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11 November, 2017 13 November, 2017 by stalinsmoustache, posted in China, marxism, socialism
What a time to be in China! What a time indeed.
Happenstance would have it that I was in Beijing for the nineteenth congress of the Communist Party of China. Usually, such events barely raise interest outside China, except perhaps for the rare Marxist actually interested in the place or – that ambivalent term – a 'China hand'. And if some foreign commentator happens to notice, they will trot out some rusty formulae concerning arcane language, obtuse signals and look for signs of a 'totalitarian' state – without trying to find out much real information.
Something big was afoot. Everywhere I went in China in the weeks leading up the congress I encountered banners, signs and posters. 'Welcome to the 19th congress of the CPC', one said. 'Study carefully Xi Jinping's writings', said another. 'The 19th congress will lead to a better life [meihua shenghuo]', said a third, invoking an ancient Chinese saying.
Security was tight, very tight. Internet systems were down or slow. Foreigners found themselves asked for passports and even urine samples if they happened to frequent expat bars (I avoid them). Almost one million citizen groups in Beijing were mobilised to keep an eye out for suspicious activity. Let alone the party members in town who had plain-clothes guard duty rosters for the lead-up and duration of the congress. Even social networking was tightened up: you could not change any item on your profile on wechat until the end of October.
In this buzz I zeroed in on the many levels of information available.
On the 18th of October, the congress began, with Xi Jinping slated to give a speech. And what a speech it was: 205 minutes non-stop, or 3 hours and 25 minutes. Clearly, the most important speech in his 63 years.
But what did he say?
Marxism has roared back to the centre of Chinese thought, policy and direction for the future. Not a mean achievement, especially after it seemed to be somewhat soft-pedalled not five years or more ago, before Xi became chairman (zhuxi, also translated as 'president'). Marxism would be – no, is – the guiding light, the beacon to the future.
Marxist political economy is setting the agenda for a very different economic approach. This is called a socialist market economy – and the Chinese are very serious about what is an increasingly clear alternative to a capitalist market economy. The speech outlined five main factors: 1) furthering supply-side structural reform; 2) fostering innovation at all levels to increase China's global leadership; 3) rural revitalisation; 4) coordinated regional development; 5) further opening up on all fronts. And the institutional mechanisms for each are already established.
But let me emphasise the following dimensions underlying this socialist market economy. The model clearly being followed is an alternative to neo-liberalism, which loves financial speculation and estimates based on short-term profit yields. Instead, the Chinese model takes the long view. Infrastructure is the key, within China and without. Think of the Belt and Road Initiative, already to reshape the world, let alone seeking to reshape the uneven development of China internally (focused on the western parts).
Further, the simplistic opposition between 'public' and 'private' sectors of the economy is now obsolete. For example, any 'private' company of over 100 employees has a core communist party cell. Each multinational company that wishes to engage with China – and so many do – must have a communist cell within it. What do we call this approach? I prefer to call it an 'enmeshed' economy, in which the CPC is interwoven with an equally interwoven 'public' and 'private' sector. What appears initially to be a 'private' economic project is inescapably enmeshed with the CPC, while the 'public' companies (SOEs) are being revitalised by active interaction with the 'private' ones. Even more, the mighty SOEs, revamped and more efficient, are starting to become multi-nationals themselves through many projects. Obviously, this has significant global implications.
But Marxism is much more than economics. Let me give a few examples.
1. The speech calls for an 'ecological civilisation', drawing deeply on cultural assumptions concerning the harmony of nature as 'shanshui', 'mountain-water', but also modern Marxist approaches.
2. 'Core socialist values' is a key, stressing the fact that ethics is a crucial component of Chinese Marxism, which should permeate all levels of society even more.
3. Strengthening the mechanisms by which the people run the country, which means developing further a distinctly Marxist tradition of socialist democracy.
4. A 'socialist rule of law' (shehuizhuyi fazhi), in which everyone is subject to the law. Obviously, this has affinities with a European-derived 'rule of law', although that tradition really means a whole structure developed to buttress capitalism. This is why the speech emphasised a socialist rule of law. It is being developed as system to ensure the development of socialism, while at the same making it clear that no-one is above this law within this framework.
5. Bold innovation by artists, writers, journalists, philosophers, social scientists and scientists, so that they not only contribute decisively to the country but also to the world.
Apart from the details in the speech, one of the more fascinating aspects for me was that it followed in its structure a familiar pattern from the Marxist tradition. Look back at Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Deng and others, and you will find that important speeches like this begin with an assessment of achievements (this one since the eighteenth party congress five years ago). While it identifies significant achievements, it also stresses – in the tradition of 'criticism and self-criticism' – where problems have arisen. The next two parts deal with national and international concerns. Xi's speech on this occasion focused more on internal concerns, which is to be expected. But he certainly did not neglect the international picture: the armed forces would continue to be modernised for the country's own security in an international context and China would continue to pursue the peaceful policy of a 'shared future for humanity'.
In all these speeches, the last part deals with the communist party itself. Xi's tenure began with a strong desire by party leaders that he would deal with significant problems: corruption, factionalism, brewing coups, lack of unity, inadequate theoretical knowledge. On all fronts, Xi has driven through major reforms, so that his statements concerning the party's ability to govern and lead, and the need for full, rigorous and strict governance over the party were certainly not empty phrases. More work obviously needs to be done, which he stressed, but the communist party has begun to emerge as stronger, more disciplined, unified and confident. It will be even more at the centre of power. As Xi put it, the 'defining feature' and 'greatest strength' of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the communist party. The party is the 'highest force for political leadership'.
For some time now, Xi Jinping has been emphasising the 'two centenary goals' (2021 and 2049), the 'Chinese dream' and its concrete manifestation in global projects like the Belt and Road Initiative. These were in the speech as well, but with greater clarity. The first centenary goal – of the CPC itself – is still there, of building a xiaokang shehui, an old Confucian term infused with Marxist meaning and translated as 'moderately prosperous society in all respects'. Given that this is around the corner, Xi's sights are set further in the future. To achieve the second centenary goal, he laid out two steps.
2020-2035: Full 'socialist modernisation [shehuizhuyi xiandaihua]', or more fully a 'socialistically modernised country' [shehuizhuyi xiandaihua guojia]. This phrase captures all of the policies outlined in the speech, but it also marks a shift from his earlier pronouncements. He used to speak of socialist modernisation being achieved by the second centenary goal, marking 100 years since the establishment of the people's republic. Now the aim has been brought forward to 2035.
2035-2050: building on the previous achievement and developing China into a 'great modern socialist country'. This country will be strong, prosperous, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful. Only when this has been achieved can China begin moving beyond the 'primary stage' of socialism in which it still finds itself.
A tall and ambitious agenda indeed, but Xi and those around him as 'the core' have a reputation for getting things done. Crucial for understanding this revised plan is the observation, 'based on a comprehensive analysis of the international and domestic environments'. Clearly, the rapidly shifting global situation, with the accelerating decline of the United States and ongoing turmoil and instability in Europe, along with world-shaping projects like the BRI and China's increasing involvement around the world, the time has been judged right for the emergence of a 'great modern socialist country' by the middle of this century. It also means that China would become the most powerful country in the world, and thereby the most powerful socialist country in human history.
This is not to say that road ahead will be easy – far from it!
A crucial part of the speech identified a new primary contradiction: 'What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life'. This is straight out of the 'contradiction analysis' approach that Mao first elaborated in Yan'an in 1937, showing that Marxist dialectics in a Chinese frame is still front and centre of government policies. Not only is there a primary or most important contradiction in any situation, but this contradiction may shift in terms of the weight given to either side, or it may become secondary as a new primary contradiction emerges. Thus, the earlier primary contradiction, articulated by Deng Xiaoping, identified a tension between the people's social and cultural needs and the backward economic forces. With China's forty-year reform and opening-up, it has been decided – through careful analysis – that this earlier contradiction has become secondary.
But what does the new primary contradiction mean? Unbalanced and inadequate development signals the complex problems of world-leading development in the more eastern parts of China and the lag in western parts, with resultant gaps between rich and poor, city and countryside. Obviously, the new contradiction targets these issues more directly. And the people's every growing need for a better life – an old Chinese term meihua shenghuo – applies to everyone, especially in western parts. Hence the targeted poverty alleviation program that has been accelerated, hence the BRI, hence the focus on the full range of what a 'better life' means. But the need for a better life also identifies with the core idea that socialism is primarily about improving the economic, social and cultural lives of everyone. Until this contradiction is resolved, China clearly remains in the primary stage of socialism.
At the same time, it signals a profoundly new era. This theme came through again and again in the report: China and its socialism have entered a new era. The trick here is to indicate profound continuity with the past, while also taking it all into a new stage. It is not for nothing that it has been called 'Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era [xindedai zhongguotese shehuizhuyi sixiang]'.
Or 'Xi Jinping Thought' for short. Only Mao's thought has until now been designated with the description sixiang, thought. Even Deng's important but briefer reflections were designated only as lilun, theory. Xi Jinping Thought has now been written into the constitution of the Communist Party of China.
At one point, I woke in the middle of the night and realised that this moment, in October 2017, will turn out to be as significant at the moment in Yan'an some 80 years ago when Mao Zedong Thought was first formally identified.
I have spent some time with all of this, not least because foreign 'China watchers' have tended to focus on international relations, the strength of the communist party, and above all Xi's own power. Obviously, this emphasis skews much of what the speech contained, both in terms of continuity with Xi's earlier elaborations and the new directions. I leave aside the silly tropes of 'jargon', 'coded' language, or 'grand theatre' that are routinely trotted out.
But what was the response of people around China? I could mention the millions that watched the speech live, or the flurry of wechat and weibo posts about it. But one experience said it all for me. I decided to go to the local Xinhua bookshop, the official government one. At the front desk, I asked where Xi Jinping's works were kept. The woman at the desk smiled and pointed upstairs.
There before me was a massive table laden with Xi Jinping's publications. And at the forefront were various editions of the speech itself, only days after it was delivered. I struggled to find room to look at the publications, so crowded was the table. Eventually I managed to get hold of one copy, as well as a number of Xi's other publications. For whatever reasons, people were snapping up the printed form of the speech. I simply could not imagine this happening anywhere else.
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No queues for anything Theresa May has published, as far as I am aware. 🙂
13 November, 2017 at 2:09 pm
And may would not be the only one, i am sure.
Dear Roland,
Out of all the Communists leaders throughout history (whom you haven't already dealt with), which one are you most interested in with regards to their engagement with theology?
My own guess would be Castro, for he has actually written and spoken quite a bit on the issue of theology
https://www.amazon.com/Fidel-Religion-Castro-Talks-Revolution/dp/0671662376/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Meant to reply earlier: Castro is definitely worth a detailed look, but the Marxism and theology project is on hold for a while. These days I am focused on socialism in power, especially in China. And the categories I developed in the Marxism and theology project simply do not work here, so I have had to dismantle them all and begin again.
Hi Roland,
this is indeed an interesting piece. although i'm not a big fan stalinism (if one can argue that CPC is some sort of part of stalinist legacies), i do appreciate what the CPC doing right now with their "back to marxism root." their initiative is really putting socialism back to its real business; as the only real threat (i.e alternative) to capitalism. however, i'm just wondering, how the Chinese communist deal with issue "class"? As we already know, the discourse of "class struggle" is definitely absent in any CPC mode of thinking right now (you might wanna check this article https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/chinablog/class-china-became-politically-incorrect/). thus, if we takes into account this issue, how can we understand current reawakening of chinese marxism? what kind of marxism that they try to encourage right now? during your visit to China, were there any Chinese comrade that talking to you about this issue?
all in all, i do enjoy reading your blog. keep it up, Comrade!
Of course, there is plenty of discussion of class, but the crucial distinction is between 'before October' and 'after October'. Class conflict is a feature leading up to a revolution and afterwards in dealing with the counter-revolution. But how do you account for classes under socialism, where they clearly do continue? Here the category of 'non-antagonistic contradictions' plays a huge role. First identified in the Soviet Union and then developed much further by Mao and others, it is the mode of analysing classes under socialism – among other features. The risk of contradictions becoming antagonistic is always there, hence the need to identify a primary contradiction (as at the 29th congress) in order to focus on ensuring that it is non-antagonistic. Another feature is significant research into the many people who have benefitted from the anti-poverty campaign and reform and opening up. As I point out elsewhere, 'middle class' is way too loose and rooted in perceptions of the European bourgeoisie. Instead, this class is enmeshed with and realises fully that they have benefitted from CPC policies.
As for Marx, he was fully aware that he did not have the evidence to assess socialism in power, which can be analysed only with evidence and analysis. So he left the issue alone apart from a few general and abstract observations.
And that LA Review of Books piece is pretty bad, pulling out the usual tropes and misreading the situation.
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COPD – Increased Independence
A large body of good quality randomised controlled trial study data shows an improvement in physical and functional capacity as measured by mean walking distance.(1–3)
A 12 study (n = 689) SR/MA concluded that HIIT could improve pulmonary function, exercise capacity (improved estimate 30.31m 6MWD (MD = 30.31, 95% CI [14.52, 46.10], P = 0.0002) (GRADE: high)), and quality of life (CRQ score improvement (SMD = 0.3, 95% CI [0.06, 0.54], P = 0.01) (GRADE: moderate)) but may not decrease dyspnoea in patients with COPD.(4)
This SR/MA looking at land and water-based aerobic training shows that aerobic exercise can effectively improve dyspnoea (MD –0.61 [–1.08, –0.15]; P=0.01)) and exercise capacity (land and water-based groups improved 6MWT (MD: 56.37, 95% CI [32.61, 80.13], P < .05) and ESWT (MD: 254.81, 95% CI [166.41, 343.22], P < .05)) in COPD patients. Compared with land-based aerobic exercise, water-based aerobic exercise had a significant additional effect in improving the endurance exercise capacity of COPD patients.(5)
An 11 study (n = 405) meta-analysis on the effects of resistance training in elderly COPD patients. The results such as improved 6-min walking distance (WMD, 54.52; 95% CI 25.47–83.56; I2 = 43%; P = 0.14), transfer numbers for the 6-min pegboard and ring test (WMD, 25.17; 95% CI 10.17–40.16; I2 = 0%; P = 0.55), and tolerance time for the unsupported upper-limb exercise test (SMD, 0.41; 95% CI 0.03–0.79; I2 = 0%; P = 0.83). indicate that resistance training could improve functional, endurance and maximum exercise capacity of elderly COPD patients.(6)
Another 8 study (n= 332) SR/MA looking at elastic resistance training. Compared to resistance training with weight machines, there were similar effects on improved muscle strength (similar knee extensor strength (SMD = −0.14, 95% CI = −0.58 to 0.29, I2 = 0%; low certainty), shoulder flexor strength (MD = 4.02 N, 95% CI = −7.81 to 15.84 N, I2 = 42%; very low certainty) and elbow flexor strength (SMD = 0.07, 95% CI = −0.36 to 0.50, I2 = 0%; moderate certainty), functional exercise capacity (MD = 10.94, 95% CI = −8.65 to 30.53, I2 = 0%; low certainty), HRQoL and dyspnoea.(7)
The review (15 studies, n = 842) concluded that exercise-based interventions have a positive effect on balance in COPD patients. Incorporation of balance training into PR seems to have the most beneficial effect on balance, although the effects on fall risk and longer-term intervention effects are understudied.(8)
Early PR interventions, through meta-analysis, were found to improve functional exercise capacity (higher 6MWD (MD = 97.58, 95%CI 17.21 to 177.96, Z = 2.38, p = 0.02)), dyspnoea (mMRC was significantly lower in the PR group (MD = −0.36, 95%CI −0.52 to −0.21, Z = 4.56, p ˂ 0.00001)), QoL (lower SGRQ (MD = −9.67, 95%CI −16.23 to −3.11, Z = 2.89, p = 0.004)) and SF-36 physical questionnaires.(9)
A SR/MA looking at the effects of upper limb training in COPD. They found improved functional exercise capacity (SMD=0.60; 95% CI, 0.26 to 0.94; p<0.001), dyspnoea l (SMD=-0.44; 95% CI, -0.64 to -0.23; p<0.001), reduced upper limb fatigue (4 studies, SMD=-0.41; 95% CI, -0.83 to -0.00; p=0.05) but no statistically significant differences in QoL questionnaire measures such as SGRQ (SMD=-0.32; 95% CI, -0.75 to 0.11; p=0.15).(10)
A large 39 study (n= 2397) systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of PR, including those based on Yoga, Tai Chi. Meta-analysis showed improvements in exercise capacity (6MWT WMD, 36.34; 95% CI 26.51–46.17; p < .001; I2 = 91.6%), QoL (SGRQ total score (WMD, −6.66; 95% CI: −8.38 to −4.94; p < .001; I2 = 78%), lung function (significant changes in the FEV1% predicted value (WMD, 0.20; 95% CI: 0.03–0.36; p < .001; I2 = 92.7%) and dyspnoea (WMD, −0.59; 95% CI: −0.81 to −0.37; p < .001; I2 = 76.8%).(11)
Similar positive effects on variables of independence were found with traditional Chinese exercises in systematic review and meta-analysis performed by Yang, et al (2020), Xiao, et al (2020), Guo, et al (2020), Wu, et al (2018), Liu, et al (2018), Cramer, et al (2019) and Gao, et al (2021)
Improvements were seen with the following researched modalities: unsupported upper limb exercise, Continuous/ Interval Training, aerobic, resistance – both machine based and elastic band, HIT, LIT, Yoga & Tai Chi
Recent review of evidence strengthens the recommendation
Grade A – High quality.
Grade 1 – strong recommendation.
Clinical and patient consensus is that physical activity can improve physical and exercise capacity. On the basis of the existing evidence, clinical opinion is that all or most patients will be best served by following this piece of evidence .
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Q: Running project in IntelliJ I have one application based on Maven + Spring.
It's a Java web application using java.
this is the pom.xml i'm using:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.alfred</groupId>
<artifactId>alfred</artifactId>
<version>v.0.1-CID.Fase.II.Edesk-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.7.RELEASE</version>
</parent>

<name>ALFRED</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
        <artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
        <version>10.2.0.4.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Dependencia para Spring DATA JPA con base de datos -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Para implementar las conexiones a la base de datos MySQL -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <!-- version>5.1.35</version -->
    </dependency>

    <!-- Para implementar el servicio REST -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.code.gson/gson -->

    <!-- Paquete que permite convertir el contenido de una respuesta en texto
        plano JSON a objetos Java. -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
        <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Para implementar cliente REST con Template -->
    <!-- dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
        </dependency -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Para implementar las plantillas HTML con thymeleaf -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.thymeleaf.extras/thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity3 -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.thymeleaf.extras</groupId>
        <artifactId>thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity3</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Para poder implementar los clientes de los servicios REST -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.squareup.retrofit</groupId>
        <artifactId>retrofit</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.1</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Para escapar HTML en las llamadas a la API de IMDB -->
    <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
        <version>3.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Spring Security -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Java Mail API -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
        <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.3</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.security/spring-security-ldap -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-security-ldap</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.0.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Librería para tratar con excels -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
        <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
        <version>3.16</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <!--<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration> DO NOT include log4j.properties file in your Jar <excludes>
            <exclude>**/log4j.properties</exclude> </excludes> <archive> </archive> </configuration>
            </plugin> -->
    </plugins>
</build>

</project>

When I do the clean, generate resources and install appear this error and not start working

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_151\bin\java"
  -Dmaven.multiModuleProjectDirectory=C:\Users\spainasg\Documents\CID_UAT
  -Dmaven.home=C:\Users\spainasg\Downloads\apache-maven-3.5.2-bin\apache-maven-3.5.2 -Dclassworlds.conf=C:\Users\spainasg\Downloads\apache-maven-3.5.2-bin\apache-maven-3.5.2\bin\m2.conf
  -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath C:\Users\spainasg\Downloads\apache-maven-3.5.2-bin\apache-maven-3.5.2\boot\plexus-classworlds-2.5.2.jar
  org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher -Didea.version=2017.2.6 --offline -s
  C:\Users\spainasg.m2\settings.xml
  -Dmaven.repo.local=C:\Users\spainasg.m2\repository clean generate-resources install
      [INFO] Scanning for projects...
      [WARNING]
      [WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for
  com.alfred:alfred:war:v.0.1-CID.Fase.II.Edesk-SNAPSHOT
      [WARNING] Detected profiles.xml alongside com.alfred:alfred:v.0.1-CID.Fase.II.Edesk-SNAPSHOT, this file is no
  longer supported and was ignored, please use the settings.xml instead
      [WARNING]
      [WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build.
      [WARNING]
      [WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects.
      [WARNING]
      [INFO]
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [INFO] Building ALFRED v.0.1-CID.Fase.II.Edesk-SNAPSHOT
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:jar:2.5.2 is missing, no
  dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for com.oracle:ojdbc14:jar:10.2.0.4.0 is missing, no dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for org.thymeleaf.extras:thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity3:jar:2.1.2.RELEASE
  is missing, no dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.poi:poi:jar:3.16 is missing, no dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml-schemas:jar:3.16 is missing, no dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for com.github.virtuald:curvesapi:jar:1.04 is missing, no dependency information available
      [INFO]
      [INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.5:clean (default-clean) @ alfred ---
      [INFO] Deleting C:\Users\spainasg\Documents\CID_UAT\target
      [INFO]
      [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ alfred ---
      [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
      [INFO] Copying 1 resource
      [INFO] Copying 90 resources
      [INFO]
      [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ alfred ---
      [INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
      [INFO] Compiling 174 source files to C:\Users\spainasg\Documents\CID_UAT\target\classes
      [WARNING] /C:/Users/spainasg/Documents/CID_UAT/src/main/java/com/edesk/controladorGUI/GestionServicioAprobadorController.java:
  C:\Users\spainasg\Documents\CID_UAT\src\main\java\com\edesk\controladorGUI\GestionServicioAprobadorController.java
  uses unchecked or unsafe operations.
      [WARNING] /C:/Users/spainasg/Documents/CID_UAT/src/main/java/com/edesk/controladorGUI/GestionServicioAprobadorController.java:
  Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
      [INFO]
      [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ alfred ---
      [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
      [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\Users\spainasg\Documents\CID_UAT\src\test\resources
      [INFO]
      [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ alfred ---
      [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
      [INFO]
      [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.17:test (default-test) @ alfred ---
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.surefire:maven-surefire-common:jar:2.17 is missing,
  no dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-api:jar:2.17 is missing, no
  dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven:maven-toolchain:jar:2.0.9 is missing, no dependency information available
      [WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations:jar:3.2 is
  missing, no dependency information available
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [INFO] Total time: 4.961 s
      [INFO] Finished at: 2017-11-30T09:45:30+01:00
      [INFO] Final Memory: 29M/233M
      [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
      [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.17:test
  (default-test) on project alfred: Execution default-test of goal
  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.17:test failed:
  Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.17 or one of
  its dependencies could not be resolved: The following artifacts could
  not be resolved:
  org.apache.maven.surefire:maven-surefire-common:jar:2.17,
  org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-api:jar:2.17,
  org.apache.maven:maven-toolchain:jar:2.0.9,
  org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations:jar:3.2,
  org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils:jar:1.1: Cannot access central
  (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) in offline mode and the
  artifact org.apache.maven.surefire:maven-surefire-common:jar:2.17 has
  not been downloaded from it before. -> [Help 1]
      [ERROR]
      [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
      [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
      [ERROR]
      [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
      [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginResolutionException
      [ERROR] Maven execution terminated abnormally (exit code 1)

I'm using IntelliJ, but have the same error using Eclipse.
The aplications are working offline.
Any idea for this solution?

A: Try to add all your missing dependencies.
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.surefire:maven-surefire-common:jar:2.17 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.surefire:surefire-api:jar:2.17 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven:maven-toolchain:jar:2.0.9 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-annotations:jar:3.2 is missing, no dependency information available

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TRACK & FIELD Moving down a league allows runners to dominate the Montclair meet.
Senior Thomas Ear, left, and junior Lukas Amare ran 5:02 and 4:30 in the mile, respectively, against Montclair.
Sprinting into the new season at top speed, Diamond Bar High School track and field raced past Montclair in its first league meet of the year.
At the home meet last Wednesday, The Brahmas dominated the track as the boys team claimed all of the top three scores in the 100, 200 and 400 meter races. Sophomore Jadyn Sanchez scored first in both 100 and 200, and sophomore Daniel Marquez took the 400. The girls, meanwhile, took all three top spots in the mile race, with sophomore Cameron Tsao coming out on top, as well as two of the top three in the 200, 400, 800 and 3,200.
Hurdles took another clean sweep with Diamond Bar in the top three, with seniors Abigail Nakaishi taking first place in girls 100 meter and Matthew Uballe in boys 110.
On the field, girls took all top three discus spots, with sophomore Kyra Ruiz coming in first, and two of the top spots in both long jump and shot put. One Brahma on the boys team, senior Braulio Michel, made third place in high jump.
By moving down one league from Palomares to Mt. Baldy, the team will face new schools at a level different from past years, in which the Brahmas competed against Ayala, Claremont and Bonita.
According to Cooke, Diamond Bar usually performs strongest in its running events while field events have traditionally been a weakness. Though some high performers manage to stand out in every event, most points lost during preseason were on the field.
Currently, the sprinters have been prioritizing strength training along with the throwers, who have been in the weight room almost every day. Distance runners have focused on increasing speed and endurance. The sprint team has also been looking at their handoffs and practicing starting off of blocks.
The loss of a few high-scoring senior hurdlers last year leaves Diamond Bar with a young team. According to hurdles coach Terry Ford, however, the runners' will to learn has been a major strength.
Saturday in the Covina Invitational, three seniors qualified for the Arcadia Invitational in April: senior Kai Smith for high jump, Sanchez for the 400 meter and Uballe for 110 meter hurdles.
The Brahmas' next league meet will take place tomorrow against Chino High School.


"As the election concludes, our work only accelerates: connecting with the roughly one-quarter of Congress that is new, to educate them on the $2.4 trillion economic impact and $77 billion trade surplus travel and tourism generate for this country, and the policy priorities that will make those numbers even greater.
"We have long stressed that travel is not a red or blue issue—it's a red, white and blue opportunity. Our approach might change slightly depending upon who's in office, but our mission to make sure travel and tourism are part of the policymaking discussion never does. Both parties recognize the economic power of increasing travel to and within the United States, and that the 15.6 million our industry helps employ are Republicans and Democrats and everything in between.
"We congratulate all of Tuesday night's winners, and we look forward to working with them to keep creating jobs and economic impact in each and every state and congressional district by enacting smart policies that grow travel."
U.S. Travel Association is the national, non-profit organization representing all components of the travel industry that generates $2.4 trillion in economic output and supports 15.6 million jobs. U.S. Travel's mission is to increase travel to and within the United States. Visit www.ustravel.org.


PORTLAND, OR. Portfolio Financial Servicing Company ("PFSC") announced today that it has entered into a definitive multi-year agreement with an originator and purchaser of commercial loans to act as primary servicer for a U.S.-based commercial loan portfolio. Terms of the servicing agreement remain confidential.
In its capacity as primary servicer, PFSC will be responsible for substantially all servicing functions, including loan boarding, invoicing and ACH processing, payment posting, modification and renewal processing, collections and customer service, and financial and managerial reporting. PFSC will also act as document custodian and hold all original chattel paper. Servicing and custodial duties are expected to commence in January 2014.


Chapter 2 Page 17 is up. Blaise and Jassart are ready for a night in the museum. Are you?
For this week's vote incentive, I uploaded the floor plan of the Harp & Trumpet. There's also a basement, but it didn't fit on the sheet. The basement has the kitchen in it as well as food storage. To see the rest of Sherbourg's hottest saloon, vote for us on Top Web Comics.
Intervention is coming very soon. I encourage all of you to attend the convention. Harknell and Onezumi are two incredible people and are working very hard to put together the best Internet-culture convention I can imagine. Check out their site and see all the great guests and events. I'll be sitting on two of the panels: (1) Young Punks Kicking It: the new kids on the block at 1 p.m. on Saturday and (2) Writing and Creating Three Dimensional Characters at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Love the stepladder! Let technology keep pace with alchemy!
Yeah, the stepladder wasn't patented until 1862. So it's as much a temporal anomaly as the saloon. Oh well.
I really like that map of the Harp & Trumpet.
I'll have to see about cleaning up my other maps for future incentives.


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Why January could potentially be a season-defining month for Warrington Town
Assessing Warrington Town's January fixtures
Yellows face Whitby Town as part of a potentially season-defining run of January fixtures. Picture: Karl Vallantine
THE past few weeks have illustrated how relentless a promotion race can be.
That is especially the case in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, as Warrington Town are finding out.
They may have only lost one game since September – the 2-0 home loss to Scarborough Athletic on December 18 – but it cost them their play-off spot although Monday's 4-1 victory at Witton Albion allowed them to regain it.
While Town have played more games than all of the teams around them, their festive victory and points dropped elsewhere has bunched things up nicely.
They are six points behind leaders Matlock Town, four adrift of third-place Bamber Bridge and a single point behind South Shields, who are immediately above them in fourth.
And we move into the new year, we are about to find out exactly what this side are made of.
January sees them face three of the four sides currently above them in the table as well as two of the teams hunting them down – a run of fixtures that could prove to be season-defining.
New Year's Day sees them welcome Bamber Bridge to Cantilever Park with South Shields making the trip to Cheshire on January 22.
Mark Beesley takes his side to Buxton, who have dropped to second following their loss to Matlock on Monday, on January 15 and they wrap up the month with a trip to Whitby Town on January 29.
Add in a trip to FC United of Manchester – always tough, especially given they are in form and making a sustained charge towards the play-off spots – on January 8 and it completes an unenviable run of games.
They also have a Cheshire Senior Cup tie against Hyde United on January 4 to negotiate.
Given the games around them and the current Covid situation with squads being depleted, the cup tie could be seen as a distraction at best and a real nuisance at worst.
Town's target will surely be to enter February inside the play-off spots – to do that, one would think they would need at least two wins and no more than one defeat.
Given they are yet to beat any of the sides currently above them this season – they have drawn with Buxton and Bamber Bridge and lost to South Shields and Matlock Town – some would consider that a tall order.
If they can do that, the platform from which they will be able to attack the final stages of the season will be so much stronger.
Depending on how others do around them, a strong January could well see them able to look up at the top three – important as even if they do not manage to grab the one automatic promotion spot, finishing second or third would guarantee a home play-off semi-final.
However, a month in which they lose more ground would put a massive dent in any promotion hopes.
The strength of those around them means they really do not want to be playing catch-up.
Either way, we are set to know plenty more about what can be expected of this Warrington Town side in the weeks ahead.


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Mumbai: Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan has now become one of the sensational duos of the film industry. Ever since their kissing video had gone viral on social media, fans can't hold their excitement to get each and every update about Kartik and Sara.


In today's Chatter Report, we explore the different ways crypto influencers have been responding to the low prices of 2018. Some are unfazed like Anthony Pompliano, who still believes that bitcoin is the best performing asset. Others are reassuring like Andreas Antonopoulos, who has been busy addressing concerns about bitcoin being in a death spiral. The rest are pensive like James McAvity, who has been theorizing about which miners are holding their coins rather than selling them.
Anthony Pompliano, founder of Morgan Creek Digital, sparked a fervent discussion on Twitter when he noted that the S&P had almost lost $755 billion in a single day. Pompliano was putting losses in perspective for cryptocurrency investors, as public equity investors lost more money in a single day than crypto investors did for all of 2018.
Crypto Twitter quickly fired back, as former Wall Street trader John Todaro pointed out the unfair nature of comparing two markets that have different capitalizations. Todaro expanded more on the misleading nature of Pompliano's tweet, arguing that they should be comparing percentage gains/losses and not raw figures.
Yeah but different mkt sizes obviously. So when the S&P 500 rises 3% in a day, you'll say us stocks made more money than all of crypto combined?
Bitcoin outperformed the S&P 500 for last 10 years, 5 years, and last 2 years. It will outperform over next 10 too.
It's irresponsible for investors to have zero exposure to the best performing asset.
Unfazed, Pompliano defended his initial claims, citing the historical financial performance of bitcoin compared to the S&P. He then boldly described bitcoin as the "best performing asset" on the market.
With bitcoin prices falling day by day, the ecosystem has been expressing concern about a potential death spiral. To address these concerns, "Mastering Bitcoin" author Andreas Antonopoulos put out a Youtube video explaining death spirals and why he believes they are unlikely scenarios.
Antonopoulos explained that death spirals are triggered by a combination of economic factors crashing the bitcoin price and/or governments shutting down or outlawing mining. This drives down the price of bitcoin, so miners start turning off their mining equipment. The result is a severe drop in mining hash power, or 50 percent in this hypothetical scenario. As mining power falls by half, blocks start to come up every 20 minutes instead of every 10 minutes.
After explaining the death spiral, Antonopoulos claimed it is unlikely to happen because miners have a much "long[er]-term perspective." Since investing in mining equipment requires a huge up-front cost and electricity is purchased on long-term plans, most miners won't stop mining, as they will assume that profitability will return within a few months.
Do Miners Hold or Sell Their Bitcoin?
Other bitcoiners also have been theorizing about what miners might do with their bitcoin in an extended bear market. As commenter James McAvity noted, the circumstances surrounding each particular mining operation will determine whether miners sell their bitcoins or hold on to them.
– High inflation areas like Venezuela etc.
McAvity explained that miners that can generate ancillary free power and businesses that are struggling to survive are the ones that are more likely to sell their bitcoins immediately after mining them. By contrast, miners that hold their bitcoins are those that have hedged with futures and options when prices were higher. They could also be smaller operations that have free power or they could be money launderers trying to clean cash by turning it into bitcoin. Alternatively, they could be from high-inflation countries like Venezuela.
What do you think of bitcoin's performance in 2018? Is it still the best performing asset? What about the likelihood of a death spiral? Do you think miners sell their bitcoins immediately or keep them? Let us know in the comments below.


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The Mystics of Environmental History and Ethnobotonical Research
June 1, 2021 by Gale Ambassadors
│By Ayanda Netshisaulu, Gale Ambassador at the University of Johannesburg|
Let me set the scene. Right at the beginning of my postgraduate career, starry eyed and interested in gender history, I was offered the opportunity to join a group of students from the University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University for a two-week programme in the Kruger National Park in north-eastern South Africa. The programme mostly consisted of Zoology students who understood the importance of land gradients and wild animal feeding patterns. As a Humanities student I felt a bit out of place but I wasn't particularly bothered considering I was enjoying the safari and learning about rhino's territorial marking patterns!
It was during this trip, however, that I learned that historical narratives can be extracted from anything. We had been discussing land gradients – which to this day I don't completely understand – when my History professor asked me: "gradients and the science aside, Ayanda what did you get from what was just said now?" What did I get? I was still trying to get my Humanities brain to catch up to the science of it all! How could I "get" anything? He then went on to explain how, for a historian, there is a story in everything. A historian would be asking themselves questions about past land use, about past peoples and about how they would have navigated this land. How did societies of the past know, for example, to burn the grass to allow for the fresh regrowth that would attract game? Whilst initially I had never felt so out of place, it was during this trip that I fell in love with the historical narratives of the environmental past.
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│By Lily Deans, Gale Ambassador at the University of Birmingham│
Writing a dissertation is undoubtedly daunting, no matter how competent or confident you may feel by the time you proudly hand in the 12,000-word masterpiece! Just like writing a good essay, it is not just your own opinion that gets you the marks, but the opinions of others – and the way you use these opinions to either substantiate or contradict what you have said. So, naturally, the wider, more varied and unique the sources are that you use, the better awareness you will show of the existing discourse, and thus the more convincing your argument will be. "Ah yes," I hear you say, "but where can I find these unique sources?" Well, with Gale Primary Sources, of course! This blog will show briefly the quantity and variety of sources I have found in Gale's archives as I have been researching and writing my dissertation.
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Heroic Hedgehogs – The Hedgehog in Popular Culture
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The twenty first century marks the return of the hedgehog: from the recent February 14th release of Sonic the Hedgehog, to the rise of hedgehog cafés throughout Japan and Hong Kong, it seems hedgehogs are resurfacing in popular culture.
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NY Daily News Slashes Newsroom Staffing in Half
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The New York tabloid Daily News will cut half of its newsroom staff and Jim Rich, its editor in chief, was released.
The paper was sold to tronc Inc. last year for $1, with the owner of the Chicago Tribune assuming liabilities and debt.
In an email sent to staff Monday, Tronc said staff at the Daily News will focus on breaking news involving "crime, civil justice and public responsibility."
The newspaper has been a key fixture in New York City for the last century. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for its work with ProPublica on the abuse of eviction rules in New York City.
It also received a Pulitzer for raising awareness about health issues faced by first responders following the collapse of New York City's twin towers following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Staff seen exiting the building Monday described an emotional scene as the layoffs were announced.
"Of course people were crying. Journalism is something more than a job for people," said Todd Maisel, an 18-year veteran photographer at the paper who was laid off.
Many lamented that New York would be worse off with fewer journalists covering the city.
"Newspapers are the engines of democracy. Go to any news van and look on the floor and you'll see the Daily News and that's your schedule for the rest of the day," said Kerry Burke, a reporter whow as laid off.
Revenue and print circulation have been sliding at the newspaper for years, even as it provided critical coverage of health issues in public housing and for first responders after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Revenue slid 22 percent between 2014 and 2016, and the paper had already been letting people go.
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The final show last night of triple bill Windy City Rhythms Goes Global at the MCA opened traditionally and served virtuosity neat before earning its title. As Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Lane Alexander stated repeatedly, tap dance is an American form; however, this CHRP program filleted it to display the veins of universality intrinsic to percussive dance.
Created upon Alexander's receipt of the Chicago Dancemakers Forum grant in 2004, CHRP resident ensemble BAM! are clean, tight and radiate a love of tap.
BAM! danced three works with the Vijay Tellis-Nayak Trio, a lovely jazz combo, including one by Guillem Alonso that used sand on boards to wrap the traditional vocabulary in a different soundscape (this recalled, for me, one of eighth blackbird and Susan Marshall's collaborations last May). Jason Samuels Smith popped up briefly for an amuse before BAM!, including Alexander, wrapped their portion.
When Smith returned for his solo turn, it was to no accompaniment or theatrical frame; easy in manner and insanely talented, he doesn't need either. It also gave the show a kind of cadenza: Smith runs into and out of rhythmic structures with glee and garnishes long runs of impeccable technique with witty detours. The trio slid in to accompany him after a few minutes, its drummer (Steve Gillis, I think) and Smith especially enjoying their dialogue. I would've preferred to hear more of Smith on his own, though — he has incredible compositional skills, his dancing a rich experience both visually and aurally.
São Paulo "body band" Barbatuques radiate warmth, openness and sincerity. Theirs is the kind of performance that takes the concept of "world music" or "global dance" and not only washes it of cliché but sells it as a future we can choose. Organized into songs separated by blackouts, each of the maybe six or eight pieces they presented had a unique character, underlined by endearingly-basic projections of animated and computer-drawn backdrops. Effectively teased out was the inclusion of singing in the environment of hand claps, belly slaps, face-playing and any other imaginable way of making sound with the body — Barbatuques really makes you wait for it, but when they do finally sing, it's in gorgeous tones and slanted harmonies that have the thickness of honey in your ears. A few members ran into the audience and got some kids to try their techniques and a man I took to be founder Fernando Barba at one point "plays" the audience, divvying up the house and creating some simple counterrhythms. It's all done without language, the kind of audience participation that, like Ohad Naharin's Zachacha, not only doesn't require it but which also becomes kind of profound in its absence. It closed with a flirtation with baile funk I was hoping for and the return of Alexander and Smith to the stage for an encore that drove the palpable sense of community home.
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business has brought in the ease of e-distribution to the old and archaic system of offline distribution network. Buyers are getting a respite from door to door price checks, never-ending negotiations, delays and many other hassles of offline distribution. The user-friendly website and mobile app of B2Badda.com is a ray of hope in making the B2B business dealings much more efficient, transparent and organised.
Headquartered in Gurgaon, B2Badda is the leading destination for inspiring, uplifting, and engaging the b2b buyers and sellers. B2Badda offers a choice of huge product range in multiple categories including - mobiles & tablets, kitchen & home appliances, home furnishings, accessories, electronics & IT products.
The platform offers its buyers to get the best deals from more than 255 brands selling more than 7000 products through the platform. Since its launch in January 2017, B2Badda.com has experienced explosive growth, becoming the largest B2B platform in its segment in India. With more than 27,000 buyers already registered with the platform, the StartUp targets to have more than 50,000 registered buyers by the end of June 2017.
B2Badda.com is the only digitally native e-Distribution platform that has garnered such a huge buyer and seller base. The Brain Behind The founder of B2Badda - Yogesh Bhatia is a veteran of B2b Industry. He carries a 20 plus years of experience in distribution and B2B, backed by the group company S.G Corporate Mobility Pvt Ltd. which is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company with an exceptional financial rating [CRISIL rating of SME 2].
B2Badda is backed by SG Corporate Mobility Pvt. Ltd & Yagya Techno Solutions Pvt. Ltd earlier known as Mahesh Trading Co. The group started its journey from Haryana and now has its footprints across the country. Established In 1991, the group embarked on a never ending journey to success. All along the way, new hands joined, new ideas blossomed and achievements became a habit. With a strong base in traditional B2B the group forayed into the territory of 'E-B2B' and success followed.
Being in the B2B sales business for more than 8 years now and being one of the Largest Tablet PC's distribution house in India, the company boasts of offices in 14 States across India. The company is operational across India with physical presence and local teams in 14 States.
"We want to align B2Badda.com with our Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision of DIGITAL INDIA as we aim to convert the existing old-fashioned distribution network into E-Distribution through our website and mobile application" says Yogesh Bhatia. "To support cash-less economy, payments will be accepted through all Digital channels like Credit/Debit Cards, Digital wallets, Bank Transfers, etc. We are also focusing on to promote the Indian government's MAKE IN INDIA campaign by highlighting the India-made products on our platforms," Yogesh Bhatia the founder of B2Badda said.
review and easy re-ordering, assured fast delivery, different payment options. The feature of credit facility is to be introduced soon.
For Sellers – the sellers on-board too have several advantages on their side. The platform offers a new sales channel to the sellers whilst they are not required to add more physical stores. The platform will help reduce ordering errors, the orders may keep coming on all days - 24/7-365- days. The platform offers an outlet for surplus inventory and even the new and smaller players can go national easily using the reach of B2Badda. Efficient inventory management, door-step pickups, assured payments and direct access to corporate and institutional sales are some of the other benefits of B2Badda for sellers.
Gurgaon based, B2Badda.com is a leading destination for inspiring, uplifting, and engaging the b2b buyers and sellers. The user-friendly platform and mobile application is designed to get the SMEs, B2B and GT trade in a more organised manner.
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Perimeter x Heavy: Masahisa Fukase – 鴉 (Ravens)
Masahisa Fukase – 鴉 (Ravens)
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Perhaps only a man subsumed by despair could have imagined beginning such a book as this, but certainly only a great artist could have made an obsession of personal pain and survived a decade of its torture with something coherent to show others. – David Travis
Junbungaku (純文学) has been translated from the Japanese language in various related terms: pure, sincere, serious and polite. It also translates to a form of philosophical literature and is often discussed alongside its literary counterpart (or nemesis) taishubungaku – mass or popular literature. As a literary concept, it is believed that junbungaku was first introduced through Takeo Arishima's 1922 novel The Manifesto (Sengen Hitotsu) in which he proclaims that he will no longer receive funds from his wealthy family, but instead live off his own earnings from writing. He also announces that the farm where he dwells will be given back to the original farm owners, with the liquidated funds contributing to social reforms instigated by revolutionaries. In reality, he did go about making these changes, but as with so many other novelists associated with junbungaku, the following year he committed joint-suicide with journalist Akiko Hatano.
Junbungaku was refined over the following 12 or so years. In its formative years, the genre was largely defined by ongoing publications of books loosely connected with the I-novel (私小説). Importantly, the Japanese I-novel is a literary genre that is best described as confessional literature where – often dark – events in the story correspond and reflect situations in the author's actual life. Works such as The Death of a Man (Otsu Junkichi) by Naoya Shiga – which infamously chronicled his affair with the family maid – are widely understood to have made the I-novel the apex of junbungaku literature in approximately 1935.
Although the writings (and English translations) relating to this style of confessional literature are sparse, Kenzaburō Ōe's 1989 essay "Japan Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma" outlines the beginnings of junbungaku and is often referenced as an authority on the genre. While discussing celebrated novelist Yuko Mishima and post-WWII literature, Ōe declared, "We find that postwar literature was, in the history of modern and contemporary Japanese literature, a literature that strived to provide a total, comprehensive contemporary age and a human model that lived it. It is a literature that endeavored to grapple squarely with the needs of intellectuals."
That Ōe's precis is one of the very few brief analyses of junbungaku writing during and after the traumatic years of WWII is somewhat unusual, especially given that the wider genre flourished during the period, greatly reflecting the fractured psyche of the Japanese people in the wake of the war and reconstruction leading to the Japanese 'economic bubble'.
Although the narrative that so strongly pervades late Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase's Ravens, which London imprint MACK recently republished as a facsimile edition of the famed 1986 original, is driven by black and white photographs, the overarching atmosphere and confessional narrative structure strongly align and reflect junbungaku and certainly the I-novel. Fukase experimented with artistic and journalistic styles for both commercial magazine work and his own projects, often documenting his own life through representations of others: wives, lovers and, of course, ravens.
Fukase was originally from Hokkaido, where his family ran the Fukase Photo Studio, and he recalls both fond and disturbing memories of assisting his mother in the darkroom and her passing out due to chemical inhalation. In 1952, Fukase moved to Tokyo to study photography and eventually became a successful commercial photographer, although his most known and poignant photographs are of slaughterhouses, refineries, ravens and his father. While living in Tokyo, Fukase would often make the 36-hour train ride back to Hokkaido, and this no doubt established long-standing memories that influenced the production of Ravens. When his life began to fall apart this is also where he returned to seek solitude.
Fukase made Ravens over an extended period of time between 1975 and 1986, finally proclaiming that he had transformed into a raven himself – assuming the form of the dreaded bird of Japanese mythology. This, of course, adds to the mythmaking that the book has manifested since its first publication in 1986. Ravens has been revered in Japan since its first release (and subsequent two additional printings) and more recently in Western photographic culture. In 2010, the British Journal of Photography went so far as to rank Ravens as the best photobook of the past 25 years.
Like his junbungaku predecessors and counterparts, the I-novel-esque backstory that drove Fukase's obsession and subsequent masterpiece goes something like this: After thirteen years of marriage to his second wife Yoko – who was also his prominent photographic subject and muse – she left him. As he often did when destitute, lonely or needing a break, he boarded a train to Hokkaido. As he travelled north, he began to notice the ravens from the train window, the abundant and portentous black birds seemingly reflecting his mood and feelings. He disembarked at several stops to photograph the ravens, as well as making images from the moving train, eventually piecing together the body of work that would become Ravens. While he would briefly marry and divorce again in the ensuing years, the later years of Fukase's would be marked by an unabashed and profound depression . In 1992, Fukase was descending a staircase at his favourite 'watering hole' when he fell. This caused substantial brain damage and subsequent institutionalisation, before he eventually passed away in 2012.
The photographs published in Ravens were shot in a reminiscent 'bokeh' style that was popular with now celebrated contemporaries, including Daido Moriyama, Osamu Kanemura and Takuma Nakahira. The imagery was made with candid care for camera craft, as if life was too busy being lived to stop for technical formalities. This was certainly effective and the many blurry, grainy and haphazardly cropped and enlarged photographs from Ravens convey a sense of urgency and drive, but also manifest fleeting feelings of a manic and obsessed observer. The stark black motif of the raven in detail – as well as flocks, blurred and sharp, alive and dead – is punctuated by other more obscure images: a plump, decisive-looking cat, a group of wind-swept school girls, a ship at sea reflecting the sun, and a voluptuous middle-aged woman who seems to peer at the camera with her eyes closed. These are common subject matters of Japanese photographers and especially of this time, but here they add weight, disturbance and insight to the mind of Fukase, not unlike Mishima's pyro-manic monk or Dazai's jovial suicidal.
Certainly, this new edition of Ravens will be popular with collectors. This reviewer can only hope it will bring about a more engaged and in-depth appreciation and analysis of Japanese photography (and maybe even literature) leading to, during and amongst the aftermath of war and nuclear disaster.
By way of conclusion I will leave the last words to the Buddhist Monk and poet Kamo no Chōmei from his poem The Ten Foot Square Hut (Hojoki, 1212) that Fukase quoted in his essay Family from 1996. The work depicts the Buddhist concept of impermanence (mujō) through the illustrative description of various disasters that include earthquake, famine, whirlwind and conflagration that befall the people of Kyoto during his time:
The flow of the moving river is ceaseless, yet it is not the original water that it was. The foam floating in pools now breaks up, now comes together, and in no instance does it pause for long. The people in the world and their dwellings are also thus.
– Kamo no Chōmei
Note: In 2004 the Masahisa Fukase Trust edited and published two photobooks: Hysteric Twelve and Bukubuku, and two exhibitions: From Window (as part of the Another Language: 8 Japanese Photographers exhibition) at Rencontres d' Arles, France, and The Incurable Egoist at Diesel Art Gallery, Tokyo of works made and lesser known before his devastating fall in the famed Shinjuku Golden Gai district.
Perimeter x Heavy is a new editorial collaboration exploring contemporary photography, art, design and their various relationships to the published form. Produced in-house by the team at Melbourne-based bookstore, publisher and distribution house Perimeter and Sydney-based photography magazine and online platform The Heavy Collective, Perimeter x Heavy comprises book reviews, interviews, studio visits and features. While further expounding the published output of artists who feature across both Perimeter and Heavy's inventories, the platform aims to provide thoughtful insights into the wider here and now of contemporary publishing practice.
1. From the Introductory Note by David Travis to the first American edition titled Solitude of Ravens published by Bedford Arts, Publishers, San Francisco.
2. The Manifesto (Sengen Hitotsu) has never been translated to English.
3. From a review of Divided Self: A Biography of Arishima Takeo by Leith Morton reviewed by Stephen W. Kohl in the The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese Vol. 25, No. 1, Special Issue: Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) (Apr., 1991). Pp. 150-154
4. It is believed the I-novel began with writings from Shimazaki Toson and Tayama Katai. Other later authors include Fumiko Hayashi, Osamu Dazai and Shusaku Endo.
5 See: Strecher, C. M. "Purely Mass or Massively Pure? The Division Between 'Pure and 'Mass' Literature, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 51, No 3 (Autumn, 1996). Pp. 357-374
6. See Kenzaburō Ōe's essay "Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma," in Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian's (editors) Postmodernism and Japan published by Duke University Press, 1989, pg. 194
7. Fukase photographed his family extensive, including photographs of his dead mother, father and niece which he refers to as 'funerary' and 'commemorative' photographs (English translation) in the essay Family published in SETTING SUN: Writings by Japanese Photographers, edited by Ivan Vartanian, Akiko Hatanaka and Yutaka Kanbayashi, published by Aperture, 2005. Fukase also published some of this work in Memories of Father that was published by IPC in 1991.
8. Ravens was first printed by Sōkyūsha, Tokyo, and was republished by Bedford Arts in the US in 1991, under the title of Solitude of Ravens, and more recently in 2008 by Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo.
9. The judges were Chris Killip, Ute Eskildsen, Gerry Badger, Jeffrey Ladd and Yoko Sawada.
10. Bokeh (boke 暈け or ボケ) describes the appearance and atmosphere created by out-of-focus areas or whole compositions. In Japanese it can also refer to the words blur or haze and can thus translate to a sense of a mental or psychological confusion.
11. This essay and another by Fukase titled Ravens is translated into English and published in SETTING SUN: Writings by Japanese Photographers, edited by Ivan Vartanian, Akiko Hatanaka and Yutaka Kanbayashi, published by Aperture in 2005.
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County blames state for fatal crash
Madera County District 3 Supervisor Rick Farinelli has written a letter blaming mismanagement on the part of the California Transportation Commission for an accident that claimed three lives on State Route 99.
The deadly wreck occurred near the Ellis Street overcrossing when an RV carrying a man and a woman, in their 60s, crashed headlong into a northbound big rig driven by a man in his 40s, on the night of May 25. According to Officer Josh McConnell of the California Highway Patrol, the RV was making an unsafe lane change when it hit the truck. At this point, both vehicles veered off the road to the right, and struck a eucalyptus tree.
"Immediately following that collision, both vehicles burst into flames," McConnell said. "Neither the two occupants of the RV, or the driver of the big rig were able to escape their vehicles prior to suffering fatal injuries."
The truck was identified as belonging to Cardmoore Trucking, LP, from Central Point, Oregon. According to McConnell, it had been carrying a flatbed loaded with glass sheets ...


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Kvashninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Verkhovskoye Rural Settlement, Tarnogsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2002.

Geography
Kvashninskaya is located 30 km west of Tarnogsky Gorodok (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dubrova is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Tarnogsky District

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The Jarbochov Stratagem - New Classics?
I recently purchased Tetris DS. It's pretty slick, and it's drowned in Nintendo 8 bit nostalgia. It made me think. I can say without a doubt that Tetris is one if not the best puzzle game ever to hit the video game market. Have there been any newer games that you know will have the lasting power that Tetris has had? Nothing comes to my head. Is it possible for any new classics? Or has everything already been done?