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IRAQ WATCH -- (House of Representatives - September 07, 2006)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 2005, the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Larson) is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening as we come to the floor again as part of what we have come to call our Iraq Watch, and I am grateful that we are joined by several colleagues this evening, Mr. Bishop from New York, Mr. McDermott from Washington State, and others that will be joining us throughout this early part of the evening.
Now, let me start, as we always have, by recognizing the valiant service of the men and women who wear the uniform. And as our leader Ms. Pelosi often says, our men and women who wear the uniform deserve a leadership that is worthy of the sacrifice that they make on a daily basis. I am proud of this Congress, inasmuch as it has been able to distinguish the warriors from the war, and so we continue to honor those brave men and women who wear the uniform of this country and who sacrifice daily on our behalf.
And yet, as events unfold around the globe, but specifically in the Middle East as it relates to Iraq, what we find is even amongst those who initially favored the war, such as pundits like Thomas Friedman, who now have come to say that we have got to come to the realization that we are no longer midwifing democracy in Iraq but, in essence, babysitting an insurgent civil war. So this evening we come here to discuss Iraq from the context of the mistakes that have been made and the need for accountability, starting with the resignation of the Secretary of Defense.
At some point, somewhere along the line, there has got to be accountability for the actions that have transpired in Iraq. We were wrong about the information that led up to going into the war. In fact, the strongest critics against us going into the war were people such as Scowcroft, Eagleburger, Kissinger and Baker, hardly left-leaning liberals, but people who understood international policy and the severe consequences that would result if we ended up going into Iraq without the full support of the world. And so Americans everywhere kind of have to scratch their heads and say, how is it that we had the entire world with us when we invaded Afghanistan and end up virtually with no support in Iraq.
It is clear from discussions with policymakers and former generals that a series of mistakes have been made, not the least of which was going against our own national policy, the Weinberger Doctrine, which stated very clearly the United States should never go to war against another country unless its vital interests are threatened; and the Powell corollary to that, if we do go in, we should go in with overwhelming force.
In both cases, that doctrine and corollary were rejected in favor of the doctrine of preemption and unilateralism, which has left our allies looking at us as we twist slowly in the winds of Iraq, as Friedman says, babysitting an insurrection and civil war while our most precious of resources, our men and women who serve this country, are in harm's way.
We need a new direction. We ought to send a very clear signal to the world, to the people in this country that it is time for accountability; that it is time to say that mistakes were made and then move on. And we can start with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld stepping down, as he should.
The head of the 9/11 Commission has indicated to both Republicans and Democrats alike that we need to continue to adopt those resolutions and recommendations that they have found in their studies, 20 of which still aren't implemented, which is over half. And so in order to prosecute the war on terror, we have got to be able to accomplish those goals. But without a Congress that wants to hold the President accountable, that is not going to happen.
A gentleman that has been doing just that and speaking out in his district has been TIM BISHOP of New York, and at this time, I would like to yield to him.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. If the gentleman will let me ask a question, knowing you are from New York and knowing specifically you are from Long Island, and, of course, with a solemn date approaching us of September 11, do most citizens in New York understand, in your estimation, the difference between the war on global terrorism and the war in Iraq and see them as different subject matters, or, as IKE SKELTON on the Armed Services Committee has been so nobly trying to demonstrate, the difference between the insurrection and civil war in Iraq and the war on terror? Or has the administration's attempts to blur the lines confused people? What is the sense of New Yorkers?
Mr. BISHOP of New York. My sense is that New Yorkers have not been fooled. My sense is that New Yorkers, and there is hardly a New Yorker who did not lose a loved one or did not lose a friend in the Twin Towers, most New Yorkers recognize that we are fighting two separate and distinct wars, despite, as you say, the administration's efforts to blur the distinction and to cojoin them in an effort to justify something that the vast majority of Americans now recognize was a tragic mistake.
When I go around my district, one of the questions I ask people is do they feel safer today, in August of 2006, than they did on September 12, 2001, and the answer overwhelmingly is no. The answer overwhelmingly is no.
I think most people recognize in my district, and I am grateful for this, that the war in Iraq, which was purportedly to make us safe, make us more safe, has in fact imperiled us beyond where we were the day we invaded.
I think that that is an important recognition and an important distinction for those of us who recognize the distinction needs to continue to be made.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. We have been joined by the gentleman from Massachusetts. I think for a number of our listeners, really the whole idea for coming to this floor came from BILL DELAHUNT. The idea really wasn't hatched here on the floor of the House of Representatives. It was an idea that was hatched in town hall meetings in Nantucket and on the Cape that BILL DELAHUNT held. He encouraged other Members, including myself, who had them in West Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, and from there, because our voices were muffled. Or if you spoke out against the war, you were deemed unpatriotic. But it was because of his efforts in organizing an Iraq Watch that this has persisted and the truth has been able to continue to come out with regard to our involvement.
At this time I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts, the founder of this great movement.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. I would like to ask the gentleman a question: What you are telling me and you are telling our viewing audience this evening, you voted, and I believe the vote was near unanimous in the House of Representatives and the Senate, to invade Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom; is that correct?
Mr. DELAHUNT. I voted, and, again, with one exception out of 435 Members, there was a unanimous vote here in this Chamber, bipartisan, Republicans and Democrats and Independent, to go to Afghanistan and destroy al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden and apprehend him.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Was not the rest of the world united in that effort with the United States?
Mr. DELAHUNT. I have this vivid memory of the day after 9/11, a headline that appeared in the paper of record in France that said: ``We Are All Americans Today.'' We had support in every corner of the world for what we were doing. We would have succeeded in the war on terror by now. But, no. But, no. We invaded Iraq, and clearly that has created implications for our national security.
If I may just for one moment, and I am not alone when I say this, it is interesting, today in the Wall Street Journal a former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who succeeded in securing a majority for the Republican Party in this House in 1994, was quoted. Remember, this is a Republican, a leader. The speculation is that he is considering running for the Presidency in 2008.
This is what Newt Gingrich had to say. Just consider the following: ``Osama bin Laden is still at large.'' I agree. ``Afghanistan is still insecure.'' I would suggest that it is unraveling. ``Iraq is still violent.'' 3,000 deaths a month. ``North Korea and Iran are still building nuclear weapons and missiles. Terrorist recruiting is still occurring in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and across the planet.''
Those are Newt Gingrich's words, today, in the Wall Street Journal.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. So how is it then, given all that you have said, that with the world behind us in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, that we would, if you will excuse the phrase, why did we ``cut and run'' in Afghanistan and then focus on Iraq?
As the gentleman from New York pointed out, people are able to distinguish between the enemy who actually knocked down the Twin Towers in New York, struck the Pentagon, and, as Tim Roemer pointed out yesterday, were it not for those brave souls on Flight 93, would have hit this Capitol. How did we go from the whole world being behind us, abandoning what has become, as Mr. Van Hollen often points out, the forgotten front in Afghanistan, take our eye off the prize and expend the amount of money, and, most importantly, our most precious resource, our men and women who serve this country in Iraq?
Mr. DELAHUNT. Well, if one reviews the memoir of Paul O'Neill, former Republican Secretary of the Treasury, who served in this Bush administration for 2 years, and in that capacity was a member of the National Security Council, you will discover that he was as surprised as anyone when 10 days after this President was inaugurated at a National Security Council meeting, there was a discussion about Iraq and the need to remove Saddam Hussein who, about 6 weeks later on February 22 of 2001, months before 9/11, there was a meeting when Secretary Rumsfeld had a map of the oil fields in Iraq spread out on a table.
The discussion, it was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and there was a discussion about how those oil fields would be divvied up between nations and various big oil companies.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The President has asked to engage, and the gentleman made several good points and one of them was about a new dialogue, long overdue, and I think welcomed by the American people. But as the gentleman from Maryland points out, a one-way street.
Certainly no one knows better than the gentleman from Washington State. No one was vilified more, both on this floor and in public, because of love of country and speaking out, than JIM MCDERMOTT.
I recognize the gentleman from Washington State.
Mr. McDERMOTT. Thank you very much. As I sit here and I listen to this today, I think about the Katrina event. You saw the President go down and throw his arm around the guy who was fixing Katrina. He said, Good job, Brownie. I mean, that has become a laughingstock.
Well, this President has done the same thing with Rumsfeld. Beginning in 2004, when Abu Ghraib came out, the President showed up and said the Secretary is doing a great job, right? This will not change as long as the President keeps Rumsfeld in that job, because Rumsfeld is the controlling power behind it all.
As long as the President puts him out there and let's him run, you are going to continue to have this stuff. Rumsfeld went to Iraq in July while we were on vacation, right at the end, and they found the bodies of 20 kidnapped and murdered bus drivers the day he arrived. A bomber blew himself up and killed seven people. The Secretary of Defense made what I consider to be an interesting statement in response to that. He said, each time I come to Iraq, I see progress.
Now, no one who has any kind of realistic view of this could say that kind of thing. You could not be watching what is going on, when it is to our troops who are dying, or the wounded who are coming home, or the thousands of Iraqis who are being killed and say, I see progress. There is simply, you have got your military people talking about the fact that it is coming apart, you had Rumsfeld this week say to some National Guardsmen from California, no, you can't go home, I know your enlistment is up, but you have got to stay here for another 120 days.
We are going to send you into Baghdad to calm things down. It is a mess, and it has been a mess from the start because Rumsfeld would never listen. Like the President, he wouldn't listen. General Shinseki came in and said, you are going to need 300,000 troops. Rumsfeld said, you don't know what you are saying, you are out of here. Here is your retirement. Get out of here.
That is the response to anybody who comes into this administration and talks. Unless the President will dump Rumsfeld, you are not going to get any change in the policy. What is the alternative to the people of this country? The only alternative they have is on election day to take the gavel away from the Republican majority so that we can have hearings run by Democrats where some questions will be asked, where there will be some accountability so that things will begin to come up into the public view.
We have never found out what Halliburton's contracts are all about. We haven't found out who is responsible for Abu Ghraib. No, there isn't a soldier or a sailor or a marine or anyone near the military.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Is the gentleman suggesting that the more than $9 billion that is unaccounted for, that this Congress actually ought to go and find out what happened with those no-bid contracts, $9 billion?
Mr. McDERMOTT. Only if you care about taxpayer money. I mean, the examples are so bald and so bad that it is almost laughable if it wasn't what was going on today and it was taking us down the wrong trail.
What has been said here today is, I was reading the Middle Eastern papers today, everybody says that half of Afghanistan is now under control of the Taliban. That is universal in the press.
The British general there is saying we are losing this thing; he is worried. We will not get a change unless we get some hard questions asked. We are never going to get them from the Republicans because they are going to rubber-stamp what Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld and all the rest of that bunch put together. I personally think this election is the most important election we have had in my lifetime.
You say to yourself maybe I am getting old or something, but I went through Vietnam, and I went through a whole bunch of things. But this one, if we have 2 more years of ``stay the course,'' God knows where we are going to be economically and militarily and politically and diplomatically in the world. We have got to get some change, and Rumsfeld would be a start. There are some other people that should go, but if the President can't see that Rumsfeld cannot handle it; he threw out Paul O'Neill as the Secretary of the Treasury, and he threw out some other people, Colin Powell and some others went down the road, but he keeps the guy who got us in the mess because it means he would have to admit that he made a huge mistake, and he can't do it. He can't do it, and that is the biggest problem he has.
As politicians, sometimes you have to say, ``I was wrong. I made a mistake.''
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. The gentleman from Maine who has been to the floor several times to talk about this very subject recently traveled to New Orleans also where he traveled with the Army Corps of Engineers where he saw firsthand what was going on there. As the gentleman from Washington states, one of the many salient points he made is the lack of accountability and the corollary between what has happened here domestically with Hurricane Katrina and Iraq.
I yield to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen).
Mr. ALLEN. I thank you all for the opportunity to be here and discuss some of these important issues that we don't get to do during any debate on resolutions or legislation. These are among the most important issues we deal with.
I was down in New Orleans and in the gulf coast of Mississippi where the incompetence of this administration was on display for everyone to see. The same incompetence is on display with respect to the problems we have created in Iraq. And I say ``created'' because I do believe that in many ways this administration has created more problems in the Middle East than they have solved.
I agree with the gentleman from Washington that a good part of this has to do with the inadequate leadership at the Department of Defense, but we should never forget that this policy is driven by the President and the Vice President and there is a unanimity of thinking in this administration about the Middle East, the conviction that we could simply force our will on several hundred million people and bend them to become something that we want them to become, regardless of their own intentions.
But I wanted to speak for a minute tonight about how Congress, this Republican Congress, has aided and abetted the administration by giving up its constitutional role of exercising oversight over the executive branch. It is absolutely stunning to me how both the House and the Senate have done everything that they could to rubber stamp administration policies in Iraq and cover up for them.
A few examples, going back to when Democrats controlled the Congress in the 1980s, there was an Oversight Subcommittee on Armed Services, and that oversight subcommittee discovered those $500 hammers and $6,000 toilet seats and put an end to much of that kind of overcharging. But when Republicans took over, they eliminated the Oversight Subcommittee on Armed Services and billions of questionable Halliburton contracts have gone unexamined, unexamined by either Armed Services or by the Intelligence Committee or the Committee on Government Reform.
The minority staff on the Committee on Government Reform has identified over 200 specific misleading statements made by the administration in the run-up to the Iraq war. Over on the Senate side, remember they had Phase II, the Senate Intelligence Committee was going to do a Phase II investigation. What they meant by that was instead of beating up on the intelligence agencies like the CIA themselves, they were going to look at the misuse of intelligence by the administration. That was Phase II of their study.
It hasn't happened. Years have gone by, and the chairman of the committee has said several times, ``We are going to get to that later.'' But they are clearly not going to do it before any election.
In 2005, House Republicans voted down a resolution demanding an investigation of Iraq intelligence. When you look at the House and you look at the Senate, there is no question what this Republican Congress has been doing. Rather than gather information, evidence, that could clarify what has happened in the past and guide us to a better policy in the future, it is all politics all the time and that means protecting the President from being exposed, protecting the Vice President from being exposed, protecting Donald Rumsfeld from being exposed for having not spoken the truth.
So this entire Congress is complicit.
The Senate held a few hearings after Abu Ghraib, but no Senate committee has conducted a comprehensive public probe of the alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram or the secret CIA facilities that the President just acknowledged yesterday.
In the House, the majorities on three House committees voted down resolutions seeking documents about detainee abuse. Democrats have been saying we need the information in order to do a better job in the future, and Republicans have circled the wagons around the administration and refused to basically allow oversight.
On Iraq reconstruction, you go back to 2003, Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon awarded a $7 billion sole-source contract to Halliburton for reconstruction. And 3 years later, auditors identified more than $1 billion in questionable and unsupported costs under that contract. A billion dollars in Washington is still real money. If Congress was simply doing its constitutionally mandated function, we would be holding hearings on that. But no, the Republicans are not prepared to investigate Halliburton. Vice President Cheney was once the CEO of Halliburton, and this is ground we dare not go into, apparently, and yet we have to, to fulfill our constitutional responsibility.
That is what we are basically saying here. This Republican Congress has failed the country. The administration has failed the country. And when Democrats control this chamber again, whether you have a Republican President or a Democratic President, we are going to make sure that this Congress acts like the Congress contemplated in the Constitution and do our jobs.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. The gentleman from New York started and began this conversation by talking about what has transpired, and the gentleman from Maryland talked about the President and his calling over the last several days, both he and the Secretary of Defense and the Vice President have been out there, along with the Secretary of State, talking about this new agenda, and I believe the gentleman from New York has some thoughts on that.
Mr. BISHOP of New York. It seems like we are being treated to a late summer/early fall offensive, I would say smoke screen on the part of this administration to convince the American people that we need to stay the course in order to be safe.
Basically what they are doing is they are engaged in defending the indefensible. The only way they can defend a war that the American people have clearly turned against is to present it in a context that makes it appear to be reasonable or defensible, but in fact quite the opposite is the case.
I think all of us as elected officials, we have no more solemn responsibility than to provide for the safety and security of those who have elected us to represent them. But I think a fair-minded person has to look at the record of where this administration has taken this Nation and where this Congress, complicit in the strategies and objectives of this administration, have taken this country.
Every single place you look, it reeks with failure. The 9/11 Commission presented to us 41 carefully crafted bipartisan recommendations. This Congress has only acted on 20 or 21 of them. The 9/11 Commission, again a bipartisan group, has given this administration and this Congress 14 Ds, 5 Fs and 2 incompletes on those recommendations.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. What is the Congress's report card again?
Mr. BISHOP of New York. Fourteen Ds, five Fs and two incompletes; and this is a leadership that is going to keep us safe and secure?
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. And we are approaching the fifth anniversary.
Mr. BISHOP of New York. We are approaching the fifth anniversary, and we have outstanding work on the part of this commission, bipartisan work which is what we ought to be striving for. We ought to be approaching the safety and security of this Nation in a bipartisan way.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Are any of those issues going to be brought to the floor? Those recommendations, those outstanding recommendations, will any of them be brought to the floor before we adjourn for elections?
Mr. BISHOP of Utah. I am not aware of anything on the calendar.
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlemen from Maine, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington State for coming down here this evening.
We come down here out of love of country and the desire to fulfill our constitutional responsibility. There is no doubt in my mind that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle love their country as much as we do.
I cannot understand why an administration continues to attack those who, out of love of country, speak out and dare to speak truth to power, that are willing to ask the unimagined questions and perhaps give unwelcomed answers to the administration. But that is the work that is required of elected Members of the United States Congress under our Constitution. That is our sworn obligation to the people of this great country of ours and will continue to be our obligation.
It is our sincere hope that we can move this Nation in a new direction. And with a Democratic-controlled Congress, we believe that is the best hope for our colleagues on the other side to join with us in creating what is in the best interest of our troops, our families, and the very security of this Nation.
Thank you, gentlemen, each of you, for joining us this evening.


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Our body has numerous ways to protect us from literally anything that proves to be harmful for us. The body has numerous biological cycles that are way too complex to even imagine.
This article presents a simple list of the various signs of self defense mechanism that the body shows. The body's set of defense mechanisms constitute one such system. So, go through this article to know about the list of defense mechanisms shown by our body.
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These defense measures are said to protect our body 24/7 from various factors that can prove to be potentially harmful to us. We have got to be grateful to our body for protecting us by all means every day.
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There are a number of common defense mechanisms that we often use without our knowledge. Did you know that certain emotions like anxiety are caused by certain unreasonable impulses in the body?
So, if you want to know how to find out the defense mechanism of the body, then this article will help you with that. Take a look.
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1. Yawning:
Yawning is one of the most common signs of self defense mechanism that the body shows. The main purpose of yawning is to cool down the brain after it has been overheated or overloaded.
2. Sneezing:
When the nasal passages fill up with too many allergens, microbes, dust or other irritants, we sneeze. This is a method of the body to get rid of these irritants.
3. Stretching:
Stretching is a method of preparing our body for the physical loads we are expected to face in a day. Stretching relaxes the muscles, relaxes and improves blood flow.
4. Hiccuping:
There is a nerve called pneumogastric nerve that gets irritated when we eat very quickly, swallow large pieces of food or overeat. This nerve is closely connected to the stomach and diaphragm. This result of this irritation is a bout of hiccups. This is one of the identification methods of defense mechanism.
5. Myoclonic Jerks:
This refers to the sudden jolt with which we wake up after drifting off to sleep. This happens because, as we fall asleep, the frequency of our breathing rapidly falls and the pulse slows down. The brain identifies this development and tries to save you with a sudden jerk.
6. Skin Wrinkling:
The wrinkles that appear on the skin of the hands are caused when the body encounters an increased amount of moisture. It understands that the environment might be slippery. The skin on the hands will begin to change facilitating you to grip on to smooth surfaces.
7. Loss Of Memory:
After the occurrence of very unpleasant experiences, there occurs a loss of memory. The brain deletes the most horrible moments from our memory.
8. Goosebumps:
The main purpose of goosebumps is to reduce the amount of heat our bodies lose through the pores of our skin. This makes it easier to warm the body during inhospitable conditions. This is one of the best signs of self defense mechanism that the body shows.

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Argos' Scott Milanovich named Coach of the Year, capping off a remarkable rookie campaign
In most cases, a .500 regular-season record wouldn't win you a Coach of the Year award. The 2012 Toronto Argonauts proved an exception to that, though, and thanks largely to their remarkable playoff run to a hometown Grey Cup victory, head coach Scott Milanovich was honoured Thursday with the CFL's Annis Stukus Trophy as the 2012 Coach of the Year. All three finalists for the award (Milanovich, Calgary coach/general manager John Hufnagel and B.C. coach Mike Benevides) were good candidates, but Milanovich's performance stood out. While his 9-9 regular-season record was far from overwhelming, he managed to eventually integrate key offensive elements like Ricky Ray and Chad Kackert and put together a club that got hot at just the right time, winning three straight postseason games to earn the team's first Grey Cup since 2004. Not bad for a rookie head coach.
It's notable that Milanovich's win is the second time a Toronto coach has claimed this trophy in three seasons, as Jim Barker won it for the 2010 season. Barker is still with the franchise and is currently serving as the Argonauts' general manager; Milanovich credited Barker for playing an important role in his development as a coach, both through what he did and what he didn't do.
"He had the courage once he'd hired me to step back and let me do it my way," Milanovich said. "I'm really thankful for his friendship and his leadership and all he's meant to my career."
Milanovich said the Argonauts' organization was crucial to his success, too, and the camaraderie amongst their players was a key part of their run to the Grey Cup.
"I loved our lockerroom," Milanovich said. "They had a true love for each other. ...I honestly believe that's why we were able to accomplish what we accomplished, that team unity in the lockerroom."
Milanovich said his players made his job enjoyable.
"It was my honour to be their head coach," he said. "I loved coming to work every day."
If the Argos keep playing as well as they did at the end of 2012, Milanovich may love coming to work for the foreseeable future. The team took a bit of a gamble on him given that he hadn't been a head coach before, but it paid off in spades in 2012, and this award is just further proof of that. We'll see if the Milanovich hire continues to pay off for the Argonauts down the road.


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Wed 01 Feb 6:00pm Limerick FC v Limerick FAS, Aisling Annacotty
Sat 04 Feb 2:00pm U C D v Limerick FC, Jackson Park (Wayside Celtic)
Mon 13 Feb 7:45pm Sligo Rovers v Limerick FC, Terryland Park
Sat 18 Feb 2:00pm Cork City v Limerick FC, Bishopstown
Sat 25 Feb 3:00pm Drogheda United v Limerick FC, Hunky Dorys Park
Result from last night Limerick FC 3-2 Limerick FAS (McGann, Guthrie, Sheedy)
Thanks for the info Jof. Were you at it? If so, how'd we manage to concede two, and could you name a rough First XI, please?
We tend to believe that words enable thought. But words can also substitute for thought.
- Richard A. Posner
Starting 11 was - Barry Ryan, Shaun Kelly, Brian O Callaghan, Shane Guthrie, Andrew Bhandarkar, Sean Brosnan, Stephen Bradley, Steven McGann, Shane Tracey, Denis Behan, Barry Sheedy.
The FAS team took the lead after 10 minutes, a poor back pass from Bhandarkar was picked up on by the FAS centre forward and he did well to round the keeper and stick it in the net. About 15 minutes later Bradley played a nice ball over the top which McGann controlled first time and lobbed the keeper, great finish. 5 minutes later we where behind, Calla played the ball back to Ryan who picked it up under pressure. The ref called it as a back pass but Calla said he kneed it back. In fairness to the ref I was at a similar angle and it did look like a back pass but the lads behind the goal said it wasn't. From about 5 yards the FAS team took their goal well and hammered into the net (Limerick FC's Colin Daly according to LTID). We went straight up from the kick off and won a free out to the left. The ball was crossed in and Guthrie headed it home well. Dave Ryan, Purcell, Quinn, O'Leary and Scully came on for the second half. I know Sheedy scored the 3rd but don't know anything about it and not sure if anyone else came on.
The team looked rusty enough at times. Sean Brosnan wasn't as dangerous as usual. I was very impressed with McGann in the middle, he is a big strong lad for his age. Guthrie is huge, much bigger than I thought, himself and Purcell will be very big and physical centre backs. Bradley didn't do a whole pile in the middle but won a few balls back and most the time he played attacking passes. With Gamble playing defensive and Bradley more attacking they should be a good team up in the middle.
The FAS team where impressive with a lot of young players, a good few Limerick u19's I'm told, I've only seen the u19's once this season so can't name exactly who played with the FAS team. Jason Hughes captained the FAS team.
Thanks a million Jof, I asked for some detail but I wasn't expecting that much. Thanks very much. =) I was worried about the scoreline, but from what you say the goals we conceded weren't as a result of any serious vulnerability in the team or system, just shaking off the rust, making simple errors? Thanks again for your insight.
We tend to believe that words enable thought. But words can also substitute for thought.
- Richard A. Posner
Beat UCD 2-1 today. Goals from Shane Tracy and Paddy Purcell.
Starting team was: Barry Ryan,Shaun Kelly,Shane Guthrie,Corie Treacy,Andrew Bhandarkhar,Paudie Quinn,Steve Bradley,Dave O'Leary,Shane Tracy,Cian Collins,Denis Behan.
Joe Gamble came on before half time in place of O'Leary and played the rest of the game.....Barry Sheedy,Steven McGann,Sean Brosnan,Alex Scully,Paddy Purcell,Brian O Callaghan,David Ryan and Shane Cusack given runs too.
Sean Maher was on the bench nut didnt come on.
Scrappy game being honest all the symptoms of the first real pre season friendly with people not really being sharp....1st goal Cian Collins played a nice ball through to Behan who got it under control turned and got off a good shot which was saved by Barron but straight to Tracy,2nd was a fantastic ball in from Tracy from a corner met with a good powerful header from Paddy....UCDs goal was a lovely finish from long range scorer probably given too much space.
Few opinions of from todays game:
Shane Guthrie: Could be a really good partner for Paddy imo hes big and strong but hes also good on the ball doesnt hoof for the sake of it found some nice passes out from the back today
Stephen Bradley: Doesnt do anything explosive or spectacular but is very good in possession doesnt lose the ball much uses it very well....Seems a step ahead when he gets the ball very quick thinking and plays some lovely passes....Always available and looking for the ball....Keeps attacks going well by not constantly passing backwards and sideways.....Himself and Gamble started to really pull the strings in the middle in the 2nd half until he came off.
Brian O'Callaghan: Wasnt on long enough to make a real impact but fantastic to see him back after his horrible injury and he looks in good shape.
Dave O'Leary: Seems a bit bigger and stronger then last season which is good.
Steven McGann: Think we could have a real player on our hands with this lad, Big and Strong for his age has lovely control should efiniteley see soem 1st team action this year...Would rate him higher then Sheedy and Collins myself.
How did Cian Collins play?
Did ok got stuck in well and wasnt afraid to get involved on the ball,played a lovely ball through which led to our first goal.
Showed his inexperience at times with some of his runs and could do with being a bit stronger but that will all come with more training and game time with the first team.
Came off with a tight hamstring dont think was anything too serious.
Beat Blarney 4-1 last night in Munster Senior Cup.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Blarney 1-4 Limerick
Goals from...Shane Tracy(2),Barry Sheedy and Joe Gamble.
Team was: Dave Ryan,Shaun Kelly,Shane Guthrie,Paddy Purcell,Andrew Bhandarkhar,James McGrath,Joe Gamble,Steven McGann,Shane Tracy,Denis Behan,Barry Sheedy.
Corey Treacy,Sean Brosnan and Dave O'Leary came on as subs.
Sligo 3-2 Limerick
(Derek O Brien, Dawid Janczyk)
Good run out against a very strong Sligo team. Derek O Brien was very good in attack in the first half and took his goal very well. Kind of faded in the second half. Had a bit of class about him. Dawid Janczyk was kind of lost in the first half playing as the lone striker in a team with lads he never played with. Got one chance from out at the edge of the box and absolutely stuck it top corner with a screamer. Lubos Kaluda looked decent in the middle, was well able to get around the field and get stuck in. A lot of what he was trying wasn't working as their again he was playing with a new set of players. O'Leary, Behan, Quinn, Tracey and Gamble all did very well when they came on.
Derek is great but hes terribly unfit
Anyone go to the Cork game that was to have taken place last Saturday the 18th according to the Original Post? Was it cancelled?
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Drogs 1-1 Limerick latest.
Our team is:
Barry Ryan,Shaun Kelly,Paddy Purcell,Shane Guthrie,Corey Treacy,Stephen Bradley,Joe Gamble,Shane Tracy,Paudie Quinn,Rory Gaffney,Denis Behan.
Gaffney with our goal his 1st goal for Limerick.
Finally, the club website squad page badly needs updating and there's no score up for the Drogs game. How'd it end?
Sorry for all the questions!
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Finished 1-1.
I would say that would be close enough to our starting XI from what i've heard and seen from pre-season so far. Quality team with the likes of Derek O' Brien, Foley, Sheahan (hopefully), Bhandarkar, O' Leary all good players in the squad fighting for a starting position.
Gary Sheahan has been training and assessed by club physio and from what i've heard he is having slight trouble with the leg he broke this time last year and hasn't officially signed because of that.


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Dr. Jain is a great listener and is respectful of the patient's healthcare wishes and intelligence. She encourages and supports the patient in taking responsibility for one's health and well-being.
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Overall terrible experience. Very rude and didn't seem to care. Over charged My regular physician was out on vacation so I had to opt for someone else in the practice. The last time I was really sick was 12 years ago. Dr. Jain made it obvious that I should not go to the doctor when i am sick. I am seriously considering changing practices given my experience. Maybe she needs a reminder on why she went to medical school.
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Dr. Jain's office staff is rude and incompetent on the phone. The level of unproffesionalism is astounding. I called for lab results, and they claim I only had a EKG done, which was incorrect. I told Dr. Jain that I work for a Doctor's office and I get my labs done there for free (which we use LabCorp as well) and she insisted that I needed to be drawn in her office only to end up costing me $168 unnecessarily. Also, beware if you are having a problem, they will not see you unless you are current with your annual exam. And don't cancel your annual under any circumstances (illness, blizzard), they will charge you $100. I work in healthcare and my office would NEVER do that to patients. Never going back again!
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BEWARE!!! THEY CHARGE YOU $100 FOR MISSING AN APPOINTMENT I had a really bad sore throat and I made an appointment with Dr. Vandana Jain. While I was visiting she asked me if I got my annual checkup. I told her I get my blood work done at work every year for free. She insisted that I should get my annual checkup because it was covered by insurance and I did not need to pay for it, so I made another appointment for the annual checkup. When I showed up for the appointment, the receptionist gave me a paper to sign that said if insurance does not cover the cost, I would need to be responsible for the payment. I told the receptionist that Dr. Jain told me that it will be covered by insurance and that is why I made the appointment, and that if it is not covered by insurance I would not want to go through with the appointment. The receptionist said that Dr. Jain does not know if things get covered or not and that it is my responsibility to check if it is covered. I asked the receptionist for my insurance phone# so that I can call and check. She looked at me with attitude and said, "don't you have your insurance card"? I told her I forgot and she rolled her eyes. She was just very rude. I missed work and fasted over night to get this done and they were not very helpful. So I told the receptionist to forget it, this is ridiculous and I am not going to do it, and then she says that I will be charged for missing the appointment. I told her I am here and this is not my fault. She said if I leave, they will charge me. They would not listen so I left. A few weeks later, I get my bill from Orchard Medical group. They charged me $100 for missing the appointment. $100? I called the billing department and told them what happened and they said that there was nothing that they can do for me. I needed to call the receptionist and ask them to waive the fees or reduce it. I called the receptionist and asked for a manager and I explained what happened, and I told her how rude the receptionist was and she was not helpful. She told me that she was there and she does not see anything wrong with it. The only way they would waive the $100 for missing the appointment was if Dr. Jain agreed to take it off. They told me to contact the Dr. Jain. I left a voicemail explaining what happened. A couple of hours later the receptionist called back and tells me that Dr. Jain would not waive the fee. I was very disappointed by their service and how they treated me as a patient. It was her fault for misleading me but she would not waive it. I love the location because it is right by my house and the underground parking. However, they were just trying to make a quick buck out of me. What kind of doctors office does this? They did not lose just me, they lost my husband as well.
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I'VE little doubt that Laois were the one team in the qualifiers Kildare didn't want and tomorrow's derby clash in Portlaoise will test the Lilies' recovery from the disappointment of Croke Park.
Many observers were disappointed with Kildare's showing against Dublin in that they expected them to really take the game to the opposition. They may have tried and failed to do that effectively but, as has become their trademark under Kieran McGeeney, they kept fighting to the death and almost pulled off a draw.
I expect that fighting attitude to see them home tomorrow as well. Their record in the qualifiers has been exemplary for the past three years and victory over his old Armagh team-mate Justin McNulty should get the Kildare show on the road again for McGeeney.
Navan hosts the other big game of the second round, where Meath are fancied to push on from their demolition of Louth. It is an interesting clash as Galway, much as Meath the last day, really need to deliver a performance for the sake of the new management. Tomas O Flatharta didn't look like he got his selection right against Mayo but if he can find a balance tomorrow, this is the perfect occasion for a team in transition to take its first big step.
Galway are coming in completely unfancied as 9/4 outsiders which can be a real plus in a game like this. I think they'll probably fall short but will go close to upsetting the odds.
Tyrone should bounce back against Longford but Pearse Park is one of the grounds where it's never straightforward and it could be a nervy evening for them.
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A.N: Yeah, now the third chapter is up, but this time, the story revolves around Sylphera, who now holds the knowledge about what her real father is and where he is… please review :)) sorry for the late update xD xD
Angel's Visit
I looked at that hole of a light as I saw it swallow my mommy in it and I was just about to run to her, but my legs wouldn't move and I felt my throat going numb because of what I managed to overhear a while ago.
A vampire. My so called father is a vampire, and he happens to be dead right now, and that is why mommy was swallowed in that light; she was on her way to save my daddy.
I didn't know what else to do, but stare at my mommy with utter fear, not really sure of what to feel right now, now that I know my daddy is a vampire, and he's dead as well, and aunt Willow was going to help mommy bring daddy back to life.
On impulse, I turned from the doorway and ran to the kitchen, where I knew uncle Xander was waiting for me, because I asked him if he wanted mommy and aunt Willow with him as he eats his snacks.
"Uncle Xander," I breathed out, tired from running that long hallway and climbing up the high chair, where I was usually seated, so I could talk to uncle Xander. He was staring at me as I sat down and looked at him. "Is it true my daddy is a vampire? And that he is dead, too?" I bluntly asked, couldn't hold the fear that I was feeling anymore.
He stared at me, stupefied, for a while, but recovered just as fast, and he braced his whole weight on his arms that were resting on the table. "Where did you hear that, pumpkin?" he asked, handing me a cool glass of orange juice. I gladly gulped down a few and said to him, "Mommy and aunt Willow said so. I overheard them talking when I was going to invite them for snack with you, and then mommy is on her way to talk to daddy." I quieted for a while and looked at him as he stared at me. "Your mo—Buffy is on her way to see Spike?" he finally exclaimed, and I nodded in reply.
"Spike?" I asked then, "That is my daddy's name?" he answered back with a nod and then laughed a little when I made a disgusted sound. "What kind of name is that? I have a friend in the nursery, and her dog's name is Spike." I laughed. "Is my daddy a dog, uncle Xander?" and that was when he burst out laughing, and then held my hand as he continued to laugh. "No, pumpkin." He snickered. "Your father is not a dog, pumpkin." He began. "He stands on two legs, Phera. A person—an animal that could stand on two legs, aren't dogs." Then his face suddenly turned serious. "Well, actually, your father was a big pain in the ass, but he was very useful until the end, when he…" his expression turned kinder. "your father sacrificed himself, in order to save the world, and then a few weeks from that day, we learned that your mother was pregnant, because she was so moody right after he died. First, she will go mad, and then later she'll be laughing at you, and then next she'll be bored or either stressed.
We went to the doctor to have her be checked up on, and then doctors said that it's serious. He asked us what happened; what triggered her emotional stress like that, and we just said someone she knew died, and then he said that we should really be careful where your mother is concerned, because if she'll undergo more, she would break down eventually, and then seven months came, and we were surprised you were still alive inside her. The doctor said that there might be a point where you'll die in her womb, and we were gladly surprised you came out normally." He sighed. "Thank god for that."
"What happened next?" I asked eagerly, making him laugh. "Hmm, why don't we start from the beginning; why your mother was actually fighting, and why your father died fighting for her." And I nodded in agreement.
"Well, your mother was fifteen when it all began, she was a girl in high school, when a man appea—"and then a knock came from the door, breaking the excitement I felt in listening to my mommy's life story.
"Now who could that be in the middle of the night?" I heard uncle Xander mutter under his breath, but then he stood up and went to the door. I had nothing to do, so I went to follow him to the door.
Uncle opened door and there was a brooding figure outside our door. He had sandy brown hair, and he was wearing this huge coat.
"Xander." Then man outside said with a somewhat ominous aura, causing a shiver run down my spine.
"Angel," uncle Xander obviously tried to say. "what brings you here from L.A.?" he asked as he motioned the man named 'Angel' inside the house, and then in the living room.
The man looked at me as I followed uncle Xander and sat down on a sofa, and then he looked at uncle and frowned. "What the hell is Buffy up to now? I heard from the council that she was trying to do something stupid, though she just thought of it now. But it was reported that she and Willow were up to something stupid and called me immediately." He sighed and obviously exasperated sigh, "So, what is Buffy doing stupid now?"
I felt anger boil up in me as he continued to bad-mouth my mother.
"Well," my uncle stuttered. "she, um…" he was looking for words; it seemed to me, that would obviously not make the other man upset.
"She did something idiotic again, didn't she?" he finally snapped back at him, which made my blood boil even higher. "She is causing trouble once again!" he sighed. "What the heck does she think she's doing? She's the slayer. For goodness' sake! Yet she is doing all these stupid things?"
"Stop bad mouthing my mommy, you big jerk!" I lost it. He was too irritating, and how dare he bad-mouth my mother when she's not even here. My mommy used to tell me that bad-mouthing people behind their backs is bad, so, most of the time; I avoided enemies, even in nursery, to prevent people from bad-mouthing me.
That outburst of mine took his attention because he was now looking directly at me. "Mother?" he asked curtly, and then he turned back to uncle Xander. "What is this kid talking about?" uncle Xander looked warily at me, and then seriously back at the now outraged man standing just below the opening to the living room. "Well," he began. "you've seen her, so there really is no point in keeping her now, is there?" he looked at me again and held out his hand, which I took, and his big hand enclosed my smaller one. "Angel, meet Sylphera," he said and looked at 'Angel.' "Buffy's daughter."
He gaped. "Daughter?" he exclaimed as uncle nodded. "Yes," he replied. "her daughter of four years."
Uncle Xander then bent down and carried me in his arms and made me turn to Angel. "Phera, this is Angel, your mother's…friend." He introduced.
"Then who's the father?" Angel asked my uncle and looked at him, and boy, did I not like that look on his face as he fixed his gaze on uncle Xander like he was some guilty person. "Who's the father?" her repeated.
"He…" uncle began. "um, the father is…hell!" he yelled this time. "The father is Spike, Angel. Spike. As in the man who tried to kill her a lot of times, and then became the man who took care of her, when you," he pointed at Angel's chest. "abandoned her. The very man who despised her, and now, even until death, haunts the living daylights out of her. The man who comforted her when you dumped her, tarnished her, and broke her heart. The very man you can never be, Angel." He paused when he saw Angel bring up a protest and raised a hand to silence him. "And don't you dear deny that fact, Angel. Because Spike was here to comfort her while you were out there doing…stuff."
"Spike's the father?" Angel said, as if he wasn't really listening to facts uncle Xander stated, and concentrated on the fact that 'Spike' is my father.
"That's right." I said proudly, making both heads turn to me. "Spike is my father…whoever he is." I didn't know why that came out of my mouth.
"She never met Spike?" Angel asked, looking dumb-founded at uncle Xander.
Wow. Those four words managed to piss me off.
But uncle Xander unleashed that anger for me. "What the hell do you think?" he stated. "Sylpehera, Phera, was born seven months after Spike died. So, how do you think the two would meet? Spirits? Magic? Oh, come on Angel! You're, what, two hundred something years old. What would you think about dying? Then you go off to visit your loved ones, and see a new life with them. What will you think? 'Who is that kid?' Would be your first question, Angel. Not, who is the father of the kid?" he sighed another exasperated sigh. "Use your head and think Angel." And with that said and done, uncle Xander left the living room.
"You're wrong." I heard Angel mutter to himself, making me turn to him.
"What did you say?" I asked, his head shooting up and looking straight at me. He sighed at me and looked up at the ceiling. "I know how it feels," he began. "dying." He shrugged at me.
He patted the space next to him, indicating me to sit down. So, I did.
"Eight years ago," he paused with a sigh. "I reverted to my evil side once your mother and I…well, let's leave that part out, so, me and your mother had to fight. But whenever we didn't get the chance to, I pretended, to the others who didn't know that I was evil, to be good, to get them to my good side, but Buffy finally told them that I wasn't anymore. However, there was a time where I met Giles and he told me about the portal and how to open it as well, so that became my main goal." His brows furrowed. "and yadda, yadda, yadda. Then your mother was able to find me where I began the ritual for opening the portal, but she was able to delay me, however, as we began fighting, unknown to us, the portal slowly begun to open, and by the end of the fight, when we down to our last clash of swords, there was this very hot feeling inside me." He swallowed. "Which happened to be my soul, so as that happened, we stopped, but Buffy noticed something, which happened to be the portal growing bigger by the minute, and then she was suddenly deep in thought, and then came up with a decision." He stopped. "She looked at me tearfully and smiled sadly and said 'I love you' to me and stabbed me with her sword. I looked at the piercing sword and –"
"That's awful." I commented as tears began to roll down my cheeks. "So that's why mommy doesn't have a man in her life." I stated. "She kills them."
That obviously didn't come out right because I could hear Angel snickering. "What is it?" I pouted at him. "It's not that," he said, trying to stop his laughs from coming out. "Your mother didn't kill me because she wanted to. She killed me because she had to. It was her priority. She is good, I am evil. That's the way it is."
"Did you know my daddy?" I blurted out, surprising even myself when I saw a weird expression in his face. "Yeah," he said. "I knew him. He was sort f like a…retainer for me." He looked at me. "You even have most of his features than your mother. You have his hair color, as well as his blue eyes, even that british accent of his, and you have your mother's, hmm…well, you have her looks, but I can't really tell which part it is." Then he laughed.
I pouted at his comment, because, well, the fact that he was the former boyfriend, and he couldn't even tell a comparison between me and my mother.
"Stupid." I said before he exclaimed the "What?"
"Willow," Angel said curtly. "what kind of stupidity did you and Buffy enter in once again? The council immediately found out about your idea as soon as you even thought about it, and then reported it to me immediately in order for me to be able to stop you, but it seems as though I'm too late because you're here and I see no Buffy." He stared at me before he looked back at aunt Willow. "Where did you take her?"
"To Spike." Aunt said bluntly. "She was too desperate to see Spike because of those five years that they were apart, she couldn't stand anymore and had to see him for herself." She crossed her arms. "Unlike you, Spike cared for Buffy even though she couldn't return those feelings, and most of us blame you for that. She should've returned those feeilngs to Spike, but she couldn't, because you," she crossed the room and pointed at Angel's chest. "were always in her heart, and she couldn't even give at least a small space for Spike in her heart. You filled her heart, and we couldn't even make her forget you because you were always in her freaking heart!" tears started to roll down her cheeks that she had to cover her eyes with her hands.
"Well," uncle Xander said from the door and walked up beside aunt Willow. "See that, Angel. Your mishap judgement is causing havoc here, so you better leave." He pointed at the door, making Angel stand up and began to look flustered. "But, what about Buffy?" he asked, glancing at me.
This time, aunt Willow marched up to him and stared up at his eyes. "Buffy is none of your business, Angel." She glared. "None. She is our business, so you better leave now before I do anything to you."
"But nothing." She went to the door and opened it. "Get out!"
Angel glanced at each one of us. "Buffy…"
"Out!" she repeated.
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President Bill Clinton is in the Middle East this week for brief visits to Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. The centerpiece of his trip is today's signing of the Jordanian-Israeli Peace Treaty in a ceremony on the Jordan-Israel border. The treaty is noteworthy at a time when the prospects for peace have been clouded by rising terrorism against Israel by Palestinian Islamic radicals.
Terrorism is the chief obstacle to building Arab-Israeli peace. Therefore it is distressing that President Clinton has chosen to reward one of the world's foremost supporters of terrorism, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, with a presidential visit. Syria is one of the seven countries on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Previous American Presidents have kept Assad at arm's length, with the exception of Richard Nixon, who visited Damascus in 1974. Jimmy Carter in 1977 and George Bush in 1990 met the Syrian dictator in Geneva, a neutral site.
Clinton himself met with Assad in Geneva on January 16, 1994, in an effort to spur progress in the deadlocked Syrian-Israeli negotiations. At that time, Assad pleased U.S. officials by claiming to have chosen peace as a "strategic option." But Assad has done little since January to transform that "option" into a reality. Although Syria has made efforts to bolster its image in the West, by permitting the long-promised emigration of Syrian Jews for example, Assad has not budged from his demands for a total Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which Israel occupied during its 1967 military defeat of Syria.
Clinton's trip to Damascus is a major mistake. His eagerness to woo Syria may inflate Assad's expectations about the concessions he can extract from Israel and the U.S. Clinton's unseemly diplomatic pilgrimage to Damascus may even lead Assad to conclude that he can improve relations with Washington and gain a one-sided settlement with Israel without halting his support of terrorism. Clinton should have ruled out a trip to Damascus until Assad ended his support for terrorism and expelled terrorists from Syria and Syrian-controlled areas in Lebanon.
There is much Clinton can do to promote Middle East peace and safeguard American interests in the region after the Jordanian-Israeli summit. Clinton should:
- Press the Palestine Liberation Organization to crack down on anti-Israel terrorism. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Organization, is using terrorism to disrupt peace negotiations and destroy the fragile consensus among Palestinians and Israelis who support compromise. Hamas this month launched three terrorist attacks in eleven days, culminating in the October 19 suicide bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv that killed 23 people. Clinton must convince PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to take strong actions to dismantle the Hamas terrorist network. If Arafat cannot control terrorism, then Israel will have little incentive to continue negotiating with him. Clinton should threaten to withhold American economic support for the Palestinians and block other sources of international economic support unless Arafat abides by his commitment under the September 13, 1993 Israel-PLO agreement to cooperate with Israel in combating terrorism.
- Support Israeli efforts to defeat terrorism. Too often in the past, Washington has constrained Jerusalem's response to terrorist attacks for fear of disrupting the peace process. As a result, Israel has become a hostage of the peace process, while its Arab interlocutors have been either unable or unwilling to take steps to prevent anti-Israeli terrorist attacks. The recent spate of terrorist outrages is endangering Israeli public support for further negotiations. Unless Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government quickly restores Israeli confidence that continued peace negotiations are compatible with Israel's security needs, negotiations will become politically unsustainable. The Clinton Administration should support a strong Israeli response to terrorism, possibly including raids against Hamas camps in Gaza. This will increase pressure on the PLO to confront Hamas, if only to avoid Israeli interventions in PLO-controlled territory.
- Push Syria to abandon terrorism and negotiate in good faith with Israel. President Assad has given sanctuary and support to ten radical Palestinian groups opposed to peace with Israel, including Hamas, which is allowed to make radio broadcasts from Syrian territory. Damascus also supports Hezbollah (Party of God), the radical Iranian-inspired Lebanese Shiite terrorist group which was responsible for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and continues to launch rocket attacks against Israel from southern Lebanon. The Clinton Administration should insist that Assad halt his support of these groups and expel them from Syrian-controlled territory. Washington also should press Assad to enter secret bilateral talks with Israel, the formula that has resulted in diplomatic breakthroughs with Egypt, Jordan, and the PLO.
- Rethink proposed peacekeeping arrangements on the Golan Heights. The Clinton Administration should back away from its tentative pledge to commit U.S. peacekeeping troops on the Golan Heights as a way of encouraging an Israel-Syria peace treaty. The Hamas terrorist offensive has underscored some of the security risks that would persist long after a Syrian-Israeli agreement. Moreover, the Clinton Administration must reevaluate the risks of overcommitting U.S. forces to open-ended peacekeeping missions at a time of steadily shrinking defense budgets. Each soldier committed to Golan peacekeeping duties would require two or three others to be committed for future rotations. This not only would interfere with training and reduce combat readiness, but it could reduce the flexibility of American responses in future crises elsewhere. And this decline in American defense preparedness would result in only a minor increase in Israeli security. If peacekeeping troops are required to conclude an Israeli-Syrian peace agreement, the Administration should call for non-U.S. troops to do the job.
The peace treaty between Jordan and Israel is a valuable building block for Middle East peace. But if the impasses on the Syrian and Palestinian negotiating tracks are to be broken, the U.S. must press Hafez al-Assad and Yasser Arafat to decisively reject terrorism and to cooperate with Israel to contain it.
—James Phillips is a Senior Policy Analyst


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Dr. John D. Malfa, practiced internal medicine
Sept. 20, 1932 – Aug. 23, 2013
Dr. John D. Malfa, of Orchard Park, died Friday in Mercy Hospital, where he had practiced internal medicine for many years. He was 80.
Born in Auburn, he was a 1954 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and earned his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1958.
Dr. Malfa completed his residency at Mercy Hospital and went on to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps in the late 1960s.
In addition to his long tenure at Mercy Hospital, Dr. Malfa operated a private medical practice with his wife of 50 years, Dr. Sonia M. Malfa, the former Sonia Cortes.
He was a member of the Notre Dame Monogram Club. In 1954, he took part in National Collegiate Athletic Association fencing competitions.
He was a longtime usher at Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church in Orchard Park. He also was a member of the Catholic Physicians Guild, the Erie County Medical Society, the Baccelli Medical Society and the parents' guilds of both Nardin Academy and Canisius High School.
Dr. Malfa was a member of Orchard Park Country Club.
He also had a great affection for the Sisters of Mercy religious order and was an early supporter of its retirement fund drive, which was started in the Buffalo Diocese in 1988.
In addition to his wife, Dr. Malfa is survived by two daughters, Lisa and Sonia; two sons, John Michael and Robert; and a sister, Marge Salva.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Nativity of Our Lord Church, 26 Thorn Ave., Orchard Park.


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Factors contributing to the digital advertising increase include a continuing and consistent shift of offline media spending to digital advertising, decline of organic social in favor of paid social and the rising importance of video, which is more expensive than other digital techniques. According to Forrester, "US digital marketing spend will near $120 billion by 2021. Investment in paid search, display advertising, social media advertising, online video advertising and email marketing will pace to 46% of all advertising in five years." Some valuable facts on the movement toward Smart vs. Loud. Working budgets are giving ground to non-working ones. Marketers are more mature now with capable measurement practices. Meaning there's less experimentation, and a focus on just what works for their goals. One key: Millennials – consumers between 18 and 35 years old – have settled into a high-spending life stage as they establish careers, homes and families. 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If you're looking for something different, Junot Diaz's short story collection This Is How You Lose Her is it. Prepare to entire a different culture through the eyes of Yunior from the Dominican Republic. Poverty, violence, terrible treatment of women, sex, and racism in terms of the myriad of different skin colors and nationalities and their statuses are all exposed against the backdrop of an unrelenting search for love.
I'm warning you now: there are a lot of naughty words and thoughts in this book, and in the beginning, Yunior is not exactly likeable. In the first story The Sun, The Moon, The Stars, Yunior tells us straight up:
"I'm not a bad guy. I know how that sounds—defensive, unscrupulous—but it's true. I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good. Magdalena disagrees though. She considers me a typical Dominican man: a sucio, an asshole."
By the end of the story, after hearing about how Yunior cheated on her and the disrespect with which he spoke about her, I tended to agree with Magdalena. But keep reading, because in the next story Nilda we see a bit of Yunior's childhood, which sets the scene for his big brother Rafa's fate played out in The Pura Principle. Considering the unlikability of Rafa, it is surprisingly poignant, especially in terms of how these events shaped the Yunior we first met. The next story, Invierno is a heartbreaking account of the tyranny Yunior's father held over both his sons and his wife, preventing them from leaving their apartment for "no reason other than that's what he wanted." Yunior, the asshole we first met, is becomes multilayered as we learn more about him until the final story, and the best in my opinion, The Cheater's Guide To Love, which just about breaks your heart.
The stories are not in chronological order, and one story, Otravida, Otravez does not feature Yunior. Yet they all share the vivid, unapologetic, wonderful voice of Diaz who draws us into the Dominican culture and doesn't let go. Come dip your feet into Yunior's world, where it is sometimes harsh, sometimes disturbing, sometimes heartbreaking, and always compelling.
(The only thing missing from this book is a glossary. I would have loved to know what some of the slang terms he used meant, particularly when it came to classifying women according to their nationality.)


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Excitatory Amino Acids: Clinical Results with Antagonists
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Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain and dysfunction of glutamate transmission is the likely cause of a variety of diseases including neurodegeneration following cerebral ischemia, Huntington's chorea, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, spasticity, emesis, chronic pain, and schizophrenia. Excitatory amino acid receptor agonists and antagonists are therefore of major interest as potential drugs for central nervous system disorders. Excitatory Amino Acids is the first book entirely dedicated to the results of human testing of modulators of excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters. It provides coverage of the field of excitatory amino acids from synaptic function to preclinical and clinical pharmacology. It gives a description of the development of NMDA (Nmethyl-d-aspartate) and non-NMDA antagonists. It contains reports of potential drugs in early and late clinical stages of development.
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The Nervous system. By: Alec Fontenot. 1. Control of body's internal environment to maintain 'homeostasis'
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An example of this is the regulation of body temperature. As we exercise we create heat, in order to maintain a relatively constant core temperature the nervous system sends messages to the blood vessels to dilate (expand), increasing blood flow to the skin, and increasing sweating to help disperse the accumulating heat.
2. Programming of spinal cord reflexes
An example of this is the stretch reflex. This reflex functions to protect us from injury. If we were out jogging and accidentally ran into a pot-hole and rolled our ankle, the stretch reflex would instantly sense the stretch in the muscles around the ankle and send messages to those muscles telling them to contract and resist the stretch. This reflex serves to protect the ankle from breaking and results in a minor sprain rather than a severe break.
You didn't learn to read or write overnight did you? A certain amount of repetition was required to learn and memorize these key functions. The same applies with exercise. New movements, especially complex ones, take time for the nervous system to learn. Remember this when teaching new exercises to people – a certain amount of repetition will need to occur before their nervous system gets it right!
4. Voluntary control of movement
Every voluntary movement that a person performs is under the direct control of the nervous system as the nervous system sends the messages to the particular body parts to move. If the movement has been repeated numerous times (walking for most of us…) the movement will be very efficient. If however the movement is new and still requires some repetition then we would expect the movement to be less efficient and in some cases look awkward and ungainly (such as a person learning the squat for the first time).
When a stimulus is detected, the nerve that detected the stimulus sends a message to the brain. The brain then sends the appropriate message to that nerve in the form of a feeling. Example- You are stabbed, you feel pain.)
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Have a look at some of the photos from the boys' morning training session on their penultimate day in Cork.
The lads were back in training this afternoon following the match against Cork yesterday. Look at the best snaps.
Take a look at some of the action images from Fulham's 3-0 friendly win over Cork City at Turner's Cross on Saturday afternoon.
On a rainy afternoon in Fota the preparations continued ahead of the match tomorrow against Cork.
The training continued at Fota Island on Friday morning, ahead of Fulham's friendly with Cork City the following day.
The players were back at it in Cork on Thursday afternoon - take a look at some of the best snaps from their latest training session.