Published on May 15, 2012 by Technology Slice
Dale Hunter Quits as Coach – For quite some time, Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee tried to persuade former player Dale Hunter to return to the team as its coach. This season, McPhee finally got his man — just not for very long.
Hunter quit as Washington’s coach on Monday after less than six months on the job, saying he wants to return to his family, his farm and the junior club he owns in Canada.
“It was the right thing to do,” Hunter said.
He is the owner of the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, and he was the coach until McPhee beckoned in late November after firing Bruce Boudreau. Hunter’s brother Mark took over as head coach of the Knights then, and one of Hunter’s three children is an assistant. Hunter’s 76-year-old father scouts for London; his sisters go to the games; another son lives nearby while attending college; his daughter is in the area, too.
Plus, Hunter and his brother own about 2,000 acres of farmland near his hometown of Petrolia, producing mainly wheat along with corn and soybeans.
“I’m going home,” Hunter said at the Capitals’ practice facility, a couple of hours after delivering the news to McPhee. “I’ve got a good thing going there with the family, so I’ll stay home.”
Hunter said he doesn’t plan on returning to the NHL.
He was a successful forward in the league for 19 seasons — one of only four men whose jersey numbers were retired by the Capitals; the only player with 1,000 points and 3,000 penalty minutes in the NHL — but never won a Stanley Cup. Never before an assistant or head coach in the NHL, or even the AHL, Hunter was sought by McPhee in hopes he could bring his on-ice “tough guy” persona to a roster filled with stars more likely to make a pretty pass than drop to the ice to stop a puck.
“He said, ‘There’s one way to play, and that’s the right way to play, and I’ll get them playing the right way.’ He thought he could, and he accomplished what he thought he could do with them,” McPhee said, “and now they’re on the right path.”
Hunter met with McPhee on Monday morning, two days after the Capitals were eliminated from the playoffs in the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 2-1 loss to the New York Rangers in Game 7.
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Published on May 15, 2012 by Technology Slice
Mitchell Guist dies – Mitchell Guist, a cast member of The History Channel’s Swamp People, has died, Baton Rouge’s WBRZ reports.
According to Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Wauespack, Guist suffered a fall in a boat shortly after it launched into the Belle River in St. Martin Parish on Monday morning. Witnesses said Guist was having what appeared to be seizures, but attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
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The cause of death is unknown.
“We are extremely saddened to report that our friend and beloved member of the Swamp People family, Mitchell Guist, has passed away earlier today,” The History Channel said in a statement. “Mitchell passed on the swamp, doing what he loved. We appreciate your respect for the Guist family’s privacy and hope you join us in sending our thoughts and prayers to his brother, Glenn, and the rest of the Guist family.”
A History Channel spokesperson added that all episodes of Swamp People would air as scheduled, but the show is working on a way to “honor his memory.”
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Published on May 15, 2012 by Technology Slice
Necrotizing Fasciitis Flesh Eating Bacteria – Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), commonly known as flesh-eating disease or Flesh-eating bacteria syndrome, is a rare infection of the deeper layers of skin and subcutaneous tissues, easily spreading across the fascial plane within the subcutaneous tissue.
Necrotizing fasciitis is a quickly progressing and severe disease of sudden onset and is usually treated immediately with high doses of intravenous antibiotics.
Type I describes a polymicrobial infection, whereas Type II describes a monomicrobial infection. Many types of bacteria can cause necrotizing fasciitis (e.g., Group A streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes), Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio vulnificus, Clostridium perfringens, Bacteroides fragilis). Such infections are more likely to occur in people with compromised immune systems.
Historically, Group A streptococcus made up most cases of Type II infections. However, since as early as 2001, another serious form of monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis has been observed with increasing frequency. In these cases, the bacterium causing it is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a strain of S. aureus that is resistant to methicillin, the antibiotic used in the laboratory that determines the bacterium’s sensitivity to flucloxacillin or nafcillin that would be used for treatment clinically.
Some published case reports have implied a possible link between use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and NF, though the evidence of the link was said to be weak because of a small number of case patients and it was unclear whether the drugs just masked the symptoms of a secondary infection or were a cause per se.
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Posted in Health
Published on May 14, 2012 by Technology Slice
Yahoo’s CEO Resigns – According to people familiar with the matter, the 54-year-old disclosed he had cancer to the company’s board of directors and several colleagues last week – prior to his resignation over the weekend.
Thompson agreed to resign after the company’s board obtained evidence that contradicted his claim of innocence over his misstated academic record, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
The decision to step down from Yahoo was in part influenced by Thompson’s cancer diagnosis, said one person. The diagnosis had occurred in recent days while the board was investigating why the executive’s academic record had erroneously included a computer science degree.
Thompson is beginning treatment for the cancer, a source told the Journal, adding that the former CEO does not want to discuss his illness publicly.
Yahoo said Thompson was resigning as chief executive and would be succeeded by Ross Levinsohn, a senior Yahoo executive who becomes interim CEO.
The changes at the top of the long-ailing internet company are a major victory for dissident shareholder Third Point, which brought the matter of Thompson’s inaccurate academic record to light.
A Yahoo regulatory filing in late April included a short bio of Thompson and said he had obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science and accounting. Yahoo and Thompson’s alma mater, Stonehill College, subsequently confirmed disclosures by Third Point that he earned only the accounting degree.
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Posted in Internet
Published on February 14, 2012 by Technology Slice
Tom Hanks Rita Wilson Married 23 Years – Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson met on the set of the television comedy “Bosom Buddies”, but didn’t get serious with her until the movie “Volunteers” in 1985, which also co-starred the late John Candy. They were married on April 30, 1988. The couple has two children.
Tom had two children with his previous wife as well, one of whom is Colin Hanks. Colin recently starred in the thriller Untraceable opposite Diane Lane. Tom Hanks has been married to Rita Wilson since 1988. They have been married for 24.2 years. Tom Hanks met his second wife, actress Rita Wilson, on the set of his 1980s sitcom Bosom Buddies in the early 1980s, though the relationship would only blossom when they worked together on the 1985 film Volunteers. Hanks’ divorce came through two years later, and he and Wilson were married in 1988. Thomas Jeffrey “Tom” Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director.
Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988′s Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander Jim Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Joe Fox in You’ve Got Mail, Chuck Noland in Cast Away, and voicing the character Woody in the Toy Story series. Hanks won consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards, in 1993 for Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump. U.S. domestic box office totals for his films exceed US$4.0 billion. He is the father of actor Colin Hanks. Hanks was married to American actress Samantha Lewes (née Susan Jane Dillingham) from 1978 to 1987. The couple had two children, son Colin Hanks (also an actor) and daughter Elizabeth Ann.
In 1988, Hanks married actress Rita Wilson. The two first met on the set of Hanks’s television show Bosom Buddies but later developed a romantic interest while working on the film Volunteers. They have two sons: Chester, or “Chet” (who has a small part as a student in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and released a rap single in 2011) and Truman. Hanks became a grandfather when his son Colin and daughter-in-law Samantha gave birth to granddaughter Olivia Jane Hanks on February 1, 2011.
Tom Hanks Rita Wilson Married 23 Years
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