How can they think theyre capable of managing a complex health care system, one-seventh of the entire U.S. economy, when they cant even build a half-decent statue? 

Thats the question that came to mind about the bureaucrats, politicians, and central planners in D.C. when I saw that Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin was busy doing major re-carving in order to conceal an incorrect phrase at the $110 million Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington that he designed. At an estimated additional cost of $700,000 to $900,000, Lei is attempting to cover up a flawed quote by carving horizontal grooves over the words to match existing horizontal striation marks on the memorials statue of King. 

On the rest of the statue, Lei is working to deepen all grooves so theyll match the new grooves.The downside is that the fix might cause cracking. "The difficulty is the new striations so they won't damage the integrity of the statue itself," Lei cautioned. "If it has some cracks, we could deal with them." Perhaps with another million or so. 

The quote elimination and makeover grooves are supposed to be completed by August 28, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the I Have a Dream speech King delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.A China Stone Carving concept that would double as a quick charge station for gadgets. 

The phrase that was supposed to be carved on the statue of King, an exact quotation, came from Kings Drum Major speech, delivered in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1968, two months before he was assassinated.Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice, said King in that sermon. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. 

Because of alleged space limitations even though the King memorial covers four acres and includes a 450-foot inscription wall for quotes and a 30-foot statue of King the aforementioned quotation from the Ebenezer Baptist sermon was shortened and paraphrased by the memorials designers to simply and incorrectly say I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness. 

Critics argued, correctly, that the revised quote, leaving out if you want to say that I was a drum major, made King sound arrogant.That image of arrogance was tripled or quadrupled by Leis Maoist caricature of King.Suited and stern is how the New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein described King as portrayed by Lei. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance. 

Judging the memorial a failure, Rothstein saw Kings pose by Lei as authoritarian, more like a warrior or a ruler than a minister.Another objection regarding the style of the King memorial, wrote Clarence Page, African-American columnist and editorial writer with the Chicago Tribune, is that the memorial was designed by a Chinese artist, carved by Chinese workers out of Chinese granite and shipped here and reconstructed by Chinese workers. 

The stern, crossed-arm stance that Lei gave King,I'm looking at getting the light bar from ford racing and was wondering who sells the Cheap Marble Tiles. said Page, is a demeanor a bit too much of a workers paradise seriousness for my taste.The artist, Lei Yixin, a 57-year master sculptor, stated Page, is better known for his mammoth tributes to Chairman Mao, a dictator who unleashed the crimes, terror, repression, and flawed economic model of collectivism and redistribution that caused the death of an estimated 65 million people in China. 

Similarly, after pouring $62 million into the now-stalled $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial set to be built near the National Air and Space Museum with a design that has elicited widespread disapproval, including publicly expressed opposition from the Eisenhower family the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it will cost an additional $17 million to redesign the memorial. 

The focal point of the widely disparaged current design shows Eisenhower as a lounging teenager, dreaming about his non-farm future. The statue is a sentimental piece of kitsch that belongs in a snow-globe, haughtily declared National Civic Art Society president Justin Shubow. 

Haida legend has it the quake was the work of a supernatural being its translated name is Sacred One Standing and Moving who is believed to hold up the Haida Gwaii and is responsible for the tremors that strike the islands. 

An image of the Sacred One, symbolizing the powerful quake last year, has been carved into the soft red cedar of a totem pole commemorating other ancient and modern historic events in Gwaii Haanas that will rise above Lyell Island on Thursday, the first time in 130 years that a pole has been raised in the southern part of the archipelago that forms what was formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. 

The 13-metre legacy pole with an additional three metres of it underground is meant to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Gwaii Haanas Agreement, a partnership established in 1993 that allows the government of Canada and the Haida Nation to co-manage and protect the region. 

The 1985 blockade is represented by five people standing together, locking hands, in the totem pole carved by Jaalen Edenshaw, with help from his brother and his cousin. Edenshaw was five years old and living in Old Massett at the time of the standoff. 

"It was a lot of excitement, everyone working together throughout the time," he recalled in a phone interview. "A lot of people headed down to the blockade, but a lot of people also sent food and money.Shop for wholesale Granite countertops from China!" 

Lantin called the 1993 agreement between the federal government and the Haida Nation "an agreement to disagree on title," as both parties assert ownership over the land. But the unique partnership "really looks at co-management of the land as a vehicle to work together," he said. 

The agreement is represented by a sculpin fish at the bottom of the pole, and an eagle at the top, to symbolize an area that is protected "from ocean floor to mountain top," said Edenshaw, who is now putting some finishing touches on his work. 
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