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I haven't used VesselMover, but I don't see why it would not work with the pads. They are parts after all, and act like other parts.
Beyond the hinge and mount, there isn't much to the RSS other than an early version of the payload changeout room opening, and some placeholder objects for the outer support, put in temporarily for planning purposes.
A design decision I've made was to have the outer support rest on the ground when the RSS is in the rolled-back position; this makes the support clip through the pad and be partially hidden when closed. Since I don't want the RSS to be suspended in mid-air, and the open position is the one most used, I went with clipping through the pad.
The RSS is extremely complex, and no way will I include every detail or try for near faithfulness to the real one.
Another option you could consider for the RSS supports is to have a track that the RSS runs on. The supports for the track would clip into the launch pad, which won't matter much, and the RSS supports would ride on wheels which would run on the track, eliminating the need for moving objects to clip through the pad. i'm not sure how much more work that would be to implement, but it's just my $0.02.
Yep, that would be more work, and then you'd have an elevated track...not what I want either.
One question at the moment: can you make 6xSymetry for Base Insert Square to fit rockets like this?
Funny enough, when I added the 3x120 configuration, I had also thought about a 6x60 version...but decided not to, as I felt that the 3-way version was sufficient for the Delta II and other rockets with multiple small SRBs or side boosters, using the new bottom-mount hold-down arm (which was inspired by the Delta II's and Titan II's hold-downs).
However, I see I was in error, and can rather easily make a 6-way version. I'll have it up on Wednesday, as part of yet another MLP v1.3 update. Will use the existing v1.3 square insert.
Incidentally, that's the Saturn V tail service mast you're using, and was not actually a hold-down or clamp.
I have the new insert ready for separate download from my Dropbox if you don't want to wait for the official update release.
Put the .cfg file into ModularLaunchPads/Saturn_Pad/Base_Parts; overwrite the old one.
Also can we get holding arm with longer ..arm. Please?
Whoops! Thanks, I keep forgettting to change things in the dev folder files before zipping them up. Got it fixed.
It was designed for rockets like this, and indeed many rockets use something like it. I changed its part title to say "Bottom-Mount" instead of "General" to reflect this.
There already is a long-arm hold down type; an even longer one would require a whole new part. It'll be something I can add in for v2.0, probably a mesh-switching one with different arm length options.
New version 1.3.6 with the revised square insert is now up on Spacedock!
The pads have a sound emitting on staging, right?
Nevermind, just another weirdness in my borked-again game.
The only sound is the staging/decoupling sound.
Progress on the shuttle pad RSS: Started to fill in details and put in parts for the framework...it now has a connection to the hinge!
New stuff isn't textured yet...or even using a KSP shader....that will come later.
In v2.0, there will be a Delta II tower add-on (among others) for the new general-type pad bases, and it will work with the Saturn mobile launhcer base as well. It will be able to use new modular drop-umbilicals as well as swing arms, not just the Saturn V ones but new smaller ones as well.
I'm still deciding whether to make the new towers in modular pieces like the new Saturn tower (switchable-height section with separate base and top sections), or just have a single-unit tower with adjustable heights (one of which will be the default one for the particular rocket it was meant for). The Falcon 9 strongback will have to be like this, otherwise Animated Attachment would have to be used for the fallback animation, and I don't want to make that a requirement.
More progress on the RSS...it's starting to fill in!
The square an I-beams are still untextured, as some of them will be used to make other parts.
And a new dev build of the v2.0 Saturn and Shuttle pad parts is now on my Dropbox. Includes craft files for the CA shuttle, BDB Saturn V and BDB Saturn IB.
New dev build of the v2 Saturn and Shuttle pad parts, now with the new sparker FX, available on my Dropbox. Don't put the AlphaDev folder in the .zip into the ModularLaunchPads folder, as it is a standalone build and goes into Gamedata.
Do you have plans for the sound suppression system?
I put in the rainbirds and the pipes around the SRB holes, but they are just for looks and don't work...unless someone makes a water-spray effect.
Do you mean the pipes and gantries that wrap around the MLP like in this picture? I'm not really sure what their purpose is or why they were added to the shuttle MLPs and not Apollo (mostly because I've never been able to find any good sources about the MLPs and launch infrastructure in general), but I really think they help make a launch pad look distinctly shuttle-era.


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The surprising reason first ladies can't wear clothes off the rack, according to Laura Bush's former chief of staff
President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush at a 2005 inaugural ball.
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Anita McBride served as first lady Laura Bush's chief of staff from 2005 to 2009.
She says first ladies usually wear custom outfits to avoid accidentally matching other guests.
Bush once wore an Oscar de la Renta gown that three guests were also wearing, and she had to change.
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First ladies occasionally wear clothes from affordable fashion brands like J. Crew, Gap, and Target for everyday events. But for larger, high-profile gatherings, they usually work with designers to create custom gowns.
This isn't just an aesthetic choice. Anita McBride, who served as first lady Laura Bush's chief of staff from 2005 to 2009, told Insider that there's also a strategic reason why first ladies don't shop off the rack: to avoid wearing the same outfit as other guests.
McBride learned this firsthand in 2006 at a White House reception before the Kennedy Center Honors.
"Mrs. Bush had this beautiful Oscar de la Renta dress, but it was one that was off the rack, not made special for her," she said. "It was a beautiful, red, elegant gown that she was intending to wear for the Kennedy Center Honors, for the reception at the White House, and then over to the performance."
President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush stand with Kennedy Center honorees Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and conductor Zubin Mehta at the White House in 2006. Laura Bush wore an off-the-rack red Oscar de la Renta gown that other guests also showed up wearing.
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As the president and first lady began greeting guests, it became clear that the Oscar de la Renta dress had been a popular choice.
"They're doing the receiving line, and at least two, maybe three other women came through the line in the same dress that Oscar had sold that year," McBride said.
Bush quickly went upstairs to change between the White House reception and the Kennedy Center Honors, attending the gala in a black lace dress instead.
"She was more concerned for these other women that had come through the line and didn't want them to be embarrassed in a public way," McBride said.
First lady Laura Bush changed into a black dress for the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors after three other guests showed up in the same red Oscar de la Renta gown she was wearing.
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Showing up to an event wearing the exact same outfit as another attendee is largely regarded as an embarrassing fashion faux pas. Indeed, the incident made headlines, like "Laura Bush Among Four Ladies In Red."
McBride says that by wearing dresses that are created especially for them, first ladies ensure that they won't need to worry about accidentally matching anyone else.
"It underscores that it's hard, when you're in that public of an event, to really buy what other people are buying — particularly in an event like that, that is so visible and televised," she said. "So you can understand why they have to have things done just for them, particularly for state dinners or Kennedy Center Honors or things overseas. You can understand the need for the outfit to be unique."
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Hey, girl! Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone and Lamorne Morris are reuniting to host a "New Girl" rewatch podcast, premiering on Jan. 24.
Each week on "Welcome to Our Show," Deschanel, Simone and Morris will dive back into episodes of "New Girl" and reveal secrets and behind-the-scenes stories from the Emmy-winning show.
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Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Diana Ford: How my father died.
"How our death can be planned and inflicted upon us when we don't want to die."
My father died July 11th, 2012, after fighting to live for 20 months, 10 days short of his 90th birthday. He had no terminal illness. He was not comatose or vegetative.
My father died of an infection in the lungs that no one ever took the trouble to treat him for in an appropriate fashion and that was maintained by the medical staff in his lungs for the past 20 months.
He had been in the Ottawa Hospital from November 2010 to July 4th, 2012, when I finally got the approval to move him to the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
He died in the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal while I was talking to his doctors about what to do to help his pneumonia that had not been treated in the Ottawa Hospital for 2 months prior to the transfer.
After having inflicted pain and irreversible damage repeatedly, in order to cover for their wrong doings, the doctors at the Ottawa Hospital decided it was time for him to die.
They made an application to the Consent and Capacity Board of Ontario to have all medical treatment withdrawn from my father and in case he got worse, to pull out his feeding tube and let him starve to death.
The Province of Ontario, via the Consent and Capacity Board it created, approved their application to have my father's life terminated. In order to get this accomplished, the doctors at the Ottawa Hospital used lies and false claims. Meanwhile, even before any approval from the Board and without my knowledge or consent, the doctors had stopped all testing and all treatment for my father at the beginning of May, despite the fact that all tests from May 7th, 2012 indicated that he had acute pneumonia and desperately needed treatment. They had also denied my requests to have him transferred on three prior occasions and instead of helping to discharge him, they placed a security guard at his bedside to ensure that he does not get moved out of the Hospital.
In the autopsy result it is shown that my father was not vegetative and that his condition and death was due to asphyxiation because he was left with an untreated pneumonia for too long. Heavy death of neurons new and old indicate that he suffered from lack of oxygen in the past, when he was left unsuctioned, and recently, when he died because of his compromised respiratory system due to the old untreated pneumonia. Because he was moved out of the Ottawa Hospital one week prior to his death and into the Montreal Jewish General the doctor in the Montreal Hospital tested and treated him. After the cultures were ready (it takes four days or so for cultures to develop), it was shown that he had "ample growth of E-Coli bacteria in his lungs" just as he did all along during the 19.5 months in the Ottawa Hospital, where he was only minimally treated until they stopped treating him entirely for two months before he died, fact that was hidden in the hope that perhaps so he would die "on his own". However, after the cultures were ready, the doctor in Montreal did treat my father for the 2.5 days before his death. Unfortunately it was too late for my father to gain the necessary strength to survive. However, it is very meaningful. because when the results came back from the autopsy report, it was shown that the 2.5 days of treatment he received at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital with a strong broad spectrum antibiotic was enough to clear his lungs entirely and that the theory of being unable to treat his pneumonia in 19.5 months at the Ottawa Hospital was indeed untrue. After only 2.5 days there was no more infection or just a negligible amount of bacterial growth in his lungs. Hence, had he been treated from the start, he would have been healed and out of the Hospital in two months instead of being tortured and dead after 19.5 months. The plan to let him die so it would save money backfired and instead of costing the system 2 months of Hospital stay, it ended up costing the system 19.5 months of Hospital stay and his life!
My father was the most generous, kindest, most giving and most altruistic human being I have ever known in my entire life.
He never did, nor would have hurt anyone but instead, he helped many people, practically, he helped anyone he could!
My father did and would have done anything to live longer in order to be with me and my mother even for just one more month!
Truth is he could have easily lived longer because, aside for a treatable pneumonia (if he had been given the proper antibiotics on time), there was nothing life threatening or seriously wrong with him.
His life was stolen from him. His life was denied to him. It was unfairly and callously terminated against his will.
He was killed by the Canadian Health Care System despite his struggle of 20 months and his wishes to live as long as possible.
His healers turned to killers at the Ottawa Hospital to cover for their incompetence and damages caused to my dad.
They managed to influence the doctors at the Jewish Hospital who refused him ICU care (he was denied intensive care) when my father needed it, when I requested it, so my father died.
My father never enjoyed the "right to life, freedom and security" as promissed to us by our Constitution.
Living was always a fight, a struggle, something that people wanted to take away from him.
His life was threatened many times until it was finally and permanently taken away from him by the men in white robes from the Canadian Hospitals.
When he was still a small child, his family fled Austria to save his life. Not long after that, Romania signed allegiance with the Nazis and his life was once again at risk.
I found out from books, written and published by people whose names he did not even know or remember, that my father, while in forced labor camps, had organized several barracks of younger people to attend to additional forced labor shifts, additional to the required times, in order to replace the barracks of older people on their shifts of forced labor so as to save those older people's lives. My father did not think that the elderly or the frail were disposable material, the way the doctors here think. He believed that every life is worth saving and that every human being came with mothers and fathers, children, wives and loved ones who would be crushed if this person was hurt or if they died. My father was a true human being: he was thoughtful and respectful of others. He did not live only for himself and think only of himself. He thought of all and fought for all around him to be protected and safe. He even put his own life at risk to protect other people's lives, people who were older, sicker and more frail than him and he never told anyone about this until the book was published and his actions were applauded by total strangers who were there at the time, remembering and grateful to him.
This is something that some of the doctors here, in our beautiful, democratic Canada, appear not to believe in. Far too often our Health Care professionals treat people like disposable goods that need to be thrown out when damaged or old. The doctrine of "if you can't heal them, kill them" is applied far too often along with a less obvious doctrine of "if healing them costs too much or takes too long, better kill them".
The way they do it is they withdraw treatment until their patients die "of natural causes". For example, like in my father's case, they will not treat pneumonias until the pneumonias get so strong that the patients die asphixiated and then they turn around and call it a "natural cause". After that, they go and tell the family "he went peacefully", meaning that dying suffocated was right, without pain, easy and a natural death that the patient deserved. These doctors have no shame in killing their patients when the patients have the audacity of being inconveniently ill for longer than what is financially acceptable. I would have paid these murderers anything to let my father live, only they parade around pretending they are saintlier than saints and claim it's not about money. Meanwhile, they cost me $50,000 in legal and ambulance fees anyway or my dad would have been killed long ago. Murder is a convenient tool that covers their incompetence, negligence and all the damages they inflict upon their patients. Letting the patient die is the weapon of choice.
My father's assassins had the audacity and the arrogance to pretend that they had my father's interest at heart more than I did, that they knew him better than I did, that they knew better what he wished, what was in his best interest and what was of benefit to him. They argued that they saved him from suffering when they killed him. I think that this argument could be made for every living being on Earth because everyone suffers in one way or another.
The doctors argued that my father's dignity needed to be saved and that's why it was good for him to die. Clearly, this is an argument that could be brought in favor of killing every person who is unable to walk or move on their own. Therefore, what they are advocating is the killing of all handicapped or mentally ill patients. In reality, my father was completely dignified and if there was ever dignity anywhere, my father would have been the symbol of it. They think being ill is undignified but do not see that murdering their own patients is the most undignified, the most perverse and the most despicable behaviour a doctor could ever have. By their logic, these doctors, who go around murdering patients in the name of preserving dignity, are the ones who should be put to death first, since they lack not only dignity itself, but the understanding of what dignity means. In fact, they would not know dignity if it walked up to them and shook hands with them. Completely inhuman and devoid of all human feelings, they walk around dressed in human skin, bringing nothing but agony and despair to their patients and their patients' families.
To all of you who have written and called me to offer me condoleances, to all of you who sincerely have compassion and feel the pain I feel, instead of feeling sorry for me or my dad, please do something useful for me, for him, for you and for all of us: oppose our murderous medical system and the courts who give approval to doctors to kill their own patients, thereby handing death sentences to innocent people. This is not what we have doctors for. This is not what we have medical health care insurance for. This is not what we pay taxes for. This is not what we subsidise the doctors' university studies for. I do not mourn my father because my heart and my soul died the day he got assassinated by his doctors. Therefore, I cannot feel anything but outrage. My heart is dead, my feelings are numb, my humanity is at risk but my mind and my logic are very much alive. It is from my reasoning that this outrage is born, not from my feelings or from my emotions! I am a very rational and logical person when I tell you that this cannot and should not be allowed to go on!
Out of our responsibility as human beings, out of our civic duty, out of our love for our children or grandchildren, out of our concern for the well being of the futurte generations, we must fight this murderous system of disposing of "life unworthy of life", by not treating the handicapped, the mentally ill, the elderly or the "useless babies". Our emergency rooms should never turn the ill away. Our acute care or critical care units should always accept all acutely or critically ill patients instead of letting them die outside these units, our doctors should not unilaterally decide to withdraw treatment from the sick, they should not be the ones to decide who should live and who should die, they should provide care to all their patients equally, preserve and prolong life but never deliberately end it. Our courts should not give approval to the doctors to terminate the life of their patients. Our health insurance is what we all paid into and it must not be denied to us when we need it most! The fact that it is widely practiced is no excuse, on the contrary, it is an evil that has to be annihilated. This evil spreads like a mushroom, like a cancer and that's why it must be opposed, faught and eradicated. We have to change this. The thinking behind it, the inertia to do something about this problem and the complacency we have living with a murderous system, hoping that if we say and do nothing, it will never affect us, must be stopped.Those who think that living longer is a threat and not a blessing, those who think that Health Care is a privilege, not an insurance that must pay up when claimed, like any other insurance, those who think that the elderly should not be covered by health insurance, do not belong in a democratic country and should give up their own benefits first before they go to ask that other people's benefits be curtailed. I do not want to live in a state that approves medical professionals to add killing to their professional responsibilities. I do not want my doctors to have approval to murder, approval that comes from Courts and Boards created by the state to eliminate the weak. I do not want social Darwinism in my country.
My children and I will never forget or forgive what happened to my father and to us, here, in Canada at the hand of those who were supposed to help. We are marked. Our hearts and souls are mutilated. It happened to many before us and it will happen to many more if we don't do something to stop it. It is not because my father died that we feel so dead inside but because he should not have died murdered at the hands of those who should have helped him, who were there to save his life, his own doctors!
Those of you who have compassion and feel the pain I feel, instead of feeling sorry for me or for my dad, please sign this Petition to oppose our system where our Courts and State created Boards give approval to doctors to unilaterally decide to "let their own patients die", in contradiction to the patient's wishes or to the family members' decisions. In doing so, this system has become a system of handing out death sentences to innocent people. This is not what we have doctors for! This is not what we have medical health care insurance for! This is not what we pay taxes for! This is not what we subsidise the doctors' university studies for!
My Father: What happened to him and how he was treated by the Ottawa hospital.
He was abandoned in a jurisdiction where assisted dying is illegal. Was there a point in there somewhere, Diana?
Don't give the doctors more power to kill.
I thank those of you who have commented. I must say that the Canadian system, at present, is very biased towards terminating the lives of the elderly, the handicapped and the mentally challenged patients as soon as possible in order to save cost. The fact that these people have contributed and paid taxes into this system that was supposed to treat them, not kill them, when they became ill and needed medical treatment, does not count. Here, in Canada, we are now trading in lives for dollars. It is a very sad state of affairs when the government, via its health establishment and with the collaboration of its judicial establishment, takes the liberty to terminate the lives of our loved ones, against our wishes and against the wishes of our loved ones. Our loves ones, if old or handicapped, are viewed as "not worthy of living" in the same way they were regarded under the T4 Program during the Nazi regime of 1930s in Germany. It is unfortunate that our system takes Nazi Germany for example, when Canada was supposed to have fought against that regime in the past and pretends to be a democratic country. I guess democracy is hugely overrated and Canada is nowhere close to the democracy it pretends to be! Can you imagine what will happen if "assisted suicide" is allowed to become law in Canada?!?
It is sad to see the loved ones are not taken care when they are old and sick.


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This time on Thursday night I will feel a little easier. This time on Thursday night the launch of India Dark will be over and I will have that strange sense of release that a book launch can give an author. After the launch, you know the fate of your book belongs to other people. Before the launch, you can still pretend the story belongs to you.
But in many ways, India Dark never really belonged to me. Because it's based so closely on a true story, I always felt it belonged to other people, to other places, to other times. It was a difficult child that I kept trying to dress in its prettiest clothes and send out into the world. And for years on end, week in and week out, it would spit and cry and and stamp its foot and say 'no', I'm not ready to go outside. So I would rewrite the wretched story all over again.
Now its shoes are shiny, its hair smooth, its dress clean and pressed, its soft skin smelling sweetly of sandalwood and roses as it skips out of warehouses and onto the shelves of bookshops around the country. I can only hope it finds people to love it.
A couple of days ago I received an email from someone whose opinion I value hugely in regard to this novel and it's gone a long way to salving my fear and worry about its release. The email was from Peter Downes, the fabulous New Zealand theatre historian who is the only person to have written a published history of Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company. (His excellent book is a history of the New Zealand branch of the extensive family company and is available through his website).
Perhaps only an historian can really appreciate the fine line between truth and fiction so I'm thrilled that Peter felt I got it right. It makes me feel all the blood, sweat and tears really were worth it.
PS. The Melbourne launch of India Dark will be held at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre at The University of Melbourne on Thursday evening at 6.00 pm. If you're in Melbourne, drop by to see my most wilful and tempestuous novel find its place in the world.


The University of Michigan Central Student Government discussed adopting a set of undergraduate education values established by a University task force and a possible location for new student housing at a meeting Tuesday evening.
Kevin Jiang, a former assembly member and 2018 alum, spoke to the Student Assembly regarding a new value set to describe the mission of the University's entire undergraduate education program. According to Jiang, the task force wants more student input in the list of values to ensure the values reflect the beliefs of the University.
Values on the initiative currently being proposed include "brave exploration, greater good, purposeful inclusion, collaborative spirit, well-being and self-determination." Jiang emphasized the task force's efforts to work with Counseling and Psychological Services to include more clinical counselors on North Campus.
Members of the Assembly were given the opportunity to respond to the suggested value set. Rackham student Austin Glass suggested including "community expansion" as an additional value.
The assembly later discussed the University's Board of Regents' recent purchase of the former location of Fingerle Lumber. The 6.54 acres of land was purchased on Dec. 6 for $24 million after Fingerle Lumber announced its closing earlier that month. The land is located along Fifth Ave. and south of E. Madison St. Although the Board of Regents has not announced what they plan to do with the land, the location was discussed as a possible location for new student housing.
CSG Vice President Izzy Baer mentioned the lack of demand for student housing among upperclassmen. She said because many sophomores are more interested in off-campus housing, building a new dorm may not appeal to upperclassmen.
"I'm skeptical if there is a need for sophomores to continue living with on-campus housing versus making this a more apartment style, non-dorm concept," Baer said.
Law student Kevin Deutsch also explained his own experience with the location.
For the location to be a possible place of student housing, the Assembly discussed implementing new bus routes, creating safety standards regarding the train tracks and the possibility of marketing the dorm toward athletes, as it is close to South Campus.


So much for the neutral stance on iPhone hacks. I wonder if the unlock hack released yesterday contributed to the clarification of Apple's position.
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Unlike pension systems in the rest of Europe, where large-scale pension funds are common, the UK is characterised by a large number of small, single-employer pension schemes. Whether or not superfunds take off, consolidation will reshape the nation's pension schemes, says Broadridge's Jonathan Libre.
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Establishment Media's Slavishness Revealed by Snowden Saga
by Amitabh Pal
The reaction of the U.S. media to the Edward Snowden affair reveals the extent to which journalism here has become a handmaiden to the national security state.
Here's the by now infamous exchange on "Meet the Press" between its host David Gregory and Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist whom Snowden used as a conduit for the information he leaked.
Gregory: "To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?"
Greenwald: "I think it's pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies."
Gregory got himself into deeper trouble when he issued nonclarifying clarifications that earned him little sympathy, even from his mainstream peers.
"David Gregory's logic has a cursory appeal," Erik Wemple wrote in the Washington Post. "Shouldn't a Sunday talk show host have the latitude to pose tough questions to another journalist? Too bad, however, Gregory didn't do that. Rather, he seeded his question with a veiled accusation of federal criminal wrongdoing, very much in the tradition of 'how long have you been beating your wife.'"
Gregory hasn't been the worst culprit, however. Andrew Ross Sorkin, CNBC host and New York Times columnist, has defamed himself even more thoroughly.
"I would arrest [Snowden] and now I'd almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who seems to be out there, he wants to help him get to Ecuador," Sorkin opined. (Sorkin's later clarifications didn't redeem him, either.)
The epidemic of "more loyal than thou" seems to be catching, since Gregory and Sorkin have had lot of company.
NBC reporter Chuck Todd asked, "Glenn Greenwald, you know, how much was he involved in the plot? Did he have a role beyond simply being a receiver of this information?"
ABC foreign correspondent Martha Raddatz razzed on Snowden for having Venezuela as a possible destination, while the Washington Post's Richard Cohen called him "a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood," whatever that's supposed to mean.
Over at the New York Times, David Brooks fretted over how Snowden was making Americans more cynical.
Greenwald has taken the jabs directed at him in stride; indeed, he says it proves a point he's been making for a long time.
"One of the main criticisms that I've voiced about the Beltway media is that they're not adversarial to the government at all, but actually that they are servants of the government, mouthpieces for it," he told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. "And I think it's almost like Christmas, for those of us who believe that, to watch this gift being handed to us that so vividly proves it, that rather than defend what is supposed to be their right that they are supposed to safeguard, which is freedom of the press, they're leading the chorus against other journalists on behalf of the government that they serve."
Greenwald is on the right track. If the subservience of big media to power is cast in an even starker light due to these recent stumbles, that's all the better.
Amitabh Pal, the managing editor of The Progressive and co-editor of the Progressive Media Project, is the author of "Islam" Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today (Praeger).
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More Than 80% of Patients Willing to Take Satisfaction Surveys by Text
FRANKLIN, Tenn., March 11, 2021 – A new data analysis shows that more than four out of every five patients will participate in satisfaction surveys administered by healthcare providers via text message.
The data comes from Digestive Health Center (DHC) of Dallas, an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) owned and operated by AMSURG. DHC of Dallas sent about 7,400 Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey text messages to patients in 2020. Texts were delivered via Dialog Health, a two-way texting platform that enables information to be pushed to and pulled from patients, staff, and caregivers.
The survey text stated the following: "Would you mind rating your experience with us between a 1 and a 5, with 1 being low and 5 being high? Simply reply with the number." The engagement results were as follows:
About 82% of patients replied with a 4 or 5
About 1% replied with a 1, 2, or 3
The total percentage of patients who participated in the survey exceeded 83%. In addition, more than 200 patients provided commentary when they replied with their number.
Improving Net Promoter Score With Text Messaging
The 82% of patients who responded with a 4 or 5 were subsequently texted a link to a web page where they could leave online reviews of DHC of Dallas. This has helped the ASC strengthen its online reputation.
"We are proud of the excellent patient-centered care provided at our centers each and every day," says David Shackelford, MHA, regional vice president of operations for AMSURG. "One important way we measure our effectiveness is through our NPS survey to patients. Our strong partnership with Dialog Health allows us to leverage a texting-outreach platform, which has demonstrated an incredible rate of response."
"Based upon the experience of clients who use text messaging for patient surveys and achieve great outcomes, we were confident that texting would deliver DHC of Dallas the results it was looking for," says Brandon Daniell, president and co-founder of Dialog Health.
Adding Texting for Patient Surveys
The decision by DHC of Dallas to employ two-way texting for its NPS surveys was easy. The ASC was already finding success using Dialog Health to perform a post-appointment patient communication campaign via text messages. The center's leadership expected that texting would provide a fast, efficient, and cost-effective way to gather real-time feedback from patients the day after surgery.
"This feedback loop is so important as is provides visibility into our successes and also areas for improvement," Shackelford says. "Ultimately, this patient communication solution allows us to celebrate the dedication of our entire care team to achieving high-quality care with a great patient experience."
Organizations like DHC of Dallas are growing increasingly reliant on text messaging for patient and staff communications. Email communications have become less dependable due to the proliferation of spam and sheer number of emails most people receive daily. Phone calls take up significant staff time and resources while also delivering poor results because of the increasing tendency for consumers to ignore calls from unfamiliar numbers.
"We are pleased that this analysis further validates the effectiveness of text messaging for communicating and engaging with patients," Daniell says. "By embracing the speed, convenience, and ubiquity of texting, surgery centers and other healthcare providers can increase patient participation and engagement in their care, which benefits patients, staff, organizations, and the healthcare system as a whole."
To learn more about how DHC of Dallas and other healthcare providers are benefitting from two-way text messaging, access Dialog Health case studies here.
About Dialog Health
Dialog Health is a U.S.-based company that provides a two-way texting platform to organizations which they can leverage as a communication and engagement channel. Two-way texting is a convenient, fast, effective, and affordable communication resource for stakeholder engagement. For more information, visit www.dialoghealth.com, call (877) 666-1132, and follow Dialog Health on LinkedIn.


As another season of college basketball rapidly approaches its end, the race for the national title is wide open. The 2018-19 season has been an exciting one full of buzzer beaters, rim rocking dunks, and stout defenses. While every team is capable of winning the Big Dance no team is perfect. Below I will highlight one major flaw for each contender. Continue Reading!


Former Parkway star Seth Lugo picked up his second career Major League victory Tuesday night at Citi Field in New York.
Lugo held the Miami Marlins to two runs in six innings in the New York Mets' 7-4 victory.
The Marlins' runs came on a two-run homer in the first inning. Lugo (2-2) shut them down after that, allowing just two hits and a walk while striking out four.
Lugo picked up his first win on Aug. 25 against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. He allowed two hits, walked three and struck out five before leaving the game after five innings with a right calf cramp. The Mets led 7-0 when Lugo left and went on to win 10-6.


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Blair condemns attacks on England supporters
By Jackie Dent and agencies
Tony Blair today condemned violence against England supporters in Scotland after incidents at the weekend in which a boy and a disabled driver were assaulted for wearing England shirts.
The driver, Ian Smith, was dragged from his car in Aberdeen and punched in the face because of his England shirt and the St George's cross on his car.
"I am sure everybody condemns what was an appalling and totally unjustifiable attack," the prime minister told the House of Commons during Question Time.
In Edinburgh Hugo Clapshaw, 7, was playing football in a park with his father, Damon, 34, when a man in a Rangers shirt hit Hugo on the head and said: "This is Scotland, not fucking England". When Mr Clapshaw intervened the man knocked him down and kicked him. Lothian and Borders police said they were still looking for the man, and described the incident as "horrible for the family".
The First Minister, Jack McConnell, also criticised the attackers, describing them as "mindless thugs".
Hugo told the Scottish Sun newspaper that he would continue to wear his shirt. "The man whacked me very hard. He was a lot bigger than me. I am still going to wear the top. My mum bought it for me because I'm supporting England," he said.
The SNP shadow justice minister, Kenny MacAskill, called the reported attacks "appalling".
"This is a football tournament, not a re-run of the Battle of Bannockburn or a battle of tribal warfare," he told BBC Radio Scotland.


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Thoughts on railway preservation: the Heritage Rail Alliance meeting in Santa Fe
I just returned from Santa Fe, N.M., where the Heritage Rail Alliance meeting concluded. I have attended these meetings regularly since 1997 and as a volunteer at the N.C. Transportation Museum served as one of the hosts of the 2001 meeting of the old Association of Railway Museums and the Tourist Railroad Association Inc., which merged a few years ago to become the Heritage Rail Alliance. We also hosted the 2008 meeting of the tourist group here at Trains magazine in Milwaukee. The tone of the...
Why we're at the Heritage Rail Alliance meeting learning about tourist railroads and museums
SANTA FE, N.M. – We're here in this capital of desert Southwest arts and culture for the annual Heritage Rail Alliance. It's a meeting that brings together dozens of professionals and volunteers from the tourist railroad and railway museum industries to talk about their common challenges and successes. I expect to see dozens of people, from car hosts to the CEOs of major tourist railroad holding companies. Everyone who cares about the future and well-being of the past is here....
An overdue visit to a special railroad tunnel that never saw the first train
Have you ever put off doing something so long that you just didn't think you'd ever get around to doing it? I had an experience like that late last month when I went home to the Carolinas to see family and friends. This tale involves a partially completed railroad tunnel. All of my life I'd heard the legendary Blue Ridge Railroad, a route between the Atlantic seaboard at Charleston, S.C., through the mountains of South Carolina and Georgia, and onto Knoxville, Tenn., and e...
The power of first-person storytelling
I just can't help but get emotional. I am closing a book. Not The Book. But it's the end of an era for me. I've edited the last chapter of your stories. Your personal stories. With the December 2018 issue of Trains, I have edited my last "In My Own Words" story. [I lovingly refer to it as IMOW (read: eye-mow) in the office, so expect that reporting mark for the duration.] By my best count, you've allowed me to help you tell your stories 173 times. I am honor...
Sending thoughts to heaven while following a Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum excursion
Mr. Bob Soule Mr. Paul Merriman The Great Roundhouse in the Sky Gentlemen: I've long wanted to speak with both of you again since you departed this Earth. But I've not felt the urge to contact you so strongly as I have this week. You were both giants in the preservation of steam locomotives, and your creation, Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, has compelled me to write. Last Sunday, I had the good fortune to follow and photograph a TVRM excursion train from Chattanoo...
I am a gearhead: Silver Creek & Stephenson's Heisler No. 2 confirms it
I am a gearhead. All locomotives fascinate me. Diesels excite me. Streamlined cab units are especially a favorite. Electric is good. Steam power is truly a passion. Big steam definitely thrills me. But if you asked me what my most personal favorite is, it would be a geared steam locomotive. Give me a Shay, a Heisler, a Climax. Those strange but powerful backwoods locomotives of the late 19th and early 20th century that slaved away in obscurity. They are my best locomotive buddies. Yes, I am a ge...
"Grandpa" John Gruber had a twinkle in his eye
John Gruber signs a copy of "Railroaders:Jack Delano's Homefront Photography" at the Chicago History Museum, April 5, 2014. Photo by Angela Pusztai-Pasternak There are folks worthier than me of writing about John Gruber who passed away Oct. 9, 2018. Certainly, the list includes his family, his close friends, railroaders, photographers, business associates, and railfans who admire the books he wrote, the photos he took, all the beautiful work he'd done personally and professionally, es...
Railroad photography: A death in the family
I still remember vividly the image of the scrunched cap reflected in the window glass. It seemed an odd inclusion to this young railfan by a magazine called "Trains" that billed itself as "The Leading Magazine of Railroading." That photo was taken by none other than legendary photography John Gruber, who died this week at age 82. It accompanied his May 1994 feature story "A death in the family" recounting the end of the Green Bay & Western. It wasn'...
Thank you, John Gruber, my friend
I am going to miss John Gruber. The affable photographer, writer, editor, and found of the Center for Railroad Photograph & Art who passed away Tuesday at age 82 gave me many things. As a kid, he showed me Southern Railway No. 4501 in the pages of Trains and in David P. Morgan's book about that beloved locomotive. And then he showed me the Rio Grande narrow gauge in its final days. And so much more. As an adult, he gave me a good friend in his son, Rich. We both liked...
Tour of Colorado, Day 7: That's all, folks
DENVER, Colo. — That's a wrap. The fourth year of Trains tours of Colorado wrapped up Monday with our final train ride, from Alamosa to La Veta on the Rio Grande Scenic, followed by a bus ride to Denver and our farewell dinner at our hotel. Tomorrow, everyone flies home. The ride on the Rio Grande Scenic was a bit sobering because it took us through the path of the Spring Creek Fire, which closed the railroad, burned down its concert venue at Fir, and destroyed 140 homes as it spre...
Tour of Colorado, Day 6: The favorite child
ALAMOSA, Colo. — If you ask a parent if he or she has a favorite child, the answer is usually going to be "I love them all equally." It's almost like that with the tourist railroads on the Trains Tour of Colorado. Almost. Every one of these railroads has something to recommend it, and I enjoy every one of them. But I must admit I have a favorite child: the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a 64-mile railroading time capsule that is as close to a narrow-gauge operatio...
Tour of Colorado, Day 4: Returning to normal in Durango
DURANGO, Colo. — There's no bad time to visit the Durango & Silverton, but this was a particularly good time for three reasons: — The railroad is finally running its full route on its regular schedule, after a summer disrupted by fire and mudslides. — The fall colors are spectacular. — The area can use the support. The last point may be the most important. As we noted on Trains News Wire in late August, Durango & Silverton ridership was down 27 percent, ...
Tour of Colorado, Day 3: Gorge-ous
CANON CITY, Colorado — In the days before our group arrived in Canyon City for its ride on the Royal Gorge route, I was exchanging text messages with Jody Moore, the railroad's assistant general manager, to set up a video interview for an upcoming Trains project At one point, he dropped in a short aside: "Your timing is good. We just put the F7s back on the train this weekend." Now, that was a truly welcome bit of news. When last I was on the Trains Tour of Colorado, in...
Tour of Colorado, Day 2: Friends old and new
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Day Two of the Trains Tour of Colorado featured a visit to an old friend of our tour groups, and a new stop with a notable place in the state's railroading history. Up first today was a visit to the Leadville, Colorado & Southern, a regular feature of our tours and one that I think has been a new experience to a majority of our travelers. I'm delighted we can introduce them to it; the highest standard gauge railroad in North America (the tracks re...
Tour of Colorado, Day 1: Shay? Nay.
GEORGETOWN, Colo. — Steam locomotives are complex machines. As such, they can be a bit temperamental. We were all reminded of that during today's Trains Tour of Colorado. This is the first full day of this year's Colorado tour, which has been a regular part of the Trains tour schedule since 2015. This year's itinerary is much the same as it has been since we began offering the trips with our partners at Special Interest Tours. The first day features a visit to the Color...
765, 1309, 611 add up to thoughts and observations on big steam
I took a much-needed big steam sabbatical in Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina last week. The occasion was Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765's now annual fall visit to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, continuing restoration work on Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No. 1309 at Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, and Norfolk & Western No. 611's only mainline appearance this year, an unpublicized ferry run between Spencer, N.C., and the Class J's hometown in Roanoke, V...
MetroLink, Gateway Arch, a loaded coal train, and candied bacon
An eastbound MetroLink light rail train arrives at Delmar Loop on Sept. 22, 2018. Angela Pusztai-Pasternak And, let me tell you, that's a wicked way to spend a Saturday! I had the pleasure of visiting St. Louis this past weekend and riding MetroLink. What a great service! It was easy to use, clean, and had a smooth ride. My husband and I took the Red Line from Delmar Loop to Laclede's Landing to see the Gateway Arch. However, you can disembark at Eighth and Pine to be closer to the...
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 765 in motion: The chiseled good looks of a Greek god
There was a time, friends, when I was a mere lad. As a mere lad I had model trains before I had a good camera and a driver's license with which to chase real trains. They were Lionel and HO, and they were good. So, I did things that model railroaders do and I exchanged printed passes to my imaginary basement short line with other modelers who did the same. And when I did, I soon learned that the profile of a Nickel Plate Road Berkshire is an icon that is not only held in great revere not o...
Swiss Tour Day 10: 48% grade uphill outside Lucerne
Posted 10 months ago by Steve Sweeney
LUCERNE, Switzerland — Unable to hop out of the Pilatus Bahn cog railway cars to get a better picture, I opted to show you an approximation of what it was like to ride the Pilatus near Lucerne today. Please accept my apologies. The picture above does the railroad some justice. But man, oh man, there's not a stick of what you might call tangent track on the entire line. It's simply "up" and "down": On curves, through tunnels, over stone arches, and nex...
Swiss Tour Day 9: Narrow-gauge mountain cog steam railway with open air cars WOW
cs_setInnerHtml('video_c59e3f8e-08ae-4dcc-a238-d7945292f63d',''); LUCERNE, Switzerland — Wow. That was one heck of a day. Trains' Swiss Tour 2018 visited Brienz, Switzerland, today for a ride to near the top of the Brienz Rothorn Mountain. At the base is the small lake-side town with an 800-mm narrow-gauge rack railroad that uses mostly steam locomotives with diesel back-ups and diesel work trains. It was our ninth day of true summer-like temperatures — 75 to 85 degr...
Swiss Tour Day 8: 10 train changes in one day
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland — Quantity and quality are often traded off one another as mutually exclusive choices. But if you think those are your only choices, you obviously haven't been on a Trains tour of Switzerland. Because today, after about 10 hours and thousands of feet difference in elevation, our group changed trains 10 times. Yes. TEN TIMES. (And you smarty pantses out there, we didn't lose anyone.) We began the day at Montreux and headed just a couple of mile...
Swiss Tour Days 6 & 7: Swiss Family 'Trains'
MONTREUX, Switzerland — That's my tour group. Get that?! MY group. In the picture above, we're waiting on a train to take us from the Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva back to Montreux, where we're staying two nights. Sunday and Monday were designed to be two easy days because we needed it. We've been walking constantly. Eating meals late, getting up early, and keeping each other awake. We were polite with one another from the first night, but after all...
Swiss Tour Day 5: Where fantasy meets reality visiting the Matterhorn
ZERMATT, Switzerland — Alright. I admit it. I wanted to show off with the picture above. And after I bragged to fellow photogs on the Trains' 2018 Switzerland tour, they all went for their own version: on Canons, Nikons, in 4K, and on film. This particular shot is not iconic, but it is less common, if only because the Matterhorn (that spiky mountain in the background) is often shrouded in clouds or fog, even on otherwise nice days. Of course, since we were on a rail t...
Swiss Tour Day 4: Volunteers make memories on the Furka Pass excursion
cs_setInnerHtml('video_07705e2a-239d-42f2-b3a7-0f1b94f2d86a',''); ZERMATT, Switzerland — The headline is plain so you know where I want to go with this blog post. But I really wanted to write: "The importance of being Kurt and Tony." These two men, you see, are volunteers with the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) or Furka Cog Railway. I'll just call it the Furka train from here on out. We met Tony first. He is a tour guide and interpreter for the Furka train w...
Super Kind and Danny Trejo say, "Wait your turn to get on the train."
Posted 10 months ago by Angela Pusztai-Pasternak
LA Metro's relatively new video and print campaign to promote good conduct on its trains and buses looks more like something my 6-year-old son would watch than those that purport to be adults using transit. Have you seen these? My two favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyjHFYtz5hY#action=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUFf8IomLg#action=share But see them all here: www.metro.net/manners Japanese anime superhero Super Kind shows riders how to have manners in various s...
Swiss Tour Day 3: One picture perfect day
CHUR, Switzerland — Take a good look at that picture above. I took it just as we were departing Bergun, Switzerland, on Thursday afternoon. The guests on Trains' Swiss tour were all smiles after about 10 miles of twists, turns, curves, tunnels, and scenic bridges. No, I mean it. Our day began in Lugano with a bus ride to Tirano, Italy, and varied pizza/spaghetti/panini lunches. That was all preparation so our group of 36 people could board meter-gauge coaches of the Rhaetian Rail...
Swiss Tour Day 2: A team building exercise in Italy
LUGANO, Switzerland — Picture it: Zurich, about 9 a.m. this morning. We were finished with breakfast in our hotel and waiting in the lobby waiting on our tour guide to check the train schedule. We were supposed to start in Zurich and end up in the large Italian-Swiss city of Lugano for dinner after a few hours at Bellinzona (also Swiss) looking at castles and old stuff. We ended up on a round-about tour of northern Italy by train and finished our day by finding out what a kumquat tastes ...
Traveling in Queen Victoria's footsteps in Switzerland
By the time most of you in Trains Nation read this, I will be in Switzerland for a Trains tour. (Book now for 2019) In my preparations, I've pored over maps of Swiss Railways, looked into the engineering of famous places and even considered which camera lens I should take with me. But I had not considered anniversaries. It turns out that 2018 is the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria's (Yes, that Queen Victoria) trip to Switzerland in 1868. Back then, she needed ...
For Trackside with Trains, a new format
Posted 10 months ago by Brian Schmidt
We've heard a few comments of late that our biweekly Trackside with Trains photo contest is growing stale, and I agree. So starting with September we're going to mix it up. The contest is now on a monthly schedule and we're treating each theme as an assignment: go make an image with it in mind rather than digging through your archives for something relevant from long ago. The first email newsletter each month will announce the previous contest's winner and the theme for the next contest. Contes...
My $6 history lesson
A couple years back my I took my wife, father, and oldest children to an auto show/flea market/local charity fundraiser event. You know the kind: hot day in summer, smoke from various grilled meat stands, flies, and a range of stuff for sale from immaculate to junk. On one of those ubiquitous junk tables I found a Railway Express Agency "Guide for Supervisors" for sale for just six bucks. Yep. Six dollars. You bet I picked it up. Flipping through pages to see what knowledge REA had fo...


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GK IMPACT | Amar Singh College provides heating arrangements in classrooms
"The funds were actually utilised during exams in previous years. We have now received it from the Cluster University and disbursed it to the concerned staff," he said.File/GK
Syed Rizwan Geelani
Srinagar: The authorities at Amar Singh College (ASC) Srinagar have started putting in place heating arrangements in classrooms.
The college has also disbursed the pending wages of sweepers and the staff working of local funds of the college. The money has been credited in the Bank accounts of the local staff, an employee confirmed to Greater Kashmir.
The move comes two days after this newspaper reported about the lack of heating arrangement in classrooms of the college, leaving the students at the receiving end.
The crises had erupted in the college over the non-availability of the heating facilities as the college had not released previous payment to the sweepers and the staff working on local funds of the college.
The staff had complained to Greater Kashmir the college was delayed to clear the payment of the services rendered by them during previous years. Owing to the delay in releasing the previous year's payment, the sweepers and the local fund staff had refused to work this year and put in place coal heaters in classrooms.
The Principal ASC Srinagar Prof. Bashir Ahmad Rather said the money for hot and cold charges was provided by the Cluster University which was received a few days ago.
"The funds were actually utilised during exams in previous years. We have now received it from the Cluster University and disbursed it to the concerned staff," he said.
He said the college is working for the welfare of the local staff and always remains on the forefront to resolve their grievances. "We have already started providing heating arrangements to the students in classrooms and I have also prepared a DPR to procure ACs for the classrooms," he said.
Director Colleges J&K, Prof. Yasmin Ashai however said the college principals have been asked to ensure heating arrangements for students.
"We understand that providing heating arrangement in every classroom is a difficult task but we the department has released funds for the colleges to meet the exigency," she said and added that the colleges can utilise money out of local funds to provide heating arrangement to students.
"Local funds of the college are meant to be utilised for the students. We are here for the betterment of the students. The department is taking all steps to provide better facilities to the students," she said.


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Is it snoring or sleep apnea?
Laura Casey, McClatchy/Tribune News
When he fell asleep in his armchair in front of the TV, Bob Dillon, 68, would wake himself up snoring.
Worse than the snoring, though, was his constant feeling of sleepiness during the day, his short temper and less-than-clear-headed thinking.
"It was bugging me," says Dillon, of Rossmoor, Calif. "So I went to my primary care physician and bugged him."
The doctor eventually sent Dillon to the California Center for Sleep Disorders in Concord, where he was hooked up to several devices that measured how he slept overnight. The result? The snoring, sleepiness, bad temper and muddy thinking were symptoms of a serious health concern: sleep apnea, in which breathing is frequently interrupted during the night.
Left untreated, doctors say, sleep apnea can increase risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, diabetes and car accidents due to sleepiness while driving.
"Fifty to 80 percent of snorers have sleep apnea," says Dr. Jerome Hester, an otolaryngologist (also known as an ear, nose and throat doctor) with the California Sleep Institute in Palo Alto. "Sleep apnea is an extremely serious condition. Studies have shown that untreated, it can increase your chances of dying over 10 years by 15 to 20 percent."
But how to treat snoring and sleep apnea is controversial in the medical community. Patients would do well to learn as much as they can about their condition and treatment options before embarking on a plan.
Hester says he worries that people who address snoring only with anti-snoring surgeries will mask the real problem. Curing snoring does not cure apnea, though some apnea treatments can reduce snoring.
The Sereno sleep center in San Francisco and some plastic surgeons do not require sleep studies before performing surgery. But Dr. Matthew Mingrone, an otolaryngologist at Sereno, says he welcomes the results of sleep studies for treatment of prospective patients. Sleep studies usually are covered by medical insurance.
Dr. Jennifer Bock Hughes, an otolaryngologist with Ear, Nose & Throat Associates in San Mateo, Calif., who specializes in sleep medicine, says that though many different snoring treatments can calm the ruckus for the nonapnea snorer, no procedure is safe without a determination of whether the snorer has sleep apnea.
"If it was my family member, if there was any question of them having sleep apnea, I'd want a sleep study," she says.
In Dillon's case, the CPAP machine has worked well. Since being taught by the clinic how to use the machine seven years ago, Dillon says, his life has changed dramatically. He now gets plenty of rest, and his mood is better, his thinking is more clear.
"It was almost immediate," he says. "I was transformed."
Non-CPAP treatments for snoring and sleep apnea
Noninvasive: Over-the-counter nasal strips, head straps, special pillows and other solutions offered by plastic surgeons, dentists and specialty snoring centers.
The Pillar Procedure: An FDA-approved, minimally invasive outpatient operation in which three to five tiny polyester implants are placed into the mouth's soft palate, stiffening it so it doesn't vibrate as much while sleeping.
Surgical: Breaking the nose and jaw; removing tissue in the uvula, soft palate, tonsils, adenoids and pharynx; uvulectomies (which reduce the size of the flesh that hangs between your tonsils).
Nasal turbinate reduction: Radio-frequency is used to reduce the size of the turbinates (soft tissue) in the nose.
Lifestyle changes: Weight-loss programs; an excess of body fat often is associated with snoring and sleep apnea.
The initials stand for continuous positive airway pressure. Proper and consistent use of a CPAP machine will reduce the chances of apnea-related health problems. A CPAP user wears a mask, a nasal pillow or a nose mask device while sleeping. The machine pumps a continuous stream of air into the user's mouth or nose, keeping breathing passages open. This prevents the shutoff of airways typical in sleep apnea. The machines can be noisy and uncomfortable, however, and not everyone can tolerate them.
Sleep apnea is a potentially deadly condition in which a person's anatomy — be it the soft palate in the mouth, the size and thickness of tongue or neck, or the condition of nasal passages — blocks airflow.
The condition literally means sleeping "without breath," according to the American Sleep Apnea Association.
There are three types — obstructive, central and mixed — and in all types, people stop breathing multiple times in their sleep, often for a minute or longer.
Most sleep apnea sufferers are male, overweight and older than 40, but sleep apnea can occur regardless of age, weight or gender. Snoring in children is not considered normal and probably indicates sleep apnea, which a doctor should address.
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I met him during my time at Intel, he attended a couple important meetings (acquisitions discussions, company wide technical strategic planning meetings, quarterly meetings). But already in not so good health and not saying much. We sure listened when he spoke up. I remember in particular once when Intel had a really bad quarter because we raised the price of Flash, after misjudging worldwide inventory. We consequently lost a large part of the market to Samsung – which probably never returned. Most CEOs would have fired the VP, but instead he took the mike and congratulated him for having had the guts to raise prices. We all applauded, but I distinctly remember I wasn't quite sure why... Bless his soul, he brought a company back from the brink of extinction selling RAM at negative margins, to industry dominance in microprocessors with 65% gross margins. That is excessively difficult to do.


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The Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc () is a sports venue situated in the Olympic Ring in Barcelona. The venue consists of two swimming pools: a pool for diving and a 25m outdoor pool. It hosted the diving events and the water polo preliminaries for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

The location of the venue on a slope of the Montjuïc hill gives a panoramic view of the city of Barcelona.

The swimming pools are open to the public during the summer.

History
The venue, that used to consist of a single 50m pool, was opened in 1929 and refurbished to host the swimming events for the 1955 Mediterranean Games.

In 1990, refurbishment works began for the 1992 Olympics: the two current pools were built and temporary grandstands were installed, boosting the capacity to 6,500 spectators.

In 2003, the venue hosted the diving events of the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. It played the same role for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, since the city of Barcelona repeated as hosts.

In popular culture
The music video for Kylie Minogue's 2003 single, "Slow", taken from the album Body Language, was filmed at Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc in August of that year, directed by Baillie Walsh. In 2016, Apple used Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc for their 'Dive' commercial for the iPhone 7. In 2018, Erika Lust shot the adult video 'Speedo cleptomaniac' at Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc for XConfessions.

See also
Piscines Bernat Picornell

References
1992 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 185–8.

Venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics
Montjuic
Sports venues in Barcelona
Olympic diving venues
Olympic water polo venues

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