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[The Great War] was a war of mass death in which massed men were fed for 1500 days to massed fire power so that more than 6000 corpses could be processed each day without letup. When it was over, 10,000,000 soldiers and civilians had been killed and mass death had become an acceptable part of the experience and values of European civilization. (Rubenstein 1983, 161) I feel that the unveiling of that monument [at Vimy] and all that was connected with it was really something more than the simple display of a great memorial. It has a tremendous bearing on our whole national development. (Scott 1936) The idea that is running in my mind is that it is through sacrifice that we achieve the spiritual things which your [word illegible] figures represent. (Col. H. C. Osborne to Walter Allward, December 12, 1928) Richard Rubenstein, quoted in the first epigraph above, was not writing inscriptions for Great War memorials. His expression of modern memory could never comfort the numbed, grieving nations attempting to reestablish themselves and their moral order after that War. The buried cries of those mourners are typically displayed in the remarks of Canon Scott and Colonel Osborne. War memorials--especially the Vimy Memorial that they are talking about--sought to voice the unspeakable within the discourse of comfort. (2) An array of elegant evasions enables this exercise. For vulnerable flesh, substitute bronze and granite. Upon the earthbound killing ground, raise a monumental elevation. To an audience wracked by grief, chant a hymn of sacrifice. Walter S. Allward's (1876-1955) memorial at Vimy, France, to Canada's Great War dead performs these functions on a gigantic scale. (3) Hundreds of tons of granite and reinforced concrete weighted with twenty allegorical figures (each of them, double-lifesize), flanked by two soaring pylons towering ten stories above a magnificent hilltop setting, ought to have a lot to say about what they commemorate. (4) The recent (April 9, 2007) TV coverage of the ceremonies marking the 90th anniversary of the Canadian Corps' assault upon Vimy Ridge threw images of the newly renovated and repaired Memorial into millions of Canadian living rooms. The background grandeur that the sight lent to the speeches, ceremonials, and color commentary reinforced the assumption that the statuary convincingly embodied a nation's grief and remembrance. Unnoticed went the possibility that the Memorial's proclamation of comfort amid tribulation remains in fact severely qualified and compromised. A lengthy series of monumentally inscribed statements--11,285 of them, in fact--insinuate a message at once starker and emotionally distant, a laconic registry of heartache and loss. Allward's forced inclusion on his memorial of 11,285 names of the Missing--properly read--undermines his allegorical grande machine of consolation, fostering contradiction rather than complexity in his statement. What we can term the failure of the allegorical is not confined to Allward's masterwork, but extends onward to his final public commission. The opacity of the chief allegorical figure that dominates the William Lyon Mackenzie Memorial at Queen's Park in Toronto (unveiled in 1940) conveys that failure in another fashion. Both pieces demonstrate that Allward's habit of allegorized discourse had reached the limits of its intelligibility. This exhaustion of attributed meaning helps account for the implosion of Allward's career as a public sculptor, an implosion that would haunt him for the decade and a half that he had left to live. His frequent applications to various potential patrons resulted in failure, itself a result of the passing of a symbolic discourse that had engaged him too fully. I A friend of Walter Allward's at Toronto's Arts and Letters Club wrote that Allward's 1898 visit to Paris involved more than romance: [T]hey honeymooned in Paris so that Walter could more closely examine the Rodin sculptures (Hopkins). …

In the early 1960s osteopathy in the UK was still regarded as a rather outlandish form of treatment. Its wider acceptance and slow rise to respectability (the 1993 Osteopathy Bill conferred statutory recognition on the profession) was due, in part, to its increasing popularity amongst professional sportsmen and women, many of whom were treated by Terry Moule, who has died suddenly of coronary thrombosis aged 62. Terry, who had graduated as a naturopath and osteopath in 1963, did much to take osteopathic principles to the sporting world. He combined this with an enthusiasm for performance cars by acting as an adviser to the motor and aircraft industries on seat design. It was a chance encounter with the footballer Gerry Francis in a London nightclub that helped to establish Terry Moule's reputation in sports medicine. Francis, the England and Queen's Park Rangers football captain, had been troubled by a recurring back injury and was scheduled for surgery, with only a fifty-fifty chance of recovery. Terry, using a combination of neuromuscular technique and osteopathic manipulation, was able to get him back on the field in a matter of weeks and keep him match-fit for some years to come. Terry went on to work with many top athletes and sporting personalities including Sebastian Coe, Steven Redgrave, Fatima Whitbread, Les Ferdinand, and Roger Uttley who was the England rugby captain at the time. He and Uttley became partners in a sports therapy centre at Hemel Hempstead for several years. Terry also became closely involved with Hertfordshire County RFC and acted as an adviser to the English Table Tennis Association and the Australian Davies Cup team, including Paul McNamee and Peter McNamara, who won several Wimbledon titles. Terry made a point of not charging younger people with international sporting potential and, on this basis, estimated he had made a contribution of over half a million pounds to British sport. In recent years, Terry extended his sports medicine interests to the animal world, treating racehorses with osteopathy and advising on their rehabilitation. He and his family moved to Bicester to be nearer the Millrace Stables, run by Alan Jarvis (Fig. 1). A lifelong interest in cars led him to apply his osteopathic expertise to car-seat design for the Saab Motor Company and Vauxhall Motors. When Saab named him, in national press advertisements, as their osteopathic adviser, it was frowned upon by the elders of his professional association because, at that time, osteopaths were not allowed to advertise. More recently he was working on an entirely new concept in seating designed to avoid impediments to blood flow and reduce pressure on the ischial tuberosities. MouleTec seats are now being used in aircraft and the automotive industries. Terry Moule was born in Wolverhampton, the son of the naturopath, Tom Moule, who, in 1957, had taken over the directorship of the Champneys nature cure clinic near Tring from its founder, Stanley Lief. Lief had pioneered the neuromuscular technique as an indispensable adjunct to manipulative treatment and, while still a student at the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy, in Hampstead, London, Terry received a thorough grounding in this as he served an apprenticeship in the treatment rooms at Champneys—a world of carrot juice, colonic irrigations, and sitz baths. Champneys was a Mecca for the chronically sick in the middle decades of the 20th century and many were successfully treated by its regimen of fasting, fruit and vegetable diets, and physical therapy. Working with this at first hand enabled Terry to understand the great relevance of naturopathic nutritional principles to fitness for athletic endeavour and they became an integral part of his approach to sports medicine as well as to general health. This is reflected in his two books, ‘Fit for Sport’ and ‘Cancer—the Healthy Option’. Terry lectured and broadcast extensively on naturopathic topics and served as President of the British Naturopathic Association from 1996 to 1999 (Fig. 2). He is survived by his wife, Patsy, whom he married in 1965, their daughters, Tania, Stefanie, and Katrina, son Justin, and seven grandchildren. He also leaves his sister, the osteopath, Judy Clark, and their mother.

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The past in the past and the present: a study of deep time and the city

Donald W. Seldin, 1920-2018.

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Ethical guidelines regarding interventions for fetal wellbeing: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health

Harmful stereotyping of women in health care: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health

Disclosing adverse outcomes in medical care: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health

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마립간기·중고기 신라 왕실의 婚俗 재검토

Foreword

The past in the past and the present: a study of deep time and the city

Donald W. Seldin, 1920-2018.

Fontarnauite, (Na,K)2(Sr,Ca)(SO4)[B5O8(OH)](H2O)2, A New Sulfate-Borate Mineral From Doğanlar (Emet), Kütahya Province, Western Anatolia, Turkey

Creating the Will to Change: The Challenges of Decarceration in the United States

IEEE-NANOMED 2012 [Conference Review

Queen's Parks in Queensland

Ethical guidelines regarding interventions for fetal wellbeing: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health

Harmful stereotyping of women in health care: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health

Disclosing adverse outcomes in medical care: FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health

Complexity and Contradiction in Canadian Public Sculpture: The Case of Walter Allward

Social Movements and the News Media

Is It Better to Live in a Basement, an Attic or to Get Your Own Place? Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Institutional Change for Northwestern Ontario

Terry Glyn Moule

The Grandfathering of William Lyon Mackenzie King

The Government and Politics of OntarioGraham White, ed. 5th ed.; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, pp. viii, 458 - Revolution at Queen's Park: Essays on Governing OntarioSid Noel, ed. Toronto: Lorimer, 1997, pp. viii, 172

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Unpaid labour and school urban microclimatology