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SURPRISE, Ariz -- Derek Lowe will be on the mound for the first time this spring when the Rangers face the Giants on Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lowe was signed to a Minor League contract last week and has thrown three times on the side since arriving on Friday. He is scheduled to throw 35 pitches over two innings.
"What's tough is I have to go out and make the team, so there is no way of easing into it," Lowe said. "At some point I have to pitch in a game. I've had three productive side sessions, so I'm ready to go. I started throwing in the middle of December and I've been working out in the gym. I may have missed about 10 innings not being here from the beginning. Now I have to get out there and earn a spot. I'm excited. It's like being a rookie."
Lowe, who has pitched both as a starter and a reliever in his 16-year career, is competing for a spot in the bullpen. The opportunity is there because some of the leading right-handed setup candidates have not seized a role.
Besides Lowe, Joe Nathan and Jason Frasor, the Rangers have seven right-handed relief candidates who have Major League experience: Josh Lindblom, Evan Meek, Tanner Scheppers, Yoshinori Tateyama, Justin Grimm, Colin Balester and Cory Burns. Those seven had a combined ERA of 9.82 going into Thursday's game against the Athletics, with opponents hitting .358 off them.
Texas' most effective right-handed relievers have been Johan Yan and Coty Woods. Yan has pitched five innings and not allowed a hit. He has walked one and struck out six. Woods, who is a Rule 5 Draft pick from Colorado, has a 1.69 ERA.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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America is forgetting God. It's that simple. We are forgetting him not only in the schools but also in each individual family. We are rapidly losing sight of the blessings and the rich heritage we were given. There was a time when people gave everything just to come to America so they could worship freely. Now we're not sure how long our religious freedoms are going to last.
Blessing only comes upon a nation of people who are wise in their ways and follow God. America has not been wise in its ways and has not followed God, resulting in our current downfall.
Reach back to our Founding Fathers for advice. George Washington said, "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." John Quincy Adams said, "The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world, and I say to you, 'search the Scriptures.'" Andrew Jackson said, "That book (the Bible), sir, is the rock on which our republic rests."
In our efforts to establish peace and offend no one, we have stood for nothing, and we are justly reaping the consequences. Let us turn back to God before it is too late.
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To simplify programming, Swiss Plus software enables the programmer to consider only the X and Z axes, similar to programming a common, two-axis CNC lathe, the company says. Swiss Plus operates with Windows and is said to offer user-friendly programming adapted for simultaneous operations. Each machining operation is individually programmed in ISO code with graphic interface and tool library. The software generates the part program by taking into consideration machine kinematics.
As many as four tools can cut simultaneously. The sliding headstock provides a maximum 250-mm stroke that enables part machining in succession at one collet clamping as well as the machining of long parts with small diameter.
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The stock-market horse race of 2013 is under way. Of the 500 horses wearing the colors of the Standard & Poor's 500, the quickest start was by U.S. Steel (X), which rose 8.5% on the first trading day of the year. Galloping in second place was Lam Research (LRCX), up 7.2%. In third was MetLife (MET), up 6.7%.
Stumbling out of the gate were a pair of coal companies, Consol Energy (CNX), down 3.4%, and Peabody Energy (BTU), down 2.9%. Also trailing the field was Dollar General (DG), which slipped 2.6%.
Let's zoom in on each of these stocks for a moment.
U.S. Steel, the leader in Wednesday's session, has fallen 80% in price over the past five years. Even taking dividends into account, its total return is negative 79%. By comparison, the S&P 500 climbed about 8.5%, including reinvested dividends, for the same five-year period. (Without the dividends, the index would have been down 2.9%.)
The list of troubles for the U.S. steel industry is long and well-known, and includes high labor costs, high healthcare costs and increased production in China, India and South Korea. Furthermore, strong and lightweight composites have stolen market share from steel in car- and aircraft-manufacturing.
It's a stock-market tradition for the previous year's laggards to bounce back strongly in January: Tax-motivated selling gives way to bargain-hunting. I think that's mostly what's going on with U.S. Steel, which also benefitted from a Credit Suisse upgrade Wednesday.
When the company reports its 2012 results, it will almost certainly be posting its fourth consecutive annual loss. This year analysts are looking for a profit of about $1.53 a share, but that is already priced in to the stock, which sells for 17x that figure. I think U.S. Steel will be a market performer for the year.
Lam Research, which I owned in the recent past, is a leader in semiconductor etching. It had a great year in fiscal 2011, earning $5.39 a share. But, in fiscal 2012, it made only $1.35, and analysts are only looking for a $0.15 improvement in 2013.
Although I don't own MetLife, I've recommended it in print, and I continue to like it. The largest U.S. life insurer sells for only 7x earnings; a reasonable multiple, in my opinion, would be at least 10x.
Turning to the slow starters, Consol and Peabody both have more debt than I'd prefer, but I think coal stocks will advance this year as the industry regains some market share from natural gas.
As for Dollar General, the stock appreciated 37% in 2010, 34% in 2011 and 7% last year. Analysts remain fond of it, but I suspect it will lose share to other retailers this year.
John Dorfman is chairman of Thunderstorm Capital LLC, a money-management firm in Boston. He can be reached here.


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Climb Safe: Sharpie for Marking the Middle of a Rope?
To help make more climbers safer climbers, Rock and Ice has teamed up with Black Diamond Equipment to present the Climb Safe series.These articles aim to answer some of climbing's most common gear-related questions. Here, Kolin Powick, Black Diamond's Director of Quality, takes a look at using a Sharpie to mark the middle of a rope.


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BMI Honors Carey, Drake, Lil Wayne
GRAMMY-nominated artist Drake and GRAMMY winner Lil Wayne shared the Urban Songwriter of the Year award at the BMI Urban Awards on Sept. 7 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Also honored were Andrew "Pop" Wansel as Urban Producer of the Year, Nicki Minaj, Ester Dean and Daniel "Kane Beatz" Johnson for Urban Song of the Year for "Super Bass" and EMI Music Publishing for Urban Publisher of the Year. GRAMMY winner Mariah Carey was honored with the BMI Icon award in recognition of her influence on generations of music makers. In other awards news, GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift received the first-ever Generation Award at the 30th Annual Canadian Country Music Association Awards on Sept. 9 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The award honors an international "gross-generational superstar" who pushes "country music forward." (9/10)
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On Sept. 8 in Paris, GRAMMY winner and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Paul McCartney was named an officer of Légion d'honneur, France's highest public distinction, for his contribution to music. Previous Légion d'honneur recipients include actors Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood, and Lenny Kravitz, Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand, among others. (9/10)


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SWEDE Daniel Nermark will now be guesting for the Robins at Leicester tomorrow.
With Peter Kildemand and Troy Batchelor missing due to Grand Prix qualifying in Croatia, Robins boss Alun Rossiter had previously drafted in Davey Watt to replace Batchelor, with rider replacement being used to cover Kildemand.
However, after Watt suffered a back injury riding in Germany yesterday, Nermark has now been selected from the very limited pool of riders available to Rossiter.
"It's really tough because there are so few riders available to cover, but Daniel is a good rider," Rossiter said.
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True: Santa Fe is more famed for chiles than croissants. But if you take the time to check out the bakeries in town, you'll notice a distinct thread of Francophilia and a surprisingly high French population. My personal theory for the appeal of Santa Fe is simple: why wouldn't French people want to settle in a community that puts such high importance on food and art?
When it comes to pastry, the offerings are sublime. Macarons, opera cake, and meringues are made more impressive by the fact that they're being baked at an extremely high altitude. Between your bites of sopaipillas and biscochitos, here are some spots you might want to try.
About the author: Jessie Oleson is a writer, illustrator, gallery owner, and cake anthropologist who runs Cakespy, an award-winning dessert website. Her first book came out in October 2011; she is currently at work on her second book.


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The ultimate goal to ban guns is also linked to the exploding national debt. The Elite don't want the middle class to be armed when the Hammer and Sickle of Socialism comes crashing down.
The difference between a criminal and a Revolutionary:
- Revolutionaries tend to be college educated, wealthy and white (the same as recent mass shooting suspects), but criminals are a mix of races that commit crimes due to drug addiction or seeking fast money.
- Revolutionaries are so brainwashed that they can become mindless killing machines with no feeling at all. There have been many theories that anti depressants are adding to this numbing of the brain that has no feeling when a revolutionary is killing unarmed civilians and children.
- Criminals may be on drugs, but many of them tend to be afraid of being caught. Criminals are always seeking to escape before the police arrive.
- Revolutionaries will take their own life when they hear the police sirens, because they wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. Revolution is glory to them.
- Criminals are NOT Revolutionaries, but the Revolutionary leaders do use them as tools for violence in the streets. Black gangs, illegal aliens and the UNIONS are an example. This method of using 'proxies for violence' (The Black Panthers) was done in the 60's more, but it will grow popular in the USA again when the time is right.
- Many 'educated' Muslim terrorists are really brainwashed revolutionaries with both Islam and Marxism. Many Al Qaeda terrorists tend to be Chemist majors in college, because bomb making is their real goal.
A Russian KGB General once said that "we could use one billion Muslims as a tool against the West by radicalizing them with Marxism (as well as Islam).
The goal of a revolutionary is to change society by means of violence and bloodshed (MASS SHOOTINGS). The goal is to create as much social chaos as possible to force change. These revolutionaries tend to come from wealthy families and that money can buy them more influence under a corrupt regime or dictatorship. At least, this is what they believe.
Sure, some will benefit like Jay Z and Beyonce, but the rest will be executed when they realize they have been passed over. They will be seen as a threat to the regime and dealt with the same way that Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge killed anyone that was educated or even wore glasses, because they were seen as a threat to the regime.
Here is a video with an FBI informant about how the Weather Underground terrorist organization was made up of Ivy League grads that were hell bent on revolution to end Capitalism. – FBI Agent Talking About the Weather Underground
Let me repeat: the illegal aliens, Union thugs and black gangs will be useful idiot soldiers for the educated Democrat Revolutionaries in the near future to create social chaos.
The mass shootings won't stop, because radical Revolutionaries want to help Obama reach the status of a dictator. A National Emergency and social chaos is needed for that to happen. I believe that Obama will go after the guns when Congress is unable to ban them due to a little problem called the 2nd Amendment.
Obama will then 'take action', by declaring the rash of mass shootings as a 'National Emergency' and this will give him the power to use more forceful 'Executive Orders' to ban guns.
A false flag is not needed, because ALL dedicated Marxist Revolutionaries are on the same page right now. They know exactly what to do to bring change…spill blood. They don't need to sit at a tale with Obama and his minions for marching orders or a false flag at this stage in the game. The mission is unwritten and UNDERSTOOD.
The ultimate goal to ban guns is also linked to the exploding national debt. The Elite don't want the middle class to be armed when the Hammer and Sickle of Socialism comes crashing down.
One more thing:
The Norway shooter was reportedly trained by the Russian KGB in Belarus. This was reported by the Russian media as a message to Europe that the 'Bear was back'. ONE MAN killed 77 people and there are reports that the Russians have many more of these Revolutionary killing machines just waiting to be unleashed. There was a theory that Russia was upset with Norway about cutting them out of gas or oil at the time. Was the Norway shooter sent in as a message to not screw with Russian energy? Many believe so.
My point is that mass shootings is a common tool among MARXISTS.
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7 Ways Pedal Power Will Change the World
The Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and other organizations spend millions every year to vaccinate people against diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, haemophilus influenza B, hepatitis A and B, polio, and other diseases. Nearly all of those vaccines must be refrigerated, but not frozen, while they are stored or they can go bad. In many countries, though, refrigerators are at the mercy of intermittent power supplies. And even in developed countries, about 13 percent of vaccines are accidentally exposed to freezing temperatures—the number in developing countries is double that.
This solar-powered refrigerator with a clever freeze-proofing mechanism addresses both the power and the temperature problems. U.K.-based True Energy's refrigerator can run all day after an average of 4 hours of charging in the sun. It can also charge at an available outlet, and use its batteries as backup if the power cuts out.
The device exploits the physical properties of water to keep its contents at a constant 4 degrees Celsius—just above freezing. Water is most dense at that temperature, decreasing in density as it either warms or cools from that point. In the True Energy design, a water bag surrounds the cavity where vaccines are stored, and it's connected to a water reservoir above it. As the reservoir cools, the 4-degree water falls because of its density, occupying the water bag. The reservoir on top can even ice over, but the bag will keep a cold-but-not-freezing 4 degrees C around the vaccines. If the ice builds up too thick, the cooling unit switches off.
The refrigerators have a high price tag at $2000. But Stewart Jones, who heads True Energy, says that competition and doing future manufacturing in India could eventually cut the price by half.
A planar antenna is often found in mobile hardware such as cellphones and GPS devices, like the one seen here. It is essentially a metal plate mounted on a larger metallic base, forming a thin, rectangular unit that is a lightweight spacesaver. Suresh Kumar saw that it could be more: Subbing in photovoltaic cells for the metal that is usually used in the antenna can turn it into a power generator.
When it is fitted with solar PV cells replacing the upper metal plate, the antenna can still transmit and receive radio waves as well as ordinary versions. Kumar led a team at Pavendar Bharathidasan College of Engineering and Technology in Tamilnadu, India, to test how well they could generate power.
The researchers tested their antennas as vehicle-mounted power generators for GPS units and for satellite radio receivers that can operate off the grid. Off-grid communications are especially important in rural areas of developing countries, where outlets and up-to-date information are both scarce. Other applications for the antennas, Kumar and his team say, could be environmental monitors and on solar-powered autonomous aircraft, where weight and space matter.
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Rays not rushing Hellickson back
ST. PETERSBURG -- Jeremy Hellickson will make a fifth rehab start for Triple-A Durham.
Hellickson (right elbow) gave up six runs (five earned) in five innings for Durham in his fourth rehab start Sunday night. Included in his line were a home run, eight hits and seven strikeouts.
Despite the numbers, Rays manager Joe Maddon said that Hellickson "pitched much better."
"Right now, I think the plan is to see how it goes," said Maddon, who noted that the decision is based on performance and the health of the right-hander. "The guy's coming off surgery, and he's kind of getting to the point now where he'd be like getting off Spring Training. So I think you have to understand, the guy hasn't pitched in a while. He's coming off surgery.
"He's kind of going through Spring Training. And we want him to be performing well before he comes here. Even if he needs a little longer than one more start, I don't think there's anything to be read into it, other than he needs more time to pitch at the level he's capable of. Pure and simple. If he's not ready, he's not ready, performance-wise. But health-wise, he seems to keep getting better."
Maddon said that one of two right-handers, Alex Colome or Nathan Karns, will be called upon to make one of the starts in Friday's doubleheader at Baltimore.
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(UPDATED COVERAGE, 3:15 p.m.) Mission Produce Inc. is expanding its Toronto ripening and distribution facility and has opened a new avocado packinghouse near Zamora, Mexico.
Its Toronto Ripe Center, leased from Ippolito Group, is increasing its square footage from 6,000 to about 28,000 and doubling ripening capacity from 72 to 144 pallet spaces. Cooling storage is being upgrade to more than 400 pallet spaces.
Ippolito Group handles Canadian distribution for Mission Produce, whose staff handles operations at the center.
The Oxnard, Calif.-based grower-shipper has been in Canada for three years.
"We had another record year and demand for avocados is still strong," said Bill Tarleton, director of marketing communications. "We're trying to vertically integrate ourselves in numerous places other than just California and Mexico. We've got a lot of things going on internationally right now.
"It's just a situation where we need more space, more production and more fruit to handle our existing customers and any possible new ones," he said. "That goes across the board for the U.S. and Canada."
The Mexico packinghouse, dubbed Mission La Cantera, offers access to fruit production too far from the established site in Uruapan, including parts of Jalisco.
Jalisco avocados are not allowed into the U.S., but Mission Produce anticipates that will change. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a request from the Mexican government to allow fruit from Jalisco for import into the U.S.
"It's just our gut feeling," Tarleton said. "It's the same phytosanitary reasons that went into getting Uruapan fruit into the U.S. years ago. There's a need to examine any pest or disease issues, which pretty much all went smoothly in the past and we're anticipating it will again in the future. The Jalisco area is growing good fruit and we'd like to take advantage of it."
Tarleton declined to forecast when Jalisco avocados may be let in, but expects it in the near future.
The Zamora site, near avocados grown in that region, can pack about 300 pallets daily. It has 28,000 square feet and the company plans to more than double that, as well as increase cold storage from 100 to 500 pallets. Bagging capabilities are planned for the spring.
Besides avocados, Mission Produce's other products include asparagus. The new Mexico packinghouse handles only avocados. The Canadian site can accommodate both avocados and asparagus.


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"THERE'S no place for you here yet."
Never has a statement been more correct.
For Purton's Darryl Ritchings, his home debut for Swindon Robins should have been a dream come true, but instead it plunged he and his family into a living nightmare.
The 19-year-old left Blunsdon in the back of an ambulance following his horror heat two crash against Coventry on April 3 but, although he had suffered a broken ankle and possible knee and elbow injuries, initial brain scans at Great Western Hospital revealed Ritchings was in the clear despite being knocked unconscious and suffering a seizure following his collision with Bees reserve Jason Garrity.
Within 15 minutes of being given the all-clear, doctors changed their prognosis to reveal Ritchings had in fact suffered bruising to his brain and he was sedated before being rushed to the John Radcliffe in Oxford for treatment at one of the world's leading brain units.
Three attempts to wake him came and went with the young rider too aggitated to be brought round but, with a resting heart rate the same as Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt (35bpm), after he was successfully brought out of sedation on April 15 he was soon wheeling himself around the hospital's intensive care unit.
After astounding doctors with the speed of his recovery, the youngster is now back at home in Purton with his remarkable family surrounding him and, although he suffers from headaches and blurry vision, you wouldn't believe he had only just come out of a fortnight-long sedation.
He's as bright, witty, cheerful and honest as he was before his accident, with the only visible difference being the knee-height cast on his left leg and the stone-and-a-half of missing body weight.
The front room in which the youngster currently spends most of his time is filled with cards from friends, family and fans, while hundreds more messages willing him to make a recovery were sent by Adver readers and users of social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.
The rider himself has revealed he was unaware of any of these during what turned out to be his two-week sedation – aside from one familiar face who was able to pass on, in no uncertain terms, the thoughts of the Ritchings family, Darryl's friends and the speedway public as a whole as they all willed him to make a recovery.
"I had some weird dreams in there while I was sedated and it was a very strange experience for sure," Ritchings said. "I lost my nan last year and I had dreams with her in it where she was pushing me away and saying "there's no place for you here yet."
"I've always believed in some sort of afterlife, of heaven, but to be sedated and to see my nan, and for her to push me away, was very odd although it was nice to see her.
"I can't really explain it but I do remember seeing her and her talking to me.
"Once I was awake I had to learn to talk again, how to feed myself and how to cope with everyday life. I've done that pretty quickly and I think everyone at the hospital was amazed because I was wheeling myself around ICU and I don't think anyone could believe it.
"Before the season started I trained so hard in the gym just to get into Swindon's team and that has paid off I think because the fitness has really helped me.
"I do feel tired a lot and I suffer with a little bit of blurry vision, like a thick head you get when you've been out on the beer, but it certainly beats being in sedation in hospital.
"It's hard at the moment because things like going up the stairs and going to the toilet are really hard work and everyday life is a task, but I'm just lucky to be alive."
Ritchings, who intends to resume his career once he has fully recovered, has no memory of the crash which put him in hospital but has been informed of the events of April 3 by those closest to him, making him realise just how lucky an escape he has had.
"I felt nervous before the meeting but the only thing I remember from the night was working on my reactions with my brother before my first ride and then also the parade because I was waving to Poppy and Shelby (Ritchings' 10-month old daughter and partner) who were on the back straight," he said. "That's all I remember.
"I've seen pictures of the crash since but I don't remember it at all, I don't remember the start and I don't remember anything else at all about the meeting.
"I've been told all about it, all about the crash, but I've only seen photos and it was obviously a pretty bad one. I feel lucky, very lucky, because I really didn't know how bad it was.
"I've seen the state of my bike and that makes you know how bad it was. It was a mess, £1,500 worth of damage I think, but that really doesn't matter at all.
"When Declan (brother and mechanic) got to me he said he could see I had hit my head and that I was bleeding from the mouth after I bit my tongue and from my head too. I was unconscious at first and then woke up and tried to walk but didn't realise I had broken my ankle so fell back down. That's all from what I've been told because I don't remember any of it."
Ritchings has been amazed at the support and encouragement he has received from the speedway community, while financial support is set to come from the Speedway Riders Benevolent Fund as well as from collections held at Swindon, King's Lynn, Plymouth and Dudley. The biggest effort of all though came from Lee Kilby, son of legendary Robin Bob, who raised more than £2,000 cycling from London to Swindon wearing a full speedway race suit ahead of the Robins clash with Poole on April 18.
The teenager has no idea what the money will go towards at this stage, although he did admit a holiday for himself, Shelby and Poppy is up on the list, "The support has been amazing both in and out of speedway and the phone hasn't stopped ringing at all," he said.
"I haven't had to see what my family have seen because I was obviously sedated but they were there every day, holding my hand, and they have all been amazing.
"I couldn't believe how much Poppy had grown when I first saw her after coming round, she'd changed so much, and I'm just so glad to see her again.
"I've had so many messages on Facebook, Twitter and other things. Even Lee Richardson's wife messaged me on Facebook which was a lovely thing.
"When I got home all the cards were still in the envelopes and that was amazing but to see Lee (Kilby) do what he did is amazing. It was such a generous thing to do and I'm very grateful.
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LAKE COUNTY -- The California Highway Patrol (CHP) and Caltrans remind motorists to look out for deer to help prevent vehicle-versus-deer collisions.
Autumn is deer mating season, which means deer are on the move and less cautious about darting out into the road.
It is also elk mating season. Elk are less numerous than deer but just as hazardous to motorists.
"During this time of year, we see an increase in car-versus-deer collisions," CHP Captain Harry Linschoten said. "The safe operation of your vehicle requires your undivided attention. Drive defensively and don't allow in-car distractions to stand in the way of your safety."
Drivers are urged to be extra vigilant during this time of year and to follow these tips for driving in deer country.
Be particularly attentive between sunset and midnight, the hours shortly before and after sunrise and in foggy conditions. Most deer-vehicle collisions occur during these times.
Drive carefully in areas known to have high deer populations. Places where roads divide agricultural fields or streams from forestland are particularly dangerous. Don't rely on deer whistles, deer fences or reflectors to deter deer.
If you see a deer, slow down. Others are probably nearby. Use high-beam headlights when there is no oncoming traffic. The high beams can reflect off animal eyes and warn you of their presence.
If a deer is in your lane, brake firmly but stay in the lane. The most serious crashes occur when drivers swerve. Always wear seat belts when driving.
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Brasier gets an education on 'Dairy Night'
ANAHEIM -- Angels reliever Ryan Brasier had a twist in his pregame routine on Friday night.
Prior to joining his fellow relievers in the bullpen, Brasier milked a cow as part of "Dairy Night" -- one of the odder pregame ceremonies to take place at Angel Stadium.
"Never milked a cow," Brasier said. "I don't even know if I've ever touched a cow. It really wasn't that bad, not as hard as I thought it'd be. It felt like the nipple on a baby bottle. I was a little nervous to begin with."
The 25-year old rookie was selected for the unique task because of his youth. Although Brasier had never experienced anything similar to milking a cow and was a bit unsure of how to do it, Brasier is a competitor and enjoyed winning the race against White Sox reliever Nate Jones.
"When I first got out there, it was more learning how to do it, but obviously you want to win," Brasier said.
William Boor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Much of the discussion about the dairy provisions in the new Farm Bill law have focused on the new national Dairy Margin Protection Program (DMPP) to be launched later this year. One thing that hasn't been talked about much is a short – but significant – provision included in the bill dealing with California dairy cooperative efforts to craft a California Federal Milk Marketing Order, noted Rob Vandenheuvel, general manager of California's Milk Producers Council.
"Specifically, the Farm Bill states that 'the provision provides the Secretary of Agriculture with the discretion, if a California federal milk marketing order is requested, to recognize the longstanding California quota system, established under state marketing regulations, in whatever manner is appropriate on the basis of a rulemaking hearing record.' In shorthand, this gives the U.S. Department of Agriculture the authority to craft a California Federal Order that incorporates our state-run quota program," he said.
According to Vandenheuvel, having this provision in current law provides the authority the three major California cooperatives (California Dairies Inc., Dairy Farmers of America and Land O'Lakes) have demanded in order to push forward with the consideration of a California Federal Order.
"The cooperatives have been very clear from the start that their willingness to support a California Federal Order was contingent on this authority to maintain our state-run quota program," Vandenheuvel said. "Now that the necessary authority is signed into law, the cooperatives have the certainty they were looking for."
The next major step in this process is the submittal of a petition and draft order language to USDA in order to launch the hearing process that can ultimately lead to the implementation of a new California Federal Order. Dairy organizations at World Ag Expo were uncertain when that process would begin. Once it is initiated, it is a lengthy process; the hearing process can take up to 14 months.
A 12-page paper, Dairy Subtitle of the Agricultural Act of 2014 Information Letter 14-01, also includes a section lookig at the California issue. The paper is co-authored by Marin Bozic, University of Minnesota; Cameron Thraen, Ohio State University; John Newton, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; Andy Novakovic, Cornell University; and Mark Stephenson, University of Wisconsin-Madison. According to the paper, a FMMO has always been an option for California producers, but until recently they have preferred the provisions and administrative structure of their state system. Changes in the relationship of prices under the California order and federal orders – especially related to the price milk milk used to produce cheese (Class III in FMMO, Class 4b in California) – have caused many California producers to re-evaluate their state system.


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How to cut your laundry time in half
With piles and piles of clothes to sort, soak, wash, hang and iron, a mum's laundry is never done. Rather like painting Sydney Harbour Bridge, as soon as it's finished you need to start again. So when Shannon Lush, co-author of Speed Cleaning (ABC Books) promised to cut our laundry time in half, we let out an almighty cheer. Here are her top eight laundry-busting tips:
Set up a washing basket system
Shannon advises keeping three to five baskets or plastic crates in your laundry, marked with coloured ribbons, where family members can drop different types of clothes when they're dirty. Mark each one as: 'whites,' 'colourfast items,' 'darks,' 'sheets,' and 'towels and hand-washing'. "We keep a hamper in each bedroom and colour co-ordinated baskets in the laundry," says Shannon. "When one of the baskets in the laundry is full, whoever is there puts a wash on. Then whoever is in there when it's finished hangs it on the line. It's a simple way for other people to help. I'm particular about my laundry, but anyone can do this."
Turn socks the right way out
To save time re-washing socks that go into the machine inside out, train children and family members to turn them the right way around when taking them off. "If you don't turn them the right way out, they get impregnated with dirt, as it gets stuck in the fibres. Not nice," says Shannon.
Fit laundry around your daily routine
Shannon explains that one of her friends puts the washing on as she's going to work and finishes the task when she walks back through the door. "Put the washing machine on as you head out of the door, and transfer the clothes to the dryer when you get home, or hang outside."
Leave it in the machine
If you don't empty the washing machine first thing (your two-year-old is decorating her face with lipstick and it's time to exit) - don't panic. You have a full 12 hours before that musty smell takes hold.
Great hanging means no ironing
Shannon says properly hung clothes mean no ironing. "When hanging your clothes, your mantra needs to be 'I hate ironing', 'I hate ironing' and then you'll find you hang them much flatter. Peg clothes at the strongest part of the fabric - the waistband or seam - and never, ever hang shirts or jumpers by the shoulders."
Spray and go
Try another Shannon speed cleaning tip with this amazing crease release mixture. "I never iron. I just mix a teaspoon of lavender oil - the cheapest kind available - in a litre of water and mist it over the clothes before wearing them or hanging them in the wardrobe. Lavender oil is a fibre relaxant, so the creases drop out. I always take a spray on book tours and it's a great one to do on stage - you see the creases disappear before your eyes."
Super-charge your iron
Another time-saving trick is to beef up your iron and halve your arm power. "If you absolutely have to iron, put some aluminium foil underneath the ironing board cover," advises Shannon. "You get twice the heat, as it's reflected back on to the clothes, and you don't need the iron temperature so high, so you don't risk burning your clothes."
Beat dirty birds
If you're freshly laundered clothes get soiled on the line with - ahem - bird poo, try this speedy hint to stop them at the pass. "This often affects people, depending on where they live and the trees surrounding their washing line," explains Shannon. "Tying coloured ribbons to the washing line stops birds from hovering above."


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The Anoka-Hennepin Educational Foundation (AHEF) and Coon Rapids Rotary Club are co-sponsoring a writing contest for all Anoka-Hennepin students in grades one through five.
This year's theme is "someone special."
Students are encouraged to tell a story about why this person or animal is special to them, how this person or animal fits into their life and how they make the students feel special. Students are encouraged to write about their feelings and to create details using the five senses.
Judges will look for imaginative title; an organized beginning, middle and ending; interesting details that help tell the story; colorful word pictures; correct spelling and punctuation; originality; and insight.
All entries are limited to 500 words with writing on one side of the paper. Each entry must have a cover sheet of notebook or typing paper.
Cover sheets must list the student's name, grade, school, teacher's name, home address, home phone number and story title.
Names should not be on the stories. Binders and folders will not be accepted.
Entries not meeting these requirements will be disqualified. Illustrations will not be considered during judging.
Entries from grades one and two will be judged together; entries from grades three, four and five will be judged by grade level. Students are allowed one entry each.
Prizes will be awarded in these four categories: first prize $25, second prize $15 and third prize $10. There will be a maximum of three honorable mention prizes of $3 in each category.
Entries must be postmarked by midnight Friday, March 29 and received by Tuesday, April 2.
Entries may be sent through inter-district mail to Creative Writing Contest, c/o McKinley Elementary School. Entries may be mailed to Creating Writing Contest, c/o McKinley Elementary School, 1740 Constance Blvd. N.E., Ham Lake, MN 55304-5697. Entries will not be returned.


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NEW YORK -- Suspended New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez abandoned his fight against Major League Baseball on Friday, dropping his lawsuit for tortious interference in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Rodriguez also withdrew lawsuits against commissioner Bud Selig and the Major League Baseball Players Association, ending his battle to overturn an unprecedented 211-game suspension in connection with baseball's Biogenesis investigation that was reduced last month to 162 games plus the 2014 playoffs by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz.
Sources told ESPNNewYork.com in recent days that Rodriguez had been considering dropping the lawsuits for several reasons, not the least of which was the anticipated $10 million it would cost him in legal fees to continue his fight to play baseball in 2014. Rodriguez is already losing $25 million in salary during his suspension.
lso, sources told ESPNNewYork.com that Rodriguez was seeking to reconcile with baseball in hopes of continuing to work in the industry once his playing days are finished. His contract with the Yankees runs through 2017, and he has told confidantes he has every intention of returning to the field in 2015.
According to sources familiar with the proceedings, Rodriguez had in recent days made contact with Major League Baseball COO Rob Manfred, who spearheaded baseball's Biogenesis investigation that resulted in the suspensions of 13 players, in the hopes of repairing relations with the sport.
"It was a question of either becoming Pete Rose or Ryan Braun,'' said the source, referring to Rodriguez's fear that he would be ostracized from the game the way Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, has been since it was revealed he gambled on baseball while a manager.


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Canadian War Records Office, Ministry of Information
The rapid advance of the Canadians through August and September 1918 stretched the supply lines to the breaking point. Pack trains moved supplies forward, and soldiers, using the "tumpline" system first developed by Canadian Indians and 18th century voyageurs in the Canadian northwest, were mobilized to carry heavy loads from supply depots forward to the front. (The tumpline employed a wide cloth band that could be put over the forehead; it allowed men to carry large loads with comparative ease.) The Corps' successful railway and tramway troops also moved supplies forward and carried casualties to the rear, the engines (one with a maple leaf painted proudly on its front) varying in size and power.
Pieces of History
Military Logistics of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919
Michel Litalien
Canadian military logistics is a dimension of the history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) that is often overlooked. Yet just a few days after Canada's entry into the First World War, it was obvious that there was no way of ignoring it. When huge numbers of military and civilian volunteers showed up at Valcartier, near Quebec City, in August 1914, logistical support services, which had only recently been established, were soon put to the test. Clothing and equipping the members of the first contingent turned out to be a real headache. Manufacturers had to be found and contracts drawn up in a hurry for the production of uniforms, boots, belts, weapons, vehicles and so on. From a logistical standpoint, mobilizing the first contingent destined for Europe was a nightmare.
Throughout the Great War, the Canadian Expeditionary Force's logistical support system was an immense, complex operation. Of all the support services, the Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC) was the most diversified. Its main responsibilities were transporting combat troops, delivering equipment and materials, and providing the troops with fresh supplies. In addition to these essential tasks, the CASC also evacuated the wounded (ambulance drivers belonged to the corps), salvaged equipment that had been captured from the enemy or left behind on the battlefield and delivered mail. The CASC worked closely with the Canadian Ordnance Corps, the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the Canadian Artillery Corps for the transportation of specialized ordnance.
The CASC operated from seaports located hundreds of kilometres from the battlefield, all the way to just behind the front lines. Its replenishment system could supply not only small groups of just a few men but also formations the size of an infantry battalion (approximately 1,000 men).
Resupplying front-line units was a multistep process. From ports and depots, supplies were first taken by railway to railheads. From there, CASC units were responsible for moving the supplies by truck or light railway to supply dumps. These operations took place in the third line of supply. Thanks to their small size, light railways could run and reach areas closer to the front lines more easily. It was also harder for enemy artillery to pinpoint them. The administrative area behind the front lines was crisscrossed by light rail lines that were built and maintained by Canadian railway troops.
From the supply dumps, the CASC's divisional train and ammunition supply column, both of which were horse-drawn, were responsible for bringing supplies closer to the front lines, to their respective divisions or individual units. This was the second line of supply.
Lastly, operations to supply front-line units constituted the first line of supply. These units had to come back to the rear to get their own supplies of gear, ammunition, weapons, technical and communications equipment, water, medication and food. These supply expeditions were carried out chiefly at night so that the soldiers could not be seen by the enemy. But assigning combat troops to this task meant that a battalion's defensive positions at the front would be short of manpower for a time and so vulnerable to enemy attack.
Toward the end of the war, however, a Canadian officer from Montreal proposed using the tumpline system — the method that Canada's aboriginal people and coureurs de bois had used to carry large loads on foot. Before the introduction of this system, infantryman had to carry supplies in their arms, thus limiting the quantity of materials due to their size and weight. The tumpline system, which involved the use of a head strap, allowed the soldiers to carry more weight and freed up their arms, thus giving them more freedom of movement. With this system, each soldier was able to transport a greater quantity of supplies and so fewer men were required for the job, leaving more troops to ensure the defence of the front lines.
Besides regularly providing drivers and vehicles to other units, the CASC also maintained and repaired its vehicles. It also had to make sure that the troops were fed, which meant that fresh and hard rations had to be allocated and distributed properly; its military cooks oversaw the operation of field bakeries and butcheries.
The CASC was not the only logistical support corps to play a key role in the CEF. The Canadian Ordnance Corps was responsible for procuring, storing and distributing uniforms, boots, equipment, weapons, ammunition and shells to combat troops. Specialized supply depots, located in the second line of supply, helped ensure more effective distribution.
The Canadian Ordnance Corps' other major role was to maintain equipment in the field. The repairmen in the specialized ordnance mobile workshops could get closer to the deployed units and repair their weapons, both light and heavy, as well as their equipment. If the mobile workshops were not able to do the repairs on site, the weapons and equipment were shipped to heavy or stationary workshops at the rear, where virtually anything could be reassembled or rebuilt. The small detachments of the Ordnance Corps worked closely with the various units of the Army Service Corps.
Despite the gradual mechanization of the war, horses remained a vital component of the CEF. The cavalry, the artillery and, of course, the Army Service Corps used huge numbers of horses right up to the end of the war. At one point, Canadians were using as many as 24,000 horses and mules in their overseas operations. Horses could often manage in places where motorized vehicles could make no headway! Inevitably, some horses suffered injuries or fell ill. The Canadian Veterinary Corps operated mobile sections to take care of horses; it also ran veterinary hospitals for horses, advanced remount depots and specialized basic provisions depots.
Other logistical support services also played a crucial role in enabling combat troops to get on with their job. The Canadian Postal Corps, for instance, helped maintain the morale of soldiers at the front, at the rear and also those convalescing in hospitals. Army chaplains, who constituted the smallest organized support group, provided religious services to Canadian soldiers of different faiths and offered moral support at difficult times. Lastly, despite the enemy's efforts to maintain a naval blockade by submarines, the Canadian Forestry Corps ensured that Great Britain, France and the Canadian Expeditionary Force obtained all the timber they needed to carry out their military operations.
Thousands of men served in these various organizations. The Army Service Corps, for example, counted over 17,000 officers and non-commissioned soldiers in its organization. Even if these units were not combat troops, many of them, including the Army Service Corps, played important roles in all military actions. One hundred and four members of the CASC were killed, and 363 were wounded.
Selected Bibliography
Brown, Ian Malcolm. British Logistics on the Western Front, 1914-1919. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1998.
Canadian Army Service Corps, 2nd Divisional Train: Record of Service of Officers, 1914-1919. Brian Pontifex, comp. Toronto: Carswell, 1920.
Davies, W.J.K. Light Railways of the First World War: A History of Tactical Rail Communications on the British Fronts, 1914-18. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1967.
French, Cecil. A History of the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps in the Great World War, 1914-1919. C.A.V. Barker and Ian K. Barker, eds. Guelph: Crest Books, 1999.
Jackson, H.M. The 127th Battalion, CEF; 2nd Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops. Montreal: Industrial Shops for the Deaf, 1957?.
Johnston, James Robert. Riding into War: The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions and The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project, 2004.
Love, David W. "A Call to Arms": The Organization and Administration of Canada's Military in World War One. Calgary: Bunker To Bunker Books, 1999.
Phelan, Frederick Ross. "Army Supplies in the Forward Area and the Tumpline System: A First World War Canadian Logistical Innovation." Canadian Military History 9, no 1 (Winter 2000): 31-45 [reprinted from the article published in the Canadian Defence Quarterly in October 1928].
To the Thunderer his Arms: The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps. William F. Rannie, ed. Lincoln, ON: W.F. Rannie, 1984.
Warren, Arnold. Wait for the Waggon: The Story of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1961.
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).
Battlefield Medicine
Bill Rawling
Historian, Department of National Defence
On the battlefield, stretcher bearers, who were selected from the infantry or detached from a Field Ambulance unit, determined if the soldier needed to be treated, required immediate evacuation, or a combination of the two. The same process was repeated at the Regimental Aid Post (which was part of an infantry battalion at the front), at the Advanced Dressing Station (a section of a Field Ambulance), the Main Dressing Station (another section of the Field Ambulance), the Casualty Clearing Station, and the various forms of hospital near the front or well behind it, in England or even Canada.
The need for triage was not limited to times when the Canadian Corps was fighting battles—far from it—for disease had caused more casualties than combat since time immemorial. Even after such developments as vaccination in the 18th century and the studies of germs in the 19th, the sick were still plentiful among Canadian soldiers. Many conditions still forced tens of thousands to seek treatment. Among them were influenza, with some 65,000 ill in 1918-19; gonorrhea with over 45,000 ill in the course of the war; tonsillitis and sore throat with about 20,000 ill; syphilis with approximately 18,000; trench fever (caused by a bacterium transmitted by fleas), though non fatal, struck 18,000; myalgia (muscle pain) made some 15,000 sick, as did intestinal disease.
The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), however, was free of the kinds of epidemic diseases that had caused such ravages in the Crimea, the Spanish-American War and South Africa.
Near the end of the conflict the medical corps did find itself in the midst of one of the great pandemics of human history, the influenza scourge of 1918–19. Killing millions, it can be compared to the plague of Justinian in the 6th century or the Black Death in the 14th. Though 30–50,000 Canadians would succumb to the disease, the great majority were on the home front and not members of the expeditionary force. According to official history, 3825 of those who went overseas died of disease, 776 of influenza.
The CEF still had a problem on its hands, as the illness "flooded the rest station and camps with sick" in the summer of 1918, and "The ailment was peculiar in that, while exhibiting the symptoms of influenza, it ran its course in a week or eight days. It spread rapidly and necessitated the promulgation of extensive and stringent precautionary orders to prevent its spread. All public places such as Unit Entertainments, YMCA Cinema Shows, Estaminets [small French cafés serving alcohol] &c were closed for a time. In the latter places it was permitted to serve drinks at tables outside the buildings."1
Treating Wounds
Such illness was in addition to the medical challenges posed by the weapons of war and by the very ground being fought over. The conflict on the Western Front took place mainly on farmland that had been well-fertilized with manure, and its accompanying bacteria, for decades or centuries. The result, according to Canada's official medical historian of the conflict, was that nearly all wounds were infected. Sulpha drugs would not become available until the 1930s, and antibiotics would have to await another world war before coming into use, so infection was a serious challenge that could only be met by irrigating wounds with available chemicals and convalescence that could last months.
Another danger of wounds on the battlefield was shock due to blood loss, which could be fatal. The simple solution, first attempted in 1916, was to replace the patient's blood with blood drawn from a donor; chemical preservatives and refrigeration allowed for the life-giving fluid to be stored for a period of time, and such blood was being transfused by the end of 1917. One practitioner was Norman Guiou, who recalled in April 1918:
We had our first opportunity to do several transfusions. The dressing station was set up in a Nissen hut, the stretchers were supported on trestles. There were a number of seriously wounded... One lad was brought in on a blood-soaked stretcher, with a shattered humerus - his upper arm swathed in copious blood-soaked dressings. A flicker of pulse was present. He was pale, "starey-eyed", and tossed about and pulled his wound tag off... We bled a donor about 750cc while the chaplain talked to him. If there is a dramatic procedure in medicine it is the blood transfusion. Color came into that lad's cheeks. He raised himself on his good elbow, drank tea, and ate some YMCA fancy biscuits, then was on to the casualty clearing station.2
Psychological Injuries
One final challenge is worthy of mention here, that of psychological injury. According to medical historian Tom Brown, the condition was "the storm centre of military medicine" at that time. Symptoms could include uncontrollable weeping, trembling, paralysis, deafness and other manifestations without known physical causes. At first it was called shell shock, as it was thought that it resulted from the shock wave of an exploding shell damaging the brain, but by the middle part of the war the condition was thought to be purely psychological in nature. The patient could be diagnosed as suffering from hysteria or neurasthenia and could receive shock
treatment, talk therapy or simple rest in a hospital out of earshot of artillery. Most of the Canadian soldiers who suffered from such injuries were sent to No 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France, which specialized in such care.
Hospitals serve as examples of just how complex the treatment of sick and wounded soldiers had become by the First World War. Institutions specialized in ear and eye conditions, rheumatism, psychological injury, tuberculosis, orthopaedics, and venereal disease, in addition to general, stationary and convalescent hospitals. In an industrialized war, hospitals could become battlefield targets. Many nursing sisters and patients were killed when a hospital was bombed in 1918. They were among the 504 medical practitioners killed on the battlefield serving with Canadian units; another 127 succumbed to disease.
1Library and Archives Canada, RG 9, III, v.4715, 107-20, Passchendaele to Gouy-en-Artois, June 1918
2Norman Guiou, Transfusion: A Canadian Surgeon's Story in War and Peace (Yarmouth, 1985), 34-35.
Selected Bibliography
McPhail, Andrew. Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-19: The Medical Services. Ottawa: Department of National Defense, 1925.
Nicholson, G.W.L. Canada's Nursing Sisters. Toronto: S. Stevens, 1975.
---. Seventy Years of Service: A History of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1977.
Rawling, Bill. Death their Enemy : Canadian Medical Practitioners and War. Ottawa: B. Rawling, 2001.
Other Materials
The Canal du Nord and Bourlon Wood
On the Corps right, troops of the 10th Brigade, hugging their artillery cover, quickly crossed the canal on a two-battalion front between Inchy and Moeuvres. They overcame resistance from the Canal du Nord Line, and established them selves on Red according to schedule. The 11th and 12th Brigades, leading the 4th Division's attack on the right and left respectively, pushed forward but almost immediately met trouble from the south. Opposing General Watson's formations was the German 187th Infantry Division, with its 188th Infantry Regiment directly west of Bourlon Wood, flanked to north and south respectively by the 186th and 187th Regiments. Farther south was the dismounted 7th Cavalry Division; unused to infantry tactics they were quickly defeated. The 52nd Division, attacking on the Third Army's flank, had not achieved the same initial success as the 4th Division, and as a result the Canadian right suffered many casualties from enfilade fire.
In stiff fighting the 87th Battalion gained an entry into the southern part of Bourlon village by 9:45 a.m., and the 54th, passing through, skirted the north end of Bourlon Wood to reach the far side. The slower advance of the British troops to the south compelled the 102nd Battalion to form a defensive flank beside the Bapaume road and defeated the plan to encircle the wood from the south. This left the 54th in a pronounced salient, suffering mounting casualties. The battalion pushed on towards Fontaine-Notre-Dame, finally coming to a halt about 7:00 p.m. just west of the village, the 75th and 87th Battalions coming up on its left. Farther north the 12th Brigade also had stiff fighting throughout the day. The 85th and 38th Battalions, heavily hit by shelling and machine-gun fire during their advance, cleared their part of the Marquion trench system, allowing the 78th and 72nd Battalions to gain all but the extreme right of its Blue Line objective. It took a fresh attack mounted at 8:00 p.m. by the 78th Battalion to overcome the final pocket of resistance.
In the course of the 4th Division's operations on September 27 two subalterns had won the Victoria Cross. Lieutenant G.T. Lyall of the 102nd Battalion, and Lieutenant S.L. Honey, D.C.M., M.M., 78th Battalion, through their skilful leadership and courage in dealing with German strong points both significantly contributed to the capture of Bourlon Wood. Like many another recognition for brave deeds in the war, Lieutenant Honey's award came posthumously.
On the Corps left the 1st Division's success paid tribute to careful planning and well-directed and determined execution. Two guns of the 1st Battery C.F.A. gave the 1st Brigade a good start by moving in front of Inchy-en-Artois and firing point-blank into enemy positions along the canal. Thus aided, the 4th Battalion, having crossed the dry bed with little difficulty, was able to jump ahead to the north-east and capture its assigned portion of the Marquion Line. Here the 1st Battalion pushed through as planned and secured the Green Line in short order. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions now assumed the lead, only to be stopped by heavy fire from the embanked railway which curved north from Bourlon. With the aid of a timely flanking attack by the 72nd Battalion they overcame this resistance and swept on to the Blue Line. The action of the Commander of the 3rd Battalion's left support company, Lieutenant G.F. Kerr, M.C., M.M., in rushing single-handed a German strongpoint near the Arras-Cambrai road played an important part in the 1st Brigade's advance. Kerr, who captured four machine guns and 31 prisoners, was awarded the Victoria Cross.
The 2nd Brigade's role was to follow the 1st up to the Marquion Line and then extend to the left to capture the central portion of the Blue Line on the divisional front. By two o'clock the 7th Battalion was firm on its objective midway between Marquion and Haynecourt. During the afternoon the 5th Battalion went on to occupy Haynecourt and push patrols almost to the main Cambrai-Douai road. On the left, units of the 11th British Division passed through, headed for Epinoy. By the end of the day (September 27) patrols of the 10th Battalion-which had passed through the 5th just east of Haynecourtwere approaching the Marcoing Line, coming first to a heavy belt of uncut wire covered by enemy machine-guns. With mounting casualties the infantry cut the wire and pushed forward; but confronted by a second wire barrier, which marked the line itself, and with darkness approaching, the battalion consolidated on the east side of the Douai-Cambrai road.
On General Macdonell's left the 3rd Brigade had the important task of driving northward beyond the Canal du Nord and capturing in turn the villages of Sainslez-Marquion and Marquion, thereby freeing the eastern bank to permit crossings by the 11th Division. Leading the 3rd Brigade's advance the 14th Battalion crossed south of Sains-lez-Marquion, and swinging north behind the village, quickly captured its part of the Red Line. Four supporting tanks rendered good service in crushing wire barricades and in mopping up the village, but mechanical difficulties kept them from advancing past the Red Line. From Chapel Corner, south-east of Marquion, the German opposition, which had wavered before the initial rush of the 14th, rallied with heavy fire to stop the 13th Battalion, which was following up the initial assault. It took a joint effort by the 13th and 15th Battalions with tank assistance to clear Marquion. The 15th continued northward across the Arras road, mopping up the area east of the canal. By 2:00 p.m. it was firm at the Blue Line, just south of Sauchy-Lestrée.
Both Canadian divisions had received useful help from the tanks-each being supported by a company (of eight tanks) from the 7th Tank Battalion. The four allotted to each assaulting brigade successfully crossed the dry canal under cover of an artillery smoke-screen. Later they contributed to their own concealment by means of smoke dischargers fitted to their exhausts. During the day they gave good service in crushing wire entanglements and silencing with their fire enemy machine-gun posts. Of the sixteen tanks engaged in the first phase of the operation five fell victim to German fire.
About midday, when the 3rd Infantry Brigade had completed its assigned task of clearing the east bank of the canal, units of the 11th Division crossed at four places between Sains-lez-Marquion and the highway and moved smoothly into place on the left of the 1st Division to start the second phase of the attack. The advance to the north and north-east continued without serious interruption, and by dusk Epinoy and Oisy-le-Verger were in British hands.
Adapted and used with permission from Nicholson, G. W. L., Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964, p.419-422.
Teaching Materials
Images of War
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Films: Canadians Advance Near Cambrai 1 & 3. Canadian Engineers Laying Field Telephones
Summary: Students create a sketch, drawing, painting or propaganda poster that catches the spirit of World War I.
Many artists, including two women, were given commissions to record the war in pictures. As a result, many great sketches, drawings and paintings emerged from World War I.
Your Task:
Create a sketch, drawing or painting that catches the spirit of WWI. You might focus on new technologies; on the other hand, you might capture the grim death of the battlefields. Look through the film clips for inspiration.
Propaganda posters were a type of art that flourished from 1914-1918. Ask your teacher if you should create a propaganda poster, and whether you should look at these Web sites before or after you create your poster. www.diggerhistory.info/pages-posters/ww1-allied.htm; www.firstworldwar.com/posters/canada.htm


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Just started playing and I bought some discs that are probably a little above my skill level, or my skill level is really low. Things have improved since my footwork has gotten better, I just want to make sure I'm throwing something that will help me improve while learning fundamentals without frustrating me.
I'm just guessing, but I " think " I throw a driver around 250 ft when I actually throw it straight. I've actually just been practicing driving the putter just to get my form in shape.
I'd like to get a good mid range disc, not interested in drivers right now unless there is a very easy to throw one.
I'm sticking to Innova right now since it's available locally, but will venture to other brands in the future.
With that said, can you recommend a good set of disc, I plan on getting about 3 today if they have the recommendations in stock.
I have the following 3 disc, all Star Plastic.
Driver - Roadrunner
Mid Range - Mako
Putter - Aviar
Boss - no idea on plastic, got it free but won't throw it til I know what I'm doing.
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The hardworking Honey Bee™ is the perfect balance of value and versatility, without compromising on safety. It features seating for one or two children and includes a 1-Wheel Stroller Kit so you can bike or stroll with the whole family. Share your love for the outdoors with your little ones in the Burley Honey Bee.
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We bought the honeybee to use behind our bike but it has gotten so much use from being used as a stroller! It's light weight and easy to maneuver. It takes only seconds to collapse. Our daughter is so comfortable inside. It has a ton of storage room as well! Fantastic and worth the investment!
I love how this so quickly and easily can change from stroller to trailer. It has helped us almost never need to use our car!
I love this trailer and so does my son. It needs an adjustable back so that when the kids are smaller you don't have to prop them up so much with blankets.
Quality materials and construction. Very well designed.
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We have taken the burley out 3 - 4 times and love it! We bought a second attachment piece so there is one on both my husband and I's bike, this makes it easy to switch who is pulling. I was worried it didn't have a sun strip but that hasn't been a problem. I am very happy with the quick release on the wheels. It fits in the car top box or I can put a seat down in my Subaru Outback and put that with a bike in the trunk. I do wish it would recline a bit, even though there is a helmet "bucket" my daughter (29 months) looks uncomfortable with her head tilted forward. She doesn't complain though; and she is more than capable of letting us know when she is uncomfortable. She seems to love it!
I am very impressed with the ease of setup and takedown of the Honey Bee. My 8-month-old son seems comfortable while riding, even on gravel paths! There is a ton of storage space for toys, blankets and extra layers. My only concern was when we had finished our ride, we noticed small particles of sand and slipped through the mesh on the front of the trailer and left my son sandy inside. Again, this was on a gravel path, so it was more of a user error.
I bought this trailer for my parents so we could keep a stroller and bike trailer at their house and not have schlep ours back and forth. It works great for both options. We have the Encore at home and it's definitely high quality but requires the purchase of the jogging wheel. Stroller option is great for walks but not running/gravel paths!
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A few things to note at Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria. First, they offer bomboloni now! They're $2 each and you can find them at the pastry counter alongside fruit foccacia and olive oil cake. They're slightly smaller than tennis balls, yeasty and plush, the exterior fried golden and rolled in sugar.
You'll notice there's no filling, no jams or custards. And there's no need—they're pure and just perfect as is. While you're there, check out the gelato case. Flavors are changed weekly, so you might as well stop in once a week, at the very least. On yesterday's visit we had the Concord Grape Sorbet, a must this time of the year. And the velvety Honey-Yogurt, a tart yogurt gelato sweetened with whips of honey and complete with toasted pine nuts in each spoonful.
Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria
53 Great Jones Street, New York NY 10012 (map)
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Actually, two years ago I posted my first attempt at making a scorecard app and I received some great feedback.
Two years later, I'm now announcing a major overhaul...
I've pretty much taken all of the feature requests over the past two years and designed a new app around them. It is clean and simple, yet allows you to record as much detail about your game play or practice sessions as you would like.
Over the past few months I've been heads down nights and weekends trying to get this ready before Memorial Day weekend. I'm really happy with where it is at...
- Support for unlimited players and custom course lengths
- Record throw level details such as penalties, flight path, and disc angle
- GPS integration for distance measurements
- Note taking
- Several sharing options
- Disc Inventory
- etc.. (see the full feature list on the Apple App Store)
Ducky Disc Golf Scorecards Website: http://turboducky.com/ducky_disc_golf_scorecards.html
There is still plenty of things to do and up next is statistics and reports. I would like to invite you to check out the app and let me know what you think. Next week I'll be posting some free promo codes to the forum to celebrate the official launch of Ducky Disc Golf Scorecards.


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