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As a gay teenager in Modesto in the 1980s, "dressed to the nines," Sondra St. James was walking downtown when a carload of drag queens spotted him. They were out of costume, and forced St. James into the car, warning, "Girl, you are going to get yourself killed."
As a gay teenager in Modesto in the 1980s, "dressed to the nines," Sondra St. James was walking downtown when a carload of drag queens spotted him. They were out of costume, and forced St. James into the car, warning, "Girl, you are going to get yourself killed."
They took St. James to their drag show, and his life would never be the same.
The abuse at school - more from faculty and staff than from students - being taunted and teased and called Boy Tim because he dressed liked Boy George, would continue, but the opportunity to parade on stage as a drag queen enabled him to escape, if only for a spell.
"It kind of saved me," St. James said. "At that point, I was a very angry teenager and I basically hung out with people and walked the streets all the time. If you looked at me wrong, I'd beat the hell out of you. When I started getting into this and focused in on this, it gave me a reason."
St. James finally was accepted and those older drag queens, her guardian angels, began shaping the adult that was to come.
"They're all gone now," St. James lamented. "We buried the last one (on Sunday)."
The work they did, reaching out and supporting those living alternative lifestyles, is their legacy, and it's been passed on to St. James, who proudly carries the banner. The 43-year-old entertainer and Stockton resident will appear at The Pride Center at 6 p.m. Friday. She'll participate in a question-and-answer session with Pride Center director Nicholas Hatten, then share some of the stand-up routine she's performed in Reno, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and other stops on the West Coast.
"Drag queens fall into the transgender umbrella, but there are differences within the two groups," said Hatten, whose organization supports the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender community. "Transgenders want to live their lives and have people accept them. They want to be able to be who they are within their own skin, in the community. Drag performers are larger than life. It's about the art, the theatrics. They want attention."
Hatten admits his own knowledge of the drag community first came from a RuPaul show. He's since learned that it was drag queens, mourning the death of Judy Garland, who were involved in the Stonewall Riots in New York, referenced in Barack Obama's second inaugural address on Monday.
"They wanted to be in their space, mourning (Garland), because she was such an icon," Hatten explained. "The police raided, and they said, 'No, not right now. No more. You're not denying us this right to mourn,' and they fought back."
The riots at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969, are a defining moment in the fight for gay rights.
"What I'm going to do is tell about the past," St. James said of the appearance in the town she has called home for 11 years. "It's surprising to me how many people do not know their gay history. It's just as important as black history and Hispanic history, because we have our forefathers who really fought for us."
Her own life has been, if not a fight, then a struggle, a roller coaster as she calls it.
As a 13-year-old, St. James came out as gay and identifies herself now as female.
Her mother, who had her at 54, cautioned, "Choose your road wisely. I think the one you're choosing is going to be a rough one."
Although her mother accepted the lifestyle and the friends who came with it, attending their shows and cooking huge dinners for them, St. James' eight siblings, with their Southern roots, did not. The teasing she got at school was worse at home.
"Mentally what I did to compensate was to tell myself there's always somebody worse off," St. James said. "If it wasn't for the sheer fact I was (gay), it would be something else they found wrong. It's human nature to point at differences in each other. Where I'm grateful for growing up the way I did is I had to grow up. You have a choice. You pick yourself up and you keep going or you sit down and act like a victim. If you do, you'll be a victim the rest of your life."
St. James, like a lot of comics, turned the pain into a comic act, albeit one in full drag.
More than that, she became a drag queen held in high esteem by colleagues. She was elected at 21 as empress of the Owl Empire of Stanislaus County, one of the branches of the International Court System, a community service group that began in San Francisco and originally raised money for AIDS research and treatment and advocated for human rights.
"I started a huge toy drive and had food drives," St. James said. "When most kids were going out partying, I was doing something for the community."
The drag queens who'd pulled her off the street taught her well. They made her compassionate, which helped her nurse friends with AIDS and eventually care for her beloved dying mother, Nellie Rae Sharitt, who passed away eight years ago. They also taught her two of life's biggest lessons, which she now passes on to up-and-coming performers: tell the truth and have no regrets.
They seem simple enough rules to live by, but for St. James they're quite profound. Choosing the life of a drag queen is being true to one's self, but once the decision is made, there can be no regrets.
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Masterpiece: 'I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold' (1928) by Charles Demuth
Poetry in Motion, Expressed in Paint
On a warm rainy night in July 1921, the modernist poet William Carlos Williams was walking in lower Manhattan. He was en route to the studio of a fellow modernist artist, Marsden Hartley, on 15th Street, when he heard and then saw a red fire truck emblazoned with a large gold five approach and pass him. The moment made such an impression that he pulled out paper and jotted down these lines:
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Stuyvesant and Xavier played each other on Pier 40 last Thursday afternoon in an interleague high school varsity scrimmage. Bottom photo, the Peg Legs huddled.
Oh oh, theres another mound problem; at Pier 40
By Lincoln Anderson and Aman Singh
It seems mounds and the Village area always amount to controversy. The three play mounds small climbing hills for young children in Washington Sq. Park have been the focus of a pitched battle between local parent groups who want to keep and renovate them and the Parks Department, which is not keen on them and reportedly views them as a liability issue, possibly because of use by skateboarders.
Now a new mound dilemma has erupted over the movable pitching mound being used for baseball on the new Pier 40 courtyard FieldTurf sports field. The mound was used last Thursday for a scrimmage between Stuyvesant and Xavier.
Because the field is multiuse for multiple sports there cannot be a permanent mound as it would limit the flexibility of the fields use.
Vincent Rotolo, director of the baseball program for P3, the group that runs youth sports programs on the pier, and also training coordinator for the Greenwich Village Little League, said P3 and G.V.L.L. worked with the Hudson River Park Trust to insure that the Trust bought a movable, artificial turf-covered mound that is state of the art. Older-model portable mounds are too steep on the nonpitching sides, but the new model is better configured so that pitchers wont injure themselves if they need to throw to the bases, Rotolo said.
But the Public School Athletic League wont allow its games to be played with movable mounds, said Rotolo. However, the coach argues that with the new mounds one of which, he said, is being used for official high school games only 3 miles away in Hoboken P.S.A.L. games should be allowed on the pier. Rotolo said the P.S.A.L. policy is outdated, from the 1970s when movable mounds first appeared. Yet, when they met with Bob Purchase, a P.S.A.L. official, he told them it was a no-go.
Stuyvesant has no home field, though it sometimes uses the Murry Bergtraum field, and, Rotolo said, the high school would like to use the pier field for games. Ironically, private schools which can afford better equipment and facilities can schedule games on the pier, Rotolo noted. Meanwhile, Stuyvesant (7-1) doesnt even have a team van and players take the subway to games, he said.
This is a big deal to me personally I want to see P.S.A.L. games at Pier 40, said Rotolo, who is also the Stuyvesant J.V. baseball coach. A Greenwich Village native, Rotolo, 32, has a 12-year-old son, Justin, who is a lefty pitcher and Rotolo hopes to one day see him play league games on the Hudson River pier at the end of W. Houston St.
Two of the P.S.A.L.s three sports coordinators, Adam Boxer and Lance Hermus, told The Villager they were not familiar with the portable mound issue at Pier 40. Margie Feinberg, a Department of Education spokesperson, hazarded a guess that this had something to do with baseball, then added, Our students dont play there because it is not our property. How can I say anything about land that is not ours? Our students dont play in any stadium or park. They play in the schools parks. Donald Douglas, P.S.A.L. director, declined to comment, referring questions to Feinberg.
But Rotolo isnt giving up his quest for respect for the mound and to have P.S.A.L. games at Pier 40.
P3 got the field to happen, but were not stopping now, he said.
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How Should We Spend Friday?
See also HackathonProjects - Move these projects there?
Add projects ideas you have, and add your name if you're interested in working on them.
- Hacking the build system (for example)
- Setting up GHC to build the base library using Cabal (since you have the GHC team, the Cabal team and the hmake team in one place!)
- Isaac Jones - I can be available for general Cabal questions as well.
- Hacking on Cabal-Get (not really a GHC thing!)
- Isaac Jones
- Fix C-- (cmm) output?
- Discussing proposed changes to backend and code generation
- Discussing dynamic linking
- Strategies in debugging GHC and RTS.
- Improve instance deriving: allow deriving Enum for more types, allow deriving Eq, Ord, Show for GADTs. -- Bjorn Bringert
- A walkthrough of GHC's intermediate outputs and how they are related to the various stages charted in http://cvs.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/HscMain
General Organization
The above are specific projects or subgroups that might form. What about more generally? How should we organise the day?
- just let everyone hack on individual projects, with floating Simons to help. --- I'd like that.
- form subgroups to work together on shared projects
- Project ideas here?
- Resuscitate ExternalCore
- Low hanging optimizations?
- STGLint
- Rewrite the Evil Mangler in Haskell?
- GHC RTS in Cyclone?
- Work on GHC API, I would like to use it to provide feedback and interactivity to programmers
- Hook a multithreaded memory manager into the RTS
- have more explanatory talk sessions led from the front
- form subgroups for explanatory sessions on different topics (but not to work on a shared project)
- work on fleshing out the wiki/commentary?
- ???
Seeking Enlightenment
- Space leaks
- short example posted to cafe by Rodrigues (http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-June/016171.html, http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-July/016709.html)


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ROME (AP) — A film by "Kids" director Larry Clark set in a small Texan town and to be released online only has taken the top award at Rome's film festival.
"Marfa Girl" explores the inner life of a teenage boy and other characters in a town near the Mexican border and bustling with border patrol police.
The festival jury gave it the Golden Marcus Aurelius prize for best film on Saturday night.
Clark, whose other credits include "Bully" and "Ken Park," says the new film won't be distributed in theaters but will be available online later this month to get around the Hollywood system.


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Bayfield High School got back to the track this weekend at the Piedra Vista Invitational in Farmington.
The girls squad finished fourth behind champion Piedra Vista, while the boys were eighth behind victorious Aztec as BHS took a somewhat smaller squad to the event. The Ignacio High School boys also competed, finishing 13th.
John Arnold of Bayfield won the pole vault with a vault of 11 feet, 6 inches, and Aubry Brown won the discus with a throw of 129-03.
Bayfields Brittany Hunter turned in a runner-up finish in the 400-meter dash, finishing in 1 minute, 5.91 seconds. Danielle Miller added a fourth-place finish in the 800, finishing in a time of 2:50.80.
The 4x100 relay team of Amy Roach, Morgan Allred, Jessie Roukema and Ashlyn Schulder finished fifth in 56.47 seconds.
Aubree Lorenzen had a sixth-place finish for the Wolverines in the 3200, finishing in 14:10.25.
Samantha Espinosa gave the Wolverines a third-place finish in the shot put, throwing an even 32 feet. Espinosa also added a third-place finish in the discus, throwing 90 feet, 06 inches while Ignacios Ashley Kienitz was seventh at 75-10.
Keith Wickman was third in the 100 for the Bayfield boys, coming in at 11.73 seconds. He added another third in the 200, finishing in 23.77 seconds.
Bayfields Nate Tate picked up a third-place finish in the 400 with a time of 56.38 seconds.
Wyatt Hayes was fifth in 2:13.21 in the 800, a race in which teammate Mike Perez finished eighth.
Luke Webb was sixth in the 3200 for BHS, while the 4x400 relay team of Brady Fields, Conner Kennedy, Garrett Marr and Tate was sixth. TJ Pazell also was sixth in the javelin for the Wolverines.


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FanBolt writes: "Whenever I get a new device, especially a follow-up to one I loved so dearly, one of the first things I have to do is play all of the latest games. Plus, when it comes to some games such as Anomaly Korea, having the use of the S pen with the Galaxy Note 2 makes for an even better way to play."
Hell Yeah! Get yourself Mame4droid for arcade gems and classics. Add a super nes and Genesis emulator and it's the perfect mobile gaming device.
Android gaming isn't my cup of coffee. I've tried a lot of Android games, hoping I'd be pleasantly surprised. But so far I've been disappointed. I've spent way more time playing FF VII on my SGS2 than all the actual Android games I've played combined.


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my version of mashed potatoes.
A Food Blog that shares tried & true recipes, and my passion for cooking and baking with a garnish of beginning gardening and some travel.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Guinness Glazed Pork Chops with Irish Colcannon
my version of mashed potatoes.
8 comments:
- Priyanka said...
Great recipe. Feels like St. Patrick's Day already
- March 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM
- Salsa Verde said...
Fantastic recipe and so yummy!!
- March 16, 2012 at 2:16 AM
- Anazar said...
Someone is preparing... ;-)))
- March 16, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Kate said...
Sounds like a great meal! I love colcannon. I need to figure out why I only make it once a year! I have never put green onions in mine but I think I will give that a try...great added flavor!
- March 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- Cathy at Wives with Knives said...
The glaze on your pork chops has my mouth watering, Debby. What a perfect match for the colcannon. I'm very happy you enjoyed this recipe and thank you so much for the link back to my blog. I had planned to put a corned beef into the crock pot in the morning, but those chops are really calling to me.
- March 16, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Joanne said...
A guinness glaze...now that's something I would never have thought of! How unique!
- March 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM
- Kathleen said...
Everything looks delicious! I have never made the Irish brown bread, my Irish born bil makes it often.
I have made the fried cabbage, onions and bacon like that since my POLISH college roomie showed me that. I add a bit of powdered mustard to give it some zip. I don't add the potatoes though to make Colcannon.
The pork chops look wonderful!
We had lamb every week growing up, a staple in out Irish American family!
Thanks for following, I have done the same!
- March 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM
- Ciao Chow Linda said...
The glaze makes this shine. I wonder how it would be with regular beer - since I haven't got any Guinness in the house?
- March 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM


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We create an image of ourselves in order to claim personal identity and how we present ourselves is reflective of that image. It is who we are as humans to do this process, consciously or unconsciously. But what about your brand? Do you use impression management for your organization, as well? Of course you do. We are all well aware of the importance of brand management and how it can affect the decisions of consumers if the implementation is properly done or not. In reality, we often use impression management for organizations and tie it into brand management.
Your Social Content Should Cause an Audience Reaction to Take Action
We all love sharing and discovering social content that peeks our interests to our social networks. As we scroll through the Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds, several times a day, our main objective is to uncover something that makes us take action. Whether we "like" it, retweet it, or comment on it, we are always looking for content, if we know it or not, which will make us react.
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The well-known influence-measuring site, Klout, has had its fair share of controversy by online users. Some people feel it is useful, while others feel it to be useless, and there really is no in between. However, Klout's recent Perk may give you a new perspective and change your mind about using Klout.
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There is a massive difference between scheduled vs. automated content that is often overlooked due to both being time savers, but in not knowing the difference, could be hurting your dealership.
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Today, Facebook posted a message on their "Help Center" page advising Facebook page administrators that their names will begin appearing next to their posts and comments. This new feature will be seen only by administrators and not by those who "like" the page. This will begin on February 20th 2014 and will not be retroactive; this new feature will only appear on posts and comments, on or after the 20th. If you are a Facebook page owner, you might have already seen a message appear at the top of the "Admin Panel" on Facebook, letting you know of this upcoming change.


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November 07. 2012 3:05AM
GOP may have edged out 13-11 majority in state Senate
By PAULA TRACY
New Hampshire Union Leader
CONCORD -- Republicans may have edged out a 13-11 majority in the State Senate by only 210 votes, but a recount is likely for Senate District 9.
That would be the call for Lee Nyquist to make. The Democrat was going up against former Sen. Andrew Sanborn who at the end of the night told Republicans he thought he won by about 210 votes.
When the results for Mont Vernon came in, going for Sanborn by fewer than 200 votes, Nyquist wrote on his Facebook page to stay tuned for information on whether or not he would ask for a recount.
The night was ugly for Republicans in the Senate who now enjoy an 18-6 majority.
Senate President Peter Bragdon was watching closely races in three districts which he thought Republicans could be in trouble.
They were Senate District 12 where Republican incument Jim Luther was up against a charging Peggy Gilmore; Senate District 4 where Professor David Watters of Dover, a Democrat was gaining on Republican Phyllis Woods; and Senate District 9, the Nyquist-Sanborn race.
Nyquist lost Bedford, as expected, but won many of the smaller towns by large enough margins to eked out a victory.
Earlier in the evening Bragdon was also worried about Senate District 24, where former Senate President Bev Hollingworth, a Democrat, was challenging Republican Nancy Stiles, both of Hampton. Hollingworth conceded to Stiles before 11 p.m., however.
At that hour, all eyes were on Senate District 2 in which Republican incumbent Jeanie Forrester of Meredith was barely holding on, and Plymouth numbers were not in, likely favoring Democratic challenger Robert C. Lamb Jr. of Holderness.
By the early morning hours it was looking like a possible 13-11 margin or a 12-12 tie which would force a brokerage of power agreement
Democrats were expecting to retain the seats they had and were expected to be picking up new territory in Distrcit 18 with Democrat Donna Soucy of Manchester; District 1 with Jeff Woodburn and District 13 with Betty Lasky likely defeating Jospeh Krascuki for a seat held by outgoing Sen. Gary Lambert.
Republicans were expected to retain at least nine seats.
Nine of the current senators decided to retire and of that only two were Democrats, Matthew Houde and Amanda Merrill.
It appeared early that the newly formed District 7 seat was going to Democrat Andrew Hosmer of Laconia over Republican Josh Youssef with four of six Laconia wards going for Hosmer 2,930 to Youssef 2,078.
Holding safely their seats in the Senate included Senate President Bragdon of District 11 who has been in office since 2004, Republican Majority Leader and former Congressman Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, in District 3; Democrats Lou D'Allesandro of Manchester for District 20, and Sylvia Larsen of Concord in District 15. Also likely returing to Concord was Sen. Bob Odell, R-Lempster, who was expected to defeat Christopher Wallenstein, a Democrat, for the District 8 Senate seat.
Expected to remain in the blue column was the State Senate 21 seat which Amanda Merrill is vacating. Former State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark of Portsmouth appeared to be winning over Republican Peter Macdonald of Lee, a Vietnam veteran.
State Senator Russell Prescott of Kingston the Republican representing Disctrict 23 was in a battle with Carol Croteau, a Democrat, also of Kingston.
District 22 three-term incumbent Chuck Morse, a Salem Republican, was expected to hold on to his seat over Democrat Victoria Czaia, an Atkinson resident.
Another incumbent, Jim Rausch of District 19, was being challenged by Democrat R. Christopher Reisdorf. Both are Derry residents with a lot of local political experience, but Rausch was expected to win.
In the redrawn District 6, taking the Republican seat held by outgoing Fenton Groen was state Rep. Sam Cataldo, R-Farmington, who defeated Democrat Rich Leonard of New Durham. Cataldo is a pharmacist and farmer hoping to find more money for higher education.
The District 5 race to replace outgoing Democrat Matthew Houde had Democrat David Pierce beating Republican Joe Osgood.
State Sen. Molly Kelly, a Democrat, was expected to hold on to the District 10 seat over Republican Richard Foote.
A toss-up was a rematch from 2010 featuring Hollis residents Jim Luther, the Republican incumbent in District 12, and Peggy Gilmour, the Democrat, and it looked like a Gilmour win.
In District 16, Republican incumbent David Boutin was expected to hold on following a challenge by Kathleen Kelly a Democrat and Independent Richard Tomasso.
In District 17, a seat long held by retiring Senator Jack Barnes, a Republican, was being contested between John Reagan, the Republican who appeared to be winning over Nancy Fraher, a Democrat.
Also expected to hold on to her seat for the Republicans was Sharon Carson of District 14 over Democrat Katherine Messner and Independent Richard Kahn.


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By Jim Shepard. Movies keep giving us more motion, more mayhem—which is exactly what we want. But what price that desire?
By George F. Giacomini Jr. '56. Actress Helen Hayes once dubbed Santa Clara's Mayer Theatre her all-time favorite. Learn how Fess Parker, the Golden Circle, and the legacy of a Minsk-born son of a junkman conspired to give the performing arts a permanent home on campus.
By Christopher Bomba '74. When Santa Clara's beloved theatre known as "The Ship" had to be abandoned, the stage players took to The Lifeboat. And made quite a virtue of necessity.
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The Nymphenburg Castle in the center of Munich has a wonderful big park. At every time of the year it invites for a walk. The central building had been built 1664 by elector Ferdinand Maria thanks to the birth of his son Maximilian Emanuel. It is also called Italian Villa. From 1701 onwards the other buildings had been added.
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Who is Mike? And what is his name doing there?
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Venom and Carnage kinda tag teamed on webhead
Sa-weet.*Spoiler Tawlk*Eric Forma- errrr...Venom, Sandman, and Hobbie look very good as the new villians. My theory on how Venom gets the symobite(sp) suit thing is this: MJ's ex-astro boyfriend finds the suit floating in space and brings it back to earth for no reason whatsoever. Lame theory, I know, but thats what I predict those hollywood bigwigs will think of.
I'd guess they'll mess with the Brock character and the origin of the symbiote as well. I can see it coming from space, but the Brock character as played by Topher Grace being true to the comic origin? Can't see it happening.
John Myers is not returning in Hellboy 2.
Hulk 2... I wish it would happen and I wish Ang Lee would direct again. The first one is the best Marvel film to date. Much better than the crappy, overrated Spider-Man movies.
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PRAGUE (AP) — The mystery behind a booby-trapped safe that exploded and killed the Palestinian ambassador in Prague deepened Thursday with the diplomat's daughter rejecting accounts given by a Palestinian official and suggesting there could be more to the story.
Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal, 56, died Wednesday of massive injuries when an old embassy safe exploded. The career diplomat had only started his posting in October.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Wednesday the safe had been inside the offices of the Palestinian Liberation Organization since the 1980s, and that it had been left untouched for more than 20 years. He also said no foul play was suspected.
But on Thursday, Palestinian Embassy spokesman Nabil El-Fahel contradicted Malki's statement when he told Czech radio that the safe had been in constant use.
There was no immediate explanation for the contradiction, but it raised an important question: If the safe had been in constant use, why didn't it explode before al-Jamal opened it?
"The Palestinian official account is baseless," the ambassador's daughter, 30-year-old Rana Al-Jamal, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Ramallah in the West Bank. "The safe box has been in regular use — my mom (who lives there) told me that. The box was moved a day earlier and apparently something happened in the way."
"We, the family, believe it is a crime, and we need to find out what happened."
She did not elaborate on what she thought may have occurred.
Police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova said it appeared that the door of the safe had been booby-trapped, but it was unclear how al-Jamal tried to open it or what type of safe it was. It was also unclear what caused the safe to explode.
Zoulova told the AP on Thursday that nothing had been found to suggest the diplomat had been a victim of a crime, but she declined to elaborate.
Weapons, however, were found and were considered illegal because they were not registered, Zoulova said. It was unclear what type of weapons were found at the complex.
The country's counterintelligence service, BIS, said the death didn't appear suspicious. Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok called the death "an unfortunate and tragic event."
The safe was recently moved from the old embassy building, but it had come from a building that used to house the PLO's offices in the 1980s, Malki said.
The PLO had offices in Prague in 1976 but it obtained diplomatic status in 1983 when it was officially recognized.
During the Cold War — before the fall of the Soviet Union — the PLO had close ties with the Eastern bloc countries.
Several members of the PLO were linked to terror attacks during the Cold War.
Pavel Kolar, the head of Prague's Institute of Criminology, said Thursday that their investigation would take several days at least.
The death was being investigated as a case of negligence and possession of illegal armaments.
The embassy recently moved to a new complex, and the safe was in the ambassador's residence.
A team of Palestinian experts is expected to participate in the investigation.
Security analyst Andor Sandor said it would be unusual to protect embassy documents with a booby-trapped device.
During their search, police discovered one more safe at the embassy complex but no explosives were found.
Mohammed Daraghmeh contributed to this report from Ramallah, West Bank.


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Big Money for an Antique Bench
Some folks spend hours searching Pinterest. My weakness is antique auction web sites. They're a total time-suck. On these sites, I see photos of furniture that is to be auctioned, a brief description of the piece and most times, I get an estimate of the potential hammer price.
Recently, I spent time perusing a Pook & Pook Inc. auction listing for the 19th and 20th of April (click here to take a look). I found a lot of interesting pieces that are going on the block this weekend, the first of which is the bench shown above. It's a bench for buckets – not so much a bench for the work with which we are more familiar.
The bucket bench as a furniture design morphed (with the addition of doors and drawers) into cupboards and hutches, but the design itself has vanished. We no longer have buckets and pieces of stoneware (food-storage containers back in the day) to sit upon these benches.
The bench shown has a substantial auction estimate – $2,000 to $4,000 – given that today we could build the bench for less than $40, or the cost of one 2×12 that's 8′ long and one that's 12′ long. Why so high a price? Original paint does that, and original blue paint does that even more.
If you take a close look at the bucket bench, you can see that the construction – only a couple of through-mortises and nails – is simple. Easy-to-build projects are often those that bring respectable money when aged 200 years. Projects such as those found in "I Can Do That! Woodworking Projects, 2nd Edition" fit this concept. So the next time you look down your nose at a simple piece of furniture, think about what that piece may bring in the year 2213.


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The I.T. head of an international bank once explained to me why he is rapidly going bald: "Every time my CEO buys a new bank, I tear my hair out."
To him, acquiring a bank is easy—you just run the numbers and cough up the dough. But integrating the two banks' dozens of software systems is a never-ending nightmare. "Why can't the software makers ever work on the same platform?' he asked crossly.
Someone must have heard him. In April, Sun Microsystems shocked the market when it said it would bury the hatchet with Microsoft. In a statement, Microsoft said the agreement "laid the foundation for closer collaboration at various levels within the companies".
Big boys are in play
For long-suffering users, the immediate benefits of the deal are likely to be easier communication between Windows servers and those running Sun's Solaris version of Unix, and better document exchange between Office and Sun's StarOffice. It might even lead to—gasp—full interoperability between the two companies.
But even if Microsoft and Sun work seamlessly together, there are still numerous software makers whose products are largely incompatible.
Admittedly, their number is shrinking. As software goes global, size, standardisation and economy of scale have taken precedence over nimbleness and innovation. Already, many smaller firms have been taken over or gone under. Even some of the big boys are now in play.
Oracle, the number-two software firm, is stalking PeopleSoft, which in turn bought JD Edwards. Number-one Microsoft has cancelled talks to buy number-three SAP. In 15 years, Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, told Newsweek, there will be no more than six firms left in the market. (His list: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and two others.)
But that still means users have to deal with up to six different platforms. Kagermann, while admitting his customers want interoperability, nevertheless insists SAP is the right party to provide the platform for them to "run other vendors' applications". Not surprisingly, IBM, Microsoft and others are all making the same claim.
This suggests full interoperability will not happen if it is left to the software makers, despite all their lip service to the idea and their high-profile formation of the Web Services Interoperability Organisation two years ago. If customers want true compatibility, they will have to force it onto the software firms.
It is beginning to happen. The truce between Sun and Microsoft was partly brought about by Tony Scott, chief technology officer of General Motors, whose US$3 billion annual budget made his call on interoperability difficult to ignore even by someone the size of Microsoft.
The software industry, Scott says, is maturing and becoming commoditised. It is time for customers to insist on products that will work with others without extensive customerisation.
Scott is right. Possibly for the first time ever, software has become a buyer's market. If enough users are willing to back Scott and demand their rights, maybe the day of true interoperability will come sooner than anyone expects.
And my friend the IT head will not spend the rest of his days looking like a second-rate Yul Brynner.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron will deliver his long-awaited speech on the U.K.'s future in Europe on Wednesday.
The speech, billed as one of Cameron's most important as prime minister, was due to take place last week in the Netherlands but was delayed because of the hostage crisis in Algeria.
Cameron's office said Monday that the prime minister will deliver the speech in central London on Wednesday.
He has insisted that Britain should remain within the 27-country European Union, but indicated that he will suggest in the speech renegotiating the terms of its membership.
That has prompted a chorus of concern from around the world stressing the importance of Britain's presence in the EU and warning of the consequences of a potential exit from the bloc.


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Well the movie cost alott of movey it abd it needs to recoup
Yes guys this is a new trick by Universal we all got burned by the instant double dip with Children of Men in January so I will definitely be waiting for the inevitable!
thanks for that. I wiill waite
i'd hold offon this it's sure to have at least a 2 disc later on they need to release "the game" SE
Looks like Paramount is following the footsteps of Fox and Universal. Releasing vanillia editions and then the special editions later. They started with Flags of Our Fathers and Babel and now its Zodiac.
NO I posted before there is a directors/extended cut in the works which will have special features it will be released on R1 probably around the same time as the R2 disc is released which will be around Oct/Nov. I read this in Empire movie magazine here in the UK a few months ago!
I am willing to bet that we will see a SE of Zodiac someday. The director (David Fincher) has a very loyal DVD auidence
We'll have to wait and see if any other DVD regions may be releasing a SE of "Zodiac". That should give an indication as to what features might pop up on the R1 DVD when the time comes. I'll help to keep you guys posted on update.
Zodiac: Special Edition?? Aside from the fact that there are no extras on Zodiac, is there anything out there that can confirm there will be a special edition in the near future? By near future I mean before the end of the year. I loved the movie and don't want to have to wait for years to get a special edition of it.
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Pilot of fatal hang-glide flight gets five months in jail
VANCOUVER ─ The pilot-instructor of a tandem hang-gliding flight that killed a woman two years ago has been sentenced to five months in jail and banned from participating in the sport for three years.
According to the B.C. Supreme Court, part of William Jonathan Orders' probationary conditions — to be served after he finishes his jail term — include not flying solo or in tandem as passenger or pilot.
He must also perform 25 hours of community service to provide instructional lectures about the flight that led to 27-year-old Lenami Godinez-Avila's death.
Orders was taking the Vancouver woman on her first hang-gliding trip on April 28, 2012, when, within seconds of taking off, Godinez-Avila fell 300 metres to a wooded area where she died.
An investigation concluded a "hang-check" that involves physically lifting the glider with the passenger strapped in was not performed.
He was charged with obstruction of justice and criminal negligence causing death. Police discovered Orders swallowed a memory card containing video footage of the flight preparation and take-off.
Orders, who has sworn to give up hang-gliding, previously apologized on camera, saying he swallowed the memory card because his young daughter was present during the accident.
"I realize that my actions caused this matter to drag out unnecessarily for Lenami's family and friends and for the police, and for that I am deeply regretful," he had said.


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Ten Things I Love: Jennifer's Sturdy Tools
Jennifer has a marvelously hard-working kitchen! Look at the great setup she has; we're rather envious of her copper potrack and this rail for keeping printed recipes at eye level. Read on to see more of what she says about her favorite kitchen things.
• My mother's recipe for the best vanilla in the world: 2 vanilla beans in a bottle of vodka (this one is 750 ml), let sit for at least 6 months, enjoy! As you can see, I need to replenish my small bottle soon!
• My new Microplane box grater; I just bought it yesterday and haven't even had a chance to use it, but as much as I love my Microplane zester, I know I'm going to love this, too!
• The Foley citrus juicer that belonged to my grandmother; I have yet to find one that works better
• My mother's grapefruit knife; kind of hard to see the curve in the blade, but it's there and it really works!
• My WilsonJones CopyHolder--it's perfect for holding cookbooks upright. Currently it's holding my latest cookbook checked out from the library, being tested to see if I want to buy it. I do!
• My wonderful, sturdy copper pot rack, displaying just a few of the pots and pans it so faithfully holds.
• The metal rail my husband installed for me on a shelf edge over the countertop so I could display printed recipes easily.
Thank you for the peek inside your kitchen, Jennifer!
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Sterling couple holding school supply fundraiser
STANDISH — Ron and Nancy Cortis are hosting Stuff The Bus, a fundraising drive to collect and purchase school supplies for Standish and Sterling Elementary Schools.
The fundraiser began on Thursday, Aug. 11 at Pamida in Standish, and will continue Saturday, Aug. 13 at Glen's in Standish.
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Including Additional Patent Protection for Magellan™ Robotic System for Vascular Market
Including Additional Patent Protection for Magellan™ Robotic System for Vascular Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 21, 2012) - Hansen Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN), a global leader in intravascular robotics, today announced that it has expanded its intellectual property portfolio in medical robotics with the issuance of 30 additional U.S. patents since January 2011. Hansen Medical also shares rights to more than 250 issued U.S. patents relating to medical robotics through licensing arrangement with third parties.
Certain of the patents provide additional coverage for Hansen Medical's Magellan™ Robotic System, which is designed to treat a variety of peripheral vascular diseases and is currently being commercialized in the United States and the European Union. Several of the patents also provide additional coverage for Hansen Medical's Sensei® X Robotic Catheter System, while others provide innovative solutions for potential future advancements to its robotic technologies.
"Patent protection is very important in our industry," said Bruce J Barclay, Hansen Medical president and chief executive officer. "Significant value at Hansen Medical lies in the intellectual property assets we have developed for use in our products and that can be used across a number of platforms outside of our core markets. We continue to work diligently to build patent protection covering the innovative work being performed by our talented engineers and scientists at the company."
Specifically, the 30 additional patents received by Hansen Medical are U.S. Patent No. 7,867,241, titled Flexible Instrument; 7,905,828, Flexible Instrument; 7,918,861, Flexible Instrument; 7,947,050, Surgical Instrument Coupling Mechanism; 7,972,298, Robotic Catheter System; 7,974,681, Robotic Catheter System; 7,901,399, Interchangeable Surgical Instrument; 7,922,693, Apparatus Systems and Methods for Flushing Gas from a Catheter of a Robotic Catheter System; 7,931,586, Flexible Instrument; 7,935,059, System and Method for 3-D Imaging; 7,947,051, Surgical Instrument Coupling Mechanism; 7,955,316, Coaxial Catheter System; 7,959,557, Robotic Medical Instrument System; 7,963,288, Robotic Catheter System; 7,976,539, System and Method for Denaturing and Fixing Collagenous Tissue; 8,005,537, Robotically Controlled Intravascular Tissue Injection System; 8,007,511, Surgical Instrument Design; 8,021,326, Instrument Driver for Robotic Catheter System; 8,041,413, Systems and Methods for Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Mapping; 8,052,621, Method of Sensing Forces on a Working Instrument; 8,052,636, Robotic Catheter System and Methods; 8,083,691, Apparatus and Method for Sensing Force; 8,092,397, Apparatus for Measuring Distal Forces on a Working Instrument; 8,108,069, Robotic Catheter System and Methods; 8,114,097, Flexible Instrument; 8,146,874, Mounting Support Assembly for Suspending a Medical Instrument Driver Above an Operating Table; 8,160,690, System and Method for Determining Electrode-Tissue Contact Based on Amplitude Modulation of Sensed Signal; 8,172,747, Balloon Visualization for Traversing a Tissue Wall; 8,187,229, Coaxial Catheter System; and 8,190,238, Robotic Catheter System and Methods.
About Hansen Medical, Inc.
Hansen Medical, Inc., based in Mountain View, California, is the global leader in intravascular robotics, developing products and technology designed to enable the accurate positioning, manipulation and control of catheters and catheter-based technologies. The Company's Magellan™ Robotic System, NorthStar™ Robotic Catheter and related accessories, which are intended to facilitate navigation to anatomical targets in the peripheral vasculature and subsequently provide a conduit for manual placement of therapeutic devices, have undergone both CE marking and 510(k) clearance and are commercially available in the European Union, and the U.S. In the European Union, the Company's Sensei® X Robotic Catheter System and Artisan Control Catheter are cleared for use during electrophysiology (EP) procedures, such as guiding catheters in the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF), and the Lynx® Robotic Ablation Catheter is cleared for the treatment of AF. This robotic catheter system is compatible with fluoroscopy, ultrasound, 3D surface map and patient electrocardiogram data. In the U.S. the Company's Sensei X Robotic Catheter System and Artisan Control Catheter were cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for manipulation and control of certain mapping catheters in EP procedures. In the United States, the Sensei System is not approved for use in guiding ablation procedures; this use remains experimental. The U.S. product labeling therefore provides that the safety and effectiveness of the Sensei X System and Artisan Control Catheter for use with cardiac ablation catheters in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, including AF, have not been established.
Additional information can be found at www.hansenmedical.com.
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St. Louis Children's Hospital Makes US News Best Children's Hospitals List for 10th Consecutive Year
Children's joins eleven other hospitals across the nation on the list
Washington DC - June 5, 2012 - The U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll of Best Children's Hospitals will again include St. Louis Children's Hospital, which ranked in all ten specialties covered by the annual report. Only 12 children's hospitals nationwide qualified for the honor roll distinction.
"St. Louis Children's dedication and expertise reach across multiple pediatric specialties, as shown by its Honor Roll listing," said U.S. News Health Rankings Editor Avery Comarow. "Our goal at U.S. News is to identify and call attention to pediatric centers like St. Louis Children's that help the sickest kids."
The report considered ten specialties: cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, neonatology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, and urology.
Eighty hospitals across the country ranked in one or more specialties. St. Louis Children's ranked in all ten.
"The professionals who track clinical excellence have once again taken notice of our physicians and staff for their exemplary and extraordinary work across the board," says Lee Fetter, St. Louis Children's Hospital President. " It's a point of pride for families in our community to have in their backyard a facility whose expertise and achievements attract sick children and their families from some 60 countries around the world."
The Best Children's Hospitals report provides unparalleled quality-related information in addition to rankings, including survival rates, adequacy of nurse staffing, procedure volume, and much more. Since its 2007 debut, the rankings have put an increasing emphasis on data that directly reflect hospitals' performance over reputation.
The hospital's success draws from its ability to provide more than today's best medicine. "We provide tomorrow's medicine," explains Dr. Alan Schwartz, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and Pediatrician-in-Chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital. "St. Louis Children's Hospital provides an immediate application for some of the most promising scientific discoveries at Washington University School of Medicine, its academic partner."
"We believe increased emphasis on quality measures, like blood stream infections, helped elevate us in the rankings," says Dr. F. Sessions Cole, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Newborn Medicine at St. Louis Children's and Washington University School of Medicine, and with noted research on lung disease and pulmonary medicine. "We've implemented new strategies to reduce blood stream infections with dramatic results across our patient population." Newborn and pulmonary medicine ranked 13th and 9th respectively.
"What distinguishes a successful program, from an exemplary program is the courage to go where the medical community has not yet gone," says Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady, co-director of the St. Louis Children's and Washington University Heart Center. "Over the past few years our program has been the first or among the first to deploy new life-saving technologies including artificial lung and heart pumping devices that have opened countless new opportunities for our colleagues across the country and around the world." Heart and heart surgery ranked 13 in the survey.
This year, U.S. News surveyed 178 pediatric centers to obtain hard data such as availability of key resources and ability to prevent complications and infections. The hospital survey made up 75 percent of the rankings. A separate reputational survey in which 1,500 pediatric specialists—150 in each specialty—were asked where they would send the sickest children in their specialty made up the remaining 25 percent.
The full rankings and methodology are available at www.usnews.com/childrenshospitals. The rankings will also be published in the U.S. News Best Hospitals 2013 guidebook, which will be available in August.
St. Louis Children's Hospital has provided specialized care for children for more than 125 years. The hospital is affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine, ranked the number four medical school in the country by US News & World Report. In 2012, St. Louis Children's Hospital again made the elite US News & World Report Honor Roll of the nation's Best Pediatric Hospitals, in additional to receiving Magnet re-designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the nation's highest honor for nursing excellence. In 2009, Parents magazine ranked St. Louis Children's Hospital number five in the nation. St. Louis Children's Hospital is a member of BJC HealthCare. For more information visit stlouischildrens.org; or visit us @STLChildrens on Facebook and Twitter.


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Despite strong demand for Electronic Arts' "Madden NFL '13," and Take-Two Interactive's "Borderlands 2," new console and portable game sales fell 18% in September. Overall, the videogame biz was off 24% during the month, earning $848 million, continuing a downward trend, according to NPD Group.
In its first month of release, "Madden NFL '13" sold 11% more units than last year's installment, representing the best month for a "Madden" title.
And brand awareness established by "Borderlands," released in Oct. 2009, boosted demand for its sequel by 234% during its first month on store shelves.
EA's "Fifa Soccer '13," Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros. 2" and NCsoft's PC game "Guild Wars 2" rounded out the top five selling titles for September. EA had five of the top 10 selling titles in September.
But the games couldn't match the success of last year's "Gears of War 3," from Epic Games and Microsoft and "Dead Island," from Techland and Deep Silver, which topped charts in September 2011.
When factoring in PC games, software sales were off just 14% to $547 million. Year-to-date, strong launches of "Guild Wars 2," and Activision Blizzard's "World of Warcraft: Mists Of Pandaria" and "Diablo 3," earlier in the year, have boosted unit sales of PC Games by 12%.
Still, the holidays are fast approaching, which typically provides the games biz with a majority of its revenue.
"While year-over-year declines are present in video game software, we are seeing momentum leading up to the holidays when looking at August sales compared to September, which were up 67% on an average sales-per-week basis," said NPD industry analyst, Liam Callahan.
The industry is particularly turning to Nintendo to do much of the heavy lifting next month with its launch of the Wii U on Nov. 18.
The new console shouldn't just help sell more games, but also lift the aging hardware segment, which saw a 39% drop in sales in September, earning $211 million.
"Hardware sales are up on an average sales per week basis compared to August for the NDS, 3DS, PS3, Vita and 360, which points to momentum heading into the holiday season," Callahan said.
While retail sales of new hardware, software and accessories account for roughly 50% of the total consumer spend on games, used games and rentals generated another $191 million in September, with digital downloads and revenue generated by mobile apps and social network games earning $488 million. All together, the games biz earned $1.6 billion.
Also notable for the month, eight of the top ten accessory items sold were either for Activision's "Skylander" character packs or point and subscription card sales.


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For more than a decade, this question has puzzled many fans and observers Faced with politically sensitive issues and in need of a stronger core identity of Chattanooga Athletics. to help establish a strong brand as Chattanooga's Team, the athletics The UTC Athletics Department changed logos in 1997, moving away from department embarked on a comprehensive identity program in 1996. A new Native American imagery to a package of logos using railroad images, the direction for the athletics identity was determined, moving away from the nickname "Mocs," and the Scrappy mascot. The new package emphasized politically incorrect Native American Indian imagery. UTC's connection to Chattanooga and the city's railroad heritage and Several identities have been used in the past. With the old nickname incorporated the Tennessee state bird. "Moccasins," a snake was used in the 1920s and an Indian was used until the year of major change in 1996. A moccasin shoe was even used in the 1980s. The term "Moc" is short for "Mockingbird." Mockingbirds are fiercely territorial creatures which protect their homes with courage, determination and skill. Those attributes reflect the intellect, spirit and character of UTC student-athletes and alumni. A Moc is a champion on the playing surface, in the classroom and, most importantly, in life.
Introduced in 2008, the new-look Scrappy has a sharper and more modern feel, mirroring the growth and image of UTC Athletics.
Named after legendary football coach A.C. "Scrappy" Moore, Scrappy, the Chattanooga mascot, is a fixture for the Mocs. A re-design in 2008 puts Scrappy in the image of the State Bird of Tennessee, a mockingbird. The mockingbird is known as a fierce protector of its nest and environment. It is sometimes seen swooping down on a dog, cat or predator that may be venturing too close to the bird's protected territory. Once described by "Late Night" host Jimmy Fallon as "a sledge-hammer wielding mockingbird with a heart of Blue & Gold," Scrappy symbolizes that competitive passion.
In 1996, it was decided to adopt the State Bird of Tennessee, the Mockingbird, as the core of the new identity, while incorporating the strong regional imagery of Chattanooga's vast railroad history. The mascot "Scrappy" was born and a new emphasis was placed on the athletics department's role in the region.
The committee also recognized the need The "Power C" logo is the primary mark of Chattanooga Mocs Athletics. for the word "Chattanooga" to have a great emphasis in the logo. The nickname "Moccasins" was shortened to simply "Mocs." Thus established, Chattanooga could rebuild its athletics programs and initiatives around this new identity. And rebuild it did. Quickly establishing the identity program in February 1997, combined with tremendous success in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, UTC had positioned itself to reach for the next level. From 1997 to 2007, the primary logo was the mascot, Scrappy, riding a train. The secondary logo features the front of a train with the word Mocs built into the logo. This logo is affectionately called the "Cowcatcher logo," referring to the front lower grill of the train that helped push objects from the train tracks. In August 2007, officials at Chattanooga updated the school's marks. A new C logo, the "Power C" as it has become known to fans and alums, was created as the primary mark and is emblazoned on the side of the football team's helmets. The secondary marks were updated with a more modern look, and a new font, unique to the school, is now used on the text areas of the logos and marks. In September 2008, Scrappy was rebranded to better match the image of a mockingbird and reflect the rich tradition of our state, our city and our University. New marks of the head as well as a full body were released. The program has also been taking special efforts to stay true to its color palette—which includes navy blue and old gold.
The Cowcatcher logo has been recently modified, but is still in use by UTC Athletics.
Media Guide for the women's basketball team at Chattanooga
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Heart attack
Leads to diagnosis of sleep apnea.
Stu Simmons isn't necessarily a night owl.
But his job as a switchman for Union Pacific Railroad keeps him up most nights past midnight.
The 63-year-old is a former Gothenburg resident who now lives in Brady. He had just returned home from work last September when he felt a sharp pain across his chest.
"It was about 12:30 a.m.," he recalls, "It just didn't go away so I tried lying down on several beds and couches in the house."
He finally sat in a chair and his eyes "went goofy" for about 30 seconds.
"I was seeing stars and everything was out of focus," Simmons said. "I started to feel a sharp pain from the tips of my fingers of my left hand all the way up my arm.
The same thing then happened with his right fingertips and arm.
Simmons didn't want to disturb his wife Carolyn, who teaches school in Maxwell, so he waited until 4 a.m. before he woke her up.
"That's when I knew something was really wrong," he said.
Carolyn drove her husband to the emergency room at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital. Doctors there called for an ambulance to take Simmons to the Lincoln Heart Institute.
Simmons was having a heart attack.
Because of kidney problems, surgeons waited a day to put in two stents in his arteries.
After three days at the institute, Simmons was released and started cardiac rehabilitation at GMH.
After 16 sessions, he was cleared to return to work.
But not so fast.
Since Simmons had been diagnosed with heart disease, Union Pacific officials said he needed a sleep study.
According to registered nurse Myra Gronewold who directs cardiac rehabilitation, cardiologists for the past five years have ordered sleep studies for anyone with symptoms of coronary heart disease.
Simmons did not have to travel far for the study since registered nurses Marietta Miller and Carol Cheetsos conduct sleep studies at GMH.
"The hardest part was getting all of the wires hooked up," he said.
Patients then sleep overnight at GMH and their breathing and sleep patterns recorded.
About 1 p.m., he said Miller attached Simmons to a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine.
About the size of shoebox, a CPAP has a flexible tube that connects the machine with a mask or other interface device that is worn over the nose and/or mouth.
The CPAP pushes air through the airway passage at a pressure high enough to prevent apnea which is described as repeated episodes of not breathing during sleep for at least 10 seconds.
Gronewold said CPAPs can be prescribed for both obstructive apnea—disruptions in airflow—and central sleep apnea.
Central sleep apnea is caused when the brain pauses breathing, she said.
CPAP pressure is set according to a patient's sleep apnea which is determined from the sleep test.
During an episode, the upper airway becomes blocked, hindering or stopped breathing and causing blood oxygen levels to drop and blood pressure to rise, she explained.
"The individual eventually awakens and begins breathing which restores normal blood oxygen and blood flow to the brain," Gronewold said. "Ordinarily the brain regulates its blood flow to meet its own metabolic needs but repeated surges and drops in blood pressure and blood flow during numerous apnea episodes each night may reduce the brain's ability to regulate these functions."
When airflow through the nose and mouth is blocked, Gronewold said breathing may stop for 10 seconds or longer.
People who have sleep apnea usually snore loudly and are very tired during the day, she explained.
Once the results of his sleep study were returned, it was determined that Simmons did indeed have sleep apnea.
He was prescribed a CPAP machine and mask with a prescribed setting for air pressure.
Gronewold said a CPAP machine is the most common treatment for sleep apnea.
"It's a relatively easy treatment and there are many different masks and machines," she said. "Most times if you stick with a good company, they'll work to help you find a good mask.
CPAP machines are paid for by Medicare, Medicaid and usually by insurance, Gronewold said.
"And if a sleep study is prescribed, insurance will pay for it," she said.
Gronewold said sleep apnea is the most commonly diagnosed condition amongst sleep-related breathing disorders.
It can lead to debilitating and sometimes fatal consequences for the 18 million Americans who have been diagnosed with the disorder, she said.
"We recognize it here as a fairly frequent condition especially with the male population," Gronewold said.
In fact studies show that sleep apnea affects about one in four men and about one in 10 women.
Research also indicates that men with sleep apnea between the ages of 40 and 70 are particularly at risk of death from any source but especially from cardiovascular disease.
In fact, she said new evidence suggests that characteristic snoring and gasping of sleep apnea can set off potentially fatal heartbeat abnormalities.
Recent studies show that people with obstructive sleep apnea are more likely to suffer strokes and die in their sleep, recent studies show.
"Obstructive sleep apnea decreases blood flow to the brain, elevates blood pressure within the brain and eventually harms the brain's ability to adapt to these changes and present damage itself," Gronewold explained.
Left untreated, Gronewold said sleep apnea can lead to excessive sleepiness, difficulties with daytime alertness and increased risk for driving accidents.
Sleep apnea is more common in people who sleep on their backs because there's more chance they are obstructing their throats, she said.
Sleeping on one's side is recommended, Gronewold said, to keep the throat open.
Although the CPAP took some time for Simmons to get used to, he swears by the equipment, noting that Carolyn wears one at night as well.
"You look silly but you're asleep in five minutes," he said.
Some machines, like the one Simmons uses, records apneas and other information during a sleep cycle which is reviewed by medical personnel.
Before his diagnosis, Simmons said he used to snore so loud it scared his children when they lived at home.
"Carolyn said I'd quit breathing and then I'd wake up—I don't know how many times in the night," he said.
Simmons said he was always tired as well.
These days, he goes to work and returns home and sleeps solid for eight hours and feels rested when he wakes up.
"I wish I would've have known this 20 years ago," Simmons said. "It's great. I wouldn't be without it. I feel better all over."
With a good night's sleep, Gronewold said cardiac rehab patients heal faster and are able to better cope with stress and all other factors of coronary heart disease.
For more information about sleep apnea or GMH's sleep study, contact Gronewold at cardiac rehabilitation by calling 537-3661.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was set to deliver written remarks to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that were virtually identical to prepared remarks he gave the day before to the House Financial Services Committee, a Senate aide said.
Following his statement, the chairman will answer questions from senators about the U.S. economic outlook and monetary policy, in what could be his final congressional testimony.
Bernanke has made no public comment about his future plans, but is widely expected to step down when his term at the Fed's helm ends in January.
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This is just incase there are any others that came across the theme install issues with 6280 (and probably other phone models) when using an Apple Mac computer.
1. Download the desired theme to computer (hold ctrl and click on "download to PC" Select option "download linked file")
2. Select downloaded file.Hold the Apple key and press "i" which gives you the file info (this can also be done in finder as one of the "file menu" options)
3. Delete the .zip extension so that it just says ".nth" and press enter.
This file can now be uploaded to the phone and installed through Phone director (the program I use) or through Bluetooth file exchange. I presume this is done as easily through the USB data cable also.
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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), formerly called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) or juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), is a disease that affects children age 16 and younger. It causes inflamed, swollen, stiff, and often painful joints. JIA may affect one or more joints and can cause a generalized illness.
The cause of JIA is unknown. Most experts believe it may be caused by a combination of the following things:
- An overly active immune system that inappropriately attacks joint tissues, as if they were foreign substances. Viral or bacterial infections are a suspected trigger of the autoimmune process.
- Genetic factors that make a child's immune system more likely to react inappropriately
Common symptoms of JIA include:
- Joint pain and swelling that may come and go but are most often persistent.
- Joint stiffness in the morning.
- Irritability, refusal to walk, or protection or guarding of a joint. You might notice your child limping or avoiding the use of a certain joint.
- Often unpredictable changes in symptoms, from periods with no symptoms (remission) to flare-ups.
A child with JIA will likely be treated with a combination of medicines and physical therapy. The goals of medical treatment are to reduce your child's joint pain and to prevent disability.
For more information, see the topic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
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This is somewhat similar to the homework question, but I'm not asking about people who have homework to do but problems to solve (which may or may not be homework). If you decide that the way to find out how to solve a problem is to ask a question on stackoverflow, are you expecting someone to "pls show u teh codes" or to help you enough that you can learn about the problem and try to solve it? My own response to SO questions (being a mentor of other developers and, in a past job, a teacher of undergraduates) is to give hints, like "you can do this with X API" or "this document shows you how to do it", because that's what I'd like to see; I would want someone to give me enough of a push that I could still believe I've solved my own problem. But I've seen a number of questions with answers like this which then have comments like "but what code do I write to answer this question?", including occasional threats/carrots-on-sticks involving the award of reputation points.
So, which type of answer are you looking for? Which type of programmer would you want to work with?


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