Published: August 31, 2009
Jay-Z wants everybody to remember the first responders who answered the call on September 11, 2001.
The life story of Michael Oher sounds like something out of a movie.
Kevin Smith’s most famous role is a guy who rarely speaks. But he’s got a lot to say — much of it profane — after being kicked off a Southwest Air flight because he didn’t fit comfortably into the seat.
However, if the Panthers falter and are out of contention at the deadline, look for them to unpack Bouwmeester instead of losing him for nothing via free agency.The package would have to be significant to land Jay Bo. De Hont,Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE: MPR),announced today that the Company’s International business unit has received anorder in excess of $625,000 to supply two (2) Flex-Kleen dust collectors toone of the largest petrochemical complexes in the world in the Kingdom ofSaudi Arabia. When you can’t defend the pass or the run, that’s a recipe for disaster. If a club wants to keep hold of the player then it will do so; one need only look at the Manchester United FC/Cristiano Ronaldo/Real Madrid tug-of-war this summer for proof. Likewise, if a club wants to get rid of a player it will do so whether it is for budgetary or athletic reasons.
On this day, as had happened all season long, some last-minute heroics were needed to save the Buckeyes if they were to maketheir way to Arizona and play for the National Championship.Late in the fourth quarter, Maurice Clarrett, who had one score and rushed for 119 yards, made two big plays, including a huge reception to set up a Maurice Hall touchdown. “The reorganization process will enable Idearc to quickly finalize and implementa debt restructuring plan that will strengthen our financial condition andposition us to compete more effectively in a challenging and rapidly evolvingeconomic environment,” Klein said. As a senior, Springer intends to pilot the Gaels back to the NCAA Tournament. Marquis Sullivan (Loyola-Md Senior Guard) One of the only experienced players on a Loyola team that lost three of its top five scorers, Sullivan will be the go-to-guy in 2008-09. Kings continued their rebuilding process with the headliner of one of the most well-rounded groups of defensemen in recent draft history. Overall margin ofsampling error is 2.03% at the 95% confidence level, for 2008, and 1.80% at the95% confidence level for 2007.
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Nominations for the prize, the largest annual award in public interestcomputing, will be accepted through March 2, 2009. As the leaves change color and the weather slowly but surely cools down, emotions are running high in major league baseballAbout ten teams have their eyes set on October, dreaming of the glory that could be. I mean no one, absolutely no one, lined up on him a the line of scrimmage.Once again, Chris Johnson made what looked like a rather leisurely jog into the end zone.After forcing the Texans to punt, Tennessee finally got newly acquired Nate Washington in gear, with Kerry Collins hitting him twice on the ensuing drive to put the Titans up 21-7.What looked like a high-flying offensive struggle began to take on a sense of normalcy. Forecast for Russia is675,000-725,000 gold equivalent ounces Operating mine: Kupol (Chukotka), Julietta (Magadan). The stats from Eastern Illinois players really mean nothing because of the fact that they are Division II This one speaks for itself. I feel fine about it.” Obviously Cutler does not and cannot speak for the fans, which dwindled in numbers at the Bears training facility at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois this week. The defending champions Pittsburgh Steelers fought hard with the Baltimore Ravens for the division crown, and had the edge in both matchups in the regular season.Led by rookie quarterback Joe Flacco, the Baltimore Ravens put together an offense that could score some points, along with the defense, which was the second best overall in the league.The Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals were towards the bottom of the league, due to many of the starters facing injuries.Luckily, the schedule takes a much easy turn from ‘08, facing the AFC West and the NFC North.Can any team give the defending champions a run for the division this season? Who shall put up the fight? 1.
Johnson NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) – The dollar mostly fell onThursday after the Federal Reserve hinted interest rates willstay very low for a long time, and the yen rose broadly asJapanese markets reopened after a three-day holiday. Such statements encompass Republic Airways`beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding future events. MexicoCarbon offsets are generated by greenhouse gas cuts made by clean energy projects like wind farms that are ‘additional’, meaning they would not have been financially viable without the prospect of offset sale revenues.They are created when renewable power generators sell electricity and then sell the environmental attributes of that electricity separately through a certificate representing one megawatt hour of low-carbon power.Although RECs are traded in several U.S. Jinni’s taste profiling supports strongsocial features, such as descriptions of shared tastes with other users, andtaste neighbors, enabling people to connect with others who share theirpreferences.The Jinni service is powered by the Movie Genome, containing several thousandgenes that are assigned to each title to describe mood, style, plot, settingand more, a rich alternative to the usual genre language.
According to an analysisconducted for the Philadelphia Research Initiative by Temple Universitystatistician Eugene P. “As we anticipated consumer trends across our markets remainbroadly unchanged since the year-end. These range fromtraining and staff qualification to the checking of data security for electronicbooking procedures, the certification of quality management systems for wellnessresorts, health spas, hotels, tourist offices, cruise ships and fitness studiosas well as technical checking for airlines, ski resorts and amusement parks. Advertisers see Beezag asthe solution to technology like DVR and online “banner-blindness,” which isthe root cause of this massive fragmentation that we are experiencing.
Sales at the company’s underground segment, which makesunderground construction equipment and related accessories,fell 58 percent. It is RLTV’s vision to be the toptelevision network, online destination and media brand for adults 50+. Third Quarter ResultsRevenues were a record $742 million, a 56% increase over 2008, and include $337million of revenues added by Carrier Enterprise. The company expects earnings to rise about 20 percent in2009 over the year-ago period. The Company’sservices are supported by a customer-focused technology infrastructure,providing customers with the reliability and information they need to managetheir transportation and logistics systems, including a proprietary packagetracking system that enables customers to view the status of any package via aflexible web reporting system.
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An interview with a choreographer for the Miss Universe pageant spurred controversy Wednesday over alleged claims that Donald Trump personally selects some of the finalists.
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“This is the outfit our parents wore when they used to go out to dance. It’s a traditional outfit,” jokes Riemelmeester Malde.
In the same way some nerdy leading men have become definitions of cool, graphic novels have also gotten a little Hollywood glitter.
“The Blind Side” takes the No. 1 spot, giving Sandra Bullock another top-ranked smash.
My colleague’s first question when we entered the production area was: “Where are the bodies?” In nearly every car factory in the world, bodies are pressed or moulded into shape by machines either some way from the assembly plant, or in factories many miles away. A few years ago, I went with a colleague to visit Aston-Martin’s factory in Newport Pagnell. The ever-increasing number of electronic components and plastic parts that hide beneath the hand-finished flanks of Aston-Martins, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys means these famous and famously expensive marques are destined to become products of machine production within the foreseeable future.Is this a bad thing? Probably not. The DB7 is powered by a mass-produced Jaguar engine, while the millennial RRs and Bentleys will feature V8 and V12 engines designed and built by BMW in Stuttgart. But although the long, ventilated bonnets and flowing front wings are as hand-crafted as any Cotswold table, “Moggies” are not 100 per cent the fruit of human toil.Neither is the latest Aston-Martin DB7, nor the next generation of Rolls- Royces, due to be unveiled at the turn of the century. In his TV series, The Troubleshooter, Mr Harvey-Jones berated Morgan management (the Morgan family) for not producing more cars more efficiently.
The Morgans, father and son, produced their “pleased to meet you, old boy” smiles and ignored Mr Harvey-Jones’s tough, no-nonsense advice.Morgan continues to thrive, selling on a heady mix of charm, idiosyncracy, looks and speed. It did just that to John Harvey-Jones, the management efficiency expert. These are a delight to those who revel in the sight and sound of sheet metal being hammered into complex curves and of timber being sawn into precise shapes.A Morgan is pieced together in a way guaranteed to give a modern business school executive, or old-fashioned time-and-motion man, apoplexy. You will see true manufacturing if you visit Morgan’s Worcestershire workshops. Largely, but not all of it: Morgan buys in engines and other components from manufacturers such as Ford and Fiat. To manufacture means to make by hand, as Morgan does, but the word has long been appropriated by big companies who do no such thing.
A Morgan for those mythical high days and holidays, perhaps, or a big, brutish TVR (made in Blackpool) for dad when he begins to look too old for jeans but still has something to prove.There is no doubt that part of the charm of a two-seater (or, even better, a four-seater) Morgan is that it is built largely by hand. And how splendid it would be if we could replace the family hack with a hand-tooled (hand buffed, honed and polished, too) Bristol or Aston- Martin motor car. We like the idea of an oak dining table made specially for us by a gnarled Cotswold craftsman, sporting cloth cap and tie as he saws, chisels and tugs his forelock. Yet most of us (or, at least those of us over 30) have been brought up to believe that making things by hand is somehow better – morally and physically – than having machines make things for us. Britain’s vast, profitable and octopus-like heritage industry thrives on this conceit. Every summer weekend, we drive to country “fayres” and load up with craft products – all those wobbly glazed ceramic bowls, well intentioned but unresolved wickerwork baskets and frilly pots of pippy jam.
We dream of the day when, like the Prince of Wales, we can have a last made and our shoes hand-stitched by Lobbs of St James’s. Why? Because, either it is too expensive for small manufacturers to make their own engines and build their own bodies, or because there is no longer any great virtue in doing by hand what the computer-guided machine does better.
The bespoke car is, however, increasingly a thing of the past. Morgan does it, Rolls-Royce does it, Aston-Martin just does it – builds cars by hand, that is. She could eliminate the narrow border on the right-hand side of the plot and grow only wall shrubs there. She could garden less intensively at the back of the plot, where she has only just finished making a new border of bamboo and geraniums.But I do not think she will. She knows she ought to be sensible, but the most brilliant thing about her is that she is not She is unreasonable, impassioned and she needs to garden..
Ms Mortimer could also get rid of some of the many small pots crammed on the terrace. It might even enhance the garden, as bulkiness in this area would give a less distracting background to the intricacy of the central borders. When this happens, the edges of the garden fail to connect with each other. The garden becomes like a vortex with a consequent feeling of uneasiness on the part of the person who is looking at it.But the big border could easily be simplified with little loss. Too few gardens are planned from the centre out, as this one is. Most people garden round the edges of their plots so that the middle becomes not an integral part of the design, as it is in Ms Mortimer’s garden, but just the space that is left over when everything else has been sorted out. The strength of the centre holds the rest of this garden together.
Customarily considered a disease of adults, T2DM isincreasingly being diagnosed in children in correlation to increasing juvenileobesity rates.About NaturloseSpherix holds patents on the use of Naturlose as a drug to treat diabetes. As T2DMprevalence rates doubled between 1990 and 2005, the CDC characterized theincrease as an epidemic. There are an estimated 23.6 million people in the U.S.(7.8% of the population) with diabetes, and 17.9 million cases have beendiagnosed.Of the diagnosed diabetes cases, 90% are type 2. While T2DM is often initially managed by increasing exercise inconjunction with dietary modification, medications are usually needed as thedisease progresses. Diabetes Obesity Metab1999 I 5 285-291)A dose and time-of-administration study was conducted to verify the dosingplan to be used in the phase 3 trial. (Donner TW, WilberJF, Ostrowski D.D-Tagatose, a novel hexose: Acute effects on carbohydratetolerance in subjects with and without type 2 diabetes.
The results suggest that, in addition to minimizing the extent ofatherosclerosis from carbohydrate consumption, a diet enriched in tagatose mayfavor a more stable plaque phenotype less likely to cause stroke or myocardialinfarction.Prior Clinical Trials with NaturloseEight healthy individuals and eight individuals with type 2 diabetes underwentseparate 3-hour oral glucose and tagatose tolerance tests.The subjects werealso given 75 g of tagatose followed 30 minutes later by 75 g of glucose.Between test days, participants received 10 g of tagatose per day.Ingestionof the tagatose load (75 g) caused no increase in plasma insulin or glucoseconcentrations in either healthy or diabetic individuals. A novel findingin this study was that atherosclerotic lesions detected in TAG-fed mice werecomposed of increased collagen, indicative of a more stable plaque phenotype. Patients were required to pass specific inclusion criteria at screening and atbaseline, including an HbA1c level at screening and baseline between 6.6% and9.0%.The baseline visit followed an 8-week run-in period in which patientswere instructed to follow a weight-maintaining diet and a daily exerciseprogram under the supervision of the investigator.The run-in period wasdesigned to compensate for the effect of diet and exercise on the estimatedeffectiveness of the drug.The treatment duration was six months and 38patients have been randomized to one of the three doses to date. Naturlose was administeredorally with meals (TID) at three different doses, 2.5, 5.0, and 7.5 g. The LDL:HDL ratio was improved for two ofthe three dose groups by an average of 0.3.”The results of this ongoing Phase 2 study are encouraging and reaffirm ourbelief that Naturlose may be a valuable treatment option for patients withType 2 diabetes,” said Dr.
Naturlose appears to begin showing an effect on HbA1c within the range ofdoses selected for this minimum-dose study.The ongoing Phase 3double-blinded study of efficacy is being conducted at a 15 g dose (TID), andis powered to detect a 0.5% reduction in HbA1c.Over the course of the Phase 2 trial, Naturlose also decreased the averageserum triglycerides of the patients by -59 mg/dl by the end of the first monthon therapy, a decrease from baseline that remained at -41 mg/dl by the end ofthe 6 months of the trial.Naturlose also decreased serum LDL by an average-13 mg/dl by the end of the first month on therapy, while serum HDL wasessentially unchanged (+0.9 mg/dl). The comparator is the 2.5 g dose.The primary endpoint forthe study is reduction in HbA1c after 6 months on the drug.After 6 months ondrug, the patients in the 7.5 g group experienced an average reduction of 0.3%in HbA1c from the HbA1c of the 2.5 g group.At that same 6-month point, the5.0 g group averaged a reduction in HbA1c of 0.05% from the 2.5 g group. The Phase 2 trial is expected to be completed in early 2010.In the ongoing single-blind study designed to establish the minimum dose ofNaturlose capable of causing a beneficial effect, Naturlose is administeredorally with meals, three times daily (TID) at three different doses:2.5,5.0, and 7.5 g. Preliminary Data Demonstrates Reduction of HbA1c Levels With Doses an Order ofMagnitude Lower than the Dose Used in the Current Phase 3 Trial.BETHESDA, Md., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Spherix Incorporated (NasdaqCM: SPEX), an innovator in biotechnology for diabetes therapy, and a providerof technical and regulatory consulting services to food, supplement,biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, today announced positivepreliminary results from a Phase 2 clinical trial of its novel compound,Naturlose(R) (D-tagatose), in the treatment and management of Type 2 diabetes.
Being neither a rambler nor a landowner, but living in a village and enjoying walking the country footpaths, I find the necessity of this continuing conflict between the walkers and workers of the land to be greatly exaggerated.There is no excuse for landowners who deliberately obliterate or obstruct rights of way, but at the same time the demands of ramblers too often ignore the changing needs of the regular users of local footpaths.The principal use of most footpaths is no longer to enable people to get from A to B by the shortest route but for pleasure and exercise. To have made only seven unforced errors against Petr Korda was a barely believable achievement considering the force with which he hammers every shot but even so Michael Stich’s serve should have made more headway against him in the semi-final.One also expected more of Pete Sampras but, yet again, Stefan Edherg’s refusal to buckle when behind enabled him to show the young American, who led 4-0 in the first set and 5-2 in the third, just what level of desire is required to go on winning in today’s brutally competitive game.Amazingly there is now the first flicker of a suggestion that British tennis has found someone who understands this. Yet the Lubavitcher Hasidim are generally described as a sect rather than a cult.Professor Barker is the author of the standard Home Office guide to New Religious Movements, the term she prefers to cult, even though, she says, ’some are not new, some are not religious, and some are not moving at all. This is the best vintage of Bergerac sauvignon from Nick Ryman (Hugh’s father) that I have tasted. All seven medals won on the track here came at distances of 400 metres or under.
Linford Christie has expunged any lingering doubts about whether he was the best 100m runner in the world; Sally Gunnell has consolidated her No 1 position in 400m hurdling this season; Colin Jackson has answered those who doubted his ability to deliver on the really big occasion by setting a 110m hurdles record that only he looks capable of breaking in the foreseeable future.These are Britain’s elite, who have and will continue to receive the best possible treatment from their home federation. Some have long-term contracts which I think should be honoured.’Marc Rieper, the highly regarded Denmark centre-half who has faced Quinn in Copenhagen and Dublin over the last year, is again the subject of interest by Newcastle United.
An army spokesman said the entombed corpses were decomposing rapidly in the heat and rain. Asians make up 13 per cent of the city’s population, and more than one-fifth of its school enrolment. ‘WELL, speechless I suppose you can’t be as a commentator, but I’ve never more felt like that,’ said John Motson His world had turned upside down, and so had his syntax We needed a flying start – and we’d got one Unfortunately San Marino were in the cockpit ‘Oh, a mistake by Pearce And San Marino I don’t believe this Ex-straw-din-ary start Galtieri the little No 11 Ten seconds Goodness me. ‘The incident is regrettable and I hope justice will be done,’ he said.But Matthew Phosa, who heads the ANC’s legal department, said there had been many assassination plots against ANC figures and a political motive could not be ruled out.
They lost 9-0.The FA Cup: Club By Club Record Since 1945, compiled by James Wright (Williams, pounds 19.95), is a researcher’s piece de resistance and train-spotter’s dream, containing the result of all 27,000 Cup matches since the war. Officially there are 300 vessels registered to fish strict quotas in British and Irish waters but, according to Irish monitoring services, about 40 per cent of the registered fleet has already been prosecuted for breaking the law. He moved from health to his post in the Treasury after the last election.Lord Walker still waxes lyrical about his protege. Daniel Day-Lewis, Spike Lee, the director of In the Name of the Father, Jim Sheridan, and Emma Thompson have all pledged their support and she hopes to persuade Mick Jagger and Lenny Kravitz to perform a duet. This polarisation of views is reflected by the positions adopted by environmental pressure groups. The decision to nominate Nato to implement UN policies in Bosnia was taken without consulting the Russians; so was the decision to issue an ultimatum on Sarajevo, the shooting down of four Serb planes over Bosnia and the launch of air strikes on Gorazde on 10 April. His colleagues, me included, said that if we ever got into trouble we would certainly hire John as our advocate.
The group is confident of raising the 100 signatures needed to call a special meeting.
All the writers of letters sent to the C&G Alternatives Group via the Independent will be notified of the next stage in the campaign.Paul Rivlin, one of those behind the campaign, says the wording of a resolution to put to members at a special general meeting would focus on obtaining a full report of the offer, examining alternatives and a proper means of putting them to members. ‘Don’t believe in what writers say,’ he warns in The Flying Creatures or Fra Angelico (1987 / 1991) ‘they lie almost all the time.’ His writing thrives on ambiguity and unfinished truths. Before Easter, the official line was ‘bugger off’.'The crackdown on ‘video nasties’ includes: imprisonment for up to six months for shopkeepers who break the codes for 15- and 18-rated videos by renting them to under-age children; imprisonment for up to two years for those illegally supplying banned videos to children; tighter use of existing ratings for 15 and 18, and non-certification of films by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC); and statutory guidelines requiring the censors to ‘have regard to’ preventing children viewing videos that are likely to cause ‘pyschological harm to a child’ or which present ‘an inappropriate model for children’.Mr Howard denied that he had made a U-turn and said he had wanted tougher action. Many of them wanted to take part in Video Nation because they believed the project was a worthwhile one, many others because they thought of themselves as ‘ordinary people’, whom television rarely features. The plunge in government stocks occurred despite Bank of England attempts to halt the slide by buying gilts.
In the quarter, El Paso’s natural gas output was 803million cubic feet equivalent per day (MMcfe/d), 10 percentlower than the 2008 first quarter. Analysts on average had expected 27 cents per share,according to Reuters Estimates. But, excluding $1.3 billion, or $1.92 per share, innon-cash charges, El Paso posted adjusted earnings of 47 centsper share. El Paso, based in Houston, reported a net loss of $978million or $1.41 per share, compared with a profit of $200million, or 29 cents per share a year earlier.
Larger price realizations for the company’s exploration andproduction arm and stronger-than-expected results at itspipeline unit fueled the Wall Street beat, energy research firmTudor Pickering Holt Securities & Co wrote in a note toclients. “We have maintained a strong liquidity position with morethan sufficient liquidity to meet 2009 debt maturities, fundour 2009 capital program, and carry us well into 2010,” DougFoshee, El Paso’s chief executive officer, said in a statementaccompanying the results on Friday. El Paso and other oil and gas companies have cut 2009budgets and slowed drilling to help weather a more than 40percent slide in natural gas prices Even so, El Paso said itsfinancial position is strong. Investors pushed the stock of the natural gas producer andpipeline company to the largest one-day gain in more than fivemonths in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. * Adjusted EPS 47 cents vs Wall St view 27 cts Stocks | Global Markets * Stock soars 11 percent * Q1 net loss $1.41/share (Recasts first paragraph, changes dateline from NEW YORK, addsdetails, updates share price) By Anna Driver HOUSTON, May 8 (Reuters) – El Paso Corp (EP.N) postedbetter-than-expected results on realized gains on oil andnatural gas hedges and pipeline growth, sending its sharessoaring 11 percent. He chose to do so in a novelbelieving that only public pressure will result in the enactment of therelatively inexpensive requisite protective measures.Contact:Rachel Copyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-.
GeffsSeptember 11, 2001 ended his retirement — the time had come to reveal athreat he had first deduced in 1959. My goal is toensure that I’m never the in position to say, ‘I told you so.’ Meanwhile,we remain a nation of sitting ducks.”About Tolman F. Ifthe hazards are validated, protective measures must be adopted.Unfortunately, there is a near universal flaw in the human psyche; we donot take threats seriously until after they have occurred. “This will require the cooperative efforts ofscientists from several disciplines and extensive computer simulations. Mere nudges could break it and the otherfaults free.The scenario in his book details how those nudges can be delivered and bemade to appear to be “acts of God.” The key is the use of small diameter,tactical A-bombs (equivalent to the U.S.’s now retired 40 kiloton yieldW-33) not as weapons, but as energy sources to create massive steamexplosions deep within faults thus triggering the release of orders ofmagnitude greater natural forces that have been quietly accumulating forcenturies.”What I am seeking is the unbiased, independent analysis of the threatsdelineated,” Geffs said. TheSouthern section of the San Andreas Fault is overdue for a major seismicevent by a factor of more than 2. So, is this the smiting of ussinners that fundamentalist Christians have long prophesized? An “act ofGod” of unparalleled ferocity?But, what if it wasn’t? What if the statewide quakes and conflagrationwere triggered events by terrorists intent on inflicting death anddestruction of unimagined proportions?That’s what Tolman Geffs, an ex-missile engineer (BS, MS, PE) and authorof the novel, “The Unsung Patriots,” a May release from Trabuco Press,believes could happen.On November 13, 2008, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) held thecautionary ShakeOut Scenario earthquake drill in Southern California.
TRABUCO CANYON, CA, May 08 (MARKET WIRE) — It would start simultaneously at four locations on the San Andreas Faultplus one each on the Puente Hills Thrust Fault (which runs under theskyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles) and the Hayward Fault in the SanFrancisco Bay area.Earthquakes are naturally occurring events. Hot StocksInvestors pushed the stock of the natural gas producer and pipeline company to the largest one-day gain in more than five months in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange.El Paso and other oil and gas companies have cut 2009 budgets and slowed drilling to help weather a more than 40 percent slide in natural gas prices. HOUSTON (Reuters) – El Paso Corp (EP.N) posted better-than-expected results on realized gains on oil and natural gas hedges and pipeline growth, sending its shares soaring 11 percent. The company has no obligation to update theseforward-looking statements.Contact:Deep Blue Marine, Inc.801-201-4691Copyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-. Although we believe that theexpectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable,we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance orachievements. Forward-lookingstatements may be identified by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,”"could,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “believes,”"estimates,” “predicts,” “forecasts,” “potential,” or “continue,” orsimilar terms or the negative of these terms.
A woman died beside us, leaving two children, and I saw a child dying without a leg There was screaming all the time The Serb police came and took seven people to hospital. They did not behave badly, but one of them said to us: `Stop crying Your Nato did this. This is what you asked for.’ Our son had been wounded in the eye. I saw a little girl wounded, but with the other children, we ran to Fshaj. Isuf took two of our younger children, Albulena and Ardyrli, in his arms, and I held the other four and we left everything Even our family photograph album was blown away by the bomb.
We ran to the fields but 15 minutes later got back on the tractor and trailer and drove on Then, near Fshaj, something hit our tractor on the side. The driver of the tractor was wounded – his wife lost two fingers – but we were lucky and were thrown out by the blast. They were shouting: `You’ve only got one chance: go to Albania.’”At the entrance of Gjakova, the Serbs shouted at us: `Go to Gjakova and Nato will save you.’ Not far from the bridge at Bistrazin, the first strike came in and the tractor behind us was hit. We saw with our own eyes bones flying in the air, flesh flying past us, bodies in the air I never thought I should see such things. “We had been moved from Gjakova to Meja, and on the morning of the 14th, the Serbs told us all to leave There were thousands of vehicles, tractors, lorries We left with 40 people in our trailor The convoy had Serb military vehicles in it They were escorting us. I am a nurse.” She told her story amid tears and long, terrible silences while the children watched her with a mixture of fear and incomprehension.
“We lost every one of our family pictures and now I have this one back. It is the only photograph of Isuf that survives.”I sat on a mattress in a cold, damp, blackened room Where was the picture of the couple taken, I asked? “Here, in this room,” Ganimete replied “The sofa was there, against the wall behind you It was taken just after the New Year My husband was a chemist. The little boys in the pictures, the smiling child behind the sunflowers, had grown pitiful. When she asked how I found her, I produced the photograph of her and her husband and said I had found it by the road on April 15. And she took the picture carefully from my hand and kissed it and clutched it to her breast and wept “It is the only memory I have of him,” she said. “Now you will meet Ganimete,” he said.I didn’t recognise her. The 34-year-old housewife on the sofa with her husband had turned into a 50-year-old with a face of despair.
“I think the only people we can trust are ourselves.” Then he pointed to a burned-out house, once a family home, now just a box of scorched concrete walls. We don’t know where it is.” How could I forget that head?It was a grey, soggy afternoon as we drove into the ruins of Djakovica – Gjakova to the Albanians – and Fadil was plying me with questions What will happen to Kosovo, he wanted to know “I thank Nato for liberating us But can we trust them in the future?” He paused. Next to him, in that small mound, are some bits and pieces of bodies that they found and buried together.” Down a narrow lane, we stopped again beside another grave, this time adorned with bright red plastic flowers “This is the body of Rexhi Rexha He was beheaded in the attack We found his body But we never got his head back. “This is the grave of Ali Tafa, who was killed on the tractor on the bridge. Ganimete and Isuf came from Nevikoz but had lived in Gjakova, he said. Ganimete had a cousin, Fadil, who worked on a farm half a mile away.
She may be busy with her career, but Rihanna is finding quality time to hang with her new beau, ballplayer Matt Kemp.
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