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Journalists And Foreign Policy Experts Call Out Trump's "Completely Uneducated" "Baffling" Foreign Policy
Journalists and foreign policy experts criticized the "unintelligble" foreign policy positions Donald Trump described during interviews with The New York Times and The Washington Post, and called the GOP presidential front-runner's "ignorance" "breathtaking," saying he has "no understanding of the post-war international order that was created by the United States."
Trump Outlines Foreign Policy With The New York Times And The Washington Post
NY Times: Trump's Foreign Policies "Reflect Little Consideration For Potential Consequences." The New York Times reported on March 26 that Donald Trump said in an interview with the Times that as president, "he might halt purchases of oil from Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies," he "would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals" and he would be willing to renegotiate "many fundamental treaties with American allies." The Times' David Sanger and Maggie Haberman wrote that Trump's positions "reflect little consideration for potential consequences":
Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, said that if elected, he might halt purchases of oil from Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies unless they commit ground troops to the fight against the Islamic State or "substantially reimburse" the United States for combating the militant group, which threatens their stability.
"If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection," Mr. Trump said during a 100-minute interview on foreign policy, spread over two phone calls on Friday, "I don't think it would be around."
He also said he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on the American nuclear umbrella for their protection against North Korea and China. If the United States "keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they're going to want to have that anyway, with or without me discussing it," Mr. Trump said.
And he said he would be willing to withdraw United States forces from both Japan and South Korea if they did not substantially increase their contributions to the costs of housing and feeding those troops. "Not happily, but the answer is yes," he said.
Mr. Trump also said he would seek to renegotiate many fundamental treaties with American allies, possibly including a 56-year-old security pact with Japan, which he described as one-sided.
In Mr. Trump's worldview, the United States has become a diluted power, and the main mechanism by which he would re-establish its central role in the world is economic bargaining. He approached almost every current international conflict through the prism of a negotiation, even when he was imprecise about the strategic goals he sought. He again faulted the Obama administration's handling of the negotiations with Iran last year -- "It would have been so much better if they had walked away a few times," he said -- but offered only one new idea about how he would change its content: Ban Iran's trade with North Korea.
Mr. Trump struck similar themes when he discussed the future of NATO, which he called "unfair, economically, to us," and said he was open to an alternative organization focused on counterterrorism. He argued that the best way to halt China's placement of military airfields and antiaircraft batteries on reclaimed islands in the South China Sea was to threaten its access to American markets.
Mr. Trump explained his thoughts in concrete and easily digestible terms, but they appeared to reflect little consideration for potential consequences. [The New York Times, 3/26/16 [1]]
Wash. Post: Trump's Foreign Policy Positions Are "Unabashedly Noninterventionist." The Washington Post reported on March 21 that in a meeting with the paper's editorial board, Trump laid out his "unabashedly noninterventionist approach to world affairs," including a plan to "significantly diminish[]" U.S. involvement in NATO, and questioned "the value of massive military investments in Asia":
Donald Trump outlined an unabashedly noninterventionist approach to world affairs Monday, telling The Washington Post's editorial board that he questions the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has formed the backbone of Western security policies since the Cold War.
The meeting at The Post covered a range of issues, including media libel laws, violence at his rallies, climate change, NATO and the U.S. presence in Asia.
Speaking ahead of a major address on foreign policy later Monday in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Trump said he advocates a light footprint in the world. In spite of unrest abroad, especially in the Middle East, Trump said the United States must look inward and steer its resources toward rebuilding domestic infrastructure.
Trump said that U.S. involvement in NATO may need to be significantly diminished in the coming years, breaking with nearly seven decades of consensus in Washington. "We certainly can't afford to do this anymore," Trump said, adding later, "NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we're protecting Europe with NATO, but we're spending a lot of money."
Trump sounded a similar note in discussing the U.S. presence in the Pacific. He questioned the value of massive military investments in Asia and wondered aloud whether the United States still was capable of being an effective peacekeeping force there.
"South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we're not reimbursed fairly for what we do," Trump said. "We're constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games -- we're reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing."
Asked whether the United States benefits from its involvement in the region, Trump replied, "Personally, I don't think so." He added, "I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country, and we are a poor country now. We're a debtor nation. [The Washington Post, 3/21/16 [2]]
Journalists Slam Trump's "Completely Uneducated" Foreign Policy Positions
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg: Trump Has "No Understanding Of The Post-War International Order That Was Created By The United States." On the March 27 edition of CBS' Face the Nation, The Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg criticized Trump for having "no understanding of the post-war international order that was created by the United States" and added that it is "really remarkable to imagine that someone who shows so little interest in understanding why the world is organized the way it is organized is this close to the presidency of the world's only superpower":
JOHN DICKERSON (HOST): Jeffrey, I want to switch now to you. Donald Trump gave two interviews this week, one to the Washington Post editorial board and then two sets of interviews with The New York Times, particularly on foreign policy. On the New York Times conversation, what did you glean from his foreign policy worldview?
JEFFREY GOLDBERG: I gleaned that he has no understanding of the post-war international order that was created by the United States, that he has no understanding of why we maintain alliances with such treaty partners as Japan and South Korea, Britain, NATO, and the importance of maintaining those stable relationships with other democracies, shows that he has no idea of nuclear doctrine. I mean, other than that, it was cool. It was really remarkable to imagine that someone who shows so little interest in understanding why the world is organized the way it is organized is this close to the presidency of the world's only superpower. [CBS, Face the Nation, 3/27/16 [3]]
NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Trump Is "Completely Uneducated About Any Part Of The World." On the March 27 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell said that Trump "is completely uneducated about any part of the world." Mitchell explained that Trump's foreign policy proposals, including his acceptance of the possibility that "Japan and South Korea go nuclear," would go against "American policy for decades since World War II." Mitchell also pointed out that Trump "would stop importing oil from Saudi Arabia if they don't pay more for their defense" even though the U.S. is "not energy independent":
CHUCK TODD (HOST): Obviously a bizarre week, Andrea, in so many ways. But I want to go -- because what I think could have been the story of the week was this unbelievable editorial board interview that Donald Trump did with The Washington Post. Let me play a longer excerpt of it and get you to respond.
By the way, just so folks know, when we excerpted it, so then everybody around the room introduced themselves, subject got changed.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Exactly. He cannot stick to a subject. It is remarkable. And when he doesn't know something, he just changes the subject, makes it all about himself.
TODD: On national security it's a very noticeable -- especially to your ears and mine.
MITCHELL: Absolutely. And this was a week where he could have gone after President Obama, arguably. There's a lot happening and the president has some vulnerabilities. So does Hillary Clinton. But instead he's all over the lot. And then The New York Times, David Sanger, Maggie Haberman, do an interview with him, a 90-minute interview and it's in today's paper and online. And the transcript, if you read the transcript online, he would cancel defense treaties with Japan and South Korea against North Korea. He doesn't mind, he would be OK if Japan and South Korea go nuclear. American policy for decades since World War II has been trying to keep nukes out of that arena. He would stop importing oil from Saudi Arabia if they don't pay more for their defense. We need oil. We are not energy independent. We rely on oil still --
TODD: Sure.
MITCHELL: For our daily needs. He is completely all over the lot on Iran. He believes -- he complained that Iran isn't buying our planes. It had to be pointed out to him that Iran is still under sanctions and cannot buy American planes. He thinks North Korea and Iran are the biggest trading partners when North Korea's biggest trading partner is China. He is completely uneducated about any part of the world. [NBC, Meet the Press, 3/27/16 [4]]
New York Daily News: Trump's "Foreign Policy Ideas" Are "Baffling." The New York Daily News' Dennis Slattery wrote on March 26 that in Trump's foreign policy interviews with the Times, he "appeared more adept at dodging serious questions than providing specifics." Slattery called Trump's "foreign policy ideas" "baffling":
Donald Trump says he's been intentionally vague about his foreign policy positions.
The pompous tycoon told the New York Times he has avoided being too specific about his views on global affairs during the primary cycle because he "wouldn't want [adversaries] to know what my real thinking is."
The flamboyant Republican front-runner said he would use better trade deals to negotiate with China regarding tensions in the South China Sea, but he declined to be more specific about his strategy.
The business mogul appeared more adept at dodging serious questions than providing specifics in the rambling 100 minute-long interview. [New York Daily News, 3/26/16 [5]]
Wash. Post's Eugene Robinson: "Trump's Shocking Ignorance" On Foreign Policy "Laid Bare" By Interview. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote on March 24 that Trump's "breathtaking" ignorance on foreign policy matters is "truly frighten[ing]." Robinson said Trump was particularly "vague and vapid" "on foreign affairs," and asserted, "The Republican Party is likely to nominate for president a man who appears to know next to nothing about the issues that would confront him in the job":
Donald Trump's ignorance of government policy, both foreign and domestic, is breathtaking. The Republican Party is likely to nominate for president a man who appears to know next to nothing about the issues that would confront him in the job.
Such a sweeping condemnation may sound unfair. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump were already busy tweeting that I'm a "dummy" or something. But if you read the transcript of Trump's hour-long meeting with the editorial board of The Post, which took place Monday, I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion.
I should note that I'm not a member of the board and therefore did not attend. But The Post published a full transcript , and it is one of the most chilling documents I've read in a long time.
On foreign affairs, Trump was even more vague and vapid. Asked about the future of NATO, he was skeptical of the Cold War's most vital alliance. He complained that we devote "hundreds of billions of dollars to supporting other countries that are, in theory, wealthier than we are."
Called on that figure, he dialed it back to mere "billions." His proposed solution was to "structure a much different deal . . . a much better deal." I can't help but imagine German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande being treated like minor partners in building some luxury condos or a new golf course.
Asked about Russian aggression in Ukraine, Trump said that "other people" should be doing more. Asked about China's bullying actions in the South China Sea, he seemed to indicate he would be prepared to punish the Chinese with a trade war -- but later took it back and said he wanted to be unpredictable. [The Washington Post, 3/24/16 [6]]
CNN's Tara Setmayer: Trump's Foreign Policy Positions Show He "Is Wholly Unqualified To Handle The Real Issues Facing America." CNN political commentator Tara Setmayer called Trump's meeting with the Washington Post editorial board "disastrous," and said "his answers to very serious questions were unintelligible":
TARA SETMAYER: Look, all of this, what Donald Trump is doing, he's deflecting from the fact that he is wholly unqualified to handle the real issues facing America. We just had an awful terrorist attack happen in Brussels. Americans died there. People died there. And what is Donald Trump doing? He is up late at night tweeting about insults about women. He also had a disastrous Washington Post editorial board meeting on Monday that's kind of gotten buried in this whole conversation where he was -- his answers to very serious questions were unintelligible, and people need to really pay attention and look at the future of the country. You want to put it in the hands of someone who's a misogynist and who can't get past their impulses to lash out on not only women, but other people? That's scary. [CNN, New Day, 3/25/16 [7]]
CNN's David Gregory: "There's A Lot" In Trump's "World View That Is Not Very Well-Defined." On the March 28 edition of CNN's New Day, CNN political analyst David Gregory said "There's a lot" in Trump's "world view that is not very well-defined, including how he would approach some of these very difficult decisions." Gregory also pointed out that Trump has "been rather cozy in his respect for authoritarianism" in China and Russia:
ALISYN CAMEROTA (HOST): How do you define the Trump doctrine?
DAVID GREGORY: Well, we've actually seen it before. I mean, it goes back to parts of the 19th century and early 20th century. It is an isolationist foreign policy, one in which he thinks that America is getting ripped off in the international order. He does not believe in the liberal world order that frankly was responsible for beating Nazi Germany and winning the Cold War. He thinks that he can create new deals that are more favorable to the United States economically. There's a lot in his world view that is not very well-defined, including how he would approach some of these very difficult decisions. He's also been rather cozy in his respect for authoritarianism, whether it's in China or in other parts of the world, even in Russia. [CNN, New Day, 3/28/16 [8]]
The Atlantic's Steve Clemons: Trump's Proposals Show "A Real Ineptitude And Naivety About How Foreign Policy Works." On the March 27 edition of MSNBC Live, The Atlantic correspondent Steve Clemons slammed Trump's foreign policy "ineptitude and naivety," criticizing his threat to cut oil purchases from Saudi Arabia for ignoring the "history we have with the Saudis" and "the decades of alliance" between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Clemons ultimately called out Trump for having "no knowledge" of the U.S.-Saudi relationship:
ALEX WITT (HOST): [Trump] said he would support cutting oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudis commit ground troops to fight ISIS. Is this a workable proposal?
STEVE CLEMONS: No it's not. I think the Saudis are already out there, but it basically -- what he doesn't seem to have an awareness of throughout this article is the generations, the decades of alliance that we have had often covertly with the Saudis who have been both banker and oil provider in many of the foreign policy deals the United States has done and to walk away -- first to have no knowledge of it, but secondly to think that you can move a nation like Saudi Arabia by manipulating oil purchases to get them to do something shows a real ineptitude and naivety about how foreign policy works and what capital you build with the country over time. So whether you like the Saudis or dislike the Saudis, the fact is we have a history with the Saudis and a mostly cooperative relationship with them that he seems to have no knowledge of whatsoever. [MNSBC, MSNBC Live, 3/27/16 [9]]
Daily Beast's Jonathan Alter: Evidenced By His "Dangerous-Sounding" Foreign Policy Interview, "There Are Serious Consequences To A Donald Trump Presidency." On the March 27 edition of MSNBC Live, Daily Beast columnist Jonathan Alter slammed Trump's "dangerous-sounding" interview with the Times, writing, "There are serious consequences to a Donald Trump presidency" and his lack of knowledge "about major parts of American history" threaten, among other things, "more than four million American jobs," according to some estimates:
ALEX WITT (HOST): Trump describes his foreign policy worldview as "America First," saying "we have been disrespected, mocked, and ripped off for many, many years. We will not be ripped off any more. We're going to be friendly with everybody, but we're not going to be taking advantage of by anybody." So how is that different than isolationism which he takes care to say he does not support. How is that going to fly with Republican voters?
JONATHAN ALTER: Well I think it will fly well with Republican voters, and I think it will be attractive to some people in a general election, but Hillary will point out some of the downside of being isolationist. And "America First" was the major isolationist organization in the United States in the 1930s and early 1940s before Pearl Harbor. I'm not sure Donald Trump knows that. He might have been bullying kids during history class in high school or lording it over them at Fordham in college when he should have been reading history. If he had known anything about major parts of American history, he would know not to use that phrase "America First." Because what happened, Alex, was that those isolationists who were members of America First, they were proven horribly wrong. They wanted to appease Adolf Hitler by saying no, it's none of our business what goes on in Europe. Let's just stay here in the United States and not worry about it. And we know what happened with that policy. So it is a kind of isolationism. The reason he says he is not isolationist is that he would retaliate big time any time somebody insulted him, which would happen probably on day two of his presidency. This was a very dangerous-sounding interview. He talked about basically nuclearizing Asia by letting other Asian countries develop nuclear weapons.
WITT: Japan and South Korea, specifically
ALTER: This is not a good idea. He talked about essentially abandoning Saudi Arabia. If we think things are unstable in the Middle East right now, wait until Saudi Arabia gets cut loose. then suddenly our oil supplies are disrupted and all kinds of other bad things happen. If we have a trade war. there are Wall Street estimates that are reliable that it would cost more than four million American jobs. We would have unemployment going well past 10 percent. There are serious consequences to a Donald Trump presidency. It's hard to see what all of them were in that interview, because you had to really look closely. But they were there. The warning signs were there in that session with The New York Times. [MSNBC, MSNBC Live, 3/27/16 [10]]
Newsday's Ellis Henican: "When It Comes To Foreign Policy, Donald Trump, He's Just Saying Stuff." On the March 28 edition of MSNBC's First Look, Newsday columnist Ellis Henican ripped Trump's lack of foreign policy expertise, saying "I'm not sure that ... he's really thought about it that much," and that "he's just saying stuff." Henican further added that he and others are still "waiting for the list" of Trump's "best and brightest" foreign policy advisers:
BETTY NGUYEN (HOST): [Trump's interview] leads some to wonder, can he back up some of the claims that he says while he's out there on the campaign trail?
ELLIS HENICAN: Betty, I think when it comes to foreign policy Donald Trump, he's just saying stuff.
NGUYEN: Really?
HENICAN: I'm not sure that he's pro-nuclear, or anti-nuclear, or he's really thought about it that much. I mean, this is a new realm for him, don't forget. And I just think he's just -- he's just saying stuff.
NGUYEN: Well, I mean, but a lot of people are really voting, and will be voting, on what he says, so is this a businessman who thinks, OK, I'm going to comment, I'm going to elect people, I'm going to nominate people, I'm going to get people around me who are smart and who know how to handle this?
HENICAN: You know, I wish. I mean, that would be a good answer. But then we saw this group of folks that he gathered as his, I guess, sort of foreign policy advisers, and even a lot of Republicans are kind of scratching their head, like where did all these guys come from? It's not like, so far at least, we've gotten the best and the brightest of the foreign policy establishment.
NGUYEN: But that's what he's touting, that he's going to have the best and the brightest.
HENICAN: I keep hearing that. But I gotta tell you, we're all still sort of waiting for the list. [MSNBC, First Look, 3/28/16 [11]]
CNN's Christiane Amanpour: Trump's Foreign Policy "Doesn't Make Sense When He Talks About" NATO, And He "Puts On Its Head Decades Of The United States And Its Pacific Allies' Security Relationship." On the March 28 edition of CNN's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, CNN anchor and chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour explained how Trump was wrong about the U.S. relationship with NATO and Asian allies:
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: [Donald Trump] always comes back to the dollars and cents. So, America's broke, therefore, America's weak. These are not true, right, so everybody else has to pony up. This is a businessman's view of the world, presumably. But it doesn't make sense when he talks about, for instance, NATO. NATO is not obsolete. Yes, NATO was created 60-plus years ago in response to the Soviet threat. But still, NATO is the organizing principle by which American and the Western democracies' security is taken care of. And NATO is not just about the United States putting money in. It's about all the other countries putting in their two percent of GDP as well. Now, they don't all, that's true, and America wants them to put more than they do right now. But a good number, nearly half of the NATO countries, put their two percent of GDP in. And the other countries do certain things that America doesn't do. Now, America, because it is the most powerful military in the world, does a lot of the heavy lifting. You know, you have a military operation and America will do the troop lifting, for instance. Or it will do, you know, many of those kinds of things. But many of the other countries, whether it's in Afghanistan or elsewhere, pick up a huge lot of the burden as well.
BROOKE BALDWIN (HOST): What about his point on nukes, how he said specifically he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals so they can protect themselves from North Korea and China?
AMANPOUR: Well again, that puts on its head decades of the United States and its Pacific allies' security relationship, and this is one of the first times we've heard a serious candidate, if not the first time, who will probably be the nominee for the Republican Party, put that forward, and it's not a Republican sort of point of view that I've ever heard in previous elections. This poor me, America's weak kind of thing is not the way Republicans generally see their view, and Americans' view in the world. So one of the reasons why Japan does not have a nuclear arsenal is because of the horror that Japan committed during the Second World War. So Japan has been kind of forced to be a pacifist, pretty much, state. It has a military but it's not an offensive military capability. And so there was a tradeoff. OK, you trade that off. And if there's a problem, we'll come to your rescue. But in the meantime, you'll help us keep the peace in many other ways in that region. So that's one of the reasons why Japan doesn't have nukes. And then of course, well, when it comes to ISIS and all the other things, you need allies to be able to go and help you. [CNN, CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, 3/28/16 [12]]
NYT Editorial Board: Trump's "Disturbing" Foreign Policy Views Are "Contradictory And Shockingly Ignorant." On March 28, the New York Times editorial board criticized Trump's "disturbing" foreign policy views as "contradictory and shockingly ignorant." The board wrote that Trump described "a completely unhinged view of international engagement that denigrates Muslims and other foreigners and international organizations":
Donald Trump might use nuclear weapons to go after Islamic State terrorists. Or maybe not. In a recent spate of interviews, including with The Times, he was unable or unwilling to clarify his disturbing views on this and other critical national security issues, which sometimes shift from one minute to the next.
Mr. Trump is confronting most of these issues for the first time, and many of his thoughts are contradictory and shockingly ignorant. In speaking with The Times, for instance, he complained that one problem with the Iran nuclear deal is that American businesses are now losing out to Europe on lucrative deals with Iran. He did not know that that is because Congress has insisted on keeping American sanctions in place.
Mr. Trump claims he is not an isolationist and wants to "make America great again." It is hard to see how he achieves that when he describes a completely unhinged view of international engagement that denigrates Muslims and other foreigners and international organizations, including the United Nations. Mostly, his vision of cooperation with allies depends largely on how much they would pay the United States for protection. [The New York Times, 3/28/16 [13]]
Foreign Policy Experts Agree: "Trump's Foreign Policy Is A Disaster"
Daniel Drezner: Trump "Did Not Offer Much In The Way Of Clarity" On His Foreign Policy Positions. In a March 22 post, Tufts University international politics professor and Washington Post PostEverything blog contributor Daniel Drezner criticized Trump for "contradicting" himself on world affairs, asking "why should any person, foreign or American, trust anything you say about foreign policy?" (emphasis original):
Are you fully aware that people record your words and can tell when you contradict yourself? This is from the close of your AIPAC speech:
You see, what President Obama gets wrong about deal making is that he constantly applies pressure to our friends and rewards our enemies. That pattern, practiced by the President and his administration, including former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has repeated itself over and over and has done nothing but embolden those who hate America.
OK, so you're opposed to pressuring America's friends and don't want to reward America's enemies. Fair enough! But can you then explain the following things you said to The Washington Post's editorial board?
Well if you look at Germany, if you look at Saudi Arabia, if you look at Japan, if you look at South Korea -- I mean we spend billions of dollars on Saudi Arabia, and they have nothing but money. And I say, why? Now I would go in and I would structure a much different deal with them, and it would be a much better deal. When you look at the kind of money that our country is losing, we can't afford to do this. Certainly we can't afford to do it anymore....
I think the distribution of costs has to be changed. I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it. Obama has been stronger on the Ukraine than all the other countries put together, and those other countries right next door to the Ukraine. And I just say we have, I'm not even knocking it, I'm just saying I don't think it's fair, we're not treated fair. I don't think we're treated fair, Charles, anywhere. If you look everything we have. You know, South Korea is very rich. Great industrial country. And yet we're not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We're constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games, doing other. We're reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.
Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea have been America's friends for decades. When you talk about renegotiating deals with these countries -- not to mention our NAFTA partner Mexico -- aren't you promising to apply even greater pressure to America's friends than President Obama? And maybe, just maybe, does your past praise of Vladimir Putin offer succor to one of America's geopolitical rivals? Can you see how you're contradicting yourself?
What is the point of asking you any substantive questions about foreign policy? You said to the Post's editorial board that any discrepancies could be cleared up with a brief phone call. But consider your myriad flip-flops on the H1-B visa question. Or consider that your AIPAC speech flatly contradicted what you said last month in an MSNBC town hall. What could you say in a brief phone call -- besides "I don't know what I'm talking about" -- that would clarify these inconsistencies? Why should any person, foreign or American, trust anything you say about foreign policy? [The Washington Post, 3/22/16 [14]]
Council On Foreign Relations' Max Boot: Trump "Represents The No. 1 Security Threat To The United States Today." On March 27, the Council on Foreign Relations' Max Boot argued that "Trump is the most radical and most ignorant major-party presidential candidate in our history":
Some have dismissed my assertion that Donald Trump represents the No. 1 security threat to the United States today as "hyperbole." It's not. It's simply reality--because Trump is the most radical and most ignorant major-party presidential candidate in our history. Examples both characteristics were on ample display during his latest foreign policy interview with the New York Times.
All you have to know about Trump is that he proudly asserts that his foreign policy is "America First." When Ted Cruz used the same description, one could imagine it was a dog whistle because this Princeton and Harvard Law graduate presumably knows that "America First" was the isolationist, Nazi-sympathizing movement led by Charles Lindbergh before World War II. In Trump's case it's no doubt an accurate reflection of his quasi-isolationist philosophy and also of his almost limitless ignorance. He probably hasn't heard of the original "America First," and now seems eager to repeat all of its errors. For example he called NATO--the most successful alliance in history and one that is still vital to America's defense--"obsolete." Spoken like a true, if unconscious, disciple of Lindbergh.
Trump thinks that lack of predictability is a virtue while ignoring the need for predictability in international affairs. In the Times interview, asked for policy specifics regarding China policy, he said, "There's such, total predictability of this country, and it's one of the reasons we do so poorly. You know, I'd rather not say that. I would like to see what they're doing." One suspects that his praise of unpredictability is merely a tactic so that he doesn't have to provide answers that he doesn't have. But if he's serious, he is trying to emulate Richard Nixon's "madman" theory. Nixon thought that by suggesting he was capable of anything, even irrational acts, he would coerce North Vietnam into ending its aggression against South Vietnam. It didn't work then, and won't work now.
In sum, it is hard to come away from his Times interview--which comes just a week after his interview with the Washington Post editorial board, which was just as bizarre--without concluding that Trump is singularly unqualified to be commander-in-chief. Handing him the nuclear codes would be the riskiest and most irresponsible act imaginable. With Trump in command, our enemies would have a field day--Moscow and Beijing must be licking their chops at his desire to abandon U.S. allies in Europe and Asia--and our friends would face mortal threats. If that isn't the single biggest threat to U.S. security, I don't know what is. [Commentary, 3/27/16 [15]]
McCain Institute's Erik Brattberg: Trump's "Doctrine" Is A "Radical Departure" From U.S. Foreign Policy. In a March 24 CNBC.com piece, McCain Institute senior fellow Erik Brattberg argued that Trump's "scapegoating of allies and isolationist rhetoric" amounts to "lousy foreign policy for the United States":
Make no mistake: Donald Trump's foreign policy doctrine marks a radical departure from the bipartisan consensus view held in Washington since the end of the Second World War. While Trump has so far offered few foreign policy details -- other than the familiar statements about building a Mexican border wall and imposing extreme tariffs on Chinese trade -- a recent interview in the Washington Post shed new light on how The Donald views the world and America's role in it.
Trump's foreign policy in general, and his views of Europe and NATO in particular, mark a radical departure from generations of previous U.S. presidents and would mark a return to the isolationist policies of the 1930s.
While the scapegoating of allies and isolationist rhetoric may make for good soundbites on the campaign trail, it is a lousy foreign policy for the United States to pursue -- particularly when geopolitical turbulence and instability is on the rise across the globe. Rather than withdrawing from the world, better U.S. leadership and deepened engagement with its allies and partners is needed to tackle these complex 21st century challenges. NATO should be at the very heart of these efforts. [CNBC.com, 3/24/16 [16]]
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Atwood lets four letters of the alphabet assume starring roles in these three alliterative stories—R and W each in its own, with B and D sharing the limelight in another.
In each short, scintillating serving of silliness, a child prevails against dire circumstances of his or her situation through luck and perseverance. Rude Ramsay seeks refuge from his rowdy family and finds a real friend, Rillah, in a romantic rectory. Bob, a boy raised by a boxer, a beagle, and a borzoi, is taught to speak by Dorinda, a girl neglected by distant relatives. Wenda and her companion woodchuck work with three waifs—Wilkinson, Wu, and Wanapitai—to escape a wicked wizard who has held them all captive. Ramping up the humor and a tall-tale exuberance are: missing parents; disasters; villainous relatives and just plain bad adults; friendly rats and wolves and those resourceful dogs; plus icky food combinations ("wormy whitefish, withered whortleberries"). All are nicely matched by Petricic's lively, cartoony, black-and-white illustrations. Rillah, Bob, and Wenda are depicted in the illustrations with pale skin, while Ramsay has slightly darker skin and Dorinda could have one black parent, and in an illustration of Wilkinson, Wu, and Wanapitai, one waif has Asian features and another has dark hair. The exaggerated humor and outlandish situations call to mind Roald Dahl, but the hilarity in this alliterative tour de force is all its own.
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Professor Nicola Shaughnessy
Professor of Performance
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I am Professor of Performance with research and teaching specialisms in contemporary performance, autobiography, applied and socially engaged theatre. I founded Kent's Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance, and I am co-editor of Methuen's Performance and Science series. I was Chair of the QAA Subject Benchmarking Review for Drama, Dance and Performing Arts (2014-15) and I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (academic, international, strategic, knowledge exchange). I was Principal Investigator for the AHRC project, Imagining Autism (2011-2014), an interdisciplinary collaboration between Drama, Psychology and the Tizard Centre (University of Kent). This secured AHRC Follow-On Funding in 2018 (Autism Reimagined: creative resources for schools and communities). A further development from Imagining Autism was a pilot project in 2017, seed-funded by a public engagement research grant (University of Kent), working with community participants to explore autism and gender through a collaborative and creative approach. This resulted in a short film and led to a new AHRC grant for Playing A/Part, a project investigating the experience of autistic women, girls and marginalised genders through participatory arts practices. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Universities of Kent (Drama and Digital Arts) and Surrey (Psychology).
My teaching and research integrates theory and practice, ethics and aesthetics within interdisciplinary contexts. Throughout my career, I have worked across subject boundaries, with publications in literature, film and social science as well as performance studies and theatre history. My current research brings me into dialogue with psychologists and neuroscientists through projects using drama, media and participatory research practices to explore autism, dementia and mental health. Complementing this is an ongoing pursuit and evaluation of the role of creative practice as an embodied methodology and pedagogy. I am particularly interested in supervising PhD students with projects that might be facilitated through cross disciplinary team supervision (see Supervision).
A Joint degree in Drama and English and MA studies in feminist theory created the foundations for my future work and pursuit of practice based approaches to teaching and research. My discovery of a neglected corpus of autobiographical plays by women inspired my PhD and a passion for archival research. A PGCE at Cambridge initiated my interest in applied theatre prior to my first appointment in Cheltenham (now University of Gloucestershire). My extensive experience of curriculum development, academic leadership and educational management began here. I launched a new programme in Performance Arts, participated in the development of a modular degree scheme and the validation process for degree awarding powers. I also directed several productions at Shaftesbury Hall Theatre. After five years I moved to University College Worcester, playing a similar role in developing Drama within a modular scheme. Here I established a long standing relationship with C&T theatre company and developed postdoctoral research, publishing articles on gender, theatre and autobiography.
In 1999 I was appointed at Kent where I introduced modules and programmes in Contemporary Performance and Applied Theatre and participated in the development of the postgraduate Practice as Research programmes and initiated Kent's Graduate Theatre Company Scheme. I've played a variety of leadership roles at Kent to include being Director of Drama (2004-2007) and Deputy Head of the School of Arts (2010-2012).
I was founder and Director (2010-14) of Kent's Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance, based in the School of Arts with cross-faculty engagement, a rapidly developing network and a programme of interdisciplinary events. This was a platform for the development of the Methuen Performance and Science series for which I am co-editor (with Professor John Lutterbie at Stony Brook University). I participate in a range of national and international subject networks, including SCUDD (Committee member 2008-2012), TaPRA, IFTR and Cognitive Futures in the Humanities (see External Roles). I also contribute to funded networks and a series of public and community engagement activities in education, health and participatory arts contexts (see External roles and activities).
Current activities
My work explores the cognitive and physiological processes involved in making, participating in and experiencing performance. In addition to publications I'm involved in practice -based research projects in education, health and workplace contexts. As Principal Investigator for Imagining Autism, I worked with an interdisciplinary team of drama researchers, practitioners and psychologists, evaluating the the efficacy of a participatory drama programme with autistic children (7-12 year olds, using mixed methods). Adapting approaches derived from teaching contemporary performance practice (improvisation, puppetry and intensive interaction in multisensory immersive environments), we designed practical activities for primary schools, developed and delivered training for arts workers and teachers as well as a programme of public engagement (including producing an experimental film documentary). In this project, the dynamic interaction between teaching and research involved using techniques from live art, puppetry and interactive digital media. The work is continuing with residencies in arts centres, a series of autistic community cafes, a developing programme of work for families as well as training for arts workers, education and health professionals.
My latest project, Playing A/Part (AHRC 2018-2021), is also an interdisciplinary collaboration (drama, media arts, psychology) working with autistic girls (aged 11-18), women and marginalised genders, to explore their experiences through participatory arts practices. The project responds to calls for more research and novel methods to understand more about these under-represented groups.
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My teaching specialisms are contemporary performance, applied and socially engaged theatre, autobiographical and documentary drama. In my teaching I explore the relations between performer and audience, liveness and presence in performance; concepts of truth, fiction, authenticity and the 'real'; identity and memory; documentation and archiving performance.
My teaching is research-led and, to some extent, my research is teaching-led as I continue to learn from my students. All my work integrates theory and practice through a commitment to embodied learning and creative practice. I teach the concept of the 'affective practitioner' committed to making work which is transformational, moving and unique.
My lectures are performative so students are required to be present (physically and intellectually). The lecture is an event which does more than communicate knowledge; students are actively engaged as learners (rather than consumers) building on my research on Gertrude Stein: 'to make a play the essence of what happened.'
In the lecture and in the studio we are in an open, liminal space where questions are explored, knowledge is created, understanding is deepened and perspectives change. My practical teaching draws on pedagogies of cognition and play to engage students creatively and conceptually.
Modules developed/taught/convened at Kent include:
- Contemporary Performance Practice (/MA); Applied Theatre; Performing Lives (Autobiography, Documentary and Performance); New Directions (contemporary approaches to theatre directing).
- In conjunction with the Imagining Autism project and with my colleague Dr Melissa Trimingham, we regularly run programmes for training practitioners in the methods we use in Imagining Autism (contemporary performance, puppetry, interactive digital media). For further information see www.imaginingautism.org.
Graduates include:
Accidental Collective: Daisy Orton, Pablo Pakula, MDrama Contemporary Performance Practice, 2006).
- Little Bulb: Alex Scott, Claire Beresford, Dominic Conway, Shamira Turner (Graduates from MDrama's Contemporary Performance Practice specialism, 2008-2010)
- Kristin Fredrickson (Beady-Eye), MA PaR 2009)
- Paul Hurley (live artist) BA2001
- Veronica Needa (True Heart Theatre, Playback practitioner, MA PaR, 2009)
- Paul Sutton, (Director/practitioner; founder of C&T PhD, 2007)
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My work is connected through interests in five interacting themes:
- Identity in and through performance (gender, autobiography, neurodiversity);
- Performance engaging with psychologies (e.g. autism, dementia)
- Participatory and socially engaged performance (ethics, aesthetics and evaluation)
- Interdisciplinary interactions between arts/science/health (e.g. cognitive approaches to theatre and performance; creative research methodologies)
- Practice and play-based pedagogies
Current Projects
- Performing Psychologies: Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Mind, with Philip Barnard, edited collection for Methuen Performance and Science series (publication in 2019)
Playing A/Part: Investigating the experiences of autistic women, girls and marginalised genders through drama, digital media and participatory arts (AHRC 2018-2021).
Externally funded activities/networks
- Autism Reimagined: Creative Resources for Schools and Communities (AHRC Follow-On funding, 2018). See https://imaginingautism.org/
- Dementia, Arts and Well-Being Network (DA&WN) AHRC network, led by Justine Schneider, University of Nottingham
- Autism and Ethics Network, led by Kristien Hens, University of Antwerp
- 'Affective Performance and Cognitive Science is a deft exploration of the kind of cross-disciplinary work that promises to contribute to a fundamental shift in the way we think about performance. Still, it progresses in considered, purposeful steps and remains quite accessible to those with little experience in the sciences. The essays provide both an effective entry point into cognitive studies for those rooted in the arts, as well as suggestive maps for future work, collaborative or otherwise. Shaughnessy illuminates the complex and fruitful space created by challenging binary separations of art and science, then she invites us to dance across it too' (Robert J Vrtis, Theatre Journal
- "At the beginning of writing, there is a loss, what cannot be said" (de Certeau, 1984, 195); Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice (2012), by Nicola Shaughnessy, manages to say quite a lot about applied theatre, performance, cognitive science and affective theory. In fact, whether performances are viewed as decomposing presences moving toward memorable absence, whether they are meaningful social practices in educational, social or community contexts, whether they are inter-subjective, liminal spaces challenging traditional structures and frameworks, Shaughnessy uses her expert authority to prove that performance matters, and that it matters in an enormous way. yko-Head, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. 14(2).
- 'Applying Performance is a timely and engaging addition to the field, extending the scope and possibilities of what defines applied theatre, and pointing to emerging trends and thinking.' - Michael Balfour, Chair, Applied and Social Theatre, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia
- 'Nicola Shaughnessy's book establishes her as the leading international authority on affective cognition in applied performances. Building on insights from previous scholars, she understands that the turn to affect undermines the older, Kantian distinction between useful and aesthetic theatre." Bruce McConachie, Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh)
- 'Shaughnessy's writing is clear, concise, and leads readers into the complexity of Stein's [work] …Standard critical problems such as Cubism, Stein's style and thematic preoccupations, and the dialogues in her later dramas are dealt with succinctly.. ' (Year's Work in English Studies 2010)
- A thoroughly compelling take on Susan Glaspell's 'disappearing subject' by Nicola Shaughnessy. In its thoughtful theorization of both the physical place of the playwright and the playwright's own preoccupations with place in her work…(Feminist Review, 84 2006)
- Playing A/Part: Investigating Female Autism through Drama, Interactive Media and Participatory Arts, AHRC, 2018-2021, £645, 180 (£806,475fEC).
- Autism Re-Imagined, Creative Resources for Schools and Communities, £29,033.75, AHRC Follow-On Funding award, 2018.
- 'The Changing Faces of Autism: Filming Futures.' University of Kent Public Engagement with Research Award, 2017-2018, £1942
- 'Beacon Institute: Illuminating Arts and Science, University of Kent 50th Anniversary Beacon Award, 2014-16, £97,450.
- Now I see the World: Imagining Autism experimental film documentary (co-investigator, Sarah Turner) 1st September 2012-December 31st 2013, £10,000
- 'Imagining Autism', AHRC, Principal Investigator (Co-Investigators: Dr Melissa Trimingham, Dr Julie Beadle-Brown, Dr David Wilkinson) October 1st 2011-September 30th 2014, £344,187 grant (total project cost £429,277.06)
- 'Puppetry and Play as Interventions for Autism', Ideas Factory, 50% contribution (co investigator Dr Melissa Trimingham) September-March 2009-10, £8,875
- 'All the World's a Stage: Communication and Performance Techniques for the Workplace', Ideas Factory, 35% contribution (co investigators, Dr Helen Brooks, Dr Daniela Peluza) September 2009-June 2010, £5,000
- 'Beyond the Box: Creative Thinking and Innovation,' Ideas Factory, 50% contribution (co investigator, Dr Helen Brooks) September 2009-June 2010, £5,000
- Canterbury Blitz Community Project, National Lottery, 20% contribution (Co-investigator John Batchelor, Engineering and Digital Arts) September-March 2006-2007. £20,000
- THES Shortlisted Research Supervisor of the Year 2018
- Research Supervisor of the Year, 2018, University of Kent
- University of Kent, Faculty of Humanities Research Prize, 2015
- Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA): shortlisted for David Bradby TaPRA Award for Research in International Theatre and Performance (2014)
- University of Kent, Innovation Project of the Year, 2011 (with Dr Melissa Trimingham for Imagining Autism)
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I welcome applications from potential postgraduate students interested in pursuing research in my areas of expertise (to include PaR and interdisciplinary proposals):
- Cognitive approaches to theatre and Performance
- Applied and socially engaged theatre
- Identity in performance (gender, autobiography, neurodiversity)
- Performance, psychopathology and mental health
- Creativity research methods and pedagogy
Key terms: contemporary performance, live art, neuroscience, cognition, creativity, autobiography, autism, gender, well-being.
Prospective students would become members of the Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance.
In 2018, I was selected by Kent Graduate School for their inaugural award for Research Supervisor of the Year.
PhD completions
University of Kent
- Hannah Newman (2018): Reimagining Autism: how Drama environments can aid the diagnosis of autism (PhD studentship, jointly supervised between the Tizard Centre, Psychology and Drama with external supervision from Dr Yvonne Parkes, Consultant Paediatrician, Kent NHS).
- Robbie Wilson (2018): Towards a Ludic Ecology: Popular Participatory Peripatetic Performance (Kent GTA).
- Astrid Breel (2016): Conducting creative agency: the aesthetics and ethics of participatory performance (Kent GTA).
- Christopher Dingwall_Jones (2014): "Antic Dispositions?": The Representation of Madness in Modern British Theatre, (Kent GTA).
- Roanna Mitchell (2013): The body politics of acting in the context of training and the performance industry: perspectives from contemporary Britain' (Kent GTA).
- Deborah Leveroy (2012): Enabling Performance: Dyslexia and Acting Practice (Kent GTA).
- Paul Sutton (2005): The Dramatic Property: a new paradigm of applied theatre practice for a globalised media culture
PhD continuing
- Amanda McDowell: Performing a womens' mental health archive: traumatise texts, haunted voices and diasporic visions. Co-supervision Between SoA and Fine Art, (CHASE funded).
- Philippa Strandberg-Long: The self-conscious actor: A study into Meisner technique, cognition and attention in actor training (Kent GTA).
- Annette Foster: Autism, Performance and Identity: Articulating women and trans/nonbinary people's experience of Autism through live art (Kent GTA).
- Isla Hall: Performing Power: A Feminist Post-structural Discourse Analysis of gender-blind casting practice and performance choices in Julius Caesar.
- Luke Allder: English Language Acquisition through Performing Arts Practice (Co-supervision between SoA and Language and Linguistics, CHASE funded).
- Carmel Sammut: Reading empathically: how young adult readers cognitively and emotionally connect with fictional characters. Co-supervision between SoA and English Language and Linguistics).
Other PhD Completions
- Paul Johnson, (2006) Quantum Performance: Scientific Discourse in the Analysis of the Work of Contemporary British Theatre Practitioners. PhD thesis, Coventry University in collaboration with University of Worcester.
- Huw Bucknell (1998), Radio Comedy Drama, University of Coventry in collaboration with University of Worcester.
PhD Examining
- Marilyn Panayi, 2018, University of Westminster, Life Sciences, Cognition in Action: Re-thinking Gesture in Neuro-atypical young people.
- Karen Dainty, 2018, Bishop Grosteste, University of Leicester, Educaton, Empathy and Sympathy in Applied Theatre.
- Dawn-Joy-Sau Mun Leong, 2016, University of New South Wales, Fine Art, Scheherazade's Sea – autism, parallel embodiment and elemental empathy,
- Petronilla Whitfield, 2015, University of Warwick, Education, 'Towards accessing Shakespeare's texts for those with SPLD (dyslexia): an investigation into the rationale for building visual constructs.
- Jennifer Lawson, 2011, University of Leeds, Theatre and Performance, Playing with the Domestic Goddess: Performance Interventions into Contemporary Food Culture.
External Examining
- BA Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick, 2016-20
- BA Theatre and Performance, University of Leeds (2015-18)
- BA Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011-15
- BA Drama University of Northampton, 2009-13
- FdA Performing Arts Bournemouth University, 2002-06
- BA Drama Liverpool Hope University, 1999-2002
Other External Roles
- Chair Shortlisting Panel for AHRC/Wellcome Trust Health Humanities Medals
- Chair QAA Subject Benchmarking Review for Drama, Dance and Performing Arts (DDP) 2014-15
- Member of QAA Drama, Theatre and Performance Benchmarking Panel (March 2007)
- HE Expert for consultation on UCAS Tariff for Speech and Drama Awards (May 2006)
- Panel Member for validation of Edexcel BTEC Foundation Degree in Performing Arts and Theatre (NVC, Nov 2005)
- Board of Directors, Vayu Naidu Theatre Company, Education and Outreach, 2002-05
Professional Associations and Memberships
- AHRC Peer Review College member, 2014-20
- Standing Conference of University Drama Departments (SCUDD) 2008-12, Executive Committee Member (including Executive Committee representative for REF Working Party, 2010-11)
Imagining Autism
- Imagining Autism Residency, Beacon School, November 2018
- CPD workshops, Beacon School, Spring 2018
- Autism Day, Festival of the Brain, Folkestone, May 2018
- Presentation for Kent Multi Agency Autism Group (MAAG), NHS Community Health, June 21 2017
- Residency at the Atkinson Arts Centre, Southport, March 6-16. Programme of training and workshops for schools with participants across the spectrum, aged 6-18.
- Training events: Imagining Autism for Professionals (Atkinson & schools, March 8/14)
- Autism Cafes (for families and carers) Atkinson & schools, March 13/16)
- Screening of "Now I see the World" for Festival of the Brain, Quarterhouse, Folkestone, May 28 2016
- "Imagining Autism: Extraordinary Aesthetics", London, June 2013 "Lifting the Curtain" Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, April 2013
- The Funny thing about Autism" for "Lifting the Curtain" Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, April 2013)
In conjunction with the Imagining Autism project and with my colleague Dr Melissa Trimingham, we regularly run programmes for training practitioners in the methods we use for interacting with autism (contemporary performance, puppetry, interactive digital media). For further information see www.imaginingautism.org.
For National Autistic Society (NAS)
- Invited speaker for NAS conference, on 'Understanding and Supporting Challenging Behaviour.'Presentation on 'the importance of play-based approaches for children with autism'. Reading, June 25 2015
- Poster, presentation and workshop demonstration of "Imagining Autism" for NAS Professional conference, Harrogate, 2013
- Programme of workshops for teachers in NAS residential schools: Sybil Elgar, Robert Ogden, Broomhayes, Radlett Lodge (January- December 2013)
- Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise (ICE), University of Kent
- 'Drama in the Workplace' (with Dr H.E.M. Brooks, Dr D.Peluza and Accidental Collective Theatre Company). Workshop and performance, September 2009 with further outputs through lecture demonstration for Kent Enterprise, May 2010, paper for Theatre and Performance Research Association, September 2011 and presentation for CIDRA at Central School of Speech and Drama (HEA funded event on applied theatre and social enterprise), March 5 2012
- Beyond the Box: Creative Thinking and Innovation,' (with Dr H.E.M.Brooks) Ideas Factory, September 2009-June 2010 Four part raining package: 'Collaborative strategies for team communication', 'Succeeding in the spotlight', 'Realising your creative potential' and 'Setting the scene for change'. Training courses profiled through presentations for Kent Business-to-Business Expo (2010) and the ICE launch, April 2010
- 'All the World's a Stage: Communication and Performance Techniques for Business', (with Dr H.E.M Brooks and Dr D.Peluza) Ideas Factory, September 2009-June 2010
Other Activities
- Invited Presentation: 'In sickness or in health? Creativity, well-being and performance in the work place' for Arts, Humanities and Well-Being, UEA 23 May 2016
- Collaboration with "Extended Mind"
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On our visit to 'The Baltic' we went up to the fifth floor to look out of the very special viewing window.
We were amazed at the wonderful sights! We could see 'The Sage' building and all of the bridges that went across the River Tyne.
The children could see The Tyne Bridge, The Swing Bridge and The Millennium Bridge!
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Last night, Hurricane Gustav weakened to a Tropical Storm as it trekked across Haiti. It is expected to strengthen once it leaves the island returning to hurricane strength sometime in the next 24 – 36 hours.
Long range computer models forecast this storm will head into the Gulf of Mexico heading towards the Louisiana coast as a category 3 hurricane (winds between 111 – 130 mph). Of course, these storms are very unpredictable and much can happen over the next few days.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 – 8:00 AM advisory (from AccuWeather)
A hurricane warning for Cuba in the provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago De Cuba and Granma.
A tropical storm warning is in effect for Haiti from the Dominican Republic/Haiti border westward to Le Mole St. Nicholas.
A hurricane watch is in effect for the Caymans, Jamaica and the Cuban Provinces of Las Tunas and Holguin.
A tropical storm watch is in effect for Haiti from Le Mole St. Nicholas to the northern Haiti/Dominican Republic border.
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At 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Gustav remained a tropical storm. The center was located near the northern coast of the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, about 90 miles west of Port Au Prince. The center of the storm was near 18.8 north and 73.7 west, moving to the northwest at 5 mph. Maximum-sustained winds have held at 60 mph, with some higher gusts. The estimated central pressure is 997 mb, or 29.44 inches. Gustav has remained nearly stationary over the last 6-8 hours and brought significant rainfall to the area. The storm will continue to bring heavy rain to much of Haiti through the morning hours today, with rain spreading into eastern Cuba during the day and eventually to Jamaica late today and tonight. Rainfall of 5 to 10 inches more is likely with local amounts of 20 plus inches, especially at the higher terrain. This will produce life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides.
Although Gustav has weakened, the storm will move over water again. Therefore, strengthening is likely to occur during the day into tonight. Once emerging into the Windward Passage today, it will be back over the very warm waters of the northern Caribbean. Atmospheric conditions will also be very favorable for intensification during this time as it passes north of Jamaica late tonight and Thursday, probably becoming a Category 2 midday on Thursday. Similar rainfall to that which will douse Haiti and easternmost Cuba today will spread across Jamaica and central Cuba tonight and Thursday. In addition, a storm surge of 3 to 6 feet above normal is possible. Gustav will then continue on a mostly westerly course south of Cuba and very near the Cayman Islands on Friday then toward the Yucatan Channel on Saturday. There is a possibility that Gustav could become a dangerous Category 3 hurricane sometime on Friday or Saturday as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico. All interests along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico need to watch the progress of this storm for early next week, especially the central and western Gulf Coast areas.


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Galettes seem to be all the Autumn baking rage these days, but what exactly are they? Well, according to Fine Cooking, galettes are pastries that similar to tarts, but are more of a free-form, rustic style tart that are simply folded over to hold in the juices of fruits. So, now you know.
Since Thanksgiving is right around the corner here in Canada and with apples well in season, this galette is the perfect Autumn treat. We've topped ours with a maple crumble and a simple maple-caramel butter sauce (yes, you read that right) that makes this pastry absolutely delectable while looking real impressive for your family and friends. However, there's no need to worry. It's a fairly straightforward process making this homey dessert and what's more appropriate for your perfect afternoon of baking than listening to some gangster rap?
That's right, this recipe is inspired by-
Apple of My Eye- Rick Ross (feat. Raphael Saadiq)
For the crust
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cubed
- 2 tbsp. (or more) ice water
For the filling
- 1 1/2 pounds apples, peeled, cored and sliced (roughly 4 cups)
- 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
For the maple crumble
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 2 tbsp. maple syrup
For the maple-caramel butter sauce
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup caramel syrup (store-bought or homemade)
- 2/4 cup milk (or heavy cream)
For the crust
- Pulse flour and salt in a food processor with chilled butter (we put ours in the freezer for a few mins to make sure it's perfectly cold) and ice water until dough just clumps up into a ball.
- Dump dough onto work surface and form into an 8″ disc. Chill the disc for 1 hour.
- Once the dough is chilled, roll the dough out on a floured surface until it is a 1/8″ thick round. Transfer the round onto a parchment-lined un-rimmed baking sheet. Chill for 15 minutes.
For the filling and maple crumble
- Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine apple slices, sugar, cinnamon and lemon zest in medium bowl. Toss to blend.
- Arrange apple slices over crust in an overlapping pattern, leaving roughly 1 1/2″ border for folding.
- Fold the plain crust border over the apple, ensuring to pinch any cracks.
- Optional: brush the crust with whole milk or an egg wash and sprinkle with sugar for a golden crust.
- In a small bowl, combine maple syrup with oats. Top galette with the maple crumble.
- Bake the galette for 20 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 375°F and continue baking until the crust is golden and cooked through. Around 25-30 minutes.
For the maple-caramel butter sauce
- In a small pot, melt butter over medium heat, stirring constantly until it becomes aromatic and browned (it will have brown bits on the bottom). Make sure to stir constantly to ensure it does not burn!
- Add maple syrup, caramel syrup and stir to combine.
- Add milk (or heavy cream) and stir it constantly until it thickens to your liking* *Note: You'll have to warm up the sauce whenever you are serving it as the butter will solidify.
Allow your galette to cool for 10 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and maple-caramel butter sauce or by itself!
Trust us, you'll absolutely love this. It's the perfect cross between an apple crumble and apple pie. We're sure you're drooling already!


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01 Nov 45 Hyatt Properties Rank Among Conde Nast Traveler's Best Hotels
(republished from Hyatt Corporate Communications, October 23, 2017 edition, written by Jorian Weiner)
Readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine have spoken – and they've ranked 35 Hyatt hotels as being the 'best of the best' in their cities, states or regions.
The publication unveiled the results of its 30th annual Reader's Choice Awards, the longest-running and most prestigious of excellence in the travel industry. More than 300,000 readers submitted millions of ratings and tens of thousands of comments, voting on a record-breaking 7,320 hotels and resorts, 610 cities, 225 islands, 468 cruise ships, 158 airlines and 195 airports. All of the 2017 winners will be celebrated in the November issue of Conde Nast Traveler.
Forty-five Hyatt hotels and resorts around the world made the list in the following categories, with their rankings noted next to each hotel name:
Top Resorts in Southern California
Park Hyatt Aviara Resort, Golf Club & Spa (#6)
Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa (#17)
Top Resorts in Texas and Southwest U.S.
Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Spa (#3)
Travaasa Austin (#9)
Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa (#11)
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa (#19)
Royal Palms Resort and Spa (#26)
Top Resorts in Eastern Mexico
Andaz Mayakoba Resort Riviera Maya (#6)
Top Resorts in Caribbean
Hyatt Ziva Rose Hall (#20)
Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort Spa and Casino (#53)
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Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort Spa & Marina (#8)
Top Resorts in Hawaii
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Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa (#12)
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa (#18)
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Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa (#13)
Top Resorts in Central America
Andaz Peninsula Papagayo Resort (#12)
Top Hotels in Boston
Hyatt Regency Boston (#10)
Top Hotels in Washington D.C.
Park Hyatt Washington (#12)
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Hyatt Regency Albuquerque (#20)
Top Hotels in the South (U.S.)
Hyatt Regency Greenville (#29)
Andaz Savannah (#30)
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Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside (#12)
Top Hotels in Midwest (U.S.)
Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch (#11)
Top Hotels in the Middle East
Park Hyatt Dubai (#15)
Top Hotels in Texas
The Driskill (#17)
Top Hotels in New York and Mid-Atlantic U.S.
Hyatt at The Bellevue (#21)
Top Hotels in New York City
Andaz 5th Avenue (#30)
Park Hyatt New York (#33)
Top Hotels in Los Angeles
Andaz West Hollywood (#7)
Top Hotels in Hawaii
Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach (#10)
Top Hotels in Florida
Hyatt Regency Orlando (#15)
Top Hotels in Chicago
Park Hyatt Chicago (#22)
Top Hotels in Northern California
Andaz Napa (#34)
Top Hotels in Miami:
The Confidante Miami (#11)
Top Hotels in France and Monaco:
Hyatt Regency Nice Palais de la Méditerranée (#10)
Top Hotels in Paris:
Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme (#15)
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Hyatt Regency London–The Churchill (#28)
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Top Hotels in China:
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Top Hotels in Japan:
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Park Hyatt Tokyo (#9)
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Park Hyatt Sydney (#8)
Prestige Global Meeting Source is proud to call Hyatt Hotels & Resorts a brand partner. The Prestige Sales Team has a vast collection of knowledge about this wonderful hotel brand. If you have questions about sending your next group or event to one of the Hyatt Hotels listed above, or any Hyatt hotel, please contact us and we'd be happy to help!


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Not only do some processed foods contain trans-fat, but they also have heavy carbohydrates which is known to damage collagen and fibers in your sensitive skin. Processed foods also contain artificial ingredients, preservatives, colorants, flavor and texturants. Bear in mind that large companies get away with including extra ingredients inside processed foods without listing them. Would you trust a guy off the street who offered you some "mystery food"? Why not?


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Inclusion is so built into the culture at Wines Elementary, it's hard to spot it when you see it.
People sometimes think of inclusion as something out of the ordinary; as an outsider entering in to a new situation, says Principal David DeYoung. "But we don't see it as that," he says. "We see it as: You are part of the community. And—like everyone else—you bring your own needs to the classroom. Everyone gets what they need. Some kids need different things."
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The sister organisation to Workforce Wellness namely Valentine OH is to host a training event in the Midlands to help organisations to understand their responsibilities and understanding of occupational health. The event will be run by an experienced Occupational Health Specialist Practitioner.
Specifics of this event listed below:
Understanding Occupational Health
Who should attend?
Human Resources will be a natural fit for this event although any individual looking after Occupational Health within their organisation. Any individual looking to improve their understanding and knowledge of Occupational Health.
Event objective:
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- Understand the Occupational Health Liaison Structure
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A Second Birth
by Ariel Mitchell
directed by Kayla Friend
In a rural village in southern Afghanistan, a family struggles with the tradition of bacha posh - the practice of raising a daughter to act, dress, and behave like a boy. As her feminine features begins to blossom, Nasim(a) must confront the relationships of her past and the traditions of her future to find out who she truly is.
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HBOT – Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is medicine's most efficient way of transporting oxygen throughout the body. HBOT not only delivers oxygen through hemoglobin, but due to the increased pressure, the oxygen dissolves in the plasma, cerebrospinal fluid in the brain and spinal cord, lymph and other body fluids. This results in increased delivery of oxygen to the tissues, and the additional oxygen is important in supplying the much needed oxygen to areas with limited blood flow.
Hyperbaric oxygen has a multitude of other benefits that include: curbing infection through its boosting the immune system, flooding harmful anaerobic organisms with unfriendly oxygen, promoting the growth of new capillaries and blood vessels, especially in areas with poor circulation, and boosting collagen formation for faster wound healing. Stem cells are mobilized and rejuvenated. A full course of HBOT may increase stem cells by 800%.
You will have the benefit of a large chamber that can fit up to two people. A typical session lasts 60-90 minutes. You will be breathing 96% – 97% oxygen at 10 liters per minute versus 6 liters at normal atmospheric pressure. The increased flow rate is to overcome the resistance to oxygen flow secondary to the 1.3 atmospheric pressure within the chamber. As the pressure is gradually increased you may notice increased pressure in your ears, similar to that of a flight landing. This is usually the only discomfort. If you are severely claustrophobic, you may wish for someone to drive you to the facility, as the administration of valium will ease your anxiety. However, this is very unusual as the chamber is large enough to accept at least two people. You will be in constant touch and communication with at least one technician on the outside. You may wish to listen to music during the management, and you are encouraged to move around within the chamber during the procedure. The increase and decrease in pressure is carefully monitored and controlled by the staff. In a small percentage of cases ear pressure correction is delayed. If this happens, we stop the increase in pressure with an escape valve until you are ready for another increase.
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HBOT can assist in healing a wide variety of physical wounds and other internal damage including sports injuries, edema, neuropathic pain and even liver damage.
HBOT reverses hypoxia by increasing the flow of oxygen and promoting the growth of new blood vessels. As a result, your body's natural collagen production increases allowing for faster wound healing.
- Basic Wound Healing: HBOT relieves hypoxia, a deficiency of oxygen reaching your body's tissues. In doing so, your body's ability to produce collagen and mobilize stem cells is increased for faster healing. Levels of cytokines such as TNF alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-6 are also reduced, decreasing painful inflammation.
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Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People!May 19, 2011
The list of costumes for the Las Vegas Star Trek convention just keeps growing. I rewatched the Voyager episode "Bride of Chaotica!" earlier tonight and thought, "Hey now, Arachnia has one spiffy outfit! I should make that!" The first problem was instantly obvious...all the scenes featuring the costume are in black & white, so I have no idea what colour the costume is! There were a few things I could tell, though. Like, that is alloooooot of beadwork. The entire gown is nothing but beads. But look how fantastic it is! It's so 1930s villain in its fabulousness.
Being totally beaded, the style of the dress itself is pretty simple. (Thank the costuming gods for that one.) There are appliques on the front and back of the bodice, as well as on the shoulders, where they support those crazy feather...thingies.
I was thinking of making the dress either red or purple, when I ran across the image to the right. It was red! Or, so I thought. I then managed to find the Christie's auction listing for this very costume, which described the costume thus:
A black gown covered with copper beadwork, sequins and elaborate black metallic bead trim; a high beaded plastic collar piece, black shoes with sequins, feathered shoulder pieces, and other accessories with corresponding costume and makeup notes -- worn by Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway playing Queen Arachnia, "The Bride of Chaotica" in the Captain Proton holodeck simulation (4)
The costume was originally expected to go for between $600-800, but it brought in a whopping $4560! I wish there were more detail shots, but at least there's a good basic description and a colour photo. So, the dress itself is black, and the beadwork was copper, not red. Hmm...time to hunt for wholesale beads.
Thank the costume gods for Panda Hall. They sell beads by the pound, and they sell 'em cheap. 5 pounds of copper seed beads in size 6/0 will run me a whopping $6. Of course, 5 pounds is 5 pounds, and coming from China, shipping will cost a pretty penny. I think an order of 5 pounds ended up costing $45 in shipping. Yikes! Still, you couldn't buy that many beads in the store (an amazing 22,500 beads in 5 pounds!) for $45, so it'll be worth it.
My next step is to build myself a nice big bead loom. Logically, it can't be too difficult to construct...I just need some wood for the frame, some nails, and a pair of long springs. That'll happen in the near future, after my current commissions are taken care of.
In the meantime, someone online (I lost the link, if they're yours, let me know and I'll credit!) complied a bunch of shots of Queen Arachnia that show some good detailing, so I'll share them, too, in case someone else needs the references! :)
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I've SO wanted to make this for a Halloween costume (for several years now). Thanks for finding some real (full length shots)! The beading, however, is very much beyond my amount of free time.ReplyDelete
I'm curious what loom technique you'd use? The nonuniform way the beads lay seem to reflect being sewn directly to the base dress or remind me a bit of the peyote method. I suppose it could just be the weight and drape of it... (now you've got me thinking crazy hard)
I can't wait to see your process/results!
Yeah, that's the one thing that's kept me from actually starting this project. It definitely looks like it's all applied directly to the gown itself, and isn't woven after all. ~headdesk~ Figures! lol Though, now that you mention it, it really does look like it could be woven peyote style. Hmmm...now my wheels are turning. lolReplyDelete
I already know I'll have to postpone this costume until next year's Vegas convention, but if I do, then there's no reason I shouldn't have it finished in time. :D Now I just need to find someone to be Captain Proton!
Making one of these myself. Should be a bit of an adventure. Thinking about applying all those beads is about enough to make me swoon, but I'm also eager to give it a go. Thanks for your post, it's actually been extremely useful. Keep us up to date!ReplyDeleteReplies
Best of luck on the project! I am considering starting on this one pretty soon...I really want to get my pic with Kate Mulgrew while decked out in this costume!Delete
Glad my post is useful! :D


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