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Carnival of Mathematics #118
Hello! It's been about a month since the last Carnival of Mathematics, and therefore high time we did another. We've done 117 before, which means (a) that this is number 118, and (b) that there are only another infinity to go before we have to think of a new numbering system for them.
Tradition dictates we open with some interesting fact about the number 118, preferably a fact that does not involve directory enquiry services. Wikipedia offers the rather pleasing fact that:
- 14 + 50 + 54 = 118 and 14 × 50 × 54 = 37800
- 15 + 40 + 63 = 118 and 15 × 40 × 63 = 37800
- 18 + 30 + 70 = 118 and 18 × 30 × 70 = 37800
- 21 + 25 + 72 = 118 and 21 × 25 × 72 = 37800
It says "there are no smaller integers that can be expressed as the sum of three integers such that each set of three has the same product" but that doesn't quite make any sense. Let's just enjoy the nice maths above and hope we've figured out what it all means before Carnival 37800 rolls around in March 5155.
Fortunately, I've been sent many better written and broadly coherent mathematical blog posts in the last month, so here is an unordered subset of them, including not-strictly-fewer-than two non-Euclidean songs.
Let's start with Joey Devilla's post about the New York Times vs algebra, because the whole story amuses me greatly.
Alex Bellos has written about Conway's Game of Life including some lovely videos showing some advanced things you can do in it. If you want to play with Conway's Game of Life, Alex Bellos' blog has links to Golly, which he used to make the videos, or you can have a quick play in your browser with this version that I made — with source code on Github.
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I want to play with Game of Life
You can use it to build computers. If you are wondering whether Game of Life can therefore answer all mathematical problems, then you should read Haggis the Sheep's blog, which uses The Imitation Game as a starting point for discussing maths Alan Turing worked on.
Speaking of Turing, this blog discussed whether Newton might also have been gay, and whether it matters. I think the take-home message to any gay mathematicians out there is stay the hell away from apples.
I want other computerised maths toys!
There's more open-source 2D maths simulation at Simon Gladman's blog, where he has made an iPad app that lets you tinker with diffusion, and a nice bit of Javascript demo'd geometry courtesy of Joshua Fisher.
Meanwhile Vi Hart and friends have been busy open-sourcing some mathsy art brought to you by winter and the number twelve, including a mildly terrifying stroll through a hyperbolic Christmas song.
David Mumford has written an obituary for Alexander Grothendieck. I don't really understand much of the maths in there, though, but apparently neither does Richard Elwes who has written a song to that effect. I've just linked to it. I am not even the best at not understanding this.
Evelyn Lamb sent a link to her student's blog, who had made a pseudosphere out of wood by rotating a tractrix about its asymptote, because geometry has the coolest words. If you prefer your mathematical furnishings soft, there's a poll on Spoonflower looking for the best mathematically themed fabric. There are some pretty nice ones if you click through to the full list.
William Wu has had a busy month — as well as blogging about how unlikely it is that the three recently-missing fight numbers add up to 8888 and the Dragon Curve, he's branched out into videos. His first is a three-minute video about factorising the difference of two cubes, which shows a couple of nice moves that seem obvious in hindisght but I don't think I'd seen before. He has a second video proving that root 2 is irrational, which is longer than the first but at least correct, unlike this proof that 2 = 1, which Colin found on Futility Closet — a reliable source of interesting stuff and the occasional infuriating nonsense with no comment box — and interestingly dismantles for us on his blog.
John Cook has (for some reason) been counting primitive bit strings which gets very mathsy very fast — if anyone has a link to a blog post about how on Earth the Möbius function manages this neat trick then I'll add it in here.
Showbiz news now, and Slate have an interesting article about the "mathematical Oscars" given out recently, and Chris Burks has a post about a recent maths category in the childrens' version of Jeopardy. I invite you to ponder the absurdity of any forwards quiz show posing the question "what is three", much less expecting the bafflingly unhelpful answer "1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5".
That's nearly the end of the Carnival for this month, but if you want more link-heavy mathsy roundup, Frederick Koh has submitted his 2014 roundup.
I thought this was going to be a roundup of 2014 as well, but it turned out to be instructions for making a gingerbread dodecahedron, so go and do that.


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BOSTON – Sidney Crosby and the potent Penguins have been punchless.
Pittsburgh led the NHL in scoring in the regular season. It averaged 4.27 goals per game in the first two rounds of the playoffs. And it poured in 13 goals in the last two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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The Penguins have just one goal in two losses on their home ice to the Boston Bruins. To play there again this season, they must win tonight or Friday and avoid what seemed so improbable just a few days ago – being swept in the best-of-seven conference finals.
"Right now, we're not liking the picture, down 0-2. They're in control," Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said. "I don't think we're frustrated by the fact that we haven't scored as much as (the fact that) they're getting up leads, especially in Game 2."
The Bruins won the opener 3-0 but led just 1-0 after two periods. The second game was much different. They rolled to a 4-1 lead after one period and remained aggressive in finishing off their 6-1 rout. The Penguins' effort waned as the game went on.
"I didn't do anything, didn't change anything. It felt like every time we had a puck that was bouncing, we ended up giving it away," Crosby said. "We gave them the game. We didn't really do anything to give ourselves a chance to win."
Combine that with the Bruins' high level of play – disciplined on defense, organized on offense – and the pre-series chatter about the Penguins being favorites seems like so much nonsense.
But any talk that Boston will have an easy path to the Stanley Cup finals is just as premature.
"We're going to have to play even better than we did because they're going to be desperate," Boston's David Krejci said.
With a day off to ponder their problems and work at eliminating them, the Penguins' offense could resurface.
"It's about what we do in the next game," Boston defenseman Andrew Ference said, "not about patting ourselves on the back for what's already happened."
Winning the first two games is a good start but doesn't always lead to a good finish. Both teams have overcome 2-0 deficits and gone on to win Stanley Cups.
In 2009, the Penguins dropped two games at Detroit by a combined score of 6-2 then took four out of five to clinch their first championship since 1992.
In 2011, the Bruins lost two games of the opening round at home against Montreal, then won the next two on the road and captured the series on an overtime goal in Game 7. In the finals, they got off to the same poor start, losing two in Vancouver, but then won their first title since 1972 with a 4-0 road win in Game 7.
But in the previous season, the Bruins won the first three games of the Eastern semifinals over Philadelphia then lost the next four.
"We have a large group of guys that have gone through this and been in that situation on both sides of the coin," Ference said. "You can really lean on your past experience and not just talk about what could happen, because we've done it all. I think with this team, whether it's coming back or having teams come back on us, we've all seen it together and we all know certain lessons that we've learned."
They've also seen how powerful Pittsburgh's offense can be. James Neal, Chris Kunitz, Pascal Dupuis and Crosby were among the NHL's top 17 in goals per game this season. Crosby was the leader in assists per game. And Crosby and Kris Letang were the top two in points per game.
"You don't have a choice but to respect that team that you're playing against, because they are a pretty potent team. Things can change pretty quickly in this game," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "I don't think there's any comfort level in our team right now."
The Bruins have stymied the Penguins' offense with pressure over the entire length of the ice. A puck carrier gets past one forward then must contend with another, then a defenseman and, finally, Boston goaltender Tuukka Rask.
However, it's been relatively easy for the Bruins to get to the Penguins' goal, whether Tomas Vokoun or Marc-Andre Fleury is trying to protect it. Fleury replaced Vokoun after Krejci, the NHL postseason leading scorer, gave Boston a 3-0 lead at 16:31 of the first Monday night.
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Ithaca's Sage DeMull led all scorers with 18 points and Markes Gadien had 12 points for the Yellowjackets.
Wahkeen Budd scored 13 points for Carrollton and David Green had 11.
"Carrollton is a good basketball team; they're very athletic," Ithaca coach Jim Thompson said. "We set the tempo with our defensive play early."
Ithaca outscored Carrollton 19-11 in the second quarter to gain a lead it would never relinquish.
"I thought we had letdowns on some mental assignments throughout the game," Carrollton coach Al Brooks said. "We got a litle lazy on defense ... We have to get back to basics and play better defense."
Ithaca faces Brackenridge on Friday, while Carrollton will play Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary on Friday.
"We're going to show up and put out another good effort and get to 5-0," said Thompson. "That's the objective."
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- [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Endovascular technology has revolutionised the management of abdominal aortic aneurysmal disease but the less frequent occurrence of pathology in the thoracic aorta has meant that evidence demonstrating the primacy of endovascular treatment strategies in this portion of the vessel is less convincing. Herein we summarise the best available evidence to date. A comprehensive search of the surgical and radiological literature using the search term 'endovascular thoracic aorta' was conducted. The vast majority of patients treated by thoracic aortic stent grafting have had their treatment outside the context of a randomised trial. While it would seem that endovascular repair is the treatment of choice for the thoracic aorta, the present evidence is based on single centre case series and is anecdotal at best.
Article: Percutaneous endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair leads to a reduction in wound complications[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: While endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) has significantly reduced the morbidity associated with open surgery, efforts continue to minimise the surgical insult to the patient. We report our experience of percutaneous EVAR. Since June 2005, 17/20 EVARs (85%) have been attempted percutaneously by deployment of two Perclose) devices into each femoral artery prior to passage of the device sheath. The sutures are left untied until the sheath is removed at the end of the procedure, when haemostasis is obtained. Patients were entered onto a prospectively maintained database and followed up at regular intervals in a dedicated EVAR clinic. Access and subsequent graft deployment was successful in all the 17 cases. The range of defects closed ranged from 12-24 Fr. Five patients (29%) required open groin exploration at the end of the procedure to achieve haemostasis. There was a significantly lower incidence of wound complications in the percutaneous EVAR group (6 vs. 10% open cutdown cases, P < 0.05, Mann-Whitney U test). Percutaneous EVAR is both a feasible and safe method of performing endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, which is associated with a reduction in wound complication rates.
- [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Objective: Infrainguinal angioplasty provides a minimally invasive alternative to bypass surgery in patients with critical ischemia. This study aimed to determine the 2-year patency, limb salvage, and survival rates in patients who underwent infrainguinal angioplasty in a unit where angioplasty is used preferentially whenever possible for critical ischemia. Methods: A total of 333 consecutive patients who presented with rest pain, tissue loss, or both and who underwent an infrainguinal intervention in the 4-year period between January 1998 and January 2002 were divided into femoropopliteal and femorodistal groups. The TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus angiogram scoring system was used to classify the lesions. Angioplasty was the preferred procedure in all patients for whom a stump or portion of a superficial femoral artery was patent. Exclusion criteria included the concomitant or sequential treatment of iliac lesions. Patients were followed up after surgery with ankle-brachial indices and duplex ultrasonography. Results: A total of 180 patients underwent 198 angioplasties. Primary cumulative patency, limb salvage, and survival for femoropopliteal angioplasty (n = 166) at 2 years were 75%, 90%, and 88%, respectively, and 60%, 76%, and 82% for infrapopliteal angioplasty (n = 32). At 30 days, mortality was 2.7%, and the complication rate was 8.3%. There was a restenosis rate (>50%) of 68% and 65% at 2 years for the femoropopliteal and infrapopliteal angioplasty groups, respectively. Seven patients required repeat angioplasty of the same site, 30 underwent subsequent bypass, and 16 of 43 occluded limbs were amputated. A total of 153 comparative control patients underwent 162 bypass procedures during the same period. Primary cumulative patency, limb salvage, and survival for femoropopliteal bypass (n = 80) at 2 years were 69%, 87%, and 76%, respectively, and were 53%, 57%, and 64% for infrapopliteal bypass (n = 82). The 30-day mortality for bypass was 5.2%, the complication rate was 35%, and 31 limbs were amputated. Conclusions: The results of this study on the intermediate-term outcome of angioplasty suggest that angioplasty, when used preferentially for critical ischemia, in anatomically suitable patients provides very acceptable limb salvage and survival despite a relatively high restenosis rate.
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- [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Both angioplasty and infrainguinal bypass procedures may be used to achieve limb salvage in patients with critical ischaemia. The authors investigated the effect of the introduction of angioplasty on the frequency with which infrainguinal bypass was performed and, second, the changes in outcome of infrainguinal bypass following the introduction of angioplasty. All patients had critical ischaemia of the leg. Three patient groups were studied: 215 patients undergoing infrainguinal bypass before the introduction of angioplasty (1986–1991), 216 patients who had infrainguinal bypass after the introduction of angioplasty (1993–1998) and 193 patients undergoing angioplasty in the same 5-year interval (1993–1998). The age and risk profile of the three groups was identical. The overall caseload increased by 19 per cent following the introduction of angioplasty. Primary and secondary patency rates were superior for bypass compared with angioplasty, but were similar for the two bypass groups (5-year primary patency rate 60 per cent versus 18-month primary patency rate 45 per cent; 5-year secondary patency rate 80 per cent versus 18-month secondary patency rate 60 per cent). By 18 months 26 per cent of patients having angioplasty had gone on to have bypass. The limb salvage rate of 90 per cent at 1 year was similar for all groups. Survival was significantly higher in the group of patients undergoing bypass from 1993 to 1998 compared with the other two groups (80 versus 60 per cent; P < 0·0002). The introduction of angioplasty has increased overall workload. Angioplasty has a lower patency rate than bypass but a comparable limb salvage rate, making it a suitable alternative to bypass in the management of patients with critical ischaemia. © 2001 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd
Article: Comparative study and clinical outcome of patients with infra-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) undergoing mini-laparotomy (ML), open surgical repair (OR) and transfemoral endoluminal aortic management (TEAM) who are suitable forendografting.
Article: Operative and Endovascular Management of Extracranial Vertebral Artery Aneurysm in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Clinical Dilemma: Case Report and Literature Review[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: The most prevalent lesion of the vertebral artery is an atheromatous plaque located at its origin from the subclavian artery. A case of successful management of a symptomatic vertebral artery aneurysm due to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is reported. The patient had asymptomatic posterior intracerebral artery dissection on the contralateral side. A common carotid artery to V-3 segment bypass using reversed saphenous vein graft was carried out. Avulsion of the V-2 segment occurred peroperatively and endovascular coil embolization of the vertebral artery aneurysm was performed. Endovascular equipment and training must be in the armamentarium of vascular surgeons as more complex cases are being treated, which demands new approaches for ultimate clinical success. This unique case outlines what might unexpectedly occur. Endovascular intervention as an adjuvant procedure provides a satisfactory outcome in what could have been a catastrophe.
Article: Low Dose Intraarterial Thrombolysis with Tissue Plasminogen Activator: Does It Deliver as Promised?[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: The widespread use of intraarterial thrombolytic therapy has been based on perceived benefits over operative treatment and the downgrading of the magnitude of subsequent surgery. Thirty-three patients who had thrombolysis for peripheral artery occlusion were retrospectively analyzed at St. James's Hospital from 1991 to 1997. One patient received streptokinase unsuccessfully. Five other patient's records were inadequate for analysis. Twenty-seven patient's notes were analyzed for risk, duration of occlusion, duration of treatment, dosage of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and conduits thrombolysed. There were 15 males and 12 females. The mean age was 62 years (range, 20-87). Fourteen were current or reformed smokers. Five were diabetic. Indications for treatment included acute graft occlusion (n=13), embolus (n=6), and primary and secondary arterial thrombosis (n=8). Duration of occlusion was less than 24 hours in seven, 1 to 7 days in ten, and more than 7 days in ten patients. Twelve (44.44%) patients had complete clot lysis, four (14.81%) had partial clearance, and 11 (40.74%) remained occluded. Eight (29.63%) had serious complications including one death. Eighteen (66.66%) patients needed further surgical intervention to maintain graft patency. Data were analyzed using the chi-square and pooled t test. No significant difference was observed in results from thrombolysis from different conduits, gender, etiology, or smoking history. Increased duration of tPA administration was associated with an increased risk of failure. Administration of total dosages greater than 60 mg was associated with a higher risk of failure. Diabetics had a poor outcome (p=0.0520). Only 44 % of patients successfully underwent lysis. A primary surgical option may be a more sensible course than lysis, given that the vast majority of patients ended up having surgery anyway.
- [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: To report the successful endovascular embolization of a pancreaticoduodenal aneurysm (PDA). A 56-year-old man with a history of pancreatitis presented with insidious, progressive epigastric pain for the preceding 6 months. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) and selective hepatic digital subtraction angiography identified a 7.7-cm aneurysm that arose from the pancreaticoduodenal branch of the gastroduodenal artery. Through a percutaneous common femoral approach, 10 stainless steel coils were delivered to occlude the aneurysm. A single coil detached and became lodged in a small branch of the right hepatic artery without sequelae. At 26 months, duplex and CT scans show continued occlusion of the aneurysm. Transcatheter coil embolization should be the first choice treatment for aneurysms of the pancreaticoduodenal artery.
Article: Ultrasound Guided Human Thrombin Injection. A New Modality in the Management of Femoral Artery Pseudo-aneurysms[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: We report our initial results of a prospective study of duplex ultrasound-guided injection (UGTI ) of thrombin in the management of femoral artery pseudo-aneurysms. We used human thrombin to avoid the increase in the human antibodies directed against fibrinogen, with the use of bovine thrombus, that preclude further utilisation of the bovine fibrin glue during cardio-thoracic surgery. From 1999 to 2001, 19 patients, aged 69 (range 52-85) years presented with 21 femoral pseudo-aneurysms were treated. The mean pseudoaneurysm diameter was 30 (15-55) mm. All but two were secondary to cardiac procedures and the common femoral artery was the injured vessel in all instances. Patients were referred within 2-21 days following their iatrogenic injury. Immediate thrombosis of the sac occurred in 19 (90%) of the 21 pseudo-aneurysms. After a second injection, complete occlusion occurred in the remaining two patients. Two patients (CI 95%; 1-19) with three femoral pseudo-aneurysms developed leg pain. Duplex ultrasound follow-up showed two recurrences (9.5% - CI 95%; 1-19) and both were treated by repeat UGTI. There was no conversion to surgical repair. This percutaneous minimally invasive technique is safe and effective in the management of iatrogenic pseudo-aneurysms in this high-risk group of patients. Human thrombin has significant advantages over bovine thrombin.
- [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Vascular closure staples (VCS) provide a novel technique for fashioning vascular anastomoses, allowing a single operator to perform suture-less anastomoses. They may be used primarily or in an adjuvant role. When VCS are compared to a running suture, advantages include the avoidance of intimal damage, platelet aggregation and intimal hyperplasia at the anastomotic suture line, and a shorter time taken to complete the anastomosis. We report our early experience using VCS in an array of vascular anastomoses and conclude that VCS are a useful addition to the vascular surgeon's armamentarium. They help to decrease the time taken to construct an anastomosis, and are particularly useful in an adjuvant setting, complementing conventionally placed sutures.
Article: Endovascular approach to aneurysm repair protects patients from postoperative systemic immune inflammation
Article: Endoluminal Stent Grafts in the Management of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: a Realistic Assessment[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: transfemoral endoluminal aortic management (TEAM) is technically feasible in the treatment of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms but its advantage over conventional repair is unproved. We report our initial experience, learning curve and technical difficulties encountered during the process of establishing this novel technique in our institute. over a 3-year period 400 cases of abdominal aortic aneurysms were reviewed; only 58 cases (15%) were suitable for endovascular repair under our TEAM protocol and 36 (9%) were offered endovascular intervention. They were mainly high-risk patients (85% ASA III and IV) with a mean age of 72 years. Thirty-three bifurcated grafts, two straight tube grafts and one aorto mono-iliac graft were deployed. We oversized the graft by 15-20% to the diameter of the aortic neck and both common iliac arteries. two cases (6%-95% CI: 1-19%) had on-table conversion because of ruptured common iliac arteries. Peri-operatively there were two deaths from multi-organ failure. Transient renal failure occurred in two patients and three patients (9%) suffered a non-fatal myocardial infarction. Sixteen percent of patients had a groin wound problem. The mean hospital stay was 7 days. Five minor endoleaks (15%) were identified and sealed at 30 days. One secondary endoleak was identified at 18 months because of a patent juxta-renal lumbar artery. No secondary cuffs or extensions were used. Mean follow-up was 29 months and all grafts remained patent. The technical, clinical, continuous and secondary success rates were 78%, 91%, 89% and 91% respectively with TEAM. endovascular training, patient selection and learning curve impose an impact on the final outcome. Until a reliable hard point is reached so that endovascular repair could be exercised in routine practice, the use of TEAM must be questioned in high-risk patients, and should be performed under clinical trial conditions using strict selection criteria.
Article: Transfemoral endoluminal aortic management (TEAM) versus open surgical repair (OR) in-patients with infra-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) who are suitablefor both techniques. Technical and clinical outcome
- [Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: To report a combined endovascular and open technique to manage a suprarenal mycotic aortic aneurysm using a stent-graft partially covered with a section of autologous artery. A 50-year-old was hospitalized for staphylococcal septicemia and severe back pain. A previously diagnosed 3-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm was found to have expanded 2 cm in 3 weeks. Aortography documented some periaortic thickening and 2 mycotic aneurysms, one posterior at the level of the superior mesenteric artery and the second at the aortic bifurcation. After intensive antibiotic therapy, an endovascular approach to exclude the suprarenal mycotic aneurysm was undertaken in tandem with surgical excision of the infrarenal aneurysm. The harvested right common iliac artery was used to partially cover a Palmaz stent, which was deployed under direct vision just above the renal artery ostia so that the covered portion of the stent excluded the aneurysm. A right axillofemoral bypass with a femorofemoral bypass completed the revascularization. Postoperatively, the patient developed renal failure, ischemic colitis necessitating a left hemicolectomy, and paraplegia. Although the patient is paralyzed, the aneurysm remains excluded with patent visceral vessels at 12 months following surgery. No organisms were grown from excised aortic tissue, and no signs of recurrent infection have been seen. Stent-graft repair may be able to lessen the invasiveness and reduce the morbidity associated with treatment of mycotic aortic aneurysms.
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UPEI Panthers
The UPEI Panthers are going to the Atlantic University Sport men's basketball final for the first time in head coach Tim Kendrick's five-year tenure.
The Panthers started on fire on Saturday, jumping out to an 11-0 lead en route to an 87-66 victory over the Acadia Axemen in semifinal play at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax.
They will play the defending-champion Dalhousie Tigers Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in the final.
"It's wonderful," head coach Tim Kendrick said. "It's great for our kids. . . we're just proud of how hard they work. It's great for our program, it's great for our school and our fans.
"We're happy to be here but we have another step to take."
Dut Dut led a balanced Panthers attack on Saturday with 21 points and 19 rebounds.
Bradley States had 15 points while Amin Suleman and Lorenzo Parker each added 14 and Tyler Scott 12.
Ben Miller led the Axemen with 19 points while Erik Nissen had 13 and Kyle Arsenault added 11.
The Panthers held quarter leads of 27-6, 50-20 and 77-50.
The Axemen made a run by hitting a slew of three-point shots in the third to cut the lead to 15, but the Panthers withstood the push and had the lead back to 27 by the end of the quarter.
"We have a lot of respect for teams in our league," Kendrick said. "We took their best shot. . . We answered the bell."
States was being treated for a calf injury after the game, but Kendrick said he expected the forward to play Sunday.
The top-ranked Tigers defeated the Saint Mary's Huskies 75-74 in the other semifinal. Dalhousie swept UPEI this season, winning 79-78 in Charlottetown and 94-81 in Halifax.
"We're a little different team now," Kendrick said. "I promise you one thing we'll show up at 4:30."
Saturday's victory was Kendrick's 100th as a UPEI coach. It includes pre-season, regular season and playoff games.
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Scout 5-star recruit Tim Settle certainly has a lot on his plate. The 6'3", 325 pound defensive tackle has been on visit after visit with schools from across the country.
The Virginia-native has offers from schools like Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Clemson, and Texas, just to name a few.
In early May, the defensive tackle released this list on his Twitter and had everyone in the world of college football talking.
In order top 15 !!! pic.twitter.com/mHeNhjn3fe— Tim Settle (@tim_settle) May 8, 2014
The Southeastern Conference receives quite a bit of hype being known for its football talent, and the defensive tackle has three of them noted it the list above. When asked about the significance of playing in the SEC, Settle noted,"I think all the divisions are the same to me, you know, they are just different."
Just one month later after this tweet and Tennessee at the top, Settle released Clemson had now climbed to his no. 1 spot.
Clemson is my new #1— Tim Settle (@tim_settle) June 8, 2014
However, time tells all things. Take a good look at number eight on the 5-star's first list because it could very well be a front-runner in the race very soon.
#PSU #ONETEAM #WeAre #107K pic.twitter.com/VLfwDqhNkH— Tim Settle (@tim_settle) June 20, 2014
Recently, the class of 2015 prospect took his second visit to Penn State over the weekend and notes he talked a little with James Franklin and his staff.
Check out what Settle had to say about his recruiting process in our exclusive interview below.
During this time for prospects, there are many attributes to consider. One of those things, being uniforms. Universities all over the United States have introduced upgraded versions in several patterns and colors to their teams and spiked fan-bases with dazzling new attire.
I had the opportunity to ask the DT if uniforms played a part in the choosing process. They may not make or break his decision, but he did have some favorites, including Penn State.
"No," chuckled Settle, "but one's that I do like is Oklahoma State and Penn State. Oklahoma State, I just like their colors, Penn State, they're not too flashy, they're just basic."
Scout.com anaylist Michael Clark has noted Settle is a tremendous athelte with good instincts, and his best football is ahead of him.
The defensive tackle said he's looking forward to a great senior season, but that comes last to him announcing.
"That's what I try to tell people, all the offers may seem nice, but you only pick one school."
That one school remains highly anticipated for universities and fans around the country. However, there's no settling down just yet for this class of 2015 prospect.
Scout.com will keep you updated on Tim Settle and other prospects throughout the year.


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Marginalia and Annotations online
In literature, there are two key sorts of annotations: marginalia, or the notes jotted down in the margins by the reader, and additional information formally provided in expanded editions of a text, and you can find a bit of both online. Annotated Books Online is an on-line interactive archive of early modern annotated books, where researchers can share digitized documents and collaborate on translations. For insight into a single author's notes, Melville's Marginalia provides just that. For annotations with additional information, The Thoreau Reader provides context for Walden (linked previously), The Maine Woods, and other writings. Then there's the mostly annotated edition Ulysses, analysis of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, and the thoroughly annotated US constitution (twentieth amendment linked previously). More marginalia and annotations inside. [more inside]
Twelve Missives from the Roi des Belges
Perched high up above the Thames in downtown London every month this past year a different writer has spent four days living in a replica of the Roi des Belges, the boat Marlow travels up the Congo in Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness. Each author would write a short text during their stay "which explores London, rivers, the work of Joseph Conrad, or even all three." They would be visited on the last day by a journalist from The Guardian who recorded them reading their essay, poem or short story. Among the poets, historians and novelists were Adonis, Jeanette Winterson, Teju Cole, Michael Ondaatje and Kamila Shamsie. These recordings, each prefaced by a short interview, are all available on the Guardian website, to stream or download. Below the cut there is a link to each recording, with a short description. [more inside]
We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth
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Joseph Conrad reviewed
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary since the birth of Joseph Conrad [Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim etc], The Guardian's Giles Foden makes a fair attempt at assessing the great novelist's legacy. [via]
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Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - February 16, 1962, Abilene, Texas otter "WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT 3100 00 Ml I H 81ST YEAR, NO. 244 ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, SECTIONS Aisociatftl Press (ff) Western Pilots Use Red-Coveted Route MUCH MAIL Katliy Jo Wilson. 4, opens one of the more than 600 gifts, let- ters and get-well canls she has received since a picture of her was published over the country. The Crawlortlville, Iml., girl broke her right leg and doctors put both legs in traction. Katliy was taken out of traction this week and is now home but she will have to wear the cast for three more weeks. (AP Wirephoto) Typical Airman Found in Texas SAN ANTONIO, Tex. The typical man being trained to- day for Air Force service is a slender, young high school grad- uate who is a bachelor but is thinking seriously of marriage. Specifically, he's airman basic James E. Maynard. 19, flight IBS of 37C6II) Basic Military Train- ing Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base. Officials a! Military Training School Headquarters at Lack- land pinned the designation on Ihe Williamson. Va., youth after surveying hundreds of thou- sands of trainee records. The average Air Force Irainec. [he survey showed, is 10 years old, slands 5 feet B'.i inches tall, weighs H8 pounds, is a high school graduate, has no depend- ents, wears n size B'i shoe, has a 30-inch waisl and wears a 15- inch collar. Maynard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Maynard of son, matches every facet of trained as a mechanic when description. !nc completes bnsic training. Prince Sees King of Laos LUANG PRABANG. Laos (AP Souvanna Phouma had 90-minulc audience with King Sa vang Vathana today, lie to! newsmen afler emerging from th palace he gave n report on talks lie had in Geneva last month wit Prince Doun Oum and Print Souphanouvong. He added he will continue thes talks with Gen. Phoumi Nosava here in Luang Prabang. But Phoumi, strong man Boun Oum's royal governmen has nol given any indication h GLENN TO GO Tuesday Earliest Oribt Flight Date Kchitcd slory. Vg. 10-n CAPE CANAVERAL, Kla. (API, United Slates' effort to' rocket an astronaut aroundi thej The postpmiomenl w world ,s now off until next Tucs- by the Project .Mcrcurv Opera the of'tiojls Direr-tor W-iitcr' C Wil bad weather in the Atlantic re- liaim, ader 'anollier midnight covery areas. by his weather And Marine Lt. Col. John hail compiled tepoits from Glenn Jr. will still be Ihe astro-.weather planes and ships sia- naul despite the procession of tinned in Iho "splashdown" areas delays which mighl have cracked. The announcement said simply: the confidence of thc aver- "Weather conditions preclude 'a launch allcnipt this morning." age man. Glenn has shown no signs of :cnsion that might affect his per- formance and there is no basis "or considering his replacement, Dr. William Douglas, personal physician lo Ihe astronauts, said ,otI ay. "I'm as close to this man as 1 im lo my Douglas said, 'and I couldn't let my brother fly if I thought he would be in danger. If 1 detected anything wrong. 1 would take immediate action." Douglas reiterated that Glenn lias complete confidence in Ihe program, is an experienced test pilot and used to such delays. This was the 10th postponement since the flight was originally scheduled Dec. 20. The further delay was an- nounced at a.m. Eastern Standard Time today at a weather briefing by the National Aeronaulics and Space Adminis- tration. In addition, the NASA spokes-! 'nvaracion Lopez, 2fi Fighters May Patrol Airways BK.m.IN Informed sourc-l.was reported lo have made the es .said Western military from Hamburg, (backing up a protest to '-'nmmercial planes kept regular j flew lo isolated Berlin todav in I i above the alliUide the .Soviets set j corridor whose lower levels lliejfor lnc lower-level operations. Soviet Union wanted lo reserve There was no immediate [for its own planes, any incidL'iu. iwas bad. j The Western Big Three was re- 1 This time Ilip Hamburg-Bel scinti fishtpr Pa' cnrridor. norlhcnimosi of lliri-e thc corridors unless So- Mich links, was involved It runs uet biixzmg Allied mil- ncro.vs Communist lerrilor.v toi lUll'-v nllli cnihnn lr'lfflc' lhe area of thc'liril-i ,Tlw Sovicu accused nf beating nhoio-ish .-used of playing a "reckless and danger- jo'.is" game by Allied officials jby thc Sovic; harassment. U.S. officials in Washington ex- pressed fcai Ihat a dangerous situation could develop rapidly it tlje Soviets keep up their nir an- lics in lhe 20 mile-wide corridors (linking Wesi Berlin and West JGeimany The United Slates.. Britain and j France in sliff notes to Moscow Thursday charged the Soviets i with "aggressive and dangerous sheriff's olficc. and officials from fit into a pattern that pointed to behavior" and warned thc Allies Crusby County, where Lopez was thr- newcomer lo Ballingcr. Hc was; charge in connection with the se-i Martin Martinez. 21-year old'. "llcn 4th Man Charged After Ballinger liv CLYDE FOSTr.l! 5 The f iiu rt hilocatcd. vcre beating of an elderly malli is' ger .service .station operator last'ijou of SB.000 on charges of office Wednesday. week and the search for thc as- ccssory lo robbery. Deffido Cava-; Lopez was taken before :wcre determined to protect their ghts to dear air pa.-sagc to this tin miles inside Commu- territory. United Slates govern- lhc l.'.S. note by Hun-7.0.s. 2U is being" held m, "ai .n.siice Cone i.nlv "cccs'ilr-v insure c. -Sllmff charge of possession after bems returned lo'Ballinger.1 "f sual M'shtS Sheriff Atkins said Fred !lc wlls He waived an examining trial aircrafl) Ralhngcr. father of an-las a suspect in lhe assault hut has'and sol lhe bond al man in the investigation. ,M.C11 of any actuul parti InerU lesponsible for the conse- was charged Friday with aiding aljn tho as talm as t r. of any incidents which fuoitive lie Dealing ;charge was explained !o him occur." 1 Alk'i's sard Lopez was taken was told of his rights in Soviets five times in (lie sailanl was filed Friday nels Cuiintv zos. al, of olter of M. E. Boggess, who remains fast-disappearing chances of (ne ing a coalition government. Flying from his headquarters a CAP Wli JAMES MAYNARO fits lo a "I" The Air Force looked over Maynard, a 1961 graduate High School, is of Xieng Khouang, lhc neutralist leader was met by an imposing array of eight cluding the American and Soviet. Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, deputy premier of lhe Vientiane regime, was also at the airport. The king has designated Sou- will be checked all over again Si'avc condition in Ballinger with trie rounciy. in Atkins said that in his formal iheir air rights lo isolated Berlin, from top to bottom despite'thc'pital. jwhich SSOO was taken. The Ixipez lold of hilting.iejccled the Soviet requests and N'ol Likely In Live said the family has been kin, trainees al Lackland to find Williamson Maynard, who enlisted Jan. dark-haired, raddy- with tho understanding that he'll IcomplesioKcd yonlh whose hobby is wood-working. lie worked al a machine and electrical company in his home (own before enlisting. He is engaged to Miss Anna Mae N'npier of fact expected to lake him out of the "no dependents" category before Dutch Get Jap Apology TOKYO (AP) -Japan apoio- vanna to form a coalition govern- menl. previous exhaustive checks. Because certain electronic par in both lhe missile and causulojioid'chai there isYlniosi" had been activated for lest man will sun poses in Ihe previous checks. on thc hcall will have to be replaced to insure! peak performance. Further, there is a stror lihood thai llw attitude control system operated by hydrogen peroxide jets, will have to he re- too long. Maynard has no complaints gized loday to lhe Netherlands for a1'011' lhc rigorous basic training a riotous demonslralion which apparently has sian students staged against the his appetite. He has gained one pound per week, an- other area in which he matches Ihe average Air Force trainee. Dnlcl) Embassy in Tokyo Thurs- day. Shinsaku Hogen, director of the Foreign Office European and Af- rican Affairs Bureau, expressed deep rcgrel in a visit with Dutch Ambassador N.A..I. De Voogd at the Netherlands F.mbassy. Ytijiro Iscki of Ihe Foreign Office called in Ihu ncsian ambassador, Maj. Gen. It. Bambang Sugeng. and told him Ihe students' action was improiwr. Stock Market Opens Irregular NEW YOHK (AP) The slock so market opened irregular U. S. Sleel was off '.i, Chrysler General Motors off and up General Electric up 'i. Itadio Corp. was up as. American Tele- SugenR replied he would do his'phonc and Ford were unchanged, besl lo prevent such incidents iniStnndnrd Oil Jersey) eased sensing a move Us chop away at :had only about HO in his oi ,lle hemi theisairi each flighi would have to be sion at :hc tune of Ins he picked up in the sta- cleared indreidu.illy by the four- no chance, ;lion. The Ballin; i power air safely center in Berlin. iff said Ibiil while in: Despite lhe earlier Allied re- had informed sources said the 51 man will survive the two nc said inal while in' IA-J-PIH- me uarner amea ;s. on thc a f.ojiez lold officers he six-ill the Ballinger Upez had informed sources said t 'remainder of the robbery loot witll (hc (_-aVazos again asked exclusive it Lopez was arrested "I1cl ;l" moved to Ballmger (roriilloday of lhe Hamburg-Berlin c I1S nighl al Farmer about 35 miles'0'11' hc Wednesday inlHnhstoHii alxiut two years ago. Lo- nrior below 7.500 feet for Ihr northeast of I.ubbock, by Run- nels County Deputy Sheriff Eskell Lubbock. Atkins said the cor- Ihrce :pff a resident of Rohstown- hours cldor recently. Infoimntion on the Soviet air- U.S, Indusfriai Production Down WASHINGTON in- dustrial production declined slight- ly last month from the record lev- el of December. Figures issued Thursday by the government indicated Ihat the business recovery hesitated in anuary. Onlpiit of the nalion's u mills and utilities dropped slight-l Hearing Postponed On Preston's Suit Scheduled hearing on a motion1 lo dismiss a pending; 42nd District the horizon while on his flight. Glenn was once more awakened by Dr. William Douglas, and ad- vised of (he prolonged Thai wag at a.m. Douglas quoted Glenn. 40, asi u. s. or man. I'aer 2-lt) AMI VIUMIY Hull A tip that iicul cousins an insurance matter. plaj'ing in n siring hand in Ihej-------------------------- il.ubbock area led to his arre.-t. Powell said ho "excel- ileiu cfxipcralion" from !aw-cn- commenlingr guess it was be expected. We all knew weather was marginal." the future. ly. So did olher key indicators, such as personal income, retail sales, nonfiirm employment and the working hours of factory em- ployes. Automobile assemblies slipped 10 per cent from Ihe near-rccoixl rate of December. Output of final products and industrial ma- terials fell below thc December level. The Federal Reserve Board said the industrial production index went down one point lo 1H per I'.i anil Wcsiinghnuse dropped H.1 ce.nl of lhe 1057 average. Court case againsl thc Cily of Abilene was not held Friday. In the suit. Kobcrt Preston of Abilene is attempting to force re- payment of a legal fee lo local law firm authorized by a former cily commission, llcar- agencies in the1 l.tib- suspect. He had special praise for "'r' I Fletcher Slark, Crosby County Reiff's Condition Remains Critical A sheriff and members of Ihe Liib- n.olls provident still1 clo.-e In a Koya! Air Force plane cn.'-rying Sir Christopher Steel, 'Britain's ambassador in West Germany. The Western notes declared any attempt by Ihe Soviets to take over "exciuMVf! of flight lev- els for any period of time is en- unacceptable" Thc maneuvers were de- mri.-iir. 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Atkins said first twcamf'feri'il in various classes and the; the pres-j K. a in the case uhcn hits of I Baptist Smrient Union for th a'i fviticucc picfed together bcgnn lolidcnl's recovery. NEWS INDEX SECTION A. Obituaries............ 1 SporU 8-9 TV Report........... 10 Radio-TV logs......10 To Your Goad Health 10 Buiincti Outlook...... 10 Amusements........ 1 Bridge ......11 SECTION B Women's news 3 Editorials 4 Comics 5 Was Mexican War Black Page in U.S. History? By ASSOCIATKI) 1'KKSS Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's comment Ihat the U..S.- Mexican War of lfMG-18 was un- justified has tmiched off a war of Texan rebuttal the strongest. Tlits was a cninpalcn which won territory from the Rio Grande to the Pacific for thc United Stales. Mexico opposed U.S. annexation of Texas, which threw oft Mexican rule in IBM, and resisted when lhc U.S. sent troops into n disputed region he- twccn Iho Nuccca liivcr and the Hin Grande. The Mexican War was brought tip by a student al Jakarta, In- donesia, during Kennedy's visit, The wlttdcnt mentioned, lhe war in connection with the Dutch-In- donesian dispute over West New (In men. Said Kennedy: t would say thai as far as the war with Mexico, although there might be some from Texas who disagree, f would say we were unjustified. I don't think thai Ibis is a very brighl page in American history." Commented Gnv. Price Daniel of Texas: "1 cannot believe thai he (KennedyI intended lo leave the impression thai hc disap- proved of the heroic fight for freedom nnd liberty which was made by Tcxans in I83B lyeur of lhe Alamo and Texas independ- ence) and lhe subsequent annex- ation agreement and defense (hereof by the United Slates." Daniel noted Ihat eignl Mexi- cans died fighting on the Ameri- can side of (ho Alnmo. Former Maj. Gen. Kdwin A. Walker, a native Texan who quit lhe Army in a dispiilc over troop indoctrination, said of Kennedy's statemcnl: "Devastating and un- pardonable." David Donald, a history pro- fessor al Princeton, and a Pulit- zer Prize winner in mid-19lli ccn- lury American history, com- mented that 23 ycnrji ago most U.S. historians would have agreed with Kennedy, Ixit nol r.ow, The diary of President Polk, Donald added, has been discov- ered and there has been belter research into internal Mexican affairs. Donald said the war was "made almosl Inevitable" by American expansion and the fact that Mexicans wouldn't negotiate iotig-standinR differences such as claims by U.S, citizens vs, Mexico, and boundary disputes. Col. John Tiakclcss, who was on the general staff in World War II, aul who is a wrilcr and historian, noted that Gen. S. Grant also thought the war unjustified and said so in his memoirs. As for himself. Bakeless said: ''The Mcxicati War, whether jus- tified or nol, was more or less America was expand- ing. I think myself Ihe cruelly of thc Alamo justified almosl any- thing." In Ihe siege of lhe Alamo (San Antonio! the Mexicans wiped nut the entire gnrrison. Al Han Marino. Calif., hisloi ian Allan N'evins said he disagrees with Kennedy but says Ihe at- torney general's position is tena- ble. Continued Ncvins: "It's one o( those questions that will never lie settled. The general view of his- torians used to he thai it nhe war) was wrong. .More rcrcnlly, lunvever, historians have taken the opposite view." In his own opinion. Xevins said, "I think the war was justified." His principal grounds: "The re- fusal of Mexico lo negotiate. The Mexicans (nought they were go- ing to defeat the llniled State's. They had an army that on paper was fivc times larger than ours. The principal reason they refused lo negotiate was national pride." Ncvins noted thai historian .Ins- tin H. Smith lakes the view, in his Iwo-vnlume work, The War With Mexico" (published abnul M) years agol, thai Mexican prov- ocation and intransigence made it imrxissible lo avoid hostilities. Xcvins said the same view is taken by Kay Allen Killingum in his 1'jri "Westward Kxpanr-ion" in which hc emphasized thai President Polk truM very hard for a [H'aci'ablc scltli'menl. .N'evins added: "The attorney gcr.eral. of is quite en- titled to his view, which is the old Ihe traditional view in Massaclm- sells." .NVvins said the Mar was gen- erally opposed ill Massachusetts because it w.is regarded as a .Southern war aimed al acquirini: more territory in which Mould be practiced. Xevins said Abraham l.inc-uln also opiwst'd thc war. though it was supixirlcd in Illinois. N'cvins said Lincoln even introduced a resolution in I'orujrccs asking PrCMdcnl Polk lo say exactly where Mexicans infringed on L'.S. The resolution was dc- fc.iled. "The prciwr.dei ance of opinion now upholds the American Xmns concluded. Oanic'l. in additional com- ment, said: "1 am Bind that of- ficials and cilizcus of Mexico In- day arc among the ho.st friends thai Texas and the United Stales have. And that most of thorn nn- der-land thc true causes of liino past conflicts." As a ivMilt of the Mexican War, tin- I niti-d Stales got Inc dis- Texas land as well as wtut is iiiiw Arizona. New Mexico, Cal- ifornia. Xcvada, Utah, and a part of Coloradu. The U.S. nlso paid Mexico million for areas. I ;


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The Secret Battle: A tragedy of the First World War. A. P. Herbet
In The Secret Battle A. P. Herbert tells the story of an idealistic, young officer called Harry Penrose. First in Gallipoli, then in the trenches of France, he is tested and brought to breaking point as he battles to retain the ideals of military glory, duty and courage amidst the daily grinding miseries of the trenches. It lays bare the real horrors of the First World War without melodrama, or sensationalism. The author tells his tale not with indignant protest, but with a sad resignation making this a haunting and deeply moving book. Despite the glowing accolades it would later receive, when...
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Summary of Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Includes Analysis
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home.
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Handbook of Enemy Ammunition: German Ammo for Guns, etc., Italian Grenade, etc., Hungarian Mine: War Office Pamplet No. 81943 The War Office
These handbooks were issued to all field units in contact with the enemy in Europe and Africa, and were intended for use by all personnel to help them recognise enemy ammunition. Specialist personnel were then trained to handle and disarm/destroy the ammunition so found. Each pamphlet covers a number of items, and this issue covers German ammunition for guns and howitzers (7.5cm., 7.62cm Russian, 105cm., 15cm and 21 cm shell), the Tellermine and its fuses, the Italian SRCM handgrenade and hollow charge 75.27 shell, plus the Hungarian variable pressure mine. See also the other pamphlets in this...
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The Auckland Regiment2/Lieut. O. E. Burton
A good general history of a regiment raised in one of New Zealand's largest cities to take part in the Great War. The author - who won the Military Medal and the French Medaille D'Honneur for his military exploits, - has written a fluent and readable account. The three battalions of the Auckland Regiment trained in Egypt for the coming Gallipoli campaign in 1915. They assembled at Lemnos, took part in the landing and fighting at Cape Helles and Sari Bair, sustaining severe losses, and were then evacuated back to Egypt. They were first stationed at Armentieres, before seeing action on the Somme...
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9th Heavy Battery R.G.A.: 1914-19199th Heavy Battery R. G. A.
The battery was formed on 26th August 1914 as a 4-gun 4.7in battery. It went to France in May 1915 with the 9th (Scottish) Division which it left within a few days to join H.A.Reserve and went into action near Armentieres. Subsequently it joined 16th H.A.Brigade and in January 1917 it was re-equipped with 60 pdrs.. This account is based on the Battery Log but the record is not complete in detail prior to 27th May 1918 a great deal of the necessary information having been lost due to enemy action. Details that are there include the dates of movements with locations from arrival in France to the...
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Women Who SpiedA. A. Hoehling
From the Biblical days of Delilah to modern times there have been women who ventured at their peril as spies into the conflicts of armed men. Recounted in this fascinating history are dramatic incidents of feminine espionage in the United States and abroad from the time of the American Revolution to the present day. Learn about Lydia Darragh who alerted General Washington to the British plans for surprise attack on Valley Forge. Who was the agent in New York during World War II who used a doll repair shop to communicate with Japan? And who was the only woman in England to win the George Cross?
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Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it is an issue that remains relevant today with the needs of the 'War on Terror' used to justify the use of drone strikes. In Amongst the Dead Cities, A.C. Grayling explores these moral issues in all their complexity with a detailed examination of...
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Thirty riveting months in the life of a common infantryman, one among the "citizen soldiers" who took the Allies to victory
When drafted into the army in 1943, A. Cleveland Harrison was a reluctant eighteen-year-old Arkansas student sure that he would not make a good soldier. But inside thirty months he manfully bore arms and more. This book is his memoir about becoming a soldier, a common infantryman among the ranks of those who truly won the war.
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England's battlefields bear witness to dramatic turning-points in the country's history. At Hastings, Bosworth Field, Flodden and Naseby, the battles fought were to have an enormous effect on English life. This double volume, containing Burne's famous "Battlefields of England" and "More Battlefields of England" make it possible for readers to follow the course of 39 battles from AD 51 to 1685, as if they were on the battlefields themselves.
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Charles Repington was Britain's most influential military correspondent during the first two decades of the twentieth century. From 1914 to 1918, Repington's commentary in The Times, 'The War Day by Day', was read and discussed by opinion-shapers and decision-makers worldwide who sought to better understand the momentous events happening around them, and his subsequently published diaries offered a compelling portrait of England's governing class at war. This is the first major study of Repington's life and career from the Boer War to the end of the Great War. A. J. A. Morris presents unique...
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Now a national historic site, the fortified military settlement of Louisbourg was once a colonial jewel desired by both the French and English monarchies, traded with yet feared by the Anglo-Americans, and highly regarded by the Mi'kmaq. Home to Canada's first lighthouse, Louisbourg became the capital of ÃŽle-Royale (Cape Breton Island) in 1720, and was an economically viable fishery, military stronghold, and strategic naval base for centuries.
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The story of the dramatic transformation of Detroit from "motortown" to the "arsenal of democracy," featuring Edsel Ford, who rebelled against his pacifist father, Henry Ford, to build the industrial miracle Willow Run, a manufacturing complex capable of producing B-24 Liberator bombers at a rate of one per hour—a crucial component in winning the war.
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All too little remembered today, the Korean War was bitterly fought out under atrocious conditions of weather and terrain. Greatly outnumbered by their Communist Chinese and North Korean enemy, the United Nations forces fought with extraordinary resolve and gallantry. The Hook, the name given to a prominent ridge on the Peninsula, saw more blood spilt than any other feature in this prolonged and grisly war. Not surprisingly it became known as 'the bloody Hood'. The two costliest battles are described in detail in Fortune Favours The Brave, a classic account of the war. Both involved British...
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In this sequel to "An New Excalibur", which examined the development of the tank during World War I and after, Smithers examines the role played by tanks in World War II. At the beginning of the war only the Germans and the Russians had realized the full power of the tank. The British and the Americans were forced to try to catch up. One difficulty was fundamentally a matter of finding the right tool for the right job. In the last year of the war, the Germans relied on the immense King Tigers, which lacked speed and manoeuvrability; while the Allies were confined to Shermans, Cromwells and Churchills,...
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What's better – flash memory or hard drives?
Intel will tell us.
The chipmaking giant has conducted its own internal tests on how solid state drives, made up of flash memory, can be incorporated into a corporate computing environment. Intel makes flash drives, so there is clearly a vested interest here, but the tests were conducted by its own IT group.
The results? Hard drives fail around 5 percent of the time. Flash drives will fail around 0.5 percent of the time, according to Dave Buchholz, the IT technology evangelist at Intel who oversaw the tests. Batteries can also last longer in flash-based notebook and give notebook owners 15 percent better battery life.
Hard drives also run about 40 degrees hotter.
As a result, Intel is starting to get flash-based notebooks for its employees. Eighty percent of Intel employees work on laptops so this will become one of the earliest, largest experiments with flash notebooks. Flash may get incorporated into desktops and servers, but likely won't get used as primary storage vehicles. A lot of the desktops are owned by design engineers and they need the cumbersome space (1 terabyte or so) that standard hard drives can provide. Flash, though, may be used to store the operating system for faster boot-up.
As the flash notebooks proliferate through Intel, the world hopefully will get more data to see what sort of difference solid state storage can make.
Buchholz, by the way, will speak at the Flash Memory Summit in San Jose next week. (Disclosure: So will I.)


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New Social Democrat youth leader elected
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Published: 03 Aug 2005 17:18 GMT+02:00
As well as electing Sjödin, who comes from the right of the party, delegates at the conference chose left-leaning Mattias Vepsä to be secretary of the organisation.
Both Sjödin and Vepsä underlined the importance of SSU uniting to put scandals over financial irregularities and allegations of inflated membership figures behind them.
"SSU is in a difficult position right now, but it is time to move on," said Vepsä.
Sjödin said that she would seek to prioritise youth unemployment and feminism.


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Hamas tunnels central to war against Israel
JERUSALEM – A network of tunnels Palestinian militants have dug from Gaza to Israel is taking center stage in the latest war between Hamas and Israel.
Gaza's Hamas rulers view them as a military game changer in its conflict with Israel. The Israeli military says the tunnels pose a serious threat and that destroying the sophisticated underground network is a key objective of its invasion of Gaza.
Israel has known about the tunnels for several years, but has been hard-pressed to find an effective way to block them. Now it is counting on its ground war to at least reduce the threat.
"Israel knew there was a problem with the tunnels, but it didn't internalize their significance," said Shlomo Brom, a retired Israeli general. "At any given moment, Hamas could send dozens of militants through separate tunnels to attack communities in Israel."
Gaza has two sets of tunnels – those reaching Egypt and those reaching Israel.
The underground passages to Egypt are meant to bypass a border blockade on Gaza that was tightened by Israel and Egypt after Hamas seized the territory in 2007. The tunnels provide an economic lifeline and are used to deliver building supplies, fuel, consumer goods and even cattle and cars.
Egypt has destroyed virtually all of the tunnels over the past year, driving Hamas – which was taxing the smuggled imports – into a severe financial crisis.
Separately, Hamas significantly expanded its network of tunnels from Gaza to Israel after a major Israeli ground offensive that ended in January 2009.
Several senior Hamas officials have told the Associated Press that the expansion of those tunnels was part of a broader shift in military tactics after 2009, with input from the Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon, which has fought Israel repeatedly.
"There are thousands of resistance fighters working underground and thousands others working above the ground to prepare for the upcoming battle," Ismail Haniyeh, a top Hamas leader in Gaza, said earlier this year. "No one can imagine what the resistance is ready to do to confront the occupiers."
In addition to the tunnels, Hamas also boosted its arsenal of anti-tank rockets, which had proven effective in Hezbollah's battle with Israeli ground troops in Lebanon in 2006, the officials said.
Hamas also moved many of its rocket launching sites and storage sites underground, making it more difficult for Israel to target them. Since the current round of Israel-Hamas fighting began July 8, Gaza militants have fired more than 2,000 rockets at Israel and repeatedly tried to sneak into Israel through tunnels.
Such attempts have stoked new calls in Israel to destroy the tunnels, something that only can be done by ground forces. This helped rally widespread public support for the Israeli invasion of Gaza.


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Located in Baiyun, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Center, Guangzhou Gymnasium, and Guangzhou Wanda Plaza. Guangzhou New Stadium and Baiyun Mountain are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
A restaurant, a nightclub, and a coffee shop/café are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a business center, meeting rooms, and concierge services are onsite.
Room Amenities
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Qifu Hotel - GuangzhouNo.888 Qifu Road, Baiyun District Guangzhou Guangdong
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
- Total number of rooms - 120
- ATM/banking
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Free WiFi
- Meeting rooms
- Nightclub
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Room service
Where to Eat
Qifu Hotel - Guangzhou has a restaurant on site.
Room service is available.
Spa Services
- Massages
Hotel Policies
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Hotel Name
- Cheerful Business
- Cheerful Business Guangzhou
- Cheerful Business Hotel
- Cheerful Business Hotel Guangzhou
- Cheerful Hotel
- Qifu Hotel Guangzhou
- Qifu Hotel
- Qifu Guangzhou