By LARRY DORMAN
Published: November 30, 2009
Tiger Woods announced his withdrawal from this week’s Chevron World Challenge, the tournament he has hosted since its move to the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in 2000. In a statement on his Web site on Monday, Woods, 33, cited injuries from Friday’s one-car accident in front of his home near Orlando, Fla., as the cause for the withdrawal.
“I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,” Woods said in the statement. “I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I’m very sorry that I can’t be there.”
Woods crashed his 2009 Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a neighbor’s tree early Friday as he was pulling out of his driveway in the gated community of Isleworth, an Orlando suburb where many high-profile athletes live. He sustained cuts to his upper and lower lips and was left unconscious for some time, according to an incident report. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was treated and released in good condition.
Woods, whose Tiger Woods Foundation is the main charitable beneficiary of the Chevron tournament — which he has won four times — did not play in last December’s event while recuperating from knee surgery. He did spend the week mingling with sponsors at Sherwood in his role as the host.
Woods’s Web site said he would play no other events this year. In the four years before missing this season’s Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines Golf Course, Woods started his United States schedule there, winning four straight at the La Jolla, Calif., municipal course. The 2010 event, named the Century Club of San Diego Invitational since the loss of Buick as a PGA Tour sponsor, will be played from Jan. 28 to Jan. 31.
“We support Tiger’s decision and are confident the strong field and excellent course will provide an exciting week of competition at the Chevron World Challenge,” said Greg McLaughlin, the president and chief executive of the Tiger Woods Foundation.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Tiger Woods Said to Be in Good Condition After Car Crash
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 27, 2009
Tiger Woods was injured early Friday when he lost control of his SUV outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out the back window to help get him out.
The world's No. 1 golfer was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said. The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard after he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.
Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star laying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him.
She told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and ''came out and broke the back window with a golf club,'' he said. ''She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground. He was in and out of consciousness when my guys got there.''
He said Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and blood in his mouth; officers treated Woods for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods was alone in his 2009 Cadillac when he pulled out of his driveway from his mansion at Isleworth, a gated waterfront community just outside Orlando.
The patrol reported Woods' injuries as serious, although Woods spokesman Glenn Greenspan issued a statement that Woods was treated and released.
The patrol said alcohol was not involved, although the accident remains under investigation and charges could be filed.
Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour. Greenspan and agent Mark Steinberg said there would be no comment beyond the short statement of the accident posted on Woods' Web site.
Saylor said his responding officers did not hear anything about an alleged argument between Woods and his wife.
''Right now we believe this is a traffic crash. We don't believe it is domestic issue,'' patrol spokesman Sgt. Kim Montes said.
Woods, coming off a two-week trip to China and Australia earlier this month, is host of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif., which starts Thursday. He is scheduled to have his press conference Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Country Club. Steinberg said he did not know if Woods planned to play next week.
The Florida Highway Patrol said tapes of the 911 call won't be released until they can be reviewed, probably Monday at the earliest.
The accident report was not released until nearly 12 hours after Woods was injured. Montes said the accident did not meet the criteria of a serious crash, and the FHP only put out a press release because of inquiries from local media.
Montes said the patrol reports injuries as serious if they require more than minor medical attention. Air bags in the SUV did not deploy.
Two troopers tried to talk to Woods on Friday evening, but his wife said he was sleeping and they agreed to come back Saturday, Montes said.
She said charges could be filed if there was a clear traffic violation, although troopers still do not know what caused Woods' SUV to hit the hydrant and the tree.
Woods rarely faces such private scrutiny, even as perhaps the most famous active athlete in the world.
He usually makes news only because of what he can do with a golf club. Few other athletes have managed to keep their private lives so guarded, or have a circle of friends so airtight when it comes to life off the course.
His wife was awarded a $183,250 settlement and an apology from an Irish magazine that published a fake nude photo of her, and Woods received a $1.6 million settlement in a lawsuit against the builder of his yacht -- named Privacy -- for using his name and photos of the boat as promotional material.
Woods is approaching $100 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour, and Forbes magazine reported that combined with endorsements, appearance fees and golf course design, he has become the first athlete to top $1 billion.
Woods' $2.4 million home is part of an exclusive subdivision near Orlando, a community set on an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course and a chain of small lakes. The neighborhood, which is fortified with high brick walls and has its own security force, is home to CEOs and other sports stars such as the NBA's Shaquille O'Neal.
Woods, who has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, attended the Stanford-Cal football game last Saturday, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.
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Doug Ferguson reported from Jacksonville, Fla. Associated Press writers Tamara Lush and Lisa Orkin Emmanuel in Miami contributed to this report.
Published: November 27, 2009
Tiger Woods was injured early Friday when he lost control of his SUV outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out the back window to help get him out.
The world's No. 1 golfer was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said. The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard after he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.
Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star laying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him.
She told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and ''came out and broke the back window with a golf club,'' he said. ''She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground. He was in and out of consciousness when my guys got there.''
He said Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and blood in his mouth; officers treated Woods for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods was alone in his 2009 Cadillac when he pulled out of his driveway from his mansion at Isleworth, a gated waterfront community just outside Orlando.
The patrol reported Woods' injuries as serious, although Woods spokesman Glenn Greenspan issued a statement that Woods was treated and released.
The patrol said alcohol was not involved, although the accident remains under investigation and charges could be filed.
Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour. Greenspan and agent Mark Steinberg said there would be no comment beyond the short statement of the accident posted on Woods' Web site.
Saylor said his responding officers did not hear anything about an alleged argument between Woods and his wife.
''Right now we believe this is a traffic crash. We don't believe it is domestic issue,'' patrol spokesman Sgt. Kim Montes said.
Woods, coming off a two-week trip to China and Australia earlier this month, is host of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif., which starts Thursday. He is scheduled to have his press conference Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Country Club. Steinberg said he did not know if Woods planned to play next week.
The Florida Highway Patrol said tapes of the 911 call won't be released until they can be reviewed, probably Monday at the earliest.
The accident report was not released until nearly 12 hours after Woods was injured. Montes said the accident did not meet the criteria of a serious crash, and the FHP only put out a press release because of inquiries from local media.
Montes said the patrol reports injuries as serious if they require more than minor medical attention. Air bags in the SUV did not deploy.
Two troopers tried to talk to Woods on Friday evening, but his wife said he was sleeping and they agreed to come back Saturday, Montes said.
She said charges could be filed if there was a clear traffic violation, although troopers still do not know what caused Woods' SUV to hit the hydrant and the tree.
Woods rarely faces such private scrutiny, even as perhaps the most famous active athlete in the world.
He usually makes news only because of what he can do with a golf club. Few other athletes have managed to keep their private lives so guarded, or have a circle of friends so airtight when it comes to life off the course.
His wife was awarded a $183,250 settlement and an apology from an Irish magazine that published a fake nude photo of her, and Woods received a $1.6 million settlement in a lawsuit against the builder of his yacht -- named Privacy -- for using his name and photos of the boat as promotional material.
Woods is approaching $100 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour, and Forbes magazine reported that combined with endorsements, appearance fees and golf course design, he has become the first athlete to top $1 billion.
Woods' $2.4 million home is part of an exclusive subdivision near Orlando, a community set on an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course and a chain of small lakes. The neighborhood, which is fortified with high brick walls and has its own security force, is home to CEOs and other sports stars such as the NBA's Shaquille O'Neal.
Woods, who has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, attended the Stanford-Cal football game last Saturday, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.
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Doug Ferguson reported from Jacksonville, Fla. Associated Press writers Tamara Lush and Lisa Orkin Emmanuel in Miami contributed to this report.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Thanksgiving to Americans
Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:38 PM
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Thanksgiving
David --Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones.American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve. So tomorrow, I'll be giving thanks for my family -- for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life.But tomorrow is also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love. The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling. The folks who must spend tomorrow apart from their families to work a second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school. We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.So when we gather tomorrow, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American family can enjoy. It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an improbable course to change our nation.In the years since, Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement for change. You have been there through victories and setbacks. You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we have accomplished -- and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger dreams for what we can still achieve.So in this season of thanks giving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.With warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to yours,President Barack Obama
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Thanksgiving
David --Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones.American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve. So tomorrow, I'll be giving thanks for my family -- for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life.But tomorrow is also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love. The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling. The folks who must spend tomorrow apart from their families to work a second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school. We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.So when we gather tomorrow, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American family can enjoy. It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an improbable course to change our nation.In the years since, Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement for change. You have been there through victories and setbacks. You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we have accomplished -- and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger dreams for what we can still achieve.So in this season of thanks giving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.With warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to yours,President Barack Obama
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Chicago police sergeant charged with stealing about $600,000 from union fund
By Annie Sweeney Tribune Reporter
November 22, 2009
The head of the Chicago police sergeants' union was charged with looting union dues to pay for steak dinners, gambling trips to Las Vegas and a second residence in the city's Sauganash neighborhood.Sgt. John Pallohusky, a 21-year veteran assigned to the detective division, was arrested at his Northwest Side home early Friday on felony theft and money-laundering charges for allegedly embezzling about $600,000 over the last several years."This case makes this a very difficult day for all of us in law enforcement," said State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.Pallohusky, 53, is accused of writing checks from the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association to himself and depositing them into his personal accounts. He is also accused of using association credit cards for personal use.The union funds were built by the $25 each member pays per pay period, according to the complaint. Some $765,000 in dues is collected each year from the 1,200 members of the union."We will do everything possible to recover these funds," said Police Superintendent Jody Weis, who noted that the investigation continues.Union officials said they were cooperating with the investigation and that the organization is "fiscally sound." Edward Maloney, the union's general counsel, said the board of directors will run the union's day-to-day operations.Attorney Robert Kuzas, who is representing Pallohusky, denied wrongdoing. "I don't believe he misappropriated one penny of the union's money," he said.The Police Department's Internal Affairs Division opened an investigation after Chase Bank noticed in August that Pallohusky had deposited tens of thousands of dollars into a personal account from a union credit card account, authorities said. Prosecutors moved to seize Pallohusky's two homes. asweeney@tribune.com
November 22, 2009
The head of the Chicago police sergeants' union was charged with looting union dues to pay for steak dinners, gambling trips to Las Vegas and a second residence in the city's Sauganash neighborhood.Sgt. John Pallohusky, a 21-year veteran assigned to the detective division, was arrested at his Northwest Side home early Friday on felony theft and money-laundering charges for allegedly embezzling about $600,000 over the last several years."This case makes this a very difficult day for all of us in law enforcement," said State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.Pallohusky, 53, is accused of writing checks from the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association to himself and depositing them into his personal accounts. He is also accused of using association credit cards for personal use.The union funds were built by the $25 each member pays per pay period, according to the complaint. Some $765,000 in dues is collected each year from the 1,200 members of the union."We will do everything possible to recover these funds," said Police Superintendent Jody Weis, who noted that the investigation continues.Union officials said they were cooperating with the investigation and that the organization is "fiscally sound." Edward Maloney, the union's general counsel, said the board of directors will run the union's day-to-day operations.Attorney Robert Kuzas, who is representing Pallohusky, denied wrongdoing. "I don't believe he misappropriated one penny of the union's money," he said.The Police Department's Internal Affairs Division opened an investigation after Chase Bank noticed in August that Pallohusky had deposited tens of thousands of dollars into a personal account from a union credit card account, authorities said. Prosecutors moved to seize Pallohusky's two homes. asweeney@tribune.com
Sunday, November 15, 2009
9/11 trial to showcase U.S. justice: Senator
Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:29pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trying the accused architect of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States in New York criminal court will showcase the U.S. judicial system and will not degenerate into a circus as some critics predict, a senior Democratic senator said on Sunday.
"What we're saying to the world is the U.S. acts out of strength not out of fear," Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CBS's "Face the Nation."
"We have a judicial system that is the envy of the world. Let's show the world that we can use that system just as we used it with (Oklahoma City bomber) Timothy McVeigh," Leahy added.
The 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building killed 168 people. McVeigh was convicted and executed.
"If somebody murders Americans ... they ought to be prosecuted in America and hopefully convicted in America," Leahy said, rejecting arguments that they be tried in special military tribunals first set up by the Bush administration.
Many U.S. Republicans have sharply criticized the Obama administration's decision, announced on Friday, to try accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York in a court near the site of the World Trade Center.
The announcement marked a key step toward meeting President Barack Obama' s goal of closing by January the military prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Bush administration had set up special military commissions at the Guantanamo base to conduct trials, denying defendants many of the rights afforded under the U.S. legal system.
Republican U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra said the decision to hold the trial in New York was "ideology run wild."
"The folks that are going to tried and their lawyers are going to try to extend this as long as they can," possibly as long as three or four years, he said on "Face the Nation."
"They're going to do everything they can to disrupt it and make it a circus and do everything they can to push their ideology," Hoekstra said.
Hoekstra said Attorney General Eric Holder had made a "bad decision" to give the accused "all of the extraordinary protections that you and I have as American citizens" in a criminal trial.
Leahy, a former prosecutor, said the trial would not be allowed to degenerate into a public circus. "I have a lot of faith in our judges," he said. "They know how to run a trial."
Mohammed could be convicted even without evidence obtained under torture such as the practice of simulated drowning known as "waterboarding," which could be ruled inadmissible in a civil trial, Leahy said.
"I have no question that they have enough evidence that was obtained outside of this waterboarding," Leahy said.
(Reporting by Todd Eastham; Editing by Will Dunham)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trying the accused architect of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States in New York criminal court will showcase the U.S. judicial system and will not degenerate into a circus as some critics predict, a senior Democratic senator said on Sunday.
"What we're saying to the world is the U.S. acts out of strength not out of fear," Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CBS's "Face the Nation."
"We have a judicial system that is the envy of the world. Let's show the world that we can use that system just as we used it with (Oklahoma City bomber) Timothy McVeigh," Leahy added.
The 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building killed 168 people. McVeigh was convicted and executed.
"If somebody murders Americans ... they ought to be prosecuted in America and hopefully convicted in America," Leahy said, rejecting arguments that they be tried in special military tribunals first set up by the Bush administration.
Many U.S. Republicans have sharply criticized the Obama administration's decision, announced on Friday, to try accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York in a court near the site of the World Trade Center.
The announcement marked a key step toward meeting President Barack Obama' s goal of closing by January the military prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Bush administration had set up special military commissions at the Guantanamo base to conduct trials, denying defendants many of the rights afforded under the U.S. legal system.
Republican U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra said the decision to hold the trial in New York was "ideology run wild."
"The folks that are going to tried and their lawyers are going to try to extend this as long as they can," possibly as long as three or four years, he said on "Face the Nation."
"They're going to do everything they can to disrupt it and make it a circus and do everything they can to push their ideology," Hoekstra said.
Hoekstra said Attorney General Eric Holder had made a "bad decision" to give the accused "all of the extraordinary protections that you and I have as American citizens" in a criminal trial.
Leahy, a former prosecutor, said the trial would not be allowed to degenerate into a public circus. "I have a lot of faith in our judges," he said. "They know how to run a trial."
Mohammed could be convicted even without evidence obtained under torture such as the practice of simulated drowning known as "waterboarding," which could be ruled inadmissible in a civil trial, Leahy said.
"I have no question that they have enough evidence that was obtained outside of this waterboarding," Leahy said.
(Reporting by Todd Eastham; Editing by Will Dunham)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
D.C. sniper executed in Virginia
By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY
JARRATT, Va. — John Muhammad was executed Tuesday seven years after carrying out sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital for weeks and left 10 people dead.
Muhammad, 48, died in five minutes at 9:11 p.m. from a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center. He said nothing as relatives of his victims looked on behind mirrored glass.
One of those in attendance was Milton Perry, a co-worker of bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, who was shot in the chest at a bus stop in Maryland.
"I'm here because Conrad was the real deal," he said.
MORE: Pending execution reopens wounds victims
A Gulf War veteran and Muslim convert, Muhammad never revealed why he stalked and shot people getting gas or shopping at stores.
His accomplice, Lee Malvo, 24, said Muhammad hoped to extort $10 million from the government to set up a camp where children would be trained as terrorists.
The death penalty was ruled out for Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the murders and committed some of them, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2005 that juvenile offenders cannot be executed.
For three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and Malvo created panic in Washington and its suburbs.
Many fretted that the shootings were an al-Qaeda plot, coming as they did so close to the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. People avoided going outside and avoided self-serve gas stations.
Police got a break when they found Malvo's fingerprint at one of the shooting scenes and learned he was with Muhammad, and that Muhammad owned a blue Chevrolet Caprice. A truck driver spotted the car Oct. 22 at a highway rest stop in Maryland and police arrested the sleeping killers inside.
The car had been modified so someone could shoot from inside the trunk.
Muhammad and Malvo were convicted of six Maryland murders, for which they received life terms. In Virginia, a jury in 2003 sentenced Muhammad to death for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, killed while pumping gas at a Sunoco station in Manassas.
Defense lawyers argued that Muhammad was not mentally competent to stand trial. Courts disagreed.
Muhammad, divorced with five children, spent his final hours meeting with members of his family. He ate a last meal of chicken with red sauce.
His lawyer, Jon Sheldon, said that in the hours before his death Muhammad remained "obsessed in his belief that the government was conspiring against him because of his race."
-http://davidsradiotv2000.blogspot.com
JARRATT, Va. — John Muhammad was executed Tuesday seven years after carrying out sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital for weeks and left 10 people dead.
Muhammad, 48, died in five minutes at 9:11 p.m. from a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center. He said nothing as relatives of his victims looked on behind mirrored glass.
One of those in attendance was Milton Perry, a co-worker of bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, who was shot in the chest at a bus stop in Maryland.
"I'm here because Conrad was the real deal," he said.
MORE: Pending execution reopens wounds victims
A Gulf War veteran and Muslim convert, Muhammad never revealed why he stalked and shot people getting gas or shopping at stores.
His accomplice, Lee Malvo, 24, said Muhammad hoped to extort $10 million from the government to set up a camp where children would be trained as terrorists.
The death penalty was ruled out for Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the murders and committed some of them, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2005 that juvenile offenders cannot be executed.
For three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and Malvo created panic in Washington and its suburbs.
Many fretted that the shootings were an al-Qaeda plot, coming as they did so close to the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. People avoided going outside and avoided self-serve gas stations.
Police got a break when they found Malvo's fingerprint at one of the shooting scenes and learned he was with Muhammad, and that Muhammad owned a blue Chevrolet Caprice. A truck driver spotted the car Oct. 22 at a highway rest stop in Maryland and police arrested the sleeping killers inside.
The car had been modified so someone could shoot from inside the trunk.
Muhammad and Malvo were convicted of six Maryland murders, for which they received life terms. In Virginia, a jury in 2003 sentenced Muhammad to death for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, killed while pumping gas at a Sunoco station in Manassas.
Defense lawyers argued that Muhammad was not mentally competent to stand trial. Courts disagreed.
Muhammad, divorced with five children, spent his final hours meeting with members of his family. He ate a last meal of chicken with red sauce.
His lawyer, Jon Sheldon, said that in the hours before his death Muhammad remained "obsessed in his belief that the government was conspiring against him because of his race."
-http://davidsradiotv2000.blogspot.com
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Keep Your Kidneys Healthy
If you are at risk for kidney disease, the most important steps you can take to keep your kidneys healthy are:
Get your blood and urine checked for kidney disease.
Manage your diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
If tests show kidney disease, there are blood pressure medicines called ACE inhibitors and ARBs that you can take to protect your kidneys. These medicines can help your kidneys even if you don’t have high blood pressure. Learn more about treating kidney disease
Tips for People with Diabetes
Get your blood and urine checked for kidney disease
For type 2 diabetes, get tested every year
For type 1 diabetes, get tested every year starting five years after you were diagnosed with diabetes
Keep your blood pressure below 130/80 mmHg
Aim for your blood glucose targets as often as you can.
When you wake up and before meals: 70 to 130
Two hours after starting to eat a meal: Under 180
Keep your cholesterol levels in the target range
Take your medicines as prescribed
Eat healthy and cut back on salt
Be physically active
For more information on managing diabetes, visit the National Diabetes Education Program.
Tips for People with High Blood Pressure or Heart Disease
Get your blood and urine checked for kidney disease
Keep your blood pressure below 130/80 mmHg
Maintain your ideal weight
Eat healthy
Choose fruits, vegetables, grains, and low-fat dairy foods
Limit your daily sodium intake to 2,300 milligrams (mg) or lower
Be physically active
Limit your alcohol and caffeine intake
Take all medicines as prescribed – there are blood pressure medicines called ACE inhibitors and ARBs that also protect your kidneys
Aim for your blood glucose targets as often as you can if you have diabetes
See your health care provider as directed
-From http://www.nkdep/nih.gov/patients/healthy
Get your blood and urine checked for kidney disease.
Manage your diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
If tests show kidney disease, there are blood pressure medicines called ACE inhibitors and ARBs that you can take to protect your kidneys. These medicines can help your kidneys even if you don’t have high blood pressure. Learn more about treating kidney disease
Tips for People with Diabetes
Get your blood and urine checked for kidney disease
For type 2 diabetes, get tested every year
For type 1 diabetes, get tested every year starting five years after you were diagnosed with diabetes
Keep your blood pressure below 130/80 mmHg
Aim for your blood glucose targets as often as you can.
When you wake up and before meals: 70 to 130
Two hours after starting to eat a meal: Under 180
Keep your cholesterol levels in the target range
Take your medicines as prescribed
Eat healthy and cut back on salt
Be physically active
For more information on managing diabetes, visit the National Diabetes Education Program.
Tips for People with High Blood Pressure or Heart Disease
Get your blood and urine checked for kidney disease
Keep your blood pressure below 130/80 mmHg
Maintain your ideal weight
Eat healthy
Choose fruits, vegetables, grains, and low-fat dairy foods
Limit your daily sodium intake to 2,300 milligrams (mg) or lower
Be physically active
Limit your alcohol and caffeine intake
Take all medicines as prescribed – there are blood pressure medicines called ACE inhibitors and ARBs that also protect your kidneys
Aim for your blood glucose targets as often as you can if you have diabetes
See your health care provider as directed
-From http://www.nkdep/nih.gov/patients/healthy
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