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=================================================================== KDD-2005 Call for Industrial/Government Track Papers =================================================================== The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 21-24, 2005 Chicago, IL, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2005 http://www.kdd2005.com =================================================================== Areas of Interest: The Industrial/Government Track of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will highlight successful applications of KDD technology; explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of KDD applications; and promote the exchange of ideas between basic and applied data mining. The KDD-2005 Industrial/Government (I/G) Track seeks to: (1) provide a forum for exchanging ideas between KDD practitioners, researchers, companies, and government organizations; and (2) help commercial and government organizations understand successful KDD applications. The I/G Track solicits papers from practitioners and companies that have KDD products and solutions relevant to commercial or government challenges. The I/G Track will consist of competitively-selected contributed papers - presented in oral and poster form - as well as invited talks and panel discussions. (The full conference will also feature keynote presentations, workshops, tutorials, research track papers, and the KDD Cup competition.) We envision submissions along three sub-areas: (1) emerging applications, technology, and issues; (2) deployed KDD case studies; and (3) Products. Emerging application, technology, and issue papers discuss prototype applications, tools for focused domains or tasks, useful techniques or methods, project "war stories", useful system architectures, scalability enablers, tool evaluations, or integration of KDD and other technologies. Case studies describe deployed projects with measurable benefits that include KDD technology. Product submissions clearly describe KDD technology embedded in commercial products (without otherwise being a product advertisement). Submitters are encouraged (but not required) to select one (or more) of these sub-areas for their papers. In their submission, authors are encouraged to explain why the application is important, the specific need for KDD technology to solve the problem (including why other methods may fall short), and any innovations or lessons learned in the solution. We understand that reasons of confidentiality have often discouraged practitioners from submitting papers. When possible, we encourage authors to abstract any such specifics into a more general problem that may be presented, while explaining how the abstracted challenge is important for KDD. Submission Guidelines: Electronic Abstract Submission: Feb. 18, 2005 *at noon CST* Electronic Paper Submission: Feb. 28, 2005 *at noon CST* Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2005 Camera-ready papers due: June 3, 2005 Abstracts and full papers must be submitted electronically at the conference Web site (see URL above). Abstracts must be submitted on or before February 18, 2005, 12 noon CST (Central Standard Time). An abstract may not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted on time. Full papers must be submitted on or before February 28, 2005, at 12 noon CST. This is a FIRM deadline. Papers must be no more than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references and appendices. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that their submissions display and print properly. All papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality, relevance to KDD, and presentation clarity. Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and may not be submitted elsewhere during KDD-2005's review period (specialized workshops with a limited audience excluded). I/G Track Program Co-Chairs: Corinna Cortes, Google Inc, USA Jaideep Srivastava, University of MN, USA ---


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From the very beginning of this game it seemed like Texas was never really going to have a chance. Time and time again we watched Texas turn the ball over in between bouts of Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger pimping The Longhorn Network.
In the end, Texas turned the ball over five times (three of which resulted in Oklahoma touchdowns) on the way to a 38 point loss.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Proving once again that he is willing to go where other would not dare, TNT's Shaquille O'Neal graced the stage on Live with Kelly (Ripa) and Michael (Strahan) to battle with the hosts in a karaoke sing-off.
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In the summer of 2007 I had a transforming experience during an African Safari and went into raptures over the marvelous wildlife there and the wonderful, magical planet we inhabit. Since then I have been putting that experience on to canvas.
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Sometimes we wonder where a name came from. Like, what kind of a name is Garant? It appears in the credits of Night at the Museum. (Pierre Garand, Rouen to Quebec 1665) What about the name Winick in Charlotte's Web? (Abraham Winnik, Russia to New York 1906)
Now and then we recognize a nicely corrupted Swiss name like Niswanger or Lookabill. Or we spot a probable cousin named Robidou or Dutcher.
Some of the names just have to be read aloud. Go ahead, nobody's listening:
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Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
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Mark 'Guns' Navarette
Speaking of movies, you might want to rent Akeelah and the Bee. If you pay attention, you will see Roger and me sitting right behind Angela Bassett in the auditorium at USC. Besides being able to see us on the big screen, you will probably enjoy the movie.
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SUF focuses on a simple configuration while maintaining the flexibility that most users will care about, preventing unnecessary bloating of the addon that sacrifices performance. While you aren't going to be able to set the health bar to be exactly 3.14 pixels outside of the unit frames, you can change options you actually care about such as bar height, ordering, frame height and so on. To speed up configuration, you can configure multiple units at the same time through the global configuration. For example, if you want to set the height of the Player, Target, Focus and Party frames to 50 then the height of Target's Target, Target's Target of Target, Focus Target to 30 you can easily do this by changing two options instead of having to do it seven times.
However, should you need a little bit of extra configuration do not despair! An advanced option is included that will unlock additional configuration giving finer control over the configuration.
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Are you driven crazy by your party frames not aligning up exactly with your player frames, even if it's only half a pixel off? The anchoring system will let you solve all alignment issues, by allowing you to anchor a frame to another and set a simple offset from the frame it is anchored to, or by manually setting the X/Y position of the frame.
Using the screen shot as an example, if you drag the player frame the other frames will move with the player frame preserving the alignment and spacing. Each frame can still be manually positioned wherever you want, but this gives you a way of easily anchoring and moving frames around without having to use a ruler.
Zone configuration (Disabling options/units by zone type)
Units and modules can be enabled or disabled based on the type of zone you are in. For example, if you want to see party targets and party pets while you are in an arena but nowhere else then you can use the visibility options to enable it only while inside an arena. Modules can also be disabled by zone type, if you want to see party auras while in a raid instance but nowhere else you can disable the module in raid instances only.
Profiles do not have to be swapped and it is all automatic.
Supports unit frames are as follows:
Player: Player, Pet, Pet Target
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Party: Party, Party Pets, Party Targets, Party ToT
Raid: Raid, Raid Pet, Main Tank, Main Tank Target, Main Assist, Main Assist Target, Boss, Boss Target, Boss ToT, Main Assist ToT, Main Tank ToT
Arena: Arena, Arena Target, Arena Pets, Arena ToT
Battleground: Battleground, Battleground Target, Battleground Target
- Tags: Includes a simple tagging system that can be customized in virtually any way using Lua, even if something isn't included by default odds are you can make the tags
- Incoming Heals: Supports the Blizzard Events for incoming heal data, no external libraries needed
- Auras: Can be set to only show auras you casted, or can cast on others. Can enlarge auras that you casted, and hide the cooldown ring on the timers of auras you didn't cast as well to make it more obvious which ones you casted and which ones you didn't
- Aura Timers: You will need a mod such as OmniCC to show timers on buffs and debuffs
- Aura Indicators: Display colored squares or icons for certain auras on any unit
- Fader: Fades frames when out of combat and inactive (100% mana/no target)
- Class Power (Eclipse, Holy Power, etc): Supports all of the class power features from Eclipse to Burning Embers.
- Highlighting: Border highlighting of frames based on mousing over them, curable debuffs, aggro or you are targeting/focusing them
- Range Checking: Fades frames out that are out of range of you
- Exportable Layouts: If you have a layout, or your friend has a layout you want to try out you can export/import SUF layouts by going to /suf -> Layout Manager
- Profiles: You can change from any profile to another one without reloading your UI, should you want to use a completely different layout based on zone you can easily switch profiles without hassle
Pretty much all the general unit frame settings are in, health bars, cast bars, power bars, portraits, indicators and so on.
Basic module support is included, should you be interested in building a module see the documentation on github for more information.
Currently released:
- Smoothbars for unit frames
- Trinket based tags
- Damn Unit Sounds, not technically a SUF module it will restore the Blizzard sounds on targeting, focusing or toggling the PVP flag
Please focus all discussions, questions or general feedback to the forum thread:
For feature requests and bug reports, please continue to use the Ticket tracker. Feel free to ask on the thread first, if you're unsure what to do!


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Medical school students have it tough – lots to study for, tons of rote memorization, and hundreds upon hundreds of pages to read every single week. Luckily, developers have noticed this problem, and there are plenty of apps out there to help make the average medical student's life easier. These applications range from detailed, intriguing reference applications to applications that help ease the pain of all the studying require to succeed in medical school.
This roundup contains first and foremost a section dedicated to some of the best reference applications available for students of medicine. Applications range from a medical dictionary to ways to study up on muscles, drugs, and much more. I've also included some study and organization tools in the roundup. Knowing how expensive medical school, textbooks and even some of the applications are, I've tried to include free alternatives whenever possible. Read on to learn about some of the best applications for medical students on the Mac.


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2011 was packed with drama and shock, tragedy and surprise. How history will judge these 12 months is another question: historians usually come at things once all the men and women behind the news are gone. But those of us who have followed the twists and turns of 2011 know how much it has gotten into our sinews and our psyches—from the sting of tear gas to the ambivalence of long delayed vengeance.
LightBox has compiled this yearbook for 2011, literally picking a photo for each day of this astonishing year. It is a remarkable memorial to its high and low points, to agony and to exhilaration. But let the pictures speak for themselves.
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The Borghese Gallery retrieves its trasures
One of the most important art galleries in Rome,Galleria Borghese houses part of the Borghese collection of paintings ,sculptures and antiquities.
The museum is located inside a suggestive landscape garden,Villa borghese,the largest park in Rome after Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada, surely the nearest to an ideal of eternal beautiness as the number of buildings,museums, and attractions that it contains.Also in Villa borghese or nearby you will find the Galleria Nazionale d'arte moderna,Villa Giulia,Villa Medici,Casa del Cinema.
As regards the Galleria Borghese, here you can admire some of the most important creations by Antonello da Messina,Giovanni Bellini, Raffaello,Tiziano,Correggio,Gian Lorenzo Bernini,Canova,Caravaggio.On my opinion, among all the famous works that are inside its twenty rooms,some sculptures of Bernini are worth to be seen for theirs dynamism and for the virtuosism,such as his Apollo and Dafne. If you are an art lover you must visit at least once in your life Galleria Borghese and from december 2011 for three months 65
masterpieces given by Camillo Borghese to Napoleon in 1807 will return in Rome and be replaced inside the gallery. It's an event not to be missed, and our hotel will be pleased to accomodate you in Rome!
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The New York Film Festival's Special Events section always lives up to its name, and this năm is no different. The lineup for the 54th edition of the festival is anchored bởi conversations with Kristen Stewart and Adam Driver as part of our "An Evening With…" benefit series.
The annual "An Evening With…" events recognize the work of individuals who have made significant artistic contributions to film culture, and this year's honorees are Kristen Stewart and Adam Driver, two of the brightest young actors working today. Driver gives a...
Although Kristen has been working in the film industry for years, it wasn't until she accepted the role of Bella thiên nga in the Twilight phim chiếu rạp that her life and her career changed forever. Has the Twilight series done thêm harm than good to Kristen?
There are people who are not willing to let Kristen forget she ever participated in the Twilight movies, even when she has proved herself to be an exceptional and talented actress. Her role in the film Clouds of Sils Maria earned her the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Our guest ngôi sao Taylor Lautner in the original movie twilight he played a young boy named jacob black he was in tình yêu with bella thiên nga but she was not sure if she was bạn will find out in the eclipse there is a suprise part but bad news for jacob, bella met someone else named edward ( vampire) she was in tình yêu with him and he was in tình yêu with her they got married after a long adventure and had a kid named reneesmay Cullen reneesmay and jacob have a good future i guess what jacob meant was if he cant have bella why not take their daughter so jacob is really really super jelouse of edward cause they...
Kristen Stewart born: April 9 1990 age:24
in Los Angelas ,CA Height 5' 5 " ( 1.65 m
up coming movies: still Alice and American Ultra
Parents: Jules man Stewart - mom ( john Stewart-dad siblings: Cameron Stewart,Taylor Stewart,Dana Stewart she likes mỳ ống, mì ống and she is different she like wearing dresses with her sneakers she is also afraid of ngựa she calls them beastsits so funny and its also true and i have no idea why papparazi made her cry last time it was so sad it almost made me cry she apologized to a fan.
the famous actor from twilight phim chiếu rạp kristen stewart seemed to flip out on the papparazi on july 20 we over heard her saying bạn are a f***** idiot and bạn dont deserve to breath the same air as me well i guess she is the only celeberty standing up for herself but well as the papparazi followed her.Her friend helped her out it seemed that kristen got into a car while papparatzi following her and also robert pattison's car broke down on the đường phố, street and he begged the papparatzi to leave him alone and he got threath bởi one of the papparatzi saying let us take pictures hoặc something will happen we...
The famous actor from lots of phim chiếu rạp kristen stewart ended up in the magazine saying she cheated on robert pattison. robert pattison devestated about the news. it says that kristen was cheating on rob with rubert. rubert is the director of the new movie snowhite and the hutsman. in the magazine it says they caught kissing on july 17, but it seemed like papparazi spooted kristen stewart playing golf with her father in a different state and also she had brown hair while playing golf and in the magazine she had black hair! SO there bạn have it seem like she was not cheating on robert pattison and...
The famous British actor has confessed via Twitter have a special feeling for the young actress of Twilight.
Beyond the large age difference between the two, Claudio Encarnacion Montero wrote of the social network "I think Kristen Stewart is a cute girl and her tình yêu is based, particularly as it dynamic and interesting as an actress." But not to forget that he is 18 and she just 23, added: "Being beyond friendship."
As our grandmothers said, there is no evil lasts a hundred years. Kristen Stewart is tired of begging forgiveness of Robert Pattinson and started to fool...
The Gotham Group is in the pre-production stage on the upcoming feature film "Camp X-Ray" and the Primetime Emmy Award winning casting director for the movie is holding auditions for lead, co-starring, and supporting roles. The extras, bức ảnh doubles, and stand-ins for the film's stars will be cast closer to the start of shooting. Production is set to take place in Los Angeles, CA and will begin principal nhiếp ảnh on July 15, 2013. "Camp X-Ray" tells the story of a female soldier who is assigned to the temporary detention facility at the Guantanamo vịnh, bay detention camp of Joint Task Force...
A horrible ngày for all Robsten những người hâm mộ out there. After three years of dating, Kristen and Robert have decided to break up. This info was được trao to the People magazine bởi a nguồn close to the couple.
The info bạn need is link.
As a người hâm mộ of Kristen, I'm very sad to hear this. I can only imagine how devastated Kristen must be right now. But we cannot falter now. We are her những người hâm mộ and it is our duty to stand bởi her in these sad days. Let's hiển thị our support in any way we can.
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd.ɒn] in BrE, [pʁu.dɔ̃] in French) (15 January 1809 – 19 January 1865) was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist," and the first documented as using the word "Capitalist" to mean property-owner.
- La République est l'organisation par laquelle toutes les opinions, toutes les activités demeurant libres, le Peuple, par la divergence même des opinions et des volontés, pense et agit comme un seul homme. Dans la République, tout citoyen, en faisant ce qu'il veut et rien que ce qu'il veut, participe directement à la législation et au gouvernement, comme il participe à la production et à la circulation de la richesse. Là tout citoyen est roi ; car il a la plénitude du pouvoir, il règne et gouverne. La République est une anarchie positive. Ce n'est ni la liberté soumise A l'ordre comme dans la monarchie constitutionnelle, ni la liberté emprisonnée DANs l'ordre, comme l'entend le Gouvernement provisoire. C'est la liberté délivrée de toutes ses entraves, la superstition, le préjugé, le sophisme, l'agiotage, l'autorité; c'est la liberté réciproque, et non pas la liberté qui se limite; la liberté non pas fille de l'ordre, mais MÈRE de l'ordre.
- Idée générale de la revolution au XIXe siècle (1851), p. 235, as cited in Anarchism (1908) by Paul Eltzbacher, p. 76
- The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and of wills, thinks and acts as a single man. In the Republic every citizen, in doing what he wishes and nothing but what he wishes, participates directly in legislation and government, just as he participates in the production and circulation of wealth. There every citizen is king; for he has plenary power, he reigns and governs. The Republic is a positive anarchy. It is neither liberty subjected to order, as in the constitutional monarchy, nor liberty imprisoned in order, as the provisional government would have it. It is liberty delivered from all its hobbles, superstition, prejudice, sophism, speculation, authority; it is mutual liberty, not self-limiting liberty; liberty, not the daughter but the MOTHER of order.
- As translated in Anarchism (1908) by Paul Eltzbacher, p. 76
- The Republic is the organization by which, all opinions and all activities remaining free, the People, by the very divergence of opinions and will, think and act as a single man. In the Republic, every citizen, by doing what they want and nothing but what they want, participates directly in the legislation and in the government, as they participate in the production and circulation of wealth. There, every citizen is king; for he has the fullness of power; he reigns and governs. The Republic is a positive anarchy. It is neither liberty subjected to order, as in the constitutional monarchy, nor liberty imprisoned in order, as the Provisional Government intends. It is liberty delivered from all its shackles: superstition, prejudice, sophistry, stock-jobbing, authority. It is reciprocal liberty, and not the liberty which restricts; liberty, not the daughter of order, but the MOTHER of order.
- As translated in "Notes on Proudhon's changing notion of the state" by Shawn P. Wilbur (19 January 2013); this is cited there to "Solution of the Social Problem" (1849)
- To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. … To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
- Idée Générale de la Révolution au XIXe Siècle [The General Idea of the Revolution] (1851); quoted in The Anarchists (1964) by James Joll, Ch. 3, p. 78
- All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.
- Du principe Fédératif [Principle of Federation] (1863)
- All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
- As quoted in Philosophy at Work : A Constructive Approach to Philosophy (1960) by Ralph Bubrich Winn
- I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
- As quoted in "The Authority Principle" in No Gods, No Masters : An Anthology of Anarchism (1980) Daniel Guérin, as translated by Paul Sharkey (1998), p. 90
What is Property? (1840)Edit
- Using primarily the translation of Benjamin R. Tucker What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1890)
- If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death; and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other question: What is property! may I not likewise answer, It is robbery, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
I undertake to discuss the vital principle of our government and our institutions, property: I am in my right. I may be mistaken in the conclusion which shall result from my investigations: I am in my right. I think best to place the last thought of my book first: still am I in my right.
- Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
- Property is robbery! That is the war-cry of '93! That is the signal of revolutions!
Reader, calm yourself: I am no agent of discord, no firebrand of sedition. I anticipate history by a few days; I disclose a truth whose development we may try in vain to arrest; I write the preamble of our future constitution. This proposition which seems to you blasphemous — property is robbery — would, if our prejudices allowed us to consider it, be recognized as the lightning-rod to shield us from the coming thunderbolt; but too many interests stand in the way! … Alas! philosophy will not change the course of events: destiny will fulfill itself regardless of prophecy. Besides, must not justice be done and our education be finished?
- Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
- Property is theft! is a more famous translation of the original: La propriété, c'est le vol!
- Of what consequence to you, reader, is my obscure individuality? I live, like you, in a century in which reason submits only to fact and to evidence. My name, like yours, is truth-seeker. My mission is written in these words of the law: Speak without hatred and without fear; tell that which thou knowest! The work of our race is to build the temple of science, and this science includes man and Nature. Now, truth reveals itself to all; to-day to Newton and Pascal, tomorrow to the herdsman in the valley and the journeyman in the shop. Each one contributes his stone to the edifice; and, his task accomplished, disappears. Eternity precedes us, eternity follows us: between two infinites, of what account is one poor mortal that the century should inquire about him?
Disregard then, reader, my title and my character, and attend only to my arguments.
- Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
- I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
- Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
- I have made every effort to obtain exact information, comparing doctrines, replying to objections, continually constructing equations and reductions from arguments, and weighing thousands of syllogisms in the scales of the most rigorous logic. In this laborious work, I have collected many interesting facts which I shall share with my friends and the public as soon as I have leisure. But I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.
- Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
- To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. In giving expression to the last stage of an idea, — an idea which permeates all minds, which to-morrow will be proclaimed by another if I fail to announce it to-day, — I can claim no merit save that of priority of utterance. Do we eulogize the man who first perceives the dawn?
Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.
- Ch. I: "Method Pursued in this Work. The Idea of a Revolution"
- The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, "This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself." Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to step, save the proprietor and his friends; which can benefit nobody, save the proprietor and his servants. Let these sales multiply, and soon the people — who have been neither able nor willing to sell, and who have received none of the proceeds of the sale — will have nowhere to rest, no place of shelter, no ground to till. They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!"
- Property is impossible.
- Ch. IV: "That Property Is Impossible"
- The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.
- Ch. IV
- AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
- Ch. IV
- The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
- Ch. IV
- Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In property, inequality of conditions is the result of force, under whatever name it be disguised: physical and mental force; force of events, chance, fortune; force of accumulated property, &c. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. This damaging equation is repellent to the conscience, and causes merit to complain; for, although it may be the duty of the strong to aid the weak, they prefer to do it out of generosity, — they never will endure a comparison. Give them equal opportunities of labor, and equal wages, but never allow their jealousy to be awakened by mutual suspicion of unfaithfulness in the performance of the common task.
Communism is oppression and slavery. Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases, where he pleases, and as much as he pleases. He wishes to dispose of his own time, to be governed only by necessity, to choose his friendships, his recreation, and his discipline; to act from judgment, not by command; to sacrifice himself through selfishness, not through servile obligation. Communism is essentially opposed to the free exercise of our faculties, to our noblest desires, to our deepest feelings. Any plan which could be devised for reconciling it with the demands of the individual reason and will would end only in changing the thing while preserving the name. Now, if we are honest truth-seekers, we shall avoid disputes about words.
Thus, communism violates the sovereignty of the conscience, and equality: the first, by restricting spontaneity of mind and heart, and freedom of thought and action; the second, by placing labor and laziness, skill and stupidity, and even vice and virtue on an equality in point of comfort. For the rest, if property is impossible on account of the desire to accumulate, communism would soon become so through the desire to shirk.
- Ch. V: "Psychological Explanation of the Idea of Justice and Injustice, and the Determination of the Principle of Government and of Right," Part 2: Characteristics of Communism and of Property
- As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
- Ch. V, Part 2; this might be the ultimate inspiration of the later slogan coined in 1848 by Anselme Bellegarrigue (and often attributed to Proudhon): "Anarchy is order, government is civil war."
The General Idea of the RevolutionEdit
"Come to me, Lucifer, Satan, whoever you may be! Devil whom the faith of my fathers contrasted with God and the Church. I will act as spokesman for you and will demand nothing of you." (Idee Generale De La Revolution, pp. 433-434; also in Justice III)
The Philosophy of Misery (1846)Edit
- The Philosophy of Misery (1846) (also translated as The Philosophy of Poverty)
- Before entering upon the subject-matter of these new memoirs, I must explain an hypothesis which will undoubtedly seem strange, but in the absence of which it is impossible for me to proceed intelligibly: I mean the hypothesis of a God.
To suppose God, it will be said, is to deny him. Why do you not affirm him?
Is it my fault if belief in Divinity has become a suspected opinion; if the bare suspicion of a Supreme Being is already noted as evidence of a weak mind; and if, of all philosophical Utopias, this is the only one which the world no longer tolerates? Is it my fault if hypocrisy and imbecility everywhere hide behind this holy formula?
- Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us?
I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, — I mean a necessary dialectical tool.
- Introduction
- In order better to grasp the thought of Malthus, let us translate it into philosophical propositions by stripping it of its rhetorical gloss: —
"'"Individual liberty, and property, which is its expression, are economical data; equality and solidarity are not."
"Under this system, each one by himself, each one for himself: labor, like all merchandise, is subject to fluctuation: hence the risks of the proletariat."
"Whoever has neither income nor wages has no right to demand anything of others: his misfortune falls on his own head; in the game of fortune, luck has been against him."
From the point of view of political economy these propositions are irrefutable; and Malthus, who has formulated them with such alarming exactness, is secure against all reproach. From the point of view of the conditions of social science, these same propositions are radically false, and even contradictory.
- Chapter I
Confessions of a Revolutionary (1849)Edit
- As translated in "P. J. Proudhon in the Revolution of 1848" by Mary B. Allen The Journal of Modern History (1952) 24:1-14.
- Power, instrument of the collective force, created in society to serve as mediator between capital and labor, has become inescapably enchained to capital and directed against the proletariat. No political reform can resolve this contradiction, since, according to the avowal of politicians themselves, such a reform could only end by giving more energy and expansion to power, and until it had overthrown the hierarchy and dissolved society, power would not be able to attack the prerogatives of monopoly. The problem consists, then, for the working classes, not in capturing, but in defeating both power and monopoly, which would mean to make rise from the bowels of the people, from the depths of labor, a power greater, an action more powerful which would envelop capital and the State and subjugate them.
- It is necessary to have lived in this insulator which is called the national assembly, in order to perceive how the men who are the most completely ignorant of the state of the country are almost always the ones who represent it. I set myself to read everything that the distribution bureau sends the representatives: proposals, reports, brochures, even the Moniteur and the Bulletin of the laws. The greater part of my colleagues of the left and the extreme left were in the same perplexity of spirit, in the same ignorance of the daily facts. The national workshops were spoken of only with a kind of fright; for fear of the people is the defect of all those who belong to authority; the people, as concerns power, is the enemy.
Quotes about ProudhonEdit
- Proudhon is the master of us all.
- Mikhail Bakunin, as cited in Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962) by George Woodcock, p. 152
- Proudhon, like the Communists, fights against egoism. Therefore they are continuations and consistent carryings-out of the Christian principle, the principle of love, of sacrifice for something general, something alien. They complete in property, only what has long been extant as a matter of fact — namely, the propertylessness of the individual. … In this too Proudhon is like the Christians, that he ascribes to God that which he denies to men. He names him the Proprietaire of the earth. Herewith he proves that he cannot think away the proprietor as such; he comes to a proprietor at last, but removes him to the other world.
- Max Stirner, in The Individual and His Property [Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum] (1845)
- Proudhon was the first to draw attention to the fact that the sum of the wages of the individual workers, even if each individual labour be paid for completely, does not pay for the collective power objectified in its product, that therefore the worker is not paid as a part of the collective labour power.
- Karl Marx, in The Holy Family, Marx-Engels Collected Works Volume 4, p. 52 (1845)
- In France, Proudhon has the right to be a bad economist because he is reputed to be a good German philosopher. In Germany, he has the right to be a bad philosopher because he is reputed to be one of the ablest of French economists. But being both a German and an economist, I wish to protest against this double error.
- Karl Marx, in The Poverty of Philosophy [Das Elend der Philosophie] (1847)
- We can find the origins of the doctrine of surplus value, that grand "scientific discovery" of which our marxists are so proud, in the writings of Proudhon. It was thanks to him that Marx became acquainted with that theory to which he added modifications through his later study of the English socialists Bray and Thompson.
- Rudolf Rocker, in Marx and Anarchism (1925)
- Like such titles as Christian and Quaker, "anarchist" was in the end proudly adopted by one of those against whom it had been used in condemnation. In 1840, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, that stormy, argumentative individualist who prided himself on being a man of paradox and a provoker of contradiction, published the work that established him as a pioneer libertarian thinker. It was What Is Property?, in which he gave his own question the celebrated answer: "Property is theft." In the same book he became the first man willingly to claim the title of anarchist.
Undoubtedly Proudhon did this partly in defiance, and partly in order to exploit the word's paradoxical qualities. He had recognized the ambiguity of the Greek anarchos, and had gone back to it for that very reason — to emphasize that the criticism of authority on which he was about to embark need not necessarily imply an advocacy of disorder. The passages in which he introduces "anarchist" and "anarchy" are historically important enough to merit quotation, since they not merely show these words being used for the first time in a socially positive sense, but also contain in germ the justification by natural law which anarchists have in general applied to their arguments for a non-authoritarian society.
- What is to be the form of government in the future? … I hear some of my readers reply: "Why, how can you ask such a question? You — are a republican." A republican! Yes, but that word specifies nothing. Res publico; that is, the public thing. Now, whoever is interested in public affairs — no matter under what form of government, may call himself a republican. Even kings are republicans. "Well, you are a democrat." No … "Then what are you?" I am an anarchist!
- Proudhon goes on to suggest that the real laws by which society functions have nothing to do with authority; they are not imposed from above, but stem from the nature of society itself. He sees the free emergence of such laws as the goal of social endeavour. … Proudhon conceiving a natural law of balance operating within society, rejects authority as an enemy and not a friend of order, and throws back at the authoritarians the accusations leveled at anarchists; in the process he adopts the title he hopes to have cleared of obloquy.
- George Woodcock, in Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962), Prologue
- Proudhon was a voluntary hermit in the political world of the nineteenth century. He sought no followers, indignantly rebuffed suggestions that he had created as system of any kind, and almost certainly rejoiced in the fact that he accepted the title anarchist in virtual isolation.
- George Woodcock, in Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962), Prologue
- It is the general idea put forward by Proudhon in 1840 that unites him with the later anarchists, with Bakunin and Kropotkin, and also with certain earlier and later thinkers, such as Godwin, Stirner, and Tolstoy, who evolved anti-governmental systems without accepting the name of anarchy; and it is in this sense that I shall treat anarchism, despite its many variations: as a system of social thought, aiming at fundamental changes in the structure of society and particularly — for this is the common element uniting all its forms — at the replacement of the authoritarian state by some form of non-governmental cooperation between free individuals.
- George Woodcock, in Anarchism : A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962), Prologue
External linksEdit
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon at the Anarchist Archives
- The General Idea of Proudhon's Revolution by Robert Graham
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Page at the Anarchist Encyclopedia (includes short timeline)
- BlackCrayon.com: People: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Proudhon and Anarchism by Larry Gambone
- Stirner on Proudhon Max Stirner criticizes Proudhon
- Proudhon by K. Steven Vincent
Works online :
- Works by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon at Project Gutenberg
- What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
- System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
- General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (1851)
- What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government


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My grandmother left a diary that describes starting the camp and the first few years. Her first entry is dated January 3, 1918. I will transcribe her entry in a series of posts.
January 3, 1918 - Boston, Mass.
Last summer in July our camp was so successfull [sic] that I must tell about it from the beginning. In the spring the Bradleys came in to see us to tell of their plan of a camp for farmer's daughters in the neighborhood of Brattleboro. It was a feasible plan enough, provided there was a leader; Miss Olive Lesley, a Girl Scout leader advised us and offered to help in organizing forces with the result that she came to the camp itself as an adviser.
We discussed the project in Brattleboro with the school supervisor, and decided upon the district south and southwest of the town as being the best ground to cover. The girls recommended by the supervisor of the towns of Vernon, Guilford, Green River, Grove, West Halifax, and Marlboro were candidates this time, and in the event of a successful camp, a larger group might gather for another year.
First we visited the schools and talked with the teachers and the girls suggested - who were of uniform age - twelve to sixteen years. All were enthusiastic, and it remained only to convince the mothers and fathers of the plan in all its phases; and in time we visited
At South Pond on Ames Hill we collaborated with the Boy Scouts in fitting out the camp, and repairing the cottage, barn, and kitchen. The situation was ideal, that is - we were far from the inquisitive crowds, by being on Ames Hill - about eight miles from Brattleboro, and over a mile from the main road. This entrance road is rough, and apt to be very muddy as we found to our surprize [sic], even in midsummer. The woods are rather dense, of about thirty years growth and of great variety and interest. On approaching the pond along the road, the growth changes to grey birches with here and there beautiful white paper birches and evergreen trees.
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CHICAGO -- It was a slow ground ball. Painfully slow, in fact. White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski was sitting in the dugout putting on his gear as he watched Juan Uribe's grounder roll lazily toward surehanded Red Sox second baseman Tony Graffanino. Pierzynski followed the ball, and swore softly to himself.
''I'm thinking, 'OK, who's up next inning [for Boston]? Who are we going to have to try and get out?' " Pierzynski said. ''I'm thinking, 'I guess we'll try to get them next inning.' "
Graffanino was processing 10 things at once. He was thinking he didn't get a good jump on the ball. He was thinking he should charge it. He was thinking he was distracted for a split second by Joe Crede, who motored past him as fast as he could to second base in hopes of breaking up what appeared to be a textbook double play.
''I didn't get a good read on it," Graffanino said. ''I tried to rush it, to get two. I just missed it."
The ball slipped under his glove. It was the bottom of the fifth, with the Red Sox leading, 4-2, and he blew the play. Instead of getting out of the inning, suddenly there were runners at the corners, and still only one out.
You know by now what happened next. David Wells induced Scott Podsednik into a foul pop to third base, then hung a curveball to Tadahito Iguchi that the rookie tattooed 372 feet for a three-run homer.
The 4-2 Red Sox lead was now a 5-4 deficit. And Tony Graffanino, the surehanded, affable, reliable second baseman, was suddenly added to the list of Red Sox personnel who have made postseason blunders.
''When [Iguchi] hit that ball out, it crushed me, of course," Graffanino said. ''Suddenly it's 5-4, and we're losing, and it's my fault."
The first thing Graffanino did after his error was approach Wells, his teammate with the White Sox in 2001, and apologize for not getting him out of the inning.
''I told him, 'My bad,' " Graffanino said. ''I asked him to pick me up."
Wells, Boston's money pitcher, was unable to do so. Yet in the wake of a disappointing loss, he wasn't about to blame his infielder for his troubles.
''I was upset, yeah, but you can't show any emotions out there," Wells said. ''I'm not going to show him up. He's played great for us since he's been here . . . if you point at anyone, point at me. I'm the one who hung the curveball."
In the quiet clubhouse following this difficult loss, Graffanino's teammates swiftly rallied around him. He has been a welcome addition, one of Theo Epstein's best late-season pick-ups, and nobody wanted to see him take the loss all on himself.
''The fact of the matter is we still could have gotten out of that inning with a two-run lead," pointed out captain Jason Varitek. ''Don't pin this on one guy. We have to do this as a group."
Varitek has been in Boston long enough to know the city loves its heroes almost as much as it reviles its goats. Graffanino's error certainly isn't on par with Bill Buckner's blunder in the 1986 World Series, or Grady Little's decision to leave Pedro Martinez in during Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS in Yankee Stadium, but this will not sit well with diehard fans who felt their team should be coming back to Boston tied 1-1 in this series.
Varitek is right about one thing. Graffanino didn't throw that hanging curve -- that's on Wells's bald pate. There were also four innings left in the game, plenty of time for a bunch of bashers like the Red Sox to make up a one-run deficit. Varitek punched out a single to lead off the sixth, but Trot Nixon, Bill Mueller, and John Olerud went down in order.
In fact, the bottom four batters in the order were a combined 0 for 14 when Graffanino stepped to the plate with one out in the ninth.
''[After the error], I was trying to stay focused," Graffanino said. ''I was hoping to get another ball and turn a double play. Something, anything to get us out of it.
''I just kept hoping something was going to happen to swing it back in our direction."
In his last attempt to make amends, Graffanino roped a double to left field, then watched helplessly as Damon popped to the catcher and Edgar Renteria grounded to the shortstop, Uribe.
''It was a huge point in the ballgame to make a mistake like that," Graffanino said, simply. ''My error cost us the game."
He does not need to see the replay again -- ever. He had already replayed it over in his head hundreds of times before he retreated to the clubhouse, took off his spikes, and packed away the glove that betrayed him. Tony Graffanino committed just three errors in 51 regular-season games for the Red Sox this season, but he knows none of that matters now.
These are the playoffs, and his part in last night's game has left them down, 2-0. We know the Red Sox can come back from seemingly insurmountable deficits. They did it last year in the most dramatic fashion possible. But, at this point, that is of no consolation to their second baseman.
''There's nothing I can do about it [now]," he said softly. ''There's nothing I can do about it [today], or [tomorrow]."
What's done is done. A silly, painfully slow ground ball, a ball he has fielded cleanly hundreds of times. That's what White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, a former infielder himself, was thinking. Terry Francona, as he watched the play unfold from the dugout, was thinking maybe his second baseman was trying to be a little too quick in making the play.
White Sox outfielder Jermaine Dye, who played alongside Graffanino in Chicago, and considers him a friend, said he was thinking the moment it was hit it might be trouble.
''You always wonder about slow balls like that," Dye said. ''You don't know if the hitter cued it off the bat, or if it was spinning a certain way. There have been a lot of mistakes made on that kind of play.
''People take it for granted that it's a routine ground ball, but I'm telling you, those slow grounders, they do funny things."
We know, we know. We've seen it before.
Jackie MacMullan is a Globe columnist. Her e-mail address is email@example.com.


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In the photo, Underwood's dogs are sporting adorable outfits that read "I'm going to be a BIG BROTHER" and "I'm going to be a BIG SISTER."
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text: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > David Mathog wrote: >> Getting back to the original subject, what would this Cray box "look >> like" when it is running windows? Does it show up as one desktop for >> everything (basically an SMP machine), one desktop per blade, one per >> processor(or core), or even virtualized, with more than one desktop per >> core? In terms of administering the box the first of these would be by >> far the easiest to deal with, since there would only be the one copy of >> Windows present. >> > I seriously doubt that MS is presenting the entire system as a huge SMP. If > it's the case, I'd stay away from it since it implies that either you have to > use a proprietary API to get performance (inter-core communications à la MPI) > or that the model is OpenMosix ish...which IMHO is a nice theory, horrible > practice model. My impression/technical view of it is that the system most > probably runs off a "master" board with slave boards which boot using a > network image (pretty much like NFS roots). It is the most logical approach, > again, IMHO (single point of management and all) I thought it had already been said that it runs MPI, so it isn't "real SMP" (whatever that means). I would put it a different way -- it runs N kernels, not one N-way kernel, and it has to simulate shared memory as there is (probably) no hardware supported NUMA or the like across the processors. Or rather probably doesn't support anything like NUMA and just uses message passing on top of a very normal looking beowulf/cluster architecture. Didn't it say that in the original article? Or was it in one of the reposts of the article? I think the view of the universe using MS "clustering" is that all the systems boot up a "headless windows" of some sort, and one can access/configure the node OS's via rdesktop or some such. But I'm guessing they have it preconfigured so that an MPI task on the "head node" automagically distributes on the worker nodes. rgb >> Regards, >> >> David Mathog >> mathog at caltech.edu >> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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When the Chow Yun-fat action-comedy epic "Let the Bullets Fly" opened in China last year, it quickly became a phenomenon. Lured by its splashy fight scenes and whip-snap dialogue, filmgoers swarmed theaters. The movie wound up taking in more than $100 million at the box office in China, the most for a homegrown film.
Yet despite its Hollywood-style violence and an actor with international name recognition, "Let the Bullets Fly" hasn't even managed to find a distributor in the United States. When it played the Tribeca Film Festival in April, there were walkouts. "It's not going to be for everyone," director and costar Jiang Wen said in an interview afterward. "I just make movies and hope people appreciate them."
Jiang isn't the only Chinese filmmaker who's making blockbusters at home and feeling unappreciated abroad. Feng Xiaogang's 2010 earthquake action drama "Aftershock," with nearly $100 million in receipts, received a token release in the U.S., where it took in only about $60,000. And John Woo's two-part war epic "Red Cliff" was a Hollywood-sized hit in China several years ago. But it didn't even crack the $1-million box-office mark when Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures released a condensed version stateside in 2009. Europe and the rest of Asia have been only slightly more receptive to these blockbusters.
Now comes Zhang Yimou, the decorated Chinese director of movies such as "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers," who just wrapped up filming on a production he hopes will break that cycle. With a budget of $100 million, "The Heroes of Nanking" not only is the most expensive mainland production ever, it also has baked-in cross-cultural appeal: It stars Oscar-winning actor Christian Bale, and 40% of its dialogue is in English.
"I really wish this film can be popular and welcomed in the international market," Zhang said in an interview on the Nanjing movie set. "I personally advocate movies have to be fun to watch, which means ordinary audiences will be able to understand and accept it.... Such international a theme, story and structure will be very fresh."
The stakes are high for China as it seeks to penetrate the global film market. The government and private companies are pouring significant resources into the film industry; officials are eager to boost their country's cultural exports in a way that matches the already booming business in factory goods.
Yet Chinese movies have remained a largely local affair, experts say, for reasons that include a lack of international stars and differing storytelling styles. Moreover, China's censorship rules discourage racy scenes and push screenwriters toward politically safer period pieces (which Western audiences may find difficult to follow) and romantic comedies. Instead of a global-cinema powerhouse, some worry China is at risk of turning into another Bollywood: healthy on its home continent but limp abroad.
"We often hear that the Chinese market will quickly approach the U.S. market," Zhang said. "But it will still take a long time for a Chinese film to create international influence." (In 2010, U.S. box office receipts totaled $10.6 billion, almost all for American films, while receipts in China were $1.5 billion, with 44% of that going to American films.)
American parochialism is certainly an obstacle — foreign-language titles, after all, rarely find more than a niche audience in the U.S. But cinema experts say the problems speak as much to China's filmmaking conventions as they do to Western resistance.
"Hollywood often doesn't make American movies, it makes globally appealing movies," said David U. Lee, a Chinese movie expert who heads a co-production company and once ran an Asian film fund for Harvey Weinstein. "[But] Chinese filmmakers run on the assumption people already understand the story. It's laziness, and it makes it difficult to tell a story to a global audience."
Many of the current Chinese hits use historical reference points that elude Western audiences. "Let the Bullets Fly" is rife with allegorical meaning about standing up to corrupt leaders, while "Red Cliff" assumes a knowledge of Han dynasty politics.
"It does present a little bit of a problem when a 3rd century potentate is presented casually in the way an American filmmaker would present George Washington," Magnolia Pictures President Eamonn Bowles said.
Mainland Chinese cinema landed on the global stage in the 1980s and early 1990s as the country began to open up to the West. The movies of the so-called Fifth Generation sought to tell filmmaker-driven stories that were unimaginable during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Several of those pictures, such as Zhang's "Ju Dou" and Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine," found a Western audience but were mainly restricted to the art house.
The early 2000s brought the Western box-office success of so-called wuxia martial-arts films such as "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." (Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema have followed separate arcs, thanks to the different political histories of those territories.)
But now the stakes and expectations have risen considerably. Production on the mainland has grown to more than 500 films per year, according to some estimates. The country is moving into 3-D films and budgets are swelling; with the lavish price tag on "Heroes of Nanking," the movie almost certainly needs to make a splash overseas to turn a profit.
Zhang's drama, which does not yet have U.S. distribution, recently finished an epic 164-day shoot. It is expected to premiere in China in mid-December. The movie tells of the rescue of courtesans by an American priest (Bale) as the Japanese army is invading the city in the 1930s. Although it assumes knowledge of a historical period, its themes are universal, said Zhang Weiping, the film's producer and financier. "It's a story about heroism, and everybody can relate to that," he said.
The producers are candid about their commercial ambitions. "We would like to take the chance to make it the most influential and top-grossing Chinese film in the world," Zhang Weiping said. The production may also benefit from the involvement of power players who know a little something about Western releases, including former Universal co-chairman David Linde and "Crouching Tiger" executive producer Bill Kong.
Still, some caution that the issues plaguing the country's movie industry are too complex to address by simply adding a Western notion or name.
Hollywood producer Janet Yang ("Disney High School Musical: China," "The Joy Luck Club"), who is planning several China-U.S. co-productions, says that the issues go to fundamental differences in narrative. "In China, you have lots of long rambling stories in oral tradition. There is not a classic three-arc structure like the Greeks," she said. "Look at 'Let the Bullets Fly.' The actors look hot. There's lots of energy. But can someone tell me what the story was about?"
And even when Chinese filmmakers go out of their way to tell a Western story, they need to be mindful not to tilt too far away from the conventions of their own country.
"A successful co-production needs to be the right mix of attractiveness to both sides to actually get financed," said Christopher Chen, vice president of business development at Hollywood producer Endgame Entertainment, which has embarked on several such efforts, including the upcoming Joseph Gordon-Levitt thriller "Looper" and a dramatization of the life of Marco Polo.
For all the strategizing, though, "Nanking" director Zhang Yimou says that his country's cinema scene is facing a simple but bedeviling issue.
"The most important thing is there are not many good films … good stories that people all over the world can understand and be touched by," he said. "Our new film is trying to achieve this with our team, international cooperation and structure.... [But] people won't like the film if the story isn't told in a way to move people, no matter how big the investment and structure."


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Guide to Geologic Hazards in Alaska
- Landslide
- A general term covering a wide variety of mass-movement landforms and processes involving the down slope transport, under gravitational influence, of soil and rock material en masse. Usually the displaced material moves over a relatively confined zone or surface of shear. The wide range of sites and structures and material properties affecting resistance to shear result in a great range of landslide morphology, rates, patterns of movement, and scale. Landsliding is usually preceded, accompanied, and followed by perceptible creep along the surface of sliding and/or within the slide mass. Terminology designating landslide types generally refers to the landform as well as the process responsible for it, e.g. rockfall, translational slide, block glide, avalanche, mudflow, liquefaction slide, and slump. (Neuendorf, K.K.E. and others, 2005)
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Lara Logan: Receives Call from President Obama
Lara Logan, the CBS correspondent brutally attacked last week in Egypt following the resignation for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, received a phone call from President Obama yesterday.
Although no information was released, an anonymous White House official told CNN that the president made the call.
The 39-year-old Logan was covering the celebrations in the wake of Mubarak's resignation when she was attacked by a mob of about 200 people. She became separated from her crew and security team and was beaten and sexually assaulted, according to a CBS statement.
She was released from the hospital on Tuesday and is reportedly resting at her Washington, D.C. home.


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New MV products can transfer in milliseconds while others sense sags and boost voltages quickly.
Although we usually don't associate the term "power quality" with higher voltage levels, the concept is just as important for medium- and high-voltage systems as it is for 600V systems. In fact, electric utilities and their research consortiums have devoted time and funding to improve service technology at the primary voltage level. The end result has become known as "custom power."
Customer-directed developments
A recent study, the Distribution Power Quality Monitoring Project, conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) with the cooperation of 24 utilities, involved the monitoring of 277 sites. It produced information on voltage sags and swells, transient disturbances, momentary disruptions, and harmonic resonance conditions. Fig. 1 shows a portion of the data.
As you can see, there's a rather large percentage of sags and momentary outages (the data found at time durations of 1 sec or less). These short-term power system disruptions weren't as troublesome when analog devices were the norm for end users. Now, almost every major voltage sag and momentary breaker operation causes loss of system control or a complete production shutdown.
Faced with increased end user equipment sensitivity, utilities redoubled their efforts to develop technologies dealing with sags and momentary outages. One result of these efforts is the static series voltage regulator (SSVR), as shown in Fig. 2. Although designed by an eastern utility to fit its customers' needs, the product has been brought to market with the help of a major electrical equipment manufacturer.
When a phase-to-ground fault occurs on an MV power system, feeders nearby the faulted area experience phase voltage distortions. If these distortions last for several cycles (which seems to happen frequently, as the EPRI data indicates), sensitive loads are negatively affected. With an SSVR, if phase voltages drop below a preset threshold, it will "boost" the voltage to support continuity of the correct voltage to a critical load area. And, with proper sizing, an SSVR will support other voltage drops, such as those resulting from momentary breaker operation. We're not talking about protection from a complete loss of power (as with a UPS) but rather protection against short duration problems.
Another product is the result of one utility's survey of its customer base. Those customers served by two separate primary power feeders were asked if they would be interested in a method of "upgrading" the slow automatic transfer (2 to 10 sec) equipment. More than half surveyed said they would be interested, especially since the new technology could provide uninterruptibility without a UPS and batteries. The result: An MV subcycle transfer switch that can be used in both new and retrofitted switchgear. After study by EPRI, the product was found to be worthy, and is now on order with four more utilities.
Applications of custom power strategies
Let's look at a few typical customer power applications, concentrating on the 1.5kV and 25kV distribution voltage levels. First, we'll look at the MV subcycle transfer switch. These transfer switch applications are derived from field studies made at various customer locations. They demonstrate the diversity of available solutions, even when the technology seems to be limited to a narrow range of sites, namely those having two independent power sources.
Application No. 1. A semiconductor manufacturer with 14,000kVA of load was faced with a UPS budget of more than $4 million. Even when all the sensitive loads were concentrated, the same amount of battery support protection was needed. Since the facility had the required two independent power sources, the company was able to reduce the cost expectations, through the use of a subcycle MV transfer switch, down to below $600,000. Yet it achieved similar protection.
Application No. 2. An industrial facility was facing yearly losses of $700,000 from process downtime due simply to circuit breaker operations. As shown in Fig. 3 (on page 23), the company already owned an automatic transfer switching scheme of the "slow" variety (shown with the dotted line) that used motorized circuit breakers (designated "M3" and "M4"). The recommended solution was to use "silicon" technology transfer switches (designated "SS1" and "SS2") as the normal (high-speed transfer) circuit between Lines 1 and 2. The existing motorized breakers would serve as the backup and bypass. A one-year payback is estimated for this installation.
Any danger areas?
Looking at the above examples, you may suggest that there's still a danger in the applications discussed above, in that an upstream disturbance on the utility system might possibly affect both independent power sources at the same instant of time. After all, how far back into the utility grid can you maintain "independency." Surely, these lines must come together somewhere.
This possibility already has been anticipated. The result is a combination of the "boost" concept [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED] and the high-speed switching concept discussed above. This works very well in providing fast transfer between lines while maintaining correct voltage should a common disturbance on the upstream circuits (in this case, a single exposed transmission line) occur.
Multiple/redundant services
Many facilities, such as hospitals and health care centers, have existing dual feed services. Another alternative for reliable power is a scheme called multiple/redundant services. As shown in Fig. 4, a new fast-transfer device is installed between two existing substations to keep the facility on-line in the normal manner. If an incoming line is interrupted, this transfer switch transfers to the alternate feeder in less than 4 milliseconds, thus keeping the load on-line. The existing engine-generator set is brought on-line (with a 1-sec to 2-sec time delay to avoid false starting), synchronized, and made available to substitute for the lost incoming line. The net result: A restoration of the two-source capability within several seconds. The possibility of a cascading failure of both lines is avoided by bringing the third source (the gen-set) on-line after the loss of the first source.


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text: I have used the bcm5700 driver in most cases I run into tg3. I know the kernel folks prefer the tg3 (fully open), but I keep running into network stalls, and all sorts of other goodies :( Have not had a problem with the bcm5700. Nate Faerber wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 09:06 -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > >>Joe Landman wrote: >> >>I heard the tg3 driver was awful. I don't have any experience with it >>though. Doug and I have had pretty good luck with the Intel NICs >>(we're using them in Kronos). They are pretty cheap right now. > > > The tg3 *is* awful. Unfortunately, RHEL 3 Update 4 and RHEL 4 only ship > with the tg3 driver and it may not work with your Broadcom chip. Check > out Red Hat's Bugzilla for all of the tg3 complaints. > > That is not to say the Broadcom chip is bad. Our experience with the > bcm5700 driver available directly from Broadcom has been very good. For > this reason, Scyld Beowulf ships with the bcm5700 driver rather than the > tg3 driver. > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615