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When Louise Macnair, a widow who is now 93, crashed to the floor in the front room of her home, she knew the time had come "to push that button."She did, and within minutes, the people at Lifeline Systems Inc., the oldest and largest personal emergency response system, called the neighbor Macnair had designated as a "responder." Soon both the neighbor and an ambulance arrived.Macnair spent the next five months hospitalized with one complication after another from what turned out to be a broken hip. But in May 1995, to her great delight, she returned to the life she loved -- living alone in her own home in Cambridge, Mass.

Are your kids staying up half the night playing online games and chatting with strangers? Are they driving you nuts because they just won't get off the Internet even though you've told them a thousand times to do so? Wouldn't it be great if you could just somehow press a magic button from anywhere in the house and their Internet connections would be instantly severed? It's the ultimate in parental power and control - and available in a new product called Best NetGuard. There are all kinds of monitoring software that will show you where your kids are surfing, when they're going there and what they're doing once they've landed.

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DENVER -- The Air Force pilot who flew his attack jet into a Colorado mountainside last year was in mental turmoil over "unrequited love" for a former girlfriend and over his mother's Christian pacifist faith, a "psychological autopsy" by the Air Force has concluded.Air Force officials concluded last year, basically for lack of a better explanation, that the pilot, Capt. Craig Button, 32, committed suicide when he broke formation from his unit April 2, 1997, instead of proceeding on a training run, and flew from southern Arizona to the Colorado Rockies.

On November 1, 2003, KENNETH L., beloved husband of Peggie Albiker (nee Vogel); loving father of Christine D. Button; loving father-in-law of Richard G. Button; dear grandfather of Ryan and Eric Button. Also survived by many loving family and friends. Friends are invited to call at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Avenue (Brooklyn), on Tuesday and Wednesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will be celebrated on Thursday, 1 P.M. at St. John Lutheran Church, 226 Washburn Avenue, Brooklyn (21225)

Maryland KISS (Kids In Safety Seats -- formerly Project KISS) plans to notify all pediatricians and day care centers in the state regarding a safety campaign involving approximately 975,000 Fisher-Price car seats.According to Fisher-Price, these seats were manufactured from April 1985 through August 1985 and from May 1987 through January 1989 and require modification by consumers.Car seats (Model No. 9100) manufactured from April 1985 through August 1985 contain shields that are difficult to latch due to a cracked plastic part on the inside of the buckle.

Mother's Day is over for another year, but what I'm trying to find now for my 85-year-old mom is this: a simple TV remote that won't drive her nuts. When I say simple, I mean bare-bones. This remote would have a Power button, OK? It would have channel buttons. It would have up and down volume buttons. And that's about all it would have. Because right now, she has a remote that looks like something you'd use to program the International Space Station. For one thing, it has 45 buttons.

My e-mail inbox used to work so that any messages sent to me would come in automatically. Now I have to click on "send" and "receive" to receive e-mail. Is there a fix for this? I have Windows XP. Most versions of Outlook Express e-mail software built into Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows allow a user to switch on and off whether the machine automatically reaches out for e-mail as soon as the software is opened. This enables folks with slow connections to shorten their waits when all they want to do is write a note or read past messages.

I have been hearing voices. Sometimes they call out to me in the middle of the night. Mostly they bellow in the morning. They are familiar voices; they come from my pocket-size portable radio. Yet they startle me. The voices boom like intruders with perfect pitch, even though I have not turned the device on. Moreover, no matter how many buttons I push, I have great difficulty silencing the clamor. On a personal level, these radio eruptions are yet another instance of a guy struggling with a new gizmo.

On March 28, 2005, ALBERT C. HERRMANN, M.D., beloved husband of the late Dorothy M. (nee Miskimon) devoted father of Deborah M. Metzger, Gail C. Button, June A. Fisher, Albert and Robert Herrmann, Joyce M. Wild, and the late Richard F. Herrmann, loving grandfather of Michael and Katie Button, Tom and Laura Herrmann, Mary Fisher, Ricky Wild, Joe and Karen. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc. Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Wednesday 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Shrine of the Little Flower Church on Thursday 10:30 A.M. Interment Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.