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Toronto GM and President Brian Burke tossed cold water on media reports suggesting a deal that will send defenseman Tomas Kaberle to Boston is imminent during an interview on NHL Live! on Thursday.
Burke said that Kaberle, who has a no-trade clause in his contract, has not given the Maple Leafs a list of teams he would be willing to go to before the Feb. 28 trade deadline. Burke believes Kaberle is open to a trade based on an interview he heard the player give Wednesday, when Kaberle said he would be willing to do anything to help the team, but Burke said nothing has been communicated directly to him as of yet.
"I would not even divulge the fact that he appears open to a discussion, except he's already done so," Burke said. "So, my guess is if we found something that was attractive and went back to the agent, Tomas might be receptive to that, but that's far from clear or far from done. We're just going to keep knocking on doors. The fact that he has a no-trade doesn't prohibit me from talking to other teams about potential trades, which we've done."
Any report suggesting Kaberle will agree to a trade only if it's with Boston is erroneous, Burke said, and wouldn't be something the Maple Leafs would agree to anyway because "that's not fair to us."
"It's not true that the deal is done with Boston. None of that is true," Burke said. "We continue to talk to multiple teams and we'll see where it goes."
Burke has not spoken to Kaberle at all regarding his trade discussions. He said he's been in contact with Kaberle's agent, Rick Curran, who "has requested radio silence on this." Burke said he only will speak to Kaberle if he has negotiated a trade that needs the player's approval.
"I'm not going to bug him every time a GM calls me about Tomas Kaberle," Burke said. "I'm leaving him alone. He's played really well for us and he's a quality person. I'm leaving him alone and dealing with Rick Curran."
The Maple Leafs enter Thursday's games 11th in the Eastern Conference, six points out of a playoff spot. Burke said he's not punting on this season yet, but he also refuses to make a deal that will help the Leafs now but hurt their long-term rebuilding plan.
"The notion of getting in in the eighth spot and getting spanked in the first round doesn't do a lot for me or do a lot for our marketplace," Burke said. "We can make the playoffs. We can trade Luke Schenn tomorrow and make the playoffs. We can get three veteran players that'll get us in and then we'll get spanked in the first round. What have you accomplished? Nothing.
"We're doing a long-term plan here and it hasn't changed since we've gotten here."
That plan could include trading Kaberle at some point before Feb. 28, but maybe not as soon as everyone presumes.
Burke already has made a couple moves, including trading defenseman Francois Beauchemin to the Anaheim Ducks for Joffrey Lupul and defense prospect Jake Gardiner, and forward Kris Versteeg to the Philadelphia Flyers for a pair of draft picks.
"I think there is more activity coming," Burke said. "I can almost promise it from our team.
"We're not done. We're going to make some more moves."
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Years ago, Saadiq Long — an American citizen born in Oklahoma — served in our Air Force with distinction. For a time, he even provided technical support to military aircraft destined for combat. Who could have guessed that such a man would be deemed too dangerous to board commercial aircraft?
But that is what the FBI has done to Saadiq. Earlier this month, the FBI prevented him from boarding his flight from Oklahoma to Qatar where he lives with his wife and daughter. Last year, the FBI twice prevented Saadiq from flying to Oklahoma from Qatar to visit his gravely ill mother.
It was only after a flurry of media attention, a petition with thousands of signatures and the intervention of Department of Justice officials that the FBI relented. Saadiq finally flew home to Oklahoma in November, just in time to spend what may be the final Thanksgiving he shares with his sick mother.
But his return to Oklahoma only marked the beginning of a campaign of FBI harassment. Unmarked vehicles followed him. FBI agents approached family in intimidating fashion. On one occasion, the FBI misled local authorities into believing that Saadiq and his sister were felons evading arrest, which they are not. Predictably, this last episode caused Saadiq and his sister to be yanked from their vehicle at gunpoint, handcuffed and tossed to the ground.
After all of this, Saadiq wants only to go home to be with his wife and daughter. But he cannot, because the FBI won't let him board a plane to get there.
This can't be because the FBI thinks Saadiq is much of a danger. For one, Saadiq flew into the United States less than three months ago. He wasn't dangerous then. He isn't dangerous now. In fact, Saadiq sent the FBI a letter in advance of his most recent flight informing the agency of his itinerary, not exactly the approach of a would-be terrorist. Additionally, while Saadiq can't fly, he can still ride buses and trains, travel across bridges and go to the mall. He does these things without the FBI's intervention because none is needed: Saadiq is peaceful and law-abiding.
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David Thomson on Films: Should Horses Be Sacrificed For Art?
March 20, 2012
In every way it is regrettable—that three horses have died in the making of Luck over a period of twelve weeks; and that the slowly developing series is going to be cut off, not exactly in its prime, but with glimpses of that glow in the distance.
Two Suburbs
April 11, 2005
The two leading actors in The Upside of Anger are so good that their performances, even more than the story they are in, keep us interested. Kevin Costner, who has played baseball stars, here is an ex-baseball star. His character, Denny Davies, has some resemblance to Jack Nicholson's ex-astronaut in Terms of Endearment: a man who peaked early in fame and income. Denny is now exploiting his past as a radio personality. Drinking fairly steadily with booze as both anesthetic and fuel, pleasant and tolerant, he is faced with the problem of living out the rest of his life.


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St. Luke's Honored for Fifth Year
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ST. LOUIS MO.(KMOX)- St. Louis is the home to Missouri's only hospital to make a prestigious annual list put out by HealthGrades.com.
St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield has been named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals — for the fifth year in a row.
St. Luke's president and CEO Gary Olson said, " And it's based on our clinical outcomes. So, we're very proud and thrilled with this because it represents the high quality of care we give at St. Luke's, and we happen to be the only hospital in Missouri that received this ranking, and so we're very honored."
The top 50 ranking puts St. Luke's in the top one percent of all hospitals nationwide — according to HealthGrades.
Other hospitals in the top five percent include St. Mary's, Missouri Baptist, Barnes Jewish St. Peters and Christian Hospital.
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A Study of Econazole Foam 1% in Athlete's Foot
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This is a 6-week clinical study (4 weeks of treatment, once per day, plus a 2-week follow-up period) of a topical foam to treat athlete's foot. The active ingredient in the foam -- econazole nitrate 1% -- is the same active pharmaceutical ingredient in a cream that your doctor can currently prescribe to treat athlete's foot. This study will help to understand if the foam works the same as the cream to treat athlete's foot.
Tinea Pedis
Athlete's Foot
Drug: Econazole Nitrate Cream 1%
Drug: Econazole Nitrate Foam 1%
Drug: Vehicle Foam
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Multi-Center Randomized, Evaluator-Blinded, Vehicle Controlled, Parallel Group Comparison Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Econazole Nitrate Foam 1%, Econazole Nitrate 1% Cream, and Foam Vehicle in Subjects With Tinea Pedis
- Complete Cure Rate: Interdigital Disease [ Time Frame: Day 43 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]A negative KOH and negative culture and no evidence of clinical disease as indicated by scores of 0 for each sign and symptom at Day 43.
- Complete Cure Rate: Moccasin Disease [ Time Frame: 43 Days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]A negative KOH and negative culture and no evidence of clinical disease as indicated by scores of 0 for each sign and symptom at Day 43.
- Effective Treatment: Interdigital Disease [ Time Frame: 43 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Negative KOH, negative fungal culture, no or mild (a score of 0 or 1) erythema and/or scaling with all other signs or symptoms being absent (score = 0) at Day 43 (Week6).
- Effective Treatment: Mocassin Disease [ Time Frame: 43 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Negative KOH, negative fungal culture, no or mild (a score of 0 or 1) erythema and/or scaling with all other signs or symptoms being absent (score = 0) at Day 43 (Week6).
- Mycological Cure: Interdigital Disease [ Time Frame: 43 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Negative KOH and negative fungal culture at Day 43
- Mycological Cure: Mocassin Disease [ Time Frame: 43 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Negative KOH and negative fungal culture at Day 43
|Study Start Date:
|March 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 1
Econazole Nitrate Cream 1%
Drug: Econazole Nitrate Cream 1%
Topical cream, applied once daily for 4 weeks.
Other Name: Econazole Nitrate Cream 1%, Fougera - Altana Inc.
Experimental: 2
Econazole Nitrate Foam 1%
Drug: Econazole Nitrate Foam 1%
Topical foam, applied once daily for 4 weeks.
Other Name: Quinnova Econazole Nitrate Foam 1%
Placebo Comparator: 3
Vehicle Foam
Drug: Vehicle Foam
Topical foam, applied once daily for 4 weeks.
Other Name: Quinnova Foam Vehicle
Detailed Description:
Treating athlete's foot with a cream can leave a greasy, wet feeling on the foot that is uncomfortable to the user and messy on clothing and foot wear. A foam formulation that spreads easily and rubs-in easily that is as effective as the (reference) cream formulation in treating athlete's foot would be a benefit to the user. This study is designed to substantiate a clinical bridge between econazole nitrate foam 1% and econazole nitrate cream 1% based on clinical outcome, safety, and pharmacokinetic data. The study is (foam) vehicle-controlled and is randomized 1 to 1 to 1 (foam:cream:vehicle).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Be at least 18 years or age and of either sex.
- Has a clinical diagnosis of tinea pedis with at least i) moderate scaling(interdigital and/or moccasin) and ii) mild erythema (interdigital only).
- Be willing to give informed consent.
- Be willing and able to give informed consent.
- Has microscopic evidence (positive KOH) of the presence of fungi. Evaluable subjects must have a positive KOH and a fungal culture positive for a dermatophyte at Baseline. Subjects with a positive KOH may be entered into the study pending the results of the fungal culture.
- Be in good health and free of any disease or physical condition which might, in the investigator's opinion, expose the subject to an unacceptable risk by study participation.
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test and agree to use an effective, non-prohibited form of birth control for the duration of the study (abstinence, stabilized on oral contraceptives for at least two months, implant, injection, IUD, patch, NuvaRing, condom and spermicidal or diaphragm and spermicidal).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Is nursing or planning a pregnancy during the study.
- Has used topical antifungal or corticosteroid therapy or systemic antibacterial therapy within 30 days prior to the start of the study.
- Has received systemic antifungal therapy within 12 weeks prior to the start of the study medication.
- Has a history of diabetes mellitus or is immunocompromised (due to disease, e.g., HIV, or medications).
- Has concurrent tinea infection (in the opinion of the investigator). However, concurrent onychomycosis is allowed.
- Has any other skin disease which might interfere with the evaluation of tinea pedis.
- Is currently enrolled in an investigational drug or device study.
- Has received an investigational drug or treatment with an investigational device within 30 days prior to entering this study
- Is unreliable, including subjects with a history of drug or alcohol abuse.
- Has known hypersensitivity to any of the components of the study medications.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00768599
|United States, California
|Stacy Smith, MD
|San Diego, California, United States, 92123
|United States, Michigan
|Daniel Stewart, DO
|Clinton Township, Michigan, United States, 48038
|United States, Minnesota
|Steven Kempers, MD
|Fridley, Minnesota, United States, 55432
|United States, Tennessee
|Michael Gold, MD
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37215
|United States, Texas
|Michael Jarratt, MD
|Austin, Texas, United States, 78759
|United States, Utah
|Leonard Swinyer, MD
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84124
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00768599 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 7, 2008
|Results First Received:
|December 5, 2012
|Last Updated:
|December 5, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by AmDerma:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tinea Pedis
Foot Dermatoses
Foot Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Skin Diseases
Skin Diseases, Infectious
Skin Manifestations
14-alpha Demethylase Inhibitors
Anti-Infective Agents
Antifungal Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Therapeutic Uses
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Q: How do you use TrackBacks and leverage them for growing blog visibility?
A: Let's say you are on somebody's blog and you've read something that really strikes you as important, valid, something that your blog readers need to know about. So you want to write about it on your own blog.
Now on their blog post, most blogging software has a link that says TrackBack, underneath in the footer area. If there is a link that says TrackBack, you click on that link on the person's post that you are reading and you want to refer to.
You click on the TrackBack link and then you should see a URL that says TrackBack URL. You would want to copy that. Then when you are writing your own blog post on your own blog, there should be a field in your compose area, that says "Send a TrackBack to these addresses."
You'll paste the TrackBack URL you copied from the other blog into that field.
Then, what happens is when you publish your post, the blogging software does something called ping, and it pings the other blog that you have written about it... and what will show up on their blog, associated with the post that you are pinging, are the first couple of sentences, the first forty words, of what you wrote, with a link back to your blog.
This increases your visibility in the blogosphere because the author of the blog you trackbacked to now knows you exist as well as anyone else who reads that blog's post. Chances are, if your post is provocative enough, others will click through to check out your blog.
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Worst: WWE Cruiserweight Wrestling
You'll hear a lot of people complain about how WWE handles cruiserweights, and how they should renew their focus on smaller, more athletic wrestling to appease the huge sect of wrestling fans who love high flyers like Rey Mysterio. They should, yes, on paper. But no, they really shouldn't.
Why? Because THIS is what it looks like when WWE runs a cruiserweight division. Similarly to what happens when they tell you they're gonna focus on the women or tag teams and don't because they don't have the attention span to do two things at once, WWE's interpretation of the style WCW made popular in the United States (truefax) is "smaller guys wrestling like the bigger guys plus dropkicks". How else can you explain a "Cruiserweight Open" with Scotty 2 Hotty, Jamie Noble and Shannon Christ On A God Damned Cracker Moore as the participants?
They were just as sad in the 90s. When WCW was bringing in guys like Mysterio and Jushin Thunder Liger, WWE was bringing in Great Sasuke and immediately ditching him for a TAKA Michinoku push with good intentions that ended with culturephobic lip-synching and Val Venis almost getting his pee-pee choppy-choppy. Essa Rios was fine and all but I can't fap it to Los Super Astros if I know it's gonna culminate with a leprechaun retiring as champ.
This blows, is what I'm saying.
Best: OH SH*T MUHAMMAD HASSAN IS HERE
Worst: Wait, It's Just F**king Daivari
I love Muhammad Hassan's entrance music for its lasting connotation of UH OH SOMEBODY'S INTERRUPTING US WE GOTTA BOO THE SH*T OUT OF WHOEVER THIS IS and do not appreciate it getting handed-me-down to the guy whose only contribution to wrestling was a splash with a carpet who stopped splashing people with his carpet.
That was my ringtone for almost two years. I'd hit "play" on it when I snuck up on people, or in the middle of conversations I didn't want to be a part of. "Voices" is currently the only theme that comes close to being as good for this.
Worst: Post-Hurricane Shane Helms
I can only think of one wrestler I'd like to see less in 2007 than the post-Hurricane, pre-drunk driving into somebody's YouTube channel "Shining Wizard means jumping and kicking a guy" sunglasses TitanTron and do-rag-ass shorts Gregory Helms.
Unfortunately that person is also in this match.
Worst: Post-Birth Shannon Moore
The first chapter of the Book Of DILLIGAF is just pictures of the crowd when Shannon Moore is wrestling. I don't think there's a wrestler who doesn't wear a puff-painted tank top with NASTY across the front who's gotten more mileage out of being friends with popular wrestlers than Shannon Moore. Think about the best Shannon Moore match you've ever seen. Now imagine Moore being replaced by anyone in that match. Would that've made it worse?
The only moment I can think of where Moore was indispensable was when CM Punk called him a poser and smacked him in the face for whimpering through a Justin Timberlake lyric on ECW. Shannon Moore The Wrestler is asshole on a plate.
Worst: The Most Compelling Person In This Match Is A Joke About Asians
Maybe I should've picked a show that didn't happen in 2007.
Anyway, can you think of a decent, high-flying wrestler of Asian heritage? The only two in this match are
1. Funaki, doing his gimmick where he's a backstage interviewer who can barely speak English
2. Jimmy Yang neé Wang, who is Smackdown's "resident redneck"
If you don't remember the career trajectory of Jimmy Yang, it went roughly like this: Asian stereotype –> Elvis –> Asian stereotype –> redneck stereotype –> teaming with a white guy doing a black stereotype –> release –> Japan, for like a minute –> TNA nostalgia matches. He's okay, in the way that a lot of these guys are "okay", but he never learned how stupid that kick he does where he kicks you in the back of the leg to drop you to a kneel and then jumps over you and slaps the sh*t out of his thighs as he flips looks.
He almost wins the match, but loses when Chavo Guerrero does a frog splash that Michael Cole calls "disrespectful" because Eddie Guerrero "invented it". Somewhere in Hell, Art Barr stops putting powder in his hair for a second, squints his eyes and asks "wait, what".


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North Carolina First Lady Mary P. Easley will host presidents, chancellors, and legal counsels from more than 40 campuses at the North Carolina Presidents' Summit on Alcohol Use and Abuse, to be held Wednesday, September 24, at the executive mansion in Raleigh. The Summit will highlight research findings and recommendations of A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S. Colleges*, a 2002 report published by NIAAA that documents the extent of college drinking-related problems and offers evidence-based recommendations to address them. NIAAA, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the Governor's Institute on Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Inc., and Wake Forest University, are Summit sponsors.
"As a college professor, lawyer, and the mother of an 18-year-old who entered college this fall, I am concerned about alcohol's devastating effects on our college students, whether they choose to drink or not," said Mrs. Easley's invitation to the Summit. "I look forward to working with you on this important issue." Mrs. Easley will call for the presidents and chancellors to sign a "Statement of Commitment" to address high-risk drinking in North Carolina and encourage the collaboration of campus and community partners to create safe and healthy environments for their students.
According to NIAAA-supported research, more than one-fourth of college students aged 18-24 drive under the influence of alcohol and drinking among college students contributes to an estimated 1,400 student deaths, 500,000 injuries, and 70,000 cases of sexual assault or date rape each year. College drinking also contributes to health and academic problems and is a major factor in damage to institutional property.
The 2002 report, prepared by a task force of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and published by NIAAA, highlights prevention strategies that target the student population, the college and its community environment, and the individual at-risk or alcohol dependent drinker. It ranks the strategies on the basis of the scientific evidence available to support or refute their effectiveness and calls for additional research to address knowledge gaps and for "imparting what is known about the patterns of college drinking and current interventions to encourage college presidents, administrators, and other[s] . . . to adopt policies and implement strategies based on research."
"North Carolina is a leader in research on underage drinking and in implementing research-based solutions to college drinking problems," according to NIAAA Director Ting-Kai Li, M.D. "Mrs. Easley participates actively in the Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol-Free, NIAAA's initiative to prevent drinking by children aged 9-15 years, and the state-sponsored Campus-Community Coalition Grant program incorporates evidence-based strategies to prevent college drinking. North Carolina's commitment to science-based solutions makes it the logical site for a 'full court press' to alter the culture of college drinking on a broad scale."
Summit presenters include William DeJong, Ph.D., Director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, who will discuss the scope of college drinking problems and the NIAAA task force recommendations, and NIAAA Deputy Director Faye Calhoun, D.P.A., who will discuss new directions in college drinking research. Stetson University Professor of Law Peter Lake, J.D., will give the luncheon address entitled "Higher Education and the Law: The Legal Dimensions of the NIAAA Task Force Report on College Drinking."
At 12:30 PM, Dr. Calhoun and Wake Forest University President Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., will join Mrs. Easley in the garden of the executive mansion to invite college presidents and chancellors to sign the Statement of Commitment. Members of the press and photographers are welcome to attend this public ceremony.
The September 24 Presidents' Summit will be followed October 7-8 by the NIAAA Collegiate Alcohol Prevention Workshop, to be held at Wake Forest University. More information on this 2-day event is available at the Governor's Institute on Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Inc. (telephone 919-990-9559.)
For interviews with Dr. Calhoun, please contact the NIAAA Press Office. Interviews with other presenters may be scheduled by calling Ms. Ferris Morrison at 919-990-9559, extension 228.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, conducts and supports approximately 90 percent of U.S. research on the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and alcohol problems and disseminates research findings to science, practitioner, policy making, and general audiences. For additional information on alcohol research, please visit www.niaaa.nih.gov.
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It looks like the new Alien movie has the FX industry excited as well – They're doing make-up tests already!
As exciting as the news of a new Alien movie is to us fans, there's no doubt a rush of practical and digital FX companies heading to Neill Blomkamp's door right now.
One company who should have no problems getting some work is Amalgamated Dynamics Inc (ADI), headed by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. The pair have a long history with the franchise, starting with Aliens, where they worked under Stan Winston. Under their own ADI banner they then worked on Alien 3 and Resurrection, and the AvP films. Woodruff also spent most of those film inside the Alien suit.
Now ADI and Generation FX, headed by Woodruff's son David, have put together an extremely impressive makeup test based on the concept art of an acid-burned Hicks, that Blomkamp released back in January. They have shared the photos via fansite The Terminator Fans, and you can read a great interview with David Woodruff here.
While Michael Beihn's involvement is still to be confirmed, it's great to see how he may look in the movie. That's Tom Woodruff Jr in the makeup, and in Michael Beihn's original Aliens armour.
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A. Stations - Summer, Winter,Refuges, and Major Field Activities (no major field activities were undertaken in 2007/08).
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The Siege Batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery
An unidentified British soldier standing with a 9.2 inch howitzer Mk I, named Berdameda, which was supporting the Australians on the Somme. The camouflaged box in front of the gun is known as a dirt box, which was filled with soil and attached to the gun to act as a counterweight to the force of the blast and keep the gun in position. Hanging on the side of the box is a horseshoe. Note in the background (left) a timber structure, probably an observation tower and rows of shells in front of the structure. Photo taken at Corbie in May 1918. AWM photograph E04820, with permission.
The role of the Siege Battery
Siege Batteries RGA were equipped with heavy howitzers, sending large calibre high explosive shells in high trajectory, plunging fire.The usual armaments were 6 inch, 8 inch and 9.2 inch howitzers, although some had huge railway- or road-mounted 12 inch howitzers. As British artillery tactics developed, the Siege Batteries were most often employed in destroying or neutralising the enemy artillery, as well as putting destructive fire down on strongpoints, dumps, store, roads and railways behind enemy lines. The armaments of each battery will be given as details are added.
The Regular and New Army Batteries
The Territorial Batteries
|Siege Battery
|First overseas
|None formed
The Australian, Canadian and South African Batteries
|Siege Battery
|First overseas
|54th (Australian)
|France, 27 February 1916
|1918 renamed 1st Australian
|55th (Australian)
|France, February 1916
|1918 renamed 2nd Australian
|France, 15 April 1916
|Subtitled South African Heavy Artillery
|France, 20 April 1916
|Subtitled South African Heavy Artillery
|France, 30 April 1916
|Subtitled South African Heavy Artillery
|France, 30 April 1916
|Subtitled South African Heavy Artillery
|France, 23 April 1916
|Subtitled South African Heavy Artillery
|97th (Canadian)
|1917 renamed 1st Canadian
|98th (Canadian)
|1917 renamed 2nd Canadian
|107th (Canadian)
|1917 renamed 3rd Canadian
|125th (South African)
|France, 20 July 1916
|131st (Canadian)
|1917 renamed 4th Canadian
|165th (Canadian)
|1917 renamed 5th Canadian
|167th (Canadian)
|1917 renamed 6th Canadian
Source: Allocation of Heavy Batteries RGA. National Archives WO95/5494
A note on titles
Once there were enough to require a higher organisation, the Heavy batteries were organised into Heavy Artillery Brigades. This title was altered to Heavy Artillery groups on 2 April 1916, but was changed back to Brigades on 17 December 1917. Having said that the two terms do seem to have been used quite interchangeably.
9.2 inch howitzers of a Siege Battery in action on the Western Front.


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The OSGi Alliance held a joint workshop March 25, 2010 in the Santa Clara Hyatt. The goal of the workshop was to find out what role OSGi could play in the cloud. Obviously OSGi is very well suited for remote deployment, a characteristic that seems extremely applicable for cloud applications. The day started with an introduction, several companies like Paremus, Rackspace, SAP, VMWare, and TIBCO gave a short presentation or overview. We then split up into discussion groups until lunch to discuss the topics that are relevant on the boundary of clouds and OSGi. After lunch we reconvened and created a shared list of topics and merged as many as possible to get to a number of these topics. These topics were then divided and discussed and smaller groups to find the requirements. After the tea break we discussed the topics and how to make progress. Along the way we lost a few people to the ongoing conference but the list of requirements was still quite long. There was even sufficient energy in the room to a subgroup to work further on the discovered requirements. The workshop leader (Peter Kriens) will create an OSGi mailing list for this workgroup where this report will be discussed. It seems very likely that there will be enough member companies available to start a Cloud Expert Group.
Discovered Topics
The workgroups provided a number of topics. These topics were grouped in the following items:
Moderator's Interpretation
After discussing OSGi in the Cloud for a full day and many offline discussions I think the OSGi provisioning model is an excellent base for the cloud. A base, because there are number of unique aspects to the cloud that are currently not addressed in a standardized way. The unique aspects of the cloud are the sheer number of instances involved as well as the need to move functionality around based on load and other dynamic aspects of a large system. The large number of instances requires that they are much easier to manage than the way systems are managed today. It is clear that such systems cannot be managed by shells, however powerful. It is likely that systems must become more autonomous and goal driven. Autonomous systems will require extensive up-to-date information about the components that make up their operating environment to make correct decisions. Autonomous systems will also require more predictability. The OSGi model based on dynamic resolving might be too simple for quickly firing up instances. Instead a model where a framework is configured, its state frozen, and then recreated might be more predictable than model where each instances resolves on its own with the change to resolve slightly different because of timing and state differences.
A cloud based system changes the picture of how we view applications. Applications are no longer monoliths that can be replicated, instead a picture emerges allows functional parts to grow and shrink independently based on the dynamic load and failures. The OSGi service based model is an excellent programming model for this because it allows bundles (and their dependencies) to be moved to other systems where a service is used to abstract the location of the executing bundle. Especially important here is asynchronous messaging because it seems clear that asynchronous messaging is required for any serious requirements.
Obviously, the capability of being able to move functions around the cloud will require the up-to-date knowledge of the instances in the cloud that are being active. Though central management through JMX could be made to work it seems that there is a need for a more efficient, dynamic and peer-to-peer model. Products like ZooKeeper provide a very interesting model that allows a large number of instances to reliably collaborate under the duress of changing loads and failures.
Even though the existing OSGi specifications are an excellent base there is still work left with the existing provisioning model. Several aspects are under work in the Enterprise Expert Group like the Application Model, Asynchronous messaging, and OBR.
For the Application model it will be instructive to take cloud requirements into account. What is an application in the cloud? From my experience one of the key aspects in the cloud is to have the capability to scale aspects of the application while other aspects will not require scaling. For example a complex function might require lots of instances while the basic web front could end up to only require a few instances. It will be interesting to see how the traditional application view changes taking these scaling requirements into account.
Asynchronous messaging is one of the few patterns in software that is relatively easy to scale if the processing of the messages does not require persistent state. JMS provides a model of messaging that is already popular. What is missing is a standardized management model that allows the dynamic reconfiguration of the topology. One of the disadvantages of asynchronous messaging is the more awkward way to interact with messages in comparison to normal API calls. Asynchronous messaging is actively investigated in the EEG.
OBR (bundle repository) seems to be positioned to take an important role in any cloud based system. Provisioning without such a model will be very hard and will require too much user interaction. OBR is very well suited to provision (and de-provision) bundles from frameworks.
The cloud is a computing model that shares many aspects with the more traditional data centers and middleware that will be developed for the cloud is likely to be very applicable in large enterprise systems; there is no dichotomy here. Actually it might be better to rename any effort in this area to "large scale", "scalable", "elastic" computing to make it clear that most if not all of the functions necessary for the cloud are just as applicable for data centers of enterprises.
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The double din Guru car computer has hit the shelves . A quick overview with the subject of a previous blog post.
Updated 09-17-2009 at 02:58 PM by ecog
We are supporting Special Edition, Inc on a car computer engineering project. The goal is to get a car computer in a 1955 Porcshe 550 Spyder replica that they build out a piece of bare ground Here is a quick shot of the what the dashboard will look like without the monitor.
Over the next couple of weeks expect several blog posts explaining the details of the car computer's integrated features.
I am going to kick this off with some interesting information we obtained about hacking the Andrea's super beam microphone. To maintain aesthetics we wanted to expose only the microphone portion of the superbeam and just place the mic pickups right in the dash. This would effectively leave just two black dots on each side of the speedometer.
Here is the information we obtained from Andreas acoustical engineers:
3.5" spacing = approximately 30 degree beam or cone shaped pickup.
6" spacing = approximately 20 degree beam or cone shaped pickup.
8" = approximately 10 degree beam or cone shaped pickup.
Here are some photos of the unit when we hacked it open. Microphone extension wires can just be soldered in place to the appropriate length based on your installation.
We were also cautioned by Andrea to make sure to expose in the passenger cabin the rear slots of the microphone as well as the front slots of the microphone. Unfortunately this will make the mic stick out about a ¼ inch, but at least we can hide all the other electronics.
This microphone hack has coupled with a new external USB echo canceling sound card that is amazing for Bluetooth calls which will be the subject of a future blog entry. Talk about this here on our forums blog talk section. Check out the breif work log here.
Updated 09-17-2009 at 02:56 PM by ecog
Weather is forecasted to be 85 degrees and sunny for tomorrow's Washington, DC MP3car BBQ. Post in the forums and tell us you are comming by 10am, MP3car will bring some food for you. Also let us know what your shirt size is and we will try to bring enought mp3car shirts for everyone (free). For full event details, see W3bMa5t3r's post (Forum Link)
Scott and I (Rob) are both comming. We will be bringing the recently blogged about Guru Car computer and some other interesting things.
Updated 09-17-2009 at 02:54 PM by ecog
One of our military customers who regularly installs MP3car's 7 transflective LCD product in Apache helicopters was kind enough to share some photos side by side with aircraft instruments. From what we are told this is as close as you can get to military grade sunlight readability without spending military amounts of cash. Very cool! Thanks for sharing the photos.
Updated 09-17-2009 at 02:52 PM by ecog
My name is Nick or Reno91011 on the forums. I'm a summer intern with Mp3Car. Before hearing about Mp3Car through my brother, I had no idea of what was possible with an in-car computer, but after reading through a large amount of the forums during my research, I found out how creative one can be with a simple starting point. I was hired primarily for my software knowledge and to be a dedicated person to develop and analyze the online content of Mp3Car. I spend most of my days working in front of 3 monitors with headphones on and editing HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, and vBulletin code. Much of the smaller and larger changes in online content in the past few months have been my work, such as this blog.
After starting working for Mp3Car, I have since begun work on my own car computer and am hoping to get it installed by the end of the summer. It will pretty much be an AOpen miniDuo 945-X, 512mb of ram, 80gb hard drive, a 7" non-touchscreen monitor, and a customized XP installation. I know that nearly everyone on the forums will ask "Why go with a non-touchscreen?" I have two reasons for this 1) I am cheap and the more money I invest now in a car with nearly 150,000 miles, the worse I will feel when it dies and 2) I like an extra challenge.
Coming from a purely software background, I will eventually design a lightweight front-end to do all of the things that only I think are necessary. Since I don't have the time to spend in development, and I wasn't really impressed with any of the options for free frontends, I'm going to go with the most complete application for video and mp3 playing available that I can find. I am currently looking at Moraff's Freedom Player , well described by the simple sentence "If a typical media player is a kite, Moraff's Freedom Player is a 747!"
I spend most of my free time playing video games and coding/learning new languages. I actually got involved in computer science due to my interest in video games, but after two internships in the field, saw and experienced the difficulty involved in game creation. Aside from schoolwork for my senior year as a computer science major, I am also involved in two startup companies and do a little contracting on the side to help pay for my computer purchases. My next big buy is an ATI Radeon HD 4850.
Well, that's pretty much it for me. Expect another post pretty soon from me or one of the other staff here about the next few addons that I'll be making for the site in this last stretch before college starts up again.
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TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) Nogales defeated Puerto Rico, 11-4, in Livermore, California, for the 12 and 13 year old Intermediate Age World Series.
Dustin Bemudez hit a three run home run and coach Jorge Guerrero's team overcame a 3-1 deficit to become World Champions.
Bermudez made one of several spectacular defensive plays for Nogales, who got a 2 run double by Jorqe Boroquez.
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The story of how '80s power brand B.D. Baggies has been revived by Save Khaki's designer, David Mullen. Really psyched about this oxford popover.
Stylish, affordable shoe line, SAWA, launches this month. They're made in Africa, from all-African made materials to help stimulate their economy.
An interactive spectrum of the top men's collection at New York fashion week. Cool to see all the trends laid out next to one another—furry gloves to hiking boots.
A rad 60-second guide to the men's shows at New York Fashion Week.
The making of the much-anticipated Gant by Michael Bastian collection ... from the man himself.
Looking back at the military history of chinos ... and these cool recreations by Dockers, of all brands. I'm feeling the old school hook-and-eye fly.
Valet looks for the boots from this iconic shot of Paul Newman ... And finds them on sale. Sort of a mix between a chukka and a chelsea boot.
A handy guide to what went down at Men's Fashion Week in Paris ... including Bruce Weber's NSFW film for YSL!
A cool graphical story on everything that went down at the men's shows in Milan.
Band of Outsiders designer Scott Sternberg talks about his new line of polo shirts. Vintage feel and retro styling? Yes please.
David Hart's new ties, made from Thomas Mason shirting materials. Really digging the blue cotton oxford cloth one.
An interview with designer Umit Benan and a look at his upcoming spring collection, influenced by "Scarface" and 1960s Cuba.
Digging these daily lessons at Valet. Today's offers the two best ways to lace your shoes.
Some hard-wearing workwear chinos, constructed from duck canvas.
Apolis Activism works with developing countries to produce their textiles for the Americana-inspired menswear line. Here's how it all happens.
An interesting Q&A with designer Kai D ... the Kai D pop-up in NYC was so popular, they're making it a permanent boutique.
A modern guide to monograms ...
Valet's new feature, an Anatomy of a Classic, takes a look at the classic pea coat. Schott's version is produced to military specs and is actually pretty affordable.
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Twins Tyrell and Tyree Robinson committed to Oregon to play both football and basketball after making an official visit to Eugene this past weekend, Tyrell Robinson announced on his Twitter feed.
Both players are considered four-star recruits in football and are ranked by Rivals.com among the top 10 "athletes" in the country. Tyrell was recruited as an outside linebacker, Tyree as a safety.
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With the smell of biryani wafting out the door, members of five different faith groups gathered for a common purpose Monday, breaking a day-long fast to raise money to fight childhood hunger.
Thirty students and recent graduates participated in the fast, which ended in a potluck dinner in Ticknor Lounge featuring falafel, Indian food, tacos, salad, and cookies.
"What does unite all of us is the theme of fasting: In the Jewish religion, the Islamic religion, the Mormon faith, fasting is a part of the religion," said Muneeb Ahmed '14, the Harvard Islamic Society's director of external relations, who initiated the event with the goal of encouraging interfaith dialogue.
Students from the Latter-Day Saints Student Association, Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, Harvard College Interfaith Council, and Harvard Hillel also participated in the fast.
By the end of the night, participants had pulled chairs into impromptu discussion circles, eating platefuls of food and asking each other questions about the role of fasting in their faiths.
Brad R. Talk '13, a former Mormon missionary to India who took part in the fast, said going without food played an important spiritual role in his religion.
"We believe that it's a time of introspection, a time of prayer, and a time to set aside the carnal desires and to focus on our spirit and our spiritual progression," he said. "All the meals that we missed, we take the money we would've spent on the meals that we missed, and we give it to a fast offering, and that offering goes to help the poor."
Yamna Anwar '16, a member of Islamic society, said her religion viewed fasting as a way to improve one's character.
"It's really a spiritual cleansing," said, Anwar, who fasts for much of the day every Monday through Thursday.
"You make yourself a better person through fasting. You remind yourself of these principles, such as not to lie or to give to the poor."
Organizers put a box by the door for donations to Save the Children, a nonprofit group for children in the developing world.
As he helped introduce students to one another and keep the conversation flowing during the dinner, Ahmed said he wanted to host similar interfaith events in the future.
"It's a good way for students to come together from all across Harvard's campus," he said. "When they talk to one another it makes the entire environment of the campus better and it provides each of us with something to ponder."
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Google is changing the way image search works, taking a cue from its own tablet image search which in turn is very similar to how Yahoo Image Search works, among others. In short, clicking on image results will bring up a larger preview of the image along with a slideshow of the rest of the results.
This way, users can flip through the results quickly and still get a decent sized preview, large enough for them to determine whether it is what they're looking for or not.
What it means though is that the websites where the image originates from will be de-emphasized. Users can still visit them of course, but they can get a full or large enough version of the original image without going to the site.
"Based on feedback from both users and webmasters, we redesigned Google Images to provide a better search experience. In the next few days, you'll see image results displayed in an inline panel so it's faster, more beautiful, and more reliable," Google explained.
"You will be able to quickly flip through a set of images by using the keyboard. If you want to go back to browsing other search results, just scroll down and pick up right where you left off," it added.
Anyone who has used the tablet search will know what to expect. The interface is not really the same though, it is more similar to the current/old desktop image search than to the tablet one.
Currently, clicking on any image result will lead to an interstitial page with a preview of the image overlayed on top of the original page. If you want a different result, you have to go back and repeat the process.
With the new search rolling out over the next few days, this second step is skipped and the preview is incorporated into the results page. It means there will be a lot less hopping around to find the right image.
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"One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy," Finney said. "I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place. I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me."
"Thank you for spelling that out," Bashir responded.
This isn't the first time liberals have made this kind of charge about Cain and his supporters. During an online production of NBC's Meet the Press this week, Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland said white voters support Cain to show they aren't racist. "I think when [members of the Tea Party] can vote for a Herman Cain and hear him say the things that he says they feel like, 'Well, you know, I can, I support this guy and...so it shows that I'm not racist and I'm supportive,'" Cummings told host David Gregory.
Liberal comedienne Janeane Garafalo told Current TV host Keith Olbermann earlier this month that Cain is popular with Republicans because it "hides the racist element" of the party. Watch that video here.
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Ex-'Tonight Show' Host Conan O'Brien Vents On '60 Minutes'
For the record, Conan O'Brien's sit down with Steve Kroft on '60 Minutes' on May 2, 2010 -- the first date he was contractually allowed to discuss what happened -- clearly established that while he's disappointed about what happened, Conan O'Brien is not defeated. To paraphrase 'Evita,' "Don't cry for him, America."
From Conan's point of view, he's doing just fine. He walked away from NBC's tepid offer of a post-midnight 'Tonight Show' hybrid with his honor intact, as well as $32 million. He also landed a new gig with TBS, and is currently making fun of the entire episode in a stage show that's giving him something to do to pass the time and stay sharp -- the "Legally Prohibited to be Funny on Television" Tour.
While probed and prodded by Kroft, Conan admitted that it was a hurtful experience. "I got very depressed at times. It was like a marriage breaking up suddenly, violently, quickly." According to his wife, Liza, who had a ring-side seat while everything was going down, Conan had a rough time. "It was watching someone's heart get broken," she said. Here's a sample of Conan with Kroft:
Knowing what we know about the lure of 'The Tonight Show,' how David Letterman still feels burned that he never got to replace Johnny Carson, it's not surprising that O'Brien feels short-changed by NBC's actions. He contends that if he had been given more than six months, his 'Tonight Show' would have succeeded. "I have no regrets," he told Kroft. "I'm happy with my decision. I sleep well at night."
When the subject of honor was brought up, in regards to Jay Leno taking back a show he had handed off to Conan in a very public way, it was clear that O'Brien didn't have much respect for Leno's decision. He cackled at the notion that Jay Leno got screwed. "I'm laughing because crying would be sad."
O'Brien agreed that NBC's choice to dump him and keep Leno was a business decision. While the network had to give Conan $32 million, they would have had to cough up as much as $150 million to part with Jay. Conan just resents that now NBC is claiming that they were losing money with his 'Tonight Show.' O'Brien said that is simply not a possibility.
Ultimately, '60 Minutes' did a good job in presenting O'Brien as he is today, and from my perspective, he's a resilient and philosophical guy. If he's bitter and angry, he's covering it very well.
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I have a problem with BE when using BE to backup SQL 2008 R2 databases. I have 2 instances needed to backup, one instance can be choosen to backup, the other one cannot. The error display like this:
An error was encountered while attempting to browse the contents of Microsoft SQL Server. A network connection to the server could not be establish.
OS: windows 2008 R2
BE: 12.5 with SP4 and some hotfixes installed
I am not an expert on SQL. Can someone helps me to solve this problem.
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BE 12.5 does not support SQL 2008 R2. See the SCL below
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As it turns out, Spring break is great for science experiments. There's plenty of time and plenty of scope, especially if the weather is lousy and you have a curious five-year-old.
So, Alex decided that he wanted to do three experiments while he was on break. We found them – as we have found most of the things we have done – in Pop Bottle Science, which features 79 easy experiments that are not too time-consuming or messy. And in addition to a book full of experiments, the Pop bottle breaks into two, yielding both a container and a funnel as necessary.
Firstly, Alex wanted to blow bubbles. You know those little bubble-blowing kits that you can buy that contain a small bottle with some kind of detergent in it, and have a hole on a dipping stick that you have to blow through? The bubble blowing experiment in Pop Bottle Science is based on the same principles.
Get a large bowl of water, and then add a few squirts of detergent and a spoonful of sugar. (The sugar is to help strengthen the mixture and thicken the bubble wall so it doesn't pop too quickly. I'm guessing this is the reason why bubble gum is so sweet, although I don't know that for sure.) Then dip the top half of the pop bottle in the mixture, and blow through the neck of the bottle.
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Next up: an experiment to make a raisin ballet. A simple premise: add four tablespoons of vinegar and three tablespoons of baking soda to a half a container of water and then throw in ten raisins. The combination of vinegar and baking soda creates carbon dioxide, which should make the ten raisins rise and fall in the water, creating a raisin ballet.
Or not so much a ten-raisin ballet as a pas de quatre. We only managed to get four of the raisins to rise and fall. Even after we threw in some more vinegar and baking soda to liven things up, the six uncooperative raisins would not budge. It was a bit like an experiment we tried a while back to get a grain of rice to rise and fall in a glass of carbonated liquid. It took us a while to get that one right, too.
Lastly, Alex wanted to explore the principle of inertia. This started with a discussion we had about how if you pulled a tablecloth out from under a bunch of dishes, there was a chance the dishes would stay in place. Instead of putting the whole dining table at risk, we decided to try it on a micro level. We put a card on top of the empty bottom half of the Pop bottle, put a quarter on top of the card, and then Alex flicked the card to try and make the quarter fall into the container.
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