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Sept. 5, 2008 | In a novel and perhaps unprecedented model of big pharma cooperation, Merck, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly are jointly funding a new technology development company called Enlight Biosciences.
"This is totally new from everything I've seen," says acting CEO David Steinberg, a partner with PureTech Ventures. "There are other things that on the surface contain elements of this, but nothing that combines all the elements of all three pharmas working together on an ongoing basis to address precompetitive technology needs with a commercial incentive."
"I think it is very unique," agrees Merck's Reid Leonard, executive director of external research and licensing. "I can't personally think of another example but that doesn't mean there isn't one of a situation like this."
Of course, pharmas have participated in consortia such as the SNP consortium, but these are typically non-profit. "Participating from the beginning on the development of multiple technologies is not what you would typically see pharma companies coming together to do," Steinberg says.
Enlight is the idea of PureTech partner Daphne Zohar (see p. 6). Two years ago at a conference, she told a pharma executive that PureTech reviews hundreds of technology proposals each year, but the industry as a whole was more enamored of drugs and clinical assets. But if the VC industry didn't want to invest, maybe big pharma might, and thereby identify its unmet needs proactively.
PureTech, which has several senior partners with ties to Merck, brought the idea to Merck about two years ago. "We embraced it enthusiastically," says Leonard. "We were involved in working with them in setting up what the major areas of focus might be."
In creating Enlight, Merck, Lilly, and Pfizer share in the upfront investment as well as the early access to the future technologies. "Enlight is designed to be basically a virtual company that will start other companies, organizing information, identifying the needs of the pharmas, identifying technology opportunities, and getting the companies off the ground," says Steinberg. "The pharma partners will have an option to make an equity investment in each new company formed. That gives them certain strategic and financial rights, including the products developed."
Says Leonard: "The core operating principal around Enlight [is] to enable the development of technologies that are of genuine interest to a company like Merck or Pfizer or Lilly, but are not sufficiently enabling in terms of providing an immediate competitive advantage, that we would undertake their development by ourselves." Merck and the other founders badly want to benefit from early-stage technology, but the development of that technology per se is clearly not part of Merck's—or any pharma's—core business.
Steinberg says he wasn't surprised the company came together. "I think there is a major, major unmet need—a significant gap in technology development… We came up with a creative way of doing it that resonated, at least with these partners and potentially additional groups in the future.
Virtual RealityEnlight is a semi-virtual company: most of the pieces are outsourced, but it will eventually have a physical headquarters. The research will take place with the inventors of the original technology and become more concrete in time. Its offices are temporarily co-located with PureTech in Boston.
According to Steinberg, the unmet needs Enlight is exploring in conjunction with its founding partners include "predictive models (prediction of tox, ADME, efficacy, other safety issues; in vivo, in vitro, or in silico); enabling platforms for discovery, development, and expression of biologics; biomarker discovery platforms—look at multiplexed markers in a very sophisticated and high throughput way." Steinberg says each of these areas could yield multiple projects and companies. Other potential areas include drug formulation and delivery, as well as novel small molecule synthesis and production technologies and library screening. The first portfolio company, Endra, has an advanced program in non-invasive imaging and medical imaging.
"The timescale in which these spinout companies will be able to mature is much shorter [than traditional biotech companies]," says Enlight advisor Raju Kucherlapati, head of the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. "That's also very exciting for the pharma companies—not only are they acquiring the technology but a very significant upside is that they have the opportunity to have a financial stake in their success."
The pharma partners will have a role "as strategic advisors to the selection of projects for Enlight, but we're not responsible for sourcing those projects," says Merck's Leonard. "The Enlight team is out scanning the academic technology space to identify programs within large areas that they've identified with our cooperation, as being areas where novel technology development could be of commercial interest, especially to pharma partners… They have the ongoing voice of the customer, plus they have access to technical opinion and expertise from the partners to help guide the development of the technologies."
Board CertifiedEnlight's scientific advisory board is led by Nobel laureate Bob Horvitz (MIT). Steinberg says, "they are almost like co-founders [and have] a track record of actually making an impact in technology." Raju Kucherlapati previously co-founded Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Cell Genesys. Rakesh Jain (MGH) is an authority in angiogenesis, and Stanford's Sam Gambhir is an expert in molecular imaging and PET.
Steinberg says he was more surprised by the public reaction than that of pharma. "I think this really touched a nerve," he says. "I think this is a model that will evolve over time… This is the kind of thing that may yield other similar efforts and potentially become even more of a standard for the way pharma companies think about facilitating the development of technologies that will help them do their core business."
Since Enlight was announced in July, other pharmas have expressed interest in participating. Discussions are ongoing with several potential members, but Enlight wanted to announce the formation of the company with the core members. "We want to keep the size manageable to make sure we can do a good job for the partners involved. We will definitely be expanding the number of portfolio companies we start. Our goal is to start 1 to 2 of those per year," says Steinberg. That said, he cautions that, "things like Enlight are not going to start cropping up left and right because it is hard to do."
Facilitating collaboration among the pharma partners has been challenging, finding a mechanism to allow the partners to look at technologies in an open way. "We will very soon be having a cross-pharma summit in which they will be sharing ideas. Obviously they will not be bringing every secret to the table, but they are very open to it," says Steinberg. Enlight director Frank Douglas, former CSO Aventis, calls it a "safe haven," where participants are comfortable sharing ideas. Steinberg hopes Enlight will be able to take the founders' technology specifications "and deliver something they can integrate into a proprietary package, and that doesn't prevent the other partners from doing the same thing with their own independently developed compounds."
Enlight aims to profit on its commercial technologies or instrumentation for a pharma customer base. These will be areas with scant interest from the venture investing community to get those projects off the ground because, compared to a medical device or a therapeutic entity, they're less attractive. The founding partners will enjoy early access, but don't want to own them, says Steinberg.
From Merck's perspective, Leonard says the experiment will be a success if Enlight develops instrumentation or technology that Merck can purchase and integrate to accelerate drug discovery "and make better decisions on go/no-go projects… It's our expectation that the areas of interest will migrate according to the interests of the pharma partners. That's certainly a key driver to our participation and interest."
"We would never presume to be able to cover the scope and depth of innovation that's occurring outside our walls," says Leonard. "So we're trying to take a very focused and strategic approach to which areas make most sense for us to do ourselves, and which areas to do with other people. Enlight is just one more opportunity for us to leverage other people's innovations, especially in a space where the activities fall outside our core business."
This article appeared in Bio-IT World Magazine.
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For Roy Lichtenstein, it was better that the public be over-familiar with his work than not familiar at all, a point never lost on the American artist best known for his giant cartoon strip adaptations. A major retrospective of the artist at London's Tate Modern puts famous images like "Whaam!" and "Drowning Girl" center stage. "This man comes out of a huge tradition of great painters. He is, in my mind, the great modernist painter of the twentieth century, alongside Picasso, alongside Matisse; and some of his peers from the '60s Oldenburg and of course Warhol... Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg etc. But what he's doing is very different from those four artists. What he's doing is continuing a tradition in painting, but radically overhauling it," said Sheena Wagstaff, Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Those ironic images of idealized beauty and glamorized violence came mostly from the early to mid-1960s, shortly after he broke with abstract expressionism and turned to mass culture imagery including comic strips and advertising. "I think that Roy knowingly captured the spirit of the age in many respects. But it was because of the sources from which he drew that they themselves were really reflections of what was then predominant in society," Wagstaff added. Lichtenstein died in 1997, aged 75. Since then his stature has grown, with important canvases fetching a small fortune at auction including "Sleeping Girl", which sold for $45 million at Sotheby's last year. "Lichtenstein: A Retrospective" runs from February 21 to May 27 at the Tate Modern in London. Video Source: Reuters
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Sandra Mennitto watched a flight attendant torture a passenger for almost two hours on a recent trip from Chicago and Harrisburg, Pa.
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"A gentleman behind me had a full leg cast," she remembers. For comfort, he had stretched the affected leg into the aisle. And that's when the attendant stopped him.
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La Vie de l'śuvre : inception, reproduction
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February 22-23, 2008
L'śuvre: the "work," one of the most ubiquitous terms in the study of literature, is also, paradoxically, one of the most disputed and difficult to define. One consistent attribute of the notion of a work has been a strongly organic metaphor, one which construes the work as an organism: as something beginning with a birth and stretching through various stages of life. In the past century, the life of the notion itself has been a tumultuous one indeed. Forty years on from the famous proclamation of the "death of the author," in 1968, and the postmodern unmooring of the work in subsequent decades, this conference seeks to ask, in the first place: what of the work today? What constitutes a work, and how is this process carried out? What is the ontological or epistemological status of the work in literature and contemporary literary criticism, and what might lie ahead? Is the organic metaphor of the work still cogent?
The second, related aim of the conference is to consider the lives of particular works, both real and fictional: to explore the trajectories of works from their conception and composition through their innumerable avatars. Former lives, future lives and afterlives, re-editions, whole series of descents into oblivion, resurrections and reincarnations plot the lives of works, from their earliest germs up through their (re)conceptions and receptions across the generations of authors and readers. How do works change (or not) in the course of their lives? How are literary works (re)appropriated and integrated in other works?
What, moreover, are the forces that fashion a work's life? How do material considerations—media and technology, circulation and edition, reading practices and performance, archives and libraries—affect and shape works? What are the fictions of the literary work that circulate in both literature and reality? What, finally, is the relationship or relevance of the author's (or the reader's) intention to the work?
Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to present 15- to 20-minute papers addressing the topic of "la vie de l'śuvre" within the context of French and Francophone literary and cultural studies. 300- to 500-word abstracts should be submitted to email@example.com no later than December 21, 2007. Papers may be in French or English.
Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
o literary (re)appropriations: imitation, translation, citation, plagiarism, parody, pastiche, « le mythe de la filiation » and literary heritage, palimpsestes, para-texts, political recuperations of works
o representations of works in literature: mise en abyme, the imaginary of the work, « l'śuvre ŕ venir », le fantasme de l'śuvre ou du chef d'śuvre, the life's work
o representations of works of literature: performance, adaptation to the stage, cinematic adaptations, mise en scčne and text, the director and the text, festivals
o media and technology: the literary work in the internet age, the future of the work (and of the book), hypertexts, the work between media, multi-media works, the work as object
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Independent contractors in 2001
May 25, 2001
In February of this year, there were 8.6 million persons working as independent contractors. They represented 6.4 percent of total employment, about the same as in February 1999.
Between February 1995 and February 2001, there was a slight decline in the proportion of workers identified as independent contractors—from 6.7 percent in 1995 to 6.4 percent in 2001.
"Independent contractors" are workers identified as independent contractors, independent consultants, or freelance workers, whether they were self-employed or wage and salary workers.
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In the first hundred pages of this novel, Ursula Todd, its heroine, lives and dies at least six times. Once she dies in childbirth, another time she falls off her own roof, having chased a sibling's favorite toy, and a third time she dies of influenza. This alternative history novel, although innovative in form, is rich in storytelling particularly about life at the beginning of the last century and during World Wars I and II. Ursula's intelligent and perceptive take upon the world makes captivating reading.
New York Times reviewer, Janet Maslin, called Life after Life "a big book that defies logic, chronology and even history in ways that underscore its author's fully untethered imagination."
Publishers Weekly described the book this way, "through Ursula's many lives and the accretion of what T.S. Eliot called visions and revisions, she's found an inventive way to make both the war's toll and the pull of alternate history, of darkness avoided or diminished, fresh.
Atkinson is not afraid to take risks including using Adolph Hitler as a walk-on character in this book—in fact he's responsible for one of Ursula's many deaths.
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Did you ever hobble around on crutches? Discover that you most basic possession, your body, does not work as it once did? This excellent memoir about rehabilitation, friendship, loss, and the love of a great dog is a tearjerker at times, but always incredibly well-written. Wow, does Caldwell know how to spin a yarn.
Gail Caldwell suffered from polio as a small child. In this account she describes how her mother sprawled on the floor with her when she was young and did the tough leg exercises needed to strengthen Gail's leg.
All her life, Gail adapted to living with a bum leg. In her late fifties she decided to adopt a strong Samoyed pup. And as Tula grew, Gail soon found herself falling more and more often, and that she could no longer hike the three mile reservoir loop with her strong-willed pet.
Doctor after doctor told Gail that her limp, the weakness in her leg and her frequent falls were caused by her polio, but Gail finally sought another opinion. The new doctor asked to see her CT scans and X-rays but there were no recent ones. Upon doing them, he discovered that Gail's hip was shattered with the ball absolutely flat. She needed hip replacement immediately.
Here's what author Rebecca Mead said about a subject dear to our hearts, "Reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself." This book is both a biography and travelogue of what many consider the world's best novel—Middlemarch. It also is a personal memoir by Mead.
In the first chapter Mead recalls how many times she has read the novel and how much it has changed for her over time. What drew her as a child to it was how full of adult life the book was. She also loved the intelligence of the characters, particularly the heroine, Miss Dorothea Brooke.
Along the way we learn about the novel itself, how it was first published as a serial in eight parts with the subtitle "A Provincial Life." It bore a male author's name--George Eliot but even Charles Dickens, a contemporary of Eliot's knew immediately that it was written by a woman. He said, "I believe that no man ever before had the art of making himself, mentally, so like a woman, since the world began. " Dickens also loved Eliot's writing. He said of her first novel, "Adam Bede has taken its place among the actual experiences and endurances of my life."
This cross-cultural gem of a novel tells the story of two women: one, Nao, a young Japanese schoolgirl; the other, Ruth, a middle-aged writer who lives in a rainforest town near Vancouver, Canada. Their lives intersect when Nao's Hello Kitty lunchbox lands as jetsam on the beach of the tiny town. Inside are letters, a WW II kamikaze wristwatch and most precious, Nao's diary, wrapped in layers and layers of plastic bags, so it is entirely legible.
The story is told in alternating voices. One belongs to the trendy, irrepressible, somewhat risqué and thoroughly jaded Nao who is bullied in school and mocked as an immigrant from America (she spent most of her childhood in California). The other belongs to Ruth who incidentally has the same first name as the author. Ruth has moved to Canada from another island town, New York City, because her husband loved the peacefulness of life in rural Canada and had major health issues. Also, Ruth brought her aged mother there to die.
Ruth is fascinated by the diary. Because she is suffering from writer's block on her new novel, she totally immerses herself in the diary and in trying to track down Nao. Did Nao's diary begin its journey in the destruction and flooding caused by the great Japanese tsunami of March 2011?
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EAST PALESTINE — For the first time since February, Village Council this past week discussed what to do with the electric fun....
To STofit - In Ohio a community has two choices: It can have a manager or it can have an elected mayor, either a charter form of government or a traditional mayor/council form of government. There is no provision under Ohio law allowing an elected 3-person panel to run a town.
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Years ago the residents voted for a charter government because there was a "good ole boy" network running the town. It worked for a while, but now we have the additional expense of a city manager, and quite frankly, can anyone see any improvements made since the charter was put in place? Abolish the charter and elect a 3 person panel of commissioners to run the city and require them to be re-elected every 2 years with a 4 year maximum term.
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text: Mr. Boonstra and Parra created a new music video for "Put Your Gun Away," a new summer anthem by Rimer London featuring South African singer Cata Pirata. The video takes us through a world inspired by French synth-pop, where Rimer London and Cata Pirata battle it out in a "carnival cut-out" by means of Parra's iconic characters. Enjoy!


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Paul Fussell: He Hates Sugarcoating HistoryHistorians in the News
Roger Moore, in the Orlando Sentinel (Feb. 29, 2004):
In a recent radio interview, noted historian Paul Fussell admitted that he wrote his new book, The Boys' Crusade, as a"response" to the works of Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Fretting over rose-colored obituaries highlighting Bob Hope's USO shows ("Front-line troops never saw Bob Hope") and Brokaw's pervasive"greatest generation" sugar-coating, Fussell wants to set -- or reset -- the record straight.
And Fussell, a decorated World War II infantry veteran and the author of The Great War and Modern Memory, as well as other authoritative works on how time and revision gild combat history, is just the guy to do that.
In 184 footnoted and pointed pages, Fussell reminds sentimentalists how furious the British were that the U.S. military and its troops brought their racism to the British Isles along with their pre-D-Day gear. He ridicules the misty-eyed last two-thirds of Saving Private Ryan. He reminds the reader of the near mutinous infighting within the Army -- 19,000 men who deserted in the 11 months U.S. troops fought in France, the Low Countries and Germany. He details the"friendly fire" blunders and intelligence failures that cost thousands of lives.
The boots on the ground, Fussell writes, knew all this. Whatever the"morale" back home or in the rear echelons, where Bob Hope put on his shows, the men on the lines were simply trying to stay alive.
And Fussell makes the point, over and over again, that the staggering casualties of the first months after D-Day meant that the U.S. Army in Europe grew younger, more poorly trained and"worse" as the war went on. Hundreds of thousands of young draftees were uprooted from their lives and sent to save the Brits and free the French, who didn't much care for them, in spite of their sacrifice.
Fussell has statistics, letters home, on-the-scene accounts and his own memories to bolster his arguments.
"Many officers neither had nor deserved the confidence of their men," one general of the day noted.
Pentagon"spin" was as vigorous then as it has proved since. Failures were covered up, lives wasted and young men left embittered by the friends they saw used up and spit out for a war most had a hard time understanding.
The word" crusade" that so many historians use to describe the Allied war effort? Fussell says that would have made your average infantryman laugh. Until, that is, the last days of the war, when they liberated the first concentration camps. Then, the"boys" of Fussell's army, got it. But that wasn't why they were there. They were drafted.
Fussell's point is that Brokaw, Ambrose and others do no one any favors by making"the Good War" more righteous and less savage than they should. World War II history should not be mythologized nor sanitized to create best sellers gobbled up by rear-echelon heroes, stateside warriors and the generations that came after them. Romanticizing an earlier war is the easiest way to drum up support for the next one.
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The golf course at Nashville's Fairvue Plantation has been so well received the developers of the city's only lakefront community have decided to build another 18 holes. That task will be given to Fairvue Plantation designer Bill Bergin, who recently agreed to make the new Foxland Golf Course his latest original work. Construction is scheduled to begin late this fall and the course will be open for play in the spring of 2007.
Bergin is eager to return to the Fairvue site after producing such good results the last time. "I do consider the first course to be one of my best, possessing an exceptional back nine and great finishing holes along the lake on each nine," Bergin said.
"The new course is on a beautiful piece of rolling Tennessee countryside with many views of Old Hickory Lake, Bergin contininued. It is located just west of Fairvue, across the lake from the 18th hole. The interesting aspect of this design is the clustering or grouping of holes with homes on the perimeter, giving it more of a core feel while creating terrific lake and golf course lots. We will use an old style design concept on this course."
Foxland will stretch 7,200 yards from the tips. Fairvue Plantation, which has been nominated for Golf Digest's Best New Course Award, is a challenging 7,100-yard layout that winds through the Fairvue development. Several holes play directly along Old Hickory Lake.
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Red Wings 5, Canucks 2
12:45 a.m. -- It's over. Red Wings will head home with a two-game winning streak after a three-game road trip that got off to a terrible start.
12:44 a.m. -- Tootoo penalty with 8.7 seconds left. Doesn't matter.
12:40 a.m. -- Most likely too little too late for Vancouver, which cuts the deficit to three when Kronwall puts the puck in his own net with 2:38 left.
12:35 a.m. -- After a long review it's ruled ... goal for Abdelkader. Second of the game. Four-goal lead with 5:16 left.
12:33 a.m. -- Another Red Wings goal? Looks likes the officials are reviewing it.
12:28 a.m. -- Red Wings get another penalty. Lashoff for delay of game with 7:59 left. That will give Vancouver a 5-on-3 for 1:21. Red Wings call timeout.
12:25 a.m. -- Red Wings' aren't making this easy on themselves. Vancouver back on the power play as Kronwall goes off for tripping with 8:39 left.
12:17 a.m. -- Vancouver goes on the power play as Ericsson goes off for cross checking at 6:46.
12:14 a.m. -- Daniel Cleary's turn to score. Gives the Red Wings a three-goal lead at 5:57.
12:05 a.m. -- It appears as if Zetterberg's slump is over. He scores on a slap shot from the top of the right faceoff circle at 1:20. Second of the game. Big goal in more ways than one.
12:04 a.m. -- Datsyuk wins the draw and the Red Wings-Canucks are underway again.
11:55 p.m. -- Cumulative stats: Red Wings lead in faceoffs won (22-13) and ... that's it. Well, power plays too. Red Wings are 1-for-3, Canucks 0-for-2. Canucks lead in hits (10-4), giveaways (3-2), takeaways (7-4), blocks (11-5) and shots (25-17).
11:53 p.m. -- Second period stats: Red Wings led in faceoffs won (14-7) and ... that's it. Vancouver led in hits (4-2), giveaways (1-0), takeaways (2-1) and blocks (7-3). Red Wings 1-for-3 on the power play, Vancouver 0-for-1.
Red Wings 2, Canucks 1
11:45 p.m. -- End of two. Vancouver outshooting Red Wings 25-17.
11:35 p.m. -- Abdelkader hauls down Hansen, who gets a penalty shot and hits the post with 4:43 left.
11:32 p.m. -- Zetterberg scores on the power play after taking a pass in the slot from Datsyuk with 6:03 left.
11:29 p.m. -- Red Wings get third straight power play as Henrik Sedin goes off for tripping with 6:43 left. Given the way the power play has looked tonight (all season?), they might want to decline it.
11:20 p.m. -- Red Wings get their first power play when Lapierre goes off for tripping at 7:35.
11:19 p.m. -- Gonna play 4-on-4 as Burrows goes of for high sticking at 7:15.
11:17 p.m. -- Vancouver gets second power play when Zetterberg goes off for tripping at 5:59.
11:07 p.m. -- Vancouver wins the draw and the Red Wings-Canucks are underway again.
10:57 p.m. -- Quick stats: Red Wings lead in faceoffs won (8-6) and ... nothing else. Canucks lead in shots (16-6), hits (6-2), takeaways (5-4) and blocks (4-2). Both teams have two giveaways. Canucks 0-for-1 on the power play. Red Wings have yet to get a power play.
10:54 p.m. -- Don Cherry looks outrageous on CBC! Wearing a Kelly green jacket and giant green hat. He's good for the game.
Canucks 1, Red Wings 1
10:48 p.m. -- End of one.
10:43 p.m. -- Howard is keeping the Red Wings in it. He has 14 saves with 3:02 left.
10:38 p.m. -- Canucks have five hits to one for the Red Wings. Also have a 12-5 edge in shots with 5:28 left.
10:33 p.m. -- Canucks get the first power play when Lashoff goes off for high sticking with 8:50 left.
10:30 p.m. -- Shots on goal are 8-4 Vancouver with 9:46 left.
10:25 p.m. -- After a review, the goal stands and it goes to Abdelkader's left foot at 6:08.
10:24 p.m. -- Red Wings tie it up. Looks like Datsyuk's shot went off somebody's foot. Abdelkader's perhaps?
10:15 p.m. -- Vancouver wins the draw and the Red Wings-Canucks are underway. Six seconds later, Vancouver scores on a wrist shot from the right faceoff circle by Burrows.
The Detroit Red Wings will complete a three-game road trip tonight when they play the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena.
But it won't be long before they're heading out west again.
The Red Wings (13-10-5) will host the Minnesota Wild Wednesday night at Joe Louis Arena before hitting the road again for four straight games beginning Friday in Anaheim.
So far on this trip, the Red Wings are 1-1 after losing 5-2 Wednesday in Calgary and then beating Edmonton 3-2 in overtime Friday.
In their only meeting with Vancouver (13-7-6) this season, the Red Wings routed the Canucks 8-3 last month at Joe Louis Arena behind four points by Damien Brunner.
Join Ansar Khan and Brendan Savage tonight to discuss all the action from start to finish.


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The angle of it all
American Soldier says,
Early March changed the way I look at things. How I felt about the war I had been fighting. Never deterred, but the angle in which I fought it.
On the rooftop scanning quickly.
Let me break my experience down a bit. I served as a sniper when I first got to country. The type of mission my unit was involved in made that possible. They were a bit apprehensive to give a long rifle to the new guy. Our mission evolved into another area so I hung up the Sniper rifle and became a squad leader of two M1114's, armor Humvee's.
During my time I was outside of the wire just about everyday. I performed just under a 100 combat missions that I can count off the top of my head. Just about every mission included an engagement of some type. Whether a random SAF (Small Arms Fire) or a full blown fire fight lasting upwards to 40 minutes.
Sunsets are beautiful in Iraq.
I was twice wounded in action and received two Purple Hearts. The last injury was the one that did me in. For now I am out of the fight. I feel very lucky to be alive. The last injury really woke me up. I should have been killed but I wasn't…period! That doesn't make me a tough guy or any type of super hero. I just didn't get killed.
The urban combat nightmare that was my AO.
Now I have returned from the literal battle field in which I was fully immersed in. The war for me wasn't measured in lines but more asymmetrical. The enemy lurked at every angle. A squad leader's war and a war that was fought in a land very unforgiving.
The exact spot where I was hit. This was the last thing I saw in my war.
I am on the mend right now. My injuries will hopefully heal with time. I have some things going on that might last a while. Even writing this is a trying task for me. I don't really want to go into my sustained injuries. They are mine to deal with for the moment.
During my stay in Germany and here in the states a few Soldiers' Angel's have contacted me and helped me. I wanted to say thank you in this forum because it was/has been appreciated.
I am taking about 2 weeks and spending time with my wife. I have to make up for some lost time and appreciate the woman who has been with me all along. She promised me that if I were ever to be injured that she would come to me. She has done that so one step at a time and each hour I hold the hand of my wife. The war has come full circle for me thus giving me the chance to focus on what it is I have been fighting for.
Once again, holding the hand of my wife.
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Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 11:39 am | Link
God bless you both! It's so good to hear from you, AS!!! I'm so glad you two are together at this time.
My prayers for both of you continue, as always ~
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 12:16 pm | Link
Dude, you are my hero! Thanks for all you've done.
I'm praying that you'll make a quick recovery.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 12:27 pm | Link
Thank you for your service to our country and God bless the two of you. It's nice that your home but obviously we all wish it was under better circumstances.
We'll continue to pray for you and all of the men and women over in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 12:53 pm | Link
Hi AS. My sincere best wishes for you and your family. Let me know if there's anything I can do.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 1:22 pm | Link
Although I am not an American, I am a human. I want to thank you for all the sacrifices you have made to make our world a better place for our children. May God Bless you and your family, and may you recover from your injuries. I will pray for all those still there fighting this war and the others yet to go.
Take care
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 1:23 pm | Link
I'm relieved to say the least that you are ok, well not ok but you know what I mean. You must have a Guardian Angel watching over you and I the Angel hangs around til you are fully recovered.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 1:34 pm | Link
I like the last photo the best. God bless you and your wife.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 1:44 pm | Link
Welcome back home, Soldier! Enjoy the experience of falling head over heels in love with America and your wife all over again… still enjoying the honeymoon m'self.
Heal quickly, and thoroughly, Sir, and thank you for your service.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 1:45 pm | Link
I'm glad that you were able to write this post…All the best for you and your wife. Having a strong and loving person next to you is an amazing gift.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 1:51 pm | Link
I'm glad to see that you're on the mend and back to blogging. Take good care of yourself and get back to as close to fully recovered as you can.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 2:13 pm | Link
(Was pointed here from the Mudville Gazette)
Like others, just want to wish you a healthyl and speedy recovery, and a very sincere THANK YOU for your service. Blogs like yours are really the only way those of us with little military connection get any insight into what you and others go through.
It's not the same, but still moving and helpful, nonetheless.
May God bless you, your wife and your family & friends.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 2:15 pm | Link
Welcome back home soldier You are definetly my hero, Wee done and thank god you made it home. And send our thanks to your brothers in arms. WE SUPPORT THE EFFORT AND THE TROOPS>
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 2:20 pm | Link
Glad to hear that you are on the mend. Prayers for both of you as you continue to heal.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 2:56 pm | Link
I am so sorry you were wounded, but glad to hear you are back in the States, and able to hold your wife's hand and take comfort in her presence.
Take care, recuperate, get strong again. It's good to have you back online. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 3:35 pm | Link
Hey AS!
Good to hear it directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Sounds like you had a rough go (which we all knew anyway), but that you're on the mend and accepting life's bumps (like we knew you would).
Nice bruise on your hand, there. Lordy… that must have been some blast. No need to get into the injuries, the incident, or your recovery until/when you are ready.
Listen to your docs, and get better. You've got some babies at home waiting to play with Daddy!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 3:57 pm | Link
I am thankful that you are back and able to write. Your service is greatly appreciated and I hope your recovery is speedy and succesful.
Remember all of us that are praying for you and your wife.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 4:27 pm | Link
Hi AS,
I hope your recovery if full and rapid. Thank you for putting your life on the line to stand between us and the dark. Yes, home with your wife you are experiencing exactly what you are fighting for. And you are doing it for the rest of us as well, despite the fact that there are those who do not appreciate it nor understand the necessity.
May you recover fully and enjoy the fruits of your courage for all the days of your life.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 4:48 pm | Link
Thank you for your service to our country. May God bless you and your family and may you have a speedy recovery. America is fortunate to have such brave men as you, willing to take up arms, to protect and defend us. We all owe you a debt of gratitude. I don't want to publically post my email address, but it is on file, I guess, at the web site, and if there is anything you need or want for you or your family, please email me and I'll try to help. Get well soon.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 4:51 pm | Link
So glad you are alive and God Bless you and your wife and loved ones! You concentrate on taking care of yourself and holding the hand of your wife!!!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 4:58 pm | Link
Wow I can't imagine what you are going through! It is great to know that you are doing ok and will get better. I have been praying for you and will continue to do so. I want you to know that some of the things you have written are going to go into my research paper for my english class in college and they have been extremely helpful to me!
Feel better and have fun with your wife!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:01 pm | Link
Welcome home. The last picture shows that are in the best hands. G-d bless you and your family. Thank you for serving our country. Keeping y'all in my thoughts and prayers.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:06 pm | Link
AS, My Prayers have been with you and will continue to be. I am glad that beautiful soul you call your wife is with you. You both deserve that.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:17 pm | Link
So glad you're ok. I'm praying that your recovery is swift and uneventful.
- hfs
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:24 pm | Link
[…] Luckily for him, he has a wonderful wife to help him through: I am taking about 2 weeks and spending time with my wife. I have to make up for some lost time and appreciate the woman who has been with me all along. She promised me that if I were ever to be injured that she would come to me. She has done that so one step at a time and each hour I hold the hand of my wife. […]
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:42 pm | Link
I am so sorry you got hurt, but i am glad you are getting to spend time with you wife! Heal fast and God bless you
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:42 pm | Link
AS–I'm thankful to God that you are safely home! I hope that your recovery goes well. Thank you from my heart for all you've done. Please take the time you need to get really better. You don't need to talk about anything here that you don't want to! Like others have said–take care of you, hold your wife's hand, and play with your little ones. Your wife is one amazing lady! God Bless you both! We love you! (((Hugs)))
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:47 pm | Link
ps. Prayers for you from this side too!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 5:55 pm | Link
My thoughts and prayers are with you. God speed!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 6:46 pm | Link
Welcome home and get well quickly. Thank you for your willingness to fight for your our country. May God bless you and all of your family. Holding hands helps a lot.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 7:12 pm | Link
God's speed in your recovery. Bless you for taking the fight so our civilians don't have to.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 8:24 pm | Link
Links while the wrist heals…
Well, the swelling from my sprained wrist is going down, thank goodness. It still hurts, but not as much as when it was imitating a balloon. Hopefully it will heal quickly so I can type more without making my arm all sore. In the meantime, here's some…
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 8:31 pm | Link
You and your wife our in the prayers of all who are a part of Soldiers' Angels. Keep on blogging. As an angel with Soldiers' Angels it helps to really know what you have sacrificed so we can better help all soldiers, wounded soldiers and veterans.
Thank you.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 9:39 pm | Link
Please AS don't let the pain, impatience, anger and frustration hinder your healing. You have willingly preformed your duty to our country. You have taken care of us, now we so gratefully will do through prayer and thoughts the helping of healing you. You are a shining example of all the good men in our countries service. Be proud of your contribution to mankind.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 9:55 pm | Link
Welcome home AS! I'm so glad that you are healing and able to write.
We continue to pray for your complete recovery! Thank you for being over there for all of us Americans and for the Iraqi people. You are one brave soldier!
I'm so glad that your life was spared. That means that you have a whole new life ahead of you to enjoy with your wife and family.
May God Bless you and Mrs. AS and your little ones!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 10:39 pm | Link
Glad to see you're still upright and breathing. God bless and stay safe.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 10:39 pm | Link
Beautiful pictures….especially the last one. Hold on to that hand tightly. And may God bless you both and bring you much peace and happiness as you mend.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 10:42 pm | Link
Good to see you posting. Certainly have been thinking about you! Take care of yourself, the Mrs. and the wee ones.
Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do to make things better for us, our children and those yet to start their journeys here.
We're thankful for you & your family's sacrifice and so proud of all of you.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 10:44 pm | Link
Glad to hear your relaxin and spending time with the wife. Prayinf for a speedy recovery!
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 11:09 pm | Link
awwwwwwww………… SO GLAD to see you posting again — thank you. I know it must have been difficult for you… and I'm so very thankful tht you are alive!!!!!!! All the prayers for your protection worked (well, you are alive, if not necessarily completely in one piece), thanks be to God…*whew* Thank you for your service, again- we appreciate it more than you'll ever know. Please know that we are all here for you as you go through this journey of healing, however long it may take. You need anything, just holler.
Posted on March 28th, 2006 at 11:27 pm | Link
Just found this - had to share. Thanx again, A.S. & Mrs. A.S.
Thank you Soldier
Have you stopped to thank a veteran today?
For the price of freedom they had to pay?
Did you gaze into those distant eyes?
Did you see the ghosts he can't deny?
Did you think a soldier's heart was made of steel?
Because he was trained to kill, he couldn't feel?
Did you see the guilt written on his face,
For the loss of life he can't replace?
Did you know he mourns the lives he couldn't save,
And walks with comrades in their grave?
Did you remember the boy with innocence lost?
Do you really know war's ultimate cost?
Have you felt the blast of artillery fire?
Do you have the courage it would require?
Have you stood in trenches consumed with fear?
Felt the enemies breath so very near?
Have you walked with God on a battleground?
Seen your brothers dead or dying all around?
Have you stopped to thank a vet today,
Or did you just turn and walk away?
From the pain he'll carry for the rest of his life,
Did you consider his family, his children, his wife?
That watch him suffer in silence each and every day,
As he's haunted by memories that don't go away?
Did you care that the soldier is still pulling guard?
That his heart, mind, and soul will forever be scarred?
Do you know how he suffers from ptsd?
Or that our precious freedom is never free?
Do you care that he still hears the blood curdling screams?
Or that he returns to the war each night in his dreams?
Have you felt the sorrow of a combat vet?
Or would you rather just forget?
That war has pierced his hardened heart,
And torn this soldier all apart?
Would you rather our heroes just fade away?
Or will you stop to thank a vet today?
By Chris Woolnough
To all our brave soldiers
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 12:49 am | Link
Oh man, am I glad to see you posting again. You've done good, soldier. Welcome home!
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 12:56 am | Link
American Soldier Returns
American Soldier has just returned from the sandbox, after narrowly surviving a roadside bomb. Welcome home soldier!
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 1:01 am | Link
[…] American Soldier has returned to his blog, after he chewed up and spat out a dirty roadside bomb. Go over and drop him a line. This guy is a regular badass. No doubt about it. […]
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 2:01 am | Link
God speed you thru a quick, successful and relatively painless recovery, AS. I think you have the strongest medicine there is, with a loving marriage. All my best wishes for you BOTH.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 3:19 am | Link
God bless you!
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 3:22 am | Link
And, now that you have been wounded, what are your new thoughts about what you have been fighting for?
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 4:16 am | Link
Hello AS,
1st time I've commented on your blog, altho I've been reading it for quite a while. I'm so sorry to hear about your wounds, but I'm glad that you're back home with your lovely wife. Like everyone else here, we thank you for serving our country and doing a job that almost no one else wants to do. You're truly our nation's treasure. Hope you have a safe and speedy recovery!
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 6:59 am | Link
The fact that you were able to write this is a good sign that you are on your way to healling emotionally, I'm no head doctor but common sense say that getting it out and not holding it in is a good thing. Welcome back and thank-you and your fellow soldiers for your service to our county!
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 7:06 am | Link
Thank you for the post, so happy to see one from you! Best wishes to you and your family for all you've endured and sending good thoughts for your quick healing.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 8:39 am | Link
welcome home. thank you for keeping all of us updated and thank you for your dedicated service to us all. heal well and quickly.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 8:58 am | Link
God bless both of you. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you for serving. And thank ASwife for her contributions as a military wife.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 9:44 am | Link
Thank You for all you have done. You are a true Patriot. GOD Bless you and your family. I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 9:59 am | Link
Web Reconnaissance for 03/29/2006
A short recon of what�s out there that might draw your attention. Today focusing on Illegal Immigration and what isn�t being done about it. (With an American Soldier update at the end)
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 10:34 am | Link
It is always a hugh relief to know another soldier has made it home. You have done so much for so many. Now it is your time to enjoy the blessings we have.
I know you guys don't always feel comfortable hearing this, but you are not just an American Soldier but one of our American Herores.
Thank-You for everything.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 11:05 am | Link
Heard about your situation (how's that for a euphemism?) from over at Holly Aho's blog. I'm *really* glad you're OK (not dead, at least!).
Your wife sounds absolutely wonderful, and you can quote me on that. I'm sure, given your SA experience that you both know there is help out there if this all gets overwhelming from time to time; please ask for it.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 11:32 am | Link
Go home, enjoy your family and breathe deep the sweet air of liberty and safety. You have done your part and deserve to be away. Godspeed.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 11:44 am | Link
Speedy recovery Sgt. Hopefully nothing a good woman and McDonalds can't cure.
You've seen the elephant and very few that haven't been there will understand so get on with your life and don't look back.
All the best and if you're every in AZ we have plenty of ammo and targets.
Jim in Tucson
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 6:04 pm | Link
Rest and recoup. Our prayers are with you even now.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 7:04 pm | Link
Welcome home AS. it's good to hear from you, i hope your recovering well. stay strong. I'll be praying for you.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 7:58 pm | Link
Take good care of each other Mr. & Mrs. AS…we are all proud of you.
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 8:42 pm | Link
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Thank you for you service and sacrifice.
Godspeed, American Soldier!
Posted on March 29th, 2006 at 10:14 pm | Link
God bless you both.
AS I wish you a steady recovery! and thank you for all that you have given to this country and my family!
Mrs. AS….your the best kind of woman! Standing right there with your arms wide open for when he came home from whereever and whatever he needed to accomplish. That is as it should be!
May peace and love be with both of you tonight.
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 12:15 am | Link
Thank you for your service and sacrafices…..God blessed you with a wonderful wife….take care of each other….
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 1:58 am | Link
THANK YOU AS! We are the lucky ones, to have men and women like you in our military. I hope you heal totally both body and mind. Remember the vast majority of grateful Americans support you and what you have done for us. Thank YOU MRS. AS! For letting your husband do what he had to do, and giving him a home to return to. I wish you all the happiness you so deserve, may God bless you all. P.S.: Ever thought of writing a book? Sure would like to hear your thoughts about what is going on and how things are being run. THANK YOU again!
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 9:06 am | Link
I did write a book. However it is in a unpublishd fully ready state. Just waiting for that able publisher to make it happen.
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am | Link
Glad to see your alive and on the upswing. Thnks for all you do and God Bless.
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 11:07 am | Link
Go Tell It In The Desert
American Soldier sent me this picture of an NRA sticker he put on his HMMWV windshield. It's good to know that the NRA Gospel is being spread in the middle east, behind a bunch of hot lead.
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 7:30 pm | Link
Injured but still plugging that infamous book, I see. Ahhh..you ARE back.
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 9:44 pm | Link
Glad to hear from you. Glad you are home, and I am sure you are getting the best attention anywhere.
You and your lovely wife are in my prayers, and both of you have my heartfelt thanks.
Posted on March 30th, 2006 at 11:17 pm | Link
Perfectly stated as always! Love the last photo in this post - could not be a better picture.
Posted on April 1st, 2006 at 10:14 am | Link
Thanks for your service and thank you for keeping the faith in yourself, your country and your God. You are the type of person who is a Hero in my book!
Posted on April 1st, 2006 at 10:29 pm | Link
Hey there y'all…just wanted to pop by and say hi, and let you know we're still a-prayin' for ya! Hang in there — just keep pressing forward, one day at a time. We're with ya all the way!
Posted on April 2nd, 2006 at 5:31 pm | Link
Hey. Heard your gonna be fine… congrats. But sorry 'bout your injuries… shoulda gone with airforce.lol. Thanks for the great detail about Iraw. This should be great for my report that I have to do in school.
Wish ya'll the best of luck
P.S I know its none of my business or notin, but where were you injured? And can I get a picture? J/K
One more purple heart and you'll be like that one guy who lost the election against G.W.B!! eww!
Posted on April 2nd, 2006 at 7:13 pm | Link
Im am so terribly thankful that you are safe, healing, and home again.
Posted on April 5th, 2006 at 1:19 am | Link
AS and MS AS, that last picture says all I could say to you both except how very greatful I am for the courage, sacrifices, and service you "both" showed and gave our country. God Bless you.
Posted on April 17th, 2006 at 9:11 am | Link
I am so sorry that you were injured. You know AS you truly are an great writer. When your book is published I just know it will be be sure to let all of us know.
Thank you with all my heart for serving our country. What you did for us, for the world actually can never be repaid. Thank you for being the reason why I live in the land of the free. God bless you and your wife.
Posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:05 pm | Link
God Bless You!
Posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:11 pm | Link
Hello I am a Doctor. I live in Canada .. And I Love Lynsay. I Am So Glad you Are Okay! God Bless You And All Of The Other Soldiers
Posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:12 pm | Link
Hey, God bless all of the soldiers!
Posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:15 pm | Link
You Guys Rock! I LOVE YOU!
Posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:16 pm | Link
ya there is no doctor dove the person who wrote that is a bully and good luck in there when you get home im buying you all shots bye
Posted on April 21st, 2006 at 12:16 pm | Link
No I am Not A Bully! JESSE IS
Posted on May 20th, 2006 at 7:27 pm | Link
This scares me but touches me. The man I love wants to go to Iraq so badly. He is in the Gaurd. I don't know what to do while he is away and all I hear is that he will die. You know how hard it is to leave the one you love. He is going throughsome training for 4 moths in July and that too scares me. I have not been away from him for that long and I will miss him tons. YOu journal is touching and very moving. It brought tears to my eyes and softened my heart. Thank you.
Posted on June 9th, 2006 at 1:51 pm | Link
I am so thankful that you are with your family again and healing physically and mentally. Please, have my deepest respect for your sacrife. Take care.
Posted on September 20th, 2006 at 8:33 am | Link
Hey Soldier!!I am so proud of you guys and all that yall ahve done for our country…I am 17 years old, on my 18th birthday, I am enlisting for the Air Force…..I'll join you some day in the fight for our country….God Bless you!!
Holly Karle
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Posted on September 21st, 2006 at 6:19 am | Link
You will make it through his deployment. Remeber taht he is going to miss you as much as you are him. Send him an email everyday. "Talk" to him each day when you wake up and before you go to bed. Do not go into this thinking the worst case scenerio. There will, or should be, a great suppport system for your deploying unit. Lean on those woman as much as possible. They are going through exactly the same thing you are and will understand. They will become your new best frineds, I know.
It will be OK. Best of luck to both of you
Posted on September 25th, 2006 at 8:38 am | Link
Posted on September 25th, 2006 at 7:23 pm | Link
I just dont know what to say…but knowing me I will think of something. First of all, I would like to say thank you for doing what you believe in. I have started reading your blog starting where its not protected….I have to read it to know what its like there. My b/f is there right now…and has been since the 1st of the year.
This post has touched me the most. I am so happy that you are going to be "ok". I cried when I saw the last pic…of the two of you holding hands….still have tears in my eyes….you are both very special…
Posted on September 27th, 2006 at 7:15 pm | Link
God bless you….. thanks for all you have done for the country and us…….Hope you get better soon.
Posted on February 16th, 2007 at 8:59 pm | Link
Wow, your story brought tears to my eyes but as I tell my husband not sad tears the tears of pride that only a military wife can understand. The kind of tears that make you appreciate everything you have. I can't thank you enough for your service to our country. You said in your story that you are not a 'super hero', of course you are! The strength and courage you have shown in Iraq has given the Iraqi citizens the power to believe in something better, the power to believe in themselves that they can change their world and make it better. You have filled the hearts of those of us left behind with such pride!
To your wife, you have been such a strong woman! I am honored to read stories like this about other military wives it makes me proud to be a part of something so amazing.
At the end of your story you commented about having to 'make up for lost time'…you will and they will be the most amazing moments of your life.
Thank you both!!
Ft. Richarson, AK
Posted on March 15th, 2007 at 5:48 pm | Link
You are missed very much. Thank You for what you are doing. We love you.
Posted on May 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm | Link
Hello Solider, In 11 months i am going to do my Marine's training at sandhurst, And soon i will be a british marine out on the frontline with you guys, and it will be my honour to help and support you brave soldiers who risk your life for the sake of your country and other peoples freedom. Unfortunatley i have to be in the commnados 3 years before i can get clearence to become a sniper, But still i can wait to join you amazing people in iraq. God bless you.
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GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, MI - Third-graders enrolled in the Chinese Immersion Program at Meadow Brook Elementary today engaged in a conversation in Mandarin Chinese with the principal of their sister school in Beijing, China.
"I am looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship between our two schools," said Weidong Liang, principal of Yihai Campus of the Beijing No. 2 Experimental Primary School, during an assembly in which he and Meadow Brook principal Tim Shaw signed the agreements launching the partnership.
Liang, whose school has an English Immersion Program, said he was impressed with the students command of the language. He said he traveled half way around the world because of the tremendous educational and cultural benefit of the partnership to all students in this global economy.
Forest Hills School District launched the program, Mandarin Bridge, four years ago. There are 181 students enrolled in kindergarten through third-grade with a fourth-grade coming on board next year. Every year the district brings in 50 students through a lottery system.
All students in Immersion receive 50 percent of their instruction in Mandarin and 50 percent in English. Shaw said students are taught math, science, and Mandarin literacy (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and are taught English reading, writing, and social studies in English. He said they spend a half day every day in Mandarin and a half day every day in English.
"Having authentic conversations and writing to students is huge," said Shaw about the Beijing partnership. "For our students to truly grow, want to push them with listening and speaking."
Shaw said they will have the technological ability to interact with the students in Beijing in multiple ways, including via Skype. He said the schools are still working out the details of the engagement.
Liang's school is a private boarding school with 1,240 students in first through sixth-grade. Their English Immersion Program launched about six years ago. During the assembly, third-graders sang a song, the Northern High School Drum Line performed and there was a martial arts exhibition.
"This moment is the culmination of three years of hard work to find the school that was the right match," said Jennie MacAnaspie, who has a third-grader in the program and coordinated the Liang visit for the program's parents committee. "It had to be reciprocal."
MacAnaspie said the Asia Society, a global nonprofit based in New York, assisted the district in connecting with the Beijing school.
In 2009, the district received approximately $750,000 from a federal grant through the Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) to establish, improve, or expand innovative programs. One of the objectives was to establish a partnership with a Chinese school.
Forest Hills Superintendent Dan Behm said whenever you are able to add real world context, learning in the classroom is enhanced. He said he was struck by the many similarities between the guiding principal of Liang's school and the district.
"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people," said Behm quoting Confucius. "This is a wonderful opportunity to teach people."
Kris Fox, the parent of a third-grader and kindergartner enrolled in the program, said he was attracted to the overall uniqueness of the program.
"To be exposed to a different culture and learn a second language at the same time was a great opportunity," said Fox, who said it was a good foundation in a global economy. "We are not sure where it is going to lead them but there is no downside to the experience."
Shaw said they set aggressive targets for student. He said school measures achievement in multiple ways, including the Scholastic Reading Inventory and Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP), and students are performing well above state averages.
"When they leave 12th grade we see them having a fluency in Mandarin, equivalent to a high school teacher," Shaw said.
State Rep. Lisa Posthumous Lyons, R-Alto, chair of the House Education Committee, said the Chinese Immersion Program is rare in the state, with the closest other program in Lansing. She said the state needs to see more school districts embrace cultural immersion of all types, so students are better able to take advantage of global opportunities.
U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, had his District Director, Jordan Bush, make comments on his behalf. He also spoke of the benefits of the program.
Rockford Public Schools began offering Chinese at its high school in 2006. Jeffrey Hayes, the Chinese instructor, said they have a total of 100 students across all grades but expect higher numbers this fall.
Rockford's sister school is Shanghai Jincai High School. Hayes said they communicate regularly through Skype and email and Rockford students visit every other year. Jincai students visited last fall.
"It has been an awesome relationship," said Hayes, who said five of his students, attending Michigan State University, tested in at the second and third year levels for the Chinese program. "Having a sister school, can only make your program stronger."
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Newmarket Broadway's newly finished wall mural, painted to deter graffiti, has been vandalised.
Completed last week by Hibiscus Coast artist Dan Mills, it was painted to protect the walls at the Newmarket railway corridor, which has been a popular canvas for "taggers" for years.
The artwork - on either side of the tracks under Newmarket's main commercial street, Broadway - included a crushed leather backdrop, people dressed in early 1900-style clothing and paintings based on the town's history.
Research suggests that taggers tend to avoid vandalising other artists' work out of respect.
But times have changed and the fight to stop graffiti on Broadway will continue, Newmarket Business Association chief executive Cameron Brewer says. "We were anticipating that there would be some vandalism to it. But the good news is that it's all graffiti-guarded and it will be cleaned up come Saturday morning."
Mr Brewer - with other groups, including the Auckland Region Graffiti Free group, the Auckland City Council, rail owner Ontrack - initiated the project to have the mural painted.
He said the idea that taggers would not vandalise other artists' work was a traditional one, which usually brought positive results.
The group would now have to look at introducing other measures, including installing surveillance cameras, increasing lighting in the area and also cutting off several access ways on to the railway corridor.
"This is a small setback," Mr Brewer said, "but we're confident in keeping it clean, and we will win this battle."


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October 27, 2012, 09:20 PM
Ok so one of my advanced MP instructors also does competition shooting and I'm wanting to get into it. I don't know what 4 letter governing body yet, I want to do it with a glock 9mm. There seems to be a few match in the MO area. My question to you guys should I get a glock and build it myself for competition or should I buy one already built. Should I go 17 or 34?


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Upstate offers new treatment for painkiller addiction after back surgery
SYRACUSE, N.Y.— Individuals who have chronic back or leg pain following back surgery where no further surgical remedy exists, known as failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), and who continually rely on opiates, or narcotic medications such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Norco, and Hydrocodone to relieve their pain, may be eligible to receive an innovative treatment at Upstate Medical University.
This treatment may result in remission from drug dependency and restoration of the individual's natural ability to deal with pain. In addition, the treatment usually reduces the pain associated with the FBSS. The treatment approach is being offered at Upstate's Addiction Medicine Service.
According to Brian Johnson, MD, director of Addiction Psychiatry at Upstate, after continued use, painkillers can actually be the cause of the pain.
"Those who participate in the neuropsychoanalytic treatment will take low dose naltrexone, an FDA- approved, non-opiate medication that helps the body to restore endorphin function," said Dr. Johnson, who is an associate professor of psychiatry and anesthesia. Endorphins are natural pain killing substances found in the human brain and painkillers actually stop the production of endorphins. "It is hoped that use of low-dose naltrexone, as part of neuropsychoanalytic treatment, will lead to improvement of pain symptoms.
According to Dr. Johnson, three percent of Americans use opiates for pain relief and one-third of those individuals become addicted to those painkillers. He says that most patients on opioid maintenance will show both withdrawal and tolerance.
To meet the criteria for opioid dependence (addiction), those interested in the innovative treatment must have at least one of the following:
• Opioids taken in larger amounts over a longer period of time than intended; patients then run out of their prescriptions early.
• Unsuccessful attempts to cut down or control use.
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• Important social, occupational or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of opioid use; such as going on disability.
• Opioids are used despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused by or exacerbated by the opioids. Examples would be the depression that is so common in patients maintained on opioids, or opioid-induced hyperalgesia.
Those interested in treatment will undergo a complex biopsychosocial evaluation. Permission to confer with the patient's referring physician is a condition of treatment.
"There is an initial period of daily treatment during which patients undergo detoxification, medical management and psychotherapy. Then they are put on low dose naltrexone to restore their brain's own pain fighting opioid hormones, and seen twice a week until better," said Dr. Johnson.
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically...Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education." —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Watch the social Justice Book Bowl video WATCH THE MLK CELEBRATION VIDEO
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration history
For many years, Western Michigan University's Martin Luther King Jr. Committee organized a celebration of Dr. King's life, work and commitment to social justice. The Northside Ministerial Alliance had annually held a similar communitywide event at Chenery Auditorium.
In an impressive showing of town-gown partnership, the two organizations agreed to merge their events for a spectacular 2002 celebration. Since that time, the two have continued to work collaboratively to establish a celebration for Kalamazoo residents that highlights and captures the essences of the life and legacy of Dr. King.
During the ensuing years, several major events and numerous smaller ones have been built into what has become a multiweek celebration. The communitywide Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration continues to grow and evolve. Along with the alliance, WMU and the city of Kalamazoo, key sponsors also now include Kalamazoo College, Borgess Medical Center and Bronson Healthcare System.
WMU's MLK Celebration Committee
WMU's Martin Luther King Jr. Committee is dedicated to furthering social justice by engaging in meaningful education, research and service initiatives, and coordinating events throughout the campus and Kalamazoo communities.
In 1968, Dr. King observed that "one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands."
Through its various outreach programs, workshops and events, the MLK Committee acknowledges that the University community must be provided with the tools that will enable us to participate actively in the urgent struggle for social justice that is ongoing in our region, our nation and our world.


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Twitters message limit of 140 text characters is ideally suited to the brief attention spans of these relentlessly distracted times. But an 85-year-old man will soon re-confirm another trend: This social media craze is no longer limited to the young.
Pope Benedict XVI will start posting tweets on Wednesday under the handle @pontifex, a term that means bridge builder in Latin.
That Monday announcement from the Vatican reveals another modernizing attempt by a generally old-school pontiff, born in 1927, to reach 2012 audiences. The pope plans to accept questions about matters of faith via the hashtag #askpontifex. Presumably, hell offer uplifting insights designed to bring souls who have strayed back into the fold.
Its a market-driven move: The Roman Catholic Church, like many mainstream Christian denominations, has experienced a decline in youth membership over the last decade or so.
From the Vaticans statement: The popes presence on Twitter can be seen as the tip of the iceberg that is the churchs presence in the world of new media.
That papal Twitter presence initially will be expressed in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish, with more languages to come.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke, who said the pope will engage and approve messages drafted for him by his aides, explained: The pope is not the kind of person like the rest of us who in a meeting or a lunch is looking at their BlackBerrys to see if any messages have come in. He is not walking around with an iPad, but all the popes tweets are the popes words.
And Msgr. Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said that while Pope Benedicts tweets will be pearls of wisdom, they should not be perceived as infallible Catholic doctrine.
They can, however, fairly be perceived as an encouraging sign of linguistic brevity by a particularly prominent man of the cloth.
After all, whens the last time you heard a sermon of only 140 characters?


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DNA is a polymeric molecule i.e made up of many building blocks called monomers. What is the monomeric unit called and how many different monomers are there
Nucleotides. Billions make up a strand but there are only four nucleotides (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine)
State the main structural difference between purine and pyrimidine bases
Purines are double ringed and pyrimidines are single ringed
Explain why a purine must be paired with a pyrimidine in the DNA double helix
The molecular distance from Adenine combined with Thymine is the same as the molecular distance from Guanine combined with Cytosine. This gives a uniform distance that can fill up the center of the helix
Explain what is meant by the anti-parallel arrangement in the DNA double helix
One strand (leading)is 5' to 3' and the other strand (lagging) is 3' to 5'. They are concurrent