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It began as a walk in Upton Woods, simple exercise for Nell the dog he'd been bought after back problems forced him to give up building work. As he had done many times before he picked up a stick, but instead of leaving it that day he brought it home and decided to carve it.
Nearly a decade later what was little more than a whim has turned into a life-enhancing new avenue of creative pursuit for Brian Waters whose Dorset Sticks brand provides an outlet for his shepherd's crooks and cleeks, walking sticks, shooting sticks, thumb sticks and shillelaghs.
'To this day I can't tell you why I had to work that holly stick,' says Brian in the well-organised chaos of his recently tidied garden workshop. 'It felt right and I had this idea I wanted to carve it so I went online and found some videos. What I came across were mainly American videos and they're into this fantasy stuff, which is why I ended up carving a wood spirit character. I couldn't tell you why there's a snake coiled around the end, but there is.
'I'd worked with wood for years as a builder and carpenter, although it doesn't necessarily follow that I'd be a good stickmaker, but carving the stick struck a chord with me. I've always felt very protected in woods, even in a full storm. I've an affinity with woodland, a belief I'm safe there.'
Further exploration of stickmaking revealed a small but dedicated band of British artisan craft workers, concentrated mainly where horned sheep breeds are found and Brian was drawn to the particular skills of the horn dresser, but first set about mastering the working, shaping and finishing of wooden sticks.
'I'm still learning new things every day even about the basics, but I'm very glad I held off going into horn dressing sooner – I wasted enough good horn as it is.'
He works mainly with sheep horn, but also cow, goat and even black buffalo. The thermoplastic qualities of horn – as opposed to antler, which is bone – mean it can be worked when heated and hardens on cooling. When compressed, or bulked, to remove the cavity and bent into line horn is incredibly tough, perfect for a traditional shepherd's crook for instance.
'Horn is made of keratin like hair and fingernails,' explains Brian. 'It is organic and, interestingly, once it has been boiled and worked into line, if it were to be boiled again it retains a 'memory' of what it once was and will try to return to that shape.'
Bulking horn is a lengthy and precise process learned only by experience. There is zero margin for error. There's no certainty as to what temperature is perfect for working horn and the application of force – Brian uses hydraulics and an array of hand-made jigs – is done in a very controlled way so as not to crack or snap the bone.
'It must be right, that's all there is to it,' he says. 'You have to learn when it feels right and get used to how much pressure you can apply to bend and squash the horn. If it goes wrong you've wasted the horn. I get mine from an abattoir and while there's no shortage of rubbish horns, the good ones get expensive.
'I joined Hants and Dorset Stickmakers where I met my friend Charlie Walker who showed me the basics of horn dressing and just went on from there. You don't get many youngsters in stickmaking as it's mainly retired folk that have the time to give it, but there are a few that learn the ropes and hopefully will come back to it in later life.'
All of Brian's sticks have a practical application – they can all do a job – in line with traditional standards set by the British Stickmakers Guild, of which Brian is an Executive Committee member. He reckons interest in the craft is on the rise.
'Regional shows can feature a few hundred sticks from a few dozen makers but if sales of sticks and stickmaking equipment are anything to go more people are getting into it. Mind you, showing can be a brutal business. The first thing judges do when they pick up a stick is look for straightness, then they swing it to check it is balanced and anything they don't like is set aside before they even look at the workmanship or the carving.
'A perfect stick is a rare thing but I've see a few, I can pick up sticks at a show and know who made them. My trouble is that I can have anything up to ten sticks on the go at any one time, whereas the champion stickmakers only do one at a time. Maybe if I was younger and more energetic I'd pursue it harder, but I pick up the odd second or third place and I'm happy with that. The most important thing is that I absolutely love what I do.'
Most of the wood Brian uses is hazel, although he also works with holly, blackthorn and, on occasion, hawthorn. Stickmakers like overstood wood – unmanaged coppice – because it grows straight and provides sticks of an ideal weight, about an inch-and-a-quarter in diameter at the top with a slight taper.
'They're also known as sun-shoots and we have a few landowners that will invite us on to their land to cut sticks. We get invited back as we always tidy up, push loose ends back in the soil, that kind of thing – it should appear as if we'd never been there. I'm as happy out in the woods cutting new sticks as I am in the workshop making them.
'I don't really like selling my sticks, but I do it to keep going as costs can mount up – not that I charge properly for my time you understand as I have to work to a standard. I tried working to a price for a while and really didn't like what I made. What stick you need depends on what you want it for but it should feel comfortable – you'll know when you've got the right one. It's very personal.'
• First published in Dorset Life – The Dorset Magazine.


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Friends For Life!
About this same time I met a fellow in the neighbor and for some reason, I don't recall why, but we did not hit it off so good. While at another boy's house he showed up and it was on. I figured I'd be safer if I was in my own yard. That is after I pushed him down and ran, which really didn't make it any better, he got up and was coming after me. That is until he met the clothesline. I ducked and it caught him in the throat and it just knocked the wind right out of him. Anyway, I made it to my yard and was safe for now. Howevery, that's not the end of that story. It was not long before he showed up at my yard, and the fight was on. I'd been thinkin' about what to do, because I knew he was pissed. Come to think of it he was pissed when I met him. The war continued and me and him fought like cats and dogs all around my yard. We fought till we could not fight any more. Finally, after all that he called me friend, and I called him friend, and we were truly best of friends up until he was killed at age 54. I knew him as Bobby Sapp for most of that time. Later he found out when he went into the service his real name was William Robert Heveder.
Anyway, once we became friends, we'd hang out at my fort and it was thier that he saw all of my critters and he got the idea he would raise rabbits and get rich also. And raise rabbits he did. I never saw so many rabbits in one place in my life. You got to know that his backyard was real small compared to what I had for yard. We actually had two lots and so I had one lot for all of my stuff. But…Bobby didn't think about that. Those rabbits dug holes all over his yard and into all the neighbors yards. They even dug holes all the way to the street. Them was some diggin' rabbits. Day after day all these baby rabbits would come out of those holes and there was hundreds of them. Needless to say, Rubye, his mom, was not as easy as my mom, because once she started clearing out rabbits she didn't stop till they were all gone. She had heard enough from all the neighbors and trying to hang up clothes on the line was next to impossible without stepping of rabbits. Well, Bobby didn't become rich selling rabbits. I'm not really sure what Rubye did with all them rabbits. Time marches on….
Roy Underwood
Roy Underwood was born in 1947 Jacksonville, Florida. He is a devoted patriot who served during Vietnam and later ran for both Congress and State Representative. Roy is currently Founder and CEO of Misty Mountain Inc. A family run business since 1993 that specializes in the sale of fish and pond products, as well as home and office water and air purification systems.
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Loonride posted a topic in Game ShowcaseLoon Ride is now available on Google Play, and in your browser! Check out our website at https://loonride.com to learn more! Our very first tutorial on Phaser is available here for beginners. Loon Ride is an arcade game that requires navigating a balloon to avoid and collide with obstacles in the air. The objective is to travel as far as possible. Obstacles include cacti, which pop your balloon, and clouds, which protect you from cacti. Play a variety of unique levels, or get a new high score on endless mode. Latest update information: New levels, new buttons, and bug fixes! Technical details: Phaser, Cordova, and Crosswalk were used to create the app


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Microsoft Office 365 has largely defined how teams collaborate in the cloud. Today, it's the most widely used cloud application suite by organizations, with over 100 million monthly active users worldwide.
For many organizations, Office 365 marks an entry point into cloud computing—and with it, cloud security. As organizations migrate sensitive and business-critical data to the Microsoft cloud, many security concerns arise: Is our data secure? Who has access to it, both internally and externally? What if unauthorized users compromise account credentials? How can we detect ransomware and other malware in Office 365? What do we need to do to maintain compliance?
According to the 2017 Cloud Security Spotlight Report conducted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn, the top three cloud security concerns are protecting against data loss (57%), threats to data privacy (49%), and breaches of confidentiality (47%).
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Blake Crouch will speak about and sign his new book, Recursion, on Tuesday, June 11th at 7:30pm.
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Memory makes reality. That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon dubbed False Memory Syndrome — a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease — a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. Recursion is an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory.
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trying not to float away
getting better
adjusting to this floating bubble of a feeling
stomach wanting for more
my pockets are empty
but, my heart is full of love
and this simple fact is more power(full)
than any pain
i close my eyes
and try to pull myself to the ground
…to the earth
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i love it.
and i think i will steal one of your lines to use it on myspace and credit you for that.
i love you babecakes.
maybe, after i am done with my green card, and if i do have the nerve to move to san francisco… i think we are going to be best pals.
and THAT would make me happy.
I'm so happy you're moving to SF! See you tomorrow night. . .
Hang on a sec. Did I miss something? Are you guys moving to Gay Central? You've been sketchy on details of late.
It is good that you've got a string connected to your head there. Is the string the power of love?
Empty pockets with a heart full of love? Sounds good to me!
Good stuff. One day you will have to publish a Matty anthology. And I will be queuing for my autographed copy!
Honey you need to fill me in. The thing on the bottom right, above Earth:
A helicopter?
Knitting needles?
Enquiring minds want to know!
Man, how I love your self portraits. I still have Christmas cards from you — or their envelopes in a few cases — because they had those faces on them. ❤
Love you Matty. Wish I could help, but hope that it is enough that I (kind of) understand.
Oh cool picture! I like stick-figures, you have done well. Great pome too!
oh matty… another great writing. excellent visual journal entry. i agree with walter (who is a delight)… we could (all) totally be great pals… just on virtue of diverse tastes in music ALONE.
enjoying your blog as always and glad to hear you are moving to SF. totally understand based on your last email.
And yet you manage to be my rock. . .
I think I've been feeling like your poem quite a bit lately.
Matty getting better… I like that, lots!
greetings from the Orient, Matty!! Hope u are doing okay, just wanted to say hello!
I hope you feel better soon, love.


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If you have a fair credit score this may increase your difficulty in accessing credit. But there are actions you can take today to start improving your score. The good news is your score changes over time and information recorded on the report only lasts for a limited period before it drops off and stops affecting your score.
Understanding the credit score ranges
Your credit score isn't a static number. It changes over time depending on the information that is contained in your credit report.
There are five credit score bands that your score can fall into.
- Excellent: 800-1,000
- Very good: 700-799
- Good: 625-699
- Fair: 550-624
- Below Average: 0-549
A real-life example of someone with a fair score
You're not alone in starting out with a fair score. In fact, it can often happen to people who least expect it.
Take Matt for example. He lives in Sydney and has a higher than average salary working in sales. He applied for a new credit card and was knocked back, much to his surprise, as he was confident he had the income and assets to service the credit card. So he knew something else had to be the cause.
After checking his credit report, he found a personal loan default on there from when he missed a payment while he was trekking Europe some years ago.
Generally, Matt had good financial sense, but it was simply a case of 'out of sight out of mind', while he was enjoying his holiday, that saw the default recorded on his credit report.
In the end, he was still able to get a credit card after doing some research and getting some advice on which card would be best suited to him given his current circumstances.
Different financial institutions have different criteria they use when assessing you for a credit card.
Knowing your credit score can help you to have the best chance of being approved.
What may have caused you to have a fair score
In the case study above, it was missed payments that caused the fair score. But there are other circumstances which could see you fall into this credit score band.
- A mistake has been made on your credit file which you will need to have fixed. Errors could range from a simple mistake such as a duplicate entry or incorrect details, or it could mean something more serious like your identity being stolen
- Defaulting on a credit account
- Submitting multiple credit applications in a short period of time
- Having excessive open credit accounts
- Having too much unsecured credit
- Not paying a bill and having it go to a debt collection agency
- Having a combined credit limit that is viewed as being too high
- Being declared bankrupt.
How you can improve a fair score
The best way to improve your credit score is to look overall at your current financial situation and see how you can improve it. In the past, only negative events such as defaults and bankruptcies were recorded on your credit score.
Now positive credit reporting is rolling out, which means information such as your good repayment history will be seen on your credit report. This is helpful for those with fair scores as lenders will be able to see you had a default several years ago but have been good with making payments since. They will know it was just a once off, or you have changed your ways.
Here are some practical ways you can move your score up to get you in a good position to give you the best chance of being approved for future credit.
- Limit your applications for credit until you are in a better credit position
- Make repayments on time. If you're worried that you can't make a payment, let your lender know. You may be able to modify your payment terms and you won't have to worry about defaulting
- Pay your rent and bills on time (setting up a direct debit can help.)
- Pay your mortgage and other loans on time
- Pay your credit card off in full each month
- Lower your credit card limits
- Only borrow money when you need it. Too many applications for credit can reduce your score, so make sure you do your homework by researching credit cards at Credit Card Compare to make sure you meet the eligibility criteria.
Track your credit score regularly to see the progress you are making.
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Task 2. (10 points)
What types of armour were used by the Ancient Egyptians? What was the armour made from? Who wore armour? What factors limited the development of more protective armour?
Task 3. (10 points)
Discuss how weapons were made. What materials were used? Where did these materials come from? Who made the weapons?
Task 11. (10 points per item)
Create replicas of Ancient Egyptian arms and armour.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." – Harry S. Truman


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WSEU is actively recruiting new coaches for our programs. There is a particular need for both female and male non-parent coaches with varying levels of qualifications and experience. While highly experienced and certified coaches are welcome, we are also willing and able to develop new coaches through mentorship and coach education.
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Contact the WSEU office with questions.
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A Manhattan judge who normally decides such weighty civil matters as multimillion-dollar real-estate deals and the private use of public parks says the most trying case of his career was deciding who gets custody of a mutt named Stevie.
"This was . . . in my 14 years, maybe the very hardest if not the hardest case to decide," Justice Arthur Engoron said in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday.
Except he didn't decide. Instead, the judge shocked the two ex-boyfriends fighting over the pooch and ruled: "I hereby declare Stevie is co-owned."
One of Stevie's "dads," Michael Whitton, sighed in frustration and hung his head.
The other man, Bergdorf Goodman designer Doug Gellenbeck, shook his head in disbelief.
Gellenbeck's lawyer, David Wolf, told the judge he worried that co-parenting wouldn't work because the men don't get along.
Whitton's lawyer, Daniel LoPresti, was similarly stunned. "We did expect either a 'Stevie belongs to plaintiff' or a 'Stevie belongs to defendant' decision," he said afterward.
But the judge left it up to the warring ex-lovers to figure out what's best for Stevie.
"I hope, despite some pessimism right now, that things can be worked out," the judge said.
And he warned that if the parties couldn't agree to a schedule of "alternating days, weeks, months or years," he had the legal authority to put Stevie up for auction, as pets are considered property under the law.
He also told both men, "You can't steal him, you can't take him away forever, you can't hide him. If you do, I assume the other side will come back and seek relief or you can go to the police."
"I said in my opening remarks that I often wish there was a jury and this was one of those times. It would be easier and less pressure on me," Engoron lamented.
Gellenbeck sued Whitton in 2014, claiming the dog belonged to him because he was a 40th-birthday gift.
Whitton claimed that it was just a "coincidence" that he adopted Stevie the day before Gellenbeck's birthday.


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Mao Now
China's transformation in the 30 years since the death of Mao Zedong has been breathtaking. But it will not be complete until the nation comes to terms with Mao's complex legacy.
China's transformation in the 30 years since the death of Mao Zedong has been breathtaking. But it will not be complete until the nation comes to terms with Mao's complex legacy.
In the early 1990s, a story circulated among Chinese taxi drivers about an eight-car traffic accident in Guangzhou that resulted in injuries to seven of the drivers involved; the eighth, unscathed, had a Mao portrait attached to his windshield as a talisman. The story fueled Mao fever (Mao re) in China, with shopkeepers offering busts of Mao that glowed in the dark and alarm clocks with Red Guards waving Mao's little red book at each tick of the clock. Mao temples appeared in some villages, with a serene portrait of the Chairman on the altar. Transmuted uses of Mao continue today. Nightclub singers in Beijing croon songs that cite Mao's words. Youths dine in "Cultural Revolution-style" cafés off rough-hewn tables with Mao quotations on the wall, eating basic peasant fare as they answer their cell phones and chat about love or the stock market.
This nonpolitical treatment of Mao Zedong (1893–1976) is an escape that fits a Chinese tradition. When floods hit the Yangzi valley and farmers clutch Mao memorabilia to ward off the rushing waters, it is reminiscent of Chinese Buddhists over the centuries clutching images or statues of Guan Yin, the goddess of mercy, to keep them safe and make them prosperous. Following the eclectic nature of Chinese popular beliefs, Mao is added to the panoply of faith.
But where is Mao the totalitarian? Each of the major nations that experienced an authoritarian regime in the 20th century emerged in its own way from the trauma. Japan, Germany, Italy, even Russia departed politically from systems that brought massive war and repression. China, still ruled by a communist party, has been ambiguous about Mao. Although Mao's portrait and tomb dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, Mao himself—unlike Stalin in Russia or Hitler in Germany—has floated benignly into a nether zone as if somehow he was not a political figure at all, let alone the architect of China's communist state.
The cab drivers, farmers, pop singers, and shopkeepers are really only following the lead of the Chinese Communist Party, which does not quite know how to handle Mao's legacy. New history textbooks approved for initial use in Shanghai have largely brushed Mao out of China's 20th-century story. China has abandoned Mao's policies but not faced the structural and philosophical issues involved in Maoism—and probably won't until the Party's monopoly on political power comes to an end. Yet unless China gets the Mao story correct, it may not have a happy political future.
The moral compass of the Mao era has gone, unregretted. But moneymaking, national glory, and a veil over the past in the name of "good feelings" are not enough to replace it. Can a society that lived by the ideas of Confucianism for two millennia, and later by Mao's political athleticism, be content with amnesia about the Mao era and the absence of a believed public philosophy?
In a recent biography, Mao: The Unknown Story (2006), Jung Chang and Jon Halliday pile up evidence that Mao was a monster to eclipse Stalin and probably Hitler and Lenin as well. "Absolute selfishness and irresponsibility lay at the heart of Mao's outlook" from his teens to his dotage, say the authors. In a second influential volume, The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1995), Mao's physician Li Zhisui portrays the Chairman as exceedingly selfish, jealous, and promiscuous. Soon after his book came out, Dr. Li came to speak at Harvard, and I showed him around the campus. "Three words did not exist for Mao," the gentle doctor remarked as we strolled. "Regret, love, mercy." These two books—both written from outside China—explain the Mao era in China as essentially the consequence of having an evil man at the helm.
Certainly Mao's rule was destructive. Tens of millions of Chinese died in the forced collectivization of the Great Leap Forward of 1958–59, victims of Mao's willful utopianism and cruelty. Millions more died, and tens of millions had their lives ruined, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Practicing brinkmanship toward India, Taiwan, and the Soviet Union, Mao declared that a loss of hundreds of millions of Chinese in a nuclear war would be a setback China could readily digest.
Yet "bad man" does not adequately sum up Mao and his legacy. To believe so would be to embrace the moral absolutism of communism itself, with its quick verdicts ("enemy of the people," "hero of the proletariat"), and to repeat the manipulations of official Chinese imperial history, in which even a flood or earthquake "proved" the evil character of the emperor. Were the "good men" around bad man Mao blind to his failings for so many decades? Were the hundreds of millions of Chinese who bowed before Mao's portrait and wept at the sight of him out of their minds?
Mao made history; at the same time, history made Mao. In addition to looking at Mao's failings as a human being, we must look at the structures and pressures that turned whim into tyranny. At the ideas Mao wielded. At the evaporation—in Mao's case, as in that of several other dictators—of youthful idealism and exactitude. Above all, at the seduction of a "freedom" bestowed from above by a party-state that believed it knew what was best for the citizenry.
In a Jesus was dismembered for speaking out. . . . He who speaks out does not necessarily transgress, and even if he does transgress, this is but a small matter to a wise man." Immediately we face a puzzle: Young Mao was an ardent individualist. In his years at the teachers' training college he attended in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, Mao's credo became the self-realization of the individual. "Wherever there is repression of the individual," he wrote in the margin of a translation of Friedrich Paulsen's System of Ethics (1889), "wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime." His first published newspaper work, written in 1919, was a plea for the liberation of women, a passionate nine-part commentary on the suicide of a young woman in Changsha moments before her arranged marriage.
Mao at 24 saw the Russian Revolution of 1917 as an outbreak of freedom for the individual that lit the way for China. A young female friend objected, "It's all very well to say establish communism, but lots of heads are going to fall." Mao, who had recently read Marx and Engel's Communist Manifesto, retorted, "Heads will fall, heads will be chopped off, of course. But just think how good communism is! The state won't bother us anymore, you women will be free, marriage problems won't plague you anymore." Although these words hint at Mao's later callousness about human life, it is striking that he viewed Lenin's revolution in terms of the "marriage problems" of individual women.
The anarchism of Peter Kropotkin, the author of Mutual Aid (1902), had a strong hold on Mao until he was nearly 30. A great virtue of the Russian anarchist, Mao felt, was that "he begins by understanding the common people." Anarchism in Mao's perception was linked with Prometheanism; Friedrich Nietzsche was also among his early enthusiasms. The Promethean individual would prepare for his heroic role by taking cold baths, running up mountains, and studying books in the noisiest possible places. This prefigures the fascism to come in Mao's Cultural Revolution, just as fascism in Europe owed a debt to Nietzsche. At the time, however, Mao's individualism was nurtured by the influence of a Chinese professor at Changsha who had imbibed the idealist liberalism of T. H. Green, the late-19th-century British philosopher.
Mao was a rebel before becoming a communist. The psychological root of his rebelliousness was hostility to his father, and, by extension, to other authority figures. The political root was dismay at China's weakness and disarray in the face of foreign encroachment, shared by most informed Chinese of the period. Mao's chief use for the steeled individual was as a fighter for justice and China's salvation. "The principal aim of physical education," he wrote in 1917 in New Youth magazine, "is military heroism." The authoritarian strain in Mao's individualism was already present.
Eventually, Mao's respect for individual freedom collapsed. There were four causes. One was the powerful current of nationalism in early-20th-century China; the cry to rescue the nation eclipsed the cry for the self-realization of the individual. A second was the large role of war in China from the 1920s to the '40s. Pervasive violence made political debate a luxury and favored repression. A third was Mao's embrace of Marxist ideas of class, central economic planning, and communist party organization. Fourth was the hangover in Mao's mind and Chinese society generally of a paternalistic imperial mentality.
In the end, Mao Zedong, facilitated by Stalin, put the population of the world's largest nation under a regimen that combined Leninism, the paternalism of early Chinese sage-rulers, and, by the 1960s, a hysteria and military romanticism that amounted to fascism Chinese-style.
The imperative of national salvation was the first factor working against Mao's attraction to freedom. Mao was mildly attracted to a movement comparable in spirit to Europe's Enlightenment that sprang into existence in China in 1919. Named May Fourth (after the date of an initial student demonstration), it aimed at modernizing China by embracing quasi-Western ideas of individualism, democracy, and science. Liberated individuals would rescue China. But May Fourth soon split in two, a left wing jumping to Marxist collectivism and a right wing sticking with individualism. Leftists, including the 27-year-old Mao, founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921.
Bolshevism helped Mao be progressive and anti-Western at the same time. Opposition to the West was necessary to many young Chinese leftists, despite the appeal of Western ideas, because of British and other foreign bullying of China since the Opium War of 1839–42. From Lenin, Mao learned that social justice and national salvation could come as one package. Leninism—and to a lesser degree Marxism—joined anarchism, nationalism, and individualism in the ragbag of Mao's political ideas. It was Lenin who showed Mao his road to power. Anti-imperialism was going to be for Mao, as it was for Lenin, the framework for revolution. But this anti-imperialist—soon anti-Japanese—nationalism that Mao injected into the Chinese Revolution negated individual freedom.
In the 1930s, Mao argued to the semicriminal secret society Gelaohui (Elder Brother Club) that its principles and the CCP's were "quite close—especially as regards our enemies and the road to salvation." Of course, the threat of enemies was the central point. In his appeal to non-Han "minority" peoples during the Long March of 1935–36, when Mao emerged as the CCP's top leader as the Communists retreated before Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces, Mao challenged Mongolians to "preserve the glory of the era of Genghis Khan" by cooperating with the Communists. Pressing the Muslims to support him, he told them that this would ensure the "national revival of the Turks." Of course, Chinese nationalism had turned Mao into a trickster. After the wars with Japan and Chiang Kai-shek were over, there would be no common cause with the Gelaohui, no freedom for the Mongolians or the Muslims of Xinjiang.
The violence that continually rippled through China was another force militating against individual freedom. After the death in 1925 of Sun Yat-sen, a leader in the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and a founder of the Nationalist movement, the gun was prominent in Chinese public life. Sun's wavering leadership gave way to warlordism, a violent rupture of the tenuous coalition of Nationalists and Communists in 1927, and growing incursions by Japan beginning in 1931. Guns were to freedom as a cat is to mice. From the time Mao used force to confiscate the holdings of Hunan landowners in 1925, when he was just one of many CCP leaders, his political life cannot be understood aside from violence, both the wars he waged and those waged against him. As he sought to organize farmers in a remote mountain region, he remarked, "The struggle in the border area is exclusively military. The Party and the masses have to be placed on a war footing." Mao spoke of "criticizing the Nationalists by means of a machine gun."
A third enemy of freedom was the class, organizational, and economic theory Mao drew from Marx and Lenin. Here Mao's story is similar to that of Stalin, Castro, and others. Class theory has intrinsic distortions; people often do not act as members of an economic class. Class labeling became especially inimical to freedom when Mao was forced to rely on farmers rather than workers as the key class in China's revolution. Anyone who pointed out this departure from Marx's theory of proletarian revolution was stamped out as a renegade.
Eventually, class became little more than a convenient way to demarcate friends and enemies of the moment. Hence, longtime colleague and expected successor Liu Shaoqi was "discovered" by Mao in the 1960s to be a "bourgeois" who had "sneaked into the Party." Never mind that Mao and Liu had worked together as leftist organizers on and off since 1922.
Within a year of the founding of the CCP in 1921, Mao also fatefully embraced Leninist authoritarianism, and with it Lenin's argument that an elite revolutionary vanguard must guide the rank and file. He accepted the secrecy, duplicity, and absolute party loyalty of communist discipline. Individual autonomy, honoring the truth, friendship, the long bond with Liu Shaoqi—they all meant little by comparison. With Leninism also came a cult of personality stemming from the vanguard theory; a logical further step was to posit a supreme leader who, in turn, would play a vanguard role for the party elite. Mao's cult began in the dusty hills of remote Yanan, north of Xian, where he led a settled life following the Long March, and seriously studied Lenin's writings for the first time. The later defense minister Lin Biao spoke of Mao in 1938 as a "genius"; in 1941, former classmate Emi Xiao called him "our savior." Mao could have no further doubt that he was a "hero" in the May Fourth leftist mold, able (as he later put it ) to "teach the sun and moon to change places."
By the 1960s, Chinese arriving at urban work units would bow three times before a blown up image of Mao's face, asking for guidance with the day's labors. Before going home, they would bow again before the portrait, reporting to the Chairman what they had accomplished since morning. The wisdom of Mao's thoughts made the blind see and the deaf hear, said the official media. On airplanes, the flight began with a hostess holding aloft a copy of Quotations From Chairman Mao, then reading a selected maxim to the passengers. (I recall, on a flight from Beijing to Xian, a shrill voice delivering the startling quote, "Fear not hardship, fear not death," just before the engines started up.) Leninism had again, in Mao's case as in Hitler's and Mussolini's, shown a certain hospitality to fascism.
Mao's commitment to the communist command economy was likewise antithetical to freedom. One thinker who saw the flaws of central planning clearly long ago was Friedrich von Hayek, who spoke in the 1940s of the "synoptic illusion." There simply is no one point, Hayek argued, where all the information bearing on an economy can be concentrated, observed, and effectively acted upon. Rather, it is dispersed, changes constantly, and only comes into play in the bids and offers of market participants. Freedom shriveled as Mao extended the command economy in the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. The demands made on the grassroots were irrational for the reasons Hayek named. The grassroots, in turn, falsified reports going up to Beijing, as local officials were afraid to tell Mao the truth about the bleak results of his social engineering. The next step was to punish the class enemies who, Mao concluded, must have sabotaged the beautiful socialist vision of the Great Leap Forward.
As an old man, Mao seemed to enjoy calling himself "emperor." He found influences from China's imperial history both appealing and useful for bolstering paternalistic rule. This was a fourth reason for Mao's weakening attachment to individual liberty.
Mao's eventual role as a supreme leader above even the Party gave expression to his father's impact. Mao in old age became everything his father had been—and found young Mao incapable of being. Mao Shunsheng did not like to see his son reading a book; Chairman Mao came to scoff at book learning. Mao's father made his son work in the fields against the boy's will; Chairman Mao sent tens of millions to the countryside to do just that. Mao's father had been in the army; Mao made military virtues the yardstick for the nation's values. People became props in Mao's collective pageant.
In the last two decades of his life, Mao became a changed leader, half modern Führer and half ancient Chinese sage-king. As the autocratic impulses of his father and other antifreedom forces shored each other up, the façade of his socialism decayed and his relationship to the CCP changed. Mao fought two phantoms he could never vanquish: the failure of socialism to take on the splendor he expected of it and the refusal of the CCP to be simply a Mao Party. These disappointments made him more arbitrary. "Revisionism" came to be the term Mao applied to the alleged betrayal that produced his disappointments. But Mao never clearly defined revisionism; hence, he never found a way to eliminate it. He knocked down many revisionists, but never revisionism.
One could say in Mao's defense that after 1949 he had priorities higher than freedom. These included organizing a vast country, stabilizing the currency, producing steel and machine tools, and balancing Soviet and American power. And as a practical matter, the dictatorial Soviet Union was willing to give him aid, whereas America was not.
Yet Mao's impulse toward freedom was crippled at its heart. What is freedom for the individual? One viable form is freedom to act as you please as long as you do not inhibit a like freedom for others. A second notion is that an individual is free to the degree she is able to realize herself. The mature Mao believed in neither of these two concepts of freedom, though he was closer to the second than to the first. He knew the kind of citizens he wanted in China. It was not for each person to realize himself, but for all to become suitable building blocks for Mao's Chinese update of Sparta. He egregiously confused the remolding impulse of Confucius with the functions of a modern state. "Can't you change a bit?" he once asked a roomful of intellectuals with "bourgeois" tendencies. But was it Mao the Confucian teacher talking or Mao the dictator of a police state?
"Opinions should not be allowed to become conclusions," Mao declared. In the abortive Hundred Flowers drive of 1956, he realized that some cut and thrust was necessary as a safety valve against the rigidity of his rule. But only Mao knew the difference between a flower and a weed. The blossoms were to swell and open according to a formula the gardener held in his pocket. Mao wanted the impossible: open debate to keep the system lively, yet with the outcome of the debate fixed in advance. "I told the rightists to criticize us in order to help the Party," Mao said pathetically to his doctor. "I never asked them to oppose the Party or try to seize power from the Party."
Mao's practical achievement was to unite China and demonstrate to Asia that China after 1949 was a force to be reckoned with. Other Chinese leaders in Beijing have built on that achievement. But Mao's social engineering efforts were largely canceled by Deng Xiaoping after Mao's death in 1976. In subsequent years, the totalitarian party-state became an authoritarian party-state. Under totalitarianism, it is said, many things are forbidden and the remaining things you must do; under authoritarianism, many things are forbidden and the remaining things you may do. Today, the retention of power and economic development, rather than the pursuit of ideological phantoms, is the drive around which the political process arranges itself. With Mao's "new" Chinese man gone, the "old" Chinese man of family values and entrepreneurial spirit seems alive and well.
The passing of totalitarianism has brought into view some tentative realms of freedom, including partial property rights and the beginnings of autonomy for lawyers, journalists, and other professionals. Above all, there now exists for most people the freedom to ignore politics. Yet the institutionalization of the new space opening up for Chinese citizens has barely begun.
As I write, Beijing has jailed three intellectuals on trumped-up charges behind which lie the sin of speaking indiscreet words. Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent of a Singapore newspaper, got five years for "spying," but really for getting a fee to speak at a seminar run by a think tank that Beijing dislikes. Zhao Yan, a researcher for The New York Times in Beijing, got three years for "fraud," but really for feeding the Times information on some mild political tensions within the Chinese government. Chen Guangchen, a blind self-taught lawyer, faces four years for "gathering a crowd to disrupt traffic," but really for annoying officials in Shandong Province by representing victims of sterilizations and forced abortions that were carried out contrary to Beijing's own regulations. The rule of law seems far off, and equally so a free press and much-needed federalism. The intended intimidation in these three cases is an all-too-clear residue of the Mao era, when citizens never knew where they stood in relation to authority.
One might have expected Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin, and the current president, Hu Jintao, to put in place structures that, following the Deng era, took account of the new relationship between politics and economic and cultural life. But this has not yet happened.
We return to the "solution" of having Mao float into folklore as a modern-day Yellow Emperor, whose photo on the windscreen will ward off traffic accidents, and who can serve as a fashion model for green silk pajamas, as I recently noticed in a Shanghai department store. Such "Maoism" is the twitching of a society whose post-Mao leaders have brought economic advancement but political stagnation. Mao's totalitarian leaps knocked illusions out of generations of Chinese, but also soured them on public-spiritedness. By the destruction entailed in his revolution, and particularly his Cultural Revolution, Mao took away China's past.
China has moved beyond Mao as a builder of socialism. But China should never move beyond the grim lesson of how Mao could begin in idealism yet become an oppressor. It is easier and safer, of course, to criticize Mao as an evil person, or simply to draw a veil over him, than to broach the problem of the political system he introduced to China.
Philosophically, a value to be retained from Mao is that a society does require shared moral values. He was correct to see a good society as more than gadgets and cars. Talking with the French writer André Malraux in 1965, Mao ridiculed Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin's statement at the 23rd congress of the Soviet Communist Party that "communism means the raising of living standards." Snorted Mao to the Frenchman, "And swimming is a way of putting on a pair of trunks!" But Mao's proposed moral compass was a high-minded fraud. The Chinese farmers were "poor and blank," he said. On the blank page of Chinese humanity, Mao the sage-king would sketch wonderful designs!
Today, young pro-market Chinese who devour Hayek's Road to Serfdom and books on American business are leaving Mao in the dust and embracing an antistate Chinese tradition (best known in the West through Daoism). They would like—but will not get—a China without politics. A new public philosophy, when it comes, as it must, will draw on China's humanistic traditions as well as the best of the experience of the People's Republic. Procedurally, a new moral compass will come from below as people express themselves politically, not, again, as a diktat from a father-figure above. "When societies first come to birth, it is the leader who produces the institutions," said Montesquieu. "Later it is the institutions which produce the leaders." Later still, in a democratic era, the voting public sustains the institutions that, in turn, frame those leaders who are given the short term authority to lead.


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The following paper co-authored by John Liagouris has been accepted for publication at the VLDB Journal:
"SRX: Efficient Management of Spatial RDF Data" by Konstantinos Theocharidis (University of Peloponnese/IMSI, RC 'Athena'), John Liagouris (ETH Zürich), Nikos Mamoulis (University of Ioannina), Panagiotis Bouros (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Manolis Terrovitis (IMSI, RC 'Athena')
We present a general encoding scheme for the efficient management of spatial RDF data. The scheme approximates the geometries of the RDF entities inside their (integer) IDs and can be used, along with several operators and optimizations we introduce, to accelerate queries with spatial predicates and to re-encode entities dynamically in case of updates. We implement our ideas in SRX, a system built on top of the popular RDF-3X system. SRX extends RDF-3X with support for three types of spatial queries: range selections (e.g. find entities within a given polygon), spatial joins (e.g. find pairs of entities whose locations are close to each other), and spatial k nearest neighbors (e.g. find the three closest entities from a given location). We evaluate SRX on spatial queries and updates with real RDF data, and we also compare its performance with the latest versions of three popular RDF stores. The results show SRX's superior performance over the competitors; compared to RDF-3X, SRX improves its performance for queries with spatial predicates while incurring little overhead during updates.


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Sheroes: The football friendship that moved the world
19 Nov 2019
- Our #Sheroes series is highlighting amazing women in football
- The latest video features an inspirational player and fan
- Carson Pickett and Joseph Tidd formed "an instant bond"
It was an image, and a story, that touched hearts across the world.
The famous photograph of Carson Pickett and Joseph Tidd's post-match meeting – with both player and fan a picture of pure happiness – became a viral sensation.
"The look on my face, it was authentic," Pickett, a left-back for Orlando Pride and the latest subject of FIFA's Sheroes series, reflected later. "The best part of the photo is that it was so real and wasn't planned. We had an instant bond. For a kid that young, I didn't expect him to connect the way he did. It was amazing to me that it felt like he realised why we were bonded."
What connected them - beyond their passion for football, of course - was that both had been born without a left forearm. "When I was growing up, I was never allowed to say the word "can't" or "no" and back down to a challenge... it was like a cuss word in my house," she said. "I think that drove me to never give up and never quit."
That attitude has since taken Pickett to the heights of the professional game, where she has become a valuable player for US and Australian top-flight sides Seattle Reign, Orlando Pride and Brisbane Roar. As Joseph's father, Miles, said: "Carson believes she can do anything, and that is the mindset we want Joseph to have as well."
The inspirational impact on young Joseph is highlighted in FIFA's latest Sheroes video, and provides a powerful reminder of one of the most life-affirming football stories of recent years.
"This is something that is much bigger than soccer," said Pickett, who was a guest – along with Joseph and his family – at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2019. "It's just a gift to feel so much emotion from a little boy who understands you in a way other people can't. It's hopefully a lifelong friendship."
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The heart-warming story of Pickett and Tidd continues FIFA's series on amazing women in football. Visit our Sheroes video section to check out the stories of six other women that have inspired football fans around the world.


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Are rob kardashian and demi lovato dating
He even said about the cover art in one post, "Love this pic of @ddlovato #SNSJuly11 get ready." The way MTO likes to read into things, we're surprised they haven't said Lovato is dating Jonas, too.
But the claim she and Montana are now dating is "absolutely not true," Gossip Cop is exclusively told.
"Bomba is a good guy, but the relationship just ran its course." PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Demi Lovato The pair recently called it quits – just two weeks ago, Bomba posted an Instagram photo with Demi captioned, "I miss you soo much!
" The relationship lasted just a few months – they first went public over New Year's after being linked briefly last summer.
Odell is aware that he may be a rebound, but he is ok with just chilling and getting to know her... He also thinks she is so sexy and loves her confidence and body." Please, someone find love with Odell Beckham Jr.
Kylie Jenner made a now-rare appearance with her sister Kendall for a double-date night with Travis Scott and Blake Griffin.
But the site failed to realize that Montana and Lovato's "baby mama" and "baby daddy" remarks were nothing but a joke between friends.
In the past, aside from Valderrama and Vasconcelos, she has been rumored to date or has confirmed dating several other Hollywood stars.It's not that cool or whatever but I decided I really wanted to do it, so it was the first time I didn't need anybody there like a parent.But I want more [tattoos] and I'm excited to be able to just like call a friend and be like, 'I want a tattoo, let's go.' I have a feather behind my ear, and it honestly doesn't mean anything. It's a light blue feather, but it looks more like a leaf, so I gotta fix it.Also, Demi Lovato opened up like not many celebs do in her latest documentary 'Simply Complicated.' Plus, the latest chapter in the Rob Kardashian vs Blac Chyna saga reveals some messy details from the past.Find out what you missed in the Hollyscoop Daily Rewind!
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Beyonce, Jay-Z "Family Feud" Video is Stunning in Every Wayby Simon Delott at . Updated at .
We've marveled at Lemonade. We've widened our eyes in shock at the admissions on 4:44. Beyonce and Jay-Z have given the world a musical tour of their marriage at its worst.
Until now, however, we've only heard Beyonce and Jay-Z use their art to tell the story separately.
As you'll see in the video below, "Family Feud" may be the Beyonce/Jay-Z collaboration that we've all been waiting to see.
Whether you hold up Beyonce as a paragon of musical talent or consider her good but overrated (if you do, don't say so out loud, or you'll summon the wrath of the beyhive), you have to agree about this:
Beyonce may have reinvented the art of music video storytelling.
The production value. The concept. The costuming. The motifs. The way that color scheme and lighting match the narrative of the music.
All of those are ways in which top-quality music videos excel and captivate their audiences.
Beyonce took things a step further with Lemonade.
And now, she's bringing that storytelling excellence to bear with Jay-Z's "Family Feud."
Jay-Z was unfaithful to Beyonce.
His infidelity is no secret, and has not been since Beyonce took us all on a powerful artistic journey with Lemonade.
Only by working through that with her, by going to therapy, by analyzing his actions was Jay-Z able to begin repairing his relationship with Beyonce, which had been corrupted by lies.
In this video teaser, church is front and center -- which is what you'd expect from a Christian couple talking about wrongdoing and marriage.
We have to talk about the rich symbolism and the wardrobes, folks. And there's more to it than "church clothes."
We see Beyonce clothed in black, at once like a pope, a judgmental nun figure, and also reminiscent of a Sith Lord.
Stationed above Jay-Z, she stands -- and glowers, condemning him.
When he sits in the confessional, however, we see Beyonce in a more welcoming outfit, with the white cloth pauldrons and cape coming out of them better suggesting angel wings than a nun's habit.
Here, she appears ready to listen to what he has to say. Before? She seemed ready to strike him down with her fury and grief.
At the same time, we've seen flashes of another couple during all of this.
It seems likely that the man, though definitely not played by Jay-Z, is meant to represent him.
In the video, this man and woman are making out, seemingly in the throws of passion ... until the woman stabs him.
Yeah. It's intense.
As powerful as the narrative and visual metaphors are, we are most of all overwhelmed by Beyonce.
She has this mighty presence on screen that dominates your focus.
When she's dressed as a regal, powerful woman, that effect is magnified.
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Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown said if the company threatened to sue The Guardian last week, it was a mistake.
Brown spoke at the Financial Times' Future of News Conference in New York City on Thursday morning regarding the mistakes that Facebook has made and where the company is going from here.
According to Guardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr, Facebook threatened to sue the day before the newspaper published a story about a "whistleblower" from Cambridge Analytica.
When a fellow panelist brought up Facebook's threat of a lawsuit, Brown interrupted to apologize.
"It was a mistake to not have addressed [the data leak] then, and if it were me I would not have threatened to sue The Guardian. Probably not our wisest move," she said.
Facebook had initially learned in 2015 via reporting from The Guardian and other independent news outlets that Cambridge Analytica had gained access to user data without users' consent, according to Mark Zuckerberg's statement on Wednesday. The company ordered Cambridge Analytica to delete the data but learned from The Guardian, The New York Times and U.K.-based Channel 4 last week that Cambridge Analytica had not disposed of the user data as previously promised.
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The Spireites youth team travel to face Grimsby Town in their next EFL Youth Alliance fixture on Saturday, kick-off 11am
Last time out the young Spireites went down to a 2-0 defeat at home to Hartlepool United, where they were left to rue a number of missed opportunities during the game.
In preparation for the Grimsby fixture, academy coach Darren Molloy stated that they have been focussing on being more clinical in front of goal during training this week.
"We had enough chances to probably win the game," said Molloy.
"Two individual errors cost us, which is a real shame. We managed to play some good stuff in parts, even in the tough conditions.
"You've got to be clinical to win games and we weren't. So this week we've looked at what we are doing in the final third.
"We've been doing some individual finishing work and hopefully we'll see a little bit of progress on that front tomorrow."
The U18s come up against a Grimsby side that are currently four points clear at the top of the Youth Alliance Northeast Division table.
When asked about Saturday's matchup, Molloy had no doubt that it will be a challenge for his team, by saying: "They are top of the league so they are a good side.
"They score plenty of goals and are quite physical. It's going to be a tough challenge especially with some of the young ones we are bringing in.
"It will be a challenge that will stretch our players for the better.
"I'm sure they'll give a good account of themselves."
Laurence Maguire and Joe Rowley, who are both products of the Chesterfield academy, featured for England C in their 2-2 draw with Wales at Salford City's Peninsula Stadium.
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