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Harrisonburg CROP Hunger Walk
When Sunday April 21, 2013 @ 2:00 PM (1555 days ago)
Where downtown
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by local volunteers to raise funds to end hunger.
More information about the Harrisonburg CROP Hunger Walk will be posted as available.
Event Web-site: http://hunger.cwsglobal.org/site/PageServer?pagename=crop_main
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
Name Campus Ministries
Phone # 540.432.4196

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Herbert Tiefenbrunner and his son, Christof, are expert winemakers: maintaining complete control over all operations, from the harvest through the winemaking process. The estate produces about 700,000 bottles per year, 70% of them contain zesty whites, the remaining 30% are elegant reds. Tiefenbrunner's vineyards are located along the Südtyroler Weinstrasse, the Wine Route of South Tyrol, in one of the most beautiful wine growing areas in Alto Adige.
The vines are grown mostly on the mountain slopes around the Turmhof Castle, but some are also located in the flatter areas of the valley. The southward-facing slopes and their loamy, chalk rich soils represent the best environment for producing high quality wines. The Mediterranean climate, characterized by a moderate rainfall, and the cooling evening winds, allow for a substantial difference between day and night temperatures, providing the ideal conditions for perfect grape ripening.
The philosophy of the Tiefenbrunner family is to relentlessly improve the grape quality and to highlight the varietal character of each wine. View all Tiefenbrunner Wines
About Trentino-Alto AdigeView a map of Trentino-Alto Adige wineries (tren-TEE-noe ahl-toe ah-DEE-jay)
Notable FactsReds are likely to be Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, along with a few local varieties, most notably Schiaval. The white grapes are Pinot Bianco, Pinot Grigio, Traminer and Chardonnay. Chardonnay is the most-planted and most revered, while Traminer hails from Austria and has an amazingly light body, but is also intensely floral and delicious. Pinot Bianco and Pinot Grigio are the international players that make lively whites of good value. The sweet spot of Trentino Alto-Adige is Vino Santo- a wine not to be confused with Tuscany's Vin Santo. Vino Santo (which means holy wine) is a sweet wine of the area made from dried grapes. Not found as much as Vin Santo, but still a treat.
About Italy
A little ditty about Italy...This country has about as many wines as its had governments. With 20 different regions, hundreds of DOCs and even more indigenous varieties, the amount of wine made in Italy is mind-boggling. Most of the juice, however, remains in the country for thirsty Italians. Wine is food in Italy and its rare that a meal is consumed without a glass of vino. That said, it's not common to find many folks drinking wine without food either. In turn, it's a match, and a mighty good one at that. In fact, it's safe to say that Italian wine is a foodie wine – one that goes on the table for a myraid of meals.
For regions, the most popular are Tuscany (home of Chianti), Piedmont and the Tre-Venezie, which includes Veneto, Trentino Alto-Adige and Friuli. Other communes of note are in Southern Italy, and a few good wines are made elsewhere in the country. The islands of Sardinia and Sicily are members of the Italian winemaking community as well.


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USC participating in National Take-Back Day Saturday
The University of South Carolina will participate April 30 in the National Take-Back Day for the public to turn in expired, unwanted or unused controlled pharmaceuticals and other medications for destruction.
Representatives from USC's Division of Law Enforcement and Safety will collect items from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in front of their office at 1501 Senate St.
Captain Eric Grabski, with the Division of Law Enforcement and Safety, said the program is anonymous and covers only prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, tablets and capsules. Intra-venous solutions, injectables and needles will not be accepted. Illicit substances, such as marijuana or methamphetamine, are not a part of this initiative.
The event is part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's national effort to encourage citizens to remove potentially dangerous controlled substances from their homes.
According to the DEA, these drugs are a potential source of supply for illegal use and an unacceptable risk to public health and safety.
Saturday's nationwide effort is the second such initiative intended to bring national focus on abuse of controlled substances.
Last September, Americans turned in more than 242,000 pounds, or 121 tons, of prescription drugs at nearly 4,100 sites operated by more than 3,000 of the DEA's state and local law-enforcement partners.
For more information, go to www.dea.gov, or call Grabski at 803-777-4215.


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SEASON ONE: EPISODE 09 - TO BE SUSPECTED. New information is coming in about what maybe didn't happen on January 13, 1999. And while Adnan's memory of that day is foggy at best, he does remember what happened next: being questioned, being arrested and, a little more than a year later, being sentenced to life in prison. http://goo.gl/ZSU6z2
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Justin Bieber barred from Miami nightclubs Story, LIV, and more
Listen to Justin Bieber on iHeartRadio
(TMZ) - Justin Bieber was persona non grata at the hottest nightclubs in Miami this past weekend -- they ALL refused to let Bieber inside, according to TMZ.
Club sources tell TMZ, Bieber's people called ahead last week, asking to reserve tables at LIV, Story, and Adoré while the Biebs was in town -- but the singer's camp was denied at all 3 locations.
TMZ reports that Bieber's people begged and pleaded, promising to spend big money on bottles if the clubs granted Bieber entry, but the clubs didn't budge.
TMZ says, according to sources, there were 2 reasons for refusing Bieber -- first, he's not 21 ... second, the last time Bieber went big at a Miami nightclub he was arrested for DUI.
The DUI resulted in a ton of negative press for SET nightclub -- where Bieber had been partying prior -- and the guys at LIV, Story, and Adoré just didn't think Bieber was worth the trouble.
According to TMZ, the clubs offered to let Bieber in if he agreed to perform a song -- since performers don't have to meet the 21+ age requirement -- but Bieber turned them down.
Bieber ended up having a low key night Friday night at Cavalli lounge. It's unclear where he landed Saturday night, but it was NOT at any of the big clubs.
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October 31, 2006
Help Us Reach Our Goal!
Dear FOS11 Member,
Children of September 11 (COS11) is proud to participate in the 2006-2007 Booz Allen Hamilton-Redskins Yards for Youth program. We are one of a number of participating nonprofits to benefit from funds pledged for offensive yards gained by the Redskins during the 2006-2007 football season. Yards for Youth will raise funds throughout the football season—from September's home opener to the final game in December—and beyond if the Redskins make the playoffs! With your support, every time an offensive yard is gained, we win!
How can you help us reach our goal?
Pledge a specific amount of money for each offensive yard gained during the 2006-2007 Washington Redskins season or make a one-time set contribution to support COS11. For each offensive yard gained, your contribution will help us reach our goal. For example, if you pledge .01 cent per yard and the Redskins gain 6,000 offensive yards (combination of passing and rushing yards), your total donation at the end of the season would be $60.
To make a pledge or one-time donation to Children of September 11, log onto http://www.yardsforyouth.org/SeptemberChildren. Your support may help us receive a matching funds grant of up to $2,500. For the first 20 small nonprofits with the highest amount of individual donations, Booz Allen Hamilton will match funds up to $2,500.
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Yards for Youth builds upon the strong commitment to social philanthropy in the local community that global consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton and the Redskins have cultivated over the years.
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Coast Guard rescues boaters
(Cleveland) On Friday afternoon, two people were rescued in Lake Erie by the Coast Guard after their boat capsized. It happened at around 3:00pm about 300 yards offshore from Lakewood. The Cleveland Coast Guard was notified that a 16-foot sailboat was half-way submerged.
The two people were only able to grab one life jacket before the boat capsized, so they shared it until rescuers arrive. The Coast Guard rescued the boaters and took them to Edgewater Marina to be evaluated by emergency medical services.
No reports of any serious injuries. The names of the boaters have not been released.
The sailboat remains capsized in the water.
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Morrowind, powering through the Mage's Guild (first time I've ever played a mage character). It started out a bit dull, but now it's really picked up :D
And my new graphics card is arriving today hopefully, so I should be back on Skyrim veeeery soon.
@Portal: There are a number of 'things' you could be talking about here, ranging from my causing of the robot apocalypse to the inane rambling about Skyrim's cover art that I made at 1AM. If it's the latter, I'll just say that it turns out no one understands hyperbole.
Played some L4D2 with a friend of mine.
But BETTER THAN THAT IS THIS
@SirBryghtside: I had a GLORIOUS idea a few hours ago for a Skyrim expansion pack/DLC.
Kay, after finishing up the civil war area. Doesn't really matter which you side with, since it can work perfectly either way. Either Ulfric will begin pushing with the Stormcloaks on the Thalmor next, or the Legion will realize "Holy shit, Dragonborn might just be exactly what we need to get rid of the Thalmor at last". Thus taking the assault on the Thalmor onto Summerset Isle.
But that's just the framing of the frame of the DLC.
From there, The Crystal Tower remains have been taken (I presume you know its history) and Winterhold is given charge of it due to its intensely magical nature. Since the Thalmor have kept whatever they call Summerset in such a shroud of secrets for the last couple centuries or so, it's discovered they've been working on a BIG project. So big, the Dragonborn is called in for assistance.
The possibilities would be endless.
Oh hey Meridia I got your beacon thin- OH GOD 60,000 FEET IN THE AIR *F12* *F12 *F12*
@Portal: cool
Dipping back into TF2 now. Foundry is a pretty nice map when the teams are balanced.
Also, I bought 4 keys, since I figured the Nice crates actually had stuff that was worth a damn.
Turns out I bought the regular keys. So I had to use up a biiiiit of metal (read: 3 refined) to break even.
So far got 2 Spy-cicles. Need a few more Nice crates.
Oh hey Greybeards! You want me to cause a truce? Well, I'll just finish up those Stormcloak missions then!
Oh hey man I've got to sort out some guy in Markath? I'll just follow my magical compass to the hall of the dead and WHY AM I A CANNIBAL NOW
TF2. Hoping around Foundry servers until I found a decent one.
Went battle Engie with that nifty new laser rifle. It's pretty hilarious to fuck over an entire Ubercharge with two shots :3
@SirBryghtside: Or option B) Kill that bitch for even considering cannibalism.
"Maybe a younger sibling that had died, perhaps? Just a nibble?"
Did Hermaeus Mora's quest, after what the crazy guy said it was SO disappointing.
Just Cause 2.
Destroy ALL the gub'ment things!
Oh hey Aldui- JOR ZAH FRUL! SU GRAH DUN! OH GOD FIRE TAKES OUT ALMOST ALL OF MY HEALTH BAR *UBER HEALTH POTION CHUGGING* SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH YES!
Alright. Back on High Hrothgar. Awesome dragons. Go talk to the Greybeards. I'm free from the prophecy, they say... huh. Flashbacking to Azura's speech at the end of Morrowind/Tribunal.
You know what?
I feel completely relaxed. I haven't felt like this in... well, nine years. I am going to walk from here to the bottom of the mountains.
23 minutes later, and I'd achieved that feat. Smiling all the way.
It's not as good as Morrowind. But hell if Skyrim doesn't give it a run for its money.
Went back on tf2 after ages, messed around with scout.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - just beat Yelena Federova. Fun game, but when people say the boss fights are the worst part, they aren't joking.
The first one was... OK, because it still gave you a load of cover, and the guy was quite dumb and slow, but Yelena was just ridiculous. Cloaks, super-fast, wields double machine pistols. Want another way of beating her? Break a power thingy to electrify the floor. Oh yeah, that thing kills you too.
Been playing Saints Row the Third.
Mostly in an attempt to keep myself from thinking of how my boyfriend broke up with me.
Go me.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - got to the bit where
Instantly up there with the end of Mystery Dungeon Time/Darkness and the drowning scene from Cave Story.
@Portal: Sorry to hear that...
Been playing Minecraft. Found a Nether stronghold (first stronghold). Proceeding to disassemble and integrate it into my own designs.
I'm fond of the penis plants though.
And I also gutted my temple of its treasure.
Arena. I'm... going to have to start again. And look at some walkthroughs. I can't move 5 metres in this game without being mashed by ghouls...
I made the Pyro sexy.
After finishing Human Revolution (bloody great game, only problem is the bosses who really, really suck), I'm back to Skyrim, started my lesbian Mage playthrough. Just finished the first quest of the College, it's looking awesome so far!
Then I guess I'll install all the Fallout from the Steam Sale :P
Saints Row the Third. Co-oping with my friend.
I can't TELL YOU how many times I've accidentally the Molotovs while either of us are driving.
Which oddly kills me too, considering I'm immune to all damage.
Oh yeah. Also, the three beers badge.
FINALLY completed Metroid Prime - the boss, the game, and the series. He was a fun fight, took me about 3 tries - they did the cheap shot where his second stage is totally different and just as hard as the first, without healing between the two, but I got there eventually. MUCH easier than Metroid Prime 2 at least.
Need to get Metroid 2, Fusion and Super, and then I'll be done with the series. Woo!
Going back on through Psychonauts, this time not skipping the campers stuff.
And because, you know, my Internet was down for most of the middle arch of the game. Lack of achievements and such.
Did the second last
Also, Pirate Dremora. JIOSDUASUYFIUPP;AKFLEDHAS'FJHSD';LFSKYRIM IS BLOODY AMAZING
Trying to find someone to actually play SW:TOR with so I can make a Jedi/Sith and not be bored to hell playing solo.
Trying to figure out what the hell kind of character to play in Skyrim so I can get back into it.
Saints Row the Third.
@SirBryghtside: Well? Has it?
It turns out I'm awesome at TF2.
I hadn't played it in 2 or so months, and somehow, despite being awful before the hiatus, I came back and came consistently top of the leaderboard.
Then I left the server, thinking it was just because I wasn't playing the pro-mode of Arena any more.
I was kind of shocked when I came second there as well.
@Portal: Yeah, 200 gold. How she did that by walking home from Riften, I'll never know :P
@Sir Bryghtside: I know that TF2 exactly. Some days, I can't explain how or why, but when I go a certain class, it's like I am teaching everyone how to fuck the sky.
And maybe she ran across a wolf that had swallowed a sapphire?
Since marrying Aela, I've used her as my companion on adventures. She sometimes acts as a semi-meatshield, which finally makes ranged battles an option. I gave her some decent stuff, so she's actually effectual, and have decided that I am wearing that armour five times over next playthrough (stealthy murdery stabby woman, probably Imperial/Dunmer). Did that whole Windcaller quest, and noticed the Daedic on the altar. Pretty cool.
Random event of the day: man walks past with painted cow to sacrifice to some giants. That's up there with Old Orc and Scavenger.
@Portal: I was actually playing Soldier. As in, my most hated and least used class.
...I think I need to play Soldier more :P
Also, she managed to somehow set up shop in the middle of a barrow today. It was confusing.
Hm, I guess I could post here a little more.
Helped a few guys in the Guild Wars group with Sorrow's Furnace. Also looked for that Portal 2 add-on.
Did Deus Ex: HR's expansion pack in one sitting. It was fun, but didn't really add anything new - apart from changing the boss fight from 'almost a gamebreaker' to 'average'.
And no, I'm not going to get Invisible War now. Also this.
@SirBryghtside: And now I want to watch funny videos.
OT: Ground a character through to level 18 on EQ2 in a day. probably could have done more if I had focused more.
Skyrim, decided to clear Yngvild. That was... actually quite sickening.
Also, I finally bought level-appropriate spells, so I just need to get all of the perks and I'll be laughing :D
Let's see.....
Minecraft servers are fucking hard to set up. Even TEMPORARY ones.
@SirBryghtside: lolnecrophilia
The usual grind in Guild Wars. Gotta hurry up since GW2 is coming out, but not sure if I'm going to get it anyways so...
One of the best matches of TF2 I've ever had.
cp_foundry. Started the match switching between Pyro and Medic, not doing particularly well as either, so I switched to Sniper. And defended our last point like HELL.
After a massive struggle between them, capturing the second point, losing it again, rinse repeat, match ends. Sudden Death.
I decide to follow a large group with pretty much every class in, and end up standing next to an Engie's turret sniping off people. I think I got something ridiculous like four or five out of the whole team, me frequently running back and yelling Medic, and in the end they had two guys and 1 minute left. A couple of guys on our team race to the capture point, and it becomes clear that that is the only way we'll win.
3 and 4 captured, and we're running to 5 - the last one. About 20 seconds left at this point. The Medic seems to have grown accustomed to healing me, and just idly lets his Medigun rest on me - and I'm at the front of the squadron. Turn a corner, and SENTRY NEST. It's the end. Game Over. All that for-
Knockback from sentry hits me into the center of their base, out of range from the turret, the Medic, and my team. 15 seconds left, and I run as fast as I can to the finish line, and stand there. An enemy Medic runs in, but it's too little, too late - I capture the goddamn point.
And to top it all off?
Even more grind!
...Well since that's boring as hell, I'll say some of the stuff I did over the half a year I wasn't posting here.
I played through Eversion. Fun closest I'll probably get to trying a masocore game. And the endings were great!
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Am I the ONLY Wife Who Hates Telling My Husband What to Do?
I hate being The Shrew … but how did he manage to survive life before he met me?
– Melissa Chapman, marriedmysugardaddy.com
I didn't meet my husband until he was at the ripe old age of 38. Up until that point he had "SOMEHOW" managed (without my incessant prodding, reminding and NAGGING) to secure a job, an apartment and get even get dressed every morning. And yet after 12 years of marriage, this once COMPLETELY self-sufficient individual (did I mention he went through medical school, internship, residency and fellowship without a mere nudge from anyone) truly needs to wait for me to remind him what to do. And … I HATE IT!
I abhor being perceived (especially when in earshot of my kids) as "The Shrew" — the bad cop — the one who is always barking out my Honey-Do list and why the hell do I even need to draft up a Honey-Do list in the first place? Clearly this guy was able to successfully navigate life pre marriage and kids, so why do I always need to be the voice in his ear reminding him of the stuff that needs to get done?
My thoughts … if I just let fly — NOTHING would happen, and I really mean absolutely nothing. The leak that is threatening to cave in our roof would do just that; the roof would cave in.
But maybe that's the best possible way to handle things so as not to appear shrewish in the eyes of onlookers, aka my kids. Although we live in the same house and I suspect experience the same surroundings, for some strange reason, my husband rarely picks up on stuff that needs to be done. (I know — he's a smart guy working a seamless clueless cover.) Perhaps if I let said roof cave in, and teach my husband a lesson, next time he sees a leak in the roof he just might of his own volition use his trusty index finger to CALL a roofer. The only issue on my part I that I really don't want to sit in a pool of water…
Are you too the shrew to your husband's innocent "I'm just standing here I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing unless someone hands me a Honey-Do list" counterpart?
Melissa Chapman blogs about her marriage and everything in between at http://www.marriedmysugardaddy.com/. Her work has appeared in The Staten Island Advance, Care.com, ABC News, BlogHer, Baby Center, Momtourage, Lifetime Moms, Babble, The Washington Post, Time Out NY Kids and iVillage.
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Listen to Miley Cyrus on iHeartRadio
Miley Cyrus is asking critics to consider the artistic merit of her new video for "Wrecking Ball."
In an interview with New York's Z100 Elvis Duran show, the singer is responding to the controversy surrounding her lack of clothing in many of its scenes. Miley says the video is "much more" than the nudity, and is meant to reflect the range of emotions she sings about in the breakup ballad. She says that filming the video was "an emotional experience," even more so than recording it.
Listen to the full interview below:
It was directed by provocative celebrity photographer Terry Richardson, and shows the singer completely nude sitting on a large wrecking ball and suggestively licking a sledgehammer.
Miley says "if people can take their minds off the obvious and go into their imagination" they would see that "it is so vulnerable" and in line with the song's intensity.


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Trolley for downhill zip line thrill ride, patent No. 8,424,460, invented by Shawn Geoffrey Lerner of New York City, N.Y. and Michael Troy Richardson of Elkridge.
Ribbed gel, patent No. 8,424,137, invented by Tony M. Pearce of Alpine, and Terry V. Pearce of Alpine, assigned to Edizone LLC of Alpine.
Modular tile with controlled deflection, patent No. 8,424,257, invented by Mark L. Jenkins of Salt Lake City, Jeremiah Shapiro of West Valley City, Cheryl Forster of Salt Lake City, Vaughn W. North of Salt Lake City and David L. Stott of Providence.
Thermal insulation technique for ultra low temperature cryogenic processor, patent No. 8,424,317, invented by John Dain of Hollister, Calif., Boyd Bowdish of Los Gatos, Calif., and Nick Henneman of Tres Pinos, Calif., assigned to Reflect Scientific Inc. of Orem.
Annular bourdon tube gauge assembly, patent No. 8,424,389, invented by Shmuel Dovid Newman of Redondo Beach, Calif. and Jeffrey O. Brown of North Logan, assigned to YSN Imports, Inc. of Gardena, Calif.
Systems and methods for providing an asymmetric cellular acoustic diffuser, patent No. 8,424,637, invented by Richard L. Lenz Jr. of Kaysville.
Method of supporting panel structures over concrete footings utilizing tie system for forming poured concrete walls, patent No. 8,424,835, invented by Gregory M. McDonagh of Millville, assigned to Paladin Industrial LLC of Millville.
Drainage system having an end cap for diverting fluid, patent No. 8,425,147, invented by Joshua James Cislo of Bethlehem, Ga. and Courtney Jay Ashliman of North Logan, assigned to Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. of Hilliard, Ohio.
Anti-free-flow mechanism for enteral feeding pumps, patent No. 8,425,470, invented by Kent Beck of Layton and Philip Eggers of Salt Lake City, assigned to Zevex Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Adjustable ferromagnetic coated conductor thermal surgical tool, patent No. 8,425,503, invented by Kim Manwaring of Phoenix, Ariz. and David McNally of Salt Lake City, assigned to Domain Surgical Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Insertion tool for inter-body vertebral prosthetic device with self-deploying screws, patent No. 8,425,528, invented by Bret M. Berry of Tallahassee, Fla., Richard D. Guyer of Dallas, Texas, Jack E. Zigler of Dallas, Texas, Adam A. Pike of Bountiful and Randall F. Lee of Arlington, Texas, assigned to Amicus Design Group LLC of Grand Prairie, Texas.
Modular percutaneous spinal fusion, patent No. 8,425,565, invented by T. Wade Fallin of Hyde Park and Daniel F. Justin of Logan, assigned to IMDS Corp. of Logan.
Method and apparatus for adjusting height and angle for a radial head, patent No. 8,425,615, invented by Brian K. Berelsman of Warsaw, Ind., Russell M. Parrott of Winona Lake, Ind., Christopher H. Martin of Salt Lake City, Donald H. Lee of Birmingham, Ala. and Thomas J. Graham of Cockeysville, Md., assigned to Biomet Manufacturing Corp. of Warsaw, Ind.
Mutual remediation of effluents of petroleum production, patent No. 8,425,664, invented by J. Clair Batty of North Logan, David A. Bell of Farmington and Craig E. Cox of Fruit Heights, assigned to Purestream Technology LLC of Salt Lake City.
Back pressure-matched, integrated, environmental-remediation apparatus and method, patent No. 8,425,666, invented by J. Clair Batty of North Logan, Craig E. Cox of Fruit Heights and David A. Bell of Farmington, assigned to Purestream Technology LLC of Salt Lake City.
Wastewater pre-treatment and evaporation system, patent No. 8,425,668, invented by Janos I. Lakatos of Mendon, Edward Clay Slade of North Logan, Clayton R. Carter of North Logan, Christopher Allen Jahn of Mission Viejo, Calif. and Neil William Richardson of Salt Lake City, assigned to Total Water Management LLC of Salt Lake City.
Precursor of an explosive composition including at least one ionic liquid and a method of desensitizing an explosive composition, patent No. 8,425,702, invented by Steven M. Nicolich of Wyckoff, N.J., Alexander J. Paraskos of Ogden, Daniel W. Doll of Marriott Slaterville, Gary K. Lund of Malad, Idaho and Wendy A. Balas of Piscataway, N.J., assigned to Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Arlington, Va.
Mixed amino acid/mineral compounds having improved solubility, patent No. 8,425,956, invented by R. Charles Thompson of Peterson, Clayton Ericson of Morgan, Stephen Ashmead of West Haven, and Jonathan Bortz of Saint Louis, Mo., assigned to Albion International Inc. of Clearfield.
Compositions and methods for enhancing active agent absorption, patent No. 8,426,466, invented by Chung Shih of Sandy, assigned to Nexus Pharma Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Systems and methods for image reconstruction of sensitivity encoded MRI data, patent No. 8,427,156, invented by Evgueni G. Kholmovski of Salt Lake City, Dennis Lee Parker of Centerville, and Edward V. R. DiBella of Salt Lake City, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
Methods and apparatus to determine and implement multidimensional network topologies, patent No. 8,427,980, invented by Moray McLaren of Bristol, United Kingdom, Jung Ho Ahn of Seoul, Republic of Korea, Nathan Lorenzo Binkert of Redwood, Calif., Alan Lynn Davis of Coalville and Robert Samuel Schreiber of Palo Alto, Calif., assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co., L. P. of Houston, Texas.
Media clock recovery, patent No. 8,428,045, invented by Aaron Gelter of West Jordan, Brian Parker of West Valley City and Robert Boatright of Sandy, assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. of Stamford, Conn.
Playback of damaged video media using downloaded content, patent No. 8,428,421, invented by Kulvir Singh Bhogal of Pflugerville, Texas, Gregory Jensen Boss of American Fork, Rick Allen Hamilton II of Charlottesville, Va. and Brian Marshall O'Connell of Cary, N.C., assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.
Uninterrupted usage and access of physically unreachable handheld device, patent No. 8,428,571, invented by Abirami Rajendran of Tamil Nadu, Ind. and Nikita Davda of Tamil Nadu, Ind., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Intracardiac echocardiography image reconstruction in combination with position tracking system, patent No. 8,428,690, invented by Dun Alex Li of Salem, N.H., Christopher A. Nafis of Rexford, N.Y., Douglas G. Wildes of Ballston Lake, N.Y. and Vernon T. Jensen of Draper, assigned to General Electric Co. of Schenectady, N.Y.
Acute ischemia detection based on parameter value range analysis, patent No. 8,428,703, invented by Bruce Hopenfeld of Salt Lake City, assigned to Angel Medical Systems Inc. of Fair Haven, N.J.
Threshold adjustment schemes for acute ischemia detection, patent No. 8,428,704, invented by Steven R. Johnson of Fair Haven, N.J. and Bruce Hopenfeld of Salt Lake City, assigned to Angel Medical Systems Inc. of Fair Haven, N.J.
Systems and methods for managing account information lifecycles, patent No. 8,429,041, invented by David Bonalle of New Rochelle, N.Y., Michal Bliman of Matawan, N.J., Peter D. Saunders of Salt Lake City and John Robert Williamson of Jersey City, N.J., assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. of New York, N.Y.
Techniques for securely delivering media data, patent No. 8,429,081, invented by Ravikanth Dronamraju of San Jose, Calif. and Jamshid Mahdavi of San Jose, Calif., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Mechanisms to support object-oriented version control operations, patent No. 8,429,142, invented by Zack Grossbart of Cambridge, Mass., Lee Edward Lowry of Orem, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz of Pleasant Grove, Rajesh Vasudevan of Sandy, Brent Thurgood of Spanish Fork, William Street of Orem and Karin Stella Lundberg of Santa Clara, Calif., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
User-context-based search engine, patent No. 8,429,167, invented by David C. Taylor of Mapleton, assigned to Google Inc. of Mountain View, Calif.
Method and system for detecting changes in computer files and settings and automating the migration of settings and files to computers, patent No. 8,429,253, invented by Greg Wiggins of Pleasant Grove, assigned to Symantec Corp. of Mountain View, Calif.
Method and apparatus for resource locator identifier rewrite, patent No. 8,429,301, invented by John E. Gmuender of San Jose, Calif., Huy Minh Nguyen of Fountain Valley, Calif., Joseph H. Levy of Salt Lake City, Michael B. Massing of San Jose, Calif., Zhong Chen of Fremont, Calif. and David M. Telehowski of Sunnyvale, Calif., assigned to eWinWin Inc. of Tampa, Fla.
Systems and methods for identifying the presence of sensitive data in backups, patent No. 8,429,364, invented by Niel Orcutt of Pleasant Grove, assigned to Symantec Corp. of Mountain View, Calif.
Interleaved hardware multithreading processor architecture, patent No. 8,429,384, invented by James D. Pennock of Salt Lake City, Ronald Baker of Sandy, Brian R. Parker of West Valley City and Christopher Belcher of Lehi, assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. of Northridge, Calif.
Apparatus, system, and method for power reduction in a storage device, patent No. 8,429,436, invented by Jeremy Fillingim of Salt Lake City, John Strasser of Syracuse and Jonathan Thatcher of Liberty Lake, assigned to Fusion-io Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Translating a user design in a configurable IC for debugging the user design, patent No. 8,429,579, invented by Brad Hutchings of Provo, Andrew Caldwell of Santa Clara, Calif. and Steven Teig of Menlo Park, Calif., assigned to Tabula Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.
System and method for asynchronous processing in page lifecycle, patent No. 8,429,655, invented by Erik B. Olson of Farmington, Andres Sanabria of Sammamish, Wash., Dmitry Robsman of Bellevue, Wash., Helen Yan of Bellevue, Wash., Peixin Han of Bellevue, Wash. and Nikhil Kothari of Sammamish, Wash., assigned to Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash.
Centralized user authentication system apparatus and method, patent No. 8,429,712, invented by Kyle Lane Robinson of Spanish Fork and John Joseph Bowers of Provo, assigned to Quest Software Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif.
System and method for transparent access and management of user accessible cloud assets, patent No. 8,429,716, invented by Doug Earl of Orem, Lloyd Leon Burch of Payson, Carolyn Bennion McClain of Springville and Stephen R. Carter of Spanish Fork, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Systems and methods for data loss prevention on mobile computing systems, patent No. 8,429,745, invented by Jim Casaburi of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Kent Griffin of Sandy, Susanta Nanda of Los Angeles, Calif., Sanjay Sawhney of Cupertino, Calif. and Matthew Conover of East Palo Alto, Calif., assigned to Symantec Corp. of Mountain View, Calif.
Carry case with closable flap, patent No. D680,321, invented by Darren Jones of American Fork, assigned to Alpine Innovations LLC of Lehi.
Device for measuring velocity and concentration of gases, patent No. D680,455, invented by Larry Eugene Jacobsen of Nibley, Ivan G. Bogoev of Hyde Park, Antoine Benoit Louis Rousseau of Amalga, and Steven D. Sargent of North Logan, assigned to Campbell Scientific, Inc. of Logan.
Fox glove light pendant, patent No. D680,675, invented by James Andrew Coury of Seattle, Wash., assigned to 3form Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Everett Robinson, an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for The Salt Lake Tribune. Robinson can be reached at 801-649-5858. For more patents, see the Money page at sltrib.com, go to Sections on the left-hand side and click Patents.


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Groovy Christmas!
December 7th 2007
This will be my last entry for a while as I'm about to leave for another digging trip. I won't yet tell to the destination but this has the potential to be anything from total bust to a gold mine. After that, I will spend the entire month of January in Benin.
This is my favorite African Christmas Funk 45:
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Let me take this occasion to thank you all for the time you spent keeping up with this blog and most of all, thanx for your comments, mails and responses, you have really encouraged me a great deal and given me motivation to dig much deeper than I would have without you.
There were some bumps in the road around the start but all in all, it's been an amazing year so full of impressions that looking back, it seems to have lasted much longer than just 12 months. All the best, good health and peace for 2008 everybody!


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Fri 22nd Feb 2013 | News
Thinkbox Software has announced Krakatoa MY and will demo for LA next week.
Thinkbox Software has released Krakatoa MY, the high-volume particle renderer for the Autodesk Maya 3D software running on Windows and Linux operating systems. For artists in the Los Angeles area, and I know there are a lot of them, Thinkbox Software will demonstrate Krakatoa MY at the Autodesk User Group event organized by Autodesk, Gnomon and RFX in Los Angeles, CA on February 28th, 2013.
Krakatoa is Thinkbox Softwares production-proven volumetric particle renderer previously available for the Autodesk 3ds Max 3D software. Krakatoa is CPU-based, highly optimized, heavily multi-threaded, and can be used successfully on most hardware running Windows or Linux operating systems including laptops and render nodes without dedicated high-end graphics accelerators.
Krakatoa MY seamlessly connects Autodesk Maya with the Krakatoa renderer and provides a number of features designed to accelerate artists workflow when manipulating millions of particles. Krakatoa MY shares the same rendering core with Krakatoa SR (Stand-alone Renderer) and Krakatoa MX (3ds Max) and will produce identical results given the same input data and settings.
Key features of Krakatoa MY include:
-- Point or voxel representation of particle data, with various filter modes, motion blur and depth of field camera effects, and HDRI render passes output to OpenEXR files
-- Simultaneous support of both additive and volumetric shading models, with per-particle control over color, emission, absorption, density and more
-- Support for various light scattering algorithms, high-quality self-shadowing and occlusions from both geometry and DTEX maps
-- Dedicated particle loader object supporting Krakatoa .PRT file sequences, RealFlow .BIN file sequences and .CSV file sequences, with the ability to offset, retime, combine and modify already cached particles
-- Dedicated PRT Volume and PRT Fractal objects inside the Maya viewports provide procedural particle creation from polygon mesh volumes and mathematical algorithms
-- Particle partitioning tools for caching multiple versions of the same simulation to combine into high-density particle clouds
-- Particle repopulation for render-time conversion of low-count simulations into high-count particle clouds
Versatility and performance have made Krakatoa a favorite tool among studios of all sizes for years. With the release of Krakatoa MY, we are thrilled to bring Maya users access to an efficient pipeline for particle effects creation, something they have been requesting for some time. We love feedback from our clients and are more than happy to go above and beyond to make whatever they want a reality so its exciting to see Krakatoa MY come to fruition, said Chris Bond, founder, Thinkbox Software.
Krakatoa MY requires its own dedicated workstation license for interactive use inside of Autodesk Maya, but is compatible with the network rendering licenses used by the other Krakatoa implementations (Krakatoa SR and Krakatoa MX). Workstation and render license bundles are available at a reduced price.
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People are saying that 6.0.2 covered up a hole for an exploit which means there was one and it wasn't noticed or there is simply just not enough hackers (i mean numerically NOT intelligently) to keep up with Apple these days. I called it when it took so long for a jb with iOS 5 and ill say it again, Apple is slowly but surely ending jail breaking. Those if you out there who don't want iOS without a jb get prepared to start rooting Androids =(
Yep. Jailbreaking is very hard from here out. 2 of our best devs sold out to Apple - working for them now. That virtually kills it.
This time last year we had Absinthe for 5. The devs don't even have a real jailbreak on their phones yet for ip5 on 6. They've only shown a 'failbreak'. And then the distance from true jailbreak on a Dev phone to a public release of an untethered JB is also a couple months. So we're in for a "long winter's nap", gang. Nowhere close.
And I agree that the devs will never release a JB for a non current version. It's not their pattern.
Riddle me this. If I order from Apple tonight will a 5 come with 6.0.2 or 6.0.1? What about if I buy from Best Buy stock?
And for the person rooting androids. Screw it. Might as well prepare for it. See what next year has in store
I say update. Waiting for a jailbreak that most likely will never arrive is a waste of time. I know being able to customize your device is nice and helpful in some cases, but get used to an unjailbroken device running the latest firmware, a jailbroken device on an older firmware, or switch to a device that enables you to customize it to your likings.
I've been using the iPhone 5 for months now and to tell the truth, I could care less about a jailbreak. IMHO I'd rather have a solid operating system on my phone then one that crashes from smell tweaks.
Jailbreaking is (was) about giving you full access to do whatever you wanted to the device you own. If you're going to jailbreak, of course you have to be careful about what software you install. Also, you'll find that all jailbreak tweaks and apps are perfectly odorless.
The stock iOS is just too boring and adhering to a closed iOS will be Apple's ultimate undoing. That and unimaginative new hardware.


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Why 73kg? Would it not make sense to cut to 70kg and fight in a legit weight class? Be far easier to get a match
Dan 'Vybz' Welsh 63Kg Pro 11-25-0 email@example.com
I agree with DanWelsh - you would have a far better chance of getting matched at 70kg or 77kg.
Yeah the Super lightweight/Light welterweight brackets have really dried up of late.
16-bit for life http://findingdyluck.blogspot.co.uk/
Has it occurred to anyone he's in the middle of a cut down to lightweight and he'd like a fight in between?
It's only like McVeigh fighting at catch weights on route to Flyweight.
So good to have Grzzly. around to point these things out. Bushido weight ftw
Andy Lillis, Former Cagewarriors President
I want to be the pioneer of a new self made weight class. I haven't had a fight in while and would like to try 73kg before making 70kg to ease back in and I think I'm small for ww
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Obama to Leno: 'We Don't Have Domestic Spy Program'
(NEWSER) – President Obama covered a lot of bases—most of them serious—in his fourth Tonight Showappearance as president. Some highlights from the Jay Leno interview, which Politico sees as part of the president's push to "get back to being Barack Obama again" and stop being the butt of late-night jokes:
- On the global travel warning for US citizens: "The general rule is show some common sense and some caution," Obama said, praising the reactions of Americans who went about life as usual after the Boston Marathon bombing. "Terrorists depend on the idea that we're going to be terrorized," he said.
- On Trayvon Martin: "All of us were troubled by what happened, and any of us who are parents can imagine the heartache that those parents went through," Obama said after Leno praised his "eloquent" remarks after George Zimmerman's acquittal. "It doesn't mean that Trayvon was a perfect kid, none of us were," Obama said, adding that the issue of having a fair justice system for everybody is a "particularly sensitive topic for the African-American community."
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Poor performance, or does air leak out of the intake air filter while the unit is running? This is probably the problem. Damaged/sticking valves is a common issue when you have low compression, and can also cause the motor/engine to stall and too much pressure in the pump's crankcase. Be sure to clean the head and cylinder very well so as to remove all of the old gasket material and build-up (carbon and rust) when re-installing.
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Topic: Need Informations about medical centers
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Hello, you found a wonderful site, but I'm sorry it had to be under these circumstances. Most of the other warriors on this site have a wealth of information, and they have been so many places. They also are pretty savy about cc hospitals and great cc doctors, but I can tell you the 4 best rated cancer hospitals in the U.S.
MD Anderson - Houston, Texas
Memorial Sloan Kettering - New York, New York
Johns Hopkins - Baltimore, MD
Mayo Clinic - Rochester, Minnesota
I'm going to seek out a second opinion on Stanford Cancer Center because they invented the Cyberknife.
My best wishes for your father and your family, and, of course, prayers for you.
Dear Sophie,
Thank you very much for such a fast answer... It is amazing how we find help everywhere to keep walking.... and keep believing...
We will choose one of them and I will keep informed of waht is going on.
Dear Monileoni, Sorry to hear about your Dad. He sounds motivated to fight this disease which is good. If you point to the link cholangiocarcinoma above, a list of Major US Cancer Centers with contact information is provided. There are a few and I might suggest that you make copies of scans and history of treatments, plus surgery and choose three or four and send for consultation with Surgeons and if surgery is still not an option, ask them to Refer to their Oncology Departments. Monileoni, It is up to you but I think you would be saving alot of time by forwarding medical records first.
I do agree with Sophie of above Cancer Centers, would be a good start. If you can afford it, you can make enough copies and send to all places at the same time would be great. Just need some one to coordinate appropriately.
Wish your Dad the best possible outcome!
God Bless,
Jeff G.
Dear Jeff,
You are are such a inspiration for all of us... I remember that every time that I was feeling down I would come here and read all of your encouraging words and my soul &mind would feel fine again.
Thank you for the informations you gave us... We will do it.
And.... We wish you all the best also. You are in my prayers.
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As an avid boxing fan, fighting journeymen are a key part of a boxers development from him turning over from the amateur to the paid ranks.
I noticed Allan Love saying in another topic on this forum that a card recently featured some of the UKMMA Journeyman faves.. and it's something I've never really thought much about.
Who are the fighters that you would class as MMA Journeymen, and please no-one say Mike Persil.


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Battle of Arras 1
The Film
Running Time
08 min 04 s
Canadian War Records Office, Ministry of Information
Beginning in September 1916, the German army constructed a strongly fortified defensive position, dubbed the Hindenburg Line, through a 160-kilometre stretch of French territory to the east of the existing battlefront. Their object was to shorten their line and to take up new and better positions. In February 1917, the Germans secretly withdrew, sometimes as much as 30 kilometres eastward, to their new line. Everything valuable was ruthlessly destroyed by the Germans in their withdrawal, roads were mined or cratered, trees felled, and most villagers evacuated.
The British moved forward toward the Hindenburg positions, re-building bridges, re-routing roads, and blowing up obstacles left in the River Somme by the Germans. Still, France was elated at the recovery of some of its territory, and French President Raymond Poincaré visited the town of Roye to see what the enemy had done.
The Germans, however, did not retreat from their strong positions on Vimy Ridge, important because they protected the industrial and mining city of Lens. The great Canadian attack on Easter Monday, mentioned but not shown here, drove the enemy from Vimy and forced the Germans to pull back to positions in front of Lens
Pieces of History
Engineers on the Western Front
Bill Rawling
Historian, Department of National Defence
The Western Front made huge demands in matériel, lumber being an excellent example. Wood was needed to revet trenches, support the roofs of dugouts, for plank or corduroy roads, and as sleepers for tramways and railways. These tasks became the responsibility of the military engineers, specialized forestry units being formed for the purpose. Lumberjacks, graders and other skilled men from within the lumber industry were recruited. They cut timber and ran their own sawmills to provide a finished product.
The first forestry companies in the war were formed in 1915, in France. More units were created in England to harvest the island's local resources. All of these were gathered into a corps in 1916 that eventually comprised 43 companies, and was of such a scale as to require its own hospital system. The men received more than the normal food rations, considering the fact that they were engaged in continuous hard labour.
Their work, in Britain and France, saved huge amounts in shipping costs, not to mention freeing up lumber supplies for such industrial endeavours as shoring up mines and building trawlers and other vessels. Nor did the forestry corps limit its work to cutting and preparing wood. Many of its units supported the Royal Air Force by clearing, draining, levelling and grading sites for aerodromes. By the time of the Armistice 11,750 men worked within its ranks, with another 6000 attached in various capacities.
Closer to the fighting there was a need for heavy-capacity means of transport to get the prodigious amounts of ammunition, food, water and other necessary matériel to the front line. One solution to such an intimidating logistical problem was the construction of tramways with specialized labour, with other specialists maintaining and operating the tractors and rolling stock. The result was a system of transport similar to that of a large North American city run by the Canadian Railway Troops. The troops worked on the Western Front and also in Palestine, the 1st Bridging Company serving there in the last part of the war. The system was, in fact, a merging of two networks, tramways closer to the front operating with gasoline-powered tractors while light railways a little farther behind used steam power, the whole being linked to France's broad gauge system, which had been built in the decades before the conflict.
In the end, the war became too mobile for railway troops to keep up, and when an Armistice was declared on November 11, 1918, the railways were some 30 kilometres behind the forward troops, in spite of the work of 25,000 railway construction engineers, two-thirds of them Canadian. Still, they had served their purpose in the almost four years of near-static warfare that characterized the Western Front from late 1914 to the summer of 1918.
It became clear in the early months of the First World War that operations above ground were distinctly hazardous, even suicidal, hence the trenches and dugouts in which soldiers took shelter. An obvious course was to begin operating underground, and within the Canadian Corps three specialized tunnelling companies were formed. Recruited in the main among miners and clay-kickers (the latter dug smaller tunnels to run gas and water mains under city streets), they began their work in 1915, and their role was multi-faceted. First, they used the galleries they excavated under enemy lines to listen in on his own work, the aim being to give fair warning if he began to threaten Canadian lines underground. Second, they might pack the galleries with explosives to destroy enemy defences; generally, however, such operations proved disappointing as German forces usually occupied the crater thus created before Canadian or British troops could reach it.
Tunnelling was particularly hazardous. Working underground can release toxic gas capable of disabling or killing, or one could find oneself tunnelling into an enemy gallery, leading to vicious little skirmishes fought with knives and digging tools. When fighting shifted from a mutual siege to more open warfare in 1918, tunnellers applied their skills to other work, disarming booby traps in dugouts and other underground facilities as the Allies advanced towards the German border. In fact, the only Canadian military engineer ever to be awarded the Victoria Cross was Captain C.N. Mitchell, a tunneller who in 1918 removed explosives from a bridge while under attack.
Field Engineering
The most versatile of the engineers operated on the front line. Originally organized in field companies of a hundred men or so, in 1918 they were reorganized into larger battalions and even brigades. Regardless of how they were administered, their tasks were widely varied. Just behind the front line they were responsible for building and maintaining roads, as well as providing water for humans and animals, the latter task requiring some of them at least to possess knowledge of how to locate and test the precious liquid. To give just two examples, part of the preparations for the assault on Vimy Ridge included laying over 40 miles (65 km) of four-inch (10 cm) pipe, with five pumping stations and a total storage capacity of 560,000 gallons. Following the successful advance at Amiens in August 1918, one of the deepest penetrations achieved on the Western Front, the Canadian Corps and its allies found itself in the midst of a plain scorched dry by the summer sun, but engineers needed only two days to locate sufficient water to keep forward troops satiated.
In the front lines proper, sappers, as they were called, dug trenches, or oversaw this work done by the infantry work parties, and prepared defensive positions with the copious use of barbed wire. On occasion, as for a trench raid, for example, they were called upon to destroy such wire, using long cylinders filled with explosive called ammonal tubes or bangalore torpedoes. When that front line advanced, as in 1918, bridging became a most crucial sapper task, as forward movement could not be maintained without ammunition, water, food, and the other necessities of making war, all of which needed to be transported forward on roads or railways, both of which needed bridges to get across rivers and other, similar obstacles. Small structures made of cork sufficed to get the infantry across, while prefabricated materials called Inglis bridges carried heavier loads.
At the time of the Armistice what could be called field engineers (as opposed to railway and forestry troops) could count 14,285 men within their ranks, with responsibilities only somewhat less diverse than their numbers.
Selected Bibliography
Kerry, A.J. and W.A. McDill. The History of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, Volume I (1749-1939). Ottawa : Military Engineers Association of Canada, 1962.
Chaplin-Thomas, Charmion, Vic Johnson and Bill Rawling. Ubique! : Canadian Military Engineers : A Century of Service. Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing House, 2003.
Canada's Mounted Troops
Major Michael R. McNorgan
Instructor, Royal Military College, Kingston
At the beginning of the First World War, horsed cavalry was still an army's principal mobile arm. However, after the onset of static trench warfare on the Western Front in late 1914 – with thick barbed wire barriers and large numbers of machine guns protecting defensive works – the battlefield utility of cavalry was greatly diminished. Cavalry was nonetheless retained in large numbers because of the perennial hope of breaking through the enemy's line and rolling up his defences from the rear. Thus, for virtually every major offensive operation during the war, cavalry divisions were kept in reserve.
Canada contributed two distinct groups of cavalry during the War – the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and an independent cavalry regiment known as the Canadian Light Horse.
Canadian Cavalry Brigade
This Canadian Cavalry Brigade was formed in England in the autumn of 1915, consisting of permanent force units, the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Lord Strathcona's Horse, along with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. In early 1916, The Fort Garry Horse, a militia regiment from Winnipeg, was added, along with a Cavalry Brigade Machine Gun Squadron equipped with Vickers machine guns. The Canadian Cavalry Brigade served as part of a British cavalry division for the remainder of the war. Its first mounted action was at the Somme in the summer of 1916. When cavalry units were not needed as reserves for an offensive operation, they were often employed dismounted to occupy quiet sectors of the front.
The Brigade again saw mounted action in March 1917 when tasked to pursue an unexpected German withdrawal to a new defensive position called the Hindenburg Line. During this pursuit, Lieutenant Harvey of Lord Strathcona's Horse earned the brigade's first Victoria Cross for valour during the liberation of a French village. By the time of the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 – best known as the first major tank offensive of the war – the Canadian cavalry was judged to be among the best brigades in the British Cavalry Corps, and it was tasked to serve in the lead of a large cavalry exploitation force. During this operation, a single Canadian squadron was the only cavalry to penetrate German lines, and Lieutenant Strachan of The Fort Garry Horse was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.
The Brigade served with great distinction during the German's March 1918 offensive toward Amiens, riding from place to place assisting in slowing the relentless enemy advance. Its final action in this operation took place at Moreuil Wood, where Lieutenant Flowerdew of Lord Strathcona's Horse won a posthumous Victoria Cross for leading a gallant cavalry charge against German machine guns. After the war, Marshal Foch, the Allied supreme commander, credited the Canadians with halting the German offensive at Moreuil and preventing the separation of the French and British armies. Later in that final year of the war, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade was in action during the great Canadian Corps victory over the Germans at Amiens in August, and it played an important part in following up the German retreat in the last two months of the war.
Canadian Light Horse
Until May 1916, three of the four infantry divisions of the Canadian Corps maintained their own independent cavalry squadron of some 150 all ranks . These squadrons – from the 19th Alberta Dragoons, the 1st Hussars and the 16th Light Horse – were then amalgamated into an ad hoc regiment that reported directly to Canadian Corps Headquarters. In early 1917, this unit was named the Canadian Light Horse.
The Canadian Light Horse first saw action as a mounted unit in the consolidation of the ground captured in the attack on Vimy Ridge in April 1917. The CLH played a major role in the fighting at Iwuy on October 10, 1918, where the last ever swords-drawn charge by Canadian cavalry took place. During the pursuit of the Germans in the final month of the war, CLH squadrons were always well out in front as a scouting force, ensuring that the Canadian divisions would not be surprised by German lay-back patrols. When the war ended for the Canadians in Mons Belgium on November 11, 1918, the Canadian Light Horse was already well beyond the city.
Modern armoured fighting vehicles – tanks and armoured cars – owe their development in part to the stalemate created on the Western Front by the deadly combination of machine guns and thick belts of barbed wire protecting trench lines, along with massive artillery bombardments that could be brought down with great accuracy on an attacking force. The problem of how an attacking force could be strengthened to overcome well-defended trenches had been studied by British scientists since late 1914. They came up with the idea of a 'land ship' – a tracked vehicle protected by armour plate, large enough that it could carry guns or machine guns, drive over belts of barbed wire, and crossover trenches. This highly secret vehicle was given the code name 'tank'.
Tanks were first introduced in limited numbers during the battle of the Somme in mid-September 1916, and the Canadian Corps was given seven (these models were called the Mark I) for its attack on the village of Courcellette. But these early versions were mechanical nightmares; almost all broke down before they got anywhere close to the German lines. Still, scientists kept improving their tank designs. Finally, in November 1917, tanks were used in large numbers in a successful offensive at Cambrai: the era of mechanized warfare had been born. Tanks then played major roles in the Battle of Amiens in August 1918, in the breaking of the Hindenburg Line in September, and in the pursuit of the retreating Germans in October and November 1918.
Early in 1918 many thought the war might well last into 1919, and the Canadian Army agreed to raise tank units. The 1st Canadian Tank Battalion was recruited from university students, and in June 1918 it was sent to England to begin training at the British Tank School. Despite the general aversion to volunteering at this stage in the war, a 2nd Battalion was also quickly raised. The 1st Tank Battalion had just completed its training and was preparing to leave for the front when the Armistice was declared on November 11, 1918. Thus, while no Canadian tank unit saw action in the war, many Canadians did serve in British tank battalions, and in a number of instances displayed their nationalism by painting maple leafs prominently on their vehicles.
In 1914, Canada created the world's first armoured unit. The driving force behind this achievement was Raymond Brutinel, a wealthy engineer originally from France, who had the idea that lightly armoured vehicles designed to carry machine guns would be especially useful. He offered to raise the funds for the vehicles, a suggestion which was readily accepted by the government. Brutinel designed the vehicles, had them built, purchased the machine guns, and recruited the soldiers, all within two months. His new unit was given the name 'Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1'. In the next few months three other mobile machine gun units were raised, all paid for by private subscription – the Eaton Battery, the Borden Battery and the Yukon Battery. All four units found their way to France where, in 1915, they were amalgamated under Brutinel's command as the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade.
Brutinel's Motors came into their own in the last year of the war, when the stalemate of trench warfare had been broken. This highly mobile force played an especially important role in stemming the onslaught of the Germans' March 1918 offensive, and a second similar brigade was formed. The Motors were a valuable part of a composite formation of cavalry, armoured cars and cyclists, termed 'The Independent Force', during the Battle of Amiens in August 1918. Between September and November this force led the Canadian Corps from one victory to another during the pursuit to Valenciennes and finally to Mons on November 11, when the war ended.
At the beginning of the war, each Canadian division had its own company of cyclists – troops equipped with sturdy bicycles whose tasks included field security and aspects of military intelligence. In the static conditions on the Western Front, they were not very useful, so they tended to be used as guards or labourers. In May 1916 the four companies were amalgamated as The Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion. In 1918, the battalion was included in Brigadier-General Brutinel's 'Independent Force', and there they served valiantly at Amiens and in the Pursuit to Mons as a form of mounted infantry – riding to the scene of action, dismounting and then fighting as infantry.
Selected Bibliography
Ellis, W.D., ed. Saga of the Cyclists in the Great War 1914-1918. Toronto: Canadian Corps Cyclist Battalion Association, 1965.
Lynch, Alex. Dad, the Motors and the Fifth Army Show: The German Offensive, March 1918. Kingston, ON: Lawrence Publications, 1978.
---. The Glory of Their Times : 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, March 1918. Kingston, ON: Lawrence Publications, 2001.
Marteinson, John and Michael R. McNorgan. The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000.
Mitchell, G.D., Brian Reid and W. Simcock. RCHA - Right of the Line : An Anecdotal History of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery from 1871. Ottawa: RCHA History Committee, 1986.
Wallace, J.F. Dragons of Steel: Canadian Armour in Two World Wars. Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing, 1995.
Williams, S.H. Stand to Your Horses : Through the First World War, 1914-1918 with the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians). Winnipeg: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) Regimental Society, 1999 (1961).
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The Withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line
none the less hard-fought engagements preparatory to larger operations, pushed the
enemy five miles up the Ancre valley on a four-mile front; and on the night of 22-23
February the Germans fell back three more miles across a front of fifteen miles. The
inability of his forces to withstand British pressure in their present positions strengthened Crown Prince Rupprecht's argument for a general retirement to the Hindenburg Line at an early date. On 30 January Ludendorff agreed, not only because the consequent shortening of the front would release thirteen divisions and many artillery units for the projected offensive in Italy, but also because a general retirement could be expected to upset French and British campaign plans. It was in the German interest to delay as long as possible any struggle on the Western Front, in order to allow time for results from the campaign of unrestricted warfare by submarine and cruiser which had begun on 1 February. The deciding factor, however, appears to have been the need for time to replenish supplies of guns and shells, deliveries of which had fallen far short of von Hindenburg's orders and expectations.
On 4 February the High Command issued an order over the Kaiser's signature for a
withdrawal of the Seventh Army's right wing, the Second and First Armies, and the left wing of the Sixth Army to the Hindenburg Line between 15 and 18 March. This operation was aptly code-named "Alberich", after the malicious dwarf of the Nibelungen saga,28 for it called for the devastation of the whole area to be abandoned - nearly 100 miles of front between Soissons and Arras, averaging almost 20 miles in depth. Under this "scorched earth" policy all military installations and useful war material were removed from the existing forward zone, townspeople and villagers were evacuated and their communities razed, livestock were carried away or destroyed, and all wells were either filled in or polluted. To delay an Allied advance the retreating Germans felled trees across the roads, blew large craters at main intersections, and everywhere beset the pursuers' path with ingeniously laid booby-traps. Well organized rearguards covered the German withdrawal, though these received orders not to counter- attack. The skill of the Germans in concealing their plans from the Allies and the success of their delaying tactics helped prevent any effective follow-up. By the morning of 19 March, 29 divisions had completed the withdrawal with a minimum of Allied interference.29 Four Allied armies found themselves out of contact - from north to south, the right wing of the British Third Army about Arras, the Fifth and Fourth Armies to across the Somme valley, and the left wing of the French between Roye and the Aisne. It took until 5 April to drive in the German outposts and establish a new Allied line in front of the Hindenburg Position.*
The enemy's retirement did not greatly affect the plan of Nivelle's main offensive,
which was to be made east of Soissons. But it seriously upset the preliminary offensive in the north, for the Germans in the salient which converging British and French thrusts were to have pinched out had now escaped containment. Time was lacking in which to build new communications across the devastated area, particularly on the French left, where the retreat had been farthest. Accordingly, the northern attack became an all-British operation, the principal aim of which was to outflank the Hindenburg Line from the north and advance towards Cambrai. General Nivelle was forcibly told by Painlevé and Pétain and other high French officers that his scheme was no longer practicable. Army group commanders opposed the plan as a reversion to the discredited pre-war and 1914 overemphasis on offensive action for its own sake. There were also strategic and political objections. Neither the Russians nor the Italians would be able to mount offensives in time to render assistance; and the prospect of America's early entry into the war seemed another good reason for postponing a major French offensive. At one point Nivelle offered his resignation; but this being refused, he continued with his preparations. After various delays the assault on the Aisne was ordered to open on 16 April, the British offensive a week earlier.
* Taking part in the Fourth Army's advance was the Canadian Cavalry Brigade. On 27 March, Lieut. F.M.W. Harvey, Lord Strathcona's Horse, ran into a wired trench and captured a machine-gun, for which daring act he was awarded the V.C.
Adapted and used with permission from Nicholson, G. W. L., Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919. Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1964, p.218-219.
Teaching Materials
World War I Warfare, Part A
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Films: Battle of Arras 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Canadians Advanced East of Arras 1
Summary: Students study film clips to answer questions to gain an understanding of what the war was like for the soldiers who fought it. This is the first of three related lessons.
Your Task:
Watch Battle of Arras 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Canadians Advanced East of Arras 1 and answer the questions below based upon the evidence that you see in this film excerpt. Some evidence may contradict other evidence. The captions appearing on screen are underlined in the section below. The questions are in chronological order.
Battle of Arras 1
How the Germans in their retreat blew up…
1- What did the Germans blow up to harass the Canadian advance?
a) Woods b) Canadian trenches c) Main roads
2- What two methods of transport did we use in the advance?
a) Cars and bicycles b) Trains c) Helicopters, ships
3- Canadians blew up French houses to build:
a) Trenches b) Canal banks c) Roads
An advance cyclist patrol
4- This "welcoming" was most likely shown to Canadian audiences. Why?
a) To prove we were winning b) To show our soldiers victorious c) Both a & b
A British Tommy reading the news…
5- What is 'Tommy' slang for?
a) An airplane b) A soldier c) A citizen
6- Who is listening to the news?
a) Men b) Women c) Young children
7- Where were the men of this village?
a) Working b) In prison c) In the army
A merry group
8- What message is this scene conveying to Canadian viewers about the French?
a) They don't care if they are liberated b) They dislike Canadians c) Our soldiers are welcome
Building a bridge over the Somme
9- Much of the building in World War I was done by:
a) Machines b) Factories c) Human muscle power
Another bridge over the Somme
10- Besides soldiers, what else provided much of the power to build things?
a) Electric power b) Women c) Horses
A battalion of the North Hampshire regiment
11- On this evidence, was World War I mechanized at the front lines?
a) Yes b) No
Our engineers blowing obstructions
12- What was the Somme?
a) Town b) Bridge c) River
Fruit trees ruthlessly cut down
13- What did the Germans do to French agriculture?
a) Encouraged it b) Left it c) Destroyed much of it
14- How did actions such as this influence the peace talks?
a) No effect b) Helped them c) Made the French want compensation
German observation post
15- What does this clip tell us about German soldiers? They were:
a) Brave b) Cunning c) Cowardly
Incidents in the recaptured village / French president visits / Well constructed dugouts
16- If these are evidence of "comfort," what does that tell you about World War I?
a) It was easy b) It was safe c) It was difficult and harsh
A huge crater at the crossroads
17- Why would armies blow up crossroads?
a) Minimize disruption b) Maximize disruption c) It was an accident
18- On this evidence, was it easy to pursue the Germans?
a) Yes b) Don't know c) No
Battle of Arras 2
A major commanding a gun battery
20- Transport in World War I consisted of:
a) Horses b) Trucks c) Automobiles d) All of these
21- Roads at the front were:
a) Paved b) Muddy c) Blocked with barbed wire
Various ways of supplying
22- The mud in World War I was crossed at the front by:
a) Trains b) Men and horses c) Canals
One of the difficulties
23- Why was it difficult to supply the guns?
a) Distance b) Enemy fire c) Mud
24- An important disability in World War I was:
a) Obesity b) Blindness c) Trench foot
Assisting infantry
25- Soldiers went to the front line by:
a) Truck b) Horse and cart c) Both a & b
The Pack Train
26- Feeding and watering the horses was a major problem in World War I because:
a) There were many horses to feed b) The climate was poor for wheat c) The rail system was poor
A two-seater albatross
27- What did Germany use as its symbol during World War I?
a) A cross b) Swastika c) Star
The bombardment of Vimy Ridge
28- The bombardment caused the French landscape to become:
a) Desolate b) Fertile
Battle of Arras 3
Rifles are tested / The infantry moving up / More guns used in
29- Is it easy to see the German lines?
a) Yes b) No
Gunners who have been at the front
30- What did the soldiers do to relax at the front?
a) Smoked b) Swam c) Jogged
Trench mortars
31- "No man's land" between the Germans and Canadians contained:
a) Shell holes b) Barbed wire c) Both a & b
The enemy shell a recently captured village
32- This shows that the destruction in France was:
a) Slight b) Moderate c) Considerable
And still more 9.2 howitzwers
33- The location of Canadian guns near French villages brought about:
a) Damage to those villages by German guns b) Nothing
South Africans make a raid / and bring back 3 prisoners
34-Trench warfare was:
a) Mechanized b) Based on individual soldiers
35- The effect of World War I on French communications was:
a) Slight b) Considerable
36- Rebuilding French cities would be:
a) Easy and cheap b) Difficult and expensive
Battle of Arras 4
The Bombardment
37- The shellfire in World War I battles was:
a) Enormous b) Moderate c) Slight
The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) go over the top and raid enemy trenches
38- This evidence indicates that most soldiers in World War I died from:
a) Rifle fire b) Machine guns c) Shell fire
39- Approximately 25% of the Canadian dead were never found because:
a) They were blown up b) Nobody looked for them
Fixing scaling ladders / The Hussars
40- How did soldiers climb out of trenches with their heavy packs?
a) Stone steps b) Brick steps c) Wooden ladders
41- Could cavalry have survived in the trenches?
a) Yes b) No
An observation balloon / Emergency parachute / Our airmen
42- How does the observer relay information to the ground?
a) By radio b) Flag signals c) Telephone
50- How did Canadian soldiers use the information from the observer?
a) Located targets on a map b) Shelled German positions c) Both a & b
51- How, on this evidence, were shells moved?
a) Horses b) Light railway c) Boat
52- Were men careful with heavy explosive shells?
a) Yes b) No
53- Why were light railways used near the front?
a) Insufficient horses b) Trucks were not invented yet c) Railways were more efficient.
54- What evidence is there that World War I was not hi-tech?
a) Men moved heavy shells by hand b) Horses were used extensively c) Both a & b
Canadians Advanced East of Arras 1
Christmas Greetings from Canada
55- What evidence suggests World War I was hi-tech?
a) Field guns were complex b) Men built railways to the front c) Jet engines were used
d) Both a & b
World War I Warfare, Part B
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Film Excerpt: Battle of Arras 1, 2, 3, 4 and Canadians Advance East of Arras 1
Summary: Students draw on their answers to the questions in the lesson World War I Warfare, Part A to respond to statements about the war.
Your Task:
After watching the films and answering the questions in Part A, use your answers to qualify the statements below.
|The film evidence suggests (see questions)
|1. All the destruction in France was caused by the Germans.
|Q 3 suggests
|2. French peasants did not care who won the war.
|Q 4 and 8 suggest
|3. The French "faked" much of the damage in World War I to get compensation from Germany.
|Q 9, 13, 17, 36 suggest
|4. The Canadian army often fought in kilts; Canada's equipment was outdated for this war.
|Q 20 and 55 suggest
|5. World War I was a modern war fought using up-to-date methods.
|Q 43 suggests
|6. There were very few "unknown soldiers" in WWI because most were killed near their trenches by machine-gun fire.
|Q 4 and 39 suggest
|7. Men were well trained and there were few accidents in this war.
|Q 4 and 52 suggest
|8. After the end of the war, the Canadians and British did not want to impose heavy penalties on Germany, but the French did. This was unfair.
|Q 13, 32, 35 show that France, unlike Canada or Britain,…
|9. Soldiers who survived the war were not affected by it.
|Q 38 and 39 suggest
|10. The costs of the war were not as great as earlier wars.
|Q 9, 32, 35, 43 suggest
World War I Warfare, Part C
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Films: Battle of Arras 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Canadians Advance East of Arras 1
Summary: After doing Parts A and B, students draw conclusions about the nature of the war.
Your Task:
After answering the questions in World War I Warfare, Part A, and qualifying the statements in World War I Warfare, Part B, answer the questions below.
1 . What evidence suggests that this was a traditional war similar in nature to wars in the 18th century? What other evidence suggests that it was a "hi-tech" war that used advanced methods of mass killing?
2. Explain why France, much more than Canada or Britain, wanted to exact high compensation from Germany at the Treaty of Paris, 1919.
3. List the methods of transportation used in this war. What major changes would you suggest if you were advising the generals on how to prepare for World War II? Remember that the generals do not want to waste money.
4. Did marching in straight lines, on parade, help to prepare soldiers for World War I? What training would you suggest if you had to train Canadian soldiers in 1916 to fight this war?
5. Explain why the tank and the airplane made World War II very different from the trench warfare of World War I.
6. Canadian soldiers were disciplined during the war, but were restless when they found themselves stuck in Europe after the war. Why were Canadian soldiers far more restless than British and French soldiers after the war was over?
7. Canada did not declare war on Germany but entered World War I as a colony of Britain within the British Empire. Imagine that you are advising the Canadian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Do you think Canada should remain subordinate to Britain in the Empire? What changes would you suggest to the Canada-Britain relationship?
8. In World War I, Canadians acquired a formidable reputation as soldiers. How did that influence the way other countries regarded Canada after 1918?


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Coldplay cracks top ten on 'Forbes' Powerful Musicians list
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The guys in Coldplay have made the cut on "Forbes'" list of the world's most powerful musicians. The British rockers came in at number nine on the 2013 edition of the financial magazine's tally, in large part because of their touring prowess during the 12-month period in question.
"Forbes" notes that Chris Martin and company out-earned U2 - a group they're often compared to - with a world tour that raked in more than $3 million per city before it wrapped with a New Year's Eve show in New York City.
Coldplay has been relatively quiet since then, but they're expected to start making some noise again soon. They're reportedly working on the follow-up to 2011's Mylo Xyloto, which will be their sixth studio album overall.
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Media advisory: Tour of Hollings Library set for July 14
Broadcast and print media will have the opportunity to tour the University of South Carolina's new Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 14. The library will be dedicated July 23, with Vice President Joe Biden delivering the keynote address.
Reporters attending the July 14 event will be able to do the following:
- tour the 50,000-square-foot Hollings Library, including many behind-the-scenes areas;
- learn about and explore areas specially designed for the conservation and usage of the South Carolina Political Collections, the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and Digital Collections;
- view items from the various collections that will be on display; and
- interview curators from each area, as well as Tom McNally, dean of libraries, about the significance of the library, the building's many green features and how the library will enhance teaching, learning and research.
The Hollings Library is located behind and connected to USC's Thomas Cooper Library on Greene St. Reporters should park in the Bull Street parking garage and enter through Thomas Cooper Library's main entrance.
The media tour will begin promptly at 11 a.m. and last approximately 30 minutes, with additional time available for reporters to revisit collection areas, take video and photos and conduct interviews.
Reporters planning to attend the Wednesday, July 14, media tour should call Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb in USC's Office of Media Relations at 803-777-5400 no later than Tuesday, July 13.
Hollings Library media avail
- When: Wednesday, July 14, 11 a.m.
- Where: Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, behind and connected to USC's Thomas Cooper Library