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Posted 29 March 2003 - 05:09 PM
The Opium War
Qi Wen, China (1979)
The Opium War, which was a turning point in Chinese history, marked the beginning of China's gradual transformation into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. In fact, the whole history of modern China is one of the Chinese nation fighting against the imperialists and their servants.
In the 17th and 18th centuries the major countries of Europe gradually became capitalist societies. They looked everywhere for markets for their merchandise and seized colonies.
China with its vast territory, rich resources and large population quickly became a target. Early in the 19th century Britain smuggled large quantities of opium into China, leading to grave social and economic consequences. In 1839 the Qing government sent Lin Zexu to Guangdong to ban the use of opium. To protect its opium trade, Britain launched the First Opium War in 1840. While the Chinese people rose spontaneously in armed struggle against the invaders, the corrupt Qing government, fearing for its existence if the people became powerful through fighting the British, preferred to submit to the foreign enemy. In 1842 it signed the 'Treaty of Nanking" with Britain, bartering away China's national sovereignty, paying a large indemnity and ceding territory. The United States and France followed Britain's precedent, and compelled the Qing court to conclude similar treaties. These unequal treaties cost China its sovereign rights. The flood of foreign goods into the home market caused the disintegration of its feudal economy. Thus China grew into a semi-colonial, semi-feudal country.
Su Kaiming, Modern China (1985)
The large-scale smuggling of opium brought tragedy to many families in south and central China. To obtain this drug, many addicts sold their land and houses, and even their wives and children. Thus, outside of the small number of merchants and officials who profited from this illicit trade, the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people were filled with indignation and wholeheartedly supported the war against the British invaders.
The British troops also went on raids in the villages along the seacoast. They plundered, killed, and molested the women-folk. In self-defense the peasants organized themselves into militia units, and neighbouring villages pledged to help one another in case of emergency. The struggles of the people to defend themselves were the only heartening aspect of an otherwise gloomy story of official appeasement and capitulation.
Posted 30 March 2003 - 06:41 AM
Qi Wen, China (1979)
The years after the 1870s saw the transition from world capitalism to imperialism, from free competi tion to monopoly. In the scramble for markets, raw materials and export of capital, the capitalist powers stepped up their invasion of China. In 1884 France launched the Sino-French War against China and VietNam. In 1894 Japan started a war against China and Korea - the Sino-Japanese War. Throughout this time, the Qing government, defying popular sentiment, made repeated concessions and compromises and finally concluded the humiliating "Treaty of Shimonoseki" with Japan, whereby Japan received a large part of China's territory, a big indemnity and special privileges in making investments and building factories in certain Chinese ports. This treaty was a heavy shackle on the Chinese people.
After the Sino-Japanese War, the imperialist powers struggled among themselves for investments, leased territories and spheres of influence in China. They tried to carve China up and end its existence as a nation. For half a century, starting from 1850, tsarist Russia forced China to conclude a series of unequal treaties, extorting many privileges and slicing off a total of 1.5 million square kilometres of China's territory. In this intense rivalry, the United States put forward in September 1899 the so-called "open door" policy, whereby each power's "sphere of influence" in China was recognized, but within these spheres each was not to restrict the trade and navigation of the other powers. Thus, on the one hand, the other powers were to open their spheres of influence to the United States so that its monopoly capital could plunder and exploit the whole of China, and on the other, the sharp contradictions between the imperialist countries were to be mitigated for the time being. A political agreement for the joint partitioning of China was therefore reached among the imperialist powers.
Su Kaiming, Modern China (1985)
In 1894 Japan, with a modern army and navy, was prepared for military adventures. Short of resources, its leaders cast their hungry eyes particularly on Korea and the adjoining parts of China, including both the northeast and the Shandong peninsula across the sea.
In June of that year the Qing government was called upon by the king of Korea to send troops to help quell an insurrection in his country. Citing the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Tianjin signed in 1885, by which both countries had pledged not to intervene directly in Korea without informing the other, Japan dispatched troops, too. China sent 3,000 men, Japan 18,000. In July Japan set up a puppet government and demanded the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Korea. Without warning, Japanese troops began to attack Chinese forces, and war was formally declared on August 1, 1894.
This war lasted only about six months. While the various groups in the Japanese government were. united in the effort to win the war, the Qing government was rent by factional strife and intrigue. In the field, the Japanese army first drove the disorganized Chinese troops out of Korea; then its naval forces routed the poorly-led Chinese navy in the Yellow Sea. By February 1895, the Japanese forces had crossed the Yalu River into Chinese territory, conducted landings at the naval bases of Dalian ("Dairen" or "Dalny" in Japanese and Russian respectively) and Liishun ("Port Arthur" in British parlance) on the Liaodong peninsula, smashed the "powerful" Beiyang
Edited by John Simkin, 30 March 2003 - 06:42 AM.
Posted 31 March 2003 - 03:40 PM
Zhong Wenxian, Mao Zedong (1986)
It was around the time of the May Fourth Movement (1919) that Mao Zedong first came into contact with and began to embrace Marxism. In July 1919, he launched the Xiangliang Review in Hunan, and the following year he organized the Cultural Reading Society for the spreading of revolutionary ideas. In the autumn of 1920 he set up communist groups in Changsha. Himself a founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong attended the First National Congress of the Party which marked the formal inauguration of the Communist Party of China in July 1921. He was later made Secretary of the Hunan Regional Party Committee of the CPC and put in charge of leading the workers' movement in Changsha and Anyuan.
Qi Wen, China (1979)
China's industrial proletariat was born with the emergence of modem industry. Around 1870, industrial workers in modern China totalled less than 10,000. The number increased to about two million prior to the May 4th Movement in 1919. Though not very numerous, this industrial proletariat represented China's new productive forces and was the most progressive class in modern China.
From the time of its birth the Chinese proletariat continuously fought against oppression and exploitation by foreign capitalism, domestic feudal forces and the bourgeoisie in various ways - political, economic, and otherwise. In 1917, the great October Socialist Revolution broke out in Russia under Lenin's leadership. It inspired China's advanced elements to study and publicize Marxism and the ideas of the Revolution. Consequently a group of intellectuals with incipient communist ideas like Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu appeared, and these helped to spread Marxism in China. Under the influence of the October Revolution, the May 4th Movement - a great anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary movement - took place in China, at which the Chinese proletariat demonstrated its might for the first time. Meanwhile Marxism-Leninism spread and linked itself with the revolutionary practice of the Chinese people. In ideology and in training cadres, the May 4th Movement set the stage for the founding of the Communist Party of China. On July 1, 1921, Mao Zedong, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu, He Shuheng, Wang Jinmei, Deng Enming and others, representing the communist groups in different places, met and held the First National Congress in Shanghai to found the Communist Party of China, the vanguard of the Chinese proletariat.
Su Kaiming, Modern China (1985)
In February 1923, Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangzhou where he immediately set up a headquarters of a new revolutionary government. Soviet Russia sent Michael Borodin (1884-1951) and some military advisers to help him, and a provisional central committee of the Kuomintang which included a number of Communists was organized.
The Chinese Communist Party held its Third National Congress in Guangzhou in June 1923, and the question of forming a revolutionary united front with the Kuomintang was discussed. The congress affirmed Sun Yat-sen's contribution to the Chinese revolution and resolved to help him in reorganizing the Kuomintang and establishing cooperation between the two parties.
The gap between Sun Yat-sen and the West continued to widen. When he threatened in December to seize the customs revenues in the port of Guangzhou, the powers staged a naval demonstration to preserve the status quo. Thwarted, Sun angrily stated, "We no longer look to the Western powers.
Our faces are turned toward Russia."
In January 1924, Sun Yat-sen called the First National Congress of the reorganized Kuomintang in Guangzhou. Among the Communists who attended were Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong and Qu Qiubai (Chu Chiu-pai, 1899-1935). The congress adopted the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal policy advanced by the Communists, agreed to absorb individual Communists and Socialist Youth League members into the Kuomintang, and decided to reorganize the Kuomintang into a revolutionary alliance of workers, peasants, the petty-bourgeoisie and national bourgeoisie. In this way, new blood was infused into the ranks of the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen became the leader of a revitalized revolutionary movement.
Posted 31 March 2003 - 05:27 PM
I agree this is a fascinating subject and perhaps something our international members might be able to help with. We are now required to teach interpretation to even the youngest or least able students. National perspectives is a relatively easy way to do this.
As historians we are fully aware that textbook writers are influenced by nationalism. However, it is difficult for the classroom teacher to get examples from foreign textbooks.
I had a Korean student last year at GCSE who brought in an old textbook that included the 1950 war. She made a website of her translation and included some scanned pages. This was at the same time as the dispute over the revision of Japanese textbooks threatened to undermine Korean-Japanese relations ahead of the last World Cup. I do a CNN derived lesson about this with my IB group.
In the long-run, what might work well on this forum is if we identify international subjects that we teach in common with colleagues around Europe or the world. For example, I know from experience that the Armada is taught rather differently in Spain than it is in the UK. Unfortunately, (or fortunately) modern text books that I have seen in France or Spain are rather too subtle in their differences to be of use in the classroom as interpretation exercises. However, the old narrative based textbooks from the 1930s are a different matter...
Jane Austen's 'History of England' type stuff would be ideal.
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International School History
Posted 01 April 2003 - 04:38 PM
(1) Su Kaiming, Modern China (1985)
To help artists and writers find some answers, the Communist Party in May 1942 held a forum on literature and art in Yan'an. Mao Zedong spoke twice at this historic meeting, in part summing up the thinking of the most progressive artists and setting forth conclusions reached through discussion and argument. He reminded artists that they had a very important role to play in the ongoing struggle. The revolution needed armed forces to fight the battle of the sword, but that was not enough. The revolution also needed a cultural army - fighters armed with pens - to educate and unite the people and promote the liberation of the country.
To accomplish this task, writers and artists must first shift their class stand and become one with the masses, seeing things from their viewpoint. No artist can write convincingly of what he doesn't know. "China's revolutionary writers and artists, writers and artists of promise," he said, "must go among the masses ... in order to observe, experience, study and analyze all the different kinds of people, all the classes, all the masses, all the vivid patterns of life and struggle, all the raw materials of literature and art." They must also learn the language of the masses. Only then can they proceed to do creative work.
(2) Qi Wen, China (1979)
At that time (1931) Wang Ming, who had assumed leadership of the Party Central Committee, pursued his policy of "Left" adventurism, causing great losses to the revolutionary forces: The Red Army soldiers were reduced from 300,000 to 30,000 and Communist Party members from 300,000 to about 40,000. Under these, circumstances, the Red Army had to move out. In October. 1934, it began its world-famous Long March from Jiangxi.
In January 1935, the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee held an enlarged meeting at Zunyi in Guizhou Province. Militarily and organizationally it rectified Wang Ming's "Left" adventurist line and established Mao Zedong's leadership over the whole Party. From then on, the Chinese revolution advanced along a victorious road. In October 1935, the Red Army triumphantly arrived at the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Later it smashed the encirclement campaigns of Chiang Kai-shek. As the Chinese Communist Party fought for the establishment of a national united front against Japanese imperialist aggression, it established its base in the northern Shaanxi city of Yan'an.
(3) Zhong Wenxian, Mao Zedong (1986)
Mao Zedong worked in Guangzhou as acting Head of the Central Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang, edited the Political Weekly and directed the Sixth Class at the Peasant Movement Institute. In November 1926 he was appointed Secretary of the Peasant Movement Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee. Published between the winter of 1925 and the spring of 1927, his works Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society and Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, dealt with the fundamental problems relating to the Chinese revolution and set forth some of Mao's basic ideas on the New Democratic Revolution in China. In these treatises Mao Zedong underlined the great significance of the peasant problem to the Chinese revolution and the paramount importance of the leadership of the proletariat over the peasant movement. Critical of Chen Duxiu the Party's principal leader at that time, for the compromises and concessions he made in dealing with the right wing of the Kuomintang Mao denounced Chen's Right deviation in denying the proletariat their rightful leadership of the Democratic Revolution.
In April 1928, he joined with the insurgent forces of Zhu De to form the Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army (later renamed the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army), with Mao Zedong as Party representative and Secretary of the Front Committee, and Zhu De as Army Commander. In January 1929, he and Zhu De led the main body of the Fourth Red Army down the Jinggang Mountains to southern Jiangxi and western Fujian, where more revolutionary bases were set up (these were later to become the Central Revolutionary Base Area). With Mao Zedong as their chief representative, the Chinese Communists proceeded from the reality of China. Conducting armed struggles in rural areas where the forces of reactionary rule were weak, the Communists opened up China's characteristic revolutionary road to the final seizure of the country's political power by encircling cities from rural areas and then capturing them.
(4) Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong (1978)
During the Great Revolution, Chairman Mao was already aware that the peasants were the largest ally and that the people's revolution could not triumph without them. And sure enough, the revolution suffered defeat because his views weren't listened to. Later, when we got to the countryside. Chairman Mao saw that in order to carry out the revolution it is necessary not only to rely on the peasants, but also to win over the middle and petty bourgeoisie. As Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary treachery became further exposed, only the comprador-bureaucrat and feudal landlord classes supported him. But a group of people inside the Communist Party made "Left" deviationist mistakes and were very narrow in their outlook, holding that the middle and petty bourgeoisie were unreliable. They didn't listen to Chairman Mao, and the result was that the revolution suffered another setback and we had to march 25,000 li. Then Chairman Mao proposed that we unite with Chiang Kai-shek and other members of the upper strata to resist Japanese aggression. But some people said that if we wanted unity, there shouldn't be any struggle. Chairman Mao replied that Chiang and the others were our domestic enemy; we were uniting with them in order to fight the national enemy. But they were not reliable partners or allies, and we must guard against them; otherwise, they might turn on us. We took measures to avert Right deviations and to prevent unqualified compromises. During the present War of Liberation, "Left" deviationist mistakes were made in agrarian reform in the countryside. In order to eliminate the landlord class, landlords were given poor land or no land at all so that they could not eke out a living; or too many people were classified as feudal rich peasants or landlords. Moreover, on the question of executions, it was stipulated that no one should be executed except for those who had committed serious crimes, refused to mend their ways' and were bitterly hated by the people. But, sometimes, when the people were filled with wrath, these distinctions were not made, and the leadership did not attempt to persuade the masses, so too many people were put to death. This had an adverse effect on our united front with the peasantry, and particularly with the middle peasants. This mistake was also corrected by Chairman Mao.
(5) Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zedong Thought (1978)
Comrade Mao Zedong wrote a four-word motto for the Central Party School in Yanan: "Seek truth from facts." These four words are the quintessence of Mao Zedong Thought. In the final analysis, Comrade Mao's greatness and his success in guiding the Chinese revolution to victory rest on just this approach. Marx and Lenin never mentioned the encirclement of the cities from the countryside - a strategic principle that had not been formulated anywhere in the world in their lifetime. Nonetheless, Comrade Mao Zedong pointed it out as the specific road for the revolution in China's concrete conditions. At a time when the country was split up into separatist warlord domains, he led the people in the fight to establish revolutionary bases in areas where the enemy's control was weak, to encircle the cities from the countryside and ultimately to seize political power. Just as the Bolshevik Party led by Lenin made its revolution at a weak link in the chain of the imperialist world, we made our revolution in areas where the enemy was weak. In principle, the two courses were the same. But instead of trying to take the cities first, we began with the rural areas, then gradually encircled the cities. If we had not applied the fundamental principle of seeking truth from facts, how could we have raised and solved this problem of strategy?
Posted 04 April 2003 - 02:35 PM
And for other history teachers out there who are interested in doing an exchange of textbooks, I'll be glad to assist.
Edited by Chocolatechip, 04 April 2003 - 02:36 PM.
Posted 06 April 2003 - 06:49 AM
You can find a collection of primary sources to go with this extract at:
L. Ortiz Munoz, The Glorious Spanish Empire (1940)
The greatest armada the world had seen was prepared. It was called invincible. One fine day in June 1588, it unfurled its sails before the wind in Lisbon harbour. There were ten squadrons with a total of a hundred and thirty sail, galleons, ships of the line, galleys, hookers, caravels, tenders and cutters. In command of the fleet was the Duke of Medina Sidonia, a loyal man of proud lineage and great wealth, but in no wise versed in naval science.
Aboard the fleet sailed seven army regiments numbering nineteen thousand men, and a further eight thousand sailors and two thousand oarsmen. It was the posthumous achievement of the genius of the Marquis of Santa Cruz, almost a floating city, with all its services marvellously arrayed.
The ships built in Antwerp by Farnese were to join this armada; and a part of the seasoned Regiments of Flanders, numbering twenty-six thousand men, were to join this army.
The ten squadrons of the Empire advanced upon the Atlantic with crushing impetus. But soon there befell that adversity which was to herald worse evils. A storm lashed the galleys in the latitude of Finisterre, and the Armada had to regroup in Corunna. Then again they sailed in imposing majesty and perfect formation to give battle to the British fleet. In England the news produced a thrill of horror. Greater still was the panic when at dawn on the 30th of July, in the Port of Plymouth, the sun showed on the horizon the splendid advance of those enormous galleons with their high prows, tall poops, billowing sails and waving standards. They moved on steadily. They formed a crescent and their line stretched for seven miles. The English squadron, smaller in number and size, but lighter and more agile, was anchored in the port. The Spanish admiral deliberated as to what was best to do. The most capable captains were hotly of the opinion that not a moment should be lost in taking advantage of the magnificent opportunity. This was the time to attack the enemy fleet and annihilate it. But the Duke turned down the idea. The King had ordered that the squadron should not give battle until the ships of Farnese joined it,
The opportunity and the initiative having been lost - even the favouring wind - the English fleet, seeing ours pass by, harried it cunningly, making use of its agility. Our ships suffered slight losses in this first skirmish. But at last the Armada made fast at Calais, where it awaited Farnese. This was the beginning of calamity. The English hatched a plot. During the night they sent in some ships which had been set on fire. The alarm was raised. Men began to think they were like the terror-ships laden with gunpowder which had been encountered at Antwerp. The Duke, hasty and inexperienced, dashed out to the open sea to fight his adversary.
A terrible wind from the south-east was stirring the waves. The rain began in a flood. Lightning and thunderbolts lighted the thick darkness. The hurricane beat upon the galleons and played havoc with them, delighting in scattering them and sending them crashing into one another, or against the coastal reefs, sweeping over them and sinking them. When dawn came, the fleet was broken and dispersed. Heroism did not suffice against the attack of the English ships. The storm came on again and the damage was made greater still. The Duke ordered a retreat, to save what remained of the vessels. But the way back was by North Scotland and Ireland, and the squalls there delivered the final blow and wrought further havoc upon the fleet.
The Invincible Armada of the Imperial Spanish Fleet was for the first time conquered. But not by the men, nor by the squadrons, it put out to fight. It was vanquished by the elements, against which valour and human daring are impotent, because it is God who rules the seas. Only against the hurricane and the gales did we lose, because the Lord wished it, the naval supremacy of the world.
Posted 06 April 2003 - 11:58 AM
Does this book have anything on Philip II more generally (eg on 'El Prudente') and/or on the Spanish Inquisition? or on the Dutch Revolt? If so I would be more than grateful if you could post some extracts.
Posted 07 April 2003 - 08:46 AM
You might be interested in the following that also appeared in this pamphlet.
(1) M. OSiochfhrada, Cromwell in Ireland, an extract from a textbook published in the Republic of Ireland in 1945.
Cromwell was a dour, stern, pitiless man, but he was also a swift, conquering soldier. It was he who fought best against Charles in England and, when this campaign was over, the English Parliament sent him over to Ireland with a strong army to fight the Irish.
He landed at Rinn, near Dublin, in August 1649, with an army of 14,000 men. The towns around Leinster were still occupied for the Confederation, and it was these towns that Cromwell attacked first.
He first moved north to Drogheda. There was a strong garrison in that town, but it was not long before Cromwell's guns made breaches in the walls. The town was captured after a few days and the population, men, women and children, were slaughtered horribly and bloodthirstily. After that, all the towns around Drogheda were surrendered to Cromwell.
Then he moved south to Wexford. The town was fortified for defence, but through the treachery of a man named Sinnott. Cromwell's soldiers were admitted to the town and then the garrison and townspeople were slaughtered.
Advancing, Cromwell captured New Ross, Durgarvan and other towns until he went into winter quarters in Youghal. The slaughtering and conquering progress of Cromwell terrified his enemies and during the winter of 1649-50 most of the towns in Munster yielded to the Puritans. Among these towns were Cork, Cappoquin, Cashel, and many others.
After the winter rest Cromwell advanced again in January 1650. Kilkenny was yielded to him in March, and that finally scattered the Confederation. Cromwell turned towards Clonmel. It was there only that a worthy stand was made against him. Black Hugh O'Neill was at the head of the garrison. He was a nephew of Owen Roe O'Neill. Cromwell besieged the town from 29 April to 18 May, but did not succeed in capturing it. During that time 2,000 of his men were killed. The garrison's ammunition was by then exhausted and they left the town secretly by night.
On 28 May 1650, Cromwell sailed from Youghal to England. He spent only nine months in Ireland, but he had done enough during that time to realize that he must leave his officers to finish the war.
(2) J. Lkkes and J. A. Nonneskens, Second Anglo-Dutch War, a text book published in the Netherlands in 1951.
Cromwell died, and within a short time England had a king again, Charles II. He was no friend to our country.
Our trade was still greater than England's. The Navigation Act did much harm, but we continued to earn money in every part of the world. There was still growth - there was still prosperity.
John de Witt well knew that there would be another war with the British. He had a great navy built of new, strong and heavily armed ships, as good as the English ones, perhaps better.
In 1664 the English started it. Peace still reigned, yet they seized by treachery territories in Africa belonging to the Dutch Republic. They also laid siege to New Netherlands and New Amsterdam. But they did not have it all their own way! A fleet was sent out under a bold and skilful admiral, Michiel de Ruyter. He had risen from cabin boy to commander. De Ruyter threw the English out of our African possessions. Next he would have sailed to America but war broke out in Europe as well, the Second English War, from 1665 to 1667. So De Ruyter sailed back to the home country. Before he arrived we had lost the first battle in the North Sea. Happily Michiel, the man from Flushing, then returned. Naturally the English had lain in wait for him: they wanted to take him prisoner. No fear of that! Michiel took a route which the English were not expecting. He sailed round Scotland and came into Delfziji. Great was the rejoicing. He was at once made commander-in-chief. He and John de Witt set about making the fleet ready again. The Grand Pensionary worked hard with him at the task: more than once
they went to sea together. Better wages were forthcoming for the seamen, and better conditions too. But above all the two leaders strove to make the units of the fleet work well together. No longer was each ship to fight on its own. Fight together and support one another, that was the new slogan.
And how much better did it go ! In 1666 De Ruyter fought the English fleet for four days off the North Foreland. Michiel won the famous Four Days' Battle. On his admiral's ship, The Seven Provinces, he was always in the thick of the fight, he and his subordinate officers Cornelis Tromp (son of Marten Tromp), Jan and
Cornelis Evertsen, Tjerk Hiddes de Vries from Friesland. All were brave and bold, but Michiel from Flushing was the greatest of them all. Yet he remained simple and unaffected. His sailors called him the " Best Tar " and they were ready to go through fire for him.
In 1667 peace negotiations opened at Breda. John de Witt wanted to end the war. A great new danger threatened, this time from the south, from France. That country had always been our friend: John de Witt wanted to keep her friendship.
There reigned in France a powerful king, Louis XIV. He was not content with his great power. France must be made greater still. First Louis wanted to add the Southern Netherlands to his country. They still belonged to Spain, now a weak
France as a neighbour - that was something the Dutch did not want. Nor the Grand Pensionary either. So strong a neighbour would be dangerous in the extreme. Louis might well want to take some of the Republic's own territory. It was for this reason that John de Witt wanted peace with England. He could then
devote himself to the French King's plans of conquest.
The English were dawdling at Breda. We will put a little speed into them, decided De Witt. De Ruyter was sent out with a strong fleet. He sailed for England, he sailed up the Thames. On the Thames lay London, the capital of England. London threatened - that shook the British I Their warships were either
burned or taken and brought away.
This attack on Chatham was a heavy blow to England. They had never expected to see the Dutch so near their capital! Now they wanted peace too.
At Breda the war was brought to an end. It was a pity that we did not get New Netherlands back. But we got another piece of territory in its place. We had captured Surinam. That was worth more then!
As a reward for the attack on Chatham De Ruyter was given a magnificent gold goblet. Michiel from Flushing had earned it.
Posted 27 October 2003 - 12:51 PM
The incident which occurred at Jallianwalla Bagh on 13th April, 1919 will ever remain in the memory of all Indians as an eloquent symbol of British tyranny in India. The massacre of unarmed Indians, which left four hundred dead and twelve hundred wounded, aroused a universal surge of indignation against the British rulers. The tragedy prompted Poet Rabindranath Tagore to resign the knighthood conferred upon him by the British Government.
Indians hated Major General Dyer, the chief perpetrator of the crime. Cinder mounting pressure the British Government was forced to censure him. But for many Britons, Dyer was a hero who had saved the British Empire. The House of Lords justified his heinous act as "preventive massacre". Sir Michael O'Dwyer urged "The Morning Post" to launch a fund collection drive for Dyer in which the British ladies took a keen interest. The British-owned "The Times of India" contributed Rs. 20,000 to this fund. The fund totalled £ 26,317. In 1940; Udham Singh shot Sir Michael O'Dwyer to avenge the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre.
The sacrifice of the martyrs of Jallianwalla Bagh resulted in further intensification of the struggle for independence. It turned millions of loyal supporters of the British Raj into nationalists. The Jallianwalla Bagh massacre thus became an important landmark in India's struggle for freedom.
Edited by John Simkin, 27 October 2003 - 12:53 PM.
Posted 27 October 2003 - 09:32 PM
JW Hunt, English History through Foreign Eyes (Historical Association, 1954).
The quote from the Spanish book came from a pamphlet on foreign textbooks published in 1954.
I have it too!!!! It was photocopied to me by Gordon Batho, who has one of the greatest collections of past History textbooks the world has ever seen.
Small world. Or are we history teachers just intellectual clones automatically attracted by the same things?
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Unfortunately, medication alone cannot adequately control blood glucose levels and keep you in the best of health. Eating appropriate foods at regular meal times is an important part of diabetes management and control.
There is no single diet that is appropriate for everyone with diabetes. There are several methods of meal planning a person with diabetes can follow, such as the exchange system, carbohydrate counting, calorie counting or the food guide pyramid. The meal planning method you choose should be one that fits your lifestyle and nutritional needs. A Registered Dietitian (RD) can help you select a meal planning method that is right for you.
Sugar is listed on food labels under the total carbohydrate listing because sugar is a carbohydrate. Carbohydrates include all sugars and starches in foods such as bread, cereal, pasta, fruit, and milk. Carbohydrates have the greatest effect on blood glucose (sugar) levels because nearly all the carbohydrates you eat will be turned into glucose. For this reason, the total amount of carbohydrates you eat is more important than the type of carbohydrate. When following your meal plan, try to include carbohydrate sources that are good sources of other nutrients such as fiber, vitamins, and minerals instead of carbohydrates that have little nutritional value, such as candy and baked goods.
No. Unfortunately, people who have a parent with diabetes are actually at higher risk for developing the disease than people with no family history of diabetes.
No. Currently, insulin only comes in a liquid form. Experiments with pill forms have shown that our saliva and stomach acid damages the insulin and decreases its effectiveness. Diabetes pills help your body produce more insulin or use your own insulin more effectively, but they do not contain insulin.
Type 2 diabetes likelihood can be predicted from common characteristics like age, body weight, physical activity, and family history of type 2 diabetes.
For family members of people with type 1 diabetes, there are tests used in research that can tell if the individual has an increased chance of developing the disease. For those at high risk, it is possible to join a research study concerning preventive treatment.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Noninsulin-Dependent diabetes. National Institutes of Health. 1992.
American Diabetes Association. Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus and Related Disorders, 3rd Edition. 1998.
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The work runs the gamut from a movie theater to a marine ecology center.
The exhibit runs from July 19 through September 3 at the gallery, located in Sargent Hall, 120 Tremont St., Boston.
The following designers are featured:
- Razan Albarghouty, EATonia Marketplace
- Lindsay Bach, Solace Common
- Eman Bawazir, Children's Visual Discovery Center
- Kathryn Boudreau, The Boston Film Alliance
- Alison Buckley, Roxbury Food Connector
- Maryam Dashash, The Museum of Garden of Heaven
- Kate Ferguson, Grrrl House
- Tzesika Iliovits, Casa Mia
- Virginia Lane, Souljourn
- Jordan Mills, Sensory Interventions
- Carolina Otero, Sonore Social Club
- Jared Sell, Education Integration
- Sarah Shriber, The Marine Ecology Experience
- Christine Troski, The Loom
- Yiwei Zhang, Infusion
A reception with the artists and faculty will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 3.
The Adams Gallery is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.


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by Phil Libin
Imagine building a company that lives through booms, bubbles and busts; a company that keeps innovating and creating value; a company that's around in 100 years. It's not as crazy as you think, but it requires a radical shift in start-up and investment culture. Far from the quick exit, it's all about believing in your vision and focusing on your users. If you do, then your company will last well into the future. In this presentation, Phil Libin will share how Evernote is winning over lifetime trust in a service, while simultaneously building what hopes to be a century old company.
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Priests for Life is happy to announce the establishment of Deacons in the Service of Life. As history has shown, the Church in every age provides the witness and service that the demands of the times require. Our times require above all else a charism in the Church directed to the defense of human life and the promotion of the family. Priests for Life and Seminarians for Life have been shaped by that charism. Now Deacons in the Service of Life joins in this marvelous witness.
Our Lord came to serve and to give His life as a ransom for the many. His "service" was not something separate from the giving of His life. Actually, His service was His giving. St. John, in fact, identifies Jesus' self-giving as the reality that reveals to us the meaning of love: "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us" (1Jn.3:16). This kind of love reverses the abortion culture. Abortion lays down the life of the other person. Love lays down one's own life, that the other person may live.
Diaconate is service. The service of the deacon is his giving, but a giving which has a special shape in our day. He is to give his time, energy, and spoken word on behalf of the most defenseless members of the human family, those still in the womb. The effort and sacrifice he makes on their behalf is itself a witness that raises the value of the lives of these children in the eyes of the world. It also expresses the Church's preferential option for the poor. The word "poor" does not simply refer to those who lack sufficient material resources. It means those whose human dignity is not recognized by others. The children in the womb have been declared to be outside the realm of personhood. They are the poorest of the poor.
Service is not service unless it serves where the need is greatest. Love is not love unless it gives without counting the cost.
The Church needs deacons for many reasons. A world immersed in the culture of death needs them for even more reasons. The Church goes forward to confront the culture of death in the strength of the promise that "the gates of hell will not prevail." A gate does not run into the battlefield to attack the enemy. Instead, the gate stands still to defend the city against the enemy attacking it. When our Lord promises that the gates of hell will not prevail, He means that the Church is taking the initiative to storm the gates, and that those gates will fall when the Church advances!
Deacons in the Service of Life, joining with Priests for Life and Seminarians for Life, makes for a formula which the culture of death cannot and will not withstand. Let us go forward with confidence, with the joy of the Gospel of Life, and with deep gratitude that the Lord has called us at this time to serve, to give our lives as a ransom for many.


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March 4, 2009
A flurry of outraged discussion has continued in the wake of the voiced objections of Colorado State Senator Dave Schultheis to a bill, SB-179, which would, among other things, require HIV testing of all pregnant women who don't explicitly object to the testing.
Schultheis provoked the ire of Colorado Democrats, and AIDS and gay rights advocates, when he said he planned to vote against the bill because AIDS "stems from sexual promiscuity" and because the Legislature shouldn't "remove the negative consequences that take place from poor behavior and unacceptable behavior." Schultheis cast the lone vote against the bill, which passed the Colorado State Senate 32-1 and now goes to the Colorado House of Representatives for their consideration.
The bill mandates that blood be drawn at the woman's first prenatal visit and submitted for syphilis and HIV testing, but also states that the pregnant women can decline to be tested for HIV. If the bill passes and is signed into law, we can only hope for reasonable regulations that resolve the possible confusion of when the woman's right kicks in, and softens the coercive tone of the legislation.
HIV (still without a cure) carries multiple implications for a woman's health and life well beyond pregnancy. With the persistent social stigma attached to HIV, a positive test result forever changes the personal life of the person diagnosed, and can trigger domestic violence, lost housing or employment, and social isolation. These real consequences of an HIV-positive result merit explicit discussions with patients. Yet SB-179 assumes a pregnant woman doesn't merit an explanation of the purpose and meaning of an HIV test, nor can she be trusted to make an appropriate decision if offered one. Colorado Democrat Nurse Thornton explains that the reason it's so important to test a woman for HIV when she's pregnant is "to protect the unborn baby" so that if she's HIV positive "treatment is started immediately to protect the baby." So much for mom.
Thornton and the rest of them may want to read the July, 2008 USPHS Task Force Recommendations on the use of antiretrovirals (ARVs) with HIV-positive pregnant women. In fact, healthy HIV positive women who don't need ARVs for their own health should wait at least until the second trimester before starting treatment. More to the point, the 2008 recommendations, which reaffirm the right of an HIV-positive woman to retain control over treatment decisions that affect her and her fetus, stress the importance of information and counseling to pregnant women. The recommendations state: "After counseling and discussion, a pregnant woman's informed choice on whether to take antiretroviral drugs either for her treatment or for prevention of mother-to-child transmission or to follow other medical recommendations intended to reduce perinatal HIV transmission should be respected. Coercive and punitive policies are potentially counterproductive in that they may undermine provider-patient trust and could discourage women from seeking prenatal care and adopting health care behaviors that optimize fetal and neonatal well-being."
Our friends who unanimously voted for SB-179 may also want to re-read Colorado's Patient Bill of Rights, similar to that adopted in nearly every U.S. jurisdiction. This gives hospital patients the rights to give informed consent for all procedure and treatments following an explanation in layperson's terms; and to participate in all aspects of one's care plan and decisions, to refuse any test or drug, and to be involved in any decisions that might involve ethical issues, or the patient's personal values and beliefs.
Prior to the recognition of informed consent as an affirmative legal right in several states beginning in 1972, and before the development of patient-centered care, the philosophy of "doctor knows best" applied in physician-patient relationships. The average patient, and particularly the average woman, was considered too uninformed to contribute anything to medical decision-making. The doctor's presumed superiority in knowledge and his good intentions trumped any obligation to ensure the patient's understanding of, let alone full consent to, whatever the doctor deemed in the patient's best interests. Sound familiar? It continues to reflect many physicians' comfort zone in patient interactions, and persists in much of medical care where states haven't intervened with specific statutory directives.
In contrast, the relatively modern concept of informed consent is a communication process between health care provider and patient and must involve at least two components: the provision and discussion of information, and the patient's act of consent. Failing to object to a procedure is not informed consent.
The Patients Bills of Rights that were adopted in the 1980s and 1990's, paralleling in many respects the philosophy of the Denver Principles and the patient-centered HIV testing laws that developed over the same period, had both supporters and opponents in the medical community. The ongoing battles to eliminate patient protections from state HIV testing laws track some of those earlier debates.
There are physicians who continue to support a patients' right to understand and take part in HIV testing and care decisions; Kaiser Permanente, the second largest provider of HIV-related care in the country, and the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, are two such examples. On the other hand, much of the medical establishment, as in the past, oppose informed consent, and even the documentation that consent was provided at all.
If one accepts HIV testing as a gateway to care, and patient health literacy and engagement in treatment as central to that care, then one might think that counseling and communication that breaks down mistrust and misunderstanding at the time of HIV testing is vital. Even the CDC acknowledged that in an opt-out testing program in Arkansas, more than 15% of pregnant women tested didn't even know that an HIV test had been conducted. At the same time, the most impressive statistics on HIV testing uptake over recent years comes from New York, a state that has kept written, informed consent on the books. Here also, where counseling and written consent still must precede HIV testing of pregnant women, prenatal testing rates are near 100% and perinatal HIV transmission is rare.
So with no evidence that documented informed consent is a barrier to pregnant patients' testing -- indeed, there is evidence that informed consent increases prenatal testing rates and alleviates fears and mistrust that many patients report in their health care experiences -- why the persistence and energy in eliminating this nonexistent barrier?
If many health care providers, notably the nurses who draw the bloods and counsel patients, see counseling as part of patient care, then why the rush to change policies to suit the lowest common denominator? Are improved testing rates and ending the epidemic really served by accommodating providers who believe that patient counseling requirements are a waste of a professional's precious time, rather than accommodating the patient with fears and misconceptions who needs information and is empowered by respectful care?
It's worth noting that greater than 99% of pregnant women screened for HIV will test HIV-negative. Meanwhile, 100% of pregnant women are at-risk for HIV because of unprotected sex. A short pre-test educational session can ensure women of child-bearing age learn the facts about HIV/AIDS as well as the strategies they need to remain HIV free. And, provided the facts of the benefits of HIV testing for themselves and their children, the vast majority of women will voluntarily accept testing.
Asking pregnant patients to consent to HIV testing is not a burden. With patients required to fill out and sign a multitude of forms -- HIPAA, release of records for insurance purposes, etc. -- why is it acceptable to eliminate a process and form that exists to benefit the pregnant patient, in order to accommodate doctors who for the most part don't offer the tests anyway? Is it based on a belief that the less women know or are told, the less likely they are to object to testing? Is it because it makes involuntary testing easier by making it nearly impossible to prove, putting the burden on the pregnant patient to argue against what her doctor has already drawn blood, and stated an intention, to do? Is it in any way connected to the race and economic status of those women who are disproportionately affected?
A number of those in the AIDS and medical establishments see these questions as besides the point. These women are better off knowing their HIV status. If these women know their status, even if the testing is a little coercive, it will help prevent further transmission, and allow them to start treatment for themselves and their potential offspring. A reasonable, responsible woman would choose testing, and all of the explanations and the technicalities of consent get you to the same place, so what's the difference?
The answers likely hinge on one's view of whether good intentions ethically warrant the imposition of healthy choices on people rather than allowing them the autonomy to choose, or fail to choose, what the professionals, or they, think is best for them.
The view that such interventions are justified, I believe, misses, forgets or severely minimizes the experiences that led to the Denver principles, the patients' bill of rights, and HIV testing legislation, all of which are far more modern than the centuries-old "doctor knows best" approach that the medical establishment is battling to extend to HIV care.
It also overlooks a significant part of what drives the HIV epidemic to this day. Namely, that women and people of color and gay men and poor people of every stripe have been marginalized and left vulnerable by a society, including the medical establishment, that has demeaned them and encouraged the powerlessness and invisibility that in fact drives people to take risks because their selves are worth less.
And so the real outrage, and irony, is that apparently not one person stood up for a woman's right to dignity and autonomy, and that the only correct vote on SB-179 was cast by an ignorant bigot for all the wrong reasons.
If any of you agree with my take on this, it would be great if you let our so-called friends in the Colorado state legislature know. The bill is now before the Colorado House Health and Human Services Committee -- it's 11 members are: Representatives Jim Riesberg, Chair; Sara Gagliardi, Vice-chair; Cindy Acree, Cheri Gerou, Gwyn Green, John Kefalas, Jim Kerr, Anne McGihon, B.J. Nikkel, Dianne Primavera, Spencer Swalm.
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Fender Modern Player Starcaster Electric Guitar
The Starcaster guitar is back. Virtually fabled since its original mid-to-late '70s tenure, the seldom-seen Starcaster occupies a special place in our history as Fender's one and only offset-waist semi-hollow electric guitar. Prized decades later by a new generation of adventurous guitarists with a flair for appealingly unconventional Fender style, the Starcaster now returns in fabulous new Modern Player form with greater sound, build and beauty that'll have you seeing stars. The Fender Starcaster guitar's thin semi-hollow offset body has a bound maple top and back, with stylish bound f holes. Its C-shaped maple neck has a 9.5-radius maple fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets, black-dot inlays and the distinctively curvaceous Starcaster headstock. Other premium features include full-voiced dual Fender Wide Range humbucking pickups with three-way toggle switching, three-ply black pickguard, four skirted amp-style control knobs (volume and tone for each pickup) and an AdjustoMatic bridge with anchored tailpiece. Available in gorgeous Natural, Black and Aged Cherry Burst gloss finishes.
- Series: Modern Player
- Body Wood: Laminated Maple with Alder Center-Block
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- Neck: Maple, "C" Shape
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- String Nut: Synthetic Bone, 1.650" (42 mm)
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- Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
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- Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
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UN chief fears North Korea on 'collision course'
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. chief says he fears North Korea is on a collision course with other nations that could lead to war.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the isolated Asian nation appears to be "on a collision course with the international community" amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, said Tuesday in Andorra "the current crisis has already gone too far" because of escalating tensions raised by North Korea's threats of war almost daily against the United States and South Korea.
He said international negotiations are urgently needed but he is "convinced that no one intends to attack" North Korea.
Pyongyang has sought disarmament-for-aid talks with Washington and more domestic loyalty by portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a powerful commander.


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System Mechanic gives a detailed look under the hood while cleaning up PCs
It can be tough to keep a computer running at peak efficiency. Although PCs are not as mechanically complex as automobiles, they still have a lot of forces working against them. Some of those forces, such as disk defragmentation, occur naturally. Others, such as shortcuts and Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that don't get deleted when a program goes away, result from sloppy programming. And a few, such as viruses and spyware, happen because someone is out to get you.
There are many tools available for defending against various problems and threats, but running several programs at the same time can cause other problems. Not only will all those programs hog system resources, they sometimes conflict with one another.
System Mechanic 8.5Pros: Extremely powerful utilities, easy-to-use interfaceCons: Gives careless users the power to mess up their systems
Performance: AEase of use: A+Features: A+Value: A+Government price: $40
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The best solutions for most users are fire-and-forget tools — a bundle of programs designed to work together to protect a PC. Utility suites have mostly moved in that direction and have reached the point where an administrator or someone else who really wants to get into the nuts and bolts of a system might feel he or she is getting watered-down versions of necessary tools. Sure, you simply press a button and the suite "fixes" your system, but you never know what's behind the magic or whether a computer is truly operating at peak efficiency.
The System Mechanic Suite from Iolo Technologies has always been different. It provides the fire-and-forget functionality most busy users want, but it also offers the details about how it proposes to fix a system and lets users change that plan as they see fit — for good or ill. With great power comes great responsibility, and System Mechanic will let you really mess up your system if you're not careful, so go into its advanced tools only if you know what you're doing.
For our review, we dug up an old PC from the lab test bed that had been performing frontline duties for two years. Because of a busy schedule and overlapping reviews, it was way overdue for an overhaul. Typically, machines are blanked and returned to a pristine state between reviews, but this one had not been treated. So we guessed that System Mechanic had its work cut out for it, and for that purpose, it was a perfect test system.
The PC was running Windows XP, though System Mechanic also works with Vista and Windows 2000. For the $40 government price ($50 retail), you can install the program on three PCs. You also get updates and support for a year from the date you first install it. So it's a pretty good value if you need to fix up more than one system.
The first thing we did was run the PassMark Performance Test Benchmark Version 6.2 to see how the system was running. We planned to run the benchmark again after System Mechanic was finished so we could look for performance gains. The original score was 466.8 — respectable for a single-core desktop PC.
Next we loaded System Mechanic 8.5. Before the program installed, it detected that updates were available and downloaded them, making sure we had the latest version of the program. System Mechanic includes a registry checker and cleaner, a disk defragmentation tool, a drive health monitor, and an overall security inspector. One thing it does not have is a true virus scanner or spyware engine. It can easily detect the damage that a virus is doing to a system, but it can't find the virus or fix the problem. For that, you need a different program.
Once we had installed it on our test system, we instructed System Mechanic to perform a deep scan. Although it warned us that the process could take hours, the scan lasted just 8 minutes, 17 seconds. When it was complete, we were treated to a dashboard view of our system's overall performance. We had a yellow reading for security, but red for health and overall performance.
We could have opted for the quick fix at that point, but instead, we looked at the explanations for all the red indicators. The test computer's drive was 37 percent fragmented. It had 15 security vulnerabilities. The hard drive had a physical error. There were 196 registry problems, and the registry was 13 percent fragmented. It had six unnecessary start-up items taxing system resources and seven broken shortcuts. And to crown it all, there were 821M of system clutter.
Working from the top of the list, we started with the clutter, which was mostly due to Internet Explorer's 602M of temp files. It was an easy fix.
In terms of security, several types of files viruses commonly exploit were set to run on their own, such as .crt and .hta files. Instead, System Mechanic set them to open in Notepad, where they couldn't harm anything. It is not true virus protection, but it helps.
In the registry, there were five empty registry keys for software that had long since been eliminated from the system. There were also 69 invalid DLLs and 122 invalid folders.
The start-up items that System Mechanic considered unnecessary included one that put QuickTime in the system tray, one that ran an applet to check for Java updates, a program to load Adobe Reader into memory and another to activate Microsoft Office Assistant. All those programs can be loaded as needed, so having them activate at start-up wastes system resources. However, if we wanted to let any of those programs remain as part of the start-up process, we could.
The one mystery was System Mechanic's message that our Internet connection, which goes through the local-area network in our test bed, was not optimized. But it gave no details. According to the company, that assessment is typically due to improperly configured settings that can be easily fixed in the control panel. System Mechanic will do that for you. It's minor, but why not accept help when offered?
When we clicked "Repair All," the program went to work. Most of the broken areas were fixed in under a minute, but the disk defrag took a long time. The total time to fix everything on the system was 1 hour, 44 minutes, with about 95 percent of that devoted to the defrag process.
Afterward, we reran the PassMark performance benchmark and got a new score of 489.1 — a 20-point jump that was noticeable when working with some large programs. System Mechanic also offered to continue to monitor system health to prevent future degradation.
For a relatively inexpensive program, especially when you can run it on three PCs, System Mechanic proved powerful and useful. If your agency or even your home office has computers that are mission-critical, it's probably a good idea to keep them running as well as, or better than, the day you bought them. It might not be the fountain of youth for older systems, but it can prevent them from aging before their time.
If you have virus and spyware protection at the server level, System Mechanic is all the more valuable for protecting client systems from normal wear and tear. It earns our Reviewer's Choice designation and remains one of our favorite utility suites for users at all levels.
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How can you tout a program that has NO Support (contacted them 25 times on the SAME issue and still no resolution), falsely reports hard drive errors when there are none (sent the physical hard drive to the manufacturer and spent $300 for them to tell me there is nothing wrong with it and that System Mechanic falsely reports errors frequently), the so-called reports give you no information (if there is a problem with my HD, tell me what the program is seeing), and hiding alerts does nothing due to the next time it scans it unhides them. This program is worthless and does nothing more than scare customers into purchasing the upgrades for a false sense of security. Run the program for a year on the same computer and you will see that same issues I am seeing.
I had a lot of problems with Sys Mech. You were little to no help. I am using a different system now. I don't have any problems any more.Please take me off your list. Thank You WW
The comment on your product and this page is without a doubt fact. I have used the system mechanic in my three desk top and two lap top computer and the sercice it provide I need to look no other. Should had know more about this 4 years ago.
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A Profound Wildlife Experience in Rwanda
Trek to see magnificent mountain gorillas from your comfortable lodge situated in the foothills of the mighty Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. The mountain range, including eight major volcanoes, is a branch of the Albertine Rift, a part of the Great Rift Valley. They are located between Lake Edward and Lake Kivu.
The Virunga Mountains are home to the critically endangered mountain gorilla. With approximately 720 mountain gorillas remaining worldwide, these creatures are listed on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species due to habitat loss, poaching, disease, and war. The Karisoke Research Center, founded by Dian Fossey to observe gorillas in their native habitat, is located between Mount Karisimbi and Mount Bisoke and is among the optional destinations of interest your African gorilla safari may include.
Enjoy your magical one hour encounters with the magnificent mountain gorillas, and afterwards, take in the wonderful views of the volcanoes and the surrounding countryside from your comfortable safari lodge.
NOTE: This trip starter is meant to be a base to build an itinerary of seven days or more.
$9,162 Per Person
This is a sample itinerary and the price is an estimate, used for rough planning purposes only and is subject to change. Actual prices and availability must be finalized by one of our trip planners who will contact and confirm pricing with all accommodations and operators.
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1. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6John T Smith Aug 13, 2012 7:49 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
Since you are building, I presume Windows and not Mac?
Go to the CS5 Benchmark http://ppbm5.com/ and view the results to see what works... there are many choices
2. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6VHC-CO-IT Aug 13, 2012 8:01 AM (in response to John T Smith)
Those results are so unbelievably hard to read and completely not comparable to each other Instead of just swapping out the card between systems, they changed every single other parts so any difference in speed could be attributable to anything. Does anyone have a Mercury Engine compatible list for CS6? That seems to be a good starting point, I just can't find one.
3. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6John T Smith Aug 13, 2012 8:38 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
But, the official list does not include ALL cards that will work, only those cards that have completed testing
For many others, with at least 1Gig of video ram, use the nVidia Hack http://forums.adobe.com/thread/629557 - which is a simple entry in a "supported cards" file
4. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6Harm Millaard Aug 13, 2012 10:25 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
Start with the budget available. Your configuration is not very good at all, so start reading some background here: PPBM5 Benchmark
Then have a look at: MPE Gain - PPBM5
Then read some more articles in the FAQ section, and Adobe Forums: What PC to build? An update...
- MSI H77MA-G43 board, wrong choice. Consider a Z77 for a budget model.
- OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD, wrong choice. Consider Samsung 830 when severely squeezed for budget, or Corsair Performance Pro.
- 2TB WD Intellipower HDD (secondary), wrong choice. Get at least TWO WD Caviar Black or Caviar Red disks.
- Rosewill FUTURE Case, bad choice. Look at some better full tower cases like Fractal Design.
- COOLER MASTER GX 450W Power Supply. Much too small and not very good. Look at a Gold label PSU from a good company, like Corsair or Seasonic.
- Gskill Ripjaw X 1600MHz CL8 (8-8-8-24 timing) RAM 2x4GB. Not enough. Get at least 16 GB.
- i5-3570 Ivy Bridge CPU (may bump down to lower clock chip since basically everything will be processed by the GPU, except maybe specific codecs, but then again it's an even trade off on money increase vs performance increase ). Change that to at least the i5-3570K or better to an i7-3770K. And your assuption is incorrect. CPU is the overriding and decisive component.
With your choosen components you will be lucky to achieve a rank # 850 to # 950 in the benchmark, if it runs at all with that PSU. At least 20 - 40 times slower than a fast system.
If you want to have a look at how other people approach the issue of building, see Adobe Forums: Planning / building a new system. Part 1
5. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6VHC-CO-IT Aug 14, 2012 6:06 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Hmm too bad that PPBM5 chart doesn't include the new GT640 since it's PCI-E 3.0 and has a ton of cores and is only $110-ish. I might consider that otherwise it looks like the 560 is the way to go. They're all so darn close, I could throw just about anything in there and not see + or - 20%. That's kinda nice actually.
By the way, I run a PC store that does custom builds and I've been doing them for years so everything on that list was already the best build possible and your suggestions are all wildly incorrect. Why would I go with a Z77 chipset? Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155#Ivy_Bridge_chipsets
Over the H77 it has 2 PCI-E slots instead of 1 (irrelevant to me), takes out the PCI slot (irrelevant to me), and lets me use Rapid Store aka use a small SSD as a cache drive for a bigger spinning one (irrelevant to me). So that'd be wasted money. Also I already put the H77MA-G43 in 6 builds and never had a problem.
OCZ 1-3 drives were a nightmare but the 4's work just fine. I installed five of them in 2 laptops and 3 PCs in the last 3 months and none had any problems after the firmware was flashed. Their performance is like 20% under something like a HyperX but the price is way lower too and they're the most durable in the long term. Your suggestion of a Samsung is a very bad idea. They're overpriced, underperforming, and have vastly inferior flash chips that fail in 1/3 the time, as do the corsair ones.
So for hard drives, you're assuming I need 4TB of storage? Or I should mirror 2 of them and slow down performance even worse? Or stripe them so that if just one of them fails, I'm screwed? Yeah, great idea. Those intellipower drives can read at 125MB/s. That's good enough. I'd love it to be a striped pair but that's suicidally stupid and careless.
Corsair and Seasonic are top notch but I'm not spending $120+ on a PSU. I've used Coolermaster before, they're a huge company, and this particular PSU has flawless reviews by 60 people. Over about 6 years I used about 10 of their even lower end PSUs without a failure. They're miles ahead of what Dell and HP are using so I'm good there.
Yeah, I may go with 16GB of RAM.
The chip....wow. This is my favorite part. You suggest using the 3570K instead of 3570. THEY'RE THE SAME SPEED! The K is more because it has unlocked multipliers so that I can overclock it, which is the fastest way to ensure the system doesn't last longer than 3 years, overheats, or blue screens. I've ran overclocked systems many times in the past for gaming but for video editing, DO NOT overclock your chip. And you say my entire build is "At least 20 - 40 times slower than a fast system." Wow, you don't have a remote clue what you're talking about. You'd be hard pressed to build a PC 3x faster overall than the one I proposed. Look at actual benchmark numbers and while you're at it, learn how to build a computer properly.
6. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6VHC-CO-IT Aug 14, 2012 6:14 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
Oops, forgot one. I have a Rosewill FUTURE case sitting in front of me right now. It's just as good overall quality as a Fractal design case, which you're just paying a ton more money for because they're pretty. I build PCs for a living and have used over 100 various cases. I know what I'm talking about. You apparently do not.
7. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6Harm Millaard Aug 14, 2012 8:15 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
Hmm too bad that PPBM5 chart doesn't include the new GT640 since it's PCI-E 3.0 and has a ton of cores and is only $110-ish.
Yet another confirmation you no not understand what works with PR and why or why not. The GT 640 is even slower than a GTS 450.
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8. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6Jeff Bellune Aug 14, 2012 8:19 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
Gentlemen (Harm Millaard and VHC-CO-IT),
You two have engaged in making pointed personal comments at one another across several topics. Stop it. Keep your posts on-topic and refrain from making personal attacks. You've both been warned.
9. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6VHC-CO-IT Aug 14, 2012 8:39 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
There is no "slower" or "faster" for graphics cards. One card may be faster at shadows in games, slower at HD playback, faster at floating point physics operations, slower at rendering in Premiere. You know, kinda like how Quadros do some things really well and others not so much. This is a prime example too given the specs on the 640.
The GTS450 (which I own btw) has 192 CUDA cores. The GT640 has 384 CUDA cores. GT640's appear to only ship with DDR3 and 450's you'd be crazy not to get one with GDDR5 so unfortunately so there goes half the memory clock on the 640's. The core clock rate on the 640's is WAY higher than the 450's though. Also, 640's run on the new PCI-E 3.0 with double the bandwidth but I don't know if enough data is exchanged with the card during video operations to make it worthwhile. So that's why I was wondering which is faster in Premiere. I know from experience that the 450 would blow it away at gaming but my customer isn't concerned with gaming and the card seems more optimized for CUDA operations than the 450.
The card is so new, I'll probably need someone who's actually used it to weigh in on its peformance.
By the way, what is this "PR" you keep talking about? Adobe doesn't have a product called that. Do you mean Premiere? Premiere Pro? Adobe Public Relations? Lol.
10. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6Harm Millaard Aug 14, 2012 8:39 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
11. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6Jeff Bellune Aug 14, 2012 8:45 AM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
"Pr" is an accepted shorthand for Premiere Pro in these forums. The developers prefer the full Premiere Pro name, but most users don't take the time to write it out.
12. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6dan_public2 Aug 14, 2012 12:56 PM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)1 person found this helpful
I've read your posts in this and other threads, including this comment:
VHC-CO-IT wrote:
There is no "slower" or "faster" for graphics cards. One card may be faster at shadows in games, slower at HD playback, faster at floating point physics operations, slower at rendering in Premiere....
By the way, what is this "PR" you keep talking about? Adobe doesn't have a product called that. Do you mean Premiere? Premiere Pro? Adobe Public Relations? Lol.
While it's obvious that you're very knowledgable with hardware, I find some of your comments offensive and out of context...
First, Harm has been on the Pr Hardware Forum for years, providing information and assistance to a large number of people including me. At minimum, he deserves respect for his efforts even if you don't agree with his opinion. So can the attitude and simply state your opinions without being offensive.
Second, understand the culture in this forum before commenting. This is a Premiere forum. "Pr" refers to Premiere. Unless stated otherwise, ALL performance related discussions are related to Premiere performance.
Third, you have no history in this forum and I don't agree with some of your opinions. So you will need to provide supporting evidence until you better establish yourself here.
Regarding your opinions, I disagree with your opinions about monitors. In another thread, posted this: "One I was previously looking at for a customer is the #1 highest rated ASUS monitor on all of newegg (in the $100-200 category), winner of the customer choice award, and 23.6" with all the right specs for a mere $159. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236052"
Given that they don't describe what kind of panel is in that Asus monitor, it almost certainly has a TN panel. This monitor is good for games and watching movies. I have four good quality TN panels (Samsung) for software development. But the color is mediocre.
For critical editing of stills and video, an IPS panel is necessary (IMO). This is my monitor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824002544. Notice the IPS nomenclature in the description? (And yes, I have a Quadro 4000 to take advantage of the NEC's features.) There are other IPS panel monitors at lower cost that will do a fine job for image and video editing. I know of no TN panels that qualify for high-quality editing. So... On what do you base your monitor opinion? How much experience do you have editing video? How much with Pr (Premiere)?
13. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6the_wine_snob Aug 14, 2012 1:36 PM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
The chart in the PPBM5 site is but a database of systems that users of PrPro have benchmarked.
When you state:
Hmm too bad that PPBM5 chart doesn't include the new GT640 since it's PCI-E 3.0 and has a ton of cores and is only $110-ish.
The absence of hardware only indicates that to date, no user with _____ (insert hardware here), has tested with the PPBM5, or their results have not yet been posted.
It is not a test site, where the authors try out every possible piece of hardware (though some users do swap and retest), but a site that allows users to run a standardized test for their equipment, and then submit their results to be placed into the database, that we see as the chart.
Good luck, and hope that clears up what the PPBM5 is, and what the chart reflects.
14. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6jamesp2 Aug 15, 2012 7:06 AM (in response to dan_public2)
Dan Clark,
Have always been a bit puzzled, about the claim for the need of IPS panels for NLE editing, in any but the most demanding (and profitable) editing suites, since color correction will likely (and should?) be done on standard broadcast monitors in any case.... For anyone looking to save $1000+ per monitor, Is there any truly compelling advantage to having timelines, bins and viewer and source windows on scrupulously accurate monitors, apart from the confidence or pleasure that accuracy might offer?
15. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6dan_public2 Aug 15, 2012 7:40 AM (in response to jamesp2)
You make a valid point. IMO...
On one end of the spectrum, you have the professional folks who have a pro-level NLE editing work environment with all of the appropriate tools including a standard broadcast monitor. On the other end of the spectrum are people who want NLE basics and that's it. And then there is the vast middle ground - people with a complex array of needs and constraints (cost and otherwise). I would argue that IPS paneled monitors meet the needs of many folks in the middle ground.
I'm in that middle ground. I don't have the space or need for a broadcast monitor. I want fairly accurate color when color grading, but I'm not concerned with getting it 100%. In addition, I do photo editing (LR4 + PS CS6) and printing (Epson 3880) where color quality is very important. The NEC calibrated with a puck and software gives me the color quality I want.
My Pr editing workspace has the Pr monitor windows in the NEC monitor, and some of the other panel windows (project, timeline, effects, etc.) on a separate Samsung 2443 TN panel monitor. After recently upgrading to CS6 from CS5, I'm still fiddling with the layout, but this seems to work pretty well.
16. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6VHC-CO-IT Aug 15, 2012 8:29 AM (in response to jamesp2)
I don't recall asking about monitors in this thread actually.
"Third, you have no history in this forum and I don't agree with some of your opinions. So you will need to provide supporting evidence until you better establish yourself here."
Between the two other tech support forums I post on, I have 55,000 posts. In case you missed it, I'm a high ranking member of the Association of Computer Repair Business Owners in the US and I'm the head IT manager at a medium sized company half the time and the other half, I own my own PC repair store that specializes in custom builds. I've been operating that business for 9 years. Not 1 single PC I've ever built (several hundred) has ever come back under warranty or had a single hardware problem. I know how to pick out parts and how to build the best possible systems.
I don't care what forum I'm on or who's posting it or what their history is, if I see someone post something like "use the K series i5's, they're faster" I'm going to correct them by posting the actual truth.
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Moderator's Note: Please refrain from discussing other forum members unless you are responding directly to them.
17. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6JCschild Aug 16, 2012 12:44 PM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
i am a system builder and specifically for NLE systems
Harm was 100% correct. the system you propsed to do is so far off from being an NLE system its not funny, barely work for a gaming box and not a good one.
Z77 chipset minimum why hard rive thruput for one expansion ability for 2 and frankly it really should be on an X79. using a MTX is unacceptable for video editing (other than home hobbyiest level cheesy software)
3700K <--- note K for over clocking as thats the best way to go.. again should be 3930K
16 gig ram absolute minimum for CS6 and 32 is better. good luck with Gskill and getting it to run right.. hope you know how to set timings manually..
power supply: this is the most over looked item in a build, real system builders know this and ALWAYS over power.
bare minimum is 700w 80+ ideally 1000W or more (depending on drive count and video card) a lot of our systems go out with 1200W
drives : SSD is pointless for video editing it will offer NO performance gain. it will (as the OS drive ) make windows snappier. i wouldnt touch OCZ with a 10' pole.. one of the worst companies. Crucial, Intel, Samsung
very bare minimum set up
OS drive
Media drive
Render drive
External back up
thats 4 in case you lost count..
better set up.
OS drive (can be ssd)
Media drive (raid 0) (onboard raid)
Export drive (raid 0) (onboard raid
external back up (thats 6 drives)
best (ish)
8-16 Drive Raid 5-6 internal or external on Intel or Arecca raid card way overkill for most peoples needs
external raid 5/6 NAS storage equal to the size of other raid.
Video card:
NO Quadro they are a joke unless using solidworks
560/570 would be bare minimum
670/680 preferred.
case? frankly not all that important but since we build very quiet systems it does matter to us..
cooling: your comment about "crank up the air" seriously? wow.. Noctua case fans and cpu coolers (several others as well)
of course you can ignore all this if you are building a hobbiest system not a pro system.
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18. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6VHC-CO-IT Aug 16, 2012 3:03 PM (in response to JCschild)
[ personal comments and attacks removed by admin ] I'm not a hobbyist. I build perfect computers at my company which I own and have for 9 years. Like I said, not 1 has ever had a single hardware problem EVER. Zero part failures. Zero compatibility issues.
Intel chipsets all have the same hard drive throughput capabilities. You don't need a 700W power supply to power a 200W computer. That's bad for them and bad for efficiency. Look up what 80 PLus certification actually means and how they actually measure it or any graph of any PSU ever that they ran at multiple wattages. The efficiency goes down the toilet below 50% usage. Gskill has a lifetime warranty and in several hundred computers I've built, I've never had a problem and never had to set anything manually. Turn XMP on on the motherboard if you want XMP timiings, obviously. Overclocking a video computer is a very bad idea for heat, long term stability, and potential for corruption of the final product. SSDs will read in and cache project files immensely faster. GTX560 is the minimum? It renders about 20% faster than a GT440 according to the Pr-specific benchmarks.
19. Re: alternative to Quadro for Premiere 6Jeff Bellune Aug 20, 2012 1:24 PM (in response to VHC-CO-IT)
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Inge Linden 4/6/2012 7:59:33 AMAwesome macro! #1454784
Orsi 4/6/2012 10:21:09 AMBeautiful macro,Gerri! #10078022
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Congratulations on your outstanding finalist Gerri!
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