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The Satsuma Rebellion marked the final attempt by disaffected shizoku to overthrow the Meiji government. What does the failure of the greatest revolt reveal about the limits of shizoku rebellion?
After the first three weeks, Saigō's army was outnumbered and outgunned. The core of the Satsuma army consisted of six infantry regiments of 2,000 men each, in addition to artillery and the rearguard. After entering Kumamoto, they were immediately joined by two bands of local shizoku, the politically conservative Gakkoto and the Kyodotai (an association of nominally progressive shizoku affiliated with the Popular Rights movement) and an additional 5,000 volunteers from nearby provinces. 49 Thus, at peak strength the rebel forces numbered no more than 22,000.
In contrast, the government initially fielded an army of 33,000 and sent an additional 30,000 before the end of the war. The rebel army was short of guns and munitions throughout most of the war. The looting of the Kagoshima arsenal secured an initial stock of guns and powder, but when the army marched out of Kagoshima in February, each soldier carried only one hundred bullets, enough for two to three days of combat. Attempts were made to purchase arms abroad, but even if the negotiations had succeeded, the Imperial navy's control of the sea would probably have prevented their delivery. The government occupied Kagoshima in April, cutting off the overland supply of munitions that were manufactured locally.
Tactical miscalculations, and especially the decision to lay siege to Kumamoto Castle, undoubtedly hastened defeat. Because of the strategic advantages enjoyed by the government forces, it was unrealistic to expect victory in a prolonged war. The best hope lay in a rapid advance to link up with sympathizers and create the impression of success before the government had time to mobilize. If Saigō had proceeded directly to Fukuoka and thereby carried the rebellion into northern Kyushu, additional groups might have declared for the rebellion. As the Shimpuren, Akitsuki, and Hagi uprisings of the previous autumn had demonstrated, shizoku disaffection was intense, and the decision of the "liberal" Kumamoto Kyodotai to join Saigō when it appeared that the rebellion might succeed suggests that the timing was indeed a critical factor. How long would Itagaki and the Risshisha have held off if Saigō's army had crossed the Inland Sea? One does not have to be a cynic to recognize that opportunism was a powerful determinant of political alignments in the early Meiji period. But by failing to stay on the offensive, Saigō forfeited his one chance of victory – a general uprising against the Tokyo government.
Following defeat at the Siege of Kumamoto Castle and in other battles in central Kyūshū, the surviving remnants of the samurai forces loyal to Saigō Takamori fled back to Satsuma, seizing the hill of Shiroyama overlooking Kagoshima on 1 September 1877.
Imperial army troops under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo and marines under the command of Admiral Kawamura Sumiyoshi began arriving soon after, and the rebels were surrounded. After combat losses and defections, Saigō had only 300 to 400 samurai remaining of a force of over 20,000 which had besieged the government garrison in the city of Kumamoto only six weeks earlier.
With 30,000 troops, Yamagata greatly outnumbered Saigō. Having been outfought and outmaneuvered so often in the past, however, Yamagata was determined to leave nothing to chance. The imperial troops spent several days constructing an elaborate system of ditches, walls and obstacles to prevent another breakout. The five government warships in Kagoshima harbor added their firepower to Yamagata's artillery, and began to systematically reduce the rebel positions, firing more than 7,000 shells.
Saigō defended his position with limited musket support, and no cannon. Saigō's force was reduced to melting down metal statuettes that local civilians smuggled in, and casting the metal into bullets. Medical supplies consisted of one carpenter's saw for amputations and a few rags for bandages. Yamagata sent a letter to Saigō, which entreated him to surrender, but bushido honor would not let Saigō surrender.
Yamagata's battle plan was to assault Saigō's position from all sides at once. Units were forbidden to assist one another without express permission. If a unit retreated with enemy troops in pursuit, the neighboring units were to fire into the area indiscriminately, killing their own men if necessary to prevent Saigō from escaping.
Following an intensive artillery bombardment the night of 24 September, imperial forces stormed the mountain in the early morning hours. The samurai, under heavy fire, charged the lines of the imperial army, which had not been trained for close-quarter sword fighting. In just a few minutes the once organized line turned into discord. Highly skilled samurai swordsmanship prevailed against an army with very little traditional training. For a short time Saigō's lines held, but was forced back due to weight of numbers. By 6 a.m., only 40 rebels were still alive. Saigō was wounded in the femoral artery and stomach. Losing blood rapidly, he asked to find a suitable spot to die. One of his most loyal followers, Beppu Shinsuke, carried him further down the hill on his shoulders. Legend says that Beppu acted as kaishakunin and aided Saigō in committing seppuku before he could be captured. However, other evidence contradicts this, stating that Saigō in fact died of the bullet wound and then had his head removed by Beppu in order to preserve his dignity.
However, military defeat was inevitable given the very narrow political base of the rebellion. Although Satsuma had been made into a bastion of counterrevolution, the high level of mobilization achieved there between 1874 and 1877 depended on a combination of factors unique to the domain: size and composition of the warrior population, virtual autonomy from central authority, sanction and support of prefectural officials, and Saigō's prestige as a "founding father" of the Meiji Restoration. Because these conditions could not be duplicated, Satsuma stood alone. In fact, its strength was also its weakness, for the leadership's parochial political loyalties stood in the way of horizontal alliances. From Saigō's return to Kagoshima in the fall of 1873 until the attack on the Kumamoto garrison in February 1877, mobilization had been carried out entirely within the prefecture; no effort was made to encourage, aid, or link up with like-minded shizoku bands outside Satsuma. As we have seen, Saigō steadfastly held aloof, even in the autumn of 1876 when the disaffected shizoku in nearby Kumamoto, Akitsuki, and Hagi went on the offensive. When Saigō finally moved against the government and authorized sending emissaries in search of allies, the optimal moment for a general uprising had passed. Potential allies had already committed themselves to local uprisings, which produced little more than suicidal insurrections. Lacking advance notice of Saigō's rising, in some cases sympathizers were not able to act quickly enough.
Saigō Takamori (1827-1877) Warrior and political activist. Saigō, born in the Satsuma domain in Kyushu to a samurai family of low rank, was a leading figure in the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate during 1867-68 and the subsequent restoration of imperial rule. Prior to 1864, Saigō served the Shimazu family, lords of Satsuma, in various capacities and with varying degrees of success, and he was exiled on two different occasions. In 1864, once again in favor, he was dispatched to Kyoto by the Satsuma domain to command the Satsuma troops stationed there. During this time, Saigō was involved in negotiations between supporters of the shogunate and imperial loyalists in an attempt to defuse the growing tensions between these two factions. In November 1867, imperial rule was restored when Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigned, thus bringing the Tokugawa shogunate to an end. Saigō's fame, however, came when he led imperial loyalist troops against shogunate forces resisting the restoration of imperial rule. Saigō arranged for the surrender of shogunate supporters in Edo and finally routed the remaining resistance in November 1868. Saigō received honors for his service on behalf of the new imperial government. Saigō, however, ended up rebelling against the Meiji government over issues of the role of samurai in the new Japan. He died leading a force of samurai insurgents against the imperial army.


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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – 20 March, 2012: The number of Internet users in the Middle East since 2000 has grown by more than 2,100 percent1 and today more than 72 million people, or 34 percent of the population, are regularly online with an increasing number relying on the Internet for their livelihoods. However, new research from Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) shows that there is real cause for concern among Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the region, with 71 percent of home workers reporting noticeable reduction in service performance during work hours (compared to non-work hours), thereby significantly hindering their business efficiency.
It may be therefore no surprise that only a mere 13 percent of respondents reported "complete satisfaction" with their current ISP.
With almost a quarter of employees working from home on a daily basis, lack of network performance is fast becoming a concern for businesses looking to empower a flexible workforce. As corporations steadily continue to migrate their business processes to the Internet, dependence on an uninterrupted Internet connection is proving to be a growing concern. More than 70 percent of the respondents gauged the business impact of Internet downtime to be either high or severe. Being able to provide a consistent and reliable service that can handle the additional capacity and bandwidth during such high-demand periods poses a huge challenge to service providers.
Providing his insights into the results of the survey, Sufian Dweik, Regional Manager of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Brocade said, "The option of working remotely means that an increasing number of corporate Internet users require faster connections in their homes. Almost 90 percent of respondents have subscribed to an unlimited download plan and, given that over half of the respondents estimate their average monthly usage to be more than three gigabytes, there is huge pressure on service provider networks to deliver."
The survey, polling 521 respondents from a wide range of businesses across the region, found that 35 percent, most of whom were middle-management employees, stated that they worked from home at least once a month with a further 21 percent working from home on a daily basis.
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More than 35 percent of participants reported a moderate increase in Internet usage over the past year, which they attributed to increased use of smartphones, Web 2.0 and multimedia content as well as the deployment of more business applications on Internet platforms.
Two-thirds of participants cited lower cost as the main reason behind their intentions to change their service provider.
Half stated higher reliability as their motivation behind any future change in provider.
Leading ISPs in the region have realized that a strong network backbone is a business critical asset and have begun optimizing their networks to increase bandwidth capacity and efficiency – but it seems that they still need to do more, while maintaining an attractive pricing plan for users.
Dweik commented, "The high charges for Internet services in the region can be attributed to the high operational costs that ISPs face. The fluctuating nature of broadband access means that ISPs often end up investing heavily to ensure that networks match the demand during peak windows."
Brocade networking solutions for service providers are designed for the most demanding performance, scalability, capacity, and reliability requirements. This includes carrier-class solutions capable of providing virtually unlimited bandwidth and capacity while supporting non-stop operations. For companies looking to satisfy the needs of the mobile worker, with rising demand for mobile broadband services due to the ever-increasing proliferation of smart mobile communications devices, operators are seeing a sharp increase in bandwidth requirements. Brocade offers a mobile backhaul solution to keep pace with this demand by helping operators migrate to new packet backhaul networks that offer increased capacity at lower cost, while providing the necessary service, reliability, and quality of experience.
In this type of always-on business environment, the Brocade portfolio of high-performance, scalable, cloud-optimized networking solutions offers service providers and businesses the confidence to meet the demands of modern consumers. These solutions deliver on the Brocade One™ strategy, which is designed to help organizations deliver information and applications anywhere at any time. In addition, this strategy can help organizations reduce both complexity and costs while extending their data center assets and services to mobile users around the world.
"Our 'Effortless Network' campaign highlights how modern networks need to extend across physical boundaries and deliver a highly reliable user experience wherever data is accessed, and from whatever device. With the recently launched Brocade® Network Subscription, we are now offering of an innovative, subscription-based acquisition option for network infrastructure that allows organizations to align network capacity with fluctuating business demands. Therefore it's important that service providers ensure they don't miss this opportunity to prosper," concluded Dweik.
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Last week, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies marked up two cybersecurity bills – the Critical Infrastructure Research and Development Advancement (CIRDA) Act of 2013 (H.R. 2952) and the Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act (H.R. 3107). The subcommittee passed both bills by voice vote and they will now move to the full House Homeland Security Committee for consideration. The full committee is also planning to consider another cybersecurity bill – the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 – in the coming weeks which will be introduced after the committee completes its stakeholder review process.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) adopted recommendations for the implementation of the Cybersecurity Framework that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was tasked with developing as part of the President's Executive Order (EO), including recommendations on how to encourage private sector participation in the Framework. NIAC recommended that the voluntary program DHS is coordinating to encourage Framework adoption should focus on securing "lifeline" sectors (energy, water, transportation and telecommunications, according to NIAC), developing an outcomes-based program focused on risk and cost-effectiveness, and ensuring that the Framework is eventually handed off to the private sector to implement and manage. DHS will hold a working group meeting today to discuss the development of the voluntary program and what incentives are needed to incentivize greater adoption of the Cybersecurity Framework. NIAC plans to issue a final report on November 21 that will include these recommendations.
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No it doesn't, it should go again after a stop.
By the way, there's a drawn sketch map of the city that was used during development.
I'm stuck after climbing the ladder to section d admin 3 high walkway the door on the other side doen't open not sure where to go now?
If your familiar with City 17 from HL2 you will be familliar with this too
Ah, yes. My beta 1 is not buggy.
Just played the game. It's pretty short, but I had the most fun playing it that I have has I a while.
I seemed to skip around the map, not doing things in the order that the author intended to but that didn't effect the gameplay for the worse, instead if anything, it made it more pleasantly free form.
Does anybody know, how to go on after the tank? I can't blow it up, not even with 10 grenades. I can climb up a ladder, and onto some wires, but they're electrified, and I can't find a switch anywhere, to turn them off…
Does anybody know, how to go on after the tank? I can't blow it up, not even with 10 grenades. I can climb up a ladder, and onto some wires, but they're electrified, and I can't find a switch anywhere, to turn them off…
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Ok I downloaded Route City. I turned it on and I got to the train station. I go pass the metal detectors but then I don;t know what to do next. I can;t get through any of the guards because I have no weapon. I was able to get between the train to the little train yard. I went up the ladder on the side of the building but I couldn't open the window.
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OK one LAST question. I have the scientist with me and I took him to the train station with the metal detectors and I brought him everywhere but he didn't do anything. I took him to the building where the assassins spawn and he wouldn't;t come up the stairs.
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You need to lead him to the building to the control room up the stairs, it takes some time to get him up the stairs.
Where exactly is the Railroad Control Center? Wait – Never mind. I found it. Wasn't that hard getting the scientist up there either.
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Kyle Allen, Desert Mountain: The junior quarterback threw for 334 yards and four touchdowns in a win over Mountain View.
Mark Andrews, Desert Mountain: The junior receiver had 11 catches for 177 yards and three touchdowns, including a 48-yard Hail Mary TD catch at the end of the first half in a win over Mountain View.
Ryan Bresnahan, Seton Catholic: The senior quarterback shared success with David Gesicki as Bresnahan threw for 163 yards and three touchdowns on six completions in a win over Chinle. He also rushed for 81 yards.
Aeron Carr, Red Mountain: The senior wideout had 118 rushing yards, 52 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the Lions' win over Sierra Vista Buena.
Clarence Clark, Brophy: The senior receiver caught 195 of QB Tyler Bruggman's 330 yards and two touchdowns in a win over Chandler.
Qualen Cunningham, Hamilton: The junior defensive end had a 21-yard interception return for a touchdown in the Huskies' win over Highland.
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Daniel Fedorka, Desert Mountain: He rushed for 129 yards and two touchdowns, had a 48-yard kickoff return and made four tackles on defense to beat Mountain View.
Ryan Finley, Paradise Valley: The Boise State-commit concluded a brilliant career with 274 yards and two touchdowns in a loss to Peoria Liberty.
Darell Garretson, Chandler: The senior quarterback capped his career with 395 yards passing, four touchdowns plus a rushing TD in a loss to Brophy.
Daniel Garlid, Seton Catholic: The wideout had 163 yards receiving and two touchdowns on five catches in Seton's win over Chinle.
Zechariah Gatling, Scottsdale Christian: He rushed for 90 yards and two touchdowns in limited action as SCA blew out Pinon in the first round of the Div. V playoffs.
Mike Graff, Queen Creek: He returned his ninth interception of the season 91 yards for a touchdown in Q.C.'s win. His nine INT leads the state, according to MaxPreps.com
Matt Guida, Queen Creek: The junior running back had 12 carries for 184 yards and three touchdowns in the Bulldogs' win over Avondale Agua Fria.
Austin Hicks, Desert Vista: The senior had a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, knocked away a key 4th-and-1 pass and made the game-clinching interception in the end zone with one hand in a 35-28 win over Basha.
Jarek Hilgers, Desert Vista: The senior rushed for 142 yards and a touchdown in a win over Basha.
Christian Kirk, Saguaro: The junior caught six passes for 167 yards and a score in Saguaro's rout over Glendale Cactus.
Mitch McCulley, Chandler: He had 127 yards receiving and a TD on seven catches in a loss to Brophy.
Tarek Morrison, Desert Ridge: The junior quarterback rushed for 90 yards, threw for 84 yards and had three total touchdowns in a win over Surprise Valley Vista.
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Nate Phillips, Basha: The senior wide receiver capped his brilliant career with 124 yards and a touchdown in a loss to Desert Vista.
Luke Pineda, Campo Verde: The senior finished 18-of-28 passing for 217 yards with a touchdown. He also rushed the ball 25 times for 140 yards and a touchdown in a loss to Williams Field.
Forest Redlin, Tempe Prep: He finished with 84 yards and a touchdown pass, while also grabbing an interception in the Knights' 14-0 win over Eagar Round Valley.
Jake Roh, Chaparral: The senior wide receiver/linebacker had a TD catch and returned a tip-drill interception 65 yards for a score in Chaparral's win over Perry.
Luke Rubenzer, Saguaro: The junior quarterback threw for 293 yards and a career-high five touchdowns, and ran for 104 yards in a blowout win over Glendale Cactus.
Sean Schweichler, Williams Field: The senior running back had punt returns of 45 yards and a 65-yard return for a touchdown in Williams Field's win over Campo Verde.
Ciyre Simmons, Mountain Pointe: The defensive back returned an interception 80 yards for a TD and showed some moves along the way in the third quarter of a blowout win over Yuma Cibola.
Marcus Still, Queen Creek: Next to Guida, he rushed for 132 yards and two touchdowns on six carries in the Bulldogs' victory over Avondale Agua Fria.
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Moore, who with Gasparino, seems intent on playing the role of eye-rolling professional business writer to the hilt, made this comment, which found its way into a New York Times round-up of the reaction to Taibbi—one I suspect is widely shared in the MSM:
For the record, I don't think any article that contains the line 'vampire squid sucking the face of humanity' is real journalism. That's self-righteous editorializing. If Taibbi wanted to make his point, he would have done great to dig up some, like, "facts."
The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, who doesn't lay a glove on Taibbi in this attack, is unintentionally revealing of a certain strain of financial journalism thinking:
Taibbi is a gifted narrative journalist, whose verbal talents I greatly admire. But financial meltdowns don't offer villains, for the simple reason that no one person or even one group is powerful enough to take down a whole system.
"Financial meltdowns don't offer villains?" Does anyone believe that?
And wait a minute: Are we really so sure that "one group," Wall Street, was not central to this crisis and that its increasing influence over government at all levels—what gives, for instance, with ex-Goldmanite Neil Levin deciding as New York State banking commissioner in 2000 not to regulate credit default swaps as insurance?—was not decisive? And isn't Goldman Wall Street's leading firm?
Rather than dismiss Taibbi, the mainstream business press would do well first to read him, learn from him, and above all, refrain from all attempts to outwrite him, because that seems to be a losing game.
So here are a few things to think about.
First, it's worth noting that the debate about "Bubble" hasn't been about the accuracy of the facts in the piece (though it's not, I'm sorry to say, problem-free, as we'll see below). Instead, the discussion is about the arrangement of the facts and the conclusions drawn from them. Now, manipulation in bad faith of true facts is probably as bad a journalism sin as any other. Still, the facts here are really not the issue. So one question to think about is, when does being "technically right" become simply being "right," at least in the sense that a piece makes valid points by marshaling true facts?
Indeed, subsequent reporting and events have only provided support for Taibbi's basic argument—that Goldman and Wall Street have played important roles in a series of harmful events over the years (come to think of it, is this even controversial?). His idea that Goldman gamed the bailout, for instance, got backing from Joe Hagan's recent piece in New York, which makes a strong case that the AIG bailout saved Goldman from disaster and was not, as some defenders weakly maintain, a matter of indifference to the bank:
Not a single Wall Street executive I spoke with, including several Goldman Sachs alumni, believe those hedges would have survived an overall collapse of the financial system. A large loss would have been inevitable as lending evaporated, and Goldman Sachs would have struggled to shrink the company to a fraction of its size overnight.
Hagan also argues that other government programs saved the firm's bacon:
Salvation came on November 25, a few days after Goldman's stock price plunged to $52 a share, down from the year's high of $200 and the lowest price the company had seen since it went public. Again, the white knight was the government. It turned out that Goldman's conversion to a garden-variety bank-holding company offered an amazing advantage: Goldman now had access to incredibly cheap money. Exploiting its new status, Goldman became the first financial institution to sell $5 billion in government-backed bonds through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which allowed Goldman to start doing deals when the markets were at a near standstill."Goldman was desperate for it," says a prominent Goldman alumnus."Everybody knows it. Those FDIC notes they got were lifesaving because they couldn't issue any debt. If it had gone on another week or two, Goldman would have failed, they would have gone the way of Lehman, and you'd be talking about Lloyd the way you talk about [Lehman CEO] Dick Fuld."


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Great List, however, I agree Aliens should have made it in there!
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hmmmmmm where is Aliens (Alien 2)
Should have taken top spot.
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Submitted by BadBoyBubby on Fri, 2013-07-19 17:18.
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Alien, Aliens? Which numskull makes up these lists?


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Seems like a pretty mindless and meaningless test...
I don't know, I give Hunter a lot of credit for doing this... Steve Pettingill claims it's the most fun part of his job, and from what I've heard, he treats the boats far more roughly than what's shown in that particular video...
Based upon seeing the 2nd guy emerge from the companionway, I would imagine he's watching the keel bolts and supporting floor grid very closely during these groundings, looking for possible weaknesses... Even a grounding on a sand bottom that stops the boat that quickly, it's gonna exert a substantial moment of leverage on the keel and surrounding hull structure...Sounds like a pretty sensible approach to boatbuilding, to me, and I haven't really heard of any other American production builder that routinely does this with all their new models...
Does anyone think that Wally would have the nerve drive one of their latest and greatest onto a beach at hull speed, for instance? Perhaps RAMBLER 100 might have benefited from such a "stress test", no?
Anyway, nice to see Hunter putting a more sensible anchor roller on that e33 ... (grin)
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