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A quasi-confession: One of my favorite politicians of the last fifteen years is George W. Bush. Unfortunately, I don't mean George W. Bush, the President. I mean, George W. Bush, the candidate for President in 2000. The one who criticized Clinton-era attempts at "nation-building" and promised a "modest" foreign policy. The one who prophetically predicted the events that would undo his own Presidency several years later:
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that.
Well, he may have been a little off on the second prediction.
Bush the Candidate was able to articulate pro-life principles effectively. He promised to appoint judges who were willing to occasionally glance at the Constitution. He favored raising the Earned Income Tax Credit for low and moderate income individuals. He was committed to implementing accountability in Education. Bush the Candidate advocated for expansion of social services (e.g. what would become Medicare Part D). At the time, it appeared to me that he was the best option by a mile from a Catholic perspective.
Of course, 2000 was an interesting time. No one was interested in health care reform after the Clintonian debacle in the early 90's (other than Medicare Part D). A bipartisan compromise on welfare reform appeared to be overwhelmingly successful. There were no pressing international political issues, and Bush, as mentioned above, promised to be more modest in our dealings with the world than Clinton had been. Which left culture war issues like abortion and embryonic stem cell research as the primary differences between the candidates in what amounted to a Coke/Pepsi culture clash. Good times, with internet-bubble fattened 401k's for much of the middle class.
U.S. politics have changed a bit since then. But I still think Bush's platform was a good one. To be sure, it basically charted a European-style Christian Democrat course for the U.S., but then I like European-style Christian Democracy, which after all, was consciously modeled in part on Catholic Social Teaching. Obviously, there are a lot of complications with any political philosophy, but, on the whole, I'm in favor of both functioning markets and generous social safety nets (taxes on individual earnings and consumption; less regulation and corporatism). Although, unlike Bush in practice (and the Affordable Care Act), I think we need to pay for social services when we expand them. I suppose most AC readers are to the right of this point of view, but I'm curious:
How did you view Bush the candidate circa 2000, and what are your thoughts on Christian Social Democrats, particularly their effortso to model political philosophy on Catholic Social Teaching?


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SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side, or you can find the poll embedded at the bottom of this post.
Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers which long course world record would last longest:
Question: Which world record will last longest?
- Women's 200 fly – 2:01.81 – 40.2%
- Men's 200 free – 1:42.00 – 38.2%
- Men's 200 fly – 1:51.51 – 11.3%
- Men's 200 back – 1:51.92 – 5.6%
- Other – 4.8%
More than 40% of SwimSwam voters selected Liu Zige's 2:01.81 in the 200 fly as the current world record that would last the longest, narrowly edging the men's 200 free (1:42.00 from Paul Biedermann).
Both records came from 2009, the final year before the buoyant, rubberized full-body swimsuits known now as "supersuits" or "bodysuits" were banned for competition.
Zige's 200 fly seems a natural choice. Since the beginning of 2010, no one has come within 2.25 seconds of the record, with the "textile best" standing at 2:04.06 from the 2012 Olympics. Zige herself never went faster than 2:04.40 after the suit ban.
The men's 200 free is an interesting case, because while the record is much faster than we see year-to-year in that race these days, it has actually been approached closer than the other records in this poll. Yannick Agnel went 1:43.14 in 2012, coming within 1.1 seconds of Biedermann's record. The 200 free is still brought up as a tough-to-crack record, though, perhaps in part because of how much faster Biedermann proved to be in a supersuit compared to many other athletes.
Votes for Biedermann's record nearly matched votes for Zige's in this poll, despite Zige's time leading the textile-best by more than double the amount by which Biedermann's swim tops the corresponding textile best.
In the men's 200 fly, Michael Phelps was 1:51.51 back in 2009. Since then, no one has been within 1.2 seconds of the record. Kristof Milak has been the closest, going 1:52.71 last year. But Phelps still technically holds the textile-best time with a 1:52.09 from the 2007 World Championships. Though many other swimmers in his heat wore early bodysuits, Phelps wore only a jammer.
Aaron Peirsol was 1:51.92 in the 200 back in 2009. Ryan Lochte holds the textile-best, going 1:52.96 in 2011. Two others have been within a few tenths of Lochte's time.
Below, vote in our new A3 Performance Poll, which asks voters which new head coaching hire is the best decision:
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Blase's Commentary on War, Nukes & the Beloved Community
You know that theme song couldn't be more appropriate, really. Fear and the manipulation of fear is the primary tool of corrupt politics, and we've heard so much of it recently. Well, we go ahead. There were some very great speeches at the Democratic Convention. They... Read More →


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Ringing in the New Year with good news, Marvel announced the return of its title Exiles in April 2018. That's right comic geeks, the multiverse is about to do us a solid and kick out some new adventures. The storytelling will be in the hands of Hugo-nominated writer Saladin Ahmed (if you haven't read Throne of the Cresent Moon fix that STAT).
Monday, January 8th, Marvel Comics unveiled the final team member…Valkyrie.
According to Ahmed, readers can expect this iteration of Valkyrie to seriously remind us of Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie à la Thor: Ragnarok.
Valkyrie's a character who's always appealed to me. Her iconic warrior-woman look—spear! sword! flying horse!—but also the juxtaposition of a kickass ancient fantasy hero operating in contemporary New York City. She's a classic Marvel heroine," explains Ahmed.
He went on to say,
But the EXILES version of Valkyrie is a bit different from what we've seen in comics thus far. Our Valkyrie is known as the Lone Defender of Asgard, and she's a tankard-draining, maiden-wooing, giant-slaying thunderbolt of a woman. Though she's not technically from the Marvel Cinematic Universe reality, she's basically the literalization of the larger-than-her-physical-frame swagger that Tessa Thompson displayed in 'Thor: Ragnarok,' turned up to 11.
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Like many of us, the folks over at Marvel embraced Tessa Thompson's turn as the Valkyrie. Series editor Wil Moss went so far as to say,
Like everyone else who has seen Taika Waititi's brilliant THOR: RAGNAROK movie, all of us on Team Exiles are big fans of Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie. So when we realized that we had the perfect series — where the roster is made up of alternate reality versions of Marvel heroes — to introduce a comic book equivalent of that version of Valkyrie, we jumped at the chance! And how great is series artist Javier Rodriguez's design? Such a nice combo of the classic Valkyrie look and the MCU's, yeah?
If weren't into Exiles the first time around, you've been adulting and missed the previous announcements, here's the quick and dirty: Nick Fury, known as The Unseen, recruits a team with a mandate to defend the multiverse against all comers. Visuals for Exiles are in the hands of artist Javier Rodriguez.
You can pick up Issue 1 on April 11th – and Issue 2 two weeks later – when the team swings into action to save an alternate present from destruction from Marvel Comics.
Around the Twitterverse:
You may have seen Tessa Thompson's fangirl moment after Saladin Ahmed's tweet celebrating Exile's Valkyrie.
If you missed it, then the Twitter algorithm may have it in for you, but fear not geeks, DHTG is here for you:
when you find out she's in the comics— pic.twitter.com/LUy00JWRpD
— Tessa Thompson (@TessaThompson_x) January 12, 2018
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In a darkly patriarchal dystopian future America, one girl finds the strength to fight for both love and revolution.
A mere 10 years ago, Scarpanol, a hormone used in American beef, spread cancer in 50 million women, wiping out generations like wildfire. Now, the Paternalist Movement controls the government, and teen girls are sold as wives under Contracts. Sixteen-year-old Avie Reveare lives a sequestered life under the care of her father, the CEO of Biocure Technologies, and her watchful bodyguard, while sneaking longing glances at her former best friend, student-turned-activist Yates. But it isn't long before Avie's sold for $50 million to Jessop Hawkins, a major supporter of the Paternalist Movement rich enough to save her father's company from ruin. When Avie realizes her true feelings for Yates, it isn't long before she's spurred to flee to Canada, the only nearby country that welcomes girls breaking their Contracts. But the roads toward freedom are neither smooth nor short. Linka weaves a believable, disturbing dystopian future and never shies from violence or tragedy. Avie evolves into a bold protagonist at a brisk but authentic pace. Though Yates isn't very compelling, the romance quickly takes a back seat, letting the revolution and the tense escape plot shine.
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With a supposed June 7 iPhone HD release date now on the horizon, some analysts expect Apple to slash the iPhone 3GS to just $99, down from the current $199 price point. According to a Morgan Stanley note sent to the clients Monday morning, the discount should mimic a similar maneuver last summer, when Apple unveiled the iPhone 3GS at the iPhone 3G price points while reducing the latter to $99.
Morgan Stanley's analyst Katy Huberty raised per-share target of the Apple stock to $310, up over her previous $275 target, based on an estimated 61.5 million iPhone shipments in calendar year 2010. Huberty cited an internal research revealing that nearly two in three existing iPhone users (59 percent) plan on buying the next iPhone, way up from just 18 percent of iPhone users who said they would buy a new iPhone in a similar research last year.
The combined effects of a stronger than expected iPad demand, corporate iPhone sales, and the iPhone market share growth could push the Apple stock as high as $400, the analyst wrote, adding that 17 percent of the Verizon folks could upgrade to the iPhone if the handset became available on that network.
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If Morgan Stanley's research is true, 59 percent represents a significant portion of the existing users that will no doubt help Apple move the first million iPhone HDs during the launch weekend. Don't forget the fact that the handset represents an "A+ upgrade," as Jobs allegedly called it, sporting significant hardware and software improvements in ways that neither the iPhone 3G nor 3GS had been.
It remains to be seen if the rumored iPhone 3GS price reduction will have a substantial impact on Apple's bottom line. Last year the analysts said the $99 iPhone 3G opened up an entirely new market for Apple's handset. Despite the iPhone 3G's magic price point, however, the iPhone 3GS has remained by far the best-selling iPhone model to date as the majority but the most price-conscious consumers opt for a speedier iPhone model over the cheaper one.


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Traveling Rhonda's first post was about my friend Ray Chen. He passed away this year way before he should have. The post was simply how amazed I was by Ray's ability to make friends after turning 30 years old. It honestly seems like an impossible feet.
Well, I am not sure if I made a life-long friend last week, but I definitely had a friend for the day.
I present to you Rich.
Vanessa was in Santa Fe, NM for a week so I was on my own in Madison. One of the every day tasks while living in an RV in a city is to find a place to park and sleep at night. I pulled onto Mifflin St, and found a spot right away. As soon as I opened the door, there was Rich sitting on a front stoop, and bellowing out hello. I made a sandwich in Rhonda while he started telling stories ranging from all the girl's bikes he fixes in Madison to hitch hiking cross country to being Bart Starr's paper boy when he was a kid (Bart Starr led the Packers to the first two Super Bowls in NFL history). Rich was probably in his 60's, and he was a lifelong Wisconsin resident.
I joined him on his porch for a beer, told him I needed my bike fixed, and two seconds later he's got his tools out and he's showing me how to fix the brakes. After working together for about an hour or so he said he was out of beer. I gave him $20 to get us some, and we sat drinking and talking and working on the bikes for another hour or so. He was telling me about this girl who brought him cookies last year because he fixed her bike, and two seconds later that same girl showed up to say hi. Unbelievable!
I was planning on going to the student union that night to watch a movie at a place called the Terrace. When I asked Rich to come with me his eyes lit up. He hadn't been to the Terrace in 13 years! We snuck some tall boys into our backpacks and biked over to watch Total Recall. He had this shit eating grin on his face the entire time we were there. Afterwards, when my bike got a flat tire, he was there to fix it up.
Rich was an awesome friend for the day, and I am hopeful we can stay in touch even though he has never used the internet in his life (or so he says).
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The Golf Fanatic's Guide to Hawaii is a comprehensive guidebook for golfers visiting Hawaii. Featuring color photography on every page and a sophisticated layout, the enticing coverage of the top 50 publicly accessible courses in the Aloha State will excite first-timers and return visitors alike. A former resident of Maui and the Big Island, guidebook author and avid golfer Bryan Fryklund (Adventure Guide: Hawaii the Big Island) traveled to six islands, playing each course and rating its difficulty, beauty, design intrigue, maintenance, "swank value," and price; describing the course, specific holes that personify the experience, and the "19th hole"; interviewing a course representative for playing tips, as well as information for a vital statistics chart; providing driving directions; and reviewing nearby accommodation options. With candor and humor, Fryklund inserts local color into his course descriptions and sidebars, which range from explanations of golf terms such as "links golf," to insights into Hawaiian mythology. Golf Fanatic will be an invaluable tool on the Hawaiian courses, and a treasured souvenir after returning home.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Coraline in 3-D
So yes yes I know you all know this. What I find delightful is the fact that I went to this movie on opening day, of course, but I was really put off by the fact that I was forced to watch this movie with 3-D glasses. Wearing glasses on glasses is a bit uncomfortable, but not only that there was a bad taste in my mouth left from my 3-D experience with Nightmare in 2006. The movie left me dizzy and less than impressed with the 3-D animation becoming more 3-D. So really I thought the 3-D was gimmicky. I was really reluctant to participate in what I thought was an attempt to draw more viewers on opening day.
You can see where this is going. I cannot tell you how amazing this film is. Again the story is fantastic and the design is DYNAMITE. What I love about the 3-D is that this film was recorded specifically for a 3-D experience. Meaning that for every second there are 24 stills to slowly move the animation. This is typical for any type of film really... but this film had a still for the right eye and the left eye to create the 3-D effect. And the result was phenomenal. The foreground, middle-ground, and background were presented in such a designerly way. I have never seen 3-D movie look so beautiful. I don't want to watch this film without that experience ever again and I hope that they develop something so the home-viewer can have the same enjoyable experience. Unfortunately this movie will only be in 3-D up to three weeks after it's initial release so if you haven't seen it yet I urge you to see it before time runs out.
Coraline received a 88% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes and from me a 4 out of 5 stars.
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- redstarmama said...
Ok, we saw Coraline on saturday, and I completely concur with your review. My kids were glued. Greer kept her glasses on the entire time,and took them home with her. We are going to see Monsters vs. Aliens in 3d next month at the IMAX. Hopefully the good experience continues.
- February 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Claymation is so neato!
Just kidding...you don't have to explain to me that Claymation is a trademark...I only have to make that mistake around you once to learn my lesson.
I think I'm gonna have to see Coraline soon now that I know the 3d is a limited time thing.
Anyway, so I was playing my Nintendo DS (darn those video games...wasting time...making Meridth so angry!) and a character popped up on screen that totally made me think of you.
Watch this & read the lyrics on the right of the screen and tell me what you think:
- February 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Meridth Gimbel said...
Jenn I'm so glad to hear it. Let us know what you think of Monsters Vs. Aliens... (I love animation!) I can't wait to watch movies with our own kids :)
Tim- We miss you like crazy. We were actually thinking of starting a "Big Wig Movie Club" blog and simulating our college experience (how desperate can you get?!)
btw if I were forced to be an anime character I would definitely want to be this Ashley.
also, yes Tim, I automatically cringed when you said "Claymation." Heehee.
- February 17, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Stephanie said...
What are you danging on my blog?
- February 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- Meridth Gimbel said...
I wanted a prize.
- February 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Will said...
Um, Coraline scares me. There! I'm man enough to admit. Now where did I last put my blanky?
- February 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM
- Stephanie said...
I'll still give you a prize. Actually, even though there are more than 3 comments, only 2 have paid it on forward. So, I'm still short a forwardee.
- February 21, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Meridth Gimbel said...
What the deuce?!!! Yippie! Yay for being a whiner. (Jk) I'm totally undeserving Stephanie. But I'm greedy too so what can I say?!
...and Will... I think adults are scardy-cats. I asked Jenn's kids, Greer who I think is 2 and Declan who I think is 5, and both thought we were ridiculous for even asking if the movie was scary. I actually remember being weaned on The Dark Crystal and the Labrynth and moves like that that were pretty dark and I LOVED 'em. But to each his own. I also remember Megan (my older sis) getting freaked out while reading Roald Dahl's The Witches. (I thought she was a baby but really it just wasn't her thing.)
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The amount of people needing to use foodbanks to feed themselves and their families is increasing.
Ridhwan Nadat, foodbank coordinator for Fusion Housing in Kirklees, said the charity deals with a around six to 10 cases each day of people who require food or toiletry parcels.
"At the moment it is quite steady and shows no sign of letting up," he said.
Dewsbury and Mirfield MP Paula Sherriff (Lab), who recently dropped off a collection at the charity's office in Empire House, has now opened her office to accept donations.
She said: "It greatly saddens me that in 2015, the need for food banks in our country is growing exponentially.
"The staff and volunteers at The Pantry are simply fantastic and it was great to meet and thank them for their incredible hard work, both supplying food for those in need and offering housing advice. I will personally be making regular donations to the food bank and my constituency office will become a drop-off point for food donations."
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"Brace yourself," Janet Cardiff said to me politely. "Here comes the big boom."
It was an overcast Tuesday evening in Kassel, Germany, and I was sitting in a cramped, cluttered trailer at the edge of a forest with Cardiff and George Bures Miller, her husband and collaborator of nearly 30 years, trying to make myself heard over the sound of artillery fire. The idyll of the twilight woods around us was being severely compromised, just then, by what might reasonably have passed for the soundtrack of the end of the world: the droning of airplanes and the shouting of soldiers and the thunder of bombshells detonating on every side. Miller and Cardiff were sipping Earl Grey tea and observing me with quiet amusement. "Kind of like being a war correspondent, isn't it?" Miller said with a grin.
"What comes before and after, though, is just as important," Cardiff added. "The other sounds, I mean, and the quiet between. It's important that you get that sense of peace."
Cardiff and Miller are artists who have become known for their work with sound, and the woods of Kassel's normally sedate Karlsaue Park are home to their latest installation, "Forest (for a thousand years)," one of two pieces featured in Documenta, the twice-a-decade survey of contemporary art that is arguably the most lavish group show on the planet. In visual terms, "Forest" barely registers as an artwork: 18 shoebox-size speakers and 4 subwoofers arranged discreetly in the underbrush, with tree stumps to sit on. The piece depends on Cardiff and Miller's use of a technology known as Ambisonics, developed in the 1970s by an Oxford mathematician, which creates a three-dimensional sound field out of whatever noises, vibrations or explosions they have recorded.
"Having this trailer makes us feel a bit like filmmakers," Cardiff said. "But we aren't filmmakers, even when we're working with video. Sound feels more directly tied to memory, and to dreams, which are important to our — "
Before she could finish, the big boom arrived. It was loud enough to make the trailer shudder, but what made me clutch at the corners of the table wasn't simply its volume. Like the hundreds of other noises out of which "Forest" has been fashioned — the cawing of ravens, the hiss of wind, radio static, laughter, gunfire — the explosion felt as real to me as my own heartbeat.Continue reading the main story
Cardiff and Miller made two distinct artworks for Documenta 13, and earlier that day, getting off the train in Kassel's Hauptbahnhof, I encountered the other, titled simply, "Alter Bahnhof Video Walk." I write "encountered" — not "seen" or "heard" or even "touched" — because all the above senses were engaged by the piece, not to mention my perception of timing, decorum and balance. Cardiff originally rose to art-world prominence on the strength of her "audio walks," as she calls them, and I came to Kassel, in large part, to understand why. It took me exactly five minutes.
In the station's main atrium, I exchanged my passport for an iPhone and a set of stereo earphones, then took a seat on a nearby bench, tucked the headphones into my ears and pressed play. In comparison to "Forest," nothing especially spectacular or startling happened over the course of the next 28 minutes: no explosions, no gunfire, no Götterdämmerung. I simply walked from place to place in the moderately busy station, holding the iPhone's screen in front of my face like some terminal video-game addict, trying to bring my perspective and the perspective shown on-screen into alignment.
The station in the video appeared, at first, to be the same station I was moving through. But it was home to a soundscape that seemed more immediate to me than the noises that reached my ears from the present, one that was populated by ghostly commuters from some unspecified time in the past. Cardiff's cool, breathy voice was my nearly constant companion, pointing out features of the building's history, or sharing a dream, or issuing simple instructions. It was a game of sorts to try to follow her, and I was pleased with myself for adjusting so smoothly. It wasn't until I found myself ducking to avoid someone approaching on-screen that I realized how unmoored I had become.
The problem of the walk — the impossibility of being in two times and places at once — was also the point of the walk, and it touched a deep ontological nerve. My mind demanded synthesis, but no synthesis was possible. "It's hard for me to be in the present," Cardiff's voice sighs at one point in the piece, and by the time I took my earphones out, I seemed to know exactly what she meant. It took me the better part of the evening to reassure my stunned brain that the walk was over.
I shared my experience with Cardiff and Miller in the trailer that evening, between hoofbeats and the crash of falling trees. "You could say our work is about time travel, in a way," Cardiff said. "The walks especially. A step away from reality — consensus reality — in the interests of seeing it better." She turned to Miller, who nodded. "We've been trying to escape reality for, like, 35 years," he added. "It's been going O.K. so far."
"My first date with Janet was already a collaboration," Miller told me over breakfast in Kassel the following day. "We were both in art school at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton — I was studying painting, she was studying printmaking, of all things — and she invited me over to help her make a film."
"I had a six-pack of beers," Cardiff cut in, a bit wistful. "I'd recorded an all-percussion band called Nexus a few nights earlier on a little tape recorder, and we went to my place and watched TV with the sound off and the music playing."
"It was 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' " Miller added, "and you were taking photos of the screen while we watched it. You ended up making a print out of one of those photos." Cardiff was quiet for a moment, remembering. "So you see," she said finally, "as first dates go, that one was pretty good."
Miller and Cardiff knew each other already — they worked in the same group of studios — but they didn't realize until they started dating how much they had in common. Each was born in a small town in rural Canada, far from the centers of culture — Cardiff on a working farm in Brussels, Ontario, Miller as the son of a country veterinarian in Vegreville, Alberta, "Home of the World's Largest Ukrainian Easter Egg."
More significant, perhaps, they were each impatient with the limitations of their chosen modes of art-making. "Whenever we got together, we'd do these films and sound pieces, all sorts of things," Cardiff told me. "Right from the beginning, working with each other, we realized we could do things that were different than what we could do alone. Our artwork and our lives have always been connected."
Miller and Cardiff were married two and a half years later, in 1983, in a country ceremony (there were ponies involved) in Cardiff's hometown. She was 26; he was 23. Their lives over the next dozen years, first in Edmonton, then in Toronto, then in a small city near the Alberta-Montana border called Lethbridge, had their share of privation and uncertainty, but both artists seem to look back on that period with unalloyed fondness. "At one point in Toronto — I must have been 23 or so — we were so poor that we tried panhandling," Miller said, managing to seem both embarrassed and almost imperceptibly proud. "We were terrible at it. We tried for one hour and realized we had to come up with a better solution." They wound up designing T-shirts, which they sold on the corner of Queen and John Streets downtown. He laughed at the memory. "They did fairly well, actually."
Miller and Cardiff's pieces in the course of their first decade together ran the gamut from silk-screens to kinetic sculpture to a computer-illustrated comic book, even a video for Miller's one-man rock band ("Mum Has Gone Away," by Jordie Jones and the League of Misfits); but their first official collaboration was a multimedia installation titled, "The Dark Pool."
"That was the beginning," Cardiff said to me that evening in the trailer. "I think both of us felt it at the time." She glanced at Miller, who nodded. "We'd done a lot of pieces by then," he said, "but 'Dark Pool' was the first work of ours that felt mature to me. We've had offers to buy it — we get them pretty regularly — but I can't bear the thought of parting with it. It's not the kind of piece you can make twice."
First shown in Vancouver in 1995, "Dark Pool" is, on the surface, an installation in the classic style: a 20-by-30-foot room, dimly lighted, with corrugated cardboard and thrift-store Persian carpets on the floor, littered with paraphernalia and artifacts — stacks of hardcover books, Kodachrome slides, dusty, paint-splattered furniture, an apparatus labeled, "wish machine." Just when you might feel tempted to dismiss the work as hermetic, however — or even willfully obscure — "Dark Pool" begins to speak. Moving through the room, the viewer triggers the acoustic elements of the piece — scraps of music, half-told stories, fragments of conversation between a woman and a man — and with each snippet, a piece of the mystery seems to become clear. You begin to suspect that the vanished inhabitants of this space were a couple, perhaps even the artists themselves. It's not hard to imagine, therefore, why they might resist selling it: in terms of form and content, "Dark Pool" may be as close to a self-portrait as Miller and Cardiff have come.
Even more personal, perhaps — and an indirect descendant of "The Dark Pool" — is "The Murder of Crows," a 98-speaker installation that Cardiff and Miller are bringing to Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory on Aug. 3 for a monthlong run. The piece, their largest, was developed during one of the strangest and most fraught periods of their lives: the six months they spent in Katmandu, Nepal, trying to adopt their infant daughter, Aradhana, now a precocious 5-year-old. "That was a hard time for us," Miller told me, "and I think the art shows it." While they waited, Cardiff recalled, they roamed the city, crossing to the government district every so often to meet with officials, who told them something different every time. " 'Murder of Crows' is a dark piece," Cardiff added, "but it also comes out of the soundscape of that strange, smoggy city — totally different sounds from those we were used to." She was quiet for a moment. "Neither of us will ever forget that place."
Parallel to the development of the couple's installations, which grew progressively more elaborate and ambitious, Cardiff, with her husband's aid, was exploring a markedly more intimate interaction with the art-going public. In 1991, she spent two months at the Banff arts center in Alberta, as a guest of its residency program. "I was out recording things — wearing a pair of headphones, making sure I was getting good sound — and at one point I was reading the names of grave sites out loud," she told me. "I pressed rewind, then pressed play — losing track of where I was — and I heard my voice describing what I was seeing in front of me. It was such a strange and particular feeling — one of those serendipitous moments, I guess. Over the next few weeks, I made my first walk, but only about a dozen people tried it. I wasn't even sure what it was at the time — is this thing even art?" She shook her head.
One of the 12 people who took Cardiff's walk was a young Canadian curator named Kitty Scott. In 1996, upon being invited to assist in a show at Denmark's Louisiana Museum titled, "Walking and Thinking and Walking," Scott remembered Cardiff's odd, unclassifiable experiment and described it to the curator, Bruce Ferguson, who asked Cardiff to develop a site-specific walk for the museum grounds. The piece attracted the notice of a soft-spoken German named Kasper König, director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and a founder of the Münster Sculpture Project, who was also one of the contemporary art world's most influential curators.
"I was sitting outside, on a lawn chair," Cardiff told me, "and this guy sat down next to me and said, 'I make this, you know, this kind of sculpture show in Münster. . . .' "
"We had no idea who he was at the time," Miller added, laughing. "Luckily for us, he didn't seem offended. Someone must have told him we were from Alberta."
As evening fell on my first day in Kassel, I returned to the park to meet Miller, who wanted to get a live recording of "Forest" before returning to Berlin. He explained to me that he would be using binaural recording equipment — the same equipment that he and Cardiff used in recording the sound for their walk pieces — and said I would have a chance to meet Fritz, who I assumed, in my innocence, to be a technical assistant. I was more than a little startled, therefore, to make out Miller's husky silhouette between the trunks of two trees, holding what appeared to be a human head.
"Meet Fritz," Miller said cheerfully. "He's made by Neumann, here in Germany, and he not only looks like a human head, he has the full weight of one — eight pounds. The microphones are in the ear holes." The spatial component in human hearing, Miller went on to explain, has been so finely developed over hundreds of thousands of years that our minds factor in the distance traveled by any given sound, in order to determine its direction as precisely as possible. Fritz's anthropomorphic weight and shape, in addition to his stereo microphones, make the sound effects in the walks seem more real to us, and more compelling, than the noises of our actual surroundings.
Despite the lateness of the hour and the bleakness of the sky, a cluster of parka-swaddled Documenta-goers remained, and Miller attracted the occasional stare as he clomped around the woods in Fritz's company. Few watched him for long, however, because the piece itself demanded their attention. Though I'd experienced "Forest" a number of times by that point, I found it nearly impossible to tell which of the ominous rumblings and hissings around me were part of the piece, and which were due to the worsening weather. I said as much to Miller just as it began to rain.
"I've always loved the anecdote," Miller said between takes, "that when the Lumière brothers first showed their films in Paris — the one of a train pulling into the station — people in the audience tried to jump out of the way. And that was a silent film, don't forget. Imagine what they could have done with sound!"
It wasn't until I returned to New York that I was able to see the installation many regard as Cardiff's masterpiece, "The Forty-Part Motet." The installation, on long-term display at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, is so deceptively simple, so matter-of-fact in its presentation — and so sublime in its effect — that it may be impossible to do it justice. It's easy enough to describe: 40 cinderblock-size speakers, mounted on stands at the approximate height of a human head, arranged in a precise, expansive oval, facing inward. The speakers play "Spem in Alium," a 16th-century choral work by the composer Thomas Tallis, which takes roughly 14 minutes. During a three-minute break, you hear the members of the choir clearing their throats, or yawning, or whispering jokes to one another about the choirmaster, before the music plays again. What exactly you'll hear depends on which speaker is closest, because each member of that 40-person choir was recorded into a separate microphone, whose signal is then run, in the piece, through one — and only one — of the 40 speakers in that otherwise empty, unremarkable room in Queens.
It's this single factor — one speaker, one voice — that transforms "The Forty-Part Motet" from a kind of glorified CD-listening party into something approaching a religious event. In the 30 minutes I spent in that bare, loftlike room on PS1's second floor, not a single visitor passed through without being transfixed by the bright ellipse of human sound. One middle-aged man in a tweed jacket burst into tears. I consulted with the guard, a businesslike woman in her 50s, and was informed that such outbursts happen on a daily basis. When I asked how she felt about "The Forty-Part Motet," given that she had to hear it in its entirety more than 30 times a day, she considered my question with care.
"A few of my co-workers, you know, they can't take it," she whispered, as if letting me in on a trade secret. "They say it's too much." She paused a moment, and we both watched a girl in her teens standing in the middle of the room with her eyes closed, swaying lightly to the voices. "But you've got to understand — some people have no sense of peace."Continue reading the main story


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Hot Potato: How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever
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"The players today are much better than we were...But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they do now. Man, we used to pass that basketball around like it was a hot potato."
--Sam "Buck" Covington, former member of the Washington Bruins
In a nation distinguished by a great black athletic heritage, there is perhaps no sport that has felt the impact of African American culture more than basketball. Most people assume that the rise of black basketball was a fortuitous accident of the inner-city playgrounds. In Hot Potato, Bob Kuska shows that it was in fact a consciously organized movement with very specific goals.
When Edwin Henderson introduced the game to Washington, D.C., in 1907, he envisioned basketball not as an end in itself but as a public-health and civil-rights tool. Henderson believed that, by organizing black athletics, including basketball, it would be possible to send more outstanding black student athletes to excel at northern white colleges and debunk negative stereotypes of the race. He reasoned that in sports, unlike politics and business, the black race would get a fair chance to succeed. Henderson chose basketball as his marquee sport, and he soon found that the game was a big hit on Washington's segregated U Street. Almost simultaneously, black basketball was catching on quickly in New York, and the book establishes that these two cities served as the birthplace of the black game.
Hot Potato chronicles the many successes and failures of the early years of black amateur basketball. It also recounts the emergence of black college basketball in America, documenting the origins of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, or CIAA, which would become the Big Ten of black collegiate sports.
The book also details for the first time the rise of black professional basketball in America, with a particular emphasis on the New York Renaissance, a team considered by experts to be as important in the development of black basketball as the Harlem Globetrotters. Kuska recounts the Renaissance's first victory over the white world champion Original Celtics in 1925, and he evaluates the significance of this win in advancing equality in American sports. By the late 1920s, the Renaissance became one of the sport's top draws in white and black America alike, setting the stage for the team's undisputed world championship in 1939. As Edwin Henderson had hoped -- and as any fan of the modern-day game can tell you -- the triumphs certainly did not end there.
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If you noticed, I don't really do memes (well, I don't "do" a lot of things, yanno. *nudge nudge* ^_^) but since it was The Noisy Man who tagged me and the topic is something I'd actually write about, I figured, why not? Well, I'm supposed to share the different names that different people call/has called me but I'm sure none of you really give a shit. Heh, I'm still doing the meme anyway.
Well, I have a weird name, albeit it has character. In fact, a lot people remember me because of it. KRING. C'mon. How can you forget that? Sure, it sounds jologs and funny but I actually have a very posh and non-ghei name on my birth certificate.
Sheena Jeanne (not "jin". It's French, bitch. ) Krystle – I think my parents were under the influence when they were thinking of a name for me. They were never a creative, artsy couple so it still boggles me that they came up with such a long, oddly-spelled name. I like it though. I mean, no offense meant but I just can't imagine myself named… Anna. Or Joan. or Michelle.
Sheena – Unless you were gradeschool classmate or teacher, DO NOT call me this, I swear.


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Four times a day during term-time – once in the morning, twice at lunchtime and once again in the afternoon – the relative peace of the Red Pepper magazine office is broken by boisterous groups of teenage boys making their way to and from the nearby St Aloysius Roman Catholic school. I compete with them for pavement space or observe them from the ground-floor window sometimes when I go there. They're loud, rowdy and occasionally troublesome but not so very different to teenage boys gathered in large numbers anywhere.
And two of them who would have been passing the Red Pepper windows four times a day this time last year have been stabbed to death in the space of just six months.
The first, back in June, was Martin Dinnegan, a bright, lively 14-year-old whose family lives a few hundred yards from me, killed outside the chip shop just around the corner from where I brought up my daughter. A 15-year-old has been charged with his murder.
The second was Nassirudeen Osawe, Nass, killed on Islington's main shopping street two days after Christmas and four days shy of what should have been his 17th birthday. He, too, lived down the road from me. In his case, too, another teenager is the alleged killer.
According to the Metropolitan Police, 27 teenagers were killed in London in 2007. Most of them were the victims of knife attacks; most involved some sort of conflict over territory or group affiliation or 'respect', even though most of the victims were not themselves involved with gangs or associated activity.
I'd like to think that this is all the result of deprivation, social inequality and a shortage of facilities such as youth clubs. But it isn't.
There is clearly something going on culturally that is causing heightened levels of violence among teenage boys and young men. The solutions, like the causes, are complex, but the pat notion that it's all, or even largely, to do with material conditions simply isn't good enough.
I grew up in a testosterone-charged environment of adolescent male rebellion and aggression. I was expelled from school at 15 (though I found my way back into education again later due to a combination of personal will, parental influence and the solid foundation of learning and inspiration provided by teachers at a previous school).
But there were cultural limits, shared values within our teenage peer groups at the time that put a brake on even the most extreme behaviour. Not the least of these was the notion that certain forms of violence were not acceptable, that they were, in fact, cowardly – unmanly even. The limits were framed in terms of basic negatives: you don't pick on someone smaller than yourself; you don't kick someone when he's down; you don't use knives or other weapons.
I can't help feeling that the development of a climate of young male opinion in which the carrying and use of knives, guns and other weapons is held up as being cowardly would do more to turn boys and young men against doing so than any manner of other measures that do nothing to challenge their sense of machismo.
Thursday, 24 January 2008
London knife killings
Four times a day during term-time – once in the morning, twice at lunchtime and once again in the afternoon – the relative peace of the Red Pepper magazine office is broken by boisterous groups of teenage boys making their way to and from the nearby St Aloysius Roman Catholic school. I compete with them for pavement space or observe them from the ground-floor window sometimes when I go there. They're loud, rowdy and occasionally troublesome but not so very different to teenage boys gathered in large numbers anywhere.
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Coffee pot
It's not just the 'smart shops' that are under threat in Holland. Many of its famous 'coffee shops', where the sale and consumption of marijuana has been tolerated since the 1960s, also face closure under a forthcoming smoking ban.
There are at least 3,000 such establishments in Holland, catering for many hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit the country each year specifically because of its liberal attitudes on such matters. So they carry a lot more economic and political clout than the smart shops.
One consequence is that Holland's smoking ban is likely to have more 'get out clauses' than the UK one. And some coffee shop proprietors are also looking at moving into the pizza business, with a whole new range of toppings to cater for their particular clientele.
Liberty capped
I've had a fair bit of experience of recreational drug taking over the years, legal and illegal, and by far and away the most benign substance I've come across in terms of its physical after-effects is psilocybin.
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, psilocybin is the active ingredient in the most popular forms of 'magic mushrooms'. These include Psilocybe semilanceata, the 'liberty cap', whose distinctive nipple-topped conical heads can be found poking through the grass in well-watered meadows throughout the northern hemisphere.
For years there was an old-fashioned sort of blind tolerance towards psilocybin in Britain. It was illegal in its 'processed' form, but this was held not to include the fresh mushrooms, and as long as those who consumed them didn't make too much of a public spectacle of the fact the authorities tended to turn a blind eye towards the practice.
That was all bound to change as soon as every trader with an eye for a quick profit started to exploit the loophole in the law in what turned into a hallucinogenic free-for-all at places like London's Camden Market. A few well-publicised cases of teenagers going temporarily whacko after being sold too strong a dose of 'shrooms was all it took to provoke the inevitable moral panic and the speedy classification of psilocybes as Class A controlled substances.
Now Amsterdam, home to the 'shroom-selling 'smart shop', is going the same way, and those of us who enjoy the occasional entheogen experience are going to have to go back to finding or growing our own. Most people can't be bothered with all that palaver, and since prohibition never did put a stop to the human desire for super-sensory experiences, they'll turn to the most readily available substitutes – which will mean a quick boost in sales of manufactured chemicals from ecstasy to ketamine instead.
Holland's conservative government has recently led a clampdown on marijuana suppliers and prostitutes, to the great delight of organised crime, which always prefers these things underground. So it was no surprise when it seized on the death of the 17-year-old French girl, Gaelle Caroff, who jumped from a building after taking mushrooms on a school visit, to order a review of the law on psilocybes.
A study published in January 2007 revealed that the emergency services in Amsterdam were called on to deal with 148 adverse reactions to psilocybes in 2004-2006. All but 14 involved foreigners, most of them Britons, who seem to possess a cultural incapacity to consume any kind of mood-altering substances in moderation.
Of course a couple of call-outs a week amounts to a tiny problem in comparison with the consequences of alcohol consumption. And no one would dream of banning alcohol because someone killed themselves as a result of drinking too much. The sensible response to such a tragedy would be proper regulation and education.
But the psilocybes, whose effects can range from the mildly giggly to the profoundly spiritual, are caught up in the international 'war on drugs'. So despite the fact that they are neither addictive nor toxic, they will soon be declared illegal in once-liberal Holland in the same way that they were in Denmark in 2001, Japan in 2002, Britain in 2005 and Ireland in 2006. And we will have had another little liberty capped on top of the many others that have already been denied to us.
Saturday, 5 January 2008
News from Kenya
On the day that the last election results were announced in Kenya, just after Xmas 2003, I was flying out of the country, which had been my base for much of the previous two years. Mwai Kibaki had come to power as president on the back of his promise to tackle the mega-corruption surrounding his predecessor Daniel Moi. As he promised a corruption-free new era in a radio broadcast being played over the airport public address system, I was paying bribes to the airport police to get some innocuous - but to me very important - goods through customs.
It soon became obvious that little had changed. Kibaki's new political elite did their deals with the old one. No one of significance was ever prosecuted for the billions that had gone missing under the old regime; billions more went into private pockets under the new one. Now the same people, having failed to buy sufficient votes to keep Kibaki in office, have stolen the election with obvious and widespread fraud.
The best coverage I have read on the subject can be found here on the Pambazuka News website:
It is the Kenyan people who have lost the election
Firoze Manji (2008-01-03)
Kenya is entering a protracted crisis. No one really knows who actually won the presidential elections. Given the overwhelming number of parliamentary seats won by the ODM and the dismissal of some 20 former ministers who lost their seats, it seems likely that the presidential results probably followed suit. But it is no longer really a matter of who won or lost. For one thing is certain: it is the Kenyan people who have lost in these elections.
Drama of the popular struggle for democracy in Kenya
Horace Campbell (2008-01-03)
This analysis by Horace Campbell argues that the calls for peace and reconciliation by the political and religious leaders will remain hollow until there are efforts to break from the recursive processes of looting, extra judicial killings, rape and violation of women, and general low respect for African lives. The analysis is presented as a drama of three acts.
Kibaki must back down
Victoria Brittain (2008-01-03)
Victoria Brittain writes that Kenya has sworn in a president who wasn't elected with little protest from the west. The flawed poll has to be rerun if the violence is to end.
No justice, no peace!
Onyango Oloo (2008-01-03)
Onyango Oloo dissects the "save our country" media blitz ad argues that behind the non-partisanship approach might actually be making a case for a Mwai Kibaki presidency.
The choices before us: Reflections on Mwai Kibaki and the 2007 Kenya General Elections
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (2007-12-17)
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o reflects on Mwai Kibaki's presidency, the proliferation of what he terms paper parties, and the need for African democracy to speak for and to African peasants and workers - the marginalized majority.
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
Every so often, when my ankle's working properly, I dress up as a banana and along with several hundred other people attired in various shades of yellow put on my running shoes and take part in a charity run for Leukaemia Research. (I also managed to do six miles around central London as a gorilla last September, which was damnably hot, and another six kilometres as Santa Claus in December, which was damnably cold.)
But now I find myself on the horns of an ethical dilemma because the Leukaemia Research runs are sponsored by the US banana corporation Chiquita. The corporation was fined $25 million last year after admitting to paying millions of dollars to Colombian paramilitaries between 1997 and 2004. This included a payment of about $1.7 million to the right-wing United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC).
The AUC has been responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Colombia's ongoing civil conflict, including civilian massacres and the murder of trade unionists. It also controls a large proportion of Colombia's cocaine exports. I came to terms with the fact that there's no such thing as an ethical cocaine habit a long time ago, but I'm finding it difficult to decide what to do about the fact that bananas and charity runs can be equally morally dubious.
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
Turn of the year
There's nothing like a forced lay-off from physical activity to give you a good excuse for bodily abuse. My last kick of my last game of football in 2007 not only saw me score a stunning winning goal (watch out for it on Goal of the Month) but also turn my ankle at entirely the wrong angle to my leg.
That kicked my ultra training schedule into touch, and the planned Boxing Day and New Year's Day runs along with it. Since I'd already booked myself into Punchdrunk's Masque of the Red Death new year party, I now had no cause for moderation as the wild hedonistic delights of the Battersea Arts Centre took hold.
Two firsts, even for someone who's led as debauched a life as me – and neither of them had anything to do with the consumption of Class A drugs, honest officer. First, I was chatted up by a gay witch, who only slightly spoilt the full effect by turning up to the event on a mop. And second, I saw in the new year in the company of two naked women who turned up on a white horse. Really. There are things to be said for turning your ankle.


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Some clinics and services are provided at the surgery by our own doctors and nurses. Other services are provided by community healthcare staff. The community healthcare staff includes district/community nurses, health visitors, midwives, chiropodists, physiotherapists and counsellors.
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Merry Meet All,
I hope you are busy tending to your seedlings. According to the zone I live in, the first full moon after June signifies the best time for planting and the danger of frost is past. My dill is growing indoors but as soon as I can, I will plant it straight in the garden. I am hedging on whether to keep my veggies indoors, because I can't think of a way to keep raccoons away. They are clever determined critters. Of course, we remove their homes and then get angry at them. Makes no sense.
Today the New Moon reigns and I am so relieved. I thought Waning Moon would be forever. That's ridiculous, of course. The moon begins in Taurus and moves to Gemini by this afternoon. Gemini makes room for lighthearted fun and new ideas. This would be a good time to begin new projects- like working on your indoor or outdoor garden. I am reading Kate West's The Real Witches Garden book and it suggests fantastic ways to make your garden magickal. Here is the link to the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/Real-Witches-Garden-Kate-West/dp/0738721247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368189217&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Real+witches+garden
I have found a new use for milk or cream cartons. I cut the carton, poke a hole in the bottom to allow for drainage, rinse it out and let it dry. Once dry, I add soil to the carton. I use a fork to remove the seedling from the seed flat carefully. I do not want to harm the tender roots. I settle the seedling into the carton, allowing the plant to have room to grow stronger roots. Don't throw your cartons out. They make good seedling holders. Place a crystal in the bottom of the carton to keep the soil from falling out. The crystal's vibrations might help the plants grow. The crystals that correspond would be clear quartz, amethyst, and flourite. I put moss green agate in my garden once but I found it did not help the plants grow. Remember to water and fertilize the plants. I use organic Neptune's Harvest fish emulsion. I also added cold coffee to my tomato seedling. The nitrogen in the coffee helps it to grow but I will stop adding cold coffee once it flowers. The nitrogen stops aiding the plant after that.
Mother's Day is coming up. Have you all thought of some gifts to let your Mother know she's appreciated? I plan to gift my Mom with some of my veggie seedlings. I planted too many and can now give some as gifts. If you plan to make some natural beauty products and give those as gifts, here is a link for how to make them.
Good luck with growing your herbs and flowers or vegetables this summer!! I wish you the very best. Happy planting.
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US Consular Report on Events in Taiwan after 2.28
Though I haven't read much on the events surrounding the 2.28 violence in Taiwan in 1947, it generated a lot of paperwork for the state department which I am coming across as I look through the microfilms of their documents from that year.
For those who might be interested in reading about the event, from the perspective of a US diplomat at the time, I have uploaded a memorandum from April, 1947 written by Vice Consul George H. Kerr summarizing the events before, during and in the weeks after 2.28. Kerr later published a book about the event, called Formosa Betrayed, but this shorter background report was written much closer to the events at hand.
You can download a copy of the report "Memorandum for the Ambassador on the Situation in Taiwan" in the Frog in a Well Library.
11 responses to "US Consular Report on Events in Taiwan after 2.28"
This is incredible. I'm sure I'm not alone in greatly appreciating the work you are doing uploading these documents for the rest of us to share.
Andrew Leonard
See also the "Memorandum on the Situation in Taiwan" in the 1949 China White Paper: _United States Relations with China, With Special Reference to the Period 1944-1949_ (Washington: U.S>Government Printing Office, 1949), pp. 923-938.
This is incredible, guys. I really appreciate your posting this, and Andrew for pointing me to it.
Also online, see "Reports on the situation in Formosa (Taiwan), particularly respecting Formosan dissatisfaction with administrative policies of the Chinese government", pp. 423-480 of _Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947. The Far East: China_. (URL: )
Thank you so much for this historical document.


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Homeschool Valentine Party: Art for your Heart | February 11, 2019
Join Stars Of Texas Homeschoolers at Round Rock Public Library for some crafting fun on Monday, February 11, 2019 from 12:30 – 2:00 pm in Meeting Room B. Visit with your homeschool friends and partake in crafts and a card exchange. Participants may bring a special container and cards to be distributed. Paper bags to decorate will be available. All ages welcome.


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Carpet tiles can be transitioned nicely to any other flooring, Stained and polished concrete makes a paricularly attractive transition to these tiles. The concrete was stained with regard to the color of the carpet, then polished.
There are many different types of "binder" metals that are used to protect the edges of the carpet tiles at every entry. This not only provides a clean transition visually, it also elimnates trip hazards (when installed properly).
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A-Team Power Stretchers on every job insures the installation against wrinkling and rounding at the edges. We use state of the art carpet stretching tools and techniques for a perfect installation every time and all of our vacs are hepa equipped.
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We vacuum the surface after removing the old carpet and pad and then again after every installation- no sweeping. This insures the least amount of airborne dust particles; the objective being to trap the dust in the hepa rated filters. Removing old carpet is a dirty job. Powerful vacs and hepa rated filters make it almost dust-free.


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Some days you wake up and know that you want to bake…and sometimes that means raiding the cupboards for ingredients, and panicking that there's just nothing to add flavour with until discovering that jar of mincemeat you never got round to using at Christmas (still well within date!)
At that point there's really nothing to do but make these yummy mincemeat muffins.
I followed this blogger's recipe, and the results were a flavour packed treat. Moist and delicious with only a hint of Christmas about them, I may be searching for more forgotten jars of mincemeat to make these again! Perhaps I'll try a little added orange zest next time…yum.


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1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches San Francisco.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1956 – In Chicago, videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. The female dog likely lived only a few hours.
1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936)
1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American author and educator (d. 1999)
1936 – Frank Serpico, American-Italian soldier, police officer and lecturer
1964 – Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
1995 – Burl Ives, American actor, writer and folk singer (b. 1909)
2007 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930)
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In comparing and drawing parallels between the current citizenship crisis in the Dominican Republic and Jewish history, particularly in the years leading to World War II, American Jewish leaders are calling for their community to respond. According to Ruth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service, Jewish Americans have an obligation to speak out against the current situation in DR in order to avoid repeating history.
Part of the article is below. Click HERE for the full article.
Op-Ed: American Jews must speak out for Haitians in Dominican Republic
Ruth W. Messinger, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
28 July 2015
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fewer than 800 miles from our shores, a deeply disturbing crisis is unfolding as tens of thousands of citizens of the Dominican Republic face deportation from their country simply because of their heritage.
Tragically, people of Haitian descent who were born in the Dominican Republic have been stripped of their rights and their citizenship, and are living in a state of legal limbo. These people are not all recent immigrants, as the Dominican government would have you believe, but come from families that have been living in the Dominican Republic for up to a century.
I cannot help but see this crisis through Jewish eyes, and I call on the United States government to do all it can to stop it.
For some, exile is already a reality. In fact, a recent Human Rights Watch report documented more than 25 detentions in which Dominicans of Haitian descent were forcibly taken to deportation points along the border, despite having valid documentation of being born in the Dominican Republic.
Without any recognized citizenship, these people would be without a home, have no guaranteed civil rights, no right to due process in any court in the world.
Taking this all in, I cannot help but feel a sense of deja vu. We have seen this tragic movie before.
In 1939, in waters not far from the island that Haiti and the Dominican Republic share, Jewish refugees aboard the Saint Louis — people whose rights had been stripped from them in Europe — were denied access to Cuba and the United States. Throughout the 1930s, Jews found their rights being whittled away across Europe and most dramatically in Germany. When the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, they stripped Jews of all of their rights as the terrible first step of their genocidal campaign.
Further back in history during the Middle Ages, Jews were frequently expelled from countries such as England, France and Spain for spurious reasons, including causing illness and pestilence.
Click HERE for the full article.