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Buehrle's effort not enough as Blue Jays fall to Yanks
Bats continue to struggle; lefty allows two earned runs over six innings
NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays entered Yankee Stadium this week looking like a new team, but two games into a three-game series, they're quickly finding out that some old habits die hard.
Toronto still finds itself on top of the American League East, but its lead has almost been cut in half as the club continues to search for ways to win in the Big Apple. That problem isn't new, in fact it's something the organization has been dealing with for the past three years.
The Blue Jays' offense saw its recent struggles continue, and even more glaring, Toronto dropped its 15th consecutive game at Yankee Stadium with a 7-3 loss to the Yankees on Wednesday night.
"Maybe we don't like the bright lights of Broadway, that's all I can figure," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Last year, we didn't win a game here. We lost the first couple here [this season], and then it goes even further back. It's a mystery, who knows why? They definitely have our number, but there's a lot of games left here, and we need to bounce back."
Toronto's losing streak is the longest road skid by any club since the Orioles dropped 16 consecutive games to the Blue Jays from Aug. 8, 2009 to June 15, 2011. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it's the longest winning streak by the Yankees at home vs. a single opponent since a 19-game mark from June 10, 1960 to April 21, 1962, vs. Cleveland.
There's a wide range of factors behind the losing ways, but the immediate focus for the Blue Jays is on the offense. Toronto easily had the best lineup in baseball during May, scoring 165 runs. Since then, the Blue Jays have scored 51 runs in 16 games, the second-fewest in the Major Leagues over that span.
One of the main reasons behind the Blue Jays' recent struggles has been the lack of home runs. Toronto's lineup is built around power, and when the ball isn't carrying out of the park, the offense often has difficulty finding other ways to score. The power outage has been noticeable of late, with two homers in the past eight games and four over the last 11.
Yankees right-hander Chase Whitley took advantage of the situation Wednesday night, allowing two runs over five innings. The only trouble he faced came in the fourth, when the Blue Jays put two runners on and Dioner Navarro and Colby Rasmus came through with a pair of back-to-back RBI singles. Rasmus' RBI came in his second at-bat after being activated from the disabled list earlier in the day.
"We were hot there for so long, but we've cooled off just about everybody," Gibbons said. "You just keep working, keep battling, and eventually we're going to come out in a big way, I think. Hopefully sooner rather than later."
Blue Jays left-hander Mark Buehrle was saddled with the tough loss because of the lack of run support. He has been stuck on 10 wins since June 1, but he pitched well enough against the Yankees to see that total increased. Buehrle allowed an unearned run in the first and then a two-run homer to Brian McCann in the fourth. McCann's home run barely got over the wall in right field, and was the byproduct of a short porch at Yankee Stadium.
Buehrle is currently on a three-game losing streak, but he has recorded a quality start in all but three of his 15 outings this season. Even during the recent skid, he's allowed seven earned runs over 19 1/3 innings, which equates to a 3.26 ERA.
"I feel like, overall, I pitched pretty good," Buehrle said. "I gave up a fly ball to right field, two-run homer, and we end up losing the game. Same thing yesterday, we lost the game on a little 318-foot fly ball that ends up going out. Obviously these are the dimensions of the stadium, you have to play with it, but it's frustrating when you come out and battle last night and tonight, and pretty much two losses on the short little porch to right field."
New York put the game out of reach with a four-run seventh inning off relievers Chad Jenkins and Brett Cecil. Jenkins loaded the bases with one out before Cecil came in and walked a batter and then allowed a bases-clearing triple to McCann, who tied a career high with five RBIs. Jenkins was charged with three of the runs on three hits and no walks.
The Blue Jays have now lost a series on the road for the first time since May 2-4 at Pittsburgh, and their recent slide continues. Since sweeping the Tigers from June 3-5, the Toronto is 4-8.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain Gary Paulsen
The great American writer Ernest Hemingway, had this to say about Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: "All modern, literature, stems from this one book." In this quintessential American novel, Tom Sawyer's best friend, Huckleberry Finn, travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a slave named Jim, getting himself in and out of danger along the way.
Alida's Song (Alida #2)by Gary Paulsen
A remarkable novel about one of the most important and loving relationships in Gary Paulsen's life.The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at 14, offering him a haven from his harsh and painful family life. She arranges a summer job for him on the farm where she is a cook for Olaf and Gunnar, elderly brothers. Farm life offers the camaraderie and routine of hard work, good food, peaceful evenings spent making music together, even learning to dance. Life with Alida gives the boy strength and faith in himself, drawing him away from the edge and into the center of life.From the Hardcover edition.
The Amazing Life of Birdsby Gary Paulsen
I was six or seven years old and there was a girl living next door named Peggy. She was a year older than me and a lot stronger and we were wrestling and she held me down& All of a sudden it seemed there was something about girls that wasn't all bad. I don't know what it was but I should have know that this feeling with Peggy Ollendorfer meant that down the road, later, I was in for a big surprise. Afterward, when I was a little older, if you'd asked me what the surprise was like, I'd have said it was about like getting hit by a train.
Amos and the Alienby Gary Paulsen
In helping an extraterrestrial get back to his planet, Amos hides him under his bed while he and Dunc think of what to do, until Amos starts displaying new powers on the football field, and Dunc thinks the mysterious alien is behind it.
Amos and the Chameleon Caperby Gary Paulsen
Paulsen's funny sleuths meet up with a master of disguises! Culpepper Adventures #27.
Amos and the Vampireby Gary Paulsen
Amos's big sister Amy is always dating rejects. But this time, her boyfriend was rejected by the grave! He's got pale skin, dark hair, mesmerizing eyes, an annoying tendency to disappear, and he wants to have the Culpeppers over for a late night Halloween snack.... Can Amos and his best friend, Dunc, stop the vampire before he starts to bite? Or will Amy and her man do a little necking she will never forget? Join Gary Paulsen's cool sleuths in their creepiest caper yet!
Amos Binder, Secret Agent (Culpepper #28)by Gary Paulsen
It's spy vs. spy when Amos is mistaken for a government double agent and given a top secret assignment to fulfill. He's got the trench coat, the dark sunglasses, and that debonair James Bond way about him. Now all he needs is Dunc to bail him out!
Amos Gets Famousby Gary Paulsen
Deciphering a code they find in a library book, best friends for life Amos and Dunc stumble onto a burglary ring. The burglars' next target is the home of Melissa, the girl of Amos's dreams (who doesn't even know that he's alive). Amos longs to be a hero to Melissa, so nothing will stop him from solving this case--not even a mind-boggling collision with a jock, a chimpanzee, and a toilet.
Amos Gets Marriedby Gary Paulsen
After Amos accidentally knocks Melissa out, she suddenly seems to really like him, so Amos' best friend Dunc decides to figure out why she is acting so strangely and why things are mysteriously disappearing at school.
Amos Goes Bananasby Gary Paulsen
Amos has more than a monkey on his back. It's a gorilla. Her name is Louise. And she's in love. Culpepper Adventures #24
Amos's Killer Concert Caperby Gary Paulsen
Amos is desperate. He's desperate for two tickets to the romantic event of his young life...the Road Kill concert! He'll do anything to get them because he heard from a friend of a friend of a friend of Melissa Hansen that: she's way into Road Kill.
The Beet Fieldsby Gary Paulsen
For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a poker game, or hitching a ride, can turn deadly. He discovers the secret sadness and generosity to be found on a lonely farm in the middle of nowhere. Then he joins up with a carnival and becomes a grunt, running a ride and shilling for the geek show. He's living the hard carny life and beginning to see the world through carny eyes. He's tough. Cynical. By the end of the summer he's pretty sure he knows it all. Until he meets Ruby.From the Paperback edition.
The Boy Who Owned the Schoolby Gary Paulsen
Jacob's goal in life is to go about unnoticed. He's perfect at sneaking into his English class. That was, until now. If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz.
Brian's Hunt (Brian Robeson #5)by Gary Paulsen
Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp.
Brian's Returnby Gary Paulsen
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the North. The only answer is to return-to "go back in"-for only in the wilderness can Brian discover his true path in life, and where he belongs.From the Paperback edition.
Brian's Returnby Gary Paulsen
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to make sense of high school life. He feels disconnected, more isolated than he did alone in the North. The only answer is to return-to "go back in"-for only in the wilderness can Brian discover his true path in life, and where he belongs. "From the Paperback edition. "
Brian's Winter (Brian Robeson #3)by Gary Paulsen
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian's Winter begins where Hatchet might have ended: Brian is not rescued, but must build on his survival skills to face his deadliest enemy--a northern winter.
Call Me Francis Tucketby Gary Paulsen
Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle just about anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man Mr. Grimes. Now that he and Mr. Grimes have parted ways, Francis is heading west on his Indian pony, crossing the endless prairie, trying to find his family.After a year with Mr. Grimes, Francis has learned to live by the harsh code of the wilderness. He can cause a stampede, survive his own mistakes, and face up to desperadoes. But when he rescues a little girl and her younger brother, Francis takes on more than he bargained for. All of a sudden he's in charge of Lottie and Billy, a family of his own.Fast-paced and exciting, Calling Me Francis Tucket continues the journey begun in Mr. Tucket, taking readers deeper into the American West, and deeper into Francis's changing knowledge of what it takes to survive on a new frontier.From the Hardcover edition.
The Call of the Wildby Gary Paulsen Jack London
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
Canoe Daysby Ruth Wright Paulsen Gary Paulsen
Opening this book is like sitting down in a canoe, taking up a paddle, and gliding out into the summer beauty of a hidden lake. In this picture book that is as refreshing and inviting as a perfect canoe day, a fawn peeks out from the trees as ducklings fan out behind their mother. Butterflies pause and fish laze beneath the lily pads. Ruth Wright Paulsen's sunlit paintings and Gary Paulsen's poetic text capture all the peace and pleasure of a day when water and sky are one.
Canyonsby Gary Paulsen
Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they will become men.Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid. But he is to be a man for only a short time.More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, 15-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns that it is the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in 1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find peace until Coyote Runs' skull is carried back to an ancient sacred place.In a grueling journey through the canyon to return the skull, Brennan confronts the challenge of his life.From the Paperback edition.
Captive!by Gary Paulsen
Roman and three of his classmates are held captive in a remote mountain cabin but can he overcome his fear--and the memory of his father's death--to lead the boys to freedom?
The Carby Gary Paulsen
Fourteen-year-old Terry Anders is a 1990s Huck Finn, with parents as neglectful as Pap. Like Huck, he escapes, not on a raft but by constructing a kit car. "Besides evoking a type of independence and tough-mindedness that will appeal to teens, this provocative novel introduces and explores some interesting philosophies of life while stressing the value of learning from experience."--Publishers Weekly
The Carby Gary Paulsen
Fourteen-year-old Terry Anders has been abandoned by his parents. He has no choice but to go on, and he begins by assembling pieces of a kit car from his father's garage. When he finishes the car known as "the Cat," Terry sets out from Cleveland to Portland to search for an uncle he hardly knows. Along the way Terry picks up a wandering Vietnam vet who ultimately guides him on a journey of discovery and survival.
The Case of the Dirty Birdby Gary Paulsen
Ten-year-old Dunc and klutzy Amos are on the trail of buried treasure. Also use: Culpepper's Cannon; Dunc's Doll (both 1992).
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We knew the Chicago Blackhawks were pretty good. But did they ever show just how good they were in beating up on the Dallas Stars, winning 8-1 on Saturday night.
Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa tallied two goals each, and Bryan Bickell led the way with three assists. Dallas pulled starting goaltender Kari Lehtonen midway through the second period after he allowed four goals in the first 17 shots. Backup Richard Bachman didn't fare any better, stopping just 10 of the 14 shots he faced.
The victory further points the Blackhawks' recent two-game losing streak in the rearview mirror, though everyone should be amped to see Chicago face off against the Anaheim Ducks next Thursday in a game that pits the Western Conference's best teams.
Meanwhile, the Stars now have lost four straight, and have scored just three goals in that span. The return of offensive catalyst Jamie Benn, who missed two games with a wrist injury, wasn't enough to help the Stars, although he assisted on Dallas' only goal.


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McMillan and Weiner Continue Their Interview With Ram Ramachandran. They Discuss What Flow Sensor Works Best in Various Applications
Greg: Flow measurements offer opportunities for feed-forward, identification of valve backlash and stick-slip, on-line metrics and diagnostics, rejection of pressure disturbance, linearization, modeling and tracking down disturbances as outlined in "Secondary Flow Loops Offer a Primary Advantage." Flow is by far the most manipulated process input for controlling process variables, optimizing process efficiency and setting throughput.
Stan: To get insights on what flow sensor works best in various applications we continue our interview with Ram Ramachandran the principal engineer at Systems Research Int'l. Inc.
Differential head measurements using differential pressure [DP] transmitters tend to have the lowest accuracy and rangeability due to the square root relationship; the highest noise due to sensitivity to velocity profile, and the highest maintenance cost due to impulse lines. If the velocity profile and density are constant (no opening and closing of valves or changes in composition), the repeatability is good. While the hardware cost may be low, the lifecycle cost is high from installation and winterization of impulse lines and maintenance to prevent line plugging, and to keep a constant phase and fluid composition in the lines. Furthermore, the increased process variability is a hidden cost. Most people don't realize density affects even the volumetric flow through the Bernoulli equation. Then there is the poor turndown leading to loss of flexible manufacturing to minimize inventories, and match fluctuating energy costs and market demands. I stopped using them [differential head measurements] in the 1980s. Why are differential head meters used?
Ram: Many of these installations are legacy systems, still with us in large chemical plants and refineries in the United States. For high temperatures and large pipe lines in mature continuous processes (e.g., refining, chemical intermediates and pigments and dye manufacturing) with infrequent and relatively limited production rate changes, the differential head meters have been traditionally used. Elbow flowmeters with purged taps have been used when the process fluid is too hazardous, too corrosive or erosive, or pressure drop can't be tolerated, and the accuracy required is only 5%. For much better accuracy and rangeability and less noise and sensitivity to piping configuration, Venturi tubes can be used with a minimal permanent pressure drop. Flow nozzles are a lower cost solution to Venturi tubes, particularly for large lines. The lowest cost flow sensor is an averaging pitot tube. Some manufacturers offer a retractable design.
Greg: If a wireless DP transmitter is used with an averaging pitot tube, the flow measurement is portable, enabling the exploring and prototyping of process control improvements, diagnostics and metrics. The rangeability can be extended to 10:1 if a second low-range transmitter is added, and measurement noise is incredibly low from strict attention to piping straight run requirements. These meters can justify a more permanent and accurate installation.
Stan: What can you do to achieve greater accuracy, rangeability and maintainability in large lines?
Ram: Turbine meters can provide incredible accuracy (e.g. 0.05%) and rangeability (e.g. 50:1). Bearing life is a problem for non-self-lubricating liquids, such as anhydrous ammonia. EMI has a sleeve bearing design that enables use in steam and gases. Insertion turbine meters and vortex meters are used for large pipelines. Vortex meters are the lower maintenance alternative, but at the expense of 5x deterioration in accuracy (e.g. 0.25%) and rangeability (e.g. 10:1) and greater straight run requirements. Repeatability stops at low flow. Improvements in bluff body and sensor design and temperature compensation have greatly increased vortex meter performance since their introduction. However, the meter coefficient is a still a function of kinematic viscosity.
Greg: Where is volumetric displacement used for flow measurement?
Ram: The oil and gas industry uses the technology of pulsating disc flowmeters for their huge pipe lines. The measurement of reciprocating pump stroke is used for toxic and lethal fluid flow measurement. Rotating disc flowmeters are used for natural gas and water flow measurement. Since these tend to read low as they age, there is an initiative to replace these with non-mechanical meters for large users.
Stan: Magmeters offer quite a performance advantage at low flows since their accuracy is a percentage of rate rather than a percentage of full scale like most other flowmeters. Magmeters also have a very short straight run requirement and can measure reverse flow. What do you see as some of the application considerations?
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A Chinese website called PCinlife Forums has obtained what they call is real performance data for one of the still-unannounced AMD Radeon HD 6800 series video cards. The numbers are actually impressive as 3DMark Vantage benchmark results showed scores of X12092 and P24499, which is more than previous leaks. This could be due to more mature drivers (they are using driver 8.14.10.0786 for benchmarking). The site also shows a Crysis benchmark frame rate of 43.55 FPS at 1920×1200 with "Very high" settings and 4X antialiasing, and a Unigine Heaven v2.1 score of 922 with "extreme" tessellation at 1900×1200 fullscreen resolution.
But, can it play Crysis? At Very High, 1920×1200, 4x AA, the HD 6870 comfortably plays along at 43.55 fps. The minimum fps is 29.57. Crysis has been well and truly conquered at HD resolutions with high IQ settings. At these kind of settings, previous single GPU cards barely broke 30 fps average, which means the HD 6870's minimum framerate is the same as the average of HD 5870 / GTX 480. Remarkable!
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By Pedro Pereira, Business Solutions magazine
A VAR's iPhone-based credit card processing solution helps solidify a relationship with an existing client.
VAR Dennis Lowe knew exactly what to recommend when one of his customers called with a credit card processing dilemma. The client was a national, nonprofit charitable organization that operates two retail stores, though retail isn't its primary focus. The organization sells merchandise and takes donations at events held in schools and fairs, but it didn't want to cart its point of sale (POS) system — scanner, printers, etc. — to those events. According to Lowe, president of Lion Communications, "They were looking for a portable POS solution. No matter where they went, they wanted to be able to take credit cards and process them in real time," he says.
The client wanted to process transactions through iPhone devices, which require an iDynamo credit card reader that attaches through the slot used for charging and transferring data. Lion Communications' solution consisted of an iPhone with attached card reader, a free iTunes app, and a SaaS offering — the Mercury Virtual Terminal — from Mercury Payment Systems.
Accessed through a Web browser from PCs, laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the Mercury Virtual Terminal lets merchants accept credit, gift, and governmentissued EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) cards without a POS system. The solution complies with Payment Card Industry data security standards. Mercury doesn't charge merchants for the virtual terminal, though the company collects a fee per transaction, as it does with regular POS systems. "It allows the e-mailing of receipts only; there is no print capability," Lowe says.
A Simple, Fast, Installation
The nonprofit has been a Lion Communications client since 1999, when Lowe installed POS systems at its retail locations. The company already was using Mercury Payment Systems for credit card processing, so the SaaS-based Virtual Terminal was just a natural extension of the Mercury partnership. "It's cloud computing, so there's no software to install and nothing to buy other than the iDynamo for $99. They just pay for the credit card processing," Lowe says.
As a Mercury partner, Lion Communications doesn't have to charge the customer for the Virtual Terminal service; instead, it receives a fee from the vendor. "I get the residuals from the Mercury account. Whenever we set up a customer, we get residuals. My customers love it because my service isn't costing them anything. There's value for my customer without their spending money," Lowe says.
When he received the client's call, Lowe introduced the Virtual Terminal concept to the client and explained how it worked. He told the client about the iTunes app to download and then contacted Mercury. The vendor set up the Virtual Terminal account and shipped the iDynamo attachments for the two iPhones the client planned to use for mobile transactions. In two or three days, the client was up and running.
No Training Needed
Lowe says there is a small disadvantage to the solution — the client has to enter sales manually into its POS system upon returning to the retail locations. But because sales at the events typically amount to only a few hundred dollars each time, Lowe says, the Virtual Terminal approach is perfect for the client's needs.
No complex integration is needed for Virtual Terminal. And because anybody who can swipe a card can use the system, there is no need for training either. "This is as low-cost as it gets. It's a small solution that makes the customer very happy," he says.


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September Offensive 2
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Beginning on August 8, 1918, the Canadian Corps launched a series of attacks that became collectively known as "The Hundred Days," the offensive that ended the war. Between September 2 and 4, the Corps attacked the Drocourt-Queant Line and the Buissy Switch, a massive German defence system of five interconnected trench lines that was part of the Hindenburg Line protecting the key rail and road centre of Cambrai. Using a heavy artillery barrage to cut the enemy's barbed wire, employing tanks in large numbers, the Canadians inflicted heavy casualties on the defenders and absorbed terrible casualties themselves. The Germans soon withdrew eastward to their next defensive position.
The film clip is unusual in showing the heavy cost of these operations—dead Canadian soldiers and horses (used in large numbers in an army that, although comparatively heavily mechanized, still relied on horses to haul guns and supplies), many wounded, and the ruination war brought to homes and farms in the path of the advance.
Pieces of History
The Horror of the Trenches
J.L. Granatstein
Historian and Author
Fraser found the front line trenches squalid. The dugouts, cut into the trench walls, "were small, damp and cold and overrun with rats." Men slept in their clothes for the entire tour in the trenches, and sentries changed every two hours "so the chances are you get wakened up between the shifts…." Then there was a "stand-to…which means you have to hold yourself in readiness for eventualities, in other words you have to be wide awake with equipment on…." Add to this the cold and wet, the dirt and vermin, the constant enemy rifle and artillery fire, the patrols, and the possibility of major fighting, and the soldier's life in the trenches was misery compounded by fear.
For almost four years, trench life was the Canadian infantrymen's lot. Units took their turn in the line and fended off attacks or launched their own, almost always very costly. It was an unwavering routine of horror and filth, compounded by the ever-present fear of death or, perhaps even more terrible, of being trapped, unready, in a gas attack or of grievous, disfiguring wounds. No one could get accustomed to the trenches but, short of desertion or a "blighty"— an uncomplicated wound that led to some easy recovery time in a British military hospital—there was no escape. The Allies lived in perpetual mud, presumably because some generals believed that if the soldiers were too comfortable, they would not want to fight.
Most Canadian commanders, however, wanted to fight. If a sector was quiet, they tried to stir it up. The favoured tactic was the trench raid, a technique developed by the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, a battalion initially attached to a British division. The PPCLI had invented trench raiding in February 1915, and their fellow Canadians soon raised it to an art form. Raids sought to establish dominance over no man's land, keep enemy soldiers on edge, take prisoners, secure intelligence and do damage. Above all, raiding aimed to oblige the enemy to move more men to the front so a carefully planned artillery bombardment could inflict heavy casualties. Usually, a platoon or a company might be involved in a raid, though some could use a complete battalion. Raiders rehearsed their roles, carried wire-cutters, bombs and rifles and all worked together in a carefully orchestrated manner. Such raids could be useful.
But there was a price to pay for raids. The attackers usually suffered casualties, and by poking a stick into what had hitherto been a quiet sector, the Canadians stirred up the enemy, guaranteeing that heavy shelling would fall on their lines, as well as increasing sniper activity and more casualties. Those soldiers who preferred a "live and let live" policy at the front were not amused.
Still, raids seemed better than utter boredom. Life at the front featured brief stretches of intense activity followed by endless waiting or make-work projects devised by officers and sergeants. When troops went out of the line, it was to training courses, parades and "chickenshit"—polishing brass and painting rocks. When they were in the trenches, even in quiet sectors, there was a steady drain of casualties from enemy artillery and sniper fire. Between January and April 1916, a time in which the Canadian Corps was not engaged in any major actions, its divisions suffered more than 2700 casualties from all causes, including self-inflicted wounds. Still, most casualties occurred in attacks—10,000 at Vimy Ridge, almost 16,000 at Passchendaele, and, horrifyingly, when the troops finally left their trenches to engage the enemy in open warfare, 46,000 in the last hundred days of the war. The battles from August 8 to November 11, 1918 cost Canada's army twenty percent of its casualties in the Great War.
Just surviving in the trenches was difficult enough, even without the presence of the enemy. Standing in mud and sleeping on a groundsheet or on the dirt were not good for one's health. The cold and wet permeated boots and socks, causing trench foot. This disease was not fatal, but it incapacitated a soldier as much as a battle wound, and officers conducted daily foot inspections, whenever conditions permitted, to ensure their soldiers kept their feet in good condition.
Other diseases, usually lumped together as trench fever, sprang from poor drainage, human waste and the ever-present lice. Soldiers were prone to rheumatism from wearing wet clothes for long periods; others contracted tuberculosis, meningitis, influenza or a host of other ailments. The real terror for front-line troops, nonetheless, was of their trench being hit by artillery fire. Then, the trenches could be smashed and men buried under the mud of collapsed dugouts. They knew their comrades would dig them out—if they could.
The wounded, as these film clips amply demonstrate, received prompt, effective treatment. First aid came at the Regimental Aid Post set up in the support trenches. Stretcher bearers brought in those who could not walk, and a system of triage let the medical officer treat first those who might live. Then casualties began a rearward journey to an Advanced Dressing Station where morphine might be administered and then by train or ambulance to a Casualty Clearing Station where surgeons operated. The final stage came when the wounded went to general hospitals in France or England, where further surgery might take place. There were specialized convalescent hospitals in England and, for those with terrible wounds, in Canada. The standard of care was impressive, and nine of ten wounded survived, a high figure considering the mud and septic filth in which soldiers lived and fought.
But always for the survivors and the new men, there were the trenches. A trench ideally was wide enough to allow two or three men to pass by and deep enough so that none need stoop to avoid falling prey to enemy snipers. Sometimes corrugated iron provided overhead shelter in dugouts or for revetments on the trench sides, essential to stop the walls from collapsing in the wet of Flanders. Firing steps, carved into the front of the trench, let men shoot at the enemy. Officers' dugouts were frequently furnished with beds and desks and sometimes verged on the comfortable; unless they were lucky enough to take over a captured and well-built enemy position, the men's dugouts were always crude and foul-smelling with the combination of body odour, tobacco, cooking smells, damp, and excrement creating a memorable reek.
To the front of the trench line were belts of barbed wire. Concertina wire, curling in rolls, was favoured, and every unit kept its protective wire in good shape, sending work parties out each night to ensure that the enemy had not cut paths through it. The day was full for the Canadian soldier, first because there was always work to be done, but primarily because the army instinctively believed that idleness was bad.
Soldiers wanted to live, but many lost their fear of death as they saw it all around them. One officer wrote his father to say that death "has no horrors for anyone here, at least for those who have been here a few weeks or more." In the horror of the Great War, this was a widespread view. Men had no choice but to carry on.
Selected Bibliography
Granatstein, J.L. Hell's Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada's Great War, 1914-1918. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 2004.
Morton, Desmond and J.L. Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War, 1914- 1919. Toronto: Lester & Orpen, Dennys, 1989.
Battlefield Medicine
Bill Rawling
Historian, Department of National Defence
On the battlefield, stretcher bearers, who were selected from the infantry or detached from a Field Ambulance unit, determined if the soldier needed to be treated, required immediate evacuation, or a combination of the two. The same process was repeated at the Regimental Aid Post (which was part of an infantry battalion at the front), at the Advanced Dressing Station (a section of a Field Ambulance), the Main Dressing Station (another section of the Field Ambulance), the Casualty Clearing Station, and the various forms of hospital near the front or well behind it, in England or even Canada.
The need for triage was not limited to times when the Canadian Corps was fighting battles—far from it—for disease had caused more casualties than combat since time immemorial. Even after such developments as vaccination in the 18th century and the studies of germs in the 19th, the sick were still plentiful among Canadian soldiers. Many conditions still forced tens of thousands to seek treatment. Among them were influenza, with some 65,000 ill in 1918-19; gonorrhea with over 45,000 ill in the course of the war; tonsillitis and sore throat with about 20,000 ill; syphilis with approximately 18,000; trench fever (caused by a bacterium transmitted by fleas), though non fatal, struck 18,000; myalgia (muscle pain) made some 15,000 sick, as did intestinal disease.
The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), however, was free of the kinds of epidemic diseases that had caused such ravages in the Crimea, the Spanish-American War and South Africa.
Near the end of the conflict the medical corps did find itself in the midst of one of the great pandemics of human history, the influenza scourge of 1918–19. Killing millions, it can be compared to the plague of Justinian in the 6th century or the Black Death in the 14th. Though 30–50,000 Canadians would succumb to the disease, the great majority were on the home front and not members of the expeditionary force. According to official history, 3825 of those who went overseas died of disease, 776 of influenza.
The CEF still had a problem on its hands, as the illness "flooded the rest station and camps with sick" in the summer of 1918, and "The ailment was peculiar in that, while exhibiting the symptoms of influenza, it ran its course in a week or eight days. It spread rapidly and necessitated the promulgation of extensive and stringent precautionary orders to prevent its spread. All public places such as Unit Entertainments, YMCA Cinema Shows, Estaminets [small French cafés serving alcohol] &c were closed for a time. In the latter places it was permitted to serve drinks at tables outside the buildings."1
Treating Wounds
Such illness was in addition to the medical challenges posed by the weapons of war and by the very ground being fought over. The conflict on the Western Front took place mainly on farmland that had been well-fertilized with manure, and its accompanying bacteria, for decades or centuries. The result, according to Canada's official medical historian of the conflict, was that nearly all wounds were infected. Sulpha drugs would not become available until the 1930s, and antibiotics would have to await another world war before coming into use, so infection was a serious challenge that could only be met by irrigating wounds with available chemicals and convalescence that could last months.
Another danger of wounds on the battlefield was shock due to blood loss, which could be fatal. The simple solution, first attempted in 1916, was to replace the patient's blood with blood drawn from a donor; chemical preservatives and refrigeration allowed for the life-giving fluid to be stored for a period of time, and such blood was being transfused by the end of 1917. One practitioner was Norman Guiou, who recalled in April 1918:
We had our first opportunity to do several transfusions. The dressing station was set up in a Nissen hut, the stretchers were supported on trestles. There were a number of seriously wounded... One lad was brought in on a blood-soaked stretcher, with a shattered humerus - his upper arm swathed in copious blood-soaked dressings. A flicker of pulse was present. He was pale, "starey-eyed", and tossed about and pulled his wound tag off... We bled a donor about 750cc while the chaplain talked to him. If there is a dramatic procedure in medicine it is the blood transfusion. Color came into that lad's cheeks. He raised himself on his good elbow, drank tea, and ate some YMCA fancy biscuits, then was on to the casualty clearing station.2
Psychological Injuries
One final challenge is worthy of mention here, that of psychological injury. According to medical historian Tom Brown, the condition was "the storm centre of military medicine" at that time. Symptoms could include uncontrollable weeping, trembling, paralysis, deafness and other manifestations without known physical causes. At first it was called shell shock, as it was thought that it resulted from the shock wave of an exploding shell damaging the brain, but by the middle part of the war the condition was thought to be purely psychological in nature. The patient could be diagnosed as suffering from hysteria or neurasthenia and could receive shock
treatment, talk therapy or simple rest in a hospital out of earshot of artillery. Most of the Canadian soldiers who suffered from such injuries were sent to No 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital in France, which specialized in such care.
Hospitals serve as examples of just how complex the treatment of sick and wounded soldiers had become by the First World War. Institutions specialized in ear and eye conditions, rheumatism, psychological injury, tuberculosis, orthopaedics, and venereal disease, in addition to general, stationary and convalescent hospitals. In an industrialized war, hospitals could become battlefield targets. Many nursing sisters and patients were killed when a hospital was bombed in 1918. They were among the 504 medical practitioners killed on the battlefield serving with Canadian units; another 127 succumbed to disease.
1Library and Archives Canada, RG 9, III, v.4715, 107-20, Passchendaele to Gouy-en-Artois, June 1918
2Norman Guiou, Transfusion: A Canadian Surgeon's Story in War and Peace (Yarmouth, 1985), 34-35.
Selected Bibliography
McPhail, Andrew. Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-19: The Medical Services. Ottawa: Department of National Defense, 1925.
Nicholson, G.W.L. Canada's Nursing Sisters. Toronto: S. Stevens, 1975.
---. Seventy Years of Service: A History of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1977.
Rawling, Bill. Death their Enemy : Canadian Medical Practitioners and War. Ottawa: B. Rawling, 2001.
Other Materials
Wartime Letter from Captain Bellenden S. Hutcheson
This letter is transcribed from a rough draft found in an old trunk in 1989. Probable restorations of illegible characters are enclosed in brackets.
Dear Captain Gwynn;
Replying to your first series of questions, concerning the 76th Brigade of Royal Field Artillery:
The 76th Brigade was supporting the Canadian Infantry which was holding the line in front of Vimy. The brigade consisted of four batteries of 18 pounders (field guns) and one battery of 4.5 inch Howitzers. The cover of the guns, while poor was, I suppose, as good as that usually occupied by field guns in position only a few days, and the quarters of the gun that crews were in cellars near the guns, but the shells thrown at us were eight inch, and armour piercing. At least the artillerymen said that they were armour piercing, and after viewing the effects of their explosions I was in no position to argue with them. After several dugouts had been blown in, some of the uninjured personnel set to work digging out the injured while the bombardment was in progress and it was this rescue work which was carried out under scanty or no cover.
The bombardment lasted from 1 p.m. until 10 p.m., with a few periods of lull, and was apparently counter battery work on the part of the enemy. Our guns were not in action.
As you surmise, the gun crews had taken refuge in cellars, not anticipating a bombardment of such intensity with heavy stuff. Gas shells and high explosions were intermingled. My work consisted in dressing the wounded, checking hemorrhage, giving a hypo of morphine when necessary and seeing that the injured were evacuated to the rear. The gas used that day was the deadly sweetish smelling phosgene. It was my first experience with gas in warfare and I wore a mask part of the time and instructed the men to do so whenever there was a dangerous concentration. You ask about my own reaction. It was of course very disconcerting to endeavor to dress wounded while shells were showering debris about, and the possibility of being in the next few seconds in the same plight as the terribly wounded men I was dressing, occurred to me every now and then. The whole thing seemed rather unreal, particularly when it occurred to me, busy as I was, that the killing was being done deliberately and systematically. I felt particularly sorry for the young artillery men, (and many of them were about 19) who were being subjected to the ordeal. I remember one man who had a ghastly wound which would obviously prove fatal in a short time, pleading with me, amidst the turmoil of explosions, to shoot him. Every soldier who has seen action since knows that it requires the highest type of stamina and bravery for troops to lie in a trench and take a heavy shelling without being demoralized and panic stricken, therefore I shall always remember the orderly rescue work carried on by the officers and men of the artillery in the face of the concentrated shelling that occurred that afternoon.
You ask about the work of the artillery officers. They very bravely and ably directed the men in the work of rescue and tried to keep gun crews intact as nearly as possible, in order to fire at any time, should orders to do so, be received.
During the trench tours in front of Lens, I usually had a deserted gun pit or cellar communicating with the support trench as a dressing station. The actions about the G[um] Crossin and La Coulotte, though attended by heavy casualties, were more in the nature of raids or diverting attacks, than holding attacks, therefore, I did not accompany the attacking parties. During a trench tour I stuck close to the dressing station if the enemy was active, in order to look after the injured, if things were quiet I visited the different headquarters of the platoons and companies holding the line. Going into the line was sometimes the most disagreeable part of the tour, because of the darkness, danger of getting lost, the mud, and the shelling of the roads just behind the line. The Passchendaele Campaign was carried on in a sea of mud. I have never seen a drearier sight than the salient in front of Ypres -- churned up mud with mucky shell holes and never a tree as far as the eye could reach. It was necessary to march single file on duck walk because of the mud for a distance of five or six miles when going in for a tour. We were machine-gunned and bombed from the air and subjected to a terrific shelling on the way in and nothing like a real trench system was possible, the line being held by a series of posts in shell holes. My dressing station was located beside a concrete "pill box", an old German strong point. Captain Dunlap, medical officer of the 102nd Battalion, who was later killed, shared the dressing station with me. I had never met Dunlap before and when he appeared at our rendezvous, with four days growth of black beard on his face, a torn tunic and string like remnants of puttees, he looked so much like a stage hobo that I burst out laughing in his face. He was a fine chap and we became good friends.
The stretcher bearers had a very difficult time. The whole area was subjected to continuous shelling by the enemy. The pill box afforded shelter on one side for the dressing station and sheets of camouflage and canvas formed the roof. When no wounded were coming in Dunlap and I would crawl into the pill box for greater security. We kept no enlisted personnel with us as there was literally no place where they could stand without sinking to their knees in mud and the number of wounded men was not so great but that the two medical officers could do all that could be done. When we were relieved by the medical officer of the English unit that took over; Dunlap and I, with Captain A.A. Gray, adjutant of the 75th, started back towards Ypres, over the duckwalk. The different platoons of our battalion had trickled back as they were relieved. The two way duckwalk was, as usual, shelled heavily. We were passing the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders coming when a shell got a direct hit among them about 200 feet ahead of us. Their dead and wounded, lying in grotesque attitudes, were being cleared away by their comrades with feverish haste as we dog trotted past the smoking shell hole. We did not stop because their own medical unit was on the job, they had plenty of help and each unit was supposed to take care of its own casualties.
Regarding the citation for the Military Cross: "The open ground" mentioned consisted of the wheat fields and other flat unwooded ground through which we passed between Beaucourt and Le Quesnel on the immediate left of the Amiens-Roye road. As we advanced we were frequently under direct observation by enemy balloons directing artillery fire. When one shell landed half a dozen others were pretty sure to land in a very short time within a radius of 50 yards or so of where the first one did, consequently when the first few caused casualties they had to be attended in a shower of debris caused by the explosion of succeeding shells.
It was necessary to pass through the streets of Le Quesnel several times during the barrage in order to find the wounded who were scattered throughout the town. I supervised their collection, during lulls in the shelling in a cellar I used as a dressing station. The platoons furnished stretcher bearers. My medical section, consisting of a sergeant, corporal and two privates were with me part of the time, or were in the dressing station when I was out, or they themselves were engaged in looking for wounded.
Excerpted and reproduced with permission from Veterans Affairs Canada website http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/
Assault and Capture of the Drocourt-Quéant Line
On the Corps' southern flank three battalions led the 1st Division's attack- the 16th and 13th Battalions on the right opposite Cagmcourt, with the 7th Battalion of the 2nd Brigade on their left. The two 3rd Brigade units pushed forward quickly up the long slope to the enemy wire. They met little resistance at first, the Germans surrendering in large numbers. By 7:30 a.m. the 13th Battalion had captured its section of the D-Q support line. Shortly afterwards the 14th Battalion passed through to take Cagnicourt, where it surprised and captured in the village cellars enough Germans to make a full battalion. The men of the 14th then seized the Bois de Loison east of the village and in a quick dash across 2000 yards of open country reached their final objective in the Buissy Switch directly in front of the village of Buissy.
On Brig.-Gen. Tuxford's right progress was slower. The 16th Battalion, suffering heavily from machine-gun fire coming in across the open southern flank, lost the supporting barrage and had to storm weapon posts which the enemy was quick to re-man in his front line. Among many acts of bravery performed that day two stood out at this stage of the operations. Lance-Corporal W.H. Metcalf, M.M., an American serving with the 16th Battalion, calmly walked across bullet-swept ground guiding a tank and directing its fire against German strong points which were holding up the infantry's advance. Later, after the battalion had broken through the main D-Q position, only to be halted in front of the support line, the Commanding Officer, Lt.-Col. Cyrus W. Peck, went forward through bursting shells and withering machine-gun fire to make a personal reconnaissance, and to compel roaming tanks to protect his open flank. He then reorganized his battalion and led them on to their objective. Both Metcalf and Peck won the Victoria Cross-one of the very few occasions in the war when a battalion twice earned the coveted award in a single day. Pushing through the 16th Battalion at the Red Line, the 15th, suffering crippling casualties, fought slowly forward to the Bois de Bouche, some 3000 yards short of the Buissy Switch, which here angled sharply to the south-east. Here the survivors consolidated as the 3rd Battalion came up from reserve. At 6:00 p.m. British infantry finally arrived to seal off the open flank which had proved so costly to the Canadians.
On the 2nd Brigade's front the 5th Battalion was still engaged in hand-to-hand fighting for the jumping-off line when the 7th Battalion passed through to assault. Aided greatly by the shrapnel barrage and the supporting tanks the 7th had little difficulty in capturing and mopping up the D-Q line in its sector. At eight o'clock the 10th Battalion took over the lead at the Red Line. Up to this stage the tanks had kept well to the fore, knocking out one enemy post after another. East of the D-Q Line, however, they began falling victim to the German artillery fire. Soon the 10th Battalion was halted by the intense fire that came from machine-guns and trench mortars in the Buissy Switch in front of Villers-lez-Cagnicourt. In dogged fighting the battalion had by late afternoon established a line east of the village. One more effort was to be made. An artillery barrage called down at 6:00 p.m. on the German positions eased the situation, and the weary Canadians pushed forward again to capture the Buissy Switch by 11:00 p.m.
In the meantime the 4th Canadian Division was fighting its own hard battle. At the start the 12th Brigade on the right had to contend with an enemy pocket along the Arras-Cambrai road; and its supporting tanks arrived too late to help here. The leading battalions-from right to left the 72nd, the 38th and the 85th - found the D-Q trenches, as expected, heavily wired and strongly garrisoned. Nevertheless the Red Line, east of the support line, was reached on schedule. But as the 72nd and 38th Battalions crossed the long, exposed crest of Mont Dury they met the full force of the German machine-gun fire. From the objective, a sunken road joining Dury to the Cambrai road, German reinforcements swept the bare slopes with bullets, while on the right the 72nd Battalion was also caught in enfilade fire from the direction of Villers-lez-Cagnicourt. In spite of mounting casualties the Canadians, aided by good work on the part of the tanks, pushed on grimly and by mid-morning they had captured and cleared the sunken road.
The 10th Brigade's initial assault on the divisional left was led by the 47th and 50th Battalions. Wire, largely intact, imposed serious delay as it had to be cut by hand. The two battalions occupied the main line trenches, allowing the 46th Battalion to leapfrog them and advance on the support line, which ran through the centre of Dury. There was particularly vicious fighting for the village, which was taken only after a flanking movement by the 46th had overcome a strong point on the southern outskirts, capturing some 120 prisoners and nine machine guns. With the fall of Dury, the brigade's objective line at the sunken road was secured by 7:30 a.m.
The second phase of the attack began soon after eight, when the 78th Battalion, until now held in reserve, attempted to push forward on the right of the 10th Brigade. But it could make little headway against the storm of machine-gun fire coming out of Villers-lez-Cagnicourt and from a sugar-beet processing plant at the crossroads north-east of the village. A mile east of the sunken road, on a ridge extending from Buissy to Saudemont, German artillerymen were firing over open sights. By nine o'clock the 78th had been brought to a halt 200 yards east of the sunken road. Attempts by the 11th Brigade to exploit the 12th Brigade's gains east of Mont Dury were equally fruitless. By mid-afternoon all brigades on the divisional front reported their advance held up. Armoured cars from the Independent Force made several unsuccessful attempts to reach the lateral Villers Saudemont road; the Force had to confine its efforts to firing at enemy positions with machine-gun detachments posted on either side of the main Cambrai road. On the Canadians' left the 4th British Division was able to capture its part of the D-Q system, but did not take Etaing until the following morning.
Although the Canadian Corps had not achieved all the objectives set (rather optimistically) for the attack, the results of September 2 were nevertheless eminently satisfactory. The Drocourt-Quéant Line had been assaulted and overrun on a frontage of seven thousand yards. In addition, the 1st Division had captured the Buissy Switch and the villages of Villers-lez-Cagnicourt and Cagnicourt. Some German formations in the forward line on September 2 had yielded quickly, but the Canadians had met resolute opposition from regiments of the 1st and 2nd Guard Reserve Divisions and the 3rd Reserve Division.
That evening General Currie issued orders for the three divisions under his command to continue the advance on the 3rd, in order to gain direct observation of all bridges over the Sensée River and the Canal du Nord.68 During the night, however, the enemy withdrew on a wide front. Air patrols flying over the enemy lines on the morning of September 3 saw no Germans between the Cagnicourt-Dury Ridge and the Canal du Nord. At the same time the Third Army reported that it had occupied Quéant and Pronville without fighting and that everywhere the enemy was falling back. By noon the entire Canadian Corps front was in motion as a general advance began to the Green Line. Except for artillery fire, resistance was practically negligible. By evening the 1st Division, having occupied Buissy and Baralle, had swept across the open fields to the west bank of the Canal du Nord. The 4th Canadian Division pushed quickly ahead, liberating the villages of Rumaucourt, Ecourt St. Quentin, Saudemont and Récourt. It reported the east bank of the Canal strongly held and all bridges destroyed. The 4th British Division cleared along the Sensée Canal, occupying the village of Lécluse. By nightfall the Canadian Corps controlled all ground west of the Canal du Nord between Sains-lez-Marquion and the Sensée. The formations which had broken the D-Q position had earned their relief, and during the hours of darkness the new line was taken over from north to south by the 1st British and the 3rd and 2nd Canadian Divisions.
Adapted and used with permission from Nicholson, G. W. L., Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964, p.410-413.
Teaching Materials
The Battles: In Flanders Fields
Films : Canadians on the Western Front 2, Dressing Station, Prisoners and Wounded Coming in, Setember Offensive 2 & 3, Canadian Discharge Depot
Background Notes for the Teacher
The ferocity of the fighting across the fields of Europe left hundreds of thousands of soldiers with terrible wounds. They carried small bottles of iodine in their supply kit to treat their own wounds on the battlefield. At night, teams of stretcher-bearing soldiers risked their lives to retrieve the seriously wounded from the wartorn rubble of no man's land. Dressing stations were operated by field doctors and nurses. They were the first line of care just behind the trenches. Soldiers with severe wounds would be transported to hospitals hastily set up in tents or abandoned buildings.
John McCrae, who wrote "In Flanders Fields" in May of 1915, served as Canadian medical officer. He witnessed the horrors of war first-hand.
Introducing the Subject
Briefly discuss how we modern-day Canadians deal with medical concerns (visits to a doctor's office, walk-in clinics, emergency rooms, etc).
On the fields of battle during the First World War, how were the injured soldiers cared for?
During the war (1914-1918), many of the wounded were treated at dressing stations located just behind firing lines. Severe casualties were sent to makeshift hospitals for further diagnosis and treatment.
Teaching and Learning
View the film footage that depicts the transportation and evacuation of wounded from the battlefields.
Watch the NFB film John McCrae's War:In Flanders Fields.
Discuss the role of medical personnel in the war.
Applying the Knowledge
Students will rehearse and present a tableaux dramatization of "In Flanders Fields" (see Appendix).
Teacher Reflections
Did the discussion show that students recognized the difficulties of caring for the wounded during WWI?
Did students create the appropriate dramatic scenes?
Did the tableaux capture a sombre mood?
Tableaux Dramatization
In this teaching and learning strategy, students create a series of scenes that retell a particular story or event. For example, if students were to imagine a tableaux that told the story of the Dirty Thirties, they might develop scenes like this:
Scene 1: Two characters – a husband and wife – the wife has her hands to her face, expressing despair. The husband stares forlornly at his field while leaning on an imaginary shovel.
Scene 2: Three characters – children – struggle, arms tensed, heads tucked into their shoulder or chest, seeming to grip a rope tied from the back door of their "house" to the barn so that they don't lose their way in the dust storm.
Other scenes would be created to retell the whole story. The key point to remember is that when students step into a scene, they are frozen in place! There is no movement, no dialogue, no acting. In essence, they are a snapshot in time. A portrait!
Once all poses have been established, students write a short narrative to accompany each tableau. Using Scene 1 from above as an example, the narrative might be, "Three years now without rain. My fields just blow away in the wind. I don't know how we'll survive."
When all scenes have accompanying narrative, these are the steps to put it all together.
1. The group presenting the tableaux stand in a loose line.
2. A leader steps forward, says the title of the piece, then steps back into line.
3. The students in Scene 1 move forward and step into their scene. They remain frozen in place for about 10 to 15 seconds, long enough for the audience to capture the essence of the scene.
4. At this point, one student "thaws" and steps out of the scene. Everyone else in the scene remains frozen in place. He/She moves forward, stops at centre stage and delivers the narrative. The character speaks in the first person.
5. The character finishes, then steps back into the scene.
6. The group holds the frozen image for another 7 to 10 seconds to give the audience the chance to connect the narrative with the scene.
7. Students relax and slowly move out of the scene and back into their line.
8. After a brief pause of 5 to 10 seconds, students move into Scene 2.
The entire story is retold in this manner!
Teacher Tips
This activity works best with groups of 5 to 7 students.
Not every student needs to be in every scene.
Props are not necessary.
Students need time to practise. They need to think about how to develop a frozen image that clearly depicts, for example, someone shovelling. The challenge is how to do that without movement and without a shovel!
Facial expressions are crucial to help deliver the message.
Students sometime have difficulty keeping a straight face during a tableaux dramatization. Tell them to focus on a particular spot rather than looking at another student to reduce the onset of "the giggles."
The following is a ready-made script to present the John McCrae poem, "In Flanders Fields." This is a slight variation to the typical approach to tableaux. In this performance, the poem will be read to accompany the dramatic interpretation.
The poem is broken down into seven parts. A student (or group of students) will be responsible for reading the poem. This person will be located either stage right or stage left. The students presenting the tableaux will be situated at centre stage. After the first part of the poem is read, the students creating the first scene will step forward. Once they are finished and have stepped back into line, the second part of the poem is delivered. The entire performance will be delivered in this way.
The words in quotations are the narratives students will deliver to help interpret each scene for the audience.
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place;
Scene #1 – Men enlisting in the army
"When the war began in August of 1914, no one knew that millions of us would die. We thought that the fighting would be over by Christmas."
And in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amidst the guns below.
Scene #2 – In the trenches
"I'll never forget the trenches. The damp and the cold and the rain. "Standing to"meant ready to fight. Sleeping when we could in bunks that we'd dug out of the walls."
We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived,
Felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
Scene #3 – Standing in line
"When we weren't fighting, we'd spend our days waiting. Waiting for our mail from back home, for food and water, to see the doctor, or waiting for dark so we could crawl out onto the battlefield and drag back our dead and wounded."
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.
Scene #4 – Digging graves
"Fighting went on around the clock. Soldiers were dying all around us. It seemed like we'd been digging graves forever."
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands
We throw the torch; be yours to hold it high.
Scene #5 – Doctors and nurses treating patients
"We treated hundreds of patients every day. With shells exploding all around us. It was nearly impossible to do our job."
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep.
Scene #6 – Friendship
"The friends I made in the war were friends for a lifetime. Those that I lost in battle were like brothers to me."
Though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
Scene #7 – Act of Remembrance
"These poppies grew everywhere! We used to pick them and wear them on our helmets. Nowadays, they help people remember…. Something that we will never, ever forget ."
Conscription Debate: Conscripting Dogs and Horses
Grade Level: Elementary 5-8
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Films: September Offensive 2 & 3
Summary: Students debate whether dogs and horses, and not just men, should have been conscripted into the military during World War I.
The debate over conscription (forcing men to join the armed forces and go to Europe to fight) during World War I was one of the bitterest disputes in Canadian history.
Your Task:
Imagine that it is 1917, the year that Canada debated conscription. The government has proposed extending conscription, so that dogs and horses, and not just men, will be sent to Europe. Debate the following with your classmates: "Be it resolved that the Canadian government conscript all dogs and horses." Prepare for the debate by watching the film clip September Offensive 2 & 3 and researching the lines of argument below. Develop some additional lines of argument to use in the debate.
For the resolution:
1. This war is a total war; everyone and everything must help. It is not right to conscript men and not also expect animals to contribute to the war effort.
2. These animals are needed. Horses can pull guns and transport men and supplies. Tracker dogs can be used to find wounded men, and guard dogs can protect important areas.
3. It is expensive to buy these animals on the world market; many that are being used solely for pleasure can be found in Canada.
Against the resolution:
1. It is cruel to take somebody's pet away.
2. It is unethical to put animals in the line of fire. This is not their war. Many horses, dogs and carrier pigeons have already been killed on the battlefront, and this should not be allowed to continue.
3. Animals are not necessary to fight the war. We have invented motorized vehicles such as trucks, and these should be used instead of horses.
4. It is not economical to have thousands of horses that need to be fed and watered.
5. Horses and dogs are not effective in the heat of battle – they become frightened under fire and try to run away, which usually results in their death.


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" A storage basket shaped to fit the bottom of your stairs, the idea being that you can pop bits and pieces inside as you go past, ready to take upstairs. Made from honey coloured willow with a rounded edge and evenly balanced weave "
We moved from a house to a bungalow and so things like stairgates became non essential items. One other item that has now become a non essential is this Lakeland Willow Stair Basket which I got quite a lot of use from when we were in our old house. This basket retails in Lakeland and £19.99, and would have been behind outside of my budget, but was bought to us by my mother in law, who had travelled to our nearest Lakeland store, which is quite far away and picked up a lot of what she deemed as 'unusual items'. I had seen these stair baskets in other shops and never been struck on them due to the fact that I don't like anything obstructing stairs.
THis basket is designed to be of extra storage, which of course is always useful when you have a child, but its best use is for putting things in at the bottom of the stairs so you can carry them all up in this basket, saving you running up and down the stairs. THis was my primary use for this item. This basket has been created to sit on stairs, so one half is deeper that the other. There is enough room in this basket to put in toiletries, some small items of clothing such as socks/pants, books or even some small toys etc. There is no doubt that it is a very useful item, and I used it a lot (!) as I hated having to run up and down stairs, opening and closing stairgates, trying to watch a toddler as well, and instead, it meant in the evening when I went to bed, or when I was taking my daughter to bed, I could just bring up this basket and put the stuff away.
My only gripe with this product, and it has nothing to do with Lakeland as such, is that I still think it is ugly. For someone who has a large, wide staircase, it may look better and not as obtrusive, but in my old house, the staircase was fairly narrow and so seemed to obstruct the stairs, especially when a very active toddler was wanting to climb the stairs all the time, and thus got in the way. I also found that if visitors were due round, I would have put it away as the staircase was visible as you walked into the house, and I just didn't think it looked the prettiest household item.
So, all in all, this is a very functional item and I did use it a lot. It saves a lot of running up and down stairs and instead you just need to make one trip with this basket, with all your bits and bobs in it. Unfortunately for me, it just don't look that attractive and I found it obstructed the stairs somewhat.
Lakeland Willow Stair Basket
The Lakeland Willow Basket can be purchased from Lakeland.co.uk for just under £20.00 when we bought it. It has also been on Ebay recently and sold for £5.00.
Quite often, especially with children around, when tidying the downstairs of the house, we find that toys and other bits are piled on the stairs in order to take them to the bedrooms later one, though the problems with this was the constant knocking over of piles when the children ran up and down the stairs, leaving the hallway even more of a mess than before we had even begun tidying!
We had been around a friends house and they had a similar stair basket device which we thought was a brilliant idea and so went online and bought this basket from the above website for the above price. I did think that just under £20.00 was a little too expensive for a basket, though having just had a birthday I had a little money to spend, and although not my first choice (drinks down the pub may have been better!!) it would hopefully make life a little easier (or at least tidier).
The basket sits ideally on either the bottom two steps or the top, though with the size and shape, it is able to sit somewhere in the middle if you really want it to! It is made of wicker and the bottom part (for the lower step) is reasonably deep, though the top part can only really be filled with small items such as paper and tennis balls. It has a handle midway between the two sections.
The basket is made of reasonably strong stuff, though I do find after a while of usage that the wicker begins to fray a little. The handle is also quite strong and easy to grip.
The basket holds a reasonable amount though large toys and games do not really fit, though it is mainly the little odd bits we find everywhere which land themselves in here. The basket itself is quite light and easy to carry, though once off of the stairs, it is very difficult to sit down anywhere else due to its two level shape. Of course, this is a stair basked primarily, so this is something we work around.
I still think that £20.00 is a little too steep for what it really is, though it has done us a world of good with all the small bits that we find downstairs - instead of being all over the stairs and hallway, they neatly fit into the basket, and when it is full we have a rule that it has to be taken upstairs and emptied! My youngest also loves taking it upstairs with her when it is empty and bringing her dolls and other bits back down and luckily, she even likes taking them back up again this way which is a plus!!
The only real downside is the fact that it does not stand alone when not on a staircase, though this is something that we work around.
I acquired one of these stair baskets and I'm not really too sure where it came from, but it is really handy. I have got wooden stairs and there is quite a lot of them so it is quite handy (purely out of laziness) to keep things like polish and dusters in there. I tend to keep it near the top of the stairs, as I find it looks a bit weird if you put it in the middle of the staircase, but at the top or the bottom it looks fine.
In my old flat I used to use it for all sorts of things too, as I didn't have much space for anything. I have kept magazines in there too. I could imagine it would be very useful for people with children to store toys and things in.
If you have a lack of storage space these products are brilliant, and they don't look cumbersome like some storage space savers. I'm not sure where you can buy them from, but they are a great product.
I would recommend one of these if you have a lack of space or if you have wooden stairs and are lazy, its perfect.
I was given a Stair Basket as a present by my Mum, who shops a lot in Lakeland. It wasn't the most exciting present I've ever received, I have to say. Still, she meant well.
The idea is that the basket sits on the bottom two steps of your stairs, and you fill it with all the bits and pieces that you find downstairs but which belong upstairs. Then you can carry it up, empty it, and sit it on the top two steps, ready to fill with all the bits and pieces that you find upstairs.
A great idea I thought. I have 3 small children (and a husband) who abandon their belongings about the place and think that "put something away" means "dump it on the stairs". Also my stairs come straight into my living room so there isn't really room for a normal basket at the foot of the stairs.
So I started to use it, and discovered several flaws.
Firstly, when I am emptying the basket, I carry it around the upstairs rooms putting the contents away where they belong - but you can't put the basket down anywhere! It falls over, because it doesn't have a flat base, obviously. Very annoying, because I never remember that it doesn't have a flat base, and keep putting the wretched thing down, and then it falls over, and all the stuff spills out ... Clearly my fault, not the poor basket's!
Secondly, I need two. One for "going up" and one for "going down". I very quickly ended up with a full basket at the bottom of the stairs, and the usual pile of stuff at the top. Although I suspect that if I had two baskets, I would soon have two full baskets at the bottom of the stairs. I think this basket only works if you are a tidy person.
Thirdly, my family decided that now I had my cute basket, they didn't need to carry stuff up and down stairs anymore. So the basket makes more work for me, somehow.
Consequently, the basket is now in the loft. I couldn't quite bring myself to freecycle it, as part of my brain still thinks it is such a good idea!
It is a lovely basket, nicely made from quality material (hand-woven willow, according to the blurb), and strong enough to cope when full of quite heavy things.
It costs £19.57 from www.lakeland.co.uk.
As some of you will have noticed by my reviews I am a bit of a Lakeland fan, everything I have ever bought in there is totally fantastic and this Willow stair basket is no exception.
What is it ?
It is a basket that is shaped to fit neatly on your bottom or top step, ready to be filled with all the things that need to be brought up or down stairs.
It is made from a gorgeous light coloured willow that has been hand woven to form the basket.
Why do I need it ?
Well you most likely do not 'need' it but it has certainly made my life more easier and kept the house tidier. I generally keep it at the bottom of the stairs as that is where most of the toot accumulates. It gets filled mainly with the kids bits like toys, hair bobbles, books, pens, and the unlimited supply of paper that seems to magically fly down the stairs but cant manage to fly back up. I also use it for things like toilet rolls or bleach etc that has to be taken up to the bathroom.
Then whenever I go upstairs I take it with me and put everything away in one go. My husband has even managed to bring it up a few times without being asked a 1000 times and the kids put bits and bobs in there instead of all over the house.
How much is it and is it worth it ?
The willow stair basket costs £17.61 from Lakeland stores or via their website or mail order. I think this is a great price considering it has been hand woven.
It is definitely worth buying it if you have untidy children, loads of 'bits' around the house and the most important thing stairs !!
It looks good, is practical and is a reasonable price I recommend it 100%
I live in a terraced house with four floors and I seem to spend half my life ferrying things up and down stairs. I take it up and the kids bring it back down, I bring it down and the kids take it up to play with in the bath – aarrrgghh. There is always a pile of things on the stairs waiting to be moved to their rightful homes. I've had my eye on these baskets for a while, having seen them in the Great Little Trading Company catalogue at £22.99 but thought that was a bit steep [no pun intended], so when I got my Lakeland catalogue and saw one for £17.95 I was in there. It sits tidily on the step and I can pop things in as I'm tidying up, then transport it all at once, in fact my son likes to carry it up for me. It holds loads – the Lakeland one is actually quite a bit bigger than the GLTC one. It's much safer than having little toys etc. cluttering up the stairs and looks much tidier, not to mention saving my poor old legs a trip or two.
A storage basket shaped to fit the bottom of your stairs, the idea being that you can pop bits and pieces inside as you go past, ready to take upstairs. Made from honey coloured willow with a rounded edge and evenly balanced weave


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Buffalo man arrested with 13 different pills
A Buffalo man was arrested after police said they found him in possession of more than 13 different pills, including Oxycotin and hydrocodone.
Suspect Eduardo Cruz was originally pulled over by Northwest District detectives on Friday evening when his 2002 white Cadillac crossed the double yellow lines, according to police reports. Police discovered the pills after further investigation.
While in police custody, Cruz started bleeding and he admitted that he had hidden a crack pipe inside his body. He was taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment.


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NASCAR'S Kurt Busch and sponsor, Sharpie, deliver silver lining to Tennessee school. Winston Cup driver celebrates anniversary of first win, kicks-off fundraising effort for area school during Bristol race weekend. (BELLWOOD, Ill. -- March...
NASCAR'S Kurt Busch and sponsor, Sharpie, deliver silver lining to Tennessee school.
Winston Cup driver celebrates anniversary of first win, kicks-off fundraising effort for area school during Bristol race weekend.
(BELLWOOD, Ill. -- March 20, 2003) -- There's a silver lining to every story. Just ask Sullivan East High School of Bluff City, Tennessee. NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, along with the help of new Sharpie Metallic silver markers, today is delivering school supplies and kicking off a "Silver" weekend of fundraising.
Sharpie markers, made by Sanford, is pledging up to $5,000 to the school that in October and November of last year temporarily closed its doors due to a potentially hazardous black mold problem. Bristol Motor Speedway (BMS), home of the Sharpie 500 in August, served as a makeshift classroom during those months while the issue was corrected for the school's more than 1,100 students, teachers and administrators. The incident received widespread national media attention.
"Bristol and BMS have a special place in my heart," said Busch, who claimed his first Winston Cup victory exactly a year ago at March's Food City 500. "And these kids and teachers have faced some real challenges. We're looking to find the silver lining with the help of fans and Sharpie Metallic silver markers this weekend."
Sharpie is offering $1 for each race fan's signature collected at a designated autograph area using Sharpie Metallic silver markers at BMS this weekend. The school will use the proceeds from the effort for needed equipment.
"Our teachers and students know first-hand the meaning of 'silver lining,'" said Mary Rouse, principal of Sullivan East High School. "We are so thankful to Bristol Motor Speedway, and now we extend our grateful appreciation to Sharpie markers and Sanford. We want to thank them for this gracious contribution and opportunity for our students. While Sharpie markers always were in our school, today's gesture proves the people at Sanford place a premium on education, and it is a gesture that our students and faculty will remember for years to come."
The high school's students, teachers and administrators will be guests of Bristol Motor Speedway for the Busch series race on Saturday, March 22.
Sharpie is also matching the gift to the school with a donation to Speedway Children's Charities (SCC), a nonprofit organization that touches approximately 200,000 youth in need. Checks will be presented to both the school's principal, Mary Rouse, and M/General Thomas M. Sadler, USAF (ret), executive director of SCC over the weekend.
In addition to helping raise money for the school and SCC, Busch is driving a special paint scheme featuring new Sharpie Metallic silver markers on the No. 97 Rubbermaid/Sharpie Ford at the Food City 500 on Sunday, March 23.
"From art classes to the principal's desk, Sharpie markers can be found in virtually every school across the country," said Greg Stoner, vice president and general manager for Sharpie at Sanford. "We're pleased to be providing assistance to the community that is home to the Sharpie 500."
The Sharpie brand is the title sponsor of NASCAR's Winston Cup race held in August at BMS, the Sharpie 500.


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Persons who order a Texas State Parks Pass gift certificate before Dec. 31 to give to that special someone will receive a Texas State Parks holiday tree ornament just for giving a gift of the great outdoors.
The $60 state parks pass, which debuted on Jan. 1, provides not only a year of free entry to more than 120 state parks and historic sites for members and their guests, but also discounts on camping, state park store merchandise, recreational equipment rentals and other perks. Through October, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department had sold 53,772 park passes, generating $3.3 million to support Texas state park operations.
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LAKEPORT -- A series of courses for lifeguard training and certification begins Tuesday and Wednesday in Lakeport.
Participants who successfully complete the two-day CPR/AED and First Aid course will qualify to take the lifeguard certification course.
The CPR/AED (automated external defibrillator) class is Tuesday beginning at 6 p.m. at the Lakeport Fire Department. The First Aid class is Wednesday at 6 p.m. also at the fire department. Participants must register for these courses by Monday at 4 p.m. and pay the $125 fee by Tuesday.
Also by Tuesday, participants must have the BLS for Healthcare Providers Student Manual, version 2011. Seven copies will be available on a first-request basis. Otherwise, students can purchase the manual at the following locations: www.heart.org, www.walmart.com, and www.cprconsultants.com.
The Lifeguard Re-Certification class is April 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Westshore Pool, 350 Lange Street. Deadline for registration is April 18 at 4 p.m. The cost is $160.
The two-day Lifeguard Certification class is April 27-28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. also at Westshore Pool. Deadline for registration is April 25 at 4 p.m. The cost is $210.
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Boiling WaterScience brain teasers require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
A clever scientist in his lab can bring pure water to a vigorous boil, then immediately pour the water over his head without scalding himself. How does he do it?
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HintThere are two ways to boil water. One is to heat it to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. What is the other?
AnswerHe can apply a vacuum to a container of water. The water will boil but will remain at room temperature. He can then quickly relieve the vacuum and pour the water over his head without worry of scalding himself.
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WILTSHIRE captain Mike Coles wants his side to use the pain of missing out on a one-day trophy final as motivation for their assault on the Unicorns Championship title.
The county lost out on the chance to bid for the Unicorns Knockout Trophy as they were well-beaten at Oxfordshire in the semi-finals last Sunday but after seeing his team lose their stunning ten-match unbeaten record, Coles has turned his attention to a title charge.
Wiltshire are currently top of the Western Division with three games to go and will be looking to make a huge stride towards cementing their position in this weekend's crunch clash with second-placed Devon at Devizes.
"Everyone was really disappointed about losing on Sunday but we're 14 points clear at the top of our league in the Championship and if we could win that and say we got to a semi-final in the trophy, that would be a damn good season," said skipper Coles.
"We've got a huge game this weekend against Devon and we play Cheshire, who are third at the moment, two weeks after that at South Wilts.
"If we win this weekend, we could really stretch our lead and there are only three games left so we wouldn't be far off achieving qualification.
"When we had a debrief after the Oxfordshire game, we said that it was time to concentrate on the three-day competition and there's no reason why we can't go all the way."
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Kim O'Hara wrote:SamKR wrote:What would you do now -- if the world were really going to end tomorrow, that is only a day remains to practice Dhamma in this life?
I would like to think that I would keep on pretty much as usual. What I would actually do, however, I just don't know.
Right. I also don't know what I would actually do. But I like to think that I would use every second following the eight-fold path. But since I believe the world is not going to end tomorrow I am not following the path to my best.


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A story of a young woman, Penelope Wilhern, born to wealthy socialites. Penelope is afflicted by a secret family curse that can only be broken when she is loved by "one of her own kind". Hidden away in the family's majestic home, she is subjected to meeting a string of blue-bloods through her parent's futile attempt to marry her off and break the curse. Each suitor is instantly enamored with Penelope--until the curse is revealed. When a willing mate cannot be found, mischievous tabloid reporter Lemon hires Max to pose as a prospective suitor in hopes of snapping a photo of the mysterious Penelope. Max, who is really a down-on-his-luck gambler, finds himself drawn to Penelope, and not wanting to expose or disappoint her, disappears and leaves Lemon in the lurch. Fed up by this latest betrayal and determined to live life on her own terms, Penelope breaks free from her family and goes out into the world in search of adventure--curse be damned.


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Best known for bringing sex and glamour back into fashion, Tom Ford's creative genius transformed Gucci from a nearly bankrupt luggage company into a multi-billion dollar fashion empire. His willingness to take risks in both design and business has made him one of the industry's leading innovators.
Tom Ford was born in Austin, Texas, but spent most of his childhood in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During his teens Ford moved to New York and enrolled at New York University to study art history. He later redirected his studies to concentrate on architecture at Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris. During college Ford modeled, acted in television commercials and was inspired by the fashion celebrities he met at Studio 54 like Calvin Klein and Halston.
In 1990, Tom Ford moved to Milan to join Gucci as the company's Womenswear Designer. In 1992, he became Design Director and in 1994 he was appointed Creative Director of Gucci. He was responsible for the design of all product lines, from clothing to perfumes, and for the Group's corporate image, advertising campaigns and store design.
In January 2000, following the acquisition of Yves Saint Laurent and YSL Beauté by the Gucci Group, Tom Ford assumed the position of Creative Director of Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and YSL Beauté. In addition to his existing duties at Gucci, Ford worked with all creative teams at YSL to define the overall image and positioning of the YSL brand including all product categories and communication activities. Ford also served as Creative Director of Gucci Group. In July 2002 he was made Vice Chairman of the Management Board of Gucci Group. In April 2004, Ford resigned from his post at Gucci Group following a buyout by Pinault Printemps Redoute.
During Ford's 10 years as Creative Director at Gucci and Gucci Group, sales increased from 230 million dollars in 1994 to almost 3 billion dollars in 2004, making Gucci one of the largest and most profitable brands in the world. Ford attributes his success to his ability to do his best work under pressure, when he has the most to risk and the most to lose. He also admits to rarely sleeping more than a few hours a night and to keeping Post-it notes next to his bed in case he wakes up with an idea.
Tom Ford's success in the fashion industry has been recognized by a number of awards including four awards from the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and five VH1/Vogue Awards. In March 2004, Tom Ford was honored for his contributions to the worlds of fashion and film with the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style award.