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The Prince of Wales and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have had a jam-packed U.S. visit, which concludes Friday in Louisville, Ky., after three days in Washington.
\n\nBut the royal visit isn’t just about sightseeing at such landmarks as Mount Vernon and the Lincoln Memorial.
\n\nIt’s also about developing goodwill and promoting causes.
\n\nPrince Charles, a committed conservationist, spoke in Washington of his work preserving marine life, received a conservation award named for President Teddy Roosevelt and made a surprise visit to a Smithsonian museum to discuss an upcoming exhibit on the ancient arts and crafts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
\n\nIn Louisville he’ll give a speech, the marquee event of the trip, in the city’s Cathedral of the Assumption, on the connection of health and land and sustainability in agriculture. He and his wife, Camilla, in keeping with the theme, will visit a food literacy project for young people at a local farm and stop by the Big Four Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge, a mile-long, former railroad bridge that opened last year crossing the Ohio River.
\n\nBritish Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott, using the acronym for non-governmental organizations, described Prince Charles at an event his week as “a one-man NGO.”
\n\nA former private secretary to Prince Charles, Westmacott said: “And I saw over the years how his royal highness was so often ahead of public opinion on issues of global importance, such as the environment . . . sustainability; and the role the private sector could and should play in helping to make a difference.”
\n\n“Add to the courage of his convictions the extraordinary convening power of his royal highness, and you have an extraordinarily effective one-man NGO,” he said.
\n\nA lot of that has to do with the prince’s standing on the international stage.
\n\nAt the White House Oval Office on Thursday, President Barack Obama told Prince Charles when the press was briefly allowed in the room, “I think it’s fair to say that the American people are quite fond of the royal family.” The prince said, “That’s awfully nice to know.” And Obama said, “They like them much better than they like their own politicians.”
\n\nPrince Charles, 66, heir to the throne, has spent years promoting conservation through the multimillion-dollar Prince’s Trust and other organizations. “He’s trying to prove he’s a serious person waiting to be king,” said Allan J. Lichtman, a history professor at American University.
\n\nAnd he has a following.
\n\n“Prince Charles is a fantastic convener,” said John Gantt, president of the International Conservation Caucus Foundation, which gave the prince the Teddy Roosevelt International Conservation Award Thursday evening – a bronze and marble sculpture of a herd of elephants – for “his extraordinary conservation leadership.”
\n\nRoosevelt, the nation’s 26th president, was a leading conservationist who preserved over 200 million acres of land in various ways, such as national forests and parks.
\n\nBy using the draw of his royal name and rank, Gantt said, the prince brings leaders in the private and public sector together on such issues as fighting elephant poachers in Africa, educating against deforestation and cleaning oceans.
\n\n\n\nOn Wednesday, Prince Charles spoke to the Global Ocean Commission, a gathering of environmental, governmental and business groups, about marine pollution.
\n\n“One issue that we absolutely cannot ignore is that of the increasing quantity of plastic waste in the marine environment,” he said. “I was horrified to learn that, according to recent research, we collectively allow as much as 8 million tons of plastic to enter the oceans every year.
\n\n“Today, almost half of all marine mammals now have plastic in their gut,” he said, adding that he was haunted by the sight of dead seabirds, especially albatrosses, washed up on beaches.
\n\n“It is, I believe, utterly crucial that we do much more to speed up the transition to a more ‘circular’ economy – that is to say, one in which materials are recovered, recycled and reused instead of created, used and then thrown away,” he said.
\n\n\n\nIn a stop that was not posted on his itinerary, the prince visited the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art.
\n\nHe leads a nonprofit to rebuild the historic old city of Kabul and to promote its arts and crafts. The galleries are planning an exhibition for March 2016 featuring the Afghan arts and his foundation’s architectural restoration work.
\n\n“The Prince of Wales believes that everyone has a role to play in tackling even the most complex sustainability challenges facing the world,” the British Embassy said in a statement.
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\n\nWhat’s needed is not glamorous, and not unique to one park. The deferred maintenance backlog at all national parks is now pegged at $11.5 billion, a burden looming even as the National Park Service solicits corporate and congressional support for its 2016 centennial celebration.
\n\n“No one is going to give money to fix the wastewater plant at Yosemite,” Jarvis told a House subcommittee. “That’s a federal responsibility.”
\n\nHow to meet it is a question that can divide Democrats and Republicans.
\n\nThe Obama administration’s $3 billion budget proposal for the park service includes hundreds of millions of dollars for deferred maintenance projects.
\n\nThe specific Yosemite backlog, spelled out in park service documents, is an often gritty wish list that ranges from upgrading the El Portal sewer lines and replacing the Crane Flat Campground’s septic leach field, to rehabilitating the famed Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees.
\n\nAt Sequoia National Park to the south, the maintenance backlog includes replacing the Lodgepole Campground’s water treatment facility, while Lassen Volcanic National Park to the north could use a new headquarters utility system.
\n\nFor these projects and others like them, the administration’s budget proposal seeks a new Second Century Infrastructure Investment campaign of $300 million annually for three years, in addition to other increases for deferred maintenance work.
\n\n“I recognize this is a significant ask in today’s budget climate,” Jarvis acknowledged. “The maintenance backlogs are overwhelming.”
\n\nPressed by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands, to make what he called a “Sophie’s choice,” Jarvis allowed that funding the deferred maintenance projects would take priority over the administration’s simultaneous request to buy more park land.
\n\nThe concession all-but foreshadowed how the Republican-controlled Congress is likely to rewrite the administration’s budget proposal in the Fiscal 2016 appropriations process now getting underway: the money may be less, and the priorities are sure to differ.
\n\n“Shouldn’t we be taking care of the property we already have instead of acquiring additional property?” McClintock asked.
\n\nEchoing the point, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., whose sprawling Sacramento Valley district includes the 106,372-acre Lassen park, voiced his own “grave concerns” about the park service’s request for funds to buy more land.
\n\nThe park service has proposed buying land for parks in Colorado and Hawaii, among other states, while the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management has proposed buying land for the likes of the Carrizo Plains National Monument in California’s San Luis Obispo County.
\n\nTellingly, a memo prepared by the Republican staff of the federal lands committee characterized the park service’s budget proposal as “runaway federal spending.”
\n\nThe National Park Service budget hearing Tuesday morning was the subcommittee’s first since McClintock took over the chairmanship earlier this year, and it gave the conservative lawmaker and his GOP colleagues an opportunity to put their own priorities on the table.
\n\nMcClintock, whose district includes Yosemite, pushed for public access and recreational use, citing bicycling, horseback riding and ice skating as examples.
\n\n“At Yosemite, there is a continuing effort to try to reduce or remove those activities,” McClintock said, adding that this would “send a wrong message to the public.”
\n\n\n\nLast year, following extensive public debate, the National Park Service released a revised Merced River management plan to restore some of Yosemite Valley’s natural habitat while still retaining popular recreation activities.
\n\nIn further preparation for the park service’s 100th anniversary celebration next year, the administration is asking for $40 million for a “Centennial Challenge” designed to match corporate and private contributions.
\n\nNext week, starting March 25, a three-day conference at the University of California, Berkeley, will also bring together park service officials, scholars and advocates for an early anniversary celebration.
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\n\nThe Freer, one of the premier U.S. art museums for Asian Art, has dug into their collections for screens tied to the upcoming cherry blossom festival. On display are vibrant gold-painted screens filled with blooming peonies and irises, quail, singing birds, and white pheasants nurturing their scampering offspring.
\n\nTwo of the screens date back to an artistic period when cherry blossoms made of ground shells, mixed with glue and water, were painted in thick layers, giving a three-dimensional feel like those of the real flowers.
\n\nAnn Yonemura, senior associate curator of Japanese art, says the style of the flowers “were in vogue in the early 17th century.”
\n\n“It was used for very, very fancy works because it takes so much time. The earliest examples were from the late 15th century.”
\n\nYonemura says, “In Japanese art, it’s really about special occasional viewing. It’s not about leaving things out for long period of time. When you had special guests, coming, you’d put them out, otherwise the room might be” empty.
\n\nThe crusted blossoms can lead to conservation problems. One of the screens came from a private collection with “some damage and condition issues.”
\n\n“So what happened in this case, because it was subjected to some dry temperatures, dry conditions (they) had lost a lot of the petals,” she says. The conservators, even when they opened the screen to examine it, a few more fell. They had to find where each falling petal had come from and re-attach it.”
\n\nThe Freer rotates its collections, showing the art once every five years. Yonemura says that “resting (the art) does not restore them and deterioration is not reversible.” The proper humidity levels are critical for conservation and the museum keeps its collections around 55 degrees year round.
\n\nOne of the screens dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868) and was likely on display in a room with oil lamps, and consequently is darker.
\n\nThe screens go on display from March 7 to September 7 pre-and-post dating the actual blossoms. The National Park Service estimates the cherry blossoms on the National Mall are expected to peak between April 11-14. The museum plans a celebration on March 28th with films, family activities and the publication of a new book, Cherry Blossoms, with reproductions of paintings from the Freer-Sackler collection.
\n\nThe Spring screens show a moment in time when “the cherry blossom leaves gather and are coming out are exactly like you see them in nature; they're coming out a little bit reddish, and then they go to green, and then they open up.”
\n\nThe matching Fall screens have the fading beauty of the Japanese maples turning color and daylilies in blooms.
\n\nYonemura says, “That sort of sense of transient beauty, of capturing a season in transition is so important in Japanese art.”
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\n\nBut the Texan’s adroit use of power put him at center stage during the tumultuous 1980s and early ’90s, from domestic issues to the end of the Cold War.
\n\nIt was Baker’s ability to see what could be accomplished and manage the forces at play, concludes a new documentary, that made him a standout as President Ronald Reagan’s White House chief of staff and treasury secretary, and President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of state.
\n\n“James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work,” narrated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw and airing March 24 on PBS, reveals much of the political gamesmanship of an oil and gas lawyer who, mid-life, became a successful Republican operative.
\n\nIt all started with a friendship, not politics. Baker and George H.W. Bush were frequent tennis partners in Houston.
\n\nIt was Baker’s grandfather, a partner of Houston’s Baker Botts LLP law firm, who would say, “Work hard, study and keep out of politics.” It was advice that the future political guru didn’t take except to make it the title of his 2006 memoir.
\n\n“I was led to believe that politics was sort of a scuzzy business,” Baker, 84, says in the film.
\n\nBaker’s life changed when his wife died in 1970, leaving him with four young boys.
\n\n“I’d go drown my sorrows with a couple of stiff drinks, or more than a couple,” he says.
\n\nAt that point, Bush, a Texas congressman at the time, asked Baker to manage his 1970 Senate campaign as a way to get past his grief. Bush lost, but Baker had a new calling.
\n\nWith a plug from his friend, Baker went to work for President Gerald Ford and ran his 1976 presidential campaign. He managed to crush a threat from the right from Ronald Reagan, a former governor of California, but Ford lost the general election.
\n\nOnce again, Bush beckoned.
\n\nBaker managed his 1980 presidential nomination bid, which Reagan won. But the documentary, written, produced and directed by veteran filmmaker Eric Stange, reveals how Baker positioned Bush to be Reagan’s choice as vice presidential running mate.
\n\nAnd when Reagan won, he chose an unlikely chief of staff – Baker.
\n\nHe worked hard to pass the Reagan agenda. “Sometimes it’s just horse-trading,” says Baker. CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl, then the network’s White House correspondent, says in the film that Baker prevailed by making compromises, but not appearing to: “It was brilliant.”
\n\nBaker became secretary of the treasury in 1985 and a prime mover in securing a rewrite of the tax laws. He also spearheaded Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign in a nasty election against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, the governor of Massachusetts.
\n\n“Politics is a blood sport,” Baker says.
\n\nThen the Texan got the job that he’d wanted all along: secretary of state.
\n\nAs the communist bloc in Europe crumbled with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Baker managed U.S. efforts to unify Germany.
\n\n“Baker brought about a strategic revolution at the center of Europe without producing an enormous crisis,” said Henry Kissinger.
\n\nThe documentary all but ignores Bush’s failed 1992 re-election campaign, led by a reluctant Baker. Former President Bill Clinton, the victor, thinks that Baker’s masterful job leading the Republican Party’s recount effort in the 2000 election was retribution. George W. Bush, son of his friend, became president.
\n\n\n\nGeorge H.W. Bush appears in the documentary talking about Baker, but, inexplicably, in an interview from 1995.
\n\nEven now, Baker remains a trusted adviser to the family, serving as one of Jeb Bush’s policy consultants as the former Florida governor plans his own presidential bid next year.
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\n\nThis comes clear in season two of the BBC America crime drama “Broadchurch,” which starts March 4.
\n\n“In the U.K. (season one) was a massive hit,” says producer Jane Featherstone, “and became a real talking point every Monday night. It did incredibly well around the world.”
\n\nIn the original “Broadchurch,” young Danny Latimer was murdered on a beach in the seaside town. The investigation of his death, led by Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller (Olivia Coleman), uncovered many hidden personal secrets, including adultery, among the town’s inhabitants.
\n\nFeatherstone, who has produced other British dramas such as “MI-5,” and “The Hour,” worked with writer Chris Chibnail (“Law and Order: U.K.”) on the new season of “Broadchurch.”
\n\n“What inspired Chris to write the first (season),” she says, “was an attempt to get under the skin and spend more time with the characters.”
\n\n“Once the murder happens very often in drama, in television drama, you see the victim for maybe one scene, but quickly the police investigation takes it somewhere else.”
\n\nThe first season culminated with the discovery that the accused killer of Danny was the Ellie’s husband, Joe.
\n\nIn season two, Joe Miller is at his plea hearing. Everyone expects him to plead guilty. He does not. (Not a spoiler; it’s in the trailers.)
\n\nThis is only one strand of the new season.
\n\nHardy, who has major heart problems, is still pursuing an old case, the one that destroyed his career, about two missing cousins in Sandbrook. One of them turned up dead, the other still missing. He was convinced that their neighbor, Lee Ashworth (James D’Arcy), killed them but that trial failed to convict him. Hardy is protecting his chief witness, Ashworth’s wife, but is she really telling the truth about her husband, a man who she admits to having “an addiction” for even as he terrifies her?
\n\n“Broadchurch” shows a very different legal system than in the U.S. Miller’s lawyer Sharon Bishop is sharp, fierce and has a son in the penal system. Danny’s family is represented by an older barrister, Jocelyn Knight, who has hidden medical problems, and at one point, is Bishop’s teacher.
\n\nAt the heart of “Broadchurch” are the actors who play the two detectives.
\n\n“They have this incredible chemistry,” Featherstone said of her two leads, Tennant (formerly of “Doctor Who” and “Spies of Warsaw”) and Colman. “They’re both very generous actors to each other, and to the people around them.”
\n\nShe adds that American audiences may have some difficulty with Tennant’s native Scottish accent but, “I love hearing him do his natural voice.”
\n\n“If we (the producers) didn’t know what to do, we did a scene of the two of them together and that would always work.”
\n\nThe first season of “Broadchurch” was remade in the U.S. on Fox as “Gracepoint” but Featherstone says the second season has not been picked up for remake. It will be only available on BBC America.
\n\nShe feels, in the new season, “You’ve got both. You’ve got a courtroom thriller and another big mystery story with hooks.”
\n\n———
\n\n‘BROADCHURCH’
\n\nBBC America, March 4, 10 p.m. Eastern
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