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FRISCO - A familiar sight returned to the FC Dallas goal last week as bombastic goalkeeper Raul Fernandez was back for the trio of matches against New York, Seattle and San Jose.
The Peruvian known as "Superman" had previously missed the last 12 matches for FC Dallas dating back to September 29, 2013.
"It was a difficult and long week last week," Raul said through a translator on Wednesday. "It felt a bit marathon-like, but I think that this week we have to get ourselves ready for a victory."
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A victory was the one thing missing from Raul's return to the pitch. Despite making 12 saves in his three matches, Raul took the loss in all three, something that definitely takes away from his jaw-dropping double save in Seattle.
"Personally, they're good saves, but it's a shame that we couldn't get a point (in Seattle)," said Raul. "Still, I'm happy for my return and that I am giving it my all on the field."
As for his jaw-dropping MLSsoccer.com Save of the Week-nominated double save in Seattle?
"That's a sign that Superman has returned," he said with a laugh.
Without a doubt, the top priority for Raul and FC Dallas as they return to Toyota Stadium on Saturday night to face Chivas USA, other than three points, will be to get that first elusive clean sheet of the season.
"We're working on that [shutout] and we're focused on working hard for the 90 minutes and extra time," said Raul. "Tomorrow, we're going to begin watching film on [Chivas USA] and then take the things that we learned there onto the field and execute our game plan."
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Raul's return has certainly come at a good time from a national team perspective. Peru is just about to begin preparations for the 2015 Copa America in Chile and will play a part in the road to Brazil as his Peru side is set to face Switzerland and England at Wembley Stadium in a pair of pre-World Cup friendlies set for early June.
For a fiercely proud Peruvian like Raul, his hard work with FC Dallas will hopefully precede a call up to these matches from new Peru head coach Pablo Bengoechea.
"I want to have that opportunity and continue to play in these types of games," said Raul. "It's a great moment to be playing against the top teams in the world like England…[playing at Wembley] is a dream that everyone wants to come true."


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Hi, once again I have been wondering about how to improve my practice, meditation for one, but also systematic sutta studies, daily practices of care and compassion (my weak spot) etc.
As I am still in the more "conceptual" phase of learning about buddhist practice, my natural response as a researcher and project manager is ... to set up a project plan.
You know the stuff, define "goal" (minimun "favourable rebirth", maximum "stream entry"). Assuming that this will be a life-long project, it seems most sensible to approach it with defined phases and quality gate/milestones to develop a "step up" approach ...
Now I am wondering if this project approach might be totally unfeasible because maturing as a Buddhist is understood by me as an experience-based instead of conceptual path. But I am getting stuck on whether this implies to just take practice "as it comes" or if i can drive it systematical, as I would in any "normal" project.
It's a pretty natural response to my style and life experience to approach spiritual development as a project with defined milestones; but perhaps it's just totally off in terms of having even the slightest chance to progress this way.
How do you "plan" or work on your path of practice? Any pointers or warnings you could share? Or any links to threads here where this might have been discussed (I didn't find anything related to my "project"-based ideas so I might not have looked for the right key words).
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SAN JOSE — Investigators are seeking a suspect in a weekend brawl outside Casino M8trix where he stabbed a man then opened fire on a group of the victim's friends before disappearing, according to San Jose police.
The melee erupted around 2:30 a.m. Sunday when two men got into a "heated exchange of words" inside a restaurant attached to the casino at Airport Parkway and Matrix Boulevard, then followed each other into the parking lot, San Jose police Officer Albert Morales said.
It devolved into a physical fight, and at some point one of the men stabbed the other, Morales said. Then the man with the knife also pulled out a gun, and shot at a group of friends of the stabbing victim.
No one was hit by the gunfire, though a bullet shattered a car window. The shooter fled the scene.
The injured man was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. Morales said he was uncooperative with police, who found at least one shell casing in the casino parking lot.
Spokesman Sean Kali-rai said the casino is contributing surveillance video to the investigative effort.
"We're working with San Jose police to piece together exactly what happened and have some justice," he said. "(The restaurant) is a family place. People need to control their tempers. Whatever was said, there is no justification for this."
Anyone with information about the case can contact police at 408-477-4161 or leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-STOP (7867) or at svcrimestoppers.org.
Contact Robert Salonga at 408-920-5002. Follow him at Twitter.com/robertsalonga.


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KINGSTON, N.Y. -- Mayor Shayne Gallo on Friday promised his office will review all future requests for payments to city employees.
During a press conference in City Hall, Gallo said strict internal controls have been put in place -- and more will be instituted -- to end the "culture of entitlement" that he believes has existed in the city for the past several years, "perhaps decades," and that led to the arrest this week of retired city Fire Chief Richard Salzmann.
Salzmann was charged with four misdemeanors on Thursday after a report issued by the state Comptroller's Office said he received $5,500 to which he was not entitled while serving as chief in 2010 and 2011.
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, in a press release accompanying the report, criticized the city for "lax processes" regarding payroll and for relying on "unverified, incomplete and inaccurate records."
Gallo said the entitlement culture among city employees, in which payment requests were not properly reviewed, went unchecked by past mayors and Common Councils.
"Indeed, prior administrations, unfortunately, condoned, gave consent, permitted the practice utilized by Salzmann and (former Assistant Fire Chief Chris) Rea to ... receive time-off payouts that were never reviewed or verified by the mayor at that time," Gallo said. "I didn't create this mess, but I am here today to say it ain't going to happen again."
Salzmann became chief 14 years ago, when Gallo's late brother, T.R., was mayor. Salzmann then served during all 10 years of Mayor James Sottile's time in office and the first month of the current mayor's term.
Salzmann's arrest on Thursday -- for four counts of filing a false instrument -- came a year after Gallo, upon the chief's retirement, said the fire department head's "time in attendance" was being investigated by the Ulster County District Attorney's Office.
Gallo then promoted Rea to chief but rescinded that move two weeks later and suspended Rea, again citing "time in attendance" matters.
The report issued by DiNapoli's office on Thursday said Rea received more than $16,500 to which he was not entitled while serving as assistant chief. Rea, though, has not been charged criminally.
Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright said on Friday the investigation of Rea remains open and charges could be filed.
Gallo said he does not believe any other city employees will face criminal action.
Salzmann pleaded not guilty on Thursday in City Court and was released on his own recognizance.
Gallo said during his 55-minute press conference that his push for criminal investigations of Salzmann or Rea was not political payback, as some of his critics have suggested.
"This is not a political vendetta," he said. "I am just doing my job. I have a fiduciary duty to the taxpayers."
Gallo also said he was "surprised" by the lack of reaction to the state comptroller's report by members of the Common Council.
The mayor additionally said he doesn't blame the public for being cynical about government when such situations arise.
Carnright said on Thursday that Salzmann himself prepared the payroll documents that allowed him to receive excess money and then altered them to his benefit when notified about possible problems.
DiNapoli said his office's audit of Kingston payroll controls found Salzmann had received $5,558 to which he was not entitled.
In 2010, Salzmann received a lump-sum payment of $3,100 for 37 unused vacation days, though his employment contract only entitled him to "convert a maximum of 30 vacation days per year for pay," DiNapoli said.
Then, in 2011, Salzmann converted 129.5 compensatory hours to a cash payment "even though his contract only allowed payment for the first 80 hours of extra time," DiNapoli said.
Salzmann's annual salary when he retired a year ago was $79,391.
The comptroller's report said Rea, as assistant chief, received $10,000 in supplemental time, even though his contract did not provide such a benefit, and an additional "$5,800 for leave accruals that did not exist." In all, Rea received $16,656 to which he was not entitled, according to a 23-page audit report issued by DiNapoli's office.
The report said five city employees, including Salzmann and Rea, received a total of about $23,200 to which they were not entitled, and it blamed "insufficient internal controls."
The report did not identify the other three people, whose excess pay appears to have totaled about $1,000.
Rea sued the city last summer, asking that he put back on the city payroll and be cleared of disciplinary charges against him.
The suit was dismissed by a judge who said Rea did not act in a timely manner, but Rea has appealed that decision.


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With General Ironside's Forces in North Russia 2
The Film
Running Time
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British and other national forces in the North Russian Intervention Force in and near Archangel, and normal peasant life in the area, December 1918 to September 1919. British soldiers at a gunnery school are taught about the Vickers machinegun. In winter White Russian soldiers march across the frozen Dvina River into Archangel. In Murmansk a group of soldiers poses for the camera - British, American, French, Italian, Serbian and Russian. The main Allied warehouses are shown in Bakaritza, the harbour on the opposite bank of the river to Archangel. Soldiers in training use skis and snowshoes for patrol work. One of the trains in Archangel station has a YMCA canteen car. A supply train comes in and sleighs take the supplies out to the front. The village of Bolshayaozerka, on the way to the front, is shown. British soldiers in the front lines man trenches and rifle pits in the snow.
Pieces of History
Overseas Training in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Andrew Iarocci
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
the sole object of training is to prepare our forces for war, success in battle being constantly held as the ultimate aim... It is the function of training to develop the mental, moral, and physical qualities as highly as possible in each individual, and also to inculcate by theory and practice the methods of employing the various arms in co-operation to the best advantage...1
As this passage demonstrates, military instruction consisted of two fundamental aspects: training of the individual soldier and training of formations. When new recruits joined the service, they first needed to learn the basic skills of soldiering—marching, drill and marksmanship. Once these were mastered, the soldier would continue to train for his specialized trade, whether it be infantry, artillery, engineering, signals, medical or supply. Then the individual would join a formation based on his trade, and training continued at the unit level on a regular basis. The ultimate objective was for each component of the army to function cooperatively as part of the whole; this was achieved through exercises at the battalion, brigade and divisional levels.
The first overseas contingent of Canadian troops was formed at Valcartier, Quebec, during August-September 1914. Much of the time at Valcartier was occupied with administrative details, and limited training was accomplished before the contingent—soon to be known as 1st Canadian Division—embarked for England in October. Upon arrival, the division was posted to Salisbury Plain, a large British training area, where it remained until February 1915.
The weather that winter was especially wet, and until recently, scholars have agreed that relatively little training was completed before the division moved to France. Recent research suggests, however, that despite inclement weather and other distractions, most elements of the division engaged in productive training on Salisbury Plain. The infantry learned to manoeuvre in conjunction with artillery and machine guns. Other divisional elements, such as engineers, artillery and signals, as well as mounted and transport troops carried out their own specialized programs. The engineers, for example, learned how to construct field fortifications, while the artillery brigades rehearsed their gun drills. The divisional transport and ammunition columns, meanwhile, discovered the intricacies of moving supplies around the battle zone.
The training of 1st Division did not cease after it crossed the English Channel in February 1915. Upon arrival at the front lines near the Franco-Belgian border, the Canadians were matched up with experienced British troops for orientation tours. The evidence suggests that this formative experience was overwhelmingly positive. As one soldier later recalled, "nothing could surpass the patience of" his British teachers "or their brotherly kindness to us as comrades in arms."2 The Canadians also learned about the costs of war, as they suffered their first casualties and witnessed the damage inflicted on the landscape.
In the summer of 1915, the 2nd Canadian Division arrived in England and began to train at Shorncliffe Camp. The open ground was ideal for company and battalion manoeuvres, and much of the instruction revolved around the challenges of trench warfare. Some of the officers attended British courses, while others went to France for short combat tours with 1st Division.3 With the expansion of the Canadian Corps to four divisions during 1915-16, additional training space was required for the new arrivals in England. A camp was opened at Bramshott in late 1915, and additional camps were added in 1916, including Crowborough, Hastings, New Shoreham, Seaford and Witley.4
As the war progressed, a broad selection of specialized schools was established—both in England and in France—covering everything from hand grenade training to field sanitation. Instructional programs were gradually standardized, while the British Army Printing and Stationery Depot produced a vast selection of training literature on every conceivable subject.
New technology appeared on the battlefield throughout the war and was reflected in training programs. In April 1915, for example, the German Army introduced chemical weapons to the Western Front. All soldiers were issued with respirators for the duration of the conflict and gas drill became an important component of basic training. Later in 1915, the .303 calibre Lewis gun, a portable automatic rifle, was issued to British and Dominion forces. Here again was a new piece of equipment to be mastered. In common with other types of military training, the correct procedure was subdivided into a simple series of component tasks.
Not all military instruction revolved around weapons systems and tactics. Sport and physical exercise were also important; peak fitness was vital if soldiers were to function under the strain of battle. As the British Army Manual of Physical Training explained:
a soldier should be well disciplined, a good marcher, intelligent, smart, active and quick, able to surmount obstacles in the field and capable of withstanding all the strains and hardships of active service...5
Fitness was achieved through physical drills, "Swedish" exercises and regular sporting events. Organized games and competitions not only fostered physical fitness, but also improved morale and encouraged teamwork. During the summer months, battalions, brigades and divisions organized their own sporting events in rear areas. After the war a veteran fondly recalled a sports day from the summer of 1918:
Who lives that does not remember the day of brigade sports at Izel-les-Hameaux? There were races and jumps and hurdles, something for everyone, a ring to box and wrestle in, baseball and football championships. The day was fine... everybody was there. It was a gay scene, the boys of four battalions and the airmen who joined us for the fun, all rollicking together...6
By late 1916 the Canadian Corps was a veteran formation, and had suffered heavy casualties in a series of costly battles, including Second Ypres, Festubert, St. Eloi Craters, Mount Sorrel and the Somme. In addition to formal training routines, this practical and bloody battle experience shaped the capabilities of the Corps. At the same time, the high casualty rates meant that large numbers of new recruits were constantly arriving in France and Belgium. Some Canadian commanders were dissatisfied with the level of basic training displayed by these reinforcements, and decided to establish their own courses at the battalion, brigade or divisional levels. These short refresher courses helped to ensure that new arrivals were familiar with the basics of soldiering before being thrust into the unforgiving front lines.
Training was an ongoing process throughout the First World War, as Canadian units were created, consumed in combat, reformed, and once again committed to battle. Under the challenging tactical and operational circumstances of 1914-18, nothing could have prevented high casualties, but effective training improved the chances that soldiers would succeed on the battlefield.
1Training and Manoeuvre Regulations, 1913. London: General Staff, War Office, 1913, p. 10-11.
2George Drillie Scott Fonds, LAC, MG 30, E 28.
3G.W.L. Nicholson. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1962, p. 113.
4David W. Love. "A Call to Arms": The Organization and Administration of Canada's Military in World War One. Winnipeg: Bunker to Bunker Books, 1999, p. 91.
5Manual of Physical Training, 1908. Rev. ed. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914, p. 7-8.
6James H. Pedley. Only This: A War Retrospect, 1917-1918. Ottawa: CEF Books, 1999, p. 175-176.
Life in the Trenches
Tim Cook
Historian, Canadian War Museum
From Switzerland to the North Sea, some 500 kilometres long, soldiers on both sides carved out ditches in the ground that, over time, were expanded in complexity and depth. By 1915, vast underground cities housed the soldiers, as the opposing armies faced off against each other across no man's land. Along this continuous line of trenches, offensive operations degenerated into frontal assaults, which were usually stopped dead by concentrated fire.
The Western Front, as it was called, consisted of a series of trench systems in depth. The front lines were held in strength, but behind them, joined by a series of communication trenches that ran perpendicular to the front, were support and rear trenches. Deep protective dugouts were situated along the front and rear trenches to provide some degree of safety against all but direct hits from artillery fire. Saps and listening posts were pushed into no man's land, where soldiers were positioned to provide advance warnings of enemy attacks.
Despite the unsanitary nature of front line trenches, they were areas of safety. The trenches protected against small arms fire, shrapnel bursts and high explosive bombardments. Every day and night soldiers shored up the crumbling walls, filled sandbags, and rebuilt sections that had been damaged by artillery fire. It was not only a war of the machine gun and rifle, but also of the shovel.
Life in the trenches was filled with long periods of boredom interspersed with terror. Much of the time was spent in routine duty. At half an hour before dawn, the infantry was roused from their dugouts or funk holes (small spaces carved into the trench walls) and ordered to 'Stand-To.' At the alert, they waited for a possible attack with bayonet fixed. If nothing occurred, and it rarely did, since the infantry of both sides were always at their most prepared at this time, officers inspected the men. Rifles were examined for rust; feet were prodded to ensure that dry socks had been worn to protect against trench foot. The latter being a type of frostbite that occurred from prolonged standing in cold, slushy water, and could, in severe cases, require the amputation of toes or feet. After inspection, soldiers were often rewarded with a small dose of rum, which was much appreciated by the men, who saw it as a form of medicine to help withstand the daily deprivations.
Breakfast, like most meals, usually consisted of canned beef, jam and biscuits. It was a monotonous diet, but soldiers rarely went hungry. For lunch or dinner, soup or stew was brought up from rear areas to offer some variety and warmth. Care packages from home, filled with cheese, bread and sweets, augmented the bland food. During the day, though, the goal of most privates was to avoid the sergeant who assigned trench chores. Most were unsuccessful, with soldiers spending much of their time rebuilding the trenches or standing sentry.
Despite these duties, soldiers had much free time, during which they dreamed of home and of loved ones left behind; worried about children who were growing up without a father; of ailing parents with no caregivers; or of a wife who was trying to feed a family with insufficient funds. Literate soldiers might spend a few hours scribbling letters. Return mail from home was a welcomed treat, with letters read and reread. These exchanges back and forth remained an important life-line to Canada from the trenches. And while they were usually subject to two levels of censorship, by officers at the front and officials in England, soldiers nonetheless tried to share their thoughts with those at home. Civilians could not understand everything, nor could soldiers often capture the full range of their strange experiences in words, but letters remained an important avenue of expression.
Boredom could be kept at bay through gambling, and there was always some rake with dice or cards to fleece his mates. If a soldier had no money, he at least had cigarettes. Soldiers smoked all day long, and cigarettes, which were issued by the army, bought in rear areas, and begged from those at home, were a useful distraction. They helped to calm the nerves, or so soldiers said, and they certainly helped to mask the stench of unwashed bodies.
There were no baths in the front lines and, most soldiers went at least a week, usually longer, without changing their clothes. Dirt and mud were a part of life and, during the winter, helped to insulate soldiers. Far more trying was the infestation of parasitic body lice. The lice lived in the seams of clothing where they feasted on human blood. Soldiers scratched themselves raw to get at their infernal enemies. They learned to defeat their insect adversaries, at least for a time, by taking off their shirts and running a candle over the seams. This drew out the lice that were then squashed satisfactorily between finger and thumb. While soldiers did this, they would sit around, talk, complain and gossip. It was known as 'chatting,' and it is just one of many wartime phrases that would enter the English lexicon. But the lice always came back, tormenting the soldiers day and night.
Rats, too, were a constant plague, and because they lived off corpses, they could grow as big as cats. They bit soldiers and scurried over their faces while they slept. The rats were hunted by soldiers and their trench pets, usually fierce terrier dogs, but the rodents lived in and outside of the trenches and were always multiplying. Their squealing movement could be heard throughout the battlefield.
Amidst the mud and slush in the winter, or heat and flies in the summer, soldiers developed their own trench culture. New words sprang up, slang like 'napoo' for being killed, or 'blighty' that referred to England or home. Artistic soldiers could take spent ammunition and shape it into art. Some soldiers tried their hand at poetry. While most were not as skilled as John McCrae, Wilfrid Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, to name the best-known war poets, the trench poetry or doggerel provided much insight into the soldiers' front-line experiences. At the group level, some battalions printed trench newspapers. Drawing from their own soldiers in the ranks—men who in civilian life had been editors, journalists and cartoonists—these crude newspapers contained rough humour and wry commentary on the strange, subterranean world of the trenches.
But just as a soldier might be penning a letter or staring at the blue sky above, the crash of an artillery shell could bring sudden death. The enemy was always there to kill or maim. Snipers skulked into no man's land, camouflaged and ready to put a bullet through a man's head should it rise, even for a second, above the safety of the trench parapet. Poison gas was released in the form of gas clouds and artillery shells, and soldiers who could not put on their respirator quickly faced a lingering death as chemicals corrupted and ravaged lungs.
Machine-gun bullets raked the front lines day and night. Yet artillery shells were the greatest killer in the war, accounting for more than half of all deaths. High explosive shells blew deep holes in the ground or wrecked trenches; soldiers were atomized by direct hits. Equally deadly, shrapnel artillery shells rained hundreds of metal balls and jagged steel down on soldiers, shredding through flesh and bone. Steel helmets, introduced in early 1916, helped to reduce casualties, but a unit's tour in the front lines almost always resulted in a steady hemorrhage of casualties. It was clinically called wastage, and impersonal charts showed that each month the infantry would lose approximately 10% of its strength, even in quiet areas where no operations were carried out. While the snipers and artillerymen did their dirty work, the soldiers could look around and see their best friends killed and maimed.
Yet the soldiers struck back in the form of nighttime raids. Changing into dark clothes, equipping themselves with revolvers, grenades, daggers and clubs, small groups of men snuck past their wire and into no man's land. Raids were a form of organized mugging, and the goal was to gather intelligence, kill the enemy and grab a prisoner. Enemy sentries were usually the target, but sometimes large groups of raiders slipped into the opposite trenches to wreck mayhem. While Canadian troops acquired a reputation as fierce raiders, these operations were dangerous affairs, and in the confusion of night fighting, casualties were often heavy.
To help relieve the unending pressure on soldiers, they were rotated in and out of the front line. On roughly four- to six-day tours, filthy, verminous, exhausted soldiers passed from front to secondary lines and finally to the reserves. This rotation helped to relieve the strain, but soldiers always knew they would return to the trenches in this maddening cycle.
Endurance was the key to survival and soldiers learned to cope with the inhuman conditions. Some developed fatalistic attitudes, believing they would be killed 'when their number was up'; others lived in terror all the time; a few hoped for a blighty wound, a bullet through the hand or leg that would take them away from the horror and back to a clean hospital in England. Thousands suffered mental breakdowns, known as shell shock, but hundreds of thousands more of the 'poor bloody infantry,' as the soldiers liked to call themselves, learned to withstand the strain of the trenches. And it was these survivors who, after four years of bitter fighting, would finally break the static warfare on the Western Front and defeat the German forces.
Selected Bibliography
Bird, Will R. Ghosts Have Warm Hands: A Memoir of the Great War, 1916-1919. Ottawa: CEF Books, 1997 (1968).
Black, Ernest Garson. I Want One Volunteer. Toronto: Ryerson, 1965.
Canadian Bank of Commerce. Letters from the Front : Being a Partial Record of the Part Played by Officers of the Bank in the Great European War. 11 v. Toronto: Canadian Bank of Commerce, 1915-1919.
Cook, Tim. "`More a Medicine than a Beverage': 'Demon Rum' and the Canadian Trench Soldier of the First World War." Canadian Military History 9, 1 (Winter 2000) : 6-22.
Fraser, Donald. The Journal of Private Fraser, 1914-1918, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Reginald H. Roy, ed. Nepean, ON: CEF Books, 1998 (1985).
Granatstein, J.L. Hell's Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada's Great War, 1914-1918. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 2004.
Litalien, Michel et Stéphane Thibault, Tranchées : le quotidien de la guerre 1914-1918, Outremont, Québec, Athena éditions, 2004.
Morrison, J. Clinton. Hell upon Earth: A Personal Account of Prince Edward Island Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918. Summerside, PEI.: J.C. Morrison, 1995.
Morton, Desmond. "A Canadian Soldier in the Great War: The Experience of Frank Maheux." Canadian Military History 1, nos 1 & 2 (1992) : 79-89.
---. When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War. Toronto: Random House, 1993.
Morton, Desmond and J.L. Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War, 1914- 1919. Toronto: Lester & Orpen, Dennys, 1989.
Winter, Denis. Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War. Markam, ON: Penguin Books, 1985.
Canadian Small Arms of the First World War
Phil White
Historian, Canadian War Museum
Although the carnage of the First World War was unprecedented, there was nothing truly new about the small arms used during the fighting. The story behind these weapons and their terrible efficiency stem from the tremendous advances in science and technology made throughout the late 19th century.
By 1850, arms factories in Europe and the United States were making the most of advances in metallurgy and mass production, and were capable of manufacturing hundreds of rifles daily. Repeating rifles, which could fire several shots before being re-loaded, were used extensively during the American Civil War (1861-65), as were the first simple multi-barrelled machine guns. More powerful ammunition was available in the 1870s. The American inventor Hiram Maxim introduced the first true machine gun, capable of firing 450 rounds per minute, in 1884. The water-cooled barrel gave Maxim's machine gun the ability to fire for hours without stopping. By the turn of the century, most European and North American soldiers carried high-powered rifles that could fire 15 shots per minute at an effective range of 800 metres. The days of reloading a single-shot rifle, in the open, five or six times a minute, were long gone. The stage was set for the killing fields that were to come.
Two Rifles
Two late-19th-century inventions, the Lee-Enfield rifle and the Ross rifle, the first Canadian-made military rifle, are central to this story.
In the late 1870s, the British Army accepted Scottish-born Canadian James Paris Lee's rifle design for trials, ultimately resulting in the adoption of the Lee-Metford rifle, then later the Lee Enfield Mk 1 rifle. It was purchased by Canada and used in the South African War.
Sir Charles Ross designed his straight-pull bolt-action rifle and patented the design in 1897. The bolt mechanism, based on the Austrian Mannlicher rifle, also included Ross's own innovations. In theory, this type of bolt-action was very easy to use and could be reloaded very quickly. The more quickly a rifle can be re-loaded, the more firepower it provides. Its drawback was a complicated manufacturing process and its fragile loading mechanism. Ross revised his design, introducing it as the Model 1900, then later with an improved bolt mechanism in 1901, both of which were submitted to American trials as a potential service rifle.
After the South African War, Sir Fredrick Borden, Canada's Minister of Militia and Defence, lobbied unsuccessfully to have the Lee-Enfield rifle built by a British firm in Canada. When the British turned down Borden's request, the Canadian government turned to Ross and his rifle. After a series of modifications, Canada accepted the design, Ross built a factory at the Citadel in Quebec, and the rifle went into production. In 1904, the Royal North West Mounted Police received 1,000 rifles, the Department of Marine and Fisheries another 500. In the coming years, the rifle underwent continual modifications and developments to suit various requirements, including target shooting by the Canadian team at Bisley, where the Ross excelled. In August 1905, the militia received its first order of 1,000 Ross Mk 2 rifles. By 1911, the Mk 3 had been accepted and was being manufactured for the militia.
Britain tested the Ross rifle between 1900 and 1912, rejecting it because of problems with the design, including a propensity to jam.
The British Army continued to use the Lee-Enfield and in 1903, introduced the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (S.M.L.E.) into service. The S.M.L.E., a shortened version of the Lee-Enfield Mk I, had been developed as a result of experience gained during the South African War. The design and construction were simple, if not crude, but also robust, functioning under less than ideal conditions.
Ross continued to develop and fine-tune his design, resulting in dozens of variations. Between 1903 and 1915, 419,130 Ross rifles were manufactured, with most going to Canadian troops, and some to Newfoundland and Britain.
The Canadian forces entered the First World War with the Ross rifle, Mk 2, Mk 3, and its subsequent variations. Almost immediately, its shortcomings became evident.
On March 10, 1915 the 1st Canadian Division went into battle at Neuve Chapelle, France. The Canadians were heavily engaged and, to the horror of the soldiers, their Ross rifles began to jam. The reasons for this were numerous: the ammunition provided was often inconsistent in size; muddy conditions allowed dirt to build up in the complicated loading mechanism, and the heat generated by rapid-firing caused the closely machined parts to expand and seize. A design flaw also made the bolt difficult to lock, if it had been assembled improperly, and some bolts were said to have blown back into the user's face. Canadian soldiers soon began discarding the Ross in favour of the British S.M.L.E. Mk 3*, when they could find them in the field. General E.A.H. Alderson, commander of the 1st Canadian Division, was forced to issue an order banning the use of the S.M.L.E by Canadian troops.
When the Canadians fought at the Second Battle of Ypres, in late April 1915, the Ross failed again. Outnumbered and facing the first gas attack of the war, the Canadians found their rifles jamming. Some reports had them "Clubbing furiously at their seized bolts with trenching tools and boot heels." By the end of the battle, hundreds had discarded their Ross rifles in favour of the trusted S.M.L.E.
By June 1915, British Field Marshal Sir John French ordered the Canadians under his command to be re-armed with the S.M.L.E. However, the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions that soon arrived in Europe still carried the Ross.
In May 1916, a study into the Ross's problems confirmed the jamming and recommended modifications to the rifle's bolt-stops. Earlier tests had reported the Ross worked well with Canadian ammunition made at Dominion Arsenals in Quebec, but this ammunition was in short supply. New, poorly fitted stocks made from improperly seasoned birch were also causing problems as the wood warped and pressed against the metal frames. In light of the report, a few rifles were re-built with 26-inch barrels, trimmed stocks and larger bolt-stops. Although the rifles were reported to have worked "superbly," soldiers had lost all confidence in them. In mid July, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-armed Canadians with the S.M.L.E. and the Ross was officially withdrawn from front line service by the end of that year.
By this time Sir Charles Ross was running into other problems. Skilled labourers were finding better work in the United States, machinery ordered in 1914 had yet to arrive, and supplies were increasingly difficult to secure. Ross won a $22,500,000 contract to make one million rifles for Russia, but had to let it go to the United States due to inability to meet his deadline. A second order from Russia was cancelled after the Mk 3 was withdrawn from Canadian service. On March 28, 1917, the Canadian Government expropriated the Ross Rifle Company. Canada's first and only national rifle had failed as a battlefield weapon.
The Machine Gun
In 1912, the British Army adopted the water-cooled Vickers Mk 1machine gun, an improvement over the 1884 Maxim design, as its standard machine gun. The slightly lighter Vickers, like the Maxim, made use of an ammunition belt, and could fire 450 rounds per minute. Its water-cooled barrel could sustain this fire over very long periods of time, often for hours. Classified as a medium machine gun, the Vickers Mk 1 was used primarily on a tripod from defensive positions. It could be fired directly at a visible target, or indirectly, like artillery, at targets or positions at long range or behind obstacles.
In response to the need to provide quick-moving infantry with machine gun support, light machine guns appeared on the battlefield in 1914. The Lewis, the first light machine gun used by the British and Canadian forces, had been introduced into service with the Belgian army in 1913. It weighed about 18 kg and could be carried "over the top" like a rifle, to give advancing troops added firepower.
Due to a shortage of light machine guns, the British and Canadians also adopted the Hotchkiss machine gun in 1916. The Hotchkiss was based on the French medium machine gun the Mitrailleur Mle. 09, modified for use as a light machine gun. Although lighter than the Lewis, the Hotchkiss was more complicated and was used mainly by the cavalry. The Hotckhkiss remained in service for training and home guard use after the First World War and was not declared obsolete until 1946.
The decisions regarding when and how to deploy, or advance against small arms fire relate to the concept of the 'beaten zone' or 'killing zone' that existed between the lines, and the time-versus-lead equations; the idea that a storm of bullets and/or artillery shells poured into a given area made the task of 'advancing to contact' extremely difficult, if not impossible. This led to obvious challenges: crossing the zone more quickly (tanks) or by stealth (surprise attack, often without pre-shelling); better tactics to bypass resistance (storm troops, combined arms warfare); and heavier bombardments to keep enemy heads down, destroy obstacles, etc; and in the meantime, drove troops into the ground (trenches) to escape slaughter.
Close Combat
Most of the casualties during the war were inflicted by artillery or small arms fire coming from a distance. However, there was still some close and brutal fighting, often as part of larger operations, but particularly during trench raids.
All rifles were fitted with bayonets, which took the form of a long knife or spike that could be attached to the muzzle of the rifle, effectively forming a spear. By the First World War, British, and Canadian soldiers had been training to use bayonets for 200 years and were very efficient in its use. The bayonet also had an enormous psychological impact. Hundreds or thousands of enemy troops running towards you firing their rifles, screaming and brandishing long blades or spikes, was a terrifying and demoralizing sight. Despite the psychological advantage, many officers considered the bayonet perfectly useless, even in the 19th century. Firepower and broken terrain could keep cavalry at bay from c1860 onwards in most battles, thereby removing the bayonet's one real advantage – warding off cavalry. When fighting in the confined spaces of the trenches, the length of a bayonet fixed to the muzzle of a rifle could be a great disadvantage. To this end, many soldiers equipped themselves with other weapons, both standard and non-standard issue. These weapons were especially important for trench raids.
Usually conducted at night, trench raiding was extremely brutal, tending to resemble medieval warfare. Soldiers made use of pistols, grenades, clubs, axes, morning stars, knives and even sharpened shovels. As a defensive measure, body armour was brought back into use and worn openly by infantry for the first time since the 17th century.
Pistols were issued officially to officers and NCOs exclusively, but they were also occasionally picked up or traded by soldiers and used for close fighting.
At the beginning of the First World War, Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence, ordered 5,000 semi-automatic .45 ACP calibre Colt model 1911 (Government Model) pistols through one of his "Honorary Colonels," causing a short-lived political scandal. The pistols were issued to non-commissioned officers and made available to officers for purchase, along with some older Colt revolvers left over from the South African War. Canadian officers serving with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, or other units assigned to British formations, were issued with Webley revolvers of various marks.
With the forces rapid expansion, the military needed more pistols by mid 1915. Due to shortcomings found with the Colt Model 1911, the government purchased 1,500 Smith & Wesson .455 Hand Ejector Second Model revolvers on August 21, with later orders for 13,000 between 1915 and 1917. Revolvers were considered more reliable in harsh conditions.
Immediately after the ceasefire of November 11, 1918, many First World War small arms developments were shelved. Advances had been made in designing lighter, more efficient machine guns and submachine guns, but, in the debt-ridden postwar years the last thing most governments wanted to spend money on was small arms.
The Department of Militia and Defence was now faced with the disposal of the unwanted Ross rifles. Some 120,000 Mk 2 and Mk 3 rifles were taken overseas and turned over to the British, and 20,000 were sold to the United States for training. Of the rifles sent overseas, 9,334 were later returned to Canada. The Ross continued in use as a sniper rifle throughout the war, and well into the Second World War, making use of its initial design as a sporting and target rifle. Many Ross rifles were also re-issued during the Second World War for training and Home Guard use and eventually made their way into the hands of the armies of China, Chile, the Baltic states, Spain, New Zealand, Holland, India, Indonesia and the Soviet Union.
The S.M.L.E. remained in service well into the Second World War and was replaced in 1942 by the Lee-Enfield No. 4. James Paris Lee's basic rifle design is still in limited service with the Canadian Forces in the 21st century with the Canadian Rangers and Cadets.
The machine gun continues to be a vital part of the arsenals of all armies. The Vickers machine gun was used in the Second World War, the Korean War, and was not officially declared obsolete until the 1960s. The Lewis gun saw limited service in the Canadian Army during the Second World War, notably at Hong Kong.
The bayonet is stilled issued and used as a standard attachment to most military rifles worldwide.
The small arms designs that were rooted in the late 19th century and used during the First World War evolved very little throughout the first half of the 20th century. Although infantry tactics evolved considerably and the casualty figures of the First World War seem incomprehensible today, killing over open sights remains the foot soldier's basic role.
Selected Bibliography
Edgecombe, David W. Defending the Dominion, Canadian Military Rifles 1855-1955. Ottawa: Service Publications, 2003.
---. Small Arms of the World: A Basic Manual of Small Arms. 12th rev. ed. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1983.
Ezell, Edward C. Handguns of the World: Military Revolvers and Self-Loaders from 1870-1945. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1981.
Hogg, Ian V. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms. London: New Burlington Books, 1978.
---. Military Small Arms of the 20th Century. 7th ed. Iola: Krause Publications, 2000.
Law, Clive M. Canadian Military Handguns, 1855-1985. Bloomfield, ON: Museum Restoration Services, 1994.
---. Without Warning: Canadian Sniper Equipment in the 20th Century. Ottawa: Service Publications, 2004.
Maze, Robert J. Howdah to High Power: A Century of British Breechloading Service Pistols (1867-1967). Tucson: Excalibur Publications, 2002.
Meek, John F. Over the Top: The Canadian Infantry in the First World War. Orangeville, ON: John F. Meek, 1971.
Morton, Desmond. A Military History of Canada. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1985
Nelson, Thomas B. The World's Submachine Guns. Cologne, Germany: International Small Arms Publishers, 1963.
Phillips, Roger. The Ross Rifle Story. Sydney, NS: John A. Chadwick, 1984.
Rawling, Bill. Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps 1914-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Saunders, Anthony. Weapons of the Trench War, 1914-1918. Phoenix Mill: Alan Sutton, 1999
Skennerton, Ian D. The British Service Lee, Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield Rifles and Carbines 1880-1980. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1982.
---. The Lee-Enfield Story. Piqua: I.D.S.A. Books, 1993.
Other Materials
The Ross Rifle and other Small Arms in World War I
Sir Sam Hughes, the future minister of militia and member of the 1901 militia committee, was a supporter of the Ross rifle. The Mark 1 Ross rifle was not delivered until 1905 and 1000 units were supplied to the RNWMP but various problems plagued this model of rifle and it was eventually recalled in 1906. Changes were made to the production model until 1910 when the various models of the Mark 2 were produced. Great Britain at that time was strongly urging Canada to adopt the Lee-Enfield rifle for its armed forces so as to have consistency within the Empire regarding weaponry, and because Canada refused to halt production of the Ross rifle, strains developed over imperial defence. The Mark 2 rifle was adopted by the Canadian armed forces in 1911, and in that year work was begun on the Mark 3, although few were produced before 1914. In the first years of WWI the Ross rifle received a bad reputation. It was seen as unsuitable for the "trench-and-charge" tactics employed during that war because of its weight, 9 lbs 14 ozs (c 4.5 kg), its overall length, 60˝ inches (c 1.5 m) with bayonet fixed, and the continual jamming problem plus the occasional "blowback." The cause of the jamming was eventually corrected but came too late for the rifle to maintain its use. In the summer of 1916 the rifle was withdrawn from service and by mid-Sept Canadian troops had been rearmed with the British-made Lee-Enfield. The Canadian government expropriated the Ross Rifle Co in March 1917 after paying Ross $2 million. The total production of the Ross rifle was approximately 420,000 with 342,040 units being purchased by the British. During WWII, the Mark 3 Ross rifle was given to the Royal Canadian Navy, the Veteran's Guard of Canada, coastal units, training depôts, the British Home Guard and the Soviets.
Reproduced with permission from The Canadian Encyclopaedia, Historica Foundation of Canada


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Dad was diagnosed with CC in 10/07. He had his tumor resected and the surgeoon took out about 1/3 of his liver and gallbladder. No lymph nodes were involved and they established negative margins in the area. Blood work has been great and he is still on the CT scan ever 3 months. Back in August they saw a spot on his liver. When they did his last CT scan,last week the spot (nodule)looked more clear. Surgeon said he is not really concerened becasue his blood work has not changed but is sending him fo a Pet scan just in case. As you can imagine this has hit the family like a ton of bricks. Especially right before the holidays. Has anyone had spots or nodules that turned out to be nothing? Would his blood work have changed since August if the cancer was back? Thank you so much for your thoughts


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Intrauterine Contraception After First Trimester Abortion - Effects on Quality of Life and Risk of Repeat Abortion.
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Helsinki University Central Hospital
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Elina Kuronen, Helsinki University Central Hospital
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A randomized prospective study on the effects of immediate provision of intrauterine contraception after first trimester induced abortion - effects on repeat abortions and quality of life.
|Device: Immediate intrauterine contraception
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Systematic Provision of Intrauterine Contraception After First Trimester Abortion - Effects on Quality of Life and Risk of Repeat Abortion. A Randomized, Prospective Trial.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Birth ControlU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Elina Kuronen, Helsinki University Central Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of repeat abortions [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Expulsions [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2018
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Immediate intrauterine contraception
IUD (either Cu-IUD or LNG-IUS) inserted immediately after abortion.
Device: Immediate intrauterine contraception
A Cu-IUD or LNG-IUS is inserted after abortion.
No Intervention: Control group
Post-abortal contraception is prescribed by the hospital but on the responsibility of the patient.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Duration of pregnancy < 12 weeks.
- Age ≥18 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Contraindication for spiral insertion: uterine anomaly, infection, copper allergy (Cu-IUD).
Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01223521
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01223521
|Dept Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Central Hospital
|Helsinki, Finland, 00029 HUS
Sponsors and Collaborators
Helsinki University Central Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Oskari Heikinheimo, MD, PhD
|Helsinki University Central Hospital
|Study Director:
|Satu P Suhonen, MD, PhD
|City of Helsinki
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Elina Kuronen, Helsinki University Central Hospital:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 25, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Toffol E, Pohjoranta E, Suhonen S, Hurskainen R, Partonen T, Mentula M, Heikinheimo O. Anxiety and quality of life after first-trimester termination of pregnancy: a prospective study. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand. 2016 Oct;95(10):1171-80. doi: 10.1111/aogs.12959.
Pohjoranta E, Mentula M, Gissler M, Suhonen S, Heikinheimo O. Provision of intrauterine contraception in association with first trimester induced abortion reduces the need of repeat abortion: first-year results of a randomized controlled trial. Hum Reprod. 2015 Nov;30(11):2539-46. doi: 10.1093/humrep/dev233. Epub 2015 Sep 14.
|Responsible Party:
|Elina Kuronen, MD, Helsinki University Central Hospital
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|NCT01223521 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|October 18, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 22, 2016
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Keywords provided by Elina Kuronen, Helsinki University Central Hospital:
First trimester
Intrauterine device
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SEAN Dyche has praised Sam Vokes for leading the line to become Burnley's second 20-goal striker this season, but knows he won't stop there.
The striker joined 25-goal top scorer Danny Ings in reaching the milestone with his penalty against Charlton Athletic at the weekend, which helped to send the Clarets into tonight's home game with Doncaster Rovers on a 15-game unbeaten run.
Having formed a formidable partnership with Ings, Vokes looked equally at ease in linking up with Ashley Barnes, despite the pair sharing similar attributes.
And it is that kind of flexibility that Dyche believes makes the Wales international a star of the Championship "The idea of being open-minded is not just about goal tallies and performance levels and performance levels, it's how you can interact with other players, how you change a game accordingly.
"I just think the best players are flexible, they're adaptable," said the Burnley boss.
"The idea of having a player who just literally plays in one way and one slot, the game's changing from that.
"With Sam people were saying early season he's like an old-fashioned centre forward but I think it's quite clear that he's not. His movement's getting better, his awareness and when to move and why he's moving is getting better, his game understanding, his sharpness, his fitness. All of those things have been progressing.
"They're not always the things that people see; people just see whether he scores or not. But obviously we see them and we analyse them and look through them and show clips of them.
"And we think there's more to come. Why limit yourself?"
Having signed in the summer of 2012, it wasn't until the sale of Charlie Austin on the eve of this season that Vokes was given his chance, and Dyche feels he has grown with it.
"Body language can mean everything and when you're confident and full of belief your body language does change - psychologists will tell you that - and he does send that message that he's ready," he said.
"We had a chat about it last summer and I said 'it's a subliminal but important thing, that pitch presence' and he has certainly got a pitch presence this season.
"Everyone knows it, the way he conducts himself and goes about his business and the confidence that he shows in his play and never doubting his ability.
"His fitness is good, he's very lean and his mentality's very good, and I think he's still got more to come.
"He's 24, he's still got more physical development to come."
He added: "There are good signs from Sam, and Barnesy's the same, he's come in and worked ever so hard - he's willing, he's awkward and hard to mark.
"Ingsy has that fluidity, so that's a nice three – all different players, all different demands on them and for the team.
"It bodes well but we have to keep working. We're still a work in progress, I say it all the time. I'm not dampening it down but you're always looking for different things – can we add, can we change, can we be flexible and malleable enough to keep adding to what we're doing."
Dyche remains in the market to add to that attacking trio before Thursday's emergency loan deadline, and has been linked with Manchester United's 18-year-old James Wilson, after signing Chris Baird on a short-term deal to boost the backline following injury to Kieran Trippier.
"We're always open. We've got Bairdy in but we're still open now and still looking. There are a couple of things that are maybes.
"If they're right for the group and we think it's appropriate and, of course, we can align them financially then we will do so," said Dyche, who says both Ings and Trippier are making progress in their recoveries from injury but are not expected back tonight.
"Tripps and Ingsy are both settling nicely.
"We've got to be careful with them and sensible with them because we want to maximise their opportunities for the rest of the season.
"We'll make a decision on them.
"Tripps is closer than Ingsy at the moment but we've still got to be careful and make sure we guide him in the right direction."


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The May 1st hearing on AB 31 is less than two weeks away (more info on AB 31 at: http://goo.gl/UQP8z). This hearing, which will be conducted by the Assembly Agriculture Committee, is the first step in moving AB 31 through the full legislative process. As a reminder, AB 31 would result in the California Class 4b price (for milk sold to California's cheese manufacturers) tracking in a closer relationship with the Federal Order Class III price (which is used as the benchmark price for comparable milk sold around the country).
In preparation for the hearing, there are a couple things producers can do. For starters, please take the opportunity to reach out, either by phone or by fax, to the seven members of the Assembly Agriculture Committee. They need to hear from dairy farmers and their families. The contact information for the Committee members is below:
Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, Chairwoman
o Phone: (916) 319-2013
o Fax: (916) 319-2113
Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, Vice-Chairwoman
o Phone: (916) 319-2012
o Fax: (916) 319-2112
Assemblywoman Toni Atkins
o Phone: (916) 319-2078
o Fax: (916) 319-2178
Assemblyman Brian Dahle
o Phone: (916) 319-2001
o Fax: (916) 319-2101
Assemblyman Richard Pan
o Phone: (916) 319-2009
o Fax: (916) 319-2109
Assemblyman Bill Quirk
o Phone: (916) 319-2020
o Fax: (916) 319-2120
Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada
o Phone: (916) 319-2004
o Fax: (916) 319-2104
Second, MPC strongly urges dairy farmers to make an effort to attend the May 1st hearing at the California State Capitol. The hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1st in Room 126 of the State Capitol Building. For those in the South Valley region interested in carpooling to the hearing, Western Milling is coordinating a bus, which will be leaving from the Visalia Holiday Inn (9000 W. Airport Drive) at 8 am on May 1st. Folks interested in taking advantage of this opportunity should call De Anna Fitzgerald at (559) 302-1078.
It's critically important that the Committee members understand the importance of providing California's dairy farmers with a milk price that is comparable with prices paid for milk around the country. We simply cannot afford to continue providing a state-sponsored $800 million discount (since 2010) on the milk we sell to cheese manufacturers; it is destroying California's dairy farming community. The hearing on May 1st is an important step towards changing that.


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The tag team division, which received a nice push awhile back, has again floundered. The Shield aren't really a tag team, they're three guys who mostly wrestle in six-man action. Don't get me wrong, the Shield are great, and they should hold onto their respective titles for a long time. But I'd like to see some real teams, with real team gimics. These are not just two random guys thrown together,
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My first blog ever. I've seen several bloggers post their Wrestlemania cards, so I figured I'd print mine as well. I'll start by saying that I've been a wrestling fan for over 45 years, so I'm no kid who likes "entertainment" when I watch wrestling (although my son sometimes does). I enjoy actual wrestling matches. My favorite wrestler of all time was Bret Hart, with Roddy Piper a close
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BBYO Ohio Northern Region First in US to Dedicate Torah
Read this story in the Cleveland Jewish News
When teens dedicate a Torah during Ohio Northern Region BBYO's 2013 Regional Kallah on Saturday, Jan. 26, they'll become part of the first and only region in the country to have a dedicated Torah, according to Todd Kay, ONR BBYO regional director.
The Torah, donated by Janie and Michael Zoldan of Canton, will be the focal point for Kallah, a weekend about Jewish learning and Israel advocacy from Friday, Jan. 25 to Sunday, Jan. 27 at Hiram House Camp in Moreland Hills.
"Our teens are so excited about having this as part of our program," said Kay. "It just speaks to BBYO being a really strong Jewish teen organization."
More than 110 teens and 25 adults, advisers, volunteers and BBYO alumni from chapters in Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Toledo and Cleveland are expected to participate in Kallah.
Kay and Lane Schlessel, regional director of BBYO Passport, which provides travel programs for Jewish high-school and middle-school teens, have held talks with the Mandel JCC in Beachwood about mounting the Torah in BBYO's offices there and making a portable ark to bring to conventions.
"This is very big news for us and extremely exciting," Kay said. "My teens are thrilled to have this opportunity and are so looking forward to this special event."
This year's Kallah coordinators are Brush High School students Ryan Kun, 17, and Alyse Weinstein, 15. Both live in South Euclid and are congregants of Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights and Pepper Pike.
Ryan, a junior and the David Berger chapter godol (president), said the Torah dedication is an important part of the weekend.
"What I hope people walk away with is having a stronger emphasis on Judaism and strengthening their Jewish identity," he said of Kallah.
This year's Kallah isn't just about the dedication. Teens will take Israeli dancing classes, explore Jewish improvisation and humor, bake mandel bread, play games related to the weekly Torah portions and take part in other activities.
As team coordinators, Ryan and Alyse helped plan the weekend's educational sessions, including one where Aleph Zadik Aleph (BBYO's boys) and B'nai B'rith Girls (BBYO's girls) form separate groups for specialized learning experiences.
Ryan planned a discussion on how Israel fits into the United Nations.
"I want to emphasize Israel a good amount because Israel is a very important part of our history," Ryan said. "People should know about it. They should be proud of the fact they can go to a nation that's like a home away from home."
Alyse, a sophomore and the Star of David chapter s'ganit (vice president of programming), planned her session around "Miriam's Song," which refers to the Torah's prophetess Miriam, who is said to have sung a victory song after Pharaoh's army drowned in the Red Sea.
"Miriam's Song is a really big BBG tradition for our normal services," she said. "It was a cool way to connect us to an aspect of our services. We want people to come away knowing their personal strengths and show them a way that they can use those to contribute to their greater community."
Those split sessions mark the "one time in the weekend where it's more special, deep programming," Alyse said, adding. "It's a lot more about someone's personal relationship to this idea."
Kallah is funded by a $3,000 grant from the Daniel and Ethel Hamburger Fund, which will provide Jewish musical and cultural experiences for this year's teens, said Leora Hoenig, ONR BBYO's program associate.
The grant will pay for song leaders Mikey Pauker, a Los Angeles-based recording artist and composer, and Happie Hoffman, a student at Indiana University in Bloomington and BBYO international sh'licha (Israeli emissary).
"Music and art is a universal language that speaks to today's teens," Hoenig said. "It provides teens with a creative way to express their own Judaism. It's a way to educate them. It's a motivator for people who want to be creative."


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Raltegravir Treatment in Patients Failing Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in Denmark
This study has been completed.
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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Rigshospitalet, Denmark
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First received: February 2, 2010
Last updated: February 3, 2010
Last verified: January 2010
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Raltegravir is the first integrase inhibitor approved for treatment of HIV infected patients harboring multiresistant viruses. The drug has been proved effective in both trials and clinical settings, but the long-term efficacy is not described and the effect compared to treatment in Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) naive patients remains to be established.
|HIV Infections
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Clinical, Virological and Immunological Course in Danish Patients With Triple Class Failure Receiving Raltegravir as Part of a Salvage Regimen.
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
Drug Information available for: Raltegravir Raltegravir potassiumU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Rigshospitalet, Denmark:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- virological suppression and CD4 cell gain [ Time Frame: 3,5 years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time to first change of initial regimen. [ Time Frame: 3,5 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Raltegravir patients
HIV patients who initiated raltegravir due to virological failure
Haart naive patients
HIV patients initiating HAART for the first time
Detailed Description:
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) was introduced more than a decade ago and the therapy has decreased mortality and morbidity of HIV patients dramatically. The first HAART regimens were combined of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and protease inhibitors (PIs). Especially the early regimes carried a substantial risk of failure and subsequent development of resistance to the three drug classes. Thus there has been a need for development of new drugs with activity against viruses resistant to the classical HAART regimens either as new drugs from the old classes without (or with limited) cross resistance to the older compounds or drugs from new classes with new antiretroviral mechanisms. The optimal choice for salvage therapy for HIV infected patients has been shown to require at least two, and preferably three, fully active drugs. Until recently, salvage regimens used to treat patients harbouring multidrug-resistant HIV generally included only one new agent from the classic drug classes added to an optimized background therapy which did not contain any fully active agents. This approach, conditioned by limited drug options, put patients at high risk of virological failure and resistance to the new agent, as well as to other agents in the same drug classes. A breakthrough has been the resent development of integrase inhibitors, which is a new class of antiretroviral drugs. One of these drugs - raltegravir - has demonstrated its activity in patients with virological failure on classical antiretroviral drugs. In the BENCHMARK randomized clinical trials, which were conducted in HIV-infected patients with limited treatment options, 62% of patients taking raltegravir plus optimized background treatment achieved plasma HIV RNA levels <50 copies/mL at week 48. Although the drug - often used together with other new drugs - has been proved effective in clinical trials and recently in "real life" clinical settings, the long-term efficacy is not described and the effect compared to treatment in HAART naive patients remains to be established. In a nationwide cohort of HIV infected patients, we identified the patients, who initiated raltegravir due to virological failure and a matched control cohort of patients initiating HAART for the first time. We compared these two cohorts with respect to virological suppression, gain in CD4 count and time to first change of initial regimen.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
One cohort of HIV patients with virological failure initiating Raltegravir One control cohort of HIV patients initiating HAART for the first time.
Inclusion Criteria:
Raltegravir cohort patients: From the Danish HIV Cohort Study (DHCS) we included all HIV-1 positive patients, who
- started raltegravir after 1 January 2006 and before 1 July 2009,
- had been treated with HAART previously
- had at least two VL tests done prior to initiation of raltegravir treatment,
- had virological failure prior to start of raltegravir and
- did not participate in randomized clinical trials on raltegravir. Virological failure was defined as VL > 500 copies/ml in the two latest VL tests prior to raltegravir initiation while on HAART treatment.
- Control cohort patients: From DHCS we identified a control cohort of HIV infected patients who started HAART for the first time after 1 January 2006 and before 1 July 2009. From this population we extracted two control patients for each raltegravir patient, each matched by gender, race (Caucasian, Black and other), route of HIV infection (homosexual, heterosexual, injection drug user (IDU) and other) and age (intervals of < 20 years, 20 to 30 years, 30 to 40 years, > 50 years).
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01061957
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01061957
|The Danish HIV Cohort Study, Rigshospitalet
|Copenhagen, Denmark, 2100
Sponsors and Collaborators
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
More Information
Keywords provided by Rigshospitalet, Denmark:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Jan Gerstoft, MD, Professor, The Danish HIV Cohort Study
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01061957 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 2, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 3, 2010
Keywords provided by Rigshospitalet, Denmark:
Treatment outcome
HIV treatment
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Raltegravir Potassium
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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During the month of November, Momofuku Milk Bar dives off into rather savory territory with their Thanksgiving croissant. Each bite contains the most delicious parts of the traditional American meal, sealed inside warm, stuffing-flavored flaky dough.
In this video, SE Overlord Ed Levine narrates as we watch pastry cook Zoe Kanan build the Thanksgiving croissant.
The Thanksgiving croissant is a lovely balance of sweet, salty, and fatty that makes for quite the buttery treat. Wash it down with a cool glass of cereal milk and it'll be time for a nap/football game in no time.
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Bard to throw about 20 pitches in simulated game
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Red Sox right-hander Daniel Bard will pitch in a game-like setting for the first time in a week on Monday, but it won't be a Grapefruit League contest.
Bard has been working on some mechanical issues in recent days, and manager John Farrell felt it would be best to ease him back in with a simulated game, which will take place in the morning, a couple of hours before the Red Sox host the Tampa Bay Rays.
"Some of the work he did in his side session the other day, we're going to have him throw against hitters to look to reproduce and repeat the delivery with the slight adjustment of his stride direction," said Farrell. "That's the setting tomorrow for him."
Why a simulated game instead of the game against the Rays?
"A more controlled setting and to continue to focus on the stride direction," Farrell said. "We'll probably look to get 20 pitches in the setting tomorrow."


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On the NBA Media page the Boston Herald link is dead.
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You have a few.
On the NBA Media page the Boston Herald link is dead.
Also the HELP link is dead.
What help link are you talking about? Link to it?
http://celtics.bostonherald.com/celtics/ is okay, they're having server issues at the moment apparently.
The Suns East Valley Tribune link is incorrect though, it should be this:
This is partially my fault as I told Hick I would update everything there but just haven't had the time.
You know, this one;
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The ""here"" is a text link.
Fixed the error reporting link to take you to this forum; East Valley Tribune link is fixed.
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Fixed the error reporting link to take you to this forum; East Valley Tribune link is fixed.
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Yooooooo the """"if these links don't work click "HERE" isn't working either.
I found the new link to a couple, deleted the rest, fixed the link that should take you to this forum to report stuff.
I found more. I use this site alot, not really for the message board but for the links. Anyway the Pistons blew-out the Knicks yesterday so I wanted to see what the New York papers had to say.
A few out the Knick media links are set to Nets instead
**NY Post
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Just wanted to let you know. :P
Should be fixed now.
Hornets Report Board on the forum page doesn't work.
As soon as the Heat beat in game 7 I think that site shutted down!!! NO LIE!!!
Also has Fanhome shutdown? NONE of those links work anymore.
Spurs Report Board -----Page not found
Fixed SpursReport and HornetsReport.
Couldn't find a working link for Hornets Fanhome, so I cut it.
Yoooooo, you need to add the Bobcats forums.
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Yoooooo, you need to add the Bobcats forums.
Seriously though, if you know of some, post them here and I can add them.
I know theres a Bobcat board on RealGm
testing something :-)
Hey, like I said a few months back there is a Bobcats Board on RealGM. I don't know of any other boards. I use this site alot to go to other teams forums but I can't find a Bobcats board anywhere.Quote:
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Hey, just wanted to give you a link.
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John Colombini passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, October 27, 2013. Son of Noncia and Archangelo Colombini, he was raised in Half Moon Bay and graduated from Pescadero High School. At 91 he had lived a life full of family and friends. He was married 55 years to his beloved wife, Ruth, and together they had three daughters, Nancy (Mike) Schneider, Jonna (Dave) Bonzani, and Cathy (Tim) Mosley. He had 6 grandchildren, Michele and Samantha Schneider, Chris and Gina Bonzani, Jody and Dani Mosley, and 2 great granddaughters, Olivia and Julliette. After his wife Ruth's passing he was lucky to find a wonderful companion in Sally Gidaro.
In WWII John served in the Army Infantry in England and Germany where he served as a Tank Commander. Upon returning home he moved to the Santa Clara Valley and worked at a concrete company as salesman and sales manager. He helped build the valley to what it is today, working on the San Jose airport and the first tilt up buildings and high rises used by Silicon Valley businesses.
He was proud of his family and his service to his country. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Honor Flight Northern California, 17669 Warwick Place, Anderson CA 96007 or their website: www.honorflightnorcal.org. They provided Dad with one of his greatest trips of his life, visiting the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC with other veterans. Funeral services have been held.


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Satine is pursued by a member of the mysterious Death Watch
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Duchess Satine Kryze tries to keep the Republic from interfering in Mandalorian affairs after attacks by the Death Watch, the splinter group advocating a return to the old warrior ways. But when Satine herself is attacked and framed, she sets off – against the better judgment of her Jedi protectors – to uncover the full breadth of the conspiracy and the faction's true origins. No longer content to operate from the fringes, the mysterious Mandalorian Death Watch sets its sights on the "Duchess of Mandalore" in an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS airing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, February 12 on Cartoon Network.
"Satine is struggling with many fires now, and trying to keep them from merging into one large inferno that can't be put out," said Anna Graves, the voice of Satine in The Clone Wars. "She wants peace above all else, and will shout it as loud as she can. Historical pacifists are often met with more hatred and violence, but that seems to push someone like Satine to fight for peace even harder. I think with any culture that idolizes war and violence, some people will naturally rebel against that traditional way of thinking and focus their efforts on peace and tranquility. I'm sure a lot of people agree with her views, but I'm sure there are just as many who don't. Her neutrality in The Clone Wars is such a beautiful cry for love and peace, which throughout history has upset those who idolize power and control."
Set against the backdrop of a sweeping conflict which threatens to consume the galaxy, Satine's struggle is all the more personal, however, as she faces upheaval from within her own constituency. Using violence as their language of dissent, the Death Watch threatens to unravel all of Satine's efforts, and to undermine the peace she has fought so hard to preserve. But the war itself is a battle of ideologies. Despite their extremism – or perhaps because of it – the radical faction represents a popular opinion among the re-emerging culture.
"I see Mandalore as an old world, full of history and tradition. After years of glimpses into Mandalorian lore, it's exciting to get new facts and faces," Graves said. "Every fan has their own reasons for loving Mandalore, but Boba Fett opened the door with his intriguing armor and history as a bounty hunter. I know fans will want to hear more about Death Watch – and those who oppose them. To be a small part of that history is so exciting. Add a little Mandalorian-Jedi romance, and that's good stuff!"
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There's a scene in Michael Goldberg's new rock 'n' roll novel, "True Love Scars," that takes place in Mill Valley's Depot Bookstore and Cafe, where the author was sitting one recent sweltering afternoon, sipping a hot coffee, despite the heat, and talking about this first book in what he's calling his "Freak Scene Dream Trilogy."
An ex-Rolling Stone associate editor and senior writer cum online music pioneer, the 61-year-old author describes the narrator of his coming-of-age story, 19-year-old Michael Stein, aka "Writerman," as "a caricature of his teenage self," a rock-crazed kid with raging hormones who's obsessed with Bob Dylan and the "Visions of Johanna chick," Sweet Sarah, he meets and falls in love with at a meditation center in Woodacre.
In Goldberg's tragic love story, set in Marin County in the late '60s and early '70s, young Writerman begins his betrayal of Sweet Sarah at the Depot and its downtown plaza.
"It's the first time he looks at another woman," Goldberg explained, noting the parallels between the arc of his fictional tale and the maturation of the music he's spent his career writing about. Novelist Tom Spanbauer calls Goldberg "a total rock 'n' roll geek," a characterization that's borne out in the rock references on just about every page.
"There are so many songs about teen love in the early days of rock n' roll, and that's a big theme in the early portion of this trilogy," he said. "Then things change and get more sophisticated and evolved as the books progress, just as rock music did. I was taking emotion from songs and from albums and manifesting that into my fiction."
Music festival
Raised in Mill Valley, Goldberg went to Tamalpais High School (class of '71), where he wrote about rock for the student newspaper and once convinced the late Mill Valley guitar god Michael Bloomfield to play at one of the dance concerts, replete with psychedelic light show, that he produced on campus.
In an early chapter in "True Love Scars," Goldberg's Writerman recalls seeing Janis Joplin, the Doors, the Byrds and avant-garde rocker Captain Beefheart at a music festival in an amphitheater on Mount Tamalpais.
In real life, he was a wide-eyed 13-year-old when he took in the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, a seminal rock fest on Mount Tam featuring those bands and many others over two history-making days in 1967, the Summer of Love.
"It was really mind blowing for a kid that age to experience the Doors and Big Brother and the Jefferson Airplane," he remembered. "It was also this total countercultural scene up there. There were booths selling beaded necklaces and peace symbols, all this stuff that hadn't become a cliche at that point. It was early on, it hadn't started to get real weird yet."
Goldberg wrote most of "True Love Scars" while living in Inverness, later moving to the East Bay with his wife, former San Francisco Examiner reporter Leslie Goldberg, to be closer to their son and grandchildren. His wife created the novel's surreal cover art.
Golden age of rock
The novel is set during a golden period in Marin's rock history, a time Goldberg experienced first hand. Marin readers are likely to recognize many of the names and places he mentions in "True Love Scars."
In one scene, Writerman steals Bob Dylan's lighter from Jerry Garcia at the Grateful Dead guitarist's house in Larkspur. He gets his first kiss and smokes his first joint at Tam High. The Lion's Share, a gone-but-not-forgotten nightclub in San Anselmo, is mentioned, as is Mill Valley's 2 AM Club.
Like most teenagers then and now, Goldberg's adolescent narrator is trying to forge an identity, toying with the persona he wants to present to the world, searching for what he calls the "authentic real."
"In the case of Writerman, he's got his Keith Richards snake skin boots, he wishes his hair looked more like Bob Dylan's and, if you squint, he kinda looks like John Lennon," Goldberg said. "He's consumed with that kind of superficial stuff. That's a theme that runs through the book. Everybody has two or three names. It's who are we?"
Addicted to noise
It took Goldberg years of scuffling as a freelance rock journalist before he managed to get himself hired at Rolling Stone in 1983. After a decade as the magazine's West Coast editor, he went on to become a highly successful online music entrepreneur. In 1994, with $5,000 of his savings, he started Addicted to Noise, a pioneering music web site, in his spare bedroom.
Details magazine called it "the future of music." In 1995, when most people were clueless about what was then known as the World Wide Web, Newsweek hailed him as an "Internet visionary."
In 1997, when ATN merged with SonicNet, Goldberg became its senior vice president and editor in chief, winning a string of Webby and Yahoo awards for best music site. After a series of big-fish-eats-little-fish corporate acquisitions, ATN and SonicNet were swallowed up by Viacom and folded into MTV's online operation, MTVi.
Goldberg's mum about how much he made on the deal. "I did OK," is all he'll say, chuckling. "I definitely did OK."
He did well enough that he's been able to devote the past six years to working on "True Love Scars" and the other two books in his rock trilogy, "Days of the Crazy Wild" and "Beautiful Dying," due out next year and the year after. Following the lead of indie rockers who release their own albums in this digital era, he decided to publish his trilogy himself.
A 21st century Kerouac?
In the time it took him to write his trilogy, he developed a prose style that David Browne, a Rolling Stone contributing editor, describes as "hallucinogenic in all the best ways."
It isn't all style over substance, though. Goldberg strives to incorporate larger themes and social issues in his trio of novels. For example, a leitmotif of all three books is Writerman's relationships with women during a turbulent time of shifting gender politics.
"In a way, what Dylan is dealing with in 'Blonde on Blonde' runs through all three books," he said. "That album has different women in every single song, and that's what Writerman is trying to do — make sense of his relationships with different women. In book one, he just starts to deal with the rise of feminism. In books two and three, that's a major theme — a young man trying to deal with these women who are very empowered. It's messy."
But then isn't rock 'n' roll?


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In a scene out of the film "Outbreak," a five-man crew in hazmat suits and face respirators walked fields covered in plastic Thursday just north of Woodland.
Rest assured the crew wasn't investigating an infectious disease; rather, they were prepping the field at County Road 98 and CR19-A to eventually plant experimental tomato varieties.
Florida-based BHN Tomato Seed - which specializes in developing hybrid tomato seeds for the global fresh-market tomato industry - is behind the operation.
The company planted on the same ground - around 45 acres - last year, with little success.
Officials discovered the soil was contaminated with fusarium-3, a fungal disease, of which tomatoes are very susceptible.
To counteract the bacteria in the soil, a third-party company fumigated the field on Dec. 19 with pic-clor 60 to sterilize the land. Enter plastic-covered fields. Around 14 of the 45 acres (the ground is split into three sections for different varieties) lay under long plastic strips in order to keep the fumigation in the soil, and not above it.
The county issued permits for the work.
The ground was restricted entry until Dec. 29. Thursday, the aforementioned crew used tools to begin cutting the plastic, which will be fully removed and recycled today, Friday.
"We (fumigated) because we want better tomatoes this year," said Foreman Javier Martinez. "We need healthy tomatoes."
The suits and face masks were just extra precautions, he added.
Passerby will also notice the fields are protected by high, chain-link fences, with barbed-wire on top. This, explained Martinez, is to protect the crop from the possibility of people helping themselves to the experimental tomatoes.
"The company needs every tomato to check it for the investigation," he said.
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I am interested in taking part in clinical trials relating to cholamgiocarcinoma
How do I become involved.
Hello and a warm welcome. I would start looking at this site and follow those trials actively recruiting patients. You may find some to be accessible near you and you will need to meet the criteria such as, no metastases, etc. You would also want to discuss this with your physician.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?t … ocarcinoma.
Please, stay in touch as we will gladly help you with any questions.
Best wishes,
Thank you for this information regarding clinical trials
Pat...you are more then welcome. Have you been able to locate anything of interest to you?
Best wishes,
Hi Marion not yet located any clinical trials yet.
Hello Patrick.....all clinical trials should be listed (and hopefully, are) with clinicaltrials.gov.
Here is a sample of what I have been able to pull up.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resul … uct+cancer
Good luck, Patrick.
I am attending a workshop on Cancer Clinical Research and will add another posting where I will share some of the information I have received.
Patrick, please reach out. Gladly, I will help you.
Best wishes,
Dear Patrick....I read through you previous posting and realized that you had a liver transplant 10 months ago in Dublin. I am wondering as to why you are interested in a clinical trial.
Hi Marion,
The reason I was enquiring about clinical trials is to see if there any new treatments in the pipe line that may reduce the risk of the cancer returning.
I have been advised that even though I have a transplant there is always the risk of me getting cancer again.This is just one medics view on this subject.
In the last two weeks I have learned that one of the patients who was in hospital with me died after cancer returning.He also had a successful liver transpalnt last year.
Dear Patrick....I do not know of anything relating to a reocurrence post transplant. I don't know whether any statistics exist. But, I will try to find out as much as possible. Please, also share with us whatever you may learn. Others on this board have had a liver transplant and hopefully, they are able to chime in on this conversation. How are you feeling?
All my best wishes,
Patrick and Marion,
Pub Med has an abstract on stats after transplant.
I'm computer illiterate when it comes to links, etc.. so I can only provide you with the name of the abstract. Hopefully one of you can pull it up and link to to the board?
"Predictors of disease recurrence following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and liver transplantation for unresectable perihilar cholangiocarcinoma"
Thank you very much, Ashley. Are these the links you are referring to?
Yes, thank you. Basically 15-17% chance of recurrence after transplant.
Hi Marion/Ashley
Thanks for this will advise any other people interested.
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Two Willits men were arrested early Sunday morning inside the Ferndale US Bank by police responding to a silent alarm.
The small Ferndale police department received the alarm at about 3:30 a.m. When they arrived they heard voices and saw smoke coming from inside the bank, according to Ferndale Police Chief Bret Smith. Officers called for backup from nearby Fortuna and the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office.
When officers entered the bank, the two suspects were allegedly using an acetylene torch to burn their way into the backside of an ATM machine. The two men, Sylvester Loren Vansickle, 56, and Larry Daniel Rodriguez, 39, attempted to flee. One of the suspects, unsuccessfully, tried to escape by running into a locked door, say police.
Vansickle and Rodriguez were booked into Humboldt County Jail on suspicion of burglary, burglary with an acetylene torch, conspiracy to commit burglary and possession of burglary tools.
Police recovered a pry bar they believed was used to get into the bank door.