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Family Shelter Service (FSS) was the proud recipient of a wide variety of new products from the recent International Housewares Show that took place at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. In order to get the most bang for the buck so that they are able to help as many women and children as they possibly can, they are offering this eclectic mix of sample house ware items to the public at special designated rates for one day only at the Family Shelter Service Housewares Warehouse Sale!
Brands such as Calphalon, Pyrex and Rubbermaid will be available. Porcelain cookware and various other kitchen gadgets will also be there.
This is perfect for people who have been married a long time and are looking for excellent deals to update their kitchen preparation selection. It is also a great opportunity if you know someone setting up a new apartment or getting married.
Shopping will be available on Sunday, April 27th from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at the Mary Kay Distribution Warehouse located at 2800 Forbs Avenue in Hoffman Estates (Just off I-90 at Route 59).
When you shop and save a bundle of cash, you can use cash and credit cards. No personal checks will be accepted for financial security purposes for FSS. All proceeds will go toward supporting the good works of the Family Shelter Service that operates in Wheaton, Illinois. They offer hope and help for individuals affected by domestic violence.
So, bring a friend – and a truck – and stock up for yourself or others. Not only will you save money on brand new exciting housewares products recently introduced at the International Housewares Show, but you will be helping FSS to help those in dire need.
Family Shelter Service does its best to see that the work that they do is funded. When they are seeking help from the public, they do their very best to ensure that they offer something special in return.
This event was made possible by the generous donation from this year's International Housewares Show, that took place in March. FSS was chosen from amongst various organizations that submitted their organizational information. Therefore, they were able to receive brand new sample items that had been displayed at the show at no cost – thus they are able to sell them for a complete profit!
You win, they win, battered women and children will finally be able to win. Shopping for these great products is limited to one day only; this Sunday from 10:00 until 3:00 at the Mary Kay Distribution Warehouse in Hoffman Estates. Be there!


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Csomor, P A; Yee, B K; Vollenweider, F X; Feldon, J; Nicolet, T; Quednow, B B (2008). On the influence of baseline startle reactivity on the indexation of prepulse inhibition. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122(4):885-900.
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Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the startle reflex refers to the reduction of the reflexive startle response to an intense pulse stimulus when its presentation is shortly preceded by a weak prepulse stimulus. PPI is considered as a cross-species translational model of sensorimotor gating, and deficient PPI has been reported in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders. Although a part of the literature is based on the assumption that PPI is independent of the baseline startle reaction, there is accumulating evidence (Csomor et al., 2006; Sandner & Canal, 2007; Yee, Chang, Pietropaolo, & Feldon, 2005) that argues against such an independency. The authors systematically investigated whether PPI indexed as percentage or difference score is dependent on the magnitude of baseline startle reactivity in healthy human volunteers and in C57BL/6 mice. The results revealed that both indexations of PPI were affected by the magnitude of the baseline startle. The authors highlight the pitfalls of different methods to index PPI, especially when startle reactivity differs considerably between groups under comparison, and offer practical recommendations to satisfactorily deal with such baseline differences.
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Matt Krna: A Core Social Mission Pays
GUEST MENTOR Matt Krna, principal at SoftBank Capital: As a VC, I believe that at the most basic level, every business incorporates a fundamental social good. Startups employ people. They contribute to the growth of the economy. They promote the forward progress of their respective industries. It can be overlooked (or overstated for that matter), but every person that founds a company is promoting social good.
For businesses that want to go beyond this standard, social good isn't something that can be folded into a business model; it needs to be the business model. Entrepreneurs wishing to do social good should look to develop businesses which can have societal benefit. It could be global (cutting carbon emissions), local (promoting neighborhood businesses), direct (micro-lending in emerging markets) or indirect (enabling businesses to provide better service for less money).
Of course, not every startup supports this type of social good. Starting and building a business is a risky and difficult undertaking, no matter the subject matter, but entrepreneurs who are taking the trouble and time to create something new may as well also shoot to create something that has lasting value, beyond enterprise value.
Read what other mentors have to say how to incorporate social good into startups.
For a business that has a social mission at its heart, the best way to maximize social good is simple: make the business a blinding success. The wonderful thing about building a business with a real social purpose is that attracting and motivating employees is often much, much easier than it is for a company with a nebulous or nonexistent mission. Everyone wants his or her work to have meaning, and when that meaning is explicit and shared with others, the result is electric. This can be a huge advantage in the struggle to bring a new product or service to the market quickly.
What about a business that is "neutral" from a social good perspective? Are there any ways for philanthropy to be incorporated into a startup's culture? Yes, but with difficulty. Founders are the leaders and custodians of their businesses, and any company-centric social undertakings should support business goals. When working with charities, a business needs to make sure that the charity gains at least as much from the partnership as the business. A business that lauds its own philanthropy to acquire customers is being exploitative if the economic benefits to the charity aren't proportionate. Businesses are better off keeping it simple. For example instead of going sailing for a team-building outing, build a house; rather than attend another cocktail event, teach a class on entrepreneurship or technology.
However, nothing gets me quite as excited as a founder who is in the process of building a business that can really change the world for the better. These are the companies that I aspire to invest in, and that great people will take a risk to work for. It pays to have a social mission at the core.


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We are broadly interested in the reproductive behavior of animals, including mechanisms that males and females use to influence reproductive success. Our current research focuses on reproductive behavior and physiology in several species including: the pomace fly (Drosophila melanogaster), the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), and humans.
Sirot lab - Summer 2014.
From left to right: Laura Sirot, Eva Kotsopoulos, Hannah Olson, Laura Darby, Katie Boes
Recent lab news:
9/02/2014: Two additional undergraduate researchers have joined our lab: Denise F. and Moe F. Welcome!
7/10/2014: Laura Sirot and Katie Boes presented our research at the Insect Reproductive Molecules meeting at Cornell University. The meeting was a great opportunity to talk with many researchers who study seminal fluid proteins. Thanks to Mariana Wolfner for organizing the meeting!
6/19/2014: Our paper reporting the seminal fluid proteins of Aedes albopictus was published today in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Read it here.
6/2/2014: Laura Sirot returned from her sabbatical at INECOL, and our undergraduate student researchers have returned to campus to work on summer research projects. We are gearing up for a great summer!
3/12/2014: Katie Boes presented an overview of our current mosquito projects at the OSU OARDC Mosquito Conference. The conference was a great opportunity to meet several mosquito researchers based in Ohio and nearby states - a big thanks to Pete Piermarini at OSU for organizing it.
1/22/2014: Eva K joined our lab as a volunteer. She is particularly looking forward to dissecting mosquitoes to help address several research questions. Welcome Eva!
1/3/2014: Laura left for her sabbatical at INECOL working in the lab of Dr. Martín Aluja.
11/12/13: Katie Boes presented our research on Aedes albopictus seminal fluid protein at the 2013 Entomological Society of America meeting in Austin, Texas. Congratulations, Katie!
7/10/2013: Laura Sirot presented our research on comparative mosquito seminal fluid proteins at the 2013 meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE). Her talk title was "Seminal fluid proteomes of Aedes mosquitoes."
6/05/2013: Our summer research students are busy at work on their projects. Sharla Dean, a College of Wooster student who is working on campus this summer, has volunteered to assist with these projects. Welcome Sharla.
1/14/2013: It's a new semester here at The College of Wooster, and we're welcoming two additional undergrad research assistants to the lab. Welcome to Laura Darby and Joe Burgio.
10/29/2012: Laura and Katie presented a talk at the Ohio Mosquito Control Association (OMCA) meeting in Richfield, Ohio. Thanks to OMCA for giving us the opportunity to talk about our research and discuss ideas for future projects.
8/12/2012: Thanks to our collaborator from Oxford, Dr. Stuart Wigby, for spending a month visiting our lab at Wooster.
8/06/2012: Katie just returned from a visit to NIH to work with our collaborator, Jose Ribeiro.
7/20/2012: Hannah Olson presented the results of her summer research project at Wooster's HHMI student symposium. Her poster was entitled "The Effect of Juvenile Hormone on Insemination Success in Aedes albopictus." Great job Hannah!
6/18/2012: Laura and her work with mosquitoes was featured on NPR's Exploradio program. Click here to read "Mosquito Love" and listen to Laura's interview.
6/15/2012: Harper Jocque won the runner-up prize for best student paper at the 2012 Animal Behavior Society Meeting. Congratulations Harper!


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College Hockey:Spartans' Mason Reaches 800 Wins
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State head coach Ron Mason, already the winningest coach in the history of the sport, earned the 800th victory of his career Friday night as the Spartans defeated archrival Michigan, 5-1.
Hundreds of enthusiastic fans stormed the ice to honor Mason after the game.
"I've never had that happen," Mason said of the fans' accord. "It was really touching and I didn't expect it."
Mason, in his 32nd year as a head coach, has a career record of 800-347-63, including 511-237-49 in 18-plus seasons at the Spartan helm.
Friday's win pulled Michigan State within one point of first-place Michigan in the CCHA standings. The two teams meet again Saturday night at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
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You might feel guilty as you think that you have caused your sibling to have cancer by saying something mean to him/her. You might also feel guilty because you are unable to protect him/her whilst you are able to maintain your social life as a healthy child. REMEMBER: nothing that you think, feel, say or do will cause cancer.
You might feel lonely as you are home alone most of the time as your parents are spending more time with your sibling who has cancer. Your friends may also treat you differently because your brother or sister has cancer. They are worried that they might contract cancer or they do not know how to respond to your situation. REMEMBER: Things may get better. It may not always stay the way it is now.
You might feel angry with your parents or your sibling who has cancer. You feel angry because things seem to have changed since your sibling has cancer and you feel that it is his/ her fault. You feel angry that no one tells you about what is happening or ask you about your feelings. REMEMBER: Anger is a natural response to change, especially when you are unable to control the changes. Give your parents some time because they are also trying their best to manage the changes. It does not mean that you do not love your family anymore if you are angry. However, it is important to find healthy ways to release your frustrations and anger.
You might feel jealous as your sibling is getting all the attention after he/ she has cancer. Your parents may also be more lenient with him/her and you may feel that your parents are unfair. REMEMBER: It is ok to feel like this sometimes even though you might already understand why your sibling needs the attention. However, it does not mean that you are not a loving sister or brother if you feel this way.
You might feel scared as you think that your sibling may die from cancer or you might contract cancer too. REMEMBER: Cancer is not contagious – you cannot contract it like flu. You need to take medicine when you have flu. Similarly, your brother or sister needs to be on medication during their fight with cancer. It does not mean that just because your sibling has cancer, they would die. It depends on their prognosis and response to the treatment.
It might help if you share your worries with someone you trust or be updated with your sibling's cancer treatment and progress.
There are no good or bad emotions. If you experienced any of these emotions, remember that it is normal and everyone has them.
Most siblings experience these feelings when their brother or sister is diagnosed with cancer. These feelings come about when they experience changes in their lives after their siblings fall sick.
Sometimes, you may not know how to deal with these feelings. Keeping these feelings to yourself may not be helpful. You might feel better if you share them with someone you trust. It could be your parents, friends, teachers, school counsellor; or you can simply jot it down in a journal book.Change in routines and responsibilities
Your family may experience a lot of changes after your sibling is diagnosed with cancer. You, as part of the family, will be experiencing some of these changes as well.
Do these scenarios describe what is happening to you? Many other siblings experience these changes when their sibling is diagnosed with cancer. Be prepared that these changes may happen to you too.How to be supportive?
Listen.You may not have the solution to their problems. But by lending them a listening ear, you can be of a good support to your sibling/ parents.
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Our weekly look at the leaders, trailers, and outliers in the Washington Nationals minor leagues.
SYRACUSE 22-29, 5th place I.L. North, 10 games behind
|Tom Milone 2-1, 2.55ERA, 0.74WHIP, 42K last 5 GS
|Gregor Blanco .560 OPS
|Matt Antonelli .359/.432/.538 in 11G since callup
HARRISBURG 30-21, 1st place E.L. West Division, 3 games ahead
|Tyler Moore .312, 11-2B, 3B, 6HR since May 1
|Matt Chico 23H, 7BB, in 12IP since demotion
|Team FA .981, 3rd best in E.L.
POTOMAC 19-34, 4th place C.L. North Division, 12 games behind
|Jeff Kobernus .351/.400/.432 in last 10G
|Paul Demny 6HR allowed in last 6GS
|41% CS by C's, 2nd best in Carolina League
HAGERSTOWN 33-21, 1st place Sally League Northern Division, 2½ games ahead
|Blake Kelso .348/.417/.446
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Go Tyler Moore! His power #'s are much better than Marrero's and he's made the transition to AA flawlessly. Sue, you were right to be concerned about possible problems moving forward, but those concerns were thankfully unfounded.
What do with Matt Chico, he seriously needs a change of scenery.
I think it's safe to say Blake Kelso has mastered Low A at this point. Another terrific story.
Time to move Mr. Marrero in my opinion as a secondary piece. To me, Moore's performance, Morse's hot streak, and LaRoche's injury mean that Marrero deserves a cup of coffee to showcase him to teams defensively in the big leagues, but he has all the makings of a right handed pinch hitter, that guy everybody has thought Morse is.
Add to that Morse looks like a plus fielder at first base. Wonder what his UZR will end up at at the end of the season? I don't think Marerro could match Morse's fielding at first … not sure Moore could either?
Given Rizzo's stated underlying philosophy, Morse's performance in the field, and Riggleman managing you have to think they would stick with Morse/LaRoche unless they go for Pujols in the offseason.
DSL roster insights so far(after a whopping quintet of games): of the 16 named last winter as signees, only 8 have played. The most touted, Raudy Read, 17 yr old C, is 0-13. OF R Novas has not played.
Of named last winter, OF D Rosario is 2-17 .118, 3B D Eusebio is 3-19 .158. Moscat (20 yr old) and Mendez (18) have started games, with Barrientos (17), Escolastico (18), A Martinez (18) all appearing in relief.
Brand New names are Yermin Mercedes (C – 18 yr old) 4-7 so far, and Bryan Mejia (17 yr old OF) 3-15. Plus Ivan Pineyro (19 yr old) has started a game and Deury Vazquez (18 – signed out of the Dominican Prospect League) has pitched in a game.
6 returnees have started in the field for most the games (Difo, E Gonzo, Adderling Ruiz, "Fred" Ortega, B Valdez and Aladin Reyes). 6 returners also have pitched, Greg Baez down from GCL last year, W Suez, A Marcelino (SP), I Heredia, Kelvin Rodriguez switches to P from catcher last year,and Jesus Guzman.
So now total signed last winter/fall is 20, the 16 in the article and the 4 new names. Whether all of the original 16 are actually good enough to play is another story.
Wow. What's your take on the guys from the DSL playing in the GCL and short-season Vermont this season?
This stuff is awesome! Put this man on the payroll!
Wow, did Tyler Moore really have 20 XBH in the month of May?
Tyler Moore in May had a slugging pct. of .604 & OPS of .956. Those are eyepopping numbers. For those who missed the earlier post, Tyler played last year with what turned out to be a golf-ball sized tumor in his leg, preventing him from any offseason baseball activities. He was definitely allowed a slow April, thankfully the tumor was benign.
By contrast, Marrero so far this year has slugging pct of .397.
Uh, I think it's safe to say at this point that Moore > Marrero on next year's prospect lists. I did not see this coming from Mr. Moore at all. I need to give the man his props. Plus I believe that his bombs pass the eye test.
MarkL – I didn't know that. Even more impressive. Glad to see it wasn't malignant.
What is the take on him in the public scouting world like Goldstein, etc? I thought last year he was considered old for his level. Still there, or moving into prospect territory?
Do you have any idea when Harper is getting promoted? He seems to have mastered low-A pitching, and I would like to move him along so he at least finishes the year in Harrisburg. I still have hopes of seeing him in Washington in 2012, though I think that might be a little unrealistic.
I'm of the opinion that Harper ought to spend a full two years in the minors because the only thing he doesn't have is experience and that's the one thing the Org can give him.
I'm of the opinion that once he should spend about a half season everywhere except AAA. That means end of next year or early 2013 is when we expect the debut. You know that there will be all kind of hype in the org over the offseason is Strasburg shows some mojo in either spring training or at the end of this year.
Ladson reported (he didn't say he was guessing either) that Harper would be moved to Harrisburg next. I think a quote attributed to either Davey Johnson or someone in Nats player development stated that "Harper's would stay at his next stop for a good long while".
Given the two together one would think Harrisburg after the first half in Hagerstown?
The boys in hagerstown found out who made the all-star team yesterday… Harper is definitely on it so he probably won't get promoted until after the all-star game.
I can't remember if I have got everyone, but boys from hagerstown who made the team were: Kelso, Freitas, Harper, Manno, Jordan
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A cat in southwestern Ontario, Canada, is on the mend after being shot with 17 pellets in the head, according to a local animal welfare group.
Surgeons successfully removed the male feline's badly damaged left eye and all but one of the pellets, said the Sarnia & District Humane Society, which is overseeing his care. The cat was found in early February and has been named "Joe."
"Joe is eating extremely well and we are very optimistic that the worst is finally behind this little guy," the group wrote on its Facebook page Feb. 12.
A 19-year-old Sarnia man has been arrested and charged with two counts of animal cruelty in connection with the shooting, Sarnia police announced Feb. 14. The charge of injuring a cat willfully and without lawful cause carries a maximum sentence of five years behind bars, while the count of willfully causing unnecessary suffering has a maximum penalty of two years, police said. The man, whose home was searched by police, also faces several drug possession charges. A bail hearing was scheduled for Feb. 19.
Police continue to investigate and ask anyone with information to call Detective Constable Miro Soucek at 519-344-8861 extension 6191 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Meanwhile, an online petition drive has been launched urging authorities to seek the maximum penalty possible for the alleged perpetrator. As of late Feb. 18, the petition had almost 6,000 signatures.
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Zhu De [Chu Teh]
Commander and founder of Chinese Red
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"What kind of war to fight depends
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Marshal Zhu De
Zhu De is regarded as a founder member of
the Red Army (the forerunner of the people's Liberation Army
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and civil war in China. He commanded the Chinese Red Army
against Jiang Jieshi's [Chiang Kaishek] Nationalist Army in
1930-1933 and in the Long March; against the Japanese in Sino-Japanese
War, and again against the Nationalist Army in the Civil War
of 1945-1949. Together with Mao Zedong, they made a formidable
team during the Communist struggle to power. While Mao formulated
political doctrines and Zhu De provided the military leadership
to transform the doctrines into action. They laboured to reorganise
the Red Army into a force fit to resist attacks by the Kuomintang,
warlords and Japanese troops.
Zhu De was born in 1886 in Yilong county,
a hilly and isolated section north of Sichuan Province. Hailing
from a large farming family of humble origins, Zhu De was
one of thirteen children. He was raised by his elder uncle,
a landlord. After his elementary and secondary education which
was funded by his clan, Zhu De went to Chengdu to study physical
education before joining the army.
Zhu De was one of the few privileged Red
Army leaders to receive professional military education. Zhu
De entered the Yunnan Military Academy in Kunming in 1908
and went on to teach in the academy after his graduation.
He participated in military campaigns with armies of the Yunnan
warlords. He commanded units along the China-Laos border and
the China-Vietnam border during early Republican years. During
this time, Zhu De developed a strong opium habit but managed
to recover from the addiction in 1922 at a Shanghai hospital.
Zhu De began to read Marxism and Leninism
in Shanghai. The turning point came in late 1922, during his
mid-30s, when he went to Europe. He first went to Germany
to study at the Gottingen University (1922-25) before joining
the Communist party with Zhou Enlai and others as his sponsors.
He was arrested twice for his revolutionary activities and
was eventually exiled. In July 1925, he travelled to the Soviet
Union to study military affairs before returning to China
in 1926.
After taking part in several abortive Communist
uprisings in Huzhou, Shunqing, and Nanchang in 1927, where
Zhu De played the role of a "highly-placed 'mole' in
the local Nationalist forces", he moved into the Fujian
Province and reorganised his units into the "Nine Revolutionary
Army". Influenced by his early military training, Zhu
De emphasised conventional fighting methods. Other Chinese
Communist leaders such as Mao Zedong, however, preferred guerrilla
units and tactics. By 1928, Zhu De joined forces with Mao
at Jinggangshan where the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers
and Peasants' Red Army was formed with Zhu De as commander.
Zhu De adopted the "lure the enemy in deep" principle,
concentrating on a superior force to destroy the enemy one
by one. Using a combination of regular mobile and partisan
guerrilla operations, Zhu De and Mao achieved significant
victories against the Nationalist encirclement campaign in
Mao and Zhu De forged a close political
relationship during this period. Both men opposed the Li Lisan
line of attempting to take large cities during 1930. Zhu also
sided with Mao during the Futian Incident where there was
a revolt against Mao in the same year. This was a critical
juncture because it coincided with the imminent launch of
Chiang Kaishek's five annihilation campaigns against the Communist
stronghold. Under great pressure, the Red Army was forced
to abandon the Jiangxi Soviet in late 1934. Zhu De assumed
the post of Commander-in-Chief of the famed Long March, which
relocated the Communists in Yan'an a year later.
When the Sino-Japanese War broke out in
1937, the Nationalist and Communist formed the second United
Front against the Japanese. Zhu De was named deputy commander
of the Second War Zone and commander of the Eighth Route Army,
the re-designation of the Red Army. He led the main force
of the Eighth Route Army in the North China front to conduct
independent guerrilla warfare in coordination with the military
operations of the Nationalist troops. In March 1938, he directed
the combined forces of the Nationalist and Red Army and defeated
the Japanese in Shanxi province. After the victory against
Japan, the Red Army was once again embroiled in civil war.
During this time, the Communist military units were re-designated
the people's Liberation Army. Zhu De continued as a Commander-in-Chief.
By 1947, the war was turning decisively in favour of the Communists.
Victory came within months. Zhu De was accorded a place of
honour in Tiananmen when Mao pronounced the establishment
of the people's Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
After founding the people's Republic of
China, Zhu De served in various positions such as the Vice-Chairman
of the party's Politburo, member of the Military Affairs Committee,
Defence Minister and many political appointments. During this
time, he led delegations to many parts of the world including,
Moscow, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In October 1950,
at the direction of Zhu De, the PLA (styled as the 'Chinese
People's Volunteers [CPV]') entered the Korean War with the
primary motive of maintaining North Korea as a buffer against
a possible attack by "American imperialism". The
objective was met but at a high cost: between half a million
and a million battle deaths. He was awarded the rank of field
marshal in 1955. In 1959, he relinquished all other military
posts, retaining his title of marshal in the PLA.
On 6 July 1976, Zhu De died at the age of
90, six months after Zhou Enlai's death and two months before
Mao Zedong's death. Zhu De is remembered to this day as a
brilliant military tactician. Together with Zhou Enlai and
Mao Zedong, Zhu De is recognised as among the most influential
founding members of the people's Republic of China.
Klein, Donald W and
Clark, Anne B (ed), Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism,
1921-1965, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
197, vol. 1, pp. 245-254.
Shambaugh, David and Yang,
Richard H (ed), China's Military in Transition, Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1997, p. 195.
Smedley ,Agnes, The
Great Road; The Life And Times Of Chu Teh, New York, Monthly
Review Press, 1956.
Shum Kui-kwong, Zhu
De (Chu Teh), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press,
William W. Whitson, Chen-hsia
Huang, The Chinese High Command; A History Of Communist
Politics,1927-71, New York, Praeger,1973.
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Basic Prepositions: Time and Place - at, in, on and to
'At, in, on' and ''to' are used with both time and place in English. Read the paragraph below and learn the rules of when to use these prepositions in the chart. Finally, take the quiz to check your understanding.
Read the story below:
I was born in Seattle, Washington on the 19th of April in 1961. Seattle is in the State of Washington in the United States. That was many years ago... Now, I live in Leghorn in Italy. I work at the British School. I sometimes go to a movie on the weekend. I meet my friends at the movie theater at 8 o'clock or later. In the summer, usually in August, I go home to visit my family in America. My family and I go to the beach and relax in the sun in the morning and in the afternoon! In the evening, we often eat at a restaurant with our friends. Sometimes, we go to a bar at night.
Look at the chart below:
|We use in with months - in May
seasons - in winter
country - in Greece
city or town names - in New York
times of the day - in the morning, afternoon or evening
BUT at night!
|We use "on" with specific days - on Friday, on New Year's Day, on April the 19th
American English - "on the weekend OR on weekends"
|We use "at" with specific times - at 7 o'clock, at 6.15
at night
specific places in a city - at school
British English - "at the weekend OR at weekends"
|We use "to" with verbs which show movement such as go and come - He goes to school.
She returned to the store.
They are coming to the party tonight.
Write some sentences about your life!
Continue Learning for Beginners Unit 4 Present Progressive, Adjectives, Prepositions Listening Exercises


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The Progress 12 craft lifted off right on time from its Central Asian launch pad at 8:48 p.m. CDT (148 GMT Aug. 29) as the ISS sailed over the south Atlantic Ocean east of South America at an altitude of 240 statute miles. Less than 10 minutes later, the Progress settled into its preliminary orbit and its solar arrays and navigational antennas were successfully deployed.
Aboard the ISS, Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu were already in their sleep period as the Progress climbed to orbit.
The new Progress is scheduled to dock to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module on Saturday night at 10:45 p.m. CDT (345 GMT Aug. 31). Another Progress ship that arrived at the ISS in February filled with discarded items and trash was undocked yesterday and commanded to deorbit, burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Progress 12 is loaded with supplies for Malenchenko and Lu and science gear for European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque of Spain, who is set to launch October 18 from Baikonur on the Soyuz TMA-3 craft with Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale and Expedition 8 Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri. Duque will spend eight days aboard the ISS conducting science experiments under a commercial contract between ESA and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. Duque will return to Earth on Oct. 28 with Malenchenko and Lu.
Among the supplies aboard the Progress is a satellite phone and Global Positioning System locator hardware which Malenchenko, Lu and Duque would use in the unlikely event they land off-course, as did the Expedition Six crew back in May.
The new Progress also carries personal items and hardware for Foale and Kaleri, who are scheduled to spend almost 200 days aboard the ISS.
Another Progress vehicle currently docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment will undock from the ISS on September 4 to clear the way for the arrival of Foale, Kaleri and Duque in the Soyuz TMA-3 on October 20.


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Ecuador and the Galapagos
This little book is a quick compilation of photographs I took on my trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos. These few are culled from 2000 shots I took. It includes some historical facts and maybe to Westerners some surprising insights from native Ecuadorians.
I do "on location" photography. Photographing people or plants in their environment at that moment is my passion. Some things are only there for a moment in time, the light and weather and placement combine to make that shot. Those things are what I try to capture.. I am now photographing from South Florida.
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I'm looking through some notes that my professor gave regarding the language SML and one of the functions looks like this:
fun max gt =
let fun lp curr [] = curr
| lp curr (a::l) = if gt(a,curr)
then lp a l
else lp curr l
Could someone help explain what this is doing? The thing that I am most confused about is the line:
let fun lp curr [] = curr
What exactly does this mean? As far as I can tell there is a function called
lp but what does the
curr [] mean? Are these arguments? If so, aren't you only allowed one parameter in sml?


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Feb 26th 2013
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College Hockey:Carbon Copy Poll Sees Elmira On Top
Bowdoin, Middlebury and Williams set to do battle
MINNEAPOLIS — Eight of the top ten teams saw action, but with all of the results, save one, going to the higher-ranked team, the USCHO.com Division III Women's Poll featured no change in the top ten teams or their places, from one week ago.
Elmira remained on top of the poll, earning nine of the available 12 first-place votes.
The only meeting between ranked teams was a two game set between NCHA powers No. 7 Wis.-Stevens Point and No. 9 Wis.-River Falls. While the Pointers won a 3-2 game on Saturday, the Falcons rebounded for a 2-0 win on Sunday. The split didn't decide much in the minds of the voters, who left the two teams in the same locations as the previous week.
Next week could see some shake-up in the poll, as three ranked teams play round robin. On Tuesday, No. 4 Middlebury hosts No. 5 Williams, before Williams turns around to host No. 2 Bowdoin on Friday. Saturday's follow-up sees Bowdoin traveling to Middlebury. In addition, No. 8 St. Thomas gets its toughest test of the season as the Tommies go to No. 9 Wis.-River Falls on Wednesday.
Road games seem to be the rule for top teams next weekend. No. 1 Elmira hits the road to take on Cortland and Connecticut College, No. 3 Manhattanville plays a two game set at St. Michael's, and No. 6 Plattsburgh visits Hamilton on Tuesday and Cortland on Saturday and Sunday. No. 7 Wis.-Stevens Point takes a trip to upstart Lake Forest, proud owners of an impressive 9-3-3 record, while No. 10 RIT puts a 14-1 record on the line with two games at Southern Maine.
The USCHO.com Poll is compiled by U.S. College Hockey Online, and consists of 12 voters, all coaches of Division III programs.
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If you've been invited as a guest to a party, here are some things to keep in mind:
Respect the Neighbors: Be respectful of the neighbors, don't throw trash in their yard, or use the restroom in their yard. It's gross and straight up rude! Also, be mindful that there are families that live in Clifton, so don't be extremely loud.
Everybody do Their Share: If you make a mess, clean it up. You wouldn't want someone coming into your home and trashing it, would you?
Go Out with a Group: When going out in Clifton, it's smart to go out with a group of friends. This will help keep you safe on the way to and from the party as well as at the party.
Be Prepared: prepare you own travel arrangements to and from the party. Designate a driver or call a cab.


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Progressive increases in hippocampal gliosis in the adult rat following subconvulsive doses of domoic acid during perinatal development
Domoic Acid. Review and analysis of toxicological data for the CODEX Committee on Fisheries and Fishery Products. Proceedings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Biotoxins in Molluscan Bivalves
Selective decreases in interneuron populations in the dentate gyrus following subconvulsive doses of a kainate agonist during development.
Relative cataleptic potency of narcotic analgesics, including 3,6-dibutanoylmorphine and 6-monoacetylmorphine
Dose-response curves were constructed for duration of significant catalepsy in male Sprague-Dawley rats following i.p. administration of four established and two novel narcotic analgesics. The relative potency of the six drugs was levorphanol greater than monacetylmorphine greater than diacetylmorph...
Domoic acid, a structural analogue of kainic acid, has been identified as the toxin that poisoned people who consumed contaminated blue mussels harvested from eastern Prince Edward Island in December of 1987. To investigate the pharmacology of domoic acid in vivo we injected groups of mice with seri...
Progressive neurological dysfunction produced by low-doses of domoic acid during neonatal development in rats
The antinociceptive actions of morphine incorporated into an injectable chitosan-based gel were investigated in rats. Subcutaneous administration of 4.8 mg/kg morphine sulphate in a gel composed of N,O-carboxymethylchitosan (NOCC) and chitosan resulted in significant antinociception within 10 min th...
The construction of a simple, inexpensive animal restrainer is described. Data are given showing its utility in analgesia studies.
We have examined the behavioural neurotoxicity of domoic acid (DOM) and kainic acid (KA) in mice following administration of ligands active at the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. Groups of female CD-1 mice (n=4) were injected i.p. with saline or one of three doses of either DOM or KA. Doses of...
One hallmark of neurological dysfunction is a reduction in paradoxical sleep (PS) time. To determine if adult rats treated neonatally with low dose domoic acid have altered sleep patterns, a home cage analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) waveforms was performed using radio telemetry. Domoate treat...
Systemic administration of naloxone usually produces either hyperalgesia or no change in nociception depending on the animal species used and/or the pain test employed. This study, however, demonstrates that naloxone produces a dose-dependent analgesia in the formalin pain test using an inbred strai...
Selective reductions in subpopulations of GABAergic neurons in a developmental rat model of epilepsy
PDZ protein interactions underlying NMDA receptor-mediated excitotoxicity and neuroprotection by PSD-95 inhibitors
In neuronal synapses, PDZ domains [postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95)/Discs large/zona occludens-1] of PSD-95 proteins interact with C termini of NMDA receptor [NMDAR (NR)] subunits, linking them to downstream neurotoxic signaling molecules. Perturbing NMDAR/PSD-95 interactions with a Tat peptide comp...
Depression and pathological anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent neurological diseases in the world and can be precipitated and exacerbated by stress. Prenatal stress alters both behavioral and endocrine responses to stressful stimuli in later life. We have previously observed increased ba...
In a recent study [30] it was reported that naloxone, at doses normally employed for opioid antagonism, produced a dose-dependent analgesia in BALB/c mice in the formalin test. We report here that another opioid antagonists, naltrexone, also produces analgesia under these conditions. Female BALB/c m...
Nicotinamide prevents the long-term effects of perinatal asphyxia on apoptosis, non-spatial working memory and anxiety in rats


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I am using ASP.net MVC 3 for a project, and at a point now where I understand more of it, but also trying to learn differences between it and the WebForms world I have used for so long. Previously in WebForms you would just put the fields out there, add a button, and create an event, and then handle whatever you need to with with the postback.
For example, I have a simple view that shows details about an error. I want to push some of the information about this error to our issue tracker's API. Lets say just the subject and content of the error. I would in HTML do something like:
<form action="@Url.Action("Send")" method="post">
<input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" value="@Model.subject" />

<input id="content" name="content" type="text" value="@Model.content" />

<input type="submit" value="Send" />
I found that naming my input ID's to match parameter names in my controller would then let me pass these parameters. This is similar to what you see in this older post by Scott Guthrie.
First of all, I want to call the 'Send' action in my Errors controller, and not my Details one. This actually does call my 'Send' action, but then redirects to localhost/Errors/Send, which I don't want it to.
I want to be able to submit this form, which calls and action and does the work with the remote API, and then update a message on the current page stating that the error has been transferred.
Once the issue had been submitted to the bug tracker, how do I then, for example, show a DIV on the original page passing content back to it (for example, a link to the issue in the issue tracker)?
Update: Here is what I am doing in my controller:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://localhost/redmine/issues.json");
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Accept = "application/json";
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
writer.Write("'issue': { " +
"'project_id': 'project', " +
"'subject': 'Test issue'" +
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
string json = "";
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
json = reader.ReadToEnd();
Also, here is what I am doing in my view (simplified, and after help from Phillip)
@model webapp.Models.app_errors


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May 16, 2011 10:26 AM
Wear summer's cutest trend uniquely: on your feet. The Unisa Jemmy Sandals ($49) feature two denim roses on each sandal, which means they go with everything in your closet. Seriously, when has denim and leather (err, even faux leather) been a bad combination? Okay, we'll give you denim dress shirts and leather bolo ties, but you get our point.
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Join folding@home with TeamLFN !
A few of you may already be participating, or have heard of the
folding@home project at Stanford University.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project. Very basically, it uses some of your CPUs processing power and combined with many other pcs doing the same thing, emulates a "supercomputer" that can be tasked with complex computational models. In this instance, the processing power is going towards understanding protein folding to understand disease proceses, and hence work towards a cure for them.
We have now created our very own team, so if you would like to contribute, please feel free to join teamLFN
The software allows you to monitor how much work units you(and your team) have contributed to. Many organisations, forum and tech sites have teams up and running and have contributed a great amount of processing power for this wonderful cause.
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
For more info and a vid from project devs > check the
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Interested ??
How to setup >>>
1. Select folding client for your OS from the F@H download page, which you can get to from
There is a text only application, as well as a graphical client, which gives you a pretty picture and stats as to what you and your team are up to.
Once you have download and run the proggie it will bring up the config screen. Enter your desired username and if you want to join teamLFN, enter
as the team number. Thats it. The default settings should be sufficient for most people, but if you are a more advanced/savvy user, you can tweak these in config settngs.
You will see the folding tray icon appear in your system tray, which allows you to control or totally switch off
As a general rule, default settings will utilise your CPU(s) 50%. You can still do most computing tasks without any performance issues. Of course, if you want to do some gaming or higher end media stuff, best switch it off
If you have any further questions about setup please post them here
the folding graphical client allows you to add a team logo. Im hoping someone clever will knock together a snazzy teamLFN folding logo we can put up there.
nb. FAH recommends logo should be roughly 4 times length compared to height. eg. 160x40 pixels
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2009 report shines spotlight on cities and states that are losing, gaining
(CLEARWATER, Fla.) – Recent data released by PODS Enterprises, Inc., one of the leaders in the moving and storage industry, shows significant migration trend changes over the past year.
According to the moving patterns of PODS customers, in 2009, the southeastern U.S. reversed last year's trend of significant net outbound moves from cities that had previously exhibited long-standing patterns of residential growth. An analysis of PODS moving data revealed that seven out of the top 11 U.S. cities with a reduction in the percentage of people leaving in 2009 were in Florida.
PODS analyzes its internal moving data and compares year-to-year changes to track national moving trends. The findings reveal which cities and states are gaining or losing the most movers.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. was the No. 1 ranked city, showing 35 percent fewer people leaving in 2009 than in 2008. Other Florida cities showing high percentages of staying power were: Palm Beach (26.6 percent), Tampa (20.7 percent), Miami (18.7 percent), Sarasota (14.7 percent), Jacksonville (13.4 percent) and Orlando (13.2 percent).
In addition to exhibiting increased citywide stability, Florida continues to experience high inbound migration from other U.S. states. According to findings in a 2000 U.S. Census special report entitled State-to-State Migration Flows: 1995 to 2000, the largest state-to-state movement of people for the five year period occurred between New York and Florida, with over 300,000 people moving southward.
Analysis of the PODS data showing increasing stability in migration numbers offers a glimmer of hope for cities and states hard hit by the country's economic downturn.
Cities with high percentages of increased inbound migration were: Honolulu, HI (29.2 percent), Sarasota, Fla. (27.7 percent), Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (21.4 percent) and Seattle, WA (14.0 percent).
"We feel our data is an inclusive representation of the moving industry as a whole," said George Spowart, vice president of marketing at PODS. "Because of the flexibility of our services, PODS' customers include everyone from do-it-yourself individuals to people who hire professional packers and loaders."
Most moving and storage companies only track migration data on a state-by-state basis, but PODS tracks both interstate and city-to-city moving patterns.
About PODS Enterprises, Inc.
Founded in 1998, PODS currently provides moving and storage services to a population of more than 240 million consumers, in 48 U.S. states, Canada and Australia through its company-owned and independent franchise network. To date, the PODS network has completed more than 250,000 long-distance relocations, exceeded one million deliveries and has nearly 140,000 PODS containers in service.
PODS secure containers are constructed of a steel frame and are available in three sizes: approximately 8-by-7-by-7 feet, 8-by-8-by-12 feet and 8-by-8-by-16 feet. The 12-foot and 16-foot containers have been tested to withstand winds of more than 110-mph when partially loaded. For more information or to schedule service, visit PODS.com or call 800-776-7637.
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Adult Intensive Outpatient -
Alcohol and other Drug Addictions
For a free assessment, call the Banner Appointment Line at: (602) 254-4357 or toll-free at (800) 254-4357.
Banner Behavioral Health Hospital recovery programs are conveniently located throughout metropolitan Phoenix. We offer experienced and licensed therapists to aid you in your drug or substance abuse recovery.
The primary goal is to "get into the solution" which includes becoming fully functional in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), NA (Narcotics Anonymous), and CA (Cocaine Anonymous).
Our group therapy provides education on:
- Addiction as a disease
- Craving-management skills
- Relapse prevention
- 12-step education
In this program, we teach the skills and provide the tools necessary for lifelong recovery. Random urine drug screens and breathalyzers are also provided.
Family Involvement
As a family, basic communication skills and having an accurate picture of what recovery entails can ease the most troubled situations. We invite family members to attend scheduled group sessions on a weekly basis with their loved one.
Relapse Prevention
Upon graduation from Intensive Outpatient program, we provide, at no charge, continuing support for one year in our Relapse Prevention Group that meets weekly. Learn about our Relapse Prevention locations.
Program Costs
Our Intensive Outpatient Program is covered by most insurance plans. You may contact your insurance carrier for specific coverage information. We will also be happy to help you as needed.
Banner Behavioral Health-Intensive Outpatient Services - Chandler and Scottsdale
Chandler Campus
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For information, call (480) 827-5320
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Amber Rose Reveals Baby Bump in Intimate Self-Portrait (PICS)
Amber Rose's impending arrival is getting closer by the day.
The pregnant model took to Twitter on Sunday to give fans an intimate new look at her growing baby bump.
"I swear I have shorts on in this pic," Rose wrote of the photo below, which candidly shows her lounging in bed, "but my belly is so big u can't see them Lol."
Indeed, at 28 weeks along, Rose is sporting a much larger bump than the one she showed off in September.
Rose and fiancé Wiz Khalifa announced at the MTV Video Music Awards that month that they are going to be first-time parents, and later revealed they are expecting a boy.
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Weak New Voluntary Guidelines on Advertising to Kids Designed to Protect Marketers, Not Parents and Families
Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson
November 14, 2006
Any junk food advertiser who feared that a rewrite of the Childrens Advertising Review Units voluntary guidelines would force a significant change in the way companies do business can rest easy. While the Council of Better Business Bureaus labored like an elephant, it came forth with a mouse. Regrettably but not surprisingly, advertisers are more interested in preserving what it candidly calls their freedom to direct their messages to young children than helping busy parents keep their children healthy.
In fact these new guidelines are something of a retreat, in that they fall far short of what several companies, notably Kraft and Disney, are already doing. Of course they fall much further short of what the Institute of Medicine urged last year. IOM found that kids dietary patterns are putting their health at risk, and that those patterns are encouraged and reinforced by the industrys marketing practices. The IOM called for leadership from the industry, and failing that, congressional action to protect kids health. But this announcement today by CARU isnt leadership; its just the advertising industry playing defense.
The only changes from the status quo in these guidelines occur at the fringes. Still, the overwhelming majority of food advertised at kids is going to be junk food. These foods can be as high in calories, trans fat, sugar, or sodium and as low in nutrients as companies please. The industrys definition of healthy includes sugary breakfast cereals, for instance. If a healthy lifestyle message means that Ronald McDonald is pedaling a bike while peddling junk food, that message still does more harm than good. Its a joke.
CARU and CBBB should scrap this initiative and start from scratch. I hope that next year, leaders in Congress take a fresh look at the industrys practices. In the meantime, junk food marketers should expect more lawsuitsnot praisefrom health advocates.


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Today, with much ballyhoo, President-elect Obama announced what was touted as his national security team. Much of the team had been telegraphed, some loudly. (Let us pause, just for a moment, to consider the fact that Rush Limbaugh actually considers Clinton as Secretary of State as a "brilliant stroke" by Obama.)
But while today's Chicago press conference formally announced Obama's picks for National Security Advisor (a Marine with the slightly unnerving name of Jim Jones) and director Homeland Security, conspicuously absent from the dais was a Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
For the 50-60 years prior to 9/11 and the USA Patriot Act and, specifically, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the head of all US intelligence operations — at least ostensibly — was the head of the CIA, whose official title was Director of Central Intelligence (note absence of the word "Agency"). Now, by law, the role of "intelligence czar" for the president is executed by the Director of National Intelligence, who has his own (burgeoning) staff. Technically, CIA now answers to the DNI, not directly to the President.
The ABC News online coverage today noted "Obama Mum on Key Intelligence Posts", while also mentioning "Democratic sources" recently saying Obama's current leading candidate for DNI is Admiral Dennis C. Blair (ret.), formerly Commander-in-Chief of US Pacific Command. The two have reportedly met in Chicago, but nothing is yet official and all concerned are neither confirming nor denying, in the usual fashion.
The current DNI is Mike McConnell (not to be confused with Attorney General Mike Mukasey, who recently collapsed during a speech to the arch-conservative Federalist Society (official DOJ transcript), shortly after Washington State Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders stood up and shouted "Tyrant! You're a tyrant!"). McConnell was preceded as DNI by John "I love Death Squads" Negroponte.
Parenthetically, the same ABC News piece also mentions in a postscript that among the many people bending Obama's ear on national security lately is Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Advisor for Bush I (1989-1993) and Ford (1974-1977). To Scowcroft's credit, he did publicly oppose the then-supposedly "undecided" invasion of Iraq in an August, 2002 op-ed piece published by the Wall Street Journal. But this will undoubtedly be fodder for the leftie bloggers already critical of Obama's middle path.
In related news, President-elect Obama's top pick to head the CIA, John Brennan, chose the day before Thanksgiving to suddenly withdraw himself from consideration because, he said, of mounting hubbub about his possible role in Bush administration policies on interrogration and detention.


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Zach Efron seems to be hell bent to have everyone see him as a serious actor, not just a pretty boy with a huge teen girl following, and in his latest film, Charlie St. Cloud, he emotes well, but still takes his shirt off.
Efron plays Charlie, a sail boating whiz kid in his small seafront town, constantly winning every sailing race held in the area by taking daring chances in a smooth as glass style.
Charlie has an old school, give 'em a smack in the face or whack in the arm, relationship with his younger brother Sam (Charlie Tahan), under the watchful but overworked eye of their mom (Kim Basinger, in one of the briefest screen appearances of her career).
Charlie is about to matriculate on a full ride sailing scholarship to Stanford, as Sam is struggling with baseball fundamentals and fears not making it very far in his Little League career.
In this quaint little town where there is a tradition of firing off cannons at sunset, Charlie, wishing to ease Sam's anxiety about being "ditched" (the way their dad had ditched the duo years earlier), makes Sam a deal that he'll practice with him everyday until he ships off for college at sunset cannons as long as he's never late, and never misses a single day.
One fateful night, Charlie tries to go off to a friend's party when he's supposed to be babysitting Sam. When Sam catches him in the act, he coerces Charlie into giving him a ride to his friend's house on his way to the party. They have this truly wonderful "brotherly" type of heart-to-heart in the car just before it's rear ended and thrown into the path of an oncoming big rig.
Charlie is brought back from the dead by Florio (Ray Liotta), a paramedic that doesn't believe in hopeless causes (and wears a St. Jude medallion around his neck to prove it), but Sam isn't so lucky.
At Sam's funeral, Charlie can't bring himself to throw Sam's baseball glove into the grave, runs away from the graveside service, only to see Sam in a clearing in the graveyard, and begins to talk him, recommitting to his promise of practicing with him everyday at sunset cannons.
We now flash-forward five years, and Charlie is now the caretaker of the graveyard, dealing with a truly wigged out English friend (Augustus Prew), a flock of nuisance geese, and a chart to tell him exactly when sunset will be every night (he can't be late for his nightly rendezvous with Sam).
Charlie has totally blown off his future and deferred his scholarship to Stanford, and has never left their small town for even a day in five years due to his commitment to meet with Sam.
Apparently Charlie's near death experience has given him the ability to see and talk to the dead (eat your hearts out Haley Joel Osment and Jennifer Love Hewitt), not just Sam, a point illustrated in a scene where Charlie has a tête-à-tête with an old high school buddy that joined the armed forces and was killed in action.
Into Charlie's simple, isolated existence comes Tess (Amanda Crew) an old high school acquaintance that is quite a sailor in her own right, and is about to attempt a solo trek around the world.
Will Tess be able to pull Charlie out of his self imposed exile from life? Will Charlie be able to let Sam go once and for all? Is there more to the story, and why Charlie was spared from death?
The film is based on a book and plays much like a novel insofar as feel, which isn't a bad thing, especially for this particular story, as the filmmakers go to great lengths to set a particular mood throughout.
The cinematography of Enrique Chediak is inspired and beautiful, and it must have been quite a challenge for director Burr Steers to light scene after scene taking place at sunset just right to give it that soft look, with another true highlight of the film being the moving score by Rolfe Kent.
The performances of Efron and Crews are solid, and Tahan does a good job of playing off of Efron and making the unreal seem real for his character. Although my biggest question was if ghost boy had been training in baseball everyday for five solid years why didn't he ever seem to get any better, and wouldn't older bro have run out of things to teach him?
Logical misgivings like that (and others) aside, Charlie St. Cloud might not be rising into the stratosphere at the box office, but is a quality film with a hopeful message, and worth seeing by more than just Efron fans.


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Ryder is a long-time member of the Grove Street Families gang. He is accused of always being the troublemaker; along with CJ, and is also said to go on rampages, attempting the impossible, and is always under the influence of some kind of drug. He is also the chatterbox of the group, and like to comment on peoples driving. He said himself on one mission that he dropped out of high school because his teacher was wearing Ballas colors. Later in the game he is bribed by Tenpenny to join the Loco Syndicate and thus drops the "homies for life" and becomes an enemy of the Grove Street Families. Ryder is only seen in the video game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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He forces Carl Johnson to raid a National Guard armory and to steal from an old army colonel so that GSF could make a comeback in Los Santos. After CJ and Sweet were arrested by the Los Santos police department, Ryder fled to San Fierro where he turned from protagonist to antagonist. Near the end of the San Fierro series of missions, Carl finally killed Ryder in a boat chase.


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Meghan Joyce says Gay Games 9, which Cleveland hosted this week, was an opportunity for people from around the world to celebrate who they are.
"It really brought the community together," said Joyce, 24, who graduated from Buckeye High School and lives in Medina. "I am just so happy that it happened in Cleveland."
The quadrennial event hosts gay athletes from around the world who compete in more than 35 Olympic-style sports. This year's competition, which ends today, was expected to draw more than 9,000 participants.
Joyce and teammate Jessie Hall, 24, also of Medina, won gold medals for team indoor volleyball.
Their team competed against seven other teams in their division to take home the top prize.
Unlike the Olympics, the competitions at the Gay Games are not based on national teams. Two of their other teammates were from Germany and trained there before meeting up with the rest of them before the games started.
"We built chemistry from the moment we met," she said.
Joyce said her and her teammates would meet at her father's house in Litchfield Township, where there is an outdoor volleyball court, to prepare for the games.
Hall, who works for a clinical research company, said she plays volleyball recreationally and played basketball in high school.
The Cleveland Foundation sponsored the Gay Games 9, which held events in Cleveland and Akron and several other Northeast Ohio communities.
The first Gay Games were held in San Francisco in 1982 and again 1986. The previous event was held in Cologne, Germany.
Paris is scheduled to host the games in 2018.
The closing ceremony of Gay Games 9 will take place today on Mall C in downtown Cleveland on Lakeside Avenue across from the Convention Center from 5-10 p.m. Tickets to the ceremony are $15.
The Gay Games were designed to be more than a competition for medals.
The games were founded in 1980 by Dr. Tom Waddell, a gay American athlete, as a "vehicle for change."
According to the Gay Games website, at the time gay athletes were marginalized.
"The Gay Games are not separatist, they are not exclusive, they are not oriented to victory, and they are not for commercial gain," Waddell wrote. "They are, however, intended to bring a global community together in friendship, to experience participation, to elevate consciousness and self-esteem, and to achieve a form of cultural and intellectual synergy."
For gay athletes like Joyce and Hall, who both came out as gay to their friends and family when they were 20, the games are just that.
Joyce said the games are much more than just competition — they are about making a statement that gay people are normal people who just happen to love someone of the same sex.
Joyce said she didn't really know she was gay until she entered college.
"My family is really supportive of me," Joyce said. "No one in my family really treated me differently."
Joyce's mother, Gina Joyce, attended some of events at the Gay Games.
"The most amazing thing I experienced was how everyone got along so well," she said. "I met some wonderful people and it was like they had all known each other for a long time."
Gina Joyce said it wasn't difficult to accept her daughter when she came out as gay four years ago.
"I was just so glad that she was happy," she said. "It was fine with me.
"I could not imagine not having a relationship with my daughter just because she is gay. That is ridiculous."
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