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Hong Kong's in for a weekend of protests, so go check out Taipei's Lennon Wall
The post-it on the right shows a Hong Kong bauhinia with a drawing of Taiwan and says:
"We stand together forever"
Honestly that brought tears to my eyes. To the right, the big characters simply say "freedom".
I don't have a big post to write here, this is more of a photo essay.
As you might know already, a Lennon Wall (a wall of pictures, post-its and other written messages inspired by a Beatles-themed wall in Prague) has popped up in Taipei, mimicking several Lennon Walls that have appeared (and are sometimes taken down by pro-China dissenters) in Hong Kong since protests began.
I'm posting it because not everyone is able to go see the wall - a lot of my readers are not in Taipei, or are perhaps simply not able to make it to Gongguan. I want those people to be able to look at the messages of support written for Hong Kong by the people of Taiwan.
I want to say here that anyone who is unable to go to the wall but would like to add a message of support can leave a comment on this post or on Lao Ren Cha's Facebook page (which you are cordially invited to 'like', by the way) with what you want to say, and I will personally go to the wall, post your message of support, and take a photo to send to you. Seriously - I don't live that far away and I'm pretty free next week. Just ask.
The wall is located near MRT Gongguan Station and National Taiwan University's southwestern edge, in the underpass that lets pedestrians traverse the Roosevelt Road/Xinsheng South Road intersection.
I'm not sure why sticky notes are the vehicle of choice for these sentiments, but my guess is that it's because they're easy - the stickiness is right there - they're cheap, they can go up quickly, they're colorful and they won't cause any damage. I don't know about Hong Kong but in Taipei an added advantage is that people can leave blocks of sticky notes behind for others who'd like to add to the wall but haven't brought materials.
When Brendan went to check it out several days before I did, as I'd been in China, it seemed a lot smaller than it is now. It's absolutely burgeoning with messages now, and I imagine it will only get bigger.
There are volunteers who watch over the wall - after all, Taiwan also has pro-China thugs who tear things like this down out of sheer petty childish vindictiveness. Plus, there are markers, pens and sticky notes made available so anyone can come by and write a message without preparing in advance.
The messages come from around the world - Brendan and I are not the only foreigners to have left them - in a variety of languages (though mostly Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese and English).
They are mostly in support of Hong Kong and the protests there - many of them pointing out that what happens in Hong Kong affects Taiwan and we are all in this together in the fight for freedom. Some, however, explicitly reference Taiwan and call for Taiwanese de jure independence.
There's some conflict as well:
That's understandable as many Americans in Taiwan (and many Americans in general!) support Taiwan and Hong Kong, but the governments of some countries have been slow to act or show support.
And, as you can see, while most of the messages are positive and call for peace and non-violence, others take an (also-justified) angrier tone, lashing out at Carrie Lam, Xi Jin-ping, the KMT and the Hong Kong police.
A few of them explicitly reference previous social movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with pictures depicting yellow umbrellas for Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and Sunflowers for Taiwan's Sunflower Movement, both of which occurred in 2014.
Those movements, while not entirely successful in changing the political climate long-term in either Taiwan or Hong Kong, have had a lasting impact on activism in both places.
In several places, the five demands of Hong Kong protesters are laid out:
Some point out that protests have grown less peaceful (mostly in defense as the police have unleashed violence on protesters) because "if peaceful protest worked, we wouldn't have to come out every weekend".
Others clarify that this fight isn't just about the China extradition bill - Hong Kong wants democracy and it's at a tipping point. The scope of what protesters are fighting for has widened, which is both wonderful and dangerous (and something they were going to have to eventually fight for, which I suspect most people had known already but not necessarily previously articulated.)
Of course, issues facing Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang and other places are intertwined, as all of us are locked in a battle against an expansionist, aggressive, human-rights-abusing dictatorship that seeks to control us:
Similarities between the KMT in Taiwan and the CCP - and the KMT's closeness with China - are also pointed out. Underneath the Winnie the Pooh (Xi Jin-ping) with a KMT sun on his chest, are the words "don't throw your vote away" (literally "don't vote messily/carelessly").
"Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow Taiwan"
This one speaks for itself.
A Cantonese version of "Do You Hear The People Sing" has become a popular protest anthem in Hong Kong. I can't help but draw a connection between the hopelessness of the protest in Les Miserables and the protests in Hong Kong. Though Hong Kongers seem to be doing a better job than Enjolras, Marius & the gang.
Taoist hexes (I think) being placed on a picture of Carrie Lam. One is about long life, the other says "retrocession for Hong Kong" (back to the UK? Toward independence? I'm not sure).
This slogan (on the black paper) was popular during Taiwan's Sunflower Movement:
A memorial for the poncho-clad protester killed as a result of being hit with several water cannons early in the protests. Yellow ponchos have also become a symbol of protest for Hong Kong as a result.
Pens and post-its are available for anyone who comes unprepared.
Labels: anti_china_protests, demonstrations, fuck_china, gongguan, hong_kong, hong_kong_politics, lennon_wall, ntu, protests, sunflowers, taiwanese_identity, taiwanese_independence, umbrella_movement, xi_jinping
Let's all take a moment to savor Tsai Ing-wen's arch wit
Original photo from Wikimedia Commons, speech bubble is mine
Look, I know President Tsai (who, by the way, is now my official girl crush on account of her being still alive) has a reputation for being a dull public speaker. A frosty technocrat who doesn't engage with the people. A wonkish civil servant who hasn't convinced the public of her vision for Taiwan. And all of that is somewhat true - Tsai isn't a bad president, in fact, I'd say she's the best we've had since we entered the true democratic era in Taiwan. But she's not that good at "politics", if by "politics" you mean "standing in front of a crowd with a podium and doing politiciany stuff." I don't care, but clearly others do. What she is good at, however, is new media, and she deserves credit for that.
Let's not forget that this isn't only the first female president of Taiwan and one of the first women in Asia not preceded by a male family member, but the woman who wore pants at her inauguration to the top office of the government of a patriarchal society (almost all societies are patriarchal; Taiwan is on the liberal end for Asia but the conservative end for liberal democracies.)
She told us from Day One with her rockin' pants that she DGAF and will absolutely slay you if she feels like it, but it appears we're just now getting the message.
And you know what? She's great at it, and it's time we started appreciating that.
Because I can't go hang out with her and have a sleepover and drink wine and pet her cats and wear pajamas and do each other's nails while we talk about boys international politics and the future of Taiwan (who cares about boys?), I have put together this tribute post to the wittiest damn president Taiwan has ever had.
DJ...drop the beat!*
Let's start with the retort that spouted a thousand memes. Xi Jinping was all hot under the collar, being so shrill and outraged and full of hormones, like, Taiwan must and will be reunited with China blah blah blah 1992 Consensus blah blah blah One Country Two Systems blah blah blah I'll show mommy I'm a good ruler of China after all blah blah historic trend blah blah mommy blah blah.
And Tsai was like, "...and the Taiwan Consensus is BYE FELICIA."
I mean, more presidential than that, but...same deal.
So then, some English teacher called her "Tsai Englishit" on a test for no reason. I suppose he thought it was funny. The question went like this:
President Tsai-englishit made some silly ____ in her speech.
a.) amateurs b.) disasters c.) parades d.) comments
Did Our Lady of Hot Tea get mad? No. Did she slam the teacher on Twitter with a tirade of incoherent and misspelled tweets? Of course not, she's not the President of the United States or anything like that.
Did she take it in stride and release her own (much funnier) comeback that pointed out the civil liberties that allowed that English teacher to make his "joke" in the first place?
I don't know how to credit this because I shared it on Facebook ages ago.
Of course she did. Because she is a (democratically elected) queen.
So now, we've got Big Uncle Dirk in Hong Kong meeting with local leaders and (apparently) CCP members - you know, like a traitor would do. Is Tsai incensed that he was invited so that Beijing could make it clear to Taiwan that if they'd only vote the way China wants them to, all this could be over (not that it's really clear what this is, as Chinese pressure hasn't impacted Taiwan nearly as much as the media says it has)?
Nope. Once again she made it clear with a quip that there are many messages China might hear (link in Mandarin), if they'd only actually talk to Taiwan:
她記得韓國瑜選舉時很在意中華民國,現在就是一個機會請告訴對方,中華民國台灣是一個主權獨立的國家,請中國停止打壓台灣的國際參與空間。
She [Tsai] remembered that "Han Kuo-yu was very concerned about the Republic of China during the election, and now he has a chance. Please [Mayor Han], tell the other side that the Republic of China is an independent country, please request that China stop suppressing Taiwan's ability to participate in the international sphere." (translation mine)
I truly can't think of a better comeback than reminding Taiwan and the world that China is the enemy, but as long as they're talking to someone from Taiwan, they may as well hear the right message - and making it clear without saying a thing that Han certainly isn't someone who will deliver it.
And finally, we've got not so much a witticism as a quick 'n dirty truth bomb:
"In response to media questions regarding China's opposition to the delegation's transit stop in Hawaii, President Tsai stated that Beijing opposes everything, saying, "When you go see a friend, do you ask your neighbor's permission first?"" https://t.co/rMp4vUCWZW
— Pierre-Yves Baubry (@pybaubry) March 25, 2019
I mean, how much more perfect can you get than "oh but BEIJING is going to be MAD and OPPOSE that aren't you WORRIED about the reaction from BEIJING because it's the only thing the international MEDIA can TALK ABOUT because CHINA!!??"
Tsai: "Beijing opposes everything."
Hey, Mr. Xi. Is your English name Elvis? Because you just got a couple of burns.
*Skip to 3:20 to see Tsai say exactly that
Labels: china, elections, feminism, han_kuoyu, i_love_president_tsai, international_discourse, pants, politics, taiwanese_politics, tsai_yingwen, womens_clothing, womens_equality, womens_issues, xi_jinping
With doing lots of genocide, Xi Jinping of China keeps with tradition
Photos from the province full where Xi Jinping is committing genocide RIGHT NOW, not that the
New York Times thinks that's important, after all...his hair is graying, so...that's a story, right?
by Confucius McDoorknob
HONG KONG (because we can't report freely in China) — President Xi Jinping is known for keeping the rules of Chinese politics, amassing more power than any leader since Mao, and doing almost as much genocide.
His latest attempt to shake things up may be one of his boldest moves yet: Mr. Xi is going slightly — though unabashedly — anti-Uighur, in total lockstep with longstanding Communist Party tradition.
For decades, Chinese leaders have attempted to show unnatural 'togetherness' between the various cultural and religious groups of China, a look that symbolized unity and gave the party a not-genocidey veneer.
But Mr. Xi, 65, appears to be dispensing with vanity as he presents himself as a relatable and avuncular mass murderer, part of his efforts to soften his hard-line policies.
As Mr. Xi takes part in the annual meeting of China's legislature this week, the concentration camps he's set up to systematically wipe out the people of East Turkestan through re-settling the area with Chinese, a heavy-handed surveillance state, "re-education" and straight-up murder have been a hit with delegates and the public.
"He's very humble," said Gu Yan, 47, an employee at a technology firm in the eastern city of Xiamen. "He's not afraid to be himself."
Mr. Xi has a history of making genocide choices that underscore his image as a man of the Han people. He is often pictured in China wearing a navy blue, zippered windbreaker which doesn't have any blood on it because he doesn't personally do all the genocide, a symbol of humility as he leads a campaign against corruption and also anyone who criticizes him or the CCP, anyone who is not Han unless they are an obedient "ethnic" minority that will dance for Han tourists and also wear colorful costumes but never actually question their (subordinate) place in Chinese society.
His lots-and-lots-of-murdering further reinforces that image, as well as Mr. Xi's desire to be seen as a paternal figure - I mean like if your dad was a murderer - and live up to the nickname by which he is popularly known, "Murderin' Uncle Xi," China apologists and flunkies say.
"It's not this image of the stodgy cadre who must be exactly dyed and dressed in the right mold," said Western Guy O'Whiteass, a useful idiot who studies Chinese history and politics at Prestige Academy, whom we asked to make it look as though we did any real research into what's actually going on in China. "It's an image of the party that is more relatable and less apparatchik-like in its aesthetics, but definitely not in its murdering of people who look, act and believe differently."
Going full-on Hitler was not always such a big deal in China — both Mao and Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leaders, embraced spilling blood on Chinese soil for infractions such as asking for freedom and human rights. The former was thought to have caused the deaths of millions during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, and the latter, of course, gunned down protesters (or just ran over them with tanks) during the Tiananmen Square protests, which the world seems to have forgotten about and we definitely don't want to remind you about with this article because, you know, profit.
But more recently, as the party promoted a "collective leadership" model to spread power more evenly after the strongman days of Mao so that the blame for disappearing thousands if not more of their own citizens would be more difficult to pin on a single person, and any given person would be able to deny knowledge or complicity, genocide was not as widely practiced, although murder and disappearance definitely still happened.
In the past, how much genocide one does has often been seen as a symbol of status within the party. In 2015, for example, Zhou Yongkang, China's former chief of domestic security, was shown confessing to crimes during a sentencing hearing, his formerly jet-black hair having turned into a shock of white while he was in detention. Of course, that was probably because he was tortured and forced to admit to whatever the party wanted.
Zhang Jiehai, a sociologist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said that in the past Chinese officials embarked on genocide in secret so as not to raise eyebrows both in China and abroad. But now, he said, Chinese officials are younger and society has grown more open.
"It has become more natural," he said. "The leaders no longer need to cover up their actual literal real-life concentration camps."
How exactly Chinese officials maintain the "I didn't mass murder anyone oh actually haha I did" look is something of a state secret, though copious amounts of money are probably involved.
Mr. Xi's murder record was mostly unknown when he rose to power in 2012. But as he has grappled with a slowing economy, diplomatic tussles in the South China Sea and a trade war with the United States, he has turned to taking the lives of anyone who opposes him in thought, deed or creed or just looks like someone who might, so as to scare people away from assailing his position of power.
His really-serious-genocide-committing look has not gone unnoticed in the party.
In 2016, a delegate at the National People's Congress said she had noticed during a meeting with Mr. Xi that he had "done a lot of genocide, I mean, I'm not criticizing him or anything, please don't drag me away and torture me."
"Our country is so big," the delegate, Zhu Xueqin, speculated at the time. "He needs to manage all sorts of things and it's very hard."
Mr. Xi's example seems to be catching on: many members of the Politburo, an elite 25-member council at the highest levels of the Communist Party, also are surely complicit in some genocide.
While genocide might be seen as undesirable elsewhere in the world (President Trump proudly declared on Saturday, "I have not committed genocide, at least not yet"), in China some view it as a sign of wisdom.
At barbershops in China, stylists said they applauded Mr. Xi's decision to kill lots of non-Han people who are viewed as a disobedient threat to CCP control.
"It makes him look like he works harder — that he's laboring day and night," said Liu Ke, a stylist at a salon in the central city of Xi'an.
Jiang Zhirong, the co-owner of a barbershop in a Beijing alleyway, said Mr. Xi couldn't go wrong.
"Whether he mass murders lots of people I don't know and don't care about or not," she said, "the president has great style."
Labels: bad_journalism, bad_writing, ccp, china, china_sucks, crap_journalism, fuck_china, genocide, international_discourse, international_media, new_york_times, xi_jinping, xinjiang
Xi Jinping is probably a terrible parent, given the way he treats Taiwan
Another day, another repetition of China's old line that if Taiwan would just agree to unify with China, that their rights would be assured under the "one country two systems" framework.
The article is strong, and includes analysis from experts who mostly actually seem to know what they are talking about. It avoids the incorrect use of "reunification", which not many reports on the issue do. It's clear that a.) Taiwanese are not likely to ever embrace unification (meaning that if it ever happens, it will be annexation, not unification); b.) things aren't great in Hong Kong; and c.) that Taiwan has "everything to lose and nothing to gain" from unification with China.
There are a few flaws, such as not dissecting Jeanne-Pierre Cabestan's assertion that Beijing's offered "reward" is "sweeter" than previous offers when in fact it's just the same old crap, and using the phrase "tensions could rise" rather than clearly identifying China as the source of tensions. But, it's good work overall and I don't want to dwell on these small nitpicks.
Instead, seeing as Xi Dada routinely treats Taiwan as a recalcitrant child (Taiwan is not China's child, but this is how he sees it), I have to wonder what kind of Dad he is exactly. Does he treat his own kid this way?
I can only imagine that conversations in the Xi household go something like this:
Xi Dada: "Honey, come give your Dad a foot rub."
Formosa: "Ew. No. That's gross, you're gross, your feet smell and I'm not going to do it."
Xi Dada: "Come on, don't you want to give me a foot rub?"
Formosa: "I literally just said I don't want to do that."
Xi Dada: "If you give me a foot rub, I'll let you take out the garbage!"
Formosa: "Um, I don't want to take out the garbage or rub your feet. I especially don't want to rub your feet so that I can take out the garbage."
Xi Dada: "Oh, honey, but...if you give me a foot rub, you can take out the garbage! Won't that be great?"
Formosa: "Did you not hear me say two seconds ago that I don't want to take out the garbage?"
Xi Jinping: "If you take out the garbage, you can take out your own garbage with my garbage."
Formosa: "I only have a little garbage. I can take it out myself. You have a ton of garbage. I would be totally buried in it. That's disgusting and I said no."
Xi Jinping: "But honey...don't you want to take out the garbage? You can do that if you rub my feet!"
Formosa: "For the last fucking time, I don't want to give you a foot rub, and I don't want to take out the garbage, so why would I agree to give you a foot rub so I can do another thing I don't want to do?"
Xi Jinping: "Why are you so difficult? This is a wound on our family! It's a matter of family pride that we all agree on."
Formosa: "I don't agree with that and never really said I did."
Xi Jinping: "You used to say that!"
Formosa: "Back when I was forced to. Now I'm not. I never actually believed it and you know that. To be frank, I'm not even sure you're my real Dad."
Xi Jinping: "But I'm offering you so much! I keep sweetening the deal and you keep turning me down!"
Formosa: "What makes it sweeter?"
Xi Jinping: "If you give me a footrub, you can...take out...the...garbage!"
Formosa: "That's not sweeter, that's the same thing you offered me before and it's terrible."
Xi Jinping: "Your cousin gave me a foot rub and took out the garbage and he loves it!"
Formosa: "No he doesn't! You forced him to give you a foot rub and take out the garbage and now he smells like your feet and is covered in garbage!"
Xi Jinping: "That's not true."
Cousin Hong Kong: "That's true."
Xi Jinping: "This is a wound to our family pride!"
International Media: "Oh no! Tensions could...be risen...in the China household!"
Formosa: "Um, I just live nearby and I don't know why this jackass says he's my 'Dad', so - - "
International Media: "Shhh!"
Xi Dada: "A WOUND ON OUR FAMILY PRIDE!! We as a family can never be truly happy until Formosa rubs my feet and gets her reward of taking out the garbage! That's what everyone wants!"
Formosa: "No, it's not what anyone but you - - oh whatever. I'm not going to do it but I'm done telling you why."
Labels: china, fuck_china, fuck_xi_jinping, hong_kong, hong_kong_politics, international_discourse, international_media, politics, screw_china, taiwan_independence, taiwan_is_not_china, xi_jinping
The Contortions of a Dove in Hawk's Clothing
Guard the alley, cat.
Taiwan makes me contort myself in weird ways.
I don't mean living here, I'm pretty used to that. I mean in figuring out how the hell to reconcile my international political beliefs.
Because I'm not an expert in IR (having majored in it in undergrad 16 years ago doesn't count) I'm not going to try to analyze anything. I'm just going to say - so many people seem to think all of these Korea-focused summits between Moon, Kim, Trump, Xi in various permutations are fantastic, and I too would love to be on the side of discussion, negotiation and diplomacy carrying the day toward peace and nuclear non-proliferation. I'm a liberal, right? We're foreign policy doves, are we not?
This is better than troops stationed for decades in foreign countries, nuclear tests, threat of war and ever-increasing military spending, is it not?
I'm not so sure of either.
The dove in me would love to see fewer American troops stationed abroad. The realist in me knows that Kim wants this, Trump is already talking about it, Xi definitely wants it, but it would be terrible for Taiwan. Mostly, I'm afraid that this is Xi's game: fewer US troops in the region that could potentially be deployed quickly is a clear strategic advantage for China and its designs on Taiwan. To continue the strongest possible deterrent to Chinese attack on Taiwan, I have to be in favor of continuing to station (and pay for) US troops in South Korea. I have to set myself against de-escalation and for the (heavily militarized) status quo.
I don't like that one bit. It goes against everything I believe in otherwise. But I also believe in Taiwan and have no doubt that deterring Chinese designs on Taiwan is not only the right thing to do, it's essential.
It is clear to me that the person who benefits from Trump looking like he's doing some good is Xi. He knows Trump is a paper tiger in most respects who can't be controlled but can be played, whose saber-rattling only makes China look like a victim when it isn't one (he is probably more worried about Trump's pro-Taiwan advisors, but also knows Trump people can and do get fired all the time).
The person who benefits from a US troop withdrawal in South Korea, in terms of regional influence? Xi. (I'd say "China" but it's all run by Xi anyway). The person who benefits from a denuclearized North Korea (if that actually happens, which I doubt - North Korea wouldn't be willing to talk if it didn't think it already had a deterrent to US attack, has broken promises after negotiating concessions), and from it seeming as though the region is peaceful and therefore there is no reason to maintain US influence at current levels? Xi. The person who benefits if the rest of the world decides Taiwan is not geostrategically important enough because Asia is quiet? Xi. Who keeps meeting with Kim with timings so fortuitous that they're practically announcing who is directing the "North Korea is suddenly playing nice" train? Xi.
Who is Taiwan's greatest enemy? Xi. Not the CCP (though they're pretty bad), not China. Xi. He's not the next Mao Zedong. Mao had (messed up) ideals. He's the next Chiang Kai-shek: ruthless, amoral, immoral, power-hungry, and weirdly obsessed with Taiwan.
It terrifies me that the small country that always breaks promises is being directed - and I do believe they are - by a big country that always breaks promises, which has designs on the country I live in and love. It terrifies me that so many people think peace always benefits everyone and that all players are honest and well-intentioned, when they are not, and the peace these people broker now could well lead to a war for Taiwan's continued freedom later.
But winning the hearts and minds of my fellow Western doves means convincing them that US military presence in Asia has more pros than cons and what looks on the surface like 'peace' actually isn't. Good luck with that.
Granted, I don't think a troop drawdown in Korea is the only thing standing between Taiwan and China. We have troops elsewhere too and influence can mean as much as military might. It's more that every drop of US defensive capability that disappears from Asia is one drop less that China might have to contend with if it invades Taiwan (and it knows it). Every bit less of US influence in Asia is a bit more influence that China wins. Besides, troop drawdowns in S. Korea also affect Japan - this won't be good for Japan either if what I think is going on actually is.
I know this sounds a lot like wanting to keep letting the US run the show around the world rather than letting Asia (and Asians) manage their own affairs - and that too makes me as uncomfortable as doing a crazy yoga position. I don't particularly like US global hegemony, it was created to serve US interests, not the interests of the world as a whole.
But peace isn't always what it appears to be - you can bet Xi wants increasing power (and territory) in Asia to look "peaceful" so the West will stay away. Destruction can be rebuilt from - avoiding it is not always the top priority. CCP oppression is forever.
And so I'm stuck being a hawk even though I really, really don't want to be.
Labels: asian_politics, china, fuck_china, international_affairs, international_discourse, international_politics, north_korea, south_korea, xi_jinping
Taiwan is the canary in the coal mine, and it's getting hard to breathe
Emperor Xi Jinping of the Pooh Dynasty
Lots going on in the news this past week or two on China, its strategy abroad, the West's reaction to it, the rise of Emperor Xi, and what this could all mean for Taiwan.
I noticed, as international media outlets began reporting on Xi Jinping crowning himself Emperor Winnie of the Pooh Dynasty, that a number of them - most, in fact - curiously left out Taiwan, like the BBC, The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the NPR News broadcast I listened to while making dinner yesterday. Only a brief mention of how he has "toughened China's stance" on Taiwan in this other Washington Post article (I can't read the New York Times coverage as I've used all my articles for the month and it's not one of the two papers I subscribe to). Even though that last one is about how Xi might use his throne - despite there being at least a fair chance, if not a likely one, that he will eventually use it to make a move on Taiwan - it doesn't factor in at all.
This is unsettling for anyone who cares about Taiwan - not just that this changes the game vis-a-vis a potential Chinese threat, but that the West doesn't seem terribly concerned about it. If you don't believe me about that threat, by the way, Donovan pointed out clearly why Taiwan is right to be terrified of Emperor Xi in The News Lens:
Most analysts (including myself) have thought the only way China would risk an invasion of Taiwan in the short to medium term would be if the China faced enough of an internal crisis that the power of the Chinese Communist Party was threatened, who would then use an invasion as a distraction and nationalist rallying cry....
This is where the terrifying part lies. Xi may consider actions purely for glory that his more institutional predecessors wouldn't or couldn't have.
This should make China's neighbors very nervous. An absolute ruler of a massively powerful nation with ambitions to enter history is potentially very dangerous and unpredictable. China wants the Senkaku Islands from Japan, several border areas from India and to consolidate power over the South China Sea. But the obvious big prize to achieve glorious "reunification" of China and finally end the "century of humiliation" would be to take Taiwan.
That would be hugely risky and destructive course to take, potentially igniting a massive war involving many countries. But we can no longer assume that only a Chinese Communist Party facing an existential internal crisis is the only likely scenario whereby China would consider an attack.
Xi might just consider it for himself.
He is absolutely correct and I could not say it better myself.
I have no idea what Xi might do - there's a lot to consider. He wouldn't have made this power play if he hadn't been quite sure it could be accomplished fairly easily, meaning that there would be no need to 'distract' angry Chinese citizens by manufacturing a pretext to attack Taiwan. That said, China has underestimated resistance before (I genuinely believe they didn't see the Umbrella Movement coming, for example, and note how they only worked to send its leaders to jail once it became apparent they could actually get elected to LegCo in Hong Kong. I don't think they'd planned for that at all), and might be doing so now. I don't know. Within the CCP, there might still be a number of people who had thought, until this past Sunday, that they might be potential heirs to the Chinese presidency, and might be less than happy about this change in plan, but not necessarily saying so outright, given what Xi does to his rivals. That does mean, however, that it is not guaranteed that he is as surrounded by syncophants and True Believers as he might think he is, and there might be a crisis they truly don't see coming, for which they need to manufacture a distraction in the Taiwan Strait.
Yes, the CCP claims to value stability above all else - but what they claim and what they actually believe are not necessarily the same. They value what suits them, and nothing more (they're very Trumpian in this way, although perhaps less venal). They value "peace and stability" when it suits them, and are also quite willing to manufacture instability and crisis when that suits them instead (and keep that door open by continually rattling their saber at Taiwan). So I would not base a belief that Taiwan is basically safe on any CCP talk about "stability".
And yes, I do believe the CCP as a whole - as Donovan wrote so well - is as keen on actually taking Taiwan as they say they are. They want to keep up the claim, sure, but they know perfectly well we're more trouble than we're worth. Xi, though? I think he wants this just for him - for his historical legacy He's not doing this for the power. He could step down in 2023 and still have that. He's doing this because he wants to be a big name in the history books. Whether or not he actually believes his blah-blah-blah about the Chinese Dream, the Rejuvenation of the Great Chinese Nation, Reunification of the Motherland and Xi Jinping Thought (barf, barf, barf and barf, by the way) - that I don't know. But that's the kind of stuff that makes it into textbooks, not the more tepid reigns of people like Hu Jintao.
Sure, this takes off the pressure of him accomplishing "Reunification of the Motherland" (BARF) by the original end of his term, but it also means we have a president-for-life who is an ideological hardliner, especially on Taiwan.
So, we have every reason to believe he plans to make a move on Taiwan in his lifetime.
And this is terrifying. For Taiwan, and also for the world.
All of this "Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation" (which includes annexing Taiwan) talk stems from China's "century of humiliation" victimhood mentality - they talk about it as though it's an internal confidence-building and great-nation-building exercise, but it's really about vengeance for being the one-time top dog who was laid low by the (admittedly crappy and colonialist) ascendant Western powers. They don't just want to be "a confident nation at ease with itself", they want to be on top again. They want global hegemony. They want to take the US's place.
Taiwan? We'll just be the first domino to fall. We've seen this coming for awhile - because China already claims us, they'll go for us first. In this scenario, Taiwan's beautiful, imperfect but vibrant and fierce democracy will fall. Assuming the country is not completely pulverized, for awhile, a sham democracy will take its place in which we are able to choose among "candidates" pre-selected by China in "elections". Eventually that might be scrapped too. Not immediately - the attrition must be slow, similar to their strategy in Hong Kong. This not only wears down resistance but also makes it easier for Western nations to pretend they don't see it happening. After all, they grow tired of most stories in the news after awhile. They might be mad at first, but nobody will want to upset the new global economic order - that could mean instability (oh no!) - so they won't actually do anything. And after awhile they'll forget that they were mad at all.
The world will have 23.5 million fewer free people, 23.5 million fewer people who lack basic human rights...and the rest of the world will hardly notice.
The US - well, our superpower status has kind of sucked. We're not great. A lot of Westerners angry at the abuse of our position as we supported the toppling of governments we didn't like and propped up regimes friendly to us, regardless of what was best for the countries involved, at our failed attempts at "spreading democracy" one bombing at a time, and our take on the global economy that reeks of modern mercantilism would be happy to see us fall and to see a non-Western (and non-white, because they're sick of white people taking the whole pie, as they have every right to be) power take our place. Triumph of the people of color, that sort of thing. The rise of the oppressed, toppling the oppressors.
It all sounds really wonderful if you blur your eyes. But, if you think about it, China is just an Asian version of Killmonger in Black Panther - his idea to funnel resources to the oppressed to they can overthrow the oppressors sounds great on its face ("it's a good idea!", some people said), but in the end he just wanted to institute another kind of oppression, a different sort of hegemonic rule.
But, it's easy to get people on board when the new bully in town isn't white. It looks a lot like liberation. It's not.
So why isn't the rest of the world worried yet? When (almost) every piece of news from Taiwan includes a reference to China no matter how unrelated, how is it that when something China does really is a threat to Taiwan, nobody seems to even realize it?
Brian over at New Bloom says this is because Westerners lack a conceptual framework in which to consider Chinese neo-colonialism (phrasing from Michael Turton) and he has a point - Westerners don't seem to have the necessary lexicon to really talk about China's global ambitions. They sure get tongue-tied if they try!
But, I don't think that's because they "lack the vocabulary" or even a "conceptual framework". The framework and vocabulary exist - neo-colonialism. Expansionism. Neo-imperialism (or, in the case of Taiwan, just 'imperialism'). Hegemony. Global domination. Economic subjugation. Checkbook diplomacy. Economic imperialism. The spread of authoritarianism. We have all of these words and frameworks.
It's just that Westerners are afraid of using them to describe China (or really any non-Western/non-white nation) for fear of seeming - or being labeled - racist. They're afraid someone will say they don't understand how the historic injustice of white privilege means that anything non-white people do can't be considered the same, or as bad, as anything white people do. (A worldview which has its uses, and which I am often sympathetic to, but which doesn't apply here.)
That's really all it is - it's a race thing. All they need to do is take their old frameworks, dust 'em off and apply 'em to a regime that happens to be Asian. There's nothing new or uncharted about it. Just stop being afraid of criticizing China because someone might think you're racist if you criticize shitty things non-Western powers do, and call China's actions what they are using words you already have.
What I'm saying is, the thing Westerners lack isn't vocabulary or conceptualization, it's balls.
Feeding into my idea that this is actually a race thing: the Western world seems content to ignore China's increasing reach - including its attempts at controlling or even abducting foreign citizens - when its levers of control are used to oppress other Asians (not just Chinese - this affects Taiwanese too, and the majority of Taiwanese identify as Taiwanese, not Chinese). Their increasing control over Australian citizens is ignored by the rest of the world - though kudos to the Sydney Morning Herald for continuing to report on the story - because most Australians affected have Chinese ancestry (but, remember, are not Chinese citizens). The world ignores Lee Ming-che - a Taiwanese citizen - because he looks Chinese. They ignore Gui Minhai - a Swedish citizen - because he looks Chinese. They ignore Hong Kong because they are Chinese, regardless of what Hong Kongers want or feel they were promised.
Yes, reports are filed, articles occasionally appear, but most of the West just doesn't care much. I suppose it's too bad that these problems are happening, they might think, but deep down, they don't think too much about it, because the victims don't look Western, and it's easy to ignore a bunch of Asians. Just an internal matter. It sucks, but, well, that's in China. No matter how much the people being threatened, persecuted and prosecuted might align themselves ideologically more with Western thought than "Xi Jinping Thought", and no matter how much it is not just in China - it's happening in their own countries - and not just Chinese citizens. That they look Chinese seems to be enough to get the West to turn the other way.
So what does this have to do with Emperor Xi, Taiwan and the coal mine?
Well, we are the bellwether. The new Emperor has his eyes on Taiwan. Don't think Taiwan is in that much trouble? I do. I don't see a good outcome here - either there's a massive crisis in China, in which case we're invaded as a distraction as the CCP tries to hold onto power. Or there's no crisis in China, and the slow march of their invasion plans continues forward without much resistance from the rest of the world (although I am heartened to see a little pushback). Or, there's a massive world war because Trumpo was bored with porn stars and Big Macs and couldn't keep his finger off the trigger, and China takes advantage of the chaos. No matter how this shakes out, good potential outcomes for Taiwan are few, and the possibilities leading to catastrophe are massive.
And what happens in Taiwan - perhaps an invasion, perhaps the slow erosion of our democracy under Chinese pressure, perhaps we get pulverized by missiles and then pushed into a sham 'democracy' where 'candidates' selected by China run for 'election', perhaps we spiral into economic ruin - is a sign of things to come under Chinese global hegemony over the rest of the world. Not in terms of outright invasion (of countries other than Taiwan), but in terms of the ways in which China will seek to influence what happens within those countries - who gets elected and what they do in office. Putting pressure on foreign governments to bring their own citizens in line regarding what they can and can't say vis-a-vis China (and perhaps anything else the Chinese government doesn't want us discussing, as well), through diplomatic and economic influence. If that doesn't work, threatening them directly.
In other words, to dust off some old vocabulary that we absolutely have, we'll all be tributary states.
Don't think China would care to reach that far into the affairs of other countries? They're already doing it, to citizens of those countries. Australia (and to some extent New Zealand) seem almost like test cases for how they'd do this - want to know what they'd like to do in the US and Europe? Watch Australia.
You just haven't noticed, because your fellow citizens being threatened by China don't look like you. Taiwan is getting the brunt of China's wrath, but they're already branching out, and there's a point at which they'll no longer care if criticism comes from someone who looks Chinese or someone who doesn't.
By then, you might care, but it will be too late. The canary is suffocating, and the time to pay attention is now.
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namespace ptk {
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    class FontBase {
    public:
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      static const char *end_of_line(const char *str);
      virtual coord text_width(const char *str, unsigned len) const = 0;
      virtual coord text_height(unsigned line_count) const = 0;
      virtual Size measure(const char *str) const = 0;
      virtual void draw_char(Canvas *c, Point p, char ch, pixel value) const = 0;
      virtual void draw_string(Canvas *c, Point p, const char *str, pixel value) const = 0;
    };

    /*
     * This class handles fonts generated by the MikroElektronica GLCD Font Creator
     * program found at http://www.mikroe.com/glcd-font-creator/
     *
     * The output of the program is an array of byte values that define the width
     * of each glyph in the font and which bits are set. Black pixels in the editor UI
     * correspond to '1' bits in the data, and '0' means white. The bit data for
     * each glyph is preceeded by a one byte integer specifying the rendered width
     * of that particular glyph. This allows proportionally spaced fonts.
     *
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     * at the top. Consider the following 5x7 glyph for the numeral '1':
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      const uint8_t *data;
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Circular Economy: The European Commission has adopted rigid requirements to the Ecolabel ЕU sign use.
Ljubljana. Within the framework of the Ecolabel ЕU (znak EU za okolje — labelling of environmentally friendly products in the EU) scheme, the European Commission has approved the new environmental standards for computer equipment, furniture and shoes. The manufacturers, who wish to use the Ecolabel ЕU sign, must comply with strict requirements regarding the organic properties of the released products and at the same time take into account the established level of safety and its public image.
Manufacturers of computer equipment, such as personal computers, laptops, notebooks, tablets, will need to consider the level of energy efficiency and upgrade options during the development and production of devices. An important factor will be the possibility of a simple and affordable dismantling, repair and disposal of computer equipment and its components.
Furniture manufacturers will need to carefully plan the cycles of product exploitation. They will have to pay particular attention to the use of hazardous compounds or their degradation products, which can pollute the air. On the shoe factories, it will be required to provide all conditions for the improvement of corporate team responsibility and ensure proper working conditions.
The objectives of the new environmental criteria include using materials produced in a more sustainable basis, taking into account the product life cycle analysis method, limiting the use of hazardous substances, monitoring levels of hazardous wastes and the furniture impact on the degree of air pollution in a room, as well as ensuring the smooth and high-quality work of products, which are easy and affordable to disassemble and repair.
As the Director of the Association of Woodworking and Furniture Industry at the Chamber of Commerce Igor Milavec notes in his interview to Delo, the latest standards of the European Commission have been long awaited for, because it becomes more and more clear that the environmental performance of products, as well as the level of their safety and public image of a manufacturer are very important. In his opinion, the Slovenian furniture manufacturers are well aware of this fact and each year take it into account with increasing consideration.
"This package, of course, also includes the careful use of raw materials and energy, as well as the planning of the associated therewith cycles of product exploitation. Companies will more carefully plan this cycle by applying various methods, such as "eco-design" and "management design". Including the method of "management design" into the work of furniture manufacturers will be particularly intense in the current and the next years, because it will be the main topic of the training project called Centre for Advanced Training of Personnel for the Woodworking Industry (Kompetenčni center za razvoj kadrov v lesni industriji), which is funded by the Woodworking Industry Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. The funds are distributed by the Fund for Personnel Development and Scholarships (Sklad RS za razvoj kadrov in štipendiranje), and the consortium under the auspices of the Lesarski Grozd Centre will become the executor of the project," Milavec notes.
At the same time, he adds that education and positive experience exchange are the best way to incorporate the above criteria of the European Commission and other market and legislation requirements into the process of woodworking and furniture companies. According to Igor Milavec, the Slovenian furniture industry today takes care about the control and rational use of hazardous substances in various ways. To improve the quality of work, the manufacturers will use the referred training courses for woodworking and furniture companies.
Manufacturers of wooden furniture, which have received the Ecolabel ЕU sign based on the previous criteria, must ensure a transition period to adapt their products, so that they meet the new environmental criteria and requirements.
The EU, using the Ecolabel ЕU sign, aims to accelerate the transition to a circular economy through the promotion of sustainable production and consumption. As noted in the European Commission, the clear environmental criteria allow consumers to make informed decisions without compromising the product quality. On the other hand, the Ecolabel ЕU sign improves the reputation of manufacturers who produce reliable products and invest in modernization.


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https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/Reserve-deputies-are-ready-to-protect-and-serve-13779021.php
Reserve deputies are ready to protect and serve in Montgomery County
By Jose R. Gonzalez, Staff writer
Updated 1:04 pm CDT, Friday, April 19, 2019
Sgt. Kenneth Barnett, a reserve deputy with Montgomery County Precinct 4 Constable's Office, prepares for his shift, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in New Caney.
Photo: Jason Fochtman, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer
Former Conroe Police Officer Kenneth Barnett still remembers the day when he and his partner dashed to a busy bakery where a man was threatening to fire off rounds from his gun. Barnett was in the patrol car's passenger seat on that April 2011 afternoon as he hurriedly loaded his partner's rifle, which killed the assailant who shot Conroe Officer Sgt. James Kelemen in the face.
Not all of Barnett's days in his near 10 years working law enforcement have been this intense. The vigorous 77-year-old still welcomes the work, even if as a reserve law enforcement officer he's not getting paid for doing the work of a standard law enforcement officer.
As he was approaching retirement age, he settled on being a reserve officer to express appreciation he said he gathered from being a Marine veteran and an international businessman.
"I am so grateful to have had the opportunity that I had in this country compared to everything I've seen in other places. I was thinking, there must be some way, 'What can I do to show my gratitude?' To give back to the community — be of some assistance," Barnett said.
He also wanted to be a part of the action.
"It got me to thinking. I began my adult life in the military. To me it seemed like that would be pretty cool to end my active adult life doing something like this," he said.
Now working deputy duty at the Montgomery County Precinct 4 Constable's Office as a reserve unit sergeant, Barnett started out five years as a reserve officer with the Conroe Police Department.
A Montgomery resident who owns and operates an agricultural chemical company out of Willis, Barnett had grown an interest with the deputy patrol service his neighborhood's homeowner's association was contracting.
He reached out to the Montgomery County Sheriff s Office, which invited Barnett to be a reserve deputy.
Barnett went on to complete Lone Star College's police academy in December 2009.
In Texas, "the education requirements and the training requirements — everything that a reserve officer goes through is no different than what a full-paid officer goes through," Barnett said. "The academy class is mixed. There's people there who are going to be a reserve. There's people there who's going to be full paid. They go through the exact same classes, exact same instructors that are there every day. Actually no difference."
As time consuming as the rigorous studying and homework were, all while he ran his business, Barnett managed to graduate valedictorian from the academy.
He was hired by Conroe Police Department. Eventually, the reserve unit there was dissolved and Precinct 4 recruited him.
Unlike at Conroe where everything was furnished, reserve deputies provide equipment for themselves, except for the uniform. In addition, they are only insured if there is a lawsuit filed against them in the line of duty. If hospitalized while working, the reserve deputies pay out of pocket, unless their personal health insurance covers it.
There are currently 15 reserve deputies at Precinct 4, part of a deputy staff of 50. Two to three more reserve deputies are expected to join.
Montgomery County's five constable precincts' have a total of 70 reserve deputies, according to county budget officer Amanda Carter.
Precinct 4's reserve unit is headed up by Lieutenant Kevin Sapp, a reserve officer. Under his command are two sergeants, Barnett and reserve deputy T.J. Knox.
Sapp, who often travels abroad as CEO of an industrial services company, manages a unit which regularly executes drug busts. Recently, he and Barnett had to fight off a repeat DWI offender resisting arrest.
"Different people do it for different reasons," Sapp said about being a reserve deputy. For instance, "some people volunteer their time to build houses for the homeless."
There are two different types of people who join the reserve unit, Sapp explained. Some, he said, are previously employed as full-time officers, while others, like himself and Barnett, have full-fledged careers.
The reserve unit has "that one common anchor point, which is law enforcement," Sapp said. "We still have a desire to help people who aren't in a situation to help themselves."
When not working the street beat, many of the reserve deputies are a resource for doing security work at civic events like the Montgomery County Fair and Rodeo. This helps ease the full-time deputies' workload.
"Part of our duty, as I see it, as a reserve, is we back these full-paid officers because they don't have any other backup out there," Barnett said.
At least 70 percent of Precinct 4's full-time deputies began as reserves, since many join with the intent of being hired on as paid officers.
"They're there for that opportunity," Barnett said.
Every reserve deputy, he continued, must undergo the same exact training as any newly hired full-time deputy. When open positions become available at Precinct 4, they are automatically allowed to apply ahead of external candidates, he added.
"Our reserve division is a phenomenal resource for us," Precinct 4 Captain Buck Clendennen said.
No limitations are placed on the reserve deputies as they "have a lot of experience. They bring a lot to the table," Clendennen said. "On top of working a full-time job and a having a family, they support us by coming out here and putting a uniform on with absolutely nothing to gain other than doing the job."
With all the activity within Precinct 4, Clendennen finds reserve deputies are particularly valuable as patrol partners to full-time deputies. At Precinct 4, there are three so-called pool patrol cars which reserve deputies share. If none is available when a reserve deputy arrives, then he or she will ride with a full-time officer.
Clendennen relayed having a partner would have likely prevented him from multiple hospitalizations when he was patrolling.
"When we have an extra set of eyes and ears … that's sometimes the difference between these guys getting home at night," he said.
The reserve deputies' supplementary work, he said, prevents Precinct 4 from requesting more taxpayer money.
"I'm honored that they would show us they support us that way and put on our badge and uniform and not accept a nickel for what they do," Clendennen said.
It has never been a concern among full-time deputies that their pay faces risk because of reserve deputies and pay at the precinct has not dropped with increases in the reserve unit, he added.
"These guys are always talking shop. 'Hey, what do you want to do this week?' "Where are we going to patrol this week?' 'What's a hot spot we need to hit this week?'" Clendennen said.
He made special note of Barnett's contributions to the reserve unit and the precinct as a whole.
"Sergeant Barnett does anything and everything. The guy, he's a tool, man. I mean that in a good way," Clendennen said.
On a breezy spring night recently, Barnett was on patrol, driving a cruiser through the streets of New Caney, doing traffic checks and pulling over violators. All of it alongside full-time deputies. No one would know the difference at stops where he and a full-timer were at work.
Barnett is sure to defer praise to all the deputies at Precinct 4, reserve and full-time alike.
"All (of them) work hard. As hard as anybody works — to the last (one)," Barnett said.
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import test                         from 'ava';
import nightmare                    from 'nightmare';
import cleanstyle                   from '../../helpers/cleanstyle';
import common                       from '../../helpers/common';

const runner = nightmare({
    show : false
});

let tagName = 'lowercase';
let docUrl = common.getE2eDocUrl(tagName);
let basicDemo = `[name="开始"] mor-${tagName}`;

let context = {
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    basicDemo,
    common
};

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The bottom texture of a lead is wrong. It has black pixels which I don't think are intended.
MCPE-15955 The underside texture of a lead attached to a fence is glitched.


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Effects of MSG on the lymph nodes of the albino rat: Ultrastructural and morphometric studies
Keywords: lymph node, lymphocytes, macrophages, monosodium glutamate
Tetiana Harapko1, Lesia Mateshuk-Vatseba2
1 Department of Human Anatomy and Histology, Uzhhorod National University, Medical Faculty, Ukraine
2 Department of Normal Anatomy, Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytskyi, Ukraine
The purpose of the study was to study the morphometric and electron microscopic changes of the parenchyma of the mesenteric lymph nodes of rats under the conditions of action of monosodium glutamate and its abolition. The paper presents and analyzes data from an experimental study conducted on 76 albino rats in females and males of reproductive age. Experimental animals are divided into 5 groups. Eight weeks of exposure to monosodium glutamate (MSG) showed a significant decrease in the relative area of the cortical substance in the parenchyma of the mesenteric lymph nodes of albino rats in males and females by 10.3% and 8.3%, respectively, and an increase in the relative area of the medullary substance by 16.1% and 13.2%, respectively with an intact group of animals. Submicroscopically after eight weeks of exposure to monosodium glutamate, as well as after eight weeks of cancellations, in the parenchyma of lymph nodesintercellular spaces are enlarged, lymphocytes have low electron density, karyolysis, organelles at different stages of decay, the number of macrophages increases, cellular detritus and osmiophilic inclusions in the cytoplasm of macrophages and in the intercellular space. The wall of arterioles is thickened, sclerosed, nuclei of large endothelial cells. There are thorough defects in the capillary wall, venous plethora. The hemocapillary lumen is narrowed due to numerous protrusions and microvilli of the cytolema of endothelial cells. Changes appear after two weeks of action of monosodium glutamate and increase by the eighth week of the experiment. Any changes will not return to normal after cancellation of exposure to monosodium glutamate.
Eur. J. Anat.
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One of the most common food additives not only in Ukraine but also worldwide is monomonosodium glutamate (MSG, C5H8NO4NaH2O). This monosodium salt of glutamic acid, often found in nature, exists as free glutamate, and as bound to other amino acids in protein. This food additive belongs to the group of flavor enhancers used in a wide range of products, such as soups, sauces, puddings, chips, meat products and mixed condiments (Hussein et al., 2017; Rutska et al., 2017). However, despite its widespread prevalence, its effect on the body remains insufficiently studied (Zanfirescu et al., 2018). By enhancing the taste of food, monomonosodium glutamate leads to an increase in the amount of food consumed per day, which causes a high-calorie diet (HCD). In studies, the authors describe that HCD leads to metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, diabetes, splenomegaly, hypertension, heart attack, etc. (Buchan et al., 2018; El-Aziz et al., 2018; Kothari et al., 2017).
The results of a study in experimental animals using this additive showed that the consumption of monomonosodium glutamate leads to an increase in lipid peroxidation, nitric oxide, neurotransmitters, accompanied by the accumulation of ß-amyloid peptides in the animal's body (Hussein et al., 2017). According to other studies, the authors concluded that monomonosodium glutamate leads to obesity (Bautista et al., 2019). It was also found that the addition of monomonosodium glutamate to the diet of rats reduces the excretion of Na, K and water from the body. NaCl retention leads to hypertension, accompanied by renal pathology, intrarenal oxidative stress and decreased nitric oxide secretion (Contini et al., 2017).
An urgent task of modern medicine is to study the effect of dietary supplements, monomonosodium glutamate in particular, on the structure of the parenchyma and the vascular bed of lymphoid (immune) organs. The latter include lymph nodes, which play a role in the body of a kind of biological "filters", whose function is to neutralize antigens, because they themselves are antigen-dependent proliferation and differentiation of T- and B-lymphocytes (Oliveira et al., 2019). Lymphocytes and macrophages are among the major cells involved in the immune response (Arundina et al., 2017; Kusumaningsih et al., 2018). Having studied the features of the structural reorganization of the immune system under the action of monomonosodium glutamate, it becomes possible to study methods for correcting these changes.
The aim of the research was to study the morphometric and electron microscopic changes of the parenchyma of mesenteric lymph nodes of rats under the conditions of action of monosodium glutamate and its abolition.
The study was conducted on 76 albino rats of male and female reproductive age (2.5-6.5 months) weighing 120-280 g. The microanatomy of the structural components of the mesenteric lymph nodes of albino rats under physiological norms was examined in 10 intact animals. The experimental animals were divided into 5 groups: the first group (10 animals), who had been on a high calorie diet (HCD) for two weeks; the second (10 animals), the third (10 animals), and the fourth group (10 animals), who had been on HCD for four, six, and eight weeks, respectively; the fifth group (10 animals), who had been on a HCD for eight weeks, followed by a standard vivarium diet for eight weeks. Each group had 5 male rats and 5 female rats. HCD was achieved by adding 0.07 g / kg of rat body weight to food monosodium glutamate.
Controls were served by 16 albino rats who received a standard vivarium diet instead of the high-calorie diet.
All experimental animals were kept in the vivarium of Danilo Halytskyi National Medical University. The studies were conducted in accordance with the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes (Strasbourg, 1986), Council of Europe Directives 86/609 / EEC (1986), Law of Ukraine No. 3447-IV «On the Protection of Animals from Cruelty behavior», the general ethical principles of animal experimentation, approved by the First National Congress of Ukraine on Bioethics (2001).
Before the material was taken, the animals were numbed with anesthesia. The fixation of the mesenteric lymph nodes was performed with a 1.5% solution of osmium tetroxide in 0.2 M monosodium cacodylate solution at pH 7.2 for 2-2.5 hours in the cold. Dehydration in increasing concentrations of ethyl alcohol (50 о, 70 о, 90 о and absolute) for 30 min each and propylene oxide for 10 min. The material was poured into a mixture of epoxy resins and polymerized for 24 h in a thermostat at 60° C. The sections were made on a UMTP-6M ultramicrotome using a diamond knife (DIATOM) and double Reynolds and uranyl acetate were contrasted. Sections of lymph nodes were examined using a TEM - 100 transmission electron microscope. Photo material was documented using a SONY - H9 digital camera.
Morphometric studies were performed at specific times on histological specimens stained with hematoxylin and eosin using VideoTest-5.0, CAARA Image Base, Stepanizer, and Microsoft Exel on a personal computer.
Statistical processing of digital data was performed using Excel software and STATISTICA 6.0 using the parametric method. The numerical values of the parameters are represented by sample averages (M), standard deviation (σ), standard error of the mean (m), Student's t test (t). The results of the calculations were presented in graphical form in histograms using Microsoft Office, indicating confidence intervals at 95% confidence level (p = 0.95).
In animals of intact and control groups, according to our histological studies, the structure of the mesenteric lymph nodes was consistent with the species norm. Externally, the lymph nodes are covered by a connective tissue capsule from which numerous cortical and medullary trabeculae depart deep into the parenchyma of the node. On the cramped part of the node are hila The parenchyma of the lymph node consists of located on the periphery of the cortical substance, and closer to the hilum of the medullary substance. Electron microscopically found that small, medium and large lymphocytes have a typical structure. Small lymphocytes have a diameter of about 6-7 μm, contain a large nucleus and a thin section of the cytoplasm with numerous ribosomes. Medium lymphocytes with a diameter of about 7-9 μm contain a more rounded nucleus with a distinct nucleolus. The cytoplasm contains ribosomes, a granular endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria (Fig. 1). The large lymphocytes (lymphoblast) have a diameter of about 10 μm, the nucleus is filled with euchromatin, the karyolema is flat. The cytoplasm contains mitochondria and ribosomes. Macrophages have a different nucleus shape, with primary and secondary lysosomes in their cytoplasm.
Two weeks after HCD submicroscopic structure of small and medium lymphocytes is typical. Nuclei are of rounded shape, cytoplasm contains organelles (mitochondria, granular endoplasmic reticulum). However, the contours of the nuclear membrane are not equal, the cytoplasmic membrane loses clarity in some areas (Fig. 2). Among unmodified lymphocytes, there are destructively altered cells whose nuclei have pycnosis signs, and mitochondria contain damaged mitochondrial ridges. Reticulo-endothelial cells contain enlarged nuclei and thickened processes. The number of organelles in the cytoplasm is small, the latter partially changed. The vessels of the hemomicrocirculatory bed are somewhat enlarged, full-blooded.
Submicroscopically, after four weeks of HCD, nuclei with apoptosis phenomena were detected in part of the lymphocytes of all populations. Preferably they are in the state of karyorexis or karyolysis. In the cytoplasm are lighted areas, mitochondria are hypertrophied with light matrix. The lumen of the arteries and arterioles is slightly expanded. In relation to the cytoplasm of endothelial cells, their nuclei occupy a large part. On the luminal surface of endothelial cells in the wall of hemocapillaries, the number of microvilli grows, the cariolem forms protrusions. Organelles in the cytoplasm of endothelial cells lose the clarity of the contours. The lumen of the veins and venules is somewhat increased (Fig. 3).
Submicroscopically, after six weeks of HCD, the number of macrophages with a large number of phagosomes increases in the cytoplasm, fragments of damaged lymphocytes and other osmiophilic inclusions. Reticulo-endothelial cells nuclei are enlarged, deformed, cytoplasm contains damaged organelles. The number of lymphocytes with signs of apoptosis is increasing (Fig. 4). In the part of lymphocytes in the nucleus there are no nucleolus, cytoplasm is enlightened, organelles are damaged. The mitochondria with the enlightened matrix, the tubules of the granular endoplasmic reticulum are swollen, dilated. In the lumen and in the wall of the postcapillary venules with high endothelium, a large number of lymphocytes may indicate an increase in the processes of lymphocyte migration into the parenchyma of the lymph node from the blood.
Submicroscopically after eight weeks of HCD, as well as after eight weeks of cancellation, the changes in the parenchyma of the lymph nodes of both male rats and females intercellular spaces are expanded, lymphocytes have low electron density, there is karyolysis, organelles at different stages. The number of macrophages increased, in whose cytoplasm and extracellular spaces a large number of cellular detritus and osmiophilic inclusions are seen. The latter indicates the growth of the process of cell death. The proportion of collagen fibers and microfibrils in the parenchyma of the node increased. The wall of arterioles is thickened, sclerosed, nuclei of large endothelial cells. There are thorough defects in the capillary wall, venous plethora. The hemocapillary lumen is narrowed due to numerous protrusions and microvilli of the cytolema of endothelial cells, in cross section it has a star-shaped shape. Some areas of the hemocapillaries are so narrow that they do not pass blood cells (Fig. 5).
The dynamics of changes in the relative area of cortical and medullary substances and cortical-medullar index (CMI) of lymph nodes of albino male rats in control and experimental groups are expressed in Table 1. Two weeks after HCD, a significant increase in the relative area of cortical substance was shown in the parenchyma of lymph nodes of albino rats of females by 7.6%, compared with the intact group of animals. Accordingly, the relative area of the medullary substance decreases and is 12.0% less than the parameters of the intact group of animals. CMI decreases in female rats by 22.2%.
Four weeks after HCD, a decrease in the relative area of cortical substance was revealed in the parenchyma of lymph nodes of albino rats of females by 11.0%, compared to the previous group of animals, and there were 4.2% less indicators of intact group of animals. Accordingly, the relative area of the medullary substance increases by 21.3% compared to the previous group of animals, and is 6.7% more than the parameters of the intact group of animals. CMI decreases in female rats by 26.4%.
Six weeks after HCD, a decrease in the relative area of the cortical substance was revealed in the parenchyma of lymph nodes of albino rats of females by 5.3%, compared to the previous group of animals, and there were 9.3% less indicators of intact group of animals. Accordingly, the relative area of the medullary substance increases by 7.5% compared to the previous group of animals, and is 14.7% more than the parameters of the intact group of animals. CMI decreases in female rats by 12.0%.
Eight weeks after HCD, an increase in the relative area of the cortical substance was revealed in the parenchyma of lymph nodes of albino rats of females by 1.1%, compared to the previous group of animals, which means 8.3% less parameters of intact group of animals. Accordingly, the relative area of the medullary substance decreases by 1.3% compared to the previous group of animals, and is 13.2% more than the parameters of the intact group of animals. CMI in female rats was 19.0% less than in the intact group of animals.
Eight weeks after HCD, after which 8 weeks of standard vivarium food ration succeeded, a relative decrease in the cortical area was revealed in the parenchyma of lymph nodes of albino rats in females by 1.2%, compared to the previous group of animals, and by 9.4% less than the parameters of the intact group of animals. Accordingly, the relative area of the medullary substance increases by 1.5% compared to the previous group of animals, and is 14.9% more than the parameters of the intact group of animals. СMI in female rats was 20.9% less than in the intact animal group.
From studies described in the literature, it is known that the introduction of monomonosodium glutamate at a dose of 30 mg / kg body weight leads to the accumulation in the body of excessive amounts of low and medium molecular weight and reduced ability of the kidneys to excrete toxic products. The shift of markers of intoxication syndrome towards catabolic substances is revealed. One week after the experiment, the results correspond to the phase of partial compensation, which is characterized by an increased concentration of low and medium molecular weight substances in erythrocytes and blood plasma. After two weeks and up to one month of the experiment, catabolic markers of endogenous intoxication predominate, which continue to accumulate in erythrocytes and plasma, indicating a transition to the phase of partial decompensation of all systems and organs involved in detoxification (Krynytska et al., 2019). Based on these results, the organs of the immune system are also affected by intoxication of the body as a side effect of monomonosodium glutamate.
The results of a study conducted on eight-week-old rats on a high-calorie diet showed an increase in blood levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins, weight gain (De Farias et al., 2019). These are all signs of obesity, which also affects negatively the organs of the immune system.
Similar results are obtained in a study where obesity caused by a high-calorie diet leads to cell death and activation of macrophages in the lymph nodes. The authors concluded that obesity-related inflammation induces lymph node fibrosis and is likely to increase the lumen of the sinuses and subsequently reduce the interaction of immune cells. The resulting effects of immune regulation are likely to contribute to the suppression of immunosuppression and lymphatic dysfunction during obesity (Foster et al., 2017).
The results of a study in which experimental animals received a high-calorie diet that included 20% protein, 20% carbohydrates and 60% fat for two weeks, indicate that the parenchyma of lymph nodes increases the proportion of macrophages and stromal cells that contain lipid inclusions. For comparison, we used a group of animals that received a low-calorie diet that included 20% protein, 70% carbohydrates and 10% fat for two weeks. The authors proved that stromal cells express a large number of genes associated with lipid metabolism, which indicates that lymph nodes are involved in lipid metabolism (Streich et al., 2020).
The novelty of the results described by us is the use of electron microscopic research methods, which gave new data at the ultrastructural level on the structure of lymph nodes under the action of monomonosodium glutamate.
Prospects for further development are related to the study of morphometric and electron microscopic changes in the structural components of rats lymph nodes under conditions of correction of the action of monosodium glutamate.
As a result of a study in rats males and females, we found:
After eight weeks of action of monosodium glutamate a significant decrease in the relative area of the cortical substance in the parenchyma of lymph nodes of albino rats of males and females respectively, and an increase in the relative area of the medullary substance in comparison with an intact group of animals.
Electron microscopic сhanges appear after two weeks of action of monosodium glutamate and increase by the eighth week of the experiment. Any changes detected after eight weeks of exposure to monosodium glutamate will not return to normal after cancellation.
The authors thank all members of Faculty of Medicine, Uzhhorod National University, Lviv National Medical University named after Danylo Halytskyi, Ukraine for their kind cooperation.
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Fig. 1.- Electron-microscopic organization of the cortical substance of the mesenteric lymph node of the albino rat-female intact group. Electronic micrograph. Approx. × 6000. Designation: euchromatin (1), heterochromatin (2) and nucleolus (3) in the nucleus of the middle lymphocyte; the cytoplasm (4) contains ribosomes (5); nucleus (6) and cytoplasm (7) of small lymphocyte.
Fig. 2.- Electron microscopic organization of cortical substance of mesenteric lymph node of albino rat female after two weeks of HCD. Electronic micrograph. Approx. × 6000. Designation: Euchromatin (1) and nucleolus (2) in lymphoblast nucleus, 3 – cytoplasm; nucleus (4) and cytoplasm (5) of middle B-lymphocyte, 6 – osmiophilic inclusions; nucleus (7) and cytoplasm (8) of small B lymphocyte.
Fig. 3.- Electron microscopic organization of a fragment of a mesenteric lymph node of a albino rat male in four weeks of HCD. Electronic micrograph. Approx. × 6000. Designation: 1 - lumen of the venula; nucleus (2) and cytoplasm (3) of endothelial cells; nucleus (4) and cytoplasm (5) of basophilic leukocyte; 6 – granule; 7 – swollen and thickened basement membrane; 8 – vascular edema; nucleus (9) with signs of apoptosis and cytoplasm (10) of lymphocyte.
Fig. 4.- Electron-microscopic organization of the cortical substance of the mesenteric lymph node of the albino rat female after six weeks of HCD. Electronic micrograph. Approx. × 6000. Designation: 1 – lymphocyte karyolysis; 2 – destructive area; nucleus (3) and cytoplasm (4) of small B-lymphocyte; nucleus (5) and cytoplasm (6) of middle B lymphocyte; nucleus (7) and cytoplasm (8) of the lymphoblast; 8 – vacuolated cytoplasm of lymphocytes; deformed nucleus (9) and thinned processes of the reticulo-endothelial cells.
Fig. 5.- Electron microscopic organization of a fragment of a mesenteric lymph node of a albino rat female of reproductive age after eight weeks of HCD. Electronic micrograph. Approx. × 8000. Designation: 1 - deformed endothelial cell nucleus; 2 - cytoplasm of endothelial cells; 3 - narrowed lumen of the hemocapillary; 4 - stratified and swollen basal membrane of the hemocapillary; 5 - vascular edema; 6 – shoots of cytolemy on its luminal surface.
Table 1. Dynamics of changes in the relative area of cortical and medullary substances and cortical-medullar index (CMI) of lymph nodes of albino male rats in control and experimental groups (M ± m).
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pomelo-globalchannel-plugin
===========================

pomelo-globalchannel-plugin is a plugin for pomelo, it can be used in pomelo(>=0.6).

In pomelo, channel is an abstract concept which can be understood as a collection of users. In pomelo you can add users into a named channel, and push message to all users in this channel. But it only can be used in the same server, which means it does not support distributed environment.

The global channel solve this problem. It uses persistent storage to do this thing. You can use it to store users in distributed environment and do same things as local channel does in pomelo.

##Installation

```
npm install pomelo-globalchannel-plugin
```

##Usage

```
var globalChannel = require('pomelo-globalchannel-plugin');

app.use(globalChannel, {globalChannel: {
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 6379,
  db: '0'       // optinal, from 0 to 15 with default redis configure
}});

```

##API

###add(name, uid, sid, cb)
add a member into channel
####Arguments
+ name - channel name.
+ uid - user id.
+ sid - frontend server id
+ cb - callback function

###leave(name, uid, sid, cb)
remove user from channel
####Arguments
+ name - channel name.
+ uid - user id.
+ sid - frontend server id
+ cb - callback function

###getMemberBySid(name, sid, cb)
get members by frontend server id
####Arguments
+ name - channel name
+ sid - frontend server id
+ cb - callback function

###getMembersByChannelName(stype, name, cb)
get members by channel name
####Arguments
+ stype - frontend server type string
+ name - channel name
+ cb callback function

###pushMessage(stype, route, msg, name, opts, cb)
send message by global channel
####Arguments
+ stype - frontend server type string
+ route - route string
+ msg - message would be sent to clients
+ name - channel name
+ opts - optional parameters
+ cb - callback function

###destroyChannel(name, cb)
destroy a global channel
####Arguments
+ name - channel name
+ cb - callback function

##Notice

Global channel use redis as a default persistent storage, you can change it with your own implementation.

```
var globalChannel = require('pomelo-globalchannel-plugin');
var mysqlGlobalChannelManager = require('./mysqlGlobalChannelManager');

app.use(globalChannel, {globalChannel: {
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 6379,
  channelManager: mysqlGlobalChannelManager
}});

```


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"Goats are bored engineers." I'll remember that whenever I look at the half-destroyed water bucket holder in the buck pen.


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using System.Linq;
using Content.Server.Damage.Components;
using Content.Server.Destructible;
using Content.Server.Destructible.Thresholds.Triggers;
using Content.Shared.Damage;
using Content.Shared.Damage.Prototypes;
using Content.Shared.Examine;
using Content.Shared.Rounding;
using Robust.Shared.Prototypes;

namespace Content.Server.Damage.Systems;

public sealed class ExaminableDamageSystem : EntitySystem
{
    [Dependency] private readonly IPrototypeManager _prototype = default!;

    public override void Initialize()
    {
        base.Initialize();
        SubscribeLocalEvent<ExaminableDamageComponent, ComponentInit>(OnInit);
        SubscribeLocalEvent<ExaminableDamageComponent, ExaminedEvent>(OnExamine);
    }

    private void OnInit(EntityUid uid, ExaminableDamageComponent component, ComponentInit args)
    {
        if (component.MessagesProtoId == null)
            return;
        component.MessagesProto = _prototype.Index<ExaminableDamagePrototype>(component.MessagesProtoId);
    }

    private void OnExamine(EntityUid uid, ExaminableDamageComponent component, ExaminedEvent args)
    {
        if (component.MessagesProto == null)
            return;

        var messages = component.MessagesProto.Messages;
        if (messages.Length == 0)
            return;

        var level = GetDamageLevel(uid, component);
        var msg = Loc.GetString(messages[level]);
        args.PushMarkup(msg);
    }

    private int GetDamageLevel(EntityUid uid, ExaminableDamageComponent? component = null,
        DamageableComponent? damageable = null, DestructibleComponent? destructible = null)
    {
        if (!Resolve(uid, ref component, ref damageable, ref destructible))
            return 0;

        if (component.MessagesProto == null)
            return 0;

        var maxLevels = component.MessagesProto.Messages.Length - 1;
        if (maxLevels <= 0)
            return 0;

        var trigger = (DamageTrigger?) destructible.Thresholds
            .LastOrDefault(threshold => threshold.Trigger is DamageTrigger)?.Trigger;
        if (trigger == null)
            return 0;

        var damage = damageable.TotalDamage;
        var damageThreshold = trigger.Damage;
        var fraction = damageThreshold == 0 ? 0f : (float) damage / damageThreshold;

        var level = ContentHelpers.RoundToNearestLevels(fraction, 1, maxLevels);
        return level;
    }
}


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Calendrier

Événements

Naissances
Abba Eban
Moshe Dayan

Décès
Isaac Leib Peretz
Yitzchak Yaacov Reines

Année hébraïque

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Brasil Guitar Duo, a 2006 winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and hailed by Classical Guitar magazine for its "maturity of musicianship and technical virtuosity," is equally at home on a classical or a world-music series. Its innovative programming features a seamless blend of traditional and Brazilian works, resulting in a full global touring schedule and a growing catalogue of critically acclaimed recordings. The Duo has appeared internationally on major concert series and at festivals throughout the world. Duo members João Luiz and Douglas Lora have been performing together for twenty years, and actively strive to expand the repertoire for two guitars, with Lora contributing works of his own and Luiz arranging both classical and Brazilian music. Appearing frequently in diverse non-traditional spaces, the Duo combines a broad repertoire of classical guitar duos with such traditional Brazilian dance forms as choro, samba, maxixe, and baiao. Committed to performing new chamber music employing the guitar, the Duo joined cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Carlos Prieto in the October 2014 world premiere of El arco y la lira, a work for two cellos and two guitars by the esteemed Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. Their 2015 Naxos CD of Brouwer's complete works for two guitars was nominated for a Latin Grammy award for Best New Composition.


The Centre Hospitalier d'Auch (CH d'Auch), located in south-west France, has 7 divisions: Medical - emergency, Medical - metabolic diseases, Medical - technical, Mother and child, Geriatrics, Medico-surgical techniques, as well as Logistics and Administration. Some 110 medical specialists practice at the CH d'Auch. In 2014, the center recorded 27,404 hospitalizations, 51,146 consultations, 20,492 visits to the emergency room and 7,412 medical acts under anesthesia.
The solution offered by Axians and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has enabled us to bring our infrastructure up to speed and build a solid foundation for the future. With these changes, the CH d'Auch can provide an even better service for patients.
After conducting an audit of the existing system, the CH d'Auch saw the need to modernize its network infrastructure.
They needed a network that would be more reliable and offer better services to users.
Due to uneven coverage across the facility, Wi-Fi telephones were not enabling mobility, an essential requirement for the hospital's staff.
They needed a solution which would be financially compatible with the hospital's tight budget.
The CH d'Auch now has the optimal bandwidth required for a modern hospital applications like medical imagery storage, videoconferencing, etc.
The convergent IP solution is scalable, allowing the hospital to continue developing its services in the future.
The CH d'Auch qualified for, and received, government grants (municipal, regional and national) thanks to the infrastructure renewal project.
The new DECT phones facilitate staff mobility and no user complaints have been recorded since their implementation.
Patients have better access to Wi-Fi.
This case study describes how the Centre Hospitalier d'Auch modernized its network infrastructure to enable staff mobility and better services for its patients.