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The Yankees have been decimated by injuries this year, with more than a dozen key players going down. Check back here for the latest updates on the walking wounded.
October 9, 1:00 PM:
Zack Britton jammed his right ankle on first base during Game 3 against the Twins while making a bang-bang play to record an out. And though he was limping off the mound and into the dugout, it doesn't look like he'll be missing any postseason time.
According to MLB Network's Jon Morosi, Britton will be on the Yankees' ALCS roster when Aaron Boone puts it together before Saturday's start to the new series. That's great news to hear considering Britton is the Yanks' best lefty reliever, minus closer Aroldis Chapman, out in the pen.
September 29, 5:37 P.M.:
Gio Urshela's injury diagnosis from Sunday's Yankees game against the Texas Rangers was a "mild left ankle sprain," according to reporters on the scene at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
Among the reporters to tweet the news, Lindsey Adler of The Athletic added that Urshela's exit with one out in the bottom of the second inning was for "precautionary reasons."
While Urshela's outlook for the playoffs -- which start Friday with Game 1 of the ALDS against the Minnesota Twins -- remains to be seen, the Yankees have flexibility if DH Edwin Encarnacion returns as expected.
Even if the Yankees are without Urshela, they could tweak their starting lineup's infield accordingly with DJ LeMahieu at third base and Luke Voit at first base, keeping Gleyber Torres at second and Didi Gregorius at shortshop.
September 29, 4:26 P.M.:
Even in Game 162, the Yankees were unable to escape the 2019 regular season without an apparent injury.
Gio Urshela left the Yankees' game Sunday against the Texas Rangers with what appeared to be an ankle injury, according to Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
Urshela came up limping on a play, according to Lindsey Adler of The Athletic, and was limping while leaving the field, according to Brendan Kuty of NJ Advance Media.
Urshela came out after fielding a groundball by Nick Solak and throwing to DJ LeMahieu at first base before an injury delay took place on the field. Tyler Wade then replaced Urshela at third base.
Urshela, who entered the day slashing .315/.356/.535 with 21 home runs and 74 RBI, was 0 for 1 after a strikeout swinging in the bottom of the second inning.
September 28, 5:34 P.M.:
James Paxton told reporters in Texas on Saturday that he underwent an MRI in the morning and was diagnosed with nerve irritation, though he said it will not affect the way he gets ready for the ALDS against the Twins.
The lefty was pulled after just one inning on Friday night due to a tight left glute.
September 28, 12:43 P.M.:
The Yankees returned a piece to their bullpen depth for the regular season's final two games Saturday and Sunday, but they also revealed a move that likely ends an everyday starter's 2019 campaign.
The team announced Saturday that RHP David Hale (3-0, 2.89 ERA) had been reinstated while transferring CF Aaron Hicks to the 60-day injured list.
Hicks has not played since Aug. 3's 6-4 win over the Boston Red Sox, landing on the 10-day injured list with a right flexor strain in his right elbow. He was expected to be out for the remainder of the regular season and quiestionable to return by the time the Yankees' started postseason, which begins next Friday at Yankee Stadium against the Minnesota Twins.
If the season is over for Hicks, the end comes after an injury-filled year, slashing .235/.325/.443 with 12 home runs and 36 RBI in 59 games -- mostly as the Yankees' starting CF, which veteran Brett Gardner has since taken over. Hicks signed a seven-year contract extension Feb. 25 worth $70 million.
Hale, meanwhile, returns for the Yankees' for the first time since July 26's 10-5 loss to the Red Sox. He spent the past two months on the 10- and 60-day injured lists due to a lumbar spine strain. His 37.1 innings of relief include 22 strikeouts to six walks.
The Yankees (103-57) continue their season-ending three-game series against the Texas Rangers (76-84) Saturday at 8:05 p.m. from Globe Life Ballpark in Arlington. They conclude Sunday with the finale at 3:05 p.m.
September 28, 12:06 P.M.:
Even with three games left in the final series of the regular season, the Yankees were unable to emerge without an injury scare.
LHP James Paxton (15-6, 3.82 ERA) left Friday's 14-7 win over the Texas Rangers -- the opener of the weekend's three-game set from Globe Life Park in Arlington -- with left glute tightness after 21 pitches and two earned runs allowed in the first inning.
After the game, the Yankees -- from manager Aaron Boone to Paxton himself -- felt that the injury was a precautionary move.
"I don't think it's going to be anything serious," Paxton told reporters, including Marly Rivera of ESPN, after the game. "I could have kept on pitching and worked through it, but they just wanted to play it safe. I don't think it's anything serious, just something we want to keep an eye on the next couple of days here and then get ready to go for the postseason."
Paxton entered Friday undefeated in his starts since Aug. 2, going 10-0 with a 2.25 ERA and 68 strikeouts to 20 walks over 60.0 innings pitched.
"I really don't think it's anything big at all," Boone told reporters, including Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News, after the game. "He wanted to go back out there. Normally I would've let him," the Yankees manager said. "I sided with the next one is too important so I said, that's it. Didn't want to mess with anything. I do think it's kind of a minor deal."
With the Yankees set for the Minnesota Twins next Friday for a best-of-five ALDS at Yankee Stadium, the looming return to New York leaves Paxton's potential Game 1 start in the air.
The southpaw pitched his way into the discussion after he had a resurgent second half, likely leaving Boone's decision between Paxton and RHP Masahiro Tanaka (11-8, 4.47 ERA).
The recent return of RHP Luis Severino (1-0, 0.00 ERA) adds an option to Boone's starting rotation for the playoffs, while LHPs J.A. Happ (12-8, 4.91 ERA) and C.C. Sabathia (5-8, 4.95 ERA) have been experimented with by the Yankees as long relievers after openers.
September 24, 11:28 P.M.:
After a fastball high and inside hit Gio Urshela on his hand, he appears to have survived an injury scare that would require him to miss time.
X-Rays came back negative, the Yankees told reporters in the Tropicana Field press box, as Urshela was diagnosed with a bruised left hand.
In his postgame availability with the Yankees media, manager Aaron Boone said he would not risk Urshela's health with four games left on the regular season and the playoffs up next, but did not rule out playing him Wednesday against the Rays.
"He seems pretty confident with it," Boone said, according to Marly Rivera of ESPN. "Right now it seems like we dodged it."
Urshela shared similar sentiments with reporters after the game.
"It's fine," Urshela said, according to Erik Boland of Newsday.
September 24, 9:45 PM:
Gio Urshela was hit by a pitch in the top of sixth inning, as a high fastball came up and in and caught his left hand. Urshela went down in the pain but stayed in to run after being checked out by the Yankees medical staff.
In the bottom of the seventh, though, Urshela was pulled from the game. The team later announced that Urshela has a bruised left hand and that x-rays were negative.
September 24, 5:50 PM:
Edwin Encarnacion's return the Yankees' lineup appears to be imminent.
According to manager Aaron Boone, Encarnacion is likely to return for the Bombers on Friday in Texas, though the first baseman/DH is pushing to be in the lineup on Wednesday.
Encarnacion suffered an oblique injury last Thursday.
September 24, 4:09 PM:
Gleyber Torres has been out for the past couple games with a hamstring injury, but the Yankees weren't stressing it much after his MRI came back with nothing serious.
Well, that definitely appears to be the case, as he's back in the lineup against the Rays tonight. He'll play second base and bat third in the lineup.
September, 23, 6:26 PM:
Gary Sanchez broke his silence Monday on his left groin strain, sharing when he plans to return from the injury he reaggravated Sept. 12.
"Right now with everything I've done, I feel better," Sanchez said, according to Marly Rivera of ESPN, after Monday's full workout at the Yankees' minor-league facilities in Tampa, Florida.
"Hopefully in the next few days, with all I have to do, and after working with the trainers, I can feel the way I feel now."
September 21, 1:34 P.M.:
Shortly after the Yankees' 1:05 p.m. game against the Toronto Blue Jays started, New York announced to reporters at Yankee Stadium that the MRI on Gleyber Torres (hamstring) came back negative.
The news is big for the Yankees, who have relied on Torres all year long while the rest of the team dropped like flies. In 140 games, Torres has slashed .284/.343/.546 with 38 home runs and 90 RBI.
September 21, 12:15 P.M.:
Before the Yankees' 1:05 p.m. game Saturday against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium in New York, manager Aaron Boone had good news and potentially bad news when he told reporters of the team's latest injury updates during his pregame media availability.
Boone first said that 2B Gleyber Torres "felt good" Saturday morning, according to Sweeny Murti of WFAN, but would get an MRI at some point Saturday on his right hamstring after he fell to the ground on a diving stop in the hole during the sixth inning of Friday's game.
Edwin Encarnacion, meanwhile, is officially on his way back from an oblique injury he suffered last Thursday.
According to Bryan Hoch of MLB.com, Boone said that Encarnacion is expected to play by the start of the regular season-ending three-game series starting next Friday against the Texas Rangers.
Per Hoch, Boone added that Encarnacion could return at the earliest Tuesday or Wednesday for the two-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays.
September 20, 10:29 P.M.:
Gleyber Torres made a diving stop a ball in the hole during Friday's loss to Toronto, but as he tried to make the throw to first, he lost his footing and fell to the ground.
He initially stayed in the game, and even got another at-bat, but he was pulled in the sixth inning. After the game, Aaron Boone said he thinks Torres is going to be okay, but that he will see a team doctor on Saturday.
September 20, 5:17 P.M.:
Fresh off their 9-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels to hit the 100-win mark and take the AL East for the first time since 2012, the Yankees had positive injury updates Friday before they opened the weekend's three-game series at Yankee Stadium in New York against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Manager Aaron Boone started with DH/1B Edwin Encarnacion (oblique), who is expected to return at some point when the Yankees embark on next week's road trip Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Boone added that the Yankees "remain optimistic" about C Gary Sanchez (groin) to "be ready for the postseason" despite being further away from returning than Encarnacion.
September 20, 9:11 A.M.:
In the midst of the Yankees' three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels, which led to Thursday night's 9-1 win at Yankee Stadium where New York clinched the AL East for the first time since 2012, manager Aaron Boone provided an update Thursday afternoon on RHP Dellin Betances.
Betances, who partially tore his left Achilles in Sunday's 6-4 loss to the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, where he debuted for the first time on the 2019 season with two strikeouts (eight pitches, seven strikes) over 0.2 innings, will not need surgery after getting a second opinion from New York-based orthopedic surgeon Dr. Martin O'Malley.
"I believe he'll be in a walking boot for another four weeks and then they'll kind of reevaluate where he is," Boone said. "But the belief is he would not need surgery. I guess that could possible change, but they feel pretty confident this is something that will not need surgery."
After an offseason of recovery, the 31-year-old Betances, who was on a one-year deal for $7.25 million guaranteed with the Yankees in 2019, is likely to return in time for spring training.
Penn Medicine chair of Sports Medicine Dr. Brian Sennett told Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News what to expect as Betances begins the recovery process.
"Achilles tendon injuries require surgery when there is a complete rupture," said Sennett, who added that the Yankees' decision to shut Betances down for September into the postseason stems from the risk of fully tearing the Achilles. "The goal of surgery is to bring the ends of the tendon back together to optimize healing," Sennett said. "In a partial Achilles tendon injury, the tendon is partially injured but there is not a separation of the torn ends. As a result, the tendon is in a good position for healing."
September 17, 3:57 PM:
According to Aaron Boone, Giancarlo Stanton is on his way to New York to hopefully be available for activation on Wednesday. If not, Boone expects it to be on Thursday. Stanton has played in just nine games this season, but will return at the perfect time to prove to the Yankees he is worth a postseason roster spot.
Boone also talked about other Yankees, like Aaron Hicks who is in the midst of a throwing program down in Tampa -- another positive update. It's in the early stage, so the Yankees won't know for sure when or if he can return this regular season. Edwin Encarnacion and Gary Sanchez are also continuing to progress with their groin strains.
The news came before the Yankees' game against the Angels in which RHP Luis Severino made his first start of the season. Among others he was followed by out of the bullpen, LHP Stephen Tarpley made an appearance.
September 15, 11:14 AM:
The Yankees made it official ahead of Sunday's game with LHP Jordan Montgomery and RHP Dellin Betances returning to the club for the first time this season. Montgomery is going to get the start, while Betances will await his turn in the bullpen.
The corresponding moves to make room for these two were RHP Ryan Dull being DFA'd, and RHP Jonathan Holder going to the 60-day IL
September 14, 3:55 P.M.:
In addition to RHP Dellin Betances, the Yankees welcome back a pair of others from the injured list as the new week begins.
LHP Jordan Montgomery will officially start for the Yankees in Sunday's 1:07 p.m. series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays, manager Aaron Boone told reporters before Saturday's game.
"I probably will be (emotional)," Montgomery told Meredith Marakovits of YES Network. "The minor leagues was a lot of adrenaline, just because you're so excited to be back out there. So I'm just trying to stay cool and slow the game down and throw strikes.
"It was a roller coaster. You're feeling so good and then I hit that road block with my shoulder and you'll feel good, you'll feel sore. It's just up and down, up and down. I was lucky to have my family, my girlfriend, a bunch of coaches and teammates reach out for me and kind of just keep my sanity."
When the Yankees return to New York for Tuesday's 6:35 p.m. series opener against the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium, Boone said that OF/DH Giancarlo Stanton will be back as well.
"It may be a situation, too, where we build him up where he doesn't play the entire game … however many at-bats or innings in the outfield, then pull him and build him up that way," Boone said, according to Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News. "(Friday) was another day of kind of a sim game where he got lots of at-bats and a couple innings in the outfield. He went out and played defense and they worked him on defense. Again, he responded well and continues to build momentum and hopefully at some point on the homestand we get him back."
September 14, 1:57 P.M.:
RHP Dellin Betances is on his way back to the Yankees.
According to Erik Boland of Newsday, Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters before Saturday's 3:07 p.m. game against the Blue Jays that Betances, who has been out all season with a right shoulder injury, was set to return for Sunday's 1:07 p.m. series finale in Toronto.
Betances started the season on the 10-day injured list with a right shoulder impingement. The Yankees transferred him to the 60-day injured list May 9 before he started his rehab assignment Sept. 6 with the Double-A Trenton Thunder.
September 14 10:17 A.M.:
Prior to Friday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters at the Rogers Centre that LHP J.A. Happ had a cortisone shot as he deals with tendinitis in his left biceps, according to George A. King III of the New York Post.
Happ, who left Thursday's afternoon game against the Detroit Tigers after 4.2 innings, will avoid the IL. Boone said that the southpaw is set to start Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Angels, according to Pete Caldera of the Bergen Record/USA Today Network.
September 13, 9:07 PM:
RHP Dellin Betances continues to work his way back towards the Yankees' bullpen, but Friday night wasn't his strongest outing.
The Double-A Trenton Thunder had been pitching a no-hitter through five innings, but then called Betances into the game to pitch the sixth. He allowed a home run to Bowie's Cedric Mullens, the first hit of the game for the Bay Sox.
Overall, Betances allowed two hits, though he did feature his signature nasty breaking ball. He threw 15 pitches in the inning, nine of which went for strikes.
September 13, 5:13 PM:
Speaking to reporters prior to Friday's game in Toronto, Aaron Boone said he is "optimistic" that Gary Sanchez will be able to return to the lineup before the season ends. The Yankees' catcher suffered a groin strain in the second game of Thursday's doubleheader with the Tigers.
Meanwhile, Edwin Encarnacion has what Boone called a "mild" oblique strain, which he suffered in Thursday's first game.
September 12, 8:40 PM:
Gary Sanchez left the game in the fourth inning with left groin tightness. He was thrown out trying to steal second base to end the top of the third inning.
September 12, 5:15 PM:
After pitching 4.2 innings against the Tigers, J.A. Happ is actually heading back to New York early to assess what Aaron Boone called "bicep tendinitis," per The Athletic's Lindsey Adler. Boone added that this wasn't something new in his eyes, as Happ has been dealing with this.
Happ himself wasn't too worried about it, according to The Daily News' Kristie Ackert. He's dealt with it in the past, and he told the team he wanted to pitch through it.
September 12, 5:03 PM:
Edwin Encarnacion left Game 1 of the team's doubleheader against the Tigers in the seventh inning with a strained left oblique.
According to The Althetic's Lindsey Adler, he felt the injury early in the game.
September 11, 8:13 PM:
Luis Severino took another step closer towards his return to the Yankees on Wednesday night. Starting for Double-A Trenton, Severino pitched 2.1 innings, allowing four runs (just one earned) on five hits. He struck out four and recorded one wild pitch. His night came to an end after 64 pitches, 47 of which were strikes.
Luis Severino strikes out the side in second inning with a filthy slider. He's got four strikeouts tonight. #Yankees pic.twitter.com/p3tVna1Nw1- Max Wildstein (@MaxWildstein) September 11, 2019
September 11, 12:28 PM:
After receiving a second opinion on his elbow injury, Aaron Hicks has been given a recommendation of a few more weeks of rest, followed by evaluation, SNY's Andy Martino confirmed.
Sherman adds that Hicks is not out of the woods when it comes to the potential of having to undergo Tommy John surgery, and that him returning even for the playoffs seems unlikely.
September 10, 8:43 P.M.:
RHP Dellin Betances and LHP Stephen Tarpley followed LHP Jordan Montgomery as relievers in Game 1 of Tuesday's Eastern League Championship Series with the Double-A Trenton Thunder.
After Montgomery's outing, Betances worked a scoreless fourth inning. He allowed one hit and recorded two strikeouts to one walk, throwing 11 strikes among his 20 pitches. According to Greg Johnson of The Trentonian, Betances sat at 92-93 mph with his fastball, but he touched 95 mph and recorded five swings and misses, highlighted by an 80 mph curveball for a strikeout.
Tarpley took over and fired a similar frame to Betances, getting through a scoreless fifth inning with one hit, two strikeouts to no walks and one hit batter. Ten of his 19 pitches went for strikes. According to Johnson, Tarpley's fastball sat at 92-93 mph and "looked like it had good movement."
September 10, 7:52 P.M.:
LHP Jordan Montgomery started Game 1 of Tuesday's Eastern League Championship Series with the Double-A Trenton Thunder, allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits with a strikeout and walk in 3.0 innings. According to Greg Johnson of The Trentonian, he threw 50 pitches -- 30 strikes -- and retired his last nine batters. Montgomery's only hiccup came on an RBI double, a line drive to right field in the top of the first inning.
September 10, 4:20 P.M.:
Two days after he left Sunday's game against the Boston Red Sox early with left calf tighness, Mike Tauchman officially became the latest casualty for the Yankees' injuries Tuesday when New York announced it placed the OF on the 10-day IL with a left calf strain.
The Yankees reinstated RHP Ben Heller from the 60-day IL. He had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow and did not pitch in 2018. Heller's return comes after he suffered a forearm strain while on rehab assignment with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, initially leaving his immediate availability in question for the three-game series starting Tuesday against the Detroit Tigers.
September 10, 12:21 PM:
As they continue their rehab assignments, Luis Severino and Dellin Betances are scheduled to pitch for Double-A Trenton in the Eastern League Championship Series that starts on Tuesday.
Betances is on the schedule to pitch in relief on Tuesday, while Severino is slated to start on Wednesday, according to Kyle Franko.
Jordan Montgomery is slated to start Tuesday's game, while Stephen Tarpley is expected to pitch in relief along with Betances.
September 9, 6:21 P.M.:
Aaron Boone told reporters prior to Monday's game against the Red Sox that Giancarlo Stanton could return to the Yankee lineup during the Yankees' next homestand, which begins on Aug. 17 against the Angels.
Stanton is currently on the 60-day DL and has appeared in just nine games this season, the last coming on June 25.
September 7, 2:34 P.M.:
Before Saturday's game at 4:05 p.m. against the Boston Red Sox, manager Aaron Boone made an abundance of injury updates during a pregame media availability with reporters.
3B Gio Urshela (left groin tightness) is "likely" to be activated off the 10-day injured list Sunday, according to Lindsey Adler of The Athletic. Urshela went on the injured list with left groin tightness.
CF Aaron Hicks -- Boone said, according to Newsday's Erik Boland and MLB.com's Bryan Hoch -- had his rehab "slowed down" because he's "not feeling quite right," putting his season in jeopardy. WFAN's Sweeney Murti added that Hicks had another MRI, which showed that his elbow ligament "was sound" and the flexor strain "was healed." Hicks has been on the 10-day injured list with a right flexor strain and was expected to be away from the field until a mid-September return.
RHP Luis Severino's status -- whether he will undergo another rehab game or make his next appearance with the Yankees -- is expected to be determined later Saturday, according to Randy Miller of NJ Advance Media. Double-A Trenton is a possibility for Severino, according to Adler.
RHP Dellin Betances is expected to throw again Monday -- Boone said, according to Adler.
OF Cameron Maybin's undisclosed left wrist injury is something Boone said that the Yankees will have to manage the rest of the year, according to Hoch. Maybin's injury might linger into the offseason, said Boone, who added that the left wrist is "as good as it's going to be." Maybin has not played since last Saturday's 4-3 win over the Oakland Athletics, entering off the bench for the ninth and 10th innings.
OF Giancarlo Stanton does not have a timeline for a return to the Yankees, but Boone said that Stanton is very "close" to ramping up the progression, according to Adler.
LHP CC Sabathia threw a "normal bullpen" -- 20 pitches -- Friday before the Yankees' 6-1 loss to the Red Sox, according to Dan Martin of the New York Post. Boone said that Sabathia could be used out of the bullpen if he returns during his final season.
September 7, 10:44 A.M.:
After Luis Severino's 50-pitch start Friday for Double-A Trenton, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said on YES Network after the team's 6-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox that the ace RHP's next outing could be with New York.
"Obviously, another big, positive step from the first time, which felt like a first spring training outing," Boone said of Severino's performance. "But it's something now that we'll talk about it with if whether we think he needs one more, if that would be beneficial, or if it's better now to just come with us and build up that way.
"Those will be conversations, now, that we have over the next 24, 48 hours."
Severino threw 37 strikes and yielded one run on five hits while striking out five and walking none in 3.0 innings of the Thunder's 12-2 win over the Reading Fightin' Phils.
"Overall, it was pretty successful," Boone said.
According to Matt Kardos of Pinstriped Prospects, Severino said he felt "way better" than his first rehab game with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre -- Sunday's inning-plus start of two runs allowed on three hits (one home run) and two strikeouts in the RailRiders' 15-12 win over the Buffalo Bisons.
"I feel good, way better than the first time," Severino told Kardos. "I think that my presence and my momentum on the mound -- I felt like myself and everything was good.
"I think in the first outing I was trying to do too much. All of the things that have been talked about like the tipping or commanding my fastball -- I tried to put everything into that outing and it was too much. Today I went out there and focused on one thing at a time."
September 6, 10:08 P.M.:
Two potential playoff arms for the Yankees made positive progress on the rehab front on Friday.
Luis Severino and Dellin Betances both appeared in Trenton's game against the Reading Fightin Phils.
Starting for the Thunder, Severino threw 50 pitches over three innings. He allowed one run on five hits, but he also struck out five.
According to a Major League scout, the right-hander featured "stuff that was Major League (caliber)."
His fastball was clocked between 94-97 MPH, with a slider in the mid-80s as well.
Betances, meanwhile, pitched the fifth inning for the Thunder. His appearance was a bit more up and down, as he walked a batter and also committed a balk, but it ended up being a scoreless inning with one strikeout for the reliever. Eleven of his 19 pitches were strikes.
September 6, 7:18 P.M:
Giancarlo Stanton played in a simulated game on Friday in Tampa, according to the Associated Press. Stanton had five at-bats in the game and is scheduled to play in another simulated game on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the AP has also reported that outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, who has not played for the Yankees since 2017, worked out indoors today.
September 6, 1:17 P.M.:
The Trenton Thunder, the Double-A affiliate of the Yankees, announced Friday afternoon that three major-league players would make rehab stints with the minor-league team in its game later that night.
INF Thairo Estrada joins RHPs Luis Severino and Dellin Betances for the Thunder's 7 p.m. game Friday at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton, New Jersey, against the Reading Fightin' Phils of the Philadelphia Phillies.
‼TRIPLE REHAB ALERT‼- Trenton Thunder (@TrentonThunder) September 6, 2019
Thunder Expected To Host First Triple Rehab In Franchise History Tonight!
Luis Severino, Dellin Betances, and Thairo Estrada of the @Yankees are expected to rehab for the Thunder vs @ReadingFightins tonight at 7pm!
🎟https://t.co/OkCptuiKCd pic.twitter.com/73Mm8L7yOE
According to Greg Johnson of The Trentonian, Thunder manager Patrick Osborn said Thursday that Severino and Betances would pitch for Double-A Trenton in Friday's game, but the exact order was not yet determined.
While Severino (right shoulder rotator cuff inflammation and Grade 2 lat strain) began his rehab assignment Sunday with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, throwing 33 pitches, Betances and Estrada begin theirs.
The game with Double-A Trenton is Betances' first all season and Estrada's first since he landed on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain Aug. 18. Betances is working back from a right shoulder impingement, which has held him out all season.
September 4, 4:52 P.M.:
Manager Aaron Boone gave a few updates on some injured Yanks, including great news about Gio Urshela. Per The Athletic's Lindsey Adler, Urshela should be coming off the IL on Sunday. She noted him hitting "absolute bombs" during BP on Tuesday, while he was seen running on Wednesday. All great signs for Gio.
Also, Luis Severino and Dellin Betances will continue their rehab in Double-A Trenton, as Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre begins their playoffs.
And here's a name we haven't heard in a while. Miguel Andujar returned to baseball activities on Monday, per Newsday's Laura Albanese. He should be all set for Spring Training next season.
September 2, 3:49 P.M.:
Before the Yankees hosted the Texas Rangers in a rain-delayed series opener for 3:55 p.m. Monday at Yankee Stadium, several injury updates with regards to the starting rotation surfaced.
DH/1B Edwin Encarnacion is on his way back to the Yankees, he told Conor Foley of The Times-Tribune in Scranton. Encarnacion spent Monday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and completed his rehab assignment, according to Foley, after he went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. The two-game stint for the RailRiders included Sunday's game in which Encarnacion went 1 for 4 with an RBI single and two runs.
According to Brendan Kuty of NJ Advance Media, RHP Luis Severino will make his second rehab start Friday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after he pitched Sunday for the RailRiders. Severino threw 33 pitches in his first rehab start of the 2019 season, throwing 33 pitches over an inning and working into the second frame.
He allowed two runs on three hits -- including a solo home run, double and single before a sacrifice fly -- but struck two out. According to Brian Fonseca of NJ Advance Media, Severino's fastball sat between 94-96 mph while he mixed in his breaking pitches.
Among recent injuries, LHP CC Sabathia said he has gotten treatment on his knee, including drainage and injections. According to Kuty, Sabathia considered it too soon to tell when he could make his return.
September 1, 11:17 AM:
Dellin Betances has been progressing well as he tries to make his way back to the Bronx, and his latest session down in Tampa continued that trend.
The big right-hander threw 22 pitches to hitters yesterday, per multiple reports, and he said it felt better than his first session. Next on his list will be returning to Yankee Stadium to throw to hitters again on Tuesday.
August 31, 12:36 PM:
Edwin Encarnacion was taking batting practice on Saturday morning prior to the Yankees game against the A's. Prior to first pitch, Aaron Boone said Encarnacion could begin a rehab stint in Triple-A Scranton as early as Sunday and then he could return early next week.
On the flip, Gio Urshela (groin) and LHP CC Sabathia was placed on the 10-day IL on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Boone sounded more optimistic about Urshela, while Sabathia's injury is the same knee injury he's battled.
August 30, 11:23 PM:
After the Yankees' 8-2 loss to the A's, outfielder Aaron Hicks confirmed that he will begin a throwing program shortly, believing it will start on Monday.
"All I know is that today I was cleared to throw, so I should start throwing here pretty soon."
Hicks said that he is "really confident" that he will return at some point this season. The outfielder has missed the Yankees' last 26 games.
August 30, 12:48 PM:
The Yankees have placed Gio Urshela on the 10-day IL (retroactive to Aug. 29) due to a left groin strain.
To take Urshela's place on the 25-man roster, Luke Voit was activated from the 10-day IL.
After leaving Wednesday's game, Urshela said that he had hoped to play on Friday. Instead, he will be out until at least Septmber 8.
August 28, 7:11 PM:
While the Yankees have been getting mostly good news on the injury front, they're now hoping to avoid yet another player landing on the IL.
Gio Urshela left Wednesday afternoon's game in Seattle, replaced in the lineup by Didi Gregorius in the bottom of the fifth inning. Later, the Yankees announced that Urshela was pulled from the game due to left groin tightness. Urshela went 1-for-2 at the plate before leaving the game, raising his batting average to .331.
After the game, Urshela told reporters that he began to feel tightness around the third inning, but hopes to be able to play on Friday when the Yankees host the Athletics.
August 28, 5:44 PM:
Before Wednedsay afternoon's start against the Mariners, manager Aaron Boone gave positive updates on Didi Gregorius and Giancarlo Stanton, both of which came from MLB.com's Bryan Hoch.
Gregorius, who was hit by a pitch in the shoulder on Sunday against the Dodgers, hasn't hit the IL but has been out of the lineup. However, he is expected to be back in action Friday when the Yanks return home to face the A's.
Stanton is still working his way back from a PCL strain, but Boone said he is "pretty close" to facing live pitching.
August 27, 9:00 PM:
Aaron Boone updated the status of a number injured Yankees prior to Tuesday's game against the Mariners:
- Edwin Encarnacion has been hitting in the batting cage and performing fielding drills away from the team in New York. Boone believes Encarcion could be an option for the Yankees in the near future.
- Aaron Hicks' right flexor strain will be re-examined on Friday.
- Giancarlo Stanton will take live BP with the Bombers in Seattle on Tuesday night.
- Dellin Bettances threw a 20-pitch BP session last weekend and is scheduled to face live hitters on Wednesday.
- The Yankees will likely get Luke Voit back in the lineup before this weekend. The first baseman is continuing his rehab assignment with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre as he recovers from his sports hernia.
August 27, 6:51 PM:
After saying on Monday that Luis Severino could begin his rehab on Sunday, Yankees manager Aaron Boone reiterated that fact on Tuesday.
Boone told reporters that Severino could start for Double-A Trenton on Sunday, saying the right-hander would be limited to around two innings and 35 pitches.
August 26, 8:00 PM:
Before the Yankees' 10:10 p.m. series opener Monday night against the Mariners in Seattle, manager Aaron Boone provided an abundance of updates on New York's injured players during a pregame media availability with reporters, according to the Bergen Record's Pete Caldera:
- Luis Severino: The RHP could begin his rehab assignment Sunday. He has been throwing off a mound for nearly two weeks now.
- Dellin Betances: The RHP's weekend mound session "went well." He and Severino have been on pace for mid-September returns.
Bryan Hoch of MLB.com added that Severino is slated for a 35-pitch simulated game Tuesday in Tampa, Florida. If he gets through the simulate game without any issues, it should clear the way for his rehab assignment Sunday. As for Betances, Hoch said that the reliever is set to face hitters again Wednesday. He could also begin his rehab assignment if that goes well, according to Hoch.
- Didi Gregorious: The SS is not in Monday night's lineup, but his shoulder is "improving" after he got hit by a first-inning pitch the previous day.
- Giancarlo Stanton: The OF could hit on a field Tuesday. He has been slowly working his way back. Four days ago, Boone said that Stanton was running on the field and doing defensive workouts, with the hitting coming from indoor cages. Stanton, who has been traveling with the team, could head to Tampa and begin taking at-bats when New York begin its six-game homestand Friday night at Yankee Stadium against the Oakland Athletics, according to Hoch.
Also, according to Brendan Kuty of NJ Advance Media, Boone did not rule out Jordan Montgomery "being an option" for the Yankees down the stretch into September and October. Montgomery threw two perfect innings for the High-A Tampa Tarpons on Sunday, striking out two and tossing 19 pitches. Boone "seemed to indicate" that Montgomery's situation is more so about ensuring the LHP is fully recovered and strong to finish the season as he continues his recovery from Tommy John surgery last June. Hoch added that Montgomery is expected to join the Double-A Trenton Thunder at an unspecified date in the near future with the hope that he could make his return to the big leagues "at some point in September."
August 25, 10:15 PM:
Didi Gregorius was hit on the right shoulder by a Clayton Kershaw fastball in the first inning of Sunday's game against the Dodgers. Though he initially remained in the game, he was removed for a pinch-hitter in the third inning.
After the game, Aaron Boone told reporters that X-rays were negative and that the shortstop is considered day-to-day.
August 25, 6:23 PM:
Jordan Montgomery took his first step in a return to the Yankee Stadium mound with a rehab start with High-A Tampa. He tossed two perfect innings with a pair of strikeouts and needed just 19 pitches to get the six outs.
Montgomery has not pitched for the Yankees since undergoing Tommy John surgery in June 2018.
August 25, 10:04 AM:
Edwin Encarnacion has been progressing well in rehabbing his fractured wrist. Manager Aaron Boone said Saturday that from his understanding Encarnacion's drills of ground balls, hitting off a tee and playing catch all went well.
Now Encarnacion isn't close to returning just yet, but Boone his hopeful he'll be back to the team at some point before the regular season ends.
"No, but certainly expect him back," he told The Post's George A. King III. "Hopefully he is not too far off."
August 24, 10:05 a.m.:
Before the Yankees' 10-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday, manager Aaron Boone said of 1B/DH Luke Voit, "there is a chance he could join us that Friday when we start the homestand," according to George A. King of the New York Post. Voit spent Friday with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, logging six innings at first base and batting out of the leadoff spot. He went 0-for-3 with a walk and a run in his first game since arriving to the IL on July 31. Voit could rejoin the Yankees for the start of next Friday's three-game home series against the Oakland Athletics, which begins a six-game homestand through Sept. 4.


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Florida Woman Gets Fingertip Bitten Off in Walmart Brawl
Clodia Coicour, a 43-year-old Florida Walmart employee, was arrested for aggressive battery on Monday after she allegedly attacked a woman she suspected of having an affair with her husband.
She's been officially charged with "battery with great bodily harm causing permanent disfigurement."
The 7AM love triangle brawl turned bloody in the parking lot when Coicour bit the tip of the victim's finger off. The victim was also an East Naples Walmart employee.
Coicur told deputies that she attacked the victim after hearing a rumor about her sleeping with her husband. Both the husband and the victim denied the affair when questioned by police.

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What's that you're doing, Mr. Kasch?
Thomas Kasch, 62,
engine mechanic
has been with Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg for 33 years
"I'm preparing to test an aircraft engine in the test tunnel. I'm attaching a cable harness now because even engines of the same type may have different connectors, depending on the aircraft model which they are used. It takes four of us about three hours to get a Boeing 747 engine like this one in place. Are the bolts tight? Have the fuel, power and air lines been laid? If so, the test can begin. In two hours, we simulate every stage of a flight, letting the engine run at full and medium throttle, and idle. Calibrated instruments collect data series that are then analyzed. Sometimes, but only rarely, do we need to replace small control units. Finally, we check the oil and fuel filters, eliminate any leaks, and are generally done within 12 hours. In some circumstances, other coworkers will equip the engine with any last components that might still be missing, and then the engine is reinstalled in the aircraft."


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I dreamt about about a love-affair in far-off Budapest
And so it begins: The 2010 EFW Oktoberfest. Its taken meticulous planning this year, and not least because our chosen venue of Budapest decided that it would be a good idea to have all of their Nemzeti Bajnokság I teams play away from home. That's pretty much akin to turning up in London on any given Saturday and being told "sorry old chap, the best I can do you for is a game in Coventry". I'll be having words with [league sponsors] Soproni beer as a result.
So, I dug like a Chilean minor to unearth a plethora of games to attend - there's 30 football hungry punters on these trips after-all. First one was easy: Debrecen v PSV landed in our Budapest laps. Debrecen can't play their home European ties in their home town, so they moved their Europa League match with PSV accordingly - in the same street as our hotel as it happens. Not great for their fans. Bingo for us.
Next up we had the pick of two Friday night matches. Zalaegerszegi v Vasas immediately leapt of the page. The thought of singing Zalaegerszegi songs after a few beers proved too much of a temptation, obviously. I booked up a coach post haste and hey presto we'll be on our way via a pit-stop in Lake Balaton this Friday. Officially better than work - tick.
Saturday's challenge was to see two games in a day. Every nook and cranny was explored until a trip to Slovakia won out by virtue of a game set underneath a castle (AS Trencin), and a visit to Spartak Trnava - who have the most raucous, noisiest and bonkers fans in Slovakia. Think Napoli on a slightly smaller scale. Our friends over at the Slovak football blog Britski Belasi have given us the thumbs up for these two matches.
It's Sunday bloody Sunday on these trips in my experience. The local ale is likely to have played some part in proceedings, and so a more relaxing game is called for. Ujpest II are at home in their purple stadium, and that'll do nicely. There's also some sightseeing to be had of course and with that in mind I've lined up a visit to the Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium, and maybe Honved as well. I was a teenage armchair Honved fan.
Five games in four days in two countries is the current plan of action then. If you want to follow our adventure then you can do just that on the European Football Weekends and The Ball is Round Twitter feeds.
If you want a rough idea of what occurs on these trips then click on the following team names; FC Den Bosch, Rot-Weiss Essen, Vitesse Arnhem and Willem II and - as if by magic - reports should spring up on your screen.
Reports will appear on these pages during the course of next week. One each day is the tentative plan. See you on the other side. Oh, who are these 30 people I speak of that are coming on the trip? They'll be fans of Lewes, Royal Antwerp, 1860 Munich, Maccabi Haifa, Legia Warsaw, Tranmere, Barnet, Forest Green Rovers, Weymouth, Leeds United, Scarborough Athletic, Merstham, Brighton, West Ham, Ipswich, Tooting and Mitcham, Colywn Bay and Preston North End.
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"You bought a house for $50!"
That's right. In the spring of 1976, my husband and I purchased the three-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot older home you see here (with the kind of fine hardwood floors and mellow oak woodwork you just can't find anymore) for the grand price of $50. And that house has since been appraised at $23,000!
Of course, there was a catch to the deal: Before we could move into the residence, we had to agree to move it away from the spot where we'd bought it.
Still, that wasn't such a bad bargain. Our total moving costs came to $2,800, and we spent an additional $3,000 on remodeling the home and adding a two-car garage in the basement. In other words, for about the same amount of money we'd have had to come up with for a down payment on an equivalent modern house . . . we've been able to buy our present home outright!
And we don't — by any means — consider ours to be a one-of-a-kind, it'll-never-happen-again situation. In fact, we feel confident — given a little time, patience and operating capital — that you, too, can find a move-it-yourself dwelling to fit your needs. You may even be able to locate, buy, relocate and move into such a structure for less than we did if you can find a place that doesn't require much remodeling.
How to Find a Moveable House
Finding an inexpensive house to move was the easiest part of the whole job for us, and it should be for you, too. Newspapers often carry stories about businesses or institutions that are planning expansions or new construction. Once you learn about such a project, drive by the proposed building site and note whether any homes are standing there . . . or call the contractors and ask if any dwellings near (or on) the site have been condemned. In almost all cases, it's cheaper for the folks who're planning the construction to let you haul away a condemned building than it is for them to have the structure torn down.
Our house is a good example. When we first came across it, the dwelling was slated to be razed to make room for an addition to a hospital. We were able to buy the structure for next to nothing ($50) because we saved the hospital administrators the expense of tearing the residence down.
Another good way to find one of these potential "mobile homes" is by scanning the classified section of your local paper. Occasionally, private owners will advertise a home that must be moved. Also, houses that are bought by the state to make way for future highway expansion (or other projects) are sometimes advertised in the paper and sold to individuals by sealed bid.
Then too, firms that specialize in house moving often list dwellings that they've moved (or will move soon). We don't recommend that you buy a home from such an outfit, however, since the moving company stands to make a hefty profit not only on the house itself but on its moving expenses too.
Look Potential Purchases Over Carefully
Some places you can reject immediately. We began by looking at a gigantic, three-story home, for instance . . . but quickly discovered that moving the mini-mansion would entail slicing through (and then resplicing) a major trunk line of the telephone company across the street, at an estimated cost of $10,000!
Ultimately, we had to rule out all buildings more than 18 feet high because of the exorbitant cost of cutting and splicing phone, power, and traffic-signal lines along our proposed moving route. (Here in Michigan, utility companies are required to run all lines at a height of 18 feet or more above the ground . . . however, this regulation may be different — or even nonexistent — in your state. Check it out.)
We also had to rule out brick or stone residences. Highway load limits prohibit movers from transporting such structures on state highways in many parts of the country. As a result, some firms require that all the bricks (and/or stones) be removed from the edifice before they'll haul your purchase even one block. So don't get your heart set on that lovely old lodge with the fieldstone chimney. Unless you're skilled in masonry, the costs involved in taking apart and rebuilding the stonework could cause your already-deflated pocketbook to collapse entirely!
One more thing: When scouting out a movable house, beware of any additions that may have been made to the original structure. The only damage that our place suffered in transit happened in the wall that separates the kitchen from a two-room add-on . . . an addition that (as fate would have it) had been built on an uneven foundation. As a result, cracks suddenly appeared all along the kitchen wall when we set the residence on its new — and level — base.
Preparing for the Move
With the above requirements in mind, Richard and I looked at — and rejected — dozens of residences before finding the one we finally purchased. Our "dream house" turned out to be a one-story wood-frame bungalow situated on a narrow city lot. Its interior was somewhat typical of an older home: The living room, dining room, kitchen and breakfast area were lined up on one side of the abode while three bedrooms plus an enclosed porch ran down the other. The furnace was fairly new, the construction was sound and we did have some ideas about how to modernize the floor plan. So we went ahead.
The next step was to find a suitable neighborhood for our future dwelling. To our dismay, we soon learned that many subdivisions have prohibitions against bringing in houses that have been built somewhere else. Other areas — by virtue of "covenants" contained in the deeds to the land — had sometimes-restrictive rules about the minimum number of square feet any house in the area could have. We were limited, too, in our search for a lot by the sheer cost of transporting our building: The mover we used (the least expensive one we could find) wanted to charge us $1,000 just to lift the house off its foundation . . . and $1,000 for each mile it was then moved!
After weeks of searching, we finally found a spacious lot that we could afford in an older (but well-kept) neighborhood. The mandatory water and sewer hookups weren't too expensive (which was a definite plus, given the state of our finances), and — wonder of wonders — the piece of property came with beautiful old gnarled apple trees and raspberry bushes everywhere! (We knew when we saw the apple trees that that was our future homesite.)
Next, we steeled ourselves for the confrontation with City Hall. (A "confrontation", unfortunately, is just what you can expect, too. Most building inspectors consider do-it-yourselfers the bane of their existence. Be prepared for a hassle.) Permits are required for every step in moving a house and locating it on a new site. Happily, we were successful in securing a special "homeowner's permit," which allowed us to complete plumbing and electrical work (and hook up the sewer line) ourselves . . . thus saving us the expense of having to "contract out" those chores.
Meanwhile, back at the "estate" (the vacant lot we'd decided to buy), we staked out the perimeters of our home's new foundation. Then we called in an excavator and notified the mover that we were ready to begin.
A House on Wheels
The idea of transporting an entire house from one location to another fascinated me, and I was anxious to see exactly how it was done. Here — briefly — is what happened:
On the appointed morning, half a dozen workmen arrived at the home's old address and — before starting — knocked about four concrete blocks out of the foundation walls at either end of the rectangular house. Through the holes thus created, the workmen passed two 50-foot-long I-beams the length of the building. Next, the men placed four jacks (one at each corner of the house) under the ends of the beams. Then they raised the whole affair high enough off the ground to slide two short I-beams underneath and at right angles to the first set of girders. (At this point, the steel underpinnings resembled a giant tic-tac-toe board.)
Next, a winch was used to slowly pull the house off its foundation, after which the work crew attached wheels to each end of the long I-beams. Presto-chango! We were ready to roll!
Setting the Dwelling Down
Once the movers had trundled the building to its new location, they positioned the house over the excavated area that was to become its basement. Then they set the ends of the long I-beams down on four pillars we'd made by stacking pairs of 8-by-8-inch timbers crosswise. All that remained for us to do was construct the basement walls, remove the wooden pillars and (with the aid of jacks) gently lower the home onto its new foundation (just like lowering a car to the ground after you've changed a tire)!
During the course of the summer, we set about our task as a husband-wife team. Richard dug the footings for the foundation . . . I leveled the concrete with a two-by-four. He put in the sewer line . . . I painted the house's exterior. And we both learned to lay block as we erected the basement's walls (with the house hovering rather precariously overhead).
That summer, by the way, we learned one trick that helped us quite a bit and which — we think — could probably benefit you, too: Namely, hire a pro to teach you how to do something you've never attempted before. We found a bricklayer, for instance, who was willing to work part-time with us (on an hourly basis) to construct our home's foundation. As a result, we learned firsthand how to build walls that are level and plumb across their entire 50-foot length . . . how to cut concrete blocks to fit around basement windows ... and the secret of finishing off a concrete-block wall with those even grooves of mortar between each row (instead of the big, projecting globs you get when you lay one block atop another).
Incidentally, getting an expert to help you is frequently the least expensive way to accomplish a task, too . . . as we learned the hard way when Richard rented a backhoe to fill in around the foundation and do some rough grading. Sad to say, it took him nearly the whole day just to learn how to become proficient enough with the backhoe's controls to avoid swinging its shovel through our newly built basement walls as he worked close to the building. Later, we found a construction worker with his own backhoe and tractor who agreed to do the work for only a little more than it had cost us to rent the first machine for a day, and he did the job in five hours.
Home Remodeling
To improve our home's floor plan, we had had our new residence placed sideways (that is: kitchen, dining room, and living room facing the front lawn) on the lot . . . which meant that by replacing the dining room's bay window with double doors, we could convert the centrally located room into an entry foyer (see "before and after" floor plan drawings in the Image Gallery). And that's exactly what we did. Consequently, we can now go directly to the living room (on the right) or the kitchen (on the left) when we come in the front door, rather than plodding through each room to reach the next.
Thanks also to the way we positioned our house on its new lot, our bedrooms now comprise the back of the house instead of being lined up along one side of the building. Also, the large windows that line the two walls of the former "enclosed porch" (see drawings in the Image Gallery) currently enclose a cheery sunroom/greenhouse just off the living room. And the outside door to this room (which was once the house's front door) opens out onto a small deck.
Tips for the Would-Be House-Mover
Before I conclude, here are a few tips that I wish we'd had before we began:
[1] Have the building inspector from the area you're moving to inspect the soon-to-be-transported dwelling at its present location before you buy it. He can tell you whether your prospective purchase meets the code(s) for his area and what structural changes (if any) will be required before he can issue an occupancy permit. With an older house, you may have to completely redo the wiring or plumbing.
[2] Remember that you can always find another house. Don't settle for one that needs a lot of work.
[3] Obtain bids from several moving firms. We received estimates ranging from $3,500 to $6,000 to transport one home that we considered buying (but didn't purchase).
[4] If you're buying a lot with the intention of moving a house onto it, by all means make the offer to purchase subject to your being able to secure all the necessary permits to move the dwelling of your choice to the property.
[5] Try not to lock yourself into any kind of tight schedule where you must take occupancy by a certain date. Sit down and calculate the amount of time the whole project will consume from start to finish . . . then double it! If you try to rush things, the inevitable delays will be terribly frustrating. Our house, for example, was stuck in some mud at the edge of our lot for nearly a week due to unusually heavy rain. We spent days, too, tracking down a faulty circuit in the home's outmoded electrical system. And the building inspector returned time after time to ask us to fix "just one more small detail" before he finally issued that all-important occupancy permit.
The Bottom Line
All told, we worked on our place nearly five months from the day the dwelling was moved until the day it was ready to live in. Was it worth the time, the trouble and (most important of all) the money? You bet! There's no telling how many thousands of dollars a place like ours would cost to build from scratch nowadays (although — as I mentioned earlier — one bank placed a $23,000 value on the building two years ago) . . . and anyway, some of the home's features — such as the real plaster walls and the extra-wide oak woodwork — just can't be duplicated by today's breed of "slap it together" homebuilders.
The thing I like best, though, about our $50 "dream house" is the happy feeling I get whenever I start to add up all the monthly mortgage payments and interest charges we haven't had to pay ( and never will have to pay ) over the years, thanks to the fact that we own our "little castle" free and clear.
Let's see now: $23,000 . . . financed over 30 years . . . at 9.5% interest . . . hmmmm . . . that comes to . . . .


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Thursday 30th August 2012 – Saturday 1st September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are also interested in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand the place of madness in the constitution of persons, relationships and the complex interlacing of self and other. In the 4 previous conferences we had the participation of friends and colleagues who have experienced forms of madness in their personal lives, and they have always been not only welcome, but also moving and illuminating for all: Such contributions based on the actual experience of madness from within are always welcome to our annual events.
In particular papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panel proposals are invited on any of the following themes:
1. The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need Madness?
~ Critical explorations: beyond madness/sanity/insanity
~ Continuity and difference: always with us yet never quite the same
~ Repetition and novelty: the incessant emergence and re-emergence of madness
~ Profound attraction and desire; fear of the abyss and the radical unknown
~ Naming, defining and understanding the elusive
2. The Passion of Madness or Madness and the Emotions
~ Love as madness; uncontrollable passion; unrestrainable love
~ Passion and love as a remaking of life and self
~ Gender and madness; the feminine and the masculine
~ Anger, resentment, revenge, hate, evil
~ I would rather vomit, thank you; revulsion, badness and refusing to comply
3. The Boundaries of Madness or Resisting Normality
~ Madness, sanity and the insane
~ Being out of your mind, crazy, deranged … yet, perfectly sane
~ Deviating from the normal; defining the self against the normal
~ Control, self-control and the pull of the abyss
~ When the insane becomes normal; when evil reins social life
4. Lunatics and the Asylum or Power and the Politics of Madness
~ The social allure and fear of madness; the institutions of confining mad people
~ Servicing normality by castigating the insane and marginalizing lunatics
~ Medicine, psychiatry, psychology, law and the constructions of madness; madness as illness
~ Contributions of the social sciences to the making and the critique of the making of madness
~ Representations, explanations and the critique of madness from the humanities and the arts
5. Creativity, Critique and Cutting Edge
~ Madness as genius, outstanding, out of the ordinary, spectacularly brilliant
~ The art of madness; the science of madness
~ Music, painting, dance, theater: it is crazy to think of art without madness
~ The language and communication of madness: who can translate?
~ Creation as an unfolding of madness
6. Unrestrained and Boundless or The Liberating Promise of Madness
~ Metaphors of feeling free, unrestrained, capable, lifted from reality
~ Madness as clear-sightedness, as opening up possibilities, as re-visioning of the world
~ The future, the prophetic, the unknown; the epic, the heroic and the tragic
~ The unreachable and untouchable knowledge of madness
~ The insanity of not loving madness
7. Lessons for Self and Other or Lessons for Life about and from Madness
~ Cultural and social constructions of madness; images of the mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, abnormal
~ What is real? Who defines reality? Learning from madness how to cope with reality
~ Recognising madness in oneself; relativising madness in others
~ Love, intimacy, care and the small spaces of madness
~ Critical and ethical implosions of normality and normalness; sane in insane places and insane in sane places
Papers will be accepted which deal with related areas and themes.
The 2012 meeting of Making Sense Of: Madness will run alongside the second of our projects on Chronicity and we anticipate holding sessions in common between the two projects. We welcome any papers or panels considering the problems or addressing issues that cross both projects. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 26th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up tp 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: Madness Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Gonzalo Araoz
Project Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net and University of Cumbria,
Cumbria, United Kingdom
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland,
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:' series of research projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.
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Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.


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Various options to choose from are:
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Thunar is a file manager that is shipped by default with XFCE and is a integral part of XFCE desktop environment . Thunar is developed by Benedikt Meurer and has been named after the god Thor of Norse mythology . It is similar to Nautilus but uses much less resource as compared to Nautilus , and in fact one of the goals of creating Thunar was to create a file manager that was fast , clean and easy to use . It is much more responsive as compared to some other file managers available on Linux including Konqueror (KDE) and Nautilus (GNOME) . It has been designed to comply with standards set by freedesktop.org and is quite small compared to nautilus and is quite
Now , my laptop is very old to be precise it is three years old and has a very modest amount of ram 256MB .I am able to run Ubuntu and Gnome but overall i would not rate my experience of using Ubuntu on my laptop to be good since the System is not as responsive as it should be and running things like beagle daemon in background just slows down the system to a awful pace . So well i decided to look for some light weight alternatives to some of the application installed by default on my Gnome desktop . And the first thing i wanted to change was the nautilus file manager , well nautilus is a nice app and does provide a impressive set of features but i did not quite like it since it was buggy and slow , i liked Windows Explorer in Windows it was really fast . I was looking something on that line and i came acrossthunar . I had used thunar previously while using XFCE but i never though about installing atop my gnome Desktop . so well here is how i installed thunar on Ubuntu : -
To install thunar type the following command at the command line (assuming you are running Ubuntu)
after completing this process you can launch thunar by going into (Applications -> System Tools -> Thunar File Manager )
This how thunar file manager looks : -
Now by default thunar shows file name and associated icon , however i like viewing files and directory as detailed list so well i decided to change how it shows files and folder by clicking on (View as compact list) .
Now since Thunar supports extending it's functionality using plugins , well i tried some of them (there are handful of plugins right now but expect that number to grow quickly) here is how i installed some of the plugins i found useful : -
One of the plugin that impressed me was "Thunar archive plug-in" that allows one to extract file using the right click menu in Thunar as well as creating file using right click menu of mouse.
To install it : -
There are a number of other plugins that you can check from the website : - http://thunar.xfce.org/plugins.html
The offical XFCE website : - http://www.xfce.org/
The Thunar File Manager Website : - http://thunar.xfce.org/
However if you are still stuck using Nautilus as your file-manager you can try these tips for speeding up things a bit : -
First Open the Nautilus File Manager now go to (Edit -> Preferences )there under Preview tab try modifying the following settings : -
1. Turning off Thumbnails : - By changing setting to never you can turn off thumbnails of pictures that are shown by default in nautilus file manager this setting can speed up nautilus significantly if you have a slow system and directory you are browsing has a lot of high resolution images.
2. Turning of text in icons : - This is another setting that can be turned off , unnecessary resources are wasted in showing the content of text files as thumbnails . This can help speed up nautilus a bit.
3. Turning off count for number of Items : - Now this can speed up things a bit in nautilus since some resources are used in counting the number of items present in directory however it wont show any significant improvement on new machines or even on half descent machines. Try this only on very slow computers.
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Okay well. I am now 21. A kind-of grown woman. I look back on what I did with this blog–what we did with this blog–since I was 15, and it's fucking amazing.
I am sorry I left you.
I've considered using this as a place for short, quick posts but I always relished the feeling of accomplishment that I felt after I'd finished a long, beautiful post.
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Here's why I decided to reclaim my glorious WordPress: I was just starting to get good at it when I stopped blogging.
Another thing: Upon perusing my iPod, which has a different music selection from my external hard drive, I came across the song "Sharks" by Bear Colony, and it hit my belly in an entirely nostalgic way. I remembered the way that this blog tracked my growth from adolescence to adulthood. Although I am still rather immature, you readers have watched me grow up, have grown up with me, given me support, and I want to give something back to you. Hence, rebooting the blog.
Tumblr's great n all but I like the long format of WordPress better. Plus, I feel that while I use my Tumblr for pretty things and activism, I still have much to say about music, and Tumblr doesn't give me the forum to do that.
I'm going to start new things, possibly beginning with one secret surprise, which I will work on this weekend. I plan to bring in a wider variety of music, hopefully to cater to a wider audience of music tastes. This will definitely be influenced by my friends and readers, who have introduced me to new genres where my mind was so narrow before. In fact, if you ever hear something amazing that you want me to hear, either leave me a comment, message me (even anonymously) on Tumblr, shoot me something on Facebook, or send me an email! In addition to concerts I attend in the future, I also plan to write about local Richmond bands, noise, hip-hop, and (sigh) pop music. Why pop music? Have I finally sold out? Well, number one, I don't even really know what that means. Number two, I have realized that pop music presents a wonderful opportunity for…critique.
Of course, I'll also continue to post the occasional cringeworthy personal post, and, you know…books/movies/tv/whatever.
And for a second before I get started, just to crack my knuckles, I'd like to give a shout-out to Divya, who seriously commented on my most recent post within milliseconds, as well as one to deShion, who I'm about to message back on Last.fm.
I'm going to do this list-style. In fact, if any of you are enthusiastic enough, just to celebrate this long-awaited post (by me if by nobody else), you readers can answer the questions I'm about to pose to myself in the comments, and I shall respond with commentary.
1. Wut r ur top
3 5 fav bands records rite naow?
In no particular order, I am currently really into:
And…don't be too shocked at how different they are…:
- Kamehameha by Ponytail (2006)
- Teen Dream by Beach House (2010)
- Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom (2010)
- Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter (2010)
- Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics by Ducktails (2011)
2. What've you been reading lately?
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which is amazing
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (all of it)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, just the first installment so far, on the toilet
- rose by Inga Muscio
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
3. How have ewe changed since you last posted?
I have more energy due to a very recent change in medz.
My hair is prettier; I got an undercut inspired by Victoria Legrand's hair.
I live with a kitty named Roxy. She is a buff tabby, 1 1/2 years old, and extremely agile.
I'm closer to my sisters and I hang out with my friends more.
I've become more body positive and politically aware/correct. If this bothers you, then you. can. get out, I guess.
4. Movie recommendations purr-lease?
Okay. You get four, mainly because I can't think of another one at the moment.
- Ponyo
- Paprika
- But I'm a Cheerleader
- Heima
- Margaret Cho comedy of any kind. That's not a movie, but…worth it.
5. Grrrl role models lately
- Victoria Legrand of the band Beach House
- Molly Siegel of the band Ponytail (huge secret crush)
- Girl Cave the only all-girl cycling team in the Tour de Force scavenger hunt last weekend (Adrienne and Nicole)
- Genderbitch even though I was a total poohead the first time I communicated with her
- You know, all my friends and Tumblr-crushes. Okay, so Tumblr has taken over my life.
So sometime this weekend, expect a secret surprise and a new post including music, mostly probably raving about the albums that I listed above, with listening opportunities of course.
That is, unless my computer re-breaks
which it totally did
like two weeks ago
but then yesterday
it started working again
what gives
I'm going to play the Sims 3, I think.
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I'm coming back to WordPress this summer.
I miss you.
Get ready.
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This day marks the beginning of sophomore year spring break. What have I done so far?
This morning, Alex y yo went to Diversity Thrift on Sherwood. I'd never been there before (sin); I'd only ever seen the truck and the rainbow building. I did not know that it's completely within biking distance from me. Or that it's awesome. I lifted seven books for a buck each and a fucking saweeeeet Spectra System Polaroid camera for three fucking dollars (yes, three fucking dollars). It was rather dusty (both the camera and everything in Diversity, really) when I bought it but I cleaned it off with a Clorox wipe and I have plans to make a new strap for it because the included hand strap was grody and just actually fucking gross, and maybe to jazz it up with stickers or awesome. Really, though, it's a Polaroid, so how much jazzing up could it need? Here is a video to demonstrate awesome.
Oh, oops, that's not a demonstration of awesome. That's Rachael. Here. HAVE FUN WITH MY STUPID OLD PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT, lawl. All of the video/monologues are to Ali, not to me.
Okay, lame sibling rivalry aside, I'm excited about having my own Polaroid, except for the fact that film is ridiculously expensive. I bought a 2-pack (20 photos) for 30 bucks on ebay. Didn't Polaroid film used to be kind of…cheaper? Oh yeah, it did, but it's not being produced anymore. Who made that decision?! So I guess now I have two amazing cameras that take awesome photos with the price of expensive fucking fillllmmmmmm.
Fortunately, collectives like The Impossible Project, Save Polaroid, and Polanoid exist. The Impossible Project is a newsy site with a shop for Polaroid products. It kind of prepares us all for the Polaroid Apocalypse, or maybe even for the wider-sweeping Apocalypse of Analog Photography As We Know It. Save Polaroid is sort of a grassroots effort to bring it the fuck back, and Polanoid : Polaroid :: Urban Nomad : Lomography. Right now, my greatest material desire is probably Lomography's Diana Instant Back +, which turns out Polaroid-like instant pixxxx. Someday I will have you, my pretty…
On to the music.
I been listening nonstop to White Hinterland's Kairos. It all started when Stereogum offered "Icarus" as a free download. The rest of the album was neither immediately nor easily adored, but it's been a definite grower, growin' on me like ivy. There's something to be said for Casey Dienel's silky smooth, slithery voice, but I can't say I love Luniculaire or Phylactery Facotry even nearly as much as I'm digging Kairos (though Luniculaire comes close). It's difficult to decide just which tracks to present here because they're all worthy, just in different manners. I'm not going to give you "Icarus" because you can so easily download that for free at Stereogum or Pitchfork. By the way, if you're going to take my recommendation, I recommend Stereogum more highly because that page also includes White Hinterland's cover of Arthur Russell's "Lucky Cloud", which you cannot afford to miss.
First, I have to include "Cataract" because it's a stunning display of what Casey Dienel can do. This is White Hinterland's most soulful oeuvre.
Cataract | White Hinterland
[mf] [buy]
Second, "Huron" because it is a heartbeat, and it feels life-changing. I am also fond of [what I can make out of] the lyrics.
Huron | White Hinterland
[mf] [buy]
Third, "Moon Jam" because of the title. It also feels so futuristic to me, and Casey plows forward in a manner that almost reminds me of Alice "Kingsley" from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland which I saw yesterday in 3-D. It unexpectedly captivated me.
Moon Jam | White Hinterland
[mf] [buy]
It's kind of strange how my musical tastes have transformed from oldies to power pop to pop punk to suck to mellow-ass indie all day, all night, every day, every night. But Surfer Blood sort of justifies this change, almost pulling at each of my former favourite genres. I mean, I know their influences are way more legitimate than say, The Click 5 (or probably any of said band's influences), but I'd venture to say that I could have enjoyed me some Surfer Blood at any age. In a really fucked-up way, they remind me of Weezer, only better.
Floating Vibes | Surfer Blood
[mf] [buy]
I also downloaded Gigi's Maintenant, just digging the French title and the Pitchfork review's reference to Camera Obscura. I was pleasantly surprised by the album's listenability and 60s nostalgia. The guests are obscure, even for someone who delves into bands with both hands, but I still managed to find favourite tracks. I'm going to put my two favourite female vocals out here.
Mirah has an irresistible voice, and it's put to good use in this girly pop song.
Won't Someone Tell Me (with Mirah) | Gigi
[mf] [buy]
I love a good, strong, slightly scratchy voice, and Katie Eastburn satiates my desire.
The Marquee (with Katie Eastburn) | Gigi
[mf] [buy]
It's difficult to cope with my newfound love for Joanna Newsom, especially since her songs are so lengthy and layered. It is mandatory to sit down with the lyrics in front of you, reading along, the first two or three times you listen to one of her songs, which are often epic-length. But it was interesting, or maybe intriguing, or maybe just inspiring, to see her perform on Jimmy Fallon. The morning I watched this video, I had "lawlessness, law-less-ness" stuck in my head all day. It gave my day a sense of mission.
It's also important to note this girl's perfect posture and unrelenting confidence. It seems that seeing her live would so greatly trump all of her recordings.
Soft As Chalk | Joanna Newsom
[mf] [buy]
Beach House has also pleased my ears lately. I'm intrigued by Victoria Legrand's voice. It's such a rare find, such a richly textured and deep female voice. I watched Pitchfork's segment with four Beach House songs, and was thoroughly captivated. Plus, here's a woman who is so perfectly…graceful? Graceful. Elegant, even. Here are two songs from Teen Dream that were included in that sesh.
Zebra | Beach House
[mf] [buy]
Walk In The Park | Beach House
[mf] [buy]
I don't write about movies very often, and by that, I mean that I don't do it nearly often enough. Films are rich and satiate much of my hunger for life.
Mermaid deeply affected me. Made in 2007, it's been described as the Russian Amélie. On some level, I could agree with that, thematically, maybe. If you loved Amélie, you'll probably at least enjoy Mermaid. But Mermaid extends beyond Amélie into the real world. It's awkward, charming, even cringeworthy at times. It doesn't extend hope to the rest of us, and maybe that's why I prefer it. Mermaid is realistic, even with all of Alissa's miracles and reveries. Compared to Mermaid, Amélie is surely a fairy tale; a simple dream. Maybe the two are best set apart. So you're best off ignoring Amélie while watching Mermaid.
As for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, don't go into the theatre expecting loyalty to the book. Instead, Alice is nineteen years old and everyone seems to think she has returned to Wonderland, despite the fact that she has no recollection of ever having been there at all. This particular take on Alice is a sort of clusterfuck mashup of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-glass, and that same seven-year-old heroine's future. A lot of moviegoers will complain about how that's not the story of Alice and how Tim Burton has manipulated things and blah blah blah, but for what it is–that is, an artistic take on two classic novels–this version is magnificent, captivating, morbid…and then it has a weird spin on the end: feminism. Since when did Disney give a fuck about feminism? Just look at all the Disney princesses, most of whom can't do jack shit for themselves (exception: Mulan, but she gets married in the end so she did "need" a man after all…but is Mulan even a princess, technically speaking?). Disney's appeal for feminism appeased me, but I just wonder how far they're going to take it, or if it's going to carry into any of their future movies. Probably not. I also wanted to point out that while uplifting, the ending is entirely unrealistic. Back in those days, Alice would have had to get married, would not have been taken seriously as a businesswoman…why pretend otherwise?
Instead of presenting you with the trailer, here's a sweet music video made using fragments of the 1951 version if Alice in Wonderland.
You can download this track, "Alice" by Pogo, for free on Last.fm.
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Facebook: Deleted. Myspace: Gone. Formspring: Fucked.
I'm done living vicariously through those pointless social networking sites. I plan to retain my Last.fm out of vanity and because it doesn't hold any hopes of ruining my life/there's only so much you can do on there. I use my Twitter for a class, and I fail to see the harm in blogging.
The biggest problem I can see with this removal from social networks is that it will (and already has) lowered my accessibility–both to you who are far away from me and to school acquaintances. But I can deal with that if it means I can exchange internet accessibility for real friends, higher self-esteem, and less time wasted. I mean, hell yeah. Plus, anyone who wants to can always email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or my school email address. Any time, no matter who you are. I mean, if you spam the shit out of my email addresses, then I'll be pissed, but if you're sending a real email then I see no problems.
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J'ai fait un répertoire! Je lis les articles sur le site de RFI et je copie les mots que je ne réconnais pas. C'est génial. J'ai pris l'idée de ma prof de conversation français. Dans ce cours, nous regardons les films français, comme Inch'Allah Dimanche et Le Fabuleux Déstin d'Amelie Poulain et Ridicule et Madame Bovary et Jean de Florette et Manon des Sources. Nous avons un livre pour le vocabulaire et les questions pour la conversation. Ce cours est vraiment génial. Et…et! J'aime beaucoup ma prof parce qu'elle est vraiment intelligente. Elle est américaine et elle est interprète. Je pense qu'elle lit beaucoup de livres, parce que son vocabulaire est expansif. Hier, elle a utilisé le phrase "a heartbreaking work of staggering genius," qui est le titre d'un livre par Dave Eggers. J'ai souri.
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My armpit hair is fine and soft and dark brown and clean and downy and shiny and beautiful. I always expected it to be coarse and hard and thick and stiff and curly for some reason, more pube-like, but it is some of the best hair, the most intensely gorgeous hair on my body. It is like the hair on my head, except a tiny bit thicker and a tiny bit darker and a tiny bit more unruly.


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LOS ANGELES - Oliver Stone has smoked great marijuana all over the world, from Vietnam and Thailand to Jamaica and South Sudan. But the filmmaker says the best weed is made in the USA and that pot could be a huge growth industry for taxpayers if it were legalized.
Stone, whose drug-war thriller "Savages" opens Friday, has been a regular toker since his days as an infantryman in Vietnam in the late 1960s and knows a good herb when he inhales one. He insisted in a recent interview that no one is producing better stuff now than U.S. growers.
"There's good weed everywhere in the world, but my God, these Americans are brilliant," said Stone, 65, who sees only benefits from legalizing marijuana. "It can be done. It can be done legally, safely, healthy, and it can be taxed and the government can pay for education and stuff like that. Also, you can save a fortune by not putting kids in jail."
Stone is known for mixing polemics and drama in films such as "JFK," "Born on the Fourth of July," "Wall Street" and "Nixon," his saga of the president who declared the war on drugs 40 years ago. Yet "Savages" may be closer to a pure thrill ride than anything he's done, the action coming without much in the way of preaching for legalization.
Still, the film offers a fictional portrait of violence among a Mexican drug cartel and California pot growers that makes legalizing marijuana seem like a sane option.
"That would be my personal solution, but as a politician, I would fight for decriminalization first, because that is the immediate by-product of this mess that we got ourselves into. It's very hard to pull out of a $40 billion-a-year industry, which is the prison industry. It's probably more than $40 billion. But they will fight you tooth and nail to keep these prisons as big as they are," Stone said.
"It's worse than slavery, per capita. In the black community, it is a form of slavery, this drug war, because it imprisons a huge portion of people, destroys their lives, coarsens our culture. And why? Marijuana is much less harmful than tobacco and prescription drugs in many cases and certainly alcohol. This puritanical strain got started with Nixon. It was a political issue for him, and it's gotten worse. It's like the Pentagon. You can't stop it."
"Savages" co-star Salma Hayek had some worries that the film could have become a sermon in favor of drug legalization. She was glad the film wound up sticking to a good story and generally keeping politics out of it, even though she agrees that legalization makes sense for marijuana, at least.
"Yeah, marijuana, if it's legalized and controlled," Hayek said. "Some of the other drugs that are on the market are really, really dangerous. The legal drugs. That your doctor can prescribe. And they can kill you with it slowly."
Hayek plays the merciless boss of a Mexican cartel aiming to seize control of a California pot operation whose leaders (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) grow the best marijuana on the planet. The film co-stars Benicio Del Toro as Hayek's brutal lieutenant, John Travolta as a corrupt Drug Enforcement Agency cop and Blake Lively as Johnson and Kitsch's shared lover, whose kidnapping puts the two sides at war.
Stone, who has two Academy Awards as best director for 1989's "Born on the Fourth of July" and 1986's "Platoon" (the latter also won best picture), has had a fitful career since the mid-1990s, with critical bombs such as "Alexander" and modest box-office results for "W.", "World Trade Center" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."
With gorgeous Southern California scenery, wicked humor and relentless action, "Savages" may have more commercial appeal than anything Stone has done in decades. While the film itself doesn't preach, it has given Stone a soapbox to play devil's advocate, even landing him on the cover of the marijuana magazine High Times, smoking a joint.
"He's Oliver Stone for a reason. There's no filter, and he is who he is, and I admire that," said "Savages" star Kitsch. "At the end of the day, who you're going to be facing is yourself. If you can stay true to that - and I tell you, this business tests every minute of it - I love that. I love to see someone that is like, `Look, this (expletive) movie is what I've done. Take it or leave it.' It's an admirable quality, especially in this business."
Stone considers his pot use part of a healthy regimen.
"It doesn't hurt me," he said. "As you can see, I'm still functioning at my age. My mind feels good. I may not be the brightest rocket in the room, but I certainly feel like I'm competent."


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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skillfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the harsh totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party.
This new major production explores the world inside Winston Smith's head, as well as the world without, and catches the euphoria and bliss buried deep underneath the cold face of Big Brother. Headlong's version explores why Orwell's gaze is as applicable to the here and now as it ever was. Age 14+. Running time: 1hr 40mins (no interval)


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Harbaugh, 49ers CEO deny report coach nearly went to Browns
The Cleveland Browns, who only served to bolster their reputation as a mess of an organization with their "methodica' coaching search and subsequent front-office shakeup, may have come close to turning the football world on its head, according to ProFootballTalk.com.
According to the site, the Browns "nearly pulled off a trade" that would have brought San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh to Cleveland to take the same position in exchange for draft picks. The only reason the deal fell apart was that Harbaugh decided not to leave the 49ers, according to PFT.
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Harbaugh flatly denied the report late Friday in text messages to ESPN's Ed Werder.
SF Head coach Jim Harbaugh text to me on reports Niners-Browns discussed trading him: "I echo Jed York's comment - isn't true...."
— Ed Werder (@Edwerderespn) February 22, 2014
More from Jim Harbaugh: "...I know nothing about a trade with the Cleveland Browns and us, involving me."
— Ed Werder (@Edwerderespn) February 22, 2014
Harbaugh was referring to the denial made earlier in the day by 49ers CEO Jed York.
RT @JedYork @ProFootballTalk is this on the record? Report isn't true. > Official denial from 49ers CEO Jed York.
— Matt Maiocco (@MaioccoCSN) February 21, 2014
MORE: Manziel's measurables | McCarron 'disrespected' | Crowell's crowing
UPDATE: ESPN's Chris Mortensen weighed in hours later and seemed to contradict York.
Browns did indeed make a run at Jim Harbaugh that reached a serious stage, sources confirm substance of @ProFootballTalk report.
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) February 22, 2014
The Browns neither denied nor confirmed the report.
"The team conducted an extensive coaching search, and explored several options. That search produced an outstanding head coach in Mike Pettine and we're excited about his future with the club," the team said in a statement.
Cleveland eventually hired Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Mike Pettine.
The trade would have created an unusual situation in the AFC North with Harbaugh coaching the Browns and his brother, John Harbaugh, coaching the Baltimore Ravens.


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