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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern Chinaby Hannah Pakula
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With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in the eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taiwan.
An epic historical tapestry, this wonderfully wrought narrative brings to life what Americans should know about China — the superpower we are inextricably linked with — the way its people think and their code of behavior, both vastly different from our own.
The story revolves around this fascinating woman and her family: her father, a peasant who raised himself into Shanghai society and sent his daughters to college in America in a day when Chinese women were kept purposefully uneducated; her mother, an unlikely Methodist from the Mandarin class; her husband, a military leader and dogmatic warlord; her sisters, one married to Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of China, the other to a seventy-fifth lineal descendant of Confucius; and her older brother, a financial genius.
This was the Soong family, which, along with their partners in marriage, was largely responsible for dragging China into the twentieth century. Brilliantly narrated, this fierce and bloody drama also includes U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell; Claire Chennault, head of the Flying Tigers; Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai; murderous warlords; journalists Henry Luce, Theodore White, and Edgar Snow; and the unfortunate State Department officials who would be purged for predicting (correctly) the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War.
As the representative of an Eastern ally in the West, Madame Chiang was befriended — before being rejected — by the Roosevelts, stayed in the White House for long periods during World War II, and charmed the U.S. Congress into giving China billions of dollars. Although she was dubbed the Dragon Lady in some quarters, she was an icon to her people and is certainly one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century.
"Pakula, an experienced biographer of royal women (An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick), looks at the imperious (if not imperial) wife of the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, presenting a richly complex account of 20th-century China that, despite its length, remains thoroughly engrossing to the end. Born May-ling Soong (1897 — 2003) and educated in America, Madame Chiang and her five Soong siblings were wealthy, Christian, fluent in English and major players in Chinese politics. Marrying Chiang Kai-shek in 1927, the strong-minded and hot-tempered, shrewd and ruthless May-ling quickly became a partner in his efforts as Chinese leader until the Japanese invaded, and then in 1945 when Mao's Communists drove him to Formosa (modern-day Taiwan), which he ruled until his death in 1975. From the 1930s to 1950s, Americans idolized Madame Chiang as a symbol of Chinese resistance to the brutal Japanese and as an anticommunist stalwart. But critics of her and Chiang's ineffective, authoritarian, corrupt leadership soon became the majority. Pakula draws a vivid if often unflattering portrait of a charismatic Chinese patriot, her husband and family, in tumultuous and tragic times. 16 pages of b&w photos; maps." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
With the powerful, beautiful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the 20th century, this is the story of the founding of modern China. b&w photos.
Featuring a beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the 20th century, "The Last Empress" offers a wonderfully wrought narrative of the founding of modern China.
About the Author
Hannah Pakula is the author of The Last Empress, which was a New York Times notable book, The Last Romantic, which was called by Graham Greene the best biography and one of the three best books of the year, and An Uncommon Woman, which was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. She lives in New York City.
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But perhaps 3 dimensional attributions that also contain the notion of time, another variable often left out of the conception of the tree
As a map i feel it suffers from a 2dimensional restriction and a seemingly linear story of temporal progress. Its also part of the problem in attributing static images, abstracts and other symbols. The idea that the map tries to imply a permanency becomes very apparent.
Since the map is an abstract awareness of relationships and the interactions of interchangeable patterns
Time is most certainly not left out of the conception of the tree. Time is an inherent part of the tree, as represented by the astrological 'wheel of the year', the planetary days of the week, and as represented by geburah, where the 'formation' of chesed is subjected to the concept of change (time) during the process of creation from kether to malkuth.
"Each letter of these three categories relates (in one-to-one correspondence) to an individual element in each of the three general dimensions of created reality: space, time, living soul"
Yes, a 2-D image can be restrictive, particularly if you confuse the map with the territory. But the tree of life says as little about personal temporal progress as a street map. Any implication of permanency, linearity or temporal progress comes from your own interpretation, not from the map itself. Your understanding of the tree seems to be based on wrong assumptions or faulty information.
The map is not "an abstract awareness", it is an abstract representation. The awareness comes from you. You can look at the map as a whole, you can break it down, you can use it however you will. Whether or not those approaches provide you with useful insights is a different story.
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I think a big part of the reason most fail in this business is the fact that they lowball prices to get work. They don't know how much they need to make in order to be profitable. Then they get to the point of crews and trucks and equipment and realize the money is not there.
Just because you gross 500,000 a year doesn't mean your making money. Some companies are just middle men. They shuffle money from customers to the bank and then to the bill collector. But they look successful.
Then at some point they get tired of the rat race and realize that its not worth the aggravation. I personally think that this industry for the most part has priced itself out of profitability. Its too much like the wild west with no regulations. Too many illegals....too many that don't know what they need to make....too much competition from too many folks without a job desperate to make a living.
Prices are falling instead of rising and the margins get smaller and it makes it really hard to make it all work once you start getting to the point of adding crews and trucks and equipment. You can survive solo, but that is all that you will do. Finding good help is another problem. Anyone with intelligence is not out running a weed wacker all day. Every business owner I talk to say employees are their biggest problem.
Just because you see a company with trucks and crews doesn't mean they are making money and are successful. Ive seen more than a few disappear and when I find out what happened its usually that they were not making enough to be profitable and didn't realize it until it was too late.
I think most make the mistake of...I will price low and make it up in volume. That never works and is the path to failure. Just because you have a couple hundred accounts and are working long days....doesn't mean your making money.
Its hard to get people to pay what you need to make in order to survive. With all of the competition its nearly impossible.
"Just because you gross 500,000 a year doesn't mean your making money."
thats a salient. Revenue is not the same as profit. No matter how high a business's revenue is the owners income could be very small or be coming from debt. Its a system that won't last forever without. most people do not understand this basic function of math, even when they say they understand it they usually won't fully comprehend.
I've explained this to people I know. A million dollar a year business with no profit. they understand and then in the next breath say " but they must be making something. they have a million in sales"
Revenue is only profit when there is more revenue than cost. wether the business has $5 in sales or 5 billion. its all relative.
Though with 5 billion in sales its a lot easier to pretend there is profit.
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Now that warmer weather is here – it's finally time to think about spicing up the wardrobe for spring! Hooray! Except, how to do that on a strict budget, particularly in the accessories department? Erin one time floated the idea of a spring scarf to me, and I always liked the image but I hate spending money on scarves now that I know how to knit.
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It's easy enough to pick holes in some designers' collections, but what about when they choose to put them there? While many have made a name for characteristically ripped, holey and gaping threads, there was a trend for spring/summer 2012 that saw holes introduced in a rather more regulated manner.
Perforation was key to several shows, from Acne to Versace and Stella McCartney in a season which took sports influences and ran (no pun intended) with them into altogether less familiar territory. Perforated fabric is traditionally the preserve of aertex, of sweat fabrics, of clothes in which to exert yourself; the perforations therefore on a buttery suede A-line skirt designed by Karl Lagerfeld for Fendi are entirely foreign to this concept – and that was precisely the point.
The grown up elegance of the Fendi spring aesthetic was undercut in several ways – with frills, with raffia, with mirror beads – and perforation was another way of suggesting this woman, this bouffanted femme in a mid-century silhouette, was far from what she first appeared.
"Perforation was key to several shows, from Acne to Versace and Stella McCartney in a season which took sports influences and ran (no pun intended) with them into altogether less familiar territory"
So too at Stella McCartney, where perforation panels nestled at the yokes of sleeveless tanks, and snaked down the sides of ruthlessly chic evening dresses made from printed silk. They had all the loucheness of an expensive pair of silken pyjamas in their aspect, but these unexpected smatterings of sportswear gave them a more modern and more practical purpose. McCartney's comment on the quotidian nature of modern luxury perhaps, or simply a mechanism by which to manipulate traditional fabrics.
At Versace too, the implications of perforation were analysed: the sort of punched leather more usually found on sturdy brogue, or even a biker jacket, instead made its way onto prettily pleated dresses that fluttered all the more thanks to the textural resistance such material afforded.
And at Acne, a commentary on the technique itself: star shapes cut into a rigid leather shell top, that begged whether this was decoration or simply contrived vandalism. What, in fact, is perforation when it is taken out of context? Beyond a polo shirt, it's a simply mesh or a gauze, no longer a "performance fabric", to use the jargon of the athletic wardrobe. But that's reductive, and this was part of these designers' messages. By that token, one could say that lace or borderie were nothing but engineered holes, and we all know that borders on blasphemous.
Harriet Walker is a fashion writer at The Independent. Her book Less is More: Minimalism in Fashion is out now, published by Merrell. Zoë Taylor has appeared in Le Gun, Bare Bones, Ambit and Dazed & Confused. She is currently working on her third graphic novella and an exhibition.


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THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERS Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. But Devon was killed in a school shooting, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. Caitlin wants everything to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. Then she comes across the word closure--and she realizes this is what she needs. And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be so black and white after all. "Powerful."--"Publishers Weekly" "A strong and complex character study."--"The Horn Book" "Allusions to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the portrayal of a whole community's healing process, and the sharp insights into Caitlyn's behavior enhance this fine addition to the recent group of books with narrators with autism and Asbergers."--"Booklist"
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No. 3 Gymnastics Beats No. 13 LSU, 197.025-196.575
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BATON ROUGE, La. – After the first gymnast in its balance beam lineup fell, the No. 3 ranked Alabama gymnastics team hit its next five routines in a row to beat the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge, La., 197.025-196.575.
"I thought we had a very consistent performance on all four events," UA head coach Sarah Patterson said. "We had one mistake on the last event, the first routine up, but it's exactly what happened in our intrasquad this week. Our ladies were focused, they were prepared, they stepped up and they had Diandra (Milliner)'s back with a great beam performance."
The Crimson Tide used its highest road score of the season to beat the Tigers and go undefeated in regular-season Southeastern Conference competition for the first time since 1991. The only unbeaten and untied team in the nation, Alabama improved to 9-0-0 overall and 6-0-0 in SEC competition.
"More than anything else, we kept our mental focus tonight, we didn't drift, and we did what we had to do to win the meet," Patterson said. "A 197 on the road is awesome. I thought we earned every tenth of a point and LSU did a great job, producing one of their best scores of the season. I think that's just how great the SEC is."
Leading by more than four-tenths of a point after three rotations, the tension mounted when sophomore Diandra Milliner fell from the beam for the first time in her Tide career.
With nearly 4,000 LSU fans suddenly energized by the chance of a win, sophomore Kim Jacob came up next for the Tide and calmly hit her routine for a 9.875. She was followed by junior Marissa Gutierrez's 9.775 and sophomore Sarah DeMeo, who tied her season-high score in the fourth spot with a 9.9.
Senior Geralen Stack-Eaton added a 9.875 before Ashley Priess came up in the sixth and final position with the meet on the line. The senior clinched the Tide's perfect SEC regular season with a meet-best 9.925, pushing the Tide to a 49.350, its second highest beam score of the season.
"I think that's what teamwork is all about," Patterson said. "We've won a national championship after our first beam competitor, one of our most consistent gymnasts, fell. It's having faith in the others. Not only did we do a great job in picking Diandra up tonight, I thought each of the ladies on the beam, those five routines were among the best they've done this year."
Alabama started the night off with a solid rotation on the uneven bars, posting a 49.150 behind matching meet-high scores of 9.875 from Stack-Eaton and Priess. On the vault, Gutierrez and Milliner both scored 9.900 to pace the Tide to a 49.3. Led by meet-best 9.9s from Milliner and Stack-Eaton, Alabama posted a 49.225 on the floor exercise.
"I thought our team energy and cohesiveness were outstanding tonight," Patterson said. "Our ladies stayed in the `A' zone all the way through the meet. There is a difference between competing in front of 15,000 fans as we did last weekend and 4,000 fans and I thought the ladies did a good job of adjusting."
Alabama remains to the road next weekend, traveling to Norman, Okla., to take on Oklahoma on Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m.


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David A. Johnson, age 68 of Sevierville, passed away Wednesday, March 20, 2013. He lived and breathed NASCAR racing. He was preceded in death by his parents, Murphy and Marie Johnson, and his sister, Mary Ann Moore.
Survivors: sons, Patrick Johnson, David Johnson Jr. and wife Paula, Brian Johnson and wife Misty, Jason Johnson and wife Nicole; many, many special grandchildren; lifelong friend, Joyce Johnson; sister, Susan Hayman.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the residents of Park View Apartments for their expressions of care.
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New Zealand captain Richie McCaw recovered from a knee injury in time to lead the All Blacks in this weekend's Rugby Championship decider against South Africa.
South Africa coach Heyneke Meyer made two changes to the starting line-up for the Rugby Championship decider against New Zealand on Oct. 5.
Australia recalled Quade Cooper at fly-half and shifted Israel Folau to full-back as the Wallabies seek their first win in this year's Rugby Championship against South Africa this weekend.
South Africa made five changes for this weekend's Rugby Championship match against Australia, including handing Duane Vermeulen his Test debut, as it seeks to avoid a record fifth straight loss against the Wallabies.
South Africa made four starting changes for the July 24 Tri-Nations Test against Australia as the defending champion seeks to rebound from back-to-back losses to New Zealand.
Australia made seven changes to its starting lineup for this week's Tri-Nations rugby opener against South Africa as it tries to rebound from an upset loss to Samoa.
New Zealand routed Argentina 54-15 to secure the southern hemisphere's inaugural Rugby Championship with a game to spare as South Africa beat Australia 31-8 for its second win in the tournament.
Ulster defeated Edinburgh 22-19 to advance to the Heineken Cup rugby final for the first time in 13 years.
South Africa named the following team to play Australia in the third round of the Rugby Championship on Saturday, Sept. 8 at Subiaco Oval, Perth:
South Africa named fly-half Johan Goosen for his first Test start in this weekend's Rugby Championship match against Australia in Pretoria.


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By Sara MooreAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2009 The nominee for the Defense Department's general counsel said in his confirmation hearing yesterday that he will foster collaborative relationships between himself and military lawyers at all levels to best advise the defense secretary.
Jeh C. Johnson, whose legal career includes being a partner at a New York law firm, serving as the Air Force's general counsel under the Clinton administration and as the assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of New York, is poised to become the chief legal officer for the department.
Johnson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he looks forward to bringing his experience to the department and working with military lawyers to provide the best recommendations to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
"My style of legal analysis, decision-making, putting together recommendations for the secretary is collaboration," he said. "I want all points of view. I'd want to hear from the two-star, now three-star judge advocate, as well as the major who works the issue who understands it better than anybody."
Johnson said he considers himself a "traditionalist" when it comes to the mission of the military, and he believes the military needs the ability to detain enemy combatants captured on the battlefield. However, when it comes to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and the cases against them, he said he expects to be part of an interagency review that reconsiders how those cases are handled.
While he admitted he needs to learn more about the subject, Johnson said he tends to agree with President-elect Barack Obama that the Guantanamo detainees should be tried in U.S. civilian courts as opposed to military commissions.
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The Poteau Special Election for the Proposition 4 hotel/motel tax has resulted in a pass vote with an in-official total of 433 votes for the tax and 389 votes against.
See what it's like as the election board checks in results from poll workers on election night.
SPIRO — The Pocola Indians and the Leflore Savages staved off elimination in the 2012 LeFlore County Baseball Tournament with wins on Tuesday afternoon.
The Indians defeated the Bokoshe Tigers 12-0, while the Savages downed the Arkoma Mustangs 11-1.
Before the Indians and the Savages could meet, rain came and washed out the game.
The contest will be played at 11 a.m. Wednesday as Tuesday and Wednesday slate of games has been changed by Tuesday's rain.
The Poteau Chamber of Commerce is urging citizens to gather their family and friends to participate in the 8th Annual City Wide Trash-Off. 2005 was the first year for the event and only four people showed, since then the event has grown to over 400 concerned citizens coming together to beautify our area. This years event will start at 9 a.m on April 21 in the parking lot of Strike-A-Lot Lanes. Donuts and juice will be available at the check-in and The Community State Bank will be serving hot dogs for lunch. Aside from collecting litter, there are several other ways to participate.
Don't forget to vote for Proposition 4!
A Panama High School graduate, Alex Cardenas has decided to take a road in politics. Cardenas has announced his candidacy for City Director, Ward 1 Position for the city of Fort Smith. After high school Cardenas enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. When he completed his tour in Iraq and Afghanistan he retired and returned to the area making Fort Smith his home. In 2006 Cardenas established and published the local newspaper "Hispanos Unidos" during that business opportunity an article caught his eye and led him to his next business endeavor.
Batten down the hatches. It's County Tournament time.
This week is the 2012 LeFlore County Baseball Tournament at Panama and Spiro through today, then just at Spiro from thereon.
Next week will be the 2012 LeFlore County Slow-Pitch Softball Tournament at the Poteau Area Recreational Complex. The tournament bracket will appear in Saturday's edition.
(Editor's Note — Only non-County Tournament games will be listed, since the tournament bracket was in Saturday's edition.)
Buffalo Valley at Leflore, 4:30 p.m.
Bokoshe at Keota, DH, 4 p.m.
WILBURTON — The Carl Albert State College Vikings ended the weekend on a high note as they defeated the archrival Eastern Oklahoma State College Mountaineers 7-1 Sunday afternoon.
The game was to have been played on Saturday afternoon, but was moved to Sunday afternoon.
The Vikings will return to action at 2 p.m. this afternoon in a single, nine-inning game at Ival Goodman Field against Connors State.
Editor's Note — Look for Saturday's Carl Albert softball game story in Wednesday's edition.
WISTER — It took until about dusk on Saturday, but the Wister Wildcats were able to get the championship plaque of their own tournament.
Caleb Hill's two-RBI double in the ninth inning rallied the Wildcats to a 9-8 victory over the Red Oak Eagles in the title game of the Wister Tournament.
The 'Cats made it to the title game by defeating the Talihina Golden Tigers 9-2 Friday night in the semifinals, right after the Eagles blanked the Whitesboro Bulldogs 10-0 in the first championship semifinal.
RED OAK — Last year, the Poteau Lady Pirates softball team won the Red Oak Tournament on a cold, almost-wintry night.
While it was summer-like conditions Friday night, the outcome was not the same in 2012 for the Lady Pirates, who lost 12-7 to the Red Oak Lady Eagles in the title game of this season's Red Oak Tournament.
It marked the second win on the day for the Lady Eagles over the Lady Pirates, who earlier beat Red Oak at home in eight innings. Red Oak beat Poteau 13-5 in the winner's-bracket final.


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AMES, Iowa — Homelessness is a problem many of us don't see, but it's often right in front of us. One elementary student heard about the problem in schools and decided she wanted to make a difference.
"I thought I could raise money," fifth grader Aurora Bettazza, 10, said. She is working with the Ames Morning Rotary to raise money for the Ames Community School District. Funds will help buy items for students transitioning through homelessness.
Ames Community School District Homeless Liaison Sipele Quezada said, "I was so touched and moved. One: by her age, and the fact that she was so willing to do that."
Bettazza hopes to raise $1,000 with a fundraiser at Orange Leaf, a frozen yogurt shop, and a garage sale and her Grandma's home in Ames. She wanted to make a difference after hearing her grandma have a conversation about some students not having homes.
"A lot of times when we think of homelessness, we think of a dirty old man living under a bridge, and that's not the fact. It's 4th and 5th graders," Quezada said.
More than 200 students in the Ames Community School District don't have a place to call home. She says about 5 percent of the population in any district deals with the problem. "I would urge people to go out in their own community and find out what they can do," Quezada said.
Bettazza's fundraiser is at the Orange Leaf at 637 Lincolnway in Ames from 4 to 10 p.m. on Monday, July 21st. The garage sale is Saturday, July 26th. Bettazza would like to present a check to the district before school starts in August.
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So They Understand
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Also by William Schneider - When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon
Illustrated with numerous stories collected from Alaska, the Yukon, and South Africa and further enlivened by the author's accessible style and experiences as a longtime oral historian and archivist, So They Understand is a comprehensive study of the special challenges and concerns involved in documenting, representing, preserving, and interpreting oral narratives. The title of the book comes from a quotation by Chief Peter John, the traditional chief of the Tanana Chiefs region in central Alaska: "In between the lines is something special going on in their minds, and that has got to be brought to light, so they understand just exactly what is said."
William Schneider discusses how stories work in relation to their cultures and performance settings, sorts out different types of stories-from broad genres such as personal narratives and life histories to such more specific and less-often considered types as presentations at hearings and other public gatherings-and examines a variety of critical issues, including the roles and relationships of storytellers and interviewers, accurate representation and preservation of stories and their performances, understanding and interpreting their cultural backgrounds and meanings, and intellectual property rights. Throughout, he blends a diverse selection of stories, including his own, into a text rich with pertinent examples.
William Schneider is curator of oral history and associate in anthropology at the Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he introduced oral history "jukeboxes," innovative interactive, multimedia computer files that present and cross-reference audio oral history and related photos and maps. Among other works, his publications include, as editor, Kusiq: An Eskimo Life History from the Arctic Coast of Alaska and, with Phyllis Morrow, When Our Words Return: Writing, Hearing, and Remembering Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon.
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