GT simplifies the Fury at Fort William.
looks like there is a lot of tire clearance... maybe an extra .75"??
The Sanction could be next to use this set up.
So GT made a Guerrilla Gravity GG.
Not to say it doesn't look awesome.
Now they're back to single pivot. Is that shock a 8.5 e2e?Next year elastomer shocks. Take out the cheque book gt and pay for an adequate system.


New Zealand Food sales for the year were NZ$6.1 billion, an increase of 3.8% 1 on the previous year (2.3% increase in AUD). Sales in the first half were assisted by the bulk sales of gift cards and excluding the sales of these cards, full year sales growth was 3.1% 1. Easter adjusted sales for Q3 and Q4 were 3.5% 1 and 3.6% 1 respectively.
Comparable sales increased 1.3% 1 for the year as customers reacted positively to our lower prices and improved service and fresh food offer. Sales per square metre declined by 0.9% with comparable sales growth more than offset by an increase in year-end trading space of 5.1%.
The Countdown Supermarkets food price index showed full year deflation of 0.3%, with lower prices across most categories. Deflation was offset by positive comparable customer growth strengthening in second half. We exceeded our targets for the number of lines on our Price Down program with approximately 3,000 products now at a low price every day.
Gross margin increased 8 bps 1 on the previous year largely due to a reduction in fuel discount promotions.
CODB as a percentage of sales increased 49 bps 1 on the previous year largely due to higher team performance-based bonuses compared to FY15, new store costs and investment in store labour to improve the customer experience.
EBIT decreased 3.7% 1 but was flat when normalised for team performance-based bonuses compared to the prior year.
ROFE was 15 bps 1 lower than the prior year due to lower EBIT despite a 5.7% reduction in Funds Employed.
Growth for New Zealand Food is quoted in New Zealand Dollars.


On this day in 1973, a man named Martin Cooper unveiled a device that would change the world. What he revealed to the public was the world's first handheld, cordless cellphone.
To demonstrate his invention, Cooper invited reporters from all around New York to watch him place the very first wireless call. As fate would have it, Cooper would dial Joel Engel, his main rival at AT&T's Bell Labs to share the "good" news.
This new technology was small and light at the time, measuring 10 inches long and weighing in at a mere 2.5 pounds. Today, that is enormous in comparison to 2013's tiny touchscreen smartphones.
You can learn more about Martin Cooper and his contributions to technological history here.


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Khawarij Ideology, ISIS Savagery: Part One
Shaykh Abu Aaliyah Surkheel
As ISIS continues its murder and violence across the provinces it controls and seeks to control, and as it continues to plague the conscience of the great majority of Muslims around the world, what's worth recalling is that we've seen this before in history with the sect called the Khawarij (anglicized to Kharijites). So before tackling ISIS, let's look at their forerunners; the Kharajites, to whom their pedigree can be traced.
The hadith canons relate that shortly after the battle of Hunayn while the Prophet was distributing charity to a few people whose hearts needed to be reconciled, there came a man with a thick beard, prominent cheek bones, deep sunken eyes, protruding forehead and shaven head. He exclaimed: Fear Allah, O Muhammad! The Prophet responded: 'Who will obey Allah if I were to disobey him? Am I not [sent as the] most trustworthy person on earth; and yet you trust me not?' The man then turned back, whereupon one of those present asked for permission to kill him. But the Prophet said: 'Verily, from the progeny (di'di) of this [man] shall come a people who will recite the Qur'an but it won't pass beyond their throats. They will slay the followers of Islam and would spare the people of idolatry. They will pierce through the religion just like an arrow which goes clean through a prey.[1]
Another hadith records that this man's name was Dhu'l-Khuwaysirah, from the tribe of Tamim, about whom the Prophet alerted: 'Leave him; he has comrades whose prayer and fasting will make your prayer and fasting seem insignificant. They recite the Qur'an but it doesn't go beyond their throats. They shall pass through the religion as an arrow that pierces clean through its prey such that, on inspecting the head; then the shaft; then the fletching; then the nock, would see no traces of blood or viscera on it whatsoever.'[2] Ibn al-Jawzi said: 'The first of the Khawarij, and the most wretched of them, was Dhu'l-Khuwaysirah … His problem was that he was too puffed up with his own opinion. Had he been granted grace, he would have realized that no opinion was above that of Allah's Messenger . The followers of this man were those who fought against 'Ali b. Abi Talib, may Allah ennoble his face.'[3]
A few decades after this post-Hunayn happening, and as had been prophesied, Dhu'l-Khuwaysirah's ideological comrades and offspring took on the shape of the very first sect (firqah) to deviate from the main body of the Muslims: the Khawarij (culled from the Arabic word kharaja – "to go out" or "to leave" the main body of Muslims). Indeed, their very name was mentioned by the Prophet himself, who said: al-khawarij hum kilab al-nar – "The Khawarij are the dogs of Hellfire!'[4] The emergence of the Khawarij as a sect occurred during the caliphate (khilafah) of 'Ali, in the immediate aftermath of a civil war and its arbitration at Siffin.
Ibn al-Jawzi tells us: ''Ali returned from Siffin and entered Kufah: the Khawarij did not follow. Instead, they settled in Harura. There were 12,000 of them, and they were declaring: la hukma illa li'Llah – "There is no judgement, except Allah's." This is how they initially started.'[5]
Imam Muslim narrates from 'Ubayd Allah b. Abi Rafi', a freed salve of the Prophet , that the Khawarij came out against 'Ali, and declared: 'There is no judgement, except Allah's.' So 'Ali replied: 'A word of truth, intended for something false (kalimatu haqq urida biha batil).'[6]
Imam al-Nawawi explains: 'Meaning, the basis of their statement was true. Allah says: The judgement is for none but Allah. [12:40] What they intended by it, however, was to reject 'Ali's [acceptance of] arbitration, may Allah be pleased with him.'[7]
As with Dhu'l-Khuwaysirah who, blinded by his warped piety and self-righteousness, thought he had a keener sense of justice than the Prophet , the Khawarij were also possessed of holier-than-thou pretensions and smug convictions. It is this puritanical, embittered self-righteousness – devoid of any true glimmer of knowledge or spiritual wisdom – that is the hallmark of the Khawarij and their ideological cousins who drink from the same murky theological waters today. Of course, along with such fanatical zeal, their other great infamy was takfir – declaring other Muslims to be disbelievers, and spilling their blood because of it.
The historians al-Tabari and Ibn Kathir chronicle alarmingly precise accounts of their intimidation, violence and terror. Under the events of 37H/657CE they detail how the Khawarij began terrorizing the countryside around Nahrawan, Iraq, subjecting those whom they caught to an imtihan or "inquisition". If the answers failed to satisfy their zeal for purity, or agree with their understanding of things, then the punishment was death. Things came to a head when they chose 'Abd Allah, son of an early companion, Khabbab b al-Aratt, as their victim.
A number of the Khawarij rode into his village for supplies and thought to make an example of him. They fired their loaded questions at him. They first asked him about the caliphates of Abu Bakr, 'Umar and 'Uthman. 'Abd Allah extolled them all and praised their successive caliphates. So far, so good. They then asked him about 'Ali, and his state before and after the arbitration or tahkim. 'He has far greater knowledge about Allah than you do,' replied 'Abd Allah, 'and has much more piety in terms of his religion and possesses greater insight.' With that, his fate was sealed. They bound and dragged him and his pregnant wife to an orchard laden with date palms, next to a river.
As they were proceeding to kill him, a date fell to the ground, so one of the Khawarij picked it up and put it in his mouth. 'Do you do that without the owner's permission and without paying for it?' said one of his Kharajite comrades. He spat it out instantly. Another Khariji, wielding his sword in threatening circles, accidentally killed a cow that had been wandering behind him. His comrades insisted he should go and find the owner and pay him the full price of the animal. They waited whilst he did so. Thus, having acted most righteously in the matter of the date and the cow, they slit 'Abd Allah's throat and then disemboweled his wife. Date spat out, cow paid for, husband, wife and unborn child butchered; and with the clearest of consciences, they purchased their supplies and went on their way.[8]
Theologians have differed as to the precise meaning of the Prophet's words : 'They will pierce through the religion (yamruquna min al-din) as an arrow which goes clean through a prey.' The idea of maraqa – an an arrow 'piercing' or going 'clean through' its prey with such force and velocity that it exits its prey without any trace of blood or flesh sticking to its tip or shaft, describes emphatically how the Khawarij immerse themselves in religion, but exit straight through it. The question, however, is do they exit the fold of orthodoxy (and become heterodox, deviant Muslims), or do they leave the actual fold of Islam? A minority of scholars went with the latter view; most went with the former.[9] The majority view takes its cue from 'Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, who was asked: Are the Khawarij mushrikun? He said: 'They flee from shirk.' Are they munafiqun? He said: 'The hypocrites remember Allah only a little.' Then what are they? He said: 'They are our brothers who transgressed against us (ikhwanuna baghaw 'alayna), so we fought them for their transgression.'[10]
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Abu Aaliyah is the founder of The Jawziyyah Institute, a leading institute for Islamic moderation and contemporary thought in the United Kingdom. Sidi Abu Aaliyah has been in involved in Dawah and Islamic teachings since 1986. He has translated a number of books from the Arabic language into English such as "The Exquisite Pearls". Abu Aaliyah's written works and audio lectures can be found online.
Amatullah
One of the MOST informative article around! JazakhAllah khayr for the immense information about the Kharijites. May Allah protect our deen.
hadjer
sister can u tell me how can i have account here to publish a topics about islam
Ibn Islam
This article highlights some of the traits of the khawarij and links them to isis. However; it does oversimplify this matter. I strongly encourage the author and other scholars to thoroughly elucidate some of the actions of isis, rather than completely dismiss them as. Oversimplifying this matter by describing the actions of this group as "non-islamic", is not doing justice.
It is important to put things into correct perspective which it deserves in order not to loose the wide majority audience. Clarification is needed today more than ever because those who know the seerah of the prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa salam in depth cannot consolidate with generalization of this matter. In no way or form do I support actions of isis, however we need proper guidance in this matter. Making the claim that Islam and the Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa salam are all about mercy and denying all other actions causes alienation of the young and mature Muslims at large, as well mistrust deviation. Using the "young" card and "lack of wisdom" is the wrong approach. The hadith pertaining to the "foolish" and "young" has its validity without a doubt. Needles to say that the youth has always been at the forefront bringing positive change while the majority of scholars have been remaining passive in the matters of the global Muslim community throughout history.
In order to consolidate the matter things need to be addressed by those with adequate knowledge:
1. What constitutes kufr (disbelieve) ie. the 10 nullifers of Islam
2. How to work towards establishing Islam as a state
3. What kind of allegiance is permitted to Muslims and to whom
4. Denouncing the men made systems and upholding the Islamic identity while being part of the society.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us the understanding of the right path and make us follow it.
Abu Aaliyah
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah.
I'm surprised at the comment and also rather baffled. I've not even got to the part about ISIS yet. I've made that abundantly clear at the beginning and end of part one. I've also not used the word "unIslamic" about them, since I don't find that very helpful. Hence your commrbts seem somewhat untimely or misplaced. Surely the reasonable thing to do would have been to wait until the next part, till I actually wrote something about ISIS, before launching your criticisms and allegations.
One reasons I decided to write something about this (after consulting some of my teachers) is because I wasn't quite satisfied with much of what was currently out there. A lot of it was just telling us how harsh and unIslamic they are which, as I've said, isn't very helpful. I was hoping to do a little more than that, bi'idhnillah. (Wether I succeed or not remains to be seen).
A few of those on Muslim Matters know of my work for the last twenty years or so. I hope you believe me when I tell you I'm really not in the habit of tackling issues which I'm not qualified for, nor do I write for popularity. I write with the depth I believe does some justice to the topic, and only after things have been well thought out (even if, sometimes, that takes a year or two before putting pen to paper, as in this case). The end product can still be littered with errors, unhelpful and besides the point; though it's unlikely to be shallow, or written in ignorance and haste.
My brother, be patient, pray that Allah guides me to write something of substance, give me the benefit of the doubt, and – if I may ask – try not to be so assuming or judgemental about me.
You may even be pleasantly surprised at part two; then again, you may not. It's unlikely that any one single article could ever hit all the proverbial nails on the head in this matter.
Let's just wait; like many other sons and daughters of Islam, my heart bleeds for the situation too.
Here's hoping.
Your brother, at your service.
And Allah alone gives success.
Agree with every word said by bro Abu Aaliyah. The comment by Ibn Islam is misplaced and doesn't make sense. It was as if the article was read with a prejudiced mind of finding whatever the reader wanted to read and NOT what the article was for!
Kamal Ahmed
The article clearly has not yet directly touched any aspect of ISIS yet so I dont understand the fuss that brother Ibn Islam is trying to create. The article has only mentioned ISIS two times and that too in the opening paragraph. So my advice to Brother Ibn Islam is to either clarify his position or retract his comment. Jazakallah Brother Abu Aaliyah for the insightful article. Looking forward to the part 2.
GregAbdul
I am not a Muslim scholar, but the atrocities committed by Da'esh are well documented and space is wasted here by going in to them here in detail. There is no justification for the slaughter going on in Syria by Assad or Da'esh. Innocent Muslims are being slaughtered and starved to death. One group does it under a false pretense of bringing the world pure true Islam. The analogy is pretty obvious, I thought. I fail to understand what details you seek. It's as if you need convincing that Da'esh is killing innocent Muslims. Are you one of those who think Da'esh is a creation of America?
Sorry Brother Ahmed. I did not look carefully at what you wrote and shot off my mouth before having complete understanding. May Allah forgive me. I guess I am of the group that is prejudging Da'esh. Millions of Muslims are suffering. Yassir Qadhi is one who was off the deep end of Salfism, but al hamdullilah, he has pulled back and is a pleasure to listen to these days. For me, I see Muslims doing stupid things in the name of purity and I am very tired of it. I just listened to a lecture where the Imam said that a person has to invite you into their heart. Only Allah has unlimited access. Only Allah has final judgement. One of our primary commands is kindness. Da'esh, I don't think anyone is debating how kind they are. I lose track of Muslim Matters sometimes. Al hamdulillah for this site and this article. I know, for me, I am pretty familiar with Da'esh, at least from a media perspective, but I am weak on Islamic history and this is what impresses me about this article. I learned the linguistics of why the Khawarij have a second name and the exact start of these "deviant Muslims." This is valuable knowledge. May Allah reward the author. Those who criticize, may not see, but some of us see their criticism as a defense for Da'esh. Sorry being long and will soon shut up. Our job, after we find guidance, is to assist others in finding Allah's guidance. The matter of being guided is strictly a matter of the heart and we pray that Allah allows us to be a way for others to escape the fire. We have to win hearts fee sabeelillah. What has that got to do with shooting people, torture and rape? May Allah make us successful as we continue the mission of our Prophet.
tortal
Sufaha' al-ahlam would work much better translated as, "of foolish ambitions" or "having foolish notions" or something of that sort.
When I read the Arabic, it just doesn't strike me as meaning "weak of intellect".
Thank you for an alternative translation. However, when one consult the books of commentary on this hadith, one finds that the phrase is understood as a kinayah; a metaphor. It is a metaphor for those who lack depth of knowledge and understand; those who only understand things at a surface level.
We also learn a valuable lesson, which is that to understand such important socio-political and theologically orientated hadiths, we must beware not to explain them merely by taking their lexical meanings. Rather, we need to rely upon the shariah meanings, as given by the qualified jurists, theologians and commentators.
That said, one can see that these Khawarij, because they were "weak in intellect", ended up with "foolish ambitions."
M.Mahmud
I felt like Muslims were over emphasizing the "foolish youth" aspect of it which might almost be seen as an excuse. The core aspect of it highlighted in this article rightfully is their selfrightiousness and arrogance. It is one thing to be foolish and yet another to combine it with the self pride and contempt these crimins have. I have argued with many of them and they are exceptionally arrogant and often of despicable character.
What is also clear is their lack of respect and proper exaltation of Rasulullah sallahualayhiwasalam. It gets in the way of their stubborn arrogance. They ought to be annihilated like Ad was annihilated. May Allah destroy them very soon.
As salaam alykum
One of the best articles I have read so far on the khawarij!!!
Reminds me of the series by Shaykh Seraj Hendricks many years ago "The Kharijites and their impact on Contemporary Islam" – I do not know if Shaykh Surkheel has read the series?
The conversation between Hadrat Ali RA and Hurqus always gives me pause for thought. Hurqus words can be easily translated to the young angry men we find at our mosques and their facebook comments', they think (and believe) their actions are for Allah:
[["'The intractable Hurqus confronted Sayyidna Ali and said, "O son of Abi Talib, I fight you not except for the sake of Allah, and for my reward in the afterlife."
Sayyidna Ali retorted, "Your kind, Hurqus, is the kind that Allahu Ta'ala refers to in the Quran where He states, 'Say: Shall We tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they imagined that they were acquiring good by their works' (18: 103). Amongst these – and I swear by this in the name of the Lord of the Ka'ba – are you Hurqus!"]]
To the people of Allah this is the scariest verse in the Quran 18:103 – we ask Allah's Pleasure through His Mercy and not through our actions.
A scholar once told me that the spiritual reason for the khawarij and their deviance is that in the first interaction between Hurqus and the beloved Prophet SAW – Hurqus showed disrespect to the beloved. They have no love for our Prophet SAW inwardly.
Looking forward to part 2.
Was salaam
subhanallah! Great Article…..I learned something today…al hamdullilah!
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Yusuf Smith
As-Salaamu 'alaikum,
Are ISIS really the modern Khawarij, though? The Khawarij were known, as you say in your article, for exaggerated displays of righteousness and kindness towards non-Muslims and towards animals while they massacred the Believers over petty or ridiculous disagreements. ISIS, like Al-Qa'ida before them, although they do oppress Muslims in the lands they occupy, are not merciful to non-Muslims either in the lands they occupy or in the non-Muslim lands in which they operate (many of which allow Muslims to live unmolested and with greater freedom than in most Muslim countries) where they massacre innocent people, destroy property, menace travellers (notably by hijacking aeroplanes) and behave treacherously and break trusts with both Muslims and others. While they may have been intended to provoke non-Muslims into war against Muslims, and a few Muslims were killed, the immediate targets were non-Muslims. How then are modern extremists Khawarij?
Munawar
The article by brother Abu Aaliyah is very good & informative. You have drawn good parallels between the Khawarij & ISIS which is very true.
I think the deeper picture is more disturbing which is as follows:- ( I may be wrong so Allah pardon me)
The strength of a person is not in his body but in his spirit. The more a person is spiritual the more he is near to Allah the more strong he is. History has proved this in the battle of Badr & even after that when a handful of true spiritual muslims controlled half of the world.
They fought not for hatred of the enemy but for the love of Allah. Thus they derived their strength from love not hatred.
Today their descendants depend on a foreign power for their protection. Why?
The reason is that some vested interests including the descendants themselves attacked our spiritual ethos under the garb of a puritinical Islam & the result is for everyone to see. Country after country which allowed the spiritual Islam to flourish came under attack under one pretext or the other. The first was Afghanistan followed by Iraq , Iran ( this country was saved by the grace of Allah), Egypt & now Syria. It is any bodys guess as to who is funding & supporting these activities. The west is only in the front & its business is to make hay while the sun shines. We cannot blame the west.
Now their target is India & Pakistan ( although Pakistan today is in deep trouble — again because of the followers of this puritinical Islam).
About a fortnight ago we had an article in The Times Of India which spoke of the Salafi & Sufi divide in India & how a rich middle eastern country is pumping money into India to support Salafism.
In his 2nd part I request brother Abu Aliyah to throw some light on this aspect especially with regard to 2 renowned muslim scholars one of the12th century the 2nd belonging to the 17th century. Both had a puritinical attitude & were obsessed with Jihad. Most of the puritans follow them.
It is for every one to see the spiritual divide between the Muslim countries.
But the most disturbing part is the numbers of these puritans is increasing day by day because even if a false sermon ( under pressure from vested interests ) is delivered from the pulpit of Haram Sheriff it will be considered as true by the lay Muslim.
JAVAD
Sorry has the part 2 been published yet? i couldnt find it!!
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AshShifaa
..until you will fight them in the armies of the dajjal , goes the hadeeth, if I am not wrong. isis and Israel are buddies btw.. something to think about , Zionists are the armies of the dajjal, their false messiah being the dajjal himself .
We have to read and study end time prophecy to underhand this ..
Fahad
Excellent article. Insha'Allah ISIS will be eradicated like their forefathers or Come back to mainstream Islam soon.
Abu ahmed
Brilliantly put together.
JazakaAllah
These khawarij separated themselves from the body politic of muslims ie the caliphate.
The secular nationalist elites are the ones who did this in the 20th century.
How are you applying it to others and not this group and their descendants whose islam does not go beyond their necks?
i totally agree
the khawarij did it when the khilafah was florishing, from wat exactly did our brothers from dawlah islamyah seperate them selves from?
from corrupt kings? or from people whom do not wish to apply sharia? so tell me exactly whom are the khawarij ?
brings me to the next equation, we try to make parallels between khawarij between present muslim mujahideen whom are harsh with establishing a muslim country run by the laws God gave us.
would we apply the parallels if abubakr saddiq was amongst us today?
he was willing to fight every man neglecting the laws of allah he even did fight muslims that abandoned the pay of zakat, while the muslim army was busy fighting in the front lines he himself went to fight these so called muslims.
i pray every sible day to bring the muslims together and abandon their differences so we can stand as one for one goal.
that goal is to establish the word of god to be the highest. every one with a different goal must be put in paralel and questioned about whether he is mukhrij.

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The OLD Big Dead Sidebar: Super Bowl Odds Already?
Hey, Bears fans. Vegas thinks the Monsters of the Midway have as good of a chance of winning Super Bowl XLIV as the Arizona Cardinals.
That's right football fans, both the Bears and the Birds have a 30-1 shot at ending at the top of the mountain next season. But I'm not sure how.
Sure, Arizona only won 9 games last season and so did Chicago. The difference is in, well, everything.
Ken Whisenhunt is an innovative mind with a high-octane offense that should return quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Steve Breaston. And could possibly return Anquan Boldin if the price is right.
On the other hand, there's the Bears.
"We come running off the bus."
Nothing satisfies the palate of a football fan like three yards and a cloud of dust on the team's opening drive. And while the Cards return a team that was on the brink of a title, the Bears bring back Kyle Orton, Matt Forte and Devin Hester.
Only Forte could start for another team.
And even though the Bears defense is better on paper, that paper was shredded last season to the point where hiring a coach coming off the anti-perfect season is seen as an upgrade.
Get ready for a long offseason, Bears fans.


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Q: CORS Error on browser back button I have a ASP.NET Web API 2 Service. And multiple client(angular) applications talks to that service. the applications and the service are published on different sub domains, like the following:

service.mydomain.com
app1.mydomain.com
app2.mydomain.com

I used Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Cors - NuGet package to enable CORS, it is working fine, except for one scenario:
When the user opens one application (app1.mydomain.com).
Then navigates to another (app2.mydomain.com). Then presses the browser back button. the follwoing CORS Error:
The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header has a value 'http://app2.mydomain.com' that is not equal to the supplied origin.
Origin 'http://app1.mydomain.com' is therefore not allowed access

I Configured The Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Cors - NuGet package, as follows:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
        {
        var cors = new EnableCorsAttribute(
                //to-do allow cross domains for all maarif.com sites
                origins: "*", //and also tried "http://app1.mydomain.com, http://app2.mydomain.com" gives same result
                headers: "*",
                methods: "*") {SupportsCredentials = true};

            config.EnableCors(cors);
        }

I traced the Origin header values on the server.
I put the following code in the service 'global.asax' :
protected void Application_BeginRequest()
        {
            var origin = HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["Origin"];

            if (origin != null )
            {
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", origin);
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*");
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "*");
                HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
            }
        }

The problem happens when user clicks back button form 'app2.mydomain.com' to 'app1.mydomain.com', the origin sent with the request is 'app2.mydomain.com', and there that is what the service allows access to: HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", 'app2.mydomain.com');
Any Way around this?
Note that I can't put '*' because the requests are authenticated.

A: The problem is due to the cache mechanism of browser. Because the browser would use the data from cache, even for AJAX request, when you clicked the BACK button.
For this, the browser wouldn't resend the CORS preflight to check the Access-Control-Allow-Origin for the origin of previous page. Then it would use the latest Access-Control-Allow-Origin, which is the app2.mydomain.com, so that the app1.mydomain.com should fail.
A simple solution is adding a timestamp or a random string at the end of the api querystring, for example:
js:
let url = 'https://service.mydomain.com/xxxxx?v=' + Date.now();

However it would ignore Access-Control-Max-Age, which makes a CORS preflight every request to the service.mydomain.com.
Or you can force opening all links to other origin in a new window, so that there is no BACK actions could be done.
Except these, I can not find any other solutions.
Updated:
I tested later after this anwser, and then found the final solution:
Add following HTTP response headers in the service.mydomain.com, and then all is ok.
http:
Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache,must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache

Just disable all cache of the AJAX requests. And the CORS Max-age works too.
Now it works in Chrome and Firefox. I didn't try other browsers, but I think it should be nothing different.

A: have you tried to put in your StratUp.cs file something like:
var corsPolicy = new CorsPolicy
            {
                AllowAnyMethod = true,
                AllowAnyHeader = true,
                SupportsCredentials = true,
                Origins = { "http://site1.example.com", "http://site2.emaple.com.:38091", "http://localhost:39372" }

            };

            app.UseCors(new CorsOptions
            {
                PolicyProvider = new CorsPolicyProvider
                {
                    PolicyResolver = context => Task.FromResult(corsPolicy)
                }
            });

And in your web.config in your webserver section maybe like this:
<system.webServer>
    <modules>
      <remove name="FormsAuthentication" />
    </modules>
    <handlers>
      <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" />
      <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" />
      <remove name="TRACEVerbHandler" />
      <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
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Take notes while you read. Underline ideas that you like. Highlight the things you'd like to make happen.
After reading, review the notes.
Think about each and every underlined passage.
Now think, actively dream and visualize about how you can use the idea.
Now write down what you want and need to do to apply the idea to your life, business, career, project or whatever.
Then identify the tasks you need to perform to make this idea happen.
Now create a schedule to do the tasks.
Now implement that schedule and take the first action on your list of task.
What is a News Release? Really!
A news release is either sent directly to media decision makers directly (e.g., by fax, email, street mail, etc.) or placed where they can find it and use it (as when it is posted to a news search engine using a news release distribution service).
A news release is not an advertisement. You do not pay for coverage and do not control what the media says. It is a document that persuades media to give you media coverage. Your degree of success is often based on how much of what you give them to do their job is actually used.
But if publicity in media is what you want, you write a news release.
Here's an excellent report from author Lynn Viehl's experience and income with a mass market publisher for the book Twilight Fall which broke through to the NY Times best seller list. She calls herself in the "Top 20".
It was originally posted April 17 at the Genreality blog which receives contributions from a number of active Romance writers.
The Reality of a Times Bestseller.
Lynn provides some valuable insights and hard data on the income she derived.
Her experience provides ample evidence why self publishing might actually be a better choice for people who do write quality books and generate a following of avid loyal readers.
A self publisher who makes $5 on a book and who sells 10,000 books (200 books in each of 50 states) will receive just about as much as she did, on market sales of 100,000 copies.
Yesterday's post about Susan Casey and her 1997 book Women Invent! being featured in a Fast Company magazine story triggered an email from the author, who sent me the following email describing more of the media experiences she had as a result of the news release sent out on February 24, 2009.
Here's a few other links to articles/slide shows.
website for women created by Whoopi Goldberg, Candace Bergin, Lesley Stahl, Joni Evans and Liz Smith.
When you go to the page you'll see a large video window/screen and three smaller windows to the right of it. Under the 3 windows, there are small letters on a bar–previous to the left and next to the right. Click on next and go on to about page 20 and you'll see the words Women Inventors. Look for the 4 segments.
I was also on Time warner cable in Palmdale. I'll send a clip when I get a link.
NO LONGER ON LINE BUT I CAN SEND YOU A COPY.
Thanks for all the help, Paul. I was also on four radio shows in Chicago, NY and Memphis. I'll send the detail .
The majority of the TV and radio shows want to have me back to feature kid inventors. How about that!
Thanks Susan, for sharing! These are definitely "Words People Love to Hear".
How do you do that so that the right people talk about you in a way that helps your business?
3. produces direct sales (so you don't have to convert at all).
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Back from the PMA University and the Book Expo America in Los Angeles – what an incredible week.
Just before I left for LA, I donated my copywriting and news release distribution services to a fundraising effort in NYC to help the Chinese recovery from the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.
I wrote a news release and transmitted it to the NYC media highlighting the efforts of a small but exquisite restaurant who was going to donate the entire day's receipts to the relief effort. This email news release was transmitted May 23 for the one day May 28 event.
Thank You, once again for your help.
it's nice to know there are a few mensches left in this world.
the PR went out a week ago from this past Friday.
I walk into the restaurant and the joint was packed.
Helen tells me the NY Times called but didn't show up.
we are distinctly in the minority amongst the patrons.
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he replies in the negative.
i start telling him about how much I enjoy the food and helped them issue a press release.
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He then goes on to explain how his colleague in China saw what you sent and forwarded it back to the US of A.
Because he is working on the story about relief efforts here.
see link below for the whole piece.
as I was writing you this email the handyman from the building has asked me to write him a pair of simple letters for one of his neighbors.
Time to pay it forward . . .
Helen Thong, the owner of Taste Good, a popular Malaysian restaurant in Elmhurst, Queens, held a benefit on Wednesday, allocating the day's proceeds — more than $9,000 — to earthquake relief. At dinnertime, the line of patrons, representing a broad swath of the Chinese diaspora, snaked out the door of the small restaurant and onto the sidewalk.
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Jim Rohn is an amazing teacher. He was broke and 25 years old when he met an extraordinary man who taught him some very important and basic things. These things are life changing.
Here is a short session where he explains two very simple concepts that are crucial to making changes in your attitude and how you view what you are doing in your life and work.
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If you think you know Mark Templeton, guess again. The artist does not have a signature sound; he changes palettes from album to album. His promising electronic debut, Standing on a Hummingbird, was followed by the more vocal Inland and then by the more ambient Acre Loss, a collaboration with visual artist aA Munson and his crowning achievement to date. But even those familiar with these albums may be caught off guard by Jealous Heart, a plunderphonic album that sounds more like the early works of The Caretaker than anything Templeton has yet recorded. The new album is not as sprawling as his contribution to the Mort Aux Vaches series, although it is of similar tone; it helps to have ten tracks to play with so that the ideas can be varied, and the range of sounds here is remarkable.
Once one gets over the initial shock (slow horns and vinyl manipulation on "Buffalo Coulee"), one begins to gain an appreciation for the timbre. Ezekiel Honig calls it the sound of "a jazz club under the sea", which makes us rather jealous because that may be the most evocative phrase that anyone writes about the production. Of course this makes one think of the Titanic band, somehow sinking but not drowning, playing still, waiting for some new generation to discover them in an oxygen deficient, aneurysm inducing deep dive. The clanks and knocks that haunt the record echo like the settling of cutlery or the settling of waterlogged wood. Submerged as these sounds may be, they continue to demonstrate motion. The past refuses to stay buried, disturbing the silt from below.
Guitar, electronics and sullen strings continue to dot these vast soundscapes; Jealous Heart is not completely different from Templeton's previous work, although his works are linked by extremely thin tendrils. The only question that remains is, "Where will he head next?" After four noticeably different albums, might Templeton settle on a single approach? The clear benefit would be instant identifiability; the detriment would be experimental curbing. At this point, we trust that the artist will lead us to a place we'll want to go, even if we're not quite sure where it is. (Richard Allen)
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Tickets and venues
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Sala (S8) Porto | Saturday June 4th | 6 p.m. | Free entry to all venues until full capacity. It will not be possible to enter the venues after the screening has started.
I CHANGE I AM THE SAME
Alice Anne Parker (Severson) | EUA | 1969 | 16mm to video | 1 min.
A short, hilarious film of a woman and a man in various stages of undress – in their own and each other's clothing. You in your clothes. Me in my clothes. You in my clothes. Me in your underpants. You in nothing. Me in your clothes. You in my underwear. Me in nothing. You in your underpants. Me in my underwear. You in nothing. Me in nothing. You in your clothes. Me in my clothes.
HER MONA
Klaus Telscher | Germany | 1992 | 16mm | 7 min.
Klaus Telscher's extensive oeuvre reveals different stylistic tendencies: in addition to biting parodies there is also a poetic, atmospheric, autobiographical side. In Her Mona, Telscher placed a male Mona Lisa on a rock in front of a waterfall –and simply called it a 'song contest'.
LOOSE CORNER
Anita Thatcher | USA | 1986 | 16mm | 10 min.
Can we trust our eyes? In the Loose Corner people disappear, one woman becomes two women, a dog grows to such an extent that he becomes bigger than a person. Loose Corner is a grab bag of optical effects centered on the blank corner of a room: a series of eye-fooling illusions, using people and objects as props. (Anita Thatcher)
Corinne and Arthur Cantrill | Australia | 1984 | 16mm | 18 min.
A central aspect of the landscape films is the search for experimental forms of expression to record the passing of time and light and alternating colors of the spectrum and nuances of light.
Like a lucid dream, the movements of the water in the three-color separation film Waterfall meld into a metaphorical space of constant transformation, which transcends the real and makes palpable the unbridled force of nature. It is one of the Cantrills' most famous films and offers a unique viewing experience thanks to its brilliant interlacing of form, subject and apparatus.
NOTES ON THE PASSAGE OF TIME
Corinne e Arthur Cantrill | Australia | 1979 | 16mm | 13 min.
Notes on the Passage of Time, a study of three-color separation made in Pearl Beach, interlaces three time segments – the intervals of color separation, the change of seasons and the passing of a day. As the same scene is reproduced ephemerally, the mobile elements give rise to an impression of transience, while those that are immobile convey a sense of durability. The passing of time is thus made visible and palpable.
Jenny Okun | UK | 1976 | 16mm | 6 min.
Revisiting the traditional pictorial subject of the 'still life', this film explores the transformation of an image from colour negative to colour positive on one film stock.
The still life was painted its color negative during the filming and then the exposed film was processed and printed on color negative printstock. (Jenny Okun)
"Still Life is an example of how theory and didactics can combine with sensual richness in structural film, so that curiosity gets its money's worth just as much as rational cognition." (Christine Noll Brinckmann)
HOME WHEN YOU RETURN
Carl Elsaesser | USA | 2021 | HD video | 30 min.
Centering on the passing of a family member, the film combines a tour of her empty home with an amateur melodrama produced in the 1950s, tangibly evoking a life and an era lost to time.
The melodramatic, 1950s films of amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin are psychically projected onto the house in which my grandmother raised seven kids as it is cleaned out and put up for sale after she passed away. Upholding the narrative structures of melodrama that often center around men, even when the films are about women, the film asks the viewer, as Thurber says in her introduction, to pay attention to the peripheries. (Carl Elsaesser)
CARTA BLANCA. A RETURN TO OURSELVES
Since its foundation in 1963, Arsenal has engaged with the history of film and current developments within the medium in critical fashion, with contemporary discourses within society depicted, reflected upon, and contextualized along the way. Following 60 years of cinema and festival work, Arsenal has a film collection encompassing 10,000 titles. It is an expression of the historical impulses linked to avant-garde and political cinema, but it also provides insights into the diversity of contemporary film work.
Erika and Ulrich Gregor, the founders of Arsenal and the International Forum of New Cinema, significantly expanded post-war Germany's film history, addressing both the way films are viewed as well as the discourse surrounding the medium. The Forum and Forum Expanded stand for reflection about the medium of film, socio-artistic discourse and a particular sense of aesthetics. Organized by Arsenal and presented as part of the Berlinale, these programmes aim to expand the understanding of what film is, to test the boundaries of convention, and open up fresh perspectives to help grasp cinema and how it relates to the world in new ways.
The collection grew simultaneously with the film screenings. In the late sixties, short films from Latin American filmmakers were brought into the collection, thus protecting them from the dictatorships at the time in Argentina and Chile. When the first International Forum of New Cinema took place in 1971, the organizers understood their main task to be not only bringing together the films for a ten-day event, but also keeping selected films in German, in order to make them as available as possible in commercial and non-commercial contexts.
Every year, Forum films built up the stock of films by as-yet unknown filmmakers, turning them into classics of "another cinema", such as the films by Derek Jarman, Theo Angelopoulos, Manoel de Oliveira, Andrei Tarkowsky, Nagisa Oshima, Jonas Mekas, Mrinal Sen, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Ousmane Sembène, Alexander Sokurow, Jim Jarmusch, Jacques Rivette, Claude Lanzmann, Frederick Wiseman, Yvonne Rainer, Anne Severson (Parker), Safi Faye—the list could go on almost indefinitely.
In the 1970s and 1980s, close ties were developed with New American Cinema and thus with representatives of underground and avant-garde film, due to the work by the Forum at the Berlin International Film Festival as well as in close collaboration with the artists' programme at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Alf Bold was particularly active in building up a comprehensive network. He himself spent a great deal of time in North America, finally beginning to build up an extensive collection of experimental films made up of donations from numerous filmmakers, including nearly all the well-known figures in the field such as Bruce Conner, Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Su Friedrich, Joyce Wieland, Ken Jacobs, Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas. In addition, the collection holds many gems by lesser-known filmmakers.
In order to make a selection from such an abundance of films, I have focused on two aspects. On the one hand, I am simply showing some of my favourite films; on the other, it was important for me for the films' interplay to open up a visually exciting space of experience to enable the manifold expressive possibilities of experimental film to shine through, so that and without many words it may conjure up spaces of memory that hold a moment of wonder and melancholy. The programme focuses on a playful questioning of sexual identity and cinematic illusions; deeper layers of perception that return us to ourselves and the riot of colour that conjures up a sublime realm of memory in its interaction with light, shade and experimental sounds.
I Change I Am the Same, as an introduction to the programme, gives an idea how a very short film can open your heart and question stereotypes in a playful way. Her Mona then slowly moves to a tenderness in a very personal way in which beauty can be seen in every face. As Klaus Telscher is not very well known, it was important for me to include him in the programme. With Loose Corner we enter the space of optical illusions in which our visual habits are turned upside down, so to speak, with the help of optical tricks, and thus approach the manifold forms of expression of the cinematic apparatus. The three-colour-separation process that Corinne and Arthur Cantrill bring to bear in both Waterfall and Notes on The Passage of Time allows for the unfolding of an almost transcendent space that, in addition to the visual beauty of the image, hints at processes of memory, transience and transformation in deeper layers. When I first saw Waterfall in 2018 while visiting the Cantrills in Australia, I was filled with wonder and delight. In Jenny Okun's Still Life a traditional 'still life' serves as the subject for a film on colour transformation. Still Life reflects on the mutability of colour in photography and the elusiveness of photographic truth, and so shifts in its sensual richness slowly to the last film by Carl Elsaesser Home When You Return, which premiered at this year's Forum Expanded, and plays skillfully and with precise knowledge with the codes of the cinematographic language of melodrama to open up a melancholic memory space that moves us, reminiscence and interpretation in one.
The work of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill found its way into the archive after The Second Journey (To Uluru) premiered at Forum / Berlinale in 1982. These gave worldwide recognition to their artistic work, which had been somewhat underestimated until then. Some of their films were shown and accepted for distribution afterwards. In 2018 more films were bought. Some were digitally restored, and we worked on a new print of their brilliant three-colour-separation film Waterfall. Loose Corner was shown at the Forum / Berlinale in 1987. I Change I Am The Same has only recently entered distribution, but Alice Anne Parker's (Severson's) Near The Big Chakra has been in our archive since the 1970s. Klaus Telscher's experimental oeuvre is in the collection since the 1980s. Jenny Okun's Still Life was shown at Forum / Berlinale in 1979. Carl Elsaesser's Home When You Return premiered this year at Forum Expanded / Berlinale and has been added to our distribution, along with other works by the artist.
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Impossibilism is a Marxist theory that stresses the limited value of political, economic, and social reforms under capitalism. As a doctrine, impossibilism views the pursuit of such reforms as counterproductive to the goal of achieving socialism as they stabilize, and therefore strengthen, support for capitalism. Impossibilism holds that reforms to capitalism are irrelevant or outright counter-productive to the goal of achieving socialism and should not be a major focus of socialist politics.

Impossibilists insist that socialists should primarily or solely focus on structural changes (sometimes termed "revolutionary changes") to society as opposed to advancing social reforms. Impossibilists argue that spontaneous revolutionary action is the only viable method of instituting the structural changes necessary for the construction of socialism; impossibilism is thus held in contrast to reformist socialist parties that aim to rally support for socialism through the implementation of popular social reforms (such as a welfare state). It is also held in contrast to those who believe that socialism can emerge through gradual economic reforms implemented by an elected social democratic political party.

Impossibilism is the opposite of "possibilism" and "immediatism". Possibilism and immediatism are based on a gradualist path to socialism and a desire on the part of socialists to help ameliorate the social ills immediately through practical programs implemented by existing institutions including labor unions and electoral politics, thereby de-emphasizing the ultimate objective of building a socialist economy. This position is justified by the fact that socialists who embraced possibilism sounded and acted little different from non-socialist reformers in practice.

Impossibilist movements are also associated with anti-Leninism in their opposition to both vanguardism and democratic centralism.

Origins of the concept

The concept of impossibilism—though not the specific term—was introduced and heavily influenced by American Marxist theoretician Daniel De Leon on the basis of theory that De Leon generated before his interest in syndicalism began. It came to be focused especially on the question of whether socialists should take part in government and pursue policy reforms that benefited the working-class under capitalism.

At the Paris Congress of the Second International in 1900, those who favored entry into government with all the implied compromises called themselves "Possibilists" while those who opposed them (those around Jules Guesde) characterized them as political "Opportunists". Conversely, the revolutionary socialists who opposed ameliorative reforms and participation in existing governments were called "Impossibilists" by their detractors because they allegedly sought the impossible by refusing to partake in the governing of capitalism.

While not usually described as an impossibilist, Rosa Luxemburg opposed both reformism and vanguardism, taking the more classical Marxist perspective that revolution would be a spontaneous reaction to underlying material changes in the productive forces of society. According to Luxemburg, "[political and juridical relations of capitalism] is not overthrown, but is on the contrary strengthened and consolidated by the development of social reforms and the course of democracy.".

Basis in Karl Marx's work

Karl Marx famously critiqued reformism and immediatist/possibilist goals advocated by modern social democrats in his Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League (1850). Specifically, he argued that measures designed to increase wages, improve working conditions and provide welfare payments would be used to dissuade the working class away from socialism and the revolutionary consciousness he believed was necessary to achieve a socialist economy and would thus be a threat to genuine structural changes to society by making the conditions of workers in capitalism more tolerable through reform and welfare schemes.

Political groups
 French Workers' Party
 Proletarian Party of America
 Social Democratic Federation
 Socialist Party of Great Britain
 Socialist Party of Canada
 Socialist Party of Canada (WSM)
 Socialist Labor Party of America
 World Socialist Party (Ireland)
 World Socialist Party of India

See also
 Anti-Leninism
 Libertarian possibilism
 Libertarian socialism
 Orthodox Marxism
 Possibilism
 Reformism
 Revolutionary socialism
 Revolutionary spontaneity

References

External links
 "Impossibilism," Encyclopedia of Marxism, Marxists Internet Archive, marxists.org/ Retrieved October 16, 2010.
 Larry Gambone, "The History Of Canadian Impossibilism," Socialist History Project, socialisthistory.ca/ Retrieved October 16, 2010.

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It may be difficult to locate the finest gaming laptops right now, as it is with a lot of other technology. It may take some time to find exactly what you want in stock once you've done your research.
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There's lots of potential for upgrades if you're handy (and you'll want to think about it with only 256GB of storage in our review device), but for $700, you're getting a lot for your money..
6. Acer Nitro 5 (Alternate Configuration)
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Fear about Chinese and Russian influence in Venezuela is reaching new heights.
The Trump administration's new national security strategy condemns China and Russia for supporting "the dictatorship in Venezuela," and for using arms sales to exercise regional influence. Preventing China and Russia from challenging the United States' regional dominance is high on the White House's Latin America agenda.
These concerns are understandable, but we should avoid hysteria about Chinese and Russian meddling.
Caracas' relationships with Moscow and Beijing are often exaggerated, including by the governments themselves. In October, for example, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro visited Vladimir Putin in Moscow and made farfetched claims about Russia's limitless military backing. "I am sure, even if we do not ask, we will be given even more support," he said in the wake of President Trump's threats of a "military option" for dealing with Venezuela.
Such statements have created a false impression of tight-knit international alliances bolstering the regime in Caracas. In truth, Maduro is increasingly isolated and as his country's economic problems metastasize, his support from Beijing and Moscow falls.
The Trump administration has stepped up painful financial-sector sanctions against Maduro as the latter consolidates power ahead of a suspect presidential election this year. Beijing and Moscow have grudgingly offered minor economic support but repeatedly shunned the bailout Maduro desperately needs.
China's support has declined to a yearly allowance that props up Maduro, but does not solve deep structural problems. Russia recently negotiated generous repayment terms on a $3 billion loan but issued no new financing.
Given the low probability of a Chinese or Russian bailout, regime stability in Venezuela is far shakier than it appears. Maduro is struggling to control a population that is increasingly restive about food and goods shortages. Absent an external rescue, a political transition in Venezuela remains a possibility, despite the opposition's disarray.
Since Hugo Chávez first courted the Russian government, Moscow has been one of Venezuela's most steadfast allies. For years, Venezuela was among the top buyers of Russian arms. Since the collapse in oil prices in 2014, Russia has provided Venezuela with economic lifelines.
The Russian aid came at a critical moment, as Maduro labored mightily but unsuccessfully to help his government and the state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), make timely debt payments. Still, Putin is no philanthropist.
Just as Chávez was the darling of Russia's defense industry, Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has been giddily scooping up Venezuelan oil assets at fire sale prices. These bargains, moreover, reflect not only Venezuela's financial desperation, but also the absence of competition. Foreign oil companies are losing their taste for Venezuela's idiosyncratic operating environment, including a government that habitually stiffs its partners and a state-owned oil company as corrupt as it is incompetent.
For Putin, there is the added geopolitical benefit of schadenfreude. The Russian leader no doubt takes pleasure in propping up an anti-American government on America's doorstep.
But it is not clear that Putin is willing to go far beyond the support he has already offered. For one, in the run-up to Russia's March presidential election, he has promised to cut spending, including by reducing Russia's role in the Syrian civil war. Even after the election, Moscow won't be able to afford a bailout. Russia's economy has been sputtering since oil prices collapsed, and U.S. and European Union sanctions following Russia's occupation of Crimea have not helped.
China established a strategic relationship with Venezuela in 2007, while Chávez was solidifying his socialist party's control. Between 2007 and 2012, China poured $40 billion into Venezuela, its biggest investment in Latin America by far.
That Chinese investment, coupled with relatively high oil prices, spurred Caracas to significant spending increases, providing a major boost to Chávez's 2012 re-election campaign. The Chinese investment was so significant -- $20 billion in 2010 alone -- that it served as a pre-emptive bailout. Even after the 2014 oil market shock sent the Venezuelan economy into a tailspin, Maduro had the means to continue servicing debt obligations.
Still, even in the heyday of Venezuela's China romance, Chinese loans came with strings attached. Many of the deals required Venezuela to repay with oil, though Venezuela desperately needed to sell every drop of crude it extracted for hard currency. Since Maduro succeeded Chavez in April 2013, Beijing has negotiated even tougher terms and slowed its lending dramatically. From 2013 to today, Beijing has announced new investments totaling just $22 billion, and not all of that money has been disbursed. Given Venezuela's previous borrowing from China, for every dollar Beijing has loaned in recent years, it has received oil repayments of roughly the same value.
Why the change? Unlike Moscow, China has the resources to keep Maduro afloat, but it also has a reputation to manage. China seems increasingly concerned about the moral hazard of sponsoring Maduro. In fact, the Maduro government's economic mismanagement has created incentives for China to de-risk. In a sign of Beijing's unhappiness with Caracas, a major Chinese oil player, Sinovensa, recently sued PDVSA to force compensation for missed payments.
Despite Beijing's frustration with Maduro, there is a limit to the punishment China will impose. China would like to maintain a steady flow of Venezuelan oil, and Chinese oil companies continue to covet Venezuela's petroleum reserves, regardless of the chaos aboveground. Additionally, though Venezuela's crisis-as-status-quo reality is distressing to Chinese investors, Beijing understands that the crisis can worsen, and it is not keen to push Venezuela into total collapse.
Policy implications
At first glance, it may seem that an ideological kinship and shared geopolitical vision underpin the strategic relationships between Venezuela, China, and Russia. China and Venezuela preach a form of modern socialism, and all three countries are eager to promote a multipolar world.
Yet financial considerations predominate these diplomatic relationships. When Beijing and Moscow have lent Caracas a hand, they have done so largely out of economic self-interest. And given that these investments are increasingly risky, it would be a surprise if China or Russia threw good money after bad.
Overstating the likelihood of a bailout has serious implications. That common misunderstanding leads to foreign policy positions that assume Maduro's regime will survive, deflating international efforts to compel a democratic transition and discouraging the domestic opposition from unifying and mobilizing.
If fatigue were to translate into diplomatic disengagement, it would give Maduro breathing room. Needless to say, it would be highly paradoxical if Western democracies ended up gifting Maduro a political bailout even as increasingly frugal Beijing and Moscow resist granting economic rescue.
In this context, scrutinizing the hype about China and Russia's tightknit relationship with Venezuela is key to calibrating international pressure on the Maduro government.
Benjamin Gedan is a former South America director on the National Security Council and is a fellow at The Wilson Center. Michael McCarthy is a research fellow at American University's Center for Latin American Studies and publishes Caracas Wire, a newsletter on Venezuela. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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Emily and Luke
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Stolt agreed and added that she expects him to drive and that they dress up.
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Although Watkins and Van Beek will not see each other on Valentine's Day, they still have plans to celebrate.
"When I get back from Omaha I want to go to (the movie) Wolfman," Watkins said.
This is not the first Valentine's Day the couple has spent apart. Last Valentine's Day, Watkins performed in the SDSU production "The Vagina Monologues," which was a fundraiser for the domestic abuse shelter in Brookings.
Neither Watkins nor Van Beek was very upset about the idea of their partner's absence on Valentine's Day.
"I hate Valentine's Day. I think it's a useless holiday," Watkins said. "I think it's designed to make people who are in a relationship feel like they have to spend a crap-ton of money, and for people who aren't (in a relationship) to feel bad about their lives."