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    Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, Famous for Antichoking Technique, Dies at 96


    Dr. Heimlich demonstrating the Heimlich maneuver on Johnny Carson in 1979. Credit Gene Arias/NBC, via Getty Images

    It is called the Heimlich maneuver — saving a choking victim with a bear hug and abdominal thrusts to eject a throat obstruction — and since its inception in 1974 it has become a national safety icon, taught in schools, portrayed in movies, displayed on restaurant posters and endorsed by medical authorities.

    It is also the stuff of breathless, brink-of-death tales, told over the years by Ronald Reagan, Edward I. Koch, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Cher, Walter Matthau, Halle Berry, Carrie Fisher, Jack Lemmon, the sportscaster Dick Vitale, the television newsman John Chancellor and many others.

    Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, the thoracic surgeon and medical maverick who developed and crusaded for the antichoking technique that has been credited with saving an estimated 100,000 lives, died Saturday at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati after suffering a heart attack at his home last Monday, his family said. He was 96 and lived in Cincinnati.


    more http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/us...ies-at-96.html

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    He finally got to use the manoeuvre at age 96, too :

    The surgeon who gave his name to the simple but dramatic procedure used to rescue people from choking saved someone’s life with the Heimlich Manoeuvre this week aged 96.

    Dr Henry Heimlich’s technique for dislodging food or objects caught in people’s throats has been credited with saving untold thousands of lives around the world since he invented it in 1974.

    Last Monday the retired chest surgeon encountered a female resident at his retirement home in Cincinnati who was choking at the dinner table.
    Without hesitation, Heimlich spun her around in her chair so he could get behind her and administered several upward thrusts with a fist below the chest until the piece of meat she was choking on popped out of her throat and she could breathe again.
    “It was very gratifying,” Heimlich told the Guardian on Friday by telephone from Cincinnati.
    “That moment was very important to me. I knew about all the lives my manoeuvre has saved over the years and I have demonstrated it so many times but here, for the first time, was someone sitting right next to me who was about to die.”

    After initial reports emerged of Heimlich and his son Philip declaring this was the first time the retired surgeon had used his technique to treat someone who was choking, an account emerged of an earlier incident.

    A 2003 BBC Online report quoted Heimlich talking about using the manoeuvre on a choking diner in a restaurant in 2000. Reports also appeared in the New Yorker and the Chicago Sun-Times. Interviewed again on Friday afternoon by the Guardian, the 96-year-old Heimlich said he did not recall such an incident. His son Philip also stated that he had no knowledge of his father using the technique in any prior emergency.

    Heimlich lives in Deupree House, a senior assisted living centre in the city, where he and other residents have their own apartments but get together for meals in a communal dining room.
    Fellow resident 87-year-old Patty Ris, who was quite new to the facility, sat down near Heimlich for dinner when she suddenly began choking on a piece of hamburger meat. A member of staff was heading over to attend to the emergency, when Heimlich calmly stepped in.
    “I did the Heimlich Manoeuvre – of course,” Heimlich said. “She was going to die if she wasn’t treated. I did it, and a piece of food with some bone in it flew out of her mouth.”


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    ^ There was a joke about him that ended with a man pulling a lady's panties down and licking her arse to save her from choking...

    The Hind-lick Maneuver...

    RIP, and "good innings"...

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    Lawrence Manley Colburn. RIP
    Passed away at just 67 years of age.
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    Zsa zsa Gabor

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    Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99




    Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 99.

    The cause was heart failure, her longtime publicist Edward Lozzi said.

    Married at least eight times, calling everyone “Dahlink,” flaunting a diamonds-and-furs lifestyle and abetted by gossip columnists and tabloid headline writers, Ms. Gabor played the coifed platinum femme fatale in plunging necklines in dozens of film and television roles, many of them cameos as herself. Her career, which began with the title Miss Hungary in 1936, was still going strong in the 1990s, outlasting those of her sisters, Eva and Magda, celebrities in their own right. She was the last surviving Gabor sister.

    “A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it,” Ms. Gabor once said. Her husbands included a Turkish diplomat, the hotel heir Conrad Hilton, the actor George Sanders, an industrialist, an oil magnate, a toy designer, a divorce lawyer and a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony. Another marriage that nobody counted — a case of bigamy at sea with a has-been Mexican actor — lasted only a day and was annulled.

    In 1989, she was arrested for slapping a police officer who had pulled her over for a traffic violation and found that her license had expired and that she had an open vodka bottle in her car, a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible. Breezing into court, she took the stand and, by turns haughty, coquettish, weepy and coarse, spoke of Gestapo tactics in Beverly Hills. The judge gave her 72 hours in jail.

    “You just cannot drive a Rolls-Royce in Beverly Hills anymore, because they have it in for you,” she said after things had blown over.

    more http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/mo...mour-dies.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    “You just cannot drive a Rolls-Royce in Beverly Hills anymore, because they have it in for you,” she said after things had blown over.
    She would've been fine in Thailand...RIP, Dahlink...

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    ^^ Isn't she the one who when asked if she ever gives the ring back when she gets a divorce replied, "Of course I give the ring back Dahlink, but I keep the stone."

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    99, wow.
    Sounds like her last years were pretty miserable, sad for her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo
    her last years were pretty miserable
    99 years old, not unexpected. I do not want to live that long.

    To me, she always had an air of probably needing plenty of makeup, likely very pedestrian sans hours of prep even in her prime. Why so many husbands? Sexual skills is my theory.

    Was she a Kardashian equivalent in her heyday? Seems an apt parallel.

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    ATTENTION whores like Jolie, Kardachians, Kanye west or any of the other idiot people/actress, actor or whatever.The GABOR girls were WAY ahead of the GAME.


    LIFE is but a GAME.

    Helps if you have money or friends but it STILL a GAME.

    Very few follow ANY RULES.

    Takes MONEY to make MONEY.
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    Rick parfitt . Status quo

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    Quote Originally Posted by UrbanMan View Post
    Why so many husbands? Sexual skills is my theory.
    I reckon it was just her temper...she probably drove them away.

    Just Googled a bit :

    A houseboy said :

    "she was vicious and mean"

    "There were always letters from every store on Rodeo Drive telling her not to come in . . . because she’d get dresses, wear them and return them constantly. If you didn’t understand what she said, she’d scream and yell, and he always threatened to sic the dogs on me.”


    However her final marriage was for her last 25 years.
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    RIP Rick.

    You gave a lot of pleasure over the years!

    Status Quo Caroline - Bing video


    There's a lot more.

    Rocking all over the world.

    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...88&FORM=VRDGAR

    RIP Rick, deepest sympathies to your loved ones and family especially.


    You Guys left a terrific mark.


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    It's closing time !

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    Yes, that made me a wee bit sad. RIP Rick Parfitt.

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    Just saw this. No details yet. Singer George Michael dead at 53 according to his publicist.

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    ^ Yep.

    Ex-Wham! singer George Michael dies

    Singer George Michael has died aged 53, his publicist has said.

    The star, who launched his career with Wham! in the 1980s and later continued his success as a solo performer, is said to have "passed away peacefully at home".

    Thames Valley Police said South Central Ambulance Service attended a property in Goring in Oxfordshire at 13:42 GMT.

    Police say there were no suspicious circumstances.

    Michael, who was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in north London, sold more than 100m albums throughout a career spanning almost four decades.

    He first found fame with his schoolfriend Andrew Ridgeley in duo Wham! before going on to release solo albums, including the multi-million selling Faith and Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1.

    Earlier this month it was announced that producer and songwriter Naughty Boy was working with Michael on a new album.

    In a statement, the star's publicist said: "It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period.

    "The family would ask that their privacy be respected at this difficult and emotional time. There will be no further comment at this stage."

    In 2011, Michael postponed a series of concerts after being taken to hospital for treatment for pneumonia.

    After treatment in a Vienna hospital, he made a tearful appearance outside his London home and said it had been "touch and go" whether he lived.

    Doctors were said to have performed a tracheotomy to keep his airways open and he was unconscious for some of his spell in hospital.

    Ex-Wham! singer George Michael dies - BBC News

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    Thats hit me like a ton of bricks.

    RIP George. Thanks for your lovely music and voice.

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    That Grim Reaper bastard has been doing overtime this year thats for sure !

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    ^ and may they all Rest in Peace.

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    So, this was his Last Christmas. RIP.

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    Last Christmas indeed. RIP George Michael and Rick Parfitt. Thanks for the songs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve down under View Post
    That Grim Reaper bastard has been doing overtime this year thats for sure !
    I reckon the world of entertainment is a nervous wreck given the amount of celebs that have passed away this year.

    Seems that it could be anyone's turn to be next

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    Quote Originally Posted by yortyiam
    Seems that it could be anyone's turn to be next
    Yes, go to the Best Way to Die thread before it's too late. https://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lou...ay-to-die.html

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