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There is often a need to compare and/or contrast all sorts of things. This is because some things are similar but usually with differences which make an impact on ideas or decisions we are about to make. When we speak of telling the differences and likeness of certain things we often say we are endeavoring to "compare and contrast". However, there is quite a difference between contrasting and comparing. This article aims to discuss how to correctly compare and contrast.
Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines compare as a verb meaning "to represent as similar". It also means "to examine the character or qualities of especially in order to discover resemblances or differences". Another way to use the word is to mean "to be equal or alike". Simply put, the word compare focuses on two things and their similarities and differences.
The same online dictionary defines contrast, however as a verb to mean "to compare or appraise in respect to differences". It is used with the preposition "to" when comparing against an object, and "with" when comparing against a person. In short, contrast sheds light on a comparison between two things and mainly their differences.
The word compare is of Middle English 14th century etymology. It comes from the Anglo-French word comparer, and the Latin comparare, which have later become the present-day words couple, compare. The root word compar (com + par) means equal.
The word contrast comes from the Middle French word contraster, which means to oppose or to resist. This is an alteration of the word contrester, from the Vulgar Latin contrastare (contra + stare), which translates to stand.
The word compare is mainly used to imply a purpose of demonstrating relative values by bringing out characteristic qualities in two or more subjects, whether they are similar or divergent from one another. For example, to compare like characteristics, we say, "Her cheeks are as red as an apple." To compare two objects using one characteristic but of different degrees, we say "Her cheeks are redder than an apple." And, if we would like to compare extreme degrees, we say "Her cheeks were reddest." To compare effectively, one needs to be aware of the usage of adjectives and their comparative and superlative forms. Most adjective word endings end in –er when changed to their comparative forms, while they are changed to –est when used in their superlative forms.
The word contrast is used to imply an emphasis on differences. As such, there are usually two adjectives involved. For instance, we can say, "Apples are red, while her cheeks are pink." We can also say, "Maria's cheeks are red, but Anna's are pale."
There are times when one needs to do both a contrast and a comparison. In this case, it would be perfectly logical to say "Anna's cheeks are redder than Mary's."(Comparing) and "Anna's cheeks are red, while Mary's are pale." (Contrasting)
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How to Write and Publish YOUR Book
This month, the To Kill a Mockingbird author will break her 55-year silence with Go Set a Watchman. But who is really behind the new novel?
and http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11482110
"Writing a masterpiece is not an act of magic, but a grim slog of failing, trying again, trying again and failing better."
from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11482134

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I think it should be clear this isn't a repair shop issue, YMMV isn't broken it only has a lot of excessive wicks due to the change in how the term is used in the wiki. This is a Special Efforts thread. I can't say I'll comb through the wiki looking specifically for the term but I will zap it when I find it.
27 SeptimusHeap28th Jan 2012 11:49:13 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
You might have a point there, but the problem I see is that this page combines wiki policy guideline and misuse bait in one. Cleaning up misuse isn't really useful if more misuse comes in.
28 SeptimusHeap9th Feb 2012 01:46:02 PM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
To reiterate:
- Since YMMV is not a trope but a guideline page (and an index) it should go under Administrivia.YMMV or YMMV.Home Page, but not under /Main/.
- Having bluelinked pages YMMV and Your Mileage May Vary only leads to misuse, as the wick check shows. On the other hand, it has enough inbounds and actual usefulness that it should be kept as a disambiguation/disclaimer page like This Troper, rather than cut or redirected.
- While some of the misuse is due to the lack of cleanup after the redefinition of Your Mileage May Vary, other misuse is ongoing one and can't be addressed by a cleanup alone, but only by redlinking.
29 troacctid9th Feb 2012 02:11:50 PM from California
What's wrong with having indexes in Main/? Most indexes are in Main/.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
30 shimaspawn9th Feb 2012 02:20:00 PM from Here and Now , Relationship Status: In your bunk
YMMV is an index. Indexs go in the main. Thus YMMV goes in the main. Simple.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick
-Philip K. Dick
31 SeptimusHeap10th Feb 2012 04:50:04 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Because they attract misuse as tropes. EDIT To Add: And because YMMV isn't a trope. Many indexes are supertropes or genre lists. This one is not. Anyway, the main point is to make YMMV harder to wick to since it only makes trouble.
edited 10th Feb '12 7:13:40 AM by SeptimusHeap
32 SeptimusHeap13th Feb 2012 08:10:00 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
OK, so can we at least move this to some other page soa s to stop the misuse, or should a clean-up suffice?
33 SeptimusHeap17th Feb 2012 08:21:19 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Bumping. I'd like to see an idea about this:
- TearJerker.Black Butler. Sinkhole
- TheScrappy.Comic Books. Sinkhole and Examples Are Not Arguable
- Examples Are Not Arguable. Correct
- Gratuitous Japanese. Incorrect. Justifying Edit
- Music.Hollywood Undead. Sinkhole
- TearJerker.Kuroshitsuji. Sinkhole
- Phineas and Ferb. Incorrect
- Characters.Super Bowl. Incorrect. Examples Are Not Arguable
- Music.Yoko Kanno. Incorrect
- WMG.Yume Nikki. Unclear
- AwesomeMusic.Anime. Incorrect. If anything, Love It or Hate It
- Woolseyism.Anime. Unclear
- Bonnie Scotland. Sinkhole
- Theatre.Brooklyn. None
- Bryan Danielson. Unclear, Parabombing
- But What About the Astronauts?. Incorrect
- VideoGame.Castlevania Symphony Of The Night. Absent
- Cinematech. Word Cruft
- Heartwarming.Code Geass Lelouch Of The Rebellion. Incorrect
- Discontinuity.Comic Books. Incorrect
- YMMV.Command And Conquer. Incorrect
- Music.Creed. Incorrect
- Damaged Soul. Unclear
- FanFic.Delta Invasion. Unclear
- Evil Is Hammy. Incorrect
- Game Face. Sinkhole
- General Failure. Sinkhole
- YMMV.Godspell. verbal tic
- Tearjerker.Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality. Sinkhole
- Headscratchers.Hellboy. Verbal tci
- Hotel Rwanda. Verbal tic
- I Have This Friend.... Verbal tic
- Indecisive Parody. Incorrect
- Ivanhoe. Misuse. Justifying Edit
- Jimmy Carter. Sinkhole
- YMMV.Kamen Rider Agito. Redundant
- Awesome Music.Kirby. Redundant
- Film.Kung Fu Panda 2. Sinkhole
- Characters.Law And Order: Natter
- YMMV.Legally Blonde. Verbal tic
- Lethal Chef. Unclear
- BLAM.Literature. Incorrect. Examples Are Not Arguable
- Medievil. Sinkhole
- Meet Cute. Sinkhole
- YMMV.Megaman. verbal tic
- SugarWiki.Moment Of Awesome. Correct
- Musical World Hypotheses. Incorrect. Examples Are Not Arguable
- No Ending. Unclear
- Non Lethal KO. Unclear
- Orangina. Sinkhole
- Our Lawyers Advised This Trope. Sinkhole
- Padding. Sinkhole
- Characters.Peanuts. Verbal tic
- YMMV.Peanuts. Sinkhole
- Heartwarming.Peanuts. Incorrect. Examples Are Not Arguable
- Player Punch. Sinkhole
- Prehistoric Monster. Sinkhole
- Professional Killer. Unclear
- Protectors of the Plot Continuum. Sinkhole
- Awesome.Rogue Warrior. Sinkhole
- Characters.Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas. Unclear
- Secret Test of Character. Natter. Incorrect
- Shaped Like Itself. Sinkhole
- Shiny Objects Videos. Incorrect
- Shut Up, Hannibal!. Unclear
- Anime.Soukou No Strain. Sinkhole
- Music.Spocks Beard. Incorrect
- Star Trek Specter. Incorrect
- Straight Man. Incorrect. Examples Are Not Arguable
- WMG.Super Robot Wars. Sinkhole
- Western Animation.Sym-Bionic Titan. Incorrect
- WMG.Tales Of MU. Verbal tic
- YMMV.The Day The Earth Stood Still. Incorrect
- YMMV.The Dreamer. Incorrect
- The New Rock & Roll. Sinkhole
- The Ugly Barnacle. Verbal tic
- Throne of Blood. Natter
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl. Incorrect
- Awesome.Web Original. Incorrect
- DownerEnding.Western Animation. Unclear
- TearJerker.Western Animation. Sinkholes
34 SeptimusHeap4th Mar 2012 04:07:30 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
My goodness, this just keeps dying. So there are several options on the table: Mine on the previous page, the cleanup-only one at the top of this one and doing nothing. Do we need a crowner at this stage.
Dragon Writer
Crowner time? IMHO, I have never liked the "YMMV" label. Yes, I know it's an abbreviation and a synonym for "Subjective Trope" (or "subjective example"), but as samples show people are linking it like a Stock Phrase. Seriously, 7000 wikilinks and a high proportion of sinkholes is a level that otherwise only "If You Know What I Mean" could reach.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
36 SeptimusHeap4th Mar 2012 08:09:37 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Yeah, that page invites misuse like you invite a vampire in. It has enough meaning that it should stay, but not enough that we can afford leaving it a bluelink -especially since the misuse seems to be partly leftover and partly ongoing. Of course, a fake redlink will need the current index to be moved somewhere else, since you can't edit fake-redlinks without blueshifting them. I will take another opinion before going to a crowner.
Dragon Writer
If no cleanup was ever performed, maybe take it to Special Efforts?
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
38 SeptimusHeap4th Mar 2012 10:56:39 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
There is ongoing misuse and a rule against it - Examples Are Not Arguable (to which Examples Are Not YMMV is a redirect). I seriously doubt that a cleanup alone will suffice under these circumstances.
39 SeptimusHeap5th Mar 2012 10:43:54 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
OK, so I've made a Page Action crowner to decide on the course to take, since the problem is acknowledged but there are different solution proposals.
40 SeptimusHeap9th Mar 2012 04:58:40 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Bumping for more votes so that it can be resolved.
41 SeptimusHeap12th Mar 2012 04:05:13 PM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Hopefully the last bump, as for now the options in green:
- Cleanup is at 11/1
- Split the index/administrative guideline off is at 12/2
- Redlink the redirects is at 9/1
42 ccoa13th Mar 2012 07:43:39 AM from the Sleeping Giant
Ravenous Sophovore
Looks like votes are still coming in. Let's give it another day.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
43 ccoa14th Mar 2012 05:46:20 AM from the Sleeping Giant
Ravenous Sophovore
Calling the crowner. None of the top three options are mutually exclusive, please implement them all.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
44 SeptimusHeap14th Mar 2012 06:16:01 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Before we can implement the split, we'll need the name of the page we are splitting the guideline into - I've made an alt-titles crowner here. About the fake redlinking, Your Mileage May Vary has too many inbounds to be cut and several past requests for Your Milage May Vary were declined, so I will ask Eddie to redlink both pages. Thanks.
edited 14th Mar '12 8:02:25 AM by SeptimusHeap
45 BestOf14th Mar 2012 07:40:46 AM from Finland , Relationship Status: Falling within your bell curve
Thread renamed and Crowners swapped.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
46 SeptimusHeap14th Mar 2012 09:37:11 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Also, I've created Sandbox.YMMV for the proposed disambiguation/disclaimer to put in where YMMV now is.
47 SeptimusHeap14th Mar 2012 09:43:31 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
I have to downvote anything without "YMMV" in the name as we are still calling the namespace /YMMV/. And we renamed Subjective Tropes for being a misnomer.
48 MagBas14th Mar 2012 09:54:08 AM from In my house
Home Page is not already the ymmv page? EDIT:I guess none of the names with "tropes" is a good idea. YMMV are not tropes.
edited 14th Mar '12 9:59:07 AM by MagBas
49 SeptimusHeap14th Mar 2012 09:56:37 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
No, it's a redirect to YMMV. About, Complete Monster is a trope but still YMMV. Not all YMMV's are Audience Reactions.
edited 14th Mar '12 10:16:38 AM by SeptimusHeap
50 SeptimusHeap18th Mar 2012 03:07:52 AM from Laniakea , Relationship Status: Mu
Bumping, vote tally so far:
- YMMV.Home Page: 6 yeas to 1 nays
- YMMV Tropes: 3 yes to 2 nays
Alternative Titles: YMMV
14th Mar '12 6:11:28 AM
At issue:Previous crowner showed consensus support to split the administrative guideline off the YMMV page so that it can be redlinked.


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Sorry, I forgot to post a Flashback Friday yesterday. Well, ok, I didn't forget. I just didn't feel like it. I worked all morning and part of the afternoon and when I got home I just didn't feel like doing anything. Also had a bit of a headache.
Ended up laying on the couch for a while, dosed off a few times. Luckily Skowt went home with a friend from school for a sleepover and Tiger spent a couple hours after school at a neighbor friend's house so I had some quiet time. Didn't even eat dinner until 7:30, which in our house is pretty late.
So far it's been a really nice weekend weather wise. The temperature at the bank we drove by said 81 degrees. Not bad for fall in Wisconsin! Too bad hubby had to work all day! May take the kids to go play tennis later and we plan to get to a pumpkin farm or something tomorrow. Tiger wants to go apple "hunting". LOL Don't know why she called it that, she meant apple picking. They had fun doing it last year.


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So I'm awake. Not voluntaraly I might add. It was not a good night for me getting sleep. First there was the drunken young people jambaroo outside my window. To which I say, young people, it is (or was, anyhow) Thursday night. Thursday. If you want to have a drunken jambaroo, do not have it in a quiet residential neighborhood full of working adults and families.
[A sidebar- at 27, do I still count as a young person? Considering that I'm all married and tax paying and pay close attention to things like eating lots of whole grains? Probably I do. Huh. That's fine actually, as I still sometimes feel like I am playing an extremely involved game of house that I am taking deadly serious.]
Then the dog got restless. There was a lot of kicking and squirming and snoring going on. Also, he really wanted to sleep smashed against me with his head under the covers. Which is fine, and is in fact how he usually sleeps, but last night sleeping under the covers caused the dog to inhale the sheet, and thus would need to be saved before he stopped breathing.
The dog did finely settle down, but by that point my brain, the autonomous part of my brain, had given up on sleeping. Which meant laying in bed for hours, thinking confused thoughts about sweater design. And eventually it meant giving up, and coming into the studio/study to play with my good pal the internet.
The odd thing I'm finding, as I sit here writing this, is that my fingers are making many sleepy typos, but there is still a part of my brain supplying me with words like autonomous, and even supplying them correctly (I checked). Which I think sums up a lot of my existence rather nicely. Even when I am a bit useless or slow with things, I always have a rather nice vocabulary.
Anyhow, I ought to stop rambling. As it is, I'm not entirely sure how much sense this will all make when I come back and look at it after a nap. But I hope to be back later today! I have exciting knitting progress!


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Book Review: The Best Apples to Buy and Grow
April 30, 2010
I found The Best Apples to Buy and Grow at the library. It is a thin little book that is a Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-region Guide, first published in 2005 and updated in 2007. It has several people contributing to the book, which makes it a little inconsistent when you are used to a formula format.
The book opens with a history of apples in North America (too bad I forgot about that when I was writing up the history for this blog) and then moves on to heirloom apples. There is a small section about apples for cider and apples for pie before it starts going though "60 Great Apples." This section is where you really notice the different authors, but they do try to give a description and a little bit of history before talking about culinary uses, harvest time, regions where grown, and growing tips. Some apples have pictures, but not all of them.
The last part of the book is dedicated to the home orchard, including a page on rootstock, grafting, planting, training, thinning apples, pruning, harvesting and storing apples, pest and disease control and including disease resistant apple breeds, deer, rabbit, and mouse control, and planting an apple hedge.
I did like this book enough to put it on my Christmas wish list, and my mother-in-law got it for me. Yes it is small, but I think I would take it with me to the next apple tasting I would go to, and it would be easy to do so because of its size. While it is not as local as Warren Manhart's Apples for the Twenty-First Century, it does a pretty good job for North America, though there are times where you can see the New York bias, which is where the Geneva apple research center is located. This book also talks about what apples are suitable for cider, but only if they are also good for eating. Can't have it all, but then again, having a multipurpose apple tree makes more people happy. I get apples for cider, and my husband gets apples for eating.


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This will be my 4th year participating in National Blog Posting Month. The goal of NaBloPoMo is to blog every day for the month of November. You can find my entries from 2009 here, 2010 here, and 2011 here. NaBloPoMo has really just become a part of the month of November for me now. I love it because it encourages me to take/make time to write. But despite my best efforts I haven't managed to make it the whole month without missing a day yet. Maybe this is my year?
In addition to NaBloPoMo I'm also participation in Fat Mum Slim's Photo A Day challenge. I'll be posting my photos on Instagram so if you have a smartphone or tablet you can download the app and follow me as epsnider. I'll probably be posting a few of them here as well. Today's prompt was "something that begins with c" Here's my morning cup of dairy-free chai (more on dairy-free later):
Here's to a great month with you, my readers! Sometimes I'm still pretty amazed that you bother to read here. Thanks :)


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I know you are all on pins and needles to continue the "BIG little" discussion. Sorry we got interrupted by some sickness. Poor Morgan is whining pitifully in her crib right now. She really needs to nap, but for some reason will not. I just gave her a dose of ibuprofen, so that might help. On top of her virus she is getting a few of her first molars. That's got to hurt. That might explain some of the extra runny nose and drooling going on. She's getting it from all sides.
Below are a few more pages from our BIG little book. Morgan LOVES this book! I think she likes the bright colors. She was crying in the bonus room this morning and I looked over the couch to see her peeking underneath it, trying to retrieve her lost book. She was very happy when I got it out for her and babbled away as she paged through it.
A few pages after the "Ladies" page we have "Grownups are BIG" and "Babies are little". Now, these "grownups" are not "big" like the "Lady" was. Actually the lady in this picture is quite skinny.
Another fair comparison. Yes, cakes are bigger than cupcakes.
Another fair comparison. Yes, cakes are bigger than cupcakes.
So, really...my only point is that I suppose someone liked the play on "Ladies" vs. "Ladybugs." But, why did the lady need to be large as well? And wearing an unflattering "ladybug-like" print on her shirt? I don't think I really find it offensive, but every time I read it to Morgan that comparison both annoys AND amuses me. It just seems odd to me compared to the other examples. What do you think?


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A Boy Made of Blocks
As a person with autism and a mother of a son with autism this is a condition that is very close to my heart, and I do everything I can to help raise autism awareness including volunteering as an Autism Ambassador and fundraising in exchange for enduring events like the 10 mile Great South Run (you can fuel that particular insanity by sponsoring me here).
So I was delighted when LittleBrown sent me a signed copy of A Boy Made of Blocks because this is one of my best reads of 2016. It is an exceptionally well crafted, brutally frank, and introspective story. This is one of those books that gets right into your head, in the very best sort of way. I want to try and write this review without telling you too much about the actual story itself as I don't want it to seem I am recommending it for any particular sort of taste in books = I think this is suitable for all tastes and from ages YA upwards.
Although the story is about a child with autism, it is also one that all parents can relate to, because ultimately this book is about becoming a father and the journey one must take to earn that title. Further to that this book is also one for people without children as it also has a strong focus on familial relationships and friendship. Finally, this book is also suitable for gamers because threaded throughout the story is the value that gaming can bring to children (and adults) of this digital age we exist in. It shows how the social aspects of gaming are intricate and as concrete as those in the world outside of gaming.
As the story unfolded it made me think of how similar it was to the process of caterpillar metamorphosis. Whilst reading, I was run through a whole gamut of emotions and surprised into tears more than a few times because of the sheer beauty of a particular aspect of the story. It reached my very soul in a way that very few books have done.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The 1918 Japanese expedition to Siberia
A Japanese propaganda lithograph rallying for occupation of the Russian Far East. The Japanese were defeated by the Soviet Russia and were forced to withdraw by 1922.
The most substantial Japanese military operation during the First World War was the 1918 expedition to Siberia. Although often described as a defensive response by the powers to the Russian Revolution and spread of Bolshevik power east, in the context of Japanese aims since August 1914, the Allied Intervention marked for Tokyo another golden opportunity to promote Japanese continental expansion. Just as a variety of Japanese interests had on the eve of the Chinese Revolution aimed to capitalize upon continental unrest to expand their orbit of influence, many in Japan considered the Russian Revolution another extraordinary opportunity. Foreign Minister Motono Ichiro urged prompt action in Siberia and North Manchuria to establish a "predominant position in the Orient." Home Minister Goto Shinpei in December 1917 called for one million Japanese troops to occupy Russia east of Lake Baikal at a cost of five billion yen a year. And special adviser to Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake, Nishihara Kamezo, began formulating plans in November 1917 for an "independent" Siberia under Japanese tutelage.
By far the most influential champions of action in Siberia were, however, elder statesman Yamagata Aritomo and his protégés in the Imperial Army. Although these men had played a central political and military role in Japan's wars against China and Russia, Foreign Minister Kato Takaaki and the civilian cabinet had, with their swift declaration of war against Germany and successful negotiation of rights in China, decisively outmaneuvered the Yamagata faction in the first year of the Great War. As prime minister from October 1916, Yamagata protégé General Terauchi Masatake had, himself, seized the reins of Japan's continental policy in 1917 by negotiating a series of loans to Beijing totaling 145 million yen (the so-called Nishihara Loans). Members of the Yamagata faction viewed intervention in the Russian Far East, therefore, as an ideal opportunity both to expand Japanese authority in East Asia and to shore up military–bureaucratic authority at home. By January 1918, a Joint Committee on Military Affairs began General Staff–War Ministry discussions for a dispatch of troops to Siberia. In April 1918, the War Ministry decided on support for White Russian Generals Dimitry Leonidovich Horvath and Grigory Mikhailovich Semyonov, who were fighting from Manchuria for an independent Siberia. By May 1918, Vice Chief of the Army General Staff Tanaka Giichi negotiated a military agreement with China that laid the groundwork for an immediate dispatch of Japanese troops to the core of Russia's presence in Manchuria, the Chinese Eastern Railway. By the first arrival of Japanese troops in the Russian Far East in August 1918, in other words, the Siberian Intervention had become an overwhelmingly Imperial Army show, and Yamagata Aritomo and his army protégés would use the occasion to flood the Russian Far East with 72,000 troops.
Despite the scale of its operations in Siberia, Tokyo's most significant gain in the First World War was the cumulative effect that all of its activities had upon its international status. Although it had entered the war as a rising regional power, by the Paris Peace Conference Japan had joined the ranks of world powers. Japanese delegates joined the official governing body of the conference, the Council of Ten, to participate in discussions of the most weighty issues of world peace. As Prime Minister Hara Takashi proudly proclaimed in January 1920, "as one of five great powers, the empire [Japan] contributed to the recovery of world peace. With this, the empire's status has gained all the more authority and her responsibility to the world has become increasingly weighty."
Japan's new authority at Paris rested, of course, upon a record of Japanese participation in the Entente going back to the earliest days of war in August 1914. While Japan had, as we have seen, jumped at the opportunity to vastly expand its own interests and authority in the Asia/Pacific region, its record of military operations from 1914 through 1918 highlights an unprecedented level of Japanese cooperation with an allied cause. Japan's siege of Qingdao was carried out in the autumn of 1914 by 29,000 Imperial Army troops in tandem with 2,800 British imperial forces. Two task forces of the Imperial Navy chased ships from the German East Asiatic Squadron and ultimately occupied German islands north of the equator on their own in September 1914. But Imperial Navy operations in the Indian Ocean exemplify the critical reliance of the far-flung British Empire on al- lied aid. Japanese ships played a key role in the mobilization of the British Empire between 1914 and 1918, conveying Australian and New Zealand troops from the Pacific through the Indian Ocean to Aden in the Arabian Sea. And, following attacks on Japanese merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, three Japanese destroyer divisions and one cruiser (thirteen ships in all) in February 1917 joined the allied fight against German submarines there.
Where Japanese troops were not directly involved, substantial Japanese aid flowed. Several Japanese Red Cross units operated in allied capitals throughout the war, and Japan supplied badly needed shipping, copper, and monies to the allies, including 640 million yen in loans. To the Russians, Japan sold 600,000 desperately needed rifles. According to one contemporary Western observer, "if this help had been denied, the collapse of Russia would have come long before it did." Indeed, the lengths to which members of the Entente and the Central Powers eagerly sought Japanese aid and support from the outset of the war is astonishing and exemplifies, again, the incredible global stakes of the conflict. The German ambassador to Japan, Count Graf von Rex, was so distressed by the prospect of Japanese support of the Entente in early August 1914 that, in an audience with Japanese Foreign Minister Katô Takaaki, he broke the chair upon which he was sitting and almost tumbled to the floor. German and Austrian representatives in European capitals approached Japanese representatives several times in the first two years of war over the possibility of a separate peace.
Given Japan's early commitment to the Entente, expectations among Japan's allies were even greater. Despite initial misgivings about the scope of Japanese actions in Asia in early August 1914, Britain petitioned in September 1914 for troops from Japan to the Western Front. With the fall of Qingdao, allied requests for aid snowballed. On 6 November 1914, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey urged Britain's ambassador to Tokyo to ask that a Japanese force "take part in the main operations of war in France, Belgium and Germany in the same way as our Army is doing, and to fight alongside of our soldiers on the continent of Europe." Soon after, French newspapers reported informal French requests for 500,000 Japanese troops to join Serbia in operations on the Balkan Peninsula. As late as July of 1918, the US Navy declared it a "matter of vital necessity" that Japanese battle cruisers help protect US troop transports across the Atlantic.
Given the constant wrangling between Japan and its allies over the Siberian Intervention, historians have viewed the operation as the most egregious example of autonomous Japanese action during the First World War. In the context of incessant allied requests for Japanese aid from 1914, however, the expedition should be recognized, as well, as another glimpse of the enormous global reach of the First World War. The Russian Revolution of November 1917 and conclusion of a separate peace with Germany the following March marked a serious strategic blow to the Entente. Not only did it mean the collapse of the Russian front, given the rabidly anti-Western Bolshevik regime newly ensconced in Moscow; the future of the entire Russian Empire was thrown into question.
Stretched to the limit on the Western Front, Britain and France turned to the United States to lead the effort to shore up allied-friendly elements within the Russian Empire. But in the context of four years of allied calls for more Japanese aid, the Entente held high hopes for Japanese participation, as well. At the very moment that the American Secretary of the Navy approached Japan's ambassador to the US about possible Japanese battle cruisers to the Atlantic, Washington formally invited Japanese troops to join British, French, Italian, American, and Canadian forces in Siberia.
Long before the Paris Peace Conference, in other words, the enormous global ramifications of the Great War had spurred desperate pleas for Japanese help and had catapulted Japan to a prominent position on the world stage.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
The Forgotten Armies of the Western Front – 1914 to 1918
The Forgotten Armies of the Western Front - 1914 to 1918EIGHT MILLION MEN fought in the British Army during the First World War. More than half of them (5 million) served in France and Flanders on the Western Front. [1] These men came from the U.K. as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and even the West Indies.
Knock-Out Punch at Dobro Polje – Six Facts About the Forgotten Battle That Ended WW1
Knock-Out Punch at Dobro Polje - Six Facts About the Forgotten Battle That Ended WW1WHEN GERMANY signed the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918, the Central Powers were still in a strong position (at least on paper). The Kaiser had already pushed Montenegro, Romania, and Russia out of the war; occupied Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, large parts of Poland and the Ukraine; and secured access to natural resources in the east.
Friday, March 11, 2016
British 18-pdr field gun firing from a camouflaged position on the Doiran Front.
The Salonika campaign had its genesis in the bold strategic action taken by the Germans to shore up the Austro-Hungarian position in the Balkans in 1915. This was bad news for the Serbians, who had hitherto been waging war with relative success against the Austro-Hungarian Army since the outbreak of war in 1914. By September it had become apparent to the Allies that only a show of force could prevent the Bulgarians from taking advantage of the situation by attacking Serbia. The question was, could such a demonstration be arranged? With the Austrian Navy a threat in the Adriatic and the absence of harbours capable of supporting any serious expeditionary force on the Albanian coast, this left only the Greek port of Salonika as a feasible base for the launch of such a campaign. Greece was both torn from within and fearful of being drawn actively into the war. Although technically victorious in the Balkan Wars, the Greeks had still suffered a painful experience which they would rather not repeat quite so soon. So, at the outbreak of the Great War, Greece remained neutral, although this did not prevent bitter internal political battles ensuing over which side it should favour.
King Constantine naturally favoured the Central Powers, having been educated and carried out his military service in Germany; indeed, he was married to the Kaiser's sister, Sophia. But the Greek Prime Minister, Eleutherios Venizelos had long favoured the Allies and saw their intervention as a means of expanding Greek influence in the Balkans. As the threat to Serbia became more acute and a Bulgarian intervention appeared more likely, the Allies attempted to bully Greece using Venizelos as the 'inside man' who made the initial offer to allow an Anglo-French force to land at Salonika. If the justification was the greater good, it was certainly not the interests of Greece that motivated the Allies.
For the Allies, to generate a suitable Salonika Expeditionary Force (SEF) to intervene in the Balkans was no easy matter. It was only the acceptance of the total failure of the Gallipoli operations that allowed the French to contribute their 156th Division, previously known as the 2nd Division (CEO), while the British sent the 10th Division commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Bryan Mahon. In overall command was the French General Maurice Sarrail. He was an interesting character, a politically left-leaning general who had done well during the opening campaigns in France in 1914, but who had then fallen foul of Joffre and had been dismissed in July 1915. Sarrail had some powerful friends, but also some equally powerful enemies, so the French military authorities considered that the command of the SEF would be an ideal compromise posting for him: it was a serious appointment, but a long way from the Western Front.
The first Allied troops began to disembark at Salonika port on 5 October 1915. Bulgaria had still not joined the war, but there was a more immediate complication in a violent disagreement between King Constantine and Venizelos over what in effect was a flagrant breech of Greek neutrality. The Greek prime minister was forced to resign and a prolonged period of political instability ensued. But in the end the Greeks offered no resistance to the Allies' presence at Salonika. Yet what exactly were they there to do? When, on 6 October, Mackensen launched his offensive against Serbia, joined shortly afterwards by the Bulgarians, it was evident that whatever the SEF had been meant to achieve had been rendered redundant. Mahon had been given cautious orders from London, requiring him to stay close to Salonika pending the final decision of the Greek government as to whether to abandon neutrality, but Sarrail was determined to push inland anyway. He crossed the Serbian border on 15 October and advanced into the Vardar Valley with the intention of supporting the Serb forces. The most he could hope to achieve was to hold open a line of retreat for the Serbs. When the British finally moved forward, in early November, it was all far too little, too late, and, with hindsight, probably best not at all. The Serbian Army was already defeated, its remnants falling back towards the Adriatic coast. As they congregated in the small ports up and down the Albanian coast they were eventually to be rescued by the Royal Navy. Some 250,000 Serbian troops were evacuated to the Greek island of Corfu. It was a massive undertaking and must have appeared of little real military value as the emaciated Serbian scarecrows boarded the ships. Yet, given the chance to recover, new men would rise from what appeared like worthless dregs – some six Serbian divisions would eventually return to serve on the Salonika Front.
As the British and French fell back, they formed a line just inside the Greek border to try and hold back the Bulgarians. The British wanted to evacuate, but the French would not consider it. This attitude may seem inexplicable, given that a vital part of France was occupied by the German Army, but significant sections of the French political and military establishment considered the war there to be a hopeless stalemate and that another avenue must be taken to achieve victory. In this they were enthusiastically supported by the arch 'Easterner', the British Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, who was quite obsessed with dreams of a breakthrough in the Balkans. In the end the French had their way and once again the British would ignore their better instincts in the cause of alliance warfare. The Salonika Front became a permanent fixture for the rest of the war: fighting the Bulgarians for reasons that seem opaque to this day. Clearly if they were to stay the Allies needed reinforcements, so the British 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th and (temporarily) 60th Divisions were despatched, while the French allotted more and more reserves to the campaign until they had nine divisions serving in Salonika. The reconstituted Serbian divisions began to arrive from Corfu from April 1916. The Italians sent a division and even the Russians contributed a brigade. Sarrail was confirmed as commander of this Armée d'Orient. The truth of Clausewitz's dictum 'always direct [our] principal operation against the main body of the enemy army' was to be demonstrated by the failure of the Allies to observe it.2 Despite all their efforts, the Allies still only had enough forces to defend themselves, and not enough to attack with much hope of success. As the Bulgarians were forbidden to press into Greece by the Germans, fearful of triggering direct Greek involvement in the war, there they would stay in a static oblivion that made a mockery of the fantasies of the 'Easterners'.
Sarrail had his work cut out just building up the logistical framework within which his polyglot army could exist. Salonika itself was almost swamped as it was required to act simultaneously as a port, the main supply base depot and as a huge entrenched camp. Communications with the front lines were not good, with a paucity of roads and a long march beckoning for most of the newly arrived troops. The weather was also not conducive to the soldiers' health: too hot in summer and far too bitterly cold in winter, especially in the mountain regions. There were also severe problems in controlling the endemic malaria which plagued the area. There was a plethora of pools, ponds and lakes, all of which provided the perfect habitat for the mosquitoes and any stagnant water soon became infested with their larvae. This was a concern that would endure throughout the campaign. Anti-malaria measures were vital, necessitating a constant vigilance in eradicating unnecessary standing water and regular issues of quinine to every man.
Any stranger seeing a soldier dressed up in anti-mosquito garb would for the first time imagine himself face to face with a scarecrow. The face and arms are thoroughly smeared with an anti-mosquito preparation called 'parakit', an excellent thing whilst it lasts; but its tendency is, of course, to get absorbed into the skin after an hour or two, and one often had to smear on a second coating. The mosquitoes didn't like it, though, and always kept very clear of a 'parakit' face. I can recommend it to any young lady worried by an over-zealous admirer! After this, shorts were turned down and tucked up into the top of the puttees, thus safeguarding the knee. Thick gloves were worn, attached by a piece of tape running through the arms and under the tunic over the back. Over the tin hat was worn a mosquito net veil, which, like that apparatus worn by a bee-keeper, rendered the face and neck immune from danger.
Second Lieutenant Richard Skilbeck-Smith, 1st Leinster Regiment
Despite all these preventative measures the British would suffer over 162,000 cases of malaria during the campaign. Outbreaks of dysentery also weakened the troops, especially those who had already suffered at Gallipoli. Morale was a problem throughout the entire army, indeed many of the units were not of the highest quality and the overall situation in Salonika did little to inspire any great élan.
Sarrail was also forced to grapple with a complex political situation as Constantine maintained what might be called unfriendly neutrality after the fall of the Venizelos government. This was not unnatural as the French were very high-handed, first bringing the whole Salonika region under military control and then instituting a naval blockade to force the Greek government to adopt a less pro-German aspect. The position of the Allies was undoubtedly morally suspect in their treatment of a supposedly independent neutral country.
There was a further complication in that the success of the Russian offensive directed against Austria-Hungary in June 1916 had triggered the ambitions of Rumania to share in any spoils of war. This was very welcome to the Allies, for the Rumanian Army was some 400,000 strong and so obviously a valuable addition to the Allied forces. But one condition of Rumanian participation was a Salonikan offensive to pin down the Bulgarian Army. As the British, under the sway of the Westerner CIGS General Sir William Robertson, were still markedly unenthusiastic, Sarrail planned an attack mainly by Serbian and French troops on the left and centre, which entailed the British taking over the front line covering the Serbian border between the Vardar River and Lake Doiran. Despite the complication of a Bulgarian offensive which had to be countered in August, the French and Serbian assault began in mid-September. Although some gains were made – including a tiny symbolic corner of Serbia at Monastir – the onset of the Balkan winter brought the offensive to an inconclusive end in December. Meanwhile the chimera of a pan-Balkan alliance to sweep away Austria-Hungary was exposed by the humiliating defeat of the Rumanian forces by a combined German, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian army. And so once again the Allied Salonika forces were left busy doing nothing.
In early 1917, Sarrail was given the role of 'fixing' as many Central Powers resources as possible while Nivelle won the war with his much-vaunted offensive on the Western Front in April. But Sarrail, perhaps recognising that his forces were achieving little of substance, resolved to launch his own major offensive that April. In this ambitious attack, the British Salonika Force, now commanded by Lieutenant General Sir George Milne, would for the first time play a major role, by attacking in the Struma Valley. Milne demurred, fearing that the low-lying valley, which was riddled with mosquitoes, was not a suitable arena for a major battle and instead suggested an attack on Bulgarian positions in the hill country west of Lake Doiran, thereby threatening the tactically significant Kosturino Pass. The terrain was tortuous, with deep ravines, steep-sided ridges and hills rising to 2,000 feet. The hills had been converted into a fortress by a series of trench lines carved out of the rock creating a defensive barrier some two miles deep. Although the aim of the British attack was initially only to take the Bulgarian first line, this was still an extremely tough proposition. After a sadly inadequate three-day barrage, the 22nd and 26th Divisions made a night attack with Zero Hour at 21.45 on 24 April. When the attack came it was certainly no surprise to the Bulgarian artillery, who laid down an effective barrage on the British front lines before shrapnel fizzed across the torn ground of No Man's Land. The experiences of the men of the 10th Devonshire Regiment, given the thankless task of assaulting the imposing mass of the Petit Couronné, were not untypical.
Our guns had been blasting away all day blowing up the barbed wire and the front line trenches. As soon as it got dark we moved out of our trenches and down one side of the hill to get in the lower end of Jumeaux Ravine, 'Johnny' knew we were on the move and our route – they gave us a right pasting. We soon had many casualties. They seemed to know our every move. We got so far in the ravine and then it was hell let loose. Our lads were being knocked over like ninepins. We that were able, got about halfway, the noise of the explosions was terrific. Suddenly I found myself alone. We had to walk behind each other as it was not very wide. My mates behind and in front were knocked out, one poor chap was calling out for his mother, I was nearly choked with cordite fumes, but I was unhurt, not even blown over and my bag of bombs was untouched. I had to go on. I picked my way over the bodies, I could only see by the flash of the explosions.
Private Francis Mullins, 10th Devonshire Regiment
Despite it all, the Devons managed to over-run some Bulgarian trenches on the lower slopes of Petit Couronné. While the British tried to get forward reinforcements across the precipitous wasteland, the Bulgarians launched a series of increasingly furious counter-attacks. The Petit Couronné was the key to their positions and they were determined to eject the interlopers.
They came up blowing their bugles and shouting, I suppose they thought they were going to frighten us. It was the biggest mistake they made as we knew they were there, if they had crept up quietly in the dark they would have got us quite easy, as there was not many of us left. Well, they came up, I had used up all my bombs bar one, and this one saved my life: it seems unbelievable, the pin of this bomb would not come out – if it had I would have been blown up by my own bomb – as at that moment they pitched one of their bombs in with us and knocked us all out. When I came round I knew I had to get out. I then found that I couldn't use my right leg very well, it seemed paralysed. However, there was another chap there who was hit in the fingers and he helped to drag me up over the trench as it was every man for himself. We left about three lying in the trench, we could do nothing to help them as the Bulgars were right on top of us. I do not think that I should have got back if it had not been for this lad sticking to me, and I haven't seen him from that day to this. I have thought many a time how I would like to thank him. Going back over Petit Couronné was no joke, we fell into the barbed wire as it was not quite daylight. There were bodies everywhere.
Private Francis Mullins, 10th Devonshire Regiment
He would find that the bomb fragments had cut his sciatic nerve as well as inflicted some twenty minor wounds to his buttocks and legs. The attack was a dismal failure, with over 3,100 casualties in sharp contrast to just 835 lost by the successful defenders. A repeat attack ordered for a fortnight later, at 21.50 on 8 May, in a further attempt to pin the Bulgarians while the French and Serbs attacked to the west, met with no more success and the loss of over 1,800 casualties. The Serbian and French forces did no better, with any insignificant gains soon abandoned in the face of trenchant Bulgarian counter-attacks.
The failure of these offensives provoked a final crisis with the resolutely neutral Greek government. In June 1917 the Allies forced the abdication of Constantine and replaced him with his son, Alexander, who was far more malleable to their point of view. Almost immediately Venizelos, who had been running a pro-Allied government in exile on Crete, was reinstated as Prime Minister. He promptly declared war on the Central Powers on 27 June 1917. Most of the Balkans were now embroiled in the Great War. But still nothing much seemed to change. Certainly, the Greek Army seemed to lack any enthusiasm for the fray. As the Salonika campaign staggered on, Sarrail himself would be replaced after a change in government in France brought in the distinctly unsympathetic Georges Clemenceau as premier in November 1917. Sarrail's replacement was first General Marie-Louis Guillaumat and then, on his recall to France in June 1918, the highly regarded General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey.
In d'Espèrey the Armée d'Orient had a commander committed to an 'Easterner' strategy; indeed, he had proposed a Balkan offensive as long ago as 1914. Now he managed to gain permission to launch an offensive as long as he did not require extra troops. The main attack was to be made by the Serbs and French through mountainous terrain to the west of the Vardar Valley. This was even more treacherous than the Doiran sector, but d'Espèrey had managed to assemble covertly superior forces that outnumbered the Bulgarians by some three to one. He had also amassed sufficient guns to deliver a bombardment that was extremely heavy by the standards of the campaign when the offensive opened on 14 September. This time the French were successful and, after hard fighting, managed to take the mountain peaks. In front of them lay the valleys which would channel behind the Bulgarian lines. On 18 September Milne was required to launch a pinning attack alongside the Greeks to prevent the Bulgarians rushing troops to the threatened sector. The result was disaster and the Second Battle of Doiran would cost some 7,100 British and Greek casualties. But this time the French broke through and, on 20 September, fearing encirclement, the Bulgarians finally abandoned their mountain fastness and began to retreat all along the line. There was considerable elation among the British once they realised that the Bulgarians had gone.
We really are on the move after the Bulgar who stole away in the night. Our patrols were in their line by 9 last night and now we have followed them up and infantry and guns are well inside. It was a very hurried flitting as two deserters told us they got the order to move at 8 at 7.30. I visited a bit of their line this afternoon. They have blown up a lot, but there are still some wonderful dugouts. The wire is tremendous everywhere.
Captain Robert Townsend, 10th Devonshire Regiment
Soon they were in hot pursuit.
It has been a tremendous day. We started off on sudden orders about 9 and have marched hard over two tremendous passes and down to a village called Strumnica which is at the head of the Struma Valley and we are well into Bulgaria at last. It is a pretty country, but the dust on the road has been simply awful. The Bulgar has gone quickly but it has been a fearfully hard march and I didn't get in until 10 o'clock absolutely beat. However it is all part of a day's work and we are finishing off the Bulgar in great style.
Captain Robert Townsend, 10th Devonshire Regiment
As the Allied aircraft and cavalry tore into the retreating Bulgarian columns, they soon became a rabble. Their morale was not helped by the unavoidable realisation that they had been following the wrong lodestar: the news from the Western Front made it clear that Germany was defeated and the Central Powers were doomed.
On 29 September the Bulgarian forces occupying Skopje, the Serbian capital, surrendered and a day later Bulgaria formally surrendered. It was a bitter-sweet moment for the British Salonika Force. It had been on the winning team; but the excitement of victory had belonged to its allies. It had battled for the best part of three years but then had to be content with nothing more than a secondary role in the ultimate dénouement. Salonika proved a truly forgettable campaign – and with good reason. Little was achieved here that victory on the Western Front would not have secured in good time. And the cost, for the British, had been horrendous, for although they lost only 23,787 casualties in the actual fighting they suffered far more casualties from the pernicious effects of disease. At the height of the British deployment over 182,500 British troops were kicking their heels, left vulnerable to the depradations of the mosquito and malaria. There could be few more depressing fronts than Salonika.
Britain's handling of many issues, particularly those raised by Japan, was the product less of London's wishes than of those of its dominions. Billy Hughes, Australia's prime minister, reflecting his white population's fear of the 'yellow peril', rejected Japan's summons for racial equality. In trying to act as broker between two Pacific powers, the prime minister of a third, Canada, had to grapple with his own uncertainties. Canada, Robert Borden said, was 'a nation that is not a nation'. For those who had been at Vimy Ridge such reticence seemed ill-placed; the war had made Canada a nation, as it had made Australia, New Zealand and South Africa nations. These were developments the peace settlements were being asked to confirm. Within Europe, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Finland and Lithuania had all achieved independence and a measure of definition before Woodrow Wilson even landed at Brest. The challenge he confronted was therefore a somewhat different one from that to which his speeches were directed. In Central and Eastern Europe war had effected change, and for those who sought such changes it continued to do so. Indeed, the United States's own decision to intervene was confirmation of the same point. War could work.
For that reason the First World War did not end as neatly on 11 November as the celebration of Armistice Day suggests. 'One year and three days' later, Henry Wilson wrote to Lord Esher, 'we have between 20 and 30 wars raging in different parts of the world'. Russia was engaged in a civil war to define its revolution, a war in which the allies had intervened. It included war in and for Poland. To the south Turkey's war hero, Mustafa Kemal, was exploiting the support of the Bolsheviks to enable him to take on the Greeks and British in order to re-found the Turkish nation. And the example set by Europe spread. On 27 February 1919 the French pacifist Romain Rolland wrote to the socialist Jean-Richard Bloch, to tell him of a young Japanese friend who had just returned home after two years observing the war in Europe and America. 'My greatest surprise', the Japanese had said, 'has been that there are among you men who, truly, believe in the idealism that they profess. We others, we Japanese, think: "Idealism is for the Europeans a political means". And we do not blame them; we are now going to act like them.'
The notion of war's utility was not just transmitted across continents. It spanned generations. Children who had grown up in the thrall of war had seen it permeate their schooling, their reading and their games: they, too, expected to defend their nations as their parents had done. Anna Eisenmenger, a Viennese grandmother, had three sons and a daughter. One son was killed, one blinded, and the third lost his reason; he killed his sister's husband. One day in March 1920, Anna found her grandson playing with a schoolfriend. Both 'were wearing soldiers' caps … made for them out of newspaper. They had pokers in their hands and were sitting behind the backs of armchairs "in the trenches". Wolfi was an "Austrian", his friend a "Frenchman". They were shooting at each other. Wolfi … was playing at war.' Boys were told of an intensity of experience whose loss their fathers still regretted. From it came the adventures of Biggles, written by a pilot, W E. Johns, and of Bulldog Drummond. The latter's creator, H. C. McNeile, wrote under a pseudonym, 'Sapper', which reflected what he had done in the war. 'Cementing everything, crowning everything, the spirit of camaraderie, of good fellowship', he wrote in the preface to the collected edition of his war stories: 'No nightmare that, but a dream one would only willingly repeat today.'
The war memorials and the war literature that today can seem the war's most pervasive legacy in Western Europe did not necessarily carry the messages of waste and futility that are now associated with them. The biggest memorial in Germany, erected at Tannenberg in 1927, trumpeted a victory. For many Entente veterans, Armistice Day was a focus for reunions and drinking, for celebration as well as commemoration. Wives and mothers were scandalised, unable to comprehend any response except overwhelming grief. About 10 million soldiers died in the war. Twice that number bore the scars of wounds _ some so mutilated in body or mind as to be unfit for further work and unable to lead fulfilled lives. Calculations of civilian dead remain inadequate, partly because so many deaths were indirect, the result of starvation or disease rather than of bullets or shells, and partly because they were forgotten in the war's immediate aftermath. Globally up to 20 million succumbed in the influenza epidemic which swept from Asia through Europe and on to America in 1918-19. But the bereaved were not forgotten, because one of the purposes of mourning was to remember. 'Every day one meets saddened women, with haggard faces and lethargic movements, and one dare not ask after husband or son', Beatrice Webb wrote in her diary on 17 November 1918.
Those who mourned needed to find meaning in their loss. When the British struck their Victory Medal for issue to all those who had served, they provided one answer: 'For Civilisation', it said. It was a theme which linked the ideas of 1914 to the war's outcome, and it was repeated throughout the British Empire and in France. In Germany the city of Hamburg commissioned Ernst Barlach to design a memorial to its 40,000 'sons' killed in action. A stele, it has on one side another recurrent image in war memorials, the mother and child, equating the grieving mother with the Madonna. Five years later, in 1936, the 76th Infantry Regiment responded to Barlach's memorial with one of its own: erected near that commemorating Hamburg's dead of 1870, it linked the past to the future, declaring on its oblong block, 'Germany must live even if we must die.'
By then the allies' memories of victory were fading. 'Armistice Day ceased to exist as a restaurant orgy: the Two Minutes Silence took its place', as Ian Hay noted with irony. The trophies that had stood by the memorials, the captured guns and trench mortars symbolic of triumph, were removed, and only the memorials remained. The idea that the war had purpose languished. In 1926 Lance-Corporal John Jackson, who had served on the western front between 1915 and 1918, wrote his memoirs. 'Let it ever be remembered', he prefaced his story, that, but for British intervention, 'German "Kultur" would dominate us all, and only those who saw it in force, in parts of France and Belgium occupied by German forces, can understand the humiliation such a situation would have entailed.' It was a plea which fell on increasingly deaf ears. A year later, in 1927, the dead of his regiment, the Cameron Highlanders, were commemorated with the opening of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, in itself evidence of another nation which used the war to shape its identity. In the memorial's guide-book, Ian Hay noted with bemusement the change in attitudes over the years since the armistice. 'War has become a monstrous, unspeakable thing', he acknowledged. However, he insisted, there was more to its comprehension than that. 'Our reactions and emotions upon the subject of recent history are at present too fluid to have any lasting value. We must leave it to Time to crystallize them.
In 1929 Erich Maria Remarque published Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), a book which at a stroke revived the by-then flagging market for war literature. Within a year Remarque's book was translated into twenty-eight languages, sold nearly 4 million copies, and became an academy-award winning film. And yet it was less about the war than about the problems of a generation unable to reintegrate itself with post-war society. Its message was one of shattered illusions, a theme often echoed in what Ian Hay called 'the new style War novels'. In the 1920s there had been many interpretations of the war; thereafter one increasingly dominated over the others. It created a barrier between our understanding of the war and that of those who fought in it. Even those who survived came to see it in terms different from those which they embraced at the time. Hindsight bred arrogance, and _ worse _ misconception. Many of the ideologies which had given the war meaning became loaded, larded with later connotations.
The Second World War irrevocably demonstrated that the First World War was not, after all, the war to end all wars. But it also enabled posterity to have it both ways. It venerated the writers who condemned the war of 1914-18 but at the same time condemned those who embraced appeasement, the logical corollary. War literature and appeasement both derived their appeal from the same basic liberalism which had underpinned the ideals of the peacemakers at Versailles. Liberalism's comparative failure in the inter-war years was in large part due to its own fundamental decency. It lost the determination to enforce its own standards, a quality it possessed in 1914 and 1917, and it was reluctant to assert itself in the internal politics of states that deviated from democratic norms.
The issues of course did not present themselves in such clear-cut fashion. One reason why Adolf Hitler could appeal to the German people in 1933 was precisely because many genuinely convinced themselves that they had been wronged in 1919. But that of itself does not explain the Second World War. Hitler was able to play back some of the themes of German popular mobilisation in the First World War – the ideas of the Burgfrieden in 1914, the Fatherland Party's appeal to national unity over party loyalty, OberOst's notion of Germany's mission in the east, the expectation that a Second Punic War might be necessary to complete the agenda of the First. Above all, the Kaiser's failure as supreme warlord generated a belief that a real leader would have delivered a German victory. But by 1918 Germans had also learnt what modern war entailed. They did not take to the streets to show their enthusiasm when war broke out in 1939. The Second World War is inexplicable without knowledge of the First, but there is no inevitability linking Versailles and the ambitions of the peacemakers to its outbreak.
The First World War broke the empires of Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Turkey. It triggered the Russian Revolution and provided the bedrock for the Soviet Union; it forced a reluctant United States on to the world stage and revivified liberalism. On Europe's edge, it provided a temporary but not a long-term solution to the ambitions of the Balkan nations. Outside Europe it laid the seeds for the conflict in the Middle East. In short it shaped not just Europe but the world in the twentieth century. It was emphatically not a war without meaning or purpose.
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The Coach HouseAstley Park
4 December 2011, 10am – 4pm (indoors, free entry)
I think I've mentioned everything, please come along and see us. Xxxxx
The following weekend one or two members of our crafty clan are going to stay with Mummy Cupcake for the weekend –
Christmas Shop at Mummy Cupcake's workshop opposite the park cafe in Worden Park, Leyland. She will be opening her door for the full weekend:
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th December, 10am - 3pm
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So sorry I have not been around guys, I have not forgot about everyone out in the internet world. The computer crashed completely (with a weird flashing screen), the apple care guy had me take my precious tower into the mac store (which was nuts, no parking, crazy shoppers). Anyway, fortunatly it was only the graphics card. I got home and was about to do the reinstall, and fire up the back up drives when I had a thought:
-I have had this computer for 2 years, the hard drives are full, this may be my only chance to swap in some new drives. I had just done a clean install so I am starting from scratch regardless.
So, from a 250gbt drive for the system and two 500gbt drives in Raid 1 for backup.
haha! 500gbt system drive, 500gbt time machine, and two 1T drives in Raid 1.
That should hold me for another few years.
(sorry no pictures–Mateo is borrowing my camera to learn light room. I'll have some images soon).
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"Her mom is dead.
Ghosts follow her around.
Her best friend is an elephant.
And she's about to meet the biggest game changer of all: a boy. With a secret.
When circus-dwelling Gemma Flannery learns she will be attending public school for the first time in her seventeen years, little does she know that fitting in with her 12th-grade classmates will be the least of her concerns. A pro at hiding her knack for seeing the dead ("shades"), Gemma is grieving the recent suicide of her mentally ill mother, a process eased by the introduction of her first real love interest, the charming and painfully handsome Henry Dmitri, who is harboring his own collection of dangerous secrets. Together, they will be presented with a frightening challenge: to assume their roles as heirs to a 3000-year-old magical text, the AVRAKEDAVRA, a book the über-rich, sleight-of-being master Lucian Dmitri would do anything to get his hands on. As each terrifying layer in her new reality melts away, Gemma unearths truths that her quiet, nomadic life with the Cinzio Traveling Players is not at all what she'd always cherished. Gemma and Henry must rely on each other to stop Lucian's diabolical plotting that will bring the world to its tired, scab-riddled knees, and are sent on the flight of their young lives, to save themselves, their families, and the world from the darkest kind of destruction.
Let the chase begin" –Via Amazon
Sleight is the first self-published book I've ever read. It would have completely escaped my attention, had I not seen two fellow book bloggers discussing it's awesome-ness on Twitter late one night. After reading a few reviews on Goodreads, I immediately downloaded it from Amazon to see for myself.
The story itself is one of the more original plots of any YA novel I've read lately. Gemma is part of an extended circus family, but just happens to have a "crazy" mother, and the ability to see shades. She's denied her ability her whole life, but finally starts to accept it once her already weird life gets even weirder after the circus camps out in a small Washington town. High school is twice as complicated as usual when Gemma has to deal with ghostly shades seeking her attention, on top of the normal drama of teen life.
Everything changes once Gemma meets Henri Dimitri, the son of Lucian, the man who has sponsored the circus. Their friendship develops naturally, before blossoming into something more. Henri at times seems like a total goody-two-shoes (his flaws appear late in the story), but their story is romantic, and—-my favorite kind of YA novel relationship—-realistic. Their interactions via email and chat conversations were adorable. Both characters blossom and come into their own as they learn more about each other, their past, their true identities, and their joint destinies.
I LOVED the circus setting of the story. I've always enjoyed the magical feeling of circuses and carnivals, and have a special place in my heart for stories set in such locations since I have family members who grew up working there.
Sleight features an incredibly strong sense of place, leaving you feeling like you are right there at the show with Gemma's extended circus family.
Her circus family, and their entire cast of secondary characters were well-developed and entertaining. You truly feel for Gemma as she's betrayed by those close to her, and faces losses she never imagined she'd be able to survive. She grows quite a bit as a character, from denying her "abilities" to fully embracing them, and accepting who she truly is.
What I didn't like: The story, while amazingly high quality and well written, with a great plot, could use one last round with an editor. The beginning seemed to be full of over-long sentences with lots of run ons, that distracted me enough just to take me out of the story. That ended after a few chapters, but later scenes seemed to drag at times, as if they were allowed to continue just a bit too long. The climax of the story just *happens* making me wonder if the book should have ended one chapter earlier, or one chapter later.
I thought Lucian, while slightly scary, and very powerful in the Gemma and Henri's immediate world, wasn't "all powerful" enough to be the world-changing villain he was portrayed to be. He was an expert manipulator, murderer, and control freak, but I was confused as to why the consequences of his actions were supposed to have any impact on humanity as a whole. While surely dangerous, Lucian is no Lord Voldemort, or Hitler—-someone his "world philosophies" supposedly influenced (I promise that reference will make sense once you read the book).
The "magic" in the book wasn't explained as well as I would have liked. I never really saw anyone do anything I'd actually consider that magical. Whether that be in the Harry Potter, or David Copperfield sense. "Weird" things just happened, paranormal activity (ghosts, mind reading, psychic ability) abounds and is portrayed as being almost commonplace amongst the cast of characters, but most of Lucian's evil doing could be attributed to his massive wealth controlling people, and his murderous ways striking fear into their hearts.
I'm hoping in the next book, thankfully out this fall, more of Lucian's history and importance will be explained. I'd like more background on the AVRA-K book and how exactly it works as well. The story also ends abruptly after an extended chase, so I'm anxious to see what happens next. Overall, I feel like Sleight is a book I loved, but not enough to see through its (few) imperfections. The series has a LOT of potential, so I'd still recommend it for a very unique reading experience, enchanting world building, and interesting characters.
3.5 out of 5 Stars
Sleight is available now, on Amazon for $2.99.


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Here's one of my robots that I proudly display in my living room showcase, this is the gx-01r Mazinger Z from Bandai's Soul of Chogokin line, which means it's made out of heavy ass die cast metal, perfect for launching across the living room at some burglar's head.
The Mazinger Z comes with all sorts of accouterments to keep him looking funky fresh,sharp and pointy is the name of the game kids, with his super spring loaded missile and fist chambers that are perfect for "accidentally" poking someones eye out.
In case your wondering, I'm using stock photos cause they look better than my stinking pics, besides there's nothing you can do about it so shut your pie hole and bask in the glory of MAZINGA ZET!
If you have $80 bucks burning a hole in your pocket and you have any sort of love for die cast robots then I definitely recommend that you go out and track this bad boy down!
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I was going to rant about politicians and the press, but instead, I read this article and decided it was a much better and happy soapbox to jump on.
Arkansas player ends game with noble gesture
In a high school football game in Arkansas between Cave City and Yelleville-Summit, Cave City was up 34-18 against the small school whose heart just wasn't in the game. Yelleville lost one player in a car crash the week before and had four more players seriously injured. Cave City's Thamail Morgan, about to score again, stopped at the 2 yard line, backed up to the five, and took the knee.
"Before the game, we as a team, talked about being classy," he said. "We did not want to come out in a game like this and not show any class."
The article also mentions how Morgan is new to Cave City after trasnferring from his prior school because of an unnamed disciplinary action. CC's coach said he could play if he agreed to certain terms -- extra workouts, good performance in school, meeting with a church counselor -- and so far he's been practically perfect.
This story just made my day. I will stop watching games where teams are embarrasingly ahead of their opponents. The class that this kid -- and his entire team -- showed is inspiring and I hope he ends up with a scholarship he rightly deserves.


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Today's challenge was to compose an image that has a soft and dreamy look.
I ventured out into the backyard between raindrops early this evening to capture a shot of a blush white Verbena. I loved this one as it seemed to be "deformed" with a few fuchia petals. I edited the photo simply by blurring the edges.


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"Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. "
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A toast to a strong, beautiful wife, mother and Queen. Congratulations on 60 years on the throne.


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I ran across a blog that keeps me drooling every day. The lady is an absolute genius, too, and she came up with a technique to make these out of corner punches:
I used my friend's corner punch since I don't have any, but I like it so well I'm going to invest in at least one corner punch! You can find tutorials for these here, here, and here. Yes, there are three different tutorials. Once you've done one, the rest will make a lot more sense. They are beautiful and take almost no time to make. Later in the week, I'll try to show you some cards I've made with them!
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- Susan said...
I'm going to have to go and look at these. I have several corner punches! Yay! Can't wait to see what you do - you always amaze me by thinking "outside the box" something I need to learn.
- February 17, 2009 at 2:24 PM
very cool, i have that punch too!
- February 20, 2009 at 7:19 AM
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Brandt Snedeker almost missed the cut at the RBC Heritage.
Thanks to Jesper Parnevik's missed putt on No. 18 early Saturday morning that pushed the cut line to 2 over par, Snedeker and 20 other players secured third-round tee times. Friday's round was suspended due to inclement weather, so Snedeker's fate hung in the balance overnight.
But he still wasn't in the clear after Parnevik missed a 5-foot putt.
Ninety-one players made the 36-hole cut - tying the PGA Tour record set at the 1981 Travelers Championship - so a secondary cut was instituted for Saturday. The top 70 players including ties would move on to Sunday. As Snedeker stepped on the 9th tee - his 18th - Saturday afternoon, he had to make a par to stay under the cut line.
Snedeker, currently fifth in the World Rankings, parred the 332-yard, par-4 ninth and carded a third-round 71. After leaving the course Friday night not knowing his status for the next day, Snedeker went back to his hotel Saturday knowing he had an early tee time the next day. The 14-to-1 favorite entering the tournament barely made the 54-hole cut and will tee off first Sunday at 8:34 a.m. ET.
"It was weird," said Snedeker, the 2011 RBC Heritage champion. "I hadn't had one of those happen in a while where I thought I was going to miss the cut. So it was a nice reprieve to be able to come out here and play two more rounds."
It was only by a matter of inches.
Late Friday afternoon, the 36-hole cut line fell at 1 over par as Parnevik lined up a five-foot par putt on the par-4 18th. A horn signaling the suspension of play blew as Parnevik was about to make his backstroke, and he had to return to the course at 8 a.m. Saturday to complete his round.
His initial read placed the putt right-center. Fourteen hours later, the wind was swirling in a different direction, so he aimed left-center. He missed by six inches.
"A lot of guys were happy," said Parnevik, who shot a third-round 73 to miss the 54-hole cut. "There were a lot of [player's] kids who didn't want to go home."
The Snedekers sure didn't. In his press conference on Wednesday, the 32-year-old and father of two children said enjoying the island with his family would be therapeutic after missing another chance at a green jacket last Sunday.
In his opening round - his first since shooting a final-round 75 to fall out of contention at Augusta - Snedeker passed the time on several tee boxes by swinging an invisible club, focusing on his takeaway motion and shoulder turn. After Saturday's round, he headed for the range for more of the same - only with a real club in hand. Snedeker repeatedly fired wedge after wedge at a pin about 100 yards down a slight hill, several times stopping and looking at his club angle after his backswing.
"We're trying to tighten things up," Snedeker said. "It's going to be real windy tomorrow, so we're working on keeping the ball a little bit lower."
Snedeker's lack of scoring success this week - he has more bogeys (eight) than birdies (six) and has putted "awful" - could be attributed to changing playing conditions at Harbour Town. After opening on a sunny day with a gentle breeze, the course fought back Friday with wind and heavy rain. Saturday's chilly, but soft conditions provided plenty of birdie opportunities. The sun should reappear Sunday afternoon, but severe wind gusts are projected in the 20-25 mph range.
Snedeker's post-round range session was as much about working out kinks from his day on the course as preparing for tomorrow's conditions.
Snedeker said the Heritage would be a breath of fresh air after the stress of the Masters. Three rounds later, he's lucky to still be in the tournament.
"I'm playing really good," Snedeker said. "It's just a matter of getting some good momentum going and making some putts when I need to. Tomorrow is going to be really tough, so hopefully I can get out there in the morning, get the ball down and shoot something 5 or 6 under par and jump up the leaderboard a little bit."


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Bieber melting chicks around the world with his new jam about his mom "Turn To You"
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How do you shut up dumbasses who said your first single "Boyfriend" was too racy and not age appropriate for his audience? Oh just release a song about your mom for Mother's Day that is blazing hot. Bieber might be some kind of business/PR genius too. The kid's swag simply can't be touched. And if anybody still has a problem with the Biebs they can take it up with Floyd Mayweather. Bieber. So hot right now. Bieber.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Soooo I have no idea what the hell is going on. We need our rough draft of the documentary for next week and I have a feeling we are no where near that stage. I feel like everything is just coming down and I have no idea how we got so far behind. I know we have good footage of interviews. I never knew we needed that much B footage but I guessed I missed that part. All we can do is try and get things done right? I honestly just want to pass the class lol I thought we were doing fine but when we got back from our month break we just got hit with all the things that we hadn't done. BLAHHHHH well I guess we will just roll with the punches eh?
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While mini cupcake may need to share his parents' love with his numerous siblings, he soon realises that fortunately he has more than one dad. That means there is more love to be shared around!
Unlike cupcakes, we may have only one birth dad (I use "may" because technology advancement blurs things that I take for granted), yet we can still have more than one dad in our life, like the cupcakes. And no, I am not suggesting that you find a sugar daddy. Instead, I am using the term "dad" loosely to mean mentors and role models.
If you have come across the book "Rich dad poor dad" by Robert Kiyosaki, you would have heard how the author was raised to be financially savvy from his friend's dad who he affectionately addresses as Rich dad. There are people who don't agree with the views in the book but the reason why I am quoting this book is to illustrate that there are many people around us who we can learn from to become better individuals. Personally, I have benefited a lot from the mentoring that I received from my ex-bosses and by observing each of them in their unique management styles and strengths. Sadly, there are people who hate their bosses to the guts and focus on their bosses' weaknesses, failing to explore the wonderful learning opportunities.
And it does not even have to be confined to just learning from people who are physically around us. With the accessibility of books and the internet, I can learn from writers, fellow bloggers and cartoonists from all around the world on various topics and that really widens my perspective of things. I definitely would not have dreamed to be a cartoonist if I listen only to my own dad. It is only a matter of whether one wishes to seek and learn from these "dads". No offence here, dad. I still love you!
So who is your daddy? 🙂