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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - A woman drove her car into a crowd of family and friends, injuring five people, including a 2-year-old boy.
The crash happened in the 500 block of Southwest 2nd Street in Pompano Beach about noon.
Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Jachles says the 23-year-old female driver drove into the crowd at the end of a road Wednesday after an ongoing dispute. Jachles says the driver "accelerated into the crowd" and struck at least five people.
"[I] saw my nephew and nieces get ran over. I can't even think straight," said Linda Ann Jones.
Jones said a relative driving a white Nissan hit a group of family and friends.
"She just ran over all of them. I am just looking as they are being catapulted," said Jones. "She tried to hit her own momma and sister, too. She didn't care who she hit."
A 2-year-old child was airlifted to the hospital as a precaution. Two adults were taken to the hospital, but authorities say none of the injuries were life threatening. The other injuries were minor.
The conditions of the pedestrians weren't immediately released.
The investigation is ongoing. The driver was taken into custody after fleeing the scene and is being questioned by authorities. Charges are pending.
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When admitted for adoption, each animal is given a thorough examination by a veterinarian. Dogs are tested for Heartworm/Ehrlichia/Lyme diseases if old enough, and cats are tested for FIV (feline "AIDS") and FeLV (feline leukemia). Age appropriate vaccinations and flea/heartworm prevention are given, and the pet is treated for intestinal and external parasites. Additional problems are treated on an individual basis. All animals are microchipped and spayed or neutered prior to adoption. In the first 30 days after adoption we offer a complimentary physical examination, nutritional assessment and wellness consultation to help make sure that the new adoptee has the best start in life in their new home. The current adoption donation for dogs and cats is $165.00. Vaccinations for the first year after adoption are discounted by 20%.
Our main clinic where all of our dogs are is located inside of East Lake Veterinary Hospital at 10101 E. Northwest Hwy in Dallas (just north of White Rock Lake, or just east of the Northwest Highway/Audelia intersection). Orphans are available to be seen at our main facility from 10 AM – 9 PM Monday through Friday and 10 M – 6 PM Saturday and Sunday.
Our front desk and pet care team are glad to let you meet and spend time with any of the orphans and can also get the paperwork started for the adoption process.
If you find an orphan that you feel is right for your family, you will then need to fill out an adoption application. After submission of an adoption application, the animal is placed on hold while we process your application. Processing of an adoption application can take as little as 24 hours or as much as a week or even longer if there is any missing information on the application.
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Much as I planned on starting this thing on Tuesday, I'll be out of town as of tomorrow morning, so I figured I'd start a little early. Preseason is mostly over anyway.
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Much as I planned on starting this thing on Tuesday, I'll be out of town as of tomorrow morning, so I figured I'd start a little early. Preseason is mostly over anyway.
Last edited by Kstat; 10-25-2012 at 10:06 AM.
Preseason is so boring anyway.
Is Ray Allen ever going to quit whining about the Celtics?
"Two years ago when I was a free agent, the whole organization sent me a text asking me to come back," Allen said. "This time it was a little more subdued."
They offered him more money than Miami and even sweetened the pot with a no trade clause. What else did he want? He's come across as a big diva lately with all of his shots at the Celtics.
Soooooo ready for preseason to come to an end. The best thing about the lockout shortened season was how quickly we zipped through the preseason.
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire
"Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others." - William Greider
I am a pretty big Pacers fan, never watch any of the preseason though.
When did the preseason start? LOL
Definitely ready for the season to tip off.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
Am I the only one who looks forward to Kstat's funky thread titles? LOL
I admit I only got the reference to the last one with the help of Google (Henry the 8th I am), but I did get the FF7 one. And of course Symphony no. 9 is one of my favorites
Admittedly, I brainstorm these about a week in advance. **** is going to be up there for a full 6 months, so...
It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
Division Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Conference Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 2005
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I just feel bad for the Celtics millionaire executives. Ray wouldn't do what they wanted him to do!! What a jerk!
It's not matter of feeling bad for Ray or the Celtics, it's the fact that one side keeps complaining about it
But he keeps acting like the Celtics somehow wronged him. Let's cut to the chase: His ego is bruised because he became the fourth most important player in Boston quite some time ago. You have the young phenom in Rondo who they were clearly going to cater to. Then you have Garnett who enjoyed an incredible resurgence last year. Finally you have Pierce, the classic 14 year Celtic who will go down as one of the franchise's all time greats. All three of those guys were more important than Ray.
He claimed that the trade rumors upset him in recent years, but the Celtics offered him a no-trade clause to rid him of that. They offered him more money. What else could they have done? If he doesn't want to play there then that's fine. I just don't understand why he feels the need to take shots an organization that allowed him to achieve things he could have never dreamed of doing in Milwaukee or Seattle.
Garnett took one shot at Ray about a month ago when he said he didn't have his phone number. That's about all you've heard from the Celtics. Clearly they have all moved on. Why does Allen keep feeling the need to take all these shots at them? On one hand he's acting like he's moving on at this point of his career, but on the other he seems like he can't let go. Seems like diva-ish behavior from a 17 year vet.
He's not taking any shots. He just explained why he was happy to leave. I understand it. He figures he's made enough money over his career so the money isn't necessarily as important. He'd rather play for Miami.
THe media goes knocking on athletes doors imploring them to speak candidly about their business relationships and when they do the fans lambast them. I don't get it.
Why is that the vast majority of fans love to "hate"? You just have to find something about players to dislike. Why does it even matter that Ray went to Miami? Who cares? It's uninteresting to me because his game has fallen. So I really don't care.
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I think Allen pretty much decided that he was leaving after that trade from Memphis fell through. From all accounts, he seems to have lost all respect for Ainge, and didn't want to play for him, as proven by taking half as much money to play for Miami.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Anybody watching NO/Miami?
Anderson and Greivis are playing great.
this probably shouldn't really go here, but it's the closest to a catch all thread we got, so whatever. plus it's awesome.
Looks like Amare may be out 4 to 5 weeks. Great opportunity for the Knicks to start Melo at the 4 (his best position). If the Knicks succeed from the start, could they bring Amare off the bench?
Preseason is lame in general, but this year I was left with the impression that our bench is in much better hands than last season, and this has nothing to do with the results themselves, but by observing as much of their play as possible.
WOW! Any one see DC's dunk? It was crazy, and not just because he actually dunked.
http://www.nba.com/video/games/maver...-dal-play5.nba #nba
OKC Thunder waive Daniel Orton, Andy Rautins, Hollis Thompson :InsideHoops
Remember when there was serious discussions here about us drafting Orton in the lottery back in 2010? We ended up taking Paul George. Good decision, I'd say.
It's a real shame Daniel Orton got cut from the Thunder. I'm pretty sure his only hope of getting real NBA minutes lies with Scott Brooks mistaking him for Russell Westbrook.


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Column: Why We Should Pay Attention to Al GoreNews at Home
As is customary with career pols, he voiced this conclusion from a euphemistic posture, saying more times than "lockbox" that the president willfully and repeatedly has imposed "false impressions" on the American people -- not to mention the world. Still, Gore can be forgiven the rather tiresome game of euphemistic gyrations. As drama critic and fellow Tennesseean Joseph Wood Krutch once observed, "Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time." In short, the erstwhile Veep's unadorned message was loud and clear. George W. Bush lies his tush off.
I use the word "extraordinary" to describe Gore's speech for two other reasons as well. First, its thoughtful yet intense condemnation came from a moderate. The Bush camp will spin his words as typical leftist hysteria, of course, but Al Gore is no more a New Lefter or McGovern Liberal than the chair I'm sitting in. He's as middle-of-the-road as they come, and a plurality of voters understood that in 2000. And after a hellish 3 years of W.'s unwavering radicalism, the "moderate" case can now be made more forcefully than ever.
Hence the spoken truth about W. has transcended the easily assailable and hugely vulnerable Howard Deans of the opposition. The heretofore dozing and gutless giant that is the Democratic Establishment is stirring -- at last.
Even more extraordinary about Gore's speech, however, was that he placed his point-by-point critique of the Bush administration in broad context. Gore went far beyond merely itemizing how Bush II has been wrong about this, wrong about that, has lied about this and lied about that -- which it has. Every presidential administration has lied from time to time (and sometimes for good reason) and every one of them has engaged in "rhetorical excesses," as the speaker himself confessed. That's just politics.
"But," said Gore with precise logic and historical justification, "there is a big difference between that and a systematic effort to manipulate facts in service to a totalistic ideology that is felt to be more important than the mandates of basic honesty." Systematic, manipulative, totalistic, blithely ideological and fundamentally dishonest: these are descriptions whose implications for a representative democracy are historically, and presently, horrifying.
Gore further likened the administration to a "propaganda machine" hellbent on promoting "mythologies that grow out of one central doctrine." You don't have to be a History Channel addict to get the point.
Indeed, Mr. Gore essentially labeled the administration a criminal cabal and international rogue. With respect to the domestic and fiscal front, he cited a Nobel Prize-winning economist as saying "this is the worst government the U.S. has ever had in its more than 200 years of history . What we have here is a form of looting." Any form of looting is criminal. And Gore's castigating reference to America's "first pre-emptive war" spoke for itself.
Combine select-circle criminality with militaristic roguery, add a liberal dose of propagandistic inclinations, and you tell me what you get.
Despite his blanket denials, Al Gore may yet challenge George Bush. The former concluded his speech by encapsulating the Clinton-Gore administration's successes -- exactly, come to think of it, what so many urged him to do back in 2000. Once again, you don't need to be a history junkie to read between those lines.
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osama - 12/10/2003
fuck u u fucken gut
Dan Ciammaichella - 11/10/2003
Face facts man! Not one of the current candidates has a chance in hell of beating President Bush, unless Iraq and the economy go totally to hell in a handbasket. I have voted Republican my entire adult life, I voted for Bush and today I admit that my vote for him was the biggest mistake of my life and that I helped to put people in power who are now destroying our country. But, the fact still remains that none of the current Democratic candidates can beat Bush in 2004, with the exception of Dennis Kucinich, they are all devoid of spine, backbone, charisma and integrity. The only possible democratic candidate who can swing remorseful conservatives and independents like me is Al Gore. Believe me, his stature among people 'other-than-democrats' has risen significantly over the last 2 years. The Democratic party needs to get their heads out of their okoles, put aside their internal petty differences, and rally around a candidate that can actually beat Bush in 2004 by attracting conservatives and independents as well as the liberal base. Bottom line, you effect change in the direction of our country, the first step required is to wrest the White House from the traitors who now occupy it...and the only candidate you have than can do it is Al Gore. That's all I have to say. The choice is up to the Democratic party...if you want the vote of people like me, GIVE ME A DAMN CANDIDATE I CAN VOTE FOR!!! Otherwise, we can expect 4 more years of Bush and his neocon cronies.
Dave Thomas - 8/22/2003
What a waste of my time.
Roxman - 8/18/2003
Since when does holding congressional hearings have to do with building anything?
Remember, Those who can, do;
Those who can't, teach;
Those who can't even teach, go into politics.
Gerald A - 8/18/2003
Mr. Livingston betrays his shallow reading and understanding of national news (don't feel lonely - the national media depends on people just like you to survive.) HE DIDN"T CLAIM TO HAVE INVENTED THE INTERNET FOR CHRISTSAKES! Testimony by Vincent Cerf and numerous other high technology experts have acknowledged Al Gore's contributions to the development of the Internet - it started as a government funded military communications network and Senator Gore held the first hearings on the civilian applications of the system and sponsored legislation that did indeed permit the Internet to become what it is today. As to Gore's military career it amazes me that people (Mr. Livingston I presume) rip Gore a new one for only serving in the US Army in Vietnam as a military reporter ( he was issued a firearm, had to perform guard duty, - and never claimed he did anything more than honorably serve his country during a shooting war) but say nothing about "Top Gun Wannabe" GWB wiling away the hours in Texas (or parts unkown) in the National Guard during Vietnam - where's the consistancy of your argument? The lies and distortions concerning Al Gore have been well documented (read "The Daily Howler" for example). If Mr. Livingston doesn't like Gore - fine, but please base your opinion on something original and not distortions cut and pasted from the GOP playbook. Not a Republican indeed!
Jesse Lamovsky - 8/18/2003
Your point on U.S. military interventions going back to 1898 is taken. That having been said, for the most part (the notable exception being the campaign against Aguinaldo and the Philipino rebels, which was a straight-up colonial war), our military actions were small-scale and confined to this hemisphere, so they could be justified (however flimsily and wrongly) by the Monroe Doctrine. But the predominate thinking on foreign policy eschewed involvement in European wars.
Despite all this, the real sea change in American attitudes toward foreign affairs, in my opinion, did not take place until the end of World War II, and the beginning of our formal commitments to European and Asian allies in the form of NATO and SEATO, as well as our entry into the United Nations.
e - 8/17/2003
GORE: .......During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. .......
Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'
Cerf on Gore
Almost all of the complaints I've seen about Gore's statement do not come from the people who should have the most to say about it. The one who should know as well as anybody, Vint Cerf, had quite a different opinion, http://www.msnbc.com/news/249325.asp. He notes that Senator Gore was holding hearings about the Internet as early as 1986, and as a senator and later as Vice President has done as much as any politician to promote it. If I may paraphrase, Gore built the Internet in the same way as a mayor builds a bridge: neither by drawing up blueprints nor by welding steel; rather by facilitating its construction.
Dave Livingston - 8/17/2003
It is quite past me that anyone pays any attention whatsoever to anything said by Gore. He is a pathetic, truly pathetic, compulsive liar. He was reported to say he invented the internet, his sister was the very 1st Peace Corps Volunteer, he engaged in firefights soldiering in Viet-Nam. All were lies. Once on his radio taalkshow even Liberal Democrat Chis Matthews lambasted Gore for lying. Clearly the poor fellow is unstable as well as dishonest. You want him in the White House?
In '00 the voters who know him best, the people of Tennessee, rejected him, deprived him of his home state. Has a major party favorite son ever lost his home state in a Presidential election before? If so, it hasn't happened in my lifetime!
No, I'm not a Republican.
elena - 8/17/2003
you can tell Mr. Gore yourself to run by sending him a fax ....
Gore's office fax number is (615)327-1323 (outside of the USA, dial 1 prior to area code)
I sincerely believe Mr. Gore will reconsider if the Dem's vocalize their wishes...he wins in every poll to date which has his name added to the Dem candidacy list....so if you sincerely would like the opportunity to have him as the leader ...please make it vocal...
many Democrats at the http://www.draftgore.com/ have been making it very clear to the DEM candidates who solicit volunteer/cash support that their dedication rests on the Draft Gore movement ...
there are many ways to get involved.....I hope others do
should you know of anyone interested in joining the movement please forward this information...
elena Canadian for Gore
Sign this Petition to urge Al Gore to run for President in 2004, recently President Bush has lied about Iraq, gave billions in tax cuts to the rich causing states to raise taxes, and invaded our civil liberties. Polls still show STRONG support for Al Gore. Fight back by getting a strong Democrat in the race for President! Al Gore!
Never say die: Al Gore urged to make 2004 presidential run - reports
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Supporters are urging former US vice president Al Gore (news - web sites) to make another run for the White House, in the absence of a clear Democratic frontrunner in the early campaign season.
Gore, the Democratic party's candidate in the closely contested 2000 election, took himself out of contention for the November 2004 presidential race last December, after months of indecision.
CNN television and other US media reported Wednesday that supporters were lobbying Gore to toss his hat into the ring.
The Hill newspaper, a Washington-based political daily, reported Wednesday that former Democratic operatives are hoping to revive a Gore candidacy in the belief that US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) is a more vulnerable incumbent than he was just a few months ago.
The daily reported however that Kiki McLean, Gore's spokeswoman, denied that her boss was mulling a presidential candidacy.
There are nine declared Democratic contenders, but as yet no clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
to sign; http://www.petitiononline.com/Gore04/petition.html
see also; MAINE VOICES: RAYMOND J. BLAIR
It's time: Democrats, turn to Gore
About the author
RAYMOND J. BLAIR of Cape Elizabeth, a lifelong Democrat, is a retired Maine journalist and ex-Washington political reporter.
articla at following url; http://www.pressherald.com/viewpoints/mvoice/030815draftgore.shtml
elena - 8/17/2003
you can tell Mr. Gore yourself to run by sending him a fax ....
Gore's office fax number is (615)327-1323 (outside of the USA, dial 1 prior to area code)
I sincerely believe Mr. Gore will reconsider if the Dem's vocalize their wishes...he wins in every poll to date which has his name added to the Dem candidacy list....so if you sincerely would like the opportunity to have him as the leader ...please make it vocal...
many Democrats at the http://www.draftgore.com/ have been making it very clear to the DEM candidates who solicit volunteer/cash support that their dedication rests on the Draft Gore movement ...
there are many ways to get involved.....I hope others do
should you know of anyone interested in joining the movement please forward this information...
elena Canadian for Gore
Sign this Petition to urge Al Gore to run for President in 2004, recently President Bush has lied about Iraq, gave billions in tax cuts to the rich causing states to raise taxes, and invaded our civil liberties. Polls still show STRONG support for Al Gore. Fight back by getting a strong Democrat in the race for President! Al Gore!
Never say die: Al Gore urged to make 2004 presidential run - reports
Wed Jul 30, 6:04 PM ET Add Politics - AFP to My Yahoo!
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Supporters are urging former US vice president Al Gore (news - web sites) to make another run for the White House, in the absence of a clear Democratic frontrunner in the early campaign season.
Gore, the Democratic party's candidate in the closely contested 2000 election, took himself out of contention for the November 2004 presidential race last December, after months of indecision.
CNN television and other US media reported Wednesday that supporters were lobbying Gore to toss his hat into the ring.
The Hill newspaper, a Washington-based political daily, reported Wednesday that former Democratic operatives are hoping to revive a Gore candidacy in the belief that US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) is a more vulnerable incumbent than he was just a few months ago.
The daily reported however that Kiki McLean, Gore's spokeswoman, denied that her boss was mulling a presidential candidacy.
There are nine declared Democratic contenders, but as yet no clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination.
to sign; http://www.petitiononline.com/Gore04/petition.html
see also; MAINE VOICES: RAYMOND J. BLAIR
It's time: Democrats, turn to Gore
About the author
RAYMOND J. BLAIR of Cape Elizabeth, a lifelong Democrat, is a retired Maine journalist and ex-Washington political reporter.
articla at following url; http://www.pressherald.com/viewpoints/mvoice/030815draftgore.shtml
Josh Greenland - 8/17/2003
I think it goes back before WWII, maybe to 1898. The pre-WWII policy of isolation always seemed like hypocritical hogwash to me, since it was perfectly fine for an "isolationist" US to get south of the border and kick ass militarily in Latin America. After all, that area was "our back yard," so any interventions and attacks we did there didn't count.
You're right, the dominant American sentiment is pro-intervention. I agree with you that that's not a good thing.
Jesse Lamovsky - 8/17/2003
Your point on the veep's role in the administration is taken. That having been said, Mr. Gore should be willing to face up to the same kind of scrutiny that applied to Humphrey and Vietnam, and Bush Sr. and Iran-Contra. He may have been a role player, but he was still on the team, and as such, he should take a certain amount of responsibility.
What neither of us has said thus far is this: there is a consensus on American foreign policy, or at least a dominant opinion: interventionism is good/isolationism is bad. "After all," they say, always as if they're the first one to say it: "isolationism didn't work with the Nazis, did it?" Americans have been socialized for half a century on just the sort of thinking that got us into Kosovo and Iraq: we're a member of the "world community", as the lone superpower, we have a "responsibility" to the former, wars that take place 5,000 miles away are somehow tied in with our national security, NATO, UN, blah blah blah. The whole line of thinking is tied into World War II and there's always someone propping up Hitler's dead body and using it to frighten people. The dominant opinion IS for intervention. Until a change takes place in this way of thinking, which is to say the way most Americans have been taught to think; until this changes, we're going to be forever hopping willy-nilly all over the globe, trying to bomb away other peoples' problems.
Jesse Lamovsky - 8/16/2003
Good stuff, Mr. Moner!
Maybe all of our fellow posters who insist on drawing hairsplitting distinctions between Kosovo and Iraq should read this.
George Oilwell - 8/15/2003
"Why should people who supported the Kosovo adventure pretend to be shocked and appalled when another administration aggresses against another country, on the strength of its own set of justifications?"
Has anyone here pretended to be shocked and appalled? I don't think so.
I forget what fallacy that's called, but maybe someone here will rescue me.
Gus Moner - 8/15/2003
Kate Hudson
Thursday August 14, 2003
The Guardian
The legality of the war against Iraq remains the focus of intense debate - as is the challenge it poses to the post-second-world-war order, based on the inviolability of sovereign states. That challenge, however, is not a new one. The precursor is without doubt Nato's 1999 attack on Yugoslavia, also carried out without UN support. Look again at how the U.S. and its allies behaved then, and the pattern is unmistakable.
Yugoslavia was a sovereign state with internationally recognised borders; an unsolicited intervention in its internal affairs was excluded by international law. The US-led onslaught was therefore justified as a humanitarian war - a concept that most international lawyers regarded as having no legal standing (the Commons foreign affairs select committee described it as of "dubious legality"). The attack was also outside Nato's own remit as a defensive organisation - its mission statement was later rewritten to allow for such actions.
In Yugoslavia, as in Iraq, the ultimate goal of the aggressor nations was regime change. In Iraq, the justification for aggression was the possession of weapons of mass destruction; in Yugoslavia, it was the prevention of a humanitarian crisis and genocide in Kosovo. In both cases, the evidence for such accusations has been lacking: but while this is now widely accepted in relation to Iraq, the same is not true of Yugoslavia.
In retrospect, it has become ever clearer that the justification for war was the result of a calculated provocation - and manipulation- of the legitimate grievances of the Kosovan Albanians - in an already tense situation within the Yugoslav republic of Serbia. The constitutional status of Kosovo had been long contested and the Kosovan politician, Ibrahim Rugova, had peacefully championed the case for greater Kosovan Albanian self-government.
In 1996, however, the marginal secessionist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army, stepped up its violent campaign for Kosovan independence and launched a series of assassinations of policemen and civilians in Kosovo, targeting not only Serbs, but also Albanians who did not support the KLA. The Yugoslav government branded the KLA a terrorist organisation - a description also used by US officials. As late as the beginning of 1998, Robert Gelbard, US special envoy to Bosnia, declared: "The UCK (KLA) is without any question a terrorist group."
KLA attacks drew an increasingly heavy military response from Yugoslav government forces and in the summer of 1998 a concerted offensive against KLA strongholds began. In contrast to its earlier position, the US administration now threatened to bomb Yugoslavia unless the government withdrew its forces from the province, verified by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The US was now clearly determined to remove Milosevic, who was obstructing Yugoslavia's integration into the western institutional and economic framework.
Agreement was reached in October 1998 and 1,000 OSCE observers went to Kosovo to oversee the withdrawal of government troops. But the KLA used the pullback to renew armed attacks. In January 1999 an alleged massacre of 45 Kosovan Albanians by Yugoslav government forces took place at Racak. Both at the time and subsequently, evidence has been contradictory and fiercely contested as to whether the Racak victims were civilians or KLA fighters and whether they died in a firefight or close-range shootings.
Nevertheless, Racak was seized on by the US to justify acceleration towards war. In early 1999, the OSCE reported "the current security environment in Kosovo is characterised by the disproportionate use of force by the Yugoslav authorities in response to persistent attacks and provocations by the Kosovan Albanian paramilitaries." But when the Rambouillet talks convened in February 1999, the KLA was accorded the status of national leader. The Rambouillet text, proposed by the then US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, included a wide range of freedoms and immunities for Nato forces within Yugoslavia that amounted to an effective occupation. Even the former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, described it as "a provocation, an excuse to start bombing". The Yugoslavs refused to sign; so bombing began on March 24 1999.
Despite claims by western leaders that Yugoslav forces were conducting "genocide" against the Kosovan Albanians, reports of mass killings and atrocities - such as the supposed concealment of 700 murdered Kosovan Albanians in the Trepca mines - were often later admitted to be wrong. Both Serb and KLA forces certainly carried out atrocities. But investigative teams did not find evidence of the scale of dead or missing claimed at the time, responsibility for which was attributed to the Yugoslavs. The damage inflicted by US and British bombing, meanwhile, was considerable, including civilian casualties estimated at between 1,000 and 5,000 deaths. Nato forces also used depleted uranium weapons - linked to cancers and birth defects - while Nato bombers destroyed swathes of Serbia's economic and social infrastructure.
Far from solving a humanitarian crisis, the 79-day bombardment triggered the flight of hundreds of thousands of Kosovans. Half a million Kosovan Albanians who had supposedly been internally displaced turned out not to have been, and of the 800,000 who had sought refuge or been forced into neighbouring countries, the UNHCR estimated that 765,000 had already returned to Kosovo by August of the same year. A more long-lasting result, however, was that half the Kosovan Serb population - approximately 100,000 - left Kosovo or was driven out.
So was the war worth it? Notwithstanding the Nato-UN protectorate established in Kosovo, the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia was no longer under threat - the Kosovans did not achieve their independence. Nor has western support for the KLA been mirrored in Kosovan voting patterns: the party of Rugova, who never backed the violent path, received a convincing majority in the elections in 2001.
Meanwhile, violence dogs the surviving minority communities, and in spite of the presence of 40,000 K-For troops and a UN police force, the Serb and other minorities (such as Roma) have continued to be forced out. More than 200,000 are now estimated to have left. In the short term, support for Milosevic actually increased as a result of the war, and the regime was only changed through a combination of economic sanctions, elections and heavy western intervention. Such interference in a country's internal politics does not generally lead to a stable and peaceful society, as evidenced by the recent assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the most pro-western politician in the country.
As in Yugoslavia, so in Iraq: illegal aggression justified by spin and fabrication enables might to prevail and deals a terrible blow to the framework of international law. As in Yugoslavia, so in Iraq, people's well-being comes a poor second-best to the interests of the world's self-appointed moral and economic arbiters.
·Kate Hudson is principal lecturer in Russian and East European politics at South Bank University, London and author of Breaking the South Slav Dream: the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Gus Moner - 8/15/2003
Your comments are helpful, still, I'd add these observations without meaning to detract from them.
Gore may have been in the administration at the time of the Serbian-Kosovan tiff. It does not mean he was on board. The Vice Presidency, until this administration, has historically been someone that VPs cannot dissent. He agrees or keeps quiet. I agree the intervention was spurious and settled nothing. The usurping of international law in this case was damming to the US and its allies.
I accept your disagreement. One thing is that a national consensus might not happen, as you wisely point up. Another is that it is not needed, and there I stick to my point. It is needed. Your suggestion for dealing with foreign policy seems a reasonable starting point and I support it.
Tom Gallatin - 8/15/2003
Jesse, I will agree that
"attacking countries that haven't attacked us is wrong, and it's un-American"
Where I dissent is in the corollary you attach to it:
"It was AS wrong in Kosovo as it is in Iraq." (emphasis added)
There are at least three problems with your reasoning here:
1. To my recollection at least, Bush and his controllers have never argued that Kosovo was a precedent.
2. In great contrast to Iraq (where the current crop of Washington chickenhawks, in their rush to war, brushed aside a whole set of credible alternatives to unilateral US-UK intervention made in the UN chambers), in Yugoslavia the US and the rest of Europe pretty much sat on their hands for many years while Milosevic did not play cat and mouse with inspectors but carried on a brutal campaign of mass murder across the Balkans. (The Bosnia deal in 1995 was a fluke made possible by the stalemate between Serbia and Croatia).
In the case of Kosovo there really was no alternative left but military action. It would have been unconscionable for NATO, with all its firepower, to sit back idly while genocide was occurring.
That would have been "unAmerican" too. There was no genocide underway in Iraq this year. I must reject a moral compass that equates using violence to curtail already occuring violence (Kosovo) on the one hand, with starting violence under the rationale of preventing FUTURE violence (Iraq), on the other.
I'm not saying that bombing bridges and embassies in Belgrade was the best, or even a justified, form of military action, but hundreds of thousands of lives were at stack, we saved them, and most Serbs do not now hate us like so many Iraqis do.
The failure of NATO to stop more recent Kosovar atrocities is a legitimate ground for criticizing the schizoid foreign policy of Dubya, it does not negate the legitimate humanitarian reasons for the earlier intervention to get rid of Milosevic. (By the way, what are the chances that Iraqis arrest Saddam and send him to The Hague ?)
3. You fall straight into the Elect (for the first time) Bush in 2004 campaign propagandizing if you equate the real multilateral NATO coalition in the Balkans with the bogus Rumsfeld "coalition" of a small number of Brits and a token sprinkling of other nationalities in Iraq.
The only way can see equating Kosovo and Iraq is by adopting pure 100% pacifism: any war is bad and all wars are equally bad.
That sort of belief, I submit, should be anathema to a thinking historian.
Jesse Lamovsky - 8/15/2003
I agree with Mr. Gallatin's assessment of the interests that sent the troops on to Baghdad. But I must persist in pointing out the similarities between Kosovo and Iraq. To wit: a president circumventing Congress and ordering an attack on a country that had never aggressed against us, under the guise of international law (remember, Iraq's flouting of UN resolutions figured prominently in President Bush's rationale for going to war), with the purpose of overthrowing, or at least reigning in, an anointed villian (Milosevic in Kosovo). True, the attack on the Serbs was ostensibly multi-lateral, but so was the attack on Iraq (if laughably so). Also, is Mr. Gallatin aware that since 1999 the KLA has instituted its own brand of ethnic-cleansing in Kosovo, burning Orthodox churches and forcing over 200,000 Kosovar Serbs and Roma (Gypsies) from their homes?
Anyway, I don't care how many allies we line up, and I don't care how pretty or elegant our reasoning is; attacking countries that haven't attacked us is wrong, and it's un-American. It was as wrong in Kosovo as it is in Iraq. The Clinton Administration had its own justifications for aggressing against Serbia. Why should people who supported the Kosovo adventure pretend to be shocked and appalled when another administration aggresses against another country, on the strength of its own set of justifications? It should be expected.
Thomas Gallatin - 8/14/2003
Good point re schizoid foreign policies, Jesse.
I will take issue with the notion of Kosovo as "precedent" for Iraq. The similarities are largely superficial, it seems to me. Wars and massacres went on for years in the Balkans before the U.S. was reluctantly dragged in, and only then on a painstakingly multilateral basis. The Iraq War was unilaterally initiated by the think tank cabal which largely runs foreign policy under a president woefully inexperienced outside of Texas and a secretary of state who is a career soldier without prior diplomatic experience.
Jesse Lamovsky - 8/14/2003
Of course we all have a right to speak and have our arguments debated on their merits. Looking at the Clinton Administration's policy in Kosovo is a good way of deconstructing the merits of Mr. Gore's arguments. And Kosovo was not an alternative to Iraq- it was a precedent. Like Iraq, it was an invasion of a sovereign country on the basis of humanitarian and security concerns that were spurious at best. Despite the much-touted NATO support Mr. Gallatin describes, the action itself was in violation of NATO's rules concerning military action only in the event of an attack on a member state.
I also must respectfully disagree with Mr. Moner's assessment that a "national consensus" on foreign policy is needed. I don't think such a consensus will ever happen- there are simply too many different people with too many bones to pick. What we need is a departure from our schizophrenic foreign policy that caters to special interests (the Israel Lobby; Florida Cubans) and a return to the sane policy the Founding Fathers adhered to: free trade and open relations with all- entangling alliances with none.
Dave Tabaska - 8/14/2003
Oh, that's easy. "International Law" is just merely the opposite of whatever the US and Britain are doing at any given time.
George Oilwell - 8/13/2003
The liberal corporate media won't give the public an opportunity to know whether or not Commander Bunnypants is a liar.
I take it you believe the boy is honest, is that right?
"The lie is in the intent, not the words."
How can anyone look at "Earth in the Balance" and believe Gore is 'balanced" or centrist ?? Second, much is made of Bush the Liar, but no examples are provided for comment. What is it, the 16 words? WMDs? Head Start? Compassionate Conservative? or what? Where or what is the line between a "lie" that all politicians tell and a "systematic effort to manipulate fact"? Is it just my hunch or is it that all Conservatives are compelled to a "systematic effort to manipulate fact" and liberals are merely given to a few harmless "lies"? At any rate, examples and reasons might be helpful. "Militaristic roguery" indeed, with a vote of Congress behind him no less, and how many UNSC votes as well.
Gus Moner - 8/13/2003
An intersting comment. It's made me think a bit more about Gore's complex situation. However, I doubt that which you have outlined is enough to reverse the result in 04. It would be an intersting rematch.
Comments on the media's behaviour are right on target, as were the comments on the senators.
Gus Moner - 8/13/2003
Quite frankly, we should pay attention to the acquired wisdom of 'retired' pols as well as others. The issues he spelled out are serious, they were well thought out and articulated. They merit consideration.
What post WWII US President or VP does not have blood on his hands? Do we not listen to Kissinger, Carter, etc.? We may agree or disagree with people but we all have a right to speak, be listened to and our arguments debated on their merits, not on our 'history' or politics.
The Dems are already doomed for 2004 with their lack of leadership, as 9 talking heads vying for the nomination demonstrate. It would be a miracle if Bush loses in '04. Remember, Mr Gore got more votes than "nitwit Texas Governor" Bush in '00". What happened with his selection is another matter. Should Gore run? Tough one.
I agree, "this country's foreign policy problems go a lot deeper than Iraq". A national consensus, based on truth and not on superiority is badly needed.
Gus Moner - 8/13/2003
Thanks for the clarification, no need to apologise. We all get it wrong sometimes...
Howard N Meyer - 8/13/2003
The subject is the message.
From Left to Liberal to Middle to Neocon to Dinosaur
U S politicians and mainstream and running brook media
have ignored the International Rule of Law:
TEACHERS; Assign an essay
or a PH D thesis
on difference in attitude in U S and Brit on Rule of World Law
Thomas Gallatin - 8/12/2003
Jesse makes the point: If Gore "couldn't beat "nitwit Texas Governor" Bush in '00" why should we waste time trying to get him to reverse his decision not to run in 2004.
But I must dissent from Jesse on the Kosovo intervention. That military action had the UNITED support of a SCORE of NATO countries and was taken to stop an ALREADY underway GENOCIDE.
I'm not saying that Clinton's foreign policy vis a vis Yugoslavia and other countries is beyond reproach, Far from it.
But an inability to see the vast difference between the successful effort to remove Milosevic, and the litany of blunders committed by the hypocrite chickenhawk Project for a New American Century and their stooge Dubya Bush, in failing to get any allies beyond a reluctant Britain to go after an already largely defanged Saddam, is a key reason why those most vocally opposed to the recent OIL (Operation Iraqi Liberation) failed to muster convincing reasons to force Congress (in October 2002 when they still had a say in the matter) to stop the outrageous and unneccessary squandering of America's international goodwill
at the hands of our dry drunk chief executive.
Gerad A. - 8/12/2003
Two "coconspirators" have escaped critical commentary in reactions to the former Vice President't speech at NYU last week. One, the U.S. Congress, which largely have vigorously supported all of the GWB actions overseas and domestically. Kerry, Lieberman, Gebhardt have no credibility running as alternatives to Bush in 2004. What their complicity in the Iraq war resolutions and tax cuts accomplished was no more than protecting their right political flanks at the expense of their honest judgement re: the Bush initiatives (if their revisionist statements can be believed that is). Secondly, the national media should be ungoing some serious "soul searching" at the present on their lack of journalistic integrity on analyzing what Bush was proposing during the campaign of 2000 and what he has rammed through Congress during the past 2 and 1/2 years. I know that Al Gore is aghast at all of his year-2000 predictions re: the Bush plans for our country having come to reality, but he certainly can't be denied some inner feeling of redemption that if the citizens of the United States had heard more serious journalism on tax policy and foreign relations instead of dishonest personal attacks ("creator of the internet", "love story", et al.), he would have carried way too many states for the election to have been stolen from the electorate. Gore may never become President, but sadly the jokes on us and we'll (and our children) will pay for it for many years into the future.
Jesse Lamovsky - 8/12/2003
Quite frankly, why should we pay attention to Al Gore on this matter? After all, he was part of an administration that carried on vicious sanctions against Iraq, sanctions which may have contributed to the deaths of as many as 500,000 Iraqi children. Also, the Clinton Administration carried out the unconstitutional, brutal military action against Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999. Mr. Gore has blood on his hands! Who is he to talk?
Also, if Mr. Carpenter is as much of a Democratic partisan as he seems to be, he should be praying that Mr. Gore sits out the 2004 race. All he would do is tear apart the party in the primaries. Can you imagine Gore against Howard Dean? It would be Humphrey-McGovern redux, and it would produce the same result for the Dems in November 2004 as it did in 1972. Besides, who in their right mind would nominate Gore anyway? If he couldn't beat "nitwit Texas Governor" Bush in '00, with all the advantages in his favor, how can he possibly beat "Man 'O War" Bush in '04?
This country's foreign policy problems go a lot deeper than Iraq. Instead of partisan rhetoric, we all need to take a long, hard look at how and why our foreign policy has deviated so far from the path laid out by the Founding Fathers, and what it has gotten us. And how we can change it.
George Oilwell - 8/11/2003
I was being sarcastic towards David Brooks, the newly announced op-ed artist coming soon to a NYT near you. Mr. Carpenter is far superior to the smug right-wing Brooks, in every way, and that is the point I wanted but failed to make.
I apologize.
Fred F. - 8/11/2003
Despite his sometimes tiresome tirades, I am glad that The Terminator did not kill off PJ and Al Gore (HNN fixed the error which was leading from the Carpenter headline to the Schwarzenegger "poll".
The speech reported here is on target and worthy of reproduction as in this column. The contents of the speech are also old news.
One important difference between the "hugely vulnerable" (whatever that means) Howard Dean and Al Gore is that Dean was saying the same things months ago, before the Spineless Democrats (Gephardt, Kerry, Lieberman, etc., who meekly voted for the outrageous Iraq blank check last October) decided he had a bandwagon they wanted to jump on.
Gore was a good journalist and a tolerable senator. Too bad he lacked the humility and good judgement to realize that he was not presidential material (even if he destroyed fewer brain cells boozing away his years at Harvard than Dubya did at Yale).
Gus Moner - 8/11/2003
Can't find anything to dispute in the article, so let's attack the author.
George Oilwell - 8/11/2003
Thank goodness for that. It's unfortunate that the NYT chose a right-winger to be their latest "Champion Of The Right" instead of Mr. Carpenter ("Champion Of What's Right").
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Improving Greinke could pitch in Minors game Monday
Righty might be 'exempt' player added to LA's roster, or could open season on DL
MESA, Ariz. -- Zack Greinke threw a scheduled bullpen session on Friday morning, signaling continued improvement in his mild calf strain.
Greinke pitched two innings on Wednesday and is not expected to make the club's trip to Australia. Instead, he can stay at Camelback Ranch and pitch in a Minor League game, probably on Monday.
If management believes he will be ready to pitch one of the regular-season games against San Diego after the Freeway Series with the Angels, Greinke could be one of the three "exempt" players who can be added to the 25-man roster. If not, he could start the season on the disabled list.
Also on Friday, reliever Brandon League pitched in a Minor League intrasquad game. He said he might also pitch in a game Saturday to show he is ready to pitch on back-to-back days, although manager Don Mattingly was reluctant to confirm that.
Mattingly said League has been working on mechanical tweaks to improve the location of his pitches, particularly offspeed ones. He has struggled this spring, but League said he is not concerned about being squeezed out of a roster spot. He has two years remaining on his contract.
"I have no worries about being ready for Australia with the short spring," League said. "I've pitched for 10 years, I know how to prepare. I haven't thought that way [about a roster spot] at all. Isn't everyone competing in Spring Training? Competing for a job, competing for a role. It's a good problem to have for the Dodgers, but I've never been worried about it since I've had options."
Mattingly announced that Sam Demel, who had already been reassigned to Minor League camp, would start the day game of Saturday's day/night doubleheader, with Clayton Kershaw starting the night game.
Chad Billingsley continues his on-schedule rehab from Tommy John surgery. He will have a bullpen session this weekend, then begin facing hitters, and he could start a Minor League rehab assignment in April.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Courtney Walker scored 25 points as No. 14 Texas A&M came back to beat Georgia 78-73 in overtime on Thursday night.
Texas A&M (19-6, 9-2 SEC) trailed 62-56 with just more than a minute left in regulation, but scored six straight points - including a layup by Jordan Jones with 25 seconds left - to force overtime.
In the extra period, Courtney Williams hit a jumper with 35 seconds remaining to give Texas A&M a 74-72 lead. The Aggies then hit four free throws down the stretch to seal their 12th win in 14 games.
Georgia (16-8, 4-7) seized a 19-4 lead to begin the game as Texas A&M went more than 7 minutes without a point. The Aggies erased a double-digit deficit in the second half with 15 straight points to take a 38-35 lead.
Williams finished with 13 points while Merritt Hempe had 19 for Georgia.


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Topic: Gemzar/Erbitux for cHCC-CC
My brother, age 45, was diagnosed at the end of May with combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma, stage IV with metastasis to the chest cavity (lungs), no history of hepatitis or cirrhosis.
We first tried Xeloda, which proved highly toxic in part due to his very high bilirubin levels (as high as 18 at one point).
The bilirubin has been brought down to <4 with an externally draining biliary catheter.
He's now had two treatments of Gemzar/Erbitux, at a half dose of 500cc with amazing results. Even his oncologist is amazed at how well he's been doing, how well he's looking. He feels great with more energy, increased appetite, and greatly improved bowel movements (the tumor had closed off his bile duct, and I'm sure everyone on this board can understand how important good bm's are!). He's able to drive again, which he hasn't done since early June, on the morning he had the biliary drainage catheter inserted.
All of his blood work seems to be moving in the right direction. The alpha-fetoprotein marker, which had been at 4200 before this therapy, dropped to 1900 after the first treatment.
For three months we've been living day by day, now we feel like we can live week by week, and his quality of life is greatly improved. We're hoping now that, at least, the bile duct will open up enough to allow a stint to be inserted in place of the biliary catheter.
He's going to have two more treatments (every two weeks) at an increased dose (probably not a full dose yet), then the doctor wants new scans to see how the mass has been effected.
We're very hopeful for more, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high with such a significant diagnosis.


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discspeed wrote:BTW, anyone still throwing these?
JimW wrote:If the answer isn't PD you asked the wrong question.
Frank Delicious wrote:Every groove is a unique snowflake of suck.
discspeed wrote:I'm finally getting to resume my River testing. Here's a little history...I originally tested a 173 Opto that had a little too much turn and fade for my tastes, making it tough for me to control. I then tested a 175 white GL that was TB stable. At the time we did not have any heavier Optos or other heavier GL runs for me to test, so I kind of forgot about the River.
A couple months ago I lost my seasoned QJLS...unfortunately all my backups were too stable to work lines. I've gone without a fwy driver since, trying to push my mids and power down my PDs. I'm getting to the point where I miss a slower driver again...Here's the thing though...I don't want to add multiple discs. I just want one disc that I can work on multiple lines. This brought the River back to mind. We've been restocked at CDGS, and I had many different Rivers to choose from. In particular that had some orange GLs that looked exactly like my Fuse, which has become one of my most beloved (and $$ earning) discs. I grabbed an orange 175g and started to deflash it immediately.
I played a few holes with the River and then I took it to the field. This disc has the potential to be the disc I'm looking for. It was much straighter all around than the Opto I've tested. Any turning was very gradual. It also seemed slower in the air, which I liked a lot. It is still just a touch more stable than I want it to be, but I'm sure that will change shortly. It does fly strangely like my Fuse of the same plastic did when it was new in terms of flightpath and glide. This orange GL is domey, but not crazy like some of the Optos. It feels really great in the hand, especially deflashed. I'll be giving it a thorough testing over the coming weeks.
turso wrote:Rivers foreva man, FOREVA!
Jeronimo wrote:turso wrote:Rivers foreva man, FOREVA!
Exactly. They made this disc for us guys... FOR US. We whined and we received, and I for one was not let down.
discspeed wrote:The GL I have now seems slow and methodical, much more midrange-like than the Opto.
bill wrote:discspeed wrote:The GL I have now seems slow and methodical, much more midrange-like than the Opto.
wait until you hit some stuff. my opto is bulletproof compared to the gl. the gl rim chunks and cuts a lot easier and soon the gl was quite a bit more understable than the opto. it really reminds me of a valk now.
i do like rivers. i just think they're a little long for a fairway driver.
Jeronimo wrote:My way of compensating for the Rivers desire to "glide long" is just to throw lower to the ground.
weedjj wrote:I am glad there are some other River throwers still having success with them. I absolutely love this disc. You really can throw any shot with it. Big anny turnovers or hyzerflip right to left bomb glide shots are no problem. I have only been playing a little over a year and a half, but from my experience the "slow and methodical" flight of the gl seems accurate. Sometimes its funny when you realize how far its gone. I myself throw low lines as well playing in Maine, and my GL handles them like a champ. My only issue is trying to find backups, haha. I have a 162 Orange one that I would really love to find a bunch of 163-165 orange ones to back it up since its the only one I Have atm, but Lat keeps shipping over heavier stuff from what I have seen.
Side question, does anybody have experience with the orange ones and what colors might also fly similarly in case I can find the lighter weights in another color? Thanks!
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Hernandez a surprise spark for Astros
ANAHEIM -- Astros manager Bo Porter went with the hot hand, keeping rookie Enrique Hernandez in the starting lineup at shortstop for the second game in a row Saturday night. Hernandez had three hits Friday and made a pair of outstanding defensive plays, probably saving at least three runs.
"He's been playing really well," Porter said. "You look at the way he played defensively yesterday, the way he played defensively in left field a couple of days ago and he continues to swing the bat well. He's been a great addition to our ballclub."
The Major League staff is still trying to get a feel for Hernandez, who wasn't in big league camp. He made his Major League debut Wednesday and had an RBI double in his first at-bat, and then hit a homer Wednesday. He entered Saturday with six hits in 12 at-bats.
Defensively, the 22-year-old Hernandez ran down a ball in center to end the first inning Friday to strand the bases loaded, and he started a terrific double play in the hole to end the fifth. And he showed great arm strength, throwing out a runner from his knees.
"Defensively, I never quit on a ball," he said. "I'm just going to go until someone calls me off, I catch the ball or the ball drops."
Porter admitted Hernandez has been a spark to the Astros, though they've yet to win since he's been up. Hernandez was drafted out of Puerto Rico in the sixth round in 2009.
"He's definitely brought a spark to the team," Porter said. "Again, it's refreshing to see a guy rewarded for just performing at each and every level. He wasn't in big league camp, so it's not like the Major League staff had an opportunity to work with him or know him. He basically knocked the door down and played his way here and is continuing to knock down the door and play his way into the lineup. I like to see stories like that."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Arcia set for rehab assignment at Rochester
Outfielder takes batting practice at Target Field; Willingham feeling better
MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins outfielder Oswaldo Arcia took batting practice on the field before Friday's game against the Tigers without any issues, and will begin a rehab assignment on Saturday with Triple-A Rochester.
"Everything feels great so he's ready to go," assistant general manager Rob Antony said. "He did everything today without any issues. We'll ease him into the process with some at-bats at DH at first, and alternate from there."
Arcia, who is on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 5 with a right wrist strain, had been taking batting practice in the cages before progressing to on-field work on Friday. Manager Ron Gardenhire was pleased with what he saw, and said Arcia reported no problems after hitting.
"He felt nothing," Gardenhire said. "He was feeling great and letting it fly. So, he's getting close to playing some baseball here. We'll let him hit on the field for the next few days here and then if everything keeps going, we'll get him on his way and send him down to get some swings."
Fellow outfielder Josh Willingham, who is on the 15-day DL retroactive to April 7 with a small fracture in his left wrist, has yet to start taking batting practice, as he still feels tenderness in his wrist. But Gardenhire said Willingham could start swinging by early next week, and he is feeling better.
"He still has some point-soreness where the knob of the bat would be," Gardenhire said. "But it's almost down to nothing. But he holds the knob of the bat right on that spot. So, he'll see some doctors here maybe tomorrow, and he thinks early next week, he'll take some swings out there and then start a rehab after that."
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I feel like even mentioning the Environmental Working Group's latest Shopper's Guide to Pesticides — also known as the "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean Fifteen" — is like poking a sleeping badger.
This year's release kind of squeaked by most media outlets, from what I'm seeing on my heavy-into-organics friends list on Facebook.
(Because my personal Facebook account is, of course, the most accurate barometer of the consumer mindset — note sarcasm.)
Lately I've seen links to the "14 Foods to Avoid" but not the "Dirty Dozen."
That doesn't mean it won't show up, though. These kinds of things live on forever in social media.
That myth about baby peeled carrots leaching chlorine just hit my friends list a few weeks ago and it's been circulating for years.
I regularly see people posting the age-old myth about Price Look-Up codes being a secret treasure map to decode their produce purchases.
Hint: I have never, and you will probably never, see a genetically modified fruit or vegetable with an 8-XXXX PLU code.
You'll have better luck finding unicorn at the meat counter.
The Alliance for Food and Farming points to the effort the industry put into educating the consumer about the facts behind the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Data Program Report, which the EWG re-interprets to release the Shopper's Guide to Pesticides.
Both the USDA and the Environmental Protection Agency made it clear that the presence of residue does not equal risk to the consumer, and the alliance offers the data to back this up for skeptical consumers.
The "Dirty Dozen" usually hits early in the summer, right as cherries are coming to market.
I remember this because I usually go on a personal quest to purchase the organic "Dirty Dozen" and price compare them to conventional product. Cherries often are one of the most difficult items to find in an organic version.
In the past, my price comparisons have been pretty disheartening.
While a consumer might find comparably priced items in conventional and organic — things like romaine, broccoli and apples typically don't have the startling markup you'll see in cherries, bell peppers or cucumbers — I've yet to find a mainstream supermarket that consistently carries a full list of the "Dirty Dozen."
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He says of his faith, 'I grew up in Bagdad, Florida, as one of the good guys: "Didn't cuss, didn't cheat, didn't steal, didn't lie, didn't drink, didn't do drugs...I was doing the right things but I didn't know what that meant." In his senior year in high school, two twin neighbor girls invited him to their youth group. He went and found a place where he belonged. He said, "The girls asked me to go to church, and after a few times going I realized this is what I wanted to do. This is truth here. And I gave myself to the Lord." Though he never took a golf lesson in his life, he said "I am grateful for the people around me and the opportunity to live my life for Christ. I've really got a good team around me trying to help me succeed, not just in golf, but off the golf course, to be a light for Jesus."


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Dirty Laundry for Dinner ? (Ropa Vieja recipe)
My hubby is half Cuban. I love when he cooks Cuban food for me. He always told me about Ropa Vieja because he loved it as a child and it means "Dirty Laundry" I found this recipe and wanted to give it a shot this week since it has bell peppers in it.
The outcome: it was very good. The meat was tender and flavorful. We served it with brown rice and tostones (fried plantains) but it would also make a great sandwich.
Ropa Vieja in a crockpot (from Allrecipes.com)*Note – based on the reviews of this recipe, I changed it around quite a bit – I'm posting what I did, click the link above to see original and reviews 2 pounds beef flank steak
6 cloves garlic
1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
1/4 cup cider vinegar
2 red bell peppers, cut into 1/2 inch strips
2 green bell peppers, cut into 1/2 inch strips
2 sweet onions, cut in wedges
1 tablespoon garlic powder
Salt and pepper to taste
Place meat into slow cooker with the garlic, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Stir the tomato paste into the vinegar until dissolved; pour into slow cooker. Add the chopped vegetables to crockpot.
Cover, and cook on Low until the beef is tender, 7 to 8 hours; then remove beef, and shred. Place meat back in crockpot.
Cook on High about 1 to 2 hours.
5 Responses to "Dirty Laundry for Dinner ? (Ropa Vieja recipe)"
I came here to read your Daring Bakers post, but was interested in this recipe. It sounds great and I have some plantains to use up, so I might try to make this soon!
I MUST try this recipe! I have always been afraid of trying to make ropa vieja…I'm afraid it won't taste as good as the stuff from back home.
Steph – you should try it and let me know how authentic it tastes.
sounds great and I have some plantains to use up.
That sounds so delicious.


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This is part of a larger interview so if you want the full story go to the link, this is the Pacer related part. I will (for now) post this without comment.
Were you that tight with them to take that kind of risk?
I put my career on the line twice. We were all basically the same age on a young, fiery team who had its share of legal struggles. We all grew up basically in the hood, so we related to each other.
So when Ron went into the stands, I didnt think twice about it because he was my brother. I just went up there.
Weird question, but to battle like that was it fun at all?
When I hit that fan, I definitely enjoyed it -- until that fine came down. That $3 million I lost killed me. It brought me back to reality because I could have lost my job.
It was wild because it had never been done before. And it will never happen again so, yeah, adrenaline was flowing. How many people can say that theyve punched a fan?
Do you know all the stuff that they say to us? The racist stuff they say to us? We get the N-word and people talking about our wives and family.
Just because we make a lot of money were supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are ugly and that they should have thrown our mothers in jail for having us. Thats not disrespectful?
Ive been in a lot of fights and done some things I shouldnt have done, but Ive never sold drugs or been locked up, so for people to think that way about me isnt right.
They had life-size posters of me in Utah with me behind bars. Before the situation with Jamaal Tinsley, I had never been in jail, and Im from the projects!
Do you regret the Palace brawl?
No. Because the idea of Ron laying in the stands unconscious with all his teeth knocked out no way. That whole arena was against and I didnt have it in my heart not to do anything.
What was it like in the locker room immediately after that?
The funniest thing in the world. Ron leans over to me and asks me if were going to get into trouble! I looked at him like he was crazy. We laughed so hard. Jamaal fell out of his locker.
I looked at Ron and asked him, Do you realize what we just did? Were lucky if we have a job tomorrow.
We just went into the stands. We just banged out on fans. Are you serious? Trouble? I couldnt believe he asked me that.
How did you get through all that?
When Donnie Walsh was in Indiana with me, he had my back. He knew my heart and knew what kind of person I was. I would have never went in the stands on my own. I would have never shot up a strip club on my own.
It was always to help somebody, so when people say that type of stuff, it definitely pisses me off.
So what happened with the strip club incident?
I was there with Jamaal and some friends just for a night of fun and everything was cool. At the end of the night, I was in my car ready to leave.
Then I seen Jamaal walk out of the club with some guy walking behind him with hands in his back pocket like he was fixing to shoot him.
I hopped out of my car with my gun. I had a gun license at the time so it was all good. People think I was shooting up the place willy-nilly, but my gun was registered.
I saw the guy with his hand in his pocket so I cocked my gun and put it in his face. I slapped him with the gun and we got to fighting before I realized they had planned to jump Jamaal.
Ive been in too many club fights not to know whats going on. Im not going to get hit from behind, stomped out and just be laying there. So all of a sudden all these cars pull up and I let off a couple warning shots, like telling everyone to back up.
After that had happened, dude had jumped in his car and planned on trying to kill me. He hit me with his car. He drove straight into me and I flipped up in the air and landed face-first on the ground and knocked all my teeth out.
I hopped right up and lit his whole car up. I didnt think twice because Im figuring he tried to smoke Jamaal.
This is not an everyday situation. Were you worried that you could have killed somebody?
No, because he tried to kill me. I knew it was self-defense. He hit me with his car at 45 mph in the parking lot. He tried to kill me. I was cool. I didnt have one drink that night.
As I was walking to my car and he was coming straight for me, Im glad I was sober where I could think, and I just turned sideways. I hit the windshield and flipped up in the air; then I hit the ground.
I had to get plastic surgery on my lips with no anesthesia, with all my teeth gone. Can you imagine how painful that is?
Your career could have ended that night.
That night. Thats why I know Im here for a reason. My life is bigger than basketball.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Sloane Stephens has gained a lot of confidence. Her game is picking up, too.
The 20-year-old American, ranked 17th in the world and looking for her first WTA tournament title, moved into the quarterfinals of the New Haven Open on Wednesday night with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 victory over Germany's Julia Georges.
After being dominated in the second set, Stephens won the next four games and cruised to the win.
"I think me being able to go out and play a third set strong like that is the difference between me today and a year ago," Stephens said. "I just think that I'm at a point where I go out there and I'm like, `I'm going to win."
She is one of just three seeded players to advance past the second round. The others are defending champion Petra Kvidova, who beat American qualifier Alison Riske 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3; and four-time champion Caroline Wozniacki, who turned back Italy's Karin Knapp 6-1, 7-5.
Top-seeded Sara Errani fell to Russia's Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-1, becoming the fifth of the tournament's eight seeds to lose in the final WTA tuneup before next week's U.S. Open.
"The good thing is that if you lose, you have more time to prepare there, if not, you have more confidence," Errani said. "I hope the court there will be different."
Stephens and Wozniacki, who has won the event four of the last five years, will meet in the marquee matchup of the quarterfinals on Thursday.
But Stephen's said she isn't feeling much pressure, despite knowing she will come into that match and next week's U.S. Open with the label of the next great U.S. star.
"You kind of have to go with it and accept the responsibility, or whatever you might call it," she said. "But I think, in all, it's a good thing."
Wozniacki, a former No. 1 player in the world, cruised through her first set with Knapp, then fought through some health issues to hold on for the win. Wozniacki, who has been battling a cold this week, called for a trainer after experiencing some dizziness in the 90-degree temperatures while up 3-2 in the second set. The Danish star dropped the next two games before rallying.
"I'm definitely feeling much better," she said after the match. "I was feeling worse in the beginning of the week."
Kvitova found herself in a back-and-forth match with the 23-year-old Riske, before breaking her at love in the fifth game of the final set.
"After dropping the second set, it was quite tough to come back in the third. But I'm glad for it, I'm sure," she said.
Errani didn't make it through her first match of the tournament, after receiving a bye in the first round. She had trouble with her slow, spinning serves all afternoon on what she said was a faster-than expected court. She was broken four times by Makarova.
The 25-year-old Russian dominated her own service games, was broken just once and had eight aces.
"Today was a good day for me and all my shots was working really good," Makarova said. "I understood a little bit more how to play against her."
Makarova will play Simona Halep in the quarterfinals.
Halep didn't have a WTA title before this year, but has three this summer and is 28-5 in her last 33 matches. She dropped her first set Wednesday but bounced back for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain.
The 21-year-old Romanian also attributed her slow start to the 90-degree heat, which she said caused to alter her game plan in the second set.
"I played more offensive, more aggressive and I just tried to finish the point very fast," she said.


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A MAN from Rawtenstall was in a 'critical' condition in hospital last night after being injured in a car crash in which another man died.
The head-on smash happened in Wilpshire. The dead driver was Robert Carson, 35, who was driving his Vauxhall Corsa in Whalley New Road, between the Bulls Head pub and the Wilpshire Hotel, when the crash happened.
He was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital after being freed from his car by firefighters, but died shortly after.
Police said his car collided with a Ford Focus being driven in the opposite direction by the 24-year-old man from Rawtenstall. He also had to be cut out by firefighters before he was taken to the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
The man, who has not been named, has since been transferred to Royal Preston Hospital, where his condition was last night described as 'critical'.
Yesterday floral tributes to Mr Carson, from Blackburn, were laid at the scene.
One card read: "To my beautiful, wonderful husband Rob. You weren't just my husband, you were also my best friend. Love you forever your loving wife Sammie.
"You were a great dad lots of love Robert xxx"
Another read: "To Rob, you will always be in our thoughts, we all love you so much. See you on the other side xxx from all of the family." A further tribute, said: "To Rob, you will always be dearly missed. RIP my friend. Rose x"
Mr Carson had worked for WEC Machining in Darwen since May.
Paul Atlin, general manager, said: "Rob joined earlier in the year as a skilled grinder and quickly earned the respect of his colleagues. He was very well liked. He was a good guy and will be sadly missed."
Residents in the Whalley New Road area said they had been trying to get motorway-style safety barriers fitted in the area after a series of crashes over the past five years.
Witnesses living near to the crash site said they realised something was immediately wrong after hearing 'an almighty bang' just after 10.30pm on Sunday.
One resident said: "I was getting ready for bed when I heard an enormous bang. It was startlingly loud.
"I looked out and could see two cars in the middle of the road and then the emergency services arrived.
"All the emergency services worked tirelessly to help those injured. They were real troopers."
Trevor and Marianne Bull's home backs on to Whalley New Road and after hearing the collision they went out to help.
Mr Bull, 59, said: "Living here you get used to recognising the noise of a crash. This was different, I didn't hear any brakes first like I normally would.
"I quickly threw some clothes on to see if I could be of help. A man who must have been driving down the road at the same time of collision had pulled over and was slowing down the traffic.
"There were two others trying to reach a man who was unconscious in the car and others stood by watching."
Mrs Bull, 61, said: "I knew it had to be serious because the paramedics were working on the drivers for what seemed like ages.
"Both cars were really smashed up. My heart goes out to both of the drivers' families."
Residents in the Whalley New Road area said they had been trying to get motorway style safety barriers fitted in the area after a series of crashes over the past five years.
One neighbour said: "The residents have been campaigning for safety barriers near the road because of fears the impact of a serious collision could cause a car to mount the pavement and go through the brick wall.
"But we were always told this wasn't possible because there had been no fatalities on this stretch of road."
Over the past four years there have been four crashes resulting in injuries on the same stretch, according to county hall chiefs.
Wilpshire Coun Stuart Hirst said: "For many years we have been on to the county council about putting some traffic calming measures in around there, it is a very dangerous road."
The road was closed for four hours to allow accident investigators to carryout their work Sgt Mick Young appealed for witnesses.
He said: "The families of the men involved have been informed and we have specially trained officers supporting them through this difficult time."


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Hi everyone! As you might have noticed, I've been a bit MIA on my blog lately. Okay, since the end of JULY. That's almost 6 months now. I feel like a part of me is missing too. I miss sharing recipes and learning about your great ideas on the blogosphere. So I've decided, that although I'm currently writing a Masters thesis, working, recently married (wahoo!!!), designing/furnishing a new home, yada yada yada, that I'm going to commit time to my blog again. (Any encouragement is appreciated ;))
I originally stopped posting recipes because I 'fell off the wagon', as they say. I was so busy with graduate school and wedding planning that I didn't make a full effort to avoid ALL sugar and ALL dairy. I still stayed far away from gluten, because I continue to have immediate reactions from it. But the dairy and sugar didn't seem to have much of an effect on me anymore, plus a man entered my life that has no dietary needs to speak of, and I ended cooking more with dairy and sugar for convenience. So I felt that I couldn't share my recipes. However, it's time to get back on the band wagon. I've started having some headaches again and acme/stomach problems from the dairy are starting to pop up. And this blog is such a great motivator for me to try new things that are healthy – so I've decided to start committing more time to it again.
Did I mention I recently got married? I suppose I meant to say I JUST got married, on January 7th. And we just got back from the honeymoon :) Over the past few months I've been working on a lot of projects for our new home and it got me thinking that I'd like to share them. So along with starting to post recipes again, I'm going to be adding some of my fun projects and share tutorials for things that I've been making.
I hope you'll still follow along! I can't wait to get back into seeing what you all have been up to in the last 6 months as well. I've missed you!


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I have two purposes for this letter and one is to defend the thousands of single parents who have successfully raised happy and productive children. We live in southeast Fort Wayne in a very racially mixed neighborhood. On both sides of our residence and across the street are single mothers who have raised their children to become successful adult citizens within our society.
Our entire addition has many more examples of such successes, and, of course, like families all across society, there are also one or two exceptions within a successful family. I can also remember the time when several fathers were abusive and negative influences upon their children. Both were affluent white businessmen who long ago fled to the white suburbs.
Recently was Military Spouses Day, and I can't help but think about how they must feel about Leininger's doom-and-gloom portrayal, which would imply that their children must be a problem because their father was absent serving multiple deployments. My daughter was in that situation, and I can tell you that she did a great job raising our grandson in a city far from Fort Wayne.
A short paragraph about the contention that the father should always be in the home. I suggest that Dr. McMahan leave her clinic and either ride the streets of Fort Wayne as a medic or at least volunteer time in the St. Joseph Hospital emergency room. There she will see the effects of fathers who should not be in the home but in prison. My most memorable father was the one who doused his son's penis with lighter fluid and set him on fire because the 3-year-old had wet the bed.
The second point I want to make is that I also observe that the minority who are involved in street violence have also been raised in a culture of scofflaws. I travel, attend the YMCA, shop and use restaurants in the area noted for gang violence. I can't help but notice that these violent types of persons also willingly and knowingly create annoyances that are often minor infractions of the law or common courtesy.
They include loud music, littering, graffiti, parking in handicap spaces, using handicap facilities, loudly using profanity, throwing trash at passing cars, playing basketball at 2 a.m., etc. Now with that said, I must also tell you that the majority of the citizens in that area are among the friendliest, most respectful and helpful people in Fort Wayne, regardless of race, sex or age.
What needs to be done and actually could be done? Certainly the shame idea isn't going to work unless the local religious leaders step up and take on the challenge of visiting homes where outrageous behavior originates. It also takes the black community to realize that being a snitch is a good thing and that it is not honorable to remain quiet. I don't have much hope for that one. The police must increase saturation patrols to enforce good living standards and accept no breach of law. The feds need to take over the drug and gang investigations to overcome the timidity of our local prosecutor to back up our city's vice and drug squads. The NAACP and local ministers should embrace such increased enforcement and not threaten the city or the police chief with frivolous lawsuits.
Welfare must become workfare following Bill Clinton's attempt at changing that culture. If nothing else, assigning blocks for weekly litter cleanup and graffiti removal would be a good start. No welfare unless the job gets done. Get rid of the staffs who suggest that someone makes too much money and should quit their job to qualify for certain benefits, such as day care.
Section 8 housing? To use that housing, the individual should be assigned tasks within the housing, such as lawn cleanup, floor sweeping, etc.
Yes, Kevin, there are many mothers who fall way outside your implication that single mothers can't do the job. There are also fathers who don't belong in the family and shouldn't be fathers. Also, there are ways to begin the fight to restore our community to better conditions, and none are expensive or ludicrously impractical, such as the Ozzie-and-Harriet wishful thinking portrayed in your column.


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I got a buddy who had his cryztal buzzz stolen and he is quite positive that no other type of buzzz will do so I told him I would find him one. If there is more than one available I can probobly get rid of them also because there are quite a few guys around our course that swear by them.
I ended up with a kc-teebird this weekend and I am liking it so far so I would also be interested in a star or pro teebird in the 165 range if anyone has one to get rid of. Id really like a star in that mint green color that seems so hard to find.