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Given Israel's plans, staying may involve that and more. Israel's spending enormous sums building elaborate infrastructure, including roads, electricity lines, traffic circles and E1 development lots in place. Everything needed for construction is there, but completing it will prevent a two state solution by preventing... |
According to Council for Peace and Security/Geneva Initiative leader Col. (res.) Shaul Arieli, Israel's road "complex is burning through a sea of money and a sea of people to serve a plan based on a delusional working assumption: that (East) Jerusalem will remain under our sovereignty, and greater Ma'aleh Adumim, inclu... |
Ir Amim's Ahmad Sub Laban said Israel wants to divide the West Bank in two parts, explaining it wants territorial contiguity between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem to give settlers city access without checkpoints. However, doing so divides the West Bank in two, destroying a two state solution. |
Hebron is also affected. According to settlement expert Abdul Hadi Hantash, plans are to displace thousands of Palestinians from 20 nearby towns and villages. |
Large land areas east and south of Hebron were stolen to enable Ammon, Susiya and Carmel settlement construction and satellite links established. |
Palestinians are getting demolition orders to vacate and leave. Israel wants seized areas entirely emptied for Jews only development. Expect other neighborhoods to face similar threats. |
Israel wants all valued West Bank land and East Jerusalem Judaized. Palestinians will be left isolated in scrub land cantons without rights and few resources. |
For decades, they've resisted Israeli repression valiantly. Growing millions worldwide support them. Washington and Israel face growing isolation. |
One day Palestinians will prevail. What can't go on forever, won't. Long denied justice will be achieved, but not without years more pain and suffering. |
Liberation requires struggle. Getting it's worth the price. |
On Thursday, Dr. Kent Brantly thought he was going to die. |
It was the ninth day since the American missionary worker came down sick with Ebola in Liberia. |
His condition worsening by the minute, Brantly called his wife to say goodbye. |
Thankfully, the call was premature. |
Brantly is back on his feet — literally — after receiving a last-ditch, highly experimental drug. Another American missionary with Ebola got the same. |
Brantly’s and Nancy Writebol’s conditions significantly improved after receiving the medication, sources say. Brantly was able to walk into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being evacuated to the United States last week, and Writebol is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday. |
On July 22, Brantly woke up feeling feverish. Fearing the worst, Brantly immediately isolated himself. Writebol’s symptoms started three days later. A rapid field blood test confirmed the infection in both of them after they had become ill with fever, vomiting and diarrhea. |
It’s believed Brantly and Writebol, who worked with the aid organization Samaritan’s Purse, contracted Ebola from another health care worker at their hospital in Liberia, although the official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case investigation has yet to be released. |
As the Americans’ conditions worsened, Samaritan’s Purse reached out to a National Institutes of Health scientist who was on the ground in West Africa, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. |
“The scientist was able to informally answer some questions and referred them to appropriate company contacts to pursue their interest in obtaining the experimental product,” NIAID said. |
The experimental drug, known as ZMapp, was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San Diego. The patients were told that the treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys. |
According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection. Two of four other monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived. One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus. |
Brantly and Writebol were aware of the risk of taking a new, little-understood treatment and gave informed consent, according to two sources familiar with the care of the missionary workers. In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Brantly didn’t receive it until he’d been sic... |
The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice’s blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells. |
The ZMapp vials, stored at subzero temperatures, reached the hospital in Liberia where Brantly and Writebol were being treated Thursday morning. Doctors were instructed to allow the serum to thaw naturally without any additional heat. It was expected that it would be eight to 10 hours before the medicine could be given... |
Brantly asked that Writebol be given the first dose because he was younger and he thought he had a better chance of fighting it, and she agreed. However, as the first vial was still thawing, Brantly’s condition took a sudden turn for the worse. |
Brantly began to deteriorate and developed labored breathing. He told his doctors he thought he was dying, according to a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation. |
By the next morning, Brantly was able to take a shower on his own before getting on a specially designed Gulfstream air ambulance jet to be evacuated to the United States. |
Writebol also received a vial of the medication. Her response was not as remarkable, according to sources familiar with the treatment. However, doctors on Sunday administered Writebol a second dose of the medication, which resulted in significant improvement. |
She was stable enough to be evacuated back to the United States. |
The process by which the medication was made available to Brantly and Writebol is highly unusual. |
Doctors Without Borders similarly weighed in on the side of caution. |
“It is important to keep in mind that a large-scale provision of treatments and vaccines that are in very early stages of development has a series of scientific and ethical implications,” the organization said in a statement. |
ZMapp has not been approved for human use and has not even gone through the clinical trial process, which is standard to prove the safety and efficacy of a medication. It may have been given under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “compassionate use” regulation, which allows access to investigational drugs outsid... |
Getting approval for compassionate use is often long and laborious, but in the case of Brantly and Writebol, they received the medication within seven to 10 days of their exposure to the Ebola virus. |
What a Great Story, Too Bad it is NOT True. |
Jeff Witwer, brother, helps to tie the skates for his brother Kit before a recent practice at Edge Ice Arena in Littleton. |
The Lady Rough Riders listen to their coach before practice at the Ice Center at the Promenade. More and more girls are playing hockey in Colorado. |
Following the puck wasn’t a priority Saturday night at Coors Field, and to some, the score was secondary. Hockey at the home of baseball’s Rockies between the Avalanche and Red Wings was a celebration, a cold and frosty toast to the growth of the game in Colorado. |
The Avalanche is the source of the surge. Hockey, at all levels, spread like a high-country avalanche when the up-and-coming Quebec Nordiques relocated to Denver in 1995 and, soon after, won two Stanley Cups. The immediate success of the team and rock-star attraction to players such as Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Pat... |
Over the past 20 years, Colorado has become one of the country’s best hockey markets, and home-grown players such as Hensley, who will represent Team USA at next month’s world championships, are competing at the highest level. Colorado College and the University of Denver have a combined 11 players from the state on th... |
Coors Field is the third Major League Baseball venue to host an NHL Stadium Series event and sixth overall. The NHL also has had eight Winter Classics on Jan. 1, each in the Eastern time zone. With the success of the events this weekend, Colorado might someday host the Winter Classic. Twenty years ago, the only big Jan... |
The influence of the Avalanche’s arrival, in the NHL’s second attempt to get a foothold in Denver, has spread from tykes to adults, such as Lane, 63, who plays hockey every Tuesday in Centennial. |
The number of adult recreational players in Colorado has increased by more than 500 percent, to 4,692, since 1995, according to USA Hockey. And that figure doesn’t include thousands of others who play in leagues not sanctioned by USA Hockey. |
Colorado youth hockey players have doubled to more than 10,000 in 20 years and top-end amateur programs that didn’t exist in 1995 are producing junior, college and professional talent. Colorado Springs-based USA Hockey is now surrounded by some of the best players and coaches in America. |
“Our youth hockey is as healthy as anywhere nationally, and we’re creating top-end players as good as any state, per capita,” said Rick Boh, a former Colorado College and NHL player from Canada who successfully established hockey-specific retail stores throughout the state. He played hockey at Colorado College in the 1... |
• Colorado has produced hundreds of junior, college and professional players. The Colorado Thunderbirds (metro Denver) and Colorado Rampage (Monument) are members of the Tier I Elite League (ages 14-18) and playing among America’s top young talent. |
• Forty-four players born in Colorado are now playing Division I hockey, according to College Hockey Inc., compared with 20 in 2002-03. According to former University of Denver defenseman Todd Kidd, he and only four other Colorado natives were playing Division I college hockey when the Avalanche arrived in 1995. |
• There are 10 Coloradans playing in the Canadian Hockey League, the umbrella for the Western, Ontario and Quebec major-junior leagues. In 1995, there were none. |
• High school hockey in metro Denver didn’t exist in 1995, having been shut down by the Colorado High School Activities Association because of security problems in the 1980s. But because of the Avalanche/NHL influence, the preps soon returned. There are now 32 CHSAA teams and 88 overall, according to Colorado Amateur H... |
• In 1995, girls in Colorado played exclusively on boys teams. Now, Colorado Select Girls Hockey is one of the country’s premier A, double-A and triple-A girls organizations, and the girls are also playing in fall and spring leagues. According to USA Hockey, 2,193 Colorado girls are registered, eighth most in this coun... |
• Former Avalanche players such as Ken Klee and Adam Foote are among many retired NHL players now living and coaching hockey in Colorado. George Gwozdecky, who coached DU to 2004 and 2005 NCAA titles, is now head coach at Valor Christian High School, which has tentative plans to be the first in the state to build an on... |
Hockey is for all ages, at least when you eliminate checking. Former DU forward Daryl Seltenreich co-founded the adult Rocky Mountain Hockey League in 1990 with 17 teams in the winter and four in the summer. The RMHL has grown to 94 summer teams and 109 this winter. The RMHL continues to grow, despite new rinks creatin... |
Outdoor adult hockey in Colorado has grown just as much as the indoor game. The rinks are smaller and a goalie isn’t always needed, but the participation is significant. |
David Janowiec of Erie runs the Pabst Colorado Pond Hockey Tournament in Silverthorne. It’s the largest pond hockey event west of the Mississippi River, and this year’s tournament, held more than a week ago, was sold out (150 teams). There were participants from 40 states and three countries. Gempeler runs a pond hocke... |
Colorado’s embrace of hockey goes back to the Avalanche, the NHL and the immediate success the second time it had a team in the world’s premier hockey league. The Denver Grizzlies of the International Hockey League helped pave the way while playing their only season in 1994-95 at McNichols Sports Arena. They won the le... |
“The right opportunity came around with (Grizzlies owner) Dave Elmore and the IHL, during the IHL heyday,” said Lane, the city’s events boss at the time. “I knew we had to have them play at McNichols to maximize the opportunity, but, of course, they wanted to pay the cheaper (Denver) Coliseum costs. I had written a par... |
In 1995, Mayor Webb was right about one thing: Denver is indeed a football town. |
But thanks to the Avalanche, hockey has impressively found its place. At Coors Field this weekend. |
An Edgewood, New Jersey, man allegedly killed his wife and daughter, possibly on Christmas Day, before turning the gun on himself. |
People reports that 53-year-old Michael Stasko was found dead in his apartment home in Edgewater, New Jersey, at around 7:30 p.m., from a gunshot wound to the head. His wife Melissa, 49, and their daughter Mellie, 8, were also found dead with gunshot wounds to the back of their heads. Authorities think that Michael kil... |
According to Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli, authorities found the Staskos lifeless in their 17th-floor luxury apartment home after Mellie’s uncle called the police when the family failed to show up for Christmas dinner. The young girl was expected to be dropped off at her uncle’s home in Lees Summit, Misso... |
Authorities also indicate that the family may have been shot and killed as early as Tuesday, on Mellie’s eighth birthday. Investigators are still trying to determine the exact time the incident occurred. |
The New York Times reports that the 8-year-old was found in her parent’s bed, still wearing her pajamas, with a gunshot wound behind her left ear. Her mother was laying beside her, also in pajamas, with a gunshot wound on the right side of the back of her head. Michael was found nearby with a gunshot wound under his ch... |
Investigators are also trying to determine what motive Michael had when allegedly killing his family. He didn’t leave a note behind, or anything else to help authorities understand why the tragedy happened. According to Molinelli, the investigation is just beginning. |
The most troubling part for Molinelli was finding a young child dead. He stated when there is a death involving a child, authorities want to get to the bottom of it right away. |
No neighbors heard gunshots or anything out of the ordinary, leading authorities to believe that Michael may have used a towel to muffle the gunshot sounds. Molinelli said that the family’s apartment, where Michael worked at home as a watch salesman, was well-kept and “lovely.” They had a Christmas tree with nicely-wra... |
One of the family’s neighbors, Miguelina Castaldi, 42, described the family as quiet, stating that Michael seemed conservative but loving and protective with his daughter. |
The community, located on Tower Drive in Edgewater, provides residents with both indoor and outdoor pools, 24-hour concierge, a fitness center, and a tennis court. Violent crimes in the area are almost non-existent. The story is still developing. |
It’s no secret that not everyone got along with David Letterman, who has a famously prickly personality. Over his 33 years on late-night TV, he managed to make a lot of his guests pretty angry. |
Then again, he was also delightful to many. Here are some of his friends, enemies and frenemies through the years. |
Oh, these two. Philbin holds the title for the most appearances ever on Letterman’s late-night shows, as he’s stopped by 136 times over the years. Reege also filled in as guest-host when Letterman had to step off the air for his heart surgery in 2000. |
You’ll only go on a fast-food road trip with someone you really like. |
We group these four together because their interviews seem pretty similar — Letterman is always delighted to chat with other guys who have been around forever. |
Letterman has always been a fan — remember when he asked her out on a date? |
The star has been on the show tons of times and Letterman loves putting him in weird situations: On stage with Don Rickles; telling vacation stories with Lenny Kravitz; trying to start a bromance; or being in front of an empty stage during Hurricane Sandy. |
He won’t bring a comforter into the freezing studio for just anyone. |
We all know she didn’t hold back during this contentious interview. |
Letterman got actually quite angry during their 2006 talk about the Iraq War. |
Dropping 14 f-bombs in one interview certainly made her an enemy of the network, at least. |
He’s just such an easy target. |
While they did indeed have quite the awkward interview in the ’90s, talk of their feud may have been a bit exaggerated — by now, they’re actually real friends. |
Letterman gives her a hard time, but we suspect he has a soft spot for the troubled star. |
Never cancel on Letterman with a fake excuse; you will get called out on television. Sen. McCain eventually made up for his blunder by appearing on the show (and apologizing) a few weeks later. |
NEW HAVEN (CN) – Veterans groups claim in Federal Court that the military is trying to keep a lid on “bad-paper discharges” it handed tens of thousands of service members who likely suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder before the medical community recognized that condition. |
Vietnam Veterans of America and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress brought the complaint on Monday against the U.S. Department of Defense and three military branches. |
They say that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs denies disability compensation and other benefits to veterans who received other-than-honorable (OTH) discharges, but that many who received such “bad-paper discharges” are the tens of thousands of servicemembers suffering from undiagnosed PTSD. |
PTSD was not recognized as a medical condition until 1980, according to the complaint. |
From 1993 to 2014, the Boards for Correction of Military/Naval Records approved fewer than 5 percent of these type of applications from Vietnam veterans, according to the complaint. |
“Disclosure of these records is essential for the public to assess DOD’s compliance with the directive and assist veterans seeking to apply for discharge upgrades,” the complaint states, but the government has thus far allegedly failed to provide responsive, non-exempt records within the statutory time period. |
“Without information about how DOD, Army, Navy, Air Force, and their respective boards have handled PTSD-related discharge upgrade applications, the public cannot hold these entities accountable for the fair and just treatment of veterans,” the complaint states. |
The groups note that the records implicate an estimated 80,000 Vietnam veterans, many of whom are elderly, indigent and suffer from medical problems. |
The last communication that the groups had with the Defense Department was on Dec. 29, 2014, when the agency said it was working on the request. |
The Air Force allegedly urged the groups to narrow the scope of their request. The Navy told the plaintiffs it was closing the request as duplicative of the one filed with the Defense Department, and the Army declined to process most of the request as “unduly burdensome,” according to the complaint. |
The groups say they narrowed their Dec. 8, 2014, requests to the military branches in March and April, but have not received a response. |
They are represented by Michael Wishnie of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization. |
If we were all only so bold. |
Fred Armisen has been the show’s President Obama since 2008, but Jay Pharoah, who is actually black, will take the role. |
Colorlines.com visits the star and staff of the only late-night show hosted by a black person, premiering tonight on FX. |
Actress Puja Mohindra wants Ashton Kutcher to know his Popchips ad that mocked Indians was a total fail… and she’s doing it with kindness. |
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