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Sophie Turner Calls 'Game of Thrones' Fan Petition 'Disrespectful'
Meredith Jacobs May 21, 2019, 12:00 pm
Helen Sloan/HBO
Sophie Turner understands that the final season of Game of Thrones wasn't for everyone, but that doesn't mean she agrees with the petitions out there against it, especially considering the work that went into making it.
"I think it's disrespectful to the crew, and the writers, and the filmmakers who have worked tirelessly over 10 years, and for 11 months shooting the last season," Turner told The New York Times. "Like 50-something night shoots. So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it's not what they want to see is just disrespectful."
Emilia Clarke & More 'Game of Thrones' Stars React to the Finale
From initial script impressions to their characters' fates.
Among the backlash the HBO series has received is a Change.org petition titled, "Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers." It has over one million signatures from those who were not pleased with the way the show ended.
While Turner disagrees with some of the ways fans have responded to the final season, she is "not surprised."
"People always have an idea in their heads of how they want a show to finish, and so when it doesn't go to their liking, they start to speak up about it and rebel," she explained.
(Macall B. Polay/HBO)
But she thinks that fans should have expected some "crazy twists and turns" like there have been throughout the series, such as Daenerys' (Emilia Clarke) Mad Queen turn. That was "a shock," but she didn't see it as something that should "be such a negative thing for fans."
As for her own character's ending, Turner said she "loved it." With her brother Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) on the Iron Throne, Sansa got what she wanted. The North was independent, and she was its queen. "It's what she's been striving for this whole series: to go back home, to protect her home," she said.

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May Day Eve (1907) is a novella that envelops you like the wispy fog of a magical spring night (dark magic, that is). Retrieved from the anthology, Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories (1920), edited by Joseph Lewis French.
"I only know that this indescribable vast stirring of the landscape seemed to me as though the earth were unfolding immense sable wings from her sides, and lifting them for silent, gigantic strokes so that she might fly more swiftly from the sun into the night."
Return to the Algernon Blackwood library.


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Cia Siderúrgica Nacional SA , Brazil's second-largest producer of flat steel products, said on Thursday it was considering selling its preferential shares in larger rival Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais SA. The sale would help CSN meet it meet its goal of cutting debt to three times EBITDA this year, the company's Chief Executive Benjamin Steinbruch and other executives said in a call with analysts.
Brazilian steelmaker Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA (Usiminas) on Friday forecast stable steel prices in the final three months of the year, following a 10 percent rise in the third quarter. Rising steel prices, along with a currency boost for exports, boosted quarterly profit at Usiminas to 289 million reais ($79 million), almost four times higher than a year earlier, topping the Refinitiv average estimate of 188 million reais. "Our forecast ... for the fourth quarter will be to maintain prices at the current level," Usiminas' chief executive, Sergio Leite, told analysts on a conference call.
All 34 people injured in a blast at a plant owned by Brazilian steelmaker Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA have left the hospital, the company said on Saturday. The company, known as Usiminas, said in a statement it could not yet say when the plant near the city of Ipatinga would resume full operation following Friday's blast, although some areas had re-started production. The plant at Ipatinga, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, produced 813,000 tons of crude steel between April and June of this year, the company said in its latest earnings report.
A plant run by Brazilian steelmaker Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais SA, suffered an explosion on Friday, according to the company's press office and firefighters in the Ipatinga municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. The blast was centered on piece of equipment that stores gases released during the steel production process, according to the press office of the company, also known as Usiminas. The steelmaker said it had no information about possible victims.
(Updates prices) By Bruno Federowski BRASILIA, June 15 (Reuters) - The Brazilian currency led gains in Latin American on Friday after the central bank announced it will extend a currency intervention plan while the Argentine peso slumped to a record low after the resignation of its central bank president. The real firmed 2.15 percent, clawing back some of its 2.7 percent drop the previous day, the currency's worst one-day percentage drop since May 2017. The real is down about 11 percent so far this year, the second-worst performing currency in the region behind the Argentine peso, which slumped to a new all-time low against the dollar on Friday after the resignation of Central Bank President Federico Sturzenegger.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Petrobras shares plunged 15 percent on Monday after Brazil's government offered new fuel subsidies and softened the oil producer's pricing policy in a bid to settle a truckers' strike that has wreaked havoc on Latin America's largest economy. As a result of tax cuts and subsidies announced by President Michel Temer late on Sunday, domestic diesel prices would fall 0.46 real per litre, or about 13 percent of the current price at the pump, and remain frozen for 60 days. Shareholders in state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA), which earlier this month soared after the company reported its highest profits in five years, have been hammered as the stock lost nearly a third of its value in the past week.


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A rather sombre one here. The Arlington National Cemetery is where thousands of American service men and women are buried. Those little ridges along the grass aren't ridges. They are all graves. Thanks R.B. Boyer, djojo, Keith, Spaz & Stranger.
Sunday, 17th April 2005
Boeing Factory
The Boeing factory building is the biggest building (by volume) in the world. The original building was constructed in 1966 and completed in 1969. Its footprint now covers 98.3 acres and is where Boeing constructs their 747, 767, and 777…
Big Surf Water Park
Big Surf water park is in the Phoenix metro area of Arizona and as you can see there's a giant old school Pepsi logo in the pool. Thanks: Rich Kaszeta
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The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
Following on from my previous post, I'd like to proudly present the world's longest bridge. Yes it's true, no bridge in the entire world is any longer (check for yourself at the Guinness World Records site). At a staggering 23…
The Mackinac bridge
The Mackinac bridge (which connects the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan) is the 3rd largest suspension bridge in the world. At five miles in length, it is the third-longest suspension bridge in the world. Seriously, check it out… it's…
Sign Hill, SF
In 1923, the words "South San Francisco the Industrial City" were painted on Sign Hill (It presumably had a different name before that) and five years later, the 60 foot letters were put into cement. Thanks: JoeM & others.
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The Polls Keep Plummeting For Kamala Harris But She's Blaming It On Soundbits & Sexism
Politico Daily
Vice President Kamala Harris has been desperately trying to fix her image after top staffers and sources described in detail the toxicity and abuse in her work environment. According to the polls, she's probably the most unpopular vice president we've ever had – and it shows.
VP Harris has consistently worked to blame the mainstream media as best as she can for her image, with political allies trying to pinpoint it on sexism and racism. Patti Solis Doyle, who managed Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, said she doesn't think VP Harris has performed any less than any other vice president in modern history. She said Harris had been hit with a series of damaging press accounts from the office and talked about the dinner she spent with the Democratic Party's most influential women to help Harris "boost her national media footing."
Harris even met with leading Democratic strategists Donna Brazile, Stephanie Cuter, Karen Finney, and Jennifer Palmieri in DC to strategize why she is much less popular than Biden.
Doyle went on to claim that there is just a "different standard for a woman in politics" and talked about trying to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman president. She said she wanted to help curb some of the "gendered dynamics" in press coverage that people have seen before.
"It was like: 'We've seen this before.' It's subtle. But when things aren't going well for a male politician, we ask very different questions, and they're not held to account the way a woman leader is," Doyle said.
Harris has had more coverage in the media and polls since she would be the likely successor to President Joe Biden, the oldest president who has ever served, and who may not serve again in 2024. VP Harris's approval rating currently sits at 45%, which is seven points lower than President Biden's.
Harris's approval ratings also sit lower than Biden, Dick Cheney, and Al Gore, during the exact same point in their vice presidencies. Even Roy Neel, a former Gore aide, sent Harris a memo warning her to make sure their staff doesn't get "sucked into a gossip game about the president's team." He warned Harris that she needs to keep her staff discreet and adds that "discretion is everything." He shared how easily a vice presidency can go sideways, which hers already has.
But VP Harris's team has not kept discreet. There have been reports of short fuses, pinpointing the blame on others, and staff members getting physically ill over the stress. Biden senior adviser Cedric Richmond called it a "whisper campaign" designed to sabotage the vice president.
But Harris has tried to blame everything on the media only covering her with "soundbites" over the actual substance she's trying to share. "Part of my frustration is the way that this system rewards sound bites" as opposed to "depth and thought," she said.
From Harris's unearthly cackles to her poor and sloppy management of the southern border crisis, it's not a shock she has struggled to carry any positive ratings or coverage as a vice president. Not to mention the toxic work culture that has staffers fleeing from her grip.
Even former Trump-era White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she wasn't buying the sexism excuse for her poor ratings.
"Sexism is the new straw man argument being used by team Kamala to cover for her poor performance as vice president. From a massive, unresolved border crisis to failing to shepherd voting legislation through Congress, Kamala has failed at the tasks she's been given," McEnany said.
Poor ratings are because you can't get the job done, not because you're a woman or not. If anything, giggling nervously at a serious topic and refusing to step foot at the border might have been worse as a male vice president. At the end of the day, the polls show that even the Democrats wouldn't have chosen Harris.
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Amy Lee covers Led Zeppelin's 'Going to California'
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Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence. via evanescence.com
Amy Lee, most famous for being the golden voice of goth rock band Evanescence, has proven herself to be a skilled and expressive singer over the years. Since October, Lee has been recording and releasing striking covers of well-known tunes, starting with Portishead's "It's A Fire" (1994) and U2's "With or Without You" (1987), each accompanied by its own music video. The latest addition to this series, released on Dec. 1, is a version of Led Zeppelin's masterpiece, "Going to California" (1971) — an ambitious endeavor for anyone. Well known as singer Robert Plant's somewhat embarrassing ode to Canadian songstress Joni Mitchell, the song conveys yearning with powerful vocals and poetic lyrics. Lee's rendition of the classic song captures the sentiment of the original and features Lee's manager Jordan Berliant on mandolin and guitar. In fact, it was Berliant's earlier instrumental cover of the song that inspired Lee to incorporate it as a part of her series.
The best part of the cover is Lee's incredible capacity for nuance; she approaches the tune with a delicate touch and well-timed crescendoes. In addition to soft, tender moments, Lee is also able to really deliver on the high notes, mimicking the power of Plant's voice, especially toward the end of the track when emotions run rampant. Though the scratchiness of the Zeppelin singer's voice is iconic, Lee's evident classical training gives the song a different kind of impact; arguably, it is just as fitting for the song.
The music video that accompanies the track is pretty stark — a black and white montage of Lee hanging out in the woods and tracking the song in a studio. This simple accompaniment does not distract from the musical performance, and is a much better choice than a gimmicky, overproduced video would have been.
According to Rolling Stone, although there is no news of an Evanescence album coming out anytime soon, Lee is working on solo material to release in the near future. If her cover series is any indication of what is to come, fans can look forward to subtle, beautiful performances and a tone far lighter than the dark underpinnings of her band's music.


We discuss the Louisville scandal fatigue and the repercussions of Pitino and Jurich being fired. Along with UK vs. UF talk.
We talk South Carolina win, the upcoming game against Florida. Basketball recruiting including why we think Calipari offered a kid that's never started a game before in high school.
Mike Hicks and Aaron Newton welcome former UK linebacker, Zane Beehn, to the podcast to talk Cats football. Also, UK vs. Duke 1 and done.
Mike Hicks and Aaron Newton talk about football and basketball.


HID Global has launched its new corporate Web site that introduces its portfolio of products and solutions into a single area. The site presents a detailed picture of the company's offerings, and how they apply to its customers' and partners' businesses.
An HID-sponsored blog that will enable company officials to participate in social networks.
More video content and a scrolling "Our Businesses" menu aimed to make site navigation easier.
A "What's New" section that focuses on the latest HID offerings.
A representation the company's organizational structure, with separate "Our Businesses" areas featuring drop-down menus for IAM, IDS and HID Connect.
The new "Knowledge Center" that enables HID to provide online access to the company's Web-based eLearning resources hosted by HID Academy.
Integration of products and solutions from the Fargo brand into the section called "Card Issuance," unifying previously disparate businesses like Fargo secure issuance and the newly formed Identity on Demand.


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package com.aishang.app.ui.insale;

import com.aishang.app.data.DataManager;
import com.aishang.app.data.model.JLoupanPriceCatListResult;
import com.aishang.app.data.model.JLoupanProductCatListResult;
import com.aishang.app.data.model.JLoupanProductListResult;
import com.aishang.app.data.model.JSysZoneResult;
import com.aishang.app.data.model.LoupanProduct;
import com.aishang.app.ui.base.BasePresenter;
import com.aishang.app.util.Constants;
import com.aishang.app.util.NetWorkType;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.List;
import javax.inject.Inject;

import rx.Subscriber;
import rx.Subscription;
import rx.android.schedulers.AndroidSchedulers;
import rx.schedulers.Schedulers;

/**
 * Created by song on 2016/1/18.
 */
public class InSalePresenter extends BasePresenter<InSaleMvpView> {
  private static final String TAG = "InSalePresenter";

  private final DataManager mDataManager;
  private Subscription mSubscription;
  private Subscription mZoneSubscription;
  private Subscription mPriceSubscription;

  @Inject public InSalePresenter(DataManager dataManager) {
    mDataManager = dataManager;
  }

  @Override public void attachView(InSaleMvpView mvpView) {
    super.attachView(mvpView);
  }

  @Override public void detachView() {
    super.detachView();
    if (mSubscription != null) mSubscription.unsubscribe();
    if (mZoneSubscription != null) mZoneSubscription.unsubscribe();
    if (mPriceSubscription != null) mPriceSubscription.unsubscribe();
  }

  public void loadLoupanProduct(int version, String json, NetWorkType type) {
    loadLoupanProduct(false, version, json, type);
  }

  public void loadLoupanProduct(boolean allowMemoryCacheVersion, int version, String json,
      final NetWorkType type) {
    checkViewAttached();

    if (mSubscription != null && !mSubscription.isUnsubscribed()) {
      mSubscription.unsubscribe();
    }

    mSubscription = mDataManager.syncLoupanList(version, json)
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .subscribe(new Subscriber<JLoupanProductListResult>() {
          @Override public void onCompleted() {

          }

          @Override public void onError(Throwable e) {
            getMvpView().showError("网络异常:" + e.toString());
          }

          @Override public void onNext(JLoupanProductListResult hotelListResult) {
            if (hotelListResult.getResult()
                .toUpperCase()
                .equals(Constants.RESULT_SUCCESS.toUpperCase())) {

              if (hotelListResult.getLoupanList().length <= 0 && type == NetWorkType.refresh) {
                getMvpView().showLoupanProductEmpty();
              } else {
                List<LoupanProduct> loupanProducts = new ArrayList<LoupanProduct>();
                for (JLoupanProductListResult.Loupan loupan : hotelListResult.getLoupanList()) {
                  int loupanid = loupan.getLoupanID();
                  for (JLoupanProductListResult.Product product : hotelListResult.getProductList()) {
                    if (product.getLoupanID() == loupanid) {
                      loupanProducts.add(new LoupanProduct(product, loupan));
                      continue;
                    }
                  }
                }
                switch (type) {
                  case refresh:
                    getMvpView().refreshLoupanProduct(loupanProducts);
                    break;
                  case loadMore:
                    getMvpView().loadMoreLoupanProduct(loupanProducts,
                        hotelListResult.getProductCount());
                    break;
                }
              }
            } else {
              getMvpView().showError(hotelListResult.getResult());
              //getMvpView().showLoupanProductEmpty();
            }
          }
        });
  }

  public void loadZone(boolean allowMemoryCacheVersion, int version, String json) {
    checkViewAttached();

    if (mZoneSubscription != null && !mZoneSubscription.isUnsubscribed()) {
      mZoneSubscription.unsubscribe();
    }

    mZoneSubscription = mDataManager.sysZone(version, json)
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .subscribe(new Subscriber<JSysZoneResult>() {
          @Override public void onCompleted() {

          }

          @Override public void onError(Throwable e) {
            getMvpView().showError("网络异常:" + e.toString());
          }

          @Override public void onNext(JSysZoneResult zoneResult) {
            if (zoneResult.getResult()
                .toUpperCase()
                .equals(Constants.RESULT_SUCCESS.toUpperCase())) {
              getMvpView().showSysZoneDialog(
                  new ArrayList<JSysZoneResult.Zone>(Arrays.asList(zoneResult.getZoneList())));
            } else {
              getMvpView().showError(zoneResult.getResult());
            }
          }
        });
  }

  public void loadPriceCatList(boolean allowMemoryCacheVersion, int version, String json) {
    checkViewAttached();

    if (mPriceSubscription != null && !mPriceSubscription.isUnsubscribed()) {
      mPriceSubscription.unsubscribe();
    }

    mPriceSubscription = mDataManager.syncLoupanPriceCatList(version, json)
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .subscribe(new Subscriber<JLoupanPriceCatListResult>() {
          @Override public void onCompleted() {

          }

          @Override public void onError(Throwable e) {
            getMvpView().showError("网络异常:" + e.toString());
          }

          @Override public void onNext(JLoupanPriceCatListResult result) {
            if (result.getResult().toUpperCase().equals(Constants.RESULT_SUCCESS.toUpperCase())) {
              getMvpView().showSysPriceDialog(
                  new ArrayList<JLoupanPriceCatListResult.Cat>(Arrays.asList(result.getCatList())));
            } else {
              getMvpView().showError(result.getResult());
            }
          }
        });
  }

  public void loadLoupanProductCatList(boolean allowMemoryCacheVersion, int version) {
    checkViewAttached();

    if (mPriceSubscription != null && !mPriceSubscription.isUnsubscribed()) {
      mPriceSubscription.unsubscribe();
    }

    mPriceSubscription = mDataManager.syncLoupanProductCatList(version)
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .subscribe(new Subscriber<JLoupanProductCatListResult>() {
          @Override public void onCompleted() {

          }

          @Override public void onError(Throwable e) {
            getMvpView().showError("网络异常:" + e.toString());
          }

          @Override public void onNext(JLoupanProductCatListResult result) {
            if (result.getResult().toUpperCase().equals(Constants.RESULT_SUCCESS.toUpperCase())) {
              getMvpView().showLoupanProductCatDialog(
                  new ArrayList<JLoupanProductCatListResult.Cat>(
                      Arrays.asList(result.getCatList())));
            } else {
              getMvpView().showError(result.getResult());
            }
          }
        });
  }
}

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WASHINGTON – The US economy will likely experience a significant slowdown or even a contraction in the first quarter of 2021, a senior Federal Reserve official said on January 8, Xinhua news agency reported.
"On the national level, for now, I'm expecting the fourth quarter of last year to show modest growth, before a significant slowing in the first quarter of this year – possibly even negative growth," Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Patrick Harker said at a virtual event held by the Philadelphia Business Journal.
"The good news is that the weakness should stay relatively short lived – as we all hope COVID-19 vaccinations become more widely available," he said.
But the pace of vaccinations in the United States "has been incredibly disappointing so far", Harker noted.
"Fewer than five million people have received their first dose of the vaccine – less than 2% of our total population," he said.
Harker also said the recently passed US$900-billion relief package from Congress should help buoy the US economy, which could "begin to look much more normal" in the second half of 2021.
"GDP (gross domestic product) growth should be strong in the second half of the year, and through 2022, before a light tapering in 2023," he said.
Harker made the remarks as US economic recovery is losing momentum due to a surge of new COVID-19 cases across the country in recent months.
"While the number of infections and deaths fell during the warmer months, cases have been on the rise since September. And deaths, a lagging indicator, are tragically now even more voluminous than they were during the first wave of COVID-19 last spring," he said.
US COVID-19 deaths surpassed 364,000 as of Thursday (January 7) afternoon, with the national caseload topping 21.4 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Read more: 5 Ways to Adapt the KonMari Method by Marie Kondo in Your Financial Planning
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Second strict lockdown can cause economy to collapse
Robust ringgit set to leave positive trails onto equity markets - Analyst


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Neuland - Neuland [2LP] (Blue Vinyl)
Neuland started the way many long overdue projects do: with Paul Haslinger and Peter Baumann asking themselves, ''Why isn't there anything out there like this?'' In their case, that meant a deeply immersive debut album that's respectful of their roots in Tangerine Dream but exists on it's own astral plane. Far more restless than most ambient records, the pair's self-titled LP is both focused and freeing, alluding to everything from weightless grime melodies to windswept film scores. And while there are hints of many different modern artists here (Oneohtrix Point Never's sci-fi scapes, Zombi's prog nods, the mechanical animal melodies of Amon Tobin and Arca), Neuland is ultimately the sound of something entirely new. ''It all boils down to one word, transcendence'' explains Baumann. Find out what that means firsthand when Neuland presents it's first batch of mood-altering material at select live shows in Europe and North America next year.


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[From the Communist Organization of Greece]
Our contribution can reach the point of formulating an opinion (open for debate) and sharing the experience of a small section of the world's proletariat, that of the Greek communist movement.
The Greek communists and the Chinese Revolution
"Our countries have two things in common: our ancient civilization, and two fatal numbers: 6 and 7. You are on the 36th parallel and we are on the 37th. You have the 6th Fleet of the US Navy, we have the 7th".
(From a speech of Chairman Mao on a meeting with the representatives of the Greek-Chinese League of Friendship in 1965.)
It is of interest to state the opinion given by a great Greek communist who pioneered in the antirevisionist struggle in Greece. It is that of Comrade Yiannis Hontzeas, who, in the note that follows, gives us a testimony of what the perception of Greek communists about the CPC was, and what their expectations were, before the open conflict with the Russian revisionists began:
When I. V. Stalin died, many communists in our country, the majority of the veteran EAM members [EAM – National Liberation Front] who remained faithful to the CPG's [Communist Party of Greece, CPG or KKE] and the EAM's traditions during difficult times, expected that Chairman Mao will be invited in Moscow in order to advise, to lead, to arrange the things. Regardless of what anyone may say today, Mao was then, after the death of Stalin, regarded as the leader of the world proletariat, the guide of the world communist movement. If that was a simplistic faith, this is an issue of different nature. Mao visited Moscow on two separate occasions: The first time in 1950 in order to sign the treaty with Stalin, and the second time in 1957 in order to attend the Conference of Communist Parties. After the events of that period, Mao's name was transformed from legend to curse – to become a legend again in the '60s and '70s, wining the minds of both the youth and the working people, gaining even more glory after years of slander. But how did Mao and the Chinese Revolution become known in Greece? Continue reading "KOE: The Influence of the Chinese Revolution on the Communist Movement of Greece (2006)"
The Post-Mao Chinese Left: Navigating the Recent Debates
[Originally posted on Sanhati.com and Kasama Project – ed.] By Zhun Xu The author is a member of the Department … Continue reading The Post-Mao Chinese Left: Navigating the Recent Debates
Israeli defense minister pledges closer ties with China's military
There remain not a few self-proclaimed "Marxist-Leninist" organizations in the world that continue to uphold China as a socialist country … Continue reading Israeli defense minister pledges closer ties with China's military
Mao: Problems of War and Strategy
Mao at Yenan.
[Final part of our series on revolutionary military strategy in imperialist countries. While it mainly deals with revolutionary war in China, it contains many important insights into revolutionary strategy in general and how it's application changes for different countries in particular.]
I. CHINA'S CHARACTERISTICS AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR
The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds good universally, for China and for all other countries.
But while the principle remains the same, its application by the party of the proletariat finds expression in varying ways according to the varying conditions. Internally, capitalist countries practice bourgeois democracy (not feudalism) when they are not fascist or not at war; in their external relations, they are not oppressed by, but themselves oppress, other nations. Because of these characteristics, it is the task of the party of the proletariat in the capitalist countries to educate the workers and build up strength through a long period of legal struggle, and thus prepare for the final overthrow of capitalism. In these countries, the question is one of a long legal struggle, of utilizing parliament as a platform, of economic and political strikes, of organizing trade unions and educating the workers. There the form of organization is legal and the form of struggle bloodless (non-military). On the issue of war, the Communist Parties in the capitalist countries oppose the imperialist wars waged by their own countries; if such wars occur, the policy of these Parties is to bring about the defeat of the reactionary governments of their own countries. The one war they want to fight is the civil war for which they are preparing.[1] But this insurrection and war should not be launched until the bourgeoisie becomes really helpless, until the majority of the proletariat are determined to rise in arms and fight, and until the rural masses are giving willing help to the proletariat. And when the time comes to launch such an insurrection and war, the first step will be to seize the cities, and then advance into the countryside' and not the other way about. All this has been done by Communist Parties in capitalist countries, and it has been proved correct by the October Revolution in Russia.
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Dongping Han interviewed on "The Unknown Cultural Revolution – Life and Change in a Chinese village"
[From A World To Win News Service. A video of a lecture given by Dongping Han can be found here. His book can be purchased from Monthly Review Press. – RI Ed.]
Dongping Han grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and now teaches in the U.S. He is the author of the book The Unknown Cultural Revolution—Life and Change in a Chinese Village. Following is an abridged version of the session at the end of a speech he gave in December 2008 at the New York symposium "Rediscovering the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Art and Politics, Lived Experience, Legacies of Liberation," sponsored by Revolution Books, Set the Record Straight Project and Institute for Public Knowledge-New York University. The full version appeared in the 6 September 2009 issue of Revolution, voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. (revcom.us)
Question: You went back to China in 1986. When did you and others like you start to see that things were different, that China had become very different than what it had been during the Cultural Revolution?
Dongping Han: I think people realized right away. The land was privatized in China in 1983. Many people tend to think that farmers are stupid and ignorant. But I think the farmers are very intelligent people. Many of them realized the implications of private farming right away. That was why they resisted it very hard in the beginning. And in my village and in other villages I surveyed, the overwhelming majority of people, 90 percent, said the Communist Party no longer cares about poor people. Right away they felt this way. The Communist Party, the cadres, no longer cared about poor people in the countryside. The government investment in rural areas in the countryside dropped from 15 percent in the national budget in 1970s to only 3-4 percent in the '80s. So the Chinese public realized that the Chinese government no longer cared about them by disbanding the communes. But I was in college at the time and I didn't start to think about the issue very hard until 1986.
Q: Can you explain a little bit more how the Cultural Revolution came to your village?
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Liu Bai: The Trial of Zhao Dong-min and China's Political Reform
[This article was published by Revolutionary Frontlines and details the struggles of contemporary Maoist activists in China. – RI Ed.]
[Update: On October 20 Zhao was sentenced to three years in jail for "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order"]
The legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party has been challenged from both the Right and the Left. These challenges have become more open and vocal. The Right has been pushing for political reform that will change China's Constitution to allow a multi-party Western style democracy. This is the movement behind the 08 Charter. Liu Xiao Bo, who was recently given the Nobel Peace Prize, is one of the leaders of this movement.
The Left has rallied to support Mao Zedong Thought. The growing number of memorials held in September in many parts of the country on the 34th anniversary of Mao's death demonstrated their strength. In these memorials the masses and their leaders demanded that Yuan Teng-fei be stripped of his Party membership. Yuan has been openly denouncing the Chinese Communist Party, socialism, and viciously attaching Chairman Mao. The Communist Party is trying to find a way out through some kind of political reform. The arrest and recent trial of Zhao Dong-min has led to support from the Left and has further intensified the crisis faced by the Communist Party.
Mourners follow the coffin of Deng Yongxia, wife of detained labor activist Zhao Dongmin. Deng Yongxia died of the auto-immune disorder lupus on Aug. 31, never having been allowed to visit Zhao in the detention center.
Zhao Dong-min is a Communist Party member and has a law degree from a corresponding school (of the Party School) in Shaanxi. Before his arrest in August 2009 he worked for many years providing legal services to many workers to resolve issues such as unpaid pensions and loss of other benefits. He did this as a volunteer without any compensation. Zhao also served as the temporary coordinator of the Mao Zedong Thought Study Group in Xian, Shaanxi until his arrest.
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Flood control and social transformation in revolutionary China – "Teaching water to climb mountains"
6 September 2010. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts from an article that appeared in issue 13 (1989) of A World to Win magazine. It was originally published in the Revolutionary Worker (now called Revolution), voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 10 June 1985.
Great Struggle Against Crooked Valleys and Rivers, 1974
For hundreds of years, floods and droughts had been the "twin scourges" of China. A major flood or drought hit large parts of the land at a pace of almost once a year, destroying crops or making it impossible to plant and thus leading to terrible famines that took the lives of hundreds of thousands at a time.
With the defeat of the U.S.-backed Koumintang (KMT) reactionaries in October 1949, the revolutionary regime led by Mao and the Communist Party of China faced an immensely difficult situation. U.S. imperialism and its reactionary allies surrounded and blockaded New China in an attempt to smother it to death. The land and the people had been ravaged by the decades of Japanese imperialist invasion and occupation and the rampages of the KMT army, which compounded the devastation from flood, drought and famine.
As a 1974 Peking Review article titled "Harnessing China's Rivers" recalled, "What did the Koumintang reactionaries leave behind 25 years ago when New China was born? With all the waterways, dykes and embankments long out of repair, the peasants were completely at the mercy of nature. Flood and drought were common occurrences, wreaking havoc alternately or concurrently and taking a heavy toll on millions of people, with tens of millions more rendered homeless. Such being the plight of old China, certain imperialist prophets gleefully awaited the collapse of New China in the grip of these twin disasters which all past governments had failed to cope with."
For the infant revolutionary
regime, the task of taming the great rivers – the Yangtze, the Yellow, the Huai (flowing in the central coastal plains between the Yangtze and the Yellow), and others – was a crucial aspect of transforming China from a dependent neocolony into an independent socialist country. Without protection from floods and new irrigation systems to fight droughts and open up new farmland, the peasantry – making up the overwhelming majority of the population – would continue to suffer. The worker-peasant alliance would be adversely affected and the ability of China to withstand the attacks of the imperialists and contribute to world revolution would be weakened.
In 1951 and '52, Mao declared that the Huai River and the Yellow River "must be harnessed". These calls were made amidst, and were very much a part of, the fierce two-line struggles within the Communist Party itself over China's direction after liberation. Continue reading "Flood control and social transformation in revolutionary China – "Teaching water to climb mountains""


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Пембина () е река в Канада, централната част на провинция Албърта, десен приток на река Атабаска, от системата на река Маккензи. Дължината ѝ от 547 km ѝ отрежда 60-о място сред реките на Канада.

Реката извира в подножието на връх Редкап (2393 м) в източната част на Скалистите планини на
, на около 1950 м н.в. Течението ѝ е главно в североизточна посока с множество меандри (особено в долното течение) и се влива отдясно в река Атабаска, от системата на река Маккензи на 50 км южно от град Смит, на 572 м н.в.

Площта на водосборния басейн на реката е 12 900 km2, който представлява 13,5% от площта на водосборния басейн на река Атабаска.

Основните притоци на река Пембина са: леви – Пади, Лобстик; десни – Лъвет.

Многогодишният среден дебит в устието на реката е 36 m3/s. Максималният отток на реката е през май и юни и достига до 82 m3/s, а минималният е през януари-февруари – 4 m3/s. От края на ноември до началото на април реката замръзва.

По течението на реката има само няколко малки селища: Евансбърг (880 жители, най-голямото селище по реката), Сангудо (364 ж.), Манола, Джарви (114 ж.), Фосет (79 ж.).

В басейна на реката, около град Дрейтън Вали се експлоатират големи залежи на нефт и газ.

Вижте също
 Реки в Канада
 Списък на реките на Канада

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Q: ActionListener & MouseListener confliction I am trying to make my application minimize on taskbar and restore when I double click on the  trayIcon. I also have a popup menu that has an item which restores the window when clicked.
    trayIcon = new TrayIcon(image, "Anything", popup);
    trayIcon.addActionListener(actionListener);
    trayIcon.addMouseListener(mouseListener);
    sysTray.add(trayIcon);

And here is the code of the actionListener and mouseListener:
private ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener()
{
   @Override
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
   {
      if (e.getActionCommand().equals("Restore"))
      { // RIGHT CLICK -> RESTORE
        // Do something
      }
   }
};

private MouseListener mouseListener = new MouseListener()
{
   @Override
   public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
   {
       if (javax.swing.SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(e) && e.getClickCount()>1)
       {  // DOUBLE LEFT MOUSE CLICK
          // Do something
       }
    }
    // Rest of the code
 }

The Restore option of the popup menu works fine, however when I am double-clicking on the trayIcon at the System Tray I get a Null Pointer Exception at line if(e.getActionCommand().equals("Restore"))
How can I eliminate this and if possible merge both listeners into one?

A: N.B. This answer is made from a conversation with the OP in the comments, and some of the solutions came from the OP
The TrayIcon does not populate the ActionCommand field when firing the event, hence the code dies with an NPE.
Since the tray icon only calls its ActionListener only when double clicked or in an analagous action (via keyboard), you can create a RestoreListener that does not check that condition at all, and is only used with the tray icon and the "Restore" menu item.
private ActionListener restoreListener = new ActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        // Do the actual restoration
    }
};

And actually adding it to the items...
trayIcon = new TrayIcon(image, "Anything", popup);
trayIcon.addActionListener(restoreListener);

MenuItem restoreMenuItem = new MenuItem(...);
restoreMenuItem.addActionListener(restoreListener);

This seems to behave slightly differently from a MouseListener that it does not put the window on top, this can be remedied by calling toTop() on it.

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