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Man found in California motel awakens with amnesia
PALM SPRINGS? Doctors are looking into the mystery of a Florida man who awoke speaking only Swedish, with no memory of his past, after he was found unconscious four months ago at a Southern California motel.
Michael Boatwright, 61, woke up with amnesia, calling himself Johan Ek, The Desert Sun reported (http://mydesert.co/145PNGw ).
Boatwright was found unconscious in a Motel 6 room in Palm Springs in February. After police arrived, he was transported to the Desert Regional Medical Center where he woke up.
Hospital officials said Boatwright may have been in town for a tennis tournament in the Coachella Valley. He was found with a duffel bag of exercise clothes, a backpack and tennis rackets. He also carried four forms of identification ? a passport, a California identification card, a veteran's medical card and a Social Security card ? all of which identified him as Michael Thomas Boatwright.
Palm Springs police have documented his information in case anyone lists Boatwright as missing or wanted, authorities said.
In March, doctors diagnosed Boatwright with Transient Global Amnesia, a condition triggered by physical or emotional trauma that can last for several months.
The rare mental disorder is characterized by memory loss, "sudden and unplanned travel," and possible adoption of a new identity, according to the Sun.
After an extensive search, medical personnel and social workers have been unable to locate Boatwright's next of kin.
Authorities are still unsure of his birthplace, listed on his identification as Florida. Photos show him in Sweden at a young age.The Desert Sun (http://mydesert.co/190FGEU ) reported it had located Boatwright's sister in Louisiana but she was unable to shed any light on what had happened to him.
"I haven't talked to him in years. He just disappeared," Michelle Brewer said Monday in a telephone interview.
Brewer estimated she had last spoken to her brother about 10 years ago and couldn't even get in touch with him when their mother died last year.
"He's always been just a wanderer," Brewer said. "Then he'd come back when he needed some money or something from somebody. Then he'd take off again."
Swedish public records show Boatwright lived in the Nordic country on and off between 1981 and 2003. Several Swedes on Tuesday said they knew of him as an American with a big interest in medieval history and jousting.
Swede Olof Sahlin said he met Boatwright around 1985 through their joint interest in medieval history. He said he saw the American at jousting events regularly in the 1980s and sporadically in the early 1990s.
"He was nice, sympathetic and talented at fighting in plate armor," Sahlin told The Associated Press. "A little bit reserved maybe."
Sahlin said he never knew how Boatwright made a living during his time in Sweden but has now heard from other friends that he briefly worked as a personal assistant and in the construction sector.
Sahlin said their last contact was in 1999 and he doesn't know what happened to him after that.
Boatwright doesn't recall how to exchange money, take public transportation or seek temporary housing like homeless shelters or hotels, the social worker assigned to his case, Lisa Hunt-Vasquez, told the Sun.
He doesn't remember his son and two ex-wives, either.
He has no income or insurance, further complicating his treatment at Desert Regional. And he has little money he can access ? only $180. He also has a few Chinese bank accounts but can only access one account, which holds $7, according to the newspaper.
Doctors don't know how much longer he will be able to stay at the center. Aside from his amnesia, Boatwright is in good health. The hospital is currently looking for alternatives that would keep him off the streets. For now, Boatwright is unsure of both his past and his future.
"Sometimes it makes me really sad and sometimes it just makes me furious about the whole situation and the fact that I don't know anybody, I don't recognize anybody," Boatwright told the newspaper.
Last year, a North Dakota college student who disappeared for nearly a week before turning up in Arizona said she had a bout of amnesia and didn't know who she was.
Amber Glatt, 22, a Valley City State University student, vanished on the Fourth of July, prompting aerial searches. She contacted her mother five days later from the Grand Canyon. Her mother said Glatt has had recurring amnesia since suffering a head injury years ago.
Glatt told WDAY-TV (http://bit.ly/NmbSnR) that after she lost her memory she met a man in a bar who let her tag along on his trip to the Grand Canyon. She said the man eventually saw online that she'd been reported missing and alerted her.
Glatt regained most of her memory.
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'Glee' faces tough challenge with star's sudden death
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Cory Monteith's final story line on "Glee" could give producers room to address his sudden death.
The sudden death of ?Glee? star Corey Monteith has placed the musical drama into a rare category of television shows: one that has to cope with the real-life death of a major character.
?Dallas? star Larry Hagman died in November of complications from his battle with cancer during filming for the second season of TNT?s reboot of the classic. The show responded by killing off his character, J.R. Ewing, and taped an emotional funeral scene that aired in March.
Another notable death was that of John Ritter, who died suddenly from an aortic dissection in 2003. Ritter was the lead actor on ?8 Simple Rules" when he passed away. After a month-long hiatus, the sitcom came back with a one-hour tribute to the character, who died after collapsing in a grocery store while getting milk.
What sets Fox's ?Glee? apart from other shows before it is that Monteith?s final episode allows for a plausible story line about why his character, lovable jock Finn Hudson, may not appear again in his hometown of Lima, Ohio, when "Glee" kicks off season five this fall.
Monteith?s final episode, which aired April 18, focused on Finn and Puck partying like typical college students at the University of Lima. At one point, Finn said, ?I have the rest of my life to be a grown-up and for now, it?s OK to have fun.?
The episode ended with a repentant Finn taking Matthew Morrison?s Mr. Schuester up on his offer to help coach McKinley High?s glee club for college credit. This means the show?s producers have an opportunity to explain why that won?t happen when the show returns on Sept. 19. Much like the powerful anti-driving-while-texting episode where Quinn (Dianna Agron) almost died, the show has an opportunity to explore the hazards of drugs and alcohol.
The coroner?s preliminary findings, released on Tuesday, cited Monteith?s cause of death as ?a mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol.? According to the National Institutes of Heath, an estimated 1,825 college students die in alcohol-related deaths each year.
Fans are also hoping the Fox drama takes this opportunity to spread an important message.
"I really do hope 'Glee' decides to address (this) on the show," Alicia McCullough wrote on NBCNews.com's Facebook page. "Many teenagers can learn from this tragedy, and I know he'd want that."
There has been no word from the producers of "Glee" about exact plans for handling Monteith's death. Neither "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy nor Fox has responded to requests for comment.
One thing is for sure: ?Glee? has never shied away from controversy or ripped-from-the-headlines story lines. In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Conn., the show devoted a riveting episode to a school shooting that also touched on the issues of bullying and gun control. There was also a recent arc about ?catfishing,? which had ties to the Manti Te?o headlines that so gripped fans and non-fans of football. The musical drama has also handled other difficult subjects, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, molestation and even the idea of Britney Spears as a role model.
This coming season, most of the original cast has stepped down -- including Heather Morris, Mark Salling and Amber Riley, among others -- to make way for the new talent as the original cast moves on from high school.
According to a source with close ties to "Glee," Monteith's character was to have a major presence in the show's first episodes of the new season. It?s now uncertain as to how producers will proceed as they grapple with how to do justice to the passing of a beloved colleague.
It?s inconceivable given this tragic loss of a talented young man, that the producers would not take the time to make sure his life was given its due.
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Microsoft to unveil new Xbox on May 21
Microsoft to unveil new Xbox on May 21
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Microsoft is to unveil the next iteration of its Xbox video game console on May 21.
The company sent out invitations Thursday to technology journalists in the US inviting them to company headquarters on that day for a ?special unveiling? by the Xbox team.
According to Microsoft, the system will ?mark the beginning of a new generation of games, TV and entertainment.? It also said it would show off a few new titles at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June.
Microsoft released the current console, the Xbox 360, seven years ago, and it has since overtaken both the Sony Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii to become the world?s best-selling video game machine.
However the industry is facing significant challenges from the spread of casual gaming on smartphones and tablet computers, while the rise of smart TV devices will also challenge the aspirations of video console companies for their machines to act as the digital household hub.
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Motorcycle crashes at 285 mph? Final speed remains unknown.
Motorcycle crashes at 285 mph? A motorcycle racer trying to top 300?mph?died Sunday after losing control of his motorcycyle at the long-closed Loring Air Force Base?in Maine.
Bill Warner makes a run on his motorcycle during The Maine Event at a former air base on July 14, at Limestone, Maine. Mr. Warner died later that day, after losing control and zooming off a runway shortly after being clocked at 285 mph.
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EnlargeA motorcycle racer trying to top 300?mph?died Sunday after losing control and zooming off a runway at a former air base in northern Maine.
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Bill Warner, 44, of Wimauma, Fla., was clocked at?285?mph?before he lost control but it was unclear how fast the motorcycle was traveling when it veered off the paved runway and crashed, said Tim Kelly, race director the Loring Timing Association, which hosted "The Maine Event" at Loring Air Force Base.
Warner was conscious and talking after the crash just before 10 a.m., Kelly said, but he died about an hour and 15 minutes later at a hospital in Caribou.
"No one will touch Bill's achievements or be the type of racer he was. He was a personal friend and the land-racing community is less for his loss," Kelly said.
Riding his modified turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa, Warner previously hit 311?mph?on the same course in 2011, using 1.5 miles of pavement. That's considered to be the world land speed record for a conventional motorcycle, Kelly said.
This time he was trying to hit 300?mph?using just a mile of pavement, and he'd made several passes before the one in which he crashed, Kelly said.
The Maine Event is an annual timed speed event that utilizes the 14,200-foot-long runway at the former Strategic Air Command base that closed in 1994. The Loring Timing Association uses 2.5 miles of the runway for its events, and there's an additional buffer of 2,000 feet, Kelly said.
On Sunday, about 400 spectators watched as Warner began veering right after passing the 1-mile mark, traveling upright for another 2,000 feet before exiting the runway and crashing, Kelly said.
The remainder of Sunday's event was canceled. The Limestone Police Department and Maine State Police were investigating the crash.
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Travel: Half Dome in Yosemite a California icon
Published: July 14, 2013 1:00 AM
Christopher Reynolds
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Japanese artist Hokusai liked Mt. Fuji. Really liked it. So in the 1820s and 1830s, he made a series of 36 woodblock prints of the mountain, from near and far, in summer and winter. When they went over well, he made 10 more scenes. Then, because an artist must follow his muse, he started a new series: 100 views of Mt. Fuji.
When I?m looking at Half Dome, the great granite hood ornament of Yosemite National Park, I understand Hokusai and Fuji. You see Half Dome on a century?s worth of postcards, on Ansel Adams prints and Sierra Club calendars, on your waiter?s name tag at the Wawona Hotel, on the new California driver?s licenses.
Yet to me, it seems inexhaustible.
When I visited Yosemite with photographer Mark Boster in late May, we glanced at a few other popular spots, but mostly we chased Half Dome variations. Though we didn?t summit the big rock?the climbing cables weren?t in place for the season?we saw it from so many directions and elevations that I started thinking of it as the third member of our traveling party.
Some people say Half Dome looks like a football helmet or a broken bowling ball. I always saw a dented ranger?s hat. Until this trip.
For a proper introduction or a ritual re-introduction, a traveler heads from the park?s south entrance to the Tunnel View turnout. You may find yourself standing in a crowd?on a busy day, 5,000 people pause here?but you?ll spot Half Dome, bracketed by El Capitan to the left, Cathedral Rocks and Bridalveil Fall to the right. And if the crowds are thin, you may think: This is the place. No view can match this. But just up the road, plenty can.
Bob Roney, author of ?The Road Guide to Yosemite? and a ranger here for 40-plus years, met us at Tunnel View to explain how a work crew in the early 1930s spent months creating a shortcut for travelers, using a ton of blasting powder daily to make about 20 feet of progress.
Eventually, they had the Wawona Tunnel, nearly a mile long, and a small mountain of tailings at its east end. And somebody realized that the new mound had a big view.
Naturally, it didn?t take long after the tunnel?s 1933 opening for Ansel Adams to turn up with his tripod. Before long, Tunnel View was the iconic Yosemite view. It scarcely changed for 75 years, until a 2008 upgrade that smoothed traffic flow and opened up the view by cutting down a bunch of trees. Yes, the park service does that sometimes.
Still, Roney reminded us, no panorama is permanent, especially in a park that records dozens of rockfalls every year. ?Sure as time moves forward,? Roney said, ?this view will be wrecked by some other geologic event,? perhaps transformed ?into something even more beautiful.?
And so to Mirror Lake, which is really a seasonal water hole a mile?s walk from the Mirror Lake shuttle-bus stop. In spring, if kids aren?t splashing, the still water gives you a perfect reflection of shapely Mt. Watkins to the north. The view is so mesmerizing, in fact, that you might not realize the stone wall just east of you is the base of Half Dome.
And it was near here, at 5:26 a.m. on March 28, 2009, that 115,000 tons of boulders and debris rained down from Ahwiyah Point, 1,800 feet up, near Half Dome. The impact generated a blast of air that leveled hundreds of trees up to 50 yards away. Nobody was hurt. But rockfalls (both naturally occurring and human-caused) occasionally do kill people in Yosemite. Falling rocks dislodged by climbers killed one El Capitan climber on May 20, another on June 2.
I soaked my feet in the shallows, listening for distant rumbles. Then Mark and I headed for the high country.
At Olmsted Point, along Tioga Road, we found a rock scape scoured by ancient ice and peppered with ?erratics,? stray boulders nudged into strange places by glacial advances. From there, Half Dome is a far-off rounded lump that sometimes glows red at sunset. For us it turned a faint orange.
Another day, we drove to Glacier Point, which is only 7,214 feet above sea level but feels like the roof of the Earth, with jaw-dropping views of the valley. From there you seem to be even with Half Dome (though you?re really 1,600 feet below it), and the spectacle is an invitation to consider eternity and forget petty human affairs.
But then you?d miss the hooded photographer fussing with his 8-by-10 camera, or the British tourist dropping to one knee and proposing to his girlfriend (who says yes), or the guy who is about to throw a pebble into the abyss until a second guy threatens to throw him instead.
It got quieter when the sun dipped and set the dome aglow. Then the moon and stars took over. We stayed for hours.
But that?s not the view that destroyed my ranger?s-hat idea of Half Dome. It was Washburn Point, less than a mile from Glacier Point, that did it.
There, as at Glacier Point, you are reminded how puny Yosemite Valley is: 7 miles long and a mile wide, surrounded by nearly 1,200 more square miles of rugged high-country parkland. But Washburn Point also has a different angle on Half Dome, an angle that shows it isn?t a dome at all. To my eyes, it?s a thick, uneven slice of bread, maybe the heel of the loaf. Of course, it?s epic and all that, but you?d never make it your logo.
The Half Dome we love is the well-rounded idea of Half Dome, as seen from the valley, Olmsted Point and Glacier Point. Seeing its unrounded backside is like being told that Humphrey Bogart never said, ?Play it again, Sam? in ?Casablanca.? Part of you doesn?t want to know. And the other part figures that?s a good reason to watch the movie again.
Hiking Half Dome: what you need
To hike Half Dome, you need a clear, summery day, a permit, strong legs, strong lungs, food, water, a flashlight and a plan.
A few things you need in order to hike Half Dome:
? A clear, summery day. Because hiking Half Dome can be dangerous, the park service strongly discourages hiking it in the rain, when there are storm clouds or any time but in summer. Rangers say five hikers have died on the trail in the last decade, most losing their footing, often in the rain. To make things easier for hikers in the summer months, rangers put up removable steel cables just before Memorial Day most years to help climbers ascend the last 400 feet to the top. The cables come down around Columbus Day (in October).
? A permit from the National Park Service. To keep the trail from clogging with traffic when the cables are up, rangers require that you have a permit, and they set a limit of 300 hikers a day. Fees are $12.50 (if you apply online) or $14.50 (by phone). Check the Yosemite website at www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hdpermits.htm.
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Source: http://www.kelownacapnews.com/lifestyles/215136021.html
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