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Mia Rocquemore looks at the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles”
Many of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s most beloved poems are set on the water. In Crossing the Bar, the eighty-year-old poet, writing as he passed over the Solent to the Isle of Wight, hopes that his own death will resemble “such a tide as moving seems asleep”. Hallam Tennyson later wrote of his father’s passion for the water, recording how he would gaze endlessly into the depths of the sea on voyages.
The prominence of the ocean in Tennyson’s poetry needs come as no surprise. Steeped in Classical influences, he drew a great deal of inspiration from the literature of a time and place when seafaring was necessary, dangerous and, consequently, often heroic. Despite its secrets and its risks, the sea offered those with enough skill and courage the opportunity to discover new places, people, riches and knowledge. It also offered Tennyson the perfect symbol with which to explore ideas about curiosity, the unknown, and the extent to which humans are able to exert control over nature. Islands play a central role in this exploration, where the safety and familiarity of the land give way to the excitement and adventure of the open sea.
Liberated from the mainland, the island offers an unimpeded view of a vast and seemingly endless frontier bursting with unknown possibilities. Timbuctoo, one of Tennyson’s earliest published poems, which won him the Chancellor’s Gold Medal for poetry at Cambridge, begins with the speaker standing on the peak of a mountain and looking out over the ocean. He imagines a scattering of islands, each with its own natural pleasures, painted in jewel-like hues and infused with a sense of the supernatural, even the divine:
“Where are ye,
Thrones of the Western wave, fair Islands green?
Where are your moonlight halls, your cedarn glooms,
The blossoming abysses of your hills?
Your flowering Capes, and your gold-sanded bays
Blown round with happy airs of odorous winds?
Where are the infinite ways, which, Seraph-trod,
Wound thro’ your great Elysian solitudes,
Whose lowest deeps were, as with visible love,
Fill’d with Divine effulgence, circumfused,
Flowing between the clear and polish’d stems,
And ever circling round their emerald cones
In coronals and glories, such as gird
The unfading foreheads of the Saints in Heaven?”
Images of untrammelled, exotic locales would certainly have appealed to the Victorian imagination; ongoing British exploration and colonial influence in every continent meant that Tennyson’s contemporaries were well-fed on a diet of exciting reports, stories and drawings from far-away lands. The Victorian fascination with the exotic is reflected in the idealised image of the island found in much of his poetry. The unnamed protagonist of Locksley Hall, for example, longs
“…to burst all links of habit – there to wander far away,
On from island unto island at the gateways of the day.
Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies,
Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag,
Slides the bird o’er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag;
Droops the heavy-blossom’d bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree –
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.”
In The Islet, however, which Tennyson started in the mid-1850s but did not publish until 1864, this blissful image is cast into doubt. The poem, which has been read as a reaction against or parody of pastoral verse, takes the form of a dialogue between a singer and his new wife. Upon her asking where they are to live together, the singer begins by describing
“’…a sweet little Eden on earth that I know,
A mountain islet pointed and peak’d;
Waves on a diamond shingle dash,
Cataract brooks to the ocean run,
Fairily-delicate palaces shine
Mixt with myrtle and clad with vine,
And overstream’d and silvery-streak’d
With many a rivulet high against the Sun
The facets of the glorious mountain flash
Above the valleys of palm and pine.’”
And yet, when she demands that they leave for this wonderful destination at once, he denies her wish:
‘No, no, no! For in all that exquisite isle, my dear,
There is but one bird with a musical throat,
And his compass is but of a single note,
That it makes one weary to hear.
No, love, no.
For the bud ever breaks into bloom on the tree,
And a storm never wakes on the lonely sea,
And a worm is there in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.’”
The singer dispels the illusion of the island as a paradise on earth. His complaint against its one and only songbird suggests that perfection, or perceived perfection, soon becomes tedious, while the worm carries connotations of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, which helped bring about the first sin and the fall of man. In this way, Tennyson suggests that their islet is not necessarily the idyllic embodiment of exoticism, freedom and possibility that it first appears.
Indeed, islands often have an uncanny or sinister side to them in Tennyson’s work, their liminality reflecting the fractured or disoriented state of mind and being experienced by his characters. His Ulysses is not the same hero we know from Homer’s poem: now an old man, he is caught between the life he strove so intensely to regain on Ithaca, and the rekindling spark of adventure. The warrior who once fought at Troy, courted demi-goddesses, escaped giants and monsters, and weathered heaven-sent storms cannot abide a life where, “Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole / Unequal laws unto a savage race”. Although “Made weak by time and fate, [he remains] strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”.
What is more, his desire “to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths / Of all the western stars” until death, is not simply driven by physical restlessness or borne out of an affinity with the sea per se. It is a longing for experience and knowledge, which he is determined to follow, “like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought”. Beyond the horizon are not only untrodden lands, but also unfathomed ideas, both of which the aged Ulysses yearns to explore. The barren crags of Ithaca give him a vantage point from which to contemplate this frontier; standing on the island’s cliffs he is poised between his duty as king and husband and the pull of his own heart and mind.
Published over twenty years later in 1864, Enoch Arden also draws on the story of Odysseus. The title character is shipwrecked on a desert island where he remains alone for ten years, during which his wife, presuming her lost husband dead, remarries his old friend and has another child. For both Enoch and Ulysses, being on an island prevents his life from advancing in a favourable direction, but whereas the former is hindered purely by the constraints and obstacles set in place by nature and geography, the thing keeping the latter in place is his sense of kingly duty. Yet he swiftly delegates this to his son, Telemachus, after deciding that he “cannot rest from travel”.
Tennyson once again uses an island as the setting for a struggle between duty and desire in The Lady of Shalott. Sitting embowered by the silent isle, the title characters is cursed to weave a tapestry day and night, never leaving her turret or turning to glance out of her window at the scenes beyond. Her exposure to the outside world comes from “a mirror clear / That hangs before her all the year / [where] shadows of the world appear”. But the Lady of Shalott is “half sick of shadows”. She wants to see the willows and aspens, brooks and rivers, the castle of Camelot, and, above all, other people. And so, not knowing what the consequences would be, “she left the web, she left the loom, / She made three paces thro’ the room, / She saw the water-lily bloom / She saw the helmet and the plume, / She look’d down to Camelot”.
Interestingly, the curse is not yet ready to strike her down. Although her tapestry flies away and the mirror shatters, the Lady of Shalott is able to descend from her turret, get in a boat, inscribe it with her name and sail down the river towards Camelot singing her final song. It is not until just before “she reach’d upon the tide / The first house by the water-side, / Singing in her song she died”. On the water she finally realizes her fate; she is “Like some bold seër in a trance, / Seeing all his own mischance”.
Neither Ulysses nor the Lady of Shalott knows what will happen when they leave the safety of their islands, but the mundane routine of their daily lives means that they are willing to risk the dangers of the unknown for the chance to discover a new and more meaningful existence. For the Lady of Shalott, this lies in love, as it is the sight of two newly-weds that forces her to acknowledge her own loneliness, and then the appearance of the handsome Sir Lancelot that spurs her to abandon her loom, while Ulysses is driven by ceaseless curiosity and a longing for adventure. Only by leaving their islands and venturing out into unchartered waters can they can escape the state of limbo in which they are trapped.
The Lotos Eaters hints at the danger of failing to break out of such a state. Also based on the ancient tale of Odysseus, the poem ends with his crew’s decision to give up the oar and roam no more:
“They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seem’d the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, ‘We will return no more;’
And all at once they sang, ‘Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.”
Despite the attractive imagery Tennyson conjures up to describe the island with its “charmed sunset”, “winding vale / And meadow” and trees “Laden with flower and fruit”, the reader is aware that remaining in such a place offers the men only a half-life. To stay there, although immediately gratifying, is to submit to a state of intoxication and stasis that will deny them the endless possibilities of “the wandering fields of barren foam” or the households that await them in their fatherlands. The same sense of oblivion permeates The Sea-Faeries, written in 1830, in which a group of mystical water-dwelling women implore passing sailors to remain with them on “blissful downs and dales” of their “islands free”. Its gentle repetition and irregular rhyme give the poem a hypnotic quality, as the sea-faeries entice the mariners with promises of an island paradise:
“We will sing to you all the day:
Mariner, mariner, furl your sails
For here are the blissful downs and dales,
And merrily merrily carol the gales,
And the spangle dances in bight and bay
And the rainbow forms and flies on the land
Over the islands free;
We will kiss sweet kisses, and speak sweet words:
O listen, listen, your eyes shall glisten
With pleasure and love and jubilee:
O listen, listen, your eyes shall glisten
When the sharp clear twang of the golden chords
Runs up the ridged sea.
Who can light on as happy a shore
All the world o’er, all the world o’er?
Whither away? listen and stay: mariner, mariner, fly no more.”
The invitation to furl the sails and stay on the island, with its songs, dances and natural beauties, is undoubtedly tempting. Like the lotus-eaters, the mariners of this poem are given the chance to escape the toil and hardship of normal life but, although Tennyson does not say so explicitly, it is clear to the reader that they will also be obliged to give up their pursuit of adventure, the expansion of their knowledge, and whatever family and human ties that they previously held.
While the island can offer pleasure, safety, and certainty, it ultimately demands a sacrifice; to live in such a liminal space denies one the opportunity to explore, take risks and test oneself. Despite the dream-like quality of much of Tennyson’s poetry, he is no escapist. His paradisiacal descriptions of exotic islands are inevitably tinged with an eerie sense of stagnation or danger that discourages his reader from over-indulgence in the idyllic imagery. It is particularly telling that two of his most memorable and treasured poems feature protagonists, quite opposite in their characters, who abandon the security and familiarity of their island-homes in order to experience the world to its fullest. Tennyson’s symbolic use of the island reminds us that, if we want to “drink Life to the lees”, we must sometimes set off into unchartered waters.
Main image: The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), oil on canvas, 1888, based on Tennyson’s poem. Contributor: IanDagnall Computing / Alamy Stock Photo
Image 1 above: Tennyson with his wife Emily Sellwood and sons Hallam (left) and Lionel. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Image 2 above: Tennyson Down, Isle of Wight and its memorial cross to Tennyson. Credit: Steve Taylor ARPS / Alamy Stock Photo
Image 3 above: Tennyson’s house Farringford on the Isle of Wight. Credit: Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
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Nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, responders are finally able to receive health care for illnesses suffered while working in the ruins of the World Trade Center, unless they have cancer.
Special Master Sheila Birnbaum, who is in charge of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, will be the , on Aug. 2 to speak with potential applicants for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund to explain who is eligible and how the fund works.
Not covered under the health plan is cancer treatment.
"Insufficient evidence exists at this time to propose a rule to add cancer, or a certain type of cancer," the report, released on Tuesday, said.
Rescue workers commended Birnbaum last month for focusing on cancer and certain cancers among responders, believed to be caused by toxic debris at the WTC. Due to lack of statistical data, however, the treatments will not yet be covered.
Only one peer-reviewed article was published on the link between cancer and Sept. 11 workers in 2009 and two others were based on models to estimate the risk of cancer.
"These limitations in the exposure assessment literature make scientific analysis of a causal association between exposure and health effects, such as cancer, quite challenging," the report said.
The health plan, also known as the Zadroga Act, named after a police detective who died at age 34 after working at ground zero, was created to aid those who became ill after their clean up efforts. It ensures that those affected by 9/11 continue to receive monitoring and treatment services for 9/11-related health problems through at least 2015.
While the act does not currently cover cancer treatment, it does leave the door open to do so in the future. The legislation includes a provision for the WTC Health Program to add treatment for emerging conditions, such as cancer, based on any new findings. The legislation also provides significant funding for WTC health research.
The next review will be conducted in early to mid-2012.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, (D-NY), who co-sponsored the bill, called the report "premature."
"So many people have gotten such rare cancers - and at young ages - that it seems obvious there must be a link," he said in a statement to the Associated Press.
Illnesses that will be covered under the act include chronic cough, asthma, sinusitis and gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD), mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression and other health problems, such as lower back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome and other conditions which research suggests may be related to WTC exposure.
Birnbaum will focus on the details of the plan next Tuesday.
“At these town halls, I hope to talk with you about the Fund and the proposed rules as well as answer any questions you may have,” she said.
The meeting will take place Aug. 2 from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the , 1350 Old Walt Whitman Road.

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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Bangladesh.
The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources of the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of Odhikar, a member of OMCT General Assembly and Executive Committee Member of Forum Asia, at his Gulshan residence, in Dhaka.
According to the information received, on August 10, 2013, at 10.20 pm, Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan was arrested by eight or nine detectives of the Detective Branch of Police (DB) as he was returning home with his family. The detectives, who brought a white microbus apparently belonging to the United Commercial Bank and a blue and silver coloured mitsubishi pajero, asked Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan to follow them. Reportedly, Mr. Rahman Khan was brought to the headquarters of the police DB in Dhaka.
The eleventh of July is a special day for victims of enforced disappearance in the Philippines. It is a day of remembering the well-loved Redemptorist priest, Fr. Rudy Romano, who disappeared in Cebu City on July 11, 1985. A staunch defender of human rights during the Marcos dictatorship, Fr. Rudy became the voice of the voiceless farmers, workers and urban poor. He championed their issues in the many organizations that he headed: as executive secretary of the Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace; chairperson of the Coalition Against People’s Persecution; vice chairperson for the Visayas of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and Cebu Oust Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism and Democracy, among others.
The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) denounces the ill treatment and physical manhandling by a traffic officer against AFAD Council member and Advocate Parvez Imroz, Chair of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday.
Based on accounts by APDP, on 2 July 2013 at 10:30 in the morning, Mr. Imroz was driving into the High Court complex in Srinagar with his nephew when DSP (traffic) police Riyaz Halwai approached his vehicle. He and his nephew were ordered to move in a different direction. Before allowing them the reasonable time to do so, DSP Riyaz was abusive and threatening, which was questioned by Parvez Imroz. As the policemen in Kashmir are not accustomed to being questioned and behaving decently with Kashmiris, DSP Riyaz got further infuriated, lost control, increased his abuses and physically manhandled Parvez Imroz. Perturbed with this behavior, Parvez Imroz protested and remarked that he will not remain silent on this abusive behaviour. DSP Riyaz then tore his shirt to fabricate and falsely implicate Parvez Imroz.
The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) calls on all States to STOP the practice of TORTURE and punish the perpetrators as it supports the commemoration of the United Nations’ International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Held every 26th of June, this day is dedicated to create awareness and seek support to stop the practice of torture, considered by the UN as one of the vilest acts perpetrated by human beings to fellow human beings. The systematic and widespread use of torture is a crime against humanity. The International Day for Torture Survivors coincides with the entry into force 26 years ago today, of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. It has been ratified by 153 countries as of June 25, 2013. Yet, its practice is still widespread.


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Conflict is a persistent fact of organizational life. Much of it, however, rarely becomes public and instead is expressed `behind the scenes' in such forms as avoidance, toleration, gossip and vengence. This book takes examples from a number of organizational settings and makes the case that far from being an occasional occurrence, conflict is embedded in their very fabric. The authors go on to illustrate the frequency of conflict, show how conflicts are actually handled and suggest that these conflicts can be better managed for organizational effectiveness.Über den Autor:
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The Best Salt Dough Recipe for Families
At the time of this writing, moms everywhere (including me) are scrambling to organize boredom busters for their kiddos. Since my first salt dough ornaments seemed to be such a hit with my readers, I’m bringing you a smaller batch salt dough recipe with tips for getting great results every time!
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The Best Salt Dough Recipe
In my earlier post on how to make salt dough ornaments with kids, I walked through each step of the process in detail. I even have a YouTube video if you’d like to make them right along with me!
For this post, I’m offering a small-batch recipe. I’m also going to focus on tips and tricks for decorating your ornaments and share reasons why you might have problems with ornaments cracking or puffing up.
First, here’s what you’ll need to get started!
I’d like to give a big thank you to PLAID, which donated the paints used in this tutorial.
Painting Salt Dough Ornaments
To paint salt dough ornaments, I generally prefer to use acrylic paints. There’s no need to dilute the paint or do anything special to the salt dough before you begin painting.
My boys and I used a combination of Apple Barrel and FolkArt paints for our latest ornaments.
Tip: Try not to brush over wet paint multiple times, as this will cause the paint to lift off the ornament. Let it dry completely before applying additional coats.
As you can see, there’s a lot more fun you can have with salt dough than just painting cookie shapes!
I hand-sculpted the ears, bow, and nose for the little bunny above and then hot glued the pieces together. The whiskers (my favorite part) are made from picture hanging wire. Mommies get to have fun, too!
How to Make Salt Dough Ornaments Shiny
To make ornaments shiny, I highly recommend using Mod Podge Gloss or Mod Podge Sparkle. I am in love with the Sparkle version!
You also have the option of using an acrylic sealer spray to create a sheen, but I really like the ease of using Mod Podge in a jar. Even the kids can help with it!
I had a lot of questions about how the Sparkle formula would look versus just using glitter. (I only used glitter in my other salt dough post.) Here’s a side-by-side comparison.
You can really observe the shine of Mod Podge Sparkle (egg ornament) at an angle. I love the fact that the ornament doesn’t shed like it would using regular glitter.
Tip: If using glitter to decorate your salt dough, first apply a thin coat of Mod Podge Matte, then apply glitter while still wet.
Why are my salt dough ornaments cracking?
If your ornaments crack during or after baking, try adding a bit more water to the dough next time or cooking at a slightly lower temperature for a longer period of time.
Of course, you always have the option of letting the ornaments air dry for 4-7 days if you have the patience. This is a great no-bake option, especially in classroom settings.
Sealing the ornaments with any type of Mod Podge formula will also prevent cracking and help preserve the ornament for years to come.
Why did my salt dough puff up?
If you have problems with your salt dough puffing up while baking, try making the ornaments thinner or reducing the baking temperature (cooking longer). Again, you always have the option of air drying your salt dough instead of baking.
Also, please make sure you use all-purpose flour and not self-rising flour or other alternatives.
More Salt Dough Recipe Ideas
I have many more ideas for using this salt dough recipe in my related post, but here are a few ideas to get you imagining the possibilities!
- Salt dough garland
- Christmas card/photo holder
- Salt dough handprints
- Salt dough paw prints for pets
- Salt dough gift tags
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I hope you and your loved ones enjoy using this salt dough recipe for years to come! I would love for you to tag me on Instagram (@firstdayofhome) or leave a photo on Pinterest to show me your creations!
How to Make Salt Dough
- Easter cookie cutters (if making ornaments)
- Drinking straw
- Baking sheet (if baking)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup table salt
- ¼ to ½ cup water
- Mod Podge Sparkle (optional)
- acrylic paint (optional)
- glitter (optional)
- If baking, pre-heat the oven to 250°F. You can also choose a no-bake option and let the salt dough air dry for 4-7 days.
- Blend dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Gradually add water and knead the dough with your hands until it reaches your desired texture.
- If the dough feels too tacky, add more flour. If it’s too dry, you can gradually add more water.
- Roll dough out until 1/4 inch thick or less.
- Cut dough into desired shapes.
- Using a drinking straw, make small holes in the ornaments to hang them later.
- If baking, place the salt dough ornaments on a cookie sheet and bake at 250°F for about 2 hours or until all moisture is gone. If the ornaments are still soft in some places, you can continue to let them air dry.
- Decorate the salt dough ornaments with acrylic paint, Mod Podge Sparkle or other accents.
- Optional: Seal the ornaments with any Mod Podge sealer, if desired.
Fourth day after heating in oven for 3 hours at 250 where they mostly hardened (one side in particular) & thought time would harden them the rest of the way. But now they are getting soft again. Any suggestions on what to do to get them hard would be appreciated.
Hi Karen! I would try placing them in the oven again and see if that helps. Mine usually don’t get soft again since they can also be air-dried. I wonder if there’s a lot of humidity in the air. You might want to place them with the opposite side facing down this time. I hope this helps!
What a great project, Crissy! It looks like your boys enjoyed making and decorating these ornaments, and I bet my students would love to make these too! Thank you so much for sharing! Happy Easter, my friend!
Thanks so much, Lynne! I’m sure your students would have a blast with it. The decorating is my favorite part. I hope you had a wonderful Easter! Thanks for stopping by, sweet friend!
This website is so busy and full of ads you can’t even find the danged recipe!!!! >:((
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Kaley Cuoco would have stayed for "20 more years" on 'Big Bang Theory" if it were up to her
Popular CBS sitcom, 'The Big Bang Theory' is finally coming to an end after 12 seasons. But, there is one cast member who is disheartened by the news
Popular CBS sitcom, 'The Big Bang Theory' is finally coming to an end after 12 seasons. Joining several cast members sharing their displeasure on the abrupt end of the fan-favorite series, is Kaley Cuoco, who is particularly disheartened by the news. Kaley, who plays the role of Penny revealed that she isn't looking forward to the end of the show, and would have stuck around for another 20 years if it were up to her.
Kaley also revealed how upset she was upset on hearing the news and that she would have loved to continue. "It's broken my heart," she told Extra. "I am so sad that it's ending. For the record, I would have done 20 more years... I was bad, but everyone was crying."
Kaley Cuoco 'Would Have Done 20 More Years' of 'Big Bang Theory' - extratv https://t.co/vJYQbDhIdX— FLANJOHN (@theflanjohn) September 24, 2018
As previous reports suggest that the show is coming to an end because Jim Parsons who plays the standout character Sheldon Cooper is ready to move on. Kaley even shared that during the time of the announcement she was drowning in tears knowing that 'TBBT' was ending after 12 seasons. "I think we were all hoping for a giant 'Bazinga!'," she told Extra.
"This ride has been a dream come true and as life-changing, as it gets," she adds. "No matter when it was going to end, my heart would have always been broken in two. Drowning in tears, we promise to bring you the best season yet." But, there is one thing that she will not miss, recently on 'The Late Late Show with James Corden' she revealed, "The stairs have gotten more and more exhausting as our seasons have gone on."
"Seasons 1 and 2, we were running up there. Now, it's season 12, we're all a bit older, and it's a little more difficult getting up those steps. So I would like that elevator to work," she continued. Though there were rumors going around, stating that there might a spin-off, Kaley says that she hasn't heard of any till date. She even revealed she is ready to work with the show's co-creator, writer, and producer Chuck Lorre again. “If he called me and said 'let’s do something' tomorrow, I would.”

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Los Angeles: Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette said she could have made her backstage remarks in a more eloquent way at this year's Academy Awards.
Arquette, 46, who is facing backlash from media for her backstage speech while collecting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'Boyhood', reported The Wrap.
"You can't go back in time. But, I guess I would have chosen my words a little more carefully. I think the way people perceived it is not the way at all I intended."
The actress, who also clarified what she meant on Twitter following the post-Oscars uproar, went on to say that helping all women should be the priority.
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|My current pick as the best new unsigned band out there... why haven't these guys been signed yet??? Oh well, I love them as they are, I'm sure a major deal would only try to wipe away the raw charm and passionate work-ethic this band has always used to their advantage. Doing things the old-fashioned way, the Love Injections are currently recording their third self-released demo-album as we speak... however this album can now be downloaded for free in the meantime over at www.loveinjections.com.
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The old sign, with its retro shape and pale, peeling blue paint, feels especially lonesome. It stands like a skeletal marker of a roadside attraction faded from both sight and memory. The lights occasionally flicker with a faint, dull glow, though their brilliance is nothing compared to the sea of stars sparkling in the sky above.
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After a very difficult 2007 season for the ING Renault F1 Team, the French outfit is determined to fight back with the new R28 that was presented to the press today. Technical Director Bob Bell was happy to talk about the new 2008 contender.
"A hell of a lot. 2007 was a very poor year by our standards. For 2008, there are high expectations inside and outside the team. In Fernando, we have a driver that we know can win the title if he has the right car. Nelsinho is a very promising talent. We are not in Formula 1 to make up the numbers, and it is down to us to give the drivers a competitive car."Was your approach to 2007 too conservative?
"I think it probably was, yes. There were mitigating circumstances: on the one hand, a lot of effort went into our 2006 championship fight; on the other, we did not appreciate the magnitude of the changes needed for the Bridgestone tyres until we began running them – and that was too late for the 07 car. There were also some errors in our technical procedures. All of these factors were at the root of our uncompetitive season."So what about how you have tackled 2008?
"Firstly, we have put the problems from 2007 behind us, and we know that our design tools like the wind tunnel are working well. That was a very important part of our work last year, to ensure we could put ourselves back on track. In terms of the car design, we have looked at the problem afresh. We have pushed very hard in all areas, and particularly on the aerodynamics; we are confident that the progress we have seen in the wind tunnel will be reflected on track."What new development paths have you followed with the R28?
"The front end of the car has come in for particular attention, notably the front wing and the front suspension. The suspension architecture is now much more akin to what is deemed ‘fashionable’: the zero keel solution offered us no real benefit for a number of years, but it has opened up potential for us this year in order to extract maximum performance from the tyres.
The aero team has paid particular attention to the rear end, tailoring the bodywork and suspension. And we haven’t neglected the new car ‘basics’: taking weight out of the car, and improving stiffness. The reality of modern F1, though, is that the quality of the aero package determines a car’s success – and this has been our primary focus."Has the car’s weight distribution been revised to better extract maximum performance from the tyres?
"Our previous design philosophy was optimised around a more rearward weight distribution, matched to a rearward aero balance. The Bridgestone tyres demand a significant push forwards in this area, and we have exploited this characteristic with the 2008 aerodynamic package."What has been the magnitude of the change to the SECU?
"From the outside, this is a very deceptive change: it is far from a ‘plug and play’ device. It is not just the on-car hardware that has changed, but all of our on- and off-car support systems and analysis tools have either been modified or changed entirely. It is a process that we have spent over a year working on, and it took a lot of work to make the systems useable. But the transition has been negotiated successfully."What impact has this had on the design of the R28?
"Clearly, the loss of systems such as traction control and engine braking control has an influence on how the car is exploited at the track. That has not affected the fundamental design architecture, but it will have a definite impact on set-up. We have a good handle on those changes, but the new car is so different to its predecessor that we still need to run more to have a definitive answer."The long-life four race gearbox is another major change. How have you tackled it?
"This is a much less significant change than the ECU, but it is still major because modern F1 gearboxes are notoriously fragile. Furthermore, their successful operation depends on the synergy between the mechanical components and control systems. We have paid a lot of attention to achieving the necessary reliability without compromising performance, with a lot of focus on exploiting the control systems allowed by the new ECU system."Tell us about the drivers from a technical perspective…
"Fernando is a known quantity for the team: we know that if he has the right car, he can win races and titles. That helps us a lot when it comes to focusing our development efforts. The added benefit is that unlike with most new drivers, his transition into the team will be very easy. Nelsinho is an unproven but exciting talent in F1 terms. His performances in junior formulae have shown real promise, and he is settled within the team. I think it is a very nicely balanced driver pairing."What are you proudest of in the new car?
"Personally, it is the effort and work that have gone into the R28. 2007 was a tough year because we were uncompetitive, because of the appearance before the World Council, and also because we really pushed the performance of the new car – and gave ourselves some big challenges with the project management. The team has come through it with its head held high, good morale and total focus. One look at the R28 shows the effort that has gone into every area, and it is a car we can feel proud of."Will it also be a car that can take Renault back to the front?
"That’s certainly what we will be trying to achieve…"Related newsarticles:
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I was lying on an eighteenth-century fainting couch. They had seven such pieces of furniture dotted strategically around the apartment. I was grateful for this, as I usually felt nauseous when I saw them. Toby and Samantha that is, the couple who owned the apartment I found myself in. Samantha was fussing over my contorted body. I had my head between my knees and was mewling like an injured Prussian whilst rocking back and forth from my waist axis. I wanted to tell her that her actions were actually making things worse, but I couldn’t for some reason. I raised my head and looked at her face. She seemed a worthwhile person. I wondered if I was in love with her, and that’s why I couldn’t say that her mere presence made me sick. I put my head back between my knees and thought about this concept for about 14 minutes. I drew strength from its paradoxical nature and felt slightly better.
Toby then rolled into the room like an egg. Although a young person, his face consisted entirely of jowls. Jowls. It’s as if they’d had a fight with his cheek and jawbones and the cheek and jawbones had not only lost, but had been so traumatised by the experience that they could no longer function as anything useful anymore, whilst the victorious jowls descended lower and lower until they resembled two empty scrotums hanging from each side of his face, like a grotesque pair of drop earrings.
Toby was standing over my body. He looked moderately concerned as he asked Samantha what was wrong with me.
‘His intestines have gone to sleep.’
‘Ah, of course’ said Toby.
I was surprised at this swift diagnosis from a person untrained in medicine, as well the casual ‘matter of fact’ acceptance from Toby. In actual fact, it felt the exact opposite: my intestines were wide awake and looking for ways to leave my body. I groaned like Geoffrey Chaucer, or how I imagined Geoffrey Chaucer would groan after a night drinking strong ale.
‘Listen to him’ said Samantha. ‘He’s groaning like the Venerable Bede after eating chips.’
She’d misdiagnosed me again, but I let it slide. Toby suddenly crouched down to my bent over frame. I noticed distractedly that his jowls took slightly longer to reach the same level as the rest of his face. Some kind a lag effect, presumably. For want of anything else to say, I repeated this observation out loud to him. His slapped-arse-of-a-face looked sad, like Droopy Dog’s after being told his family had just died in a house fire. Frustratingly, however, it soon cheered up. He went on to say that my rudeness – or was it candour? – was down to the delusion he thought I was suffering. This was not the case; although I was in physical discomfort, I felt shockingly lucid in my thinking.
Samantha and Toby clearly didn’t think so, as they were now talking about me as if I wasn’t in the same room as them. I heard them say I was socially and mentally retarded and incapable of sustaining a relationship with a real live woman, as well as being a compulsive masturbator and bed wetter. Most of these accusations were half truths at best. Granted, I often combined the masturbating and bed wetting, (two birds with one stone, etc.) but there was nothing compulsive about it. And all the other allegations are just hearsay.
I decided I had to do something to have them notice me. In keeping with the traditional etiquette of such a situation, I pretended to clear my throat loudly, hoping to alert them of my presence, and thus persuading them to discontinue their character assassination, which had now moved on to me deliberately pushing a shopping trolley into a toddler’s face in Waitrose. This, again, was another slander. What I’d actually done was push a shopping trolley over a toddler’s face in Waitrose. There’s a subtle difference, and they really should have acknowledged it. This is what happened: the child was lying in one of the aisles colouring in some pictures of tigers, and, feeling surprisingly confident, I tried to ‘bunny hop’ over him. I’d often practice this trick in my spare time, of which I had quite a lot. Unfortunately, I didn’t factor in the weight of my groceries in the trolley, and this meant I was unable to perform the manoeuvre. Consequently, the right front wheel and the right back wheel of the trolley ran over the child’s jaw, nose and forehead (in that order).
I looked back at what I’d done and felt a bit guilty. But I believed there was still time to retrieve the situation. Fortuitously, all this had happened in the stationery aisle, so I opened a packet of post-it notes, wrote down my details, and stuck it on top of the boy’s head. That way the owners could contact me to sort out any insurance issues or other problems. I then left the supermarket feeling quite altruistic.
Later I realised that instead of writing my name and address on the post-it note, I’d actually drawn a picture of a duck. I don’t know why I did this.
I’d been narrating this episode out loud, in the hope that Toby and Samantha would acknowledge me. It didn’t seem to work, as they had now started to have sex. Toby mounted her like a sweaty warthog. Samantha looked like a praying mantis only bigger. I declared it weirdly anthropomorphic in my mind, and added an Attenborough narration for effect. I watched them for a while, and listened somewhat inattentively as Attenborough described cross-species coitus. There was then a disjuncture and things became quite turbid. When I looked again Toby was lying dead on the floor. Or perhaps he was sleeping. I couldn’t tell the difference.
I then turned my head and saw the words ‘change’ and ‘permanence’ lying on the floor next to a crowbar. Excellent, I thought. I’d been looking for those things. This story is now complete.

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Shower now few people will surprise. Of course, if the trunk of an elephant is not used instead of the leiba, and instead of the pressure – the force of the animal. In the village of Tekakadi, located near the Reserve of Periyar, tourists are offered several "elephant" services. Among them, a walk and a shower of the animal trunk.
Walking on the elephant, you will understand what it means to feel yourself wet from the head to the legs in the literal sense of the word. There is such an unusual ablution of about 1000 rupees.
Rajastan: Sedded camel
India is not only elephants, sacred cows and monkeys, but also camels. At least as applies to the state of Rajasthan, where the desert of Tar spread out. Caravans are sent here from Jaisalmer and Bikanar from November to February, when in the desert is not too hot afternoon and not too cold at night. But even at this time of the year, Safari is a test for strength. The caravan comes from one village to the other, and there are only sand around. The more pleasant shady coolness of the greenery of few oases found along the way.
Travel agencies are ready to offer excursions of different duration: from one day to several. Consequently, the cost is also different and starts from 450 rupees.
Kanyakumari (Tamilland): meet dawn
What time is the dawn in Canyacumari, and how much the sunset, the locals know how twice two are: at 6 am and 6 pm. If Agrhra is going to see the Taj Mahal, then come here to admire the sun. It sits down and gets up in almost one place. And if the sunset interests only some, the dawn gathers people on the coast of Cape Komorin long before the advent of the Great Luminous. At the same time, the attraction from Europeans is few known, people with white skin skin here as an aliens, and take pictures with them on the background of the sun beside the whole queue.
And the Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of the country and, as a result, the entire Hindustan, the place of merging the "Three Seas": Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bengal Bay. And by the way, the only place in India, where you can swim in the Indian Ocean.
Rajastan: Stick in the ethnic village of Choki-Dhani
To get acquainted with rural life, it is absolutely not necessary to go around the villages, it is enough to look into the Choki-Dhanany, located near Jaipur. This is a tourist object, but rather indicative. Here, young men in turbans are dancing on nails and metal glasses, and girls get off PA with vessels on the head. Masseurs work, magicians, fortunelocks, masters of painting clay and henna in hand, as well as other artisans. Tourists feed by national dishes that are served on palm leaves instead of plates.
The cultural program is designed for the day and costs about 2500 rupees.
Munnar (Kerala): to visit the tea plantation
Despite the fact that India is one of the largest manufacturers of tea, the Indians themselves are trying not to buy it in the nearest stores. And drive him to Munnar, where there are some of the most highly mountain and beautiful plantations in the world. Green tea carpets, descending on the slopes of the mountains of Western Hhata, are located at an altitude of about 2000 m. Consequently, even when the fitting of the thermometer will show far for +30 ° C, cool in the mountains.
The average cost of one-day round: about 1000 rupees. Important: without guide services, visit plantations will not work. The most favorable time to visit – from August to March. About other tea plantations in the world Read the report "My Planet".
Kerala: make a water trip
In India, there is its own Venice – the city of Alleppe, or, as it is also called, Alappuja, famous for its channels formed by the channels of several dozen rivers, – by Keralese. They permeate the city as if artery. Only if in Venice Gondolas, in Alleppey – wormbot, or "floating houses", on which you can swim on a river maze.
There is a waterfront in such a house on lakes and lagunas along the Arabian coast of about 5,000 rupees per day along with food. The crew usually consists of captain, cooks and sailors. And in the house, as it should be, there is a cabin with all the amenities where you can spend the night. All the same at night floating house sticks to the parking lot.
Uttarakhand: Mounting Skiing
India has few people associated with winter sports. And in vain. There are mountains on its huge territory, and on them – snow. So lovers of the mountain ski straight way to the foothill of Himalayas – to the resort of Auli, located at an altitude of about 2500 m.
The length of the main ski slope is about 5 km, and there is a sufficient number of lifts, including chairlings. But due to the fact that the resort is not yet megapopular, hotels are not so much, and the place in them should be booked in advance.
The season lasts from October to the end of March. By the way, Auli is not the only ski resort of India, just very kinds there are beautiful.
Goa: Visit Spice Planning
Goa is the most popular Indian resort, but not every tourist knows that the state raisin is not even beaches, but fragrant plantations of spices. Enjoy the smell of vanilla, cardamom, carnations, turmeric, ginger and other spices – local Must-Do. The main thing is to choose a suitable plantation, because there are many of their services on their staff and each offers tourists their services.
In addition to the story of the benefits of spices and how they are grown, they are collected and recycled, the excursion may include palm climbing and even swimming with an elephant. True, if a visit to the plantation costs about 450 rupees (450 rubles.), then for the service of the elephant will have to pay about 700 more rupes (700 rubles.).
The largest plantations: Sahakari Spice Farms, Sayatri Spice Plantation, Savoi Plantation, Pascoal, Tropical Spice Plantation.
Mirudeshwar (carnataka): do diving
India is difficult to call the country created for diving: the Arabian Sea is distinguished by rather muddy water. Nevertheless, there is a way out – Neafran Island, located near the coastal city of Murudeshwar Carnataka. Visibility is ranged there from 15 to 30 m, and the depth of immersion is from 6 to 40 m. It’s nice that not only professionals can admire with multi-colored fish and unusual plants, but also newcomers.
Immersion will cost about 5,000 rupees, shooting – another 500. One dive is performed by 30-40 minutes.


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Editorial: Open access to N.C. polls needs to be part of voter ID script
Posted November 27, 2018 5:00 a.m. EST
Updated November 27, 2018 9:16 a.m. EST
CBC Editorial: Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018; Editorial #8363
The following is the opinion of Capitol Broadcasting Company
When it comes to gerrymandering, state Rep. David Lewis has even figured out how to do it for a legislative committee meeting. Lewis, a Harnett County Republicans, after all is one of the architects of North Carolina’s illegally gerrymandered legislative and congressional districts.
During a legislative meeting Monday about implementing the newly enacted constitutional amendment requiring voters show a photo ID at polling places, all but a few of the public comment speakers self-identified as Republicans and echoed legislative leaders’ talking points.
Coincidence? Perhaps. Just as it was that it was state GOP chairman Dallas Woodhouse who announced in an e-mail late last Wednesday afternoon, as most folks were focused on Thanksgiving plans, that the legislature would hold a “public hearing” on the voter ID amendment on Monday at 10 a.m.
There were some non-scripted voices heard from – and not just those who continue to have serious questions about the true motives behind the push for voter ID.
This is the second go-round on this issue after the last attempt was criticized by federal courts as being focused on discouraging minority voting with “surgical precision.”
Be that as it may, voter ID is a part of the State Constitution. The legislature should take MORE TIME and MORE CARE in how it implements the requirement. Lewis was vague when other legislators unsuccessfully sought more detail on the timeline for development and passage of a bill.
While Monday’s session was largely perfunctory, Lewis did state that his mandate from Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore was “not to be rushed in anyway.”
If true, that’s good advice and he should take it to heart.
For example, Lewis did disclose that much of the draft bill before the committee came directly from South Carolina’s voter ID law. Federal courts did not block that law because it interpreted it to say that voters without ID only needed to certify that they have a “reasonable impediment for not having a photo ID” -- lacking a birth certificate, transportation or any other reasonable obstacle.
Why the South Carolina law? Lewis didn’t say. Dallas Woodhouse has said the Georgia or Indiana voter ID laws should be state models.
Others, who are somewhat less enthusiastic about voter ID, point to the West Virginia law as a model. It lists 18 acceptable forms of photo identification – from state issued cards to bank cards and concealed-to-carry weapon permits.
Additionally, what would be done in elections that closely follow natural disasters (think Hurricane Florence or the awful forest fires in California) when people are uprooted?
There is an April 15, 2019 deadline for the adoption of rules to implement the law. Why so soon? Wouldn’t it be wiser to have it implemented for the start of the 2020 election cycle – giving more time for implementation so policies, equipment and people are properly in place?
We hope that if there’s one thing Lewis and other legislative leaders realize from Monday’s session it is that it will take more than 150 minutes to learn all that is needed to pass an ID law that will encourage, not discourage, voting and be upheld by the courts.
Our laws should encourage all eligible citizens to vote and not needlessly construct impediments that make it more difficult.
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Búðir is a small hamlet in the southern part of Snæfellsbær municipality at Snæfellsnes Peninsula. Surrounded by lava fields called Búðarhraun, this place has one of the most beautiful churches in Iceland and a hotel, but it’s otherwise uninhabited. The first Búðakirkja church was built in 1703 but was eventually deconstructed due to the area’s lack of parishioners. The current church was reconstructed in 1987 after a single member of the church lobbied to have the chapel brought back. It has a historic graveyard as well as relics such as a bell and chalice from the time the church was first erected. However, its pure black paint job and isolated location are the real attraction to the site. This black church apart from being one of the biggest attractions for photographers and tourists it’s also a very popular place for people from all over the world to get married there.

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In late July of 1994, Wang Huning was nearing the end of a brilliant – and relatively brief – career as a political scientist at Shanghai’s Fudan University. That summer, he was in the beach resort of Beidaihe, 300 kilometers east of Beijing, to join China’s leadership elite for their annual seaside conclave.
According to Wang’s journal entries from the trip, it was the topic of official corruption occupying the 39-year-old academic, specifically what he called “ultra-corruption,” a phenomenon that posed a distrinct threat to the CCP. “High-level corruption is rare," he wrote, “but if it occurs, its influence towers over petty corruption, and so it should be the focal point of anti-corruption work.”
With the twin conflagrations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union no doubt fresh on his mind, this reflection on the toxic nature of corruption was perhaps unsurprising. Wang, however, focused on the subject at a much deeper level than most. “What is trust in government?” he wrote in his diary just a few months before his trip to Beidaihe. “Trust in government means that a governmentcan fulfill its basic pledge to govern the people,” he wrote. His conclusion was clear – without a foundation of trust, China’s political system remained vulnerable to the same forces of change that had torn apart the Soviet empire.
Now, more than twenty years later, Wang Huning is at the core of a decision-making apparatus which, in the eyes of many, is finally eradicating high-level corruption, and thereby safeguarding trust in the Party-state. Since being summoned to Beijing in 1995 by then-General Secretary Jiang Zemin, effectively ending his academic career, Wang has become the “pen” of the Communist Party of China (CCP), the driving force behind the major ideological slogans of China’s top leaders, from Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents”, to Hu Jintao’s theory of “Scientific Development”, and most recently Xi Jinping’s “China Dream.” As head of the CCP’s highest-ranking think tank, the Central Policy Research Office, he has also become one of the closest confidantes of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
Before his move to the capital, Wang Huning’s scholarly output was prolific. He was the author of at least a dozen books, and had published more than 50 academic articles. Since 1995, and his transition to Beijing, this number has dropped to near-zero, a casualty of the “black box” which renders Chinese politics a whirl of mystery and rumor to us outsiders. While we don’t know much about the debate taking place within the walls of Zhongnanhai, fortunately, we do have the paper trail left by Wang Huning before his journey to the capital.
Regardless of Wang Huning’s future career prospects, one thing is clear: if we want to understand we the ultra-conservative political moment China is now in, we need to understand Wang Huning’s theory of “neo-authoritarianism,” which he helped develop in the years before his disappearance into the Party.
Born in Shanghai in 1955, his poor health kept him largely isolated from the high Maoism of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), which, in a 1988 interview, Wang would condemn as “an unprecedented political catastrophe.” One of the first students to take advantage of the re-opened universities after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, Wang entered Fudan University’s international politics department in 1978, graduating three years later with a Masters’ degree. He would spend the next 14 years at Fudan, authoring books and articles on comparative politics and governance.
By the mid-1980s, Wang began to focus on the relationship between the central government in Beijing and the local governments who nominally answered to it. Specifically, he was concerned with how the “reform and opening” policies were contributing to a hollowing-out of Beijing’s control over its far-flung territories.
Since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and the rise of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the relative autonomy of the local authorities had increased in tandem with the dismantling of the planned economy. The newly found flexibility and permissiveness helped propel a rapid rise in living standards as peasants moved out of the collective economy and into individually-managed farm plots and the fledgling market economy. Yet from Beijing’s perspective, economic and political decentralization had downsides. As control was relaxed, the propensity of the localities to protect their interests at the expense of Beijing-dictated policy increased, a phenomenon derided by Party mandarins as “policy above is met with countermeasures below.”
This dynamic was captured in a 1984 analysis by the CIA: “Although Deng [Xiaoping] and his allies have placed supporters in key central and provincial positions, their political and economic reforms remain controversial and have been implemented unevenly. In Beijing’s analysis, the main locus of resistance is at the middle and lower levels of administration. Through political connections and long, undisturbed tenure in office, many local officials are immune to central discipline; consequently, they often defy Beijing without fear of retribution. Unless local officials are absolutely certain that the national leadership is united beyond a measure, they often respond to central initiatives in ways that suit their own personal interests.”
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which would serve as a constant thorn in the side of the economic reformers throughout the 1980s, was also unenthusiastic about the side-effects of economic reforms. As opportunities in the countryside increased, many existing soldiers wanted to return to their hometowns to help their families work the land. Likewise, recruiting new solders became more difficult as economic opportunities expanded. Those households with children serving in the military were likewise disadvantaged relative to those without any serving members, and thus the pressure on sons to leave the low-paying PLA was great. As one PLA political commissar remarked in 1980, “the new rural policy has caused consternation in the ranks."
As he watched the atrophy of Beijing’s authority increase along with the reforms, Wang Huning worried that if the decentralization of power continued apace, it would usher a return to a “feudal economy,” with localism and anarchy of the kind that typified the “warlord period” of the 1920s and 30s. In a August 1988 article, he warned of China being split into “30 dukedoms, with some 2,000 rival principalities" owing to the decentralization of authority following reform. While reform of the economy was undoubtedly needed, he argued, it created a dilemma for China’s rulers. According to Wang, “If power is not transferred to the lower level it will be impossible to invigorate the economy and move it toward modernization; but the transfer of power to the lower level brings with it extremely great difficulties to the regulation and control by the political system.”
This was not a new problem, of course. As a Yuan Dynasty-era (13-14th century) saying notes “the Emperor is as far away as the sky is high.” But after the disorder and chaos of the Cultural Revolution, many in China, Wang Huning included, were determined to finally draw the Emperor much nearer.
This was to become one of the central questions for the CCP as it navigated its post-Mao era: how to balance openness (of ideas, goods, and people) with the requisite political control needed to ensure stability and, most importantly, the CCP’s monopoly on power. Wang was determined to find a balance, and in a series of articles in sparsely-read academic journals and popular newspapers, he began to tease out a new framework of governance, one that allowed for the requisite flexibility needed for bottom-up initiative with the imperative for oversight and intervention needed by a central authority to ensure economic and social stability coupled with political unity and authority.
To begin with, Wang argued, one needed to look past the reform-era mentality of seeing the principle struggle as one between the government on the one hand and the market (or enterprises, 企业) on the other. As he said in a 1995 interview with Exploration and Free Views (探索与争鸣), because the Center abandoned so much of its direct intervention into local government affairs and management of the economy, “although there was no real plan to expand the role of local governments, the actions of local governments resulted in the de facto expansion of their roles, and even ‘role inflation.’” Local governments had become empowered in the wake of Beijing’s withdrawal from local life, a result that made it harder for central government planners to push national-level policy down the system. This was not just a matter of policy implementation. “Unity of leadership is the prerequisite for the existence of any country,” Wang argued in the same interview, “Where there is no central authority or where the central authority is in decline, the nation will be in a divided and chaotic state.”
Wang’s writings of the 1980s were to form the foundation of what came to be known as “neo-authoritarianism” (新权威主义). The doctrine held that political stability provided the structure for economic development, and that considerations such as democracy and individual liberty were to come later, when the conditions were appropriate. As Wang wrote in a 1993 article entitled, “Political Requirements for the Socialist Market Economy,” (社会主义市场经济的政治要求) “The formation of democratic institutions requires the existence of specific historical, social, and cultural conditions. Until these conditions are mature, political power should be directed towards the development of these conditions.”
Others joined Wang in fleshing out this strong-state theory of governance. One of the most forceful advocates was Wu Jiaxiang, an economist at the CCP Central Committee General Office. “Before democracy and freedom ‘get married’,” he observed, “there is a ‘flirtation period’ between autocracy and freedom. If one says democracy is the life-long partner of freedom, then autocracy can be seen as freedom’s ‘lover’ before marriage.” Writing in the Beijing Youth Daily, an important organ of the neo-authoritarians, Liu Liqun, a researcher at a State Council think tank, argued, “Without social order, there can not be freedom or democracy. If one pursues freedom and democracy without first establishing order, then society will go backwards.” Even more radical intellectuals, such as humanist Marxist Su Shaozhi, argued for forceful leadership, albeit one that provided space for intellectual experimentation. As he told the Robert Sullivan in 1986, “What China needs today is a strong liberal leader.”
One source of inspiration for the neo-authoritarians was the other developing East Asian nations (Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Hong Kong), which seemed to show that economic modernization necessitated (or at least could co-exist with) an iron-willed political system. Moving to such a system was not, the neo-authoritarians argued, a return to China’s authoritarian past, but rather represented a transition phase, wherein an enlightened governing elite with reformist tendencies would oversee the development process in the belief that the “masses,” if left to their own devises, would wreck the entire project. In other words, modernization needs stability and order, but all in the name of good governance and, ultimately, some form of democracy.
By early summer 1989, neo-authoritarianism was one of the hottest intellectual trends around as many came to question the direction and speed of the economic reforms. (One poll from 1988 reported that 60% of respondents felt the reforms were moving “too fast,” up from 20% in 1987.) So hungry were people for answers that in April 1989, nearly 2,000 students, intellectuals, and faculty crammed into a lecture hall at People’s University in Beijing for a four-hour debate on the topic. One account from Hong Kong reported that Zhao Ziyang told Deng Xiaoping in March of 1989, “there is a theory about neo-authoritarianism in foreign countries, and domestic theoretical circles are now discussing this theory.” To which Deng replied, “This is also my idea.”
After the June 4th crackdown and the purge of Zhao Ziyang, however, neo-authoritarianism needed a brand makeover. Its call for a “transition” to a more democratic form of political system (albeit vaguely outlined) was jettisoned, leaving only the call for strong and unchallenged leviathan in the form of the CCP. Neo-authoritarianism thus lived on, reborn as “neo-conservatism,” which remained a dominant ideological force in 1990s. One influential promoter of this new ideology was the princeling Chen Yuan (Chen Yun's son), who called for the CCP to ditch Marxism (which few seemed to believe anyhow) and instead anchor its legitimacy to more primal forces – nationalism and political order. “We are the Communist Party,” Chen once said, “and we will decide what communism means.”
The legacy of Wang’s neo-authoritarianism and its cousin, neo-conservatism, lives on today under the reign of Xi Jinping. Look at the first five years of Xi Jinping’s administration through the neo-authoritarian lens, and we see a consistent theme: clawing power back to Beijing. State-owned enterprises, which in many cases had become economic empires unto their own, have been pulled back into the Party’s embrace. Highflying private companies, such as Anbang and Fosun, now pay heed of Beijing’s commands. Cadres throughout the country now pay homage to the “core” of the Party’s Central Committee, Xi Jinping.
Wang Huning hasn’t written anything on neo-authoritarianism in more than twenty years, but then again, why would he need to? Order and stability have triumphed, and while the sky may still be high, the emperor is now closer than ever.