Doctor's diagnosis drew laughs, but it saved woman's life. As the all-too-familiar number flashed on his cellphone shortly before 9 p.m., Dan Landri-gan reflexively braced himself for bad news. The caller was one of the doctors treating his wife, Donna, who had been in a coma for four months. "She sounded pretty choked up," Landrigan recalled. "I think we've found out what's making your wife sick," the specialist at the University of Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital told him, as a wave of relief flooded his body. "I was completely shocked," said the telecommunications executive, now 37. "My hope for so long was that this was the phone call I was going to get. " Doctors at three Upstate New York hospitals had been stymied by Donna Landrigan, whose case was unlike any they had seen.
Every promising lead had seemed to turn into a dead end, and the dangers of prolonged coma, including severe brain damage, were mounting. That phone call on April 29, 2009, was the first good news in months. Running out of time Remarkable recovery. Organ donation: Don't let these myths confuse you. Organ donation: Don't let these myths confuse you Unsure about donating organs for transplant? Don't let misinformation keep you from saving lives. By Mayo Clinic Staff Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ donation. Unfortunately, many may never get the call saying that a suitable donor organ — and a second chance at life — has been found.
It can be hard to think about what's going to happen to your body after you die, let alone donating your organs and tissue. But being an organ donor is a generous and worthwhile decision that can be a lifesaver. Myth: If I agree to donate my organs, the hospital staff won't work as hard to save my life. Fact: When you go to the hospital for treatment, doctors focus on saving your life — not somebody else's. Myth: Maybe I won't really be dead when they sign my death certificate.
Fact: Although it's a popular topic in the tabloids, in reality, people don't start to wiggle their toes after they're declared dead. Myth: I'm under age 18. Stuxnet worm 'targeted high-value Iranian assets' 23 September 2010Last updated at 11:46 By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News Some have speculated the intended target was Iran's nuclear power plant One of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever detected was probably targeting "high value" infrastructure in Iran, experts have told the BBC.
Stuxnet's complexity suggests it could only have been written by a "nation state", some researchers have claimed. It is believed to be the first-known worm designed to target real-world infrastructure such as power stations, water plants and industrial units. It was first detected in June and has been intensely studied ever since.
"The fact that we see so many more infections in Iran than anywhere else in the world makes us think this threat was targeted at Iran and that there was something in Iran that was of very, very high value to whomever wrote it," Liam O'Murchu of security firm Symantec, who has tracked the worm since it was first detected, told BBC News. 'Rare package' “Start Quote. New York City Hosts Iran's President Ahmadinejad. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy A small army of U.S. security forces have been marshaled to protect Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his venom-laced stay in New York where he has threatened the U.S. with a "war without boundaries" and suggested the U.S. may have secretly carried out the 9/11 terror attacks.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News that Ahmadinejad has a security force that dwarfs that ofall the other 140 visiting heads of state who are in New York City this week for the U.N. General Assembly. U.S. Delegation Walks Out on Ahmadinejad "It's second only to a POTUS-sized package," a law enforcement official said, referring to the security acronym for the President of the United States.
Another described the force protecting Ahmadinejad the "classic high threat package. " The Iranian firebrand's security entourage bristles with elite officers with high tech weapons and gear. First-place Bucs' game vs. Steelers will be blacked out on Sunday - The Huddle: Football News from the NFL. Updated 2010-09-30 5:18 PM The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have their second straight game blacked out on local TV on Sunday.
The team announced on Thursday that it had failed to sell out their stadium by Sunday's 1 p.m. ET deadline. So the game vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers will not air locally, as NFL rules demand for games that fail to sell out 72 hours before kickoff. It's the second straight blackout for the Bucs, who have warned that they could fail to sell out many games this season. This blackout is surprising because the Steelers are typically one of the NFL's best road draws. Team spokesman Jonathan Grella told the St. "Based on the pace of ticket sales, we weren't going to achieve a sellout in time, even with an extension,'' Grella said. The Bucs said this summer they would not take advantage of an NFL rule that allows teams to buy back tickets at about one-third the price in order to lift the blackout.
There were three blackouts in the NFL's first two weeks. -- Sean Leahy. Pope repeats lie that Nazis were atheists. THE UK gay humanist charity, the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has robustly refuted the claim by the Pope that the Nazis were atheists. In his opening address to the Queen at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh yesterday, the lying old toad referred to: Q.
How do you tell when Ratzinger lies? A. When you see his lips move A Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society. But the PTT’s secretary George Broadhead said: This is rubbish. Broadhead added: The Vatican even asked God to bless the new German Reich! And he pointed out: In Italy the Vatican state was set up under an accord (the Lateran Treaty) reached between the Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, and the Catholic Church in 1929. If further evidence was needed to support Broadbroad, one need look no further than to an article entitled The Educational Principles of the New Germany, published in a Nazi magazine for women, Frauen Warte. The cover of the Nazi magazine which contained the article on education. Said Ekklesia’s Simon Barrow:
Plane crash kills 2 men on board as it hits house. Investigators must reconstruct the charred wreckage of a twin-engine plane to learn why it crashed into a rural Westmoreland County home Saturday morning, killing a pilot and flight instructor who had taken off minutes earlier. Westmoreland County Deputy Coroner Gerald Fritz said the victims have been tentatively identified as Edward Francis Sobota, 65, of Unity, and Theodore P. Kokolis, 66, of Moon. Their identities are expected to be confirmed after autopsies today, Mr. Fritz said. Mr. Sobota was the president and owner of TSI Titanium in Derry. Mr. The men were making a "familiarization trip" in the recently purchased plane, Westmoreland County Public Safety spokesman Dan Stevens said. Minutes after the plane lifted off the runway, a witness on the ground telephoned 911 at 9:20 a.m. to report that it had crashed into a house at 2252 Route 286 in Bell, near the county's boundary with Indiana County.
"He just called and told me the house blew up," said Ms. Ms. In the early 1970s, Mr. How To Desolder Components. Now you will solder the component you want to remove. Yes, you read it right. You may be asking yourself why you should solder the component if you want to desolder it. Actually, this is a very powerful trick to allow old solder to be removed. What happens is that old solder (many years old) is very hard to be melted by the soldering iron and sucked by the solder sucker. So what you will do is to mix new solder with old solder. This mix is easier to melt and to be sucked. There is another trick to be used during this process. In the photos below we show these two tricks separately, but you should do the two things at the same time, also because swinging the component terminal helps to mix the old solder with the new one. click to enlargeFigure 9: Soldering one terminal. click to enlargeFigure 10: Soldering the other terminal. click to enlargeFigure 11: Pushing the terminal forth with the soldering iron tip. click to enlargeFigure 12: Pushing the terminal back with the soldering iron tip.
Susan B. Dopart, M.S., R.D.: Sugar or Sweetener? Your Body Knows What's Right. Have you ever been sitting in a restaurant and watched someone add multiple pink, blue or yellow packets to their food or drink? Whenever I see one of these "packet aficionados," I just want to lean over and ask, "What's wrong with good old-fashioned sugar? " Some days I feel like I am "sweet talking" all day long. Many clients I see in my practice have come to believe that artificial sweeteners are a healthier way to satisfy their cravings for sweet. Unfortunately, they're not. As a culture, how did we get so sweet obsessed, anyway? How Sweet is Sweet Enough? In the 80's, the fat-free revolution hit the shelves. This conditioning has led us to where we are today -- wanting to satisfy our sweet tooth without ramifications. Non-nutritive sweeteners range from half as sweet as sugar to many times sweeter than sugar, with the average being 200-300 times sweeter than sugar.
Fuel, Don't Fool Your Body When you are consuming alternative sweeteners, you are trying to fool your body. Loading...