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No, the lama needs to have realization. The consort won't have that yet. The lama instructs the consort and uses the practice to ripen the consort. The consort would at most have experience with development stage, and the consort practice is part of the completion stage. The realization doesn't happen until after a long time practicing consort completion stage. If we are talking Dzogchen, then the consort would have direct introduction and some experience with guru yoga. Then, it is possible to practice with methods of pleasure. It doesn't me he or she is realized. Sometimes the experience will be dualistic and sometimes there will be stability in contemplation. Through practice one gains stability with contemplation. The methods are for transforming dualistic vision into nondual vision or in Dzogchen, stabilizing and deepening contemplation. It does not mean you are already in nondual contemplation 24/7. If that is the case, then there is no need for consort practice.
If I shout and get angry with you and then tell you that you should take anger to the path, how would you react? You would have to know how to take anger to the path and you wouldn't be passive. You would need to give as good as you get. You would have to get angry with me and we would both have to know what this display of anger is all about. It would be no good if I treated you as a slave or tried to dominate you. So with all of these practices, where we are looking at the nature of the emotion, we are trying to overcome ignorance. We are not creating more ignorance. We create more ignorance with these types of consort practice if one of the two practitioners doesn't get it equally. So the realization has to be equal otherwise we are just creating or perpetuating the causes of ignorance. If not then we are standing on our consort's shoulders to proclaim how high our view is.


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Yet another injury struck the Mets on Wednesday, when Justin Turner left in the fourth inning of a game against the Astros with a strained left calf.
Turner said his leg "just cramped up" in the top of the second inning, when he pushed off it in pursuit of a foul ball. He felt another twinge in the bottom of the inning, running to first on a routine grounder, but played one more inning before alerting trainers of the pain.
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MOB - Mother of Boys - Hannah Evans talks to Lisa Salmon about her new book MOB Rule, which describes the fun and frazzled nerves that come with being an enthusiastic (at times) MOB.
By Lisa Salmon
Hannah Evans is a MOB three times over.
And as a MOB - Mother of Boys - she has come to the conclusion that bringing up boys "is like dealing with dogs".
While males, or FOB (Fathers of Boys), may initially take offence at the analogy, her reasoning does, perhaps, make more than a little sense.
Evans, a mother of three boys aged seven, nine and 10, explains that 'boy pups' need feeding at least three times a day, a tree or a toilet to mark his territory, clear commands of no more than one syllable such as 'Stop!' or 'No!', love which may be shown in manic displays of tummy tickling, and most importantly, to go out to let off steam, twice a day, every day.
"Or be warned," she says, "it will be you, not just him, who is climbing the walls."
It's such observations that make Evans's new book, MOB Rule, so easy for other MOBs to relate to.
The book is no guide on how to bring up boys - Evans herself concedes that as an ordinary mum of three, she's certainly in no position to dish out advice.
All she's doing is describing what it's like to be the single female in a house brimming with testosterone.
Evans, 40, insists that despite the sweat, tears and occasional blood she has to deal with, being a MOB is "marvellous", even though she's heavily outnumbered in a household where competition is key, farting is fun, and it's a much better idea to make an exploding volcano from mum's bicarbonate of soda and vinegar than it is to bake girlie fairy cakes.
"Making a mess in the name of science is an important part of the mainly male mindset," she cheerfully concludes.
"That selfsame mindset which means that our family home, once a balanced amalgamation of husband and wife, has been almost totally transformed into an ode to the boy, a temple to testosterone."
From potty training and dealing with 'little boys' bits', visits to A&E, and the questionable joys of family camping, most, if not all, of Evans's often amusing experiences with Toby, Barney and Josh - known in the book as Sensible Son, Binary Boy and Feisty Fellow - will ring bells with every MOB.
"The reaction I've had to the book from other MOBs is that it's great to know you're not alone," says Evans.
"Mothers of boys - and probably mothers of girls as well, but I wouldn't know - have certain things that they tussle with in common.
"The book isn't about how to raise boys, it's much more a reflection of the issues that come up for me as a woman surrounded by boys.
"It's about being a girl and having to deal with something that you're not quite used to."
And that, of course, includes "farting and willies".
"While farting is fascinating, boys go wild for their willies," she says, recalling how the household collapses in mass male hysteria when FOB Charles joins in a rhyming game, asking: 'What rhymes with cart?'
Like many dads, Charles, who's in the Navy, can be as bad as any of the younger male members of the family, laments Evans.
"At home, stripped of rank and responsibility, he joyously joins the pack and becomes easily as excitable, absolutely as competitive, totally as tumultuous as his sons," she says.
While she concedes that some of the experiences she's had with her boys are universal and unisex parenting issues, she's particularly adamant about one thing: "Girls are not born the same as boys."
In the book, she recalls how at the age of 14 months, Sensible Son Toby picked up a branch and "beat seven bells" out of a bush, to her horror.
However, she soon realised that rather than her eldest son being a 'thug', it was simply a case of a boy being a boy.
"However much you encourage equality or adopt a unisex approach, however hard you try to foster the feminine or even push the pink, deep down inside their mini-male minds, a boy will be forever true boy," she declares, going on to describe the family garden as a "battlefield of balls", the lawn as the "Western Front", and her sons as a boy brigade that "attacks anything that moves".
But Evans, like most MOBs, weathers the violent boy storms, and concludes she wouldn't have it any other way.
She points out that one of the many reasons why being a MOB is great is that boys' needs are simple: "Exercise, discipline, lunacy and love.
"Oh, and a never-ending supply of Scooby snacks."
She observes that while boys are indeed boisterous, they don't hold the grudges that girls do or get emotional like their female counterparts, and while boys tend to be hugely competitive, that side of their nature can be used to their parents' advantage.
To illustrate, she advises: "You can get your sons to eat almost anything by telling them that whoever eats quickest/most/best wins.
"Anything, that is, except Brussels sprouts."
Like many mums with children of the same sex, Evans has deftly fielded questions from others about wanting a girl, and stresses: "I feel extremely lucky to have what I've got.
"We've got three extremely healthy, happy and funny boys. I do sometimes wonder if my life would have been very different if we'd had three girls, but obviously I'll never know.
"Now, I wouldn't change having three of a kind for anything.
"I'm a proud and happy - if somewhat frazzled and frequently perplexed - mother of three small boys."
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MIAMI -- Two mistakes cost Tim Lincecum the loss when the Giants dropped the series finale, 3-2, on Sunday at Marlins Park -- a sweaty offspeed pitch in the first inning and a wild pitch in the seventh. The Marlins took advantage of both and effectively dashed the Giants' hopes of sweeping a team for the first time since they took all three against the Mets in early June.
With the game tied at 2 in the seventh, Lincecum allowed a leadoff double to Adeiny Hechavarria, who moved over on a sacrifice bunt. He then scored easily when Lincecum's 2-1 pitch to Reed Johnson hit the dirt and skipped behind home plate toward the Marlins dugout.
"He throws a lot of pitches down there," manager Bruce Bochy said. "He's got a lot of movement. He's not easy to catch. That one just kicked away enough to where [Hechavarria] could score."
It was a touch of bad luck for the righty, who retired Johnson with his seventh strikeout of the day. Lincecum didn't exactly dazzle the Fish but, despite not being at his sharpest, he only allowed three runs on 114 pitches through seven innings.
Oddly enough, the Giants' best starter in the last month couldn't keep the Marlins off balance like his other rotation mates managed in the first two games of the series. Lincecum had come in with a 0.30 ERA in his last four starts but the Marlins -- Casey McGehee, namely -- wormed their way ahead of him in the first inning.
With an 0-2 count and a runner on base, Lincecum threw a splitter "that didn't split" due to some excess perspiration on his hand when he released the pitch. McGehee took advantage of the mistake and yanked a home run to left-center field approximately 390 feet, according to metrics displayed on the video board at Marlins Park.
Lincecum had allowed just one run in 31 innings before the first-inning homer to McGehee. Coincidentally, that run also came on a homer to the Padres' Brooks Conrad on July 6.
"It would have been better if I didn't get off on that bad foot to have to try to put the team in a position to fight back," Lincecum said. "That's the hardest part about today, knowing that I should have been in the driver's seat on that pitch [but] I gave him a cookie."
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But Posey was stranded, one of four Giants left on base Sunday. In three instances, the Giants got the leadoff man on board, but they were only able to knock him in that single time.
The offensive streak the Giants had been riding before the loss Sunday tapered off as they only recorded six hits in 32 at-bats. None of them came from the bottom of the order, which went a combined 0-for-13.
"We got the leadoff hitter on there a few times but we just couldn't keep the line moving today," Bochy said. "We couldn't get the order right. ... The back end of the order had a tough day."
On a bright note, Pence hit two doubles Sunday, giving him his 36th multi-hit game of the season. And Scutaro's single in the third was his first hit since Sept. 13.
"I'm not concerned too much about production right now," he said. "I want to win and everything, but the main thing is starting to feel good and being able to compete. Today was a good day. I felt better than after the last game."
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This film documents the mass burial that followed the German attack of May 19, 1918, on a bridge over the River Canche in Etaples, France. In the course of the German aerial bombing, both the No. 1 Canadian General Hospital and the No. 7 Canadian General Hospital were struck. Sixty-six Canadians were killed and 73 were wounded. The footage depicts the funeral procession, attended by large numbers of soldiers and army nurses, and some civilians. A second unrelated segment documents the burial of two members of a Highlander unit.
Canada's Army Nursing Service, created in 1901, contained only 80 reserve nurses at the start of the First World War, but hundreds of nurses would enrol in the early days of the conflict. The first contingent of Canadian troops to leave for England in September 1914 included 101 nurses, led by Matron in Chief Margaret Macdonald. Unlike nursing units in other allied forces, the Canadian nurses were fully integrated within the military structure and assigned rank within the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Margaret Macdonald would become the first woman in the British Empire to be granted the rank of major.
By the end of the war, a total of 3141 women, over one third of Canada's qualified nurses, had served with the medical corps. Of the 2504 who saw overseas service, about 1000 worked in France and Belgium. The remainder were posted in Canadian and British hospitals in England, with a small number working in the Mediterranean and on the Russian front. Most nurses were initially posted to stationary and general hospitals, housed within existing facilities - schools, convents, hotels, etc. - or in purpose-built shelters. However, it quickly became clear that nursing services were needed closer to the front, and a number of nurses would work in casualty clearing stations near the front lines, administering emergency care to wounded soldiers. In addition to treating battle wounds, army nurses treated contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and would assume an important role in confronting the terrible flu epidemic that swept through the general population in the closing months of the war.
It is worth noting that antibiotics did not come into use until two decades later, and that army nurses fought an ongoing battle against infection, doing their best to disinfect wounds with existing antiseptic chemicals. Also of note was the new focus on psychological injury. The term "shellshock" was coined to describe the mental disorders caused by exposure to battle, and the war would provide psychologists with new insight into what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder.
During the attack of May 19, 1918, three Canadian army nurses were killed. Many nurses remained with immobile patients throughout the raid. Nursing sisters Helene Hanson and Beatrice McNair were subsequently awarded Military Medals for their outstanding devotion to duty, making them the first Canadian women to be decorated for gallantry, as opposed to service. Over 500 nurses would be decorated for their wartime service, including Ethel Ridley, who was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and Vivien Tremaine, who was awarded the Royal Victorian Order. The work of Canada's army nurses was widely celebrated at home, and nursing as a whole enjoyed a new professional status in the post-war period.
Notice that some casket bearers in the footage are medical orderlies, wearing Red Cross badges on their sleeves. Note also that a giant Red Cross has been formed in painted stones on the ground for recognition from the air. Once the buglers have sounded the Last Post, the mourners depart, saluting the grave as they leave.
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Army Nurses
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A total of 3,141 nurses worked in the Canadian army, 2,504 of them overseas—over a third of all Canadian registered nurses. Some were posted to British or Canadian hospitals in England, but at least a thousand served in France and Belgium; some were even sent to the Mediterranean or Russia. Unlike nurses from the other allied countries, who were in auxiliary corps, Canadian nurses were full members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps and thus held military rank. Margaret Macdonald, appointed matron-in-chief at the start of the war, was also the first woman of the British Empire to hold the rank of major.
From the outset, the military authorities had planned to keep the nurses in stationary hospitals, 250-bed units with 16 nurses, and in the general hospitals farther from the front, which had between 500 and 1,000 beds served by a team of 72 nurses. In practice, however, it soon became apparent that these medical professionals were also needed in the most advanced posts, called casualty clearing stations, because the wounded soldiers taken there often required emergency surgery impossible to do without the help of nurses. Many nurses thus found themselves very close to the front lines, working in tents or huts with minimal hygiene.
Although farther from the theatre of operations, the stationary hospitals and general hospitals still did not have all the facilities that nurses were accustomed to. Established in big houses, ruined monasteries, unused schools or hastily built shelters, these hospitals were far from an ideal environment. The nurses had to tend patients while slogging through mud, surrounded by rats or, on the Mediterranean front, flies, while being careful to use as little water as possible.
The nurses' work followed the rhythm of the battles, each bringing a massive influx of wounded. Working around the stretchers lined up on the ground, the nurses had to take care of hundreds of soldiers brought in by train or ambulance. Bullets, bayonets, shells and shrapnel caused extremely serious wounds that bled profusely and often necessitated amputation, the only way to get rid of gangrene. Amputation was also the fate of men who suffered frostbite from their time in the muddy trenches, while on the Mediterranean front, dysentery laid many low. Gas, first used extensively in the First World War, attacked the eyes and lungs. The nurse placed the lung patient in an oxygen tent, but that did not always work as hoped. Nurses were just as powerless to help those suffering from psychological problems, termed shell shock, whose numbers grew as the war intensified. On the other hand, they were perfectly capable of taking care of soldiers with tuberculosis or other common ailments, like the flu. Due to the high mortality rate of the wounded, such cases actually made up the bulk of their work. Towards the end of the hostilities, when the Spanish flu started to spread, they were called upon to tend to soldiers with influenza.
Life at the front had its quieter moments, though, and nurses took advantage of them. Between two deliveries of casualties, they could do their jobs more calmly, befriending the soldiers they tended often over long weeks. They also gave themselves small treats. When not on duty, they could go to dances, receptions and concerts also attended by soldiers, officers or even civilians. They also took part in sports or games and went cycling near their hospitals. Nurses stationed in England took tea with members of the British and Canadian army or with nurses from other hospitals, and played golf and tennis. On leave, some even travelled to Scotland or the south of France.
Army nurses were the only women to go to the front during the First World War. Thirty-nine lost their lives, twenty-one in battles on the continent or at sea, and eighteen as a result of illness. Seven others died in Canada while serving in army hospitals. Over 500 of them were decorated, including matron Ethel Ridley, named Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and Vivien Tremaine, who was awarded the Royal Victorian Order for caring for King George V, who was hurt when he fell off his horse while reviewing Canadian troops. These military honours acknowledged their courage and the esteem in which they were held. This acknowledgment also extended beyond the military sphere, however, for the involvement of nurses in the war greatly contributed to making medical and hospital authorities more aware of the importance of their role. By the end of the First World War, nurses had gained a professional status that could never again be questioned.
Selected Bibliography
Allard, Genevičve, «Des anges blancs sur le front : l'expérience de guerre des infirmičres militaires canadiennes pendant la Premičre guerre mondiale», Bulletin d'histoire politique, 8, nos 2-3 (hivers-printemps 2000): 119-132.
---, «Les anges blancs sur le front. Les infirmičres militaires canadiennes durant la Premičre Guerre mondiale», [MA (Histoire), Université Laval], 1997.
Allemang, Margaret M. Canadian Nursing Sisters of World War 1, Oral History Program. Toronto: Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, 1977-1980.
Nicholson, G.W. L. Canada's Nursing Sisters. Toronto: A.M. Hakkert, 1975.
Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Making a Difference : The History of Canada's Nurses." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, 8, 2 (1991) : 231-248.
Remembering Those Who Died on the Field of Honour
Mourad Djebabla
Researcher for the Hector Fabre Chair in Quebec History at Uuniversité du Québec ŕ Montréal.
During the war itself, soldiers were first honoured by their comrades on the front. Behind the front lines, isolated in no man's land, simple, temporary wooden crosses marked the graves of those who had died in combat. Owing to the terrible extent of human losses, Canadian war cemeteries were established, starting in 1917, and maintained by the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). But the bodies of 19,598 Canadians were never found; many of them had been torn to shreds by the waves of violent shelling the infantry faced. The names of most of those men are engraved on the base of the war memorial at Vimy. In France and Belgium, where Canadian soldiers distinguished themselves during the war, 13 memorials in all were erected between the wars. The main one, and the most imposing, is the one at Vimy, which was inaugurated in 1936, with Canadian veterans and King Edward VIII in attendance. Located at the site of the Canadian victory of April 9, 1917, it honours all Canadians who fell on the field of honour during the Great War.
The Canadian soldiers of 1914–18 were also commemorated at home. Starting in November 1918, most Canadian municipalities signalled their intention to erect a monument in tribute to their dead, and to engrave on the marble, for posterity, the names of their citizens who died in the war. The war memorials gave civilians a way of publicly grieving and paying tribute to the war dead. These monuments were, for the first time in Canada's history, on more than just a family or local scale: from sea to sea, over 1,300 cenotaphs went up, all commemorating the same event in which thousands of Canadians had taken part.
Between the wars, the federal government left it up to each community to erect its own memorial. Monument committees were set up, often on the initiative of women. The committees had to manage the finances, select an architect and determine a location for the monument, which, once inaugurated, was officially handed over to the municipal authorities. But a cenotaph was only a physical manifestation of the respect for the memory of those who died in 1914–18, and gradually, as the 1920s progressed, it became the focus of a commemorative ritual: Remembrance Day, November 11.
The choice of this date, originally known as Armistice Day, recalls first and foremost the end of the four years of slaughter and the peace won thanks to the soldiers' sacrifice. The commemorative service of November 11 gradually took shape in the 1920s to honour the soldiers who had given their lives. Like religious rites, once established, the elements of the memorial liturgy were unchanging.
The November 11 ceremony is a structured space in which each player and each element of the commemorative rite has an important role to play:
– Since the early 1920s, the ceremony has generally opened with the national anthem, "O Canada." This is the most meaningful moment, because at this instant, everyone present is united in the same respect and love of country that the soldiers being honoured died to preserve. The anthem confers upon the ceremony its duly patriotic character. Yet it is "God Save the King" (or later, the Queen) that closes the ceremony, recalling the constitutional link between Canada and Great Britain.
– After the secular, profane anthem, the religious dimension is reflected by prayers, often accompanied by hymns. Just as the national anthem serves to unite people in their love of their country, the religious element of prayer unites the members of various religious communities in the same place on the same occasion. Prayer is a reminder of the noble sacrifice of the dead for a cause deemed just by the living. Its function is nothing less than to glorify the dead in the eyes of the living in order to lessen the pain of their loss and give it meaning.
– Next follow two minutes of silence, introduced in 1919 on the recommendation of King George V, to give all those present a chance to turn their thoughts to those no longer among them. The silence is a time to reflect on the sacrifice of the men being honoured.
– The laying of wreaths is the funerary aspect of the ceremony and the implicit acknowledgement of the souls at rest. Decorated with flowers, the monument takes on the symbolic appearance of a collective tomb.
As part of the November 11 ceremony, the laying of wreaths by civilian and military authorities, but also by the crowd, expresses collective piety towards the war dead.
- Military units also take part. At the end of the ceremony, the units march through the streets, marking the return of life with a demonstration that calls for admiration of their handsome uniforms after the tribute to the dead.
The role of the army in the ceremony is not to celebrate the victory of November 11, but rather to represent the dead. The marching soldiers provide an eternally young and living image, a timeless image, as remembrance must be.
– The veterans, as well as the widows (dressed in black between the wars), are present, bearing witness for those no longer there and honouring comrades, sons and husbands. The spectators in the crowd also pay tribute to the veterans.
Along with war memorials and the Remembrance Day ceremony, a third tribute to the war dead is the wearing of poppies, which began in 1921. The poppy, celebrated in John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields," was officially recognized in 1925 as the symbol of remembrance of those who died in 1914–18. Profits from sales were used to help war invalids. Wearing poppies each November 11 was a visible sign of respect for the memory of the soldiers who died in the Great War.
All these customs that were adopted in the aftermath of the First World War were also followed after the other wars of the 20th century, gradually diluting the specificity of the Great War: the war memorials, the November 11 ceremony and the poppies now honour all the dead of modern wars.
Selected Bibliography
Djebabla-Brun, Mourad, Se souvenir de la Grande Guerre: la mémoire plurielle de 14-18 au Québec, Montréal, VLB, 2004.
Labayle, Éric, 9 avril 1917: les Canadiens ŕ Vimy, Louviers, Ysec, 2001.
Shipley, Robert. To Mark our Place: A History of Canadian War Memorials. Toronto: NC Press, 1987.
Vance, Jonathan. Death so Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000 (1997).
Wood, Herbert, and John A. Swettenham. Silent Witnesses. Toronto: A. M. Hakkert, in association with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Canadian War Museum, 1974.
Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defence, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Other Materials
In Flanders Fields
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
"In Flanders Fields" was first published in England's Punch magazine in December, 1915. Within months, this poem came to symbolize the sacrifices of all who were fighting in the First World War. Today, the poem continues to be a part of Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada and other countries.
Reproduced with permission from Veterans Affairs Canada.
John McCrae
Born in Guelph, Ontario, on November 30. John McCrae began writing poetry while a student at the Guelph Collegiate Institute. As a young boy, he was also interested in the military. He joined the Highfield Cadet Corps at 14 and at 17 enlisted in the Militia field battery commanded by his father.
While training as a doctor, he was also perfecting his skills as a poet. At university, he had sixteen poems and several short stories published in a variety of magazines, including Saturday Night. He also continued his connection with the military, becoming a gunner with the Number 2 Battery in Guelph in 1890, Quarter-Master Sergeant in 1891, Second Lieutenant in 1893 and Lieutenant in 1896. At university, he was a member of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada of which he became company captain.
In 1898, John McCrae received a Bachelor of Medicine degree. He worked as resident house officer at Toronto General Hospital from 1898 to 1899. In 1899, he went to Baltimore and interned at John Hopkins Hospital.
The South African War
When the South African War started in October 1899, John McCrae was commissioned to lead an artillery battery from his home town. This Guelph contingent became part of D Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. After a year with his unit in South Africa, John McCrae resigned from the 1st Brigade of Artillery in 1904 after being promoted to Captain and then Major. He was not involved with the military again until 1914.
The Young Doctor
Back in Montréal in 1901, John McCrae resumed his studies in pathology. As Governor's Fellow in pathology and resident assistant pathologist, he had the dual function of research work in the Medical Faculty laboratories at McGill and autopsy duties at Montréal General Hospital.
In 1902, he was appointed resident pathologist at Montréal General Hospital and later also became assistant pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1904, he was appointed an associate in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Later that year, he went to England where he studied for several months and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1905, he set up his own practice although he continued to work and lecture at several hospitals. He was appointed pathologist to the Montréal Foundling and Baby Hospital in 1905. In 1908, he was appointed physician to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Diseases.
The Cost of War
On August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. John McCrae enlisted and was appointed brigade-surgeon to the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery with the rank of Major and second-in-command. He took with him a horse named Bonfire, a gift from a friend. In April 1915, John McCrae was in the trenches near Ypres, Belgium, in the area traditionally called Flanders. Some of the heaviest fighting of the First World War took place there during that was known as the Second Battle of Ypres. John McCrae tended hundreds of wounded soldiers every day, surrounded by the dead and the dying.
The day before he wrote his famous poem, one of McCrae's closest friends was killed in the fighting and buried in a makeshift grave with a simple wooden cross. Wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between the crosses marking the many graves. Unable to help his friend or any of the others who had died, John McCrae gave them a voice through his poem. It was the second last poem he was to write.
Soon after it was written, he was transferred to No. 3 (McGill) Canadian General Hospital in France where he was Chief of Medical Services. The hospital was housed in huge tents at Dannes-Cammiers until cold wet weather forced a move to the site of the ruins of the Jesuit College at Boulogne. When the hospital opened its doors in February 1916, it was a 1,560-bed facility covering 26 acres. Here the wounded were brought from the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the third Battle of Ypres and from Arras and Passchendaele.
John McCrae was deeply affected by the fighting and losses in France. He became bitter and disillusioned. For respite, he took long rides on Bonfire through the French countryside. Another animal companion was a casualty of the war, the dog Bonneau, who adopted John McCrae as his special friend. Writing letters and poetry also allowed John McCrae to escape temporarily from the pressures of his administrative duties at the hospital. His last poem, "The Anxious Dead", echoed the theme of "In Flanders Fields" but was never as popular as the earlier poem.
During the summer of 1917, John McCrae was troubled by severe asthma attacks and occasional bouts of bronchitis. He became very ill in January 1918 and diagnosed his condition as pneumonia. He was moved to Number 14 British General Hospital for Officers where he continued to grow weak.
On January 28, after an illness of five days, he died of pneumonia and meningitis. The day he fell ill, he learned he had been appointed consulting physician to the First British Army, the first Canadian so honoured. John McCrae was buried with full military honours in Wimereux Cemetery, just north of Boulogne, not far from the fields of Flanders. Bonfire led the procession, McCrae's riding boots reversed in the stirrups.
Reproduced with permission from Veterans Affairs Canada.
Teaching Materials
Women in War, Part A
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Film: Hospital Bombed by German Airplanes
Summary: Students reflect on gender roles during World War I. Follow up with the lesson Women in War, Part B.
World War I marked a turning point for women. Many replaced men in factories and businesses such as banks. Gender roles (the way societies assign separate roles to men and women) were altered dramatically. At the same time, women continued to occupy traditional roles (for instance, nursing), especially at the war front.
Your Task:
Watch the film Hospital Bombed by German Airplanes, to learn about gender roles during World War I.
1. The soldiers are carrying objects seldom seen in battlefield funerals. What are they?
2. Besides soldiers, who else is marching?
3. Who do you think is being buried?
4. Do other graves have flowers?
5. Were nurses' uniforms practical, given battlefield conditions?
6. Not all nurses are wearing the same uniform. What do the differences signify?
7. Look at the uniforms of the soldiers in the procession.
a) Who are the ones with the white collars?
b) Why are there so many "white collars" at this funeral?
c) Who are the elderly men in the elaborate uniforms?
8. What do the answers to a, b, and c above tell you about this funeral?
9. Do you think that these soldiers regarded the death of women in battle to be normal or unusual?
Women in War, Part B
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Film: Hospital Bombed by German Airplanes
Summary: Students reflect on gender roles during World War I. Make sure that students have already viewed Women in War, Part A.
World War I marked a turning point for women. Many women replaced men in factories and businesses such as banks. Gender roles (the way societies assign separate roles to men and women) were altered dramatically. At the same time, women continued to occupy traditional roles (for instance, as nurses), especially at the war front.
Your Task:
Watch the film Hospital Bombed by German Airplanes, to find out about gender roles during the time of World War I.
1. Do you think this kind of funeral was given for all the soldiers buried in this graveyard?
2. Very few funerals were filmed. Why do you think that this one was?
a) Do you think that the presence of the camera influenced what happened at this funeral?
b) What impact might this film have had on those in Canada who watched it?
c) At the beginning of the war, women could not vote. At the end of the war, some women could. Do you think this film had an impact on the struggle for the right of women to vote?
3. Women were killed while nursing the wounded. What impact did this have on the status of nursing as a profession?
4. After the war, what impact did this have upon the status of women in Canadian society?
Extension Activity:
Add a few sentences to finish this paragraph:
Women did not actually fight during World War I. There were still major gender divisions in the Canadian army. However, the impact of the war…


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Construction DilemmaMath brain teasers require computations to solve.
Mr. Math, or Sane, was hired by Nortel to design the dimensions for their building. He decided to make the building an open cylindrical area inscribed in a perfect cube.
But a tragic incident caused Sane to become sick and not be able to communicate! The only dimension that he had written down was for the corner office, 16 by 8 meters (which extends to the edge of the open area).
The construction workers can not start over now, as they've already begun building. But if they want to finish the Nortel building in time, they will need to know the final dimension of the perfect cube and cylinder! Can anyone here help them?
Alternate: If the construction workers became ambitious and decided to make all the offices out of solid wood, approximately how much would it cost them at $10 per m^3?
HintFormulate an equation where the hypotenuse of the two squared unknown distances will equal the radius of the building.
AnswerFormulate an equation where the hypotenuse of the two squared unknown distances will equal the radius of the building.
(Since our answer only needs two dimensions, we will convert them into square (building), circle (open area), and rectangle (corner office).
[The Pythagorean theorem will solve for the root of the radius]
Let a represent the length of the rectangle, then x-a be the radius of the circle minus the length of the rectangle, same to b (to width of the rectangle):
a^2 + b^2 = x^2
(x - a)^2 + (x - b)^2 = x^2
x^2 = (x - 16)(x - 16) + (x - 8)(x - 8)
[Use foil to expand the brackets]
x^2 = (x^2 - 16x - 16x + 256) + (x^2 - 8x - 8x + 64)
x^2 = 2x^2 - 48x + 320
[Order as a quadratic equation]
x^2 - 48x + 320 = 0
[Factor the equation using the quadratic formula with X excluded]
Let a equal 1, b equal 48, and c equal 320 as temporary variables in the factoring equation:
x = -b{+/-}[b^2 - 4ac]^1/2 / 2a
x = -48{+/-}[2304 - 1280]^1/2 / 2
x = -48{+/-}32 / 2
x = -40 and x = -8
[Input those numbers into the now factored equation]
(x - 40)(x - 8) = 0
If the radius were 8, then that would mean the corner office would end up extending into the circular area (because the corner office is 16 x 8).
Therefore, the diameter of the cylinder or the dimensions of the building must be 40 * 2 (radius x 2) to make 80m x 80m.
Alternate: The volume of the building is expressed by:
v = l * w * h
But remember, since the cylinder is open space, we need to figure it too.
The volume of the cylinder is expressed by:
v = pi(r^2) * h
Therefore, the volume of solid wood is the volume of the building less the empty area:
v = [l * w * h] - [pi(r^2) * h]
v = [80 * 80 * 80] - [pi(40^2) * 80]
v ~= 512 000 - 402124
v ~= 109 876 m^3
If wood is $10 per m^3:
10 * 109876 = $1 098 760
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Is your kid a reluctant learner?
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Watching your child refuse to eat his vegetables day after day can be very disheartening. Not to mention frustrating. Many children have an intense dislike for vegetables but will gladly gobble up a bowl of fruit in 30 seconds flat. Megan Alsford, an accredited practising dietitian from Nutrition Australia, reassures parents that this behaviour is completely normal. "Veggies are often the first foods kids refuse to eat when they start to exert their independence at the dinner table," she says. The key to successfully getting your kids to eat their veggies is "gentle persuasion and persistence", says Alsford. And, in the meantime, adding a little bit of extra fruit to their diet may not be a bad idea.
Vegetables are nutrient-rich and full of fibre. They are very useful to the digestive system and help prevent constipation, which means that kids who eat very little in the way of vegetables can find going to the toilet hard work. "Vegetables also help to prevent diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, heart disease and some cancers," says Alsford. And although it's fairly rare, children who don't eat vegetables are more at risk of developing a vitamin or mineral deficiency.
Both fruit and vegetables are made up of essential nutrients that kids need for growth, good health and development.
"Each fruit and each vegetable has its own unique mix of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals," says Alsford. "To help make sure you capture as many nutrients as possible, you need variety". If your child's vegetable intake is not ideal, serving more fruit can help, "as a lot of the nutrients are the same in fruit and vegetables".
However, warns Alsford, it's very important to continue to offer children a variety of vegetables every day, and not just the types you know they like. Remember, it can take up to 10 times for kids to try and like a new food.
If you are worried that your child is not getting enough nutrients, it's best to make an appointment to see a dietitan, recommends Alsford, before you decide to administer any vitamin supplements.
"While we can put all the vitamins and minerals into a supplement, we can't quite get them to act the same as when they come from real foods," says Alsford. Ensuring your child has a balanced diet is definitely the most effective way of giving kids all the nutrients their little bodies need.
When it comes to healthy eating, the best thing you can do as a parent is lead by example, says Alsford. "It's not fair to expect kids to eat foods you won't eat," she says.
Here are some other ways to help your children increase their veggie intake:
The most important tip is to not to make a fuss. Always offer and keep offering vegetables every day, and let your child choose whether he is going to eat them or not. Eventually, you will find a way to give him something he enjoys. Do some experimenting, stay calm and don't give up.
This article was written by Jo Harris for Kidspot, Australia's best family health resource. Sources include Nutrition Australia.
Last revised: Monday, 27 February 2012
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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The market continues to drift in dull fashion with breadth almost exactly even and the indices flat. Apple (AAPL) continues to be the biggest negative on the screen, but the school shooting in Connecticut is affecting the mood as well.
Here's the dilemma for traders: Even if you are optimistic and would like to add long exposure in case the fiscal cliff is resolved, the action is so dreary that it is tough to put money to work. Of course, I'm speaking from the standpoint of someone who tends to trade momentum and charts. Value buyers may find this action very appealing, but most active traders that I know are struggling.
We'll see if the buyers step up late in hopes of some positive fiscal-cliff news over the weekend. The best thing we have going for us is that President Obama is eager to go on vacation and politicians want to return home for the holidays. Nothing makes them more productive than self-interest.


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An unidentified Warlock is an assassin. Like her cohorts, she displays the blue-stained lips of those who drink Shade of the evening.
Season 3
This unidentified warlock appears as a young girl and entices Daenerys to play while in Astapor. The ball she rolls to Dany actually contains a manticore. Before the manticore can strike, Ser Barristan Selmy stabs it in the back with a dagger and kills the creature. The assassin runs and jumps off the dock - only to then magically appear in the distance. The warlock escapes uninjured.[1]
|Season Three appearances
|Valar Dohaeris
|Dark Wings, Dark Words
|Walk of Punishment
|And Now His Watch Is Ended
|Kissed by Fire
|The Climb
|The Bear and the Maiden Fair
|Second Sons
|The Rains of Castamere
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Daenerys is the target of an assassination attempt before abandoning Qarth, and is saved by Barristan Selmy, though he is under the assumed identity of "Arstan Whitebeard" at the time. In the books, this occurred on the docks of Qarth as she was leaving, but the TV series moved it forward slightly to occur in Astapor, soon after Dany arrives from Qarth. In the books, the would-be assassin is not a Warlock but a Sorrowful Man, an ancient guild of assassins in Qarth known for whispering "I am so sorry" to their victims before killing them. It is not known who orders the attempt on Dany's life, as several Qartheen factions have called for her death by this time in the narrative, though the Warlocks have a special interest in Daenerys' death after her dragons kill their leaders, the Undying Ones, when she tries to leave from the House of the Undying.


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Area voters headed to the polls for the primary election in about three weeks will have a choice between two very different local Democrats running for Congress.
Both Ann Kirkpatrick and Wenona Benally Baldenegro are attorneys who live in Flagstaff. They have similar views on health policy, immigration and abortion.
But after that, their politics diverge. Asked by the Daily Sun how they would have voted (or did vote) on 30 key bills in the House dating back to late 2008, the pair had different answers on 18 of 30 issues. (See the checklist on Page A8.)
Benally Baldenegro would have voted against expanding a copper mine east of Phoenix; Kirkpatrick introduced legislation for it.
Kirkpatrick voted against low-interest loans for homeowners wanting to make their houses more energy-efficient; Benally Baldenegro would have voted for it.
And although both Benally Baldenegro and Kirkpatrick said they grew up with guns, Kirkpatrick says "I believe it's appropriate for guns to be in the national parks," while Benally Baldenegro wrote "There is no need for people to be carrying guns in our national parks."
Four other candidates running in the First Congressional District -- three Republicans and a Libertarian -- responded to the checklist. Only Republican Jonathan Paton declined to participate. Candidates had 12 days to examine the measures and give their views.
"Jonathan has not read the bills that you selected. Without reading the legislation, it's hard to answer those questions. It is unclear what those bills contain aside from the small blurb attached," said spokesman Barrett Marson.
The key bills were selected by the nonpartisan voter education group, Project VoteSmart, with full explanations listed on its website.
The three Republicans filling out the checklist were former flower-shop owner and California city councilman Patrick Gatti of Show Low; businessman and former congressional intern Gaither Martin of Eager: and Sedona contractor Doug Wade.
Kim Allen, the Libertarian candidate, also filled it out.
Their answers of yes, no or declined to answer are printed here, and their full comments can be found at azdailysun.com.
Kirkpatrick stuck to her record, affirming the votes she took in Congress in 2009 and 2010.
She voted against the Dodd-Frank legislation that added more oversight to the financial system.
"It goes back to: Do we need another layer of regulation, or do we need to enforce what we had? I think we need to enforce what we had," she said.
Some other votes were much less clear.
Kirkpatrick would have voted against extending Bush-era tax cuts, she said, except that extending unemployment was tied to that measure, too. She wound up supporting the tax-cut extension.
A vote to extend student loans would normally garner Kirkpatrick's support ... until an amendment gutting part of the Affordable Care Act was added to it, she said.
And Kirkpatrick says she proposes measures to balance the budget and to raise taxes on the wealthy.
"I favor keeping the tax cuts for people who make $500,000 or less, and that's most of the people in our district," she said.
Out of 30 issues, Kirkpatrick wound up agreeing nearly as many times with Republicans Wade and Martin (11 votes each) as she did with Benally Baldenegro (12 votes).
The three Republicans are of one mind on the Affordable Care Act (opposed), measures to limit greenhouse gases (opposed), and measures calling for a balanced budget and a mine expansion near Superior (supportive of both).
They separate on issues like guns in national parks, how much funding the Defense Department should receive and whether the Food and Drug Administration should regulate tobacco.
Wade might normally say it is not the government's business to regulate industries.
"Tobacco's a different story, though. My dad smoked his whole life and smoked himself into his grave, and so did my best friend," he said.
He supports a measure allowing the FDA to regulate tobacco products and their advertising.
Gatti would stop funding National Public Radio, and a lot of government agencies, like the Education Department, the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.
"There are so many departments that need to be done away with. I just mean completely done away with," Gatti said. "It's illogical to have an EPA when we have our own agency taking care of environmental conditions ... it's just another layer of something preventing us from building up business in our state."
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Orioles recall Gausman from Triple-A; Jimenez placed on 15-day DL
The Orioles today announced that they have recalled RHP KEVIN GAUSMAN from Triple-A Norfolk and placed RHP UBALDO JIMENEZ on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 8, with a sprained right ankle. Gausman is expected to start tonight's game against New York.
Gausman, 23, has posted a 3.18 ERA (45.1IP, 16ER) and 45 strikeouts in 12 minor league starts (11 with Norfolk, one with Class-A Aberdeen). He has gone 3-2 with a 3.51 ERA (33.1IP, 13ER) in six starts for the Orioles this season.
Jimenez, 30, has gone 3-8 with a 4.52 ERA (99.2IP, 50ER) in 18 starts for the Orioles this season.


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its been mentioned before about mark doing baseball play by play this summer, but i kinda enjoyed this article...
Setting the 'Pace:' New Mustangs radio voice taking break from NBA gig
By MIKE SCHERTING
Of The Gazette Staff
The beer showered down, the cup that contained the beer came next, and then Mark Boyle thought: This is trouble.
Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest, the target of the beer shower, got up from where he was laying on the scorer's table and bolted into the stands.
The events that followed, captured on video, have been broadcast and rebroadcast. But for all the punches, chairs and whatever else was thrown during the much-publicized NBA brawl between the Pacers and the Detroit Pistons last November, Boyle may have taken the biggest blow. And all he was doing was trying to help.
"As soon as (Artest) got up - and this is not, by the way, the brightest thing I've ever done - but when he tried to go in, I tried to tackle him," says Boyle, who, as the voice of the Indiana Pacers radio broadcasts the last 17 years was right near the table where Artest had been laying. "He flattened me and I broke my back in five places. So, lesson learned. I like the guy, and I wish I could have helped him, but next time he's on his own.
"It was not a cool scene, not at all. In fact when we left the building - in most NBA buildings the team bus parks inside the building - when we were on the way out they told us that we should leave the building with our lights off in case anyone tried to shoot us. Which we didn't do it and no one shot us, so I guess they were overreacting. But you know when you hear, 'Hey, on your way out of here you might get shot,' it's not a very comforting feeling."
Boyle shouldn't come across such dramatics this summer. After being in the radio business since 1978, where he got his start at KATL in Miles City, Boyle will take a stab at professional baseball by broadcasting the Billings Mustangs games on KBUL (970 AM) and on the Internet (www.billingsmustangs.com).
The Minneapolis native says this is a one-time thing, that he's not making a career switch, not at this point in his life. He got into broadcasting to do baseball, his passion, but his career took another path instead, leading him to the NBA. So for a guy who's fished for piranha in the Amazon, done two speaking performances with the Indianapolis Symphony and competed in the U.S. Open chess tournament, all it would take to send him on his way to do a baseball season was getting permission from the Pacers and from his wife, Janette (who is from Miles City).
With permission granted, Boyle fished around and hooked up with Mustangs general manager Gary Roller. Boyle arrived in town earlier this week, and has been spending his time getting acclimated to the Mustangs and the Pioneer League, as well as the Mustangs parent club, the Cincinnati Reds.
His five broken vertebrae have healed for the most part, and his doctor has given him clearance to make the long bus rides.
On Wednesday, while watching the Mustangs work out at Cobb Field, Boyle, who didn't miss a Pacers' broadcast despite his injuries from the brawl, spoke about a variety of topics:
On how his peers reacted to his decision to do baseball this summer:
"It was surprising to me. I thought most people that I interact with on a regular basis would think it was crazy or stupid or both. I was surprised at how many guys thought it was cool. My peers are guys who have done in some cases baseball, and some of the guys in our league do Major League Baseball, and even those guys thought it was cool. On some level it seems to me even those of us who work in different sports, somehow there's something about baseball that captures all of us. ... I was really surprised at how many guys came up to me unsolicited and said, 'I hear you're doing baseball, that's pretty cool.' And even at this level, where obviously we're not going to be facing the same accommodations (as in the NBA) and things like that, they saw nothing crazy about it all. In fact, some of them said 'I wish I could be doing that.' Everybody was at least curious and most of the guys were really quite supportive. I thought I would be the only one who thought it was cool."
On why he is doing this:
"That's why I got into broadcasting, I wanted to do baseball on radio. I think, just talking to young kids in my profession now - I'm in my late 40s - I think I'm the last generation that got into broadcasting, if you're a play-by-play guy, to do baseball on radio. Now guys want to be TV anchors, or they just want to do television. I've done some, but that's not why I got in, and I never really had any interest in it and I don't particularly enjoy it. But radio baseball, from the time I was a kid listening to games at night, punching around the dial, seeing if I could get games from Chicago or Detroit or wherever, I just thought, 'Those guys have such cool jobs.' I'm not complaining about the job I have, that would be foolish. My career just didn't go in that direction. I've always wanted to do it, so finally I thought I could, if the Pacers would let me and my wife would go along with it, I could do a short-season league. That's where the idea came from, and the Pacers were supportive and so was Janette, and so I started sniffing around to see what I could find out and this is where I wound up."
On adjusting from the 'high life' in the NBA, to a bus league like the Pioneer League:
"On the one hand, I wasn't born in the NBA, I haven't been staying in five-star hotels and had ridiculous amounts of per diem since I was born ... I've been in bus leagues and I've slept on buses but it was a long time ago when I was younger. So, yeah, I'm curious. I don't think I'm going to have any problem staying in hotels that aren't the Four Seasons or the Ritz, but these long bus rides might be a challenge. But to me, it's all part of the process, I wanted to experience the whole thing and doing baseball every day, part of that is going through the lifestyle that everyone else experiences. In an ideal world, yeah, I'd rather stay in a Ritz, who wouldn't? But this is what it is. At least they're not making us camp out."
On how he'll adjust to doing baseball:
"I think from a professional standpoint, I'm always looking for challenges and I don't consider this simple, that I'm just going to wander in here and master this. I'm not saying the other sports are easy, but I feel baseball's the most difficult. It takes the most skill, it's the most challenging. With basketball, it's constant action. (Basketball's) not easy, I'm not saying that, but you don't have pacing, you don't have dead time, you don't have to be able to weave in stories and observations and anecdotes. ... From a professional standpoint, I'm not looking go anywhere (in baseball) other than here. I'm not looking to change career midcourse, but I think it's a real challenge, and I don't think it's easy to do and I'm curious, to tell you the truth, to see if I can even do it."


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A customer called recently who had our 10 Grain Pancake and Waffle Mix and some aging bananas. I came up with a formula for her that works really well. The combination of grains and bananas creates a soft texture that the taste testers here in the office gobbled up.
10 Grain Banana Nut Muffins
by Chelsea Lincoln from the Bob's Red Mill kitchen
½ cup Evaporated Cane Sugar
3 medium Bananas, mashed
1 Egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp Vanilla
2 Tb Oil
1 cup Milk
2 cups 10 Grain Pancake Mix
½ cup Walnut Pieces
Mix together the sugar, banana, egg, vanilla and oil. Slowly stir in milk to combine. Add pancake mix and walnuts; stir in until just combined. Be careful not to over mix. Fill greased muffin cups ¾ cup full and bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes. Makes 15 muffins.
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The Spain boss has come out in defence of his captain, who was controversially dropped in favour of Antonio Adan for the 3-2 loss to Malaga on Saturday
The 143-cap international was controversially left out of Jose Mourinho's starting line-up for the trip to Malaga recently in favour of Antonio Adan.
The Spanish champions went on to lose 3-2 in Andalusia but the 61-year-old has backed his skipper to bounce back.
"Iker arrived at the age of 10," he was quoted as saying by Marca.
"His parents deserve a lot of merit, having brought him to the training centre, and I don't think the were made of money.
"Iker is the pride of Real Madrid. He is the only one to have come through the youth team, and it would be good to recognise what he was done as he's done a lot.
"He carries the values of Real Madrid."


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Publishers' spring audio lists have taken shape, and there's a robust variety of offerings available to listeners. The season includes debuts from publisher Dreamscape Media and the children's imprint Candlewick on Brilliance Audio, and a new name for the former BBC Audiobooks America, now known as AudioGO. Continuing the trends of recent years, paranormal romance, dystopian fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery/thriller genres remain strong, and listeners will see many of their favorite big names on the shelves alongside a few newcomers. The ever-popular memoir category leads the nonfiction pack with a large number of entries for the first half of 2011, by the famous (Billy Joel, Annie Proulx, Dick Van Dyke, Tina Fey) as well as by everyday people with amazing stories to share. Here are some selected highlights of the new releases for spring.
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova, read by Sarah Paulson. Neuroscientist Genova delivers the tale of an overachieving 30-something woman whose life changes in a split second when she suffers a traumatic brain injury, leaving her with "left neglect," a condition that renders her unaware of anything on her left side. (Simon & Schuster Audio, Jan.)
The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer, read by Scott Brick. Set in Washington, D.C., a story of intrigue at the highest levels of government. According to Hachette, the recording includes a challenge to Brick, suggested by Meltzer's Twitter followers. Listen closely for what sounds like a cameo by Christopher Walken. (Hachette Audio, Jan.)
Gideon's War by Howard Gordon, read by Carlos Bernard. Gordon, executive producer of TV's 24, is right at home in this debut thriller starring Gideon Davis, who has one day to bring his rogue brother to justice before a vast global conspiracy turns deadly. Narrator Bernard played Tony on 24. (Simon & Schuster Audio, Jan.)
Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil and Kaja Fogilo, read by Angela Dawe. The Hugo and Eisner Award–winning comic book series is captured in this recording of a novelization. (Brilliance Audio, Jan.)
The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, read by Gerard Kyle. Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. This exploration of the perception of truth is the first in a cycle of novels set in the Islamic world. (Dreamscape Media, Jan.)
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki and Emily Janice Card. Card's contemporary urban fantasy is read by his daughter and Audie and Grammy Award–winning audio producer, narrator, and director Rudnicki. (Blackstone Audio, Jan.)
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland, read by Kimberly Farr. Behind the scenes at the 1893 New York studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany, through the eyes of studio artist and designer Clara Driscoll. (Random House Audio, Jan.)
West of Here by Jonathan Evison. An epic western adventure wrapped in the history of one small town, follows two time lines: the past, as the founders rush toward the future, and the present, as their descendants struggle with the past. (HighBridge Audio, Feb.)
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones, read by Lorelai King. Charley Davidson is a part-time PI and full-time Grim Reaper in this debut paranormal thriller narrated by Audie-winner King. An interview with the author is included. (Macmillan Audio, Feb.)
666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce, read by Ilyana Kadushin. A new contemporary gothic series about the witches—literally—who live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. (HarperAudio, download only, Feb.)
Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel, read by Sandra Burr. Marks the sixth and final volume in the Earth's Children series. (Brilliance Audio, Feb.)
Half Life by Jennifer Weiner, read by Katie Finneran. This dramatic, romantic story, serialized in Redbook magazine in summer 2010, features a cover with a special barcode that allows shoppers to scan and listen to an excerpt while in the store. (Simon & Schuster Audio, Feb.)
When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle, read by Anthony Heald. Action-packed adventure about endangered animals and those who would protect them. (Blackstone Audio, Feb.)
The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Glittering Storm by Stephen Cole, read by Elisabeth Sladen. Sladen, who stars as Sarah Jane in the titular BBC-TV sci-fi series, reads this audio-exclusive story. (AudioGO, Feb.)
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt, read by Susan Duerden. Winston Churchill and a vulnerable young woman are among those who fall under the sway of the strange "presence" they know as Mr. Chartwell. (Random House Audio, Feb.)
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, read by Carrington MacDuffie. Inspired by the hard-drinking, fast-living adventures of Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley in Jazz Age Paris. (Random House Audio, Feb.)
Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, read by John Glover. The popular author team introduces a new mystery series starring 24-year-old Gideon, out to avenge the murder of his father. (Hachette Audio, Feb.)
Emily and Einstein: A Novel of Second Chances by Linda Francis Lee, read by Dan John Miller and Cassandra Campbell. When Emily's husband dies and she's threatened with eviction, comfort arrives in the form of a wacky dog named Einstein. (Tantor Audio, Mar.)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente, read by the author. A tale that was initially published in serial format on the author's blog now appears in both audio and print editions. (Brilliance Audio, Mar.)
The Mark of Zorro, based on the novel by Johnston McCully, dramatized for audio by Yuri Rasovsky, read by Val Kilmer and a full cast. This audio drama adaptation was created by the award-winning Hollywood Theater for the Ear especially for Blackstone. (Blackstone Audio, Apr.)
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline, read by Cynthia Nixon. Promotion for Scottoline's story of split-second choice and its consequences includes a collaborative social media campaign and advance listening clips for her newsletter and Web site. Scottoline has also narrated her own audiobook work, on Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog (2009) and My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space, which she wrote and narrated with her daughter, Francesca, last year. (Macmillan Audio, Apr.)
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe, read by Colin Buchanan. Maxwell Sim struggles to make real connections in a life filled with technology and gadgets. (AudioGO, May)
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, read by Rupert Degas. A new recording of a popular example of 20th-century gothic fiction marks the centenary of the author's birth. Peake's unfinished novel Titus Awakes has been completed for publication this year, which may spark the original trilogy Titus Groan (Feb.); Gormenghast (Apr.) and Titus Alone (June). (Naxos AudioBooks, Feb.-June)
The Inspector and Silence by Hakan Nesser, read by Simon Vance. Nesser's Van Veeteren mystery series is an international bestseller and makes its U.S. debut on audio with the simultaneous release of five titles, including this one. (HighBridge Audio, June)
Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder, read by Holter Graham. Graham also narrated Finder's 2009 book about "private spy" Nick Heller, Vanished. Audio enthusiast Finder has already begun an audio giveaway via his Facebook page, and last summer made broad use of social media to advocate for the Audio Publishers Association's June Is Audiobook Month campaign. (Macmillan Audio, June)
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran. Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Gran's thriller stars quirky PI DeWitt, who uses dreams, omens, and mind-expanding herbs to help solve mysteries. (HighBridge, June)
Untitled James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver. Deaver tackles the iconic superspy franchise, serving up a contemporary thriller starring a 30-year-old James Bond. (Simon & Schuster Audio, June)
Other Notable Fiction
Delirious by Daniel Palmer, read by Peter Berkot (Brilliance Audio, Jan.); A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley, read by Jayne Entwistle (Random House Audio, Feb.); Frostbitten: A Women of the Otherworld Novel by Kelley Armstrong, read by Jen Taylor (AudioGO, Feb.); The Adults by Alison Espach, read by Tavia Gilbert (Dreamscape Media, Feb.); This Side of the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost, read by Tavia Gilbert (Blackstone Audio, Feb.); Devotion of Subject X by Keigo Higashino, trans. by Alexander O. Smith, read by David Pittu (Macmillan Audio, Feb.); A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (HarperAudio, download only, Mar.); Other Kingdoms by Richard Matheson, read by Bronson Pinchot (Blackstone Audio, Mar.); The Priest by Gerard O'Donovan (Dreamscape Media, Mar.); City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster Audio, Apr.); Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark, read by January LaVoy (Hachette Audio, Apr.); The Uncoupling by Meg Worlitzer (AudioGO, Apr.); Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg (Random House Audio, Apr.); The End of Everything by Megan Abbott (Blackstone Audio, Apr.); In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard (Dreamscape Media, Apr.); Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster Audio, Apr.); Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien (Dreamscape Media, May); The Butterfly's Daughter by Mary Alice Monroe (Brilliance Audio, May); Those in Peril by Wilbur Smith (Macmillan Audio, May); Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (Random House Audio, May); Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares (Random House Audio, June); Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich (Random House Audio, June); The Two Deaths of Daniel Hays by Marcus Sakey (Brilliance Audio, June); The Crook Factory by Dan Simmons (Brilliance Audio, June).