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Many years ago, Schatzki described a smooth, benign, circumferential, and narrow ring of tissue in the lower end of the esophagus (the food pipe that connects the mouth to the stomach). These rings are loca...
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It was either Plato's or Aristotle's belief that education was the key to making a better person.
Boy was he wrong.
Much of the problem lies in the fact that psychology and psychiatry are a bad mixture of science and pseudoscientific bologna. Brain science is one thing, but the psychology side of the story is more philosophy than science.
Much to do with the human brain is horrifically complicated. At the same time, much to do with the human brain is grossly overcomplicated. For example, we're not anywhere near as emotionally complex as we think we are. Human emotion, once all the redundant words are removed, can be mapped out as simply as the different areas on the surface of the tongue. We have umpteen words for the same emotions, over and over again, many of which are entirely misconstrued.
For example, anxiety, worry, angst and nervousness are all one and the same thing. It only seems like they, and several other adjectives attached to the feeling, represent a wide variety of shades of meaning. They don't. The English language is far more complex than the things it describes.
It's like the old joke in Peanuts, where Charlie Brown says to Lucy, who's playing psychiatrist, "Is the reason you can't figure out my problem because my personality's so complex?"
"No, Charlie Brown," she replies. "It's that it's so simple."


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People often fear the worst about constipation. Constipation is very common and only rarely signifies something serious. Just because the average person has a bowel movement daily doesn't mean you have to—if normal for you is every 3, 5, or 7 days that is okay so long as it's not adversely affecting your life. In many cases, people with constipation struggle with it all their lives and are looking to be certain nothing more serious is going on and for a way to treat their symptoms. Even in people with relatively new onset of constipation, there usually is a simple solution. It is certainly reasonable to have your constipation assessed but in the absence of other warning signs for more serious disease, additional testing related to constipation is not always essential.
What are the causes of constipation?
Colonic inertia
- Most cases of constipation are caused by colonic inertia, which is simply a slow moving colon. Different people are made differently, and the muscles and nerves that are supposed to act in concert to push stool along just work a little slower in people with constipation. In such cases, if we could look at the colon under the microscope it would look normal but if we took an x-ray of how quickly it pushed stool through, it would on average move things along more slowly.
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Each year, thousands of beloved companions succumb to heatstroke and suffocation when left in parked cars. It happens most often when people make quick stops—the dry cleaners, the bank or the local deli. Folks, we need to be clear on this: It takes only minutes for your pet to face death—and it doesn't have to be that hot out. On a 78-degree day, the temperature inside a parked car can reach 160 degrees. Even with the windows cracked.
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I'd call ARL, if no action from them or the police in a very short time I'd break the window and get the dog out, it would be worth any trouble it got me into. Heck, I may not even wait for the police!
I would break the window THEN call the police. No tolerance for such stupidity and abuse!!
I would call police, AC, and check in stores, AND crack the window any way I could! People are so 'mindless' - how would they like to be stuck in a locked up car and no a/c, or even a COLD car, etc. If thats' how they treat their pets - how in the world do they treat their children, grrrr
WTH?!?! Shouldn't that be the other way around?? If that's how they treat their children, then...
This happened to me last week. I went in to Ross's dept. store and asked them to call out other PA system. The refused but I did see the girl run out after she finished her shopping .She heard me yelling out to all in the store. It was 90%deg out side.
I'd first try to open the door,...If locked,..I'd call local law enforcement and probably bust a window to release the pet and worry about getting in trouble later,....
In these circumstances, every second counts. If we take the time to discuss, wonder and hesitate then the animal or child would suffer a hideously tortured slow death. So, I would break the window and ask questions later.
I'd bust open the window and save the dog/cat. Then call the police. Oh yeah and I'd take a picture first as proof for the police.


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Out of the box, a PC works great. But over time, it can become bogged down and buggy. Fragmentation, hard-disk issues, bad memory, viruses, filled caches, and registry errors can cause computers to act flaky or even stop working all together. Luckily, a bit of preventive maintenance can keep those machines running in tip-top shape.
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Why not listing the best tools? There are better tools out there for these functions.
Defragmentation is completely outdated. New HD technology makes this useless. Forget it.
really worthless
Waste no more time - This article was a FAIL
Friends no harm done in reiterating what had been said earlier, just in case it had been forgotten, but frankly attimes its annoying to surf through the pages to see a content repeated with a different heading. Editors, i think you need to consider you inputs. We still love Tech republic...
I agree with rwbyshe@. I skip almost all of your articles because I just don't have the time to wade through pretty front end window dressing to find content. You can certainly keep your current format but you should add a short paragraph up front containing the "meat" of the article along with any relevant links along with a link to your current format. I
I never throw my 2 cents in however, I agree with the earlier comments. This may affect your readers who are looking for articles that are meaningful and have content. The format in which we have to click through an article is absurd. You need to listen to your audience or you will lose them. But then again, you probably don't care because you are getting the "clicks" for some sort of quota. And one more piece of advice... people in our community talk.
I like some of these but how or where do you access them to download for a try?
Going through all these clicks is just wrong. And sometimes when clicking to get to some info or downloads, it's not even there, just ads. If this keeps up I am gone because this is a waste of my time. I set aside certain times of the day just to browse articles and things like this is just a complete waste. Now, is anybody really listening.
hi - are there links to get these tools?? such as the defragger? or HDD scan tks Jon
It's widely known CCCleaner makes you feel better but doesn't improve performance. And Belarc Advisor doesn't even fit your criteria in the title of the article. More useful: MalwareBytes. This thing finds malware the big commercial stuff doesn't find. How about giving them their props?
To click thru all the links, icons and ...... wait for it....WHATEVER! I find it a real pain in all articles in this format. Change to something a user may like, not what some web designer thought was all so ZOOMY!!!!!!!
Try Major Geeks
TR is lost
If you want to avoid the hassle of the all the page loads to go through the slide show, just go to the blog. The link is labelled "check out this entry in our Five Apps blog", there you can read it all on one page.
Surely a simple list would have taken up five lines ? There's nothing new here at all !!
Once again, "well done" zombies! Just keep up this style and you will soon see the hits falling to zero
In this order, Combofix, Glary Utilities, Ccleaner, Advanced System Care, SmartDefrag. Turn off unnecessary services in msconfig.
Four items in this email did not work or did not work intuitively. Even the help submittion failed! I too am thinking about leaving.
I used to use Belarc until I came across PSI it not only tells you if your software is up to date it actually helps you keep it up to date by running scheduled scans and scoring your overall system.
That's it I've had enough. TR you're dropped. You ARE the weakest link.
Spare me the slide shows and videos. Can't anyone just write anymore?
and there is no blog version ... so I'll move on to something else.
I agree with several others, waste of time reading this article ( as most of Tech Republic's emails have become) this is nothing but the same ol' same ol' stuff. Hell my 10 year old son knows about all of these programs from a long time ago. Matter of fact, I'm thru with ya TR, I have several other sources to get the latest tech stuff from, I'm unsubscribing from your mailing list and flagging you as Junk Mail.
I agree wholeheartedly with the commenters who complain about the need to keep clicking through these articles. Being forced to do that means I read a lot fewer of them. But for me the article has some value. I learnt of at least one tool I wasnt aware of, was reminded of another I'd forgotten about but most of all I get to read comments on them from other readers.
I'm using windows and ubuntu in one computer and the ubintu won't start now. What could be the reason and how to solve this?
I like the list, since I already use most of these. Most of these are available as stand alone or portable versions that can be run from a flash drive. The one I would add would be DiskMax from KoshyJohn.com, to clean out cache files, logs etc. Recommend using together with CCleaner to clean your system properly.
The best bar none CC Cleaner-free Steven Goulds Clean-up 4.0-free PC medic or win-ASO-share Search & Destroy Spy-Bot-Free Avast ot AVG -Still-free The rest high cost is good for inept I.T.'ers that don't kbnow squat about the real ways of cleaning & patching to keep the "Almighty" Microsoft" systams running lol , as Hackers Dream of getting into
I always use Belarc on all my systems - not least for its ability to track registrations, updates and identify hardware. Unfortunately none of the other applications offer much beyond Windows own tools. I expect more from contributors to Tech Republic and suspect that this item is only here to attract new registrations by insulting the intelligence of us all.
home users need 'window cleaning tools" Win2k pro, XP pro, vista business + up, win7 pro + up can all be set up to be self cleaning, through group policy settings (which isn't available to home users) as such I have a 9 year old XP Pro OEM install that started off life with SP1 and went through the SP2 and SP3 upgrades as well it's still on the original 120GB Seagate hdd and it hasn't slowed down, and I also have a pair of 6 year old XP Pro custom installs that aren't showing any slowing either > store no document / program / browser history > disable recent docs, etc. > store no user files anywhere on C:\ install another HDD or use partition > disable the indexing service delete the catalog and unindex all NTFS partitions > disable personalized menus > disable "user tracking" etc. and the system is self cleaning there is a whole host of performance enhancing policies that strip out the dead weight and go a long way to making a system more robust and longer lasting for disk testing, I use the free testing tools from the individual HDD mfg. when possible: WD DLG, for western digital disks SeaTools, for seagate / maxtor disks etc. also, good anti-whatever scans can help point you in the right direction for detecting whether a slowdown is caused by critter-ware, or if you should be looking at the software, drivers, recent updates, or hardware as the cause
Month after month I find that the page transitions are slow. Consistently, annoyingly slow and not what I experience in general on most other web sites. And that's with Adblock Plus preventing a blizzard of ads that frequently change from page to page.
I think the complaints are more about the format of the presentation. The whole slide show thing is very time consuming. Ironic that something like this comes from a site that has "tech" in it.
If you don't like the quality of the material just unsubscribe but you don't have to get nasty about it.
Really, do you hate us?
and yes, I mean this sucks
Sometimes it's nice to be reminded of tools that may have been laid aside. I had forgotten about good ol' Belarc when I upgraded from XP to Win 7.
You must have needed to fill a big hole in the Daily Digest in a hurry to use this "article". I tend to agree with the others somewhat in that this was a waste of my time, and nothing but a rehash of facts that have been stated so many times. Why not put it right up front that its a "review of some tools that may help" or something to that effect. My BIGGEST COMPLAINT is that you people continue to force us to have to click through multiple screens to get minimal input. These articles, in this format, are completely akin to the "crapware" that the computer manufacturers include on a new computer. I won't say that they are completely useless because they aren't. HOWEVER, I will say that this format that you force upon us is wearing really thin and I too am considering to just give up my membership and find another tech site that I can enjoy the articles on once again. This crap format is going to lose you many members if you continually force feed it to us at every opportunity. Nuff said, I just hopes this sinks in with your editors.
The information in this could have been presented in a single paragraph. It seems Tech Republic generates nothing but fluff these days. If this is the best they can do, it's time to shut the site down and stop filling our inboxes with tripe.
CCLeaner hasn't been that great for years try slim cleaner
Windows does and has done a fine job of keeping its registry in proper functioning order since 2000/XP. There is negligible impact on performance of a Windows machine which has an untouched registry. If anything, you run the risk of causing problems. This is PC Repair 101 information and I would have expected someone introducing CCleaner to have stated such...
Nothing new here. Mem Test CCleaner HDD Scan DeFraggler Belarc Advisor
Why do I keep falling for these? Nothing new here. TR, I'm getting ready to drop you from my reading list if you can't come up with some better information.
posted in the "Question and Answer" section of the forum. Not here. That said, I find your post particularly indicative of the milestone advances made in Linux and its installation.
isn't bad in some necks of the woods. Extra points for the one correct choice being the first on the list.
People are complaining to get results. Yes, we could unsubscribe, but we'd rather have better articles, presented in a better format; and complaining will hopefully bring about that change. But I do agree that no one needs to be "nasty".
Maybe TR is getting some type of fees charged for the most amount of unnecessary clicks.
I agree. Making readers click through 10 pages in order to build a higher page click stat may be doing you more harm than good. I can promise you, it is losing you more readers than the clicks are worth.
CCleaner is a robust, highly compatible and mature set of utilities. It's mature code makes it trustworthy on just about any computer. Slimcleaner is a relative Johnny-come-lately in comparison. I've never used Slimcleaner, so I wont' pass judgement. But, to say CCleaner hasn't been a good program for years is simply a false and frivolous statement.
TR just love release "Top 5s" or "Top 10s" wshen there is a very slow IT day. :-)
I feel the same way, TR needs to improve or loose readers. I expect more!
no, you don't find well : typical of a problem between chair & keyboard ! :-) I guess this is a MBR problem :-)


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Programs such as child care and flexible work schedules have been incorporated at agencies, but the Government Accountability Office looked into what more agencies can do, and what the Office of Personnel Management can do to support agencies.
"Agencies are needing to make some very difficult decisions these days because of budget limitations," said Yvonne Jones, director of Strategic Issues at GAO. "So each agency needs to determine what they need to do for their workforce in this area and what they can do within the confines of their budgetary resources."
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"We felt that the collection and evaluation of this information can help federal agencies as they implement their work-life programs," Jones said.
OPM found that some work-life programs that agencies made available, such as flexible work schedules and telework options, were helpful to all employees, while resources such as child care are helpful to a subset of the workforce.
The survey found that "OPM can help by providing guidance to agencies, providing information and providing assistance to agencies," Jones said. However, the survey also found that "OPM already does quite a bit of that."
"We found that they were, in general, satisfied with OPM's assistance and their guidance and information sharing," Jones said. For example, OPM offers websites, makes points of contacts available at other agencies, and offers discussion sessions to agencies looking to expand their work-life programs.
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Work-life program can also go a long way in tough economic climate, especially facing a proposed pay freeze.
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Glacier Peak has long-range weapon in Pettit
Glacier Peak place-kicker Spencer Pettit has made eight of his 10 field-goal attempts this season, including kicks from 52 and 53 yards.
Glacier Peak opened the season with nail-biting victories over Lake Stevens (24-20) and Snohomish (31-29).
Pettit is listed on the roster as a wide receiver and defensive back, but that's not how he became GP's scoring leader. He also serves as the Grizzlies' place-kicker -- and he's one of the best in the state.
He has made eight of his 10 field-goal attempts this season, including kicks from 52 and 53 yards.
"If we get to that 30-yard line, I feel like we have points on the table now," Rosenbach said.
Pettit said he gets bit more nervous for long field-goal attempts, but tries to calm his nerves by reminding himself it's the same motion each time.
"I just go out there and think of it as the same kick," Pettit said. "When I kick PATs (points after touchdown), those would be good from 50 yards, too. So I just have to hit it the same way."
Pettit's range leaves Rosenbach with decisions other high school coaches don't have to make. For most prep teams, fourth down near an opponent's 30-yard line leaves just one choice: go for it. Rosenbach has options.
Rosenbach said if his team faces fourth-and-8 from an opponent's 35-yard line, it can expect to pick up the first down about 35 percent of the time. Pettit, on the other hand, makes that kick about 65 percent of the time.
"If we're inside the 35 and it's more than three yards (on fourth down) I feel like our odds are much better than 50 percent that he's going to make it, which is a pretty nice thing to have," Rosenbach said.
The flow of the game and the success his offense is having dictates his decision, Rosenbach said, but it's difficult to pass up points.
"I don't have to hesitate, like, 'Oh man, can he make that?'" Rosenbach said. "I know he can make it. I know he can make the field goal. Now it's how do I feel about our offense right now and the situation of the game?
"You're always trying to get first downs and touchdowns," Rosenbach said. "You never want to settle for field goals, but when the points are there, and you feel good with our guy's ability to (kick), it can certainly make you a little more aggressive."
The support of his teammates and coaching staff has done wonders for Pettit's confidence.
"(The players) have confidence in me," he said. "Since the first game of the season when I hit the 52-yarder, now they just expect me to do it. It's nice that they have the confidence in me.
"I can miss one, like I have, and (coach Rosenbach) still knows I can go make the next kick," Pettit added.
Rosenbach said he has seen Pettit make a field goal from 63 yards in practice. To put that in perspective, the NFL record for longest field goal is 63 yards and is held by four different players. The state record for the longest field goal was set a year ago by Central Valley's Austin Rehkow, who's kick of 67 yards is one of the longest field goals recorded at any level. Rehkow now kicks for the University of Idaho.
Rosenbach said if the right situation presents itself, he'd give Pettit a shot at Rehkow's record.
"If we had a pretty good tail-wind, yeah," Rosenbach said. "Shoot, right before the half, why not? That's going to be stretching it for him and the conditions would obviously have to be just right -- I'm sure the conditions were just right for that kid -- but yeah, I'd let him have a crack at it."
In addition to his eight field goals this season, Pettit has missed just one PAT, and that was blocked. Perhaps even more important, 75 percent of his kickoffs have reached the end zone. In high school, if the ball is kicked into the end zone, it is an automatic touchback and the opponent starts on the 20-yard line.
Pettit's touchback percentage is an easy stat to overlook, but it has been a big weapon for the Grizzlies. It was perhaps most evident against Jackson, when the Timberwolves' explosive group of kick returners didn't get a chance to showcase their talents. On the other extreme, Pettit didn't get one in the end zone against Bothell and Samuel McPherson returned it 98 yards for a touchdown.
Pettit's goal is to kick in college, and he's definitely on recruiters' radar, Rosenbach said, although "with kickers it's so different because you don't recruit one every year. You recruit one every three years or four years."
At least one school, Washington State, has expressed interest in Pettit.
"I certainly think he's on the right track to doing what he wants to do, which is kick in college," Rosenbach said.
Whether Pettit has the skill to kick beyond college, time will tell.
"All those guys that are in college typically have close to or have a good enough leg to kick in the pros," Rosenbach said. "It just depends on how they mentally take to the game."
Rosenbach likens the mental approach needed to be a successful place-kicker to that of a professional golfer.
"They have to have the ability to have a repeatable motion and do the same thing over and over again regardless of the conditions and regardless of the circumstances," he said.
The mental part of the game shouldn't be a problem for Pettit. All he has to do is remember the advice he received from Glacier Peak assistant coach Jim Kruckenburg.
Said Pettit: "I would like to thank Coach K for all his great coaching and telling me to kick it high and far"
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TURNING POINT: With his team trailing Karsiyaka by 17 points 6:53 from the end of the third quarter, Chester Simmons picked up a ball on the right wing and reduced the gap to 53-39; on the next possession, he made a gesture of defiance to his team-mates and they cleared out as he hit another three to bring the difference down to 11 and kick-start the Samara fightback.
GAME HERO: DeJuan Collins passed almost unnoticed in the first half, as he stayed on the court for five minutes and had one point; in the heat of the decisive third and fourth quarters though, the 36-year-old could do no wrong as he led his team to their improbable comeback.
STATS DON'T LIE: Krasnye Krylia shot the ball slightly worse than Karsiyaka, but took 16 offensive rebounds to their hosts' 9, scoring 16 crucial second-chance points to stay alive when all seemed lost.
Krasnye Krylia Samara completed a comeback for the ages on Sunday night to edge out EuroChallenge Final Four hosts Pinar Karsiyaka 77-76 in the title game and be crowned as the 2013 champions.
The final buzzer silenced a sizzling-hot 5,000-strong home crowd in Karsiyaka Arena for the first time on the day and inflicted a sense of loss on the entire Turkish city of Izmir.
The hosts, who were leading by 17 points in the third quarter, had somehow found themselves on the wrong end of a too dramatic to comprehend turn of events.
But, as unlikely as it might had looked just a few minutes previously, Krasnye Krylia's success was a triumph of their never-say-die mentality and it came about in an epic fashion that only the sport of basketball can offer.
Karsiyaka dominated proceedings at the start and led by as many as six points until Krasnye Krylia forced their hosts to go two minutes without a basket early in the second quarter and pulled even, 23-23.
But then winger Maxim Mutaf, first with an and-one play and then a long-range three-pointer, spurred a frenetic 23-11 run for the Turkish team that would seem reach the interval leading 46-34, to the absolute delight of the jubilant local crowd.
They had not stopped cheering on their team even for a second and had every reason to pump up the volume as William Thomas received the ball in the low post, spinned and scored as he was being fouled by Nikita Balashov; his free throw made it 53-36 and on the other end of the floor Abdul Aminu forced a Krasnye Krylia turnover.
There were still eight minutes to play in the third quarter alone, but the Russian side seemed now to be completely out of ideas, well and truly beaten.
Except they weren't.
Following the two defiant consecutive three-pointers by Final Four MVP Chester Simmons, Aaron Miles sliced the Turkish defence and made it 52-44 with a floating lay-up; he repeated a similar move after Karsiyaka had scored from the free-throw line, to make it 54-46.
Andre Smith made it 54-48 from the low post and then Samara stole the ball for Lamayn Wilson to dunk in transition on a Miles assist, 54-50.
On the last possession in the quarter, DeJuan Collins run the clock down and rose from seven meters out to bury a three right at the buzzer, 55-54.
Krasnye Krylia were still trailing by one point, but they had now come back from the dead.
Karsiyaka's guardian angel emerged once again from the bench, as Mutaf hit a big three from seven meters out and then intercepted a Collins pass to dart down the floor and make it 60-54 with a dunk.
The Russians tied the scores, for the first time since the start of the second quarter, on a Collins three, 71-71.
A Dixon jumper gave the hosts some breathing space but Collins split the Karsiyaka defence and assisted Wilson under the basket, 73-73.
Once again Collins ran down the clock, and with three seconds left and two hands in his face, he sunk a huge shot from eight meters out, to give his team the first lead in about 35 minutes, 76-73, with 1:01 left to the final buzzer.
Dixon replied with a similarly huge shot to tie it at 76 and Wilson was fouled on a lay-up attempt.
With the local crowd cheering their lungs out, he still managed to hit one of his free throws and make it 77-76, 12 seconds from the final buzzer.
Karsiyaka called their last time out and Jon Diebler took the baseline but found the way to the basket blocked and his shot dropped out for Wilson to grab the rebound and initiate the celebrations on the Samara bench.
Krasnye Krylia have become only the second team in history, after fellow Russian side Dynamo St. Petersburg in 2005, to win the competition undefeated.
Pinar Karsiyaka head coach Ufuk Sarica:"I don't know what to say. It was the final game, and it ended like a final. It was a cruel ending for us. Congratulations to my players, the whole organisation and everybody who put the effort into getting here. We dreamed about the title; we played for it, but in the end we could not finish the game like expected. We had trouble when the tempo of the game changed, when it almost stopped."
Pinar Karsiyaka player Melvin Sanders:"It was a vey hard-fought game. In the deciding moments, we did not get the key stops. When we were up by 17 points, we did not play like winners."
Krasnye Krylia head coach Sergey Bazarevich:"It is a special feeling to stay undefeated through the whole season and then play the home team in the final. Even when we were down, I knew that if we stayed patient, we could get through it. Sometimes it is true that you just have to let the players play. I am very proud and happy for my players and the club; Samara needs a basketball boost. Maybe Karsiyaka deserved to win as the hosts, but I believe that we were the best team in the competition and we proved it tonight."
Krasnye Krylia captain Aaron Miles:"Much respect to Karsiyaka, they fought hard in front of their great fans. I think they got see an instant classic; it was a good win for us. When we were down by 17, it felt good to silence the crowd, and most importantly, we did it together as a team."
Krasnye Krylia player DeJuan Collins:"Thanks to Karsiyaka for hosting an unbelievable Final Four. The home crowd worked against us in the first half, but it motivated us in the second half. I feel very good right now."
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The triumph and tragedy of Colton Wilson
The young man who used his gift from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to build a baseball field died earlier this month following a skateboarding accident
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Colton Wilson holds up jersey autographed by former Mariners catcher Dan Wilson during the dedication of the new baseball field at South Whidbey High School on June 15, 2007.
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After surviving cancer, Colton Wilson returned to play for the South Whidbey High School baseball team during his senior year in the spring of 2009.
It was a life Wilson got back after overcoming Ewing's sarcoma, an often-fatal bone cancer that struck six years ago. But in a cruel turn of fate, the 21-year-old Wilson died earlier this month from severe brain injuries suffered in a June skateboard accident.
Weeks later, those who knew him are still trying to grasp the loss of their beloved son, brother and friend.
"People naturally want to make sense of things, but this doesn't make sense," said Stina Wenzek, Wilson's older sister. "It's so tragic and unbelievable, and I don't know if we'll ever really understand it until we meet him again."
Because of his cancer a lot of people knew Wilson, or at least knew of him. He became a celebrity of sorts in the months after his diagnosis by asking that his gift from the Make-A-Wish Foundation -- an organization that often provides vacations for terminally ill children and their families -- be a renovation project for his South Whidbey High School baseball field.
What Wilson wanted more than anything was a ballpark to be proud of, and then the chance to play baseball on that same field. As it turned out, both wishes came true.
And so did the biggest wish of all. Wilson survived cancer to graduate with his class in the spring of 2009. He got on with his life, and in the spring of this year he was working at a Mill Creek restaurant and playing baseball again in the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League.
But on that June day, as Wilson crossed a street on a skateboard near his north Lynnwood home, he fell headfirst into a curb -- and, very critically, he was not wearing a helmet. He was airlifted to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center where surgeons removed a portion of Wilson's skull because of brain swelling, and later were forced to remove another section from the other side of his head.
Despite those drastic steps, it was not enough to remedy the tremendous trauma done to his brain. "The doctor told us he would never have a (reasonable) quality of life," Wenzek said. "Actually, he used the word 'impossible.'"
Despite modest improvements that surprised the medical staff -- Wilson began to breathe on his own, blink his eyes for yes and no, and even to move his head and right arm -- his condition was still perilous. Infections became a constant worry and, ultimately, the cause of death nearly five months after the accident.
In addition to Wenzek, Wilson leaves his mother, Lana Wilson of Whidbey Island, his father, Todd Wilson of Edmonds, older brother Bryan and younger sister Angelina.
For the family, Wenzek said, the recent months "have been rough. But, honestly, we're relieved that he's not suffering any more."
To many people, Wilson's legacy will be the South Whidbey baseball field. The project included new bleachers and fencing, new batting cages and bullpen areas and painted dugouts. Then, as word of the effort began to snowball, additional contributions provided new tarps for the field and new equipment for the players.
And there is a plaque in Wilson's honor, denoting his Make-A-Wish dream.
When the field was finished, "you could see it in his eyes that it meant a lot to him," said Dave Guetlin, Wilson's former coach. "He was very proud of it, and very proud that he could give this back to his school and his community."
Yet he was also uncomfortable with the publicity generated by his request.
"I never once had him eager to do an interview," Guetlin said. "He was so reluctant about that. He didn't want the limelight in any way. All he really wanted was to be a normal kid like anybody else."
Cancer cost him his sophomore and junior baseball seasons, but he returned to play briefly as a senior. In his first game back, he lined a sharp single to center field on the first pitch thrown to him. By the time he reached first base, he was crying tears of joy.
And he was not alone.
"I know I was standing at third base (in the coaching box) just sobbing," Guetlin said. "Everybody in the stands was sobbing, too. To see that kid come from that far back and get a hit, it meant the world."
Guetlin retired from coaching after the 2011 season, though he still teaches at the high school. Some mornings he arrives at work early to exercise on the school's track, and afterward he occasionally walks to the nearby baseball field for some moments of reflection.
"I'll go over and stand by the dugout, and I'll look out at the field and I'll think about some of those things," he said. "And how it was all because of one kid's selfless gift."
Likewise, Wenzek has her own memories, including a phone call from her brother the day before the accident in June. He had gone to a Coupeville school that day to speak to a class of fourth-graders about perseverance, a topic he understood well because of his battle with cancer.
"He told them, 'Never, ever, give up,'" Wenzek said. "And then at the very end he said, 'Always do good to others because you never know what tomorrow will bring.' And I think that's a very big part of his story because those were basically his last words."
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Laura,pink67 wrote:Hi Linda
Just to try to help you I was checking Ancestry.com to see if I was able to find at least the 1880 census for the family as I saw that their first son Charles was born in PA on 1879....
Found this possible:
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about Jos'h. Arata
Name: Jos'h. Arata
Home in 1880: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
Birthplace: Italy
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Roslin
Father's birthplace: Italy
Mother's birthplace: Italy
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Occupation: Fruiter
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
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Household Members: Name Age
Jos'h. Arata 23 head, born in IT, fruiter
Roslin Arata 27 wife
Frank Arata 1 son
Mary Barber 61
Hannah Ospenlider 40
Catharine Grener 45
Charles Walder 60
Address seems: 6 North Front Street West Side - Centennial Place
I noticed too that in the 1900 census the family had another boarder named Barbere Tony (female age 54), in this 1880 census they have another person living with them a female age 61 named Mary Barber.. just a coincidence?
These are the Philadelphia city directories for the Aratas living there on 1881 - 1887 - 1891 - 1895, could you check them and see if you can find the right family?
Maybe James real italian name was Giuseppe/Joseph?
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RYAN VREDE discovers that Frans Steyn has grown up as a player and a person during his time with Racing Métro.
It was in Paris in the World Cup final where a 20-year-old Frans Steyn confirmed his standing as one of the pre-eminent young players on the planet, exhibiting skill and temperament that belied his age. In seven weeks the city had captured his heart, and this would later make it easier for its iconic club, Racing Métro, to capture his signature.
The news of his departure was met with widespread dismay in South Africa. There was a distinct sense in the rugby fraternity that a favourite son had been lost. His advocates slammed the Sharks' and Springboks' administrators for meekly conceding defeat in the matter. His detractors pounced, adding mercenary to their list of charges against him.
Neither camp considered the potential benefits of the move. Paris's aptitude as a foster parent was dismissed. The national discussion centred around why he wanted to leave, when it should have been around why he needed to.
Since Steyn's emergence in 2006, he had commanded more attention than any player in South Africa. It was obvious, even in his rookie season in 2006, that he was a preternatural Test player, and he hasn't been an impostor in elevated company since debuting in defeat to Ireland.
Soon every performance was being brutally dissected. Having applied a standard of measurement not befitting a kid whose journey had only just begun, it was somehow deemed acceptable to make an absolute judgement on him after every match.
Escaping the madness must have held a strong appeal, although it would be remiss to ignore the attraction of a reported R8 million- a-year contract, and the incentive of living in one of the world's great cities during the most impressionable years of his life.
For the more astute, the pain of losing Steyn was somewhat soothed by the knowledge that the Springboks would benefit from the refinement process
he would undergo.
Elite players who have had a stint in Europe have always progressed from a technical perspective. However, former Springbok and Sharks flanker Shaun Sowerby, who spent three years at Paris glamour club Stade Français, says improved technical skills is not the most valuable acquisition in that refinement process.
'I would place a higher premium on how his experience would have ensured greater emotional maturity,' he says. 'I arrived in Paris with a fairly limited view of the world and still plagued by insecurities. But I'm a better man now, with a greater sense of self-awareness.
'This is due to a couple of factors. You're in a foreign land for an extended period and you're forced to cope. The growth that comes from that needs no elaboration. You also meet interesting people who challenge your world view and encourage you to think deeper.
'Most importantly, you don't feel suffocated by rugby. I can only assume Frans was feeling this way, given the intense scrutiny he was constantly under in South Africa.
'Parisians are not obsessed with the sport, unlike every city in South Africa. So unlike back home where it is difficult to develop an identity that is divorced from what you do and the implications that come with that skewed link, you have room to establish a healthier sense of identity.
'Becoming a better man contributes immeasurably to becoming a better rugby player, which, on the evidence of what I've seen when playing against him or watching him on telly, he is.'
Sowerby, however, cautions that Steyn needs to be managed astutely for the Springboks to derive the maximum from him.
'It would be too simplistic to predict that the Springboks will benefit from this [his refinement] because you have to also consider the influence of the environment created for him at Racing and whether the Boks can replicate that. It's one that encourages self-expression, and if they [the Springboks] do get it right, like they did in 2007, I suspect he will be hugely influential in New Zealand.'
Steyn isn't given to moments of deep introspection, but when probed on the issue he admits to feeling like he has left the sometimes impetuous kid in his past.
'My time in France has been challenging in the sense that I came from a comfort zone into the unknown. I never really suffered from a fear of failure, but it wouldn't be entirely true if I said I wasn't very aware of the magnitude of this step.
'I knew playing in France would improve me as a player, but I probably underestimated what it would do for my personal growth.'
Steyn's Racing team-mate, former Springbok and Bulls loose forward Jacques Cronjé, offers authoritative insight into his evolution as a player and extols his on-field value.
'When he arrived there was a lot of expectation on him. He was a World Cup and Tri-Nations winner, but more than that, he had played big roles in those successes. Some clubs recruit players to add depth to the squad. That wasn't the case with Frans. Everyone here expected him to make a massive difference, and he has delivered,' Cronjé says.
'From what I've seen, the key to getting the best out of Frans is constant positive reinforcement and not burdening him with too much responsibility. He is your match-winner and you want that to be his only focus on the day.
'He kicked a 60m drop goal in a match against Clermont last season and the guys were going mad about it in the change room afterwards. He just shrugged his shoulders like that sort of thing is normal. That's the freak talent he is and it illustrates the self-belief he has.
'He used to be guilty of trying mad things deep in his half, but he has outgrown that. He has shown the decision-making ability of a mature player. As a coach I would be giving him a pat on the back and saying, "Back yourself to win us the match however you see fit". Nothing more. That's how Pierre Berbizier [the Racing coach] deals with him and so did Jake [White, former Springbok coach]. He responds to that.'
Steyn was subjected to public criticism from Springbok coach Peter de Villiers in 2010, with De Villiers arguing that Steyn's time in France had significantly diluted his potency. That view was given more credibility when Fourie du Preez reiterated it in a recent interview with SA Rugby magazine. 'Frans is not the player he was,' he offered.
There was also the suggestion that he had lost his desire to play for the Springboks. Steyn rubbishes both points.
'I love the Springboks and have never once even been close to ending my international career. I've read people say that winning the World Cup at 20 and the Tri-Nations two years later lowered my motivation to continue with the Boks. That's nonsense. If anything, winning those competitions makes you hungrier to do it again.
'On the point of playing in the northern hemisphere, yes the pace of the game is generally slower because conditions in winter don't usually suit an expansive style. But that doesn't mean the players and teams here don't possess the skill to play that way. You only need to watch matches between the big sides to know the potential exists when the weather plays its part.
'To say playing there significantly affects my game isn't right. Since I've played for the Boks as a Racing player I felt like some people were waiting for me to do something wrong so that they could confirm their views.
'I don't feel any different, slower, or so on. If anything I feel like a more complete player. Whatever I may lack [initially] in terms of speed and sharpness, I make up for in having better anticipation and vision. I also think my composure under pressure is better than it has been at any stage of my career.'
Sowerby is in no doubt that the Springboks will take a better version of an already formidable player to the World Cup. But amid all the talk of growing up, he also hopes, in some ways, that Steyn never does.
'Sometimes young players lose an edge when they become better equipped to process the world around them. They lose that fearlessness that made them so dangerous in the first place.
'I don't think it will happen with Frans. If he plays with the spirit and freedom of a boy, but the brain and temperament of a man, which is what I've seen him do at Racing, boy, the Springboks will have some player on their hands.'
– This article first appeared in the August issue of SA Rugby magazine. The September issue – a 260-page World Cup special – will be on sale from 24 August.


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