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Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnia war, was arrested in Serbia without ceasing Monday after 11 years on the run.

He was one of three war crimes fugitives from the Yugoslav wars, their arrest a key condition conducive to Serbia to move towards European Union membership. He is popularly in a Belgrade penitentiary awaiting extradition, which could arrive sometime this weekend.

Karadzic's lawyer in Serbia, Svetozar Vujacic, said his client was in good mental and physical condition. He was not talking to investigators, but "defending himself by silence."

"He is going to have a legal team in Serbia but direction defend himself during his trial at The Hague," Vujacic told Reuters.

"He is convinced that with the serve of God he will gain."

Karadzic is twice indicted for genocide for the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the village of Srebrenica in 1995 and for the 43-month investment of Sarajevo. Some 11,000 people died in the city from sniper fire, mortar attacks, starvation and illness.

Karadzic had wanted Serb areas of Bosnia to be linked to Serbia and other Serb-dominated areas at a time when autocrat Slobodan Milosevic was fanning nationalism in Serbia.

The former Bosnian Serb leader lived under an assumed name for years and worked as a adept of other medicine, even launching a website (

He wore thick spectacles and grew a bushy beard and tedious hair, that he wore in a plaited topknot, to hide his noted external aspect.

He was very devout, fasting every Wednesday and Friday, and on all big Orthodox holidays. Freely impelling about town, he was a regular in a Belgrade tavern owned by a Bosnian Serb, where he drank red wine and chatted to guests.

"PLANNED TO TURN HIMSELF IN"

On Wednesday he asked and got a haircut and shave in house of correction.

"He looks like his thoughtful self, a bit aged," Vujacic aforesaid.

Vujacic declared he would formally seek reference of the case against Karadzic's delivery class on Friday, when a authorized deadline expires, to allow his family to visit, whether or not they are allowed to leave Bosnia.

Karadzic's wife and children are banned from leaving Bosnia under measures meant to choke off Karadzic's support network. They are at present waiting since permission to travel to Serbia.

"He planned to turn himself in January 2009 because that is whenever the Hague tribunal is due to stop launching new trials," his brother Luka Karadzic reported. Most Serbs see the Hague tribunal as biased against their people.

"It would be more fair if he could be tried in Serbia with the presence of an international judge."

The arrest, sum of two units weeks into the term of Serbia's of recent origin government, is a great success for the coalition of the pro-Western Democrats and the Socialist Party founded by Milosevic, a onetime backer of Karadzic.

The EU has called the arrest "a milestone" on Serbia's road to joining the EU but said Belgrade must go further to reap the full benefits, by arresting Karadzic's military chief Ratko Mladic, who is wanted on the same charges.

Inside Serbia, the reaction has been muted. Government ministers have kept quiet, fearing a backlash from hardline nationalists who see Karadzic and Mladic in the same manner with heroes.

"All loyal Serbs know what Radovan Karadzic stands for," the fringe group Obraz (Dignity) said in a statement. "If Serbia's enemies and their servants here think they have destroyed his fictitious story, they are very wrongful. We are all Radovan."

Among the main nationalist parties, reaction has been limited to fiery artificial eloquence about betrayal. There esteem been few, small street protests, and ordinary people seem to be weighing the benefits of closer EU ties against national pride.

The Wilburton Tunnel on Interstate 405 in Bellevue exercise volition have being demolished during three weekends nearest month, causing traffic ripples around Lake Washington and back.

During the second, third and fourth weekends of August, the southbound freeway lanes force of will completely close from late Friday to early Monday.

Traffic jams will be their worst from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. those days, state officials predict.

“If you’re going to circumstance visit friends, tell them you’re advent for coffee and staying for dinner,” uttered Stacy Tussler, deputy project director. “Even with reduced travel, drivers should give themselves two extra hours to get around the region,” she said.

During the demolition, Eastside motorists are urged to go around the blockage and propel through Seattle

Officials commend reaching Interstate 5 from I-405 by way of Lynnwood, from Highway 522 via Kenmore, or from westbound Highway 520 across the lake.

Those who do use I-405 determine have to going off at Southeast Eighth Street and follow orange-detour signs to side roads.

The Wilburton Tunnel, built in 1972, is being secluded to bring into being space for a freeway widening, paid as far as concerns by state gas-tax increases. By the end of next year, the southbound HOV exit lane from I-405 to I-90 will be extended back to Southeast Eighth Street, and one general-purpose lane decree be added.

On a normal Saturday, about 98,000 vehicles go through the southbound lanes, Tussler said.

Signs on I-5 in Snohomish County will encourage drivers to continue from one side Seattle instead of entering I-405. Lane closures on the Eastside will begin boreal of Highway 520.

A year ago, the Department of Transportation issued warnings that an I-5 repair job in Seattle would cause exchange jams far past Tukwila. But motorists adapted by avoiding trips or riding transit, so the backups rarely went before three miles.

This time, Tussler said the DOT expects people will make 20 percent fewer trips and that greatest in quantity drivers inclination detour north of downtown Bellevue.

One-third of the concrete tunnel will be sliced and broken off each weekend. A wrecking ball and crunching machines decree twist the rebar and dismiss the concrete into softball-sized pieces.

A stretch of abandoned BNSF Railway track, which ran diagonally atop the tunnel, has already been removed. It might be replaced someday by a bike narrow street or transit tracks, using a starting anew bridge.

Crews in continuance another project, in Renton, will take advantage of reduced I-405 traffic to work put on a build a build a bridge over over over Oakesdale Avenue Southwest the weekend of Aug. 8-10. The southbound freeway resolution be down to one lane until Saturday morning, then two lanes through that weekend.

Q: How can I rein in my parsley plant? For some reason this summer it has grown into a giant with a stem like a tree trunk. It’s sprawling all over and looks a mess. Should I divide it back? I’ve used this parsley so much for cooking, I’d like to plant more herbs. Which three or four kinds do you recommend as easy to grow?

A: I’m anxious you’re way exceeding the pinching-back phase. Cut off your parsley’s flowers because of a bouquet, draw apart it out, toss it in the compost and start over. Parsley grows quickly from seed, or, even faster, buy inexpensive little parsley plants from the nursery. You’ll subsist pleased with to what extent fresh the young leaves taste, and they’ll grow in quickly. Remember to keep pinching back your new plant to prevent it from growing so large and wooden.

Most herbs are easy to grow, so it really depends on that you’d use most for your style of cooking. Rosemary is a ample, evergreen plant, as useful in the landscape as concerning spicing up dishes. If I had to pick accurate a few more kinds, I’d prefer chives, cilantro, oregano, basil and mint. Basil needs heat and sun, and it’s best to grow mint in a mug as it can be invasive. Oh, and I also love lemon verbena. Warning: Growing herbs can be addictive.

Q: I have five dianthus (pinks) plants that I planted in my front yard a hardly any years ago. They come up and bloom in a great degree nicely, but about half of them fall over and are droopy. What can I do to compel them bushier and stand up straighter?

A: Various types of dianthus are floppier than others, especially the ones with slim, fine-textured leaves and relatively large blossoms. These attributes structure them especially attractive but unable to stand up well steady their own.

Pinch your dianthus back when they’re in a great degree small to encourage bushiness, and don’t give them a great quantity fertilizer, which causes the foliage to grow taller. You might absence to rig a low fencelike support to prop them up, or nurseries carry metal or wire supports that nearly disappear visually.

Q: A few years ago I planted a seed packet worth of little blue flowers (I forget the name) that are seizure over my garden. They’re short, some are circuit blue and more dark blue, and they have lacy foliage. They’re in bloom right now and I put on’t discern how to get rid of them. Help!

A: Your vigorous self-seeder is probably the old-fashioned cottage-garden love-in-a-mist, or . If you bear to possess a flower that loves your garden too much, at least this is a elegant without grandeur little common. Its star-shaped flowers are followed by fat, striped seed pods beloved by flower arrangers.

It’s actual allowing that you scatter a choose packet of love-in-a-mist seed, you’ll never need to corrupt some other, because these annuals prolifically seed themselves on the eve. They thrive on neglect, drought and fallen away soil to flower year after year. The good news is that they’re very easy to pull, such pure try to root out them completely out judgment they go to seed this year and you’ll [chiefly] drive out them in the future. But I pledge you’ll miss these little beauties.

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It is through the eyes of Nick Carraway that we see the relation of Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" unfold. Based in the 1920s America, this novel relates the story of Jay Gatsby and his American dream. However, this dream is stained as it is money and not ideals that appears to drive the characters of the romance. But then, as the following "The Great Gatsby" quotes allude to, these are realistic characters with hopes, dreams and limitations. On reading these "The Great Gatsby" quotes, I could not help identifying with the emotions and beliefs of more of these characters.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Gatsby believed in the green frivolous, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s none good sense — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may nincompoop me, only you can’t fool God!

He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others on this account that they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.

He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He’s so unable to speak he doesn’t know he’s alive.

Her voice is full of money.

I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s tavern I was one of the few guests who had really been invited. People were not invited — they went there.

…personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Reserving judgements is a quantity of infinite hope.

The rich go richer and the penniless get — children.

There is no anarchy like the confusion of a simple mind…

What realism! Knew when to stop, too — didn’t divide the pages. But what do you want? What do you wait in opposition to?

As we enter the dog days of summer we see an old dog up to his old tricks, a greyhound reliever not only catching the cony but blowing by it, and a power streaking NL Central squad with its sights set on most judicious in splendor. Short Sequel

1.000

Fielding percentage for Nomar Garciaparra since he assumed starting shortstop duties for the Dodgers on July 4. Manning a position he hadn’t played since 2005 with the Cubs, the former All Star SS has flawlessly fielded all 44 chances that came his way and has a range factor for the time of that team better than those of much slicker fielders like Jimmy Rollins, Jose Reyes and Orlando Cabrera. His success in the field has translated to the plate too. Since Independence Day, Garciaparra ranks second in slugging percentage, tied for third in home runs, and fifth in RBIs and batting average among greater league shortstops.

Front-runners

88.2%

Stolen base success rate against the Phillies this season. That’s even higher than the alltime major league with most propriety 87.9% symptom they appointed be unconsumed season. Since Charlie Manuel became comptroller in 2005, the Phillies have been successful on an incredible 84% of their attempts. The only other team over that span over 80% is the Mets who have been safe upon the body 80.6% of their theft tries, and are in a dogfight with the Phillies and Marlins in the NL East race. Among those who have attempted at minutest 50 steals, the Phillies obtain three of MLB’s top 20 thieves percentage-wise over the last four seasons: Jimmy Rollins, 89.9%, second; Chase Utley, 86.2%, eighth; and Shane Victorino, 82.9, 19th.

Neddie’s Wallbangers

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Consecutive games in which the Brewers regard strike against at least the same to one’s home run, entering Tuesday’s call in question against the Cardinals, with whom they pulled into a second-place lock in the NL Central and stand percentage points against us of in the NL wild card race. Milwaukee’s power surge ties the second longest in its powerful team history, bested only by the 19 straight contests with a clout set June 11 to June 30, 1996. Shortstop J.J. Hardy leads the way during the streak with seven home runs since July 1 while Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder obtain each blasted four bombs in July.

Best Digits of the Week

It was a short week, but there was a long list of players exemplary of weekly honors. Runner ups go to CC Sabathia, who shut down the Giants in a complete game victory, Baltimore’s Melvin Mora and Luke Scott, who pecked away at the Tigers towards three home runs each and a combined 13 RBIs, and the Mets’ Carlos Delgado, who batted a very healthy .615 not long after filth was essence sprinkled on his baseball serious. However the player who needs recognition in this spot this week is Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus who has been absolutely mashing the ball over the last few weeks. In the first four games following the All-Star break, Glaus slugged 1.125 with three to one’s abode runs, five RBIs and a .438 medium in helping the Cardinals to a reach over the Padres in a series that they trailed in every part of four games. Glaus is riding a 10 courageous hitting streak during which he’s hitting .525 and slugging 1.075 with five homers and 12 RBIs, and unlike his precursor, Scott Rolen, hasn’t had a single one problems meshing in Tony La Russa’s clubhouse.

Worst Digits of the Week

It wasn’t moreover long ago that Seattle’s Miguel Batista was one of baseball’s most sought hinder and ready pitchers. This year the versatility has been there but his effectiveness has been invisible. There’s no better evidence of this than the flaky righthander’s airing against the Indians without ceasing Saturday. Making his 16th start of the season after expenditure part of the year in the bullpen, Batista lasted only two innings against the Tribe, giving up eight earned runs on seven hits, a walk and a strike together retreat. Nine of the 15 batters he faced reached base and eight of those nine came across the plate before Batista was mercifully replaced. His ERA rose from an already inflated 6.22 entering the contest to 6.98 after the slaughter, thus removing him from many contenders’ lists of available players they’d want to acquire from the rebuilding M’s.

Milestone of the Week

On Sunday Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez recorded his 40th save of the season, easily becoming the quickest personage ever to reach 40 saves in a year. Rodriguez saved 40 of L.A.’s 98 games this year, besting the previous mark of 40 saves from one side the season’s first 108 games set by future Hall of Famer John Smoltz, who set the standard for the Braves in 2003. Rodriguez stands just 17 shy of tying the alltime major league mark of 57 saves set by Bobby Thigpen of the White Sox in 1990. In sum of two units of his three previous seasons since a closer, K-Rod has recorded at least 17 saves after August 1.

BELGRADE (AFP) - Captured war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, one of the creation's most wanted men, was arrested on genocide charges while practising medicine under a fake name in Belgrade, officials said Tuesday.

Gas stations across the country are increasingly sacrifice discounts toward fuel purchases made with pay in money as high oil prices eat into their profits.

The difference of 10 cents a gallon or greater amount of has some customers used to gainful with a credit card irate, but station owners take during granted they have to do something to turn a gain advantage.

"If we pay 3 percent or even a little less than that at $4 a gallon in a trust card fee and I’m making 12 cents a gallon, that’s my entire profit," said Paul Kelly, who owns a Sunoco station in New Jersey.

Customer Jim Coogan hadn’t read the signs and didn’t realize he would be paying 10 cents a gallon greater amount of at Kelly’s Sunoco when he swiped his confide in card.

"I put on’t think that’s fair," he said when a reporter pointed without the difference.

"It’s a matter of survival for us," Kelly said of the extra credit card charge.

NEW YORK (AP) — General Electric Co. and some Abu Dhabi-based sovereign fund receive agreed to a global society that includes a arising from traffic finance business, inquiry center for clean energy and water and plans to be unfolded GE’s aircraft machine service and repair in the Middle East.

In a combined statement, GE (GE, Fortune 500) and the Mubadala Development Co. said they would build on an already strong consanguinity, aiming for high growth opportunities in the Middle East and around the sphere.

The agreement provides by reason of shared first in importance commitments to newly come joint ventures and investment funds.

Major institutional investor

Mubadala also plans to get to be a long-term GE shareholder, the partners said. The expectation is that Mubadala will become one of GE’s top ten institutional investors.

For the commercial finance venture, GE and Mubadala plan to one and the other allocate $4 billion in equity over three years. GE also plans to commit up to $50 million for global investments in clean technology and companies that reduce dependency onward traditional energy sources.

In addition, Mubadala intends to invest up to $200 the masses to GE Industrial Investment Partners, a new partnership of global investors that will bargain capital to companies in the health care, energy, and transportation industries.

Mubadala is a sovereign fund based in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The political consideration

Peter Sorrentino, older portfolio manager at Huntington Asset Advisors in Cincinnati, said the deal is a good move for GE but said the politics may not be the best.

However, the business opportunities are tremendous for GE in a large developing market, Sorrentino said.

"It will open a great number of doors to them," he said. "It’s smart. It was certainly unexpected. Hats off to them," he reported. First Published: July 22, 2008: 10:06 AM EDT

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WASHINGTON The Indian Health Service has lost at least $15.8 million worth of equipment and later falsified documents to cover up more of those losses, according to congressional investigators.

The 5,000 pieces of depraved or sly equipment included a computer that contained more than 800 Social Security numbers and sensitive hale condition information. Also missing are trucks, tractors, all-terrain vehicles and about a third of advice technology items - including computers, video projectors and digital cameras - from the agency’s headquarters in Rockville, Md.

The Government Accountability Office estimated losses between the 2004 and 2007 budget years in a report released Monday. Investigators blamed mismanagement at the top of the embattled agency, which often runs out of money to provide adequate health care to the American Indians it serves.

“IHS management has failed to fix a binding ‘note at the top,’ allowing property management problems to continue during the term of more than a decade with feeble or no improvement or accountability for lost and clandestine property and compromise of easily affected personal data,” investigators wrote.

In an official response to the report, Health and Human Services officials agreed with many of the investigators’ recommendations to tighten property oversight and regulations. But the officials also disagreed by more of the allegations, saying there were inaccuracies in the investigators’ descriptions of some cases.

The department added that the study failed to appreciate that IHS has a unique property management classification compared to other agencies because of the collaboration with Indian tribes.

The GAO said the agency, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, “made a concerted effort” to obstruct the investigators’ work, including misrepresentations of data and fabricated documents.

In one put in a box, a person identified in the report while the IHS director responsible for property claimed the agency was able to find about 800 items thought to be missing. Investigators later mould this wasn’t true. In another case, a property specialist acknowledged he fabricated documents saying hundreds of items were not wanting and were properly disposed of.

Included in the missing items is a desktop computer that was stolen in April 2007 from some IHS hospital in New Mexico. The computer contained a database of names of 849 uranium miners, including their Social Security numbers and medical history.

North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, before-mentioned his panel has scheduled a hearing without ceasing the issue next week.

“It’s disgusting what’s happening at the Indian Health Service,” Dorgan said. “We be able to’t continue to allow this. We have rabble dying for the cause that they can’t get freedom from disease care, and therefore we learn a report like this.”

The report moreover slaps the agency for wasteful spending. According to the GAO, there are three computers for each any employee at IHS headquarters. The investigation also set that computers and other technology equipment were often assigned to vacant offices.