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Assisted Living in Lakeland
Choosing an Assisted Living Facility is a big life decision and should not be made quickly. All Assisted Living Facilities in Florida are not the same. They may vary greatly in their cost, services and more, so it is important that you thoroughly research the facilities you are considering. Find out what recreational and social programs they have, what help is provided, what the monthly fees are and more. Use the ThirdAge directory to help find a local Lakeland, FL assisted living facility near you, so you can begin to learn more about each one. Get started below by choosing a facility.
Assisted Living Facilities in Lakeland, FL
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Amonet Care Home
3434 Knights Station Road
Lakeland, FL 33810
Emeritus at Lakeland
2111 Lakeland Hills Blvd
Lakeland, FL 33805
Emeritus at Oakbridge
3110 Oakbridge Blvd. E
Lakeland, FL 33803
Florida Presbyterian Hms Inc.
16 Lake Hunter Drive
Lakeland, FL 33803
Hawthorne Inn Lakeland
6150 Lakeland Highlands Road
Lakeland, FL 33813
Lake Morton Plaza
400 S. Florida Avenue
Lakeland, FL 33801
Lake Morton Retirement Home
610 East Lime Street
Lakeland, FL 33801
Lake Wire Retirement Center
315 West Peachtree Street
Lakeland, FL 33815
Loving Heart Home of Lakeland
815 West Doughtery Road
Lakeland, FL 33809
Park Club of Oakbridge
3110 Oakbridge Boulevard East
Lakeland, FL 33803
Residence Retirement Ctr. Inc. (the)
208 Marveline Drive
Lakeland, FL 33815
Savannah Cottage of Lakeland
605 Carpenters Way
Lakeland, FL 33809
Savannah Court of Lakeland
6550 N Scorum Loop Road
Lakeland, FL 33809
Southland Suites Lakeland
4250 Lakeland Highlands Rd.
Lakeland, FL 33813
Summerville at Lakeland
2111 Lakeland Hills Blvd.
Lakeland, FL 33805
Tender Loving Care Retirement Residence
747 Bon Air St
Lakeland, FL 33805
The Estates at Carpenters
1001 Carpenter's Way
Lakeland, FL 33809
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a morning visit we recommend that you call the ward before hand, as
this is a particularly busy time. Also, please understand that
patients may be called in for treatment during your visit so please
bear with us.
Some wards do have restrictions on patient visits for health and
safety and clinical reasons. So please check with the nurse before
entering a ward. You should also let the nurse know if children
wish to visit or a visitor is pregnant so that we can accommodate
you properly.
If you have a cold or are unwell, it might be wise to postpone
your visit. This is because many of our patient's immune systems
aren't strong.
Flowers - The Christie does not ban flowers but
we would like to remind our patients and visitors that having
flowers within the clinical environment is not conducive to
effective cleaning as they can add to/create clutter. Many of our
patients have electronic medical devices at the bedside and there
is a small risk of water being splashed or spilled onto these
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Peanut-Butter-Filled Cupcakes
Don't be fooled by this simply dressed cupcake. We hid its sweet secret inside: a creamy, fluffy peanut butter filling.
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- Cooking spray
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for pan
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme
- Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat 12 standard muffin cups with cooking spray, then dust with cocoa, tapping out excess. In a large bowl, whisk together cocoa, flour, granulated sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Using a mixer, beat in eggs, buttermilk, oil, and 3/4 cup water on medium until smooth, about 3 minutes.
Step 2
Divide batter among cups and bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack 5 minutes, then remove cupcakes and let cool completely on rack.
Step 3
In a large bowl, using mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and peanut butter on high until fluffy, 3 minutes; fold in marshmallow topping. Transfer to a zip-top bag and cut off one corner to make a 1/2-inch opening.
Step 4
With a melon baller, scoop out center of each cupcake base and set aside (these pieces will plug cupcakes after filling). Hollow out each cupcake a bit more, discarding crumbs. Fill cavities with peanut butter mixture and replace plugs. (Refrigerate in an airtight container, up to 1 week.) To serve, dust with confectioners' sugar.
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Reviews (2)
MsMoomMist28 Jan, 2013
These taste absolutely fabulous very close to my Chocolate-Coffee Cake, but the were flat and did not rise and looked like flat globs, any idea as to what went wrong?
gloryan26 Jan, 2013
Why did you not list the 3/4 cup water in your recipe?


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St. Petersburg took another step Monday night to building a new St. Petersburg Police Headquarters and renovating/replacing the existing blighted police station located at 1300 1st Ave. N.
City Council voted 6-1 Monday, approving a resolution to negotiate an architectural/engineering agreement with Harvard Jolly for the new police department headquarters. Council member Wengay Newton voted no and council member Bill Dudley was not present.
Funding for the police station is coming from the Penny for Pinellas tax. That tax is why the city has moved the $60 million project from one to two phases due to lower than expected revenues.
The first phase is for $40 million and would construct a new building on First Avenue North, between the railroad and 13th Street, and partially renovate the existing police station on the south side of First Avenue North.
A second, $20 million phase would only be completed if the Penny for Pinellas tax were passed before the current 10-year tax expires in 2020.
According to Mike Connors, St. Petersburg's public works administrator, the renovations to the existing building will be selective based on recommendations for a consultant.
Connors said a key for this consultant would be, "how to avoid triggering, building permits that require code compliance in the existing east and west buildings," he said. "(We) have to be very careful and strategic in how we build for new and allow existing operations to expand into vacated portion of east or west buildings."
On an April tour of the police station, Michael McDonald, Assistant Director the police, said it could take millions just to bring the police station up to code.
"If we invested the $7 million to $10 million (for maintenance costs) ... and tried to renovate the buildings, all you would be doing is trying to bring them up to current code standards," McDonald said. "You wouldn't be making any enhancements to the operational capability."
Proposed Police Station Project Timeline
- January 2013, approve contract agreement
- Spring 2013, focus on final master planning effort
- Summer 2013, schematic design, rudimentary detail, locations of the building footprints, (public input)
- Fall 2013, present to council design development documents, renderings, detailed drawings, plans and specs (public input)
- Spring 2014, advertise construction bids
- Summer 2014, notice to proceed construction
- Fall 2015, complete construction
Mayor Bill Foster said Monday that a new police station is priority No. 1 for his administration.
"No greater priority in this administration then coming up with the funding necessary for reasonable police station," Foster said. "Absolutely a priority when it comes to the use of 'penny' monies."


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Could Too Much Tau Be a Stretch for Mitochondria?
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Tau is toxic to neurons, but exactly how is not crystal clear. A new study in the August 23 Neuron suggests that tau overexpression indirectly elongates mitochondria, which then malfunction and cause cell death. Mel Feany, Harvard Medical School, and colleagues found that in fruit flies, tau binds and stabilizes the cytoskeletal protein F-actin, preventing a key mitochondrial fission protein from reaching the organelles. The mechanism could be one of several that sabotage mitochondria, leading to cell death. "Overall, it is very compelling evidence demonstrating that tau overexpression causes mitochondrial elongation in Drosophila," said Xiongwei Zhu, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, who was not involved in the study.
A delicate balance of mergers and divisions, known respectively as fusion and fission, maintain mitochondria at just the right length. If that balance goes out of whack, there can be serious consequences for cell health. Abnormal mitochondria have been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases (see ARF related news story) as well as Huntington's disease (see ARF related news story) and ALS (see ARF related news story).
Mitochondria move about the cell via tethers to cytoskeletal actin and microtubule filaments. Feany's lab previously found that phosphorylated tau binds to and stabilizes filamentous (F) actin in both human tau-expressing flies and mice (see ARF related news story on Fulga et al., 2007). This led to bundled, rod-like actin and neurodegeneration, but it was unclear how the neurons died.
To probe that question, first author Brian DuBoff expressed human tau with an FTDP-17-linked missense mutation (R406W) in fruit flies. Using laser-scanning confocal microscopy, he saw neuronal mitochondria that were more than twice as long in transgenic flies as controls, suggesting an abnormally low amount of fission. Cell death followed shortly thereafter. Mitochondria also appeared to be elongated in rTg4510 and K3 mouse neurons expressing human tau with P301L or K369I mutations, respectively. Compared to controls, brains from animals expressing tau produced more superoxide. This result implied that the longer mitochondria promoted oxidative stress, leading to cell death.
What extended the mitochondria? To divide, the organelles use a fission-driving dynamin-related GTPase called DRP1, which keeps mitochondria small. In control, but not in tau transgenic flies, DRP1 latched onto the organelles, but it appeared that F-actin stabilization prevented DRP1 from reaching the mitochondria in tau transgenics. To confirm that F-actin bundles were responsible, DuBoff used two pro-bundling proteins, WASP and forked, to stabilize actin. Like human tau, these proteins caused mitochondria to stretch, and the organelles lacked DRP1. The GTPase instead accumulated on F-actin. The findings suggest that DRP1 accumulates more on the stabilized form of F-actin, and then fails to reach the mitochondria.
What mediates the DRP1 and mitochondria interaction? Myosins, which are motor proteins, are known to tether both proteins and organelles to actin, or even move them along actin strands. To find out if myosins were involved, the group looked at eight myosin fly knockouts currently available to find out if one type led to the distended mitochondria. Only mutations in fly homologues of mammalian myosin II heavy and light chains promoted long mitochondria that seemed short on DRP1. Fewer mitochondria co-precipitated with F-actin in myosin II knockouts, suggesting that the myosin homologues attach the organelles to F-actin, where they can then bind DRP1.
"One idea we favor is that with increased F-actin, either the mitochondria or the DRP1 cannot be appropriately transported, and thus DRP1 cannot translocate to mitochondria," said Feany. But there are other possibilities, she said, including an atypical F-actin orientation that impairs interactions. "The exact mechanism remains the subject of future study," she added.
The result could extend recent findings from Lennart Mucke and colleagues at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco, California, who found that an absence of tau prevents Aβ's toxic dampening of mitochondrial transport (see ARF related news story on Vossel et al., 2010), said ShiDu Yan, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Based on the current report, a deficit in mitochondrial morphology could also be blocked by depletion of tau.
Could the same process be going on in humans? "The fact that we replicated many of the Drosophila findings in mouse tauopathy models suggests it could be going on in mammals," Feany said. In addition, Zhu and colleagues observed DRP1 suppression and elongated mitochondria in fibroblasts from AD patients (see Wang et al., 2008), suggesting a similar chain of events may unfold in people with Alzheimer's. But it is impossible to know until the model is tested in humans, Feany said. "This paper helps us to understand the DRP1-actin link and a basic mechanism, but relevance to disease states such as Alzheimer's is unclear," said Hemachandra Reddy, Oregon Science and Health University, Beaverton.
There are other hints that DRP1 may be awry in AD. Reddy found recently that phosphorylated tau might bind directly to DRP1 and cause mitochondrial fragmentation (see Manczak and Reddy, 2012). Aβ may exert its own effect on DRP1 as well, by driving nitric oxide production, which drives DRP1-induced fission and mitochondrial fragmentation (see ARF related news story). It still is not clear whether mitochondria are fragmented or elongated in human disease, or how Aβ pathology influences mitochondrial length. "We need more research in that direction," said Reddy.—Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib.
DuBoff B, Götz J, Feany MB. Tau Promotes Neurodegeneration via DRP1 Mislocalization In Vivo. Neuron 2012 Aug 23; 75, 618-632. Abstract
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A Critical Role of Mitochondrial Dynamics in the Pathogenesis of AD
Dr. Feany and colleagues should be congratulated for an elegant Drosophila genetic study. They convincingly demonstrated that tau overexpression causes mitochondrial elongation in Drosophila through actin-stabilization mediated DLP1 (aka Drp1) mislocalization. Because mitochondrial fission/fusion deficiency may lead to mitochondria with heterogeneous size, it can be very tricky, or sometimes misleading, to determine whether mitochondrial fission/fusion is impaired in vivo based on measurement of mitochondrial length at a static point only. Ideally, the conclusion should be strengthened by genetic manipulation of mitochondrial dynamics. Drosophila is a very useful tool in this respect. Indeed, on top of the finding that mitochondria become elongated in tau overexpressing Drosophila, DuBoff et al. further demonstrated that Mfn knockdown or DLP1 overexpression rescued tau-induced mitochondrial elongation and toxic effects, which makes the conclusion more convincing.
Their further genetic manipulations demonstrated that actin stabilization impairs mitochondrial translocation of DLP1, which results in elongation. However, this observation appears contradictory to a prior finding that reported disruption of actin filaments attenuated fission and recruitment of DRP1 to mitochondria (De Vos et al., 2005). The authors proposed a model to try to reconcile the difference: "DRP1 and mitochondria are recruited to F-actin, followed by actin-based translocation, leading to mitochondrial localization of DRP1 and subsequent mitochondrial fission". Basically this is a two-step model: F-actin recruitment of DLP1 and mitochondria as step one, and actin-based DLP1 translocation to mitochondria as step two. There are questions remaining to be answered regarding both steps. Does tau overexpression increase F-actin-associated DLP1, for example? And does reversing tau-induced actin stabilization also reduce F-actin associated DLP1? As for step two, what is the evidence to support the actin-based DLP1 translocation to mitochondria? And how and why is actin involved in DLP1 translocation?
There are other unanswered questions as well. Abnormal mitochondrial distribution is observed in AD and AD models (Wang et al., 2008a; Wang et al., 2008b; Wang et al., 2009), what about this fly model? And since tau is a microtubule binding protein, are microtubules or tubulin involved and how can that be answered? Reddy et al. demonstrated an interaction between tau and DLP1 (Manczak and Reddy, 2012), how does that fit into the model?
The next big question is whether these observations in Drosophila have parallels in mammals. The authors tried to demonstrate that mitochondrial elongation occurs in the brain of Tau transgenic mice by measuring mitochondrial length under the light microscope after immunostaining brain sections with a mitochondrial marker. This is not optimal since individual mitochondrion can hardly be distinguished using light microscopy. Ideally, electron microscopy analysis of mitochondrial ultrastructure and genetic manipulation of mitochondrial dynamics in tau mice will give a more definite answer. Given the ongoing debate over the different effect of PINK1 mutations on mitochondrial morphology in Drosophila study (i.e., PINK1 mutations cause mitochondrial elongation in Drosophila) and mammalian cell study (i.e., PINK1 mutations cause mitochondrial fragmentation in mammalian cells), we should be very cautious when extending any findings in Drosophila to mammalian systems. Another issue that needs to be considered in relation to human tauopathies is that overexpression of caspase cleaved tau or tau hyperphosphorylation (i.e., cardinal features of tauopathies) causes mitochondrial fragmentation in mammalian cells. Therefore, how mitochondria may be affected in tau transgenic mice needs to be more carefully determined.
Overall, it is clear that mitochondrial dynamics is impaired in AD brain and APP transgenic mouse models (Hirai et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2009; Cho et al., 2009; Du et al., 2010; Calkins et al., 2011; Manczak et al., 2011; Manczak and Reddy, 2012). In vitro studies from multiple groups convincingly demonstrated that APP overexpression or exposure to Abeta causes excessive mitochondrial fission and abnormal mitochondrial distribution, which contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction and synaptic deficits (Barsoum et al., 2006; Wang et al., 2008a; Wang et al., 2008b; Cho et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2009; Du et al., 2010; Calkins et al., 2011; Manczak et al., 2011; Manczak and Reddy, 2012). Mel Feany's study further demonstrated that abnormal mitochondrial dynamics also mediates tau toxicity, which further strengthens the critical role of mitochondrial dynamics in the pathogenesis of AD.View all comments by Xiongwei Zhu
News Citations
- Abnormal Mitochondrial Dynamics—Early Event in AD, PD?
- Mutant Huntingtin Linked to Mitochondrial Dysfunction
- Mitochondria Stumble Their Way Along Axons in ALS Model
- New Takes on Tau: Does It Stabilize Actin, Flag Neurogenesis?
- The Plot Thickens: The Complicated Relationship of Tau and Aβ
- NO Kidding? Mitochondria Fission Protein Linked to Neurodegeneration
Paper Citations
- Fulga TA, Elson-Schwab I, Khurana V, Steinhilb ML, Spires TL, Hyman BT, Feany MB. Abnormal bundling and accumulation of F-actin mediates tau-induced neuronal degeneration in vivo. Nat Cell Biol. 2007 Feb;9(2):139-48. PubMed.
- Vossel KA, Zhang K, Brodbeck J, Daub AC, Sharma P, Finkbeiner S, Cui B, Mucke L. Tau reduction prevents Abeta-induced defects in axonal transport. Science. 2010 Oct 8;330(6001):198. PubMed.
- Wang X, Su B, Fujioka H, Zhu X. Dynamin-like protein 1 reduction underlies mitochondrial morphology and distribution abnormalities in fibroblasts from sporadic Alzheimer's disease patients. Am J Pathol. 2008 Aug;173(2):470-82. PubMed.
- Manczak M, Reddy PH. Abnormal interaction between the mitochondrial fission protein Drp1 and hyperphosphorylated tau in Alzheimer's disease neurons: implications for mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal damage. Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Jun 1;21(11):2538-47. PubMed.
- Duboff B, Götz J, Feany MB. Tau promotes neurodegeneration via DRP1 mislocalization in vivo. Neuron. 2012 Aug 23;75(4):618-32. PubMed.
Further Reading
- Wang X, Su B, Siedlak SL, Moreira PI, Fujioka H, Wang Y, Casadesus G, Zhu X. Amyloid-beta overproduction causes abnormal mitochondrial dynamics via differential modulation of mitochondrial fission/fusion proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 9;105(49):19318-23. PubMed.
- Manczak M, Calkins MJ, Reddy PH. Impaired mitochondrial dynamics and abnormal interaction of amyloid beta with mitochondrial protein Drp1 in neurons from patients with Alzheimer's disease: implications for neuronal damage. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Jul 1;20(13):2495-509. PubMed.
- Wang X, Su B, Fujioka H, Zhu X. Dynamin-like protein 1 reduction underlies mitochondrial morphology and distribution abnormalities in fibroblasts from sporadic Alzheimer's disease patients. Am J Pathol. 2008 Aug;173(2):470-82. PubMed.
- Duboff B, Götz J, Feany MB. Tau promotes neurodegeneration via DRP1 mislocalization in vivo. Neuron. 2012 Aug 23;75(4):618-32. PubMed.
- Form or Function: How Does Pink1 Deficiency Mar Mitochondria?
- Think Locally—Dendritic Mitochondria Required for Learning and Memory?
- Mitochondrial Break-up: Alzheimer's Alters Fusion, Fission
- Mitochondria Stumble Their Way Along Axons in ALS Model
- Abnormal Mitochondrial Dynamics—Early Event in AD, PD?
- Mutant Huntingtin Linked to Mitochondrial Dysfunction
- New Takes on Tau: Does It Stabilize Actin, Flag Neurogenesis?
- The Plot Thickens: The Complicated Relationship of Tau and Aβ
- NO Kidding? Mitochondria Fission Protein Linked to Neurodegeneration
Primary Papers
- Duboff B, Götz J, Feany MB. Tau promotes neurodegeneration via DRP1 mislocalization in vivo. Neuron. 2012 Aug 23;75(4):618-32. PubMed.
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12Sooo…What Do We Think Of Kristen Wiig's New Look?
Kristen Wiig changed up her look for the latest Anchorman 2 premiere. Normally, I'd save this kind of thing for our weekly Best and Worst Celebrity Looks of the Week (here's the most recent one), but I just couldn't hold back on this one. It's a very drastic new look. I'm not sure what she's trying to do here. I think Kristen Wiig is having some sort of identity crisis. She was the goofy SNL darling and now I think she's trying to be the less goofy indie darling. So she's making more and more daring fashion choices.
And I don't know what to think of this. So I'm gonna need your help on this one.
How would you describe this look?
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December 19, 2013 at 5:30 pm by Catherine St. Ives
12 Responses to "Sooo…What Do We Think Of Kristen Wiig's New Look?"
I would say she's aiming for old school Hollywood glamour. I'm not a fan of the hair or the neckline, this dress is gorgeous and with a couple tweeks she'd have the look she was aiming for. I would say she's just trying to add drama to her look and if she wants to glam it up on the red carpet, more power to her!
OK 1. Dress doesn't fit. 2. Color combination courtesy of 5 year old with play-doh. 3. Sane person did not design the dress. Overall, it's one of the worst dresses I've ever seen.
this is almost a case of "the emperor's new clothes"… her face seems like she's trying to pull it off proudly, so serious, but also looks like she was told to try looking that way. she just comes off as sort of unsure and bemused, like she knows it's awful but the show must go on right? what do you do when you're supposed to agree with your team left and right and as soon as you step out, you know it was a huge mistake? gotta work it. props for the crazy risk.
so so so bad on soooooo many levels.
I feel like everything about this ages her, the hair colour, the way it's styled, the dress, the makeup, just none of this is working. Matronly.
That was my first thought – she looks old.
she is not aging well. By 50 she'll look like Maggie Smith.
She looks like Cynthia Nixon AKA Miranda.
Star Wars meets Scarlett's drapes in Gone with the Wind! Hideous
I like the attempt at old school glamour… but don't think she pulled it off. The fit, color and styling are unflattering and the overall look is matronly. Too bad, I applaud her willingness to make bold fashion choices.
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Coach Lionel Hollins talks about the difficulty he had with Grizzlies this season. If our Nets don't land a top tier free agent, I'm worried we could face similar challenges next season.
GC: Here's the other thing that bothers people about Hasheem. They don't get the sense that he wants to be great. From the outside, he seems to take a very casual approach to the game. Even you have questioned his intensity at different times.
LH: We have the same issue with the majority of our team. It's the new wave of player. It's not as important to these players anymore. They're already going to get paid. They're going to get a second contract before they're the player that they're going to be. So what's the motivation for you to go out there and bust your (butt) extra? We set up times before practice for guys to work and we set up times after practice for guys to work. Why do we have to set times? Because none of them will be in gym once that two-hour block of practice is over. They're not going to come early unless you make them, they're not going to stay late. That's the whole group, that's around the NBA. There's very few where you see guys like LeBron is in the gym four hours before a game. That's the exception, that's not the rule. We're dealing with a whole new group of young people who think they're entitled to stardom and money just because they've gone through the process. And it takes a few years to get them to play together and understand it's not about your numbers or his numbers but about the team's wins and losses and going out there and playing every night.
GC: Who gets that on your team?
LH: Marc (Gasol) is probably the No. 1 guy that gets it. And No. 2 would be right there, Mike Conley. They're 1 and 1A.
GC: Does it say something about American basketball that the guy who gets it better than anyone else is from Spain?
LH: It says a lot about our society and how there's no growth, there's no starting here and working your way up. As soon as one of these kids shows that he can score a little bit or can dunk on somebody or is faster than everybody, he's elevated to another level. And from that point on, he's allowed to do things or not do things that everybody else doesn't get. Look at the mid-majors. Why do they have such success against those high-powered schools? They have a higher skill level, they play together as a team, they stay around. Why would John Wall ever think about making a sacrifice for Kentucky? Why would (Eric) Bledsoe, why would (Demarcus) Cousins? There's no reason. "I'm only here for one reason, I'm going to be here for one year, I'm going to try to score as many points as I can so I can be drafted as high as I can." What does that say? Now he comes to the NBA and he wants to be a star, he gets drafted 1, 2, 3, 4, whatever it is. And now he goes to a team, and they've already got a lot of pieces, and they just want you to come and fit in. He wants to come in and be the man. Whoever it is, I'm not talking about John Wall personally, whoever it is. And now they're struggling and they're fighting the game and the media is saying, "Well, you should be doing this, you did this in college, and how come you're not doing this here?" So now he's going out and he wants to show everybody that he can. But he doesn't help the team win. And that's why you have to give Oklahoma City credit, they have great chemistry. But they also have a pecking order. Durant is the man, there's no question in anybody's mind that he's the man.
GC: What's your pecking order?
LH: We don't have one.
GC: Can you win without a pecking order?
LH: Yeah, if everybody is willing to make sacrifices. I think Zach is probably our pecking order. And then Rudy and O.J. are 2 and 2a, depending on the night. But all those guys made sacrifices. Rudy made great sacrifices, O.J. made great sacrifices, to allow the guy who helped us make the biggest improvement get established. Once he was established, they just felt in line. They knew he was the man who was going to butter the bread. So we do have a slight pecking order. But when you have a group of nothing but young players, that's a fight every day.


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WARREN, Ohio - A Niles man who wanted neighborhood children to think of him as Santa Claus, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
William Brock Sr. was sentenced in Trumbull County Court on Thursday immediately pleading guilty to 35 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor.
Brock was arrested in July during a raid of his home at 832 Mason Street when state and federal officials combed his home for evidence in a child pornography investigation.
At the time of his arrest, neighbors described Brock as a nice guy, who would often talk to the children on his street and call himself "Jolly Old Saint Nick."


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Brenda Hale witnessed the long lines on Election Day. At the Villa Heights precinct, more than 2,500 active registered voters wrapped the building for more than three hours, many staying late into the evening.
"It was shocking," Hale says. "There was a lack of enough equipment, lack of poll workers."
The election task force is working together with the community to cut down on wait times and the long lines. One proposal on the table is reducing or realigning the number of precincts from 32 to 19. For some like Councilman Sherman Lea, the plan doesn't make sense.
"Thirty-two to 19 would not solve the problem.," Lea says. "You would have a similar situation."
Dan Crawford didn't wait in line very long on election day, but worries about the impact the plan would have on him.
"Fewer precincts means less voting machines and longer lines," Crawford says.
Melvin Williams with the registrar's office says the proposal would allow them to distribute the 64 poll books, and put more at some of the larger precincts like Villa Heights and Peters Creek.
Another proposal would break up some areas like the Peters Creek area into three separate precincts, putting fewer people at one place. Williams also adds the registrar's office has requested in their budget for 12 more poll books to help register folks quicker. But no matter what plan is picked, Crawford hopes nothing is sacrificed.
"My concern is we will be distracted by saving $2,000 and fail to protect the most precious right," Crawford says.
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In a surpassingly lackluster year for the Hollywood studios, 2001 has at least seen Twentieth Century Fox release a few movies with first-rate production values, three of which have been covered extensively in the pages of Entertainment Design. Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes was in many ways a disappointment, but Rick Baker's chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan makeup design was an immense achievement. The Hughes Bros.' From Hell benefits from the chilling atmosphere whipped up by DP Peter Deming and from detailed production design by Martin Childs. But most impressive from a design and technology point of view was Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge, featuring Catherine Martin's beautiful, stylized designs of 1899 Paris.
Luhrmann and Martin, who is also the director's wife and whom everyone calls CM, were in New York in October, both to prepare for the arrival of their La Boheme production on Broadway in the spring, and to help get Fox's Oscar promotion for their film underway. (On December 5, the movie was named the year's best by the National Board of Review.) The studio arranged a series of promotional screenings of Moulin Rouge for select audiences, followed by Q&As with the director and designer. Fox publicist James Finn asked yours truly to moderate one of these events, which was certainly an honor, even though I had mixed feelings about the movie. Not from a design point of view, certainly: Martin's trompe l'oeil depiction of Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris, centered around the Montmartre nightclub of the title, is wildly inventive yet manages to evoke a century's worth of pop romantic feeling about the setting.
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Luhrmann's overactive shooting and editing strategies are less appealing to me—at times you want to put a stop to all the movement just to get more than a second's glimpse of Martin's sets and costumes (co-designed with Angus Strathie). Some of the musical choices, which range from "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" to "Your Song" to "Like a Virgin," are a questionable, too.
But sitting at the AMC Empire Theatre on 42nd Street watching the screening, the movie came together for me better than it had on first viewing. When it slows down a bit after the frantic first half-hour, Moulin Rouge really is magnificent eye candy, and two more sincere and beautiful lead actors than Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor are hard to envision. However one responds to Luhrmann's style, at least it isn't generic.
I'd been told that the director was a guy with a couple of things to say, and that was certainly accurate. A planned half-hour Q&A session after the movie easily stretched to twice that length, and I doubt that anyone was bored. The audience—nearly a full house at a few hundred—was made up of USA 829 members, NYU and Fashion Institute of Technology students, and at least a few ED readers. Questions for Martin leaned heavily to the costume end of things, though someone did ask about the film's distinctive blend of full-scale, model, and digital sets. How true to period was the designer? Strenuously so in terms of fabric, much less so in terms of cut. How much did she spend? For sets and costumes, she probably had about a 10% chunk of the film's $50-million-plus budget.
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Luhrmann answered questions about getting rights for the movie's songs and working with the stars, but he mainly spoke to the aesthetic that has typified Moulin Rouge and his previous two films, Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Dubbed the "Red Curtain" style (and Moulin Rouge indeed opens and closes with the image of red theatre curtain), this approach emphasizes the theatricality of a film's setting and characters, and embraces anachronism to aid the viewer in connecting with the archetypes—doomed lovers, cruel benefactor--on display. Luhrmann showed every indication of being able to muse endlessly on the subject; there was a particularly charming solo discourse on whether the film's visual style is more appropriately termed "artificial reality" or "real artificiality."
The director said that he plans to leave behind the "Red Curtain" school of filmmaking in his next project, though it's yet to be determined what that will be. Making reference to the September 11 attacks, he echoed so many others in saying that "the world has changed"; he added that figuring out the best artistic response may take a while.
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EDITORS' NOTE: The following is the full text of Todd Starnes' interview with Secretary of Education, the Honorable Rod Paige.
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The Honorable Rod Paige
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Secretary Rod Paige
Interview with the Baptist Press
March 7, 2003
MR. LANGAN: Todd?
STARNES: Yes.
MR. LANGAN: It's Dan Langan from the United States Department of Education with Secretary Paige.
STARNES: Good morning or good afternoon. How are you doing?
MR. LANGAN: How are you today?
THE SECRETARY: How are you?
STARNES: I'm fine, thank you.
MR. LANGAN: We're about to get started. I just wanted to let you know I'd like to record this conversation if that's okay with you.
STARNES: Oh, well, sure, that's fine with me.
MR. LANGAN: Thank you.
STARNES: Wonderful. Just let me know when we're ready to begin.
THE SECRETARY: We're ready when you are.
STARNES: Well, Secretary, thank you very much for spending some time with us this afternoon.
THE SECRETARY: Oh, you're quite welcome. Thank you for all the interest.
STARNES: Yes, sir. Now before we get started, are you still a -- do you still maintain membership at your Baptist church back at Houston?
THE SECRETARY: Yes, I'm a member of the Brentwood Baptist Church in Houston.
STARNES: All right. Well, we always like to let our Baptist folks know we have Baptists in Washington.
THE SECRETARY: Yeah, and when I'm here in D.C., I attend the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria.
STARNES: Oh, I'm sorry, what church is that?
THE SECRETARY: Alfred Street Baptist Church.
STARNES: Got you.
THE SECRETARY: A-l-f-r-e-d.
STARNES: Got you. Well, Secretary Paige, we wanted to talk to you this afternoon about the state of education in America. And specifically, we wanted to ask your comments on possibly the benefits or the negative aspects of Christian education in private schools. So I guess we -- let's start off just by -- just giving us your general impression of the state of education in America.
THE SECRETARY: I think our educational system is underperforming and leaving large numbers of children behind, especially minority children, inner-city children, and some rural children. Some of it tracks along the lines of our family structures, especially those families that have some vulnerabilities or weaknesses that education for that child is, I think, concurrently weakened as well. And we need to find a way. And I think we have found a way to make sure that none of these children are left behind either. And the President's vision for that is called "No Child Left Behind." And that bill passed the Congress and was signed last year. We're one year into it now and I think that it is going to be a savior for a lot of kids who are otherwise left behind.
STARNES: Secretary, we've seen a number of parents pulling their children out of public schools and home-schooling them or sending them to private schools. Can you see any justification on why they're doing that?
THE SECRETARY: Absolutely. No child should be tied to a school that's failing them. It is one of the, I think, most grievous sins that we have in the United States as far as school is concerned, that is insisting that a child attends a school that's failing them. A child should be free to -- a parent should be free to select a school that best meets that child's needs, whether it's private or whether it's public or whether it's a cyber-school or whether it's home schooling or whatever. There will be a complex matrix of educational delivery systems, which includes all these different delivery systems. And private schools have a wonderful track record. There's a vast body of research from the University of Chicago and elsewhere that indicate that private schools, especially religious Catholic schools, offer a high-quality education to some low-income students in inner-city settings. So it's a wonderful part of our educational system.
STARNES: But why do you think adversaries of the Administration are against letting students go to these types of schools?
THE SECRETARY: Well, I think most people in this Administration would be absolutely for students going to -- having choices to -- parents having wide options and choices to make decisions for their child's school site. The politics of it is what interferes with it. And we need the kind of political support in order to get that accomplished through the federal system that we operate in. I don't think it's that we don't want to have that. We do want to have it.
STARNES: The Bush Administration has been very open and supportive of having, you know, more religion in the schools or at least having the acceptance of religion in the schools. Tell me, what is your personal opinion of that? Do you think that we should be embracing, you know, religious values in our schools?
THE SECRETARY: Absolutely. I think that religious values are wonderful values that we should embrace in our daily lives wherever we are, and this would [unintelligible] kids are in school. But I think it's even more important that they embrace these values in homes.
STARNES: Uh-huh. The results of that, what do you think the results of that would be if people did that?
THE SECRETARY: I think we'd have a much calmer and more gentle and compassionate society if people did that.
STARNES: Uh-huh. We have seen also an increase -- we've noticed that a lot of the state schools are having to cut spending for colleges and universities and yet, at the same time, a number of, you know, private colleges and universities are seeking an increase and getting it. Any comment on that?
THE SECRETARY: Well, I think giving for large parts of our population, especially those involved in strong religious beliefs, find that to be a core part of their system and a core part of their values. And the fact that we're experiencing some economic turndowns now won't diminish that. So that's happening just as I would expect it.
STARNES: Well, on that note, what are your thoughts on the 9th Circuit Court out in San Francisco that made the decision about the Pledge of Allegiance being unconstitutional?
THE SECRETARY: You know, I think that is really one of the worst decisions we could imagine. It's frightening to think that we have a high court like that that thinks like that.
STARNES: Why do you think there's such animosity towards religion and God in general in the schools and in the educational system?
THE SECRETARY: It's a real puzzle to me. My upbringing just shields from me from even thinking that way, so I can't imagine why, what's at the root of all of that.
STARNES: But at the same time, it's kind of, you know, do you think that -- is there anything that can be done in the future to protect the rights of Christian students and religious students in the public school systems?
THE SECRETARY: Well, I think there's going to be some great debates about it and I think those debates are going to end up in the courts. And I think that the direction that we see going now offers little hope for us. I'm especially appreciative and interested in what happened with the Supreme Court in the voucher case in Cleveland, which went in a direction, I think, that's going to foster a growth of our students' ability to get into schools, and in religious schools as well as secular schools.
STARNES: What do you think one of the chief benefits of a religious education is?
THE SECRETARY: Because of the strong value system support. Values go right along with that. In some of our other schools, we don't have quite as strong a push for values as I think we would need. In a religious environment the value system is pretty well set and supported. In public schools there are so many different kids from different kinds of experiences that it's very hard to get consensus around some core values.
STARNES: Uh-huh. We've heard a lot about faith in the Bush Administration, specifically with the President and how he is just using Scripture, quoting Scripture. What is your opinion as a member of the Administration to have a President who seems to be fairly well in tune with his spiritual beliefs?
THE SECRETARY: America's very fortunate to have a man like George W. Bush in the presidency right now, because I think this is a period in time of our history where faith is very important. His faith, that powers him and helps him make decisions and shields him from the slings and arrows that you get when you take courageous decisions; a person who makes decisions based on their faith and what is what they see to be right rather than putting their finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing.
STARNES: Uh-huh. So it's a -- I mean, based upon your personal experiences, that's a genuine thing.
THE SECRETARY: What you see in the President is what's really there. The President is one of the most authentic human beings I've ever had a chance to meet. I mean, there's no phoniness about him whatsoever. What he says is what you can count on. It's how he lives his life. He governs in that same way.
STARNES: How would you respond -- I know there's critics of the government. One of the French officials, their complaints was that he was too religious. And even the Democrats have said that the President has too much religion or religiosity. What would you say to those critics?
THE SECRETARY: I would offer them my prayers.
STARNES: Now how about yourself? You're a man of faith as well. How does your faith -- how do you integrate your faith in what you do at the Department of Education?
THE SECRETARY: Well, my faith is not a separate part of me. It can't be separated from the rest of the way I live my life. I know clearly that where I am and what I do is not so much a product of my work, but a product of God's grace. And I know if it had been left up to me I would have probably made a big boo-boo out of it some time ago. So I understand what powers me and my parents made sure that that was deeply engrained, and it's never been -- I've never been able to separate myself from it.
STARNES: Tell me about your daily walk with the Lord. Do you have a quiet time or a prayer time by yourself or with your family?
THE SECRETARY: Absolutely. I begin the day that way. When I get up in the morning and get my coffee I then prepare myself for today, that day. And I begin to prepare myself that day by my Scripture lessons, readings, and my prayer, the whole thing that I call devotion. That takes about 20 to 25 minutes in the morning. And this is the very first thing to do. I never allow anything else to interfere with that. And I start each day with that, even the Sundays when I'm preparing to go to church.
STARNES: Wow. What are you studying right now, anything in particular that maybe the Lord is teaching you or speaking to you about?
THE SECRETARY: Well, you know, strangely, when I do have devotion in the morning I feel that I'm being spoken to. And a lot of the issues that I have I find decisions, or I'll find solutions come to me during that period of time. At first I used to worry about that and feel that I was unfocused when I'm reading Scripture or just before I begin prayer. But I'm beginning now to feel at home with that, because as I read Scripture not only am I focusing on the Scripture, but sometimes I'm beginning to see more clearly paths that I should take or solutions that - to problems that have been bugging me for some time. So it's not only a good time for what I learn from the Scriptures, but just that quiet time to be by myself and focus on some of these issues is very
STARNES: As the leader of the nation's education system, how do you maintain -- how do you not let it all get to you? It's a huge responsibility you have.
THE SECRETARY: Well, I think faith is a good response to that. But I don't think my job is to solve all education problems in the world. My job is to work towards the right solutions and make sure I conduct myself properly. It's kind of like the battle's never won, only fought well.
STARNES: Uh-huh. What do you see as the greatest challenges facing the education system coming up in the next years?
THE SECRETARY: I think it is getting the idea across that every child has value and that every child can learn and that every child deserves our very best and most intense effort in ensuring that they have the greatest opportunity for education. It is believing in each child. And one of the most depressing things is to find systems where that belief is not strong or they don't believe in the children. Sometimes they have low expectations for certain children. And overcoming these low expectations for certain children is probably our greatest challenge in the future.
STARNES: Wow. Now today, you had an announcement with Tom Ridge about terrorism and protecting students, so would you care to comment on anything of that nature?
THE SECRETARY: Well, I think that safety is our first job. When I served as superintendent of schools in Houston, our core values -- the first very core value was safety above all else. And now our responsibility with safety has expanded. At one time, we had to worry about situations like the Columbine experience, but now we've got to add to that the possibility of international terrorism and that just broadens our responsibility. And so we're working with the Homeland Security people and with other people throughout the world to see what we can learn from them in order to make sure that we're providing the very best leadership we can for school safety.
STARNES: One final question, Mr. Secretary, we're hearing a lot in the Christian colleges and universities about Christian world view education. Do you have any comment on that, what you think about that?
THE SECRETARY: No, I really haven't -- I've not heard enough about that to formulate a view, so I probably need to take a pass on that one.
STARNES: Given the choice between private and Christian - or private and public universities, what do you think -- who do you think has the best deal?
THE SECRETARY: That's a judgment, too, that would vary because each of them have real strong points and some of them have some vulnerabilities. But, you know, all things being equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school where there's a strong appreciation for values, the kind of values that I think are associated with the Christian communities, and so that this child can be brought up in an environment that teaches them to have strong faith and to understand that there is a force greater than them personally.
STARNES: Yes, sir. Any particular Bible verse -- this is my last question. Any particular Bible verse that has really just kind of stuck out for you maybe as a life verse?
THE SECRETARY: Well, the one that I read quite a bit is the 91st Psalm. And I do that because that was my mother's favorite psalm. And so quite often I go back and read it because that connects me to her.
STARNES: Yes, sir. Well, Mr. Secretary, I certainly appreciate your time this afternoon. And I know our readers are going to appreciate hearing it and are certainly praying for you that you continue your ministry and work there in Washington.
THE SECRETARY: Thank you so much for your prayers and for giving me this opportunity.
STARNES: Yes, sir. Thank you.
THE SECRETARY: Thank you.
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Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American Christian Singer, evangelist, enterpreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist Jim Bakker. She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club (1976–1987). She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show, The Surreal Life.
The eldest of eight children, Tammy Faye was born Tamara Faye LaValley in International Falls, MN., to Pentecostal preachers Carl and Rachel Fairchild LaValley. Her parents were married in 1941, one year before Tammy Faye was born. Shortly after she was born, a painful divorce soured her mother against other ministers, alienating her from the church. After the divorce, Tammy Faye continued living in a strict atmosphere with her mother and brother. In 1948, when she was six, her mother married Fred Grover, who worked in paper mills. His salary increased their income, but the marriage also added six children to the household.
As a girl child in the 1950s, she helped her mother with household chores and babysat her younger siblings; but she was often spoiled by her favorite aunt, Virginia Fairchild, who was a retired department store manager.
When she was accompanied by a friend to the Assemblies of God church, at age 10, she said she "felt the glow of God's love and wanted to call herself upon the Lord. Her entire family gathered around her for celebrations, particularly Christmas, which was her favorite holiday. In 1956, she started spending summers at Bible camp and was voted "Queen". Also in 1956, she attended Falls High School, where she sang in the choir, and got an after-school job at Woolworth's. She didn't attend school dances, baseball games, or even movies, as her church did not allow it. Before she graduated in 1960, her mother suggested that Tammy Faye would become a minister.
In 1960, she met Bakker when they were students at North Central Bible College. Tammy Faye worked in a boutique for a time while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis. They were married on April 1, 1961. The following year, they moved to South Carolina, where they began their ministry.
Their marriage produced two children, Tammy Sue (Sissy) Bakker Chapman (born 1970) and Jamie Charles (Jay) Bakker (born 1975).
Jim and Tammy Bakker had been involved with television from the time of their departure from Minneapolis until they moved to the Charlotte area where they were founding members of the 700 Club. While in Portsmouth, they were hosts of the popular children's show "Jim and Tammy". They then created a puppet ministry for children on Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) from 1964 to 1973 and co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with personal friends Paul and Jan Crouch. Jim and Tammy founded the PTL Club (Praise The Lord) in the mid 1970s.
During the PTL shows, she provided a sentimental touch to stories and loved to sing. In a move that sharply distinguished her from other televangelists, she showed a more tolerant attitude when it came to homosexuality, and she featured people suffering from AIDS on PTL, urging her viewers to follow Christ and show sympathy and pray for the sick.
Tammy stood by husband Jim Bakker through the PTL debacle, but filed for divorice in 1992, after her husband was sentenced to prison.
On October 3, 1993, she married Roe Messner and they moved to the Charlotte suburb of Matthews, NC. Messner, who had a contracting business in a suburb of Wichita, had built much of Heritage USA as well as many large churches and had been a family friend to the Bakkers throughout the PTL years.
In July 2007, the Messners relocated to a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, the Village of Loch Lloyd. Tammy Faye told Entertainment Tonight they had moved to her "dream house," built by Roe, to be closer to Roe's children and grandchildren from his first marriage.
When she was first diagnosed with colon cancer, she re-entered the public eye in a series of books, movies and television appearances.
In 1996 she wrote her autobiography, Tammy: Telling It My Way , and she co-hosted a TV talk show titled The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show with Jim J. Bullock.
She was the subject of a documentary titled The Eye's of Tammy Faye (1999) and a followup film titled Tammy Faye: Death Defying (2004).
She appeared twice on The Drew Carey Show playing the mother of character Mimi, who was also known for wearing excessive amounts of makeup.
On September 11, 2003, she published a new autobiography, I Will Survive... and You Will, Too!, in which she described her battles with cancer and her life with Messner.
In 2005, she appeared in an infomercial for an alternative medicine promoter. On her site, Tammyfaye.com, she credits green supplements as a helpful part of her initial colon cancer remission.
In early 2004, she appeared on the second season of the The Surreal Life. The show chronicled a twelve-day period wherein she and others lived together in a house and were assigned various tasks and activities.
Tammy Faye's 11-year battle with cancer was highly publicized. She was first diagnosed with colon cancer in March 1996, and the disease went into remission by the end of that year.
On March 19, 2004, Tammy Faye made an appearance on Larry King LIve and announced that she had inoperable lung cancerr and would soon begin chemotherapy.She continued receiving chemotherapy throughout mid-2004. On November 30, 2004, also on Larry King Live, she announced that she was cancer free once again. She described the details of her chemotherapy and continued to appear regularly on King's show. It was on his program again that she announced, on July 20, 2005, that her cancer had returned.
On March 13, 2006, she appeared again on Larry King Live and stated that she was continuing to suffer from lung cancer, which had reached stage 4, and that she was continuing to receive treatment for it. She also mentioned having difficulty swallowing food, suffering from panic attacks, and enduring substantial weight loss. Her health continued to worsen.
On May 8, 2007, she issued a statement on her website saying that chemo therepy had stopped, but urging her fans to continue to pray for her. The story was reported on The Today Show, and a feature in which fans and well-wishers could post get-well messages to Tammy was added to her website. By July 2007, over 228 pages of wishes had been received.
On July 19, 2007, Tammy Faye made another appearance on CNN's Larry King Live in what turned out to be her final interview (she died the following day, just hours after the broadcast). At the time, she said she weighed 65 pounds and was unable to eat solid food. Messner's husband would later say that he believed that she chose to do the interview to say a final goodbye to her followers. During the interview, Messner had this message:
"I'd like to say that I genuinely love you, and I genuinely care, and I genuinely want to see you in heaven someday. I want you to find peace. I want you to find joy."
On July 20, 2007, at 4 am, Tammy Faye Messner died following an 11-year battle with cancer. What had started as colon cancer had spread to her lungs. A family service was held in the Messner family plot in Waldron, Kansas, where her ashes were interred. A memorial service was later held in California.
She had frequently spoken about her medical problems, saying she hoped to be an inspiration to others. "Don't let fear rule your life," she said. "Live one day at a time, and never be afraid."
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The Commerce Department and the Navy led the investigations into the Hindenburg disaster. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation also looked into the matter even though it technically had no jurisdiction. President FDR had asked all governmental agencies to cooperate in the investigation. The FBI files released about the incident through the Freedom of Information Act are available online.
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The theories of sabotage began to surface immediately. People believed that maybe the Hindenburg had been sabotaged to harm Hitler's Nazi regime. The sabotage theories centered on a bomb of some sort being placed aboard the Hindenburg and later detonated or some other sort of sabotage performed by someone on board. Commander Rosendahl of the Department of Commerce believed that sabotage was the culprit. (See p. 98 of Part I of the FBI documents.) According to a Memorandum to the Director of the FBI dated May 11, 1937, when Captain Anton Wittemann, the third in command of the Hindenburg, was questioned after the tragedy he said that Captain Max Pruss, Captain Ernst Lehmann and he had been warned of a possible incident. He was told by the FBI Special Agents not to speak of the warning to anyone. (See p. 80 of Part I of the FBI documents.) There is no indication that his claims were ever looked into, and no other evidence arose to support the idea of sabotage.
Some people pointed to a possible mechanical failure. Many of the ground crew later interviewed in the investigation indicated that the Hindenburg was coming in too fast. They believed that the airship was thrown into a full reverse to slow the craft. (See p. 43 of Part I of the FBI documents.) The speculation arose that this may have caused a mechanical failure which sparked a fire causing the hydrogen to explode. This theory is supported by the fire at the tail section of the craft but not much else. The Zeppelins had a great track record, and there is little other evidence to support this speculation.
The next theory, and probably the most outlandish, involves the dirigible being shot from the sky. The investigation focused on reports of a pair of tracks found near the back of the airfield in a restricted area. However, there were numerous people on hand to watch the amazing event of the Hindenburg landing so these footprints could have been made by anyone. In fact, the Navy had caught a couple of boys who had sneaked into the airfield from that direction. There were also reports of farmers shooting at other dirigibles because they passed over their farms. Some people even claimed that joy seekers shot down the Hindenburg. (See p. 80 of Part I of the FBI documents.) Most people dismissed these accusations as nonsense, and the formal investigation never substantiated the theory that the Hindenburg was shot from the sky.
The theory that gained the most popularity and became the most widely accepted involved the hydrogen on the Hindenburg. Hydrogen is a highly flammable gas, and most people believed that something caused the hydrogen to spark, thus causing the explosion and fire. In the beginning of the investigation, the idea arose that the drop lines carried static electricity back up to the airship which caused the explosion. However, the chief of the ground crew denied this claim by the fact that the mooring lines were not conductors of static electricity. (See p. 39 of Part I of the FBI documents.) More credible was the idea that the blue arc seen at the tail of the airship just before it burst into flames was lightning and caused the detonation of the hydrogen. This theory was substantiated by the presence of the lightning storms reported in the area.
The hydrogen explosion theory became accepted as the reason for the explosion and led to the end of commercial lighter-than-air flight and the stalling of hydrogen as a reliable fuel. Many people pointed to the flammability of the hydrogen and questioned why helium was not used in the craft. It is interesting to note that a similar event happened to a helium dirigible the year before. So what really caused the end of the Hindenburg?


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It's showtime! Swizz Beatz reunites with his Ruff Ryders cohort Eve on "Everyday (Coolin')," the first single from his upcoming album Haute Living. Swizzy balls out on the weekdays and cools off on the weekend, name checking designer labels including Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Balmain, and Givenchy over the wailing instrumental.
"Everyday, they ask how I'm feelin'/ You see the houses, playboy, I'm killin'," he gloats, before Eve busts back with a loaded verse. "E-V-E I'm back on my bullshit, came back, came back, back with a full clip."
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Highway Patrol says it will be out in force on the Fourth of July to emphasize safe travel during the holiday weekend.
Col. Craig Price says the day-long saturation patrol will involve virtually all uniformed troopers.
Price says the Independence Day holiday period is 1 of the busiest of the year for travel on state highways. He says putting as many troopers on the road as possible raises public awareness of the need to make safe travel choices.
Officials say speed and alcohol are the top targets for the enforcement campaign, but troopers will also be enforcing other traffic laws such as wearing seatbelts.
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The restaurant opened on Jan. 29 and is located at 7281 Amador Plaza Road in Dublin next to the Habit Burger. What's on the menu at Freebirds?
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Title:Authorities express surprise at the numbers of Pakistanis calling the INS on each other
Author:M. R. Farrukh
Publication:Pakistan Post
Original Language:Urdu
Translator:Rehan Ansari
Blurb:Like hundreds of those arrested, Ahmed Imtiaz was found to have no links with the atrocity of September 11th. He recently found out why he was arrested: taking advantage of the post-September 11th atmosphere, a former friend told the authorities that Imtiaz was engaged in suspicious activities.
Body:Ahmed Imtiaz is one those hundreds of thousands of people who come to the United States dreaming about a happy and prosperous life. Before September 11th, irrespective of his legal status, he was spending a quiet life earning an honorable living for his household.
Two months after September 11th, he was picked up from his home in New Jersey. His apartment was raided by the FBI, the INS and a squad of special forces. At around 2:30 a.m. his wife, three kids and himself were awakened by a continuous ringing of the door bell. When he got out and saw the officials he panicked. He had previously never encountered a police officer at his door. The sight of the officers of three agencies belonging to the most powerful country in the world on his doorstep completely unnerved him. The officers took him to his bedroom and searched his home for two hours. He swore upon his innocence, pleaded with them. They arrested him.
Like hundreds of those arrested Imtiaz was found to have no links with the atrocity of September 11th. Freed of terrorism charges he was transferred from FBI detention to the INS center. There are people in the INS center detained for seven months now, without charges, because the law allows that. Imtiaz found himself charged under immigration law. He was found to be in violation of a deportation order from five years ago.
Hundreds of thousands of people, under deportation orders, continue to live in this country and make a living. Some deportation cases last four years. I know of several which have been resolved in favor of the individual. Some manage to achieve legal status through the process.
Imtiaz was breaking the law by living in the country but it was not a crime severe enough for imprisonment for five months. Three months into his confinement he was allowed to see his family and friends, and a lawyer!
Imtiaz is now facing deportation. He has only a few more days in this county.
He has recently found out why he was arrested. A few years ago an argument with a friend over a trivial matter became an open sore between them. They stopped talking and Imtiaz forgot about the matter over time. Taking advantage of the post- September 11th atmosphere, the former friend told the authorities that Imtiaz was engaged in suspicious activities. The authorities were on a war footing and acted so.
Mrs. Imtiaz has said that she and her family are not devastated by the fact that the family is moving to Pakistan. They have a home there and are reconciled to making do with less. They are shocked by this unconscionable act.
Senators and FBI officials commented on the fact that it is people within the Pakistani communities who are telling on each other and that is leading to many arrests. A few days ago a high ranking official of the FBI said in a conversation, at the end of a reception organized by Muslim groups in his honor, that they dont know who is who in the communities, so in many cases they often act on allegations people make against each other.
The world has changed for Pakistanis and other Muslims living in the US after September 11th. If we do not act on our conscience, as Muslims are enjoined to do, then what has happened to Imtiaz may happen ever closer to home.
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This restaurant is amazing! Their steaks are better than those of other top steak places & their menus has more variety for sides. Both times I've been there, the food has been excellent, cooked to exact specification. Our waiter noticed that a dessert we ordered was not oozing chocolate like it should so he removed it from the bill. We were unaware & so didnt mention any problem, but the waiter came up to us & offered a replacement & an apology. The place is not inexpensive, but you get what you pay for. I've been to Morton's & Ruth & Chris, only to be disappointed by the service although their food not bad. Fleming's wine flights add to the experience. My only complaint is that I wish they had more selection. I cant compliment the establishment enough.
Posted by Anonymous on 01/29/2007
We recently dined at this steak house and found the food to be overpriced and fair at best. We had to send a steak dinner back twice, once for being overcooked and when it was replaced the filet was tough and fatty. It is obvious the kitchen needs some help. The one good thing about this place is the bar - the wine selection by the glass is great. So have your drinks here then go somewhere else for dinner.