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M.S. Program in Statistics
The M.S. in Statistics is administered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics located in the Chapman Building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) campus. UAF is reputed for its strength in the natural sciences, especially in those areas touching on the arctic environment. Many institutes and departments use statistical methodology in their research, among them the Institute of Arctic Biology, the Institute of Marine Sciences, the Geophysical Institute, the Department of Biology and Wildlife and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The MS in Statistics program builds upon UAF's strength in the natural sciences by introducing a strong quantitative alternative to existing programs. Graduates of this program could be labeled quantitative biologists, biometricians, quantitative geologists, geostatisticians, or mathematical statisticians depending upon their specific coursework. In addition, this program prepares individuals for Ph.D. level work in statistics or in their area of application. Students pursuing a Ph.D. in another field can pursue the M.S. program in statistics simultaneously. The program is intended to take two academic years to complete for individuals with the appropriate prerequisite courses and does not interfere with summer field work in the area of specialization.
Qualifications of Graduates
Graduates of the program will be qualified to do the following:
- Plan and implement high quality natural resource assessment projects including the full range of statistical objectives from sample or experimental design to data processing and interpretation of results.
- Qualify for Biometrician I positions with the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game (Click link to see WorkPlace Alaska job specifications).
- Teach courses with high statistical content including those in wildlife, biology, fisheries, geology, or natural resource management.
- Pursue a Ph.D. in Statistics or a field of application
Previous students have become biometricians for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, statisticians in university institutional research groups and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, and gone on to complete Ph.D. programs is statistics or other fields.
The Program
The program is built around three core courses (Statistical Theory I, II and III labeled STAT 651, 652, and 653) and a collection of elective courses that enroll students from a variety of disciplines. The core courses are designed to blend the two semesters of mathematical statistics typical of an M.S. program in statistics with real applications. Such a blending requires a third semester but provides a substantial improvement in the graduate's skills, see course descriptions below.
Sources of Funding.
The Department of Mathematical Sciences offers several teaching assistant positions, consisting of a stipend (scroll down on this link to see stipend amounts) and tuition waiver.
Applications are evaluated when complete. To be competitive for financial support, applications should be complete at least six months before intended admission. Firm application deadlines are June 1 for fall admission and October 15 for spring (March 1 and Sept 1 for international applicants).
The department also works with other units on campus to arrange research assistantships (RA); we typically have several students on RAs. Some students already enrolled in other programs are externally supported.
Thesis/Project Options and Examinations
The program is typically completed with a project. Two presentations to faculty and fellow students are associated with the project; first, a proposal presentation laying out the plan of work; second, a project completion presentation. If a thesis is written rather than a project, it must follow the required UAF thesis format requirements (see UAF graduate school). The project must be summarized in the required format for a specific journal (e.g., The Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, The Journal of Wildlife Managment, or Canadian Journal of Fisheries) and the final project must be made available in a pdf format for library archives.
All students in the program must pass the following examinations:
- A written comprehensive examination covering both applications and theory related to the core statistics courses (STAT 651-653),
- Demonstrated ability to program in a common programming language and/or a major statistical computing package (commonly included in the project or thesis),
- An oral examination covering coursework, thesis, and/or project.
Student Admission Qualifications
To be admitted to the program, an applicant must complete the general UAF procedures for admission into the graduate program and submit the following:
- Three letters of recommendation concerning the applicants educational background specifically addressing mathematics and statistics background;
- Statement of Interest;
- Resume;
- General GRE scores;
- Complete transcripts for all college level coursework; and
- must have completed at least a bachelors degree from an accredited institution including the completion of the following courses or their equivalent with a grade of B or better:
- A full calculus sequence (at UAF MATH 200, 201, and 202); Alternatively, students completing MATH 262 or MATH 272 must take MATH 201 and MATH 202 before acceptance into this program.
- A course in linear algebra (MATH 314); and
- At least one introductory statistics or probability course (STAT 200 or 300 or MATH 371)
- Completion of a statistics course in regression and ANOVA is highly recommended but not required
Guidance for New Graduate Students
Shortly after starting your program you should download and read UAF's Graduate School Manual (scroll down to download manual)
During your first semester you should meet all the statistics faculty and get to know their research interests, then form a graduate advisory committee consisting of at least three statistics faculty members and identify one of the statistics faculty members to chair the committee as your Advisor. You may select one advisory committee member from another UAF department or from a different institution. Complete and submit UAF's Graduate Advisory Committee form. Copies should be kept by the department administrative assistant in your file, by your advisor and by you. You may change advisors later in your program if your project work is related to someone other than your original advisor.
You should meet with your advisor to draft a graduate study plan, the list of courses you intend to take, any deficiencies that may need to be completed, and when you expect to complete your program requirements. Once you have a draft graduate study plan you should meet with your committee to see if any revisions are suggested.
You may be asked to take courses to remedy deficiencies identified by the advisory committee. The advisory committee can also decide, in accordance with university policy, whether specific transfer graduate courses may be allowed as part of the program (at most 9 credits).
Once the graduate study plan is approved by your committee, the signed original should go to the graduate school. Copies should be kept by the department administrative assistant in your file, by your advisor and by you.
You should enroll in at least 9 credits per semester; these courses should be those on your graduate study plan. First semester students should enroll in STAT 651 and other courses suggested by a statistics faculty member as appropriate for your background. In your third and fourth semesters as a graduate student you should enroll in 3 credits of research each semester. Prior to or early in the third semester you should identify a research project and begin work on it with your advisor, discuss it with your committee, revising it as necessary, and present your project proposal at the statistics seminar. During your fourth semester you should complete the written project in the required format of a specific journal (as agreed upon with your committee) and give an oral presentation of your project, using Power Point, at the statistics seminar. You should also produce a pdf copy of your project and send it to your advisor for the library archives. In addition, in your fourth semester you should enroll in STAT 654, Statistical Consulting.
You should complete and submit an advancement to candidacy form at least one semester before you intend to graduate. Fill out the application for graduation at the beginning of the semester in which you intend to graduate.
During your fourth semester, typically mid April, you will take the written comprehensive exam. This exam is a four hour written exam covering the content of STAT 651, 652, and 653. This exam is graded pass or fail. During the week or two after the written exam is graded you will present your project to the statistics seminar then your committee will conduct an oral examination (only if you have passed the written exams). The content of the oral exam may include questions concerning your project and questions concerning the written exam, especially any areas where your answers may have been incorrect or incomplete. Students are allowed two attempts to pass the written exam. Second attempts are typically at least 6 months after a first failed attempt.
Program Requirements
The program requires the following specific requirements:
|I. Complete the M.S. Core Statistics Courses:
Statistical Theory I
3 credits
Statistical Theory II
4 credits
Statistical Theory III
3 credits
Consulting Seminar
1 credit
6 credits
17 credits subtotal
|III. The following are examples of courses for specific areas of concentration:
WLF 625 and WLF 695; STAT 402 recommended
FISH 601 and FISH 602; STAT 402 recommended
FISH 621 and FISH 622; STAT 402 recommended
Mathematical Statistics
MATH 641 and MATH 660; many other possibilities
GEOS 430 and GE/MIN 635
ECON 626 and ECON 636
As UAF has strong graduate programs in Fisheries, Marine Science, Wildlife, Biology, Geophysics, among others, there are many available graduate-level applications courses. Please check out the links at the bottom of this document for more information. * - Courses useful for State of Alaska Biometrician qualification.
IV) Complete approved elective courses, 8 credit subtotal
30 credits TOTAL
Fall even year
Fall odd year
Spring even year
Introduction to Statistics
Regression and ANOVA
Scientific Sampling
Multivariate Statistics
Topics in Statistics
Design of Experiments
Spatial Statistics
Time Series Analysis
Distribution-Free Statistics
Categorical Data Analysis
|Exploratory Data Analysis (Juneau)
Statistical Theory I
Statistical Theory II
Statistical Theory III
Consulting Seminar (1 cr)
Sampling Theory
Mathematical Statistics
Undergraduate Research
Statistics Seminar
Graduate Research
NOTES: STAT480 "Topics in Statistics" may be retaken for credit as long as the topic varies. Past topics have included:
- Introduction to SAS
- Introduction to S-plus
- Logistic Regression
- Nonlinear Regression
- Bootstrap and Jackknife
- Survival Analysis
Qualifying for State of Alaska Biometrician Positions
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) currently has more than 20 full-time biometricians. Historically, ADF&G has had difficulty recruiting biometricians and commonly recruits outside Alaska because of a lack of adequately trained individuals within the state. ADF&G commonly has more than one open position each year. The Commissioner of ADF&G wrote to UAF in 1995 suggesting that the university offer additional biometrics coursework and potentially a degree program in this area.
The minimum qualifications for biometrician positions include a masters degree in statistics, biometrics, or in one of the biological sciences with 18 semester hours in graduate- level biometrics or statistics courses. The statistics MS program will well qualify graduates for state biometrician positions. Our program was developed in close consultation with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Many of our graduates currently work in ADF&G Biometrician positions.
Fall 1 : Statistical Theory I (STAT651), Experimental Design (STAT602), applied elective (3 cr.).
Spring 1 : Statistical Theory II (STAT652), Time Series Analysis (STAT611), applied elective (3 cr.).
Fall 2 : Categorical Data Analysis (STAT631), Project (3 cr., STAT698), applied elective (3 cr.).
Spring 2: Spatial Statistics (STAT605), Statistical Consulting Seminar (STAT654), Statistical Theory III (STAT653) , Project (3 cr., STAT698).
TOTAL GRADUATE CREDITS: 30 to 36 cr.
Applicants may apply at any time up to the beginning of their first semester. However, if an applicant is interested in obtaining a teaching assistantship, they should apply before March 1. Please contact Jessica Armstrong at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions about the application process.


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Empire United was accepted into the inaugural Girls Development Academy, as announced today by US Soccer.
Alex Bono has captured his career start, win, and shutout in MLS over the past six matches. In addition, he has won his first professional trophy as starting goalkeeper when TFC lifted the Canadian Cup trophy in June.
Empire United graduate selected alongside Jordan Morris of USMNT to play against the Mexican U20 National Team on July 27th, as part of the MLS All-Star game festivities.
Empire United "homegrown" coach leaves Empire United to continue his career with Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer.
Click to see where the Empire United Development Academy's Class of 2016 will be attending in the Fall of 2016.
Empire United to hold Pre-Academy training programs for all Boys 2002-2005 for the 2016-17 season. All 1998-2001 players will be part of the US Soccer Development Academy, and select 2002-2003 players will participate in Development Academy events.
Empire United to hold supplemental training programs for all Girls 1999-2005 for the 2016-17 season.
After registering a goal and a second assist for Real Salt Lake, Empire United graduate Jordan Allen was named to the Week 9 MLS Team of the Week.
Empire United's Dan Lynd has signed a two year contract to play for the Rochester Rhinos of the United Soccer League (USL).
Empire United Development Academy graduate leads Syracuse into the College Cup, and national semifinal, for the first time in school history on Friday, December 11th.
Brighton High School and Empire United graduate caps off successful freshman year with a National Championship at Penn State University.
Empire United Rochester's Mackenzie Smith, from Bath, NY, has been invited to the U19 Women's National Team training camp.
After winning their groups, the Empire United Rochester U13 Boys and U13 Girls both won their semifinal match before falling in the Region I Championship game on Tuesday, June 30th.
Allen is currently playing with Real Salt Lake of MLS (click Continue below for more info).

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Horn Announces Formation of
We The People: A First In The Nation Freedom Forum
Nashua, NH Jennifer Horn, former Congressional nominee, radio talk show host and newspaper columnist, announced today the formation of a new non-profit organization called We The People: A First In The Nation Freedom Forum.
"I am very pleased to announce this new non-profit, We The People," said Horn. "This is an opportunity to continue the message of the campaign, that our nation is strongest when the people make their voices heard.
I believe strongly that the strength and success of our nation lies in the hands of the people. I look forward to working closely with activists across the state and across the nation to share our Founding Fathers vision for an America of unlimited opportunity.
I was drawn into the political process for one reason: because I want my children to be able to raise their families in the same America I grew up in. Every child in America needs to believe that they can accomplish anything they are willing to work and sacrifice for.
We are a uniquely exceptional nation and we have an obligation to preserve what makes us unique, both on behalf of our children and in the name of those who have given their lives to protect and defend our freedom.
At it's heart, that is what We The People is going to be all about."
We The People is dedicated to promoting and preserving the Founding Principles of Freedom, Limited Government, Personal Responsibility and Unlimited Opportunity.
Our Mission
- We The People seeks to educate and inform the public through Freedom Forums with top level speakers who bring insight and expertise to the issues pertinent to the Founding Principles.
- We The People seeks to engage citizens in open conversations about the impact of government on families, businesses and individuals across the country.
- We The People seeks to increase awareness and education on specific policies and to advocate on behalf of the citizens of New Hampshire in regard to those policies.
- We The People seeks increased citizen engagement in the democratic process by leading advocacy activities and providing citizens with the knowledge and tools necessary to become citizen activists, with a focus on holding elected representatives accountable and to become educated consumers in the marketplace of political candidates.


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Warner's Oldies But Goodies
When Warner Music Group (WMG ) CEO Edgar M. Bronfman Jr. needed some help running his new company, where did he turn? To a trio of balding and gray-haired music veterans, the youngest of whom was born back when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was still President. Over their careers they have signed some of the most profitable and enduring acts of the last half-century, including Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Doors, the Rolling Stones, Madonna, the Ramones, and the Talking Heads.
There's the granddaddy of them all, Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, 82, the son of a Turkish diplomat who fell in love with music through jazz. Jac Holzman, 73, founded Elektra Records and is a self-described techie and studio rat who still exudes laid-back, 1970s California (though the lamb-chop sideburns are history). The third is Sire Records co-founder Seymour Stein, 63, a onetime Billboard magazine researcher and later a fixture at New York punk club CBGB's, who still prides himself on being "in the street." Together their time in the business adds up to more than 160 years.
Still, in an industry obsessed with the tastes and behaviors of gadget-loving 15-year-olds, how much can three guys who came of age listening to scratchy LPs really offer in a post-Napster world? "You can't underestimate the successes those gentlemen have had," says Michael McGuire, a media analyst at Silicon Valley research outfit Gartner Inc. (IT ) "But you have to wonder how applicable that is today, when the big label chiefs aren't driving the industry. Consumers are."
Still, to the extent that the industry's long-term swoon is rooted in a dearth of good music, Bronfman's move to tap the expertise -- and ears -- of Ertegun, Holzman, and Stein makes sense. "The nature of the music business is that anyone over 30 is seen as suspect and a little ancient," says media investor Harold Vogel of Vogel Capital Management. "But these guys have proven they know what sells. New acts are what the business needs now."
Certainly, music companies are in critical condition. Album sales by unit fell by 7.6% in the first half of this year after four gloomy years of similar numbers. (Digital sales were up 195%, but they still account for about 5% of total sales.) Bronfman moved quickly after he and his private-equity partners bought Warner Music from Time Warner (TXW ) Inc. in early 2004 for $2.6 billion. They cut hundreds of millions in annual costs, laid off thousands of workers, and slashed a bloated artist roster by a third. Still, Warner Music's revenues for recorded music this year are projected to be flat, at about $2.8 billion. Publishing will be up slightly, to about $560 million, according to analysts. But Warner stock is off 7% from its offering price of $17, when it went public in May.
This is precisely why, say Bronfman and his top deputy, hip-hop impresario Lyor Cohen, the three legendary hitmakers were called into active duty. "It's important to respect and celebrate a company's culture. Over the last 10 years, that culture dissipated because Time Warner never really found the handle on how to manage this division," Bronfman told BusinessWeek (MHP ) in his first extensive interview since Warner went public. "We will rediscover how incredibly talented these three executives are and how much they still have to offer a young, entrepreneurial management team in which they can see themselves so many years earlier." Adds Cohen: "These guys are treasure, American treasure."
So Cohen and Bronfman have put them to work. Holzman is leading a group to develop a new all-digital, still-unnamed label (no CDs, only music for downloads), to be announced in October. And he helped in the selection of a new CEO, Richard Blackstone, for publishing arm Warner/Chappell Music Inc. Stein, a veteran of artist development who has ferreted out stars from clubs all over the world, is showing new chops, signing as many new acts as any other A&R (artists and repertoire) executive since Bronfman took over. His next project: scouting talent in South Africa and India. And Ertegun? After spending several weeks in the hospital this spring with pneumonia, he's back in the office every day, working on a compilation of Ray Charles's Atlantic recordings and a project with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. (This one does not involve vocalist Robert Plant.) Says Bronfman of Ertegun, who has known Bronfman's father, Edgar Sr., for years and first met Edgar Jr. when he was a youngster: "Ahmet is the ultimate crap detector."
Of course, not everyone at Warner's Rockefeller Center offices in New York requires an afternoon nap. Warner has its share of younger executives, too. Kevin Liles, the executive vice-president who was recruited from Universal Music Group's Island Def Jam (co-founded by Cohen), is 37. Michael D. Fleisher, the chief financial officer brought in from Gartner, is 40. So is Atlantic Records' co-chair Craig Kallman. Atlantic President Julie Greenwald is 35. Bronfman, 50, tapped Cohen, 45, who was running Island Def Jam, soon after the sale. Today Cohen is charged with keeping a flow of communication between the two distinct camps within the company. "It's bunker-frontline warfare," he says of his younger team, "vs. hilltop strategy for Ahmet, Jac, and Seymour."
These are relatively peaceful times at Warner despite music's woes. Back in the 1990s, under music CEO Robert Morgado, internecine warfare was fierce. Highly respected music man Doug Morris fled to Universal Music Group, recruited by Bronfman, who built that company into the world's largest music outfit. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin then sold Warner's Interscope Records, now one of the industry's most successful companies, to Universal over a flap about rap lyrics. Then one CEO after another quit or was forced out. Under pressure to pay down debt and fearing the short-term prospects for music, Time Warner boss Richard D. Parsons decided to sell the unit in 2003. Bronfman, looking for a new gig after his ill-fated sale of the family business, Seagram, to Vivendi (V ), teamed up with private money and swooped in to win Warner Music.
That unrelenting tumult kept Holzman away from the company over the past decade or so other than doing a little consulting work for its Rhino Records division. But the prospect of Warner's new beginning as an independent company drew him back. He sent an e-mail of congratulations to Bronfman, whom he had never met. Twenty minutes later, on a Sunday afternoon, Bronfman's return e-mail popped up on Holzman's computer. Bronfman wanted to meet and discuss the possibility of Holzman's return. "Record-making is a chronic obsession," says Holzman. "You don't die from it, but you can die from not doing it. I can't help myself. It's what I do." This from a guy whose Elektra Records label Bronfman quickly shuttered and merged with Atlantic. "It had become something very different than what I created," says Holzman.
Bronfman, who grew up seeking counsel from older relatives in the family business, immediately dispatched Holzman to oversee a crucial new project: an "e" label for all-digital music. The idea is that artists will be signed for, say, a six-month term and produce three tracks to be sold in various downloadable forms. Depending on how well the songs sell, the artist could be signed to do a full-fledged CD.
It's part of an incubator system Cohen has established at Warner. The company is partnering with small record labels, offering small doses marketing support at the start. Cohen wants to give artists a chance to develop more slowly, creating good buzz without splashy radio debuts while keeping Warner's financial exposure to a minimum. If sales begin to percolate, Warner will offer artists the opportunity to "upstream" to one of its bigger labels. Hip hopper Mike Jones, on SwishaHouse Records out of Houston, is the most successful artist so far to emerge from this system. His album Who Is Mike Jones? premiered at No. 3 earlier this year on the Billboard 200 chart. He's now signed to Warner Bros. It's this kind of new, lower-cost approach to artist development, complains Bronfman, that Wall Street doesn't get when it criticizes Warner for cutting A&R budgets too deeply.
Still, traditional A&R -- find a band, sign it to a multi-album deal, and put out CDs -- is the route Stein likes to take. "Right now I am having so much more fun than I have had in the past five years," says Stein, who still travels to the grittiest clubs around the world. He recently signed the band HIM, a Finnish rock group that's big in Europe.
The three men also help keep Warner's Young Turks in line. At a recent A&R meeting, after listening to one executive make an over-the-top cheerleading speech about one of his acts, Ertegun shot back: "How are they live?" The executive, Cohen recalls, turned white as a ghost and sheepishly replied: "I haven't seen them live." Says Ertegun: "I have more experience than anybody around. If I can't really give a good answer, I can give an informed answer."
So it might be that a bunch of guys who long ago became rich and successful by turning people on to new music will get a chance to do it again. Riffing on the 2000 movie Space Cowboys, about geriatric astronauts called back into orbit, Holzman jokes: "We are Edgar's Spaced-Out Cowboys." Now that would be quite a sequel.
By Tom Lowry in New York


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Brad Pitt: Newest Face of Cadillac?
Posted Friday January 11, 2013 3:15 PM GMT
The reason behind Brad Pitt's mysterious tweet in China may finally have a tangible explanation.
According to E! News, the 49-year-old actor reportedly signed on the newest spokesman for Cadillac and the deal will include various print and TV ads, which will air in the PRC.
News broke just a few days after the "Fight Club" actor join Sina Weibo, a social network site for citizens of China.
His first post read, "It is the truth. Yup, I'm coming . . ."
Neither Pitt's camp nor Cadillac's reps have commented on the speculated partnership.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
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Greetings incubators! As I know you all like to laugh, I am excited to announce that I am teaching a weekly Yin and Laughter Yoga class in central square at a wonderful studio called the Breathing Room right above the Life Alive resaturant. Just buzz in to the door immeidiately to the right of Life Alive. The class is every Monday at noon and you ccan pre-register online at thebreathingroomboston.com. Price info is $15 to drop in and dicounted rates if you pre-register and if you are a student or financial difficulty of any sort. Yin is a type of deep stretchig yoga that will open us up to just relax and laugh together. If you have any questions please let me know. As always, peace, laughter, and basic human goodness, Jason
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Entitle Direct In the News
Entitle Direct Group, Inc., the country's first direct-to-consumer title insurance company providing 35% savings, announced today that David Verklin, a veteran advertising executive, has been named to its Board of Directors. Verklin is the CEO of Canoe Ventures, LLC, a joint venture founded in 2008 by the country's leading cable operators. The company focuses on enabling advanced advertising technologies and making them easier to buy, use and measure. Prior to Canoe Ventures, Verklin was the CEO of Aegis Media Americas. He was recently named to Mediaweek's Watch List 2009 and has been recognized as one of the industry's most influential people on the CableFAX 100.+
Every few months an interest rate dip will set off a new refinancing fever, as consumers wisely rush to lock in historically low rates while they have the chance. Refinancing can be a brilliant way to save thousands of dollars on your home mortgage, but you need to watch one thing (in addition to the mortgage interest rate) if you do: fees.
If you're buying a house or refinancing a mortgage, don't pay more than you need to.
Title insurance is generally one of the largest expenses bundled into what consumers view as a dreaded hodgepodge of closing costs.
Great news for economy: New-home sales surge 9.6% in July
The U.S. title-insurance industry faces increasing pressure from regulators to justify the fees charged to consumers for ensuring they have clear ownership of their homes.
Your mortgage lender is going to require it. Title insurance protects the lender and the secondary markets to which they sell the loans from defects in the title to your home and property.
This GAO report sure makes it look that way. Another good indication that it's a scam? The Realtors are trying to get it reestablished in Iowa, the only state with the guts to shut it down.
Avoid closing-table surprises by detailing what the policy is upfront
Entitle Direct Group, parent company of EnTitle Insurance, has launched a direct title insurance in South Dakota.


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August Offensive 2
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).
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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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Canadian War Records Office, Ministry of Information
The British offensive at Amiens, spearheaded by the Canadian and Australian Corps, was decisive, the Canadians on August 8, 1918 scoring gains of twelve kilometres after years of battles that gained only metres of mostly worthless mud. This clip shows cavalry massing for the attack—the Canadian Corps had a British cavalry division (with one of its brigades being Canadian) under its command. We also see the heavy shelling that preceded the assault.
Pieces of History
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).
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.
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Unending Seige : Amiens
The scene was now set for toppling the German militarism that in various forms had kept Europe trembling for more than 50 years. Over the long, painful weeks the Allies lived through in the spring of 1918, the Canadians had learned much. They had also had time to rebuild their strength after the successful but costly attacks of 1917.
The sector now reserved for them was that around Amiens. To give the Canadians the advantage of surprise, they were taken 60 kilometres north of the city. Accustomed to having the Australians opposite Amiens, the Germans also knew the Canadians, whom they had seen spearheading British assaults. Two battalions and two first-aid stations were set up in front of Kemmel, where constant traffic of assorted messages was set in motion and picked up by the Germans. Between 30 July and 4 August, in deepest secrecy, the rest of the Canadian Corps descended to the south. Their discretion was facilitated by the gloomy weather, which reduced German air sorties, and the fact that only the division commanders knew the assault target. This secrecy caused numerous logistical problems - for example, the artillery would have almost no time to prepare. Opposite Amiens, the Canadian officers studying the terrain fooled the Germans by wearing the trademark soft hat of the Australian soldiery.
The noise of preparations for the largest mechanized battle ever seen up to that time revealed nothing to the enemy. In spite of all the precautions, however, some German units were wondering about the movements they had detected. Some 604 tanks of all kinds and thousands of horses would give the battle an aspect that was both ancient and modern.
The Black Day of the German Army
Just before dawn on 8 August the attack opened with the firing of 2,000 guns. In addition to the tanks, the soldiers could rely on two motorized machine-gun brigades, a battalion of cyclists to serve the Corps and a section of heavy mortars mounted on trucks. A thousand French and 800 British planes took to the air. During this brilliant assault, which would seriously undermine the morale of the German troops, the Canadians advanced 13 kilometres at the head of an immense front more than 30 kilometres wide. Australians, British and French were also in the attack, their role being to keep clear of the advance of the Canadians, who had more ground to cover to reach their objectives. The Canadians lost 1,036 men killed, 2,803 injured and 29 taken prisoner, losses that were largely offset by their remarkable advance, the most impressive on the western front since 1914. The Germans had to accept 27,000 casualties, including 16,000 taken prisoner - 5,033 of them taken by the Canadians, who also seized 161 artillery pieces and a large number of machine guns and anti-tank guns. Though the Allies were left with only 132 tanks to start with the next day, the Germans had lost seven divisions. The confidence of their High Command was shaken by the realization that its war machine was no longer effective.
An interesting experiment that day involved the use of 30 Mark V tanks to transport the troops of the 4th Division to the opposing trenches. However, many men were bothered by the heat and by the exhaust fumes that entered the passenger compartment. A few fainted; others got out and walked. The drawbacks associated with the Mark Vs could not be rectified and these tanks were not used again during that war.
Canadian Corps Advances
During the night of 8/9 August, the British High Command decided to lend its 32nd Division to the Canadians, who wanted to withdraw their 3rd Division from the front. The Canadians of the 3rd Division had already marched about 10 kilometres to the rear when they were recalled, as the British had changed their minds. The men were exhausted on their return. It was therefore decided to use only one of their brigades at the front, which required the 1st and 2nd divisions to expand the sectors they were covering. Under these conditions the attack of 9 August could not get under way until around 11 am, without the element of surprise of the day before. At a cost of 2,574 casualties, the Canadians took 6.5 kilometres of ground.
The pressure continued to mount for several days, but the momentum of 8 and 9 August was indeed lost. The number of available tanks fell to the point where, on the 12th, there were only six left. Despite their 11,725 casualties from 8 to 20 August, the Canadians had sounded the beginning of the end of the German army by advancing nearly 30 kilometres and securing the ground thus taken. In the whole operation, the Germans recorded 75,000 casualties.
A month earlier the French had seized the initiative from the Germans. In this context, the battle of Amiens would have a decisive impact. It shattered the last hopes of the German High Command, along with any confidence they might have had that their troops still wanted to fight. The success of the Canadian troops was based partly on surprise, the concentration of their strength and co-ordination among the various arms (planes, tanks, guns, machine guns).
Excerpted from : Canadian Military Heritage. Volume 3 : 1872-2000). (http://www.cmhg.forces.gc.ca/cmh/en/page_631.asp)
Reproduced with permission from the Department of National Defence
Wartime Letter from Captain Bellenden S. Hutcheson
This letter is transcribed from a rough draft found in an old trunk in 1989. Probable restorations of illegible characters are enclosed in brackets.
Dear Captain Gwynn;
Replying to your first series of questions, concerning the 76th Brigade of Royal Field Artillery:
The 76th Brigade was supporting the Canadian Infantry which was holding the line in front of Vimy. The brigade consisted of four batteries of 18 pounders (field guns) and one battery of 4.5 inch Howitzers. The cover of the guns, while poor was, I suppose, as good as that usually occupied by field guns in position only a few days, and the quarters of the gun that crews were in cellars near the guns, but the shells thrown at us were eight inch, and armour piercing. At least the artillerymen said that they were armour piercing, and after viewing the effects of their explosions I was in no position to argue with them. After several dugouts had been blown in, some of the uninjured personnel set to work digging out the injured while the bombardment was in progress and it was this rescue work which was carried out under scanty or no cover.
The bombardment lasted from 1 p.m. until 10 p.m., with a few periods of lull, and was apparently counter battery work on the part of the enemy. Our guns were not in action.
As you surmise, the gun crews had taken refuge in cellars, not anticipating a bombardment of such intensity with heavy stuff. Gas shells and high explosions were intermingled. My work consisted in dressing the wounded, checking hemorrhage, giving a hypo of morphine when necessary and seeing that the injured were evacuated to the rear. The gas used that day was the deadly sweetish smelling phosgene. It was my first experience with gas in warfare and I wore a mask part of the time and instructed the men to do so whenever there was a dangerous concentration. You ask about my own reaction. It was of course very disconcerting to endeavor to dress wounded while shells were showering debris about, and the possibility of being in the next few seconds in the same plight as the terribly wounded men I was dressing, occurred to me every now and then. The whole thing seemed rather unreal, particularly when it occurred to me, busy as I was, that the killing was being done deliberately and systematically. I felt particularly sorry for the young artillery men, (and many of them were about 19) who were being subjected to the ordeal. I remember one man who had a ghastly wound which would obviously prove fatal in a short time, pleading with me, amidst the turmoil of explosions, to shoot him. Every soldier who has seen action since knows that it requires the highest type of stamina and bravery for troops to lie in a trench and take a heavy shelling without being demoralized and panic stricken, therefore I shall always remember the orderly rescue work carried on by the officers and men of the artillery in the face of the concentrated shelling that occurred that afternoon.
You ask about the work of the artillery officers. They very bravely and ably directed the men in the work of rescue and tried to keep gun crews intact as nearly as possible, in order to fire at any time, should orders to do so, be received.
During the trench tours in front of Lens, I usually had a deserted gun pit or cellar communicating with the support trench as a dressing station. The actions about the G[um] Crossin and La Coulotte, though attended by heavy casualties, were more in the nature of raids or diverting attacks, than holding attacks, therefore, I did not accompany the attacking parties. During a trench tour I stuck close to the dressing station if the enemy was active, in order to look after the injured, if things were quiet I visited the different headquarters of the platoons and companies holding the line. Going into the line was sometimes the most disagreeable part of the tour, because of the darkness, danger of getting lost, the mud, and the shelling of the roads just behind the line. The Passchendaele Campaign was carried on in a sea of mud. I have never seen a drearier sight than the salient in front of Ypres -- churned up mud with mucky shell holes and never a tree as far as the eye could reach. It was necessary to march single file on duck walk because of the mud for a distance of five or six miles when going in for a tour. We were machine-gunned and bombed from the air and subjected to a terrific shelling on the way in and nothing like a real trench system was possible, the line being held by a series of posts in shell holes. My dressing station was located beside a concrete "pill box", an old German strong point. Captain Dunlap, medical officer of the 102nd Battalion, who was later killed, shared the dressing station with me. I had never met Dunlap before and when he appeared at our rendezvous, with four days growth of black beard on his face, a torn tunic and string like remnants of puttees, he looked so much like a stage hobo that I burst out laughing in his face. He was a fine chap and we became good friends.
The stretcher bearers had a very difficult time. The whole area was subjected to continuous shelling by the enemy. The pill box afforded shelter on one side for the dressing station and sheets of camouflage and canvas formed the roof. When no wounded were coming in Dunlap and I would crawl into the pill box for greater security. We kept no enlisted personnel with us as there was literally no place where they could stand without sinking to their knees in mud and the number of wounded men was not so great but that the two medical officers could do all that could be done. When we were relieved by the medical officer of the English unit that took over; Dunlap and I, with Captain A.A. Gray, adjutant of the 75th, started back towards Ypres, over the duckwalk. The different platoons of our battalion had trickled back as they were relieved. The two way duckwalk was, as usual, shelled heavily. We were passing the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders coming when a shell got a direct hit among them about 200 feet ahead of us. Their dead and wounded, lying in grotesque attitudes, were being cleared away by their comrades with feverish haste as we dog trotted past the smoking shell hole. We did not stop because their own medical unit was on the job, they had plenty of help and each unit was supposed to take care of its own casualties.
Regarding the citation for the Military Cross: "The open ground" mentioned consisted of the wheat fields and other flat unwooded ground through which we passed between Beaucourt and Le Quesnel on the immediate left of the Amiens-Roye road. As we advanced we were frequently under direct observation by enemy balloons directing artillery fire. When one shell landed half a dozen others were pretty sure to land in a very short time within a radius of 50 yards or so of where the first one did, consequently when the first few caused casualties they had to be attended in a shower of debris caused by the explosion of succeeding shells.
It was necessary to pass through the streets of Le Quesnel several times during the barrage in order to find the wounded who were scattered throughout the town. I supervised their collection, during lulls in the shelling in a cellar I used as a dressing station. The platoons furnished stretcher bearers. My medical section, consisting of a sergeant, corporal and two privates were with me part of the time, or were in the dressing station when I was out, or they themselves were engaged in looking for wounded.
Excerpted and reproduced with permission from Veterans Affairs Canada website http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/
Teaching Materials
How We View the Past
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Films: Canadians on the Western Front 1, August Offensive 2, Canadians Advance East of Arras 2, Bourlon Wood
Summary: Students consider the differing viewpoints of Germans and Canadians on World War I.
World War I generated massive changes. The Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires collapsed. Communism transformed Russia into the Soviet Union. Canada moved closer to being an independent nation within the British Commonwealth. Conscription deepened the French-English divide. Women gained the vote at the federal level. The value of Canada's manufacturing output equalled the value of our agricultural output. Medicine was improved. Radios and cars became common. The United States became the world's richest nation, and the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations, was created. Most of these changes are indisputable. But how people interpret these changes - how they judge their meaning - varies.
Your Task:
Watch the films. You are employed by the United Nations as a historian who is developing materials to be used in schools in Germany and Canada. Your first job is to determine how each country has interpreted what has been captured on film and what is known about the war in general.
Fill in the chart using the statements below. You may place a statement on one or both sides.
a) Treaty of Versailles, 1919, was humiliating.
b) British blockade preventing food from entering Germany was inhumane.
c) German aggression made war inevitable.
d) Bombing of London by airships was a major atrocity.
e) Treaty of Versailles, 1919, was hard but fair.
f) The Kaiser abdicated; it was right to allow the new government into peace talks in Paris, 1919.
g) Both sides were equally to blame for war.
h) Canada achieved a great victory at Vimy Ridge.
i) Submarine warfare was necessary to stop the blockade.
j) The war resulted in economic advances.
k) The war resulted in economic collapse and misery.
German View
Canadian View
Deeper Analysis:
Textbooks often illustrate different viewpoints on history. Write an overview of important events in World War I that includes both German and Canadian points of view.


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OZ Minerals has accused advisory firm Grant Samuel of failing to take $US340 million of debt into account when recommending shareholders vote to create the mining group in 2008.
The allegation is made in a Victorian Supreme Court writ filed last week that aims to spread the pain should OZ fail to fend off a separate shareholder class action.
It follows a similar lawsuit filed by OZ last week against law firm Clayton Utz, which provided legal advice to Oxiana before an ill-fated merger with Zinifex that formed OZ.
While OZ denies shareholder claims that it misled the market, it says that if it loses the class action in the Federal Court the blame should rest with Grant Samuel.
OZ has yet to file a defence to the Federal Court class action, which is the third lawsuit brought by investors burned by the disastrous merger.
OZ paid Grant Samuel $1.5 million for an independent experts' report, filed with the ASX on May 12, 2008, which found the merger was ''fair'' to Zinifex shareholders and its benefits were ''collectively significant and outweigh the disadvantages''.
However, OZ alleges that Grant Samuel was aware, or should have been aware, that to fund development of its Prominent Hill copper and gold mine, Oxiana borrowed an additional $US340 million in the first three months of 2008.
OZ alleges that even though the debt was disclosed in a quarterly report lodged with the ASX in April, ''this information was not taken into account by Grant Samuel when it carried out its assessment of the relative values contributed by Oxiana and Zinifex''.
The quarterly report shows Oxiana borrowed $US200 million from an existing loan facility and took out an additional loan of $US140 million.
OZ also alleges that Grant Samuel should have asked Oxiana when the money was due to be repaid, and in what currency.
If Grant Samuel had done its job properly it would have produced a report stating that ''the proposed merger was not in the best interests of Zinifex shareholders'', OZ alleges.
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It did not meet that deadline, and while lenders gave it more time the debt crisis sent company stock into a tailspin in late 2008 - its shares plunged from about $1.76 in early September to a low of 49.5¢ in February 2009.
Grant Samuel did not include the additional debt in a table in its report showing Oxiana's financial position, which only shows the financial position as at the end of 2007 - three months before the period covered by the quarterly report. However, Grant Samuel did include financial models for Oxiana's mines that it said ''project cash flows from January 1, 2008 onwards''.
It said it relied on ''publicly available information'' including ''press releases, public announcements, media and analyst presentation material and other public filings by Zinifex and Oxiana''. In addition, it said it received confidential material from the companies including ''board papers, presentations and working papers''.
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For the first time since Real Salt Lake won the MLS Cup four years ago, the team has a chance to win some major hardware — the Western Conference championship trophy. RSL leads Portland 4-2 after the first leg; if RSL wins, ties or loses by one goal, it wins. If the Claret & Cobalt lose by two goals, they go to OT. If they lose by three or more goals, that will be bad.
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TurnTo, a social network that activates word-of-mouth by enabling visitors to an ecommerce site to see when friends have experience with the site and the products it sells, has launched an upgrade to its "TurnTo Social Shopping Widget."
The enhanced TurnTo Social Shopping Widget offers new features to provide shoppers with more connections to trusted sources of advice with less effort.
TurnTo has also added 17 more ecommerce websites to its existing network of of online stores, travel portals, and non-profit sites, which it listed during its recent announcement.
According to the vendor, the new TurnTo system offers expanded capabilities that foster shopper trust and provide social information to aid in purchase decisions.
A shopper can now anonymously identify the number of their friends who are past-customers of a TurnTo partner store simply by entering a friends list from a source like Facebook or an email address book. If the shopper has questions, the store can ask those past-customers to serve as references, which connects them to the shopper. The system is designed to preserve customers' privacy, while also generating more trustworthy information.
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The advocates of slavery used the New Testament, and Shalev says this "was in itself innovative and forward-looking."
Would a forward-looking perspective sound too much like a collection of predictions and promises?
Even for the most forward-looking courtier, that might be a modernization too far.
We must be forward-looking in our research and development to anticipate and achieve the unimagined weapons of the future.
And the Organising Activity is not only upward-reaching, but forward-looking.
The greatest need is plainly for big-visioned and purposeful men, efficient men, men with forward-looking minds.
This is a forward-looking establishment where futures are made to order.
Indeed, the day opened with a disagreement between the forward-looking clerk and his hide-bound reactionary.
I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side.
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How many gallons of paint do you need for a roller thats like 6' x 35'?
1 gallon should do it..
sorry for the ignorance on rollers.
im used to spray.
is there anything that you can do to keep the cost down?
like watering down the paint or using interior instead of exterior?
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In plenty of other disciplines Mathew Belcher would be a household name as he is on one of the great winning streaks in Australian sport.
The 30-year-old, part of the world-beating Australian sailing team that claimed three golds medals and a silver at the London Olympics, has won every regatta he's contested since November 2011.
That's an incredible 17-month, 14-event run including the 470 dinghy gold medal at the 2012 Olympics, two world championships and numerous World Cup events.
It's a record unmatched in world sailing.
There's plenty of great contemporary winning streaks in other sports of course.
NRL premiers Melbourne have won 16 on the bounce, including the World Club Challenge against Leeds Rhinos.
Western Sydney Wanderers won 10 in a row during the recent A-League season.
Wonder mare Black Caviar won 25 races in a row and retired undefeated.
Internationally, the Miami Heat had a 27-win streak - second highest in NBA history - this season.
But what makes Belcher's streak, which has formed part of a 34-month run as world No.1, so compelling is that it's come in a sport where competitors battle the elements as much as each other.
"There's so many things we can't control," Belcher said.
"The changes in wind, the water, the waves, different conditions in different areas of the world.
"So to be able to come away with those results over an extended period is extremely surprising and humbling."
One of the standout achievements of Belcher's run, aside from his London Games gold and world titles, came late last year, just weeks after his then crewmate Malcolm Page retired.
Losing Page, with whom he won the London gold, was a real blow for Belcher - sparking what could have been a tough transition period with a new crewmate.
But the decision to pick Will Ryan, an Australian sailing team youth product and unused substitute at the London Games, was a masterstroke.
The pair gelled instantly, setting a new world record by winning all 10 races at their first regatta, December's Sail Melbourne World Cup.
The pair have now won six regattas in a row, including 46 out of 63 individual races.
Belcher said one of the hardest things about the streak was the constant travelling.
He and Ryan have just returned from six weeks in Europe, where they won World Cup events in Majorca and France.
Belcher will spend one week with his pregnant wife on the Gold Coast before flying back to Europe for five weeks at regattas in the Netherlands and UK.
There is also increased pressure and intensifying rivalries.
"We're a lot more of a target," Belcher said.
"A lot of people want to know why we're so good.
"It's something we've got to cope with and there's a lot of spying that goes on.
"But we're dealing with that day by day and trying to hide as much as we can."
Belcher credits his dominance to hard work and his close relationship with highly respected Australian coach Victor Kovalenko.
"We put more work in than the others," he said.
"We've got great people around us to guide us. We train harder and we race harder."
The hard work extends off the water.
Aside from training in the gym, 173cm tall Belcher and lanky Ryan must maintain a combined bodyweight of no more than 138kg to sail the 470 dinghy at its optimum speed.
If that wasn't hard enough, Belcher is expecting his first baby in September and is also in the middle of a masters degree in urban and sustainable development.
But he's winning that too - topping his class for a recent 8000-word assignment.
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Ok I really need some opinions. I design sites and templates and im ready to sell on TF soon, I always hear different opinions. Also I want to always work on my own(be my own boss type of thing) So what Im really asking is if anyone thinks a pearson can make a living creating websites and WP themes for now and the future?
You mean by making sites for sale here? I guess it depends on what kind of lifestyle you want to live! Bear in mid some of the top authors here take home into the tens of thousands of $ regularly. Sure this relies on their reputation, quality of work and the number of files they have for sale and everyone has got to start somewhere but if you can be patient in the early days then yes definitely you can make a living off here.
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Bye bye Kurobox
A deserved farewell to a device that has worked flawlessly for so many years
DIY Arduino Christmas tree lights
A detailed explanation of my home made light switcher made with Arduino and a relay shield
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My statement on getting back to blogging. Will this go anywhere?
Lessons learned optimizing MySQL
A summary of some things I discovered while trying to optimize the performance of a production MySQL server.
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The International Monetary Fund is warning central banks around the world to avoid complacency caused by benign inflation since the global financial crisis.
"Low consumer price inflation does not necessarily equate with a lack of economic imbalances," the fund said in a report released in Washington on Tuesday.
In a study that looks at whether inflation has been "muzzled or was it just sleeping", the IMF concludes that price pressures remain low because long-term expectations have become more firmly anchored.
At the same time a long period of price stability in the world's major economies – even though unemployment has climbed sharply after the crisis – suggests inflation is less driven by cyclical changes in the economy, the fund notes.
Taken together, these two factors mean central bankers should not fear the use of extremely low interest rates and so-called unconventional monetary policy such as quantitative easing.
The findings come after months of speculation about an increasing global currency war, partly triggered by Japan's decision to effectively devalue its currency.
Japan's central bank last week announced plans to purchase large amounts of bonds to drive down long-term interest rates in a bid to generate 2 per cent inflation following almost two decades of deflation.
However, the IMF report lists a number of dangers posed by such policies and calls on central bank policymakers to remain alert to the risks.
The first is a need to prevent imbalances, such as property bubbles, from emerging. The second is the prospect of political pressure and an erosion of central bank independence.
"History clearly demonstrates the risks associated with curtailing appropriate monetary tightening in response to persistently rising inflation," the report says. "The end result can be the disanchoring of inflation expectations and stagflation."
The fun highlights that there may be pressure on central banks to maintain their unconventional monetary policy settings as an economic recovery gathers momentum.
"These policies may be hard to reverse," the report says.
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Another view: Football in the heat? Practice smart
I've been coaching football here at Summerville High School in South Carolina since 1952, and we've been doing two-a-day practices in August for all those years. If practices are properly structured and supervised, the players are safe. We see to that.
At Summerville, we started football practice at 8 a.m. Wednesday, went for about two hours and 45 minutes, and broke in the middle for Gatorade, fruit bars and some shade. After lunch, we went back on the field for two more hours of practice. On Thursday, we did it again.
Since practice started last Friday, we've heard a lot about the heat and how it can affect athletes. Just last Saturday, a young player died in Darlington, not too far from here. We don't yet know the cause for certain, but heat is one suspect. Any death is tragic and one too many.
Still, a lot of what we see on TV about the heat is scare tactics. If players condition properly over the summer — we keep our weight room open and encourage them to come in — they shouldn't have a problem. For those who haven't worked out over the summer, I tell my coaches to watch them carefully.
If the state were to mandate that we do just one practice a day, fine. If everybody is on the same page, I'm not going to be against it. But I am not going to be first. If we open against a team doing two-a-days, we would not be competitive.
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Yes, there are dangers out there on the field. But things are better than they were in the old days. Back then, some coaches didn't even let the boys drink water. Now we wet them down. They drink plenty of water. They condition. The first three days of summer camp, we do just one practice a day. All of that is smart training. And it makes a difference.
Football is popular in South Carolina and competitive. But I don't know of any coach who would overdo practice and risk an injury to a player. Practicing hard and smart is no threat to safety.
John McKissick, head football coach and athletic director at Summerville High School in South Carolina, has won more games than any other high school coach in history.
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Our Park offers all facilities you would expect with free communal showers, toilets, 2 large communal kitchens, 2 laundries and 2 BBQ area's. A TV room, games room, adventure playground and 21 m jumping pillow will keep the kids entertained. Apart from tent sites and power sites we also offer cabins with tea making facilities or full kitchens, all the bedding is provided, just bring your own towels or hire them.
Foxton Beach is a popular spot for holidaymakers. The beach has good swimming, fishing, surfing, kite surfing, stand up paddle boarding, four-wheel drive tracks, and there is good hiking along the coast and in the nearby Tararua Ranges. The Beach is wide and sandy, and during the summer months the surf club set up patrol.
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Foxton Beach TOP10 Holiday Park, 1 Pinewood Road, Foxton Beach, Manawatu, 4815, New Zealand.
Horario de apertura
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- Todos los meses del año
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- Children Welcome
- Disabled Access
- Laundry
- Luggage Storage
- Pet Friendly
- Playground
- Waste Station
- Proximidad con el aeropuerto:
- 35 minute drive to regional airport, 1 hour 40 minute drive to international airport
- Proximidad con el terminal de autobuses turísticos:
- 5 minute drive
- Proximidad con el pueblo:
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Step 1: Remove the old starter rope
You tug one last time to get the lawn mower started, and suddenly the rope breaks and the end goes spinning into the hole. Don't blow a gasket. If you have even a tinge of mechanical aptitude, replacing a starter rope is pretty easy. If the spring breaks—a rare event, according to our repair expert—the fix is a lot harder, and we recommend you take the mower to a repair center.
The first step is to remove the rewind assembly from the lawn mower, and how you do this varies. It's usually held on by three or more screws. Remove the screws and lift off the rewind (Photo 1). Some mowers have a shroud covering the top of the mower. On these you'll have to search for and remove the screws that hold the shroud in place. If your rewind unit is held on by rivets instead of screws, see "No Screws?" below.
After you remove the rewind unit, flip it over and look inside to find the knotted end of the broken rope. Grab it with a needle-nose pliers and pull it out. You'll thread the new rope through this hole. You'll find replacement starter ropes at home centers, hardware stores and small-engine repair centers.
Step 2: Install a new rope
Before you install the new rope, you have to rewind the spring by twisting the rope pulley in the same direction it goes when you pull on the rope. You'll know when you're turning the pulley in the right direction because it will get harder to turn. Keep turning the pulley until you feel resistance and it won't turn easily. Then let it unwind about one-half to one revolution until the hole in the pulley lines up with the hole in the rewind housing. Wedge a screwdriver against the pulley to keep the spring from unwinding while you thread the rope through the holes (Photo 2). Tip: With leather gloves on, melt the end of the rope with a match. While the plastic is hot, give it a quick twist to create a pointed end so it's easier to thread in.
Push the end of the rope through both holes and tie a knot (Photo 3). Heat the knot a little bit with a match and pull it tight to keep it from coming undone. Remove the screwdriver while you keep pressure on the pulley with your finger, and gradually let the rope wind onto the wheel. You may have extra rope to cut off after everything's back together. Mount the rewind unit and reinstall any shrouding or other parts you had to remove. Put the handle on the rope and tie a knot. Position the knot so that there's a little tension on the rope when you release the handle. If the rope on your lawn mower extends up the handle, make sure to place the rope handle in its final position before tensioning the rope slightly and tying the knot.