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The new challenge is up at One Little Word: Sweet!
And I knew I had the perfect photo of Katie at TCBY. For my "Sweet" page I stitched two pieces of felt together to make a word bubble. The sponsor at OLW, evalicisous, has these in her etsy shop but just glued together so I put my own spin on it. I pinked the edges of the bottom layer when I was done. Suprisingly, American Crafts Thickers stick really well to felt! I also based this layout on a sketch for the Who Gives A Scrap? Challenge this month.
Paper - Best Creation, Jenni Bowlin, Scenic Route
Felt, Buttons - Joann's
Letters - American Crafts, My Little Shoebox
Ribbon - Fabric Barn
Cardstock - Bazzill
A few months back we tie dyed with our Girl Scout troop. It was out of control! Apparently the week before ( we weren't at that meeting) the Juniors, my group, helped the youger girls tie dye. Bad idea. Some of them dyed their hair and it was still colored the next week! We took silly photos before they dying started. Despite our best effort sot keep it under control, shoes, clothes, and hands were dyed by the end of the night! I used a giant felt coaster, cut in half, as an accent and then just pulled some items to match the colors in the butterlfies on the PP. Easy peasy.
Paper - Best Creation
Cardstock - Neenah, Bazzill
Alphas, Buttons - American Crafts
Journal Spot - Jillibean Soup
Felt - Darice, Pink Pineapple Scrapbooks
Sequin Flowers - HydrangeaHippo
Gems - KaiserCraft
Diecuts - Collage Press
I've been secretly designing a make n take for Pink... It's for Shop Hop participants only so if you wanna make one, sign up for Shop Hop!
I also made a couple more pages with the July Polka Dot Whimsy kit:
I swear it takes me more than a month to get through all the stuff in the kits--they are jam packed! I am trying to not have leftovers but it is pretty much impossible because Michelle is so generous with these kits! Love it ;)
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OCS R2 does introduce new schema classes and attributes to accommodate for some of the new roles. So a schema update is required to deploy OCS R2 regardless if you have prepped for OCS RTM or not. Here are list of the Classes that are new (this is not a full list of classes):
msRTCSIP-ApplicationServer - holds entry for SCP for UC Application Server (UCAS) msRTCSIP-ApplicationServerService - class provides an association from a specific pool to its application server msRTCSIP-ApplicationServerSettings - aux class to msRTCSIP-Application Server holds attributes for application servers msRTCSIP-ConferenceDirectories - class is a container for multiple instances of conference directories and doesn't contain any attributes itself msRTCSIP-ConferenceDirectory - this class holds attributes representing settings for a specific conference directory msRTCSIP-DefaultCWABank - aux class holds settings for CWA bank. msRTCSIP-LocationContactMapping - class is created by conference auto attendant (CAA) and holds attributes used to categorize conference numbers by region msRTCSIP-LocationContactMappings - class is container for multiple contact mappings. Doesn't hold attributes itself. msRTCSIP-MonitoringServer - class hold attributes that represent settings for a single monitor server.
These are the ones that I've seen so far. I'll publish the link to the Active Directory OCS R2 Reference document when it's published.
Keep in mind that the schema prep is run once against the schema master for each AD Forest where you plan to deploy OCS Servers. In a resource forest then run in the resource forest not the user forest. In a central forest run only on central forest not in user forest.
So for the installation it's similar to past installs with schema prep, forest prep, and domain prep. The forest prep creates global settings and universal groups that are used by OCS, and domain prep adds permissions on objects to be used by members of universal groups.
Do I have to migrate server or client to R2 first?
Migrate the servers first and then clients. The preferred server option is called a side by side migration. More on that below.
What server options do I have to migrate to R2?
You have two options:
Option 1
The first option is the preferred option called a side by side migration which provides the least amount of downtime but requires additional hardware.
Option 2
The second option is where you export data, tear down production, and then rebuild R2 on the same hardware if it is 64-bit capable. The final step is to re-import the user data. This saves money on hardware but requires downtime to make the switch.
Side by side migration
For a side by side migration, the recommended approach is called an inside out migration since you internal components first and then you migrate Edge roles. The steps are as follows:
Note1: R2 users can continue to use R1 director and R1 Edge roles
Note2: You can move back to R1 from the R2 pool if needed
How do you move LCS 2005?
You can move LCS 2005 SP1 users as well to an R2 pool – Note: Don't enable enhanced presence to still use LCS client - if you want to use enhanced presence upgrade client
What if users are logged into LCS or R1?
This is okay as users will be re-logged in after they are moved.
Export data migration
This is the second choice in R2 migration options but if HW is limited, etc this may be an alternative:
In the next post, Greg will post about how to migrate Edge, CWA, and Mediation servers to R2.
I got this question from a Colorado customer. They were getting this pop when installing R2:
The question they had was:
Where should I store the OCS R2 global settings in the System or Configuration containers?
The answer is of course it depends and here is a useful flowchart from the R2 deployment guide to help you decide:
In my customer's case they had an empty root domain, so my recommendation was to move them from the System container to the Configuration container.
Why should I care where my OCS global settings reside?
For the most part you shouldn't but what we have seen is some cases if you selected System container and the root domain was unavailable it created some problems with OCS performance. Due to this we now default to the Configuration container for OCS global settings. We also throw a pop up (above screen shot) if you are selected the System container prior.
The rule of thumb is if you can switch your global settings to the Configuration container do so since once you continue the R2 install with the settings in the System container it cannot be reversed.
How do I move the OCS global settings from System container to Configuration container?
Here are the steps from the R2 deployment guide:
You can run any of the following steps in read-only test mode by appending the /Check parameter to the MigrateOcsGlobalSettings command. This parameter prints the status of target objects and properties without making updates.
If any of the following steps fails to complete successfully due to network, replication, or permission issues, you can rerun the step until it completes successfully.
Before you begin the migration process, use the Office Communications Server snap-in to stop all Office Communications Server services on all Office Communications Servers.
To migrate global settings to Configuration container
1. Copy the global settings tree structure to the Configuration container by opening a command prompt and then running the following command:
cscript MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs /Action:MigrateGlobalSettingsTree
2. Copy the global settings attributes to the Configuration container as follows:
cscript MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs /Action: MigrateGlobalSettingsProperties
3. For Office Communications Server 2007 and Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1, run forest preparation to set permissions as follows:
Do not use the Office Communications Server Prep Forest wizard for this step. The wizard will show that the forest is already prepared, although the ACEs are not in the new container yet.
LcsCmd /Forest /Action:ForestPrep /global:configuration
For Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1, also run domain preparation in every domain the runs Live Communications Server as follows:
LcsCmd /Domain /Action:DomainPrep
Wait for the global settings tree to replicate to most forest global catalogs before proceeding to the next step.
4. Update server distinguished name (DN) references to the new global settings tree as follows:
cscript MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs /Action: MigrateServerDnReferences /SearchBaseDN:<server search base DN>
Where /SearchBaseDN specifies the migration scope for servers.
5. Update DN references for user, contact, and inetOrgPerson objects to point to new global settings tree as follows:
cscript MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs /Action: MigrateUserDnReferences /SearchBaseDN:<user search base DN>
Where /SearchBaseDN specifies the migration scope for users.
Wait for this step to complete before proceeding to the next step (for example, with stable network connectivity, it takes about one hour to migrate 30,000 users).
Use the Office Communications Server snap-in to restart the Office Communications Server services.
6. Try to send instant messages and perform some conferencing tasks to verify that the migration was successful.
Remove the original global settings tree structure from the System container as follows:
Do not perform this step until steps 5 and 6 are complete.
cscript MigrateOcsGlobalSettings.vbs /Action: DeleteSystemGlobalSettingsTree
These are a set of voicemail questions coming from a university in Chicago:
Does a call made from the UM server through PBX have the originators number as the caller (play on phone option)?
For Play on Phone, it depends on which number you pick. For example, in our case we also have OCS voice as our primary voice therefore it defaults to my SIP URI for Play on Phone and I basically call myself with my Caller-ID. If I pick my cell, for Play on phone, however it shows the Outlook Voice Access pilot number calling me.
Can I get a list of vendors offering an MWI application with Exchange integration?
Two main vendors I have seen used for lighting the red lamp: Geomant and Enabling Technologies.
I have also seen universities write their own MWI solution using Exchange Web Services. Typically, what I have seen during Exchange UM pilots is the value of the little red light on the phone gets greatly diminished since you are getting voicemails directly in your inbox.
What happens when multiple people have the same extension in Exchange? Does it create a auto-menu of sorts?
You do need a unique extension and a unique SIP URI in order receive an Exchange voicemail. It will not let you provision additional UM users with the same extension.
I have seen where you can have a single voicemail mailbox for multiple users or you can use an autoattendant and then have subtrees for each user.
Can I get some documents on system architecture and menu administration (phone tree)?
OVA phone tree is here.
UM system architecture here.
Does it do time of day menus?
Yes, you can have different autoattendants based on business hours, non-business hours, and holidays. More here and here.
Can you have a "Zero Option" for you voicemail (where a caller is given the option to press a number to forward to a predefined number like an assistant instead of going to voicemail?
Yes, there is a personal operator extension per user.
Is there documentation on setting up the system attendant for the tree answer hierarchy?
Here and here.
The topology for OCS architecture has changed for R2. We know support three topologies:
Consolidated Edge – in RTM We needed a Public IP address for the outside edge. In R2 we've changed that if you are using a single consolidated edge. In this scenario you can NAT the external IP address. This will help with small installations of OCS.
Load Balanced Edge – NATing can't be done as we have multiple External Edge and the H/W load balancer wouldn't not which Edge to route traffic to. In this scenario the External Edge will need Public IP Addresses. For most schools this isn't an issue but a very important distinction.
Finally we have multi-site Consolidated Edge Configuration
We have made significant changes in the design of the edge for A/V which reduce the external edge external firewall ports from 20K to 2. No inbound TCP/UDP port range is required on external firewall. Also the outbound UDP port range is not required. So 3478 and 443 are only ports needed. There are restrictions such as federation with an OCS RTM A/V Edge server. In this scenario the same ports are required as for RTM. This is important if your plans are to federate with other schools.
Reverse Proxy also has more responsibilities in an R2 configuration. If you support external devices the Device Update Service requires a reverse proxy. The reverse proxy must be configured to publish these directories:
We didn't discuss certs here but the last thing I'll mention today is the desktop sharing. Desktop sharing requires both CWA and AV Edge. CWA needs to have reverse proxy and media traversal for desktop sharing happens via the AV Edge.
The Planning Tool is great for helping you with an initial design for OCS R2. The wizard will guide you through the process including discovery of design parameters such as web conferencing, enterprise voice, VoIP gateway, Mediation, etc.
It uses this to draw a topology for you such as the one below. This one was for 10,000 users with Group Chat, Web Conferencing, Enterprise Voice, External users and Federation, Archiving and Monitoring. When hovering over each server it gives you the recommended hardware specs needed for deployment. The tools also gives you links to planning guides as well as useful information such as our server user model to understand the params we use to profile user base for the modeling. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425159(office.13).aspx
You can download the tool here.
Since the launch we have had plenty of good R2 info coming in. Here is just sample:
'Time to Ebay the PBX' NetworkWorld Podcast and article
I also thought this was a great Podcast interview of Terry Gold, founder of Gold Systems, from Mitchell Ashley at NetworkWorld. The interview was about Gold's internal OCS R2 deployment. We have used Gold as a voice partner with several education OCS/UM rollouts and some large Fortune 500 companies.
What I found most interesting is how much Gold is planning on saving per month ($5k+) for 100 users by moving to R2. Their goal is to retire their PBX, 3rd party conferencing, T1 voice and long distance lines with our OCS R2 SIP Trunking, etc within 3 months.
Here is the Podcast.
Here is the article.
$214 million saved annually per year at Microsoft with our UC platform
Another good read is our internal 3 year 240% ROI study based on what we have saved with our UC platform by deploying OCS R2 enterprise voice to 40,000 users (no PBX) and Exchange voicemail to 75,000 users
Here is the study.
University of Kentucky OCS R2 Case Study
The team at University of Kentucky is really getting some great OCS 2007 benefits on their campus. Here.
Forester study on the Total Economic Impact study of our Microsoft UC platform:
Here is the Forester study showing the huge savings on travel, telephony costs, productivity, voicemail, etc. Note: The data used in the ROI calculation is non-education pricing so the ROI would be even higher in education.
Here are some useful March 2009 R2 whitepapers:
Office Communications Server: What's New in Office Communications Server 2007 R2
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 introduces not only a number of brand-new features, it also delivers some significant enhancements to existing functionality. Here's an overview of some of the most important new features and functions you'll find in this latest release. Stephanie Pierce
Office Communications Server: How Remote Call Control Powers OCS 2007 R2
The Remote Call Control capabilities in OCS can be used to extend your R2 deployment to legacy devices. Find out how to configure Remote Call Control to provide rich OCS capabilities in an environment with a PBX system. Rajesh Ramanathan
Office Communications Server: Securing OCS with ISA Server
To securely extend your OCS 2007 infrastructure to remote users and organizations, you need to deploy one or more Edge Servers and provide reverse proxy access to these servers. Here's what you need to know to use and configure ISA Server 2006 as a reverse proxy for your OCS deployment. Alan Maddison
Office Communications Server: Managing OCS 2007 R2 from the Command Line
Though you can configure Office Communications Server using wizards, there are times it makes sense to work from the command line. Explore the LCSCmd command-line tool and see how you can use it to set up OCS 2007 R2. Greg Stemp and Jean Ross
A common request for RFP is support for TTY. What is it? A TTY is a device that enables people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-disabled to use the telephone by typing messages back and forth to one another instead of talking back and forth. In order to communicate, a TTY is required at both ends of the conversation, unless the call is placed through Relay. OCS now supports integration with TTY with OCS R2.
Under options you can turn on tty mode and connect a keyboard to a device such as the Catalina phones for OCS. I haven't seen documentation on this yet but I'll post when I know more.
Forefront Security for OCS Beta 3 Now Available
The Beta 3 for Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) is now publicly available for download. FSOCS provides fast and effective protection against malware and out-of-policy content in IM conversations and attachments for Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) environments. This new release includes:
- Support for OCS 2007 R2
- Support for OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition server roles
- Integration with OCS 2007 Access Edge role to add protection from external public IM threats
Like other Forefront server security products, FSOCS uses multiple engine scanning to provide superior detection of latest threats over single engine solutions. The FSOCS RC is shipping with five antimalware engines from Microsoft and industry-leading security partners.
The scanning of IM for viruses includes Public IM (Sametime integration, Yahoo, MSN, AOL), Group IM, and IM Based file transfers. Scanning does require the servers to proxy peer to peer communications so that the servers can capture the IM traffic.
Download the Beta today!
I think it's important to point out that Desktop sharing can be done with Communicator Web Access across multiple platforms. Keep in mind that only IE, Firefox on Windows can host the session but it can be viewed on a variety of formats.


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Stirspeare wrote:<Stirspeare> Lopez: Vanquish my virginity and flood me with kit. ["Ladies..."]
Enigma wrote::up: fantastic work, As others mentioned, great internal sync.
Brad wrote: for the video.
for making me download it.
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Sure is 2012 coming soon.
It's good to see you're back to it, man.
EDIT: DAT INTERNAL! Cool shit, man.
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Ileia wrote:I remember not totally being into this song, but there's something about it when you mix it with the video source that makes me keep watching. Of COURSE I love the internal synch and that you keep a great dynamic going, following the contrasts of the chorus and verses. It's part of hooks me in and keeps me watching. I likes it. And yes I know that you are PMing me in IRC right now.
Also, boo ACen staff for not knowing what was going on. I wanted to see it, too! Actually, did you censor "what the fuck is this shit?" for your con version?
Kiki wrote:I agree with Ileia. When I first heard the song by itself, I was like " D: "
But the editing makes the song fit so well I'm actually liking it
Arashinome wrote:Awesome work, bro. I really enjoyed it. Besides a few quality issues [Some cropping and frame blending here and there that needed fixing] I really don't have any complaints.
Infinity Squared wrote:it's something
Discount Menu wrote:Or is it nothing?
Dr.Dinosaur wrote:This thread is now all about how Krat's well edited video is exploring meaning through an existentialist mindset.
Good work Andre I really liked this!
slackergirl wrote:SPOILERS!!!!!!!! Now you've ruined the end of FLCL for me. RUINED!!!!!!!!!!
not really...
Great job, Andre!
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Mamo! wrote:Hawt stuff KratKrat
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Enigma wrote:I'm addicted to this video, Great stuff
Kitsuner wrote:I like your lyric sync. The strat-squeal was pretty righteous too.
ZephyrStar wrote:I should probably check the announcements forum more often :O
Good stuff man, the lyric synch was right on. Can never have too many awesome FLCL videos :3
Ileia wrote:No, you're supposed to comment after each and every person says something. Half the posts in this thread should be your own!
<Stirspeare> Otohiko: You guys sure love dongs.
Koopiskeva wrote:Yay, krat made a video, and it was good
lynit wrote:If you haven't seen an AMV at all for over a year....this is a good place to start.
Awesome job. The music fit FLCL to a T, the contrast in editing, the pacing, and most of all the climatic ending. made me came.
instant win.
HazeFM wrote:D: I thought I posted on this already....
Well anyways good shit,I wasn't to fond of the song but it started to grow on me after awhile.
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How long do these speakers last? (Asking users who had the speakers for over a year)
In other words, are the cables fragile?
I've been looking up reviews of these speakers for a while, and the major complaints seem to be the fact that the cables and wires are too fragile.
Is this correct? If so, how long do they last?
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I've had mine since 2000 and they still work and still sound great. So yeah, they last a while.
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used mine for about a year now and used a lot for playing world of warcraft and listening to lots of music no problems to report sound is still amazing and not fragile at all in fact the satellite speakers have been knocked over by my cat a few times (lol) and still work fine
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- May 29, 2012
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I've had these speakers since 2006 and mine are still going strong. Had no problems whatsoever.
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I've had my speakers since the original model came out (they were USB back then). It was more than 10 years ago! Great speakers for the price. I still use them, now with a Mac Pro computer. No cable problems.
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I've had mine since 2004 and they still sound and look great. They're a great value.
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Sudoku is a fun logic puzzle that gives kids a chance to use their logical reasoning and critical thinking skills. On the Turtle Sudoku worksheet, kids solve four Sudoku puzzles. In each row, column, and block the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 must appear once and only once.
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We've just had a lovely total lunar eclipse on Earth — so how about watching a solar eclipse on Mars? Pictures from NASA's Opportunity rover record just such an event, which occurred on Nov. 9. Neither of Mars' moons is big enough to cover the whole disk of the sun during an eclipse, so a partial blackout is the best Phobos could do in this video clip.
After the eclipse, you'll see a typical Martian sunset, stitched together from exposures taken on Nov. 4 and 5. The 30-second sequence is a speeded-up rendition of a sunset that would take 17 minutes in real time. The sky looks blue around the sun in these pictures because of the scattering effect produced by dust particles of a particular size in the Martian atmosphere. Farther away from the sun, the Martian sky takes on more of a reddish cast.
The scientists who created the rover movies say they're the next-best thing to being there. "These visualizations of an alien sunset show what it must have looked like for Opportunity, in a way we rarely get to see, with motion," rover science team member Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University said in a NASA image advisory. Simulated images were added to the sequences to produce a smooth viewing experience.
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For the eclipse movie, the image sequencing was done by Emily Dean, Dale Theiling, Elaina McCartney and Jon Proton. Image processing was done by Jim Bell and Mark Lemmon. Event timing was handled by Tom Duxbury. The team expressed thanks to members of the operations and support teams in the NASA/JPL Mars Exploration Program and Deep Space Network. Credit for both movies goes to NASA, JPL-Caltech, Cornell University and Texas A&M.
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The show is known for its use of music and social media. Many of the most famous musicians in the world have appeared on the show. Fallon often performs bits in which he plays a guitar and sings to comedic affect. The show also often incorporates social media clips, and does a lot of promotion through social media as well.
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You might be finding yourself in need of a pick-me-up today, so here you go: a video of U.S. Marines dancing and lip syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe."
I know, I know, "Call Me Maybe" is on that breaking point where we're all about to be very, very sick of it (if we aren't already). But listen: Jimmy Fallon and The Roots performed the song with Carly Rae Jepsen on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" using only toy instruments found in a classroom. It's just enough to make the song totally awesome.
The world hasn't heard a new Dave Matthews Band album since 2009's Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King. After 20 years touring, the remaining members took all Summer 2011 off. Last night, Matthews resurfaced on "Late Night" with guitar in hand, and sounded like he'd hardly missed a beat.....
Oh, it's just not fair sometimes. Imagine if schedules had been flipped, Lil' Wayne had made his scheduled "Jimmy Kimmel Live" appearance last night, and Lindsay Lohan had guested on Kimmel's show instead of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." America could've been treated to the two troubled entertainers exchanging fairly-recent legal system tour impressions.
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Brett Dean: premieres of Amphitheatre and Pastoral Symphony
(February 2001)Brett Dean: premieres of Amphitheatre and Pastoral Symphony
With a series of high profile performances and commissions in the late 1990s, Brett Dean is now established as a leading composer of the younger generation, championed by international conductors including Simon Rattle, Markus Stenz and Daniel Harding. After a 15-year period working as violist and composer in Berlin, Dean returned to his native Australia last year and now lives near Brisbane concentrating solely on his activities as a composer. He has enjoyed a busy year with performances of his most celebrated work Carlo by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, his music's debut at the BBC Proms, and a collaboration between the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Bang-on-a-Can All Stars at the Sydney Olympic Festival. His orchestral score Beggars and Angels, which was toured in Australia and Europe by Stenz and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, went on to win the award for best Australian work of 2000.
A new ten-minute orchestral score, Amphitheatre, was premiered by the Queensland Symphony under Daniel Harding last June, taking its title from descriptions of a ruined ancient Roman amphitheatre outside a modern city contained in the children's book Momo by Michael Ende. The past glories of the auditorium are conjured up with trumpet fanfares, as the musical material moves as if around the oval architecture and rises up through tiered layers of sound. The end of the work captures the dissipation of memory as described by Ende, when the modern tourist returns to his senses, takes a photo and departs: "Then stillness is reinstated to the stony roundness".
Dean's Etudenfest received ten performances on tour in November from the Australian Chamber Orchestra led by Richard Tognetti. The work is scored for strings and piano, and is a witty and imaginative exploration of the soundworld of pedagogical studies, in which the technical exercises take on a new beauty seldom relished in rehearsal rooms. Also recently premiered was Winter Songs, a setting of poetry by e e cummings for tenor and wind quintet, written for Scott Weir and Dean's ex-colleagues from the Berlin Philharmonic.
Dean's newest work is his Pastoral Symphony, commissioned by the city of Frankfurt and Ensemble Modern. It received its premiere conducted by Stefan Asbury on 9 February at Radio France's Présences festival in Paris, and can be heard again at Ars Musica in Brussels on 25 March, and in Frankfurt on 19 May. The work examines how the listener's perspective on nature has changed over the two centuries since Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, as described by the composer: "Sure, we all 'love' nature, but what we love more are all the trappings of modern living…certainly more than the desire to stop and bask in the glory of a single butcherbird, perhaps the most magical sound found on the Australian continent. This piece, then, is about glorious birdsong, the threat that it faces, the loss, and the soulless noise that we're left with when they're all gone."
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SAPPHIRE Technology has just strengthened its current range of graphics cards with the introduction of several new models in the HD 6700 series aimed at users wanting to benefit from the latest features including multi-screen displays and stereoscopic 3D output. Several models will be introduced in the HD 6700 series offering a choice of memory configurations and outputs. All of them feature DX 11 engines from AMD and on-board hardware video decoding with the AMD UVD (universal Video Decoder) supporting Blu-Ray 3D for stereoscopic 3D over HDMI 1.4a. They all support AMD APP Acceleration with Stream processing as well as AMD Eyefinity multi-screen technology. Eyefinity gives users the ability not only to play games on multiple monitors, but also to work across three or more monitors as though it were one large monitor, bringing huge productivity benefits to applications such as photo editing, music creation and document creation. The SAPPHIRE HD 6770 family includes two models with 800 Stream processors and core clocks of 850MHz with either 1GB or 512MB of GDRR5 memory and DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. There is also an overclocked model with SAPPHIRE's award winning Vapor-X cooler for quiet and efficient operation with the output configuration of Dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. At the top of the range is the HD 6770 1GB FleX Edition, which additionally incorporates the SAPPHIRE exclusive feature to allow three DVI monitors to be connected in Eyefinity mode, without the need to use the DisplayPort output or active adapters, and allows up to four monitors to be enabled if the DisplayPort output is used. There will also be two models in the SAPPHIRE HD 6750 family, which has the slightly smaller configuration of 720 Stream processors, with 700MHz clock speeds and again including 1GB and 512MB memory options with DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. In addition there will be an HD 6750 1GB Vapor-X model, overclocked and with Dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The SAPPHIRE HD 6000 series is supported by AMD's Catalyst DirectX 11 WHQL certified graphics driver which together with this generation of hardware delivers support for all of the key DirectX 11 level features including DirectCompute 11 instructions, hardware Tessellation and multi-threaded communications with the system CPU. They also support AMD APP Acceleration, - using Stream processing to accelerate supported applications such as browsing, video transcoding and rendering tasks by executing instructions on the GPU architecture rather than the system CPU.
amd earns on having the amd name on everything, and it actually looks better if you ask me. if only they could make a logo for cpu's that looked pretty too, maybe go red there too ?
So much for not selling these 5700 renames direct to public.:shadedshu Anyway... I guess it had to happen, the n00bs must have all been asking why there's a "gap" in the 6000 series. EDIT: OT: @Imsochobo: what the hell's with that internet speed?!
I wonder how many people will rush out to upgrade their 5770s to the 6770s without knowing they're the exact same card.
Inevitable... and with the latest features it skirt's being "super-blatant" rename, but with the same spec's it is. If AMD and their AIB partners hold the same going-rate (pricing) as the 57XX's does now with rebates... et cetera, I'm not too distraught about it. Sure gouging will be inescapable, but with 6670 and 6790 on either side I don't see it being big issue and actually wonder why they need these at this point? Last I checked the 5770's at Egg where averaging about $118 (after-rebates etc.) based against some 16 cards that where moderately priced (basically those <$150). If AMD can turn-off/quickly deplete the 57XX's inventories, while parlaying those sales over to these it would be great. Although that's a tall order, as honestly I didn't see AMD effectively managing and maneuver such stocks down the past couple of months. It appears a lot of AIB still have SKU/volume at major E-tailers. That said at least AMD/ATI has been somewhat better at actually ceasing the old in a timely fashion once the new shows.
Just bumping the 5770 from its' 850Mhz to 875Mhz (3%) would have it encroaching on the 6790 (its' @ 840Mhz). Right now the difference between them is ~13% (@1680x-1920x)so even that little extra would've had a 128-Bit card, almost right on top that "gelding" even working half the memory interface. Then considering with a TPD of about 35% more for the 6790, it would have made the model look ineffectual / impractical.
I think I'll just take a marker and scratch the "5" off mine and write "6". This way I can sell it for more cash. Besides, mine has one more DVI than the HD 6770, so it's a sure thing. Making moneys. If I don't sell mine, I'm gonna crossfire when I get the chance.
In best buy they have the 6770 and 5770 right next to each other lmfao. AMD and Nvidia should be ashamed of their self releasing the same damn cards over again with a different number. Just seems like a total waste of time.
New series number = brand new card, to many consumers. AMD and nVidia profit from that. It's just business.


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...from a thread of mine at astrologyweekly...
I ran across the chart while researching birth data for another person the other day.
I had the data for Cayce but never attempted to produce a chart for the man as I don't trust the time of day from birth data that is from before the 20th century that gives times of the exact hour or half hour.
The time given for Edgar Cayce is 3:00 pm and I believe now that it is most likely correct...give or take a minute.
The chart produced gives the 21st degree of Leo as the Asc. This degree of the Zodiac I know all too well. It is the same degree my natal Pluto is in.
The symbol for the degree is: "INTOXICATED CHICKENS DIZZILY FLAP THEIR WINGS TRYING TO FLY." Rudhyars summation of the definition for this symbol is [Rudhyars' Keyword{s}] "THE PREMATURE EXPANSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS."This particular degree and symbol were the first to convince me of the possible validity of the Sabian Symbols back in 1984 when my brother introduced me to 'real Astrology' and the Sabian Symbols.
As my natal Pluto is in that degree...Pluto the Planet of Transformation...I connected the symbolism with an out of body experience the very first time I meditated using a Japa Yoga technique back in 68' when I was 15.
As the Asc. and Desc. of the birth chart [the "Horizon"] represent the "WHO" and "WHERE-TO" of ones spiritual blueprint it is a most appropriate symbol for Cayce in light of his life experiences and especially so as He did become consciously expanded at a very young age.
The Sabian Symbol for the I.C and M.C. of ones chart is symbolically "HOW" and "WHY" ones is to achieve the destiny laid out in the chart horizon.
In this birth chart we find the 14th degree of Scorpio for the I.C.
The Sabian Symbol and definition for which is [from Rudhyars' book] "TELEPHONE LINEMEN INSTALLING NEW CONNECTIONS. Keynote: The need to establish new channels of communication." and Rudhyars' summation of the definition [his Keyword{s}] "THE WILL TO ASSOCIATION OR COMPREHENSION."You couldn't find a more appropriate symbol from the 360 that there are to represent 'HOW' Edgar Cayce did fulfill his destiny/dharma...He did establish those "Connections" by becoming the greatest "Channel" of the 20th century.
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sunnysnow is the link working i can't seem to open it? Btw do you like have to pay or something to subscribe to that.
sunnysnow is the link working i can't seem to open it? Btw do you like have to pay or something to subscribe to that.
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." "不闻不若闻之,闻之不若见之,见之不若知之,知之不若行之" Confucius
sorry, i've corrected the link already. no u dont have to pay or anything, u just have to know chinese and sign up as a member to view anything in the forum
btw, 00 recently did some charity work at 2 sickly children homes and spent her money to buy a wollen cap for every child, how sweet
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i think GYY had too much drink. LOL
1 more drink please.
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Hi guys... i am new... juz wanna comment dat she looks really gd... even "gd" is too mild a word to describe her... simply mesmerizing
I love the golden 80s period of TVB!!!
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i can wait until GYY's new serie come out!!
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oh, thats her latest series. is it out yet Chuy605? though i may not buy it unless its good. btw, i caught a glimpse of 00 in Feng Cui Bian Guan on this taiwanese cable channel, TVBS. she's really pretty as usual but i didnt know the series was airing since the title was "Di Ren Jie" and it was already the 20somethingth epsiode. i really wanted to watch the beginning when 00 dresses up as a guy. anyway, i think the series is made up of a couple of stories and 00's only in one of them right? does she actually appear throughout the series? but anyway, i watched a couple more episodes but didnt see 00 and the pace is rather boring.
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it's coming out next year, base from what i heard but can't be sure when. yeah GYY is in Feng Cui Bian Guan and she is the main female actress in that serie (unlike other series). But the story is not base on her, she is the person that got cought in the middle of everything. The main story is base on that old guy (detetive) and tells the story how he solved the case of the missing money that was suppose to use for builting the Great Wall. Then there are also sub-story which is also related to the money....etc. I think its a good story, i think you should get it SunnySnow and watch it from the begining to get the whole story. It keep u guessing who did what, until the end when all the puzzles are put together. And its funny too(in the begining epsiodes). And there are only 23 epsiode in all, so GYY was kind of not in it during the late epsiodes. (they only show few short scens of her) starting from epsiode 19-22. I guess her part of the story was over by epsoide 19-22. And the director try to put all the puzzles together, so that is why you did't see her that much. but they will show her in the last epsiode (23). The funny thing is that all the characters died, expect GYY, the queen and the old dude(of course).Originally Posted by sunnysnow
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Does anyone know the name of the series where GYY is forced into marrying a guy that she hates and confronts him with bad makeup and convinces him into signing a divorce contract because she says she got food poisoned???? It turns out really sad cause she ends up with no one.
its the same serie i was describing on the last post, the begining few epsiode is funny. The title is "Feng Cui Bian Guna-Di Ren Jie."
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i think this is the serie you are looking for.
You can find this serie in chinese video stores(maybe), they use to have it in Yesasia.com for a cheap price, but now they don't sell it anymore.Originally Posted by dragongirl
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THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! That's the one I was talking about. But I'm viet so I need to try to find the name in viet now. I know a forum that let you download TV series so I can try to request it from there. Thank you soooooo much!Originally Posted by chuy605
I went to the website www.asianphen.biz but all they say is bye bye. Can you tell me why?Originally Posted by Gillian
this is an odd question in Gao YuanYuan's forum, anyways it means that website is closed for good or no longer working.
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thanks for the pics and info Chuy. 00 looks hilarious in the pic she pretends to be ugly. i heard her character's rather funny in the beginning, thats why i wanted to watch the beginning. so 00 only appears up till episode23? but the whole series PM Di Ren Jie is 40episodes right? cause they're showing like episode 28 or something and i dont see 00 anymore.
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will, i have the series and there is only 23 episode. "Feng Cui Bian Guan" does have 2 different story line in 2 different serie set. The 1st serie set talk about why some one is trying to kill the queen and how the old guy (detective) sloved the case, that came out in 2002. Then in 2003 "Feng Cui Bian Guan-Di Ren Jie" came out, that's another different story with GYY's character in it. And both series have only 20 some episode. If there is more then 23 episode, that means they are showing both series at same time. I have both series, i bought the 1st serie thinking that GYY was in it, but it turn out so wrong and later i bought the 2nd series and it turn out that GYY is in it, but the story is different. (just like: Batman and Batman Return, same movie but different characters in it and stories too).
Last edited by chuy605; 11-13-05 at 02:18 AM.
Here is series 1&2. I love collecting GYY's series, i have all GYY's films expect 2 old ones which is hard to find. (like in 1997 series)
Last edited by chuy605; 11-13-05 at 02:23 AM.
i saw the one 00 was in b4 but i didnt buy it since the series didnt really gain gd reviews. and i think tvbs is showing the 00 one since i saw her in one of the episodes which she confronted this man, asking whether did he lie to her and kill her father or something. but i missed 2episodes after that and when i watched the series again on tv, 00 wasnt in in anymore and it said episode 28, they're showing like episode 30something now. one more thing, the vcd set i saw in shops with 00 in it stated that there was 40episodes altogether. maybe thats for vcd, whereas dvd has lesser episodes since they can store more scenes in a dvd disc?
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The Independent Provincial Forces
The survival of "independent" provincial forces that rejected Beijing's authority complicated the structure of military and political power in Hunan and Hubei after the stalemate of the North-South War. Hubei's independent forces controlled the border region between Sichuan and Hubei west of the commercial port of Yichang and most of Shinan prefecture, a lobe of territory sandwiched between Sichuan and Hunan in Hubei's southwestern corner. In Hunan, independent forces controlled a large swath of counties, some twenty in all, west of Changde and Baoqing, as well as most of the counties south of Wu Peifu's base at Hengyang.[61] Although they were united in the goal of driving out the northern armies occupying their provinces, the internal political fragmentation of the independent forces of Hubei and Hunan was again a reflection of warlordism at work.
One factor contributing to the political fragmentation of Hubei and Hunan's independent forces was their diverse origins. From the beginning, the Hubei independent army was divided between Shi Xing-chuan's Hubei troops and Li Tiancai's non-native "guest army." The independent Hunan army included not only the remnants of the regular army's 1st and 2d Divisions but also the garrison forces of western Hunan, still based primarily on surviving Green Standard troops, and the local Guard Corps of garrison commands from southern and southwestern Hunan. As a result of the rapid military expansion that took place during the North-South War, many components of these forces broke off to become independent units in their own right. Furthermore, many new forces were raised in both Hubei and Hunan over the course of the war. Although equally committed to the cause of independence from northern control, most had only weak connections to the original independent forces. The shattering defeats suffered by these forces during the northern counterattack that began the second stage of the war, and their disorderly retreats, further hampered efforts
to maintain a unified command structure. By the time the military situation stabilized, the independent "armies" of Hubei and Hunan were poorly articulated combinations of military forces.
Complicating the internal divisions in the Hubei and Hunan independent armies were their political relationships with their southern allies. All the independent forces swore nominal allegiance to the alternate "national" government established at Canton at the beginning of the North-South War. This helped legitimate their continued opposition to Beijing. Practically speaking, though, the Canton government was too hampered by its own internal political conflicts to effect any real influence, let alone control, over the independent armies in Hubei and Hunan. At the same time, these forces were never strong enough to stand alone against their northern opponents without some outside assistance. Thus Guangxi military aid was crucial to Hunan's success in the first stage of the war, while the defeat of Hubei's forces was largely because of their inability to obtain such support. After the independent armies were forced to retreat to the resource-poor periphery of their respective provinces, their need for military support, weapons, and financial assistance only increased. Seeking such aid, the independent armies were perforce drawn into the political conflicts that divided the southern military forces into three main factions. These factions were usually identified by the nomenclature they employed to label their armies. The faction centered on Lu Rongting and the Guangxi army retained the designation National Protection Army (huguojun ) from the Anti-Monarchical War period. The largely Guangdong-based local military commanders associated with Sun Yatsen adopted the title of Constitutional Protection Army (hufajun ). Finally, the Yunnan army led by Tang Jiyao, with its Sichuan and Guizhou allies, styled itself the National Pacification Army (jingguojun ). Hubei and Hunan independent forces adopted these same labels as they sought out the most beneficial factional alliance. At the same time, appeals to different factional authorities helped individual commanders justify autonomous stances in relation to other forces.
Of the two independent provincial armies, Hubei's was by far the most fragmented, largely owing to the proliferation of new forces initially raised in response to Shi Xingchuan's and Li Tiancai's declarations of independence. Among the organizers of these new forces were a significant number of prominent Hubei revolutionaries, including a Guomindang national assemblyman, Liu Ying, and the 1912 Hubei minister of military affairs, Cai Jimin, as well as past Hubei military commanders, including the former Hubei 1st Division commander
Tang Keming, the 3d Division commander Wang Anlan, the 7th Division commander Tang Xizhi, and the 8th Division commander Ji Yulin.[62] The participation of these men revealed the hopes raised by the Hubei independence movement. First, Hubei revolutionaries optimistically saw a military base that might finally eliminate Beiyang power from their province and make a contribution to Sun Yat-sen's Constitutional Protection Movement. Second, Hubei officers who had had their hopes of military advancement shattered by Hubei army disbandments saw new career opportunities in the development of a new, independent, and expanding Hubei army. This second goal prompted large numbers of retired Hubei officers and recent military school graduates to offer their services to Shi, Li, or other commanders.[63] While these two different motivations did not necessarily conflict, there was a potential for a division along revolutionary and nonrevolutionary lines. Cooperation was difficult, inasmuch as men like Ji Yulin, Liu Ying, and Cai Jimin had participated in post-1911 revolutionary activities in Hubei, while Shi Xingchuan, Li Tiancai, Tang Keming, and Wang Anlan had been active in their suppression.
The proliferation of forces in the Hubei independence movement created immediate conflicts over the location of ultimate authority within the movement. In early January 1918, Li Tiancai, with Shi Xingchuan's approval, ordered the arrest and execution of Ji Yulin and his close associate Que Long, the former Hubei 8th Division brigade commander, who had been regathering their old comrades into an independent force. Confident of their own revolutionary and military credentials, they refused to join forces with Li or Shi on any terms but their own. Although Li and Shi had not yet agreed which of them would take precedence, neither welcomed the formation of forces that questioned their leading role.[64] The execution of Ji and Que was the first of many conflicts over authority yet to come.
After their retreat to western and southwestern Hubei, the various revolutionary and military leaders who joined the Hubei independence movement created a confusing array of military units. Since military force was the main determinant of power, military expansion became a primary concern of every commander. Isolated as these commanders were from ready sources of weapons, recruitment drives often brought in more new soldiers than could be effectively armed. Lacking adequate pay, many commanders rewarded their followers with superfluous titles. To enhance their own prestige, commanders also claimed inflated designations for their forces, and titles for themselves, not justified by actual troop strength.[65] The result was reflected in a popular
description of the "three mores" said to characterize southwestern Hubei at this time: "more officers than soldiers, more soldiers than guns, and more bandits than people."[66]
The main factor exacerbating the internal conflicts among various independent forces was fierce competition over the limited resources of the region where they settled. Li Tiancai's resources were the best because his troops held territory along the Yangzi River on the Hubei-Sichuan border where they could tax commercial traffic. This taxation benefited in particular from the lucrative trade in Sichuan salt.[67] Most of the other Hubei forces, though, were restricted to the Shinan prefecture, one of Hubei's poorest regions. ("The sky is never clear for three days, the land is never level for three miles, and no one has as much as three cents," one stock description of it noted.)[68] Out of necessity, the commanders who settled in this area quickly established control over local administrations, usually by ensuring the appointment of compliant magistrates, in order to tap into local tax revenues. The contest for these resources fostered a drive for military expansion, while this military expansion in turn increased demands on the region's already limited resources. The prevalence of banditry mentioned in the previous paragraph was partially owing to the increasing poverty and social tensions that grew out of this situation.
There were several attempts to establish a unified command over these competing forces. Initially, Shi's departure eased the selection of an overall commander. After long negotiations, Li Tiancai received recognition as commander-in-chief of the Hubei independent army in April 1918.[69] He did not, however, get along well with many of his supposed subordinates, especially those with revolutionary backgrounds, so he was unable to establish any meaningful control over most of them. Later efforts were made to overcome the internal rivalries within the Hubei independent forces by bringing in prominent military figures from the outside to establish a neutral general command. This simply increased internal conflicts, inasmuch as individual commanders resisted the control of new commanders-in-chief and the various commanders-in-chief fought to assert authority over each other.[70]
While individual commanders remained largely autonomous, jealously preserving their own territories and military forces, certain internal factional alliances did appear. First, there was a continuing division between Li Tiancai's non-Hubei army and the native Hubei independent forces. The native Hubei forces in turn generally divided along revolutionary and non-revolutionary lines. The first group cen-
tered on Cai Jimin; the second was led by Tang Keming. Each man claimed the title of commander-in-chief, and their composite "armies" consisted of many different units. These factional divisions not only influenced struggles over leadership and territory but were evident in the stances taken on broader political issues. For example, the more pragmatic military professionals around Tang Keming were more willing to accept compromises in peace negotiations with the north as long as they could guarantee the survival of their own commands. In contrast, the revolutionary faction was more likely to oppose such compromises as a betrayal of the goals of the independence movement.[71]
Factional divisions within the independent forces also reflected differing alignments to the southern powers. Cai Jimin and his more revolutionary followers generally followed the principles of the Constitutional Protection Movement and looked to Sun Yat-sen for leadership. Nonetheless, since the Yunnan army controlled most of Sichuan and Guizhou, it was the most natural ally for the Hubei forces. As a Yunnan native, Li Tiancai cooperated easily with Tang Jiyao and assumed a National Pacification title. Tang Keming likewise argued that geographical circumstances demanded a Yunnan alliance. However, while Tang Jiyao was eager to have Yunnan's hegemony recognized, his actual assistance in financial or military terms was so niggardly as to limit severely his influence. Both Tang Jiyao and the Canton government participated in efforts to create a unified Hubei command, but neither had sufficient influence to ensure the subordination of all forces.[72]
In the end, the politics of the Hubei independent army during its sojourn in southwestern Hubei continued to be defined, not by factional alignments, but by the struggle of individual commanders for the survival of their own forces. The competition for territory and resources resulted in persistent military conflicts, in which one day's ally became the next day's enemy. In 1919, Cai Jimin was killed in a fight between his troops and a Sichuan army unit. Although Cai's followers suspected Tang Keming's complicity, the evidence suggests that it was simply a local struggle over territory.[73] When Tang Keming attempted to establish his authority over all Hubei forces after Cai's death, he was quickly driven from power. In this case, Tang found he had enemies not only among Cai's followers but among his own subordinates, who chafed under his heavy-handed command. By ousting Tang, his officers saw an opportunity to strengthen their own positions.[74] With the disintegration of the Hubei independent army into
increasingly autonomous military units, the original hopes of the independence movement deteriorated into an extreme, fragmented form of petty warlordism.
The demise of the Hubei independent army finally came in late 1920 when Sichuan military commanders ended Yunnan's hegemony over their province and drove out its occupying forces. Fearing their Yunnan connections, Sichuan forces also pushed Li Tiancai's army and other independent Hubei forces out of eastern Sichuan.[75] This crowded even more soldiers into the few counties of Shinan prefecture. Widespread popular uprisings occurred when these troops attempted to impose their own financial exactions on an already overburdened population. Militarily threatened on several fronts, and under attack from within, many forces simply disintegrated. Taking advantage of this situation, Hubei's northern armies finally advanced to reclaim control over the province's southwestern counties.[76] Although remnant bands survived for several years, the Hubei independent army ceased to exist as a political force.
The situation of the Hunan independent army differed from that of its Hubei counterpart on a number of points. First, it began with a much larger military base, incorporating most of the regular Hunan army as well as most provincial garrison command forces. Second, its reputation and morale received a considerable boost from its victory in the first stage of the war. Third, even after its retreat, the Hunan independent army remained in control of a more substantial territorial, and thus resource, base. Nonetheless, the component forces in the Hunan independent army showed many of the same tendencies toward autonomous political behavior and political fragmentation that were characteristic of the Hubei independent army.
The stage was set for the political factionalization of the Hunan military when, very shortly after Liu Jianfan and Lin Xiumei's declarations of independence, Cheng Qian returned to Hunan on Sun Yatsen's orders to take charge as commander-in-chief of the Hunan "Constitutional Protection Army." Cheng's arrival resurrected the division between Hunan officers who had originally followed Cheng in the Anti-Monarchical War, including Lin Xiumei, and those who had gained their positions through Tan Yankai's influence, such as Zhao Hengti and Liu Jianfan. In Tan's absence, Zhao Hengti became the recognized leader of this later group of officers.[77] For the first stage of the war, however, this internal factional division remained muted in the face of the greater political tension that developed between the Hunan army and its Guangxi allies.
The assistance of Guangxi troops under the command of Lu Rongting's subordinate, Tan Haoming, largely made Hunan's initial success in driving northern armies from the province possible. It soon became clear, though, that Guangxi's military aid was not without its price. After the capture of Changsha, Cheng Qian added the civil governorship to his title of commander-in-chief, thus laying claim to both Hunan's military and civil administrations. However, Lu Rongting hoped to expand his own political influence into Hunan and did not want one of Sun Yat-sen's allies assuming such power. Therefore, he forced Cheng to resign the governor's post and to yield control of provincial administration to Tan Haoming.[78] Meanwhile, Lu and Tan alienated much of the Hunan military by their initial insistence on leaving Yuezhou in northern hands while they pursued peace negotiations. This made it appear that the Guangxi leaders were willing to trade away the security of Hunan's borders in order to achieve their own political goals.[79] Finally, Hunan appreciation for Guangxi's military assistance was seriously weakened when Tan Haoming preserved his own military power by retreating southward ahead of the 1918 northern counterattack. This left Hunan forces to bear the brunt of the northern onslaught.[80] The antagonisms created by these Guangxi actions generally increased the influence of pro-Sun Yat-sen and pro-Yunnan factions within the Hunan army.
One important effect of the northern counterattack in the second stage of the war was to divide Hunan's forces territorially into two different groups. Under the leadership of Cheng Qian and Zhao Hengti, most of the regular Hunan army and the original Guard Corps and garrison command forces from south and central Hunan withdrew to the province's southernmost counties. Meanwhile, the forces that originated in western Hunan retreated westward to their old bases. The two most important of these forces were led by the West Hunan garrison commander, Tian Yingzhao, and vice garrison commander, Zhou Zefan. However, there were also a number of new units recruited over the course of the war, the most important of which was led by the Chen-Yuan circuit intendant (daotai ), Zhang Xueji.[81] Thus when hostilities ended in mid 1918, the Hunan independent army had split into separate southern and western groups.
The autonomous position of the West Hunan forces was manifested in a number of ways. Early in the war, individual West Hunan commanders had issued political statements and proposals separate from those of other leaders of independent forces.[82] As the northern counter-attack ground to a halt, the West Hunan commanders jointly negotiated
their own cease-fire with northern commanders on the West Hunan front.[83] Finally, in late 1918 the West Hunan commanders joined to establish their own government at Chenzhou, with Tian Yingzhao as the head of military administration and Zhang Xueji as head of civil administration. Under the authority of this government, these military commanders appointed local magistrates, collected local taxes, and even issued their own currency and "military" bonds.[84] Thus they established their own separate warlord regime.
West Hunan's commanders also emphasized their autonomy through their alliances. As with much of the rest of the Hunan military, the West Hunan forces resented the Guangxi army's self-interested actions during the first stage of the war. After their retreat to western Hunan, it became possible for them to seek a new patron in Tang Jiyao whose assistance could reach them through Yunnan-dominated Guizhou. By mid 1918 most West Hunan commanders acknowledged Yunnan's hegemony and had accepted National Pacification Army designations. Besides the small amount of military and financial aid they received from this alliance, by nominally placing themselves and their armies under Yunnan's authority, the West Hunan commanders were better able to resist attempts by the leaders of the South Hunan independent army to claim authority over them.[85] However, not all the West Hunan commanders chose to take this path. After returning to his base in southwestern Hunan, Zhou Zefan refused to accept a National Pacification designation for his army, instead using National Protection or Constitutional Protection titles, showing that he intended to maintain an independent balancing position between his supposed West Hunan allies and the South Hunan forces.[86]
Despite the existence of the Chenzhou government, individual commanders in West Hunan remained largely autonomous in the control of their own garrison areas. For example, Zhou Wei, originally 2d District Guard Corps commander, took complete control of the administration of Wugang County, appointing a member of his own staff as county magistrate and establishing his own financial bureaus to raise funds for his military expenses.[87] As in western Hubei, various commanders frequently fought over territorial bases and financial resources. There were likewise instances where subordinate officers rose to challenge their superiors. In the most notorious case, Zhou Zefan was assassinated by one of his regiment commanders, Liao Xiangyun. Liao had originally organized an independent Constitutional Protection force in Hunan in late 1917, with a commission from Sun Yat-
sen, but then accepted incorporation into Zhou's military organization. In late 1919 Zhou was drawing closer to Guangxi-allied forces in southern Hunan, antagonizing both his Yunnan-allied West Hunan associates and South Hunan forces allied with Sun Yat-sen. Liao therefore obtained the approval of both groups to initiate a coup against Zhou, killing him in the process.[88] While this incident can be explained in terms of broader factional conflicts, it also exemplifies the manner in which the fragmentation of political authority represented in factional divisions fostered the process of warlordism. Liao had no trouble finding authorities willing to legitimate his coup against Zhou and thus establish his own independent position. Unfortunately for Liao, he was quickly overthrown in turn by Zhou's other officers, who refused to accept his claim to Zhou's mantle.
The independent army in southern Hunan was no less free of internal factional conflicts, with the major division occurring along pro-and anti-Cheng Qian lines. From the moment of Cheng's return, many Hunan officers resented his rather presumptuous claim to the title of commander-in-chief of the Hunan army. Even before the retreat to the south, some officers openly defied Cheng's authority. For example, in January 1918, Chen Jiayou (who owed his brigade command to Tan Yankai) refused to acknowledge Cheng's right to replace one of his subordinate officers. As a result of this conflict, forces loyal to Cheng ousted Chen from his post.[89] After the retreat to southern Hunan, increased competition among military commanders for reduced resources intensified internal conflicts in the southern independent army.
The anti-Cheng Qian forces received a boost when Lu Rongting reached an agreement with Tan Yankai supporting Tan's return to Hunan as military governor. At this time, Lu was struggling with Sun Yat-sen for the control of the Canton government. By allying himself with Tan, Lu sought to regain his influence over the Hunan military and at the same time undercut Cheng Qian's ability to support Sun. Cheng meanwhile realized that Tan's return as military governor would undermine his authority as commander-in-chief and opposed it on the grounds that no purpose was served by the establishment of a military governorship in southern Hunan.[90] With Guangxi support Tan overrode Cheng's objections, however, and returned to Hunan to reclaim the office he had lost to Fu Liangzuo at the beginning of the war.
For a time, southern Hunan supported two competing military governments, with Cheng Qian as Hunan commander-in-chief at Chen-
xian and Tan Yankai as military governor at Lingling. With no personal military power of his own and very small funds, Tan began from a very weak position, but he slowly gained support by assiduously courting Zhao Hengti and other Hunan officers who had benefited from his patronage in the past.[91] Neither Tan nor Cheng was willing to acknowledge the authority of the other, and both men eventually told mediators that there was no solution but for one or the other of them to go.[92] Finally, in the summer of 1919 an incident occurred that forced Cheng's departure: a Guangxi army commander arrested an alleged agent of Duan Qirui's on his way to meet Cheng, and although Cheng claimed no knowledge of the agent's connection to Duan, his opponents in the Hunan military denounced him for dealing with the enemy. Unable to halt these attacks, Cheng resigned his post.[93]
The return of Hunan's most eminent civilian politician to the military governorship did not reestablish civilian authority over military power. Because of the legitimacy Tan's name could add to their efforts, many Hunan commanders nominally recognized his position. Tan also proved his usefulness to the anti-Cheng Qian military faction. Nonetheless, he wielded very little actual power over the disparate forces of Hunan's independent army. Indeed, Tan reportedly spent most of his days as military governor at Lingling writing poetry, practicing calligraphy, and sight-seeing.[94] Tan now held his position at the sufferance of military men and would only keep it as long as he did not threaten their interests.
The most important difference between the independent armies of Hubei and Hunan was the Hunan army's survival. Beyond this, though, the independent forces of both provinces shared many characteristics. Conventional Chinese histories tend to treat these forces favorably as opponents of Beiyang warlordism. Judgment of these forces based on their adherence to the "correct" southern cause allows them to evade much of the opprobrium of warlordism. Simply in terms of political behavior, though, most independent force commanders in Hubei and Hunan exhibited the same characteristics of warlordism as their counterparts in the occupying northern armies in their provinces.


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