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Yes, I understand that he fought hard to be head of this nation and we gave him his desire.
Silently, he moves to grab a kombo (a whisk broom instrument)—then, softly, he taps her shoulders and head.
It was here, at BrewDog, that Pragnell met Omar Lombardo, who is now Casa Bruja's head brewer.
She herself was free forever from the veil or a head covering.
Like Tomas and Ebba, sometimes the best way to handle the situation is to put your head down and forge ahead.
It is repeated at every turn until the eyes are dazzled with it, and the head is giddy.
"If he has an idea of speculating in real estate, I'll have to head him off," said Jim.
"My name is Morris," said that gentleman to the head steward.
I nod in company, I wake at night, Fools rush into my head, and so I write.
She shook her head at him wearily, and he saw undried tears on her cheeks.
Old English heafod "top of the body," also "upper end of a slope," also "chief person, leader, ruler; capital city," from Proto-Germanic *haubudam (cf. Old Saxon hobid, Old Norse hofuð, Old Frisian haved, Middle Dutch hovet, Dutch hoofd, Old High German houbit, German Haupt, Gothic haubiþ "head"), from PIE *kaput- "head" (cf. Sanskrit kaput-, Latin caput "head").
Modern spelling is early 15c., representing what was then a long vowel (as in heat) and remained after pronunciation shifted. Of rounded tops of plants from late 14c. Meaning "origin of a river" is mid-14c. Meaning "obverse of a coin" is from 1680s; meaning "foam on a mug of beer" is first attested 1540s; meaning "toilet" is from 1748, based on location of crew toilet in the bow (or head) of a ship. Synechdochic use for "person" (as in head count) is first attested late 13c.; of cattle, etc., in this sense from 1510s. As a height measure of persons, from c.1300. Meaning "drug addict" (usually in a compound with the preferred drug as the first element) is from 1911.
To give head "perform fellatio" is from 1950s. Phrase heads will roll "people will be punished" (1930) translates Adolf Hitler. Head case "eccentric or insane person" is from 1979. Head game "mental manipulation" attested by 1972. To have (one's) head up (one's) ass is attested by 1978.
"most important, principal, leading," c.1200, from head (n.). Old English heafod was used in this sense in compounds.
head (hěd)
The uppermost or forwardmost part of the human body, containing the brain and the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and jaws.
The analogous part of various vertebrate and invertebrate animals.
The pus-containing tip of an abscess, a boil, or a pimple.
The rounded proximal end of a long bone.
The end of a muscle that is attached to the less movable part of the skeleton.
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After an infection causes the amputation of two of his fingers, Thomas Covenant learns he has leprosy. Once a popular author, he is now an outcast in his community. His wife Joan divorces him, taking their son Tom with her. Lonely and bitter, he meets an old beggar who tells him to 'be true.' Confused by the odd encounter, he stumbles in front of a car and revives on a high mountain in a strange world. After an evil voice of one called Lord Foul give...
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Covenant enlists The Haruchai and the Giants of the Search to travel the seas of The Land in search of the One Tree in order recreate the Staff of Law. The quest is doomed from the start but it's purpose is to fight the Clave, put out the Sunbane that is destroying The Land and sent Dr. Linden Avery back to our world. Along the way the Search encounters the strange faerie Elohim and the bizzare Kayseryn of Grye. They are relentlessly pursued by one (or m...
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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College softball team wrapped up the 2009 regular season Monday with a split against King College, losing the opener, 7-0, while winning the second game, 7-0. The Tornados finish the regular season with a 17-25 record.
Game One - King 7, Brevard 0
The visiting nine from King homered four times for the victory. Samantha Watts tossed the shutout, allowing just five hits and a walk while striking out one. Jennifer Gift went the distance for Brevard, taking the loss despite striking out nine batters.
Stephanie Mueller, Christy Kooch, Katie Hubbard and Emily Bennett all went deep for King. Bennett also added a run with an RBI single in the 7th.
Brevard's best chance to score came in the fifth inning, when they put runners on 1st and 3rd with one out, but Watts induced an inning-ending double play off the bat of Beth Brooker.
Game Two - Brevard 7, King 0
Brevard turned the tables in the second game, thanks to a dominating performance on the mound from Liz Houser and a home run off the bat of Chelsi Mallory, her third of the season.
Houser went the distance, allowing just five hits while fanning six to pick up her 10th win of the season. Danielle Zimmerman took the loss for King, pitching all six innings and giving up all seven runs.
Mallory's homer came in the 1st inning, a two-run shot that scored Brooker and put the Tornados up, 2-0.
The rest of the scoring came in the 3rd inning. With the bases loaded and two out, Maddie Fletcher was hit by a pitch to start the merry-go-round. Becca Curlee followed with a two-run double and Brooker smacked a two-bagger of her own that scored a pair, making the score 7-0.
Brevard turned the keys over to Houser from there, and the ace did not allow King to seriously threaten the home team for the remainder of the game.
The eighth-seeded Tornados begin the 2009 South Atlantic Conference tournament Thursday, when they face top seed Wingate at 4:45 p.m. in Hickory, N.C.


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Valenciennes 3
The Film
Running Time
01 min 15 s
Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
The Canadian advance through Valenciennes, Western Front, October 1918. The crossroads between Valenciennes and the suburb Anzin where French Deputy Durre was killed. Some of the houses are wrecked but a German cinema for the troops is still intact. In Valenciennes itself (this section is tinted mauve) men of the Canadian Corps pass the rubble of the station. A dead German lies in a doorway. Wagons of the Canadian 4th Infantry Works Company (note formation sign) move through. The Canadians inspect a dead German laid out in the street. In an office, the temporary Mayor, M. Billiet, poses with is deputy M. Damien.
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Canadian Small Arms of the First World War
Phil White
Historian, Canadian War Museum
Although the carnage of the First World War was unprecedented, there was nothing truly new about the small arms used during the fighting. The story behind these weapons and their terrible efficiency stem from the tremendous advances in science and technology made throughout the late 19th century.
By 1850, arms factories in Europe and the United States were making the most of advances in metallurgy and mass production, and were capable of manufacturing hundreds of rifles daily. Repeating rifles, which could fire several shots before being re-loaded, were used extensively during the American Civil War (1861-65), as were the first simple multi-barrelled machine guns. More powerful ammunition was available in the 1870s. The American inventor Hiram Maxim introduced the first true machine gun, capable of firing 450 rounds per minute, in 1884. The water-cooled barrel gave Maxim's machine gun the ability to fire for hours without stopping. By the turn of the century, most European and North American soldiers carried high-powered rifles that could fire 15 shots per minute at an effective range of 800 metres. The days of reloading a single-shot rifle, in the open, five or six times a minute, were long gone. The stage was set for the killing fields that were to come.
Two Rifles
Two late-19th-century inventions, the Lee-Enfield rifle and the Ross rifle, the first Canadian-made military rifle, are central to this story.
In the late 1870s, the British Army accepted Scottish-born Canadian James Paris Lee's rifle design for trials, ultimately resulting in the adoption of the Lee-Metford rifle, then later the Lee Enfield Mk 1 rifle. It was purchased by Canada and used in the South African War.
Sir Charles Ross designed his straight-pull bolt-action rifle and patented the design in 1897. The bolt mechanism, based on the Austrian Mannlicher rifle, also included Ross's own innovations. In theory, this type of bolt-action was very easy to use and could be reloaded very quickly. The more quickly a rifle can be re-loaded, the more firepower it provides. Its drawback was a complicated manufacturing process and its fragile loading mechanism. Ross revised his design, introducing it as the Model 1900, then later with an improved bolt mechanism in 1901, both of which were submitted to American trials as a potential service rifle.
After the South African War, Sir Fredrick Borden, Canada's Minister of Militia and Defence, lobbied unsuccessfully to have the Lee-Enfield rifle built by a British firm in Canada. When the British turned down Borden's request, the Canadian government turned to Ross and his rifle. After a series of modifications, Canada accepted the design, Ross built a factory at the Citadel in Quebec, and the rifle went into production. In 1904, the Royal North West Mounted Police received 1,000 rifles, the Department of Marine and Fisheries another 500. In the coming years, the rifle underwent continual modifications and developments to suit various requirements, including target shooting by the Canadian team at Bisley, where the Ross excelled. In August 1905, the militia received its first order of 1,000 Ross Mk 2 rifles. By 1911, the Mk 3 had been accepted and was being manufactured for the militia.
Britain tested the Ross rifle between 1900 and 1912, rejecting it because of problems with the design, including a propensity to jam.
The British Army continued to use the Lee-Enfield and in 1903, introduced the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (S.M.L.E.) into service. The S.M.L.E., a shortened version of the Lee-Enfield Mk I, had been developed as a result of experience gained during the South African War. The design and construction were simple, if not crude, but also robust, functioning under less than ideal conditions.
Ross continued to develop and fine-tune his design, resulting in dozens of variations. Between 1903 and 1915, 419,130 Ross rifles were manufactured, with most going to Canadian troops, and some to Newfoundland and Britain.
The Canadian forces entered the First World War with the Ross rifle, Mk 2, Mk 3, and its subsequent variations. Almost immediately, its shortcomings became evident.
On March 10, 1915 the 1st Canadian Division went into battle at Neuve Chapelle, France. The Canadians were heavily engaged and, to the horror of the soldiers, their Ross rifles began to jam. The reasons for this were numerous: the ammunition provided was often inconsistent in size; muddy conditions allowed dirt to build up in the complicated loading mechanism, and the heat generated by rapid-firing caused the closely machined parts to expand and seize. A design flaw also made the bolt difficult to lock, if it had been assembled improperly, and some bolts were said to have blown back into the user's face. Canadian soldiers soon began discarding the Ross in favour of the British S.M.L.E. Mk 3*, when they could find them in the field. General E.A.H. Alderson, commander of the 1st Canadian Division, was forced to issue an order banning the use of the S.M.L.E by Canadian troops.
When the Canadians fought at the Second Battle of Ypres, in late April 1915, the Ross failed again. Outnumbered and facing the first gas attack of the war, the Canadians found their rifles jamming. Some reports had them "Clubbing furiously at their seized bolts with trenching tools and boot heels." By the end of the battle, hundreds had discarded their Ross rifles in favour of the trusted S.M.L.E.
By June 1915, British Field Marshal Sir John French ordered the Canadians under his command to be re-armed with the S.M.L.E. However, the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions that soon arrived in Europe still carried the Ross.
In May 1916, a study into the Ross's problems confirmed the jamming and recommended modifications to the rifle's bolt-stops. Earlier tests had reported the Ross worked well with Canadian ammunition made at Dominion Arsenals in Quebec, but this ammunition was in short supply. New, poorly fitted stocks made from improperly seasoned birch were also causing problems as the wood warped and pressed against the metal frames. In light of the report, a few rifles were re-built with 26-inch barrels, trimmed stocks and larger bolt-stops. Although the rifles were reported to have worked "superbly," soldiers had lost all confidence in them. In mid July, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re-armed Canadians with the S.M.L.E. and the Ross was officially withdrawn from front line service by the end of that year.
By this time Sir Charles Ross was running into other problems. Skilled labourers were finding better work in the United States, machinery ordered in 1914 had yet to arrive, and supplies were increasingly difficult to secure. Ross won a $22,500,000 contract to make one million rifles for Russia, but had to let it go to the United States due to inability to meet his deadline. A second order from Russia was cancelled after the Mk 3 was withdrawn from Canadian service. On March 28, 1917, the Canadian Government expropriated the Ross Rifle Company. Canada's first and only national rifle had failed as a battlefield weapon.
The Machine Gun
In 1912, the British Army adopted the water-cooled Vickers Mk 1machine gun, an improvement over the 1884 Maxim design, as its standard machine gun. The slightly lighter Vickers, like the Maxim, made use of an ammunition belt, and could fire 450 rounds per minute. Its water-cooled barrel could sustain this fire over very long periods of time, often for hours. Classified as a medium machine gun, the Vickers Mk 1 was used primarily on a tripod from defensive positions. It could be fired directly at a visible target, or indirectly, like artillery, at targets or positions at long range or behind obstacles.
In response to the need to provide quick-moving infantry with machine gun support, light machine guns appeared on the battlefield in 1914. The Lewis, the first light machine gun used by the British and Canadian forces, had been introduced into service with the Belgian army in 1913. It weighed about 18 kg and could be carried "over the top" like a rifle, to give advancing troops added firepower.
Due to a shortage of light machine guns, the British and Canadians also adopted the Hotchkiss machine gun in 1916. The Hotchkiss was based on the French medium machine gun the Mitrailleur Mle. 09, modified for use as a light machine gun. Although lighter than the Lewis, the Hotchkiss was more complicated and was used mainly by the cavalry. The Hotckhkiss remained in service for training and home guard use after the First World War and was not declared obsolete until 1946.
The decisions regarding when and how to deploy, or advance against small arms fire relate to the concept of the 'beaten zone' or 'killing zone' that existed between the lines, and the time-versus-lead equations; the idea that a storm of bullets and/or artillery shells poured into a given area made the task of 'advancing to contact' extremely difficult, if not impossible. This led to obvious challenges: crossing the zone more quickly (tanks) or by stealth (surprise attack, often without pre-shelling); better tactics to bypass resistance (storm troops, combined arms warfare); and heavier bombardments to keep enemy heads down, destroy obstacles, etc; and in the meantime, drove troops into the ground (trenches) to escape slaughter.
Close Combat
Most of the casualties during the war were inflicted by artillery or small arms fire coming from a distance. However, there was still some close and brutal fighting, often as part of larger operations, but particularly during trench raids.
All rifles were fitted with bayonets, which took the form of a long knife or spike that could be attached to the muzzle of the rifle, effectively forming a spear. By the First World War, British, and Canadian soldiers had been training to use bayonets for 200 years and were very efficient in its use. The bayonet also had an enormous psychological impact. Hundreds or thousands of enemy troops running towards you firing their rifles, screaming and brandishing long blades or spikes, was a terrifying and demoralizing sight. Despite the psychological advantage, many officers considered the bayonet perfectly useless, even in the 19th century. Firepower and broken terrain could keep cavalry at bay from c1860 onwards in most battles, thereby removing the bayonet's one real advantage – warding off cavalry. When fighting in the confined spaces of the trenches, the length of a bayonet fixed to the muzzle of a rifle could be a great disadvantage. To this end, many soldiers equipped themselves with other weapons, both standard and non-standard issue. These weapons were especially important for trench raids.
Usually conducted at night, trench raiding was extremely brutal, tending to resemble medieval warfare. Soldiers made use of pistols, grenades, clubs, axes, morning stars, knives and even sharpened shovels. As a defensive measure, body armour was brought back into use and worn openly by infantry for the first time since the 17th century.
Pistols were issued officially to officers and NCOs exclusively, but they were also occasionally picked up or traded by soldiers and used for close fighting.
At the beginning of the First World War, Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence, ordered 5,000 semi-automatic .45 ACP calibre Colt model 1911 (Government Model) pistols through one of his "Honorary Colonels," causing a short-lived political scandal. The pistols were issued to non-commissioned officers and made available to officers for purchase, along with some older Colt revolvers left over from the South African War. Canadian officers serving with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, or other units assigned to British formations, were issued with Webley revolvers of various marks.
With the forces rapid expansion, the military needed more pistols by mid 1915. Due to shortcomings found with the Colt Model 1911, the government purchased 1,500 Smith & Wesson .455 Hand Ejector Second Model revolvers on August 21, with later orders for 13,000 between 1915 and 1917. Revolvers were considered more reliable in harsh conditions.
Immediately after the ceasefire of November 11, 1918, many First World War small arms developments were shelved. Advances had been made in designing lighter, more efficient machine guns and submachine guns, but, in the debt-ridden postwar years the last thing most governments wanted to spend money on was small arms.
The Department of Militia and Defence was now faced with the disposal of the unwanted Ross rifles. Some 120,000 Mk 2 and Mk 3 rifles were taken overseas and turned over to the British, and 20,000 were sold to the United States for training. Of the rifles sent overseas, 9,334 were later returned to Canada. The Ross continued in use as a sniper rifle throughout the war, and well into the Second World War, making use of its initial design as a sporting and target rifle. Many Ross rifles were also re-issued during the Second World War for training and Home Guard use and eventually made their way into the hands of the armies of China, Chile, the Baltic states, Spain, New Zealand, Holland, India, Indonesia and the Soviet Union.
The S.M.L.E. remained in service well into the Second World War and was replaced in 1942 by the Lee-Enfield No. 4. James Paris Lee's basic rifle design is still in limited service with the Canadian Forces in the 21st century with the Canadian Rangers and Cadets.
The machine gun continues to be a vital part of the arsenals of all armies. The Vickers machine gun was used in the Second World War, the Korean War, and was not officially declared obsolete until the 1960s. The Lewis gun saw limited service in the Canadian Army during the Second World War, notably at Hong Kong.
The bayonet is stilled issued and used as a standard attachment to most military rifles worldwide.
The small arms designs that were rooted in the late 19th century and used during the First World War evolved very little throughout the first half of the 20th century. Although infantry tactics evolved considerably and the casualty figures of the First World War seem incomprehensible today, killing over open sights remains the foot soldier's basic role.
Selected Bibliography
Edgecombe, David W. Defending the Dominion, Canadian Military Rifles 1855-1955. Ottawa: Service Publications, 2003.
---. Small Arms of the World: A Basic Manual of Small Arms. 12th rev. ed. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1983.
Ezell, Edward C. Handguns of the World: Military Revolvers and Self-Loaders from 1870-1945. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1981.
Hogg, Ian V. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms. London: New Burlington Books, 1978.
---. Military Small Arms of the 20th Century. 7th ed. Iola: Krause Publications, 2000.
Law, Clive M. Canadian Military Handguns, 1855-1985. Bloomfield, ON: Museum Restoration Services, 1994.
---. Without Warning: Canadian Sniper Equipment in the 20th Century. Ottawa: Service Publications, 2004.
Maze, Robert J. Howdah to High Power: A Century of British Breechloading Service Pistols (1867-1967). Tucson: Excalibur Publications, 2002.
Meek, John F. Over the Top: The Canadian Infantry in the First World War. Orangeville, ON: John F. Meek, 1971.
Morton, Desmond. A Military History of Canada. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1985
Nelson, Thomas B. The World's Submachine Guns. Cologne, Germany: International Small Arms Publishers, 1963.
Phillips, Roger. The Ross Rifle Story. Sydney, NS: John A. Chadwick, 1984.
Rawling, Bill. Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps 1914-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Saunders, Anthony. Weapons of the Trench War, 1914-1918. Phoenix Mill: Alan Sutton, 1999
Skennerton, Ian D. The British Service Lee, Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield Rifles and Carbines 1880-1980. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1982.
---. The Lee-Enfield Story. Piqua: I.D.S.A. Books, 1993.
Artillery: The Great Killer
Tim Cook
Historian, Canadian War Museum
In 1914 and 1915, artillery proved it was the great killer. For those caught in the open, shrapnel and high explosive shells wreacked havoc. Thousands were left rotting on the battlefields. However, artillery guns were vulnerable to small arms fire, and they could be driven away from the front. But the guns were soon firing indirectly from hidden positions several kilometeres to the rear, still causing terrible damage. Soldiers were forced to find safety in trenches, digging beneath the ground to escape the murderous fire.
As trenches were strengthened with barbed wire, deep dugouts, and machine -guns, an enormous weight of fire was needed to smash the enemy defences and support the infantry. But there were not always enough shells in the early years to feed the guns. And so the infantry were killed in the tens of thousands as they attacked undamaged enemy trenches in frontal assaults. As the war lengthened, artillerymen received nearly unlimited supplies of shells through the enormous production of munitions factories. New tactics were also developed to improve the accuracy of the guns.
Artillery shells contained high explosives, shrapnel, and, later in the war, poison gas and smoke. Both the high explosive and shrapnel shells were timed to detonate in the air above a target. High explosive shells blasted holes in the trenches and the concussion alone could kill, as lungs collapsed under the force of the explosion. Shrapnel shells were equally deadly, consisting of more than 300 rounded metal balls that exploded downward in a cone-shaped rain of whirling metal. As well, the casing of the shell was designed to explode outward, creating jagged, uneven shards of steel that tore through flesh.
By 1916, commanders believed that massive artillery shoots, involving hundreds of thousands of shells, would annihilate the enemy defenders. This would allow the infantry to punch a hole through enemy lines and restore mobility on the Western Front.
However, it was often hard to hit, and then destroy, the narrow and well-fortified trenches. The problem also lay in the shell fuses. Earlier types were not sensitive enough to explode on contact, especially with shells tasked to clear barbed wire. As a result, many of the shells exploded in the ground, killing very few of the enemy, leaving the infantry to fight their way through defences-in-depth. By the end of 1916, newer, sensitive fuses that exploded on the slightest contact harnessed the destructive power of the artillery and, equally important to the infantry, cleared barbed wire from in front of enemy trenches.
Tactics again changed during the later phases of the bloody battles of the Somme in the last half of 1916. The gunners would never be able to destroy all of the German defences, and even one machine -gunner could kill hundreds of attacking infantry. Instead, the artillery sought to suppress enemy fire through a "creeping barrage," and give their own attacking infantry enough time to cross the killing zone of nNo Mman's Lland.
Gunners fired their shells to create a "creeping" wall of fire that slowly moved forward over the enemy lines at fixed intervals: 50 yards (46 m) every couple of minutes, less for muddy ground, more for open warfare. In effect, it was a screen of fire and explosives. As this moving wall of shrapnel and high explosives chewed up the ground in its path, the infantry were told to "lean into the barrage" and stay as close as possible. Although friendly fire was expected and occurred, the casualties would still be lighter than if the creeping barrage moved off and allowed German machine -gunners, waiting in the safety of deep dugouts, to get to the top of their trenches before the infantry crossed nNo Mman's lLand.
At the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, the gunners had perfected the creeping barrage. Yet enemy gunners still took a fearful toll as they laid down their own counter-barrages to catch the follow-on waves of infantry. The enemy guns had to be stopped, or slowed, but it was exceedingly difficult to identify, target, and destroy camouflaged guns several kilometeres away.
Accurate intelligence was essential, and new and refined forms of science aided the gunners. The Canadian Corps was lucky to have Brigadier-General Andrew McNaughton, commander of the counter-battery office for much of the war, who embraced new technology and tactics. A prewar professor at McGill University, he turned to science to save his soldiers lives.
The Canadian Counter Battery Office (CCBO), established in February 1917, gathered intelligence and processed information on the enemy to assist in knocking out his guns. Aerial reconnaissance from the Royal Flying Corps (later Royal Air Force) was of great assistance as airmen photographed the front from great heights. Later in the war, observation aircraft circled the battlefield, passing real-time information to the gunners through letter drops and primitive wireless radio.
As the CCBO developed after April 1917, this information-gathering and target-selection became more sophisticated, with new technology, like sound-ranging and flash-spotting, assisting gunners to find and destroy enemy targets.
Flash-spotting involved the coordination of observers. At least three posts were needed, usually spread out along several kilometeres. When an enemy gun position was spotted by the revealing flash as the shell left the barrel, the observers were telephoned by headquarters to turn their attention to that spot. After studying the flash of the gun, the observers would hit a key that was connected to a lamp at headquarters. From the observers' bearings, and by triangulating their estimates, enemy guns could be located with high precision.
Sound-ranging worked on a similar principle. Listeners sat two kilometeres behind the line with their microphones. Additional posts were manned well ahead of these positions. As long as there was not more than one shell per second being fired, on hearing the crash of an enemy gun, the forward listening post pressed a key that started an oscillograph, an instrument that recorded on film the sound of the shell in flight as it reached each microphone in turn. The time-intervals between the microphones allowed the CCBO to analyse the information and, if conditions were optimal, pinpoint enemy guns to within twenty-five 25 yards (23 m). All available counter-battery guns would be aimed on that spot to deliver a destructive shoot of 50-100 shells. Chemical shells were also used to kill or force the enemy gunners to wear debilitating respirators that severely affected the rate of fire.
In the last year of the war, artillery had perfected the creeping barrage and was steadily improving its counter-battery work. Further tactical refinement allowed gunners to fire more complicated barrages, like a box barrage. The box barrages set up a wall of fire and explosives around an enemy position —-- usually a trench —-- which effectively isolated it from reinforcements. It allowed assaulting Canadian infantrymen to capture and consolidate a position without fear of immediate counterattack.
By war's end, 43,914 gunners had served in the Canadian artillery, and 2,565 had lost their lives from disease, injury, and battlefield wounds. They had fired tens of millions of shells, reducing the landscape to a desolate wasteland, and an estimated 60% of all wounds were inflicted by shell fire. The First World War was indeed a gunner's war.
Selected Bibliography
Cook, Tim. No Place to Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999.
McNaughton, A.G.L. "Counter-Battery Work." Canadian Defence Quarterly 3, 4 (July, 1926).
McNaughton, A.G.L. "The Development of Artillery in the Great War." Canadian Defence Quarterly 4, 2 (January, 1929).
Nicholson, G.W.L. The Gunners of Canada: The History of the Royal Regiment of the Canadian Artillery, Vol. 1: 1534-1919 Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967.
Rawling, William. Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Swettenham, John. McNaughton, Volume I. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1968.


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FAMILIES in Baxenden were evacuated when a coal mine tunnel beneath their backyards collapsed.
The gardens of three households are now off limits after a section of the 150-year-old Inch Mine caved in off Manchester Road.
Machine operator Geoffrey Walls said his family were watching television when they were told to evacuate immediately, and were forced to leave behind their pet parrot and fish.
He said: "It was crazy. The yard was floating. The shaft comes out of one of the neighbour's cellars and forks over under here.
"We moved here 15 years ago and never knew about it."
Mr Walls, 39, who lives with his wife and four daughters, claimed the three affected households were being kept in the dark by the authorities.
He said: "It'd be nice to be told if it's safe. I have got cracks all over my yard and they aren't telling us anything. We had to sleep on my mum's floor for the night. I don't want to move but this house was an investment for my children."
Another resident, who did not wish to be named, said: "The back yard was just suspended. It was a 20-foot drop. The police came and said you could fit about three cars in it.
"A structural engineer came in and just said, 'evacuate'."
Workers from the Coal Authority wore harnesses as they pumped more than 120 tonnes of rubble into the hole.
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"The hole was caused by slippage in the roof of a roadway, or a gallery. The houses are currently stable and safe."
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He said: "Manchester Road is a really sought-after and highly regarded location. But when a solicitor does a search, these things will come up, and it makes buyers very nervous."
The Coal Authority spokesperson declined to comment when asked about the residents' right to compensation.
Hyndburn MP Graham Jones said he was ready to take up the case with the coal authorities.
The houses are sited in an area classed as being in a 'development low-risk area' as part of a system designed to improve safety.
Developments could disturb old mine workings, leading to subsidence or damage to buildings.
In guidance handed to local authorities, the Coal Authority said 'low-risk areas' show coal mining took place, but 'was at such depth not to pose a risk to new development, and therefore contain no known recorded risk'.
The Coal Authority said it had no plans to rethink its labelling of Manchester Road as a 'low risk' area following the collapse.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes, namely:
For an additional amount for "Resources management", $175,000; and the restrictions contained within the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1952, limiting the amounts which may be expended from appropriations to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for personal services, are hereby waived to the extent necessary to meet the cost of fire suppression.
For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1952, for increased pay costs authorized by Public Laws 201 and 204, approved October 24, 1951, and Public Law 207, approved October 25, 1951, and comparable pay increases granted by administrative action pursuant to law, as follows:
Indian Claims Commission: "Salaries and expenses", $3,900;
Bureau of Indian Affairs:
"Health, education, and welfare services", $2,175,000;
"Resources management", $388,000;
"General administrative expenses", $224,900;
"Payment to Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, Oklahoma", $1,500;
"Tribal funds" (from tribal funds), $79,000;
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For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts and the United States Court of Claims, as set forth in House Document Numbered 471, Eighty-second Congress, and Senate Document Numbered 108, Eighty-second Congress, $6,490,662, together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified in such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act.
Amounts made available for pay increases in this Act, by appropriation, increase in administrative expense limitation, transfer and otherwise are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set forth, and such sums (except corporate funds, trust funds, and funds under the title "Control of emergency outbreaks of insects and plant diseases") shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, as follows:
Bureau of Indian Affairs: "Health, education, and welfare services", $75,000;
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Double Fine raised more than $3 million dollars on the crowd funding site Kickstarter, influencing a leaner way to produce and fund new video games. BYTE went to check out the indie gaming company's office in San Francisco to find out more about how Brent Shinn, Double Fine's IT manager, wires the gaming shop and manages the BYOD culture of the 60-plus employees.
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By Susan King Los Angeles Times
Charlotte Rampling has gone from "The Look" to "The Legend."
She received the moniker "The Look" when as a beautiful, carefree dolly bird in swinging '60s London she made an early name for herself in Richard Lester's 1965 comedy "The Knack" and 1966's dark comedy "Georgy Girl."
A 2011 documentary on the actress was aptly titled "Charlotte Rampling: The Look."
But in France, where's she lived since 1979, Rampling's been lovingly nicknamed "The Legend" because of memorable performances playing brave, daring and often difficult women in such acclaimed films as Luchino Visconti's 1969 epic "The Damned," Liliana Cavani's controversial 1974 drama "The Night Porter," Sidney Lumet's acclaimed 1982 drama "The Verdict," and François Ozon's "Under the Sand" (2001) and 2003's "Swimming Pool."
So how does she choose her roles?
"I guess I seek out this great spirit in a character," said the effusive actress, 67, during a recent phone conversation from her home in Paris.
Rampling's bringing her icy, enigmatic quality with a touch of maternal concern to her latest role as Dr. Evelyn Vogel on the final season of Showtime's "Dexter."
The brilliant neuropsychiatrist encounters everyone's favorite serial killer, Dexter (Michael C. Hall), a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department, when she becomes a consultant for the homicide division's case revolving around a serial killer called the Brain Surgeon.
In the first two episodes it's revealed that years before Vogel had consulted at Miami Metro and encountered Dexter's late father, Harry, who had expressed his concerns to her about young Dexter.
Despite her extraordinary career, Rampling initially didn't have acting aspirations.
"I was working in a boring old typing pool at an advertising agency. I was spotted by the executives on the floor above where all the chic people were working. That was that."
These executives liked her "look" and cast Rampling in a Cadbury chocolate commercial, which led to a role as a water skier in "The Knack," Then came "Georgy Girl" in 1966.
"Dexter" marks Rampling's first series role in the U.S.
"I thought this was intriguing that you come in with a character who is going to reveal a lot of stuff about the main character and cause a lot of suspense and a lot of angst," she said.
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Tempers flared outside Casey Anthony's home on Sunday, and it could mean charges against her father.
While several people protested outside the family's home, officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Office said George Anthony pushed one man and then pushed a woman, 65, while yelling "get off of my property."
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The 1956 Continental Mark II in America's Car Museum was donated by Steve Boone, owner of Northwest Harley Davidson in Lacey. The Mark II provides viewers with an example of Ford's forward-thinking designs and attention to quality during the middle of the last century. "To craft the finest automobiles in America" was, after all, the motto of the short-lived Continental Division of Ford Motor Co. Boone said the sleek look and luxurious interior gained his attention when he acquired the car.
"The Continental Division of Ford Motor Company traced its roots back to Edsel Ford's pet project, the 1939 Lincoln Continental," The April 2005 issue of Hemmings Classic Car noted. The Lincoln line had stopped production in 1948, and dealers were eager to fill their showrooms with a replacement. The Mark II fed into that line. Work on designing the car started in 1952 with research to determine whether a market for such a premium car even existed.
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- Cartoon Characters: Mistle Toad, Fur Foot, Beauty Stem, Elf Cup, Shaggy Mane, Puff Ball, Oyster, Slippery Jack, Panther Cap, Earth Star, Erebus, Digger, Hera, The Outsider, Daphne.
- Vocal Talent: Long John Baldry (Mistle Toad), Terrence Scammell (Fur Foot), Sonja Ball (Beauty Stem, Panther Cap), Dawn Ford (Elf Cup, Shaggy Mane), Rick Jones (Puff Ball, Erebus, Digger), Bryn McAuley (Oyster), Brady Moffatt (Slippery Jack), Michael O'Reilly (Earth Star), Kate Hurman (Hera, The Outsider), Anne K. Leger (Daphne), Liz MacRae, Dawn Ford, Norman Mikeal-Berketa, Ross Wilson, Desmond Byrne, Jennifer Gould, Dean Hagopian, Tatyana Loeffler-Vulpe, David McCallum, Debbi Murphy, Jerri Southcott.
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'"Nobody is going to quit," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "I don't know if I ever played with anybody who ever quit. We've got the jump back. We've got the pizzaz back. The only trouble is, we're running out of time."'
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right, title, and interest in and to the following described tracts of land on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota, purchased by the United States for Crow Creek Indian school purposes, shall
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Township 107 north, range 72 west, fifth principal meridian: Section 2, lots 3, 4, southwest quarter, south half northwest quarter, 318.65 acres; section 3, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, south half north half, 317.60 acres; section 4, southeast quarter, 160.00 acres.
Township 108 north, range 72 west, fifth principal meridian: Section 33, south half, 320.00 acres; section 35, southwest quarter, 160.00 acres; a total of 1,276.25 acres.
The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1050), the extent to which the value of the title conveyed by this Act should or should not be set off against any claim against the United States determined by the Commission.
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The PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience) Delivery System provides scientifically-proven programs for middle-school youth and their families.
The three-tiered structure of the State-level Partnership, which includes Community Teams, Prevention Coordinators, and a State Management Team, facilitates a feedback cycle through which Community Teams receive ongoing proactive technical assistance based on their assessed needs.
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Positive findings from the PROSPER project in Iowa and Pennsylvania have generated interest from prevention researchers and Extension personnel in states across the U.S. This national attention suggested that members of the original PROSPER project team take the next critically important step of developing the infrastructure and capacity to support additional PROSPER State Partnerships.
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Michael Jordan told us we should drink Gatorade because he used it to get through tough games, and we listened. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, told us that Weight Watchers helped her lose ten more pounds, and we listened.
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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College men's soccer team was unable to come out on top in their South Atlantic Conference opener. The Tornados played host to the Eagles of Carson-Newman and fell 1-0 when a second half goal proved to be the difference.
The Tornados took five shots in the first half and found the post or cross bar on two of them. Despite their chances in the first half to go ahead, they were unable to capitalize and went into the break all nodded-up at zero.
It was almost 20 minutes into the second half when the Eagles struck. Forward Adam Thomas snuck one past Brevard keeper, Pauli Jussila (Valkeakoski, Finland). Jussila had just made a save on a shot from Ariel Pimentel and Thomas put the rebound into the back of the net. Jussila played all 90 minutes in net for Brevard.
Brevard fought on but was unable to find the goal they needed to tie things up and the 1-0 score stood as the final.
Brevard was outshot 11-9 and Carson-Newman took six more corners, taking seven total in the match.
The Tornados continue SAC play on Wednesday when they host the bears of Lenoir-Rhyne for a 4 p.m. match at the BC Soccer Field.


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Best Of :: People & Places
Yes, strolling along Rose Drive just south of Davie Boulevard can bring you more than a view of quaint houses and bougainvillea galore. You can also spot male peacocks preening and strutting as they try to entice their dull-feathered female counterparts into a little bump and grind. If you visit the area at night, you can hear both the conquerors and the conquered crying out from the shadows like cats. The occasional iridescent feather dropped on lawns and sidewalks is the price for all that prancing.
When the Norton Museum of Art asked the West Palm Beach city commission to overrule the city's historic preservation board and OK the destruction of a 1920s garage to make way for the museum's latest round of expansion, the trustees expected to get their way. Not in Mango Promenade. The residents of this narrow peninsula of a neighborhood, less than 12 blocks long and a block and a half wide, have watched the well-funded cultural Goliath grow and devour their district's northernmost blocks through the years. Not this time. Mango Promenade was the city's very first automobile suburb, said the working folk whose sweat equity had revived the neighborhood in recent years, and those old garages are central to its character. The Mangoistas took that argument to a packed city hall hearing in February, outdueled a team of Norton lawyers and architects, and convinced the commission, for once, to do the right thing.
Boca Raton is notorious for symbolizing South Florida's anticulture: stuffy, platinum-pated, insufferably posh, and full of itself. We wouldn't want to grow up there. But if worse came to worst, at least there's one small pinpoint of hipness in this vast bad-jewelry-and-plastic-surgery capital. It's stuck behind a 7-Eleven off the corner of Palmetto Park Road and Dixie Highway. It's dark, dank, and about as unpretentiously pretentious as can be. For Boca's disaffected youth (or at least those of legal drinking age), it's nice to have a walk-to watering hole sans $13 chocolate martinis or dress-code elitism. What it does offer, besides reasonably priced cold frosty ones, is music of the live, local, and loud variety. How does such a bastion of anarchy survive in tanned, tony Tinselville? We haven't a clue, but we're sure glad the Boca Pub exists. Maybe there's hope for Boca Raton after all.
Who would have expected Japanese colonists in South Florida? Well, they were here, nearly a century ago, and although their Yamato farming community in Boca Raton didn't last, their legacy lives on in the form of the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Think of this 200-acre complex as an organic whole, the way a Zen Buddhist might, and you'll begin to appreciate the architectural splendor of the place, which is actually made up of two distinct museum buildings and an intricate series of gardens linking them. The original "Yamato-kan," which opened in 1977, is a replica of a traditional Japanese villa, wrapped around a starkly beautiful rock garden and set on a small island. Nearly a mile of carefully manicured trails winds through half a dozen styles of gardens, each magnificent in its own way, to take you up the hill to the new museum, which opened in 1993. It's a much grander structure, also inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, featuring galleries, a teahouse, and a 225-seat theater. Between the two buildings is a large lake stocked with turtles and big, colorful Japanese carp that gather at a feeding station on the island, where, by the way, you can take in a collection of bonsai trees, which demonstrate that, in Japanese hands, even nature can be transformed into architecture.
If David Lynch were scouting for locations around Fort Lauderdale to film his next bizarre odyssey, chances are that Charlie's Rustic Bay Inn would be near the top of his list. But even if Lynch doesn't introduce dancing midgets, locals can say with some certainty that this is one of the weirdest watering holes around. Wedged between auto body shops in a forbidding industrial neighborhood, Charlie's looks like a place you'd bring your truck to have the engine valves adjusted. But inside the tiny, smoky, wood-paneled room is a small range of liquor and bottled beers peeking from an old cooler. The clientele is rough, gruff, and seedy -- just the type you'd expect at a clandestine joint such as this. But the real attractions are the tag-team servers behind the bar. These pneumatic women exude a certain scent of naughtiness that makes one wonder what might happen if the mood were to strike them. Imagine the possibilities.
If you've done any B&B-hopping in your life, you know the stellar inns are historied, meandering mansions. Stay in those B&Bs -- often Victorian style -- and you can almost hear the echoes of butlers announcing guests and piano lessons in the music room. Trouble is, Queen Victoria held little sway in South Florida, and venerable homesteads are few. Though it doesn't date back quite to Her Majesty's reign, the mansionesque Caribbean Quarters, built in 1939, captures some of the feel of yesteryear -- and stands within a block of the beach. The three-story B&B's spacious courtyard is an oasis from the hubbub of the beachfront and features a spa, lush vegetation, trellis centerpiece, and tables from which to eat that namesake breakfast. Rooms are swank, some with hardwood flooring and tiles preserved from original construction. Prices range from $75 to $175 during summer season, $110 to $220 in the winter. We are amused.


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And trust me- anyone could make these! They are easy to throw together in no time at all.
Serves: 24
Strawberry cake mix and brownies! The perfect combo and perfect for Valentine's day!
15 minPrep Time
20 minCook Time
35 minTotal Time
- 1 (19.5 ounce) package brownie mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil (you could also use canola oil)
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package strawberry cake mix (or any flavor you want)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (you could also use canola oil)
- 1 1/3 cups water
- 3 egg whites
- Frosting:
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup chocolate sprinkles
- Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 40-48 muffin cups with paper liners (I only got about 40 cupcakes, but you may get more).
- Whisk together the brownie mix, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup canola oil, and 1/4 cup water in a bowl. Stir just until fully incorporated, about 50 strokes; set aside.
- Mix the cake mix, 2 tablespoons canola oil, 1 1/3 cup water, and 3 egg whites in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until combined. Mix on medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Spoon the brownie batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each cup 1/3 full. Spoon the cake batter over the brownie batter, until muffin cups are each 2/3 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 20 minutes.
- Frosting:
- Cream together the butter shortening, and vanilla. Then add in milk and powdered sugar 1 cup at a time. Mix until light and fluffy. Top with optional sprinkles.
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BELLFLOWER - Family and friends remembered Tony Louis Francis, who was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy Friday afternoon, as an "innocent," "kind, thoughtful and sweet man" Tuesday night during a candlelight vigil.
Many of about 100 people gathered at Flora Vista and Alondra Boulevard lit candles and placed them at a makeshift memorial there. The location was across the street from the site where the 25-year-old Long Beach resident was shot.
Some people also held signs reading "Justice For Tony" and "RIP Tony Francis."
"Tony was an innocent man," said his mother, Tracy Davenport, 46. "All these things they are saying are lies."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said a Bellflower deputy assigned to the Lakewood Sheriff's Station witnessed Francis punch a man several times in the face, rob him and then flee the scene at 2:10 p.m. Friday near the intersection.
As the deputy pulled up, Francis fled, and the deputy followed Francis in a patrol car into a nearby driveway, said Deputy Kim Manatt of Sheriff's Headquarters.
The deputy crashed his patrol car into a cinder block wall at the driveway's end as Francis stood on a raised platform to the left of the patrol car, Manatt said.
The deputy confronted Francis, and, at some point, while still sitting in the driver's seat, shot him, Manatt said.
City News Service reported that the Sheriff's Department said Francis reached for his waistband before the shooting, but no gun was found.
Francis family members dispute that account. They said no robbery ever took place and no items taken in the alleged robbery were found on Francis' body.
Family spokesman Eddie Jones said Francis was shot three times - in the back of his head, the back of one of his legs and in his back.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday night to confirm this.
The Sherriff's Department hasn't released further details of the shooting and hasn't said whether the stolen items were found on Francis.
Francis' sister, Harvesha Knight, 27, said her brother was a "kind, thoughtful and sweet man."
"He wasn't a violent person," she said.
The Francis family plans to hold a march 6 p.m. Friday. It will begin at the corner of Clark Avenue and Alondra Boulevard.
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Each of the 214 elegant rooms and luxurious suites at Sandos Cancun Luxury Resort lends dazzling views of the turquoise Caribbean Sea and the calming Nichupté Lagoon.
A blend of music, cuisine, culture and fashion, looking to enhance your lifestyle and luxury getaway like never before.
Music, cuisine, fashion and culture blend together under The Rhythm Experience. This entertainment lifestyle thrives at Sandos Cancun with a mix of beats, flavors and color by the beach.
A quick side-by-side look at the resort amenities included vs. additional.
|24-Hour Room Service
|A la Carte Restaurant
|Bars & Snack Bars
|Beauty Salon
|Breakfast Buffet Restaurant
|Car Rental
|Conference Rooms
|Currency Exchange
|Fitness Center
|Hydrotherapy Circuit
|Outdoor Jacuzzi
|Pool Area
|Premium Club Access
|Reception 24 Hours
|Romantic Dinner
|Scuba Diving
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|Sightseeing Tours
|Spa del Mar*
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130kg of strength and 0 stamina.
Tonight I'm headed back to MMA (striking class).
Should I crash cut my weight or do it slowly over a period of time?
It's taken me a year to put on 10kg of muscle, I'm concerned I'll really fu** with my metabolism if I'm not careful.
I'm 32 now.


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This is where the wait list will be posted once the tournament field is full. The wait list will be on a first come, first serve basis. Open spots will be determined up to and until after the players meeting on Friday, June 3rd.


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Overnight Experience Program
Overnight Experience Program
Registration for this event is now closed.
High school seniors are invited to experience the Mount first-hand during this Sunday to Monday program. Visiting students will be hosted by current Mount freshmen and will have the opportunity to attend first-year classes in our Veritas program during the day on Monday. Host and student match-ups are made based on gender and availability of hosts. On Monday, parents will attend presentations from different departments on campus including admissions, financial aid, social justice, academics, career center, public safety, residence life, center for student diversity, and campus ministry. An optional student-led campus tour will be offered at the conclusion of the program. The parent program will be held in the Cardinal Keeler Dining Room located in Patriot Hall.


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Hiker dies in fall at Angel's Rest
A caller to 911 reported a hiker she was with had fallen from a rock near the top of Angel's Rest, in the Columbia River Gorge, where they had been sitting.
She could not see where he had fallen, because of the thick brush covering the ground and he was not responding to her when she called out to him.
A Corbett Fire Department team along with AMR responded up from the Angel's Rest trailhead on the call.
Another hiker passing through the area stopped and was able to make his way down from the trail to the hiker that had fallen and reported the male was unresponsive and he could not detect a pulse.
Corbett Fire Department personnel arriving at the top of Angel's Rest rappelled down to the fallen hiker and confirmed the hiker was deceased. He's identified as 29-year-old Michael Cigler of Hillsboro.
Preliminary indications are Cigler appeared to have fallen approximately 75 feet down off the trail and then travelled another thirty to forty feet before he came to a stop on the hill.
Alcohol may have been a contributing factor.
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WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel spoofs Kanye West interview
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Jimmy Kimmel is spoofing Kanye West's recent interview with BBC's Radio One. On Tuesday's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Jimmy hired two children to act out the interview's most memorable quotes.
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Dubbed the "Kanye Kid (Re)Kreation," the parody also recreates Kanye's claims that he designed leather jogging pants. In the actual video of the interview, Kanye says he brought the idea for the leather jogging pants to the Italian designer Fendi, but was turned down. Among the other quotes reworked by the young actor playing Kanye was a passage about Kanye's aspirations to design everything from buildings to water bottles.
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GSA Lends a Hand for the 2010 Census
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GSA is working with the U.S. Department of Commerce to provide hundreds of offices around the country for census takers as they work to count the U.S. population. GSA's Public Buildings Service took the lead in helping the Census Bureau.
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Crystal Bowersox has my vote to win American Idol 2010. She's got a wonderful, unique talent, and lots of heart and I could listen to her all day long.Lee Dewyze is very good, too, though he's not as consistent or at Crystal's level - yet.Their duet singing the Oscar-winning "Falling Slowly" from the film ONCE, singled them out as the finalists and I just loved it. One of my favorite songs of recent years.I wasn't happy with American Idol this year; the singers really struggled and the … [Read more...]
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some new black on black shit that i'm really digging recently...the effect of the gloss on flat is dope in person...
bottom one was a dvs sticker
Error im feelin tha murdered out stickers man...
error - that is the best lookin sticker that i have seen from you so far.
skulle - u sent my pack yet?
Klic, your pack is on it's way. Sending out boog's pack tomorrow. I'll have Endzero's out probably monday. And stiGoing to Louisville Kentucky this weekend, so expect some JAEP, ARTONE, Stop the Nonsense, and Vagrant combos to be posted Monday.
nouveau - let me know if u start to get low on my slaps and we will reup not this weekend but the next if u will be in town
some dope packs ive received recently
rip solve
stop the nonsense
some blanks from immoral, thanks
ceito atv
and a crappy old sticker i put up earlier
peacebomb- i remember tellin you to use trippy colours on your joker sticker, but what i was kinda meaning was to like colour his mouth like bright green or something. but it still looks pretty badass like it is
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turkeydinner -like the hand!
error - the new slap is alright but not feelin the karak thing though
klic - who is ceito atv and where do you get up with him?
its a big laser jet printer at work then i spray them with clear spray I havent tested the black ones yet but the normal ones hold up pretty good put one on a sign close to my house about a month ago and still looks pretty good.
a pack...any takers?
wrong picture....sry i can;t edit it cause i'm on a proxy :S
haha i just hooked up with him on flickr


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Golf Gifts for Every Kind of Player
An Android-based tablet you can drop from four feet, even into a small pool of water.
Useful if you're in the military (seriously, it's designed for them). Or just really, really clumsy.
Finally, an OLED TV bigger than 11 inches — and it's actually coming out this year. For a price that would probably get your kid a semester at private college.
Useful if you want a TV with a better picture than anything else out there — and you can convince the kid he'd be happier at state school.
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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
The bed was terrible, there was a bar digging into my hip/ lower back all night. One toilet and one shower for a room of 16 is not enough. There was some sort of construction or something happening on the floor above me from 5am to 9pm. No kitchen, which is dumb. It's a massive facility, so there are huge tour and school groups there all the time.
The private rooms are like a 4 star hotel excellent location as well I really enjoyed my stay
Staff was nice, spoke many languages. This is a hostel, not a hotel meant for families.. Pool was in a dark room with black lights, looked like a nightclub scene. Very loud inside and out, even at 3am. Beware if you are over 25, you are too old to stay here.
Everything was very easy. The private room was wonderful, large. Breakfast was great a large selection of sweet and savory. Walkable to everything. Laundry on premise. Workout room only had cardio machines. It would be nice if there was an electrical outlet near the bed so you could charge and read at the same time.
It was centrally located and the rooms were spacious with all standard amenities except the electrical outlets. There was only (1).....seriously (1), outlet in the entire room. A mixed dorm room with 4 bunk beds and only (1) outlet doesn't make for friendly environments and happy customers. The price for the room was comparable but the foot, laundry, and drinks were completely over priced.
The hostel has great amenities such as pool, extensive breakfast, a small gym and multiple bars. The rooms were also very modern, clean and had air conditioning. There are already 20-30 busabout people on the main entry getting in the way and occasionally loosing their breakfast in the stairs nearby.
The hotel was very good for the the price i paid. Clean. As it was 15 min from the train station there was no immigrants around. Was very calm outside. Save. The breackfast was amazing!
We stayed in the private double room. Pretty good location, 10 minutes from the train station. Nice pool area and sauna. Friendly people working at the counter. Not very comfortable beds and quite ugly room, really cold floor. You can hear every voice from the hallway. Weird smell in the hallway and in the room as well.
This hostel has a very good location, being very close to the train station and 10 minutes walk from the major attractions. We got a nice & quiet room (they named it deluxe room) and for going there we had to cross the hostels' garden - a very nice place, i would like to be there in summer! Room was clean, with nice furniture, the bathroom was big. For breakfast we had to choose between some fixed menu, but it was ok, we had enough options (and got for no extra price croissant and orange juice). The good part of this is that we had fresh food, cooked especially for us (eggs and bacon). I saw very good prices for dinner menu, but as we didnt had the time to eat there, I couldnt say if the food its good or not. Free internet its a plus The restaurant looks a little like a place where students go to have cheap meals, so thats why my husband, who has about 20 years more than most of the clients of this hostel (young people, around 25) find a little diffficult to addapt. I felt like I was a student again, so for me it was ok.
The Hostel Archi Rossi is an interesting hybrid. The original part is a slighly upmarket hostel, complete with cafeteria style meals (why come to Italy for a cafeteria meal!), a load of computers for free internet access, a many backpackers. However, the Hostel has purchased the hotel next door so now comprises a hostel and very nice three star hotel with the latter at prices not much higher than the hostel, at least on the web. This means for a very reasonable price you can enjoy an extremely clean, comfortable and reasonably equipped hotel room (fridge, large shower, comfortable bed) and, most importantly, two gorgeous courtyards to relax in (an original one and one between the two parts of the hotel) as well as free internet. The free breakfast is truly cafeteria style, though the omlettes are really first rate and coffee should be skipped. Still, all the pluses make up for the average breakfast and for 90 cents you can step out the door and walk 40 metres to the left for a terrific coffee.
The front desk staff was excellent. They provided good instructions on how to get to the hostel and detailed directions for getting to the tourist site we wanted to see. Although we stayed one night, they were kind enough to hold our bags after check out so we could explore Florence luggage free. Thank you front desk staff! Super nice and competent at their job. The hostel was easy to find and in a central location. The beds are uncomfortable cots. It was chilly in the room, which made the bedding feel damp. We woke up a little later than planned and requested to have an extra half hour to shower and change before checking out. The front desk okayed it, which was appreciated however, the information was not communicated to the housekeeper. The housekeeper knocked on our door several times, I explained to her that we were allowed to stay for another half hour to shower. She didn't seem to understand or maybe she just didn't care. She rudely told us we had 5 minutes and left.
Very big rooms, nice utilities, quiet, air-conditioned, friendly staff A bit far off from the centre, but still ok walking distance
* central location - walking distance from firenze santa maria train station * safe area there isn't much of a vibe. for sure not a place to hang out a meet lots of new people. everybody minds their own business even in the rooms. not sure why
Friendly, helpful staff. Clean and large rooms. Good cooking and eating area and facilities. Free Wi-Fi
Not so far from central train station --- about 15 minutes' walk; has kitchen The room we stayed was really strange ---- without windows but only a door to the balcony through which we could see the opposite room inside! And both doors don't have locks and in the end, both of us stick a towel to the door...
Extreme friendly and helpful owner. Clean, new and big rooms / facilities (kitchen, microwave, great showers, etc)
The hostel was light, airy and clean. There was no fuss and the facilities were sound. The communal space was nice and the rooms were comfortably furnished with air conditioning, which was gratefully received, and a TV. Everything you need in a hostel, no frills but exceeded some hotels in necessary areas. The lift was very dodgy and the shower got quite dirty by the evening, I would recommend taking a spare toilet roll.
Nice staff No AC
the location was pretty good the bathrooms were not clean
Friendly staff
the location is excellent and the owner is friendly the facilities could be modernised.
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It was not far from center and staff was friendly and helpful. The price was cheap, and all in all it was what I was looking for: The shared bathroom was not really clean and not comfortable to use. It might have a room for improvement.
Best hotel for this money in the best city in the world!
close tot the center, friendly staff it was dirty, de shower didn't work, no good bed
The owner was very kind and helpful and the location was good.
The staff were very friendly and helpful and the location is great - midway between between the railway station and centre of Florence with great cafes and restuarants nearby.
This is a charming older complex of several rooms. Everything is clean and decorated perfectly. Small terrace and view that screams Italian charm. Management is very accommodating and friendly. The location to the main sights in Florence couldn't be better. Less than a 5 minute walk to Uffizi, Duomo, Galileo museum, Arno River, and much more. The beds and pillows could of been more comfortable.


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Author: Douglas A Sirois
Doug Sirois was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has since illustrated and designed everything from children's book covers and CD covers to clothing and apparel.
Doug earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in illustration at CalState, Fullerton in 2009. He currently resides in Claremont, California with his wife Jenn, son Micah, his dog Miles, and his cat Willow.
His clients have included MGM, Fox Radical Comics/Publishing, Interzone magazine and Rebel Spirit Clothing.
Graphic novels provide a great source of inspiration to illustrators, and within the myriad styles used by comic artists there are many that offer intriguing creative possibilities. Here Douglas A Sirois shows you how to produce a page that mimics the pencil-drawn styles of artists such as Michael Zulli.
You'll learn how to turn thumbnails into sketches, develop perspectives for each panel, evolve your characters and create a hand-drawn feel to your work.
Douglas then takes you step-by-step through how to turn out a piece with a pencil-drawn look. The techniques you'll learn will get results whether you've drawn the original piece in Painter or Photoshop, or scanned in a page of your own comic art, hand-drawn with a 2B pencil.
Discover how to combine different line thicknesses to suggest depth, use cross-hatching to add texture and consolidate it with fine detailing to bring some finesse.
Time to complete
2 hours
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REDLANDS - The historic Kendall Place, decorated lavishly in Victorian holiday style by the Redlands Horticulture Society, will again be the featured attraction for the Plymouth Village retirement community Open House on Sunday.
Residents and their families, Plymouth Village staff and their families and the community are invited to what has become a popular annual event in the city.
Snacks and other refreshments and live entertainment will be provided.
The Open House is scheduled for a 12:30 p.m. start through 3:30 p.m.
"It really is a general holiday get-together," said Jan Swisher, Plymouth Village's director of sales and marketing. "Employees and their families, residents and everyone from the community are all invited to come and enjoy it."
The Open House serves as a fancy start to the holiday season, Swisher said.
"It's the holidays, and we want to start it in a positive way," Swisher said.
Plymouth Village sits on a 37-acre estate highlighted by the historic Kendall Place - built in 1902 and purchased by Plymouth Village in 1984.
"People who have never been here before are usually surprised by how big this is," said Swisher, who will attend her first Plymouth Village Open House. "And the Kendall House, people always say how beautiful and charming it is."
Golf cart tours of the retirement community will be made available for anyone interested.
"We will show people our cottage homes, take them on a golf cart tour," Swisher said.
"No one has to go on the tour. The main thing we want is for people to come and see how beautiful the home is decorated and to enjoy the time with their family and friends. And maybe make new friends."
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