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Tenn. — The Town of Cumberland Gap invites you to the “Gap Divided” an authentic War Between the States living history and reenactment. This is a portrayal of Union and Confederate movements, camps, and activities in the Historical Towne of Cumberland Gap in the spring of 1863. Each April, the armies of the North and South meet to reenact battles that took place in and around the Towne of Cumberland Gap Tennessee. This year the event is set for April 25-26.

Visitors will be able to see the battles close up as well as infantry, cavalry, and artillery demonstra-tions. There will be oppor-tunities to visit authentic Civil War encampments, and eight stations present-ing civil war talks and demonstration on equip-ment and different branch-es of the army. The Ladies will have a Period Tea and Fashion show. This year there will be an authentic period wedding. Sunday is an abbreviated day with period church services and other Civil War activities before the soldiers start moving out at 4 p.m.

From the History of the 63rd Tennessee Vol. Inf. CSA: “…General Stevenson ordered us to report to General Gracie at Cumberland Gap. Arrived after a severe march thru heavy snow and rain. While at Cumberland Gap made two marches into Kentucky about 30 miles to secure supplies. On the first one made into Harlan County, we bought out 56 beef cattle. The regiment is pretty well drilled, well armed, and would be very efficient if we had plenty of clothing and shoes.”

For photos, a sched-ule, map and details, v i s i t w w w. t o w n o f -c u m b e r l a n d g a p . c o m www.63rdtennessee.org.

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Sisters wait for answers about their mother’s disappearance

BY STEPHEN WOODWARDStaff Writer

MIDDLESBORO — It was just another lazy Sunday morning. The Heck family was home, relaxing before the work week started up again.

Katherine Heck hadn’t been feeling very well. She woke with a horrible head ache and a red eye. Katherine’s daughter, Tabitha Reynolds, said she thought her mother might have been depressed.

Katherine’s husband, David, reached out to her, telling her that he loved her.

“I’m alright, I’ll be alright,” 58-year-old Katherine said in return. “I think I’ll go sweep the back porch.”

“He (David) said she was... acting strange and he tried to keep an eye on her,” said Reynolds. ”He went on the back porch and noticed that the dirt was just scattered and the broom was just laying. So he finished sweeping that up and didn’t think nothing about it.”

Then he noticed she wasn’t around. “He went around the house and looked and

she wasn’t there. [He] went back in the house and she wasn’t there,” said Reynolds.

Reynolds was home in bed when her father called to say Katherine was missing. She then called her sister and brother.

“Probably in 30 minutes, we were all out looking,” said Reynolds.

Hours after Katherine went missing on February 1st, the whole community was search-ing for her. Family scoured the neighborhoods handing out fliers; friends and volunteers put on walking shoes and headed out into the February snow looking for foot tracks or torn clothing; the Bell County Rescue Squad set up a command post at West Cumberland Avenue Baptist Church, sent out search dogs, and shifted resources from another missing persons case.

While the rescue squad never found her, Reynolds commended their actions.

“I think they did everything that they knew to do,” she said. “They had a point, and they even

went past that point.”Reynolds said that they suspected their moth-

er was having health problems. She said family had suspected and commented that Katherine was showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s. And that the morning of her disappearance, Reynolds said her mother woke with a painful headache and a red eye.

The sisters also said that Katherine hated to leave the house, and would never go on walks on her own.

“It’s not like her just to leave,” said LaCosta Heck, Reynold’s sister.

“She just never liked to leave the house,” added Reynolds.

LaCosta said she wanted to dispel lots of rumors about her mother that have spread through the community, especially rumors that

her mother was involved in a cult.“There’s a lot of things out there that people

are saying... It’s ridiculous stuff,” said Reynolds. “For some people, this is old news, but we have to live with it everyday.”

Reynolds said that she thinks now that the weather is warming up, and people are getting outside, Katherine might be spotted by someone. “We’re hoping they’ll just keep their eyes open,” said Reynolds.

Both sisters said they suspect their mother was picked up by someone, judging by the way the dogs stopped on their scent trail and the fact that they’ve exhausted every area they think she could have gone. They hope getting the word out will lead to her recovery.

“None of us have a feeling that she’s gone yet,” said Reynolds. “I feel like she’s still out there somewhere alive.”

“If someone has her, and she’s seeing all this, we just want her back,” said LaCosta.

“We’re not mad, we’re not upset, we just miss her a lot,” said Reynolds. “We love her very much and just want her back home... We’re just wandering is she hungry and somebody’s feed-ing her... or is somebody being mean to her. I know there are a lot of good people out there... We’re just hoping somebody will just tell us something or give us something. Because we just don’t know what else to do.”

Reynolds said that if anyone has as any infor-mation to help find Katherine Heck, they can contact her confidentially at Jeff ’s Pharmacy at (606)248-0171. To notify the Middlesboro Police Department, contact (606)248-3636. The family of Heck is offering a reward of $10,000 for information leading to Heck’s recovery. At the time of her disappearance, she was 5’1”, 170 lbs., with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue-green t-shirt, jeans, and white tennis shoes.

Stephen Woodward is a Staff Writer for the Daily News. He may be contacted at [email protected].

Katherine HeckMissing since February 1, 2009

BY SARAH MIRACLEStaff Writer

MIDDLESBORO — To ensure the safety and welfare of today’s youth, the public must be aware of the dangers of child abuse.

In 1983, April was proclaimed the first National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Since then, child abuse and neglect awareness activities have been promoted across the country during the month of April. The Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN) within the Children’s Bureau coordinates Child Abuse Prevention Month, providing information and releasing updated national statistics about child abuse and neglect each April.

In the state of Ky., an abused child is defined as a child whose health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm when a parent, guardian or other person exercising custodial control or supervision of the child “inflicts or allows physi-cal or emotional injury to be inflicted upon the child by other than accidental means” (KRS 600.020). Statistics show that 29 per 100,000 children, ages one through 14, died as a result of child abuse in 2003.

In 1989, the Blue Ribbon Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse began as a Virginia grandmother’s tribute to her grand-son who died as a result of abuse. She tied a blue ribbon to the antenna of her car as a way to remember him and to alert her community to the tragedy of child abuse. The Blue Ribbon Campaign has since expanded across the country and many wear blue ribbons each April in memory of those who have died as a result of child abuse. Most recently, the focus has shifted towards a more positive message of celebrating “blue ribbon” individuals, organizations and communities who have done so much to prevent child abuse and neglect.

In 2004, there was emerging consensus among national child abuse prevention organizations and related federal agencies that building public will for child abuse prevention required engaging the public in efforts to strengthen and sup-port families and enhance parenting skills. Building on this national momentum, OCAN shifted the focus of its child abuse prevention resources to incorporate a family strength-ening message promoting parenting and community support.

Today, the Child Abuse Prevention Initiative is an opportu-nity for communities across the country to keep children safe, provide the support families need to stay together, and raise children and youth to be happy, secure, and stable adults.

If you have a concern for a child’s well being, contact: Gayle Yocum, Cabinet for Families and Children, 275 E. Main St., 3 E-B in Frankfort, Ky. 40621 or visit http://chfs.ky.gov.

Sarah Miracle is a staff writer for the Daily News. She can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected]. Some information for this article obtained from Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky’s website.

April: Child Abuse Prevention Month

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Students and members of the community packed into the tiny Chinnock Chapel on Lincoln Memorial University’s (LMU) campus Wednesday to hear acclaimed author Ann Pancake read a portion of her debut novel Strange As This Weather Has Been. The West Virginia native writes about the Appalachian region in her book and tells the story of a family devastated by mountaintop removal mining.LMU’s writer-in-residence Silas House introduced Pancake, saying that she had written a “haunting novel” which has “images that stick with you.” Pancake currently resides in the state of Washington.

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Massacre kills 12 at immigration center in NY

BINGHAMTON, N.Y.— A gunman opened fire at an immigration services cen-ter in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing as many as 13 people before author-ities found him dead, officials said.

Gov. David Paterson said at a news conference that 12 or 13 people had been killed.

A law enforcement official said the body of the man believed to be the gunman was found in an office of the American Civic Association building. The off icial was not authorized to speak publicly about the details of an ongoing hostage situation and was talking on condition of anonymity.

The gunman barricaded the rear door of the building with his car before entering through the front door, firing his weapon, the official said.

It wasn’t clear whether the gunman was included in the number of dead provided by the governor.

The Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reported that citizenship classes had been scheduled Friday at the center.

The Binghamton SWAT team responded, and the FBI was sending hostage negotia-tors and an evidence response team to the scene. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was also sending agents to Binghamton.

Indications were that the shooter was a

young male, the law enforcement official said.

The American Civic Association is an organization that helps immigrants in the Binghamton area with naturalization appli-cations, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The association describes itself as help-ing immigrants and refugees with counsel-ing, resettlement, citizenship, family reuni-fication and translators.

The association’s president, Angela Leach, “is very upset right now,” said Mike Chanecka, a friend who answered a call at her home as Leach wept in the background.

“She doesn’t know anything; she’s as shocked as anyone,” Chanecka said. “For some reason, she had the day off today. And she’s very worried about her secretary.”

Five people with gunshot wounds were being treated at Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City, according to hospital spokes-woman Christina Boyd.

The wounded ranged in age from 20 to their mid-50s, and their conditions ranged from stable to critical, she said.

Linda Miller, a spokeswoman at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, said a student from Binghamton University was being treated there.

The shooting occurred in a mixed neigh-borhood of homes and small businesses in the center of Binghamton, a city of about 47,000 located 140 miles northwest of New York City.

Obama tries American-style campaign on Europe

STRASBOURG, France — Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans — popular here — to eliminate nuclear weapons, close the Guantanamo Bay prison and tackle global warming.

In return, he’s hoping for European popular support in the anti-terror fight in Afghanistan.

Obama seems likely to win fresh commit-ments at Saturday’s 60th anniversary NATO summit. He can expect more civilian aid and small troop increases for training Afghan forces and providing security for upcoming elections.

But the European public has no stomach for more intense military involvement by their nations. So Obama is unlikely to get additional help in the way of either major combat troops or new deployments to the toughest areas of the fighting in southern and eastern Afghanistan.

Obama and his aides sought ahead of time to frame that outcome in the best possible light.

“It’s not just a matter of more resources, it’s a matter of more effectively using the resources we have,” Obama said.

That comment came in the midst of a remarkable event he created at a basketball arena in Strasbourg, a campaign-style “town hall” in which he fielded questions from

young French and German men and women.Separately, Secretary of State Hillary

Rodham Clinton said securing new commit-ments from allies would neither begin nor end with the NATO meetings, noting that nations need more time to digest Obama’s week-old revamped Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. “The NATO summit is not a pledging confer-ence,” she told reporters.

Obama’s national security adviser, retired Gen. James Jones, said Obama’s new approach to Afghanistan, which calls for increasing U.S. troops by 21,000, narrowing the mission on uprooting terrorist safe havens and broadening the focus to include Pakistan, would inspire fresh involvement. “I think there’s a new mood,” Jones said.

Just hours before the summit was to start over dinner in the German town of Baden-Baden, just over the border from here, Obama continued his lobbying.

He wowed a 4,000-strong crowd of French and German citizens at the arena in Strasbourg. He also laid the flattery on thick with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and thicker with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Obama praised Sarkozy as “coura-geous on so many fronts, it’s hard to keep up” and for displaying “initiative, imagination, creativity” in tackling difficult problems.

Sarkozy said Obama would visit France again in June, to mark the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day invasion by allied forces at Normandy.

NBC says other stations sticking with Leno

NEW YORK — NBC says it knows of no other affiliates seeking to follow Boston’s lead and abandon Jay Leno.

WHDH in Boston says it will air a local newscast at 10 p.m. next fall instead of Leno’s planned nightly show at that hour. Station management said it believed a newscast would make the station more money.

NBC has responded firmly, threatening to strip WHDH of its network affiliation if it doesn’t air Leno and undoubtedly send a mes-sage to any other stations that may be thinking of doing the same thing. NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks says no other NBC stations have said they won’t take Leno.

George Harrison to get Hollywood Walk of Fame

starLOS ANGELES — The Beatles’ George

Harrison is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

EMI Music spokeswoman Jennifer Ballantyne says Harrison’s star will be unveiled April 14 in front of Hollywood’s Capitol Records building.

Harrison already shares a star with all four of the Beatles.

However, only he and former bandmate John Lennon will have their own stars. Lennon was shot to death by a deranged fan in 1980. Harrison died of cancer in 2001. The surviving Beatles are Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Harrison’s star will be the 2,382nd on the Walk of Fame.

Anti-Chris Brown song wins radio play

NEW YORK — A song criticizing Chris Brown is getting air play.

The song is called “My Flow So Tight” by a little-known dance group called Smoke Jumpers. It features the repeated line: “Chris Brown should get his ass kicked.”

A Web site for the group hyped the song as

“the official Chris Brown dis record.” Radio sta-tions in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and New York have recently begun playing it.

C.W. Griz, a member of the group who declined to give his real name since he expected Brown to be angered by the song, said Friday that he didn’t think enough people in the music industry had spoken out against the singer.

The 19-year-old Brown allegedly beat his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, on the night of the Grammy Awards in February. Brown is sched-uled for arraignment on felony assault and crim-inal threat charges on Monday.

“I was really upset with the way a lot of celebrities and people were handling the situa-tion,” said C. W. Griz. “Not enough people were speaking out against Chris Brown. What he did was a thousand percent wrong.”

He pledged the group would donate a por-tion of the proceeds from the song to organiza-tions benefiting battered women, but declined to say how much or specify a charity.

“We’re not trying to take advantage of a hor-rible situation,” said C.W. Griz. “We want to take a positive stance.”

A publicist for Brown didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

Demi Moore linked to a Twitter-based

interventionNEW YORK — An online chain of posts

involving Demi Moore apparently prompted police to go to the aid of a California woman who was having suicidal thoughts.

San Jose Sgt. Ronnie Lopez says the depart-ment received a phone call early Friday morn-ing from a person in Dallas who was tipped off to a supposed suicide attempt through the social networking site Twitter.

Moore, a popular celebrity Twitterer, was involved in a discussion on the site that began when a user sent the actress what appeared to be suicidal notes.

Lopez says officers made immediate contact with a 48-year-old female resident of San Jose, Calif., and transferred her to a local hospital for “psychiatric evaluation.”

He says there were no injuries.

Malawi court rejects Madonna adoption

requestLILONGWE, Malawi — In a surprise

move, a judge on Friday rejected Madonna’s request to adopt a second child from Malawi and said it would set a dangerous precedent to bend rules requiring that prospective parents live here for some period.

Madonna’s lawyer, Alan Chinula, said later Friday that he has “filed notice for appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal.” He says no date was immediately set.

The country’s child welfare minister had come out Thursday in support of the pop super-star’s application to adopt 3-year-old Chifundo “Mercy” James.

But in a lengthy ruling Friday, Judge Esme Chombo sided with critics who have said excep-tions should not be made for the star who has set up a major development project for this impoverished, AIDS-stricken southern African country.

There was no immediate comment from Madonna or her spokeswoman in New York.

Chombo said other foreigners have adopt-ed children from Malawi, but the only case in which some residency requirement was waived was to allow Madonna to take David Banda out of the country in 2006 before that adoption was finalized in 2008.

“It is necessary that we look beyond the petitioner ... and consider the consequences of opening the doors too wide,” the judge said. “By removing the very safeguard that is supposed to protect our children, the courts ... could actu-ally facilitate trafficking of children by some unscrupulous individuals.”

The judge made clear she was not question-ing Madonna’s intentions, and even praised the “noble” work Madonna’s charity has done to feed, educate and provide medical care for some of Malawi’s more than 1 million orphans.

The judge said it was “my prayer” that the 3-year-old girl Madonna wanted to adopt would benefit from such programs.

Chombo said the girl Madonna wants to adopt was receiving “suitable” care in an orphanage. The judge said that contrasted with

David’s situation in 2006, when an orphanagewas preparing to return the boy to his father, who had said he was struggling to care for him.

Madonna first traveled to Malawi in 2006 while filming a documentary on the devastatingpoverty and AIDS crisis, and later decided to adopt children from the country.

After the ruling Friday, journalists saw Madonna, looking relaxed and even cheerful,touring a village near Lilongwe, where she is building a school. She did not speak to report-ers.

In a 2008 interview with The AssociatedPress, Madonna acknowledged the difficultiesin adopting from Malawi, saying: “They are still trying to finesse the laws.”

Chombo acknowledged the rules for for-eigners were vague. Regulations that require Malawian welfare officials to observe prospec-tive Malawian parents with the children they want to adopt for 18-24 months have been assumed to apply to foreigners, though legisla-tion has been proposed making the period for foreigners one year.

The judge said Madonna had last visited Malawi in 2008, and “jetted into the country during the weekend just days prior to the hear-ing of this application.”

“In my opinion, this would completely remove (Madonna) from the definition of ’resi-dent,”’ the judge said.

There was nothing else in the ruling to hint at criticism of Madonna, and anti-foreigner senti-ment also does not appear to have played a role. Comment from the judge that foreign adoption should not be ruled out but should be the last option was consistent with international treaties on adoption.

Critics had accused Madonna of using her fame and money to fast-track the adoption, butthe singer said she had followed standard pro-cedures. She faced similar allegations when she brought home David, who is now 3.

Mavuto Bamusi, an official with Malawi’s Human Rights Consultative Committee, called Friday’s ruling “a defining moment for child protection.” Bamusi’s group had been among those criticizing Madonna’s adoption plans, say-ing they revealed weaknesses in the country’s laws.

BY SARAH MIRACLEStaff Writer

PINEVILLE — The following people were arrested and charged by local law enforcement officials, for various law violations. Names and charges, as listed, were submitted by the Bell County Detention Center.

Jason A. Aldridge, 26, of Pineville was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Floyd Patterson. Aldridge was charged with falsely reporting an incident and first degree disorderly conduct.

Sue Brock, 38, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Floyd Patterson. Brock was charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, over $100 within a six month period.

Michael Burchfield, 43, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Floyd Patterson. Burchfield was charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, over $100 within a six month period.

Daniel Scott Gordenier, 33, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Barry Cowan. Gordenier was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, first offense, failure to give oncom-ing traffic half of the highway and speeding 10 m.p.h. over the limit.

Douglas W. Ketring, 49, of Laurel, Indiana was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Tudor Howard. Ketring was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, first offense, improper parking vio-lations, possession of an open alcoholic beverage container in a motor vehicle and failure to produce an insurance card.

Aaron Michael McKeehaw, 19, of Hinkle, Ky. was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Josh Pratt. McKeehaw was served a bench warrant for court.

Amber N. Norris, 22, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Josh Green. Norris was served a bench warrant for court.

Harold L. Orr, 56, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Bell Co. Detention Center, arresting officer John Partin. Orr was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, second offense.

Donavan Cruz Pena, 31, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Barry Cowan. Pena was charged with second degree fleeing or evading police on foot, tampering with physical evidence, first degree traffick-ing in a controlled substance, technical parole violation and served two warrants for another police agency.

Harold K. Price, 40, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Bell Co. Detention Center, arresting officer Christopher Thompson. Price’s charges were not listed.

Josh Wayde Smith, 21, of Loyall, Ky. was arrested March 14 by Kentucky State Police, arresting officer Brian Green. Smith was charged with driving under the influence on a suspended license, second offense, no or expired registration plates, fail-ure of owner to maintain required insurance, no or expired Ky. registration receipt, improper registration plate and license plate not legible.

Melinda Sowders, 23, of Middlesboro was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Floyd Patterson. Sowders was served a bench warrant for court.

Casey Dean Turner, 23, of Putney, Ky. was arrested March 14 by Kentucky State Police, arresting officer Brian Green. Turner was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, first offense, no or expired registration plates, no or expired Ky. registration receipt, failure of owner to maintain required insurance, second or greater offense and third degree possession of a controlled substance.

Carl Webb, 53, of Pineville was arrested March 14 by Pineville Police Dept., arresting officer Kenneth Shaw. Webb was charged with alcohol intoxication in a public place, third or greater offense in 12 months and two counts of third degree assault on a corrections employee.

Georgia J. Wooton, 51, of Jonesborough, Tenn. was arrested March 14 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Josh

Pratt. Wooton was charged with second degree possession of acontrolled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of third degree possession of a controlled substance.

Claude Elvis Dixon, 42, of Middlesboro was arrested March 15 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Kenny Vanover. Dixon was charged with second degree possession of a controlled substance, theft by unlawful taking or disposition,shoplifting, resisting arrest, first degree disorderly conduct, third degree criminal mischief and three counts of contempt of court, libel/ slander, resistance to order.

Crystal G. Gray, 28, of Middlesboro was arrested March 15 by Kentucky State Police, arresting officer Jeremy Lee. Gray was charged with first degree criminal trespass.

Tammy Partin, 34, of Middlesboro was arrested March 15 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Kevin Goodin. Partin was charged with public intoxication of a controlled sub-stance, excludes alcohol.

Shawn Alan Partin, 19, of Middlesboro was arrested March 15 by Bell Co. Detention Center, arresting officer Bert Zehner.Partin was charged with contempt of court, libel/ slander, resis-tance to order.

Dedra Dian Peterson, 30, of Arthur, Tenn. was arrested March 15 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer BarryCowan. Peterson was charged with uttering a false or forgedprescription, first offense.

Erica R. Hawk, 18, of Middlesboro was arrested March 16 by Bell Co. Sheriff’s Dept., arresting officer Gloria Bishop.Hawk was charged with contempt of court, failure to comply.

Jonathan Chester Miracle, 24, of Middlesboro was arrested March 16 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Joey Brigmon. Miracle was served two warrants for another policeagency.

Crystal Gail Miracle, 29, of Middlesboro was arrestedMarch 16 by Middlesboro Police Dept., arresting officer Kenny Vanover. Miracle was charged with falsely reporting an inci-dent.

Those arrested are accused only and are presumed innocent unless proven guilty, in a court of law.

Sarah Miracle is a staff writer for the Daily News. She can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

BY ROGER ALFORDAssociated Press Writer

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge jailed two disbarred lawyers who had been found guilty Friday of scamming their clients out of nearly $95 million in a diet-drug settlement.

It was the second trial for William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham. A federal jury in Covington last year was unable to reach a verdict for Gallion and Cunningham but acquitted a third defendant.

“It was a different day and a different jury,” federal prosecutor E.J. Walbourn said after a jury of seven women and five men found the two guilty of mail fraud and con-spiracy to commit mail fraud Friday afternoon.

U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves ordered both men detained. They had been free on $2.5 million bond each. U.S. marshals took them to the Franklin County Detention Center.

“I do think justice has been done finally,” said Connie Centers, a Lawrenceburg woman who had been repre-sented by the Kentucky law-yers.

“We’re sick people, and we don’t have long to live,” said Centers, who had to have a mitral valve replaced in her heart after taking the diet drug fen-phen. “All they’re going to do is go to jail.”

Prosecutors charged Gallion and Cunningham with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and eight counts of wire fraud, claiming they bilked some 440 clients who claimed they had been hurt by the fen-phen, which was withdrawn from the mar-ket after it was linked to heart valve problems.

The jury had been deliber-ating since early Thursday fol-

lowing a trial that lasted about seven weeks. After reach-ing the verdict, jurors were instructed to deliberate wheth-er Gallion and Cunningham will have to forfeit $94.6 mil-lion that prosecutors claim they bilked from their clients.

Jurors went home Friday without reaching a decision on the forfeiture. They’re scheduled to return to the fed-eral courthouse in Frankfort to resume deliberations on Tuesday.

Steve Dobson, the attorney for Cunningham, said that he plans to appeal the jury’s guilty verdict.

“We really feel like there are a number of significant issues that are appealable,” he said.

Dobson said he has the utmost respect for Cunningham.

“He is truly a man of integrity based on everything I know about him,” Dobson said. “I am so disappointed for him and his family.”

Hale Almand, Gallion’s defense attorney, declined to comment after the verdict.

The case has earned atten-tion both for the allegations of attorney misconduct and the complicated assets of the defendants, which include a 20 percent share of the thor-oughbred Curlin being held in a trust.

Almand claimed the two were simply following the advice of a nationally known class-action expert whom they had hired as a consultant for counsel in divvying up the $200 million settlement for 440 clients who claimed they

had been hurt by the diet drug fen-phen.

Almand also argued that the evidence simply wasn’t sufficient to convict Gallion and Cunningham, and that the settlement was approved by a northern Kentucky judge.

“I think the government is raising an optical illusion almost,” he said in his closing argument.

Prosecutors painted a stark-ly different picture of “extraor-dinary greed” and “absolute arrogance” of two attorneys who were so intent on keep-ing most of the money for themselves that they refused even to inform their clients of the total amount of the settle-ment.

“I submit to you that these defendants got caught with their hand in the cookie jar,” Walbourn told jurors in his closing argument.

T h e c r i m i n a l c a s e against them was moved to Frankfort after a federal jury in Covington deadlocked last year on a verdict.

Prosecutors contend Gallion and Cunningham cheated their clients out of the $94.6 million and paid themselves and others about

two-thirds of a 2001 settle-ment with the maker of the diet drug.

In the f irst criminal trial, jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict on the charges against Gallion and Cunningham and a judge declared a mistrial. A third defendant, Melbourne Mills of Lexington, was acquitted.

Although fen-phen was the subject of a massive national financial settlement, Gallion and Cunningham’s clients opted out of that agreement because their lawyers told them they could get more money pushing their claims on their own.

But prosecutors say the lawyers didn’t tell their clients, at least at first, that they were part of a group that settled en masse for $200 million, and that the lawyers — not the drug manufacturer — were deciding how to slice up the money.

“These clients deserved more ... and they didn’t get it,” Walbourn said.

Gallion and Cunningham also have a $42 million judg-ment against them in a sepa-rate civil case brought by the former clients.

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Beware, America. You are about to be duped by an alliance of Obama-niks and Bush-ites who, together, are laying the ground-work for nation-building in Afghanistan -- nation-building in

Iraq having worked out so well (insert acid shot of sarcasm here). Only they are not going to call it "nation-building." Worse, they are forging ahead without heeding the remedial lesson of Iraq: No matter how many

American dollars spent, no matter how many American lives lost, it's not possible to transform an Islamic republic that enshrines Islamic law (Sharia) into an ally against Islamic jihad, even if Islamic jihad is euphemized as "extremism," "man-caused disasters" or "overseas con-tingency operations." That's because Islamic jihad is ultimately waged to extend Sharia. See the disconnect? Good. That's more than our experts can do, which is why it now looks as if we're going to give this flawed strategy another multi-trillion dollar try in Afghanistan.

This is what I heard at what you might call a "war is the answer" teach-in, Washington-style, at the Mayflower Hotel this week. There, a conference sponsored by the newly formed neoconservative think tank, the Foreign Policy Initiative, brought an audience of media and policy types up to war-in-Afghanistan speed. And, as usual in Washington, they did it without ever once mentioning "Islam" (until I asked a quick question at the end).

This was neither a secret session of the so-called "neo-con cabal" -- although some charter members were pres-

ent -- nor an Obama White House war room presentation. Still, I caught the faintest whiff of backroom smoke in talk of just how "clever," as Carnegie's Ashley Tellis put it, the Obama team was for packaging a nation-building agenda in the terminology of fighting Al Qaeda, a far nar-rower and presumably more popular objective. Robert Kagan noted that President Obama may not be talking about democratization, but his goals are similar. Hence, the warm enthusiasm for the Obama Afghan policy from such Iraq War proponents as Kagan, his brother and Iraq "surge" co-author Frederick Kagan, the Weekly Standard's William Kristol, and by John Nagl, a co-author of the U.S. Army's counterinsurgency manual and fellow of the Center for a New American Security, a left-leaning think tank associated with Obama defense policy circles.

And what are Obama's goals? Below the headline news of targeting Al Qaeda, and expanding Afghan police and army (but not enough, speakersagreed), the president spoke last week of advancing "security, opportunityand justice, not just in Kabul but from the bottom up in the provinces."That's a lot of security, opportunity and justice to advance even for Kabul,where the supreme court there recently upheld Pervez Kambakhsh's 20-year prison term for "blasphemy," and Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently signed a Sharia-influenced law that legalizes Shiite marital rape,among other anti-women measures, to curry favor with Shiite clerics.(One opponent said the law was "worse than during the Taliban.")

President Obama also discussed the importance of "not (turning) a blind eye to the corruption that causes Afghans to lose faith in their ownleaders." The fact that Afghan corruption -- an endemic, culture-based, veritable Afghan national pastime -- is now considered a U.S. problem is testament to the utopian lure of nation-building.

Question is, will the American people support this wild mongoose chase after six extremely mixed -- no, failed -- years of nation-build-ing in Iraq? There, despite post-surge security gains, the nation wehave built remains "fragile" and "uneven," according to the most recent Pentagon report, even as the United States prepares its exit. Had the State Department not granted Iraq a waiver, it would also be designated aCountry of Particular Concern (CPC), the worst rating for religious free-dom violations. Meanwhile, U.S.-liberated Iraq remains an enthusiastic participant in the Arab boycott of Israel, and an OPEC member that never even let a U.S. humvee fill up for free. And Iraq consistently votes with theOrganization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) against the United States at the United Nations. Never mind -- what's a few trillion dollars among non-allies?

Onto Afghanistan, where we are told U.S. national security depends on denying sanctuary to Al Qaeda and related jihadists. Meanwhile, the world is riddled with jihadism in the form of active agents, sleeper cells, propagandists and sympathizers from the Bekaa Valley to Belgium, from Iran to London, from Saudi Arabia to South Florida. Nearly eightyears after 9/11, the United States still has unsecured borders, but it is Afghanistan where we must establish security and clean government -- for our own good.

Why? Frederick Kagan said "we have to establish the legitimacy ofthe Afghan government (because) that's how you end an insurgency."

John Nagl was more emphatic still, stating, "If we ever want to leave, we have to build an Afghan government that can accomplish those goals (of good government) on its own."

If we ever want to leave? During a coffee break, I asked military

historian Frederick Kagan whether there wasany successful historical model for this strat-egy. Ticking off a few non-matches includingthe Boer War in South Africa, Malaya, and civil war in El Salvador, he, a little sheep-ishly, offered Iraq.

Iraq? Heaven help the United States.

Diana West is the author of "The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down WesternCivilization," and blogs at dianawest.net. She can be contacted via [email protected].

Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2009. There are 271 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther

King Jr., 39, was shot to death at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. (James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming his innocence before dying in prison in 1998.)

On this date:In 1818, Congress decided the United States flag would

consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union.

In 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.

In 1850, the city of Los Angeles was incorporated.In 1859, 150 years ago, “Dixie” was performed publicly

for the first time by Bryant’s Minstrels at Mechanics’ Hall in New York. (The song is popularly attributed to Daniel Decatur Emmett, although his authorship has been called

into question.)In 1887, Susanna Madora Salter became the f irst

woman elected mayor of an American community: Argonia, Kan.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. troops on Okinawa encountered the first significant resistance from Japanese forces at the Machinato Line.

In 1949, 12 nations, including the United States, signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington.

In 1975, more than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuat-ing Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after take off from Saigon.

In 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the deposed prime minis-ter of Pakistan, was hanged after he was convicted of con-spiring to murder a political opponent.

In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage.

Ten years ago: NATO warplanes and missiles attacked an army headquarters, oil refineries and other targets in and around Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 8-2 in baseball’s first season opener held in Mexico.

Five years ago: Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, an anti-

American cleric, rioted in four Iraqi cities, killing dozens of Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a Salvadoran soldier.

One year ago: Texas authorities started removing the first of more than 400 girls from a compound built by a polygamist sect. Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death in Kansas City, Mo., for killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a mother-to-be, and cutting the baby from her womb. Pirates seized the French luxury yacht Le Ponant and its 30 crew members off the coast of Somalia. (The crew was released a week later; six alleged pirates ended up being captured.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Elizabeth Wilson is 88. Author-poet Maya Angelou is 81. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is 77. Recording executive Clive Davis is 77. Bandleader Hugh Masekela is 70. Author Kitty Kelley is 67. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 65. Actress Christine Lahti is 59. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 58. Writer-producer David E. Kelley is 53. Actor David Cross is 45. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 44. Actress Nancy McKeon is 43. Actor Barry Pepper is 39. Country singer Clay Davidson is 38. R&B singer Andre Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 35. Actor James Roday is 33. Actress Natasha Lyonne is 30. Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo is 30. Actress Amanda Righetti is 26. Actress Jamie Lynn Spears is 18.

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Carrot Top and Ron White called in sick today, so instead you're stuck with me. And that's the beauty of

politics; it is serious subject matter that makes for fantastic comic fodder.

John Stewart realizes this and provides something that no other major television news media does today; truth. And that's the real joke of it all; CNN, MSNBC, and other news stations rarely ask the hard-hitting questions and hold politicians accountable for speaking from both sides of their mouth.

So it's a comedian that does a better job of holding politicians (of all parties) accountable for their actions and statements, with a dash of humor mixed in to make the "news" bear-able to the viewers. What does it matter so long as the source of the comic fodder is the horse's mouth?

It shouldn't matter. We live in an new age of "information osmosis" in which we get "news" from any and every possible media source.

I attempt to inject some humor in my opinion of our current events, but realize sometimes I fail. I can get pretty ener-

gized and worked up and forget about the humor that can be found in the story.

But that's just my nature; sometimes I can be all business, but at other times I can use some whit to bring the humor of a bad situation to the top.

For instance, President Obama has said that he inherited a large deficit from former President Bush. This is true for the most part. Former President Bush did increase the national debt during his administration. However, compar-ing the spending patterns of the past to Obama's current spending plan is hilar-ious considering Obama's plan in one month spends what it took Bush 5 years to achieve. If there is a supplemental appropriations measure this year and rev-enue continue to decline, Obama's defi-cit spending will equal all 8 years under Bush. It shouldn't matter if Obama inher-ited the def icit or not, Bush inherited one as well. Obama could try to promote real "change" by spending less than his predecessor, but instead he suprised us all by spending more; but it's "change" nonetheless. Consequently we have less and less change in our pockets. (Joke 1) Maybe that's what he meant by "change"; the government actually needs "change" to pay it's bills?

(Joke 2) A "C" student at Yale so far has managed to do a better job balanc-ing his checkbook than a Harvard Magna Cum Laude graduate.

Something else to think about is that the Treasury Department, under Obama, has made $3 Trillion (with a T) in tax-free Treasury Bonds available to cover our nation's debt. This will only crowd out private business borrowing by decreasing the amount of money available to lend to businesses that want to expand. When Treasury Bonds are tax-free, this means that any interest earnings on these Bonds are exempt from taxes (something the well-off would like to do right now under the current administration). The govern-ment policy during this recession is to unthaw the frozen credit markets, which cannot happen if those with money are locking that money into these bonds.

Additionally, Obama plans on increas-ing taxes on small businesses and indi-viduals with more than $250,000 of income. These people are the only people right now (given the recession) that actu-ally have the money to invest! So the government wants to take more money away from those people who can actually afford to keep money in the bank that can be used to make loans necessary to

unfreeze the credit market? (Joke 3) If the federal government has

policies that restrict credit and access to capital, borrows trillions of dollars with tax free incentives that compete in attracting capital, and on top of that adds large tax increases on the individu-als that actually have capital, how does the administration hope to fix the reces-sion? The actions of the administration seem counterproductive to the point of hilarity.

I hope you're laughing like I am at all of this mess. If not, I'd like to closewith a couple of quotes that best f it the American situation today:

"In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, wehave allowed it to become our taskmas-ter and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom,as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone." – Chuck Baldwin

"The difference between death and taxes is, death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." – Will Rogers

Want to know more about Patrick Lawson? Want to read more of his work? Check out his blog at http://patricklawson.blogspot.com!

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APRIL 4OLD CANNON CREEK

MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH yard sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. A spaghetti din-ner (spaghetti, salad, bread and drink for $5) will be held Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The church is located half way between Middlesboro and Pineville, 1-1/2 miles off 25E on 1534.

SOUTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH is hosting a bene-fit singing and hot dog dinner for the Foreman and Smith families on Saturday, April 4. Hot dogs, chips, and des-serts will be available from 5-6 p.m., with the singing beginning at 6 p.m. Featured groups include Crosspoint, Singing Creek Trio, Canon Creek Youth Choir, The Visionaires, and others. There will also be a skit per-formed by a group from First Independent Freewill Baptist. Childcare will be provided for a small donation. For more information call 248-4094. Southside is located on the corner of 24th and Doncaster in Middlesboro.

UNDER HIS WINGS EASTER PARADE will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 4, in downtown Pineville.

ANNUAL WOMAN TO WOMAN CONFERENCE at Binghamtown Baptist Church will be held Saturday, April 4. Speaker will be Kathy Slamp of Vessel Ministries. For more information call Betty at (606) 248-5600, or Janice at 248-5600.

GOSPEL HARMONY will be singing at White Rock Church of God at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 4.

CLOTHING GIVEAWAY (including children’s clothes) will be held Saturday, April 4, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Praise & Worship Center on Lothbury Avenue, Middlesboro. There will also be a limited amount of 5lb. bags of potatoes.

APRIL 5OAKDALE BAPTIST

CHURCH will be celebrat-ing its 60th anniversary on Sunday, April 5, with an all day service and dinner. There will also be special music. The service will be dedicated in loving memory of David Barton.

F I R S T B A P T I S T CHURCH, Rose Hill, Va., will host a gospel singing on Sunday, April 5, at 6 p.m. Featured singers will include True Gospel from Harrogate, Tenn.

CLEAR FORK BAPTIST CHURCH will hold a ham dinner from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at Forge Ridge School cafeteria. Dinners are $6 for adults, $3 for children ages 6-12, and

free for children under age six.

SO BLESSED TRIO & THE BERRY FAMILY from Anderson County will be singing at MCM Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 5.

APRIL 5-8REVIVAL SERVICES

will begin at April 6-10 at 7 p.m. nightly at Bible Baptist Church, Jonesville, Va. Evangelist will be Rev. James Langston, Ringgold, Ga. Special singing nightly. There will also be an old fashion fellowship meeting on Tuesday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dinner will be served about 1 p.m. All preachers will be called from the floor.

APRIL 6-10REVIVAL SERVICES

will begin at Sunday morn-ing, April 5, at East Jellico Baptis t Church, Hwy. 92, and at 7 p.m. nightly through Wednesday, April 8. Evangelist will be Jim Castlen.

YOUTH REVIVAL will be held April 6-10 at 7 p.m. at Midway Baptist Church, New Tazewell, Tenn. Evangelists will be Rev Russ Cooper on Monday; Rev. Stacey Lawson on Tuesday; Rev. Scott Carter on Wednesday; Rev. Tim Bargo on Thursday; and Rev. Jason Miracle on Friday. Dynamic skits and preach-ing, spirit filled singing.

H O L Y W E E K SERVICES, sponsored by the Middlesboro Ministerial Association will be held at noon each day April 6-10. A light meal will follow each service, and a offer-ing will be taken. Services will be held Monday at First Christian Church, Tuesday at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Wednesday at First Baptist Church, Thursday at Old Yellow Creek Baptist Church, and Friday at St. Julian Catholic Church.

APRIL 7, 14, 21, 28C E L E B R A T E

RECOVERY, a ministry of hope and Bible based pro-gram for individuals and their families who are dealing with the everyday struggles of life, meets each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Pump Springs Baptist Church. For more informa-tion call 423-869-8323.

APRIL 8, 15, 22, 29C E L E B R A T E

RECOVERY 12 STEP CLASSES mee t each Wednesday at Pump Springs Baptist Church. For more information call 423-869-8323.

APRIL 9 MAUNDY THURSDAY

SERVICE will be held at 7 p.m. April 9 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.

C H R I S T O F T H E C U M B E R L A N D S LUTHERAN CHURCH, 190 Forge Ridge Rd., Harrogate, Tenn., will have a combined Maundy Thursday and Good Friday service at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 9.

APRIL 10 G O O D F R I D AY

SERVICE will be held at 7 p.m. April 10 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.

AN EASTER CANTATA will be presented at Gap Creek Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10, and at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 12.

APRIL 11C R O S S P O I N T E

CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 411 N 15th Street, invites the community to an Easter Eggtravaganza Saturday April 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be an egg hunt for each age group, games, a bounce house, food, and prizes — and it's all free! For more information please contact Rylan Allen, preach-ing minister, at 269-3259.

EASTER CROSS WALK will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Old Yellow Creek Baptist Church. Participants

will walk from the church to the city parking lot. Everyone welcome.

H O LY S AT U R DAY SERVICE will be held at noon April 11 at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.

EASTER PLAY, “The Last Warning” will be pre-sented at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at White Rock Church of God Mountain Assembly, Ewing, Va.

APRIL 12EASTER SUNRISE

SERVICE at Trinity Baptist Church will be held at 7 a.m. Sunday, April 12. Breakfast will be served after the ser-vice.

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE will be held at 6 a.m. Sunday, April 12 at White Rock Church of God Mountain Assembly, Ewing, Va.

EASTER SERVICE at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 12, at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, will be followed by an Easter egg hunt for the children and coffee hour for adults.

EASTER PLAY, Life & Ministry of Jesus, will be presented at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 12, at Bennetts Fork Baptist Church.

UNDER HIS WINGS H O M E C O M I N G w i l l be held Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m. at the Wallsend Community Center. Dinner will follow the service. Special guests will be Don Noah and the True Believers.

REVIVAL SERVICES at Speedwell Church of God will begin Sunday, April 12 at 6 p.m.; and at 7 p.m. week-nights. Evangelist will be Scott Bullins. For directions or more information call 423-869-4433 or 606-499-4895.

REVIVAL SERVICES at Hensley Chapel Baptist Church will begin Sunday, April 12, and will run all week.

APRIL 14W M U O F T H E

CUMBERLAND GAP BAPTIST ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES quar-terly meeting will be held Tuesday, April 14, at 7 p.m., at Shawanee Baptist Church. Speaker will be Sheldon Livesay, director of One Accord Ministry. His mission work is serving Hawkins and Hancock Counties through emergency food, clothing, furniture, home repairs, med-ical clinic health fairs, senior programs and evangelistic outreach.

APRIL 19CLEAR FORK BAPTIST

CHURCH will begin revival services on Sunday, April 19, at 10:30 a.m. with Rev. Clyde Daniels and the Rev. Clayton Barton presiding. Weekday services will begin at 7 p.m. Special singing nightly.

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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Clyde “Moon” Mullins passed away peace-fully on March 30, 2009.

Born in Cabin Holler, Tenn., he was the dearly beloved husband for 51 years to Lois Mullins, lov-ing father of Tom and TracyAzevedo and Scott Mullins.

Moon began his golfingcareer while he was enlist-ed in the USMC at Camp Pendleton, Calif. He played on the PGA Tour then served as golf professionalat Indian Wells Golf Club, as resident professional at Bighorn Country Club in Palm Desert, and as the headprofessional at Half Moon Bay Golf Links for over 30 years.

He will be rememberedfor his keen sense of humor,competitive nature, and as anavid fisherman who alwaysmade people feel welcome with his infectious smile andengaging stories.

Friends and family areinvited to attend a celebra-tion of Moon’s life to be held on Tuesday, April 7, at 11 a.m. at Lifemark Center at Skylawn Memorial Park, Lifemark Road, San Mateowith a reception immediate-ly following at Mullins Bar & Grill at Half Moon Bay Golf Links.

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speakerB A R B O U RV I L L E ,

Ky. — Community mem-bers interested in attend-ing Union College’s 116th Commencement will have an opportunity to request

tickets the last week of April.

Ashley Judd is this year’s honorary degree recipient and guest speak-er.

Brenna Wallhausser, Union’s director of college communications, says the college wanted to make sure graduating students and their families were given first priority.

“We’ve now processed every ticket request from

our seniors, so we know their families and friends can be accommodated,” says Wallhausser. “At the moment we’re taking requests from our faculty and staff. As soon as those requests are complete, we’ll tally what’s left and make them available to the community.”

Union will likely han-dle community requests through an online box office, says Wallhausser.

Details will be posted on Union’s Commencement Web site—www.unionky.edu/commencement—and on the college’s home page.

Union’s Commencement ceremony will take place Saturday, May 9, at 10:30 a.m. in Robsion Arena. The college plans to have a live feed available on large screens in Conway Boatman Chapel, just in case all tickets for Robsion

Arena are distributed. T h o s e w i t h q u e s -

t i o n s a b o u t U n i o n ’s Commencement or the ticket request process for community members can reach Wallhausser at 606-546-1230.

Union College is a private liberal arts col-lege related to The United Methodist Church and located in Barbourville, Ky. To learn more, visit www.unionky.edu.

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Union College commencement tickets will soon be available for the public

APRIL 4KIDS FEST will be held from noon to 4

p.m. Saturday, April 4, at Southside Park in Middlesboro. Freed food and games.

GARAGE SALE, sponsored by the Student Advocate Association at LMU-DCOM will be held Saturday, April 4, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at No Bucks Coffee House in Harrogate.

CCCA (Claiborne County Cemetery Association, will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 4, at Duncan Lumber Truss Shop, 455 Cherry St., New Tazewell, Tenn. For more information visit www.rootsweb.com/~tncctca/

KIDS FEST will be held at noon Saturday, April 4, at Southside Park in Middlesboro. Free food and games.

JIM GENTRY of Gatlinburg, Tenn., will demonstrate his craft of macramé jewel-ry Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4, at Cumberland Crafts which is located at the Visitors Center at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.

APRIL 4-13MIDDLESBORO BPW Maude Bailey

Scholarship applications are now avail-able at the guidance counselor’s office at Middlesboro High School. All 2009 female graduates are eligible to apply. Completed applications must be returned to the guid-ance counselor’s office by April 13.

APRIL 4, 6, 7, 8S P R I N G B O O K FA I R a t t h e

Middlesboro Learning Center will be held Saturday, April 4 and April-8, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Learning Center is located at 118-1/2 North 18th Street (south side of the Salvation Army building). The center is also now accepting donations for books for the book fair. Books will be sold for 25¢ each.

APRIL 4, 6, 8, 10BELL COUNTY HISTORICAL

SOCIETY MUSEUM is featuring an exhibit of unique utility pole insulators. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

APRIL 5, 7, 9NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets

each Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m., and each Sunday at 4 p.m. at 149 North 28th Street, Middlesboro.

APRIL 6-1010¢ SALE on all used clothing will

be held April 6-10 at the Salvation Army Thrift Store.

APRIL 7MIDDLESBORO LITTLE THEATRE

will hold its regular monthly meeting,

Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at the Bell Theatre in Pineville. Discussion topics will include scholarship applications received for the 2009 MLT Memorial Scholarship and progress on our spring production, Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

THE HEMLOCK WOOLY ADELGID will be the topic of a public meeting with Dr. Lee Townsend, UK Entomology Specialist, on Tuesday, April 7, at 6 p.m., in the second floor meeting room at the Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency office in Pineville. For more information call Stacy White at 337-2376 or Jared Calvert at 337-3011.

BELL COUNTY HEALTH DEPT. DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP will meet Tuesday, April 7, at 5 p.m. at the Pineville Health Dept., 310 Cherry St. Topic will be carbohydrate counting.

APRIL 7, 14, 21, 28TRI-STATE FAMILY AL-ANON

GROUP meets at 6 p.m. each Tuesday at Southside Baptist Church (21st & Doncaster, Middlesboro). If you have to cope with a family member or loved one struggling with drug and/or alcohol addiction, and you need support, this group is for you. For more information call 248-6812 (after 5 p.m.).

APRIL 8JACK SMITH, American Legion

Service Officer will be at the National Guard Armory from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday to assist veterans and their dependents f ile claims due them from military service.

APRIL 9DIABETES INSERVICE PROGRAM

will be presented Thursday, April 9, at 6 p.m. at the Claiborne County Hospital Education Center (Hurst House). Speaker will be Debbie Poore, FNPCDE. If plan-ning to attend call LInda Majors at 423-526-2250.

MIDDLESBORO APPALACHIAN BLACK VETERANS ASSOCIATION meets the second Thursday of each month at Thankful Baptist Church.

LIGHTHOUSE MISSION CENTER will only be distributing food boxes on the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Participants must have proof of income and valid photo ID.

APRIL 10 & 11ANNUAL MISS BELL COUNTY

PAGEANT will be held April 10 and 11 at the Pineville High School gym. Applications are available at Bell County Florist, Pineville Water System,

and Pineville High School in Pineville, and Tracee’s Formals & Weddings and Signatures Formal Boutique in Middlesboro. The deadline to return applications is April 7, at 9 a.m. at the office at Pineville High School. The Miss Bell County Pageant is sponsored by the Pineville Athletic Boosters Club.

APRIL 11SCRABBLE™ FOR LITERACY

2009, hosted by the Bell County Council on Literacy will be held Saturday, April 11, at 6 p.m. at Southeast Ky. Community & Technical College’s Middlesboro campus. Volunteer Scrabble players are needed. Please contact staff, 248-4000 for pre-registration or further information.

MIDDLESBORO BPO ELKS annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held Saturday, April 11, at 11 a.m., at Middlesboro High School. Prizes awarded in each age cat-egory.

WILDERNESS ROAD STATE PARK, Ewing, Va., will host its first annual Easter at Karlan celebration. Children ages 1-10 are invited to join in the celebration with a candy-filled Easter egg hunt, along with an afternoon of fun, games and prizes. The event is Saturday, April 11, beginning at 11 am. Light refreshments will follow the egg hunt. For more information, or to register, please call the park office at 276-445-3065 or email [email protected].

BRITTHAVEN OF PINEVILLE annual community Easter Egg Hunt will be held Saturday, April 11, at 2 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the Easter Bunny will there for photos with the kids. For more information call activities director Angie Horton at 337-7071.

BELL COUNTY 4-H CLUB will meet Saturday, April 11, at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church.

REUNIONSMIDDLESBORO HIGH SCHOOL

CLASS OF 1989’s 20th year reunion will be held July 11 at Pine Mountain State Park. For more infor-mation or to register call (304) 634-6883 or 423-869-7149, or visit classmates.com

R U S H F A M I L Y R E U N I O N , d e s c e n -dants of Sherman/Laura (Mal l i coa t ) Washbur n , Tenn. Bring a Covered-

Dish to feed 10-12 people and soft drinksfor your family and family photos. Plates/Napkins/Forks/Spoons/Cups/Ice will be provided. April 18, 2009 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Lunch will be served at Noon at the Ft. City Lion’s Club Building, 117 Hotel Road/N. Broadway, Knoxville, Tenn.Contact Linda Harrell Tunstall for more info at 865-986-4565 or [email protected]

••••••BOOKMOBILE SERVICE AVAILABLE

THROUGHOUT BELL COUNTY: Liketo read, but can’t get to the library. Or do you know someone who is homeboundor who has difficulty getting out? If so, maybe they or you would be interested in having the Bell County Public Library System Bookmobile visit your/their home.To request to be added to the bookmo-bile’s route, call Libby Edwardson or Kathy Baird at the Middlesborough-Bell County Public Library at 248-4812, the Pineville-Bell County Public Library at 337-3422, orat 606-302-6035.

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS! If youare interested in supporting the youthin Lee County, Va., by volunteeringsome of your time to help with school and other special events which occur throughout the year, contact the Lee County Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development at 276-346-1522 and learn more on how you can help support posi-tive youth development.

LEARN TO READ – improve yourskills, earn your GED, and increase youremployability and enroll in college. Bell County Council on Literacy offers one-to-one tutoring in adult literacy, adult basiceducation, GED preparation, job readi-ness training, and computer skills. These services are FREE and open to the public.There are three centers in Bell County: ThePineville Learning Center 337-3044, the Middlesboro Learning Center 248-4000;Southeast Ky. Community & Technical

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LIFESTYLESTHE DAILY NEWS |SATURDAY |APRIL 4, 2009

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UNITE IN MARRIAGE — Hurley and Carmella Forester were united in marriage Saturday, March 21, at

Community Harvest Tabernacle. Pastor David Rice officiated the ceremony. The bridegroom is the son of Marie and Hurley Forester Sr., and the bride is the daughter of Doug and Carla Brown and Mike and Sue Hensley.

Extension Service offers variety of events for April

Several workshops and other events have been planned for April by the Bell County and other area Extension offices. Scheduled workshops/events include:

S h a k e r Ta p e Fo o t S t o o l Workshop: Come and make a foot stool to rest your feet on! This work-shop will be held at the Pineville/Bell County Library on Thursday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost for this workshop is $20 for materials. For more information call the Bell County Extension Service office at 337-2376.

Corn Shuck Doll Workshop: On Friday, April 17th the Bell County Extension Service will have a class on making corn shuck dolls. There will be a fee of $3 for this class to cover your materials. The Workshop will be

in the Bell County Extension Office from 10 am to 12 p.m. For more infor-mation call the Bell County Extension Service office at 337-2376.

Redbud Run: The Redbud 10K and 2-Mile Run/Walk will be held Saturday, April 4 at 8:30 a.m.. The 10K and 2-mile run/walk starts and f inishes at Union College Track. Registration will accepted up to and on race day. The registration fee for the event is $15. Awards given to top three in each division. For more information contact the Knox County Extension Office at (606) 546-3447, or visit the Redbud Festival website at www.redbudfestky.com

Annie’s Project: Annie’s Project will be held at Red Bird Mission start-

ing Thursday, April 16. Annie’s Projectwill enable women to have access to information and learn how to manageand organize critical information for the success of the farm or property.

If you are a woman and you and your husband own land or finance, have cattle and goats, grow tobacco, corn, or garden produce, you need toattend this program. Topics for pro-grams will include insurance, farmersmarkets, alternative agriculture, TrueColors, other topics may be presented.

Classes will be held at 10 a.m. on the third Thursday each month for the next six months. If you are interested in attending this program please contact the Clay County Extension Office at 598-2789 or Stacia Carwell at 598-3155.

Faith Word Ministries to hold first service in Middlesboro Sunday at Salvation Army

A new church is opening in Middlesboro Sunday. Faith Word Ministries will hold services each Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Salvation Army Chapel in Middlesboro.

The church may be new to the area, but Pastor Jim Hyde is not. A resident of Middlesboro, Hyde also currently serves as pastors of Faith Word Church, a small church in Frakes. He is also the past pres-ident of the American Christian Music Association (ACMA) www.theacma.org. He has also served as a volunteer for the Salvation Army for several years.

Up until a few years ago Hyde traveled and ministered in word and song in several states from Michigan through Florida. He has ministered in Baptist, Methodist, Churches of God, Assemblies of God and in The Salvation Army Churches, being on The salvation Army's list of approved evangelists. He has had the privlege of singing aboard Gospel Cruises to The Bahamas, Mexico and Alaska.

In the early 1990’s, he also had the honor and opportunity to minister with Dwight Thompson Ministeries in Los Angeles, Calif., going into the projects with Operation Stitches. While there he preached in a Spanish speaking church through an interpreter.

Many people have expressed intrest in being in church with Pastor Hyde and his wife, Sue, but did not like the drive over Fondee Mountain to attend the church at Frakes

“Hence the reason for the new work here in Middlesboro,” said Rev. Hyde. “Faith Word Church #2 will be meeting in the facilities of The Salvation Army on North 18th street. Our first service will be this Sunday, April 5, at 3 in the afternoon. You are invited to come and be a part of a Bible believeing church.”

For further information contact Jim Hyde at: by mail Jim Hyde P.O. Box 1402 Middlesboro, KY 40965; by phone at 606-242-3684 or 606-

302-0333 (cell); or by email at [email protected].

Rev. Jim Hyde and wife Sue


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FX Bernie Mac Bernie Mac '70s Show <++++ The Departed (2006, Thriller) Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio. <+ Van Helsing (2004, Action) Kate Beckinsale, Hugh Jackman. < Van Helsing

HGTV Design Color Splash Design Spice Up Div. Design Get It Sold To Sell Beyond/Box Curb Appeal House Hunt. Property Rate/ Space House Hunt. Income Prop. House RenoReal Renovation My Place

HIST (2:00) Fort Knox Cities of the Underworld Cities of the Underworld Cities of the Underworld Modern Marvels MonsterQuest MonsterQuest UFO Hunters (N) Seven Deadly Sins

LIFE (2:00) < To Be Fat Like ... Wife Swap Wife Swap Standing Standing Reba Reba Will & Grace Will & Grace < Family Sins (‘04, Dra) Deanna Milligan, Kirstie Alley. Will & Grace Will & Grace

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TBN The 700 Club John Hagee Rod Parsley Jesus of Nazareth Pt. 2 of 4 cont'd April 9 MMagdelena: Release From Shame Bhnd Scenes His Name is Jesus J. Van Impe Jesus of Nazareth Pt. 3 of 4 cont'd April 9

TBS Yes, Dear Yes, Dear King-Queens King-Queens Raymond Raymond Raymond Friends Seinfeld Seinfeld House Payne House Payne House Payne House Payne House Payne House Payne Sex & City Sex & City

TLC Mystery Diagnosis Little People Little People Jon & Kate Jon & Kate What Not to Wear Mystery Diagnosis Jon & Kate Jon & Kate Jon & Kate Jon & Kate Jon & Kate Plus Eight Jon & Kate Jon & Kate

TNT Law & Order Charmed Charmed Bones Law & Order <+++ Into the Blue (‘05) Paul Walker, Jessica Alba. Bones Trust Me

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USA Law & Order: S.V.U. Law & Order: S.V.U. NCIS NCIS NCIS House NCIS NCIS < Bruce Almighty

WGN-09 Jeannie Jeannie Cosby Show Cosby Show Scrubs Scrubs Becker Becker Home Videos Warmup MLB Baseball Kansas City Royals vs. Chicago White Sox Site: U.S. Cellular Field (L) WWGN News Scrubs

THURSDAY AFTERNOON - EVENING APRIL 9, 2009 3 PM 3:30 4 PM 4:30 5 PM 5:30 6 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30

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WBIR-10 Dr. Phil Live at Five at Four 10 News News NBC News Wheel Fort. Jeopardy The Office (N) Parks/Rec (P) TThe Office (N) 30 Rock (N) Southland (P) (N) News (:35) J. Leno

WPXK-54 Penguins! Zula Patrol Drew Carey Drew Carey Quantum Leap M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Family Feud Family Feud M*A*S*H <++ Malice (1993, Suspense) Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin. LifeStyle Lift Paid Prog.

A&E Cold Case Files Cold Case Files Cold Case Files The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 The Beast The Beast

AMC (2:00) < Death Wish III <++ Commando (‘85) Arnold Schwarzenegger. <++ Passenger 57 (‘92) Bruce Payne, Wesley Snipes. <++ King Kong (1976, Fantasy) Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange. (:15) < Wolf

ANIM Meerkat Meerkat Growing Up... The Most Extreme K-9 Cops A Lion Called Christian I Was Bitten I Was Bitten Animal Cops: Houston I Was Bitten

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ESPN Out. Lines NFL Live PGA Golf The Masters Site: Augusta National Golf Club -- Augusta, Ga. (L) SSportscenter PGA Golf The Masters Site: Augusta National Golf Club -- Augusta, Ga. SSportscenter (L)

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FAM Full House Full House Like You Like You Gilmore Girls Wife & Kids Wife & Kids '70s Show '70s Show <++ The Sandlot 3: Stealing Home (‘07) Luke Perry. Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club

FX Malcolm Malcolm Bernie Mac Bernie Mac '70s Show '70s Show <++ Kiss of the Dragon (‘01, Act) Jet Li, Bridget Fonda. <+++ The Fast and the Furious (‘01) Michelle Rodriguez, Vin Diesel. <+++ The Fast and the Furious

HGTV Design Color Splash Design Spice Up Div. Design Get It Sold To Sell Carter Can Curb Appeal House Hunt. Property Pure Design House Hunt. House Hunt. House For Rent Property My Place

HIST (2:00) 1968/ T. Brokaw 70's Fever Gangland Modern Marvels Gangland Gangland Warriors Seven Deadly Sins

LIFE (2:00) < Prime Wife Swap Wife Swap Standing Standing Reba Reba Will & Grace Will & Grace <++ The Princess Diaries (‘01) Julie Andrews. Will & Grace Will & Grace

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TBS Yes, Dear Yes, Dear King-Queens King-Queens Raymond Raymond Raymond Friends Seinfeld Seinfeld Friends Friends Friends Friends <++ Austin Powers in Goldmember Mike Myers.

TLC Mystery Diagnosis Little People Little People Jon & Kate Jon & Kate What Not to Wear American Chopper American Chopper American Chopper (N) American Chopper American Chopper

TNT Law & Order Charmed Charmed Bones Law & Order NBA Basketball Philadelphia 76ers vs. Chicago Bulls (L) NNBA Basketball Den./L.A. L. (L)

FOOD Big Bite Tyler Cooking Italian Barefoot Down Home Home Cook 30 Mins Challenge Good Eats Good Eats Iron Chef America Ace of Cakes Ace of Cakes Good Eats Unwrapped

USA Law & Order: S.V.U. Law & Order: S.V.U. NCIS NCIS NCIS House House NCIS Burn Notice

WGN-09 Jeannie Jeannie Cosby Show Cosby Show Scrubs Scrubs Becker Becker Funniest Home Videos <+ Larger Than Life (‘96, Com) Jerry Adler, Bill Murray. WGN News Scrubs Scrubs

FRIDAY AFTERNOON - EVENING APRIL 10, 2009 3 PM 3:30 4 PM 4:30 5 PM 5:30 6 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30

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WTNZ-43 The Bonnie Hunt Show Standing Malcolm Deal/No Deal Deal/No Deal Raymond Raymond 2 1/2 Men 2 1/2 Men Terminator (SF) (N) Dollhouse (N) 43 News Access H. TMZ Simpsons

WTVQ-36 General Hospital Judge Judy Judge Brown Judge Judy Action News News World News Ent. Tonight Extra Wife Swap Supernanny (N) 20/20 (N) News (:35) News

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WBIR-10 Dr. Phil Live at Five at Four Live at Five News NBC News Wheel Fort. Jeopardy Howie Do It Howie Do It Friday Night Lights (N) Dateline NBC News (:35) J. Leno

WPXK-54 Veggie Tales Turbo Dogs Drew Carey Drew Carey Quantum Leap M*A*S*H M*A*S*H < McBride: Fallen Idol (‘06) John Laroquette. < Jane Doe: 'Til Death Do Us Part (‘05) Lea Thompson. Power Juicer Paid Prog.

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‘ER’ says goodbye after 15 yearsNEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s

“ER” ended its 15-year run Thursday much like it began, with a pulse-quickening symphony of life and death.

The medical drama earned a record 122 Emmy Award nomi-nations since 1994, and its final episode mixed current cast mem-bers with old favorites from when it was television’s most mighty hit.

“So? This is it?” an elderly man played by Ernest Borgnine said to John Stamos’ Dr. Gates as the woman he’d loved since the sixth grade died in front of him.

The two-hour f inale, written by old “ER” hand John Wells, had moments of dark humor — if pro-

jectile vomiting and an old man’s penis fracture could be considered funny — and a career-questioning tragedy of a mother of five dying shortly after she gave birth to twin girls. The show left unanswered the question of whether a teenage girl put into a coma from a drink-ing binge would be brain-dam-aged.

It ended with a glimmer of hope. Dr. Mark Greene’s daughter Rachel, 22, visits her late father’s place of work and is bitten by the bug to follow him. Cameras pull away as the character, excite-ment on her face, follows stretch-ers filled with industrial accident victims into Chicago’s County General Hospital.

Former cast members Eriq La Salle, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringf ield and Alex Kingston returned for the f inale. So did Noah Wyle, and his character of Dr. John Carter was central to Thursday’s story, as he dedicat-ed a new medical facility for the poor named for his late son and returned to County General for some nostalgic trips to the emer-gency room.

The series’ biggest star, George Clooney, paid a final visit back to the show three weeks ago.

“ER” had begun its run with a two-hour pilot airing on Sept. 19, 1994, and became an instant hit. At its peak, it averaged 32 mil-lion viewers every episode, a level

unimaginable in today’s television world. NBC earned more than a half million dollars for 30 sec-onds of ad time on “ER” in the late 1990s; this season it charged less than $150,000, according to Horizon Media, Inc.

Before the finale began, Wells paid tribute to Michael Crichton, the late series creator. He said the last show “is a bit of an homage to what we did in the first episode, in the pilot. I felt as if he wrote it with me.”

In its later years, “ER” was eclipsed by “House” and “Grey’s Anatomy” among fans of medi-cal dramas, and none of the lead-ing cast members remained. The show’s audience was less than a

third of what “ER” drew in its mid-1990s peak.

The close of “ER” repre-sents the end of an era for NBC.Through “Hill Street Blues,”“L.A. Law” and f inally “ER,”NBC had a critically acclaimed drama on its schedule at 10 p.m.on Thursday nights since 1981. Thursday’s powerful “must-see TV” schedule earned billions for NBC until it faded away with thedeath of shows like “Seinfeld” and “Friends.”

Now a fourth-place network,NBC is giving up on program-ming dramas in that hour. Startingin the fall, Jay Leno will host a nightly comedy show that will aireach weeknight at 10 p.m.

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FAM Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Step by Step Step by Step Sabrina Sabrina Full House Full House Grounded Grounded <+++ The Secret Garden (‘93, Fant) Heydon Prowse, Kate Maberly. <+++ Willy Wonka & the Chocola...

FX Paid Prog. Paid Prog. The Practice The Practice <+++ Sideways (2004, Comedy/Drama) Thomas Hayden Church, Paul Giamatti. <+ Tomcats (‘01) Shannon Elizabeth, Jerry O'Connell. < Taxi

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HIST History IQ Vietnam Heavy Metal American Eats Wild West Tech UFO Files The Universe Ancient Discoveries Cities of the Underworld Warriors

LIFE Off Air < Trial by Fire (‘08, Action) Rick Ravanello, Erin Karpluk. <+ Murder at 75 Birch Street (‘98) Melissa Gilbert.

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SPIKE Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. TNA Wrestling: iMPACT! Horsepower MuscleCar Trucks! Xtreme 4x4 Xtreme 4x4 UFC UFC UFC

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TBS Married Married Steve Harvey <++ Captain Ron (‘92, Com) Martin Short, Kurt Russell. <+++ Richie Rich (‘94) Macaulay Culkin. <++ Flubber (‘97) Marcia Gay Harden, Robin Williams. (:45) <+++ Madagascar Ben Stiller.

TLC Off Air Property Ladder Property Ladder Property Ladder Home Made Simple (N) What Not to Wear What Not to Wear

TNT Angel Angel Law & Order Law & Order Law & Order The Closer <+ Underclassman (‘05) Adrian Young, Nick Cannon. < The Honeymooners

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N E W YO R K ( A P ) — MSNBC will continue airing Keith Olbermann’s talk show twice each weeknight in prime time, putting on indefinite hold a search for a new 10 p.m. pro-gram.

That time slot has attracted attention ever since MSNBC chief executive Phil Griff in suggested earlier this year he was on the lookout for a new show. Fans of the Internet show “The Young Turks” and of Air America’s Sam Seder have openly campaigned for their favorites.

MSNBC currently reruns Olbermann’s “Countdown” show only an hour after its original airing ends. It trails Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren and CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” in the ratings, but MSNBC executives have been surprised at its showing.

Fox has 2.1 million viewers, on average, in the time slot in March. Cooper on CNN has 1.2 million and Olbermann has 902,000, according to Nielsen Media Research. On a handful of nights, a rerun of Olbermann has even beaten a live Cooper in the 25-to-54-year-old demo-graphic that MSNBC watches

most closely.MSNBC may give up entire-

ly on the idea of putting a new live show in that time slot, Griffin said.

“We’re not going to mess with it until we see where it levels off,” he said. “It places the burden, if we are going to put a show there, (for it) to be a big show because the repeat of ‘Countdown’ is doing so well.”

The statistics have taken MSNBC by surprise. Griff in said it seems many viewers who are putting children to bed or are otherwise busy at 8 p.m. prefer to watch at 10.

NBC News has a big finan-cial incentive to keep things the way they are. It costs the network nothing to show the rerun, while a new program would cost millions of dollars for on-air talent and production costs.

Cenk Uygur, one of “The Young Turks,” said he believed MSNBC would do even bet-ter in the ratings with a new show but he understood the decision.

“I’m not put off by that,” he said. “We’re in a good position. We’re almost certain to get on TV one way or another.”

BY LYNN ELBERAP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NBC is keeping the lights on for “Friday Night Lights.”

The acclaimed series has been renewed for two more 13-epi-sode runs and will air through the 2010-11 season, the network said Monday.

“Not only do we know the show is staying on, but we know exactly how many episodes we are going to do,” said executive producer Jason Katims. “We’ll be able to think about where we might want to lead to ... what kind of stories we want to tell.”

The Texas football-and-family drama starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton has strug-gled in the ratings but has been a critical bright spot for NBC, drawing cons is ten t ly good reviews and Emmy and Peabody

nominations and awards.NBC is glad to stand behind

a high-quality show with “a tremendously loyal fan base,” said Angela Bromstad, president of prime-time enter tainment for NBC and Universal Media Studios.

The new seasons of “Friday Night Lights” will play on DirecTV before its network broadcasts, a continuation of the deal NBC struck this season to make the production financially viable.

The drama made its third-sea-son bow on DirecTV this fall and then repeated on NBC start-ing in January. It airs 9 p.m. EDT Fridays.

The DirecTV showings may have eaten somewhat into the series’ network ratings, Katims said, but he called the move “a pretty brilliant business deci-

sion” that kept the show alive without compromising its cre-ativity.

The drama is averaging 4.5 million viewers this season, down 27 percent from its year-ago average of 6.2 million, according to Nielsen Media Research figures. But it’s among the most popular prime-time series for upscale young adults, an audience favored by advertis-ers.

“The only thing we’d love for ‘Friday Night Lights’ in the next two seasons is to get the awards attention it deserves,” Bromstad said. Although it’s received sev-eral Emmy nods and won a tro-phy for casting, it’s been over-looked in the best drama and acting categories.

“ F r i d ay N i g h t L i g h t s ” r ece ived a George Fos t e r Peabody Award in 2006.

“Friday Night Lights,” The Texas football-and-family drama starring Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton has been renewed for two more 13-episode runs and will air through the 2010-11 season, says NBC.

NBC renews ‘Friday Night Lights’ through 2011

MSNBC finding rerun is wise prime-

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‘Cupid’ gets a second chance on ABCBY DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Love sometimes get sec-ond chances, but failed TV series rarely do. “Cupid” has become one of those rare exceptions.

ABC is resurrecting the romantic comedy that lasted 14 episodes on its sched-ule in 1998-99. It premieres Tuesday in a plum 10 p.m. time slot following the net-work’s biggest hit, “Dancing With the Stars.”

Yet it’s not the same series that its fans may fondly remember, and not only because original stars Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall are not available this time.

ABC had been kick-ing around ideas with Rob Thomas, the original series creator who had gone on to other projects like “Veronica Mars.” The net-work executives said they were thinking about some-thing like “Cupid,” when the light bulb went on over their heads: Why not just do “Cupid” again?

This sort of remake is something of a taboo, even for an industry where series fail much more often than they succeed, frequently for reasons that have little to do with their quality.

“A lot of people feel like there must be some sort of stigma attached,” said Kim Rozenfeld, ABC’s senior vice president of current programming. “If you tried and didn’t succeed, you shouldn’t touch it again.”

There was plenty of affection for “Cupid” with-in ABC a decade ago, he said. But it was a time the network lacked focus and

was groping for an identity. ABC may not explicitly say so, but it’s now a network that targets female viewers and hopes they bring their boyfriends or husbands along. A story involving a man who envisions him-self as a modern-day Cupid despite others thinking he’s insane fits the mission per-fectly.

Thomas believes the ini-tial series failed because of scheduling. It was first aired Saturdays at 10 p.m., pre-cisely when the young sin-gles who might be attracted to the story are likely out doing something else.

He pleaded for some-thing better, and finally it was moved to a weeknight — Thursday, at a time NBC’s “must-see TV” had a stranglehold on viewers.

“We got demolished,” he said.

The first “Cupid” exists only in memories, never getting a DVD release even though it was Piven’s first starring TV role before later achieving fame on “Entourage.” Thomas had to hunt down a DVD copy of the series in Mexico; the only one he owns now has Spanish subtitles.

“The nice thing about the experience is that ABC treated us very well 10 years ago, aside from can-celing it and scheduling it very badly,” he said. “The creative arm of the network, the people I dealt with on a regular basis, loved the show and were very enthusiastic and respectful about it.”

The new version stars B o b by C a n n ava l e o f “Will & Grace” as Trevor Pierce, who believes he’s the Roman god of love and

claims he’s been sent to New York to bring 100 couples together before he can return to Mount Olympus. His foil is psychiatrist and self-help author Claire McCrae, played by Sarah Paulson. She believes there’s a sci-ence to love, while Pierce believes in magic.

Besides the new cast, Thomas said “Cupid” 2.0 has, at ABC’s insistence, a greater emphasis on the couple Pierce and McCrae are trying to bring together each episode. His origi-nal model was a series like “Moonlighting,” where each week’s detective case was secondary to the relation-ship between the two lead characters.

The first series “would have th ree -and-a -ha l f page scenes of Trevor and Claire bickering,” Thomas said. “Now you never have that. I think there’s a belief that people don’t have the patience for that. I’m not sure I subscribe to that belief.”

Rozenfeld said he dis-agreed with a conclusion that the series now empha-sizes the romance of the week instead of the lead characters. “I think there is equal focus,” he said.

Since TV dramas have less content and more room for commercials than they did a decade ago, it’s a chal-lenge to get viewers emo-tionally invested in charac-ters, he said.

Thomas declined to dis-cuss whether creative differ-ences with ABC executives were a major impediment in making the second “Cupid.” ABC cut short an interview with Rozenfeld before ques-tions about its relationship

with Thomas could be fully discussed.

“All first-year shows, it’s tough,” Thomas said. “It’s tough for everybody to get on the same page. But at the end of the year, I think we found a sweet spot.”

Thomas did say he believed the f inal epi-sodes of the new series that were filmed were the best, including one story where a 15-year-old boy tries to set up his mother with his box-ing coach, since he learned the coach was his biologi-cal father through a sperm donation.

While there may have been tough times creative-ly, “Cupid” is being treated much better by the network now in scheduling. Thomas also said he believes the timing is better for the show, in terms of public interest in escapist fare.

Seven episodes of the new “Cupid” were filmed. Whether it has any future depends on whether the series takes advantage of its time slot.

David Bauder can be reached at dbauder“at“ap.org

ABC’s resurrected romantic comedy “Cupid”premieresTuesday in a 10 p.m. time slot following the network’sbiggest hit, “Dancing With the Stars.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News has started a Huffington Post-style Web site in an attempt to increase the network’s online reach.

FoxNation.com debuted Monday as a destination for political commentary, high-lighted by columns, blogs and videos by the network’s personalities. Contributors include Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Greta Van Susteren.

As the site rolls out in the coming weeks, it will add social networking com-ponents and encourage visitors to post their opinions.

Fox News Channel has dominated itscable competitors, MSNBC and CNN,in the cable TV ratings. According toNielsen Media Research, Fox has aver-aged 2.73 million prime-time viewersthis month, through March 25. MSNBC trailed with 1.16 million and CNN had 1.14 million.

But Fox, which is owned by NewsCorp., has trailed significantly on the Web.FoxNews.com drew 16 million unique vis-itors in February, while MSNBC.com wasvisited by 41 million and CNN.com wasvisited by 36 million.

Fox News launches Web site FoxNation.com

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for anything that grows from the ground up. "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. " — Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

I am writing this on the first day of spring, which is the day that I usually start to plant my tomato seeds to germinate in

the greenhouse. Since tomatoes are the most often grown vegetable plant in the home gar-den, I thought that a short primer on starting

seeds in general, with an emphasis on tomatoes, might be helpful.

When you buy a packet of tomato seeds, it usually contains thirty or more seeds, far too many for the average gardener. Why not start a small group of 5 to 6 growers, with each person buying a differ-ent type (their favorite) of tomato seed and then each person taking some seeds of each type to trial. You will find that grow-ing different types will add pleasure and variety to your garden. This share

the packet program, will work particularly well for flower gardeners.

Keep in mind that tomatoes can be affect-ed by many types of disease and the disease identification codes, printed on the pack-ets, show what type of disease that particu-lar variety has as an inbred resistance. The codes most likely to be found include: V-Verticillium Wilt, F-Fusarium Wilt-Races 1 and 2-FFF-Races 1, 2 and 3, N-Nematodes, T-Tobacco mosaic virus, AS-Alternaria Stem Canker, ST-Stemphylium Gray Leaf Spot.

Most gardeners that start larger quantities of plants, use flats which may be used to hold a number of 4 or 6 packs containing a plant-ing medium and seeds. You will find, because of the prevalence of disease, that a commer-cial soil-less mixture be used when starting seed. The disease that kills most plants before they even can be transplanted to the garden is called damping-off. The pathogen that causes this disease is primarily borne on the surface of the seed, but may be eliminated by a very simple soaking in chlorine bleach. This soak-

ing is effective for many types of seed.Make your soaking solution by mixing

1 quart commercial bleach with 3 quarts of water. Reduce amounts proportionally for smaller quantities. Add two or three drops of dish detergent to decrease surface tension of the solution. Soak the seed to be used for 1 minute, then remove and rinse completely with cool water. Spread seed on cardboard to dry, turning often so it does not stick.

When planting seeds, you don’t need fancy flats or trays. Eight or sixteen ounce sour cream containers will work well, just be cer-tain to punch holes for adequate drainage. Plant one seed per container, about 1/2 inch deep. Water well and keep the surface damp with a mister so as not to dislodge tiny plants with a solid stream of water.

After planting your seeds, place the con-tainers where the temperature can be main-tained at about 65 to 70 degrees. When the plants have sprouted, place them in a south facing window where they will receive ade-quate light. If you have a sufficient fluores-cent light source inside the house, you may place the plants there for 12-14 hours a day but be sure to give the plants at least 8 hours of darkness each day. Do not allow the plants to get too warm as they will get week and leggy from too quick growth.

If your house is cool or drafty, there is a method to germinate your seeds more quick-ly: bottom heat. Place your seed containers in a leakproof, shallow roasting pan. Fold up an old electric blanket so that it fits under the roasting pan and turn it on the lowest setting. Monitor the temperature carefully, to make sure the plants to not get over 75 degrees. If they do, place a buffer between the blanket and pan, then check again, after several hours.

Your seedlings are ready to set out into the garden, weather permitting with concurrence from the calendar, when they develop two, true leaves.

Pat Biggerstaff is Middlesboro’s own organic gardener, columnist and author. Have a ques-tion or comment for her? Call her at (606) 242-2906.

Planting tomato seeds

Pat Biggerstaff

———Columnist,

Organic Gardening

April is Virginia Green Travel MonthVirginia Green pro-

g r a m c o n n e c t s eco-conscious with

green travel options in Virginia.

Governor Timothy M. Kaine recently declared April as “Virginia Green Travel Month,” in cel-ebration of the 40th anni-versary of the Virginia is for Lovers campaign and the upcoming 2009 Earth Day. Virginia Green Travel month kicked off with a special event at the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, one of over 200 Virginia Green certif ied hotels across the state.

I n c e l e b r a t i o n o f Virginia Green Travel Mon th , t he Vi rg in i a Tourism Corporation will highlight green travel pack-ages, green getaways and spotlight Virginia Green travel options statewide on VirginiaGreenTravel.org, the state’s green travel web site.

Virginia Green is a s ta tewide par tnership between the Virginia

Tourism Corporation, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association.

Tourism businesses such as hotels, museums, restaurants and others earn Virginia Green certi-fication by committing to waste-reducing activities such as recycling, optional linen service, water and energy conservation, green cleaning, purchasing eco-friendly products and other steps that help reduce harmful environmental effects. There are nearly 450 Virginia Green certi-fied tourism partners state-wide, so travelers can find green options on a variety of vacations in Virginia.

“The Virginia Green program is an impor-tant first step to sustain-ing Virginia’s natural beauty, which is one of the main reasons peo-ple visit our state,” said Alisa Bailey, president and CEO of the Virginia Tourism Corporation. “We

will continue expanding and improving upon the Virginia Green program with the help of our indus-try and our visitors.”

Virginia Green par-ticipants ‘self-cer tify’ that are meeting the pro-gram’s requirements, and it encourages active con-sumer feedback to ensure that Virginia Green facili-ties live up to their com-mitments and become even ‘greener’ over time.

Vis i t www.vi rg in i -agreentravel.org for a com-plete listing of Virginia Green certif ied lodging properties, restaurants, attractions and more. The site also has convenient links to Virginia state parks, outdoor adventure programs, the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail, eco-friendly events, green getaways and travel tips. Or call 1-800-VISITVA to request a free Virginia is for Lovers – Live Passionately travel guide.

Each growing season, many different diseases threaten Kentucky vegeta-bles. However, by practicing good

management techniques before and during planting, home vegeta-ble growers can mini-mize disease risks, said Kenny Seebold, plant pathologist with the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.

Diseases usually are caused by fungi, bac-teria or viruses. While they can appear anytime during the growing sea-son, many favor wet, cramped conditions for development.

“The longer the leaves stay wet and the more plants that are

jammed together in one area, the greater

the disease risk,” Seebold said.Growers can lessen risks by making sure

there is enough space between plants to promote good air flow. Water management also is critical. Over watering crops can lead to disease development. If possible, growers should water plants near the soil and not on the leaves. Seebold said the best time to water plants is in the morn-ing because the foliage will dry quickly. If gardeners find they have soil drainage problems, they may need to add organic matter to the soil or fill in low spots that collect water.

One of the least expensive ways to control diseases is to plant cultivars that are resistant to certain plant pathogens. Growers should be aware that the avail-ability of these resistant plants varies by crop and disease. While a variety may be resistant to certain pathogens or diseases, it does not mean the plant is immune.

Annually rotating crops can also help gardeners lower disease risks, especially

if there were past disease problems in a certain plot. He said growers should rotate crops with others that are not of the same plant family. Crops that are of the same family, such as tomatoes and peppers or cucumbers and squash, could be suscep-tible to the same diseases.

Controlling insects and weeds can also help reduce the chances of disease. Some insects can carry pathogens that can trans-mit to crops, and weeds can be safe harbors for pathogens and insects.

Also, the time of planting is key to dis-ease management.

“Planting some crops, like beans and peas, too early could make them more sus-ceptible to disease,” Seebold said. “Growers should measure the soil temperature at about a 4-inch depth to determine proper planting time. Ideally, the soil temperature should be at least 65 degrees.”

Before planting, it’s a good idea to clean any gardening tools and equipment that were used in past years, especially if they

were used in an area that had disease prob-lems in the past. Pathogens can overwinteron soil or on plant matter left on tools.

Because of uncontrollable factors such as weather, there is no way to ensure dis-ease-free crops. Seebold said growersshould scout their gardens regularly for any signs of disease problems. Catching and managing a disease early can help mini-mize the number of plants lost. If diseasesdevelop during the growing season, fungi-cides may be used in small amounts to con-trol the disease. Growers who are unsure of the type of disease their plants have or whohave questions on management tactics or proper fungicide use, can visit Bell CountyCooperative Extension Office or call 606-337-2376.

Stacy White, the agricultural extension agent with the Bell County Extension Service, can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected].

Proper management early on can lower disease risks in gardens

Stacy White———

Bell County Extension

Service

$49,878,100 in stimulus funds for wastewater infra-

structure headed to Ky.Projects in Ky. expected to boost economy, cre-ate jobs and protect the

environmentFRANKFORT, Ky. — In a move that

stands to create jobs, boost local econo-mies, improve aging water infrastructure and protect human health and the environ-ment for the people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has award-ed $49,878,100 million to the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority. This new infu-sion of money will help the state and local governments finance many of the overdue improvements to wastewater projects that are essential to protecting public health and the environment across the state.

“This award is signif icant because it marks the first investment of EPA stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Kentucky,” said Stan Meiburg, Acting Regional Administrator in Atlanta. “With this investment, we are embarking on an unprecedented effort to create green jobs and protect human health and the environment.”

The funds provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, will go to the state’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund program. The Clean Water State Revolving Fund program provides

low-interest loans for water quality protec-tion projects for wastewater treatment, non-point source pollution control, and water-shed and estuary management. An unprec-edented $4 billion dollars will be awarded to fund wastewater infrastructure projects across the country under the Recovery Actin the form of low interest loans, principalforgiveness and grants. At least 20 percentof the funds provided under the Recovery Act are to be used for green infrastructure,water and energy efficiency improvementsand other environmentally innovative proj-ects.

Since the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program began in 1987, EPA has awarded more than $26 billion in grants,which states have turned into $69 billion of financial assistance for water quality projects. The revolving nature of the pro-gram ensures water quality projects will befunded for generations to come.

President Obama signed the AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 onFebruary 17, 2009, and has directed that theRecovery Act be implemented with unprec-edented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can see how every dollar is being invested at

Recovery.gov. For information on EPA’s implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in EPA Region 4, visit http://www.epa.gov/region4/eparecovery. For information on the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program, visithttp://www.epa.gov/owm/cwfinance/cwsrf.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Phil Bredesen is calling on lawmakers to enact min-imum residential building codes in Tennessee to help encourage better energy efficiency.

The building code measure is part of a larg-er proposal by the Democratic governor to improve the state’s clean energy standards.

Other elements of Bredesen’s proposal include requiring more energy efficiency in state buildings and vehicles and expanding tax

incentives for job creation in the green energyfield.

Tennessee’s per capita electricity consump-tion is among the country’s highest.

There is no current statewide residen-tial building code, though the Department of Commerce and Insurance does electrical inspections in areas that don’t currently setminimum standards.

DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Sissy Spacek has lived within the Appalachian mountain range since before the role in "Coal Miner's Daughter" that identi-fied her with the region. But some of her neighbors won't let her forget she wasn't born there.

"I'm a transplant," said Spacek, 59, who was born in Texas. "My children are natives. I have clout now because I have children here. But I will always be a trans-plant. And I will always be aware of that."

She lives within the Great Smoky Mountains, moving there in the 1970s with her husband Jack Fisk, who is a Virginia native.

Spacek may get more respect from her neigh-bors with her work narrat-ing "Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People," a four-part documentary that debuts on PBS stations on April 9.

She won an Academy

Award for her role as singer Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film "Coal Miner's Daughter." It made her a natural choice for filmmaker Ross Spears when he was looking for someone to tell his story.

The film tells the human stories about people who made the Appalachians home, but also talks about the mountains themselves. They're the world's oldest geologically and are rich in growth. One acre of forest in the Great Smoky Mountins can support more species of trees than all of Europe, the film says. The coal so valu-able to the region's economy was created by tropical jungles compacted over millions of years.

It was an educational expe-rience for Spacek.

"I learned a lot and a lot of the things made me very sad," she said. "The most sobering thing for me was the monu-mental loss of mountains," leveled during the mining pro-cess. She said the most mov-ing part of the narration was reading the names of 20 or 30 of the 470 mountains lost.

"It was like a funeral," she said.

For decades, images of Appalachian poor have beeningrained in the public con-sciousness. It can be a touchy point for people who live there;Diane Sawyer's ABC News special about poverty among young people in Kentucky struck some raw nerves.

Spacek found striking the extent to which people wholived within the Appalachiansrarely benefited from the riches extracted from the mountains.

"They've been exploited," she said. "A lot of the povertyis because people have beenexploited. I don't think there's any shame in being poor. The shame goes to the exploiters."

For true authenticity, Spacek joked about doing thenarration in her Loretta Lynn voice. The two women are still in contact.

"We're very dear, dear friends," she said. "We don't speak often enough, but we're in regular contact with each other. Now she would havereally been authentic."

Spacek narrates PBS documentary on Appalachia

Tenn. clean energy plan to include building codes

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MINEPURSUANT TOAPPLICATION NUMBER807-0277, RENEWAL

In accordance with KRS350.055, notice is herebygiven that Strata Mining,Inc. P.O. Box 962Middlesboro, Kentucky440965 has applied forrenewal of a permit foran existing surface coalmining and reclamationoperation affecting470.21 acres located 0.5miles north of Capito inBell County.

The proposed operationis approximately 0.3miles north from KY 74'sjunction with CountyRoad 1222 and located3.0 miles west ofMiddlesboro. Theoperation lies east andwest of RockhouseBranch. The latitude is 36degrees 36 minutes 45seconds. The longitude is83 degrees 47 minutes53 seconds.

The proposed operationis located on the Kayjayand Fork Ridge U.S.G.S.7 1/2 minute quadranglemap. The surface area tobe affected by theoperation is owned byCorrigan TLP LLC C/OMolpus WoodlandsGroup. The operation willuse the contour andauger method of surfacemining.

The application has beenfiled for public inspectionat the Department forNatural Resource'sMiddlesboro RegionalOffice, 1804 EastCumberland Ave.,Middlesboro, Kentucky40965. Writtencomments, objections, orrequests for a permitconference must be filedwith the Director, Divisionof Mine Permits, #2Hudson Hollow, U.S. 127South, Frankfort,Kentucky 40601.

NOTICE OFINTENTION TO

MINEPURSUANT TOAPPLICATION NUMBER 807-03681) In accordance withKRS 350.055, notice ishereby given that AppoloFuels, Inc., P.O. Box1727, Middlesboro,Kentucky, 40965, hasapplied for a permit for asurface coal mining andreclamation operationaffecting 844.96 acreslocated 1.33 milesnortheast of Fonde inBell County.

2) The proposedoperation isapproximately 1.56 milesnortheast from KY 74'sjunction with KY 535 andlocated on Clear Fork.

3) The proposedamendment is located onthe Fork Ridge, Kayjay,Frakes and EaganU.S.G.S. 7 1/2 minutequadrangle maps. Theoperation will use thecontour, remining andauger/highwall minermethods of surfacemining. The surface areaowned by Corrigan TLPLLC C/O MolpusHardwoods Group LLC.

4) The application hasbeen filed for publicinspection at theDepartment for NaturalResources MiddlesboroRegional Office, 1804East CumberlandAvenue, Middlesboro,Kentucky 40965. Writtencomments, objections, orrequests for a permitconference must be filedwith the Director, Divisionof Mining Permits, #2Hudson Hollow, U.S. 127South, Frankfort,Kentucky 40601.

This is the finaladvertisement of thisapplication. Allcomments, objections orrequests for a permitconference must bereceived within thirtydays of today's date.

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In the year ahead, look for some constructive changes in your outlook and/or attitude to take hold. Your new posture will benefi t you tremendously, but don’t think there aren’t other fl aws that could still use some polishing.ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Normally, you can be relied upon to take care of your responsibilities and do what you promised. But you could put things off so long that it’ll be too late to start anything, irritating everyone.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Jealousy might cause you to try to upstage a companion in order to direct attention to yourself. You might be successful, but not in the way you think. It will only make you look self-serving.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Trying to achieve something in order to make another look bad is asking for trouble. Your “slow burn” frame of mind won’t permit the clear thinking that you’ll need to pull off your revenge.CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Trying to rationalize your mistakes instead of owning up will merely cause further trouble. Not only will you suffer a loss of prestige; you’ll also have to deal with correcting your errors.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You’re likely to be out of sorts and attempt to soothe your pain by going on a buying spree. Unfortunately, it won’t help one bit, but it will put a smile on the face of your creditors.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- You tend to look at both sides of an issue before speaking on anything, important or not. You could be so opinionated and unyielding that associates won’t know how to talk with you.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Don’t expect someone you’ve helped in the past to do everything for you for the rest of his or her life. No favor is that big, and, at a certain point, you must fend for yourself.SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- It’s good to be optimistic, but strive to be realistic and practical as well. Your hopes and desires aren’t apt to be fulfi lled if you structure your expectations on unrealistic premises.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Disappointment or loss is extremely probable if you bank too heavily on luck or chance to pull off some feats you don’t have the skills to accomplish alone. Be realistic about what you attempt.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Although you might have some friends who can exaggerate successfully, you’ll be called on any tall tales you tell. If you stretch the truth, you’ll be caught in the lie.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Take ample time to accurately assess any fi nancial expenditure and what it would mean to your bank account. If you make an error, it could turn out to be more costly than you can afford.PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Regardless of how hard you try, it seems impossible to please certain people and gain appreciation from them. Back away from those who speak negatively and take you for granted.

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Seeing pink elephants may not be good thing, but sight-ing a flock of pink flamingos is! Although pink flamin-gos are not native to Lee County, Va., they have been spotted popping up overnight in the yards of local resi-dents. Sheriff Gary Parsons volunteered to help get things started by being the first to be “flocked” by the Hornets of Hope, the Relay For Life Team representing Elk Knob Elementary School.

The flamingo flocking is a Hornets of Hope fundraiser for the 5th Annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Lee County. Team Captains Ashley Bruner and Nicoletta Dean explained the basic idea of the fundraiser involves deploying a flock of plastic pink flamingos in someone’s yard or outside a business entrance. A sign and note is left explaining that the person or business has been selected by someone to be “flocked” for a good cause, in this case Relay For Life. In order to get the flamingos removed, you must pay $20 and tell the Hornets of Hope Relay Team where to move the flock next.

For more information contact Ashley Bruner at 346-2305 or Nicoletta Dean at Elk Knob Elementary 546-1837.

Jonesville Middle School has also joined in support of Relay For Life this year by forming a new team – the Junkyard Dawgs. Team Captain Annette Tomlinson extends an invitation for everyone to enjoy an “Afternoon Social” at Jonesville Middle School Sunday, April 5, from 1-3 p.m. Music will be provided by Town Branch Bluegrass and refreshments will be available. Donations for Relay For Life will be accepted at the door. For further information, contact Tomlinson at JMS at 346-1011.

Other Lee County schools currently involved with Relay For Life are Dryden Primary, Flatwoods Primary, Lee High School and Stickleyville Elementary. Various fund raisers are ongoing with all these teams.

According to Team Captain Angie Williams, the Pirates of Dryden Relay Team is planning to host a basketball tournament in the near future to benefit Relay For Life.

The Stickleyville T.O.M.C.A.T.S. team, captained by Sharon Jerrell, has been very effective in their fund rais-ing efforts. For example, on February 17, the 100th day of school, students brought 100 pennies each to be donated to the Relay For Life of Lee County, and on March 6 they sponsored “Hats On Day” where students donated $1to wear the favorite hat for the day.

Flatwoods Primary is a charter member of the Relay Team roster having participated in every Relay For Life of Lee County since the beginning in 2004. Their Co-Captains are Dawn Crabtree and Laura Rouse.

Another active new team welcomed to the line-up for 2009 is the Lee High School Generous Generals, captained by Angie Collingsworth. Although to date there is not an

official Relay team at Thomas Walker High School, theirgirls softball team recently held a fundraiser for their teamand donated a portion of the proceeds not only to the Relay For Life of Lee County, but also a matching donation to St.Judes Children’s Hospital, in an effort to support the battleagainst cancer.

It is not too late for more schools and organizations toget involved with the 5th Annual American Cancer SocietyRelay For Life of Lee County planned for June 26 at Leeman Field in Pennington Gap.

The next team captains meeting will be held on Thursday, April 16 in the Fellowship Hall of the FirstBaptist Church in Jonesville (Va.) beginning at 6 p.m. Anyone interested in learning more about Relay For Life isinvited to attend.

For more information about Relay For Life contact LeeCounty Chairperson Diane Roberts at 346-1732 or the American Cancer Society at 1-866-444-9422. To learn more about the American Cancer Society and the servicesthey provide you may also visit their website www.cancer.org.

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LIFESTYLESLocal schools support Lee Co. Relay for Life

This flock of plastic pink flamingos is appearing in yards or outside business entrances all around Lee County. A sign and note is left explaining that the person or business has been selected by someone to be “flocked” for a good cause, in this case Relay For Life. In order to get the flamingos removed, they have to pay $20 and tell the Hornets of Hope Relay Team from Elk Knob Elementary School where to move the flock next.

NIOSH to provide free black lung screenings

in Bell CountyThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and

Health (NIOSH) Mobile Occupational Safety and Health Unit will be set up at two locations in Bell County to conduct black lung screenings.

Testing takes about 30 minutes and includes a short questionnaire, a chest x-ray and a breathing test. All actively working (must have worked in the last 90 days) underground coal miners in Bell County and the surrounding areas are eligible to participate. Participation is free, easy and completely conf iden-tial.

Although walk-ins will be accepted, miners are urged to call 1-888-480-4042 (toll free) to schedule an appointment.

Dates, time and locations are:Monday, April 6, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Pineville

Community HospitalTuesday, April 7, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the

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Participants must pass the swim test to take the class. class will consist of lifeguard training, CPR for the pro-fessional rescuer and first aid and safety. The cost is $250. The course consists of 38 hours of study. Recertification is also available for $150 or CPR and first aid is available for $50.

For more information and to pre-register, call Director of Aquatic Services Austin Hurst at (423) 869-6243 or email [email protected].

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Sports Editor: Jay Compton • Phone: (606) 248-1010 ext. 219 • Fax: (606) 248-7614 • Email: [email protected] • Web page: www.middlesborodailynews.com

Saturday, April 4, 2009

BY JAY COMPTONSports Editor

The Middlesboro Yellow Jackets con-tinued their hot-hitting ways in Florida Friday, but fell victim to a big inning and dropped a 10-8 decision to Pedro Menendez High.

Middlesboro went 2-1 on the Florida trip with one rainout. Coach Billy Powell said it was an encouraging week as the Jackets had only played one game before facing Sunshine State teams in the mid-dle of their season.

“Overall I feel real good about it,” the coach said. “We made some great strides and proved — to ourselves as much as everyone else — that we can be a pretty good team.”

Friday the Jackets were rolling right along behind starting pitcher Matt Cox. They scored three runs in the first, two in the second and led 6-0 after Jake Partin stole home in the fourth inning.

Cox had allowed just one run and one hit through four but tired in the bottom of the fifth. Menendez took advantage of an error and scored six runs on five hits to take a 7-6 lead.

The Jackets took advantage of a pair of errors in the sixth to go back out in front 8-7.

Scott Mason, who had come on to pitch out of a jam in the fifth, couldn’t hold the lead in the sixth as Menendez got to him for three runs on two hits, two walks and an error.

Alex Pratt got the final three outs, but the Jackets couldn’t get anything going in

the seventh and lost 10-8.“We had a bit of a setback tonight,

it’s dissapointing,” Powell said. “We had opportunities to put the game away aftergoing up 6-0. We had some baserun-ning mistakes and a couple of defensivelapses.”

Evan Womack led the Middlesboro offense with three hits, including a dou-ble. He drove in a run and scored one.

Mason went 2-for-4 with a double, one RBI and three runs scored. Brett Pittman singled, drove in two runs and scored one. Hunter Adams, Josh Branham, and Holden Moyers all had one hit each. Partin scored two runs, including that steal of home, and Eddie Gilbert also had a run scored.

On the mound Cox went 4-2/3 innings while giving up seven runs on six hits. He walked five and struck out three. Mason surrendered three runs on two hits and two walks over 1/3 of an inning with a strike out and Pratt retired all three bat-ters he faced with one strikeout.

“We’ve had good performances fromout pitchers (this week) and our hit-ting has improved greatly,” said Powell.“Hopefully we’ve learned from it and it will help us to get better.”

The Jackets (2-2) host PinevilleMonday at 5:30 p.m. in the opening round of the 13th Region All “A” Classic.

— — —Middlesboro 320 102 0 — 8 9 2Pedro Menedez 000 163 x — 10 8 4 Cox, Mason (5), Pratt (6) and Branham; Dooley, CPiagno (3), SPiagno (4), Godwin (4). W—Godwin. L — Mason (0-1).

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Middlesboro junior center fielder Jake Partin puts a ball in play during last year’s 13th Region tournament. Partin scored two runs Friday, including a steal of home, as the Jackets finished their Florida trip with a tough 10-8 loss at Pedro Menendez High.

Jackets go 2-1 on Florida trip

FOR THE DAILY NEWS

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — Nate Grabowski hit a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the 13th inning to lead the No. 9 Tusculum College baseball team to a dramatic 8-6 South Atlantic Conference win over visiting Lincoln Memorial University Friday night at Pioneer Park.

With the victory, the Pioneers (26-10, 13-0 SAC) remain undefeated in the league, while the Railsplitters fall to 26-14, 5-9 SAC.

Grabowski’s two-run blast was the second big home run of the evening for Tusculum. With the Pioneers trailing 6-4 in the bottom of the ninth and with two outs, pinch-hitter Sean Finucane clubbed a two-run shot over the score-board in left field to send the game into extra innings.

The battle between the two longtime East Tennessee rivals was filled with heroics from both sides in the three-hour and 42-minute marathon.

Tusculum plated a run in the first inning as the Pioneers drew three straight one-out walks and Jared Richmond drove in the game’s first score with his sacrifice fly.

LMU tied the game in the third inning when John Couch led off with his 14th double of the season and scored on Tommy Casto’s infield sin-gle. The Railsplitters plated another run in the fourth and three more in the fifth to take a 5-1 advantage. In the fourth, LMU got back-to-back singles by Ralph Rosas and Jason Pabon to lead off the frame. Rosas would score on Shane Kaufman’s ground out. In the fifth inning, LMU used four hits and an error to score three unearned runs off of TC starter C.J. Hillyer. Casto posted his second hit of the day with his second triple of 2009 to score Bryon Izzo. Casto would cross the plate himself on Cody Pack’s fly out. Eric Kitts wrapped up the scoring with his two-out single.

Tusculum trimmed the deficit to 5-4 with a run each in the fifth and sev-enth innings. In the bottom of the fifth, Sean Cotten hit a two-run double to right center and score on Richmond’s sharp hit to right. TC made drew with-in one with some more two-out magic as Grabowski doubled and scored on Cotten’s single up the middle.

The Railsplitters got one of the runs back in the eighth as reliever Kyle Smith got in a jam with runners at

second and third with one out. After an intentional walk to Casto to load the bases, relief pitcher Rob Currie was brought in. Currie got Pack to fly out in foul territory, but walked Rosas on four straight pitches as LMU went ahead 6-3. Currie got Pabon to line out to end the inning.

Tusculum had a golden opportunity in the bottom of the inning as the Pioneers had the bases loaded with no outs. LMU reliever Jeff Ludlow was brought aboard. Ludlow got Payden Houser to ground out to second baseman Nick Langley, but the ball was bobbled allowing Tyler Collins to score from third. With the bases still loaded, Ludlow worked his way out of trouble as he struck out Hudgins and Ricky Feliz and got Grabowski on a ground out as LMU carried a two-run lead into the ninth.

Cotten led off the inning with a base hit, but the next two batters would fly out, sending pinch-hitter Finucane to the plate as he sent his second home run of the season to left field and a 6-6 deadlock.

The score would remain that way until the 13th. With one out, Feliz drew a walk to set the table for Grabowski, who sent a 1-1 pitch over the right field

wall for Tusculum’s 13th home win in 14 tries this year.

Currie (3-1) picked up the win in relief as he went 5.2 innings where he allowed just a hit, walked two andstruck out eight. Ludlow was the hard-luck loser in the contest as he pitched 5.1 innings, scattered four hits, allowed four runs, walked two with six strike-outs. The LMU pitching duo of starter Sean Woolard (106) and Ludow (103) combined for 209 pitches on the night.

Cotten led all hitters with his 3-for-5 night, while Grabowski, Collins and Finucane each tallied two hits in the game. Cotten keeps his nine-game hit-ting streak alive.

Casto extends his hitting streak to 11 in a row as he went 2-for-6 with two RBI. Pabon, Rosas, Kaufman and Couch each record a pair of hits in the loss.

The two teams will wrap up their three-game weekend series on Saturday with a doubleheader beginning at 2 p.m. This is a time change due to the length of Friday’s contest.———LMU 001 130 010 000 0 — 6 11 2Tusculum 100 010 112 000 2 — 8 13 3 Woolard, Ludlow (8) and Pabon; Hillyer, Smith (6), Currie (8) and Cotten. W—Currie (3-1). L—Lodlow (1-5). HR—Grabowski(4); Finucane(2).

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LMU second baseman Nick Langley smothers a ground ball during action earlier this season. Langley had four assists and three putoutsFriday and also was hit by a pitch and scored a run in the Railsplitters8-6 13 inning loss to Tusculum.

Tusculum walks off with 8-6 win over Railsplitters in 13

The Sun Shines Bright…

… in my ole Kentucky home. Doesn’t that have a whole lot nicer ring to it today? It’s been an amazing week for me as a Kentucky fan. Since last Saturday, not only have we got a new coach, but we have a new coach who is a superstar. Finally, someone is standing out in front of the UK pro-gram and shining like a bea-con of hope.

John Calipari was not my f irst choice; that place was held for Travis Ford. Ford didn’t have the experience that Lee Todd and Mitch Barnhart wanted, so I can accept that. The whole rea-son that Calipari wasn’t at the highest point of my wish list is because of the shady recruiting rumors. See, I love the University of Kentucky, and the last thing I want for the men’s basketball program is rumors that lead to sanc-tions and probation.

I researched the issue though, and here is what I found. In John Calipari’s 20 plus years of coaching, there have been exactly zero sanc-tions or violations brought against him by the NCAA. Apparently Sandy Bell from the UK Compliance Off ice found out the exact same thing or else our new coach would have not been offered the position.

Wha t I f ound funny though, while researching UK coaches and NCAA viola-tions, was an old article writ-ten William Rhoden of the New York Times about a for-mer UK coach who because of his time in the position will forever be loved for what he did for the program. Apparently in 1989, after Rick Pitino had been offered the position, it was found out that while he was a graduate assistant at the University of Hawaii, he was cited by the NCAA for 8 separate recruit-ing violations.

So, before we can hold Coach Calipari accountable for shady recruiting that has

never been proven even with intense N C A A i nv e s t i g a -t i o n s , we m u s t p u t into context the fact that while rumors have swirled b u t n ev e r been proven for Calipari, r u m o r s swirled and were proven 8 times for Rick Pitino and he was still given the job.

My suggestion for those who can’t get past those rumors is to get over it. We live in a country, fortunately, where you are innocent until proven guilty. Until a day comes when I have concrete reason that Calipari is any-thing but honest, these are the things I’m going to do:

Enjoy fast and superior recruiting of superstar talent on a consistent basis.

Enjoy news of how happy the players are to be playing for such a great coach.

Enjoy up- tempo, f as t paced, exciting basketball in the bluegrass.

Enjoy a rivalry between UK and UofL that now means more than ever.

Enjoy the renewed domi-nation of the SEC by the University of Kentucky.

Enjoy another long streak o f N C A A To u r n a m e n t appearances.

Enjoy our first Final Four in a decade.

Enjoy hanging banner number eight in the rafters of Rupp Arena.

Most of all though, I’m going to enjoy being a united fan base again.

Once again, it’s going to be fun watching UK basket-ball. I’ve missed that for the past 12 years.

So from a program that is now claimed to be his “dream job,” welcome home Coach Calipari, welcome home.

See Ya’ll Next Week.

Jamin Leger

The LEGER FILES

BY DAN GELSTONAP Sports Writer

D E T RO I T ( A P ) — Scottie Reynolds ignited the kind of party at Villanova he would have watched from his dorm room as a freshman.

It’s the kind of frenzied fun the dynamo guard still might view from afar as a junior.

The Wildcats are just thrilled he decided to stick around to give the school a reason to go wild.

J u s t d o n ’ t e x p e c t Reynolds to act like the lat-est tournament star after hitting a last-second basket in the regional final to send Villanova (30-7) to its first Final Four in 24 years.

“If anybody didn’t see the game, I don’t think they would know,” forward Dante Cunningham said on Thursday. “He’s still so well-grounded with every-thing.”

Gone are the days when Reynolds felt detached on his lonely walks around V i l l a n ov a ’s c a m p u s . When his commitment to Oklahoma collapsed short-ly before his freshman season, he became a last-minute addition to coach Jay Wright’s program and quickly felt out of his ele-ment.

T h r e e y e a r s l a t e r ,

Reynolds is in love with the Wildcats and, boy, does the program and its fans love him back. Even 572 miles away, Reynolds felt a crush of appreciation during a shopping trip Wednesday in Detroit.

“I was at the cash regis-ter signing autographs, and it was unbelievable that the Villanova community had so much support behind us,” Reynolds said.

Now, the Sooners must wonder if they might be in Detroit with Reynolds, a 6-foot-2 point guard, if Kelvin Sampson had stuck around.

R e y n o l d s b e c a m e tight with Sampson on the recruiting trail and signed a letter of intent for Oklahoma out of Herndon,

Va. When Sampson abrupt-ly left for Indiana, Reynoldswas stunned and betrayed.

“I had everything set, and it took a turn,” Reynolds said. “There were so many people around me, but after that happened it was just my family, my friends. The ones who stayed true to me. That’s why I didn’t go farthe second time. I wanted to stay close to home.”

He found his home withthe Wildcats, though it tooksome time to adjust.

After Sooners coach JeffCapel granted Reynoldsa release, Wright called Sampson for a scouting repor t. The former OU coach told him not to botherwith any questions.

BY AARON BEARDAP Sports Writer

DETROIT (AP) — Tyler Hansbrough never wanted to dwell on the pressure to lead North Carolina to a national championship. He tried to ignore the expectations to raise his level of play despite being last season’s national player of the year.

Though he insists he came back for his senior season because he enjoyed college life and wanted his diploma, there’s no deny-ing he desperately wanted another shot at a title.

Now he’s back in the Final Four, the final weekend of a college career in which he has gone from always her-alded to often criticized — and maybe a little unap-preciated — by the same people who have demanded so much from him.

No matter how many times he says it, Hansbrough knows all anybody wants to talk about before Saturday’s national semifinal against Villanova is the missing line on his resume.

Coming out of Detroit with a championship tro-phy could be the difference between being viewed as an individual player who set numerous records yet fell short of the ultimate goal and one of the college game’s all-time greats.

“I feel like there’s a lot of pressure just because a lot of people would say it would be a failure to come back if you didn’t win a national cham-pionship,” he said Thursday. “But I didn’t come back just to win a national champion-ship.”

He set the Atlantic Coast Conference’s career scor-ing record in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Also this year, he broke both the scoring and rebounding record for the storied North Carolina program by passing big names such as Phil Ford and Sam Perkins, respec-tively.

He has led the Tar Heels

(32-4) to three straight ACC regular-season cham-pionships, won back-to-back league tournament t i t l es as a sophomore and junior, and got North Carolina to the Final Four last year.

But things seemed to get tougher for him after he decided to put off the NBA for a year to return to Chapel Hill. After hearing nothing but praise for his iron-willed determination and gritty work ethic, he heard criti-cism for not putting up the same numbers even though his stats were similar to last year.

BY ANDREW BAGNATOAP Sports Writer

D E T RO I T ( A P ) — Connecticut center Hasheem Thabeet attended the Final Four in San Antonio last year to collect a national defensive player of the year award.

As he accepted the award, Thabeet made a prediction.

“When I was at the podium, I said, ’See you in Detroit next year,’ “ Thabeet recalled on Friday. “And I made it happen. This time, I’ve got my guys with me.”

This time Thabeet is hoping to take home a big-ger prize — UConn’s third national championship tro-phy.

The junior from Tanzania was co-player of the year and the defensive player of the year in the Big East, widely acknowledged as the mighti-est conference in the nation this season. Now he’ll try to dominate an even bigger stage — 72,000-seat Ford Field.

It’s a f itting venue for the 7-foot-3 Thabeet, who is averaging a double-dou-ble in this NCAA tourna-ment — 11.5 points and 11.3 rebounds per game. But it’s his eight blocks in four NCAA games that have the Spartans worried.

“Thabeet is a monster inside,” Michigan State cen-ter Goran Suton said.

Michigan State coach Tom Izzo joked that the Spartans had trouble watching film of Thabeet.

“Right now we’re adding a screen to our video room so we can get him on the whole thing,” Izzo said. “The one we had, he doesn’t fit.”

Thabeet has come a long way since the first game of his freshman season, when he had 11 rebounds and seven blocked shots against Quinnipiac — but also went 1-for-6 from the floor and 3-for-7 from the line.

“All I could do was run and dunk,” Thabeet said. “I didn’t have that many moves on the block.”

The question is whether

he has learned enough moves in three years at Storrs. Opponents try to make Thabeet catch the ball away from the bucket and take their chances.

“The bottom line is, if he gets it behind you, he’s dunk-ing it,” Izzo said. “That’s a given. So that’s the first thing we can’t let him do. Because if he gets behind you, there’s nothing else he’s going to do but dunk it. If he gets it in front of you, he does have some post moves. Not like he’s a stiff in there. You might have a 50-50 chance.”

UConn coach Jim Calhoun bristles over questions about Thabeet’s offensive game.

BY LARRY LAGEAP Sports Writer

DETROIT (AP) — Travis Walton played defense when few of his peers did back in high school and summer-league games.

It earned him a Michigan State scholarship four years ago.

Now, a national t i t le could be up for grabs.

The end of Walton’s col-lege career might hinge on how he fares against Connecticut’s A.J. Prince in a national semif inal Saturday night.

“That is a key matchup,” coach Tom Izzo said Friday. “Even though they have tremendous size, I still think Price is the guy who stirs the drink. Price, both from a scoring standpoint and penetration standpoint, is as good a player as we faced at that position.

“Now, we’ve faced some good ones.”

Such as Sherron Collins of Kansas — twice — and Te r r e n c e Wi l l i a m s o f Louisville.

Collins scored 20-plus points in both games, but lost in the regular season and round of 16 against the Spartans. Williams made only one shot against the Big Ten defensive player of the year in the Midwest regional final.

Neither star was play-ing as well as Price is now, coming off most outstand-ing player honors from the Midwest regional. The 6-foot-2 guard is averag-ing 20 points in the NCAA tournament and 19.3 since Jerome Dyson had a sea-son-ending knee injury in mid-January.

“He’s a great player. He makes big-time shots,” Wal ton acknowledged . “The main thing is try to contain him and don’t let him embarrass me in front of my home crowd.”

Price said he expects the 6-2, 190-pound Walton to guard him and sounds as if he’s looking forward to it.

“I pretty much get the best defensive player on every team, every game,” Price said. “He is a greatdefensive player. Good size. Very physical. I know he will present some prob-lems.

“It’s going to be a toughchallenge come Saturday,but I’ll be up for it and I’m sure he will too.”

When the Spartans gath-ered late Thursday night at their team hotel to watchhighlights of Connecticut’s best players, the voice of Walton — or coach Waltonas he is known — could be heard in the darkness as if he were an assistant coach.

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MICHIGAN STATEROAD TO THE FINAL FOURNo. 2 Michigan State beat No. 15 Robert Morris 77-62; No. 10 Southern California 74-69; No. 3 Kansas 67-62; No. 1 Louisville 64-52. STARSSophomore guard Kalin Lucas, the Big Ten’s player of the year, leads the Spartans in scoring (14.6) and assists (4.5), and he was fourth in the conference in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.19. Senior guard Travis Walton was the conference’s defensive player of the year, and his best effort might have been holding Louisville’s Terrence Williams to 1-for-7 shooting in the regional final. Senior center Goran Suton is averaging 14.3 points and 11.5 rebounds in the tournament and was selected the MVP of the Midwest Regional.COACHESTom Izzo has the Spartans in the Final Four for the fifth time, and they won it all in 2000. In his 14th season at Michigan State, his teams are known for their toughness on the boards and tenacious defense. With 335 career victories, Izzo is just five behind Jud Heathcote, his former boss at Michigan State.KEY POINTThe Spartans have the “home dome” advantage with their campus about a 90-minute drive from Ford Field. Michigan State is No. 1 in the country in rebound margin, grabbing 38.8 per game, an average of 9.6 more than its opponents. The Spartans have fought through some nag-ging injuries all season; the one affecting them most right now is the broken nose suffered by Raymar Morgan in the regional semifinals. He wore a protective mask for one half against Louisville, a game in which he went scoreless, dropping his average for the tournament to 5.8.

CONNECTICUTROAD TO THE FINAL FOURNo. 1 Connecticut beat No. 16 Chattanooga 103-47; No. 9 Texas A&M 92-66; No. 5 Purdue 72-60; No. 3 Missouri 82-75.STARSThe Huskies’ biggest star, literally, is 7-foot-3 Hasheem Thabeet, the Big East’s co-player of the year and its defensive player of the year after averaging 4.3 blocks per game, second in the nation. His scoring average has increased in each of his three seasons, and he enters the Final Four averaging 13.5 points and 10.9 rebounds. Senior forward Jeff Adrien also averages a double-double at 13.7 points and 10.0 rebounds. Senior guard A.J. Price leads the team in scoring at 14.7 points per game, but he averaged 20.0 during the NCAA tournament.COACHESJim Calhoun is taking the Huskies to the Final Four for the third time; the first two resulted in national championships. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2005, Calhoun is one of two active coaches with 800 wins, 557 of which have come in his 23 seasons at Connecticut. He missed the opening-round game against Chattanooga because of dehydration, then faced allegations of possible recruiting violations before the regional semifinals.KEY POINTThe Huskies lead the nation in rebounding, grabbing 43.3 per game, and they average 7.8 blocks, which will have them No. 1 in the nation for the eighth consecutive season. Connecticut was ranked No. 1 for four weeks this season, and its only losses were to Big East teams. The four NCAA wins have been by an average of 17 points.

NORTH CAROLINAROAD TO THE FINAL FOURNo. 1 North Carolina beat No. 16 Radford 101-58; No. 8 LSU 84-70; No. 4 Gonzaga 98-77; No. 2 Oklahoma 72-60.STARSTyler Hansbrough, last season’s consensus player of the year, was a first-team All-America this season after averaging 20.9 points and 8.1 rebounds. The senior holds every scoring record for North Carolina and the Atlantic Coast Conference. Ty Lawson was the ACC player of the year after running an offense that was second in the nation at 90 points per game. The junior point guard missed the ACC tournament and first-round NCAA game with a toe injury, but he won MVP honors in the South Regional after averaging 20 points and 6.7 assists while commit-ting a total of two turnovers in the three games he played.COACHESRoy Williams is in his seventh Final Four and third with the Tar Heels. He led North Carolina to the national championship in 2005. Including his years at Kansas, Williams is the first coach to win at least one NCAA tournament game in 20 consecutive seasons. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2007, Williams joined Mike Krzyzewski and John Wooden as the only coaches to reach five Final Fours in an eight-year period.KEY POINTThe Tar Heels have almost everybody back from the team that lost in the Final Four last season, a fact that had them a unanimous pre-season No. 1 selection. They spent 10 weeks at No. 1, and all their losses were in the ACC. The worry over Lawson’s toe injury is gone as he had the Tar Heels running and scoring as usual, while the defense was able to hold Oklahoma to 60 points in the regional final.

VILLANOVAROAD TO THE FINAL FOURNo. 3 Villanova beat No. 14 American 80-67; No. 6 UCLA 89-69; No. 2 Duke 77-54; No. 1 Pittsburgh 78-76.STARSVillanova really doesn’t have a star, just a lot of really good players with six averaging between 16.2 points (Dante Cunningham) and 6.9 points (Reggie Redding). They all play defense, and three players have more than 100 assists. Scottie Reynolds is the go-to guy at the end of games. It was his driving shot with less than a second left that won the East Regional final against Pittsburgh.COACHESJay Wright is not just the only rookie in the Final Four, he is the only coach here without a national championship to his credit. The win that got the Wildcats to the Final Four for the first time since 1985 was Wright’s 300th in his 15th season overall and eighth at Villanova. He was selected the coach of the year in the Big East this season.KEY POINTThe Wildcats are playing their best defense of the season in the NCAA tournament, holding opponents to under 40 percent shooting overall and 29 percent from 3-point range. They’re struggling from 3-point range, however, hitting only 29 percent, well below their 36 percent mark for the season. The lack of size, Cunningham is a 6-8 center, is made up for with the ability to constantly switch defenders to avoid mismatches.

Notebook: Lawson’s toe a non-issueBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — Ty Lawson sat down in front of reporters at Ford Field on Thursday and answered questions about everything from his habit of pulling pranks on teammates, his improved play as North Carolina’s point guard and playing on the same AAU team as Villanova’s Dante Cunningham.

Yet, for one of the few times in the past three weeks, one sub-ject didn’t dominate conversation: The Toe.

Maybe that’s because the Tar Heels’ floor leader doesn’t seem too worried about it heading into the Final Four.

“It’s pretty much a nonfactor right now,” he said.

Lawson jammed his right big toe during practice two days before the regular-season finale against Duke, but played 36 min-utes and nearly had a triple-dou-

ble in that win. The next day, the toe swelled unexpectedly and kept him out of two Atlantic Coast Conference tournament games followed by the NCAA tourna-ment opener the following week.

He hasn’t looked limited since his return. He scored 21 of his 23 points after halftime in the 84-70 second-round win against LSU, then had 19 points and nine assists against Gonzaga. In the regional final against Oklahoma, Lawson had 19 points and was selected as the South Regional’s

most outstanding player.L aw s o n s o u n d e d r e a d y

for Saturday’s matchup with Villanova in the national semifi-nals. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, Lawson said the toe felt like an 8.

Lawson needed a painkill-ing shot to play against the Blue Devils, though coach Roy Williams had said earlier in the tournament that Lawson wouldn’t do it again. He echoed that Thursday.

“I still don’t want that to hap-pen,” he said.

———SQUEAL WITH DELIGHT:

Jay Wright will have his lucky charm tucked safely in his pocket as Villanova tries to huff and puff and blow North Carolina down.

Move over Babe and Wilbur. Wright has his own lucky pig.

Wright’s 10-year-old daughter, Reilly, decided midway through

the season that her dad needed a good-luck charm before big games, so she gave Villanova’s coach a miniature stuffed pig. Reilly Wright had been bringing her own pigs to games and passed one on to her dad. He’s kept the pig safely tucked in his designer suit’s inside pocket, and he’ll have it Saturday against the Tar Heels.

“I certainly didn’t want my players knowing I had a little pig in my pocket,” Wright said. “And I also had to admit to my daugh-ter that I really don’t believe that the pigs win us the game.”

Oh yeah? Well, the Wildcats haven’t had a two-game losing streak all season and are in their first Final Four in 24 years.

“She now has a bunch of those little pigs and carries a stuffed animal pig,” Wright said. “It was between me and my daughter. Well, not anymore. Now, it’s just embarrassing.”

———MSU’S MASKED MAN:

Michigan State prides itself on being a balanced team that doesn’t rely on a star or two. The Spartans, though, say they needforward Raymar Morgan to playwell to upset Connecticut.

“Raymar is going to be the X-factor in this game,” Michigan State center Goran Suton said.

Coach Tom Izzo agrees.“I don’t think it’s putting pres-

sure on him, it’s just being hon-est,” Izzo said.

The Spartans hope the 6-foot-8Morgan gives the Huskies prob-lems, because he can score insideand out, defend, rebound and run.

But Morgan is averaging less than six points a game in the NCAA tournament, barely look-ing like the player coach Izzo said was his best in the middle of theseason.

UConn’s Thabeet ready for biggest stage

MSU hopes Walton can slow down Prince

Hansbrough gets another shot at the national title

Reynolds wraps Villanova in Final Four success

• See NOTEBOOK, page B-4

• See MSU, page B-4• See UCONN, page B-4

• See UNC, page B-4 • See ‘NOVA, page B-4

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NBA

National Basketball AssociationEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division W L Pct GBy-Boston 58 19 .753 —Philadelphia 39 35 .527 17 1/2New Jersey 31 44 .413 26Toronto 29 45 .392 27 1/2New York 29 46 .387 28Southeast Division W L Pct GBy-Orlando 56 19 .747 —x-Atlanta 43 33 .566 13 1/2x-Miami 40 36 .526 16 1/2Charlotte 34 42 .447 22 1/2Washington 18 59 .234 39Central Division W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 61 15 .803 —Detroit 36 39 .480 24 1/2Chicago 36 40 .474 25Indiana 32 44 .421 29Milwaukee 32 45 .416 29 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division W L Pct GBx-San Antonio 49 26 .653 —x-Houston 48 28 .632 1 1/2New Orleans 47 28 .627 2Dallas 45 31 .592 4 1/2Memphis 21 54 .280 28Northwest Division W L Pct GBx-Denver 50 26 .658 —Portland 48 27 .640 1 1/2Utah 46 30 .605 4Minnesota 22 54 .289 28Oklahoma City 21 54 .280 28 1/2Pacific Division W L Pct GBz-L.A. Lakers 60 16 .789 —Phoenix 42 34 .553 18Golden State 27 49 .355 33L.A. Clippers 18 57 .240 41 1/2Sacramento 16 59 .213 43 1/2

x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionz-clinched conference———Conference GlanceEASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBy-Cleveland 61 15 .803 —y-Boston 58 19 .753 3 1/2y-Orlando 56 19 .747 4 1/2x-Atlanta 43 33 .566 18Philadelphia 39 35 .527 21x-Miami 40 36 .526 21Detroit 36 39 .480 24 1/2Chicago 36 40 .474 25Charlotte 34 42 .447 27Indiana 32 44 .421 29Milwaukee 32 45 .416 29 1/2New Jersey 31 44 .413 29 1/2Toronto 29 45 .392 31New York 29 46 .387 31 1/2Washington 18 59 .234 43 1/2

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBz-L.A. Lakers 60 16 .789 —xd-Denver 50 26 .658 10xd-San Antonio 49 26 .653 10 1/2Portland 48 27 .640 11 1/2x-Houston 48 28 .632 12New Orleans 47 28 .627 12 1/2Utah 46 30 .605 14Dallas 45 31 .592 15Phoenix 42 34 .553 18Golden State 27 49 .355 33Minnesota 22 54 .289 38Memphis 21 54 .280 38 1/2Oklahoma City 21 54 .280 38 1/2L.A. Clippers 18 57 .240 41 1/2Sacramento 16 59 .213 43 1/2

d-division leaderx-clinched playoff spoty-clinched divisionz-clinched conference———Thursday’s GamesPhiladelphia 105, Milwaukee 95Washington 109, Cleveland 101Denver 114, Utah 104Friday’s GamesMiami 97, Charlotte 92San Antonio 126, Indiana 121Boston 104, Atlanta 92Memphis 107, Dallas 102Orlando 116, Cleveland 87Portland 107, Oklahoma City 72Minnesota 103, Utah 102Phoenix 139, Sacramento 111Golden State 111, New Orleans 103L.A. Lakers 93, Houston 81Saturday’s GamesToronto at New York, 1 p.m.New Jersey at Chicago, 2 p.m.Detroit at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.Orlando at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Miami at Washington, 7 p.m.Memphis at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Denver, 9 p.m.Sunday’s GamesSan Antonio at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 3:30 p.m.New York at Toronto, 6 p.m.Charlotte at Detroit, 6 p.m.Utah at New Orleans, 7 p.m.Denver at Minnesota, 7 p.m.Portland at Houston, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Golden State at Sacramento, 9 p.m.L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

NCAA TournamentFINAL FOUR

At Ford FieldDetroitNational SemifinalsSaturday, April 4Michigan State (30-6) vs. Connecticut (31-4), 6:07 p.m.Villanova (30-7) vs. North Carolina (32-4), 8:47 p.m.National ChampionshipMonday, April 6Semifinal winners———NCAA Women’s Basketball TournamentFINAL FOURAt Scottrade CenterSt. LouisNational SemifinalsSunday, April 5Louisville (33-4) vs. Oklahoma (32-4), 7 p.m.Connecticut (37-0) vs. Stanford (33-4), 9:30 p.m.National ChampionshipTuesday, April 7Semifinal winners, 8:30 p.m.

NASCAR

Sprint CupSamsung 500 LineupAt Texas Motor SpeedwayFort Worth, TexasLap length: 1.5 miles(Car number in parentheses)

1. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 190.517.

2. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 190.194.

3. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 189.954.4. (6) David Ragan, Ford, 189.934.5. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 189.907.6. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 189.9.7. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet,

189.807.8. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 189.427.9. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,

189.421.10. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota,

189.268.11. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota,

189.221.12. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge,

189.215.13. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 189.175.14. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 189.155.15. (31) Jeff Bur ton, Chevrolet,

189.122.16. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevro-

let, 188.857.17. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet,

188.831.18. (83) Br ian Vickers, Toyota,

188.778.19. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet,

188.772.20. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,

188.745.21. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,

188.627.22. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota,

188.541.23. (5) Mark Mar tin, Chevrolet,

188.515.24. (96) Bobby Labonte, Ford,

188.469.25. (44) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge,

188.298.26. (34) John Andretti, Chevrolet,

188.291.27. (09) Mike Bliss, Dodge, 188.009.28. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 187.95.29. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota,

187.898.30. (71) David Gilliland, Chevrolet,

187.833.31. (1) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet,

187.682.32. (12) David Stremme, Dodge,

187.493.33. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet,

187.487.34. (55) Michael Waltrip, Toyota,

187.305.35. (07) Casey Mears, Chevrolet,

187.279.36. (26) Jamie McMurray, Ford,

187.24.37. (21) Bill Elliott, Ford, 187.039.38. (43) Reed Sorenson, Dodge,

186.948.39. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 186.496.40. (25) Brad Keselowski, Chevrolet,

186.355.41. (8) Aric Almirola, Chevrolet,

186.156.42. (19) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, Owner

Points.43. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 186.111. Failed to Qualify44. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota,

186.034.45. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 185.79.46. (41) Jeremy Mayfield, Toyota,

185.344.47. (64) Todd Bodine, Toyota, 184.546.48. (36) Scott Riggs, Toyota, 183.974.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 0 0 .000 —Florida 0 0 .000 —New York 0 0 .000 —Philadelphia 0 0 .000 —Washington 0 0 .000 —Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 0 0 .000 —Cincinnati 0 0 .000 —Houston 0 0 .000 —Milwaukee 0 0 .000 —Pittsburgh 0 0 .000 —St. Louis 0 0 .000 —

West Division W L Pct GBArizona 0 0 .000 —Colorado 0 0 .000 —Los Angeles 0 0 .000 —San Diego 0 0 .000 —San Francisco 0 0 .000 ————Sunday’s GameAtlanta (Lowe 0-0) at Philadelphia (Myers 0-0), 8:05 p.m.Monday’s GamesN.Y. Mets (Santana 0-0) at Cincinnati (Harang 0-0), 1:10 p.m.Colorado (Cook 0-0) at Arizona (Webb 0-0), 3:40 p.m.Washington (Lannan 0-0) at Florida (Nolasco 0-0), 4:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Maholm 0-0) at St. Louis (Wainwright 0-0), 4:15 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 0-0) at Houston (Oswalt 0-0), 7:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 0-0) at San Diego (Peavy 0-0), 7:05 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesMilwaukee at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Washington at Florida, 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.———AMERICAN LEAGUEEast Division W L Pct GBBaltimore 0 0 .000 —Boston 0 0 .000 —New York 0 0 .000 —Tampa Bay 0 0 .000 —Toronto 0 0 .000 —Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 0 0 .000 —Cleveland 0 0 .000 —Detroit 0 0 .000 —Kansas City 0 0 .000 —Minnesota 0 0 .000 —West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 0 0 .000 —Oakland 0 0 .000 —Seattle 0 0 .000 —Texas 0 0 .000 ————Sunday’s GamesNo games scheduledMonday’s GamesCleveland (Lee 0-0) at Texas (Millwood 0-0), 2:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Shields 0-0) at Boston (Beckett 0-0), 2:05 p.m.Kansas City (Meche 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 0-0), 2:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-0) at Baltimore (Guthrie 0-0), 4:05 p.m.Detroit (Verlander 0-0) at Toronto (Halladay 0-0), 7:15 p.m.Seattle (Hernandez 0-0) at Minnesota (Liriano 0-0), 8:10 p.m.Oakland (Braden 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Saunders 0-0), 9:05 p.m.Tuesday’s GamesDetroit at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Seattle at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

SPRING TRAINING

AMERICAN LEAGUE W L PctLos Angeles 25 8 .758New York 23 10 .697Texas 21 13 .618Minnesota 18 13 .581Boston 19 14 .576Kansas City 17 14 .548Seattle 16 17 .485Oakland 16 18 .471Tampa Bay 14 16 .467Detroit 14 17 .452Toronto 13 17 .433Chicago 15 20 .429Baltimore 13 20 .394Cleveland 11 20 .355———NATIONAL LEAGUE W L PctMilwaukee 21 10 .677Atlanta 21 11 .656St. Louis 19 12 .613New York 18 14 .562Pittsburgh 17 14 .548San Francisco 20 18 .526Chicago 18 17 .514Colorado 16 17 .485Washington 14 17 .452Los Angeles 15 20 .429Philadelphia 13 18 .419Cincinnati 13 20 .394Florida 12 19 .387Houston 12 19 .387Arizona 11 22 .333San Diego 10 20 .333

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.———Thursday’s GamesAtlanta 2, Houston 1Detroit 8, Toronto 5Minnesota 7, Boston 3St. Louis 6, Florida 3Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5Washington 12, Philadelphia 10N.Y. Mets 9, Baltimore 8Seattle 18, San Diego 3Colorado 7, Arizona 4Texas 9, Kansas City 3Chicago Cubs 9, Cleveland 8Milwaukee 2, Chicago White Sox 1L.A. Dodgers 6, L.A. Angels 2San Francisco 7, Oakland 4Friday’s GamesMinnesota 4, Pittsburgh 4, tie, 10 innings

Baltimore 6, Washington 3N.Y. Mets 4, Boston 3Toronto 10, Florida 4N.Y. Yankees 7, Chicago Cubs 4Philadelphia 3, Tampa Bay 2Atlanta 3, Detroit 1Texas 7, Kansas City 2Houston 2, Cleveland 0St. Louis 13, Memphis 1Chicago White Sox 6, Arizona 3Colorado 6, Seattle 3L.A. Angels 6, San Diego 5Milwaukee 7, L.A. Dodgers 2Oakland 2, San Francisco 1, 10 inningsSaturday’s GamesToronto vs. Florida at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.Detroit at Atlanta, 1:05 p.m.Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m.Boston at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.Cleveland at Houston, 2:05 p.m.St. Louis at Memphis, 2:05 p.m.Kansas City at Texas, 2:05 p.m.San Francisco at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Seattle vs. Colorado at Las Vegas, 4:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.Baltimore at Washington, 6:05 p.m.San Diego at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.Sunday’s GameL.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS

BASEBALLAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Assigned RHP Jim Hoey outright to Bowie (EL).

DETROIT TIGERS—Assigned INF Mike Hessman and OF Brent Clevlen outright to Toledo (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Assigned 1B Ryan Shealy outright to Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned INF Matt Tolbert to Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Announced INF Reegie Corona was accepted back from Seattle and assigned to Trenton (EL).

SEATTLE MARINERS—Placed OF Ichiro Suzuki on the 15-day DL, retroac-tive to March 31.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Released RHP Chris Kelly and RHP Travis Risser.National League

ATLANTA BRAVES—Optioned OF Gregor Blanco, OF Brandon Jones, RHP Manny Acosta and LHP Boone Logan to Gwinnett (IL). Assigned RHP Kris Medlen, INF Brooks Conrad and C J.C. Boscan to their minor league camp. Placed C David Ross on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 1 and LHP Tom Glavine on 15-day DL, retroactive to April 2.

FLORIDA MARLINS—Optioned RHP Carlos Martinez to New Orleans (PCL). Reassigned RHP Brian Sanches to their minor league camp.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Assigned OF Tony Gwynn outright to Nashville (PCL). Claimed 1B Joe Koshansky off waivers from Texas and optioned him to Nashville. Released INF Mike Lamb.

NEW YORK METS—Agreed to terms with OF Gary Sheffield on a one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Optioned RHP Evan Meek to Indianapolis (IL). Placed LHP Phil Dumatrait on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27.

WA S H I N G TO N N AT I O N A L S —Assigned INF Kory Casto and LHP Mike O’Connor outright to Syracuse (IL). Placed RHP Terrell Young on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Waived LHP Justin Hampson. BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

TORONTO RAPTORS—Signed G Quincy Douby to a second 10-day con-tract. Assigned F-C Nathan Jawai to Idaho (NBADL).FOOTBALLNational Football League

NEW YORK GIANTS—Released WR Plaxico Burress.

TENNESSEE TITANS—Signed QB Patrick Ramsey to a one-year contract.COLLEGE

CAL POLY—Named Joe Callero men’s basketball coach.

GEORGIA—Named Mark Fox men’s basketball coach.

GEORGIA TECH—Announced the resignation of swimming coach Stu Wil-son.

HIGH POINT—Named Wes Miller men’s assistant basketball coach.

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE—Named Justin Lustig running backs and special teams coach.

PURDUE—Announced sophomore QB Justin Siller has been dismissed from school for an academic violation.

VIRGINIA—Named Ritchie McKay men’s associate head basketball coach.

SCOREBOARD Reutimann on pole in Texas, Gordon 2nd

BY STEPHEN HAWKINSAP Sports Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — David Reutimann has taken Michael Waltrip Racing from a mangled mess at Texas to the front of the field.

Reutimann earned the pole for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked Texas Motor Speedway with a lap of 190.517 mph on Friday.

“I guess that puts an excla-mation mark on just how things have changed,” said Reutimann, driving the No. 00 Toyota owned by Waltrip.

A year ago, the No. 00 was driven in Texas qualify-ing by Cup rookie Michael McDowell, who escaped unscathed from a horrif-ic, tumbling crash when he slammed into the wall and rolled at least eight times before coming to a rest at the bottom of the track.

Two years ago, the first for Waltrip’s team, Reutimann didn’t get a chance to race at Texas after qualifying was can-celed because of severe weath-er. The team didn’t have enough points to get into the field.

“I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a miserable time in my life and we actu-ally had a very good car,” Reutimann said. “People tend to forget that it wasn’t that long ago when we were struggling to absolutely make

races. ... Going out there and getting poles shows that you’re doing what you’re sup-posed to do, and I think about those times often.”

Reutimann, 11th in season points, won his only other pole in last season’s finale at Homestead. Waltrip will start 34th Sunday in the Samsung500.

Carl Edwards, who won both Texas races last year to become the track’s first three-time winner, qualified 13th.

Season points leader Jeff Gordon will start his Chevrolet on the outside of front row after a qualify-ing lap of 190.194 mph on a windy day. Texas is one of two active tracks where the four-time Cup champion with 81 race victories has never won.

Gordon was on the pole at Texas last fall and finished second. But he was last in the 43-car field last April, the second last-place finish in his 551 career races. The otheralso was Texas.

“We were pretty good herethe last time, obviously, sitting on the pole. We were similar to that today,” said Gordon, who has a record eight top 10s at the track despite thestrange quirks in his record.

Matt Kenseth will start third, followed by DavidRagan, Paul Menard and Kasey Kahne.

GEORGETOWN ATHELITICS

Cumberland Gap graduate Alex Lewis (fourth from right), now a fresh-man tennis player at Georgetown College, was one of several studentathletes recognized by the school earlier this year for their integrity.Through the Champions of Character program, the NAIA seeks to cre-ate an environment in which every student-athlete, coach, official and spectator is committed to the true spirit of competition through respect, integrity, responsibility, servant leadership and sportsmanship.Recently, the following Georgetown College student-athletes were rec-ognized for upholding the tenet of integrit. They have purity of intent,are truthful, honorable and genuine and are worthy of respect: Baseball– Tyler VanDyke, Men’s Basketball – Bret Saxton, Women’s Basketball – Ausha Weathers, Men’s Cross Country– Cody Polzin, Women’s CrossCountry– Layne Bush, Dance – Becky Staton, Men’s Golf – Jon Hollan, Women’s Golf – Natalie Brown, Men’s Soccer – Alex Butt, Women’s Soccer – Madison Nation, Softball – Ashley Mitchell, Men’s Tennis – AlexLewis, Women’s Tennis – Adrienne Bartlett, Men’s Track & Field – LukeGarnett, Women’s Track & Field – Amanda Bolton, Volleyball – CathyFrank.

Lewis among Georgetown student athletes honored

NASCAR’s Petty will have Indy 500 entry

BY MIKE HARRISAP Auto Racing Writer

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Richard Petty will make his first foray into the Indianapolis 500 as an owner when he fields a car for John Andretti in next month’s race. Petty will be joining fellow NASCAR team owners Roger Penske and Chip Ganassi at Indy.

A news conference is scheduled Monday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but details were confirmed Friday by a person familiar with the arrangement. The person spoke on the condi-tion of anonymity to The Associated Press because the deal has not been announced.

Andretti drove for the now-defunct family-owned Petty Enterprises team in NASCAR from 1998 through the middle of the 2003 season. He has driv-en in nine Indy 500s, including the last two — finishing 16th last year driving for Marty Roth — and 10 NASCAR races at

the famed Brickyard.His best finish in the 500

was fifth in 1991, while his top performance in the Cup event was seventh in his firstyear driving for Petty.

The 46-year-old racer, the nephew of longtime open-wheel star and Indy 500 winner Mario Andretti, has also driven sports cars and dragsters.

In 1994, he became thefirst driver to run both the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR event in Charlotte on the same day, finishing 10th at Indianapolis and crashing and finishing 36th at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon have both since done the double, but the gruel-ing feat is no longer possible since Indianpolis changed its starting time several years ago.

Petty is a partner in NASCAR with George Gillett in Richard Petty Motorsports,the team formerly known asGillett Evernham Motorsports.Gillett is not expected to be part of the Indy deal.

Future Reds pound current ones 12-4BY JOEDY MCCREARYAP Sports Writer

ZEBULON, N.C. (AP) — At least the future looks bright for the Cincinnati Reds.

Juan Francisco homered twice and drove in five runs, and Cincinnati’s top minor league players hit Bronson Arroyo and the rest of the big leaguers hard Friday night in a 12-4 exhibition win over the Reds.

Arroyo lasted just three innings in his final spring tuneup. He’s fighting a flare-up of the carpal tunnel syndrome that has plagued him the past few years and has not only limited his effectiveness on the mound but also kept him from strumming his beloved guitar.

“I’m getting close — it’s such a minute thing. It’s kind of a ’feel’ thing,” Arroyo said. “It can click any day and (you) just have your grade-A stuff. I don’t think it’s going to be that big of a deal once I get the swelling out of there.”

He gave up six earned runs, seven hits and two homers in his return to the Carolina Mudcats’ ballpark in east-central North Carolina. He spent the 1998 sea-son here when he was in Pittsburgh’s organization and the Mudcats were the Pirates’ Double-A affiliate.

It was his latest rough outing of the spring: Arroyo allowed 11 hits in five innings of a game against minor leaguers on March 24, and was pounded for 14 hits and 10 runs — three earned — in only 4 2-3 innings against Tampa Bay last Sunday.

“It’s getting better, but you just kind of feel out of sync,” Arroyo said. “I don’t feel crisp. Not hitting my spots, and stuff like that. It’s a gradual process. Hopefully, I’ll get it all to click before Thursday,” when he’s scheduled to make his first start of the regu-lar season.

This time, he gave up a three-run, inside-the-park homer to Francisco in the third. An inning later,

Francisco — last year’s hitter of the year in the Reds’ organization — added a conventional two-run shot off reliever Francisco Cordero.

Yonder Alonzo, the Reds’ first-round draft pick last year, hit a two-run homer and finished with three RBIs. Chris Valaika, the club’s reigning minor league player of the year, had four hits, including an RBI double in the fourth off Cordero. The Futures stretched their lead to 10-0 in the fifth.

“They’ve beat me around,” Arroyo said. “Definitely some ballplayers out there. It’s just a matter of those guys putting together a good season, front to back, and continuing to improve and impress people around here.”

The team consisted of the top minor leaguers from all levels of the Reds’ organization but wore the gray road uniforms of the Mudcats, Cincinnati’s new Double-A farm club.

And they sure didn’t play like minor leaguers, tak-ing a six-run lead in the third on one of the stranger sequences of the spring.

Francisco’s pop-up down the left-field line landed in front of Chris Dickerson, and the outfielder’s momen-tum carried him over the short fence near the stands. By the time he hopped back over the wall and realized the ball was still in play, Francisco had raced all the way around and easily beat the throw to the plate.

An inning later, Francisco had a much more lei-surely trip around the bases. He crushed a towering drive off Cordero that cleared the equipment shed in right, one batter after Valaika’s run-scoring double off the wall in right.

Alonzo, Cincinnati’s first-round draft pick last year, capped the Futures’ three-run first off Arroyo by lining a 91 mph fastball over the right-field wall. It was the second homer of the spring for the former University of Miami star who spent last season at Single-A Sarasota.

“ I t h ink peop le a re criticizing me more this year than they ever have,” he said. “I think it’s just because people have such high expectations or, like someone said, before a lot of people don’t like me. But I don’t real ly care about me. I’ll play my game and I think it’s effective either way.”

Tr u e , h i s s c o r i n g , rebounding and shooting percentage dipped slight-ly from last year. He was constantly the focus of defenses that collapsed on him inside to l imit his shots. He got the foul line even less despite tak-ing plenty of contact and hard hits, so much so that it’s common to see him looking for a contact lens that’s been knocked out of his eye in a tussle under the basket. There was also a game at Miami in which he played through what t e a m d o c t o r s t h o u g h t might be a concussion.

And ye t , he led the ACC in scoring for a sec-ond straight year at nearly 21 points and had 11 dou-ble-doubles.

“Someone does things at a certain level, unless we’re reminded, we kind of take him for granted,” Connect icut coach J im Calhoun said. “And that happens at almost every l eve l o f pe r fo r mance . You go and hear Pavarotti sing, and he’s wonderful. You go and hear Pavarotti a couple more times, he’s good, he’s good. Pretty soon, Pavarott i’s g reat , but you don’t talk about him l ike the f irst t ime anymore. And I think that happens to players, too.”

Vi l lanova coach Jay Wright , who wil l have to devise a way to slow Hansbrough on Saturday, felt the same way.

“It’s almost l ike he’s become unde rapp rec i -ated,” Wright said. “He’s really become taken for g ranted by the country and the media. But I’m sure not by their team.

He’s just done it the same way for so long. You count on him for a double-dou-ble, he’s going to make his free throws. But we’re not losing his importance to that team.”

He’s f a i led to score in double f igures only nine times in his career, and two of those games came immediately after the broken nose he suf-fered on a hard foul by Duke’s Gerald Henderson in 2007. The last came in last weekend’s 72-60 win against Oklahoma; he f inished with e ight points and six rebounds while getting in early foul trouble defending Blake Gr i ff in , who has won several of this season’s national player of the year awards.

N o t c o u n t i n g t h o s e two games with the bro-ken nose , Hansbrough has come back to score at least 21 points in the game immediately follow-ing a single-digit scoring per for mance — mean-

ing he could be in line for a big day against the Wildcats.

A couple more of those,and Hansbrough could f inally have the champi-onship he covets.

“People are all talking about somebody else this year and last year was his t ime in the l ight,” said senior Bobby Frasor, wholives with Hansbrough in an off-campus house. “I think Tyler still deserves some of that recognition,because how often do youget a national player of the year coming back for his senior year? To get cr i t ic ized for that and have people picking part his game, I don’t think it’sfair.

“He can s t i ck i t t o everyone who criticizedhis game if he can hang abanner and put a ring on his f inger.”

———AP Na t iona l Wr i t e r

Nancy Armour contribut-ed to this report.

Morgan’s season was stunted in late January wi th walking pneumo-nia and mononucleosis and hasn’t been the same since.

“It’s been a tough year, but a l l that mat ters i s we’re in the Final Four,” Morgan said.

He broke his nose in the round of 16 against Kansas , then was held scoreless in 10 minutes in the next round versus

Louisville.“The mask he had was

a hockey goalie’s,” Izzo said. “Now, he’s got a r e a l , f o r m - f i t t e d o n e l ike Rip Hamilton has. Hopefully, he plays like Rip.”

———ROAD TO THE FINAL

FOUR: Only Michigan State hit the road for Ford Field, just 90 miles from the Spartan’s campus in East Lansing.

For those interested in how many airline miles the three o ther team’s p l a y e r s w o u l d h a v e

received — if they were el igible to receive any benef i ts — the NCAA conveniently posted signs in the four corners of the arena showing the dis-tance each traveled.

C o n n e c t i c u t c a m e the far thest, 746 miles. Close behind was North Carolina at 701, followed by Villanova at 572.

———M V P FA N : J - R o l l

backs his ’Cats.Phi ladelphia Phi l l ies

shortstop Jimmy Rollins is friends with Jay Wright and a devoted follower

of the Wildcats. He was one of 333 well-wishers who texted the Villanova coach on Saturday after t he Wi ldca t s c l inched their spot in the Final Four. Rollins met Wright at a Midnight Madness, and they’ve kept in touch through the years.

“The way he goes out there, he’s a disciplinarian and he gets your atten-tion,” Rollins said. “He knows his stuff, knows his players. I just admire everything about that.”

W h e n R o l l i n s we n t 0 - f o r - 1 0 i n t h e f i r s t

two games of the World Ser ies , he turned to a self- improvement book titled, “The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Perfor mance.” Rollins said the book was like therapy for him and passed it along to Wright to help out the Wildcats if they got stuck in a slump.

“He gives you really insightful stuff, not just ’go ge t ’em,”’ Wright said. “He’l l say things about where his team was at this point, and a lot of them I’ll share it with

the guys. He’s good. He’sreally good.”

Rollins and the Phillies ended Philadelphia’s 25-year pro sports drought l a s t Oc tobe r, and i t ’sbeen 24 years since the Wildcats won their only national title. Rollins is hoping Vil lanova gives the city another reason to throw a parade.

“I would love to see them win it all, def inite-ly,” he said.

AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dan Gelston and Larry Lage contributed to this report.

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“I’m very, very defensive about Hasheem and his devel-opment,” Calhoun said. “If you had seen him three years ago, he just could barely even make a layup.”

During Friday afternoon’s public practice at Ford Field, Thabeet threw down several rim-rattling dunks. But he drew hoots from Michigan State fans when he pulled up for a 15-foot jumper and missed everything.

Thabeet couldn’t help smil-ing as the fans razzed him.

His smile can light up an arena. But it can create an impression that Thabeet isn’t tough enough to bang with the other big boys.

Thabeet apparently hasn’t learned how to scowl.

“During practice, when I’m getting a little sterner than I would like to be, he may turn and smile at me,” Calhoun said. “It’s really the inappro-priate thing to do. With him, I kind of let it go because ... he doesn’t understand the

basketball culture. He hasn’t been brought up on being part of a team, going to the locker room. He’s learned a lot of that stuff, but he doesn’t truly understand it all the time, and that’s why we have to get on him.

“It’s not because he’s soft,” Calhoun said. “He’s a very tough kid, maybe the toughest guy on the team, mentally and a lot of different ways.”

He also might be the goofiest. This week, Thabeet caused a minor stir when he posted a message on his Twitter feed that he had failed a drug test and would not go to Detroit.

Thabeet soon revealed it was an April Fool’s joke, to the relief of Huskies fans. The prank raised a few eyebrows, but not inside UConn’s dress-ing room.

“I’m sure that people who don’t know him, they were freaked out,” UConn forward Gavin Edwards said. “But if you know him, you knew he was joking.”

Calhoun’s reaction?“For him to do that, I

couldn’t even get angry,”

Calhoun said. “He’s a hard kid to get very angry at.”

Thabeet smiled — of course — when he was asked about his sunny demeanor.

“I smile in the game and people question if I’m mean enough,” he said. “If you want to find out how mean I am, just try to score on me.”

The Spartans will try. But they’re not sure how to go about it.

In UConn’s 82-75 victo-ry over Missouri in the West regional final last weekend, Thabeet failed to block a shot for the first time in 50 games. But afterward the defeated Tigers said he had taken them out of their comfort zone.

“Especially in that Missouri game, I think they were com-ing in there and changing their shots up,” Michigan State guard Travis Walton said. “Even if he didn’t block the shot, his presence made you change the shot.

“Even when he isn’t in the game, or even when he’s not around, you still think, is he going to come from behind me and block the shot?” Walton said.

UConncontinued from page B-2

“I live with the guy. He watches so much f ilm, so much basketball,” center Goran Suton said. “He drib-bles the basketball around the apartment. He drives me crazy.”

Walton, who averaged just 5.3 points a game, isn’t known for his offense. But he did score a career-high 18 points in the second round against USC to put the Spartans in the regional semif inals for the eighth time in 12 years.

His defense in the next two rounds kept a streak

alive for the elite basketball program.

Since Izzo succeeded Jud Heathcote in 1995, every player who has played for the Spartans for four years has been on a Final Four team.

“It means so much to know I help keep that streak alive,” Walton said. “Hopefully, we’re not done yet.”

Whether the Spartans win or lose Saturday, Walton’s impact will be a lasting one.

Michigan State last won the national title in 2000, part of a four-year run that included four Big Ten titles and three Final Four appear-

ances because it was men-tally and physically tougher than many of its opponents.

Then the Spartans went seven seasons without a conference championship and advanced to the nation-al semifinals once.

Izzo said he made the mistake of valuing tal-ent over toughness before recruiting Walton out of Lima, Ohio, to bring the program back to its blue-collar roots.

For Walton, it all starts on defense — always has, even when he was just a kid.

“I started getting a name for it. I could stop people,” Walton said.

Next stop, Connecticut.

MSUcontinued from page B-2

UNCcontinued from page B-2

“His high school coach told me when I was recruit-ing Scottie that he’s the kind of kid that could make a play to get you to the Final Four,” said Sampson, an assistant for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Reynolds always felt at home on the court, scoring a team freshman record 40 points against Connecticut and was named Big East rookie of the year. Still, he flirted with the idea of declaring for the NBA draft after his freshman season.

“He was thinking, ’This is tough for me here, I’m struggling on and off the court, and I know I have to stay and stick this out,”’ Wright said. “He’d get emo-tional sometimes.”

Wr igh t t r ans fo r med Villanova back into a Big East contender by loading his roster with recruits from the New York/New Jersey/Washington area. Reynolds felt like an outsider, from the classroom to the locker room.

“He was struggling on

campus,” Wright said. “He wants to excel at every-thing he does. Academically here, unless you’re valedic-torian of your class, you’re not going to excel here. Academically he was strug-gling — he was fine eligi-bility-wise — but he wasn’t excelling. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t do anything. This is a very social campus. That’s not him.”

It took Reynolds halfway through his sophomore year to really feel like he want-ed to stay at the suburban Philadelphia school.

Reynolds’ decision to stay has been a boon for Wright and the Wildcats. He led them in scoring last season, is 18th on Villanova’s career scoring list and playing in his third straight NCAA tournament.

He matched his career high with another 40-point game against Seton Hall this year and averaged 16.9 points in Big East games. Always a streaky shooter, Reynolds is only shooting 35 percent (15-for-42) from the floor with 50 points in four NCAA tournament games.

But when the Wildcats need-ed someone to take the shot to save their season, Wright said there was no other play-er he wanted with the ball in his hands.

“There’s no doubt that guy’s going to make a play, an aggressive play, at the end of the game,” Wright said.

Asked if he ever made a basket so important at any level, Reynolds simply shrugged and said, “I’ve had a lot of misses.”

Not this time.“That shot’s going to be

remembered around here for a long time,” Wright said.

Wright hasn’t forgotten how lucky he was to land Reynolds.

When Villanova played at Marquette this year, they practiced at the Bucks’ prac-tice facility. Wright left on Sampson’s desk a handwrit-ten note with an appreciative addendum.

“He put, ’P.S. By the way, thanks for Scottie,”’ Sampson said.

—————AP Sports Writer Chris

Jenkins in Milwaukee con-tributed to this story.

‘Novacontinued from page B-2

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee center Kelley Cain has had successful sur-gery to remove screws placed in her right knee during a previous surgery.

The screws were placed in her knee on Dec. 11, 2007, to repair problems with the joint. Team doctors also evaluated the joint during Friday’s surgery.

Lady Volunteers trainer Jenny Moshak says Cain will begin rehabilitation immedi-ately but will be limited to nonimpact activ-

ity for the first six weeks.Cain, a 6-foot-6 redshirt freshman from

Atlanta, missed last season because of the initial surgery and struggled with pain in the knee throughout the 2008-09 season.

In 27 games this year, she averaged 8.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.8 blocks and shot 61.8 percent. In her nine starts, her aver-age numbers jumped to 11.3 points, 6.6 rebounds, two blocks and a 71.8 percent accuracy.

Lady Vol C Kelley Cain has knee surgery

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