Storm returns to TV 3 weeks after grill accident

With a wave of her bandaged left hand, and boosted by well wishes from Dr. Phil, Chris Evert and even a young woman she once babysat, Hannah Storm returned to a most comfortable setting ? talking in front of a TV camera.

The ESPN anchor hosted the Rose Parade telecast Tuesday in her first on-air appearance since sustaining first- and second-degree burns to her face, hands, chest and neck in a propane gas grill accident Dec. 11.

"I was just so happy to be there, so grateful," she said by phone from Pasadena, Calif. "It took a lot out of me, but it went great."

Storm lost roughly half her hair in the accident outside her home in Connecticut. She wore extensions for the two-hour show on ABC. Storm's eyebrows and eyelashes also were burned off. When a makeup artist brushed on her first eyebrow, "I wanted to kiss her, it looked so good," she said.

This was the fifth time Storm served as TV host for the Rose Parade. She said working alongside her former "SportsCenter" co-anchor, "Good Morning America" host Josh Elliott, eased her way.

She said it was to her benefit that she could ad-lib through the show. She's left-handed, and the burns and an infection make it hard to turn pages on a script or take notes.

"I could be myself today, just talking and reacting to what I saw," she said. "It was a very familiar place."

She was warmed, too, by having her three daughters with her in California ? 15-year-old Hannah, 14-year-old Ellery and 11-year-old Riley. There are, incidentally, four generations of Hannahs in the family, with Storm's mother and grandmother also sharing that first name.

"It was good that the girls got to see mommy doing what she usually does. Being on TV, being on the set, that brings a sense of normalcy," she said.

Storm cautioned that her return to the air just three weeks after being injured was far from normal. The fiery explosion left flame marks on her neck, and doctors have told her to keep the most seriously burned areas out of direct sunlight for six months. Dressing and showering are still difficult, too.

"This hair wasn't real, these eyebrows weren't real," she said. "It's important to remember burns take a long time to heal."

During the telecast, she thanked everyone from the Trauma and Burn Center at Westchester Medical Center who treated her. Her husband, NBC sportscaster Dan Hicks, rearranged his schedule to stay home during her recovery.

Storm has received bunches of calls, texts, emails, tweets and other supportive messages. Tennis star Mardy Fish, ESPN colleagues Dick Vitale and John Kruk, and the Rev. John Jenkins, president of her alma mater Notre Dame, were among those reaching out to the popular broadcaster and producer.

Storm will wait to see when she rejoins "SportsCenter" in Bristol, Conn. She hoped to anchor Sunday, but wants to see how she feels this week.

In the meantime, Storm plans to turn her ordeal into an opportunity to talk about how to safely operate propane gas grills.

Storm was injured when she tried to re-ignite the grill after the flame had gone out. She shut off the gas and when she turned it back on "there was an explosion and this wall of fire came at me in an instant."

Storm said two people she worked with Tuesday said they'd been burned in similar accidents.

"A lot of people are afraid of grills," she said. "I think this will be a good chance to talk about safety."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/storm-returns-tv-3-weeks-grill-accident-045439394--spt.html

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Nigerian army says 14 die in gun battle with Boko Haram

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's military killed 13 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and lost one soldier on Tuesday in a gun battle in Maiduguri, the group's northeastern stronghold, the army said.

Boko Haram, which is loosely based on the Afghan Taliban, killed hundreds last year in a campaign to impose sharia, or Islamic law, in Nigeria, a country of more than 160 million split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims.

At least 32 people have now died in the northeast in the last week alone in violence presumed to be linked to Islamist militancy, the biggest threat to stability in Africa's main oil exporter.

"One soldier was killed by Boko Haram while the JTF killed 13 Boko Haram," Sagir Musa, spokesman for the military Joint Task Force, said on Tuesday.

The military in the northeast have in the past played down their own casualties in fighting with Boko Haram.

Musa said members of the sect had detonated a bomb at a JTF checkpoints in Maiduguri, and that all the deaths had occurred in the ensuing gun battle.

Maiduguri, a remote dusty town close to the borders of Chad and Niger, has been a hotbed of violence, directed mostly at the security forces, since Boko Haram took up arms in 2009.

Boko Haram's insurgency intensified after Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, was elected president in April 2011.

Jonathan has been unable to stop the rebellion despite waves of military offensives in the northeast and other parts of northern and central Nigeria where Boko Haram has a strong presence.

Western governments are increasingly concerned about Islamists in northern Nigeria linking up with outside groups, including al Qaeda's north African wing.

The Islamist group Ansaru, known to have ties with Boko Haram, appears to have become more active in recent weeks. It claimed an attack on a major police barracks in the capital Abuja last month, where it said hundreds of prisoners had been released.

The group, which has been labeled a "terrorist group" by Britain, has also said it was behind the kidnapping of a French national last week. (Reporting by Ibrahim Mshelizza; Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nigerian-army-says-14-die-gun-battle-boko-212205827.html

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Recall and Re-use

Imagine Changes Hypnosis: Best Recipe for Self-Improvement #2: Recall and Re-use

Clients who work on their self-improvement with me, learn that recall and re-using are the components of the second step.

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Recall a time when you felt desire. You will use the same technique to describe the fine details of your recollection.

Try this:

1. Breathe in to the count of 6, hold for 6 and exhale to your internal count of 18.
2. Repeat 3 times.
3. Close your eyes and recall a time, an event where you felt intense desire.
4. If you?ve competed step# 1, you?ll recall that finding the specific details of the event is the object.
5. The better you get at defining, writing down the smallest distinction of this experience, the closer you?ll be to self-improvement at a core level.
6. You?ll want the juice of desire and recall to be easily accessed.
7. Re-using refers to giving the event you?ve identified a single anchor, something like snapping your fingers and the emotion attached to it is at your finger tips.
8. Remember the event, condense it to snapping the fingers
9. Re-use the recollection by just snapping the fingers, no need to slog through the details.

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Senate clears fiscal cliff measure

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff.

The vote was an overwhelming 89-8 and came well after midnight on New Year's Day.

A House vote is expected before Wednesday.

The White House-backed legislation would prevent middle-class taxes from rising, and raise rates on incomes over $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for couples.

It also blocks spending cuts for two months, extends unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, prevents a 27 percent cut in fees for doctors who treat Medicare patients and prevents a spike in milk prices.

A last-minute addition would also prevent a $900 pay raise for members of Congress from taking effect in March.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-clear-fiscal-cliff-measure-070928752--finance.html

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