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The Magazine of History & Fiction
Two Stories by Michele Stepto
BIO: Michele Stepto has taught literature and writing at Yale University for many years, and recently at the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. Her work has appeared online at Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast (at Indolentbooks.com), Ekphrastic Review, NatureWriting, Mirror Dance, Lacuna Journal, and One Sentence Poems. Along with her son Gabriel, I translated from the original Spanish Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World.
Many years ago, in a small cabin on the edge of a large plantation, there lived a servant named Hattie and her daughter, Kalida. Hattie was lame and had been from an early age, so lame that she could not work in the fields with the other servants. But her skills with a needle were such that her masters were happy to employ her in less onerous tasks as their family's seamstress and as general seamstress to the plantation.
In one corner of Hattie's cabin stood a ghostly huddle of cotton mannequins corresponding to the lineaments of her master and mistress, of their grown children, who lived in nearby households, and of the children's maiden aunt, who moved about among them, spending a month here, a month there, and terrorizing the servants at whatever place she happened to be visiting; and next to these, an old trunk teeming with precious stuffs woven in Europe and beyond, with laces worked by childish fingers in places half the world away, with pearls carefully pierced and ready to be threaded on a bodice or a sleeve, and all manner of other curiosities, laboriously obtained or manufactured, with which it was the fashion then to decorate oneself.
This treasure, worth as much as an able-bodied servant, Hattie looked upon dispassionately. She cared only for her daughter Kalida, the last of her children. The rest had been sold away or given as marriage gifts to her master and mistress's children, but Kalida she had been allowed to keep, and this was treasure enough for Hattie. The trunk that stood by her hearth seemed lifeless by comparison, and yet upon command she would transform some portion of its contents into a rich garment to astonish the neighborhood. She had made ball gowns for her mistress, bridal dresses and veils for her mistress's daughters, baptismal robes for their numerous offspring, and for the gentlemen of the family brocaded waistcoats as startling as a peacock. Wherever her garments went, the response was the same; whoever saw her handiwork wanted to know how they might obtain this jewel of a servant for their own use.
Over the years, her master had received countless offers to buy Hattie, but he had always refused to part with her. "There is magic in her needle," he would say. "No price can be put on that." But now that Hattie was getting old, he began to think otherwise. She would not bear any more children, that was a certainty. Her only worth now was as a seamstress, and yet what if her eyesight failed, as so often happened in this line of work? She would then be entirely worthless, blind and lame, a burden on his purse. Better to let her go while her skills still commanded a good price, he reasoned. He expected that his wife, as the chief beneficiary of Hattie's talents, would oppose his plan, but to his surprise she agreed. They would sell Hattie and keep the daughter, she said, and be none the worse for it, since Kalida had her mother's skills with a needle and youth besides. And so the master rode into the next county to speak with an acquaintance, the father of a large family of eligible daughters who had often pestered him about buying the seamstress, and he returned that evening, well-pleased with the deal he had struck, and sent one of the house servants to Hattie's cabin to let her know that on the next day she would be changing households.
That night, their last together, Hattie unstrapped from her around wrist the band in which she kept her needles and handed it to Kalida, saying "These are yours now." It contained several small sharps and a large, iron needle for the coarse cloth Hattie used to make clothing for the servants. "This one's spirit is strong," Hattie said, pointing to the iron needle, and that was all she said. Kalida was left to wonder what it meant.
A few days after Hattie left, a letter arrived from the maiden aunt, who happened to be staying with one of her nephews in the neighborhood of Hattie's new master. Hattie was dead, the letter said. She hadn't finished up a single article of clothing in her new place. She hadn't even brought her tools, did they know that? She had gone into the cabin they pointed out to her and lain down first thing and crossed her hands across her chest, and from that moment her strength began to fail. She stared at the ceiling as if she could see to the other side of it, and kept her hands folded, and they went up and down for a while to show that she was still breathing, but in three days the hands were still, and so was the rest of Hattie, still and narrow as some old twig out in the woods. The new master was storming mad, the aunt wanted them to know, and likely to come riding their way to get back the money he had paid. That, or Kalida. Because he still needed a seamstress to dress those trifling daughters of his.
The next day the new master arrived, angry and shouting. The old master took him into the library and closed the door, and after a few minutes they reached an agreement, which was this: the old master would hire Kalida out to the new master for a year and a day, so she could dress the man's daughters for being out in the world and courted by gentleman. And if at the end of that time all the girls were married or engaged, they would settle up, and if one or two of them weren't, they'd figure that out too. So Kalida packed up her things and followed the new master down the lane where her mother had disappeared just last week. She was happy to leave the cabin with its crew of mannequins behind, happy to be going where her mother had gone. Someone had said her mother was dead but she didn't believe it. She was going to go see for herself. Before she left, however, she tucked under her skirt a length of yellow silk from the old trunk. At the new place, Kalida worked long days with a new set of mannequins, slenderer than the old ones and shorter too. She made gray dresses and white dresses and pale, mouse-brown dresses that suited the coloring of the new master's daughters. She never knew when the mistress would be outside the cabin door, demanding to get in and see how things were coming along and to take any finished garments away. At night, when she could count on being left to herself, Kalida worked the yellow silk. She took it out from beneath her narrow bed and draped it over a mannequin that was just her mother's size, and pleated it this way and that, looking for the right shape. Whenever she found it, she took out the iron needle and fastened the silk in place. She never cut the fabric. That wasn't necessary. She gathered it in and fastened it with the iron needle and after awhile she could see that a beautiful, sun-color dress was emerging. Late every night she took it off the mannequin and hid it under her bed, where it kept its new shape until she took it out again, as if she had lain down in it to sleep.
When the dress was done, Kalida sewed it all firmly in place with the iron needle which, despite its size, had a sharp point, and went through the silk as if it had been water, making small, straight stitches. While she worked, she had to leave the dress on the mannequin, and so she waited to do this until she knew the mistress would be away for a few days. Then, at night, she set her lamp in front of a piece of broken mirror that doubled its brilliance, and brought the dress near, and put in the stitches. As she came down to what she knew were the last ones, she could hear someone else breathing in the cabin, and as the last one went in and was tied off, she looked up and saw her mother standing there, naked, behind the mannequin. Kalida lifted the dress off the silent form and held it out to her mother, who stepped into and pulled it up over her shoulders and began to wind around her head the long train of silk Kalida had left hanging at the back. Hattie wound it around and around, and when she came to the end of the silk she fastened it into a rosette over her left ear.
"That's better," Hattie said. "Don't want to leave no trail behind."
She left then. She stepped out into the black night and walked away, down the row of cabins in the direction of the fields. For a long time Kalida watched her, a yellow light bobbing in the far-off dark, until Hattie must have reached the horizon and walked down over that curve of earth, and the light disappeared.
Not too long after that, Kalida herself left, wearing a wedding dress she had just finished sewing for the oldest daughter of the new master and mistress, and leaving behind on the mannequin her old servant's clothes. The wedding costume was a showy thing in shot silk, with braided trim and lace and beads everywhere. The new master described it and Kalida carefully in the wanted poster he had printed, and people all over went looking for a black girl dressed up like a queen.
You would think she would have been easy to spot, but she wasn't, she never was, and for a long time afterwards people talked about that Kalida, and wondered how in the devil she had gotten so clean away.
Cave of the Dog
In the Phlegrean Fields near Naples there is a cave in which carbonic acid gas collects along the floor from time to time. When the gas is present, which is most of the time, the wanderer enters at his or her peril. The ancients thought of the cave as an entrance to the realm of the dead, and who can argue with them? Whoever lies down to sleep there, out of the wind and weather, will probably not rise again in this world.
For centuries, the cave has attracted the curious. Guides to the area used to bring with them a dog whom they would hold upside down by the legs, dangling it over the cave floor in order to test the air. If the dog lost consciousness, it meant the cave was full of gas. The dog was then dragged out and doused in the water of a nearby lake, whereupon it usually came to. Not always, however. Many dogs died in this way over the centuries, through bad timing or malice. Or wanton curiosity: Mark Twain, traveling in the Naples area, went looking for a dog he could bring along with him to the cave. "I longed to see this grotto," he remembered. "I resolved to take a dog and hold him myself; suffocate him a little, and time him; suffocate him some more and then finish him." Modern-day Italians are quite sentimental about their dogs and wouldn't dream of abusing even a stray in this way. They keep them as pets and don't expect them to be particularly useful. But this wasn't always the case. One can imagine that in times past a dog who would not hunt or failed to guard its master's house might find itself being dangled by its legs over the floor of the Grotto del Cane, breathing its last in demonstration of the cave's fatal properties.
In the days when the Arabs were raiding the Neapolitan coast, their fearsome dogs were sometimes captured and kept until they might be taken to the cave for mass extinction. The death row in which these curs were held was usually a Neapolitan farmyard belonging to a farmer willing to undertake the task in exchange for a few soldi. When he had collected four or five such dogs, he would tie them to the sides of his cart, carry them to the cave, and dangle each one a good long time over the cave floor, until he was certain it wouldn't revive, and afterwards he would dump the lot of carcasses down one of the numerous vents in the Phleghrean Fields, whence the dogs found their way to Elysium.
I wish I could report that even one of these dogs managed to free itself, but there is no record of such an escape. A story is told of one animal who earned a kind of reprieve, however, a small, handsome bitch whose name has been lost, if it was ever known. Shortly after she was billeted with her farmer-jailer, she whelped a litter of seven puppies, and the farmer, one Rosello, seeing the puppies crawling like worms over her teats, took pity on her and placed a basin of water where she could reach it. Perhaps out of gratitude or because her new condition had aroused in her some tender instinct, the animal now did Rosello a good turn. Later that same day the farmer's infant son stumbled merrily into the farmyard looking for amusement and, spotting a ram who had been sequestered for gelding, lurched toward the frightened animal. The boy moved quickly, if unsteadily, and the bitch just as quickly put herself in his path, though this meant coming out to the end of her chain and leaving her blind brood behind. She did not bark or growl. She simply moved into the boy's line of sight, whereupon the child sat down abruptly and clapped his hands in delight. From where he was sharpening a knife, Rosello saw it all, and saw the child the next moment pull himself upright by the bitch's ears.
Since she had saved his son, as he reckoned, Rosello decided he would save one of her pups and raise it as his own. He delayed taking her to the cave until he judged the puppies might be weaned, and then he picked the likeliest of the brood and placed the rest in a large sack. Inside the sack the puppies squirmed and tussled, but their dam stood by patiently, as if she trusted Rosello to know what he was doing. When he put the sack into the cart, she leapt in after it, and when he threw the sack into the cave she followed it in and lay down next to it, with her head on her paws, and did not move again.
The saved pup Rosello dubbed Saracen, a talismanic name meant to induce valor in its bearer. Whether Saracen was indeed valorous is not known. Certainly, he guarded Rosello's farmyard well enough to survive to an old age. Nothing larger than a chicken was ever lost on his watch, which Rosello considered small payment for the creature's loyalty, for he was fiercely protective of the boy his dam had saved, as if he knew what service she had rendered the child. Except for those times when Saracen's love life called him away, the boy and the dog were always together. They romped in Rosello's farmyard when the boy was small, and later pastured sheep together in the neighboring fields. The years passed quickly, as years always do, and by the time the boy was ten Saracen was feeling his age. His hips ached and his fleas had become intolerable. The least movement caused him pain. One day he wandered off, looking for a place where he might lie down for a nice, long nap, and the boy followed him. When they came to the cave, Saracen went in first and lay down, and when he didn't get up the boy must have gone in after him. That is what Rosello concluded when he found them a day later, the boy's hand resting lightly along the back of Saracen's neck, as if he had been trying to rouse his companion before he himself fell asleep.
This would not happen now, when the properties of the cave are well understood and warnings to the traveler copiously displayed along the path that leads up to it. The way in is even blocked. Something resembling a wooden sawhorse has been jammed fast into the opening, and will not budge. A flag bearing a jaunty skull and crossbones, culled from a child's pirate kit perhaps, has been stapled to it, though the message it sends is far from clear. A determined dog might still find its way in.


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6 Remarkable Moments From Trump's Wild Press Conference
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By Rob Garver
In a long, rambling press conference early Thursday afternoon, President Trump dismissed a number of the controversies swirling around his presidency as "fake news," insisted that his White House is running like a "finely-tuned machine," and issued a tepid denial that any of his campaign aides were in contact with the Russian government prior to his election.
The overriding theme of the 75-minute press conference was Trump's various grievances with the media, but along the way he did make some news. He began by announcing that attorney Alexander Acosta, the dean of Florida International University Law School and a former member of the National Labor Relations Board, would be his replacement nominee for secretary of labor.
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He also said that next week his administration will release a new executive action on border security meant to accomplish some of the things that a previous order, currently stalled in litigation, was unable to do.
However, much of the press conference was consumed not by policy discussion, but by Trump's defense of his presidential campaign and of his administration's actions in the first weeks of his term.
"I turn on the TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos. Chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite," he said at one point. "This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved."
Trump was pressed by three different reporters on whether or not anyone working for his campaign had contacts with Russian intelligence agents or other Russian officials. Multiple sources in the Intelligence Community have told news organizations that several of Trump's associates had multiple contacts with Russia. After twice refusing to give a direct answer, he finally said, "Nobody that I know of." He then wondered out loud, "How many times do I have to answer this question?"
Here are a few more remarkable moments from the event:
* On Obamacare: Trump seemed to suggest that members of Congress facing protests over the planned repeal of the Affordable Care Act represent only their Republican constituents. "We've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster, folks. It's disaster. I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our alleys with people that you wonder how they get there, but they are not the Republican people that our representatives are representing."
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* On the Electoral College: He repeated his false claim that his Electoral College margin in the November election was the largest since Ronald Reagan. When it was pointed out that what he had said was untrue, he said, "Well, I don't know, I was given that information. I was given — I actually, I've seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory, do you agree with that?"
* On intelligence leaks: Trump has insisted that leaks about his campaign's contact with the Russians are serious breaches of security, but that the news stories revealing the leaks are fake. Asked to clarify, he said, "You know what they said, you saw it and the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake."
* On Russia: Asked about recent Russian provocations, including the presence of a surveillance ship off the coast of Delaware, the apparent violation of a nuclear missile treaty and the buzzing of American ships by Russian warplanes, he blamed it all on the media. "I want to just tell you, the false reporting by the media, by you people, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with Russia."
His rationale, apparently, is that Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming increasingly aggressive because "He's sitting behind his desk and he's saying, you know, I see what's going on in the United States, I follow it closely. It's going to be impossible for President Trump to ever get along with Russia because of all the pressure he's got with this fake story."
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* On anti-Semitism: Given two opportunities to specifically condemn the rise in anti-Semitic threats in the United States since his election, he avoided doing so both times. He suggested that much of it is attributable to his political opponents trying to make him look bad. At one point he berated a reporter for insinuating that he himself is an anti-Semite, despite the fact that the man prefaced his question by explicitly saying that he was suggesting no such thing.
* On meeting the Congressional Black Caucus: When an African American reporter asked Trump if he would be working with the Congressional Black Caucus on his plan to revitalize troubled inner cities, Trump asked, "Are they friends of yours?" She replied, "I'm just a reporter." Trump said, "Well, set up the meeting."
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UK butchers chain Dewhursts has been plunged into administration, blaming stiff competition from the major supermarkets.
West Country firm Lloyd Maunder, which bought the firm in 2005 said Dewhurst had suffered a substantial fall in trading in the past six months and had been hit by hikes in rent and energy bills.
Dewhurst is to close 60 of its remaining 95 shops, while administrators BDO Stoy Hayward hope to sell the rest.
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Casa Mañana Showcases Best of the Best in High School Theater
by Courtney Collins 24 May 2013
Local high schoolers collected the hardware Thursday night at the annual Betty Buckley Awards.
Ben Allen and Sarah Roach were awarded Best Male And Best Female Actor awards and as a result are New York City bound. Photos: Courtney Collins
With talent to spare and the charm of seasoned professionals, students filled the house at Fort Worth's Casa Mañana Thursday night for the 13th annual Betty Buckley Awards. These musical theater awards promise to showcase high school's top thespians, and the audience wasn't disappointed.
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More like a mini Tony Awards than a high school ceremony, the Buckleys single out the crème de la crème in student theater.
This year 18 schools from Tarrant, Denton, Hood, Parker, Wise and Johnson counties got in on the fun, and the audience was treated to six, polished performances from the Best Musical nominees.
One of those was a production of The Drowsy Chaperone by the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts.
Senior Benjamin Allen says he's been hooked on theater since freshman year there.
"It just seemed like such an alluring world and as I've studied it more and more, it just gets more interesting," Benjamin says. "Even though you can see 20 productions of The Glass Menagerie it's still interesting because of what the actors can do and what actors can find in that work."
Ben's school didn't get the best musical nod, but he nabbed the Best Male Actor trophy. That means he's headed to New York this summer to compete in the National High School Musical Theater Awards. He admits he's just the tiniest bit excited.
"And so I've heard for four years New York is so great, New York is so awesome and now I finally get to go see it! I've over the moon, I can't wait," Ben says.
Joining him in the Big Apple this summer will be Grapevine High School's Sarah Roach who was named Best Female Actor for her Velma Kelly in Chicago. She was floored by the win.
"Surreal? I don't know! I'm really hyped up, and it's awesome!," Sarah says.
Chicago also won Best Musical this time around, something Sarah was equally excited about. She says the friends she's made thanks to theater mean the world to her.
"It's really the main thing that I've done in high school and I've built so many strong connections, almost like family bonds. And it's really something that I fall back on and so it's a really great support group to have and it's been something that's really carried me through."
Both Sarah and Ben will study theater in college and pursue a career in the industry. They know it's going to be a hard road, but they both say they're ready to walk it.
Keep reading for the list of winners:
2013 Buckley Award Winners
Excellence in Student Lighting Design, Budget Level 1
Nick Connolly, Keller High School, The Wedding Singer
Scott Luke and Alden Bird, Grapevine High School, Chicago
Excellence in Student Scenic Design, Budget Level 1
Zach Jernstrom and Stephanie Campbell, Central High School – Keller, Little Shop of Horrors
Erin Seeton, Mansfield High School, The Drowsy Chaperone
Excellence in Student Costume Design, Budget Level 1
Crystal Bollinger and Jerome Lewis, Grapevine High School, Chicago
Stormy Czupil and Kristi Salinas, Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts, The Drowsy Chaperone
Best Student Orchestra
Grapevine High School, Chicago
Excellence in Student Choreography
Chelsea Branscum and Faith Savage, Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts, The Drowsy Chaperone
Best Ensemble
Best Female Supporting Actor
Natalie Laboda, Timber Creek High School, Footloose (Vi Moore)
Best Male Supporting Actor
Alexander Cook, Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts, The Drowsy Chaperone (Adolfo)
Best Male Actor
Ben Allen, Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts, The Drowsy Chaperone (Man in Chair)
Best Female Actor
Sarah Roach, Grapevine High School, Chicago (Velma Kelly)
Best Musical
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A Love So Beautiful tells the love story of two childhood sweethearts that spans 19 years. Chen Xiao Xi (Shen Yue) is a cute and small girl with a lot of positive energy. She gets to know Jiang Chen (Hu Yi Tian), a tall and proud genius boy, at school and tries everything to pursue him. The drama depicts the beautiful and pure heart throbbing love of seventeen years olds, but also delves into the topic of making mistakes and how to find back to each other again.


The first quarter saw the European Central Bank retracing the US Federal Reserve's post-crisis steps of the last several years, just after the Fed concluded those actions. The ECB, after first reducing its overnight discount rate below zero late last year, made its first foray into sovereign debt purchases in the dramatic announcement of an asset purchase program that will total at least €1.1 trillion before September 2016. The Eurozone, which had flatlined following two ill-timed rate hikes in 2011, is hoping that the expansionary monetary policy can increase lending and spur growth as the continent absorbs additional fiscal reforms.
European equities outgained their US counterparts as interest rates dipped to record low levels. For the first time in history, German 5-year Bunds were auctioned at a negative yield and now trade at a lower yield than even Japanese Government Bonds. The euro's continued decline contributed to the Swiss National Bank's unexpected abandonment of its euro currency peg for the value of its Swiss francs, which had been implemented to stave off large capital inflows from investors concerned about the stability of the euro.
The policy divergence between the ECB and the Federal Reserve was reinforced in March, as the FOMC dropped a key phrase in its statement, removing the word "patient" from its posture regarding future rate hikes. Even still, Chairwoman Yellen effectively communicated that all future rate hikes are data dependent and that in particular, employment data will be significantly considered. Although winter weather negatively affected key economic reports, it did not appear to have stunted job growth during the first three months of the year. Just as in 2014, policy makers shook off the winter effects as transitory and are optimistic that GDP can regain pace throughout the rest of 2015.
Comparatively attractive US Treasury yields and stronger economic performance stateside helped push the dollar up again as long-term US interest rates declined. The 30-year Treasury reached an all-time low of 2.2% in late January. The strong dollar increased anxiety that US companies wouldn't be able to meet lofty earnings estimates, particularly for companies with large foreign operations and sales. US equities ended the quarter largely unchanged, but smaller-cap names outperformed their larger counterparts.


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In the late 1950s, as teenagers we always joked how Doylestown was a 'hick town', especially 9:00 at night when you could lay down on the middle of Main Street between Oakland Avenue and State Street—and not get run over by a car. I never tried it. Maybe some did.
This incident of graffiti as noted in the title occurred when the 1877 Court House was in the midst of demolition to make way for the current County Administration Building and Court Rotunda.
One actor has been interviewed but there is another (and possibly more) who took part in this episode where they painted a message across the construction fence that surrounded the demolition site. My search continues for the photograph showing that message of indignant sorrow for the loss of our beautiful old Court House. It's an integral part of Graffiti on East Court Street. The image at left was also taken in 1958. The clock tower with the spirals on the four sides was a signature feature seen in many of the structures designed by Addison Hutton.


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The transport sector is responsible for approximately 23% of total energy-related CO2 emissions. Between 2000 and 2050, GHG emissions are projected to increase by 140%, with a very large share of that increase coming from developing countries (nearly 90%). According to the latest report by the IPCC "Without aggressive and sustained mitigation policies being implemented, transport emissions could increase at a faster rate than emissions from the other energy end-use sectors and reach around 12 Gt CO2eq/year by 2050".
Half of the emissions come from urban transport passengers and freight. Isolated solutions already exist but they should be embedded into strategic mobility planning policies that allow a better articulation between urban and transport policies, favour a modal shift from cars to public transport and active modes, and technological improvements of vehicles energy efficiency.
With the support of a coalition of international partners, MobiliseYourCity provides a methodological framework, capacity building and technical assistance and facilitates access to financing at both local and national levels. The initiative will set up an international reference platform to share best practices and expertise as well as academic knowledge about sustainable urban mobility planning.
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Maryann Cusimano LoveAugust 21, 2019
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty at the White House in Washington Dec. 8 1987. (CNS photo/Reuters)
The Trump administration ended nuclear arms control as we know it on Aug. 2, just a few days before the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union, the withdrawal from which the United States first signaled last fall, was developed during the Reagan administration and signed by President Reagan in December 1987. It banned the deployment of ground-launched conventional and nuclear ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,400 miles).
These weapons threatened to quickly hit targets deep inside Western Europe or Russia with little warning, raising the dangers of nuclear accidents and miscalculations in a crisis. In an op-ed in The Washington Post last December, former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and former Secretary of State George Shultz, who negotiated the I.N.F. Treaty, argued that abandoning its limitations on intermediate missiles represents a threat to "our very existence."
Over 2,692 missiles were destroyed under the treaty, the first time the United States and Russia destroyed nuclear weapons. The treaty also represented the first time the superpowers banned an entire category of nuclear weapons and developed extensive on-site verification inspections.
Without the I.N.F. Treaty, there are no longer any limits on destabilizing intermediate-range weapons. There are also no mechanisms for verification and transparency measures or other confidence-building exchanges.
Nuclear war caused by false alarms was narrowly avoided many times over the course of the Cold War. Among them, a training tape simulating a Russian nuclear attack that was mistakenly left running nearly prompted an American counterstrike and in another incident a flock of geese were incorrectly identified as an incoming Soviet nuclear attack.
In all these cases, decision makers had time (although not much of it) to investigate the evidence and determine whether a nuclear counterattack should be launched in response to the perceived threat. Shorter-range missiles offer no time for thought or the opportunity to de-escalate the crisis.
Without the I.N.F. Treaty, there are no longer any limits on these destabilizing weapons. There are also no mechanisms for verification and transparency measures or other confidence-building exchanges among military officials and nuclear arms scientists. In conversations with Mr. Shultz at Stanford University last year, he told me the I.N.F. Treaty represented "the beginning of the end of the Cold War," ending the nuclear arms race.
Today's only other remaining bilateral arms control treaty, the New START Treaty, which limits long-range nuclear arms, is set to expire in 2021. The Russian Federation wants to extend the treaty, but U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has been a long-term opponent of New START.
The continued participation of the two nuclear powers in the I.N.F. treaty has been debated over the past five years. The United States charged Russia with violating the treaty by deploying SSC-8 missiles, which U.S. analysts contend are ground-based and medium-range. The Russians contest this assessment. They argue instead that the United States violates the treaty through the deployment of its dual-use Aegis Ashore systems in Poland and Romania, with the capabilities to launch intermediate-range missiles.
In congressional testimony in March 2017, Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "There are no military requirements we cannot currently satisfy due to our compliance with the I.N.F. Treaty."
The Aegis Ashore Navy system, which can be adapted for use on land, was created to launch both ballistic missile defense interceptors (its stated purpose in Poland and Romania) and intermediate-range cruise missiles. The United States dismissed Russian concerns, responding that the computer software has not been installed in Poland and Romania where it could be used to launch ground-based intermediate-range missiles.
The day after the United States formally withdrew from the I.N.F., U.S. Secretary of Defense Mike Esper announced that the United States planned to develop and deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Asia—a type that had previously been banned by the treaty. The decision suggests that withdrawing from the I.N.F. Treaty has already accelerated a new nuclear arms race. Testing of these new missiles may begin as early as August, according to the Department of Defense.
In June the Department of Defense posted a new edition of its nuclear weapons policy indicating openness to the use of nuclear weapons, stating, "Using nuclear weapons could create conditions for decisive results and the restoration of strategic stability." The Trump administration has requested funds for three new types of missiles that would violate the I.N.F. norms.
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House narrowly blocked recent Trump administration funding requests to build smaller, battlefield nuclear weapons. But military spending is popular in both parties, and previous requests have been approved. President Putin announced in August that any new weapons developed by the United States would be met with a Russian response.
Demands for ending the I.N.F. are not coming from the Pentagon. In congressional testimony in March 2017, Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "There are no military requirements we cannot currently satisfy due to our compliance with the I.N.F. Treaty."
Russia has declared that it will continue to abide by the terms of the I.N.F. Treaty as long as the United States continues to do so. Such voluntary arms control measures have worked in the past. Russian legislators have also said that any revival of the I.N.F. would not require additional legislative action in the State Duma. The United States has not responded to Russia's offer.
Mr. Bolton argues that arms control agreements between the United States and Russia are not fair because they do not include another nuclear power, China. The United States and Russia together hold nearly 13,000 nuclear weapons, over 90 percent of the world's total, while China, France, Britain, India, Pakistan and Israel each have fewer than 300. North Korea has an estimated 20 to 30.
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China is an economic power with a small nuclear arsenal, no deployed nuclear weapons on high alert and a policy of no nuclear first use, unlike the United States and Russia. China's negotiators have said China would be willing to participate in multilateral arms control talks when the United States and Russia reduce their arsenals to the size of China's. Many in the arms control community question whether the U.S. demand that China be included in future I.N.F. negotiations is a poison pill, intended to kill arms control rather than advance it, as Mr. Bolton has been an outspoken critic of all arms control for decades.
In contrast to Mr. Bolton's position, President Trump campaigned on promises to improve U.S. relations with Russia and has a strong personal relationship with Mr. Putin. Mr. Trump also has railed against increased spending on nuclear weapons, calling it "ridiculous" and "a total waste."
But Mr. Trump has not directly engaged in negotiations with Mr. Putin on these matters, in contrast to his personal deal-making approach in engaging the leader of North Korea. Recently Mr. Putin has changed course and has said he wants to retain the I.N.F. limitations as well as to extend the New START treaty. Mr. Trump could engage directly in arms control talks with Mr. Putin and reign in his national security advisor, as he did when Mr. Bolton urged a military attack against Iran.
In meetings in Rome this summer organized by Global Priorities and supported by the Holy See, former Russian, NATO and U.S. military officers, arms controllers, academics and clergy urged restraint and offered numerous strategies to escape the current impasse. These include voluntary arms control pledges, the extension of New START, increased engagement and dialogue, greater public attention and pressure against a new nuclear arms race, and the updating of I.N.F. and other treaties.
At the Global Priorities conference U.S. General William F. Burns urged the United States and Russia to make deeper cuts to their nuclear arsenals. British Admiral John Gower proposed that all nuclear weapons states adopt a code of responsibility for nuclear weapons, committing to adopting the principles of "Restraint, Relevance, Reassurance, Readiness, Reciprocity and Reduction" in order to stabilize relations and pave the way for deeper nuclear arms reductions.
The group will meet again in Rome this fall, prior to Pope Francis' trip to Japan in November, when the pope will likely address the church's concerns over the continued development and possession of nuclear weapons.
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Maryann Cusimano Love is a professor of international relations at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a contributing editor to America.
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This is very interesting reading in the light of the multiple other articles in America which depict Trump as "Putin's pawn", "Putin's lapdog" , "a tool of the Russians" and "inexcusably deferential to Russian demands". Something here just does not seem to fit "the Russians are actually in control narrative"......
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Your comments are valid for leaders who have rational, researched, and consistent policies.
These attributes do not apply to Trump.
My comments are directed at authors who demonstrate a total inconsistency in the accusations they level at Trump.
Trump's inconsistencies are another matter entirely......but one thing is clear he has taken steps against Russia which prior leaders refused to do...ie., arming the Ukraine with real defensive weapons as opposed to "food rations" ; sanctioning the Oligarch Group around Putin; taking steps to kill the Nord Stream pipe line; insisting and enabling our allies to buy US LNG to break the Russian European monopoly in gas; directly accusing Russians of breaches of the missile treaty and requesting they destroy those missiles; blocking further Russian infiltration of Venezuela; etc
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You reap as you sow. After three or so years of bogus "collusion" accusations, is it reasonable to expect that President Trump would receive anything other than condemnation from "Dem-Dems" and those who practice "fake news". If Trump attempted to formulate a "deal" with Putin to re-establish a ban on intermediate range nuclear armed missiles, imagine the outcry. Yet I think that President Trump would take a chance to strike a deal if he can get some headway made with North Korea. It makes sense to have a multi-state deal if possible. I read a reporter's coverage of the recent Trump rally in New Hampshire. The reporter was surprised at the size of the crowd, how early some showed up (24 hours ahead for some) and the significant number of Blacks and Latino's in line and in the arena. Don't under estimate Trump's popularity and his willingness to stick his neck out to attempt a deal that is in the best interest of the U.S. If you think that no one understands President Trump, you are wrong. Plenty of people get the message, even when you disagree with the message.
Stanley Kopacz
There may be method to Putin's madness as well. The question is, will the chaos created by Trump on the international stage and at home weaken our country's position? Will having a documented welcher as president weaken confidence in the US from allies and make future deals impossible? Seems like a Russian goal is to generate division within its rivals. Who better than Trump? It will be interesting to see if the Russian hackers support Trump this time around. My guess is that they will.
You should read other sources and not just rant about something you do not understand. My guess is if you understood, you would be horrified. Everyone should read
http://bit.ly/30qGXD7
to understand what the left is trying to do. Another word of advice is that the Montagnards always turn on the Girondists,
You're telling ME to read. Tell that to your Chosen One who never reads books. There is no core to the man, either moral or intellectual. I have eyes to see. Ears to hear. You Trumpers need to visit your ophthalmologists and otolaryngologists. Ideological extremism has warped your senses. I think it is time for me to take a break from the America Magazine Crazy Zoo. It's hard for me to balance this place and the real world.
Now Now Stanley .....before Trump was "chosen" we had Obama declaring "We are the ones you have been waiting for" .......It would seem that Messianic Delusions come with the personalities that seek the Presidency...I mean who can forget that when Obama was just nominated he announced that it "would mark when the seas stopped rising and the earth began to heal"
Yes, should read so your eyes can see and listen so your ears can hear. You just confirmed you don't do either. Yet, you rant.
By the way, I never thought of Trump as a chosen one nor have I ever praised him that much. If anything he was chosen by the excesses of the liberals and his main utility is frustrating the craziness of the left. There is a lot I believe he does wrong but driving the crazies of the left bonkers is his greatest asset. He has revealed who they are.
Hope you come back!!! We will miss your flair
Prof Love archly notes:
"Mr. Trump has not directly engaged in negotiations with Mr Putin on these matters, in contrast with his personal deal making approach in engaging the leader of North Korea."
Given the past and current hail of comments hurled at Trump in connection with the Russian Collusion hoax ... "Putin's lap dog " , "an agent of Russia" , "Treasonous deferral to the Russians ,etc.....it would have been beyond foolhardy and counter productive in the extreme for Trump to have been engaged in "direct negotiations with Putin". Whatever the result John Brennan et al would have cried "treason" ;.....Joe Scarborough would be provocatively asking "What else has been agreed upon"; Anna Navarro would be demanding " The translator's notes";......Don Lemon would be asking"How many hotels are involved in this deal"
I suppose he could have just mimicked his predecessor and signaled
"I can be more flexible after the impeachment uproar is over "
Indeed Trump warned repeatedly that the mindless pursuit of the Russian Collusion hoax would damage attempts to have better relations with Russia. Now comes the liberal professor deploring the results of that prediction.
Alan Johnstone
What an impoverished vision of the human condition writers like this demonstrate.
If anyone has lived a decade or more intelligently absorbing data from the societies they occupy and from others they do not and still expects leaders to be 'normal' demonstrates small town parochial bias.
Your President Donald Trump has a good degree from an excellent university thereby demonstrating a significantly above average IQ.
He has demonstrated competence in the market place where the score is kept by levels of wealth, again demonstrating above average performance.
Now, blend that with skill as a showman and a trickster.
You get a leader who is not so easy to second-guess. a great asset in a person representing a powerful nation and a society consisting of diverse and highly self-important individuals with many guaranteed freedoms facing a collection of dangerous and hostile foreign forces.
Why on earth would you want the Commander in Chief to be able to be read like an open book, to signal his tactics and strategies? For the press? For his enemies?
The enemies of God and the enemies of freedom are not pussy cats.
Charles Erlinger
The U.S. withdrawal from the INS Treaty has generated many analyses, both in popular media and in academic and think tank publications. Some of these include comprehensive historical recapitulations of decisions and actions by both of the international antagonists. It seems reasonable to conclude that if blame is to be placed for the long process of disintegration of the nuclear arms constraint regime that has nominally been in place since approximately 1989, it should be placed squarely on both sides of the contention. This history provides a bonanza for blame-fixers and what-about commenters. And this bonanza provides a perfect opportunity to change the subject from the existential, truly sobering situation, to the past, in which everyone can express profundity. But what's next?
The fix for the present problem does not consist in reconstructing agreements and partnerships that are currently in shambles. These arrangements failed for a reason. Their value was not compelling at a certain point in the past. This realization obviously did not become clear to all parties simultaneously, and some sought to hang on to agreements far longer than others, even when serious violations were obvious.
Right now the biggest obstacle to embarking on a fresh approach, if not to international nuclear virtue, then at least to minimally rational behavior, is an underestimation of our mutual peril.


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Today in the Mission Yearbook
Union Church in Seattle serves community through hospitality
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Church on Sunday is a coffee and chocolate shop Monday through Friday
The Rev. James B. Notkin, co-pastor at Union Church in Seattle, speaks to a small group at the church. (Photo by Gregg Brekke)
Union Church in Seattle is "a church with a day job — a very involved day job," says Scott Lumsden, Seattle Presbytery co-executive presbyter.
Stick around for a few days at 415 Westlake Ave. N., and you'll see he's right.
On Sunday mornings, the building is a worship and fellowship space for Union Church, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregation. Monday through Friday, it functions as a coffee and chocolate shop called Kakao. The large, open space dedicated to worship on Sunday mornings is an event space at other times and is named for its address, 415 Westlake.
Union Church hosts a Sunday worship experience that's a remix of traditional church activities. The first and third Sundays are dedicated to traditional worship, the second Sunday is designed as a time for deep discussion in small groups and the fourth Sunday is reserved for community service.
The goal of Union Church and its associated businesses is to be a blessing to Seattle, and to connect members of its congregation to the larger city so they can do the same.
Seattle Presbytery and University Presbyterian Church in Seattle have both provided funding and other support to help Union Church get established. The Presbyterian Foundation has consulted with Seattle Presbytery on investments and spending strategies.
The Revs. James B. and Renee Notkin were serving on the pastoral staff at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle and felt called to start a new ministry. They were hosting a midweek worship service that drew in a younger crowd and saw that there were not enough ways for those attending to get involved in the church and the community more deeply. "We were thinking so much about, 'What does God desire the church to be in the 21th century?' " recalled Renee Notkin.
Together with other committed Presbyterians, the Notkins discerned that the right location for this new church venture would be the South Lake Union neighborhood. They established the church a decade ago in what was then an old light industrial portion of the city — and have watched it transform as tech giant Amazon moved its headquarters to Seattle and many other tech companies followed.
They are still one of the few churches in the area, and now their event space and coffee shop provide hospitality and shared space in an otherwise impersonal commercial area of Seattle.
Creating a participatory Sunday worship experience was central to the Notkins' efforts to begin Union Church. Sundays revolve around keeping Jesus' three greatest teachings, says James B. Notkin. "We discovered that people grow the most when they have these three priorities: remain in me, love one another and go into the world," he said.
That desire to build Sunday morning time around these pillars brought the Notkins to a different kind of structure. Services are set for 10 a.m.
First, third and the occasional fifth Sundays are a traditional, though casually styled, worship, which includes music, prayer and a sermon. This, James B. Notkin said, honors the commandment to "remain in me."
Second Sundays are a similar worship style but with a shorter sermon and conversation time for small The groups are guided by a question sheet that invites them to delve more deeply into the Scriptures and share their own experiences, connecting to God and each other. This focuses on "love one another."
Fourth Sundays are for community Following a short scriptural reflection, members divide into groups and may help at a food pantry, a soup kitchen or many other Seattle nonprofits that need assistance. This Sunday prompts members to "go into the world."
It's that last part that was particularly compelling to Dee Curle. She came to the congregation to fill in as a drummer in the band and decided to stay. "It's this community that wants to come together and be there for the larger community of Seattle," Curle said. "The church is always asking, 'What can we do? How can we help? How can we help one another?' I wanted to be a part of that.'"
Watch a video about Union Church at vimeo.com/352290558.
Robyn Davis Sekula, Vice President of Communication and Marketing for the Presbyterian Foundation
Morning Psalms 88; 148
First Reading Nehemiah 9:26-38
Second Reading Revelation 22:6-13
Gospel Reading Matthew 18:10-20
Evening Psalms 6; 20
Today's Focus: Union Church in Seattle
Let us join in prayer for:
PC(USA) Agencies' Staff
Sara Lisherness, Presbyterian Mission Agency
Elizabeth Little, Board of Pensions
Our father, you have given us so much, including your own Son. Please look with favor on our efforts to care for what you have given us and to lead people to hear your message. Amen.


One of the trickier objectives (Royal Deeds) in Reigns: Her Majesty is the Celestial, which asks you to summon an eclipse. It's also necessary to reach any of the endings. This guide will help you do so.
There's a number of steps you need to take first, but I take you through them all in my full walkthrough. This guide is assuming you've already done all them and need help specifically with summoning the eclipse.
It's the All-Mother again, reminding you to follow the sun in the garden maze.
You need the Destiny Clock and to get to the garden maze. Either the king will invite you to go with him or you can use the Destiny Clock on an animal and then follow it there.
Once in the maze (or verdant garden), you need to follow the sun. This means paying attention to the direction of the shadows. It can be tricky at first, but you should get the hang of it eventually. Try to visualize where the sun would be shining from to create each shadow. If there is no shadow or sun or there's no difference between the paths, either path is fine. And if you see a bench, I recommend sitting on it, but it might not matter. If you do it right, after about 10-15 cards you should see the moon monument.
Use the Destiny Clock on the moon monument to summon the eclipse and get the Celestial objective.
Now, to get out of there without getting lost, go left for "Mother?!," then go left twice more, forward, then follow the voices. As far as swiping goes, those choices are all in the same direction. When you get out of the garden, everyone will react to the eclipse. The eclipse will remain until you die. At that point, you'll meet the All-Mother again and your spellbook will have a crown on it. It's not a permanent upgrade, though. If you don't use it now, you have to summon the eclipse again in order to get the crown.
You can also use this video I made to help you get through the garden.
I have a lot of them, so I can at least get one started.
I just posted all the ones I have!
Are any special conditions needed to get the USB drive? I have all the items except for the drive and I've yet to get the witch to do a time capsule for me even though it's year 2105!!
So far I've always seen her message that she buried it. Did you have the witch before the year 1587?
Not that I know of. I think I always got that message shortly after recruiting her.


I saw her signs ~ "plants for sale" and on a whim, I followed them.
I left with tiny starts of plants, some came with a story, some she could not remember the names of. Most of them were all potted up, but some she just dug up as we walked through her yard, saying to me. . . "Oh, you need a piece of this." Twenty years later, some have flourished in my garden, some have died. Today that tiny start of Wood Spurge fills one of the banks in our yard, shadows playing on them throughout the spring and summer. I am so glad I stopped.


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I get to post the first response !!! Wow !!!
Wish you and Gemma too a very happy new year.
Thanks for spreading the cheer and excitement…. it's infectious.
May you view (good for us) many more films and write your lovely reviews.
May Shammi's charms continue to enthrall in 2010.
Gemma IS cute and charming if somewhat disgusted by the bow thing.
Happy new year 2010 to you are Gemma as well. And indeed to every reader of this blog.
Happy Chasing too – Squirrels AND Shammi!!
All the best to you and Gemma in 2010!
Sitaji – love your pic. One of my fav dance numbers.
Happy New Year to you guys too!
A very Happy 2010 to you and yours Greta.
Hope all your dreams come to fruition this year. Love the work you have put into this blog thingie. All the best.
Squirrels and cocktails is the picturization I want to see. Someone for everyone!
I have had many opportunities to observe squirrels and it is my belief that if they had the opportunity, they would be the drunkards of the animal kingdom.
A Very Happy 2010 to you both!
Right back to Hunnybunny as well!
A very Happy New Year to you and Gemma! Here's to movies, masti, memsaab and memsaabstory!!
And a very happy and healthy New Year to you and Gemma.
Happy New Year! May you have the strength, time and enthusiasm to carry on your detailed and delightful blog throughout 2010 and beyond.
Well in our part of the world we are already into the 2nd day of the New Year. Behraal as the saying goes, once again Happy New Year to both of you. Ur daughter is cute indeed! I would also like to wish all other readers a very happy 2010 !
She IS my daughter! So glad you get that :) Happy 2010 to you too!
Happy new year to you too, Memsaab!
I don't think I need to tell Raju anything, he knows what's going on! :) I do know that when CB says he never saw the script he is not telling the truth, and that he has been a nightmare to deal with from the beginning. He signed a contract with them (and I'm sorry, but I know Raju and he is not the type to pressure anybody) of his own free will and they fulfilled their obligations. Raju has no problems giving people due credit, and I think CB needs to examine his own behavior throughout and stop acting like he's a victim who has been blindsided, because that is absolutely not the case. And that's as much as I want to say about it to anybody!
She is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, which is a really unwieldly name for a 20 pound dog :) Same to you for a happy blogging 2010!


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Revelations of Truth By Justin Polera
Revelations of Truth
Justin Polera
One half of Documenta 14, the most important art event in the world right now, just opened in Athens: A landmark moment for the 62-year-old mega exhibition that takes place once every five years; this is the first time it is held outside of Kassel, its home city in Germany. Superstar curator Adam Szymczyk, who is Polish born, leads a team in hosting the first wave of the quinquennial situated at a major site where the European debt crisis preceded the global rise of populism. He presents "Learning from Athens" as a working title, which speaks to the political radicality of learning, including native forms of knowledge: The big question emerges, "Can art change the world?" Many different answers unfold in the exhibition, each seemingly conflicting: Art cannot stop the world from being in crisis; it cannot halt humanitarian mass atrocities or will not eradicate disease, but it can change how we see the world, establish our histories, and approach our collective future.
The event, largely funded by the German parliament, has battled accusations of using its economic power to exploit Greece's financial depression through exoticism, eliciting acts of colonization and poverty tourism. Documenta defends the pairing of Northern and Southern Europe as a collaboration with a common concern: How is art and its institutions made public and part of the common good? Szymczyk summoned the late Susan Sontag, insisting that we be "against interpretation." Many of the works existed outside of the "normal" boundaries of contemporary art, casting a much wider net that gives idiosyncratic work a chance to shine. Instead of coming to the work with preconceptions, we must unlearn, which, ironically, "is the key to learning" said Szymczyk.
Entirely, Documenta 14 includes the work of 160 artists—those that are mostly obscured from the traditional art cannon. Nearly one-third of the enlisted talents are already deceased. Curator Candice Hopkins is a specialist in native art, and included much work typically considered ethnographic crafts of indigenous peoples such as the brilliant and powerful room of Beau Dick's masks: This move further collapses the boundaries between art and life.
Beau Dick, Twenty-two masks from the series "Atlakim" (1990–2012), various materials, installation view, EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, documenta 14. Photo by Mathias Völzke.
Greek composer Jani Christou's "Epicycle" acts as a central experimental framework of the whole exhibition. In Christou's work the human voice joins the music as anyone is invited to be apart of the work. The curators want to give equal weight to spoken word, or written text as images, still or moving, or objects. There is also a paradigm shift of artists acting as collectors: Works that take the form of collections include Olu Oguibe's archival materials in vitrines in "Biafra Time Capsule", "Pavel Brăila's bottled on snow in a freezer in The Golden Snow of the Sochi Olympics", and Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor's video "Somniloquies," a prolific series of recorded sleep-talking.
The four main sites are the newly finished long-awaited National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens Conservatoire of Music, the Benaki museums, and Athens School of Fine Arts. Szymczyk insisted that the exhibition should be approached as a geographic exploration since the 41 satellite sites were given just as much attention as the main sites. This forces us to slow down as there is no easy way to consume the show.
Athen's long history in experimental music gives the genre prominence to modes such as improvisation, repetition, and interactivity. The entire exhibition emphasizes the ephemeral and the dematerialization of the art object. The Conservatorie is extremely carefully or even delicately curated avoiding to create spectacle at all cost: Much of the artwork shares an unbearable lightness of being. A necessary inclusion is the recently deceased electronic music heroine Pauline Oliveros, who is given an entire room (also a collection) of filled vitrines of witty, ironic, humorous score, notes, letters, and writings. Two artists make instruments out of found objects: Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo uses refuge found in refugee camps, which feels forced and falls short, where Nevin Aladağ creates instruments out mid century modern furniture with subtle interventions. Susan Hiller's video installation, "The Last Silent Movie," is one of the best works in the entire exhibition consisting of another collection—the audible sounds translated on an all black screen of spoken stories, jokes, and anecdotes in endangered or extinct languages—view the work more closely and come to see that languages are disappearing: one languages goes extinct every two week. Beatriz Gonzalez's "Decoración de Interiores," is a work of high Pop art, brilliantly creating a pattern out of an appropriated image of President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, too, a bloody dictator. One of the most epic works in all of Documenta 14 Athens is Emeka Ogboh's multimedia sound installation, "The Way Earthly Things Are Going." Bringing together two composers, whose compositions for the two languages come together in a haunting moving chorus—one Igbo and the other Greek—each voice is given its own speaker as if the human bodies are in the room with you.
There is a moment of striking visual beauty at the EMST museum with Nairy Baghramian's "Drawing Table (Homage to Jane Bowles)," poetically based on Bowles' book of the same title. Vija Celmins shows gems of early works, including a black and white painting that is part sumani, part burning forest. Stanley Whitney also presents his iconic abstract grid paintings in vibrating saturated colors. Moyra Davey gives us a very personal diarist video and a series of tender gelatin silver print, "Portrait/Landscape," juxtaposes the two genres of classical photographical with images including her 20-something-year-old son and his friends often paired with their dogs. The photos are carefully folded into envelope shapes with colored neon pink, purple, gold tape which turns them into mail art. When Documenta received them, they were opened,hung on the walls, and the delicate folds only accentuated the reverence of the image.
Nairy Baghramian, "Drawing Table (Homage to Jane Bowles)" (2017), various materials, EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, documenta 14. Photo by Mathias Völzke.
At the Benaki museum, R. H. Quaytman presents a newly commissioned work each titled "Parthian Shot" and numbered in the series of paintings: This exhibition brings forward the tremendously rich and complex composing of image and text together that both play interdependent roles in seeing, experiencing, reading, remembering, misremembering and forgetting. Two powerful works share nearly identical subjects but are extremely different are "Return to Khodorciur–Armenian Diary" and "I Had Nowhere to Go." The former is an extremely moving video by artist duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi showing Gianikian's aging father, a survivor of the 1915 massacre of Armenians in eastern Turkey, as he reads entries from his personal diary. It is exposed and raw: The result is an act of reverent documentation. Juxtaposed against this raw objective footage is the new latter commission,,which brings together two of the biggest names in Documenta 14, Douglas Gordon and Document contributor Jonas Mekas. Gordon transforms the eponymous novel by giving the viewer of the film fragments of Mekas' fading memory.
Subsequently, we are left with another answer to how art can change the world: "We must assume responsibility and act as political subjects instead of simply leaving it to elected representatives." After four years of research, we are presented with is a lot of scholarship into artists that are not heavily historicized. Only time will tell if these artists will be accepted into the cannon: The curators intentionally selected artists that are not represented by renowned galleries with the exception of a few. Art, this exhibitions seems to say, is bigger than the art market and the hype revolving around it: it is an area of disjunction that enacts the right to disagree, form counter proposals, and create alternative histories that challenge our default ways of thinking.
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Nevin Aladağ, "Music Room (Athens)" (2017), installation with furniture, housewares, musical-instrument components, and performances, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), Athens, documenta 14. Photo by Mathias Völzke.
Moyra Davey, "Portrait/Landscape" (2017), 70 C-prints, installation view, EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, documenta 14. Photo by Mathias Völzke.
Beatriz González," Decoración de interiores (Interior decoration)" (1981), screenprint on canvas, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), documenta 14. Photo by Mathias Völzke.
Douglas Gordon, "I had nowhere to go" (2016), digital video transferred from Super 8 film and video, installation view, Municipal Cinema Stella, Athens © Douglas Gordon/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017, documenta 14. Photo by Stathis Mamalakis.
Emeka Ogboh, "The Way Earthly Things Are Going" (2017), multichannel sound installation and real-time LED display of world stock indexes, installation view, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), documenta 14. Photo by Mathias Völzke.
Pope.L, "Whispering Campaign" (2016–17), various locations, installation view, Cantina Social, Athens, documenta 14. Photo by Freddie Faulkenberry.