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She was born Jan. 12, 1928, at Burlington Junction, Mo., to Luke Edward and Orda Ulva Voshell Bowman. She was of the Methodist Faith and was known affectionately to her family as Granny. She loved to sew, plant flowers, read, whittle and take care of her animals.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Edgar Lyle Fine; brother, Edward Cossins Bowman; two sisters, Orda Francis Taft and Helen Francis Bowman.
Survivors include her three daughters, Ulva Jane Eldridge of Richmond, Mo., Mary Loch and husband, Roland, of Pickering, Mo., Joy Blocker of Cache, Okla.; three sons, Edward Fine and wife, Shelly, of Russellville, Charley Fine and wife, Patricia, of Dardanelle, and Andy Fine and wife, Glenda, of Lawson, Mo.; 10 grandchildren, Jenny Dunivan of Oklahoma, Clinton Loch, Leah Oliphant, Samantha Eldridge, Andrew Fine, Luke Fine, Grace Fine all of Missouri, Claire Fine, Vanessa Fine, and Zachary Fine all of Arkansas; and four great-grandchildren, Justin and Devan Dunivan both of Oklahoma, and Kaylee and Madison Goetz both of Missouri; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at a later date.
Cremation arrangements by Cornwell Funeral Home and River Valley Cremations in Dardanelle.
Online guest book and condolences at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.


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6/21 TNA Slammiversary PPV Live Coverage: King of the Mountain for the TNA Title featuring Mick Foley vs. Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe vs. A.J. Styles, Team 3D vs. Beer Money for the TNA Tag Titles
Jun 21, 2009 - 10:00 PM
Live from Detroit, Mich.
The Palace of Auburn Hills
The free preview opened with a brief Slammiversary video... Jeremy Borash welcomed viewers inside the arena for the first time and hyped the event at ringside. He said it was one of the most loaded shows in TNA history, and ran through the lineup...
A King of the Mountain match video aired... Backstage, Lauren interviewed Beer Money. Robert Roode teased having sympathy for Team 3D because they had to wrestle in Japan the night before. Roode and Storm burst out laughing. "They say you're not funny, you are a funny guy," James Storm said.
Storm said you shouldn't feel bad for Team 3D for being on a plane, you should feel sorry for the plane for having to carry Team 3D. Storm said he hasn't had any sleep either because he's been up partying in anticipation of winning the the TNA Tag Titles...
Powell's POV: Good promo. Roode established sympathy for Team 3D by telling the story about them defending the IWGP Tag Titles in Japan the night before, and then they got heat by laughing at the situation.
A Team 3D vs. Beer Money video aired...
1. The British Invasion (w/Rob Terry) defeated Rhino and Eric Young by pinning Jesse Neal in 5:35. Mike Tenay and Don West checked in on commentary. Young came out and didn't acknowledge the crowd even though they were cheering him. Rhino was escorted by two winners of a TNA contest. He received a big pop from his hometown fans.
Rhino started the match and tried to tag in Young a couple minutes later. Young dropped off the ring apron and left Rhino hanging. Young headed backstage. Jesse Neal, the guy Rhino has been training, came out in street clothes and stood in Rhino's corner.
At 5:00, Williams went for a move off the ropes, but Rhino moved out of the way. Rhino crawled to his corner and tagged in Neal. For some reason, the referee was okay with this. About 30 seconds later, Brutus Magnus pinned Neal clean...
Powell's POV: I'm not a fan of throwing logic out the window in the free preview match. The live crowd was pumped throughout the forgettable match, but I don't see how that will lead viewers who were on the fence to buy the show.
Lauren and Borash hyped the show from ringside and introduced a video that hyped the Monster's Ball match... Borash asked a fan at ringside where he was from. He said Toronto. Borash previously spoke to a fan from Chicago. Borash did a nice job of giving the feel that fans came from all over North America to see the show...
A Matt Morgan vs. Sting video aired. The narrator said that Morgan will join the Mafia if he wins... Lauren interviewed Sting in an unidentified location. She said Morgan would take Sting's leadership role in TNA if he won the match. Sting said he was going to make an example out of Morgan during their match...
An video hyped the X Division version of the King of the Mountain match...
Powell's POV: They left out the part where Team 3D destroyed all four challengers in less than 30 seconds on Thursday's Impact.
Borash delivered final hype at ringside. He approached a woman from behind. Dixie Carter turned around with a young fan. She wished all the fathers a happy father's day. Borash wished Bob Carter a happy birthday...
A video package showed the original NWA-TNA graphic. It listed some of the early criticisms against the company, followed by video footage of various wrestlers... James Earl Jones guy narrated one last video to close the free preview...
TNA Slammiversary PPV
The main show opened with a black and white video that featured shots of various TNA performers. The song that played was from former TNA personality Goldy Locks, who is a musical performer. Nice touch.
Mike Tenay and Don West introduced the show while various crowd shots aired. Pyro exploded on the stage. They introduced the rules of the King of the Mountain and hyped that Curtis Granderson of the Detroit Tigers would be the belt holder...
1. Suicide defeated Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Jay Lethal, and Consequences Creed in a King of the Mountain match to retain the X Division Title in 23:30. Granderson came out to a nice ovation and joined the announcers on commentary. There were a couple of other Tigers players in the crowd. After the challengers were introduced, the lights went out and Suicide was introduced. When the lights were turned on, Suicide was standing on top of the King of the Mountain penalty box.
The bell rang and the four challengers went after Suicide. They took turns hitting moves on him. Lethal Consequences grabbed a ladder from ringside while the Guns worked over Suicide in the ring. Suicide ended up with the ladder and rammed it into all four of his opponents. Suicide scored the first pin of the match by pinning Lethal at 2:15. Lethal took his spot in the penalty box. Suicide became eligible to hang the belt.
Suicide scored the second pin of the match when he covered Shelley around 4:30. Shelley entered the penalty box as Lethal came out. West said the upside to being in the box is that you can strategize and get a break while in the box. Tenay pointed out the negative is that the match can end while you're in the box.
Lethal hit move on Suicide on the chair. Lethal, Sabin, and Creed all covered Suicide for the pin at 6:35. The announcers assumed Lethal was eligible to hang the belt since he was the first person to cover Suicide. As Suicide entered the penalty box, the other four wrestlers joined together in a funny celebration dance in mid-ring. After spending the match working together, Guns and Lethal Consequences went head-to-head. Creed pinned Shelley around 10 minutes in, so Shelley went back to the box.
Later, Sabin ran toward a corner, leapt onto the top of the penalty box, and then dove onto Suicide and Creed at ringside. Cool move. Back in the ring, Shelley set up a ladder and started to climb it even though he wasn't eligible and didn't have the belt. The referee explained the rules to him. Sabin laid down and Shelley pinned him at 13:00. Shelley grabbed the belt and started to climb the ladder, but Suicide dropkicked it.
Lethal hit a wild DDT off the ropes on Lethal for a pin. At 15:40, Sabin hit a move on Suicide and pointed at the title belt. He set up a ladder and grabbed the belt from Granderson, but Suicide quickly cut him off. Lethal got out of the box and all five wrestlers went at it.
Sabin ended up on top of a ladder that was position over the edge of the ring and on top of the guardrail. Lethal went top and dropped an elbow on Sabin. The ladder didn't even bend. Shelley and Creed battled on the ring apron and Shelley hit Sliced Bread on the apron. He went for the same move on Suicide by running the penalty box, but Suicide avoided the move.
Suicide tossed Shelley over the guardrail. He grabbed the belt and set up a ladder and was greeted with boos. Lethal broke it up and they awkwardly set up a spot that resulted in Suicide on top of the penalty box with a ladder that rested on Lethal's back. Shelley set up another ladder. Suicide jumped off the penalty box and took out Shelley in a big spot.
Suicide went to climb the ladder, but it wasn't under the hook so he had to come down and set up the ladder again. He climbed the ladder and hung the belt on the hook to win the match. He was booed, so the announcers quickly pointed out that the Detroit fans were rooting for the hometown Guns...
Powell's POV: I hated the first few minutes of the match because the Guns and Lethal Consequences looked like dopes for giving up pinfalls to Suicide even though they outnumbered him four-to-one. The match featured plenty of high spots and crowd pleasing moments, but it really was a train wreck. Some will love it, some will hate it. I appreciated the action. However, I'm not a fan of the King of the Mountain concept.
Tenay and West discussed the pay-per-view lineup at ringside... Backstage, Lauren reminded fans that Team 3D had to fly back to the United States after wrestling in Japan last night. She brought in Shane Douglas for an interview, who played on "the old guy" Ric Flair's catchphrase without mentioning him by name...
Powell's POV: Douglas can still talk. Good promo. It was nice not to hear the silly "franchised" line followed by the laugh.
A video hyped Daniels vs. Douglas...
2. Daniels pinned Shane Douglas in 8:10. Douglas cut a brief promo in the ring mocking the Detroit fans over the Penguins beating the Red Wings. West noted that Jeff Jarrett has more nicknames than anyone he knows. He recapped Jarrett bringing Daniels back, which agitated Douglas. West said Jarrett makes up the rules as he goes along.
Douglas worked the match in a t-shirt. Early in the match, they fought to ringside and Douglas rammed Daniels's shoulder into the ring steps. Douglas spent the next few minutes working over Daniels's shoulder with a variety of moves. Daniels came back and continued to sell the shoulder.
Daniels motioned for the Best Moonsault Ever, but Douglas reached up and stopped him from going to the ropes. A short time later, though, Daniels hit the Best Moonsault Ever out of nowhere and scored the clean 1-2-3. West, who had ripped Daniels for telegraphing his previous attempt, praised him for going right for the move...
Powell's POV: Fine for what it was. It would have been tough for any match to follow up the X Division train wreck, but they managed to keep the crowd interested.
Backstage, Borash interviewed Mick Foley, who sang "I've got the World Title in my hands." He said that once he won the main event, he would start planning his next title match at Bound For Glory. Borash acted surprised he would wait four months. Foley said he actually meant next year's Bound For Glory in 16 months. Borash gave Foley a box. He said it was a gift from one half of the Tweet and Tweak Connection...
A video hyped the TNA Knockouts Title match...
3. Angelina Love (w/Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne) pinned Tara for the TNA Knockouts Title in 6:50. The bell rang to start the match and the two women had a brief staredown before locking up. Tara gained the early advantage and pulled Love by the hair a couple times and then threw her. Tara kicked Love through the ropes. When she tried to get back inside the ring, Sky and Rayne tripped her.
The announcers noted that Team 3D had yet to arrive at the building. West heeled it up by ripping on Team 3D as the action continued in the ring. Love tossed Tara back to ringside, where Velvet and Madison worked her over. Back inside the ring, Love tried to pin Tara. When Tara kicked out, Love threw a great temper tantrum.
Tara made her comeback. She flashed a crazed look at the camera and then headed to ringside where she beat up Rayne and Sky. She went back inside the ring and was greeted by a kick that sent her back toward the corner. Sky sprayed hairspray into Tara's eyes. Love hit her finisher and scored the pin. The Beautiful People celebrated the win by standing over Tara...
Powell's POV: Very disappointing as far as crowd reaction is concerned. TNA raced into this match when it felt like something they could have built up as a major deal.
In an undisclosed part of the building, Lauren interviewed Dr. Stevie, Raven, and Daffney. Raven started normal and then went way over the top with his promo and finished it off with a Dr. Evil laugh...
Powell's POV: Wait, she's afraid of Raven and Daffney, yet she's willing to meet them in a poorly lit storage area?
A video hyped the Monster's Ball...
4. Abyss and Taylor Wilde defeated Raven and Daffney (w/Dr. Stevie) in a Monster's Ball match in 14:10. Early in the match, Abyss picked up Daffney and tossed her onto Raven and Stevie at ringside. Taylor followed up with a dive off the top rope onto the trio at ringside.
Daffney climbed onto Abyss's shoulders on the fan side of the guard rail. Taylor came up behind her and slammed the trash can lids onto her head. In a scary moment, Daffney came about two inches from hitting her head on the edge of the ring steps when she took the bump off Abyss's shoulders. The wrestlers fought near the stage where Raven set up a long table that was covered with a red cloth.
West mentioned that Raven isn't afraid to die in the ring. Not a good choice of words given the recent Misawa tragedy. The table came into play when Taylor leapt off a row of speakers and splashed Daffney through it. Abyss and Raven fought back to the ring. Abyss grabbed a bag of tacks from underneath the ring. Raven begged off. Stevie entered the ring and hit Abyss with a chair, which is legal in the Monster's Ball.
Abyss bladed. Raven worked him over until Taylor hit him with a weapon. Daffney nailed Taylor with a weapon. Abyss tried to chokeslam Raven onto a trash can, but Raven accidentally kicked the can on the way up. West covered by saying Raven did it intentionally.
At 11:30, Abyss performed the rocket launcher spot with Taylor onto Raven. He went for the cover, but Stevie held onto the referee and wouldn't let him go. Abyss spread the tacks in the ring. Daffney attacked Abyss from behind. He didn't flinch. She ran away from Abyss and ran right into Wilde, who slammed her onto the tacks. Holy shit chants from the crowd.
Taylor went for a cover, but Stevie broke up the pinfall. Abyss grabbed Stevie by the throat, but Raven hit him with a chair and followed up with an Even Flow DDT for a near fall. Raven tried to hit the move onto the tacks, but Abyss powered out and hit the Black Hole Slam on Raven onto the tacks and then pinned him to win the match...
Powell's POV: A really fun brawl. Big spots, blood, weapons, and Daffney and Raven taking bumps onto the tacks. Here's hoping that's not the last we see of Raven in TNA.
Backstage, Borash interviewed Jeff Jarrett, who said he has no desire to win the TNA Champion. No, really! He said he wants to take his company back. Jarrett said he would decide what he plans to do with the TNA Title after he wins it...
Powell's POV: What's the point of cheering for a guy who doesn't want to win the World Title? I'm not a fan of the approach they took with Jarrett. They made it clear he's more focussed on his company than the title, but saying he has no desire to win the strap doesn't exactly help the prestige of the belt.
5. Sting pinned Matt Morgan in 10:00 The stipulation was that Morgan could take control of the Main Event Mafia by defeating Sting. They fought to ringside early and Morgan picked up Sting by the legs and flung him into the guardrail. Once the wrestlers were back in the ring, Tenay said Team 3D had just arrived at the building. It seems like they're giving them one big excuse for losing by making such a fuss over it throughout the show.
Morgan was dominant early, but Sting came back and hit a missile dropkick at 7:00. He stood up and pounded his chest as the crowd applauded. Morgan came right back and went for the Hellevator, but Sting slipped out. It looked like Sting was supposed to hit the Scorpion Death Drop coming out of the Hellevator, but he slipped. He stood up and hit the move a moment later for a near fall.
At 8:40, Sting applied the Scorpion Leg Lock, but Morgan immediately powered out. Sting came right back by hitting the Scorpion Death Drop off the second rope for the clean pin.
Powell's POV: Sloppy at the end. The live crowd groaned when Sting missed the first Scorpion Death Drop, but they still popped for the finish. So far, it's been a very predictable pay-per-view as far as the results go.
West introduced a video "regarding our biggest pay-per-view of the year, Bound For Glory." The video noted that the show will take place on Oct. 18 in Los Angeles, Calif...
Backstage, Lauren interviewed Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles. She said they seem to have an advantage going in because they get along whereas everyone else in the match is at odds. A.J. agreed and said it was a matter of sticking to their plan. Joe spoke briefly at the end... A video hyped the Team 3D vs. Beer Money match...
6. Beer Money defeated Team 3D to win the TNA Tag Titles in 17:00. Rather than build up the two best tag teams in the company, Tenay and West spent the first few minutes doing babyface play-by-play vs. heel color commentator schtick. Sigh. Back and forth action to start. Brother Ray performed a nasty release suplex on Roode at 4:30. He got up slowly, but appeared to be fine.
At 8:10, Brother Ray hit the Bubba Bomb on Roode. Team 3D was in control of the match and set up for 3D, but Storm recovered and blocked the move by taking out Ray. They dumped Storm to ringside and hit the Whassup spot. Ray got the live crowd to chant "Get the tables." Devon obliged by setting up a table at ringside. However, Storm recovered and attacked Devon. Back inside the ring, Roode hit a spinebuster on Ray for a nearfall.
Beer Money performed the "Beer Money" routine and a decent number of fans chanted along. The British Invasion walked to ringside, which drew "USA" chants from the crowd. Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus sat down and joined the announcers on commentary while Rob Terry stood behind them.
The British Invasion joined right in on the Tenay vs. West antics while the wrestlers in the ring continued to work their tails off. At 14:30, it appeared Team 3D were setting up for a Doomsday Device, but Roode ended up hitting a Backstabber on Ray. At 15:30, Team 3D hit the Doomsday Device on Roode for a near fall.
Storm accidentally spat beer into the eyes of his partner. Rob Terry climbed onto the ring apron and distracted the referee while Team 3D hit their finisher. After some commotion with British Invasion, Beer Money hit the DWI on Devon and scored the pin to become new tag team champions...
Powell's POV: The outcome was ridiculously foreshadowed. Did they really have to give Team 3D so many excuses? At least they didn't give them all the excuses in the world to lose only to have them "defy the odds" like WWE has done with John Cena in his matches with Big Show. Good in-ring action, but the announcers were really annoying. Heel West is funny at times, but they really need to pick their spots better. There was no need to break into the heel vs. babyface antics during this match.
Backstage, Kurt Angle, who has short hair and a beard, cut a promo in which he vowed to become the new TNA Champion. He said the Main Event Mafia would resume their position on the throne in TNA. Angle said the match is about him and Joe, and "we will be celebrating"...
Powell's POV: I dig Angle's new look. It's a nice change.
A video explained the rules of the King of the Mountain match... A backstage shot aired of A.J. Styles walking with the hood over his head and the TNA Legends Title around his waist. A brief video aired on Styles and then he made his entrance. Repeat and rinse for the other wrestlers with the backstage shots and videos...
Powell's POV: I actually forgot A.J. was the Legends Champion until I saw him. Does anyone care about that belt? By the way, Angle looks more cut than usual.
West acknowledged Joe's torn triceps and three broken fingers. He blamed it on the Mafia. Angle came out wearing a Sidney Crosby jersey for cheap heat. Foley came out wearing new tights with "Tweet" on one leg and "Tweak" on the other. A fan held up a sign that read, "Thank you, Russo." No, really!
Jeremy Borash handed the in-ring introductions. He put over the fact that Styles was celebrating seven years as a TNA Original. The opening bell came 35 minutes after the top of the hour. Angle received great heat for wearing the Pens jersey.
7. Kurt Angle defeated Mick Foley, Samoa Joe, Jeff Jarrett, and A.J. Styles in a King of the Mountain match for the TNA Title in 21:30. Once Foley was announced, the live crowd popped. However, it was because Joe put on a Red Wings jersey. Joe attacked Angle before the bell. The two referees counted. They put Joe in the penalty box to start the match and ruled that Angle is eligible to put the title on the hook. Um, okay.
Early in the match, Jarrett pinned Foley. The best referee in the world (or world's best best buddy) Mark Johnson didn't count to three at first. He finally counted to three. Foley stood up and clapped and took his spot in the box. Jarrett is eligible, and Foley was intentionally pinned. Foley hollered to the announcers it was part of his plan to take "a little rest-a-roonie."
At 5:30, Joe locked Foley in the Kokina Clutch while the other three wrestlers fought at ringside. Think about how much that would have meant if Joe and Foley had fought in an actual match in ROH a few years ago. Unfortunately, it didn't mean much in TNA. Joe choked out Foley, so Joe is eligible and Foley went back to the box.
At 9:00, Joe made the first play to hang the belt, but Foley knocked the ladder over and Joe took a nasty spill. Joe came down on the ladder, which was shot after that. Jarrett picked it up and tossed it at Angle at ringside. Jarrett brought another ladder inside the ring and made his first play to hang the belt. Angle came in and low-blowed Jarrett.
At 12:30, Jarrett smacked Angle over the head with his guitar. Jeff climbed the ladder to hang the belt. Foley followed and then asked Jeff to punch him. They traded punches until Styles springboarded off the ropes and dropkicked the ladder, which fell on top of him. Styles came up holding his back in pain.
At 14:00, Foley and Styles fought onto the top of the penalty box. Styles teased throwing Foley off the box and onto the announcers table in a Hell in a Cell takeoff, but Foley tossed Styles back inside the ring for a big bump. A short time later, Angle hit the Angle Slam on Jarrett. Foley leapt off the penalty box and nailed an elbow drop on Angle and then scored a near fall. Wow!
Tenay reminded viewers that Styles was the only person who wasn't eligible to hang the belt. Around 17:00, Styles pinned Foley at ringside, so Foley went to the box and Styles became eligible. Jarrett made a play to hang the belt. Styles cut him off and then Angle grabbed Jarrett's leg. Jarrett leapt off the ladder and DDT'd Angle.
At 18:45, all five wrestlers ended up back in the ring. Foley rammed the belt into Styles's head. Foley went toward Joe, who kicked the belt back in his face. Joe climbed the ladder with the belt, but Styles stopped him. A.J. ended up with the title belt around his neck and frantically tried to climb the ladder, but Joe stopped him.
At 20:30, Styles threw Joe toward the ropes and he dove onto Jarrett and Foley. Angle grabbed Styles, but A.J. countered with a Styles Clash. Styles climbed the ladder, but Joe grabbed him from behind and powerbombed him.
Joe, who had the belt, and Angle climbed the ladder simultaneously. Joe teased hitting Angle with the belt and then smiled. Joe handed Angle the belt. Angle hung the belt on the hook to win the match and become the new TNA Champion. Angle leaned down and kissed the side of Joe's head.
Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner, Booker T, and Sharmell walked onto the stage and clapped. West said it made perfect sense that Joe got himself intentionally disqualified at the start of the match to make Angle eligible. WTF? Tenay said it was ironic that Joe would stab the other TNA Originals in the back on the company's seventh anniversary. West yelled, "Happy Anniversary, everybody" to close the show...
Powell's POV: I hate the finish. Why did Joe beat the shit out of the other Mafia members over the last few weeks? West's explanation about Joe attacking Kurt at the start of the match was ridiculous because there's no way they could have known how the referees would have responded. I don't mind a Joe heel turn, but I hate the "only in TNA" swerve. I'll have much more to say about this show in my Dot Net Member Exclusive Audio recap. You can become a member now for only $5 per month by visiting the Dot Net Members' Signup Page.
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These flowers are SO beautiful! They look very delicate when you get them, but they're actually a very sturdy paper material. Colors are a little different than pictured, but I would have bought them anyway! Just for reference:
- Green-looking one is more of a blue-green.
- Bright pink one is not as bright,
- Purple/black one is really just purple.
Regardless, these are gorgeous and belong in any flower-loving scrapper's collection!
When I ordered these I was concerned that they woulb be too large. They were a liitle larger than I expected but since soft they're very workable.
These are nice and bright and a wonderful embellishment! Can't wait to start using them!
I like Flowers.
What you see is what you get ONLY they are very dark. Darker then the picture.


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Today we talk about another method of cooking that is a plus for low calorie and taste — steaming. Most of us have steamed broccoli and summer squash, but may not have known that almost all vegetables can be steamed, as well as chicken, shrimp, and fish fillets.
A friend gave me some new potatoes that I steamed, and they were so good, I decided to add in some fish and was very pleased with results for both. The texture was good. The potatoes and fish were so moist, and there was no added fat.
Steaming is a way to cook food in a basket above water that is simmering. You may purchase pots with steamer inserts or buy separate collapsible steamer baskets to place in pots. Add water to the pot, but not enough to touch the basket. Cover the pot, and let the water come to a gentle boil. Add the prepared food, and let steam until done.
The new potatoes I cooked for 15 minutes, and they were tender. I removed them from the basket and sprinkled them with salt and parsley flakes and mixed. I placed my tilapia fillets in the basket and sprinkled them with lemon pepper seasoning, steaming until they were firm, flaked with a fork and were opaque.
I separately prepared some summer squash I had gotten on sale and that completed my dinner — the tilapia, potatoes and squash. I recommend the steaming. In fact, I liked the texture of the tilapia better than when grilled and the potatoes better than when roasted. They both were so moist and flavorful. They were very good. Steaming is a method of cooking that I will be exploring further since it was also very quick to do. It was quite a time saver and very little mess to clean up.
This past Sunday, I went to Michelle Rubecht's Savvy Savings Celebration program at the Savannah Morning News building. I was interested to see the part of the program titled Meal Planning Workshop and Recipe Swap. She had a wealth of information, and a number of printouts prepared for each participant about how to save money by planning menus ahead to make best use of what you have on hand, your family's schedule and your budget.
Her program is geared around the family and I hope readers of The Healthy Kitchen have the same viewpoint. On your journey to a healthier you, take your entire family, including the kids. Beginning healthful eating habits when kids are young will help prevent health problems as they get older. Introduce changes gradually, we'll be talking about ways to work with kids and their eating habits in future columns.
Such things as learning to use herbs and spices to flavor food and steaming your food rather than frying, as we did here are just the beginning few steps. It's a journey, not just a temporary detour, but a permanent route change. Here's wishing you much success.
My weight loss is coming along slowly; this past week down 1.8 pounds. I started in September 2011, and lost about 20 at that time. Then a little more in March of this year, and with this 1.8, I am down 25.6, almost 2 sizes of clothes, and maintaining that loss for 20 months, which is perhaps the most important part. Each day is a new adventure to eat, cook and live healthfully. It is not always easy, but it is well worth the effort.
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"In Karina we would use (the titanium rib) for a chest wall jack, ... We would take the ribs that are stuck together and split them apart. Then we would take the device put it in vertically to help spread the ribs apart."
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Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods -- rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man."
"When I first met Mick he wore jeans and those Seventies ribbed, tight T-shirts, and I absolutely loved that look. Nobody looks better in jeans than Mick because he's got this amazing body with a very slim, long waist and a bit V-shaped chest and I thought that was just the cutest. That's when I fell in love with him. Then in the Eighties he started wearing trousers and badly cut tweed suits, big shirts in orange and brown. Ugh! Clothes that he wore for about 20 years. But now he's started wearing jeans again and he looks great – I saw him the other day and I thought, 'thank God'."
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CLARKSVILLE - Robby Finnell's two-RBI single in the bottom of the seventh paved the way for a 5-3 win over Williams Baptist College on Friday at Lonnie R. Qualls Field.
Trailing 2-1 after six complete innings, the Eagles (5-2) started a rally in the seventh when John Glenn drew a walk with one out. Andrew Teaster followed with a hit to right field to put Glenn in scoring position. Bruce Cameron then promptly singled in Glenn to tie the score at 2-2. Finnell then knocked in two with a shot to left field to give Ozarks a 4-2 cushion.
Williams Baptist (0-1, 0-0) scored once on two hits in the opening inning to take a 1-0 lead. It struck again in the top of the third when Federick Smith tripled in one run. Ozarks cut the deficit to 2-1 in the bottom half of the inning after Brad Broussard singled in a run.
Williams Baptist threatened in the top of the eighth when Corey Woods knocked in a run. However, the Eagles answered with a run after David Smith singled in Cory Briggs.
Curt Dixon (2-1) came in for Todd Koch in the seventh to receive the win. Dixon finished with two strikeouts. Koch pitched six innings and struck out three. Teaster, Cameron and Broussard all collected two hits.
Ozarks 12, Hendrix 1
A six-run second inning helped Ozarks to a 12-1 win over Hendrix College on Thursday afternoon in Conway.
The Eagles finished the second inning with four hits, and took advantage of three Hendrix (3-3-1) walks. Finnell gave up only one run and did not allow a walk in his six innings on the mound.
With a 7-1 lead after four, Ozarks added two in the top of the fifth behind the hot-hitting Teaster. Teaster drove in David Smith and David Isom. Three more runs were added in the seventh when Teaster scored on a passed ball and when Bruce Cameron knocked in two on a single.
Teaster finished 3-for-4 with 3 RBI. Cameron went 2-for-4 with 3 RBI, and Isom was 2-for-4.
Finnell (1-0) pitched innings and had three strikeouts to receive the win. John Scheuring came in relief and pitched three hitless innings. He struck out three.
Ozarks will open American Southwest Conference play against Texas Lutheran University with a three-game series in Seguin, Texas, on Feb. 23-24.


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For two months the 101st Airborne Division has been ready to leave the next day. The wait is over.
By WES ALLISON, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published March 1, 2003
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- They had spent the night before in nervous anticipation of the weeks and months ahead, packing and repacking, saying goodbye to their families, gorging on pizza and beer.
Now it was Friday afternoon, and the young soldiers were piled inside a hangar, waiting. Outside, a line of jetliners roared the inevitable: After two months of being told it might leave at any time, the 101st Airborne Division was shipping out.
"I just had another little kid. I got two babies at the house," said Pfc. Gabriel Fletcher, 21, of Leesville, La., a member of the 187th Infantry Regiment. "I hate to leave them at home with my wife so soon after getting back from Afghanistan. I'm ready to get over there, get it done and get back."
The troop planes began leaving here Wednesday, 10 to 18 each day. By Tuesday, nearly 19,000 soldiers from the 101st Airborne -- virtually all of its available personnel -- will have left for the Middle East, division commanders say. They won't say where they're bound, leaving soldiers to speculate it's Kuwait, or Turkey, or even Iraq itself.
"We ain't got a clue," said Pvt. Ryan Braddock, 22, of Manhattan, Kan. "The Army's pretty good about not telling you where or when you're going."
The 101st Airborne Division has a unique role in the U.S. military. Its mandate: Be prepared to go anywhere in the world within just 36 hours. Once there, the division must be able to move its three combat brigades -- each with almost 4,000 soldiers -- up to 90 miles within six hours.
The division uses helicopters to move troops and equipment, attacking enemy positions and taking airfields, dams and bridges. Most recently, the infantry has been training for urban warfare.
Its nickname is the Screaming Eagles.
"If this happens, if the president decides to use us, the 101st will be deep inside enemy territory," said Maj. Hugh "Trey" Cate III, a beefy infantry officer turned public affairs director. "We can go farther faster with more combat power than any division in the U.S. Army."
Fort Campbell straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee line about an hour north of Nashville, a sprawling compound of white, World War II-era clapboard barracks and wide expanses of training ground.
The 101st was formed during World War II so the Army could drop infantry behind enemy lines, and Fort Campbell offers constant reminders of its battlefield successes: Bastogne Avenue. Normandy Boulevard. A Shau Valley Road. Desert Storm Avenue.
For soldiers, the division's bloody history gives pause as well as inspiration.
"There is a certain amount of fear in it, but you can't go in there and let the fear that you have affect the way that you operate," Braddock said.
It snowed here Wednesday, and the thick, low clouds haven't budged since. Afternoon looks just like morning, giving the base a feeling of being suspended in time.
And in a way, it is. Mobilizing the 101st has been a continuous, arduous process of readying equipment, vaccinating troops, inspecting gear and saying goodbye.
The gritty strip of Chinese restaurants, barbershops, and stores outside the gates are packed with soldiers and their families on last-minute errands and splurges. The military supply stores have been stripped nearly clean of large rucksacks and shoulder holsters.
All week, lines of troops in beige desert camouflage, their shoulders hunched to the weight of their rucksacks, snaked to the buses that took them to the cavernous hangars at the airfield.
For some, like Staff Sgt. Ron Henry, a 15-year veteran from Plant City who coordinates supplies, deployment is just part of being in the Army. For others, it is a new and frightening experience.
Pfc. Sarrisa Young, 23, is leaving her 8- and 2-year-old children with her mother at home in Chieftown, near Gainesville. She joined the Army in part because of her anger after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which killed two friends working at the World Trade Center.
"I'm really nervous. I'm so nervous," Young said Friday at the Division Supply Command, which brings food, ammo, fuel and other supplies to the front-line troops. "But it's going to be a big adventure for me. I'll be all right."
So far, the toughest skill required for membership in one of the fastest, most powerful strike forces in the Army is the ability, on occasion, simply to wait.
And since Christmas they have. Every week for the past two months, the soldiers of the 101st have been warned they might leave the next week. Many infantrymen were under orders to be ready to report on an hour's notice, making trips and big family outings virtually impossible.
Friday, in the drafty old hangar on the edge of a runway, soldiers of the 187th Infantry were finally about to leave. Most had gathered with their companies about 3 a.m., then were herded to the hangar at dawn.
Twelve hours later, they were still there. They played hearts on the cold concrete floor, read paperbacks, or slept next to their M-4 rifles, their pimply shaved heads cushioned by green nylon rucksacks. Once aboard the planes, it will take two days to get wherever they're going.
"We've all pretty much been up all night," said Spec. Martin Matchette, 24, of Vinton, La. "Packing crap, waiting. Packing crap, waiting. All night."
He motioned to his colleagues sprawled about the room. "Half of them are bored, the other half are scared," he said. "You'd be a darned fool if you weren't scared."
But there is bravado, too. Matchette dug into the pocket of his desert fatigues and unfolded a sheet of paper. "I plan on putting this on the palace in Baghdad," he said.
It was a sketch of a firefighter standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center. He was passing an American flag to a soldier. The soldier was saying, "I'll take it from here."
-- The 101st Airborne Division, known as the Screaming Eagles, is based at Fort Campbell, Ky.
-- The unit was activated on Aug. 16, 1942. Originally, it was made up of parachute infantry regiments, glider regiments and artillery battalions.
-- The 101st led the way for D-Day, June 6, 1944, by parachuting and taking gliders in behind enemy lines before the invasion on the beaches of Normandy.
-- During the Battle of the Bulge when the 101st was surrounded at Bastogne, Belgium, Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe answered "nuts!" to a German demand for a surrender, and the Screaming Eagles fought on until the siege was lifted.
-- The division's actions in World War II were highlighted in historian Stephen Ambrose's book,Band of Brothers, which was later turned into a miniseries on HBO.
-- In the 1960s, the 101st began using helicopters to transport troops and supplies, making it an obvious choice for the Vietnam War. The 101st fought in both the Tet Offensive and the Tet Counter Offensive, taking part in the battle for what became known as Hamburger Hill. The 101st was the last combat division to leave Vietnam.
-- Today, the division is formed of three brigades plus Division Artillery, Division Support Command, the 101st Aviation Brigade, 159th Aviation Brigade, 101st Corps Support Group and several separate commands. It carries out helicopter air assault operations and is capable of transporting a 4,000-soldier combined arms task force more than 90 miles into enemy terrain in one lift.
-- SOURCES: 101st Airborne Division Web site; GlobalSecurity.org


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text: Ron Belfont of Perdue Farms recently received a 42-inch Panasonic Plasma TV and Sony Sound System as the winner of the grand prize drawing at United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore's annual Anchor Society Celebration. PNC Bank donated the TV and sound system to honor United Way's most generous donors. Above, Belfont is pictured with the United Way's Aaron Reid.


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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) touted bipartisan success stories, in particular the recently passed Farm Bill, during a visit to Cortez Wednesday afternoon.
At a community meeting held at the Dolores Water Conservancy office, he said a key component for the success is ignoring the divisive rhetoric of the extremist on both ends of the political spectrum.
"I urge people to not get distracted by the left-right screaming match on TV," he said. "That never solves problems."
Bennet helped ensure that Colorado priorities were in the final version of the Farm Bill, including a strengthened crop insurance program, improved conservation easements, reauthorization of the livestock disaster program, important forestry measures for reducing the risk of wildfires, and the continuation of Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) for Colorado counties.
"It provides hardworking farmers and ranchers with the stability and certainty they need to plan for the future," Bennet said.
The Farm Bill package is for five years and comes with $956 billion in funding. It cuts $23 billion in the budget towards deficit reduction "after Democrats and Republicans came together to force a consensus," Bennet said.
While the Farm Bill is for five years – considered "a miracle" – the PILT funding is only authorized for one year, which is a problem, Bennet said. PILT compensates counties with large tracts of federal land that do not provide property taxes for local services. For 2014 Montezuma County's share was $164,243, Dolores collected $140,749 and La Plata gained $607,959.
"These funds are essential because local counties providing services on federal lands, from fire search and rescue, fire fighting on forest lands by local departments, and maintaining roads for forest access," he said. "We will have to continue to fight for that funding next year as well."
Other highlights touched on by Bennet:
The bill reduces red-tape and program duplication as well, dropping from 23 programs to 13.
The Conservation Easement program was changed so owners can count the value of the land, "allowing more farms to passed on to the next generation," Bennet said.
The bill reauthorizes stewardship programs between local forest managers and county governments to thin forests at urban interfaces and for wild fire mitigation.
Chuck McAfee, of Lewis, urged more flexibility with the Conservation Reserve Program to allow limited grazing, an issue Bennet he has heard elsewhere in the state.
"I request that the CRP program adopt different options like introducing grazing to make the land more healthy," McAfee said.
Young and beginner farmers received more benefits under the bill. Next generation farmers are eligible for farm insurance discounts. Also organic farmers have more access to cost saving farming programs, as well as farms growing specialty crops.
"The younger generation is more interested in organic agriculture, and specialty crops," Bennet said.
The bill provides improved access to insurance and more favorable lending terms target smaller operators who diversify, for example running a small herd of cattle and harvesting from an orchard.
Also, insurance programs were strengthened for drought-stricken areas, like southwest Colorado, who lose crops more often.
Changes to the food stamp program, a part of the Farm Bill, will not affect Colorado beneficiaries, Bennet said. Also an effort to provide low-income families on public assistance better access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
A lot of the changes depend on successful implementation at local farm service offices and the USDA.
"If something is not working, let me know about it," Bennet said.
Bipartisan support on a bill that protects Hermosa Creek north of Durango, while allowing for multiple use, has a good chance to pass, Bennet said.
"Congressman Scott Tipton carried in the House. It is our way of saying we can come together at a local level," he said. "It is a good example of how to get it done."
Local farmer Lauri Hill thanked the senator for his efforts to require labeling for genetically modified foods. Bennet said countries around the world are insisting on the labeling, but more scientific information is needed on the topic.
Bennet noted the economy has not been rebounding as well as in the past. In a recovery higher Gross Domestic Product used to mean more jobs, but that is not the case lately.
"Family income has fallen by $800, and we have the worst income inequality since 1928. My conviction is that education is the answer," he said.
He cited Mercury Payments in Durango as a example of innovation of a younger generation.
"They are expanding their operations in one of the worst recessions and employ 200 Fort Lewis College graduates," Bennet said
Julie Kibel, a Dolores County Commissioner, thanked Bennet for supporting an alternative conservation programs to listing the Gunnison Sage Grouse as an endangered species.
"Dolores county has stepped up to the plate putting in protection measures, but we need help to prevent the bird from getting listed," she said.
Bennet agreed, saying listing the bird would "breed mistrust and have a negative impact" on local communities.
"We are trying to convince the U.S. Fish and Wildlife to give us more time to show the work you have done to protect the bird," he said.
Bennet closed by promoting support for a bipartisan immigration bill. He praised some Republicans who understand that a fair immigration bill is essential for the agricultural economy.
"I negotiated agricultural worker provisions, and it is the first time it has been endorsed by growers and farm workers," he said.
He responded to critics who say securing the border should be a bigger priority than immigrant farm workers, saying that problem has been addressed.
"We went from $8 billion towards border security to $46 billion. We've added 21,000 border agents and an additional 700 miles of fence. That is not an excuse for not passing immigration reform," Bennet said. "It is important for our growers and vital for the agricultural economy in our state."
A immigration reform bill passed the Senate by 70 votes. But a House version has not yet been voted on.


text: To begin with, I'm noticing that a curious number of things in Star Trek seem to operate in pairs. There are, for example, two warp nacelles; there are two different ways of getting to and from the ship, two different weapon systems, two propulsion systems, etc. I've thought for a long time there are a couple of these pairs are actually somewhat mismatched and would a lot more sense technical if you actually reversed their order. It's almost as if huge parts of the ship were actually installed upside-down and nobody noticed. There are 6 major ones that come to mind: THE BRIDGE It's literally upside down. The bridge is at the top of the saucer section. while the sensors are at the bottom of the saucer. It should be the exact other way around; sensors should be at the top where they have a better view of surrounding space without the secondary hull blocking the rear aspect. The bridge should be at the bottom, where for no apparent reason starships normally orbit planets with their bellies facing the ground anyway (where, also, gravity will be pulling you if you ever descend into the atmosphere or approach close to very low to a low-gravity moon or asteroid). Your field of view is better, and being closer to the torpedo bay (or phaser bank, see below) means you have a much easier time directing your weapons. It's also better protected on that side of the ship; there are fewer angles from which an attacker would have a clear shot to the bridge, and most would involve positioning himself within a line of sight of your main weapons. Also, the view is probably nicer. * PHASERS vs. PHOTON TORPEDOES * Especially post TOS, where starships have a large and complex torpedo launcher and multiple phaser banks all around the ship. What puzzles me is that there's no specific reason to have a torpedo launcher with a direct linkup to the main engines; if you're just spitting a rocket-propelled missile into space, why do you need to be close to the engine core? Moreover, TOS and TMP both imply that the ship is capable of channeling the power of its main engines directly into the phaser banks, which would seem odd when you consider the main phaser banks are nowhere NEAR the main engines. Add to that the fact that starships never seem to fire more than a single phaser bank at any given time... Switch em around. Stick the phasers in the torpedo deck, where they can suckle power directly from the main reactor and discharge one hell of a blast at whatever the ship is pointed at. Photon torpedoes, meanwhile, are moved into the launch tubes in the saucer section; the TMP Enterprise would have, say, eighteen different tubes each with ten reloads for a total of 180 torpedoes that can be salvo-fired to blanket a wider area. IOW, you'd use phasers to hit a single heavily-shielded target and torpedoes to hit multiple small targets that may or may not be maneuvering evasively. TNG would have the very interesting implication that the phaser arrays would actually be a very long chain of single-shot torpedo tubes with small hatch covers, sort of like the VLS cells on Aegis cruisers. A Galaxy class starship would carry close a thousand photon torpedoes and the ability to launch every single one of them in an instant. Picture "Best of Both Worlds" antimatter spread... but with torpedoes! * IMPULSE vs. WARP * Not the engines, necessarily, but the powerplants. There's a fundamental problem with using antimatter as a fuel source: when matter and antimatter annihilate, their main product is a lot of hard x-rays and gamma radiation. There's not alot there that you can really use for conversion to raw energy, and it's certainly nothing you'd want to channel through a hundred meters of conduit into a pair of giant propulsion units sitting outside your ship. So unless the warp core is a device that MAKES antimatter for the nacelles to burn (which is a whole separate discussion altogether) it doesn't really make sense for the warp drive to use antimatter as a fuel source. It makes even less sense for impulse engines to use fusion reactors, since fusion could provide a VERY efficient heat engine for relatively little radiation hazard and because fusion fuel is easy to obtain, easy to replenish, and can actually be recycled by running exhaust products from one fusion reactor into the fuel cycle of a second reactor (Reactor One fuses atomic hydrogen and produces helium and tritium; reactor two fuses deuterium and tritium, reactor three fuses helium and tritium). So switch em around. Pump the antimatter into the impulse engines, which can now use just about anything you want (say, molten lead or some other dense metal) as a reactant mass. A tiny amount of antimatter would produce a spectacular amount of thrust from a relatively small amount of fuel and would allow the ship to maneuver at high speeds even if its main powerplant were shut down. If you choose the right reactant mass, you can even render your exhaust non-radioactive, avoiding potential environmental hazards. Moreover, the fusion reactors running the warp drive could be very VERY efficient, chewing on the same couple of liters of hydrogen for months at a time before the ship has to replenish its supply. Secondary "afterburn" reactors reactors with a more violent fuel cycle could be brought online as needed. * COLLECTORS vs. DEFLECTORS * The deflector "dish" is supposed to sweep debris out of the ship's path at warp speeds while the ramscoops collect interstellar gas to be processed as fuel. These two devices are in exactly the OPPOSITE places where they should be to do their jobs; to begin with, fuel is (supposedly) burned in the warp core and not in the nacelles, thus any material collected by the nacelles would have to be piped back down to the reactor to be processed and filtered, then burned in the warp core where energy is then piped back UP to the nacelles to be used for propulsion. The main deflector, likewise, is physically separated from the two most powerful subspace field generators on the entire ship and becomes basically a third wheel that can also draw power from the reactor. So switch em around. Make the shields/deflectors part of the warp drive. The same system that can hurl a starship through space at thousands of times the speed of light should be capable of hurling other objects AWAY from it the same manner. If the engines themselves can't be tuned to do this (and they probably can't) a deflector system installed in the endcaps of the nacelles would constitute a type of modified warp coil that produces a warp field around the ship that causes all approaching matter and energy to accelerate away from it. If you want to hit the starship with a torpedo, that torpedo would have to contend with the full power of the ship's warp drive trying to push it in the opposite direction. Meanwhile, move the bussard collector into the "dish" on the secondary hull; it creates a forcefield in front of the ship, extending out hundreds of thousands of kilometers, into which interstellar gas is funneled and collected by the warp core (which is now a fusion reactor and doesn't need to be replenished but once every couple of months). Significantly, you don't have to be at warp to do this; put your ship in orbit of a gas giant and fly through its upper atmosphere with scoops on. Filter the intake, sift the hydrogen, chill it down to slush; we're good for the next three hundred light years. * SHUTTLES vs TRANSPORTERS * Away teams use transporters to beam down to different planets to see what's down there and they only use shuttlecraft when the transporters aren't good enough or when they simply have too much crap to carry. Apart from the fact that using a transporter is INTRINSICALLY more complicated than using a shuttle, there's that annoying little conceit in Star Trek that every planet you will ever encounter is not only Earthlike, but has an atmosphere and environment so similar to Earth that you can literally walk right into it and suffer no ill effects at all, and that there is nothing poisonous/paranoid/hungry within range of the beamdown site that you might want to avoid. Predictably, away teams only transport down to the planet with whatever they can carry on hand, expecting that if they need anything else they can always call the Enterprise and either get beamed back out again or have something sent down to them. Yet this often fails to be the case -- transporters stop working, the away team gets stranded/captured/ambushed/injured, the ship gets chased/lured away by aliens, etc -- and the ground teams are stranded for extended periods of time with only the clothes on their backs and whatever was in their pockets when they beamed down. Switch em around. Shuttlecraft should be the MAIN method of landing away teams on a planet surface and should be fully stocked with survival gear, medical supplies, portable shelters (assuming the shuttle itself can't be used as a shelter), weapons, tools, and anything else an away team would need to explore the surface of an alien world. In other words, sort of like these guys: Except imagine there are, like, twenty of these and their command module is the size of a city. I also find it incredibly difficult to believe that the only strange new worlds worth sending a landing party are those incredibly Earthlike ones that can be explored without space suits or breathing gear. If the civilization you just encountered breaths a methane/ammonia atmosphere at 4.5psi, you're gonna want to bring space suits; unless you live in a universe where nothing could ever possibly go wrong with the transporters, you'd better bring the shuttles too. Moreover, an aerial survey of the landing site should be standard procedure; scout the landscape for a mile in every direction and make sure you understand the terrain you're about to land on before you set down. Scan for life forms (carnivorous or otherwise) and track their locations, scare them off if you need to, catalog them from the air. Once you land, you'll probably want to cycle the air to match ambient local pressure and atmospheric conditions so your landing party doesn't immediately get the bends the instant they arrive (or for toxic/vacuum worlds, check your space suits and your gear one last time). Transporters seem to have an impressively long range, and thus should be used INSTEAD of shuttles to transport bulk cargo and large numbers of personnel to and from the ship. * HELM vs. TRANSPORTER (consoles) * You activate the transporter by pushing three sliders forward; the console has a big targeting display in the center of it that tells you where you're going, and it has other controls for automatic settings and for adjusting the beam width and intensity. Meanwhile, the helm console has an astrogator and some random buttons. For the love of god, switch em around. Your engines have variable power settings, the helm console should too. The transporter should not; if you want to beam someone down, have it be three buttons you have to press and HOLD until the transport cycle completes. Also, the big "location finder" on the TOS transport console is EXACTLY the kind of thing Sulu should be looking at when he's trying to navigate a 100,000 ton starship and/or aim its main weapon systems. The puny little popup viewfinder? Not so much (although it's just what he might want to use to view a telescope image of a landing site he was about to beam someone down to. Thoughts?


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Meteors could smash into Earth without warning and we couldn't stop them
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A space rock even bigger than the meteor that exploded like an atom bomb over Russia could drop out of the sky unannounced at any time and wreak havoc on a city. And Hollywood to the contrary, there isn't much the world's scientists and generals can do about it.
But some former astronauts want to give the world a fighting chance.
They're hopeful Friday's cosmic coincidence -- Earth's close brush with a 150-foot asteroid, hours after the 49-foot meteor struck in Russia -- will draw attention to the dangers lurking in outer space and lead to action, such as better detection and tracking of asteroids.
"After today, a lot of people will be paying attention," said Rusty Schweickart, who flew on Apollo 9 in 1969, helped establish the planet-protecting B612 Foundation and has been warning NASA for years to put more muscle and money into a heightened asteroid alert.
The buzz about the skies coincided with the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. Jay Pasachoff, a professor of astronomy at Williams College, was at the meeting in Boston.
On Friday morning, Pasachoff and others worked with scientists from the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline. They would end up making observations of 2012 DA14, the asteroid that grazed past Earth Friday.
"It's been a very unusual day," Pasachoff said.
He said that, after the asteroid near-miss and the meteorite that injured over 1,000 people in Russia, agencies may start looking into more funding for astronomy research.
"If one would really hit the Earth, then we'd like to know about it a hundred or two hundred years in advance," he said. "Then, we could deflect it."
Asteroid 2012 DA14 as about half the size of a football field, which is bigger than the asteroid that left a 4,100-foot diameter crater in Arizona some 50,000 years ago, Pasachoff said.
"If a 50-meter object were to hit the earth, it would do major damage," he said.
Earth is menaced all the time by meteors, which are chunks of asteroids or comets that enter Earth's atmosphere. But many if not most of them are simply too small to detect from afar with the tools now available to astronomers.
The meteor that shattered over the Ural Mountains was estimated to be 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. It blew out thousands of windows and left more than 1,000 people injured in Chelyabinsk, a city of 1 million. And yet no one saw it coming; it was about the size of a bus.
"This is a tiny asteroid," said astronomer Paul Chodas, who works in NASA's Near-Earth Object program in Pasadena, Calif. "It would be very faint and difficult to detect -- not impossible, but difficult."
As for the three-times-longer asteroid that hurtled by Earth later in the day Friday, passing closer to the planet than some communications satellites, astronomers in Spain did not even discover it until a year ago. That would have been too late for pre-emptive action -- such as the launch of a deflecting spacecraft -- if it had been on a collision course with Earth.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it is known, passed harmlessly within 17,150 miles of Earth, zooming by at 17,400 mph, or 5 miles per second.
Scientists believe there are anywhere from 500,000 to 1 million "near-Earth" asteroids comparable in size to DA14 or bigger out there. But less than 1 percent have actually been spotted. Astronomers have catalogued only 9,600 of them, of which nearly 1,300 are bigger than 0.6 miles.
Earth's atmosphere gets hit with 100 tons of junk every day, most of it the size of sand, and most of it burning up before it reaches the ground, according to NASA.
"These fireballs happen about once a day or so, but we just don't see them because many of them fall over the ocean or in remote areas. This one was an exception," NASA's Jim Green, director of planetary science, said of the meteor in Russia.
A 100- to 130-foot asteroid exploded over Siberia in 1908 and flattened 825 square miles of forest, while the rock that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was a monster 6 miles across.
The chances of Earth getting hit without warning by one of the big ones are "extremely low, so low that it's ridiculous. But the smaller ones are quite different," Schweickart said. He warned: "If we get hit by one of them, it's most likely we wouldn't have known anything about it before it hit."
Chodas said the meteor strike in Russia is "like Mother Nature is showing us what a small one -- a tiny one, really -- can do."
All this points up the need for more money for tracking of near-Earth objects, according to Schweickart and the former space shuttle and station astronaut who now heads up the B612 Foundation, Ed Lu.
A few years ago, Schweickart and others recommended NASA launch a $250 million-a-year program to survey asteroids and work up a deflection plan. After 10 years of cataloging, the annual price tag could drop to $75 million, they said.
"Unfortunately, NASA never acted on any of our recommendations," he lamented. "So the result of it is that instead of having $250 million a year and working on this actively, NASA now has $20 million. ... It's peanuts."
Congress immediately weighed in on Friday.
"Today's events are a stark reminder of the need to invest in space science," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House science, space and technology committee. He called for a hearing in the coming weeks.
Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said the space agency takes asteroid threats seriously and has poured money into looking for ways to better spot them. Annual spending on asteroid-detection at NASA has gone from $4 million a few years ago to $20 million now.
"NASA has recognized that asteroids and meteoroids and orbital debris pose a bigger problem than anybody anticipated decades ago," Cooke said.
Schweickart's B612 Foundation -- named after the asteroid in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "Le Petit Prince" -- has been unwilling to wait on the sidelines and is putting together a privately funded mission to launch an infrared telescope that would orbit the sun to hunt and track asteroids.
Its need cannot be underestimated, Schweickart warned. Real life is unlike movies such as "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact." Scientists will need to know 15, 20 or 30 years in advance of a killer rock's approach to undertake an effective asteroid-deflection campaign, he said, because it would take a long time for the spacecraft to reach the asteroid for a good nudge.
"That's why we want to find them now," he said.
As Chodas observed Friday, "It's like a shooting gallery here."
Associated Press writer Alicia Chang in Los Angeles contributed to this story.
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html
B612 Foundation: http://b612foundation.org
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TheCrew.com unveils its final 2012 Match of the Year nominee, August 29's stoppage time winner in Philadelphia.
Trailing 1-0 to the Union in the first half following Carlos Valdes' free kick strike, Josh Williams finally got the goal that eluded him all season long to equalize just before halftime. Williams' headed goal from Federico Higuaín's free kick was the perfect boost in momentum heading into the break. However, Williams' fortunes changed in the 68th minute when he was sent off for his involvement in a scuffle with Philadelphia forward Antoine Hoppenot.
Out-possessed and out-shot playing with 10 men, Matt Lampson made four saves to keep at least one point intact in his first professional start. In stoppage time, it was Higuaín providing more magic when the Argentine sent a through ball to Justin Meram in the box on a counterattack. Meram's attempt on goal brushed off the fingertips of Zac MacMath to land at the feet of Eddie Gaven, who smashed the ball into the back of the empty net to complete the road victory.
Hear the goal call from Crew play-by-play man Neil Sika.
Was the Crew's shorthanded 2-1 stoppage time victory in Philadelphia your Match of the Year? Let your voice be heard when voting begins on Wednesday, December 12.
Match of the Year candidates:
Nominee #1 - May 23, 2012 - Seattle Sounders 0 - Columbus Crew 2 RECAP
Nominee #2 - June 30, 2012 - Columbus Crew 2 - Real Salt Lake 0 RECAP
Nominee #3 - July 24, 2012 - Columbus Crew 2 - Stoke City FC 1 RECAP
Nominee #4 - July 28, 2012 - Sporting Kansas City 1 - Columbus Crew 2 RECAP
Nominee #5 - August 25, 2012 - Columbus Crew 4 - New England Revolution 3 RECAP
Nominee #6 - August 29, 2012 - Philadelphia Union 1 - Columbus Crew 2 RECAP
Voting takes place December 12-16. The winning match will be announced on Monday, December 17.


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While Serena's fans are outraged over Caroline Wozniacki's impersonation of her, the tennis star has remained mum about the issue.
Last weekend, Wozniacki poked fun at her fellow tennis colleague at the Roger Federer Tour in Brazil by stuffing her shorts and top with padding as a nod to Williams.
The 22-year-old Danish tennis player later lost the match to Maria Sharapova.
Although Williams didn't seem to have a problem with her friend's twisted admiration, her fans were left confused and offended.
In an online Huffington Post poll, 40 percent of Williams' fans believed the gesture was racist. However, 38 percent didn't see a problem with it. Twenty-one percent of responders could not decide whether or not the stunt was offensive.
"This is an old racist trope about our supposed hypersexuality and sexual abnormality," commented Twitter user @hazzarDeuce on the Black Voices Twitter page. "
"I know they are friends, but still, inside it does something to me, because we've been made fun of for so long for different parts of our bodies," said "The View" co-host Sheri Shepherd on Tuesday. "And to see Serena Williams reduced to this, I don't like it."
"The View's" Elizabeth Hasselback didn't see anything wrong with the act.
"I think this is inside stuff that they always do," Hasselback said.
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For more than 55 years, and nearly 40 in Pittsburgh, Rev. Dr. J. Van Alfred Winsett has been preaching the Word. His powerful messages from on high have reached many locally, nationally and even internationally, making him a pillar of the Pittsburgh community.
His local ministry has survived two church fires, the rebuild of a community after the Pittsburgh riots and much more. He continues to aide and minister to the Lord's people. But now, after 39 years, Rev. Winsett has said goodbye to the congregation of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church in the Hill District, a church where he served as pastor and witnessed the church grow structurally, but most importantly, spiritually.
"I just felt there were so many ministries that could be grown because of the new facility and I felt it could be done under new leadership," Rev. Winsett said about his decision to retire. "Thirty-nine years was long enough to lead a congregation." He added that his decision had nothing to do with his health.
On May 6, Rev. Winsett stood in the pulpit and preached his last sermon as senior pastor. "I stood there with mixed emotions. I preached a message that I hope will stay with the people," said Rev. Winsett. "I had flashbacks of the memorial days, both good and bad. But I was able to get through it without a lot of tears."
His retirement became official on May 20, after a celebration banquet that was held at Churchill Country Club in Penn Hills. During his tenure he helped grow the church from 1,000 to 2,000, making it one of the largest Black churches in the city.
While he will no longer be seen preaching the weekly sermons, Rev. Winsett said he would remain in the Pittsburgh area and at Ebenezer as the pastor emeritus.
As a Kentucky native, he always had a love for the Lord and heard his call to the ministry at an early age. He was known as a "boy preacher." He preached his first sermon at the age of 17 and almost 60 years later continues.
His love for the Lord was not the only thing he found at an early age. He and his wife, then Jacqueline Owens, went to the same school and church and got married in 1955. Together they have four children.
Before becoming the pastor of Ebenezer Church, he served as pastor of Main Street Baptist Church in New Castle, Ky.; Center Street Baptist Church in Owensboro, Ky., and Emmanuel Baptist Church in Beloit, Wis. But it was in 1973 that he received the call to come and pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, after the previous pastor had died. He regards the time when he received the call that he was selected to be the church's pastor as one of his fondest memories.
Under his leadership the church has seen the growth of its congregation; numerous ministries implemented; the establishment of an orphanage in Haiti; the building of Ebenezer Towers, a more than 100 unit senior citizens complex in the Hill District, and a senior citizens personal care home in Point Breeze and more.
Reverend Winsett said the idea for Ebenezer Towers came, "after the (Pittsburgh) riots and we saw a great need and a slow rebuilding of the Hill District."
But one of his greatest accomplishments was the rebuilding of the church after a fire in 1975 and a tragic electrical fire in March 2004, that claimed the life of two, Battalion Chief Charles Brace and Firefighter Richard Stefanaki, and injured 30. For two years the church worshipped at another sanctuary, while the $7 million facility was being built. It was bigger and better than before.
"When we cut the ribbon and walked into the new facility after the fire, that was a grand and glorious day," said Rev. Winsett.
While it is unknown who will take his place, when asked about the future of Ebenezer, Rev. Winsett said that he just hopes that the next pastor that comes will love the people as much as he has tried to and that he or she will be active in the Hill District because there is still a lot to be done.
"There are a lot of thing that can happen and the church needs to be intimate (involved) with that." He adds that he will not dictate to the new pastor, but that he will let the new pastor move as he or she feels the Lord sees fit.
"The church still plays a major role in the lives of the people. I have high hopes and I know a lot of things can happen at Ebenezer, especially with the additional space (of the church)."
"I think the best way to describe my experience with Rev. Winsett is that he has been an inspiration. He's been like a father figure. The things I've learned from him, I don't think I could have learned anywhere else in the world," said Brenda Tate, a member of Ebenezer since 1988. "It has just been one of the most rewarding experiences."
When asked about the new leadership, Tate said, "Hopefully the new leadership will extend his (Rev. Winsett's) ministries and that we'll get someone that has that ability to touch everyone personally. Rev. Winsett was such a hands on minister it's not like that anymore. When you had a death (in the family) or problems-he didn't just send someone, he was there."
While Rev. Winsett will have more time to spend with his family, friends and enjoy some of his favorite hobbies, he said he would continue to be active locally and nationally in the Baptist denomination and remain on many of the numerous boards he serves on.
He said that if there is one thing that people remember about his ministry is that, "I was very evangelistic minded and always ready and willing to preach the gospel at every opportunity."
And that he has done.
(For more coverage of the pastoral anniversary and banquet, see the Religion page B2.)


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If we can't get the Hawks or Bucks in the 1st then I would love to play Chicago. Thibs has run that team into the ground, they look like they can't beat the Bobcats in a series right now.
If we can't get the Hawks or Bucks in the 1st then I would love to play Chicago. Thibs has run that team into the ground, they look like they can't beat the Bobcats in a series right now.
right now i see that KG is temporaily out Marc Gasol too so this is huge chance to go back to 2nd seed
while Pacers West is out for few games and Paul Goerge too. If Knicks are able to win 8 games from remaining schedule like 2x celtics Charlotte Milwaukee Wizards Cavs Pacers @ MSG Knicks can even reach 50 wins season 42 already.
still got hope that Knicks will hit @ hawks celtics will be winning KG is back Bulls must win vs Nets .
Just like Spike Lee.....I want Boston, period.
I want revenge for 2011.....I still get pissed when I see KG deliberately trip TD to free up Allen for the winning 3 in Game 1.
All I've heard up here is how Boston will take the Knicks out in a series ...... that's Boston's best shot to win round 1..... blah blah blah. This BS has calmed down alot since we whipped there asses twice in 5 days last week.....but they still think NY will fold and will be a push over.
I pray we get a chance to shut them up in round 1. Just hold off Indiana, and it's basically a lock since Boston probably isn't moving up from 7th seed.
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i too prefer to face boston, shut them up for good and i think we can handle them , rondo used to kill us, but hes gone so it shudnt be that hard
ineed i understand you all i still remmebr when Bobcats even kicked their asses by 30 pts somethink like that
No Rondo no Allen no Barbosa but KG is back means better D.
And Yes i also remember 0-4 in playoffs when game 2 should be ended as 1-1 not 0-2.
and 4 now its already like some1 called them "Celt dicks' but still 8 game remaining and can change anything
only oponnent which i wana to avoid is Bulls. To much atleticism and too much physicality in roster.
SOme1 should create POLL 4 that who u want as 1sr round enemy to destroy
Bucks so I can score tix cheap and make it to a game Just checked into tickets next Thursday night at the UC and whoa....will be watching and rooting from home. Bradley center is affordable so hoping for Knicks-Bucks!!!!
At the beginning of the season I kept mentioning we had the ROSTER to win the Atlantic Division Title ..
when we signed player/coach HOF Jason Kidd discipline-leadership to our expensive roster.
We are two wins away from a 50 win season .. 10 games ago I was very skeptical about us having a 50 win season.
My skepticism was erased when injuries to Amare, Melo, and Tyson forced coach Woodson to add Kenyon Martin to our rotation. Adding Kenyon Martin was like the championship Detroit Pistons adding "The Ball Dont Lie" Rasheed Wallace to their rotation years back.
The Knicks have the roster and "Old-Heads" to beat all the Eastern Conference postseason teams in a series ..
we only lack a strong-strategic Head-Coach to accomplish such a task.
Dont get me wrong, headcoach Woodson earned his props in coaching this season, but Woodson have no control over Melo & JR decision-making on the court. Which was headcoach Karl weakness of getting swept in the postseason games consistently in the first round with Melo & JR .. without Melo & JR coach Karl went 7 games vs OKC & Lakers the past two postseasons.
Im still confident we beat Boston round 1.....Im more concerned about a series with Indy or Miami if coach isn't on his game....we'll see.
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Give Woody a little credit here guys. As alluded to Woodyhas been FORCED to trot out more lineups than LB. JR's shot selection and decision making has gotten better. That's coaching. Defense esp. In the second halves of games has been better. That's means adjustments which is coaching. And that's been without last years defensive player of the year. We got Kmart off the scrap heap and he has been productive on both ends of the floor. That's coaching. And peep the looks the players get when they take a bad shot, miss a defensive assignment, or commit a stupid turnover. You can tell by the utter disgust and dismay on Woody's face that those mistakes were talked about in practice and the players aren't listening.
looks like it really gonna be Celtics very low chance for Bucks or hawks but if Bulls will loose their games and Celtics their it really be even Bulls and i dont want them
Knicks > Celtics
Knicks > Hawks
Knicks > Heat
KNICKS = Eastern Conference Champions.
2nd round will be also Bulls vs HEat if only this could be true that Bulls could beat Heat and easter finals Knicks vs Bulls.
then no refs war
Now gotta see if I can score some playoff tickets for game 3 or 4 in Boston.....don't think there will be a game 6
What are the chances Knicks play the Nets in the second round?


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Ann Arbor couple accused in stabbing return to court Nov. 29
The Ann Arbor couple accused of stabbing a neighbor in early September will return to court later this month, records show.
Courtesy of the WCSO
Courtney McCoy and Dorian Johnson, both 21, are accused of being involved in a stabbing that left a 22-year-old Ann Arbor man fighting for his life. The man lived across the hall from McCoy, who allegedly had Johnson come over early on Sept. 9 to confront the man.
McCoy and Johnson were in court for a pretrial hearing Thursday, which was adjourned until 1:30 p.m. Nov. 29, according to court records. Both are currently at the Washtenaw County Jail, according to court records.
According to police, McCoy and Johnson knocked on the 22-year-old's door in the early morning hours, waking him so he would come to the door. Police said McCoy was upset about a disagreement that occurred a month before. The man was stabbed in the stomach in the hallway of the apartment building in the 400 block of South First Street.
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He stumbled to the BP Station at the corner of Main and Williams streets, where an attendant called 911 at 3:50 a.m. He was treated at the University of Michigan Hospital's intensive care unit and was eventually released.
McCoy and Johnson both face charges of assault with intent to murder, conspiracy to commit assault with intent to murder, possession of a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, conspiracy to commit a crime with a dangerous weapon, assault ith a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon.
If convicted, they both face a maximum of life in prison.
Kyle Feldscher covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at email@example.com or you can follow him on Twitter.
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Tue, Nov 13, 2012 : 12:49 p.m.
and who loses, her children,no mom. people need to think, what is at steak before they commit crimes,was it really worth losing your children over an neighbor issue. and the victim, what he had to endure over it . it is just sad ,sad, sad .
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Mon, Nov 12, 2012 : 7:18 p.m.
"Police said McCoy was upset about a disagreement that occurred a month before." Unreal. These two are right where they belong - incarcerated.
Mon, Nov 12, 2012 : 2:40 a.m.
Are tickets hard to get to these proceedings?
Sun, Nov 11, 2012 : 11:53 p.m.
It truly is a shame. What the hell are people thinking in today's world. It has never been OK to cut or shoot somebody. If convicted, I hope they spend life in prison.
Mon, Nov 12, 2012 : 4:47 p.m.
It's Ann Arbor, they will probably get home incarceration! It's not like they meant to be mean...after all, they may have esteem issues...or a sad childhood...blah blah blah...why do they cops even bother arresting perps...the courts will just slap them on the wrist.
Mon, Nov 12, 2012 : 12:07 p.m.
I agree with you 100% about the need for a life sentence. Sadly they committed their crime in Ann Arbor, which means the judge will probably decide that these poor disadvantaged youths are simply a product of our racist society and poor socioeconomic conditions and are therefore not completely responsible for their actions. I say the over-under is a year at the Hogback Hilton.
Sun, Nov 11, 2012 : 10:59 p.m.
What a shame. Johnson and McCoy just threw away lucrative careers in loitering.


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Labor tells Abbott: 'come clean'
THE government has demanded Tony Abbott ''come clean'' about his and the Coalition's involvement in the sexual harassment case against former Speaker Peter Slipper, after the federal court dismissed it as an abuse of legal process.
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said the government would now consider its options, and would not rule out an inquiry into the affair.
In a judgment that bolstered the government and embarrassed the opposition, Justice Steven Rares said former staffer James Ashby's ''predominant purpose'' in bringing the claims against his then boss ''was to pursue a political attack against Mr Slipper and not to vindicate any legal claim he may have''.
His main purpose ''was not a proper one''.
In an damning indictment of former minister Mal Brough - now the Liberal National Party candidate for Mr Slipper's Queensland seat of Fisher - Justice Rares found ''a combination'' of Mr Ashby, fellow staffer Karen Doane and Mr Brough acted to advance the interests of the LNP and Mr Brough.
As Labor moved to turn the heat on the Coalition, Cabinet secretary Mark Dreyfus, a QC, said Mr Abbott ''must come clean as to what was the involvement of him, his office and senior members of the Liberal frontbench in this attack on the government''. He insisted Mr Abbott ''must have known about it''.
Saying a conspiracy had been found, Mr Dreyfus said it was ''deeply serious'' for senior politicians to ''seek to abuse court proceedings when their true motive is to bring down the government. It amounts to an attempt to overthrow the government by sinister and … anti democratic means.'' Mr Brough's position was ''untenable''.
Mr Ashby said he and his lawyers would study the judgment but ''at this stage we intend to appeal this regrettable decision''.
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said on Thursday that it was hypocritical for the government to be "hyperventilating" over the Slipper matter.
"If they believe if Mr Slipper is a man worthy of public acclaim, if they believe that he is a man of great integrity, then they're quite within their powers to put him up for speaker again," Mr Hockey told reporters in Sydney.
He added that should the government put Mr Slipper up for speaker - which there is no sign of it doing - the Coalition would vote against him.
Mr Hockey also threw his support behind LNP candidate for Mr Slipper's seat of Fisher, Mal Brough.
When asked if Mr Brough was "in the clear" over his involvement in the Slipper matter, Mr Hockey replied: "absolutely."
"Mal Brough will be our candidate in Fisher."
Ms Roxon said Mr Abbott needed to explain why members of his party had acted as they did and whether it was appropriate for Mr Brough to contest the election. He should also seek an explanation from shadow attorney-general Senator George Brandis for ''outrageous'' comments during the case.
Ms Roxon dismissed any prospect of Mr Slipper being restored to the Speakership.
The Ashby accusations - which also included the claim that Mr Slipper misused CabCharges, which is now before the Director of Public Prosecutions - led to Mr Slipper standing aside as Speaker. Later, he was forced to resign from the position after sexist messages were revealed.
Mr Slipper and the Commonwealth both sought the dismissal of the case on abuse of process grounds. Earlier, the Commonwealth made a $50,000 settlement with Mr Ashby. Ms Roxon defended this on Wednesday, as seeking to get an early end to the matter.
Justice Rares found that Mr Ashby used Mr Brough as the channel through which he sought to obtain legal advice, as well as a means of passing on information to News Ltd's Steve Lewis that could be used to damage Mr Slipper.
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For the past three years, I have had the privilege of organizing blood drives for the New York City Council in District 19, covering northeast Queens from College Point to Little Neck.
For reasons which have been all too obvious, this year has been something of a challenge, but the Annual Council District 19 Summer Blood Drive will be on Thursday, September 5 from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Bell Boulevard at the LIRR Bayside Station overpass.
I have a challenge of my own. There are six people vying for the opportunity to represent the district in the City Council. I challenge them to advance this valuable Council function by encouraging their supporters, friends and family to participate.
I realize that this is an important day to my Jewish friends, but the need for blood observes no calendar and your donation could help save three lives. We will do anything we can to accommodate you so you can get home to be with your loved ones.
Here's the link to make an online appointment and be eligible to receive a $25 American Express gift card graciously provided by the Bayside Village BID after you donate. https://drm.nybloodcenter.org
You can also call the Council District Office at 718-631-6703 during normal business hours. All donors are also eligible to receive a pair of Mets-Giants tickets provided by Gregg Sullivan of Bayside Live TV.
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This week, it was revealed that Madonna successfully applied to adopt twin girls from Malawi, the African nation in which she's spearheaded aid efforts for years — a source of both praise and controversy. The latest additions to her family will join her children David and Mercy, who were also adopted from Malawi. To keep the review process candid, Judge Fiona Mwale says she took Madonna off-script with some "uncomfortable questions."
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"The petitioner is a professional performer and I guarded myself against the danger of her merely reciting a well-rehearsed speech by asking her some rather uncomfortable questions to which she gave very candid answers," Mwale wrote in a court document.
"There is no doubt that the petitioner can offer the infants not only the best education money can buy, but also guidance with a high likelihood of ensuring that the two infants grow to be self-sufficient adults," she added.
Legal precedent for international adoption existed in Malawi thanks to Madonna's two previous adoptions. Nevertheless, the judge sought to determine Madonna's sincerity and weighed the consequences of sending children to live abroad.
"In determining her motives, I questioned the petitioner at length about the impact of her decision which could be construed as robbing Malawi of its most precious resource, its children," wrote Mwale.
According to court documents, the twins' mother died shortly after childbirth. Their father (who has five other children) is reported to be incapable of providing for such a large family. In addition to approving the adoption, the court confirmed plans for a transition period, during which a caretaker from Malawi will help ease the children into their new lives.


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Hyperkalemia (High Blood Potassium)
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
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What is hyperkalemia?
Hyperkalemia is a common diagnosis. Fortunately, most patients who are diagnosed have mild hyperkalemia (which is usually well tolerated). However, any condition causing even mild hyperkalemia should be treated to prevent progression into more severe hyperkalemia. Extremely high levels of potassium in the blood (severe hyperkalemia) can lead to cardiac arrest and death. When not recognized and treated properly, severe hyperkalemia results in a high mortality rate.
Technically, hyperkalemia means an abnormally elevated level of potassium in the blood. The normal potassium level in the blood is 3.5-5.0 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L). Potassium levels between 5.1 mEq/L to 6.0 mEq/L reflect mild hyperkalemia. Potassium levels of 6.1 mEq/L to 7.0 mEq/L are moderate hyperkalemia, and levels above 7 mEq/L are severe hyperkalemia.
How does hyperkalemia affect the body?
Potassium is critical for the normal functioning of the muscles, heart, and nerves. It plays an important role in controlling activity of smooth muscle (such as the muscle found in the digestive tract) and skeletal muscle (muscles of the extremities and torso), as well as the muscles of the heart. It is also important for normal transmission of electrical signals throughout the nervous system within the body.
Normal blood levels of potassium are critical for maintaining normal heart electrical rhythm. Both low blood potassium levels (hypokalemia) and high blood potassium levels (hyperkalemia) can lead to abnormal heart rhythms.
The most important clinical effect of hyperkalemia is related to electrical rhythm of the heart. While mild hyperkalemia probably has a limited effect on the heart, moderate hyperkalemia can produce EKG changes (EKG is a reading of theelectrical activity of the heart muscles), and severe hyperkalemia can cause suppression of electrical activity of the heart and can cause the heart to stop beating.
Another important effect of hyperkalemia is interference with functioning of the skeletal muscles. Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis is a rare inherited disorder in which patients can develop sudden onset of hyperkalemia which in turn causes muscle paralysis. The reason for the muscle paralysis is not clearly understood, but it is probably due to hyperkalemia suppressing the electrical activity of the muscle.
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