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Saxifrage 32
Saxifrage volume 32, 2006
SAXIFRAGE 32 Pacific Lutheran University Copyright � 2006 by Saxifrage Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington ALL RIGHT RESERVED Saxifrage Volume 32 Saxifrage is an annual anthology featuring the work of students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Pacific Lutheran University. A volunteer staff of students selected all the work in this edition from 240 submissions. ALL WORKS WERE JUDGED ANONYMOUSLY. Cover design by Kyle Duba, based on 16 Windows (see page 1). "A Sort of a Song" by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems 1939�1962, Volume II Copyright � 1944 by William Carlos Williams Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation Editor's Note WELCOME to Saxifrage, Volume 32. We've all worked hard to bring you this showcase of Pacific Lutheran University's creative talents. This handful of artists offer unique observations of the world through the lenses of poetry, prose, and visual art. As Dorothea Lange wrote, "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." May this work likewise encourage you to see the world anew. As the editorial team, we would like to acknowledge several people who have gone beyond all expectations to help us build the book (and, on occasion, feed ourselves). Thank you to: Kyle Duba, for his patience while designing the cover; Nathan Bendickson, for being our line editor and veritable cornucopia of goodness; Jen Gray, for attending every staff meeting and fueling us with tasty sweets; Solveig Robinson, for being our advisor, advocate, and inspiration; Rick Eastman, for being rock-awesome; and Kay Creech at Johnson-Cox, for taking care of our book. These folks have given more to Saxifrage than we can fully describe, and for that we are outrageously grateful. And to you, our readers, we give our deepest thanks. There is but one word with which we can describe the depths of our appreciation. And that word is: disinffictiong! Please take it to heart, and if need be, curl up with it on a dark, cold night. Cheers, Jamie and Kent April 7, 2006 Contents 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 16 17 19 20 21 22 24 25 KYLE DUBA � 16 Windows JP KEMMICK � Yardwork STEPHANIE TAKASE � Still Sundays NATHAN BENDICKSON � My Bunkbed ABBY FAGAN � Cake NATHAN C. THOMAS � from Haiku Series TYLER NOWLEN � The Garage STEPHANIE AGONCILLO � Never Bored JP KEMMICK � They Blamed It on Smog, or The Day Nothing Died BRETT A. PATTERSON � Tree at Manu Kea NATHAN C. THOMAS � Hottentot Venus NATHAN BENDICKSON � Family Recipe ABBY FAGAN � To Sea AIMEE EGGINK � Vegetable Stand KYLE DUBA � Crystalline Palacio JAMIE FORSLUND � Steilacoom Beach in November SCOTT MATSUMURA � A Tale of Two Swords and What Will I Eat for Supper? JAMIE FORSLUND � Laughter KYLE DUBA � Wide-Angle Mirrors Help to Navigate Narrow Streets in Toledo Contents 26 27 28 29 30 32 34 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 44 45 46 49 51 57 SAMANTHA E. PORTER � Open Field AIMEE EGGINK � Woman in Purple BRETT A. PATTERSON � Carp at the Dole Plantation EVA L. COLLINS � Fairy JAMIE FORSLUND � Reflection Pool STEPHANIE TAKASE � My Father Calls SHAWN ENOS � Repression DAVID M. POOLE � Dragon Boat Rowers TYLER NOWLEN � Fred... The Grandfather You Could Have Been JP KEMMICK � Coping ABBY FAGAN � Sel(f )ection SHAWN ENOS � Sunsets Over the Ocean STEPHANIE TAKASE � Abby J. L. GRAY � Field Observations AIMEE EGGINK � Natural Forms NATHAN BENDICKSON � My Baby MARIESA BUS � Bone Structure LAURA MICKELSON � A Last Sigh CONTRIBUTORS STAFF A Sort of a Song Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. --through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks. William Carlos Williams Kyle Duba 16 Windows Digital Photograph 1 JP Kemmick Yardwork First you gave me goose bumps Then you kissed each and every one Then you slowly raked your eyelashes over them as if I was Autumn and after shaking the tree so hard you felt obliged to sweep up the leaves 2 Stephanie Takase Still Sundays I watch each week as the sermon starts and they bow their heads and ask me to be still. They press their palms together, driving salt and sweat deep into the divining lines that crease their cracking skin and buckled brows. Their eyes, pinched tight as pages read by rote their prayers before them, the incessant typing of their tongues, printing each word across their teeth. With questioning spines they lean against the facing pews, all faces to the floor, and want and wait and wake into the bustling stillness. 3 Nathan Bendickson My Bunkbed I SLEEP in a bunkbed. My brothers had it before, and they slept in the same room, but not anymore. When I was three we cut a big hole in the wall and built more rooms. Now Mom and Dad sleep upstairs, and my brothers sleep in different rooms. And the bunkbed is in my room, but I sleep on the bottom bunk. I used to sleep on the top, because I always thought it would be fun, but now I like the bottom better. Mom used to brush my teeth when it was time for bed, but now I do it myself. When I'm done I get into bed and Mom comes with me, and she tucks me in. On the right side there's a wall, and on the left there's a space where she sits. There's also a clock with a radio, with numbers that are blue, and sort of green too. I used to have a night light, but now I don't, just the numbers on the clock. Sometimes they're too bright, but there's a button I can press to make them not so bright. But that changes the sound of the radio, which I sometimes listen to when I'm going to bed. That's only after Mom leaves. Before that I crawl in bed and she sits down and I say my prayers. Then after that, when Mom goes and turns off the light, I say sweet dreams Super Turtle, and then I say sweet dreams everybody, because Super Turtle is one of my stuffed animals, but there are others too. Super Turtle belonged to one of my brothers before me. It's good to say what I say because I didn't always say my letter r the right way, but I saw someone at school, and I learned how to move my tongue and point it at the roof of my mouth so my r sounds right. That's when I started saying sweet dreams Super Turtle when I went to bed. Now I can say it right all the time, and it isn't hard anymore. Sometimes when I'm in bed, if the lights are on, I lie on my back and look at the top bunk. There are three pieces of wood that go across, and the bottom of that bed is like cardboard. Sometimes I push it up with my feet. There are a few dents and some marks, like somebody drew 4 Nathan Bendickson on it, but I don't know where they came from. One night I was already in bed, looking at the marks in the cardboard, and Mom came in to tell me goodnight. She walked to my bed and leaned over to give me a hug, and she had a really loose shirt on, so I saw underneath her shirt. It was weird, and I don't know if she knows what I saw. I just know I wasn't supposed to. Then she said goodnight, and that was it. She turned the light off, and I rolled over to the wall, holding Super Turtle. Then I rolled over the other way, and I turned on the radio, really quiet. I listened for a while, but then I turned it off and went to sleep. 5 Abby Fagan Cake Digital Photograph 6 Nathan C. Thomas from Haiku Series Haiku I: Creole Because language is color: strong, wild, free; I speak brown love to the deaf. Haiku VI: Queer The sexiest thing a man can do for me is write with his left hand. Haiku VII: Women The gods--carpenters-- made two to suffer and bear: Pandora; the box. 7 Tyler Nowlen The Garage IT'S HERE IN this garage, with cars long covered and ladders littering walkways and junk awaiting repentance, that it all makes sense. Not all in that metaphorical, yoga-spiritual sense. This is the stuff you can taste, feel. The stuff you can understand. As smoke pinwheels through the orange halo afforded by the dim, 60-watt bulb illuminating this procedure and the meticulously crafted spliff greets your awaiting fingers for lord knows how many rotations, close your eyes. It's here that life is defogged. Take a rip. Notice your friend, notice his glazed eyeballs and how they just seem so empty despite the network of irritated capillaries masking the virgin white. Try, just try, to block out his raspy voice, echoing through this space louder than an awkward silence. Have you noticed that? Look down. Look at the two-hundred-dollar woven cotton covering your scrawny legs, the ninety-dollar mosaic of material sheltering your disproportional feet, the thirty-dollar billboard on your chest. The twenty dollars rolled between your shivering fingers. This is your mascara, your blush. These are your powder-ground layers to mask your dwelling insecurities. Breath deep. Realize that cilia hairs and mental clarity are inversely related. Exhale, and look up in time to see the aged bulb flicker its last light and listen, just listen, to the sound of the frail filament tinking the clouded glass. 8 Stephanie Agoncillo Never Bored Digital Photograph 9 JP Kemmick They Blamed It on Smog, or The Day Nothing Died There was a day on Earth when nothing died and Death was temporarily unemployed But rather than give in, and keep his sickle in its case, he ascended past Earth's borders to take care of some too long prolonged extraterrestrial tidying up All day long, in tireless lumberjack style, he swung his gleaming scythe and strand after strand of star-suspending strings were sliced clean in half and sent diving through the darkest celestial blue Shooting stars were unbelievably common that night as any star-gazing lovers could tell you (and a few were found in backyard sandboxes or dangling, snagged in a tree) But when death finally took respite and sat down mopping his brow, 10 JP Kemmick he realized he had gotten carried away and left only a few strings holding a few stars fighting off the darkness of the night The next day (and for years afterwards) he had double the work for night after night another heart broke at the sight of a starless sky 11 Brett Aaron Patterson Tree at Manu Kea Digital Photograph 12 Nathan C. Thomas Hottentot Venus for Mother Saarti I SHOULD remember rivers and the sea. Leaves are tree emeralds by day; lions are stalking in the bush, and gulls are wheeling as I gather. Nuts, berries, stories, smooth goat's milk. I ought to know the tending of livestock, the joy of fattening for a husband. The piercing childbirth. I should have raised sons supple as those jeweled tree limbs, and daughters proud as my line of mothers. I should have rested in the home I built. I am none of my own memories. Instead, standing barely upright, with crooked boughs of the deep forest behind me and an ocean before, I am dirty, barefoot, and bare skinned upon the sand, my right hand on the lioness's head and my left holding a long stick like a scepter. There is a thick serpent in the water that fascinates me. I eye it hungrily. I was made, not born, two hundred years ago. By a man, a seer, an artist, who picked a form and name like those prior. That one had an appetite. I was for him and the rest, at times, Melanthe, the "dark flower"; Thera, "wild and unmastered"; Adrienne, the "dark one"; Nyx, "night." But I was never more than a portrait of fears: the dark eve to their bright dawn. A freak is what they saw me, a Negro, an animal of animals made dark by a past black with black sins of a black people. So was I sketched, so was I overlaid: hips fully twice shoulders's breadth, protruding pubis and vulva. Ample belly and nipples like brown knobs on breasts pancaked with areolas. Black eyes set like onyx beads in the stub of a primal skull: "cancer," the word they first swore at me; later, "steatopygia," to be kind. Twenty decades I stood, was moved to stand again. And they would watch, the people; would watch, all of them, curious. When they would pace the marble below me, they were focused like 13 Nathan C. Thomas scientists at equations, all trying to solve the mystery of my flesh and hue. When night would come, and with it closing, they would retreat to their own homes where they drew curtains and shut doors against all darkness and strangers's eyes. Standing forward and alone, I am no home. Until a day he gave me that dark look it took a moment to recognize. He meant to make Africans of them all with robbery. To think of it now, he must have been a guard, or known someone who had security codes; the gates at either end of the hallway did not descend when he removed me, slowly lifted me off the back of the wall. Tilted for a moment at this angle, I saw for the first time the high arcs of the white ceiling and the low shadowy gaps between them in the vaulted heights. With a thought I was down, and it took a while, many pictures past, before a staircase and door brought me to it: the black net of sky with lights showing through gaps in the weave. And the greatest light: perfectly round and full, like me, with child or food. Africa cannot be all dark and forests. Some lands must be open to the light air. Delighted, finally free, I ran the rooftops. Leaping the distance, I made my way fast, heading to a shelter I could make home. Until a bullet let air out of the left thigh and both lungs and I was pitched forward. I toppled and fell, skidding across the gravelly roof, feet from where he lay unconscious on his stomach, awaiting chains, my makers, my design failing me for the second time. Now I too am caught and, again, am returned, hung, glass crowding me. I bear it. I think of the hundred worlds between past and present: the worlds I passed through thin as a ghost and bent 14 Nathan C. Thomas under the weight of meaning, dark with the sins of a world of minds. I am memories now. I think of the moon. But I would for a breath of free air again. 15 Nathan Bendickson Family Recipe My cheek softens with the sound of my grown children finally helping out, peeling potatoes and chopping onions. I feel my life split in half: At twenty-seven my tears were strained through colanders, minced with meat. My cheek was soft, white, young, unkissed while my husband sits there, my children play, and my belly rises a third time like dough--another darling bulging against the kitchen counter. My back aches. I am exhausted. I feel my life split in fourths: At fourteen I lay awake in bed holding Elvis' crackling transistor lips to my cheek, humming along while he moans the fuzzy promises of love. 16 Abby Fagan To Sea Woke up, red, "Sailor's Warning." Good riddance, and we went to sea. Cold salt, blue, mermaids all gone deep. But good riddance, we go to sea. In the eye, brown, we sailed to sea where cold blue drank us deep. The mermaids we met in the bottom, green. Up top, in tantrum, good riddance, "turn up the hear," he said, and we'll go to sea, red. 17 Aimee Eggink Vegetable Stand Watercolor on Paper 19 Kyle Duba Crystalline Palacio Night Photography 20 Jamie Forslund Steilacoom Beach in November Dye Destruction Print 21 Scott Matsumura A Tale of Two Swords Paint and Pencil on Cardboard 22 Scott Matsumura What Will I Eat for Supper? Paint and Pencil on Cardboard 23 Jamie Forslund Laughter Oil on Canvas 24 Kyle Duba Wide-Angle Mirrors Help to Navigate Narrow Streets in Toledo Digital Photograph 25 Samantha E. Porter Open Field Digital Photograph 26 Aimee Eggink Woman in Purple Watercolor on Paper 27 Brett Aaron Patterson Carp at the Dole Plantation Digital Photograph 28 Eva L. Collins Fairy Silver Gelatin Print 29 Jamie Forslund Reflection Pool Dye Destruction Print 30 Stephanie Takase My Father Calls In rubber boots and leather gloves, to steel ourselves against the icy bite of the Pacific surf, we wade the shallows strewn with shells to wake the oysters from their beds. We pluck them from their tangled seaweed sheets, the holdfast clutchings of the sea, and place them in our crates or canvas bags to cart them home when we have found our fill. With eyes that squint against the sun I hold the shells up in the glare hoping she'll tell me which one holds the sandy pea turned by this ocean princess into pearl. I lay them out across my open hand to feel their weight before I place each one into the bag, then bend to gently pull another free, for wrench too hard and break their backs, let salt stick to their tongues, and we must feed them to the gulls: we aren't allowed to let them see the sea. My father fears with ancient superstition that taste will make the pearls forever long to find the deep and utter rushing whispers in the wearer's ear as seashells do. He doesn't realize, mounted in their beds of gold or plated lead, that pearls can't call the ocean, only hear it breaking on the sand and feel its aching pull. Each time I lift an oyster in my gloves, I long to bend it back, break open its white teeth 32 Stephanie Takase and wash her in the waves that so long brushed her out and in, smoothed back the little loosings of her fine black tangled hair, so when the ocean waves and calls she'll know which way to look. But no. My hands are cold. My father calls, the work is done for now. I trudge against the sand and undertow back up the shore to where he stands. They pull my sole and split my boot across the heel. I stumble as the water rushes in and heave my bag onto my back, now weighted down with sand still stung by salt, and turn it to the sea. 33 Shawn Enos Repression Wash her amygdala down With acetone. Scrub off the areas Where the unwanted memory Remains. Then, from the hypothalamus Bring the new memory out that was Created in the blessed cauldron. The pink memory made from Cotton candy, Barbie heads, Caramel apples, and hair From My Little Ponies. Wipe off our fingerprints And cover the new memory With dust. Cover the fact That it has not always been there. Bring out the memory where my sister Wasn't raped by our cousin When she was eight. Let her Drink deeply from that wooden spoon. And after I bury my cousin, Let me drink of it too. 34 David M. Poole Dragon Boat Rowers Digital Photgraph 35 Tyler Nowlen Fred... The Grandfather You Could Have Been He slumps on the sticky, pleather-soft chair, his jaw loose, low like the neck of his coffeestained T, barefoot on the tiled linoleum, yellow toenails curling over like whitecaps, fingers pinching a Styrofoam filter like it's his last. He knows it won't be. He pulls it close, draws deep, cherry burning huckleberry bright. He's wishing his thoughts would cloud over like his lungs, so he could forget all the bullshit doctor lingo, warnings, predictions, promises of another heart attack. He draws it near, pulls hard, a tip-trail of ash falls to the folded burial flag in his lap. 36 JP Kemmick Coping To drown out the noise of his fighting parents he would put in the "How to mime like a pro" video he bought on eBay for $19.99 (plus $2.00 shipping and handling) And while doors slammed and voices reached a deafening pitch, he would build an invisible soundproof box and simply sit there and ignoring the video's instructions, would make no effort to get out 37 Abby Fagan Sel(f )ection "AND THEN she called her a bitch and I couldn't believe it. These women disgust me. I can't handle it anymore." "Then quit." They were at the mall. "Jesus, Danny. That's not a solution. I've told you that. I can't quit this job. I'm working on my pension and I cannot start all over again. Why are you always giving me such goddamn useless advice?" "Sorry. We need to get some more dishcloths." "We'll get those last. That's a nice dress." "Mm." "Oh, and then Elizabeth missed her bus again and she called me when I was fucking a block away from the house so I had to completely backtrack and lose an hour of my day to get her. I don't know why she can't catch the goddamn bus." "Leann, did you talk to her about it?" "No, Danny. She made me lose so much time I had to talk to Andrew the whole drive back to sort everything out for the presentation tomorrow. I almost got in a fucking accident because these goddamn people can't drive--" "Leann, did you even look at your daughter today?" "Goddamn it Danny! I don't have the fucking time to pay attention to her hormonal mood swings. I'm sorry I'm the fucking breadwinner of this house. Can't you deal with it?" "Sometimes she needs another woman to talk to, Leann." "She's not a fucking woman. She's thirteen! She hasn't even starting menstruating ye--" "Hello and how are you two this fine day? 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Purchase Sel(f)ection!� today and change your aggravating character flaws in under a month!" "Jesus, I hate that," she said. "Oh God! It reminds me of these fucking girls who sat in front of me and Liz at the movie last night and giggled throughout all the goddamn previews. It was so rude. There's a whole fucking theater to sit in and they sit right in front of us." "Leann, Elizabeth started her period today." "Goddamn it Danny! Why are you always changing the fucking subject?" Danny looked at her. He handed the salesman a twenty dollar bill and got a nickel in change. 39 Shawn Enos Sunsets Over the Ocean I once believed that the sun Setting over the ocean opened A doorway to a beautiful And flawless world. Catching A dandelion pollen in midflight Was the only way to get there. The pollen increases in size As it carries you to the middle Of the ocean where a thick sheet Of glass floats just above the waves. I went there once--to the door Just behind the sun. But when I Opened the door Disappointment Was there waiting, again, and Laughing at me. The door Evaporated, the glass sheet Was gone, and I was left Floating in the water 15 miles From dry land. 40 Stephanie Takase Abby Digital Photograph 41 J. L. Gray Field Observations AT SOME POINT he had lost count of all the times he'd heard the same protests from her: you're emotionally numb, I don't know what you're thinking, look at me while I'm talking to you. She paced in front of him, gesturing with her hands like a frustrated actress working on a monologue. The hands rose and fell in a blurred, slow-motion fashion, but that was probably just the Cuervo Gold margarita playing with his eyes. He was watching--sort of--but he felt as if he were watching himself from outside the scene. As it so happened, he was watching himself--the nothing he had been staring at was a full-length mirror across from her bed. Vision focusing on reality, he analyzed his appearance: baggy coat, hands buried in his pockets, his face an expressionless wall. No wonder she called him emotionally numb. He breathed in deeply to quell the effects of the alcohol, the scent of fried tortillas and freshly melted cheese entering his nostrils. Mmm, cheese... An engulfing silence made him realize that the words he had been recounting in his mind had been spoken. Lifting his head, he saw her waiting, brows raised, eyes boring an expectant question mark into his. Disgusted, she turned, and unwilling to wait any longer for his response, she provided her own. As she continued her monologue, he wondered if he was happy with her. He didn't know. He wasn't sure what he was even doing in this relationship, as he didn't seem to be reaping any benefits from this overdrawn social experiment. In his coat pocket, he felt the smooth edge of his leather wallet. Removing it, he opened the billfold and pulled out five dollars. He stood, his tense muscles relaxing as he stretched upwards. Holding out the bill, he said to her, "Buy some ice cream." 42 J. L. Gray That's how he left her, the five-dollar bill quavering in her unsteady hand. She didn't call after him or ask where he was going. He didn't know, but wherever he stopped, it would be with a beer in hand. 43 Aimee Eggink Natural Forms Gelatin Silver Print 44 Nathan Bendickson My Baby If you could recall the oceans you cried at birth either this wouldn't seem so bad or we'd have a new Atlantis. 45 Mariesa Bus Bone Structure When thinking of you, something in me swells up like the humidity that pushes a woman in Georgia outside to her porch, a creaky landing with too many wind chimes she swears they'll have screened in by next August. She's drinking a gin and tonic, the sweat from her glass slipping under her fingers, and she's watching the June bugs betray the dearth of aerodynamics that belongs to them and them only. He's home. She knows him by the familiar sounds his body makes as he moves through the house (how we come to recognize those percussions!) and when he comes outside, she sets her glass on the railing, leaning back against him. There's nothing said. There is the summer, there is a letter from her mother on the table, and there is this life. There are June bugs stunning themselves on the screen door. There is this seventh summer. There is this small and sacred piece of it. My friend Ricky says he has never loved anything that didn't have a skeletal system. This means he has never loved God or slugs, or a ripe cantaloupe in the produce aisle, or a mountain. I loved God, and professed to, but maybe the way Ricky found love growing 46 Mariesa Bus in the hollows of bone and flesh, in between the germs and blood cells, marrow, and all the rest, was better. I learned love from some distant father and some martyr; to love singing, ritual, and love as its own explanation, but then, God, You became the Houseplant on my bookshelf I let die while I was on vacation. Our end came easily, with only a bit of hair pulling and a few bitter postcards. It is not always so easy, I learned last week, when he said "I don't know you anymore," just like that, another line in a dim farewell. You don't know me anymore. You who were all-seeing and all-knowing, you who camped out by a stream in the heart of me, sleeping in the back of your truck at night, by day reading The Baron in the Trees and exploring the forest until you knew your way around in the dark. I am still here. I am still made of that wilderness. Now I think of you, and what's swelling is this belief that at the end of their lives, the old woman and her husband will lie down next to each other and say "This is where it ends. I have loved you with all my might. We saw beauty together, and we are our own last hurrah," and together on the bed with its faded yellow quilt, they'll die, as we died, as we are dying 47 Mariesa Bus and as we live, knocking around in our tin can armor while our bodies wither away somewhere else, some place where worship and disbelief are two sides of the same worthless coin, in the cold room where God is chattering his teeth. 48 Laura Mickelson A Last Sigh Digital Photgraph 49 Contributors Stephanie Agoncillo thinks it's a shame that black and white photography is becoming obsolete. Oh well. When she's not worrying about that, she enjoys playing guitar and watching the Food Network. She also enjoys road trips with her best friend. Nathan Bendickson would like to express his sincerest condolences. Mariesa Bus is considering assuming a spicy yet respectable pen name. She would like to express her gratitude to Maria Montessori, Le Petit Ecolier, Joel Fleischman, the English faculty, her alarmingly handsome relatives, and all persons directly or indirectly referenced in "Bone Structure" for their mystifying influence on her hungry young mind. Enchanted by fairy tales, Eva Collins captures portraits of mythical characters on black and white film, and hand colors the photos. Eva is a freshman and is studying business and art. She has been doing photography for over two years and hopes to own her own photography business one day. Kyle Duba: phantasmagoria n 1 a : a fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever b : a constantly changing scene composed of numerous elements 2 : fantastic imagery as represented in art -- phantasmagoric adj (Hopefully someday he'll figure himself out and won't be quite so haphazard.) Aimee Eggink: I'm an art major, and plan on teaching art in the future along with continuing my own work. I've been drawing for as long as I 51 Contributors can remember, and have gotten into painting and printmaking in recent years. Art has always been my hobby and my passion. It's something I know I will always use in my life that gives me fulfillment, an outlet for creativity, and a heightened sensitivity for the world around me. My name is Shawn Michael Enos, I was born in 1980 in Renton, Washington. I am a senior here at PLU and am a double major in psychology and English (writing). After I graduate I plan on working somewhere I can support a family and write on the side. Abby Fagan is a jungle, or rather, a small busy garden bed with colorful weeds and flowers: green (envious of beautiful, smart people), yellow (happy [read: mentally unstable]), red (full of blood), blue (blue), and white (virgin). She'd like to thank the rain (her mother), the sun (The Mark), and the insects. If Jamie Forslund had a banjo, she'd strum it all day long. This would attract the attention of forest animals--squirrels, robins, porpoises, and the like--and Jamie would lead them together in a life of joy and peace. J. L. Gray ( Jen) is a poetographic novelist who may become a librarian like her hero, Barbara Gordon (with optional crime-fighting on the side). She still loves Ewoks and the Batman universe, and has recently discovered that mac & cheese is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. JP Kemmick is static electricity. Rub your feet through life's carpet and feel him accordingly. Zap. 52 Contributors Scott Matsumura: This could be you. Laura Mickelson has a passion for both traveling and photography. As a junior at PLU, she hopes to double major in both biology and writing. Though unsure what life will hold after graduation, she hopes to conquer her last continent, Asia, and work abroad for a while, all with camera in hand. Tyler Nowlen has been described as "gifted" and "extremely talented"...at least while playing Mario Brothers 3 or doing sweet tricks like crossing his eyes. My name is Brett Aaron Patterson, not to be confused with other imitations. I would like to let everyone who reads this know that if you need a bubble bath day, take it. And if there happen to be coy in that bathtub, it's a photo opportunity. David M. Poole is also known as DM Poole, Dave, davethegr8, DP, and many other names. He thinks that his current job is eleven times better than mowing lawns or logging. When he grows up, he wants to be a racecar driver or a fireman. When not at work, he is busy welding steel sculptures or taking photographs. Samantha E. Porter, a junior majoring in religion and philosophy, spent last summer with Buddhist nuns (including her sister) in Darkhan, Mongolia, trying to let go of her anger toward cooking. It didn't work. Stephanie Takase--upbeat vacationist, wriggling xenophile--yodels 53 Contributors zealously about Britain (cheers!) during elaborate functions, guards her inextricable Japanese kin like Markers, nevertheless orchidaceously progressing quite rightly. Nathan C. Thomas has tried for days to develop a suitably witty bio. How about this: He uses words like verisimilitude and maladroit. And means them. He's also been known to dabble in 1920s vulgarisms like rube, and lives on a slippery slope. He is a desight of contradiction. That's what the "C" stands for. "Paradox." Obligatory yet reverent reference to The Mark here. 54 Editors Jamie Forslund Kent Leatham Staff Nathan Bendickson Abby Fagan Jen Gray Stephanie Takase Nathan Thomas JP Kemmick Kyle Duba Rase McCray Rebekka Esbjornson Graham Murtaugh Mikaela Hanson Hakme Lee Advisor Solveig C. Robinson 57 Saxifrage was set in Adobe Jenson Pro and printed by the Johnson-Cox Company of Tacoma, WA.


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PORTLAND -- The two-foot-wide cast iron pipe shuttling water under downtown Portland dates back nearly a century.
A 36-foot large section of it is getting replaced this week, due to the large water main break early Tuesday morning.
The Portland Water Bureau said it replaces between four and five miles of water mains each year, but prioritizes pipes made of ductile steel, which tend to fail more often, according to spokesman Ty Kovatch.
The city has 2,500 miles of water mains.
Although Kovatch said cast iron pipes tend to be more durable and that a major break in one is pretty rare, the city suffers around 200 water main breaks every year. Most occur between October and March.
Kovatch said there's no way to predict where or when a pipe may break and that Tuesday's burst could have been a lot worse.
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The sad paintings of L. Paul Bremer III
- By Cara Parks
Cara Parks is deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to that she was the World editor at the Huffington Post. She is a graduate of Bard College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and has written for The New Republic, Interview, Radar, and Publishers Weekly, among others.
Who says there are no second acts in American life?
You may remember L. Paul Bremer III as the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) immediately following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Astute readers may also recall that he presided over such decisions as the dismantling of the Iraqi army, the "de-Baathification" of Iraq's government, some questionable financial decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Iraqi money, and the scandal over prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
But the real question is, what's he up to now?
While perusing a Tablet magazine profile of Dan Senor, we happened to notice this gem of a parenthetical: "Bremer wound up retiring to Vermont to become a landscape painter." Do go on!
Apparently, Bremer turned to painting around 2007 and has been going strong ever since, as you can see on his website. He appears to favor landscapes, mostly of rural Vermont, in various muted shades. But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Let's look at some highlights. From the "private collection," we have a rare female nude, the title of which — Nude with Matisse Colors (2009) — refers to innovative French artist Henri Matisse:
Next up, we swing to his preferred subject matter, landscapes.
A muted rural scene from Vermont. We're not sure what the classical influence on this one is, but the skewed perspectives and somber coloring bring to mind certain elements of the Oval Office circa 2003.
Here's another landscape, this one titled Fishing on the Potomac River.
Really, they're all gems. You can see the entire collection here.
Correction: This post originally identified Bremer's primary medium as watercolors. He actually uses primarily oil paints.
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Who disbanded the Iraqi Army?Blake Hounshell
Blake Hounshell is managing editor at Foreign Policy, having formerly been Web editor. Hounshell oversees ForeignPolicy.com and has commissioned and edited numerous cover stories for the print magazine, including National Magazine Award finalist "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy. He also edits The Cable, FP's first foray into daily original reporting, and was editor of Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay, which in 2011 won a National Magazine award for best reporting in a digital format.
Blake joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Blake was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Awards prize for young journalists for his reporting on the Arab uprisings, and his Twitter feed was named one of Time magazine's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011." Under his leadership, in 2008, Passport, FP's flagship blog, won Media Industry Newsletter's "Best of the Web" award in the blog category. Along with Elizabeth Dickinson, he edited Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future, the memoirs of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
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On October 24, 2013, the Securities Exchange Commission (the "SEC") published proposed rules (Release Nos. 33-9470; 34-70741) to permit companies to offer and sell securities through "regulation" crowdfunding as proposed in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act"), which we have written about here. The 90-day comment period on the proposed rules ended January 23, 2014 but comments are still being submitted to the SEC's website, with the latest comment submitted on June 3, 2014. There is no indication as to when the SEC will publish its final rules relating to crowdfunding.
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One such member of Congress is Representative Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., who is Deputy Republican Whip and member of the House Financial Services Committee. During his time on the House Financial Services Committee, Representative McHenry has become a major advocate for crowdfunding; he originally introduced the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act, which was eventually integrated into the JOBS Act in the legislation relating to "regulation" crowdfunding. However, when he noticed that the crowdfunding provisions he championed in the JOBS Act would not work in practice, he introduced the "Equity Crowdfunding Improvement Act of 2014" (the "2014 Act") in the House Financial Services Committee.
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Once San Francisco's grandest old-fashioned luxury hotel, the century-old Clift underwent a thorough re-imagining at the hands of Philippe Starck, who has transformed its faded Victorian elegance into its nearest modern equivalent — all black, ivory and steely grey, with rich textures in hardwood, velvet and leather, it's the last word in hyper-modern boutique decadence.
Hints of the hotel's Art Deco heritage remain, from the choice of furnishings in the surrealist-inspired lobby to the noir-ish lighting effects throughout. The famous Redwood Room was the focus of the original Clift, and it's still here in all its wood-paneled splendor, decked out in some of Starck's most serious lounge furniture. And the adjacent Velvet Room restaurant is hardly less dramatic, draped with, yes, massive red velvet curtains and lit with hand-blown Murano glass lamps.
Guest rooms are stylish, but not precious — they're sedate, almost monochrome, with accents in soft lavenders and greys, amplifying the effects of the natural light. Bathrooms are smallish, but clever, and the living spaces are spacious, many with astonishing views; the Clift is a high enough building to make for some spectacular sightlines.
It's a bit of a scene, as any Morgans Hotel Group production is intended to be — that's a large part of the appeal for the people who make up the Clift's clientele. This is Starck at his most elegant, and his eye for a well-placed surprise only deepens this place's mystique. It would seem there's some mileage yet left to be wrung from this partnership.
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What the hotel could do better:
Nothing, had a wonderful stay!
The Redwood Room used to be famous for its prime rib and beef wellington. It would be wonderful if these were added back to the menu.
- Beth
- Stayed May 2012
- Rating: Good
What I liked:
Even though this hotel was designed several years ago---it is still vital. Like a good piece of artwork that will always be a good piece of artwork.
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Nothing, had a wonderful stay!
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My father's family grew up on Long Run out in Texas, just a few miles from Springfield on the old Perryville Road.
"Mr. Henry" Best, the head teacher at the Texas school house, lived between the Cocanoughers and Johnnie Key, who still worked his team of mules when I was a kid in the early sixties.
The Best family had old ties with the Denny Goode clan, and Denny's raccoon hunting tradition fascinated this young man, transplanted to the Kenton County suburbs.
"Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved"
---Maroon 5, "She Will Be Loved"
Lowering her eyes, the young lady, still a teenager, turned away, trying to conceal the evidence: But it was unmistakably there.
The marks on her face were painful reminders; she had indeed become another girl with a broken smile.
During the last three or four months we continue to hear about how things are getting better.
The focus has been on the need for more government spending.
Politicians are forever quoting moral values, theological concepts, as if they are the only ones who understand the true meaning.
Unfortunately, we are being led down a path from which there may be no return.
From this view point, we, as citizens, are not getting the truth and we are forgetting about the real problem we are facing.
After a pause for President's Day, the legislature moved into the second half of the 2012 General Assembly Session.
I had visits from groups representing adult day health care providers and developmental disabilities.
Many Boy Scout troops came to Frankfort for the annual Boy Scout Day at the Capitol.
It was a pleasure to see these civic-minded boys and young men and their dedicated troop leaders and parents.
Of the bills we focused on this week, two were of particularly high-profile.
The word 'history' was used a lot on Monday evening at St. Catharine Hall.
I think I'm correct when I predict that the word was used fittingly.
On Monday, a partnership was officially formed between St. Catharine College and The Berry Center.
The Berry Center is based on supporting sustainable agriculture.
You may have heard of one of the Berry's.
His name is Wendell. He's an internationally-known author.
I'm a 37-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and now the U.S. Army Reserve.
My misson for the past several years is to teach future officers in the ROTC program at Centre College in Danville.
My students are extremely intelligent, disciplined and athletically-gifted individuals.
The truth is, this worn- out old sergeant has little he can really teach them.
Yet, there is one area I feel strongly about and I stress over and over again.
We have reached the half-way point of the 2012 General Assembly Session.
There are daily committee meetings, policy briefings, visits from constituents, and meetings with various advocacy groups.
Early in the week, the Senate passed Senate Bill 103 in a bipartisan vote that will require a doctor performing an abortion to first perform an ultrasound (which is done anyway) so that the woman may view it, if she wishes.
The woman will not be forced to look at the picture.
Our office changed last Wednesday.
It was not a good change, in my opinion.
The sniffles heard outside my door that day indicate I'm not alone.
Kim Hupman, a long-time employee of The Springfield Sun, walked out the door for the last time.
Kim didn't retire and she still has a job in the company. Things could be much, much worse.
She's been relocated to Bardstown, to the office of The Kentucky Standard.
Lucky dogs.
She'll still be doing Sun ads as part of a centralized graphics team.
A lot of times I love to use this space to write silly little stories that I hope will make you laugh.
Afterward, people frequently ask me, "Did that really happen?" Of course, most of it didn't. My column is just another version of the funny paper in those cases.
But every now and then, I do write deeply-personal stories that have touched my life or those I love very intimately. Today is one of those stories.
Because we spend a lot of time indoors during the winter, we can channel these increased hours spent nesting to allow for a thoughtful examination of our life and goals.
Often, resolutions to change financial burdens or eating habits are made in the beginning of the year, but it's also a great time to assess life goals and priorities, and how they relate to happiness.
This year, following several trying economic years, offers an opportunity to reevaluate what you want out of life and how you can find happiness with what you have.
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HOUSTON -- Houston police said someone managed to smash into an eastside check cashing business, stealing the ATM inside.
The crime happened around 3 a.m. Thursday on Maxey Road at Fleming Drive, according to the Houston Police Department.
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Investigators said they believe a pickup truck was used to smash into the front of the PLS Check Cash Store. Surveillance cameras may have captured the crime on video.


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Bihar-based National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) battlion underwent comprehensive training to ward off accidents triggered by chemical, atomic and radiological gases leakage in commercial establishments in the state.
About 50 personnel of 9th NDRF battalion underwent four weeks of rigorous training to meet any exigencies happening on this account, a NDRF statement said today.
NDRF came into existence at Bihta in Patna district in 2010 to help in time of distress.
The training took place under supervision of Commandant of 9 battlion of NDRF, Vijay Sinha.
On completion of training, the NDRF personnel hosted a show to demonstrate their skill in tackling accidents.
Displaying prompt response, the personnel lifted people from the premises and made available first aid immediately, the NDRF statement said.
The demonstration was carried on under leadership of Inspector Ajit Kumar Singh.
Commandant Vijay Sinha said that due to rampant industrialisation, use of chemical, atomic and radiology gases have increased and thus the need to deal with any accident on this account have also become all the more important.
He appreciated NDRF jawans for showcasing high technique during demonstration to deal with accident due to leakage of chemical, atomic and radiological gases.


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Google Speeds Up Web Search With Voice, Image Recognition
Google unveiled an array of new search features on Tuesday designed to accelerate and simplify Web searches as users increasingly access the Internet from handheld mobile devices.
Among the new features are voice and image recognition tools that allow users to use speech or images to conduct their searches more quickly.
At a briefing on Tuesday, members of Google's search team unveiled the company's latest improvements, saying they were designed to deliver information "in the blink of an eye."
One of the new features, called "ËœInstant Pages', predicts which link a searcher is likely to chose, and begins retrieving that page — even before the user clicks the link.
Instant Pages utilizes a user's Google search history, the relevance of each search result and roughly 200 other algorithmic factors to determine which link a user is most likely to click on. It then begins contacting the server to load that page in the background as soon as the search results appear.
"We're obsessed with speed," said Google fellow and search scientist Amit Singhal at the "Inside Search" event in Mountain View, California.
"We call speed the killer app. None of us have enough time, and last year's Google Instant was one of the biggest improvements we've made in getting information to users quicker," he said.
Other enhancements include reducing the time it takes for Web pages to display after links are clicked on in search results.
"We at Google will not be happy until we make the Web as easy to flip through as a magazine," he added.
"We measure every millisecond."
On average, users spend 9 seconds entering a query and 15 seconds sifting through results, while Google's processing between the two only takes 1 second, Singhal said.
"The time it takes Google to return a result is negligible compared to how long it takes the user to enter the query," said Singhal, adding that it takes, on average, five seconds for a Web page to load once a user has clicked on a link in the search results.
The new features unveiled on Tuesday are spread across all of Google's gadgets — from desktops using Chrome software to the latest Android-powered smartphones and tablet computers.
"In mobile, we are always thinking about how we can make the process of getting those results easier," Google's mobile engineering director Scott Huffman told the AFP news agency.
The new mobile search features include added icons to the bottom of search pages that allow users to conduct common searches with a single click, rather than having to type in specific queries.
Other mobile enhancements include the ability to build searches with simple "plus" buttons, and instant previews of search results that are viewable with simple swipes of a touchscreen.
Huffman said the "ËœGoogle Goggles' feature, which lets mobile users with search using pictures, now translates languages in photos of text "" with Russian having now been added to the list.
Johanna Wright, Google's director of search product management, said the company was applying mobile innovations to desktop computers with the addition of voice and image search capabilities.
"Mobile has opened a world of possibilities," Wright said.
Singhal said Google's voice search, which allows mobile phone users to speak their search query, would be extended to desktop searches.
The feature will be accessible for Chrome and Firefox users later this week, via a small microphone symbol next to the Google search box. The feature will initially be in English only, but will be extended to other languages later.
The new image search feature will allow users to upload, drag and drop, or paste a URL or use a browser extension to provide a reference to an image. Google will then identify the image by comparing it to its database and publishing the subject, location and details, the Guardian reported.
However, Singhal said the facial recognition was not part of the image search process, and that all images shared during searches are anonymized, and not publicly accessible.
"If you uploaded a picture of John Lennon, it might find other similar pictures of John Lennon, but it wouldn't know it was John Lennon," the paper quoted him as saying.
"It's an engine for analyzing color, lines and texture, not for facial recognition."
Shares of Google's stock rose $3.64, or 0.72 percent, on Tuesday, closing at $508.37.
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Much is made of the importance of social media and Internet retailing, as well as of having an online media strategy, and yet many beauty brands have yet to embrace one. Imogen Matthews, consultant to in-cosmetics, researches the latest social media and e-retail trends and implications for the beauty industry.
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The prestige-oriented company recorded revenue of €28.1 billion in 2012, an increase of 19% compared to 2011, and organic revenue growth was 9%.
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For the nine months ended December 31, 2012, L'Occitane recorded net sales of €801.3 million, pushed by growth in emerging markets Russia and China as well as the U.S.
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The NPD Group's Karen Grant noted, "growth remains positive for both the prestige and mass channels." However, "The trend of prestige beauty outpacing mass beauty continues to be evident since the recessionary period of 2009 and will likely continue into 2013."
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It's not too soon to state the obvious: At this point, the war against the Islamic State can be seen only as failing.
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The notion that Iraq will "destroy" Islamic State at American behest is an illusion, and so is the notion that the coalition just formed can do it.
"Last Saturday's strikes" against Islamic State "are indicative of a key complexity of the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq and Syria," Foreign Policy's Justine Drennan writes at Stars and Stripes. "In throwing its hugely expensive 21st-century weaponry at a band of insurgents, the Pentagon is using planes that can cost nearly $200 million apiece against pickup trucks costing virtually pennies in comparison."
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The decision of President Barack Obama to wage air war against the Islamic State still is swimming in a sea of confusion and doubt.
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Christopher Columbus was a genocidal maniac who is celebrated annually for "discovering" a land that was already inhabited by a people he would go on to enslave, torture and kill.
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Reese Erlich was in northern Iraq at the start of the U.S. bombing campaign against Islamic State. He says the reality on the ground is far different from the propaganda coming out of Washington.
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China may be said to confront four current categories of challenge, with a possible return to horrors past.
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President Obama should call Congress back to Washington for a special session to vote on authorizing war against the Islamic State. If he does not, Congress should return on its own to conduct this vital debate.
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It is something of a cliche to quote George Santayana one more time, saying, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But for folks of my age, ignorant repetition has been a constant in our lives. And, of course, it is happening again right now.
Tragic news of the young veteran received enormous attention over the past week. Friends and fellow veterans remember his warmth, wisdom and commitment to bringing the horrors of war to an end.
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The columnist says, "People don't want to be occupied and they're not going to stop until we leave." Also: The best banned books, The Intercept's digital bodyguard and why the war in Syria is probably not legal.
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President Obama began his presidency with a call for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world." He will end it as a reluctant but unapologetic warrior.
Hours after 400,000 people joined in the largest climate march in history, the United States began bombing Syria, starting yet another war.
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The administration's response to the conjunction of this weekend's People's Climate March and the International Day of Peace? Bomb Syria.
Cutting off the heads of aid workers and journalists is nothing in comparison with the degradation and dehumanization being inflicted on the pathetic people of the Middle East by all sides.
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If the latest polls are accurate, most voters believe that Republican politicians deserve greater trust on matters of national security.
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President Obama is adamant that the war against the Islamic State will not escalate to the use of U.S. ground troops. But the more I see and hear of his strategy, the more I fear that "mission creep"—even if the president resists it—is baked in from the start.
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With the help primarily of Republicans, President Obama's plan to arm Syrian rebels won approval in the House on Wednesday.
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A hollow laugh might be permitted at the alliance now announced as the result of Secretary of State John Kerry's latest journey through the Middle East.
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Judging by her weekend appearance in Iowa, it looks as if Hillary Clinton is indeed running for president. Now she has to answer one simple question: Why?
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There was a moment in the last quarter-century when the Congress of the United States made the nation proud. It did so across all its usual lines of division: Republican and Democratic, conservative and liberal, hawk and dove.
"Until this part of the world," the "Daily Show" host explains, "starts to see past sectarian lines and national borders that, OK, we drew—we'll give you that—the U.S. can't fix this ... by waving a magic bomb."
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Truthdig's editor on IS, al-Qaida and another mess in Mesopotamia. Also: Bill Blum on beheadings, Deborah L. Rhode on the women's movement and Sangamithra Iyer on vital vegans.
President Obama has committed the United States to another open-ended Middle East war in which the potential for doing harm rivals the possibility of doing good.
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Over the last decade, Americans' views on foreign policy have swung sharply from support for intervention to a profound mistrust of any military engagement overseas.
Once an emancipatory project predicated on the right to study and engage the past critically, history under the reign of neoliberalism has receded into a depoliticizing culture of consumerism, a wholesale attack on science, the glorification of military ideals, an embrace of the punishing state, and a nostalgic invocation of the greatest generation.
AP/Hasan Jamali
Bahrain, a key U.S. ally in the Mideast, is building a symbolic wall against freedom. Part of that odious effort is the longtime persecution of Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and two of his daughters.
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It seems evident that Barack Obama today still does not understand how much he owes to President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine.
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President Obama's strategy against the Islamic State may be hard to pin down—maddeningly so, some complain—but it is likely to work far better than anything his bellicose critics advocate.
Destroying, degrading or containing the Islamic State—whichever goal President Obama chooses—will be the easy part. Finding ways for fundamentalist Islam to express itself peacefully is a bigger, tougher and more important project.
In contemplating President Obama's foreign policy, Mark Twain's reference to Richard Wagner's music—it's "better than it sounds"—comes to mind.
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Within the same news conference, President Obama declared economic sanctions against Russia a huge success and said Russia had invaded Ukraine.
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I'd like to know whether the United States is at war with the Islamic State.
According to NATO Brig. Gen. Niko Tak, as well as U.S. and Ukrainian officials, more than 1,000 Russian troops have crossed the border into Ukraine to shore up pro-Russian rebels in their fight against government forces. Update: President Obama made a statement Thursday afternoon about the conflict.
What, if anything, have we learned from the disaster of World War I? Look no farther than Gaza, or Ferguson, Mo.
AP/Adel Hana
The initiative to push the ICC into action rests with the Palestinians, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is stalling.
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"I was like: 'Can I get on that plane? Is there enough room for me in there?'" said Angela Klein, division manager of the Bartlett Animal Shelter.
The Friday departure was a happy ending to the tale of the two dogs — believed to be 7 or 8 years old — that began when they were brought to the shelter as strays a few months ago. Lindsey and Scott were skittish about human contact, and Lindsey had a pretty bad scar on her side.
The two were inseparable. That made finding someone to adopt them a challenge.
"It's very hard to adopt out a senior dog, let alone two senior dogs that need to stay together," Klein said. "They were extremely bonded. ... We didn't have any takers on them locally."
A picture of the dogs was put on a Facebook page associated with rescue groups. Carney found out about the pair and contacted Labrador Retriever Rescue of Florida, which agreed to take them to South Florida.
Klein said the dogs weren't about to be put down before the Florida group called, but she was worried about trying to keep them together. "We try everything in our power," she said. "But, the likelihood of them being adopted together was very slim."
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More than 1,300 animals, including wildlife, were brought to the Bartlett Animal Shelter in 2013. The facility handled 755 adoptions, while about 350 animals were claimed by their owners.
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BANGI: The 135 maiden batch of volunteers from Rela and the Civil Defence will complete their two-week long training today and are ready to start duties as volunteer police personnel from Sunday.
Trainee Siti Norhidayu Mohd Aini, 21, said although the crash-course style training was not too physically demanding, it was still a challenge because of the tight deadline.
"Most of the trainees here are happy for the chance to learn various things such as aspects of the law, self-defence, how to deal with the public and also the correct technique to apprehend criminals.
"We are ready to do our part in keeping the streets safe," she told The Star when met at the Civil Defence Training Centre here yesterday.
The resident from Jasin, Malacca is among those shortlisted from more than 1,000 Civil Defence and Rela members following Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein's announcement that members from the two movements would join the volunteer police.
The trainees would be assigned to district police stations in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur where the 50 crime hotspots had been identified.
For Civil Defence member M. Ravi, 37, the training left him more appreciative of the work done by regular policemen.
"In our training, we are told how easily situations can turn violent. It really made me appreciative of them because they leave for work each day knowing they may face life threatening situations," he said.
Meanwhile, Civil Defence director-general Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid said he was happy with the commitment shown by the trainees during the two-week stint and was confident of their readiness to serve.
He added that applications for the second batch had already started to arrive and interviews to shortlist trainees would begin today.
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Slow Food, along with other civil society organizations, expresses its deep disappointment following the European Parliament's Agricultural Committee's (COMAGRI) vote yesterday to support controversial policies that would effectively remove most of the potential environmental benefits of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU's system of subsidies and programmes, currently in debate and due for reform in 2014.
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Under this proposal, EU farmers would be still entitled to the same payments regardless of the extent of the environmental measure they have inflicted. Spending would still be oriented towards the most damaging practices and would force taxpayers to pay twice; once for the subsidies and again to clean up the damage done to the environment.
The texts adopted yesterday will be assessed and put to a vote of the whole EP in March, together with proposed amendments from other committees. This will then serve as a basis for the Parliament to negotiate new farming rules with EU member states.
Europe citizens have been calling for radical changes to food and farming policy. In September, farmers, citizens and young people from more than 20 took part in the Good Food March and brought their demands for the future of the CAP directly to the decision-makers.
You can get involved too! Slow Food along with more than 20 farmers' and civil society networks from 10 countries have launched EU-wide action Go M.A.D. – Go Meet A Deputy, which calls on EU citizens to directly interact with their local Members of the European Parliament (MEP) and ask them how they will vote during the plenary decision on the CAP reform in March. We want to know which of the 754 MEPs will vote for a green, fair and local CAP!
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