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Canadian Corps Head Quarters and Scenes Near Bapaume, March 1918
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US delegates visit Canadian Corps headquarters, Western Front, March 1918. A visit by six American delegates of the Loyal Order of the Moose, one of them in uniform, to the headquarters of the Canadian Corps on 17 March 1918. They are met by (possibly) Prince Arthur of Connaught and watch a close order drill demonstration on a football pitch.
II. British troops in the rear areas near Bapaume during the Kaiserschlacht Offensive, Western Front, 22 and 23 March 1918. Between Péronne and Bapaume, Holt tractors pull a battery of 6-inch 26cwt howitzers down the road, followed by supply lorries. Horses of the Royal Field Artillery and two battalions of Infantry also come down the road. There is much dust. A group of soldiers rest on board a lorry. One sleeps on the trail of a 18-pounder field gun. A battery, probably of 6-inch howitzers, waits in column, and the opportunity is taken to issue hay to the horses. The second subject gives a very good visual impression of rear areas during a Western Front battle.
Pieces of History
Military Logistics of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919
Michel Litalien
Canadian military logistics is a dimension of the history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) that is often overlooked. Yet just a few days after Canada's entry into the First World War, it was obvious that there was no way of ignoring it. When huge numbers of military and civilian volunteers showed up at Valcartier, near Quebec City, in August 1914, logistical support services, which had only recently been established, were soon put to the test. Clothing and equipping the members of the first contingent turned out to be a real headache. Manufacturers had to be found and contracts drawn up in a hurry for the production of uniforms, boots, belts, weapons, vehicles and so on. From a logistical standpoint, mobilizing the first contingent destined for Europe was a nightmare.
Throughout the Great War, the Canadian Expeditionary Force's logistical support system was an immense, complex operation. Of all the support services, the Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC) was the most diversified. Its main responsibilities were transporting combat troops, delivering equipment and materials, and providing the troops with fresh supplies. In addition to these essential tasks, the CASC also evacuated the wounded (ambulance drivers belonged to the corps), salvaged equipment that had been captured from the enemy or left behind on the battlefield and delivered mail. The CASC worked closely with the Canadian Ordnance Corps, the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the Canadian Artillery Corps for the transportation of specialized ordnance.
The CASC operated from seaports located hundreds of kilometres from the battlefield, all the way to just behind the front lines. Its replenishment system could supply not only small groups of just a few men but also formations the size of an infantry battalion (approximately 1,000 men).
Resupplying front-line units was a multistep process. From ports and depots, supplies were first taken by railway to railheads. From there, CASC units were responsible for moving the supplies by truck or light railway to supply dumps. These operations took place in the third line of supply. Thanks to their small size, light railways could run and reach areas closer to the front lines more easily. It was also harder for enemy artillery to pinpoint them. The administrative area behind the front lines was crisscrossed by light rail lines that were built and maintained by Canadian railway troops.
From the supply dumps, the CASC's divisional train and ammunition supply column, both of which were horse-drawn, were responsible for bringing supplies closer to the front lines, to their respective divisions or individual units. This was the second line of supply.
Lastly, operations to supply front-line units constituted the first line of supply. These units had to come back to the rear to get their own supplies of gear, ammunition, weapons, technical and communications equipment, water, medication and food. These supply expeditions were carried out chiefly at night so that the soldiers could not be seen by the enemy. But assigning combat troops to this task meant that a battalion's defensive positions at the front would be short of manpower for a time and so vulnerable to enemy attack.
Toward the end of the war, however, a Canadian officer from Montreal proposed using the tumpline system — the method that Canada's aboriginal people and coureurs de bois had used to carry large loads on foot. Before the introduction of this system, infantryman had to carry supplies in their arms, thus limiting the quantity of materials due to their size and weight. The tumpline system, which involved the use of a head strap, allowed the soldiers to carry more weight and freed up their arms, thus giving them more freedom of movement. With this system, each soldier was able to transport a greater quantity of supplies and so fewer men were required for the job, leaving more troops to ensure the defence of the front lines.
Besides regularly providing drivers and vehicles to other units, the CASC also maintained and repaired its vehicles. It also had to make sure that the troops were fed, which meant that fresh and hard rations had to be allocated and distributed properly; its military cooks oversaw the operation of field bakeries and butcheries.
The CASC was not the only logistical support corps to play a key role in the CEF. The Canadian Ordnance Corps was responsible for procuring, storing and distributing uniforms, boots, equipment, weapons, ammunition and shells to combat troops. Specialized supply depots, located in the second line of supply, helped ensure more effective distribution.
The Canadian Ordnance Corps' other major role was to maintain equipment in the field. The repairmen in the specialized ordnance mobile workshops could get closer to the deployed units and repair their weapons, both light and heavy, as well as their equipment. If the mobile workshops were not able to do the repairs on site, the weapons and equipment were shipped to heavy or stationary workshops at the rear, where virtually anything could be reassembled or rebuilt. The small detachments of the Ordnance Corps worked closely with the various units of the Army Service Corps.
Despite the gradual mechanization of the war, horses remained a vital component of the CEF. The cavalry, the artillery and, of course, the Army Service Corps used huge numbers of horses right up to the end of the war. At one point, Canadians were using as many as 24,000 horses and mules in their overseas operations. Horses could often manage in places where motorized vehicles could make no headway! Inevitably, some horses suffered injuries or fell ill. The Canadian Veterinary Corps operated mobile sections to take care of horses; it also ran veterinary hospitals for horses, advanced remount depots and specialized basic provisions depots.
Other logistical support services also played a crucial role in enabling combat troops to get on with their job. The Canadian Postal Corps, for instance, helped maintain the morale of soldiers at the front, at the rear and also those convalescing in hospitals. Army chaplains, who constituted the smallest organized support group, provided religious services to Canadian soldiers of different faiths and offered moral support at difficult times. Lastly, despite the enemy's efforts to maintain a naval blockade by submarines, the Canadian Forestry Corps ensured that Great Britain, France and the Canadian Expeditionary Force obtained all the timber they needed to carry out their military operations.
Thousands of men served in these various organizations. The Army Service Corps, for example, counted over 17,000 officers and non-commissioned soldiers in its organization. Even if these units were not combat troops, many of them, including the Army Service Corps, played important roles in all military actions. One hundred and four members of the CASC were killed, and 363 were wounded.
Selected Bibliography
Brown, Ian Malcolm. British Logistics on the Western Front, 1914-1919. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1998.
Canadian Army Service Corps, 2nd Divisional Train: Record of Service of Officers, 1914-1919. Brian Pontifex, comp. Toronto: Carswell, 1920.
Davies, W.J.K. Light Railways of the First World War: A History of Tactical Rail Communications on the British Fronts, 1914-18. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1967.
French, Cecil. A History of the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps in the Great World War, 1914-1919. C.A.V. Barker and Ian K. Barker, eds. Guelph: Crest Books, 1999.
Jackson, H.M. The 127th Battalion, CEF; 2nd Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops. Montreal: Industrial Shops for the Deaf, 1957?.
Johnston, James Robert. Riding into War: The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions and The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, 2004.
Love, David W. "A Call to Arms": The Organization and Administration of Canada's Military in World War One. Calgary: Bunker To Bunker Books, 1999.
Phelan, Frederick Ross. "Army Supplies in the Forward Area and the Tumpline System: A First World War Canadian Logistical Innovation." Canadian Military History 9, no 1 (Winter 2000): 31-45 [reprinted from the article published in the Canadian Defence Quarterly in October 1928].
To the Thunderer his Arms: The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. William F. Rannie, ed. Lincoln, ON: W.F. Rannie, 1984.
Warren, Arnold. Wait for the Waggon: The Story of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961.
Battlefield Communications
Bill Rawling
Historian, Department of National Defence
Battlefield communications were a mix of old and new. The Western Front benefited from the most technologically advanced artillery, where the guns could call on wireless-equipped aircraft to correct fall of shot. The communications technology available to the infantry was far less advanced, however; in late 1914 and early 1915, the Canadians in England who would be responsible for sending and receiving messages from the front were trained on flag drill and lamps.
The Telephone
The telephone, the most convenient means of communication then available, was the responsibility of brigade and division signallers, who, although farther back from the front line, faced an almost impossible task. When laid on the ground, wire was easily destroyed by shelling, and the Germans did not lack for artillery. Stringing it up on poles increased its endurance only slightly, so the only recourse left to signallers was to bury it. Finding labour for such a task when infantry units, who normally provided work parties, were busy digging their own trenches and dugouts was not easy, and a wire shortage made matters worse.
By July 1916, cable laying was somewhat faster, but only because an entire battalion worked on the project at any given time, and soldiers digging trenches for telephone lines were subjected to shelling and machine gun fire as they worked through the night. Wireless telegraphy, which as its name implies did away with wire, was in the early years of the war available only in small numbers, reflecting limited manufacturing resources. Heavy reliance on the telephone, then, could not be avoided, though something had to be done about wires and cables that were continually being cut by artillery and the movements of one's own vehicles. A possible solution was soon forthcoming—laddering—a technique of laying parallel cables about 60 yards apart connected by lateral lines. To shut down communications, artillery would have to cut both main cables between cross-pieces.
Reliance on runners
Still, keeping in touch with the troops who were fighting their way into enemy trenches was an almost insoluble problem. After an attack on November 17, 1916, the 5th Brigade reported that its battalions had kept in touch with the front line with visual signals, but such ease of communication was uncommon, and even the formation in question mentioned that it also relied on runners. Forward of battalion headquarters the most common means of sending information was to have men hand-carry messages through shelling and, occasionally, machine gun fire. After two months of fighting on the Somme in the fall of 1916, commanders simply assumed that runners would be the only way to get messages across no man's land and planned accordingly.
Contact patrols
An added possibility was contact patrols—aircraft that were supposed to advise commanders of what they could see by dropping messages or using wireless telegraphy, but the system was still experimental in 1916. The 78th Battalion suggested that, for troops in an advance, "Communication to contact airplanes is best maintained by flares," but such techniques required perfect timing to ensure the signals were lit while the aircraft was in position to see them. Such synchronization was difficult to achieve when men were fighting for their lives.
Rather than solve the problem of communications on the battlefield, each new development was simply added to existing methods. At Vimy Ridge in April 1917, the Canadian Corps sought to maintain communications by exploiting every means available: runners, flags, pigeons and telephones. A little later, on August 15, the Canadian Corps assaulted and captured Hill 70, and here wireless played an important role, as the Canadians relied on their gunners to break up the inevitable German counterattacks. Signallers could send back quick corrections to an artillery exchange, which then passed on the information to the guns by telephone.
Until the end of the war, forward of brigade headquarters (which kept in touch with its flanks and higher formations with telephone or wireless), the most common and effective means of communication remained the runner, who carried written messages through enemy and friendly fire to keep commanders appraised of the situation so they could allocate reserves or artillery support accordingly.
Near the end of the war
In 1918, the war entered a more mobile phase. Headquarters had to move often in spite of their heavy reliance on the telephone, pushing signallers almost to the breaking point to keep messages moving. The tendency to multiply methods of communication, as at Vimy Ridge, continued. Telephones, visual signalling, pigeons, message-carrying rockets, wireless, runners and contact patrols were all available in the final battles of the war.
In the Canadian Corps' last set-piece attack at Valenciennes on November 1 and 2, there was no time to lay cable, and all messages from brigade to higher headquarters were sent through wireless stations. Communications between aircraft and troops on the ground, however, had not improved. Infantry devised a new system for signalling contact patrols: troops waved a white cloth with a metal disk sewn on the inside flap of the gas mask when they were called; and though the Royal Air Force found the devices very useful in determining the infantry's position, air-ground communications in the last Hundred Days were essentially the same as those of 1917, and remained so until the Armistice was declared on November11.
The First World War did see the development of aircraft, submarines and tanks as weapons of warfare, tactics underwent drastic changes as fire and movement replaced wave attacks, and scientific gunnery proved ever more capable of supporting infantry battalions as they struggled to survive in one of the most hostile environments our species has yet devised. However, in the realm of communications, the revolutionary developments of previous decades—especially the telephone and wireless telegraph—were only partially applied to the information problems of the modern battlefield. In fact, the runner remained an important link between the front line and headquarters until the very last days of the conflict.
Selected Bibliography
Moir, John S., ed. History of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, 1903-1961. Ottawa: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, Corps Committee, 1962.
Rawling, Bill. Surviving Trench Warfare : Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Overseas Training in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Andrew Iarocci
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
the sole object of training is to prepare our forces for war, success in battle being constantly held as the ultimate aim... It is the function of training to develop the mental, moral, and physical qualities as highly as possible in each individual, and also to inculcate by theory and practice the methods of employing the various arms in co-operation to the best advantage...1
As this passage demonstrates, military instruction consisted of two fundamental aspects: training of the individual soldier and training of formations. When new recruits joined the service, they first needed to learn the basic skills of soldiering—marching, drill and marksmanship. Once these were mastered, the soldier would continue to train for his specialized trade, whether it be infantry, artillery, engineering, signals, medical or supply. Then the individual would join a formation based on his trade, and training continued at the unit level on a regular basis. The ultimate objective was for each component of the army to function cooperatively as part of the whole; this was achieved through exercises at the battalion, brigade and divisional levels.
The first overseas contingent of Canadian troops was formed at Valcartier, Quebec, during August-September 1914. Much of the time at Valcartier was occupied with administrative details, and limited training was accomplished before the contingent—soon to be known as 1st Canadian Division—embarked for England in October. Upon arrival, the division was posted to Salisbury Plain, a large British training area, where it remained until February 1915.
The weather that winter was especially wet, and until recently, scholars have agreed that relatively little training was completed before the division moved to France. Recent research suggests, however, that despite inclement weather and other distractions, most elements of the division engaged in productive training on Salisbury Plain. The infantry learned to manoeuvre in conjunction with artillery and machine guns. Other divisional elements, such as engineers, artillery and signals, as well as mounted and transport troops carried out their own specialized programs. The engineers, for example, learned how to construct field fortifications, while the artillery brigades rehearsed their gun drills. The divisional transport and ammunition columns, meanwhile, discovered the intricacies of moving supplies around the battle zone.
The training of 1st Division did not cease after it crossed the English Channel in February 1915. Upon arrival at the front lines near the Franco-Belgian border, the Canadians were matched up with experienced British troops for orientation tours. The evidence suggests that this formative experience was overwhelmingly positive. As one soldier later recalled, "nothing could surpass the patience of" his British teachers "or their brotherly kindness to us as comrades in arms."2 The Canadians also learned about the costs of war, as they suffered their first casualties and witnessed the damage inflicted on the landscape.
In the summer of 1915, the 2nd Canadian Division arrived in England and began to train at Shorncliffe Camp. The open ground was ideal for company and battalion manoeuvres, and much of the instruction revolved around the challenges of trench warfare. Some of the officers attended British courses, while others went to France for short combat tours with 1st Division.3 With the expansion of the Canadian Corps to four divisions during 1915-16, additional training space was required for the new arrivals in England. A camp was opened at Bramshott in late 1915, and additional camps were added in 1916, including Crowborough, Hastings, New Shoreham, Seaford and Witley.4
As the war progressed, a broad selection of specialized schools was established—both in England and in France—covering everything from hand grenade training to field sanitation. Instructional programs were gradually standardized, while the British Army Printing and Stationery Depot produced a vast selection of training literature on every conceivable subject.
New technology appeared on the battlefield throughout the war and was reflected in training programs. In April 1915, for example, the German Army introduced chemical weapons to the Western Front. All soldiers were issued with respirators for the duration of the conflict and gas drill became an important component of basic training. Later in 1915, the .303 calibre Lewis gun, a portable automatic rifle, was issued to British and Dominion forces. Here again was a new piece of equipment to be mastered. In common with other types of military training, the correct procedure was subdivided into a simple series of component tasks.
Not all military instruction revolved around weapons systems and tactics. Sport and physical exercise were also important; peak fitness was vital if soldiers were to function under the strain of battle. As the British Army Manual of Physical Training explained:
a soldier should be well disciplined, a good marcher, intelligent, smart, active and quick, able to surmount obstacles in the field and capable of withstanding all the strains and hardships of active service...5
Fitness was achieved through physical drills, "Swedish" exercises and regular sporting events. Organized games and competitions not only fostered physical fitness, but also improved morale and encouraged teamwork. During the summer months, battalions, brigades and divisions organized their own sporting events in rear areas. After the war a veteran fondly recalled a sports day from the summer of 1918:
Who lives that does not remember the day of brigade sports at Izel-les-Hameaux? There were races and jumps and hurdles, something for everyone, a ring to box and wrestle in, baseball and football championships. The day was fine... everybody was there. It was a gay scene, the boys of four battalions and the airmen who joined us for the fun, all rollicking together...6
By late 1916 the Canadian Corps was a veteran formation, and had suffered heavy casualties in a series of costly battles, including Second Ypres, Festubert, St. Eloi Craters, Mount Sorrel and the Somme. In addition to formal training routines, this practical and bloody battle experience shaped the capabilities of the Corps. At the same time, the high casualty rates meant that large numbers of new recruits were constantly arriving in France and Belgium. Some Canadian commanders were dissatisfied with the level of basic training displayed by these reinforcements, and decided to establish their own courses at the battalion, brigade or divisional levels. These short refresher courses helped to ensure that new arrivals were familiar with the basics of soldiering before being thrust into the unforgiving front lines.
Training was an ongoing process throughout the First World War, as Canadian units were created, consumed in combat, reformed, and once again committed to battle. Under the challenging tactical and operational circumstances of 1914-18, nothing could have prevented high casualties, but effective training improved the chances that soldiers would succeed on the battlefield.
1Training and Manoeuvre Regulations, 1913. London: General Staff, War Office, 1913, p. 10-11.
2George Drillie Scott Fonds, LAC, MG 30, E 28.
3G.W.L. Nicholson. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1962, p. 113.
4David W. Love. "A Call to Arms": The Organization and Administration of Canada's Military in World War One. Winnipeg: Bunker to Bunker Books, 1999, p. 91.
5Manual of Physical Training, 1908. Rev. ed. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914, p. 7-8.
6James H. Pedley. Only This: A War Retrospect, 1917-1918. Ottawa: CEF Books, 1999, p. 175-176.
Canada's Mounted Troops
Major Michael R. McNorgan
Instructor, Royal Military College, Kingston
At the beginning of the First World War, horsed cavalry was still an army's principal mobile arm. However, after the onset of static trench warfare on the Western Front in late 1914 – with thick barbed wire barriers and large numbers of machine guns protecting defensive works – the battlefield utility of cavalry was greatly diminished. Cavalry was nonetheless retained in large numbers because of the perennial hope of breaking through the enemy's line and rolling up his defences from the rear. Thus, for virtually every major offensive operation during the war, cavalry divisions were kept in reserve.
Canada contributed two distinct groups of cavalry during the War – the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and an independent cavalry regiment known as the Canadian Light Horse.
Canadian Cavalry Brigade
This Canadian Cavalry Brigade was formed in England in the autumn of 1915, consisting of permanent force units, the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Lord Strathcona's Horse, along with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. In early 1916, The Fort Garry Horse, a militia regiment from Winnipeg, was added, along with a Cavalry Brigade Machine Gun Squadron equipped with Vickers machine guns. The Canadian Cavalry Brigade served as part of a British cavalry division for the remainder of the war. Its first mounted action was at the Somme in the summer of 1916. When cavalry units were not needed as reserves for an offensive operation, they were often employed dismounted to occupy quiet sectors of the front.
The Brigade again saw mounted action in March 1917 when tasked to pursue an unexpected German withdrawal to a new defensive position called the Hindenburg Line. During this pursuit, Lieutenant Harvey of Lord Strathcona's Horse earned the brigade's first Victoria Cross for valour during the liberation of a French village. By the time of the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 – best known as the first major tank offensive of the war – the Canadian cavalry was judged to be among the best brigades in the British Cavalry Corps, and it was tasked to serve in the lead of a large cavalry exploitation force. During this operation, a single Canadian squadron was the only cavalry to penetrate German lines, and Lieutenant Strachan of The Fort Garry Horse was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.
The Brigade served with great distinction during the German's March 1918 offensive toward Amiens, riding from place to place assisting in slowing the relentless enemy advance. Its final action in this operation took place at Moreuil Wood, where Lieutenant Flowerdew of Lord Strathcona's Horse won a posthumous Victoria Cross for leading a gallant cavalry charge against German machine guns. After the war, Marshal Foch, the Allied supreme commander, credited the Canadians with halting the German offensive at Moreuil and preventing the separation of the French and British armies. Later in that final year of the war, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade was in action during the great Canadian Corps victory over the Germans at Amiens in August, and it played an important part in following up the German retreat in the last two months of the war.
Canadian Light Horse
Until May 1916, three of the four infantry divisions of the Canadian Corps maintained their own independent cavalry squadron of some 150 all ranks . These squadrons – from the 19th Alberta Dragoons, the 1st Hussars and the 16th Light Horse – were then amalgamated into an ad hoc regiment that reported directly to Canadian Corps Headquarters. In early 1917, this unit was named the Canadian Light Horse.
The Canadian Light Horse first saw action as a mounted unit in the consolidation of the ground captured in the attack on Vimy Ridge in April 1917. The CLH played a major role in the fighting at Iwuy on October 10, 1918, where the last ever swords-drawn charge by Canadian cavalry took place. During the pursuit of the Germans in the final month of the war, CLH squadrons were always well out in front as a scouting force, ensuring that the Canadian divisions would not be surprised by German lay-back patrols. When the war ended for the Canadians in Mons Belgium on November 11, 1918, the Canadian Light Horse was already well beyond the city.
Modern armoured fighting vehicles – tanks and armoured cars – owe their development in part to the stalemate created on the Western Front by the deadly combination of machine guns and thick belts of barbed wire protecting trench lines, along with massive artillery bombardments that could be brought down with great accuracy on an attacking force. The problem of how an attacking force could be strengthened to overcome well-defended trenches had been studied by British scientists since late 1914. They came up with the idea of a 'land ship' – a tracked vehicle protected by armour plate, large enough that it could carry guns or machine guns, drive over belts of barbed wire, and crossover trenches. This highly secret vehicle was given the code name 'tank'.
Tanks were first introduced in limited numbers during the battle of the Somme in mid-September 1916, and the Canadian Corps was given seven (these models were called the Mark I) for its attack on the village of Courcellette. But these early versions were mechanical nightmares; almost all broke down before they got anywhere close to the German lines. Still, scientists kept improving their tank designs. Finally, in November 1917, tanks were used in large numbers in a successful offensive at Cambrai: the era of mechanized warfare had been born. Tanks then played major roles in the Battle of Amiens in August 1918, in the breaking of the Hindenburg Line in September, and in the pursuit of the retreating Germans in October and November 1918.
Early in 1918 many thought the war might well last into 1919, and the Canadian Army agreed to raise tank units. The 1st Canadian Tank Battalion was recruited from university students, and in June 1918 it was sent to England to begin training at the British Tank School. Despite the general aversion to volunteering at this stage in the war, a 2nd Battalion was also quickly raised. The 1st Tank Battalion had just completed its training and was preparing to leave for the front when the Armistice was declared on November 11, 1918. Thus, while no Canadian tank unit saw action in the war, many Canadians did serve in British tank battalions, and in a number of instances displayed their nationalism by painting maple leafs prominently on their vehicles.
In 1914, Canada created the world's first armoured unit. The driving force behind this achievement was Raymond Brutinel, a wealthy engineer originally from France, who had the idea that lightly armoured vehicles designed to carry machine guns would be especially useful. He offered to raise the funds for the vehicles, a suggestion which was readily accepted by the government. Brutinel designed the vehicles, had them built, purchased the machine guns, and recruited the soldiers, all within two months. His new unit was given the name 'Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1'. In the next few months three other mobile machine gun units were raised, all paid for by private subscription – the Eaton Battery, the Borden Battery and the Yukon Battery. All four units found their way to France where, in 1915, they were amalgamated under Brutinel's command as the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade.
Brutinel's Motors came into their own in the last year of the war, when the stalemate of trench warfare had been broken. This highly mobile force played an especially important role in stemming the onslaught of the Germans' March 1918 offensive, and a second similar brigade was formed. The Motors were a valuable part of a composite formation of cavalry, armoured cars and cyclists, termed 'The Independent Force', during the Battle of Amiens in August 1918. Between September and November this force led the Canadian Corps from one victory to another during the pursuit to Valenciennes and finally to Mons on November 11, when the war ended.
At the beginning of the war, each Canadian division had its own company of cyclists – troops equipped with sturdy bicycles whose tasks included field security and aspects of military intelligence. In the static conditions on the Western Front, they were not very useful, so they tended to be used as guards or labourers. In May 1916 the four companies were amalgamated as The Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion. In 1918, the battalion was included in Brigadier-General Brutinel's 'Independent Force', and there they served valiantly at Amiens and in the Pursuit to Mons as a form of mounted infantry – riding to the scene of action, dismounting and then fighting as infantry.
Selected Bibliography
Ellis, W.D., ed. Saga of the Cyclists in the Great War 1914-1918. Toronto: Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion Association, 1965.
Lynch, Alex. Dad, the Motors and the Fifth Army Show: The German Offensive, March 1918. Kingston, ON: Lawrence Publications, 1978.
---. The Glory of Their Times : 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, March 1918. Kingston, ON: Lawrence Publications, 2001.
Marteinson, John and Michael R. McNorgan. The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000.
Mitchell, G.D., Brian Reid and W. Simcock. RCHA - Right of the Line : An Anecdotal History of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery from 1871. Ottawa: RCHA History Committee, 1986.
Wallace, J.F. Dragons of Steel: Canadian Armour in Two World Wars. Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing, 1995.
Williams, S.H. Stand to Your Horses : Through the First World War, 1914-1918 with the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians). Winnipeg: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) Regimental Society, 1999 (1961).
Other Materials
After Amiens
In the meantime Allied plans on the Western Front were undergoing revision. As early as the evening of August 11, as German resistance stiffened, Marshal Foch had shown himself willing to modify objectives and consider alternatives to further offensive operations on the Amiens front. At that time large-scale operations were due to be resumed on the 15th. But on the 13th General Debeney asked for and received a day's postponement of the assault by his army; and next morning General Rawlinson was given the same extra time in which to complete his preparations. Sir Douglas Haig has revealed in his diary that he shared Rawlinson's misgivings about attacking the well-prepared Roye-Chaulnes defences and that he was resolved that the French First and British Fourth Armies should merely "keep up pressure on that front" in order to hold the enemy's attention, while he prepared to strike elsewhere with the British First and Third
There is no doubt that Rawlinson was considerably influenced by representations made to him by General Currie, upon whose forces the burden of a major share of a renewed offensive must fall. At a meeting on the morning of August 14 the Army Commander showed Haig a letter (accompanied by air photographs taken the previous day of the German positions) in which Currie set forth the arguments against renewing an operation which would "cost a great many casualties" without obtaining adequate results. He suggested that if the attack were found to be absolutely necessary it should be postponed in order to allow time to "recover the element of surprise." He recommended that an alternative, and better, course would be to withdraw the Canadian Corps from the line, and after resting it for a few days employ it on the Arras front in a surprise attack in the direction of Bapaume. An advance in this sector coupled with an attack by the French from their present line, might well force the enemy to abandon his positions west of the Somme without the necessity of a frontal assault.
This last suggestion was in keeping with Haig's own ideas. An exchange of letters with Foch on the 14th brought no agreement about postponing operations at the Somme, and that evening a telegram from the Generalissimo asked Haig "once more to maintain the date already set." The Field Marshal, however, had made up his mind to limit the Somme attack to a series of set stages, and on the afternoon of the 15th he pressed his arguments at Foch's advanced headquarters at Sarcus (twenty miles south-west of Amiens). "I spoke to Foch quite straightly", his diary records, "and let him know that I was responsible to my Government and fellow citizens for the handling of the British forces." Foch's resistance had already been weakened when he learned from General Debeney that morning that the projected attack on Roye "would certainly be difficult", and even if mounted would leave the French forces too weak to maintain it. "I definitely came around to the opinion of Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig", he wrote in his Memoirs, and he agreed that the Amiens offensive should not be pressed.
A new operation order issued by British G.H.Q. directed the Third Army, which was holding a nineteen-mile front north of Albert, without delay to "press the enemy back energetically in the direction of Bapaume"; the Fourth Army while continuing its preparations for an attack would be prepared to follow up any German withdrawal towards the Somme. Farther north the First Army would take advantage of any German retirement to exert pressure south-eastward from the Arras sector; under favourable conditions, it would attack Monchy-le-Preux and Orange Hill.
In a letter confirming his acceptance of Haig's proposals Marshal Foch made it clear that he was depending on the British operations to be developed with sufficient impetus to ensure a resumption of the thrust south of the Somme. He went on to thank Sir Douglas for his cooperation, which had completely freed the Amiens area and the Paris-Amiens railway. For an offensive north of the Aisne he was now going to transfer the French First Army from Haig's command back to Pétain's group of armies. Accordingly the Franco-British boundary was shifted northward to the Amiens-Chaulnes railway, and the relief of the Canadian Corps by French troops began on 19 August.
On the night of August 19-20 the 2nd Canadian Division began moving northward by bus and train to rejoin the First Army in the Arras sector, followed the next night by the 3rd Division. A number of days were to elapse before the 1st and 4th Divisions made the move. General Currie closed his Headquarters at Dury on the 22nd. During the day he called on a number of senior commanders and had the satisfaction of being told by General Byng that the Canadian performance at Amiens was "the finest operation of the war".
Adapted and used with permission from Nicholson, G. W. L., Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964, p.396-398.
The Expanding Allied Offensive
The first move in the Allied scheme to extend the stalled Amiens offensive on both wings was made on the southern flank on August 20 1918, when the French Tenth Army of General Mangin struck northward from the Aisne between Compičgne and Soissons with twelve divisions. An advance of nearly five miles in two days carried the assault to the river Oise between Noyon and Chauny. On the 21st the French Third Army (General Humbert) on Mangin's left resumed operations with some success, while on the same day north of Albert the British Third Army initiated Sir Douglas Haig's share in the renewed offensive. General Byng's forces struck a telling blow on the 23rd, when a two-mile advance towards Bapaume netted 5000 prisoners from General Otto von Below's badly shaken Seventeenth Army. This achievement was matched on Haig's right flank, where the Fourth Army had taken up the battle astride the Somme and the 1st Australian Division had shattered two German divisions on the southern bank. The next two days saw some slight progress on both the Third and Fourth Armies' fronts, and on August 26 an expansion of the battle into the First Army's sector brought the Canadian Corps once more into action.
The period of rest and refitting that would normally follow participation in such extensive operations as the Amiens battle was denied the Canadians; for in these last hundred days of the war each major offensive so rapidly succeeded its predecessor that unprecedented demands had to be made on the stamina of the forces employed. Back under General Horne's command in its former position east of Arras, the Canadian Corps was confronted by a series of formidable defence positions which the enemy was holding in strength. Immediately in front of the Canadians, about Monchy-le-Preux, were the old British trenches lost in the German offensive of March 1918, and to the east of these lay the enemy's former front line. This was backed up, two miles east of Monchy, by the so-called Fresnes-Rouvroy line, which was actually an extension south of the Scarpe of the original line joining Rouvroy (south-east of Lens) to Fresnes (north-east of Arras). Another mile to the east the approaches to Cambrai were blocked by the strongest position of all-the Drocourt-Quéant line (the southernmost portion of the Wotan I-Stellung), which, extending northward from the Hindenburg Line (Siegfried-Stellung) at Quéant, had been constructed by the Germans to contain any Allied advance into the Douai plain. Still farther east, crossed by the main road at Marquion, was the unfinished Canal du Nord, connecting the Somme Canal with the Sensée Canal. Though not yet extensively fortified it formed in conjunction with the Sensée marshes a major obstacle.
On August 22 General Currie outlined to his divisional commanders his plans for an attack eastward astride the Arras-Cambrai road. The Canadian Corps had been given the task of forcing the Drocourt-Quéant line south of the Scarpe and advancing to the line of the Canal du Nord. Having thus broken the hinge of the Hindenburg system the Corps was to swing southward and sweep down behind that formidable position in order to deny the Germans opposing the Third Army a rallying ground. On Currie's right the 17th Corps, operating on the Third Army's northern flank, was under orders to cooperate with the Canadian Corps, attacking south-eastward along both sides of the Hindenburg position.
General Currie's was an important and a difficult assignment. The enemy's main defence positions, supplemented by various subsidiary switches and strong points, were among the strongest on the Western Front. The ground was pocked with the scars of 1917 and early 1918, and in the litter of old trenches and fortifications German engineers had found ready-made positions which they had considerably strengthened. Furthermore, topography was on the side of the Germans. The battle area spread over the north-eastern slopes of the Artois Hills, whose summits about Monchy were over three hundred feet above the valley-bottoms of the Scarpe and the Sensée. The latter river, flowing generally eastward, together with its tributaries had dissected the hills into numerous deep valleys. The intervening ridges and high points, often mutually supporting, the enemy had fortified with a skill that demonstrated his mastery in military engineering.
The Germans' general defensive plan at this time was to give up ground in the region of the Lys and Ypres salients and to fight a determined rearguard action in the Somme area. Ludendorff overruled the views of those staffs (in particular Crown Prince Wilhelm's) that favoured a major voluntary retirement into the Hindenburg and adjoining defence systems. His purpose was by means of a gradual fighting withdrawal to wear out the Allied forces before they reached the Hindenburg position, thus gaining time to reorganize behind that formidable defence line. The defences about the Arras-Cambrai road in the Monchy area would form the pivot of any German retirement south of the Scarpe, while the security of Prince Rupprecht's northern armies also depended on retaining them.
These positions became the initial Canadian objective. With the enemy expecting attack, except for the actual hour of assault, surprise was clearly impossible. It would be a case of launching successive frontal, grinding assaults against well-established lines manned by tenacious, alert troops.
Adapted and used with permission from Nicholson, G. W. L., Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964, p.399-401.


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Bow Hunters We Need Your Help!!!
Brian Scarnegie has decided to run his campaign for 2nd Vice President of Pope & Young, on alienating the archery industry and attacking bow hunters within the industry. Pope & Young cannot afford to alienate the industry and fellow bow hunters, when we face much bigger issures, and the ANTI's!! Let's unite and bring bow hunters together!! It is critical that all associate members exercise their right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Many of you don't belong to Pope & Young because of all the past negative issues that have existed. I have felt the same as you. But let's be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Lets's put our money where our mouth is. I'm asking you to go online, and join Pope & Young as associate member, for 35.00.
If you join today, you can still vote and support Warren Strickland in his bid to make a difference for all bow hunters. Remember, in an election you have no room to gripe unless you vote. Warren and I need your help. I never send out emails and ask very little of my friends, but at this critical time I need your help. I feel so strongly about this issue because of my love for archery, plus I know Warren
Strickland will take the position as 2nd Vice President of Pope & Young to the next level.
Go to www.pope-young.org; Membership requires 35.00 annuallly which can be paid with credit card on line and must be submitted by
February 15th. To be a member you must have harvested one of the North American 28 animals with a bow. Also list two bow hunter friends as references. You will recieve a packet with a ballot enclosed. Mail your ballot back promptly, because votes will not be counted if they are recieved after Feb 28th. The ballots will be counted and the results disclosed on March 2nd.
You will also receive a nice quarterly news letter from the club in the future. If you prefer to call and join, the number is 507-867-4144. We must all give back, Pope and Young is at a cross roads, its time the club was "INCLUSIVE AND NOT EXCLUSIVE." Don't be confused by Brian Scarnegie's false assertions!! Warren does not support crossbows in archery season or support their use in Pope & Young!!!
If Warren is willing to make changes and work hard for bowhunters, the least we can do is support him!!!! Let's make a difference, every vote counts, have a great weekend!!
Thanks for all your help,
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Warren, also wants everyone to know that he supports crossbows for use by the disabled in archery season which could happen to any of us at anytime. Most of the state laws already provide this currently. Airborne
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Warren, also wants to thank several that has supported him and joined Pope & Young. Again, thanks for the support, airborne
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Thanks for the update.
Will ATI and other cards work "out-of-the box" with compiz under the USB version of BT3 final?
A few additional updates on the BT3 Release:
- Installer - We didn't include one, stop whining.
- Snort - Auto installs, has snortsam patches, can act as an IDS.
- Karma-msf scripts - evilap.sh
- Compiz in USB release.
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- Broadcom cards inject well now!
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Thanks for the update.
Will ATI and other cards work "out-of-the box" with compiz under the USB version of BT3 final?
I'm amazed, I thought these things couldn't inject?,Broadcom cards inject well now
Great news.
They did actually work quite nicely using BT3b as well, glad to see that the minor errors are fixed now though.I'm amazed, I thought these things couldn't inject?,
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has an sdhc card real install been attempted? (eeepc)
BT 3 Final forums contain 23 threads That cant be that hard to look through.
Check here:
got to about post 27 from Barry and Read
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
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I would like to know if a real install has been done on an sdhc Card. Not a live install with changes.
BT3b wouldn't boot with a "real" install on an sdhc card always had a kernal panic, someone suggested a fix (i believe adding a 10 sec delay on the boot process) and claimed it worked however myself and others have not been able to get it to boot. Muts said he was working on it i would like to know if its implemented in the new bt3 release..
This would be the post that archangel.amael was refering to and it clearly states that BT3 was succesfully installed to the sdhc card.Woot!! Got it running on my eee now! Compiz is a bit flakey, the menu items boarder is huuuuge! Regular kde looks right though. Installed the usb version to my 4Gb sdhc card. Same as the old way, copy the boot and BT3 folders over and run the bootinst.sh script.
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thats exactly what im not asking. never mind ill wait till i see muts in the irc channel
Ok, I get your point now, however with so little HD space I'd think you would like to save all the space you can.thats exactly what im not asking. never mind ill wait till i see muts in the irc channel
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Kate Hudson faced off against Jimmy Fallon in a game of "Box of Lies" on Monday's "Tonight Show."
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Brevard, N.C. - The Tornados fell to St. Andrew's 84-81 Thursday night in their final non-conference game of the year. Megan Lee led the Knights with 32 points, while teammate Brittany Roberts posted a double double with 16 points and 13 rebounds. Samantha Winn led the Tornados with a double double of her own with 21 points and 12 rebounds.
The Tornados fall to 8-16 on the season while St. Andrew's improves to 3-19.
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With regular menstrual cycle but having concerns getting pregnant
Hi, are you also having problems conceiving despite having a regular/normal menstrual cycle?
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RYMAN ONE: AVELEY were comprehensively brushed aside by a Witham side with designs on automatic promotion.
Both sides came into the match having only played six league matches this year and could have been forgiven for being slow out the blocks. However, Witham hadn't read the script and found the net after only 60 seconds before adding another only eight minutes later.
A dubious late penalty confirmed Witham's dominance and condemned the Millers to a second home defeat in a week.
Aveley would have been looking for a quick start, having conceded early on in the half against VCD Athletic during the week, but found themselves a goal down after only 55 seconds.
A corner was swung in by James Stevens and Brad Stopher's header looked destined for the far corner until Jack Giddens stuck out a hand to deny the defender. However, the ball wasn't cleared and Kris Newby lashed home unmarked from near the penalty spot.
The away side, buoyed by the early goal, flooded forward in search for a second and scored again before the game was ten minutes old – Danny Emmanuel scoring his second goal in as many games after more neat work by Newby.
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Aveley had a strong penalty shout turned down when Teddy Nesbitt went down under pressure but the home side failed to properly test Marytn Guest in the first 45 minutes.
The Millers had a half chance early in the second half when Jay Leader saw his 20 yard drive force away 'keeper Martyn Guest into action for the first time.
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Newby went down under pressure from Sam Holloway in the area and the referee pointed to the spot, to the disbelief of Aveley boss Justin Gardner. Stevens dispatched the penalty. After the match Gardner said the one bright spot was the return of captain Billy Holland, who played for the first time in six months.
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"The referee shouldn't have given a penalty but we didn't create enough to take anything from this game. We move onto the next one."
Aveley: Giddens, Osifuwa, Holloway, Leader, Golby (c), Okwera (Holland), Burnett, Koranteng (Weemes), Stephenson (Bakare), Asante, Nesbitt Witham Town: Guest, Mead, Murfet, Stopher, King (c), Stevens, Emmanuel, Olley (Wright), Townron (Green), Godbold, Newby (Wraight).


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Inverse Press feature on Arcana's The BookThursday, July 26th, 2012
If you're interested in reading some about the history of The Book, the development of the project, and how the artist got involved with it, head over to THIS LINK to read the full article. Below is an excerpt.
What drew Amanda to this dark and innovative project? In her own words: "Anyone who knows me and how I feel about comics (and movies, books ect.) knows I tend to side with the villain over the hero. No, I'm not wicked or mean-spirited in any way, it's just that villains are always more interesting! I was hooked on The Book when I saw Krieger's description…I wanted to be involved with the project even more when I got a load of that lovely skinless fellow gracing the cover. What can I say? How often does a Hellraiser super fan get to put their own spin on a skinless villain? It's a dream come true, I say!"
Writer, Erik Hendrix also shares his thoughts on the cool, brand new graphic novel (not generally available until later this year): "The Book was actually a combination of two ideas, one that Michael David Nelsen had and one that I had. Michael's featured a series of DIY travel guides and I had a story about people killing themselves and using a ritual to bring themselves back from the dead in an attempt to learn religious secrets from the other side. By combining the two ideas, we found the right mixture of characters and back story, which developed into a secret religion with ties to both the bible and religious "mythology".
The Book arrives in stores in December and makes its debut in August on ComiXology starting with Issue 1! You can pre-order it now through Arcana.com and other online retailers.
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DESCRIPTION: En route to Italy, a group of American tourists learn of a series of DIY travel guides, nicknamed "The Book". These unofficial guides are collected and updated with first-hand experiences by the travelers themselves. Different "Books" scatter the continent, telling of the best lodging, deals, and "off the grid" adventures from sight seeing to local folklore for anyone clever enough to find them. A local cult, practitioners of Sanctus Letum, the Holy Death, disrupts the American's plans for adventure when they hide pages from the Dark Book, Shaitan, in one of the travel guides. The friends are lead down a path of secret religion, death, resurrection, and demonology.


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Marcia Sturdivant PhD is shown after accepting her New Pittsburgh Courier Women of Excellence award in June 2012. (Photo by J.L. Martello/File)
After a national search, The Negro Education Emergency Drive, NEED, found it's new president and CEO right in its own back yard.
The 50-year-old scholarship and mentoring agency announced today that Marcia Sturdivant PhD, current deputy director of Allegheny County's Office of Children Youth and Families, has accepted the position.
She will officially take the reigns July 1, replacing interim CEO and board member Claudette R. Lewis.
""It is a great day for NEED to name Dr. Sturdivant to lead this enduring 50 year old organization," said Lewis. "We are fortunate to have attracted a person of her caliber, educational and professional background. NEED is in excellent hands to meet the challenges facing the young people we serve."
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OUR OPINIONS. FREE!: A guy with an opinion is swamped these days. We barely have time to offer our take on the elevator when someone dares to proclaim it to be hot outside. Normally, with the luxury of a relative absence of controversy, we would flatten the small-talking elevator rider with, "Hot? It's 84. On this day in 1956 the mercury hit 107. So, yeah, you're wrong. I believe this is your floor."
But now we've got so many things about which to offer our opinion, we don't have have time for the weather. We don't even have time to discuss hockey. Bikes, though, we always have a moment for bikes:
"Can you believe all this nonsense about Lance Armstrong?" some lady asked while we were getting coffee at Grounds. She didn't ask us; she asked the lady she was with, but that doesn't preclude us from having an opinion, which is, have you ever tried riding a bike without doing drugs first? It's brutal. We're not condoning the use of performance-enhancing drugs; we're urging people not to overly ride bikes.
"Everyone in bike racing takes performance-enhancers" is the common excuse, "And Armstrong beat them every time." The everybody-is-doing-it defense. Our mom ate that defense for breakfast when we were little.
Our favorite athlete-on-drug story is the one in which Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter in 1970 on LSD. And he did it against batters who were totally LSD-free. We're not condoning LSD, but if one player is doing it, we think, in fairness, they all should.
GO GIANTS!: We became, if not a full-on S.F. Giants fan, at least a Giants-tolerant person this year. We came up in the day when we were enraged when Giants pitcher Juan Marichal was clubbing Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro with a ball bat, and giddy with glee when Giants slugger Willie McCovey was scrabbling around in the dirt by home plate after being savagely beaned by Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale. And, while we're still a Dodgers fan, we've largely forgiven Frisco by now. It comes with maturity, and a low regard for the American League. And it's OK to call it Frisco.
POLITICS: Almost as important as the subject of sports is the subject of who should be the president. Obviously, President Obama. He so crippled Mitt Hussein Romney in Monday's debate that the only thing the right has been able to do is cavil over the fact that the Marines still use bayonets.
Obama didn't say bayonets weren't still in use, just that the military doesn't use as many as we did at, say, the Battle of Concord. Nobody doesn't turn down money less than the Pentagon, but even the Pentagon doesn't want as many trillions of dollars as Romney/Ryan plan to give it.
Also, Romney learned why you can't roll down the windows in a submarine. When it's, you know, underwater.
HOW'S THAT HOPE & CHANGE THING WORKING OUT FOR YOU?: You mean is our life better than it was four years ago? Well, we're older and starting to fall apart, but otherwise, yeah. Here are the top 10 reasons our life is better now:
1. Dick Cheney isn't vice president.
2. We've opened our own small business with government assistance.
3. Joe Biden is vice president.
4. George W. Bush isn't president.
5. Barack Obama is president.
6. The war in Iraq is over.
7. Obama hasn't taken away our guns. Yet.
8. Obama hasn't turned us over to his thuggish Muslim friends. Yet.
9. Dick Cheney hasn't shot us in the face with a shotgun.
10. No tragic, expensive and phony wars have started.
WILSON-POLY: After we wrote that we can't recall Poly ever beating Wilson in a football game, a devout reader pointed out the "fact" that Wilson hasn't won since 1976. Our memory remembers that one. Our memory also goes all the way back to 1991, when, as it turns out, Wilson won.
We recall the incredible two-year win streak, with Wilson beating Poly in 1966 and 1967. And, of course, we recall hearing of the 1943 Jinxbuster Wilson team winning, though we don't recall to what "Jinxbuster" referred. The Bruins play Poly at the Jackrabbits' homecoming game at 7 p.m. Friday at Vets Stadium.
Our opinion: Bruins 22-Poly 20.
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Badeken: Literally the veiling of the bride by the groom. The veil is meant to convey the message that however physically beautiful the bride may be, her soul and character are paramount.
Breaking the Glass: The last part of the wedding ceremony is when a glass is placed on the floor and the groom shatters it with his foot. There are countless interpretations for the tradition of breaking a glass. Some see it as a reminder of the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem. Others say it is meant to remind us that marriage is as fragile as glass. It also has been interpreted to demonstrate how life is so fragile that the couple should enjoy every day as if it were their last together. Wedding breaking glasses can be any color or size. Today, many modern couples choose a wedding glass they connect with and then store and display the glass broken under the chupah with a creative keepsake.
Chuppah:The chuppah is among the most recognizable symbols of a Jewish wedding. There are no legal requirements for constructing a chuppah, though it is traditional to use a tallit. In modern days, bride and groom often design their chuppah together, choosing for its color and size to represent who they are. Some chuppahs are freestanding, while others are held up by four friends or family members – one at each corner.
Circling the Groom: Just as the bride enters the canopy, it is traditional for her to circle the groom seven times, which symbolizes the creation of a new and sacred family unit and home.
Kabbalat Panim: In a traditional Jewish wedding, this is where the bride sits on a throne-like chair (or any comfortable chair) and family and friends come up to greet her and wish her well. She is usually accompanied by her immediate female family members.
Ketubah: A traditional ketubah (translated as marriage contract) is written in Aramaic text. The ketubah outlines the groom's responsibilities to his bride and is meant to protect her from any foul play. The ketubah is traditionally read out loud and then signed by two non-familial witnesses. Today, modern couples have their marriage contract design amidst beautiful artwork worthy of being framed and hung for display in their home.
Kiddushin:This is the actual betrothal ceremony. A cup of wine is used during the betrothal blessings, which are traditionally recited by the rabbi who is marrying the couple. After the blessings are completed, the couple drinks from the cup. Kosher wine is a symbol of joy.
Ring: During the wedding ceremony, the groom gives the bride a ring. The band is supposed to be a simple, whole piece of gold. A smooth ring signifies an untroubled life. The circle represents the hope for an everlasting marriage. The groom places the ring on the bride's right index finger, which according to Jewish tradition (and science!) has the closest bloodline to the heart. When the ceremony is over, the bride can move her ring to the traditional ring finger.
Seudah: It is traditional for the bride and groom to enjoy a festive meal and dancing with their wedding guests following the ceremony.
Sheva Brachot (Seven Blessings): Under the Jewish wedding chuppah, seven blessings are recited, each one blessing the future of the happy couple. These same blessings are again recited during the after-meal blessing at the wedding and again each day for one week and festive meals, also called Sheva Brachot.
Yichud: After the chuppah ceremony is complete, at traditional Jewish weddings, the married couple goes to a room, in seclusion (yichud means seclusion in Hebrew), representing their new status as a married couple. No one else is allowed in the room during the time the couple is together. They generally stay together for about 18 minutes.
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Vibe: The San Jose Soccer + Music + Tamale Festival
Vibe The San Jose Soccer + Music Festival
Saturday, August 3, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PDT)
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Presented by Story Road Business Association
Saturday – August 3, 2013 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
"Vibe: The San Jose Soccer + Music Festival"
serves as the backdrop for community involvement and visibility for Soccer Activities and Community through this event. Vibe celebrates the contributions of the soccer community and acknowledges the international recognition of the Beautiful Game.
San Jose will host Vibe: the Soccer + Music Festival for adults and youth. We will create an intimate and festive atmosphere for soccer.
The Vibe will host food, music and merchandising vendors for the general community and tournament participants to purchase. No entrance fee necessary to watch or attend the Vibe.
Soccer Tournament with double elemination.
- 4v4 (8 Players Max) Free event with prizes for group winners to first 32 teams of 4 to 8 players.
- 30 Minutes each game.
Men's A&B Divisions
Women's A&B Divisions
Youth/Family Coed Division U12, U15, U18
Individual Contests (Prizes Available) Free Event
- We will hold a timed and total amount of touches juggling contest.
- The Vibe will have a target goal that individuals can test their soccer goal scoring abilities.
- Sign up for the gauntlet course, which mixes a timed run of dribbling the soccer ball though a maze finished with a shot on goal.
- How hard and fast can you kick a soccer ball, try your skills at the Speed Kick?
Keeper Wars – Do you have what it takes to stop shots and be the Goal Keeping Specialist? Come and show your net-minding skills.
One on One – Do you have the moves like Messi, Ronaldo or all the greats that make you wonder how they got so good? We'll crown a champion of the One on One.
Got Soccer Gear in your closet gathering dust. Shoes don't fit or shinguards weren't the ones you wanted. Bring them to the San Jose Soccer Vibe to donate any gently used gear and participate in our PassBack program with US Soccer Foundation.
During the 2013 Vibe, Jackie Rocks Band performed at The Vibe. Check out their performance pre-game to another popular football team in the San Jose area.
In addition to stage entertainment, we will designate an area for children's & kids activities such as Inflatable Jump houses, free soccer instruction classes, and demonstrations.
We want you and your family to feel the soccer environment that makes the game of soccer a vibrant event.
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Eight Quarterbacks Named Manning Award Stars of the Week
Sunday, September 25, 2011
The Manning Award, sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, has named eight quarterbacks as its "Stars of the Week." College football fans can now go to the Allstate Sugar Bowl Facebook page to vote for what they think was the best performance from this past weekend. When voting closes on Thursday at 9 a.m. (Central), the top vote-getter will be announced as the Manning Award Player of the Week.
Tajh Boyd, Clemson
B.J. Daniels, USF
Seth Doege, Texas Tech
Robert Griffin, III, Baylor
Keith Price, Washington
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I have started playing around with RC1 and there are a couple of things acting strangely in Night. (If there is a new skin update for this version, please disregard this).
New Smart Playlist - I of course tried this first in the hopes it will start working for me with a new version. It is still not working but now seems broken in a new way. When I select it I get the set content dialog as if I was adding a source.
Movies vs HD movies - These two items seem switched in Settings > Skin. When you turn on Movies you get a HD Movies home screen item and when you turn on HD Movies you get a Movies home screen item.
A couple of problems with Dharma RC1
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Ranger Rob Wrote:I have started playing around with RC1 and there are a couple of things acting strangely in Night. (If there is a new skin update for this version, please disregard this).
1. Never heard of that one, do you get the same behavior in Confluence?
2. Seems fine on my end, obviously I'm using a newer version than the Repo, but I doubt I touched that code in forever so can't imagine that causing trouble in the Repo version...
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My biggest problem with the Dharma release candidate is that the mouse won't disappear. It will do it sometimes but if anything changes such as I alt+Tab to another application and then go back to XBMC the mouse won't go away so my remote will start acting very strange. Is anyone else complaining about that?
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Sorry about the slow response.
Yep. It is not a night issue, it happens in confluence too. Nevertheless, here is problem 1:
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The links described below are current range projects taking place in Utah. Most, though not all, involve researchers and extension agents from Utah State University.
Rangeland Resources of Utah - This 2009 publications provides an overview of the complex issues occurring on Utah rangelands. It contains important information and data about rangelands. The 1989 Rangeland Resources of Utah publication was the template for this document. The primary objectives of the new document were to update data and trends and to provide up-to-date information. New sections have been added to address issues that have evolved since the late 1980s. This website contains the 2009 Rangeland Resources of Utah publication and maps available for download and information on the GIS data used in the publication. This project was sponsored by State of Utah, Governor's Public Lands Policy Coordination Office and was produced and compiled by Utah State University Extension.
SageSTEP (Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project) is a regional experiment with study sites in CA, ID, NV, OR, UT, and WA. It is evaluating methods of restoration of sagebrush steppe communities in the Great Basin. Sagebrush communities are one of the most threatened land types in North America, and as much as half of this land type has already been lost in the Great Basin. Many remaining sagebrush communities are in poor health. SageSTEP scientists are studying the effects of land management options to provide information to land managers to help them make restoration management decisions with reduced risk and uncertainty.The project is fully interdisciplinary, with ecological, economic, and social components with participants from Oregon State University, Utah State University, Brigham Young University, University of Idaho, University of Nevada, Reno, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of Land Management.
EBIPM - (Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management) - Focuses on invasive annuals grasses. The project is headquartered in Burns, OR, with research projects and demonstration sites throughout the West. In Utah, the EBIPM site is located in Park Valley, UT. The project is evaluating the effects of targeted grazing, prescribed fire, and herbicide on rangeland seeding success in cheatgrass infested areas and on dynamic soil properties. Crested wheatgrass, Siberian wheatgrass, Russion wildrye, forage kochia and Great Basin wildrye were seeded in fall of 2009. Data is currently being analyzed on that seeding. Faculty participating from Utah State University are Chris Call and Corey Ransom. For more information about the project in Utah, click here.
Grazing Improvement Program (GIP) is supported by Utah Division of Agriculture and Food It provides rangeland specialists and financial assistance to ranchers to improve management on rangelands. Why should Utahan's care about healthy rangelands? Utah ranchers depend on the state's 11 million acres of private and public lands to graze cattle and sheep. Utah's livestock industry contributes more than $600 million to Utah's economy and is the largest sector of Utah's Agricultural economy. Improving rangelands will improve the viability of ranchers and Utah's rural economies. Improved management also protects the environment by increasing biodiversity, improving water quality and quantity, reducing wildfires and weeds.
Southern Utah Biomass a forum where people can share ideas on woody biomass, particularly the Juniper species. There is plenty of research highlighting how high density stands of Juniper increase catastrophic fires, but these trees also use millions of gallons of water. Water, that could be used for native forage production, wildlife habitat and replenishing watersheds. Southern Utah Biomass focuses on the harvest, processing, transportation and marketing this low value product. What is the best and cost effective method for processing this product? This question still needs to be addressed. There is always a need for improving specialized equipment for moving material from remote locations to accessible locations. Marketing, more markets benefits everyone involved. Whether it's firewood for recreational use or home heating, landscaping mulch, soil additives, soil erosion control, bio-energy or a completely different product yet to be developed, we encourage a broad market approach. Click here to read an article written by Darren McAvoy, USU Forestry Extension.


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Country stars take part in special Grammy tribute moments
Miranda Lambert is honoring a Country Music Hall of Famer. During Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony on CBS, the country star teamed up with Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong to pay tribute to the late Phil Everly with a performance of The Everly Brothers' classic, "When Will I Be Loved."
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The event also featured a salute to country music's "outlaw" movement, featuring some of the pioneers of the style. Lifetime Achievement Award winner Kris Kristofferson shared the stage with Willie Nelson to launch the segment with a performance of "Highwayman."
Merle Haggard and Blake Shelton then joined them, trading verses on Haggard's hit "Okie From Muskogee." They also sang the Willie Nelson-Waylon Jennings hit "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys."
The losses of country legends George Jones and Ray Price were also acknowledged during the ceremony.
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Just installed bt5 because I'm pretty sick of Micro$oft. So much has moved forward from Linux that I was so adept with (Redhat 3) I was a command line user and didn't use any kind of desktop "kde/gnome" this was quite a long time ago, and the knowledge has just gone as I got lazy and moved to a windows based environment. Well not lazy as such. Just did not have the time on my hands as I work (Not computers).
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Jack Canfield TTT Portrait Sessions February 2013
The Canfield Group
Monday, February 18, 2013 from 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PST)
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San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
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Attract Better Clients through Your Authenticity
Hi. I'm Doug Ellis. I'm a lifestyle portrait photographer photographing as a way to re-connect with Source. I have been blessed to photograph such luminaries as the Dalai Lama, Marianne Williamson, Jack Canfield and John Gray. All of my photographs are about one thing--celebrating your essence-- and my style is light and wonder-full.
To learn more or to see my work, visit dougellisphotography.com.
As a passionate coach, speaker, leader, or trainer, I know you are committed to helping others make positive and impactful changes in their lives and I would love to help you express that in the most authentic and heart-felt way in San Diego.
Doug Ellis is the Marketing/Communications Manager of Esalen Institute, Staff Photographer for the Transformational Leadership Council, and a spiritual life coach.
Doug specializes in custom lifestyle portraits on location and heart-centered photography and slideshows for sacred events, ceremonies, and workshops.
Why Do I Need Professional Photos?
This gift to yourself can dramatically improve the magnetism of your website, Facebook profile, brochure or other promotional materials and attract better quality clients to you. It is also tax-deductible as an advertising expense. 10% of all portrait proceeds from the week will be donated to the Ocean Conservancy.
Book your session today by purchasing an individual or couples/partners portrait ticket.
The Essential Portrait Session includes:
An hour long custom portrait session allowing for approximately 2-3 different outfits and "looks." Also includes:
- A variety of environmental/location settings and backdrops
- A one hour portrait session with a variety of backdrops and clothing changes.
- Mixture of head and shoulders, 3/4 body and full body as requested.
- Online website gallery.
- Retouching of the top 3 images and retouching for print and screen use.
- Black and white or sepia toning also available.
- Processing of top 20 and retouching of top three images from the session.
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Westin Long Beach
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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Mark Anthony hopes to
have a career in sports medicine. And after spending a week as
Rogers Scholar, the Magoffin County resident is more certain than
ever that is the career for him.
Anthony was one of 32 rising high school junior from 22
Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky who spent a week at Lindsey
Wilson College as Rogers Scholars. Sponsored by the
Somerset-based Center for
Rural Development, the weeklong program gives students a
glimpse into college life and opens their eyes to several career
"The Rogers Scholars program gives leadership and college
scholarship opportunities to help rising high school juniors
develop skills they need to seize their potential as the region's
next generation of business and entrepreneurial leaders," said
Delaney Stephens, youth programs coordinator for The Center for
Rural Development.
This was the first time the 15-year-old program had been
held away from the Center for Rural Development. The second group
of Rogers Scholars will meet July 7-12 at LWC.
During the intensive week-long program, Rogers Scholars
building leadership skills; receive hands-on instructional training
from professional experts in engineering, healthcare and video
production; and interact with nationally recognized business
leaders and entrepreneurs. They also honed etiquette skills at a
special dinner, and received ballroom dancing instructions.
"The program focuses on developing skills in leadership,
technology, entrepreneurship and community service -- all areas
that will help our region," Stephens said.
Anthony, who will be a junior this fall at Magoffin
County High School, said the week at LWC helped give him focus on
his career plans.
"It's been very good," he said. "It's given me some new
experiences with healthcare I didn't know about it before I came
Ray Dixon of Perry County was one of the students who
learned more about video production by producing a special edition
of the the online TV program Lindsey Wilson News Magazine.
"I liked meeting new people, which was really fun," Dixon said.
"I learned that with teamwork, you can can accomplish
The Rogers Scholars who participated in the June 23-28
class were:
Isaac Allen -- Cumberland County
Cassidy Breeding -- Letcher County
Kennedy Breeding -- Letcher County
Tyler Bush -- Carter County
Mark Campbell -- Magoffin County
Katherine Corder -- Pulaski County
Matthew Crawford -- Pulaski County
Jessica Dennis-Bay -- Whitley County
Ray Dixon -- Perry County
Morgan Emerson -- Casey County
Benjamin Fitch -- Martin County
Heather Griffith -- Boyd County
Masden Griffiths -- Green County
Subhash Gutti -- Floyd County
Taryn Haddix -- Pulaski County
Alex Helton -- Knox County
Luke Huffman -- Pulaski County
Chandler Hutchinson -- Pulaski County
Kaylee Isfort -- Estill County
Lindsy Jasper -- Pulaski County
Jaclyn Johnson -- Jackson County
Alex Little -- Leslie County
Emily Major -- Garrard County
Dylan Marson -- Russell County
Morgan Mills -- Bell County
Rikki Neat -- Adair County
Kennedy Patrick -- Wolfe County
Jay Phillips -- Harlan County
Kaitlyn Sammons -- Bath County
Kerrigan Samons -- Johnson County
Sienna Staley -- Clinton County
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Atlanta Opera Announces 2013-2014 Season
The Atlanta Opera, one of the nation's finest regional opera companies enriching lives through the power of opera, today announced its 2013-2014 season. The season opens with Tosca in October 2013, followed by Gounod's Faust in March 2014, and concludes with The Barber of Seville in April and May 2014. All performances will take place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
Also announced were the 2013-2014 community engagement initiatives, including the High School Opera Institute, the fourth annual 24-Hour Opera Project , a Student Short of the opera Tosca; and the details of the 2013 Atlanta Opera Ball: Puccini's Palazzo, a fundraiser supporting and sustaining the exceptional artistic quality of The Atlanta Opera. The 2013-2014 season will be the first under the helm of the Atlanta Opera's new general director expected to be named in April 2013.Mainstage Productions at Cobb Energy Centre
The season leads off with Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (October 5, 8, 11, 13, 2013). A melodramma in three acts created after Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca which debuted in 1900, Tosca is an opera full of lies, lust, and corruption that turn a tale of love into a struggle for survival. Amid the bloodshed of revolutionary Rome, the diva Tosca becomes trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover, Cavaradossi, and the scheming of a treacherous police chief, Scarpia, who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. Set to Puccini's intensely passionate music, this gripping melodrama is quintessential opera and presents the composer's most varied and interesting soprano role. Tosca will be performed in Italian with projectEd English translations.
Soprano Kara Shay Thomson will be making her debut with The Atlanta Opera as Floria Tosca, a role she has sung more than 75 times. The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote, "... Kara Shay Thomson was the most exciting debut of the season; she projected an alluring presence and a luxuriant lyric voice that remained smooth all the way to her powerhouse top notes." The tenor role of Mario Cavaradossi will be sung by Massimiliano Pisapia in his United States debut. Baritone Mark Delavan performs the role of Baron Scarpia, which he performed previously with The Atlanta Opera in 1997 at The Fox Theatre. Delavan has sung to great acclaim all three roles of Wotan in Wagner's Ring Cycle and will perform the role again this April with The Metropolitan Opera. Delavan has been seen on the Atlanta Opera stage as Amonasro in 2010's Aida and as The Dutchman in 2009's The Flying Dutchman. The conductor of Tosca is the Atlanta Opera's Carl and Sally Gable Music Director Arthur Fagen.
Tomer Zvulun will be returning to The Atlanta Opera as stage director for Tosca. Zvulun has previously directed The Flying Dutchman, The Magic Flute, and, most recently, Lucia di Lammermoor, on the Atlanta Opera stage. The New York Times praised one of his recent operas for its, "witty, fast-paced staging and the director's Felliniesque style."
In March, The Atlanta Opera will present Charles Gounod's Faust (March 8, 11, 14, 16, 2014). Faust is a grand opéra and first premiered in Paris in 1859. Gounod's operatic retelling of the famous legend, loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play of the same name, is a haunting tale of the struggle between good and evil. Set in 16th century in Germany, an elderly scholar sells his soul to the devil Méphistophélès for a chance to seduce the beautiful and innocent Marguerite. This opera has only been produced once before by The Atlanta Opera in 1995. Faust will be performed in French with projectEd English translations.