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Bread for the win: Postino dishes up good fare – North Denver Tribune.com
Bread for the win: Postino dishes up good fare
HIGHLAND — Postino is bread heaven: The Italian restaurant serves a good many dishes dependent on its delicious bread. And for a change, this is OK.
Postino's NYC Grilled Cheese appetizer, its Panini sandwiches and its bruschetta are filling items – thanks in part to the earthy, rustic bread. For an extra $2, the eight Panini sandwiches and one dozen bruschetta options may be ordered using gluten-free bread, and remarkably, taste and mouth feel are not sacrificed.
Bread quickly can make a gal feel over-stuffed, so this one limited its intake during two recent visits. Order the NYC Grilled Cheese ($8.50) to start. The white cheese has a distinctive taste, and the beer mustard and fresh pesto – for dipping or slathering – lend nice touches of flavor.
Go this route, and you'll have to follow it with a salad. Fortunately, Postino does a nice job in this area as well. I tried three of its five offerings: The Brussels Sprouts Salad ($11), the Mixed Greens ($10.50) and the Tuna Nicoise ($13.50).
The Mixed Greens is familiar: pears, candied pecans, red grapes and gorgonzola cheese with a poppyseed vinaigrette on mixed greens. I make something similar at home; Postino's was similarly fresh, the dressing light and sweet. The Brussels sprouts combined with spicy almonds, bacon and dried cherries with a lemon dressing on kale and romaine lettuce. While the Brussels sprouts were very fresh, the salad needed more drizzling of the lightly flavored dressing.
The restaurant's best salad has to be its Tuna Nicoise – familiar parts arriving in separate tiny piles on the plain white dish. The mixed greens are accompanied by tiny chunks of red onion, thin strips of basil, the freshest tuna, blanched green beans, three to four olive varieties, boiled eggs and – in my case – overcooked gold potatoes. A lemon basil vinaigrette perfectly accompanies the salad. It's not often I find a salad I want to savor; this is that.
The eight Paninis ($11 each) are served on ciabatta or focaccia bread (your choice), so during our lunch visit my friend and I tried two – the Vegetarian and a Chicken & Mozzarella – to sample each bread. Both are good, but we favored the salty focaccia bread over the crunchy ciabatta.
The Vegetarian sandwich had some nice touches: a smoked almond hummus, avocado, cucumbers, black olives, tomatoes, goat cheese and more. The kicker? Cashews. The sum total was pleasing to the palette.
The chicken sandwich included mozzarella cheese, arugula and red onion with a sundried tomato mayonnaise. The chicken was expertly cooked, the red onion added subtle flavor and the arugula provided tingle on the tongue. It was all tied together with the wonderfully spicy mayonnaise.
Finally, Postino's pièce de résistance is its bruschetta ($15 for 4, chosen from a dozen selections), which is served on a breadboard. It's a dish definitely best shared (that filling bread thing). During an evening visit, my date and I tried a few standards: the tomato and basil with mozzarella (very good) and the salami with pesto (pretty greasy; thanks salami). Then we tried two that looked inventive: the pepper jam with goat cheese (our surprise favorite) and the bacon, arugula and tomato with burrata, an Italian cheese (a pile of tasty and messy).
If you dare fill your gullet with food and drink after 8 p.m., this place has a deal for you: On Monday and Tuesdays after 8 p.m., you may order any bruschetta board with a bottle of Postino's house wine for $20. Why this works: The wine options are stellar. And this is rare. Often I'll forgo wine at a restaurant – and especially the house wine – because what's offered isn't good enough to pick up at the corner liquor store at a third the price.
When a friend and I dined at Postino for lunch, we ordered wine with our meals thanks to another deal: Wine by the glass and pitchers of beer are $5 until 5 p.m. seven days a week. Her Sauvignon blanc and my chardonnay were delicious.
For those who forgo the alcohol, Postino serves a refreshing homemade lemonade. Made with cucumber and honey, it's not too sweet, and the cucumber is subtle. Postino sells no hard liquor drinks, so don't come here aching for a martini or Manhattan.
The Postino vibe is typical Lower Highland hipster: The décor is spare but trendy. The clientele leans toward millennial. Postino takes the rich yellow of its menu out to its table umbrellas on its fair-weather deck. It's a nice, friendly touch. The deck closes during inclement weather. Go to Postino when you can sit there.
Postino has one Denver location but five additional locations in Arizona and Texas.
2715 17th St. | Denver, 80211 | 303.433.6363


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This is a review of the original 1999 version of the "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" which is now out of print. However, it is a free download at http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/pages/pdf_downloads.html. The updated version is available at Amazon.
Required Read for Anyone Interested in the Future of America,
This review is from: the deliberate dumbing down of america - A Chronological Paper Trail: A Chronological Paper Trail (Paperback)
As an educator for the past 28 years, and believing myself to be at least a little left of center politically, I found "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" to be the scariest thing I have ever read. Some will brand this book as conservative propaganda. But those of us in the teaching profession wonder aloud to each other and anyone else who will listen, what politicians are thinking about when they pass educational reform legislation. It would seem impossible to make some of the decisions that are being made without having deliberately set about to wreak the education system in America. If the facts laid out in this book are true (and the book is full of documentation) what is happening to education in Washington D.C. is worse than the Twin Towers tragedy and the attack on Pearl Harbor combined. The promotional material for this book says that it should be required reading for parents. I think it should be required reading for every educator or university student considering a career in education. A difficult read, but eye opening to the point of being painful.

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Porto provides a wealth of shopping opportunities within the stunning architecture of its metropolitan area. Portugal's second largest city has lots to offer visitors to the north of the country and is well known for its historical sites and rich local culture.
Whether you're in the market for a new pair of shoes, or simply want to sample the delicious local food, there are a wide range of traditional markets and modern malls to explore. You'll find a vast array of goods on offer here, everything from prestigious brand name fashions to artisanal cheeses all with peerless opportunities for people watching. With a mix of the modern and historical, Porto offers fertile ground for the bargain hunter and luxury-seeker alike.
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Rua de Santa Catarina
The first stop for serious shoppers passing through Porto
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Rua de Santa Catarina is Porto's main shopping thoroughfare and often the first port of call for serious shoppers visiting the city. This pedestrian street runs for 1.5 km from Praça da Batalha in the city centre and includes many points of interest along the way, such as the beautiful Majestic Café and the Church of San Antonio de los Congregados.
You'll find many international retailers here, including H&M, Zara, and Promod, as well as lots of street vendors and characterful boutiques on the numerous side streets that run off the main drag. Rua de Santa Catarina is a good starting point for your shopping adventures while in Porto, with other shopping hotspots Mercado do Bolhão and Centro Comercial Via Catarina nearby. You'll also find many attractive cafés to grab a coffee in and indulge in some people watching while you enjoy the surrounding architecture.
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Centro Comercial Via Catarina
All the choice and convenience of the modern shopping experience
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The Via Catarina Shopping Centre has over 80 shops spread over its 4 floors, and is conveniently located in Porto's oldest commercial centre, Rua de Santa Catarina.
You'll find all the usual shopping suspects you'd expect to find in a modern mall. From the ubiquitous Americana of McDonald's and Levi's, to more Portuguese offerings such as Sabores do Porto, where you can indulge your cravings for coffee and cake, and Worten for all things electrical. If it's a meal you're after, you'll find a vast selection of restaurants on the 4th floor of the shopping centre. You'll find everything from pastelarias to pizza, and fast food to fine dining. For the fashion orientated, the 2nd and 3rd floors house the majority of the clothing shops. Tiffosi's offers a selection of jeans for women and men, while Zippy stocks a wide selection of clothes for children, from infants to preteens.
Location: Rua de Santa Catarina 312 a 350, 4000-443 Porto, Portugal
Open: Daily from 10 am to 9 pm
Phone: +351 22 207 5600
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Avenida da Boavista
Wide-ranging shopping options amid some of the city's most impressive architecture
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Avenida da Boavista, Porto's longest avenue, extends around 5.5 km and contains many of the main attractions the city has to offer. As well as landmarks such as Fundação Serralves and Parque da Cidade, you'll find a wealth of high-end designer brands such as Dolce & Gabbana and Versace amid the impressive architecture.
This avenue affords you a visual timeline of the city, offering, as it does, a mix of the old and the new. Renowned as the cultural and economic heart of Porto, you'll find here a rich variety of shopping centres, independent shops, prestigious stores, hotels, housing, and office buildings in styles dating from the avenue's founding in 1850 to the modern day. If you like to unwind after a long day's shopping with some nighttime entertainment, the area also plays host to a diverse array of nightlife options.
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Mercado do Bolhão
A vibrant market that teems with life
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One of the most popular markets in Porto, the vibrant Bolhão Market should be on the itinerary of any serious Porto-based shopping spree. While you will find plenty of the ubiquitous souvenir shops here, the treasure trove of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and other products more than justifies a visit.
Even if you are not in the market for fresh produce, the feast of sensory delights makes the trip worthwhile. Over several floors built around a central courtyard, you'll find a public market that is teeming with life and colours; sounds and smells. It's occasionally rundown appearance only adds to the authentic atmosphere of this landmark Porto institution. And, with its central location, Mercado do Bolhão is easily reached via public transport too.
Location: R. Formosa, 4000-214 Porto, Portugal
Open: Monday–Friday from 8 am to 8 pm, Saturday from 8 am to 6 pm (closed on Sundays and public holidays)
Phone: +351 22 332 6024
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Vandoma Fleamarket
An eclectic flea market by the banks of the Douro River
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The origins of Feira da Vandoma flea market lie in the 1970s when local students gathered to sell off their used clothes and old books. The tradition continues today and here you will find a broad range of secondhand goods, everything from cutlery and old vinyl to stamp collections and electrical appliances.
Located not far from Porto's Sé Catedral and in one of the city's most picturesque neighbourhoods, the market is a convenient 10-minute walk from Estádio do Dragão subway station. You can also head down to the nearby Douro River to enjoy the views over lunch after a hard morning's bargaining. If you happen to be in town for the São João festival on 23rd June each year, this is a good spot to enjoy a few beers and some dancing and general merrymaking.
Location: Av. 25 de Abril, Porto, Portugal
Open: Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm
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The Urban Market
A contemporary market showcasing the best of all things Porto
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If you're looking for a market with a more contemporary feel, at the Urban Market you'll find clothing, home decor, and jewellery with a decidedly modern edge. This is more of an event than what we traditionally think of when we hear the word 'market'. The intention of the organisers, Portugal Lovers, is to bring together entrepreneurs and artists to showcase and promote all things Porto. You'll find a diverse range of goods and services available; from music related offerings to hairstylists and regional food products.
You'll have to check ahead for location though, as the market is nomadic in nature and utilises several locations throughout the city. Best to check ahead on social media for dates and locations if you fancy a browse while you're in town.
Phone: +351 93 981 37 91
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Mercado Beira Rio
A riverside food market to satisfy the biggest of appetites
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The independent food stalls at the Beira Rio Market have plenty to offer visitors with an appetite. You'll find everything here, from delicious artisanal ice creams to roast suckling pigs, and you can wash it all down with a selection of locally produced wines and port too.
Located across the river from the city proper in Vila Nova de Gaia, this indoor market is situated in a converted warehouse on the riverfront. Frequented by tourists, prices can get a little higher here, but the communal tables offer opportunities for social dining and a chance to mix with others while in town.
Location: Av. de Ramos Pinto 148, 4400-261 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Open: Daily from 6 am to 11 pm
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Mercado Porto Belo
A small, quirky market with a distinctly hipster vibe
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Equal parts flea market, food stalls, art, and quirky goods, Porto Belo Market draws its inspiration from the similarly named Portobello Market in London. Though much smaller than its English muse, this compact market does draw decent crowds with its hipster vibes.
Located a 10-minute walk from São Bento train station, Porto Belo Market is not far from some of the city's main attractions such as Clérigos tower. Among the antiques and vinyl records, you'll find organic goodies such as homemade jams, olive oil, and soaps. If you prefer to just enjoy the sights and sounds, you'll discover superb people-watching vantage points and some chill music in Praça Carlos Alberto's central square.
Location: Praça de Carlos Alberto, 4050-157 Porto, Portugal
Open: Saturdays only from 10 am to 7 pm
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Mercado Bom Sucesso
Where fresh produce meets cultural performances
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Rich in gastronomic offerings, Bom Sucesso Market hosts the best of Porto's culinary offerings. Fresh produce in the form of fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and meat abound, creating sensory delights for the eye, nose, and mouth. You'll find plenty of ready-to-eat options here too in the form of handmade chocolates, pastries, and cheeses. If you have a thirst to quench, don't worry, you can choose from a variety of Portuguese wines, port, and freshly made fruit juices.
Located an easy 5-minute walk from Casa da Música subway station, Mercado Bom Sucesso also hosts cultural activities such as exhibitions, theatrical and dance performances, as well as cookery workshops catering to the diverse crowds of local and foreign visitors.
Location: Praça Bom Sucesso 74-90, 4150-145 Porto, Portugal
Open: Sunday–Thursday from 10 am to 11 pm, Friday–Saturday from 10 am to 12 pm
Phone: +351 22 605 6610
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Mercadinho do Clérigos
A characterful market brimming with antiques and quirky one-offs
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Clérigos Market is a regular flea market that plays host to all kinds of antiques and quirky one-off items. You'll find lots of variety here, from vintage clothes and accessories to children's toys and handbags. If you're looking to pick up a unique souvenir of your stay in Porto, this may well be fertile ground to begin your search. As well as the antiques, you'll also find several stalls dedicated to local handicrafts and delicacies, so you can fill your belly as you stuff your shopping bags.
This bustling street market usually sets up on the first and last Saturdays of the month. You can find more details on the organiser's Facebook page. Located around 10 minutes' walk from São Bento station – next to Clérigos Tower and Church – this market even has alternative arrangements for rainy days when it relocates indoors to the aptly named Plano B on Cândido dos Reis.
Location: Rua Cândido dos Reis, Porto, Portugal 4050
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I am interested in Morse homology on the loop space of a given compact (Riemannian) manifold. A small perturbation renders the geodesic action ("energy") functional Morse. Now I am interested in the Morse-Smale property, i.e. for any critical points x and y the unstable manifold of x intersects the stable manifold of y transversally.
Could anyone please provide a reference that a generic choice of metric on the loop space yields the Morse-Smale property? (Notice that the correct choice of perturbations of the metric is part of the problem.) I have difficulties finding an appropriate reference for this.
There seem to be two obvious ways to realize Morse-Smale transversality in this setting:
1. The abstract way: Here one considers a given Hilbert manifold with a metric. The space of perturbations consist of (some class of) metrics which are uniformly equivalent to the given one. This is for instance the approach followed by Abbondandolo/Majer: "Lectures on Morse homology for infinite-dimensional manifolds". The problem with this reference is that their space of perturbations is too big - the space in question is not separable. In particular the Sard-Smale theorem, which is crucial in this setting, cannot be applied. I have difficulties in writing down a separable Banach space of perturbations which is still enough to provide surjectivity of the linearized "master section".
2. The concrete setting: Obviously, it is not enough to consider metrics on the loop space which come from metrics on the base manifold. I do not know whether it suffices to consider metrics on the loop space which come from metrics on the base times $S^1.$ My problem is that the "master section" involves the gradient (w.r.t. the induced metric on the loop space) of the perturbed energy functional in question. I have no clue how to obtain a useful formula for its linearization.
So, could anyone please give me a hint about solving 1. or 2.? It is also possible that pursuing the paths 1. or 2. might not be a clever idea, in which case I would appreciate any advice.


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Renée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Some Places More Than Others, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée lives in New York City.
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I know, it's been over-discussed and picked over. But China Daily actually has an op-ed piece today on the subject, and it begs for comment. It's rare to see any mention of this topic at all in the Chinese media, but it's depressing (though not surprising) to see a story that is totally one-sided.
The gist of it is that the massacre is all a big myth, concocted by a Western press that lies its head off. Everyone's lying about it. Reporters who I know personally are lying about it. The only ones telling the truth is the government.
Tiananmen remains the classic example of the shallowness and bias in most Western media reporting, and of governmental black information operations seeking to control those media.
The usual Western media conspiracy, always out to harm China.
The editorial's "argument" is that they found "some reporters in the square at the time" who said they saw no massacre, and that's good enough for them, despite a mountain of evidence. Case closed.
This is weasly, because as everyone knows by now there was no massacre inside the square, as was first reported during "the fog of war." Sometimes an uninformed journalist continues to refer to a massacre inside the square, and that is sloppiness. That there were shootings and deaths on side streets and other parts of town on June 4 — in other words, a massacre — is a matter of fact, just as it's a matter of fact that an angry crowd killed a handful of soldiers. What is not known is how many were killed, but even if it was just a few it's still a massacre. (My country had its own massacre, Kent State, in which four students were killed. A massacre is a massacre.)
I won't labor the point with my own interpretation. Instead, let's just go to some eyewitnesses.
First, Chinese author Ma Jian writes of his interview with a man who was in the crowd who had his arm crushed by a tank and is now an amputee.
"It happened right here," he told me, "just by these white railings. A tank charged down Changan Avenue, and sprayed tear gas into the air. There was a big crowd of us. We were coughing and choking. We rushed on to the pavement, and I was squashed back against these railings. A girl dropped to her knees. I was grasping the railings with one hand to stop myself falling and with the other I offered her a handkerchief and told her to use it as a mask. Just as I was leaning over to hand it to her, another tank roared up and careered into us. Thirteen people were crushed to death but I only lost my arm. The tank commander knew exactly what he was doing." He stared down at the patch of asphalt at his feet and then glanced nervously at the police vans parked on the other side of the road. It was rush hour; cars and taxis were streaming past us.
What a terrifying experience, I said, gripping the white railings.
"Yes, it was," he replied quite calmly. "But I wasn't truly afraid until I saw Deng Xiaoping on television, telling the martial law troops: 'Foreigners say that we opened fire, and that I admit, but to claim that army tanks drove over unarmed citizens, that is a disgraceful slur.' My scalp tightened. I was a living witness to the truth. What if one day they came to get me? … For two years I never dared go out at night, I never spoke about what happened. Policemen came to interrogate me almost every day, but none of us ever mentioned the tanks. Every anniversary of 4 June, the police would come to my house with pillows and mattresses and sleep on my bedroom floor. Just to stop me speaking to foreign journalists."
Timothy Brook, who received a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University and taught in Shanghai:
The first rounds of fire catch everybody by surprise. The people in the streets don't expect this to happen. There are a couple of hospitals right near Muxidi, and the casualties start showing up within 10 or 15 minutes of the first round of gunfire. The casualties run very high because people didn't expect to be shot at with live ammunition. When they start firing, people say, "Oh, it's rubber bullets." Even after it becomes clear, even after they realize that the army is going to go ahead at any cost, people still pour into the streets. This is the amazing thing: People were just so angry, so furious at what was happening in their city that they were not going to step back and let the army do what it was doing. This is why the casualties from Muxidi on east towards Tiananmen Square were so high. This is the major military confrontation of the evening.
Self-described former Maoist and reporter for the Globe and Mail Jan Wong (same link as above):
That Saturday night the army started coming in … the city, and so the people rushed out again. This was becoming a regular occurrence: Every time people said, "The army's coming," everybody would rush out and stop them. And they rushed out this time, except the army shot them, and so they started running down the alleyways.
People in [the Muxidi] apartment buildings could hear all this. It was summertime and the windows were open, so they heard the gunfire; they heard people screaming; and they saw the soldiers shooting at people. They would lean out their windows and scream at the soldiers and curse them and throw things. I had that feeling myself. I wanted to throw things out the window of the Beijing Hotel because you just felt anger: "Why are you doing this to the people?" …
What they did was they just raked the buildings with their gunfire, and they were shooting people. People were being killed in their own kitchens because these bullets were very lethal. … They just shot at them because they were trying to get into the city. They had been ordered to take Tiananmen, and they were going to get there no matter what it took.
From Dr. Jiang Yanyong, the whistleblower who blew the cover of the conspiracy to convince the world there was no SARS in Beijing, and who was later harassed for his efforts:
I was chief of the department of general surgery on June 4, 1989. On the night of June 3, I heard repeated broadcasts urging people to stay off the streets. At about 10 p.m., I was in my apartment when I heard the sound of continuous gunfire from the north. Several minutes later, my pager beeped. It was the emergency room calling me, and I rushed over. What I found was unimaginable–on the floor and the tables of the emergency room were seven young people, their faces and bodies covered with blood. Two of them were later confirmed dead by EKG. My head buzzed and I nearly passed out. I had been a surgeon for more than 30 years. I had treated wounded soldiers before, while on the medical team of the PLA railway corps that built the Chengdu-Kunming Railway. But their injuries resulted from unavoidable accidents during the construction process, while before my eyes, in Beijing, the magnificent capital of China, lying in front of me, were our own people, killed by our people's army, with weapons supplied by the people.
Even eyewitness Philip Cunningham, who often supports the CCP, wrote of that day,
The Tiananmen demonstrations were crushed, cruelly, breaking the implicit pact that the People's Liberation Army would never turn its guns on the people and burying student activism for many years to come, but not before inspiring millions in China and around the world to push for reform and change, heralding the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
The editorial repeats all the cliches of the deniers. Referring to a book by Philip Cunningham, it says:
It quotes one of the student leaders, Chai Ling, as having said that creating a "sea of blood" might be the only way to shake the government. If frustrated students leaving the square carried out those petrol bomb attacks on troops, then the anger of the government becomes a lot more understandable. But I doubt whether any of those responsible for the original phony story will get round to details like that.
There were some attacks on troops, and that hasn't been denied. But most of the demonstrators leaving the square did so peacefully. Most of the shooting was not in response to petrol bomb attacks. And one foolish and out-of-context quote from Chai Ling does not make for an excuse for a massacre. Blogger Xu Eberlein, one of my favorites, adds some nuance:
Reading excerpts of the newly published Tiananmen Moon by Philip Cunningham, the very journalist who interviewed Chai Ling 20 years ago, made me feel that Chai Ling might have been more innocent than some have thought. Although her idea of using bloodshed to arouse people was hardly a moral one, she appeared to be sincere and serious about the student movement and was indignant toward some other selfish power-thirsty student leaders. As such, I'd like to believe the young Chai Ling twenty years ago was a humanly imperfect idealist, as young activists are. If she sometimes took herself too importantly, it was largely because of the situation: being young and the leader of a mass movement can carry anyone away.
I can go on and on with more testimony from reporters and Chinese citizens who were all there and whose stories are strikingly similar. I can cite the Tiananmen Mothers. There is no shortage of proof. And this isn't about whether the students were right or wrong, or whether there was or wasn't violence on both sides. There remain many unanswered questions about June 4, and there's no doubt blame on all sides. And there's no doubt that in the confusion and violence there were contradictory stories that got large public play (just as we saw after the killing of Bin Laden). Fog of war. There are myths, such as reports of a massacre inside the square. But the fact remains, many peaceful citizens who had left the square were fired upon in back alleys and many died. Hundreds? A thousand? We'll never know, but the CCP, which keeps meticulous records, does know.
It's good that China Daily is at least discussing the subject. A pity it's the same old China-as-victim, Western-media-as-villain nonsense.
June 4th may not mean much to most Chinese today, and even those who were directly involved have moved on, and some would rather just forget about it. I understand that. But truth is truth, history is history, facts are facts. The CD editorial is another effort to bury the truth and cast all the blame on foreign media. This is an easy out, and is used whenever China has something to hide. Claiming all the media are lying seems kind of crazy. It's a conspiracy theory, as nutty as claims by some that China is conspiring to take over the world. Do they really believe all the reporters and eyewitnesses colluded to mislead the world? Only China would make a claim like that.
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The Chinese press is truely independent from the truth and our wise leaders make sure that there is no wrong or incorrect information in the news. This is the correct and scientific way with Chinese characteristics. And it makes me proud to be a Chinese.
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I am not into New Year's resolutions but rather setting intentions for a coming year or finding ways that I want to live better or in more words, find ways to adjust my lifestyle that will help myself and my family thrive. Some people will choose a word while others will make resolutions. Any way you slice it, I think it's an admirable thing to make an effort to improve your life, no matter what time, place or motivation.
A couple of weeks ago, I did a silly little thing on instagram, decorating a Christmas tree with gifs and I somehow landed on a bunch that seemed to set a vibe... so why not, right? I already try to live a life set by moral principles and kindness but trying to bring a couple other things into the mix is a noble intention set by a mother of two young male tornadoes set on bringing in da noise and da funk!
I want to live the following:
Educate Myself to Be a Better Human (especially to marginalized communities)
Paying attention to what's happening around us isn't a choice, it's our duty. If you're not educating yourself on what is going on in the world, well, that disappoints me. I am not intending to take on all of the world's problems (I've been known to take on more than I can emotionally handle) but I do know that I have lived a life of privilege, wherein I have benefited from being white and from a family that was not poverty stricken. I have been doing some spiritual activism workshops, am planning to see Rachel Cargle in February and am looking forward to doing some hard work helping to be a better human and raise better humans. I don't know 100% what this looks like for my year but I know that it's at the top of my list to achieve.
Spend Less, Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, Mindful Shopping
I've been working on this for a few years now but it seems like every year, around the holidays, I fall into the trap of gifting my love. I know that I should be able to do this within reason but when I get festive, boy do I get festive. This year I am kicking off this goal anew by doing a low spend January and a no spend February. My end goal is to spend A LOT less this year, keep to our budget, recycle, reuse and just think before I shop- do I or someone in my family need this? Will this add value to my life (make me happy)? Am I contributing to pollution or negative effects to the environment? I am going to be taking much into account as I spend my money (in all areas) more mindfully than ever.
Be Kind
This should go without saying but truly, this reminder is always a good one. There have been many instances in this past year where someone has shown me kindness and it's meant a great deal to me. I plan to (try) bring kindness into all of my exchanges, as best I can. We never know what someone is going through and what a nice word or two can do for them. Be kind, it's important.
Make the Time to Create
Something I thought about every single day in 2018 was to work on creating something, specifically, whipping out my sewing machine and crafting something... something I was not good at in 2018 was making the time for all these ideas that I had. Looking back, I spent far too much time putting around on the internet, checking my phone or working on other people's projects. I am prioritizing my own stuff this year... so let's see what I can make!
Focus on Fitness and Movement
I really kicked it into high gear this year, going consistently to the gym multiple times a week, finding classes that I really enjoy and making it a part of our routine. I want to continue this into 2019 but perhaps focus it more on what could work to make specific changes in my body. I have plans to perhaps do a couple 5Ks and maybe even a trail run with friends. All I know is that I want to continue moving and shaking and getting stronger!
What a list am I right? It's not so much a list but ways that I want to bringing changes into my every day. I am looking forward to 2019 and seeing what comes my way. I'd love to hear what you've got planned for the upcoming year- leave me an old fashioned comment below!


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