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Josephine Reed: Welcome to The Big Read, a program created by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The largest reading program in American history, The Big Read is designed to unite communities through great literature, and encourage Americans to discover the transformative joys of reading. As fans of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 know, it just takes a spark.
Hector Elizondo reads Fahrenheit 451...
"It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strolled in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning."
Reed: Here's your host, poet and former Chair of the NEA, Dana Gioia.
Gioia: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a book that has fascinated many writers including novelist John Crowley.
John Crowley: Fahrenheit 451 is an enormously gripping story—the vision of a society without books and reading was then chilling to me, and remains so today when we feel like we live sometimes almost in a society without books and reading. It was an enormously touching idea.
Gioia: A world without books. That's something writer Ray Bradbury has imagined and re-imagined for much of his 85 years. As one of the most influential science fiction writers in history, Bradbury's work, more than 500 short stories and 11 novels to date, has helped shape the last half century of American literature and popular culture. Today we'll explore Bradbury's terrifying vision of a future without books as we discuss his groundbreaking 1953 novel, Fahrenheit 451.
Orson Scott Card: I first ran into Ray Bradbury's work as, you know, stories that we were given now and then in school.
Gioia: Novelist, Orson Scott Card.
Card: And I remember the first time that I read it, Fahrenheit 451. Of course you get drawn into the story, Bradbury is a masterful story teller, but it was his choice of protagonist that was interesting. To have it be a fireman, to have it be someone who was involved in the active destruction/suppression of books. That was a very wise choice. Who else would be anywhere near as interesting as somebody who was on the one side and then converts to the other?
Sam Weller: The power of books is so evident and his love of books is so evident throughout this incredibly quick book.
Gioia: Sam Weller is the author of the biography, The Bradbury Chronicles.
Weller: If you read the movement of the story, and I think that's one of the great things about this book, is once you get hooked into it and you glom onto these characters, it's a mad rush through this incredibly dark and dystopian world. It's a roller coaster and it's fast and it's furious and the narrative movement of the story is both cinematic and it's gripping and it's a thrill ride.
Gioia: Bradbury's own literary thrill ride started when he was a young boy. He pulled books off his aunt's and uncle's shelves and read them all-The Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the Tarzan novels and John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. When Bradbury had exhausted his relative's collections, he unleashed his insatiable hunger on a much larger supply of books.
Bradbury: The library was the most exciting place in the world and every Monday evening, starting when I was about seven years old, my brother and I would run to the library—not walk, run to the library, and especially in autumn we were accompanied by leaves so, wind blows you along the street and you and the leaves go to the library.
Weller: Ray Bradbury's love of books goes back to, like for so many of us, when he was a little boy growing up in far northern Illinois, in a town called Waukegan.
Gioia: Biographer, Sam Weller.
Weller: He started going to the library, the old Carnegie Library which was built in 1902 right on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan and Ray Bradbury would go there every Monday night with his brother Skip, and they would go and get books on Egypt and mummies and pirates and dinosaurs, all the fodder that little boys tend to love.
Bradbury: And you get into the library and there's that wonderful ambiance and all the stacks of all your loved ones surround you because Edgar Allen Poe is up there watching you, and Jules Vern is up there accompanying you. So a library is one of the great places to read.
Gioia: Ray Bradbury claims that everything that he has needed to know he has learned from books in libraries. Sometimes he even got ideas from the Sunday comics. At age 12, he devoured Buck Rogers and then wrote his own version of futuristic comic strip. At age 14, when the Bradbury family moved cross country to California, Ray slipped into local libraries along Route 66, in search of the latest Oz book by L. Frank Baum.
Weller: He claims that was his real experience with censorship. He would go into a library and find that the librarian didn't have the Wizard of Oz books, a Tarzan book, or the John Carter Warlord of Mars books. They weren't interested in those books for their collection, and Ray said, not that it was necessarily prejudicial, or perhaps it was, but they, for whatever reason did not have those titles often in the libraries. And so he kept that, as he often does, in the back of his mind, filed it away. And so the first kernel of Fahrenheit 451 was really born back in 1932 driving an old Buick with his family down Route 66 through depression era America, and that's where a lot of the genesis of this book began.
Gioia: Enrolled at Los Angeles High School, Ray Bradbury started his own newspaper, called Futuria Fantasia. Always, Bradbury had a passion for invented worlds, for fantasy and imagination. When he finished high school, money was tight. So he set about educating himself, going to the library every night. He immersed himself in the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and Jonathan Swift. Bradbury drew on these writers to help mold his own emerging voice.
Bradbury: If you could encourage people to fill themselves up with poetry, to fill themselves up with novels, to fill themselves up with films, to live in art galleries and discover the metaphors there—it's the most important thing you can do. But find your love. Go to the library, maybe it's waiting for you there.
Gioia: Bradbury likes to say that at age 27, he graduated from the library. Soon he began publishing short stories to critical and popular acclaim. In 1950, he published The Martian Chronicles, a lyrical novel about the colonization of Mars. He then began exploring ideas that would eventually lead to Fahrenheit 451. The book, naturally, was shaped by Bradbury's relationship with libraries.
Bradbury: Our house was getting full of children, it was very loud, it was very wonderful. But I had to have an office, but I had no money and I couldn't rent an office. But I was wandering around UCLA, and I heard typing in the basement under the library and I went down to see what was there and discovered there was a typing room where you can rent a typewriter for $0.10 a half hour. And I thought, "Hell, this is a great place to write, and this is my office." So I went and got a bag of dimes and I went down and the novel began that day. And nine days later it was finished.
Weller: It's a magical story and the fact that he could write, really the entire book, in nine days I think illustrates Ray Bradbury's creative process at work and when inspiration catches him, ignites him as he will.
Gioia: Again, Sam Weller.
Weller: I think what else is really neat is that he would take breaks and walk upstairs into the library and pull books off shelves, and smell the dust, read the pages, absorb the concepts, and then rush back downstairs and write some more.
Bradbury: I kept on running up and downstairs in a fever, and I grab books off the shelves and open 'em to find a quote—any kind of quote—from 2000 years ago, 500 years ago, and run back down and put it in the novel.
Hector Elizondo reads Fahrenheit 451...
"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dare."
"Consider the lilies of the field. How they grow they toil not."
"Hercules was stopped by the giant wrestler, Antheus."
"It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak and another to hear."
Gioia: Bradbury remembers that while the book emerged from him in nearly complete form, he was initially stumped for a title.
Bradbury: I got curious about the temperature at which the book paper catches fire and burns. So I called UCLA, the Chemistry Department, and I said "Could you tell me at what temperature book paper catches fire and burns?" They didn't know and then I called the Physics Department at SC and asked them the same question and they didn't know. So I said, "Dummy, call the fire department." I should have done that first.
So I called downtown, and asked for the Fire Chief and he came on the phone and he said "Can I help you?" I said, "Yes, I know this sounds silly," I said, "But I'd like to find out at what temperature paper catches fire and burns?" He said, "Wait there."
Weller: And Ray could hear the wheels and the Fire Chief's desk chair screeching as the man went to grab a book off a shelf and he came back and flipped through pages and fingers down to a number and says:
Bradbury: 451 Fahrenheit. I said, "Oh God," I reversed it. "Fahrenheit 451." So that's how it happened. I hope he wasn't lying to me. It would be awful if we found out that he made a mistake and said some other temperature.
Gioia: While Bradbury used science and literature in the novel, he also drew on his childhood memories. In the 1930's, it seemed the world was unraveling.
Bradbury: Well Hitler, of course, when I was 15, burned the books in the streets of Berlin. And then along the way, I learned about the Libraries of Alexandria burning 5000 years ago. They burned two or three times. Twice, I believe, by accident and once on purpose. And that grieved my soul because, since I'm self educated that means my educator... the library's endangered, and my heroes were being killed, so therefore, the burnings in the past were a danger to my future.
Gioia: Bradbury was developing the characters and themes for Fahrenheit 451 for a few years before they came together in the novel. In one story, the firemen, the title character goes to a library to burn books, only to find that the people there have memorized the books in order to protect them.
Bradbury: And I wrote a short story called "The Exiles," about all the characters from Oz, and from Edgar Allan Poe and from Dickens' Christmas Carol, isolated on Mars and they've gone there because they are exiles from Earth. The books were being burned down on earth, all the imaginative books, all the dangerous books. Alice in Wonderland is there and Jules Verne is there and you realize at the end of the story they're beginning to die because the books are being burned on Earth and that as each book is burned, the character disappears on Mars.
Gioia: In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury combines all these plots, themes and characters, into the story of his hero, Guy Montag. At the beginning of the novel, Montag is a fireman who starts fires instead of putting them out. In the world of Fahrenheit 451, books are illegal and neighbors betray neighbors to the police for hiding forbidden volumes.
Hector Elizondo reads, Fahrenheit: 451...
"11 Elm. Suspect books in the attic of a Mrs. Hudson.
"She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about. It was neither cricket nor correct. Montag felt an immense irritation. She shouldn't be here, on top of everything!
"Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering. In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel. 'Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.' He dropped the book. Immediately, another fell into his arms. ...
"Montag had done nothing. His hand had done it all, his hand, with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger, had turned thief. Now it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish! Look here! Innocent! Look!
"He gazed, shaken, at that white hand. He held it way out, as if he were farsighted. He held it close, as if he were blind."
Bradbury: When Mrs. Hudson is willing to burn with her books, that's the turning point. When it's all over she is willing to die with her loved ones, with her dogs, with her cats, with her books. When she gives up her life, she'd rather die than be without them. And later on, he thinks how could that woman die? What did she care about so much? She cared about the books. There must be something in them that I can't see. But right now, I wouldn't die for anyone. I wouldn't die for anything. So maybe I can learn from her, how to die, for something.
Gioia: You're listening to The Big Read from the National Endowment for the Arts. Today we're discussing Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Weller: The book was released and sent out to critics across the country and universally received outstanding reviews.
Gioia: Again, biographer, Sam Weller.
Weller: Orville Prescott at New York Times raved about it. I mean, some pretty heavyweight hard to please critics embraced this book and recognized its power and its social commentary, I mean this is an incredible work of social commentary. And they were immediately recognizing the courage of a writer who was not only looking just a few years back to the past, at the fascism of Nazi Germany, but also looking at the present time and the witch hunts that were occurring at the time with Joseph McCarthy.
Ursula Kay LeGuin: It was very impressive when it came out, as it is now. I mean, I think we all felt then, that this guy was looking ahead which he certainly was.
Gioia: Award winning, science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula Kay Le Guin.
LeGuin: A book that hasn't been out of print for 50 years has really got something going. It means it's addressing some sort of concerns or needs of the readers that they're finding in it, you know, one generation after another, something that they're looking for. And he is saying something about the modern world as a whole not just at a certain time.
Gioia: In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes a society plugged into electronic media day and night. Giant televisor screens cover the walls mesmerizing viewers with a prophetic version of reality TV. Small headphones are tucked into people's ears; no one reads, people barely speak to each other. They are emotionally and intellectually numb. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Guy Montag begins to question this world. "We have everything we need to be happy," he says. "But we aren't happy."
Weller: I think what's fascinating about Fahrenheit is that Ray Bradbury is a man who didn't own a television until the mid 1950s, but yet he was writing about and forewarning us about the impending problems television could bring the family. He was really a visionary in his early thirties. For a young man who everybody dismissed as someone who was a hack when it came to writing about technology, his imagination was so singular and it's reflected so beautifully in this book. I think you really can see that this man was really seeing into a lot of things about the power of books, and the threat of silencing freedom of speech, all of these different things he was addressing in this book.
Gioia: In the world of Fahrenheit 451, possessing a single book is enough to get a person arrested. While some of us read Bradbury's novel as a world of frightening fantasy, others actually live with this fear and danger today.
From his childhood in Cuba, jazz clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera remembers people sneaking books to each other as illegal contraband.
Paquito D'Rivera: I have a friend, and she was a person who gave me a copy of Animal Farm and she asked me, "Now, you have to promise me that you are going to read this at home because it is very dangerous to read this, even if you have a different cover and all that."
Literature is as dangerous as jazz music for dictators, for repressive people, because with literature you're free. You are alone in a world that is not the one that surrounds you. Fahrenheit 451 is the best description of how the repression acts in any dictatorship to the right or to the left. How they act to suppress your right even to be sad. You don't have the right not even to feel bad. You have to feel good. So it's very clear in this book. I called Ray Bradbury once to tell him only that, "Monsieur, I am a Cuban reader and I want to thank you for writing something that reflects how we have been repressed and how communism and all the totalitarian systems work. And, Fahrenheit 451, it is such a fantastic novel."
Gioia: Halfway around the world in Iran, Azar Nafisi suffered the same kind of repression. Her memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran tells the story of an underground book group she organized.
Azar Nafisi: When I lived in the Islamic Republic, the whole world, not just this country, U.S., but the whole world was taken away from us and there was almost an iron curtain. And the only way we could let the world know that we are not what these people say we are—the Islamic republic says we are, was through our books.
In a country like U.S., we say, "Oh! We're free! This is not happening to us." And I think that Saul Bellow said it so wonderfully when he reminded us that it is not only the ordeal of holocaust that you need to remember, he said what about surviving the ordeal of freedom. And he mentions that the ordeal of freedom is keeping your consciousness awake. And he worried about a country, he said, which would lose its love of its soul and its poetry. Because he said that country faces death.
So, in a country like this, in America today, we're much more in danger of losing that consciousness. In this country we're becoming so smart. We read either self help books or we don't read. We live with our basic assumptions and we're losing the power to dream.
Gioia: It's not only those who live in repressive regimes who have been moved by Fahrenheit 451.
Nat Hentoff is an American writer who says the book was a touchstone for him.
Nat Hentoff: Well, that book gave me great inspiration if you like, I had had, in a decade before I was the editor of my college paper at Northeastern University in Boston. We fancied ourselves muckrakers and we exposed a lot of things around the city, including the anti-Semitism that was rife then at the time. And the president of Northeastern University thought the kind of stuff we were writing might influence negatively some of the contributions of some of the corporations, et cetera. So he said, "Stop it!" And we didn't stop it. We had to leave, and reading Ray Bradbury made me aware again that this spirit doesn't die, it can't die. And it was one of the impetuses, I guess you could say, of what was my first nonfiction book which was The First Freedom. The subtitle of which was "The Tumultuous History of the First Amendment in the United States."
Card: I think that Bradbury will last and last.
Gioia: Novelist, Orson Scott Card.
Orson: I consider him a great American writer. He was inside science fiction; at the same time, he always wrote in such a way that his work was accessible outside. There are science fiction writers, and, I dare say, a majority of science fiction writers who depend on having an audience that already understands the tropes of science fiction, that already knows its way into the work.
Bradbury never relied on having an audience like that. He always wrote every story, as far as I remember, is meant to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible. And he allows himself to be musical in his speech. And allows himself a degree of sentiment in the language that few writers do and few writers could bring it off as effectively as he does because he manages never to push it too far, at least not for me.
So, he became one of my favorite writers and only when you read Ray Bradbury aloud do you realize what music there is in his work. He's just so beautiful for the human voice.
Gioia: Late in Fahrenheit 451, Montag is forced to burn his own house because hidden books have been discovered inside it. He flees and eventually comes upon a group of exiles who live on the fringes of society, roaming the forest. Each person memorizes a book, in order to preserve it. Books by Plato, Machiavelli, Thomas Payne, Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens—everything from Einstein to Ecclesiastes. As the members of this new community explain to Montag, "You're not important. You're not anything," the book Montag preserves in himself, that is what's important.
Hector Elizondo reads Fahrenheit 451...
"Someday the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. ...
"But now there was a long morning's walk until noon, and if the men were silent it was because there was everything to think about and much to remember. Perhaps later in the morning, when the sun was up and had warmed them, they would begin to talk, or just say things they remembered, to be sure they were there, to be absolutely certain that things were safe in them. Montag felt the slow stir of words, the slow simmer. And when it came his turn, what could he say, what could he offer on a day like this, to make the trip a little easier? To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak. Yes, all that. But what else. What else? Something, something... And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bear twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
"Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll say for noon. For noon.
"When we reach the city."
Gioia: Thanks for joining The Big Read. This program was created by the National Endowment for the Arts. It was produced by Dan Stone. Post-production by Molly Murphy. Katie Davis was our writer. Readings of Fahrenheit 451 were by Hector Elizondo. The music was composed by Philip Brunelle. Special thanks to Sarah Spitz, David Kipen and, of course, Ray Bradbury. I'm Dana Gioia.
Bradbury: There was a statement, "LOVE." Love is the answer to everything—loving poetry, loving plays, loving short stories, loving the library. So again, to the young people, fall in love, go to the library, maybe it's waiting for you there.
Reed: For more information about The Big Read, go to www.NEABigRead.org. That's www.NEABigRead.org.


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As producers prepare for 2008, projections from various sources point to a 10% to 15% reduction in total sales volume as the housing bust hits bottom. This reduction translates into a contraction of 45 million to 70 million yards, depending if the housing industry begins a slow recovery by the end of 2008.
By comparing the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association's (NRMCA) Industry Data Survey results, producers can learn more insights than just price and profitability. There's value in tracking these multi-year trends. From these, managers can draw some reasonable assumptions about the state of the industry as 2008 begins.
Clearly, 2007 has been a fallback year for the ready-mix concrete industry in the face of the national housing slump. But the real question is, how do you plan effectively as events unfold?
The slowdown is also a sobering economic lesson for many managers who have not experienced cyclical declines. Many believed that the experiences of 2005 and 2006 were standard operating procedures, when the ready-mix concrete industry enjoyed its single greatest period of growth in both selling price and profitability.
It is in these times that the Industry Data Survey can be the most valuable tool in a producer's arsenal, pinpointing the areas of performance that can be improved as the industry braces for a challenging year. It is also from this wealth of information that managers can best plan for the next 18 months.
These observations are based on the results of an annual survey conducted by NRMCA. The results of this voluntary survey amongst its member companies can be the single most important financial tool a manager can utilize to benchmark the performance of his company against his peers.
The trends going back many years always point to the same set of facts: A minor reduction in sales volume can play havoc on profitability. The downturn of 2001–02 illustrates this well. A combination of flat to a slight dip in volumes and the corresponding reductions in selling price to maintain market share caused industry-wide profitability to plunge to $1.58 per yard in 2002, or almost one-fifth that of 2006 (See Figure 1).
A very good year
Against the backdrop of a tough year for the industry in 2007, attendees of the NRMCA Fall Conference gained some insights from the 2006 survey. (The financial results from 2006 are reported in the 2007 survey). Here are some of the trends the data suggests.
Here's where the historical trend helps. The average selling price was only $69.44 in 2004. Thus, the industry witnessed selling price growth of almost $21, or a remarkable 30%, per-yard in just two short years. Most experts agree that the pricing strength of cement and aggregates drove this growth. These factors are likely to help keep prices moving upward, albeit at a much slower rate as demand weakens.


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Senior setter Jami Perry of the Tornado volleyball team has been named Tornado Athlete of the Week for the 12th week of the 2008-09 season. Perry earned 66 of the 147 votes cast by visitors of BCTornados.com, or 44.9%
Perry, a senior from Greer, S.C., closed her Brevard College career last week with one final victory and an appearance in the South Atlantic Conference tournament, a program first. Tuesday against North Greenville, in her final home match, Perry tallied five kills, 26 assists and ten digs as the Tornados whitewashed
Perry finished the season ranked 6th in the SAC in assists, averaging 7.86 per game. Under Perry's leadership, the Tornados won 14 matches, including the first three SAC wins in program history.
The Tornado Athlete of the Week is determined by a fan poll on the frontpage of BCTornados.com. Candidates for the Tornado Athlete of the Week award are announced and voting opens every Saturday night at 10 p.m. Voting closes on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m.
Week 1 - Brooke Seaman, Volleyball
Week 2 - Bailey Varley, Women's Soccer
Week 3 - Rebecca Schoonover, Volleyball
Week 4 - Nikki Peacock, Women's Soccer
Week 5 - Stanley Jones, Football
Week 6 - Stanley Jones, Football
Week 7 - Trey Wilborn, Football
Week 8 - Alycia Andrade, Women's Cross Country
Week 9 - Jussi Halonen, Men's Soccer
Week 10 - Jo Tuttle, Women's Cycling
Week 11 - Brooke Seaman, Volleyball
Week 12 - Jami Perry, Volleyball
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Black Sabbath is teaming up with Converse for a new line of sneakers. The Spring 2014 Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Black Sabbath collection includes several different designs inspired by the heavy metal band.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Sen. Mark R. Warner, among the few Senate Democrats to hold favor with the National Rifle Association, said Monday that the Connecticut elementary school massacre has reversed his stand on assault weapons.
Warner endorsed President Barack Obama's support for restricting rapid-fire rifles like those a gunman used in the massacre of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
"The status quo is not acceptable anymore," the centrist former Virginia governor said in interviews Monday at the state Capitol, recalling the horror his three daughters expressed Friday at the second-worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Its death toll is surpassed only by 2007 slayings of 32 people at Virginia Tech.
"There needs to be appropriate restrictions on these tools of mass-killing," Warner said, calling for tighter screening of gun buyers and stricter access to powerful, combat-style firearms capable of dispensing numerous shots in a short time.
He said he had not considered details of such legislation, but said he hopes to find moderate Republicans to help him advance pragmatic reforms that don't punish those who own firearms for hunting and self-defense.
"I hope this won't just be a flash point and then it will just recede into the quagmire in Washington," he said.
Warner presided over one of the most chilling murder sprees in history as governor 10 years ago when snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time, used a combat-style rifle to lie in ambush and kill 10 people, terrorizing the Washington area and surrounding region.
In his victorious 2001 gubernatorial campaign, Warner spoke out for gun rights and found support from sportsmen in rural areas. That kept the National Rifle Association on the sidelines and allowed Warner to win votes normally denied Democrats. As governor, he never vetoed pro-gun legislation.
Asked if he was concerned about clashing with the NRA as he looks toward a re-election bid in 2014, Warner said, "I hope the NRA will be a part of this conversation."
There was no immediate comment from officials at the organization's Fairfax, Va., headquarters.


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On 22 June, 2002, the Khaleej Times, the largest English-language newspaper published in Dubai, devoted wide space to the Harun Yahya collection. Written by M. A. Mannan and titled "Tremendous demand for Islamic literature in West," the report contained the following statements:
Two visiting volunteers of a Turkish non-profit organisation that has been actively promoting Islam in the West through the books written by prominent Muslim scholar, Harun Yahya, said there has been a tremendous demand for the Islamic literature in the West after the 9/11 events as people are trying to learn about the Islam and its perception on issues like terrorism and peace.
… [They] said the growing interest in Islam could be measured from the fact that the foundation"s offices were getting flooded with requests for literature, while the web sites offering Harun Yahya"s over 200 fully downloadable books and other electronic materials are attracting over a million visitors a month….
Over 150,000 visitors a month are downloading the Islamic literature available on the www.harunyahya.com which has been ranked the best Islamic site on the web.
They said web sites like www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com, www. islamdenouncesantisemitism.com, www.evolutiondeceit.com, www.perishednations.com, www.jesuswillreturn.com which are based on the books on Harun Yahya have been a great hit with the non-Muslims.
The report went on to state that Harun Yahya is the Honorary President of the SRF, and is the pen-name of Adnan Oktar who has penned books on topics ranging from science to politics and ethical problems. After listing in which languages his works are available, the report read:
"There is a great need to make more of his works, especially in Arabic, available in the Middle East. We are looking forward to working with publishers and organisations that are keen on promoting Islam," said [the volunteer]… He said publishers in Syria and Lebanon have published some works of Harun Yahya, but a lot needs to be done in the UAE and other parts of the Arabian Gulf.0000-00-00 00:00:00


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Jamie Baillie, PC Party leader and the MLA for Cumberland South, says residents need to have input into any decision on the town's future.
SPRINGHILL – Cumberland South MLA, Jamie Baillie, says residents should have official input in the decision to dissolve the Town of Springhill.
On Wednesday, Baillie voiced his constituents' concerns during the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board public hearing on the future of Springhill.
"Springhillers want their say in this important decision," said Baillie. "Without public consultation, voluntary amalgamation doesn't exist. The board needs to conduct a full analysis of how best to seek direct public input, so a fair, democratic decision can be made."
Baillie says conflicting reports have caused unnecessary stress to the town's residents and the UARB needs to complete proper due diligence before holding a formal hearing.
"Residents are increasingly frustrated by talk of doom and gloom and the flood of confusing and contradictory financial reports presented to date," said Baillie. "Springhill will need a clear, concise, independent audit of the town's financial position, before residents can be at peace with a decision."
Baillie says it's the board's responsibility to ensure town resources are protected.
"Are we stronger together or not? Are our economic and community assets more secure, or less? asked Baillie. "These are important questions for the board to study. Only when all of the proper research is conducted and the public's voice is heard, will residents will have the peace of mind they deserve. Regardless of the outcome, Springhill will always be Springhill."
The people of Springhill are strong and they resilient, Baillie concluded. No matter the outcome of this application, they will persevere.


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The death of Robin Williams was one of the hardest Hollywood losses in years, and last night (September 18) Billy Crystal dropped by "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to talk about his heartfelt Emmy tribute last month.
It's been a few weeks since the world lost Robin Williams, and last night (August 25) close friend Billy Crystal shared some kind words about the late and legendary entertainer.
During his remarks, the "When Harry Met Sally" actor highlighted several experiences he shared with Williams, always emphasizing Robin's humor and heart.
There is no denying he's a legend not only in baseball, but in the world of sports. Earlier this year, Derek Jeter announced that he is retiring from the field and will end his run as a New York Yankee at the end of this season.
Although there is plenty of baseball to play this year, tributes for the 40-year-old athlete are already here. Jordan Brand, a subsidiary of Nike, released an ad titled "RE2PECT" featuring a number of famous names in sports and entertainment tipping their hats to Jeter.
For anyone alive in the late 1980s, "When Harry Met Sally" was the iconic relationship flick, and last night (April 28) Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan teamed up to honor director Rob Reiner.
Gearing up for a night packed with almost as many stars as the Golden Globes, Jay Leno hit the stage one final time to bid a tear-filled farewell to friends and fans of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Back in 1992 he took over "The Tonight Show" from Johnny Carson and Jay Leno's first guest was the legendary Billy Crystal.
And when the 63-year-old comedian ends his 22-year stint behind the desk, Billy will be back as his final guest.
Taking fans further back into their fun-loving story, Disney and Pixar released the final trailer for "Monster's University" on Friday (May 31).
Featuring a toddler version of Mike Wazowski (played by Billy Crystal), eager movie goers get a glimpse back in time before he and James P. Sullivan ( John Goodman) become the scarers we them as today.
Giving eager fans even more to be excited about, Disney Pixar released a new trailer for "Monsters Univeristy" on Thursday (April 25).


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Jamie Foxx calls out Jay Z & Kanye West at March on Washington celebration
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As one of today's speakers for the commemoration of the March on Washington in our Nation's Capital, actor Jamie Foxx did what he does best: impressions, jokes and dished up some serious truth.
In his 3 minute speech, the actor, wearing a suit that reminds us of his Django premier 'fit, told a story about the time when he and his daughter first met Harry Belafonte and spoke to him about his work with the Civil Rights moments. Inspired by Belafonte's commitment, Jamie Foxx took a few moments to speak to his celebrity peers about activism, continuing the movement, and being agents of change.
"What we need to do now, the young folks pick it up now so that when we're 87 years old talking to the other young folks we can say it was me, Will Smith, Jay Z, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Kerry Washington… the list goes on. Don't make me star preaching up here," he said.
"Everybody my age and all of the entertainers, it's time for us to stand up now and renew this dream."
Foxx's words were met with roaring applause as we're sure many in the rainy audience remember Jay Z's recent statements about his presence being "charity", and the public tongue lashing that Harry Belafonte gave him.
Kerry Washington and Alicia Keys have long been political figures both in Hollywood and on the national stage, but we agree that our black male actors need to step up.
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Phoenix jeweler Alfredo J. Molina set a world record for the sale of a diamond.
Christie's auctioned off Molina's Archduke Joseph Diamond for nearly $21.5 million Tuesday night, a world auction record price per carat for a colorless diamond.
The Archduke Joseph Diamond went for $21,474,525 including commission at Christie's auction. That was well above the expected $15 million and more than triple the price paid for it at auction almost two decades ago. The 76.02-carat diamond, with perfect color and internally flawless clarity, came from the ancient Golconda mines in India.
Molina, owner of Molina Fine Jewelers in Phoenix, said immediately afterward that there were two main bidders and that he was delighted with the result. Molina said the winning bidder, who wished to remain anonymous, is going to donate the diamond for display at a museum.
"It's a great price for a stone of this quality," Molina told The Associated Press. "It's one of a kind, so it's like saying 'Are you pleased when you sell the Mona Lisa?' Or 'Are you pleased when you sell the Hope Diamond?' It's all what the market will bear, and the stone sold for a very serious price."
Named for Archduke Joseph August of Austria, the great-grandson of both a Holy Roman emperor and a French king, the diamond passed to his son, Archduke Joseph Francis, who put it in a bank vault, then to an anonymous buyer who kept it in a safe during World War II. From there it surfaced at a London auction in 1961, then at a Geneva auction in 1993, when Christie's sold it for $6.5 million.


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Gloria Tan came to Green River College fall 2012 for the University Transfer program. Gloria chose Green River because of all the opportunities it had to offer.
Her goal is to major in International Relations and transfer to American University. She is currently taking 24 credits. "I am on a timeline," Gloria said. "There are a lot of things I want to study!" Gloria is not only working on getting her AA, but also a certificate in Gender Studies and Diversity Studies. In addition, she is trying to learn three new languages, Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch, to add to her existing fluency in English, Mandarin, Hakka (a Chinese dialect), and French.
"My classes are really interesting. I really like my humanities and social science classes. The instructors are very patient and encourage critical thinking. In other words, you don't have to always agree with the instructor. This is very different from my country where you are taught not to disagree. Here at Green River, I am encouraged to question everything and to think more deeply."
In addition to all the classes she is taking, Gloria is very active on campus. She is one of five International Student Ambassadors and the President of the Asian Student Union and the Green River Model United Nations Club. You can read about the Model UN conference at Harvard last year. Read Life at Green River Blog.
When Gloria has free time, which is rare, she likes to sing, dance and hang out with friends. Why is Gloria's plate so full? Because on one of her first days at Green River, Ross Jennings, Vice President of International Programs, told all the new students to say "yes" to everything. To throw themselves into club activities, student government, and to live life to the fullest." Gloria said, "Whenever I see Ross Jennings, I tell him I am so busy and it is his fault," she told me with a laugh. The truth is, she is very grateful for the many opportunites here which have helped her grow a lot as a person.


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The type of people who say better him then me lol
The type of people who say better him then me lol
Thanks for the info guys. my brief has changed a good bit since i last posted. I'm researching peoples perspective of combat sports to try and identify problems when people start training in these sports. I study product design (in the netherlands but i just moved here from glasgow) (but also service and system design) and i started with a very open brief. Overall, i'm trying to improve people's experience, so whether that turns out to be a product (e.g. new gloves or something, new design of head protection etc) or a service i dont yet know. the whole people getting punched thing is really only when you take it to the next level, before that it's mostly technique and cardio, but then thats just my experience. But im trying to identify ways to improve the experience. What im mostly trying to find out, is what sucks about training and what could be improved. But cheers for the input guys.
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You are trying to identify why people don't participate, or give up doing combat sports early but really maybe your should look at why people DO the sport.
In any sport the grind is what makes you stronger, its part of the evolution of body and mind. The reality is that some people would like the idea of wearing a gold medal but would not do/understand a quarter of what is needed to earn it. Combat sports arn't for everyone, a lot of people like the idea of walking around confidently, being able to handle themselves in a fight and to brag and tell others that they are a fighter and in some occasions start trouble normally with someone they view as weaker in order to get a rush.
These people to not understand what the gold medal around the neck represents, they are in love with the idea but not the reality. You could view this as self image actualisation as opposed to self actualisation. Now put into the mix that the relatively new idea of EQUALITY, that everyone should be able to do what they want and you have a big market for those who want to be seen as a fighter but in reality will not be able to handle the pain or discomfort that comes with it.
So really in terms of trying to find out what 'sucks' about training in order to increase participation, might it be you will be decreasing the strength of that gene pool. The classic example of this currently is those people who walk round saying they are a boxer when all the actually do is boxercise!
My assumption would be that people who work hard for their sport are more grounded to natural laws, people who do things for image and to validate themselves are more materialistic, massive assumption I know but an idea all the same.
So find out what makes most of the people who work hard and stick in the sport different from people who give up, then educate and reinforce these principles, make people realise that yes its supposed to be hard, you will get a black eye, you will get injured, but this isn't a Wii, this isn't a computer game, you are a living thing and you potential is limitless! You may not ever become a champion but we all have the chance to achieve greatness.
'Don't pray for a lighter load, pray for stronger shoulders' That is of course how evolution works. Keep training hard!
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JILL PAINTER: UCLA beats USC to end college football monopoly in Los Angeles
VINCENT BONSIGNORE: USC quarterback Matt Barkley still lacks signature victory after stunning defeat to UCLA
PASADENA — A dance party erupted in the UCLA locker room, one filled with primal screams and sprayed Sprite streams.
The team rule, as it has been all season, allots 24 hours for celebration.
Coming off their biggest win in years, the No. 17 Bruins were going to use each and every one of them.
That 38-28 shellacking of No. 21 USC?
The first rivalry win since 2006, second since 1998. In exorcising those tired demons, UCLA clinched the Pacific-12 Conference South Division title.
It set up a shot at going to the Rose Bowl.
"I've never had this feeling before," Bruins tight end Joseph Fauria said. "I'm kind of coming off the walls a little bit. I'm controlling myself now, but once you guys are gone I'm gonna go crazy."
The Bruins (9-2, 6-2 Pac-12) seized control from the start, outgaining USC (7-4, 5-4) in the first quarter 137 yards to 63. Behind a superlative performance by redshirt freshman Brett Hundley, UCLA scored the first 24 points of the game. It was the Bruins' biggest lead in the Los Angeles rivalry since 1986.
Hundley, who spent much of the game escaping pressure and making third- and fourth-down completions, announced himself as the best quarterback in the city — and maybe the conference.
He finished 22 for 30 with 234 yards and a touchdown.
"He doesn't look like a freshman," Fauria said. "He's so poised. He's a leader. ... I knew in his eyes. I look in his eyes every series. I can tell. He has the eyes of a leader, eyes of a winner."
Tailback Johnathan Franklin had 171 yards on 29 carries to go with two touchdowns.
Matt Barkley, whose NFL stock has gradually dipped all year long, entered the game trying to become the first Trojan to beat UCLA four times as a starting quarterback.
He responded with what will likely be remembered as the worst game of his USC career. On his first snap, he threw an interception to Aaron Hester, the UCLA cornerback who had yet to record one all season.
"I was really proud of those guys," head coach Jim Mora said of the secondary. "They're much-maligned. ... I'm just happy for all the seniors."
USC clawed back in the middle of the game, helped somewhat by the weather.
For the first time since 1961, rain fell on the Los Angeles rivalry game.
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The fumble was credited as a team loss of 20 yards. Andre Heidari's extra point failed, one of a series of special teams blunders by USC.
Marqise Lee, who returned eight kicks for 251 yards against Oregon two weeks ago, was a non-factor on special teams. UCLA punter Jeff Locke, a Ray Guy Award semifinalist, kicked the ball off six times for six touchbacks.
Lee, arguably one of college football's most dangerous players, never had a chance.
Barkley gave the Trojans one last gasp with a 14-yard strike to Lee with just more than seven minutes left. Robert Woods then converted two points with a nice grab in the back of the end zone. USC was down just three points.
A few minutes later, Franklin's 29-yard touchdown run put UCLA up by two possessions.
The final insult came with 2:17 left. Linebacker Anthony Barr threw down Barkley with a monstrous sack, leaving the quarterback on the ground for a few minutes before exiting the game.
Barkley walked to the sideline without assistance.
His arm in a sling after the game, Barkley finished 20-of-38 passing with 301 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions.
"Obviously, we're extremely disappointed in the season," Trojans head coach Lane Kiffin said. "We're too talented to have this many losses, and that falls on me."
The game was sealed at 1:41 when Sheldon Price blocked USC's 38-yard field goal attempt, sending the Bruins racing down the field in celebration.


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I stayed at that place in Nic and it was good when i was there. You can really surf cheap in EL Sal if you don't have high needs for rooms...there are some rooms for 10$ with two beds down there and pupusas are like 4 for a buck or something crazy. Costa Rica and PR are NOT cheap...but great places to go. Everything in Central America is off season except a few North facing places in Mexico and the sports like Dominical and Escondido that always have waves. Mexico remains cheap as and Escondido still breaks in the winter just not huge. Thats where I would go. Northern Peru is sick and very cheap and you don't need a wetsuit and the surf is IN season....although it's only half consistent. You can always drive to Florida although that isn't really a "surf"trip...but there have been waves there a lot for the last month...have fun
Wherever you go try to fly Virgin. They're always a little more expensive (50-75 bucks) but you'll get a way nicer experience and no boards fees cause they don't charge
Dominican isn't bad and real cheap. Flights are under $400 usually. You can stay for about $25/night including breakfast and dinner. Waves aren't as good as PR, but still lots of fun and warm! Cabarete is a fun little town.
Puerto Rico. Fly spirit, stay someplace low key, eat tacos and empandadas, drink lots of MEDALLA. I've done it every year the past 3 years for less than $1000. Flight + boards, stay, food, drink, smoke. The waves aren't as good as other places south of the boarder but its the cheapest. Also, 85 degree water.
Stayed at the Dos Angeles del Mar Guesthouse in '08 at Sandy Beach. Really nice place run by a surfer from the Northeast.
I agree it does get blown out but hey its cheap and I had a lot of fun there.


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I have two laptops both with the Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250, and both are acting strange when typing in airmon-ng.
When I run airmon-ng, It just hangs, and I have to force close the app using ctrl c. I've tried debugging it using gdb and seeing where it hangs; It appears the computer doesn't think it has a network connection, yet I am clearly posting this from said computer now.
If I go into the wireless connection menu under the internet tab, I can connect to any unsecured ap but not any ap that has any sort of encryption (even having a legit passcode).
I'm using kernel 2.6.38 and iwlwifi-6050-ucode-184.108.40.206.... I don't know what else to do in order to get this to work, as I can't seem to get the card to actively think it's installed, nor can I figure out how to set up the driver to accept any packet injection (for testing my own networks of course).
Any clue of a fix for this? A lot of newer computers are coming out with this card or a variant.
Have you entered the password in WICD for the encrypted AP's ?
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I have the same problem. The only difference is that I installed BT5 R1 because I thought it would solve the driver problem. When I run airmon-ng it doesnt even recognize the wireless device. I read your BT5 recognizes the wireless device. Could you please tell me how you installed it. I tried to install it on BT4 but I didn't know how to load it.
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The Department of Mathematics offers three major programs and one minor program. The major programs are the B.A. in Mathematics, the B.S. in Mathematics, and the B.S. in Mathematics Adolescence Education. These programs are designed for the variety of future goals and career plans of our students.
The B.A. in Mathematics is a very flexible degree designed to allow students selecting this option to prepare for a wide variety of careers. Recent graduates have gone on to positions with financial institutions; insurance companies; retirement systems; companies involved in engineering, communications, computers, and other technological endeavors; and various government agencies. The program requires students to succeed in coursework in core mathematics that serves as a foundation for work in virtually any area. The total credit-hour requirements are kept low (33 credits of required courses plus two mathematics electives), which enables the student to pursue a minor or even a second major, focusing the preparation for a particular career path and increasing marketability.
The B.S. in Mathematics is an in-depth study that allows students to receive recognition for taking significantly more upper-level mathematics and mathematics-related courses. It helps students prepare for further mathematical work, including graduate school in mathematics or related areas. In addition to the core mathematics required for the B.A., students in the B.S. take one additional required mathematics course and 6 additional upper-level elective courses with significant mathematical content.
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La Bassée
The Film
Pour la vitesse
Chaque film de ce site est disponible pour visionnage en basse vitesse et en haute vitesse.
- Basse vitesse : recommandée si votre accès Internet se fait avec un modem de 56 kbps ou moins. Le visionnage en basse vitesse fournit une moins bonne qualité d'image et de son.
- Haute vitesse : recommandée avec service Internet haute vitesse (ADSL, modem câble) ou avec ordinateur d'institution. Le visionnage en haute vitesse fournit la meilleure qualité d'image et de son. Le visionnage en haute vitesse peut produire des images saccadées et des interruptions occasionnelles de son si la vitesse de votre connexion est insuffisante.
En cas d'hésitation, essayez d'abord de visionner en haute vitesse. Si cela ne fonctionne pas, essayez la basse vitesse.
Pour le format
Les films peuvent être disponibles pour visionnage en format Macromedia Flash et QuickTime. Tous offrent une qualité égale d'image et de son.
- Format Flash : permet de visionner le film directement dans la page Web, sans avoir à ouvrir une application externe. Nécessite le plugiciel Flash (offert gratuitement ici Macromedia Flash Player).
- Format QuickTime : nécessite l'application QuickTime, soit la version 7 ou plus récent (offert gratuitement ici QuickTime).
Sous-titrage pour malentendants (CC)
Consiste à inscrire à l'écran sous forme de sous-titres, la partie sonore d'un film, par exemple les dialogues, la narration, incluant rires, bruits, etc. Ainsi, les personnes vivant avec un handicap auditif peuvent lire ce qu'ils ne peuvent pas entendre. Le sous-titrage est offert pour quelques films. Pour y avoir accès, vous devez sélectionner QuickTime (sous Format) et Avec sous-titrage pour malentendants (sous Accessibilité).
Vidéodescription (DV)
Consiste à offrir une description orale des éléments visuels clés d'un film, de telle sorte que les personnes vivant avec un handicap visuel peuvent concevoir une imagerie mentale en rapport avec le déroulement des images à l'écran. La vidéodescription est offerte pour quelques films. Pour y avoir accès, vous devez sélectionner QuickTime (sous Format) et Avec vidéodescription (sous Accessibilité).
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Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
A still photograph, irised in and out, of two Bulgarian officers in a car on their way te negotiate the surrender of Bulgaria to the Allies, Salonika Front, 30 September 1918.
British and Canadian advance through towns abandoned by the Germans, Western Front, October 1918. Armentičres, set on fire by the Germans in their retreat, no longer burning but showing damage to the main streets. Lens and its church are a pile of rubble and bricks. La Bassée is only half-standing, British troops, of I Corps, inspect the ruins before marching off. Some British sappers dig through the banks of the La Bassée Canal to make a crossing point. Cambrai (tinted red) s on fire as troops et Canadian 3rd Division watch. The Canadians, one carrying a French flag, move through the city, working as firefighters with pumps and buckets. Lorrytowed 4.5-inch howitzers move through the town (tinting ends).
The entrances to the two captured forts of Nogent-l'Abbesse and Brimont from which the Germans bombarded Rheims, Western Front, October 1918.
General Mangin talks with US Ambassador William G Sharp near Laon, posed for cameras, Western Front, October 1918.
Pieces of History
Engineers on the Western Front
Bill Rawling
Historian, Department of National Defence
The Western Front made huge demands in matériel, lumber being an excellent example. Wood was needed to revet trenches, support the roofs of dugouts, for plank or corduroy roads, and as sleepers for tramways and railways. These tasks became the responsibility of the military engineers, specialized forestry units being formed for the purpose. Lumberjacks, graders and other skilled men from within the lumber industry were recruited. They cut timber and ran their own sawmills to provide a finished product.
The first forestry companies in the war were formed in 1915, in France. More units were created in England to harvest the island's local resources. All of these were gathered into a corps in 1916 that eventually comprised 43 companies, and was of such a scale as to require its own hospital system. The men received more than the normal food rations, considering the fact that they were engaged in continuous hard labour.
Their work, in Britain and France, saved huge amounts in shipping costs, not to mention freeing up lumber supplies for such industrial endeavours as shoring up mines and building trawlers and other vessels. Nor did the forestry corps limit its work to cutting and preparing wood. Many of its units supported the Royal Air Force by clearing, draining, levelling and grading sites for aerodromes. By the time of the Armistice 11,750 men worked within its ranks, with another 6000 attached in various capacities.
Closer to the fighting there was a need for heavy-capacity means of transport to get the prodigious amounts of ammunition, food, water and other necessary matériel to the front line. One solution to such an intimidating logistical problem was the construction of tramways with specialized labour, with other specialists maintaining and operating the tractors and rolling stock. The result was a system of transport similar to that of a large North American city run by the Canadian Railway Troops. The troops worked on the Western Front and also in Palestine, the 1st Bridging Company serving there in the last part of the war. The system was, in fact, a merging of two networks, tramways closer to the front operating with gasoline-powered tractors while light railways a little farther behind used steam power, the whole being linked to France's broad gauge system, which had been built in the decades before the conflict.
In the end, the war became too mobile for railway troops to keep up, and when an Armistice was declared on November 11, 1918, the railways were some 30 kilometres behind the forward troops, in spite of the work of 25,000 railway construction engineers, two-thirds of them Canadian. Still, they had served their purpose in the almost four years of near-static warfare that characterized the Western Front from late 1914 to the summer of 1918.
It became clear in the early months of the First World War that operations above ground were distinctly hazardous, even suicidal, hence the trenches and dugouts in which soldiers took shelter. An obvious course was to begin operating underground, and within the Canadian Corps three specialized tunnelling companies were formed. Recruited in the main among miners and clay-kickers (the latter dug smaller tunnels to run gas and water mains under city streets), they began their work in 1915, and their role was multi-faceted. First, they used the galleries they excavated under enemy lines to listen in on his own work, the aim being to give fair warning if he began to threaten Canadian lines underground. Second, they might pack the galleries with explosives to destroy enemy defences; generally, however, such operations proved disappointing as German forces usually occupied the crater thus created before Canadian or British troops could reach it.
Tunnelling was particularly hazardous. Working underground can release toxic gas capable of disabling or killing, or one could find oneself tunnelling into an enemy gallery, leading to vicious little skirmishes fought with knives and digging tools. When fighting shifted from a mutual siege to more open warfare in 1918, tunnellers applied their skills to other work, disarming booby traps in dugouts and other underground facilities as the Allies advanced towards the German border. In fact, the only Canadian military engineer ever to be awarded the Victoria Cross was Captain C.N. Mitchell, a tunneller who in 1918 removed explosives from a bridge while under attack.
Field Engineering
The most versatile of the engineers operated on the front line. Originally organized in field companies of a hundred men or so, in 1918 they were reorganized into larger battalions and even brigades. Regardless of how they were administered, their tasks were widely varied. Just behind the front line they were responsible for building and maintaining roads, as well as providing water for humans and animals, the latter task requiring some of them at least to possess knowledge of how to locate and test the precious liquid. To give just two examples, part of the preparations for the assault on Vimy Ridge included laying over 40 miles (65 km) of four-inch (10 cm) pipe, with five pumping stations and a total storage capacity of 560,000 gallons. Following the successful advance at Amiens in August 1918, one of the deepest penetrations achieved on the Western Front, the Canadian Corps and its allies found itself in the midst of a plain scorched dry by the summer sun, but engineers needed only two days to locate sufficient water to keep forward troops satiated.
In the front lines proper, sappers, as they were called, dug trenches, or oversaw this work done by the infantry work parties, and prepared defensive positions with the copious use of barbed wire. On occasion, as for a trench raid, for example, they were called upon to destroy such wire, using long cylinders filled with explosive called ammonal tubes or bangalore torpedoes. When that front line advanced, as in 1918, bridging became a most crucial sapper task, as forward movement could not be maintained without ammunition, water, food, and the other necessities of making war, all of which needed to be transported forward on roads or railways, both of which needed bridges to get across rivers and other, similar obstacles. Small structures made of cork sufficed to get the infantry across, while prefabricated materials called Inglis bridges carried heavier loads.
At the time of the Armistice what could be called field engineers (as opposed to railway and forestry troops) could count 14,285 men within their ranks, with responsibilities only somewhat less diverse than their numbers.
Selected Bibliography
Kerry, A.J. and W.A. McDill. The History of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, Volume I (1749-1939). Ottawa : Military Engineers Association of Canada, 1962.
Chaplin-Thomas, Charmion, Vic Johnson and Bill Rawling. Ubique! : Canadian Military Engineers : A Century of Service. Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing House, 2003.
Artillery: The Great Killer
Tim Cook
Historian, Canadian War Museum
In 1914 and 1915, artillery proved it was the great killer. For those caught in the open, shrapnel and high explosive shells wreacked havoc. Thousands were left rotting on the battlefields. However, artillery guns were vulnerable to small arms fire, and they could be driven away from the front. But the guns were soon firing indirectly from hidden positions several kilometeres to the rear, still causing terrible damage. Soldiers were forced to find safety in trenches, digging beneath the ground to escape the murderous fire.
As trenches were strengthened with barbed wire, deep dugouts, and machine -guns, an enormous weight of fire was needed to smash the enemy defences and support the infantry. But there were not always enough shells in the early years to feed the guns. And so the infantry were killed in the tens of thousands as they attacked undamaged enemy trenches in frontal assaults. As the war lengthened, artillerymen received nearly unlimited supplies of shells through the enormous production of munitions factories. New tactics were also developed to improve the accuracy of the guns.
Artillery shells contained high explosives, shrapnel, and, later in the war, poison gas and smoke. Both the high explosive and shrapnel shells were timed to detonate in the air above a target. High explosive shells blasted holes in the trenches and the concussion alone could kill, as lungs collapsed under the force of the explosion. Shrapnel shells were equally deadly, consisting of more than 300 rounded metal balls that exploded downward in a cone-shaped rain of whirling metal. As well, the casing of the shell was designed to explode outward, creating jagged, uneven shards of steel that tore through flesh.
By 1916, commanders believed that massive artillery shoots, involving hundreds of thousands of shells, would annihilate the enemy defenders. This would allow the infantry to punch a hole through enemy lines and restore mobility on the Western Front.
However, it was often hard to hit, and then destroy, the narrow and well-fortified trenches. The problem also lay in the shell fuses. Earlier types were not sensitive enough to explode on contact, especially with shells tasked to clear barbed wire. As a result, many of the shells exploded in the ground, killing very few of the enemy, leaving the infantry to fight their way through defences-in-depth. By the end of 1916, newer, sensitive fuses that exploded on the slightest contact harnessed the destructive power of the artillery and, equally important to the infantry, cleared barbed wire from in front of enemy trenches.
Tactics again changed during the later phases of the bloody battles of the Somme in the last half of 1916. The gunners would never be able to destroy all of the German defences, and even one machine -gunner could kill hundreds of attacking infantry. Instead, the artillery sought to suppress enemy fire through a "creeping barrage," and give their own attacking infantry enough time to cross the killing zone of nNo Mman's Lland.
Gunners fired their shells to create a "creeping" wall of fire that slowly moved forward over the enemy lines at fixed intervals: 50 yards (46 m) every couple of minutes, less for muddy ground, more for open warfare. In effect, it was a screen of fire and explosives. As this moving wall of shrapnel and high explosives chewed up the ground in its path, the infantry were told to "lean into the barrage" and stay as close as possible. Although friendly fire was expected and occurred, the casualties would still be lighter than if the creeping barrage moved off and allowed German machine -gunners, waiting in the safety of deep dugouts, to get to the top of their trenches before the infantry crossed nNo Mman's lLand.
At the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, the gunners had perfected the creeping barrage. Yet enemy gunners still took a fearful toll as they laid down their own counter-barrages to catch the follow-on waves of infantry. The enemy guns had to be stopped, or slowed, but it was exceedingly difficult to identify, target, and destroy camouflaged guns several kilometeres away.
Accurate intelligence was essential, and new and refined forms of science aided the gunners. The Canadian Corps was lucky to have Brigadier-General Andrew McNaughton, commander of the counter-battery office for much of the war, who embraced new technology and tactics. A prewar professor at McGill University, he turned to science to save his soldiers lives.
The Canadian Counter Battery Office (CCBO), established in February 1917, gathered intelligence and processed information on the enemy to assist in knocking out his guns. Aerial reconnaissance from the Royal Flying Corps (later Royal Air Force) was of great assistance as airmen photographed the front from great heights. Later in the war, observation aircraft circled the battlefield, passing real-time information to the gunners through letter drops and primitive wireless radio.
As the CCBO developed after April 1917, this information-gathering and target-selection became more sophisticated, with new technology, like sound-ranging and flash-spotting, assisting gunners to find and destroy enemy targets.
Flash-spotting involved the coordination of observers. At least three posts were needed, usually spread out along several kilometeres. When an enemy gun position was spotted by the revealing flash as the shell left the barrel, the observers were telephoned by headquarters to turn their attention to that spot. After studying the flash of the gun, the observers would hit a key that was connected to a lamp at headquarters. From the observers' bearings, and by triangulating their estimates, enemy guns could be located with high precision.
Sound-ranging worked on a similar principle. Listeners sat two kilometeres behind the line with their microphones. Additional posts were manned well ahead of these positions. As long as there was not more than one shell per second being fired, on hearing the crash of an enemy gun, the forward listening post pressed a key that started an oscillograph, an instrument that recorded on film the sound of the shell in flight as it reached each microphone in turn. The time-intervals between the microphones allowed the CCBO to analyse the information and, if conditions were optimal, pinpoint enemy guns to within twenty-five 25 yards (23 m). All available counter-battery guns would be aimed on that spot to deliver a destructive shoot of 50-100 shells. Chemical shells were also used to kill or force the enemy gunners to wear debilitating respirators that severely affected the rate of fire.
In the last year of the war, artillery had perfected the creeping barrage and was steadily improving its counter-battery work. Further tactical refinement allowed gunners to fire more complicated barrages, like a box barrage. The box barrages set up a wall of fire and explosives around an enemy position —-- usually a trench —-- which effectively isolated it from reinforcements. It allowed assaulting Canadian infantrymen to capture and consolidate a position without fear of immediate counterattack.
By war's end, 43,914 gunners had served in the Canadian artillery, and 2,565 had lost their lives from disease, injury, and battlefield wounds. They had fired tens of millions of shells, reducing the landscape to a desolate wasteland, and an estimated 60% of all wounds were inflicted by shell fire. The First World War was indeed a gunner's war.
Selected Bibliography
Cook, Tim. No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999.
McNaughton, A.G.L. "Counter-Battery Work." Canadian Defence Quarterly 3, 4 (July, 1926).
McNaughton, A.G.L. "The Development of Artillery in the Great War." Canadian Defence Quarterly 4, 2 (January, 1929).
Nicholson, G.W.L. The Gunners of Canada: The History of the Royal Regiment of the Canadian Artillery, Vol. 1: 1534-1919 Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967.
Rawling, William. Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Swettenham, John. McNaughton, Volume I. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968.
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.


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