a difficult challenge, many of his thoughts being devoted to her and her alone.
He wondered how she was doing, if she was glad for the separation he had forced between them. She probably was, Lotor biting back a sigh as he thought of how hard she struggled to keep out of his arms and out of his bed. Thinking how she must be rejoicing at his apparent disinterest made Lotor angry, his eyes narrowing as his face betrayed the black mood he was in.
Wisely, soldiers hurried out of his way, Lotor stepping off the ramp and onto Doom soil. It had been almost a month since he had last set foot on Doom, and he found his homecoming lacked it's usual flair of excitement. He was deaf to the cheering of the people, their voices hailing him as worthy conqueror, ecstatic that he had captured yet another planet to add to their ever expanding empire.
Instead he found his heart longing to return to Pollux, to the simpler times where he had spent weeks cavorting with Allura. The bedroom they had shared on Pollux had been like their own private slice of paradise, Allura always close at hand. She may not have liked him being so near, but she certainly couldn't deny that her body reacted to his, enjoyed his attentions.
He knew things could have remained the same, those final days on Pollux, if he had simply swallowed his pride and returned to her side. No one need ever know of the incident between them, they could have carried on as before. Except…Lotor didn't want to pretend, didn't want to act as though he had never experienced her soft touches, had never experienced what it was like to have a willing Allura even if he had had her only for a brief instant.
He didn't want to go back to forcing her, not when he could have a glimmer of devotion from her. It wasn't love, he had no illusions about that, the wounds he had inflicted on Allura, with both his actions and his murder of her fiancee were still too deep, too raw. They had much pain to work through, Lotor holding out hope that he could foster a kind of reluctant like in Allura.
But he wasn't even trying to do that, instead spending his time with this new slave of his. She was a shallow, pale imitation of Allura, the blood ties thin between them. In a certain dim cast light, if he squinted he could almost pretend Romelle looked like Allura. It was no surprise that he spent much of his time in darkened rooms with the girl, content to pretend it was Allura he held, that it was Allura who kissed and touched him.
Romelle was almost too eager, especially for a slave so newly acquired. She had shown no reluctance on her part, going eagerly into his bed. In fact the only tears she had shed was when he claimed her maiden head, the girl weeping with the pain of an untried virgin. Except for that one instant, she did everything with a smile on her face, a vapid expression that couldn't quite hide the calculating look in her eyes. Romelle was plotting something, what he did not know, Lotor wondering why she was trying so hard to get in his good graces.
She'd be crushed to know he was only keeping her near him due to her closeness to Allura, Lotor trying to use her to forget the princess of Arus. Not that it was working, no matter how compliant the slave was. Or spoiled for that matter, Lotor feeling Romelle try to touch his arm once more.
"Don't be so forward." He growled at her, the slave snatching her hand back at the anger in his voice. The girl had no way of knowing what he said, reacting only to the tone of his voice. Romelle had little if any knowledge of the Drule language, a skill she would have to learn if she hoped to survive for long on Doom.
Lotor continued forward, the soldiers keeping the excited crowd off to the sides of the tarmac. Some people pressed against the soldiers, arms reaching out in supplication to the prince, hoping for some acknowledgment from Lotor, or a gift of some of the spoils brought back from Pollux. They received none, Lotor reaching the grand staircase that led upwards, it's stone steps ancient and cracked in places.
It covered a good two flights worth of stairs, leading to doors that were immense in size. The doors were open, the archway of the castle dark and foreboding, the inky blackness hiding what lay beyond those doors. A strip of marble made up the landing before the doors, several square feet of available room, cloaked nobles huddled together as they waited for Lotor and his procession of servants to make it up the stairs.
They bowed to the prince when his foot stepped on the landing, their voices coming out excited as they welcomed him home. Lotor nodded, and swept past them, in no mood for their praises as he hurried into the castle. Surprised sounds from behind him, the nobles hurrying to follow him.
Memories worked their way into his mind as he traveled through the castle corridors, Lotor reminded of what had happened the last time he had returned home. Of the drinking, and the feasting, his success on the battlefields moving Zarkon to declare the day a national holiday. But more than the celebrations, he remembered what, or rather who had been waiting for him in his bedroom.
Allura. At the time, he had had no idea of the treasure his father had gifted him with, Lotor's memory of their first joining together accompanied by fond feelings. He doubted his father would surprise him in that way again, not when he had word of how attached Lotor had become to the little slave. Lotor doubted anyone could distract him from Allura, he was too thoroughly enmeshed in wanting her.
A sound from Romelle had him glancing at her, the princess staring with wide eyes as they moved through the castle halls. She was gawking at the sights and surroundings, not quite able to keep the apprehension out of her eyes as she got her first sight of her new home.
They turned a corner, and were soon upon the throne room of the castle. Guards hurried to pull open the bronze doors, Lotor barely sparing a glance at the intricate carvings that decorate the metal. Instead he removed his helmet, shaking his hair out to settle around his shoulders. He tucked the helmet under his right arm, and taking a deep breath, stepped into the throne room.
Cheers were heard, his name being chanted as Lotor walked confidently down the blood red carpet. Romelle made a squawk of protest, a guard holding her back, keeping her from following the prince. Lotor kept his attention focused straight ahead, seeing the gold tinted dais upon which his father's throne sat. Zarkon was seated, his chin resting on the palm of his hand, eyes lazy as he watched his son approach.
When his toes touched the first step of the dais, that is when Lotor bowed, going down on bent knee before his father. He kept his eyes lowered, waiting for acknowledgment from the king, hearing the cheers slowly decrease in volume.
"Welcome back son." Zarkon's voice carried throughout the room, a loud echo that everyone could hear. Lotor lifted his head, and saw Zarkon's eyes were on the servants who were entering the room, carrying open chests of treasure. Gold and jewels spilled out of the crates, an extravagant waste littering the floor. A few carts of refined lazon was brought into the room, the metal earning pleased murmurs from the watching nobles.
"Father….I bring you many gifts…..the least of which is this…" Lotor stood up, and gestured for a pair of servants to step forward, two brothers who were near identical in looks, their muscles straining as they carried a small chest between them. At a signal from Lotor, they dropped the chest at the foot of the dais, it's lid popping open to spill out hundreds of gold coins, each bearing the likeness of King Zarkon on their surface.
"I thought you'd like your investment returned to you." Continued Lotor, a humorless smile on his face. "It'll help you to buy better help for future dealings."
"It took you long enough to find and dispatch of the informant." Zarkon was unperturbed, barely looking at the money. "That was sloppy, even for you."
"I had other concerns to deal with." Lotor returned, not raising to the bait Zarkon dangled before him.
"Hmm yes." A nod of the King's head, Zarkon smirking. "Too busy with a certain slave to take time out to deal with more pressing matters?"
"Hardly." Lotor's fangs flashed, a toothy smile as he turned, offering a wide gesture at the wealth presented before the throne. "I had the affairs of Pollux to set right. The lazon doesn't refine itself you know."
Zarkon's eyes gleamed, his attention on the lazon now. "Just so long as you get results." He waved at a servant, the man hurrying to grasp a bar of lazon. All eyes were on the servant, watching as he all but ran up the steps of the dais. Zarkon snatched the lazon out of the man's hand, running a clawed finger down the center of it. "Grade A lazon, isn't it?
"Nothing but the best from OUR new mines." Lotor said, watching Zarkon continued to fondle the bar of lazon.
"Good, good…I expect no less." Zarkon leaned back in his throne, his eyes scouting beyond Lotor and the treasure. Lotor did not turn to see where his attention lay, waiting in silence for Zarkon to speak. He was less than thrilled at Zarkon's next words, the man almost mocking as he spoke.
"So you've exchanged one blonde princess for another?" He was looking at Romelle, studying her with some interest.
"Just breaking in a new slave." Lotor said lightly, glad Allura wasn't in the throne room. He realizes someone had to have shown Zarkon Allura's picture, the king's keen eyes picking up the differences in appearance between the two cousins. "She means nothing to me. None of them do."
"That's the way it should be." Zarkon said approvingly. "Women are tiresome creatures, especially human females. They are good for only two things. Sex and making babies. And if it's a child you want, you know better than to make one with a slave."
"Children are the furthest thing from my mind." Lotor retorted. "I've no desire to make you a grandfather anytime soon." That got Zarkon to laugh, an uproarious burst of laughter issuing from his throat.
"Yes, you wouldn't want to sire a replacement before you get your hands on my throne." Zarkon smirked. "I've still got plenty of fight in me Lotor. It'll be some time if ever that I step down from my crown."
"Believe me father, I am in no hurry to take your crown from you." His lies were smooth and without feeling, Lotor's expression emotionless in response to Zarkon's mirth and insinuations.
"Ha ha, I'd be a fool to trust you about that Lotor!" Zarkon grinned, and tossed the bar of lazon down the steps. It bounced several times before coming to a stop at Lotor's feet. "Come! No need for such serious expressions. It's a time for celebration. You have returned to us victorious." A clap of his hands had the palace minstrels breaking out into song, the nobles speaking once more.
They crowded around Lotor, all wanting to extend private congratulations. A wine glass was thrust into his hand, Lotor drinking steadily as he listened to the conversation around him. He found he needed the drink to get through the proceedings, having little tolerance for small talk, even for the discussions that praised him. He held back his sighs, and cast his attention about the room, eyes landing on a lost looking Romelle.
She looked up at the precise moment his attention fell on her, the girl cheering up immensely to see Lotor looking at her. She offered a nervous smile to him, Lotor suffering an instant reaction. Romelle's face turned shocked as Lotor glared at her, the prince then jerking to turn his back on her, finding the slave was proving more and more tiresome with every passing moment.


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