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It will stress your RAM, CPU, and GPU or all at once with pretty temperature and utilization graphs (for Windows only): http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/ [ocbase.com]
That's a marginal idea at best, but a common one.
While the technique of blasting a processing unit to see how it behaves at maximum temperature will sometimes find a faulty unit, many faults are not temperature related, and will not show up on this test. It's fine that you brought it up here, but something that both heats the CPU/GPU and tries to test as many pathways / as much of the instruction set as possible would be far more useful. (cf memtest86+ for RAM)
Oh, and don't forget to check the PSU. When it acts up, it will often appear to be a hardware fault somewhere else in the machine. (often RAM, but can be MB, CPU, GPU...)
This certainly doesn't answer the posters question, but it is related and important.
Check supply voltages first.
There's a really fancy test program to do this... it's called a digital multimeter, and it's a piece of hardware with two probes.
You touch one probe to ground, and then use the other to check all the leads going into MB for supply voltage.
For desktops that is.
For servers, the power supplies are generally smart modular units, and you check their voltage outputs in the BIOS screens, or using remote management via BMC: IPMI, iLO, Drac, or ALOM
Mod parent up. A proper multimeter and a power supply voltage chart is the skeptic's answer to all kinds of hardware voodoo.
While that is good "Bad or Maybe" test, most PSU problems are transient over- or under-voltage conditions, which a DMM is not going to reveal.
And there are testers that will measure all (or most) of the voltages produced at once - you jut plug the atx cable into the device, and many of them have a pass-through, so you can test the PSU under load. I'd look for one that could flag a transient problem, if it exists.
Mind you, since writing the above I have looked around for one, and have failed! They all are pretty simple devices that do not detect transients, I could find no pass-through devices, and they all test under very anemic loads. All told, I am not impressed by any of them.
Yes... but unless you are doing this professionally, or going way out of the way to build a full blown test rig and load bank [tomshardware.com] yourself, the gear required to fully test a PSU anywhere near max load is not worth it to the average person, a spot check with a DMM on the bench or in the PC (if the PC is working) is a good tradeoff, and if there is any question, try replacing the PSU.
Versus buying a $100,000 Sunmoon or Chroma tester. Or bench Oscilloscope + DC Load generator + Variable AC output gear (for
This can also be done very quickly by using a ATX power supply tester like this one [coolmaxusa.com]. It has a LCD screen which shows the voltage for IIRC every connector on your power supply. In use image here: http://www.ocia.net/fullsize.php?filename=32_9.jpg [ocia.net]
If you work on PCs even infrequently this is a must have tool. Yea a multimeter is great but a) you need to know how to use it and b) you can push the probe into the wrong place and make a mess of things.
With hardware its usually bad psu, then bad memory, then bad caps.
With hardware its usually bad psu, then bad memory, then bad caps.
Then bad karma, then bad mojo.
Preach fellow repair man, preach. That is why I always try to keep at least a couple of decent 400 watt PSUs around, as all kinds of hardware 'problems" could be traced back to those suckers. At the last shop I worked we had one of those PSU multimeters to test, but frankly I found that to be crap. You'd be surprised how many would test fine when first fired up only to get crappy once it had time to heat up. So with PSUs I'm of the "when in doubt, toss it out" mindset. 400 watt PSUs are cheap, and it is bet
Agreed, speaking as a sufferer of now 3 Enermax PSUs with "right, I'm going to die now kthxbai" syndrome. And these are supposedly *good* PSUs. In my case 2 identical systems did this on the same day. Put PSU2 into PC1 and it worked for an extra month - albeit risky - but some motherboards seem to have a greater tolerance of dying PSUs than others.
But the really crap PSUs that you get bundled with a case etc are most likely output all kinds of crap and cause random weirdness and crashing.
The unfortunate
On your sig, English dictionaries have a lot of definitions of free, and as I understand it, none that exactly match free as in free software. That is why people who need to be precise say gratis and libre. You are playing nominalist.
Not all your fault. The current English dictionaries are probably the result of the ongoing long-term cultural deterioration. I would expect that really old English dictionaries have the meaning.
Use a can of compressed air to purge out any accumulated dust. Less dust means a cooler box, which may just bring the unit back within whatever temperature (or, by extension, power) tolerance it is pushing the envelope on. Another technique is to wiggle every cable and connector and slotted card, just to make sure nothing has come loose. Check to make sure all the fans are running whilst powered on.
I also praise the authors of "stress" a handy application for linux which can perform non-destructive stress to hard disks as well as provide load on the processor and memory.
For memory I really do like memtester, but I wish it was a bit less verbose. (For a user space app it's not bad)
Even when they do, it's usually a sign the rest of the board is on it's way out too. A device on the board not functioning can mean a number of things (MB controllers acting up, visible/non-visible corrosion in the board, blown capacitors, etc), so you can be up for a lot of weird behaviour from the board that you can't pin down.
To be honest, relying purely on a test suite to tell you what's broken will lead to disaster. Only through experience do you get the pointers toward what is actually faulty. Add to this that true diagnosis only comes from swapping out parts, and, well, test suites don't look at all like a viable option.
When I am repairing hardware about the only suite I use is memtest86+ and a decent live linux distro. You can usually pick devices that have failed with lspci, however this is not always correct. It all goes back to having test hardware & the knowledge of what certain behaviours in systems are caused by certain faults. After 15 years of working in IT with both hardware & software faults, there's only so much you can do with limited or no test hardware. Most of the time when you're diagnosing hardware faults on the phone it's an educated guess at best, the only time you truly get a decent diagnosis is when you have the machine with you and can swap parts out. Hell, we don't even use the Dell diagnostics at work due to their inability to give decent results on anything other than RAM.
There is a lot of truth in your post. I think you're mostly right. I also think you might be holding a one-sided argument through much of your post.
Even when they do, it's usually a sign the rest of the board is on it's way out too.
It can be. You have to wonder, why did it fail? Was there a surge? Is the PSU dying and stressing things? Was that particular integrated chip part of a bad batch? Did it get an ESD on installation? Has a controller failed? In the last case, you will usually see additional symptoms. Most integrated devices are hooked into the PCI bus as if they were pl
"In short: It is possible to diagnose a computer entirely from software."
Tell me a piece of software that'll expose a dying capacitor, please?
I second this. I've had 2 or 3 PCs now that have begun acting very strangely only to discover that the real problem was the power supply. Replace it and the PC acts fine again.
Same here. I've consistently had problems with a PC to discover years later that the PSU was defective (it actually blew up). I got a 450W PSU and all the bizarre symptoms have vanished.
Every power supply which I've found failed was visibly broken once you opened it up, and it was always the capacitors. No Exceptions - capacitors had sprayed gunk all over, their Aluminium cans had popped off the bases, etc. Typical electrolytic fluid is white-ish, but once it bakes dry will scorch, and so gradually turn reddish brown. Many capacitors have grooves scored into the tops which form sort of impromptu blow out panels, and often you will see them bulging, with traces of fluid escaping from these grooves where they are actually splitting open, or scorched fluid forming a red-brown powdery residue outlining them. The grooves are usually in either an X (or Plus) or a sort of K shape. The PSUs are often still working (somewhat) at that point, and often, the PSU may be putting out nominally correct voltages when cool but deviating when it heats up. I had one client's PC that made a loud bang twice over a period of about a week, but the PC didn't really start acting funny until the third bang. Opening the PSU revealed three small caps that had blown completely off the board. It had probably kept running with no obvious symptoms through the first two.
Of course, only a trained pro with good tools should ever examine the inside of a power supply while live. But, if you are willing to unplug one and take it out of the PC and let it sit overnight, just to make sure the larger capacitors have fully drained, I recommend examining them. Yes, that voids the warranty if you aren't a pro, but if you were going to junk it and buy a new one anyway, so what? But before you open one, read this:
Split caps or scorched ones will confirm you are right in your guess that it's the PSU. While you're at it, if you think the problem is the motherboard, check for capacitor damage there too, as it's not all that uncommon for that to be why a mainboard fails. Cheap electrolytics are probably responsible for more than half of all consumer electronics failures, they are by far the most likely source of intermittent failures, ones that come and go with temperature, or glitches that only partly disable something, and they are detectable.
Don't trust the caps with the 'X' pattern. The 'K' pattern is more reliable.
Ask any of the many who had Dell machines from about 2000-2004. And HP/Compaq. And Acer. Not so much IBM/Lenovo. I have no reports for Gateway.
Also affected ASUS, MSI, AOpen, Gigabyte motherboards, pretty much all brands.
For a period of time, there werw substandard caps being used, but the maker either faked the testing or used different component parts in production runs than in certification. If you got stung by these, you a
I'm getting a bit tired of replying to all of the bad advice I see flying around. However, never discharge caps by bridge the connectors (even if the tool is insulated). A large enough power source can cause some serious problems.
The proper way to handle this is to terminate the load into a ground source capable of dissipating the load. Earth ground will suffice, but don't dump a crap ton of current into the
self-checking programs like Prime95 can be useful to test the computer more generally (if you've verified with memtest a failure here basically means cpu/chipset at fault).
Other things I've tried before have been (if the motherboard allows) things like significantly underclocking sections of the motherboard/processor, if an specific underclock fixes the problem you just significatnly narrowed down the list of possible failures.
there are similar programs to memtest that will check a GPUs output conforms to what it should, but if you just have random-crashy-badness that can be a pain to diagnose. Sometimes things like just running without graphics drivers for a while can help spot those problems, if the computer no longer crashes you can look a bit further away from the graphics card as most of it's capabilities won't be used.
Repairing hardware makes no sense anymore. Just swap in a new machine from the pool, so the user will be happy again, call the manufacturer to send someone onsite to replace the system board, redeploy the image, and put the machine back into the pool.
At home, i usually replace the machine before it has a chance to get old and flaky.
"Over the years I have repaired my own, family, and friends' PCs many, many times".
I know RTFA is too much to ask on other articles but RTFS's first sentence on askslashdot can't be THAT much
Well... typically you find the fault by using an application which stresses one of those components far more than any other and then seeing if the failure condition you're observing occurs more often. This is just basic troubleshooting, it's not even specific to computers.
Most home computer hardware failures come from "brownouts".
If you notice that your lights dim a little bit when your fridge compressor or AirCon comes on, that is a recipe for a computer failure. Spend $50 get a UPS [amazon.com]
Btw, i noticed that my linksys wifi router was also extremely sensitive to brownouts. It would get funked up and need to be power cycled. Plug it into a UPS , no more wifi problems either.
I learned this the hard way when i moved to an old building in the east village of NYC and had 3 motherboards/cpu fail within a 3 month period.
That's not an Online UPS, so it won't protect against all grid issues. And Online UPS are expensive and noisy.
If you notice that your lights dim a little bit when your fridge compressor or AirCon comes on, that is a recipe for a computer failure.
Why? Doesn't the computer's PSU have enough juice in it to survive a quick dip in voltage? Besides, almost all PSUs are rated ~90-260V, so I always assumed if it dips from 230V, it won't matter.
Occasionally my lights dim but I don't seem to have had problems. I'm still waiting for my decade-old P3 to die so it can be replaced by an Atom board, but the darn thing keeps on ru
Most home computer hardware failures come from "brownouts".
If you notice that your lights dim a little bit when your fridge compressor or AirCon comes on, that is a recipe for a computer failure. Spend $50 get a UPS [amazon.com]
Btw, i noticed that my linksys wifi router was also extremely sensitive to brownouts. It would get funked up and need to be power cycled. Plug it into a UPS , no more wifi problems either.
I learned this the hard way when i moved to an old building in the east village of NYC and had 3 motherboards/cpu fail within a 3 month period.
What you really need in the case you describe is a good line conditioner. I didn't look at the 'UPS' you mentioned, but many in that price range are not a true UPS and will still allow for under voltage to occur, albeit for a shorter period if you're lucky. .
You have a source to back that up? Because if not, I'm calling shenanigans. That seems real unlikely for a number of reasons:
1) This would be a recipe for lawsuits. After all, this situation of momentary power drops happens ALL the time on all kinds of circuits. If computers weren't able to handle it, that'd be a great way to get sued. With consumer devices you don't get to say "Oh this thing is super sensitive you have to take all kinds of measures to protect it." You device is expected to deal with common
I concede that i was incorrect to place the blame on the brownouts specifically. I should have said home PC hardware failures are caused mostly by electrical problems.. I mention the brownouts because that is something visible (as opposed to the spikes.)
And getting a cheap UPS solved the problem. Specifically I got an , which was around $50. [apc.com]
If you spend $500 to $5000 on a computer (or other electronics), it is a good investment to protect it with a $50 UPS.
I like the Microscope products...their newest version Microscope duo boots off of a USB stick. For machines that dont boot at all they also have a diagnostic card, its basically a pci card that has an led readout that give a series of post codes that can help diagnose if its the board, a card, memory, etc. They can be found at http://www.micro2000.com/ [micro2000.com]
The handiest piece of diagnostic gear I use is actually a simple power supply tester. You would be amazed how many systems that appear to power up are actually suffering from a dead -5 or +5 rail on the powersupply. Many tend to think if the fans spinning the powersupply is ok but thats often not the case. The best part is they are cheap...around $10 for a basic one.
A power supply tester is mostly useless. The basic features of any modern motherboard include sensors which display the voltage readings.
A power supply tester simply identifies whether or not an unloaded voltage source is within the 5% variance. It would have to be extremely poor condition to not pass this test (sic, obviously failed and identified from the same common tools everyone has access too).
In many circumstances I find it necessary to apply load to a power supply in order to quickly identify the fa
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Most hardware is 'dumb' and does not have fault latches.
This is a cost that was avoided in order to make cheap motherboards and system components.
Hardware troubleshooting is in no form about trust. It is applying a series of logical steps designed to isolate and repair failures.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki [sourceforge.net] is great for finding out what the drives think about their own health. Things to look out for are spin-retry counts (which lead to that annoying 2-5 seconds freeze), high reallocated sector counts (never never never use chkdsk to attempt to fix a broken hard drive. With the robustness of modern journaling file systems (HFS, extN, NTFS), storage errors are almost always hardware errors. Running chkdsk stresses the drive just as it's failing and usually pushes it over the edge -- and then users complain that you can't recover their data.
Prime 95 is a good test of CPU/RAM, as well as to see if the system remains stable under peak temperature. It's often used to burn in overclocked machines.
but how do you go about testing CPU, motherboard and graphics card trio to find which is to blame? Replacing them one by one isn't really an option. Do you know any software that would help the way memtest helps with RAM?
There is no way to tell, with software, whether your PSU, CPU, or motherboard is to blame, in the overwhelming majority of cases.
It's just idiotic to say "Replacing them one by one isn't really an option". In fact, that's by far the best option. I don't run memtest for a week to find out I have bad RAM, I take 30 seconds to swap it, and find out, for certain, in no time. PSUs are equally easy to swap, AND are the more likely component to fail, so that's the best place to start.
If you don't know whether it's CPU or the MoBo, buy a new motherboard... Vastly more likely to be the cause, and pretty damn cheap just as soon as they're no longer brand new. Of course CPUs fail, but it's likely to be obvious from a visual inspection if they've been installed wrong, or otherwise abused.
I agree. When I build a new system I first:
cpu test with something like prime95
CPU+GPU test with prime95 and then another 3D game running in the background.
If it survives that last test, then it's good. I've found overheating of my system to be the main cause of crashes. I've actually had to underclock my RAM to get it stable. If something does fail, I swap that component or add more fans and try again.
Unfortunately you left out one major component in this troubleshooting scenario.
Before applying any troubleshooting steps you must first create a verifiable test condition to reproduce the problem.
If the problem cannot be reliably reproduced it will be difficult to isolate the fault with physical isolation, reduction or replacement of specific components.
Before beginning on such an endeavor strive to create a scenario in which the problem can be reproduced quickly.
Waiting a week for the fault to reproduce c
never heard of prime95?
it's been used for years to check stability in rigs by overclocking and gaming enthusiasts.
They even have various different "levels" of FFT tests to limit the torture tests to within CPU cache levels which tests the CPU...or more than tests the RAM, PSU, etc.
Prime95 [mersenne.org]
I've done a significant amount of PC construction and reconstruction: approximately 60 from-scratch builds in 20 years. One thing that that has taught me is: do not bother to try to diagnose motherboard or CPU faults: just replace them, end of story.
Even Integrated Motherboards can be had for £40, and CPUs for £25. You can get dual-core 1.6ghz Atom Integrated-everything-including-CPU motherboards for £90.
For the amount of time and effort spent unscrewing components and testing combinatio
Other than that: if you cannot find any evidence of firmware upgrades to potentially fix an unreliable machine - throw out the power supply, the motherboard and the CPU, without hesitation (or get them replaced under warranty).
If you've only ruled it down to one of those 3, how will you get the companies to replace those parts under warranty?
I stress my Linux boxes by telling them that if they develop a fault I'll re-image them with Vista.
Not a single one has dared to fail on me yet.
Take all your consumer electronics to the movies once a year. Set them on the couch, give them a bowl of popcorn buttered with WD40, and let them watch "The Brave Little Toaster". (Popcorn is optional).
gcc is an incredibly good test application. it's horrendously cpu-intensive, and it is designed to eat whatever physical memory is available. compiling c++ applications is particularly memory-intensive, but the best test of both disk and memory has to be simply to compile the linux kernel.
if you have multiple cores, you can use "make -j {number of cores + 1}" and this will test all of the CPUs, as well. if you particularly want to stress things, make that "make -j {number of cores * 2}" instead.
A more productive diag
Your average PC hardware has utterly no way to "test" it. You can sort of test RAM - to the point of identifying there is a failure somewhere in the memory. OK, if you have four DIMMs what does that mean? Well, it means you have a RAM problem somewhere.
Motherboard? Not really any sort of testing possible. There are some "pretend" diagnostic tools that will try to tell you if something fails, but what exactly does that mean? Nothing. If you have a ATAPI DVD drive and a SATA hard drive I assure you tha
1. Check the software
2. It's probably the software
3. Really, it's going to be the software
87. OK, now you should run some diagnostics
Really. The bottom line is that computers and their parts (especially non-moving ones like processors and RAM), once they're burned in and assuming you don't try to run them overclocked for twenty years without rotating them out, are pretty reliable. I can't count more than a couple instances of hardware failure post burn-in across about fifteen different home machines
Toast and Pi and various other CPU stability test programs will let you test the CPU.
Go into system configuration with windows and turn off auto-reboot, so that if the machine blue screens, you can see what the error code is. Sometimes that will let you isolate it to graphics or the motherboard.
Ultimately, the way to find out IS to replace the components one by one. If you have several machines, or spares from an older machine, you should swap each component and run the machine until either you get a cras
You didn't mention the power supply.
In my experience, a "crashy machine" is almost always down to the PSU. Out of the dozens of "crashy machines" I've had to fix, only one was due to bad memory. The rest were *all* down to faulty power supplies, and all of those were due to capacitors that had failed.
I have an oscilloscope so I can easily test for ripple without needing to open up the power supply and look for the obvious signs (bulging capacitors, maybe ones that have leaked). We've had dozens of machines at work with supplies that have gone bad this way. Bad capacitors have been a real problem in recent years. Four years ago, it wasn't just in power supplies either - we had to return 70 machines to Hewlett-Packard under warranty after the capacitors on the motherboard began failing after 3 months of use. We've not seen anything on that scale on motherboards since, but we still have frequent problems with power supplies failing from "capacitor plague".
A machine of mine was actually killed by a sudden power supply failure - the PSU let the magic smoke out with a loud "bang", and there was the sound of stuff richocheting around the computer's case. That sound turned out to be bits of exploding chips on the motherboard. The only thing that survived that incident was the CD-ROM drive - all other components were destroyed.
What's the best software to change a tire on your car and find the leak?
Software can check quite a few things, but for the most part during a short time interval, digital hardware is either working or it isn't. So software performance tests may not be very good at revealing something marginal.
Beyond a few software tests and ruling some things out by substitution, it generally takes someone with some hardware troubleshooting skills, and some test equipment.
Of course test equipment starts with your senses.
http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm [passmark.com]
burnintest. have used it for years. works fine. some systems which would run fine for days and then crash were driving us crazy. this software found memory, video and cpu problems. free version of version i bought only ran for 15 minutes. might be enough to find your problem. windows only though so that might be a problem.
Swapping out is the ONLY way.
I have systems with intermittent (heat activated) dry joints on a mobo, partly duff RAM, and partly duff (rebranded at higher clock) CPU. ONLY swapping out will find it.
HTH etc
RAM is easy to test using basic troubleshooting techniques: Remove some of it, see if the problem recurs. Replace some of it with good spares, see if the problem recurs. Etc, so on. memtest86 also does a decent job of finding bad modules if left to run long enough, but since it runs in isolation from the rest of the computer it will not detect certain corner cases of bad RAM.
Power supplies are similarly easy: Swap it out for a known good supply, and see if the problem recurs.
I've never had a CPU fail,
I've found the UBCD -- Ultimate Boot CD to be quite useful.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ [ultimatebootcd.com]
It does come in handy, includes many of the necessary tools to determine HDD end of life etc.
It certainly isn't perfect, but I am amazed nobody has mentioned it yet in the discussion. Obviously real tools are on my bench, but when the poster specifically asked for software....this is the easiest and most broad spectrum solution.
I recently diagnosed two desktop machines. One ended up having a bad stick of memory, with the original symptoms being a corrupted copy of Windows XP that wouldn't boot. The other a bad hard drive, the symptoms being it would hang during use randomly and even during boot.
I used Prime95 and Memtest86+ to detect the bad stick of memory. Prime95 quickly came up with a error during the stress test, and Memtest86+ also came immediately came up with errors. In the past I have since subtle errors with Memtest86+ t
Half of your RAM issues wont' be able to be diagnosed with any piece of software. No RAM checking software will keep tabs on the operating speed of the RAM. Ditto with a CPU tester, there's hardware and socket adapters to help you plug in CPUs and test them with hardware.
My time spent in the hardware repair/replacement service has taught me that most software diagnostics just fall short. One place I worked for used a combo of Prime95 and some custom stress-testing software - almost every machine would pass
There are some fairly straight forward applications that several readers have mentioned.
However, relying on software to determine a fault when no fault indicators are built into your motherboard is an inherently flawed logic.
The vast majority of systems today are quite dumb and have no reporting. Even on more expensive systems this reporting is still not the most reliable method of troubleshooting hardware.
That is to say that software cannot be helpful in the troubleshooting process. It can be immensely use
My shop uses it, works pretty well. A full scan can take up to 6 or 8 hours (we set up hardware diags before leaving for the night, and in the morning on a 24-channel KVM), but it is THOROUGH. VRAM, RAM, HDD, CPU, everything is tested and thoroughly. First step should be testing the PSU, then running QT.
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Albert Wisner, age 90, passed away peacefully in Williamsburg, Virginia on April 4, 2013.
Born in Oakland, California on March 4, 1923, he was the son of G. Everett Wisner and Frances Basley Wisner. He was educated at Mt. Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II, he graduated from Brown University with a degree in Economics and spent many years in the jewelry business in Rhode Island. He married Nell Pinner Sannella in 1969 and brought two families together. The couple lived in Warwick until 1987 when they retired to Williamsburg, Virginia and maintained active lives in the community. Mr. Wisner was a Scout Master, a Mason, a member of the Sons of The American Revolution and a past president of the SAR Williamsburg chapter and a member of Trinity Church in Pawtuxet. James (1963) and Patricia (1975) are graduates of Pilgrim High School.
He is survived by a son, James A. Wisner of Brewster, Massachusetts and two daughters, Christine Wisner Sancin of Sarasota, Florida and Patricia Wisner Morse of Cohasset, Massachusetts, a stepson, Donald Rosie of Lake Stevens, Washington and two stepdaughters, Lynne Sannella Hamilton of Great Falls, Virginia and Fran Sannella Callaway of Louisville, Kentucky; and two grandsons, Jason A. Wisner of Boston, Massachusetts and Nathaniel Morse of Cohasset, Massachusetts.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Lung Association, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20004 or www.lung.org.

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I don't know about you but the older I get, the harder it is for me to shop for others [On the other hand, it's getting easier and easier to shop for myself!]. I've seen holiday gift lists popping up all over the Internets, and since I just discovered Polyvore, I thought I'd put it to good use and create a list of gifts for the pie baker in your life. Remember, if you are nice to your pie baker, they will reciprocate and reward you with lots of vegan PIES! Consider leaving Santa a pie this year instead of boring old cookies.
1. Holiday Pie Bird How cute is this little chirper?
2. Pies and Tarts with Heart: Expert Pie-Building Techniques for 60+ Sweet and Savory Vegan Pies What can I say? I put a lot of heart into this book and these recipes. It's full of gorgeous photos and step-by-step instructions to help you overcome any crust-making phobia you might have. Most recipes are gluten-free or gluten-free-possible and many are kid-friendly and no-bake. I even include recipes for raw pies, frozen pies and pies that really have no right to call themselves pies – like Whoopie Pies and Boston Cream Pie.
3. Godinger Marcella Square Desert Plates These will make even the humblest, crumbliest pies look Martha Stewart-approvable.
4. Pie Bird I own about 5 of these cheerful little pie vents in different colors. For just $5, they make great stocking stuffers.
5. Dough Scraper I resisted buying one for years, but now I love mine and don't know how I managed without it. Besides being useful for scraping up bits of dough from your pastry mat, it's also a great tool for evenly slicing blocks of tofu and other soft foods.
6. Covered Pie or Cake Pedestal Elevate your pie – or cake, muffins or cupcakes. Putting anything in a glass case makes it seem even more special – sort of like a museum piece.
7. Mini Rolling Pin This mini is great for making smaller pies and tarts – when don't feel like pulling out [or cleaning up] the big guns. Mini rollers also great for making ravioli, cookies and for introducing the shorties to the fine art of pie baking.


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The total illumination market for 2012 is estimated at $14.52 billion. LED lighting includes LED replacement lamps and luminaires is estimated at $11.72 billion—an increase of 26% between 2011 and 2012—and it is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 12% over 2012-2017.
LEDs used in large display (TV and monitors) backlights also reached a new record at $3.06 billion in 2012. This is chiefly due to the success in penetrating the CCFL stronghold of the 32-inch TV.
Chubby TVs will spread from 32 inches in both directions in size. It is expected to reach TVs 42 to 50 inches size in 2013-2014. With drastic reduction in number of LEDs used and rapid price erosion, the large display market for LEDs is expected to decline to $1.7 billion in 2017.
The total market for LEDs in the automotive segment was $1.4 billion in 2012, and is projected to grow to $2.1 billion in 2017. The number of cars with LED headlights nearly doubled in 2012. Revenue for 2012 was $97 million and the five-year CAGR is projected to be 36%.
While LED revenue from tablets grew 54% to $578 million, the overall mobile segment dropped 3%. The drop in notebook backlight demand, the OLED success in smart phone display, and the general demand decline for other small and medium display will take the segment down to $958 million in 2017, for a 5 year CAGR of -7%.
The signage segment is expected to grow to $2.4 billion in 2017, for a CAGR of 7%. Use of LEDs in signage and channel letters grew 7% to $1.7 billion in 2012. Full-color signs contributed more than 80% of the revenue.
On the supply side, 11 companies accounted for more than 72% of the LED market. Strategies Unlimited arrived at these figures after analyzing market demand as well as the supply-side activity of more than 54 LED component suppliers. The rank order of the top 11 suppliers in the LED market for 2012, by revenue of packaged LED components, is:
1. Nichia
(*Companies have the same ranking when the difference in revenue is within the margin of error. Revenue includes sales of packaged LEDs of 30 lm/W or more.)
The LED packaging industry is expected to grow modestly at a CAGR of 3.7% in the next five years. 2013 should see less severe price drops as excess capacity is slowly absorbed by the rise of lighting applications.
Strategies Unlimited's LED market analysis is being presented by Ella Shum, Director of the LED Practice, at the 14th Strategies in Light conference on February 13. Strategies in Light, the world's largest educational and networking platform for the LED and lighting industry, will be held February 12-14 in Santa Clara, CA. The event promises to feature more than 4,600 attendees and 200 exhibiting companies from more than 30 countries. For more information, see the conference web site at www.strategiesinlight.com.
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Chapter 1
A strange occurrence
The sound of steel striking rock echoed through the mines, the shock of a batch of TNT rumbled through the ground. "Great day to rummage for precious metals, Huh!" Yelled, Josef Steelarm.
"Hmm, perhaps. But we havn't found as much as a gold nugget in three minutes." Replied Beyorn Steelarm. They were working to connect a small tunnel to the main chamber that runs for several miles to the entrance of the mines, and collect valuable minerals along the way. Josef and Beyorn came from a long family of miners, in which the members all have very strong arms, which explains the family name.
"Well, I heard that the…" Josef stopped to pick up a small ruby that toppled into the ruble from a crack in the rock wall. "The goblins are a gathering with the Orks to try and raid the Ninjas outpost in the wet lands." He sighed as he shoved a fifty pound rock out of the way.
"Yep, those green skinned goons are always trying to drive the ninjas out of the swamps." Beyorn said as he pulled a sled closer to them.
Josef put his ear to the stone wall and taped it lightly with his pick axe. "Well that should do it; you want to do the honors?"
"Nah, you go ahead I'll just watch." Said Beyorn, he stepped back a few paces to give his brother some room.
Josef slowly pulled his pick back, then in one great swing he plowed through the rock making a hole big enough for someone to mistake it for damage from a cannon shot. In a few more strikes the rest of the wall was a pile of ruble on the ground. "Alright, the carpenters should be along in a few hours to reinforce it, what say we go get some chow?" he said as he set his tool over his shoulder. They walked out into the center of the main chamber where a steam cart rail system ran trough the entire length of the mines. There they waited for the next train to arrive, when it did they loaded up their gems and other stuff onto one of the carts, hoped onto the flat bed cart and the driver released the brakes and the train of carts began towards the entrance of the mine.
After cashing in their gems and such, they went to one of the many taverns in the Great Hall.
"Digging out fifteen yards in two and a half hours sure makes you hungry" said Beyorn, as he stuffed a sweet roll into his mouth.
"Mhmm" mumbled Josef as he took a big gulp of Good Dwarven Ale.
"Well, after were don eating how bout we help them down in the new tunnel off the northwest refinery?" said Beyorn.
"Ok, I here they found some new kind of crystal that glows." Replied Josef
"Oh yea, I heard of that, there using them in the kings hall instead of candles." added Beyorn.
"Our cousin, who works as an assistant to an engineer, says that they may be able to power some machines with the crystals." Continued Josef.
"That's interesting" said Beyorn, he leaned back and turned to the cook. "Hey can I have another Steak?"
When they were done eating they went back to the mines and got on a cart train.
The train passed thru another tunnel; and entered the North-west refinery. When it came to a stop, they got off the flat bed car, and walked over to the Refinery Chief.
"Sure, we can use some help over in the tunnel to the left." Said the chief.
"RUN, SAVE YOUR BEARDS!" yelled a miner coming out of the tunnel to the right, He ran past a miner and a guard who were just standing by the entrance of the tunnel. "ROCK MONSTER!" he yelled. The two miners started running away from the tunnel, but the slower one wasn't fast enough, a rock monster came out of the tunnel and grabbed the guard and tossed him across the cavern.
Josef grabbed a stick of TNT and tried to light it but his matches wouldn't start. The Rock monster was half way across the refinery when Josef was finally able to light it, he threw it at the rock monster and a few seconds latter it exploded and the rock monster fell into a pile of rubble. "That was unusual; they don't normally come that close to the main chamber." Said the Chief.
"Go get an apothecary!" yelled Beyorn who was standing beside the guard "He's hurt to badly to move." Josef got onto the train and the operator released the brakes.
Josef and the apothecary were half way to the North-West refinery when they had to stop because something had destroyed the tracks "how fast can we fix it?" asked the apothecary.
"Just a temporary fix would take about a half hour." Said the driver. "But the rails are so bent out of shape that we might as well go get new ones."
"You two fix the tracks, I'll go on ahead and se if I can do any thing to help the miner." Ordered the apothecary, he hoped of the cart and headed to the North-West refinery.
"We can take some rails from a few yards back, move them up here, and then on the way back we put them back where they were." Suggested Josef.
"Wow, that is a good idea, I never would have thought of it." Said the driver. They grabbed some tools and walked back about ten yards and began unscrewing the rails.
The apothecary was walking in an empty tunnel whistling an old tune, when he heard a strange noise behind him he stopped and turned, not seeing anything he started walking again. A few feet latter he came into a cavern and it was strangely empty, shovels and picks just lying around on the ground, sleds filled with gems and gold, lying around without any one watching them. Then he heard the noise again this time much clearer, it sounded like breathing but it was strange and… The apothecary recognized the sound of a goblin breathing, he grabbed a bronze axe that was lying on a rock and ran to the center of the cavern. A few long silent seconds latter a couple of goblins came out of the tunnel he was just in. One had a bow; the other had a large crude sword. The green skinned creatures started to walk towards the dwarf. The apothecary raised his axe to where the goblins could see it. The goblin with the bow stopped walking and stringed an arrow, aimed at the dwarf and didn't fire. The goblin with the sword walked over to the dwarf and hit him with the flat part of his sword, the apothecary swung at the goblin and hit it in the helmet, the goblin fell over backwards and the dwarf sent a killing blow to the mid section of the goblins torso. Right when he did the other goblin released it's arrow.
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Two of the most common diseases in the United States -- cancer and diabetes -- are not often linked together in the public mind. But they may have a stronger link than most people think. Cancer patients who already have diabetes have a greater chance of dying of the disease than cancer patients who do not have the blood-sugar disorder, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Breast, colorectal and endometrial cancer patients with diabetes have a significantly higher risk of dying.
If researchers can tease out the reason why, they might have an opportunity to reduce cancer deaths by focusing on diabetes-related health problems, says lead author Frederick Brancati, M.D., a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland.
About 24 million people in the United States have diabetes, and about eight to 18 percent of newly diagnosed cancer patients also have the disease. Health.com: Top 10 diabetes stories of 2008
"It's something that is hiding in plain sight," says Brancati. "Diabetes is very common, cancer is very common, but no one had really thought to organize the literature and see it."
In the new study, Brancati and colleagues analyzed all the available research and selected 23 well-designed studies that looked at cancer patients who had diabetes at the time of diagnosis. This type of study, known as a meta-analysis, can highlight problems that no single study typically can.
The researchers found that people with diabetes had about a 1.4 times greater risk of dying of cancer than patients without blood-sugar problems. Mortality seemed to be higher for many types of cancer, but it was only statistically significant for three types: breast, endometrial, and colorectal. Health.com: What's your breast cancer IQ?
"It's a big deal if we can take a cancer and knock its mortality rate down by 5 percent or 10 percent," says Dr. Brancati. "Here's a potential 40 percent. We don't know from this kind of study how much we can really chip away at it, but it does say there's a target out there."
Some research suggests that people with diabetes are at greater risk of developing cancer in the first place, possibly due to their weight. Many people with type 2 diabetes are also obese, and obesity is linked to a greater risk of some types of cancer.
The researchers say there are many reasons why people with diabetes might have a higher cancer-mortality risk.
• Something about diabetes, possibly high blood sugar, may cause tumors to grow faster.
• People with diabetes are at greater risk of other health problems, such as heart and kidney disease. This may weaken their ability to withstand chemotherapy or other aggressive treatments, so doctors may treat them less aggressively.
• Diabetics are more susceptible to infections, which may increase mortality after surgery or other treatments.
• People with diabetes may be diagnosed with cancer at a later stage of disease because doctors are focusing on their other health problems. Health.com A mammogram may have saved my life
• A cancer diagnosis may cause patients and doctors to neglect diabetes treatment.
• There may be no relation between cancer and diabetes. People with diabetes are at greater risk of health problems, and may just have a higher mortality risk in general.
One other possible factor is depression, says Richard Hellman, M.D., a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Missouri -- Kansas City School of Medicine. About 10 to 40 percent of people with diabetes also experience depression, and they can have more severe episodes than those who don't have diabetes.
"What happens is that people [who are depressed] delay diagnosis, they delay treatment for needed problems, and their outcomes for almost anything are poorer," he says. "If you have a subset of patients with cancer who have diabetes, and that group has a subset that is depressed, the ones who are depressed will tend to have particularly poor outcomes." Health.com Top 10 celebrity health stories of 2008
Undoubtedly, more research will focus on the link to see if managing diabetes better, or differently, can reduce the cancer-mortality rate.
In the meantime, Hellman says that the findings may encourage oncologists to pay closer attention to their patients' diabetes care, and communicate more with physicians who are managing the diabetes. Health.com: I beat cancer and finished a half-marathon
"If you have cancer and you have diabetes, you have to be more vigilant," he says. "Make sure that your care is well coordinated so that your diabetes care remains excellent, any of your cardiovascular evaluations are up-to-date, and the doctors are talking to each other."
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Where do we go from here?
Where do we get 4 wingers for our top 2 forward lines (less Crosby, Malkin)
Where do we get some top D men? (don't say Whitney, Welch, etc. Still years away)
Where do we get talent for WBS other than more garbage that "might" someday be 3rd or 4th liners someday?
Where do we get a veteran guy to help Fleury (don't say Thibault).
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Soccer is easy to mock. In what other sport can we compile a scorecard of the number of ersatz "injuries" or the time the supposedly injured players spent writhing on the ground.
Soccer is easy to mock. In what other sport can we compile a scorecard of the number of ersatz "injuries" or the time the supposedly injured players spent writhing on the ground.
Or in which "injured" players are regularly carried off on stretchers - when's the last time you saw that in any American sport? - only to return to the game seconds later.
But I am not here to mock. I've tried to like soccer. It seemed like the open-minded thing to do.
Let me set the stage: it is the summer of 1994 and I am a graduate student living in London. Each summer, the dormitory in which I lived had an influx of Italian students who, in a gratifying example of international outreach, insisted that I watch the World Cup with them.
I did so, game in and game out, as an ambassador of sportsmanship and good will. And, to the joy of my newfound compatriots, Italy progressed all the way to the final against mighty Brazil.
And so we watched what I was told would be the pinnacle of sporting endeavor. For 90 minutes we watched. And no one scored. We watched through extra time. And still no one scored.
At last the game was settled through a shootout, in which the goalie guesses at which side of the goal the opposing player will kick the ball and dives in that general direction. Italy's goalie guessed wrong and Brazil walked off the World Cup champions. A coin flip might have been slightly less dramatic, but the effect was pretty much the same.
This helps explain why soccer may be the world's sport, but not yet America's. I don't begrudge my foreign friends' love of soccer. And I am honest enough to admit that baseball is pretty dull.
But while soccer is a fine game, American football and basketball are a battle, based on deception, initiative and the repeated attack on the opponent's weaknesses.
When a football or basketball coach isolates a gap in the opposing team's strategy or a mismatch of players, he will exploit that weakness again and again. And his team will score points a result.
The level of teamwork and coordination demanded of athletes, and strategic thinking of coaches, is simply far higher in American sports. And a strategic error by coaches or a substantial playing mistake by athletes on the field will almost always cost that team at the scoreboard.
Sure, a basketball or American football game can be decided by a lucky play or a bad call, if it's very close. But the relative ease by which teams can score in the most popular U.S. sports makes it very unlikely that the better team will lose the game. Not so in soccer, which is replete with fine plays that go unrewarded and terrible errors that go unpunished.
Or simply consider basic statistics such as time of possession, which measures which team controls the ball throughout the game.
Controlling the ball is a basic measure of a team's dominance, and in American football the team that wins the battle for ball-control wins the game around two-thirds of the time. In soccer, by contrast, time of possession appears to be unrelated to victory. American sports are famously buried in statistics, but all these stats are meaningful in understanding who won and why.
At the end of the day, sports are entertainment - not a matter of life or death, unless you're the Colombian defender who was murdered after scoring an own-goal in that same 1994 World Cup by deflecting a U.S. shot past his own goalie. He would have been 47 this year.
If millions of people want to watch a bunch of men kick a ball around for 90-plus minutes only to end in a scoreless tie, that's OK by me.


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The latest world premiere in Soho Theatre's main space is that rare thing in London musical theatre: neither an adaptation nor a re-staging but a brand new piece of writing.
It also has a refreshingly novel concept, tracing the lives of a random group of lovelorn Londoners – a busker, a businessman and his PA, a teacher, a stripper and a gay sex-addict – crammed together in the same Covent Garden Underground lift each morning.
Steven Paling's snappy direction successfully evokes the bustling awkwardness of the daily commute on Georgia Lowe's elegantly simple on-rails set. And scenes in which two of the characters flirt as exaggerated avatars in an online chatroom are inventively handled.
The score is forgettable in places, but a few numbers suggest a bright future for composer Craig Adams – the powerfully raw post-break-up lament 'It's Been a Year' shivers off the stage, particularly when sung in reprise by Cynthia Erivo's emotionally bruised stripper.
It's the genuine creative ambition on display that makes it all the more frustrating that, ultimately, this 'Lift' doesn't really go anywhere. Its splintered narrative is fitfully entertaining but fails to form something emotionally satisfying.
In spite of the talented cast's best efforts, the characters struggle to escape cliché, and the script is bogged down by a seriousness that blunts the occasional spiky line and feels completely overblown for what's supposed to be a bleary-eyed journey to work. Tom Wicker
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Aug. 19, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - It sounds like a broken record, but it's true. As is the case with UCSB's defenders and midfielders, previewed on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, the Gauchos' forward line is - repeat after me - deep and experienced.
Among the returnees, senior Kailyn Kugler, the 2010 Big West Offensive Player of the Year, leads the way up front. As a junior, Kugler scored nine goals and assisted on five others for 23 points. She will be joined on the forward line by another First Team All-Big West selection, senior Kylie McDonald, the team's leader in assists last year with seven, junior Alissa Sanchez and sophomore Erin Ortega, an Honorable Mention All-Big West choice. A fifth veteran, senior Jessie Edmonds, could also factor into the mix.
Freshmen Allie Ariniello (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon HS) and Nicole DuPuy (Irvine, Calif./Mater Dei HS) are also expected to be part of the regular forward rotation for head coach Paul Stumpf.
"Kylie (McDonald) and Sanchez will be the two delivery players and the others will be the finishers," Stumpf said. "We will mix-and-match all of them. We expect this group to work very hard and so we will cycle them in and out to keep them fresh."
Scoring was an issue for the Gauchos much of the 2009 season. While they finished the year with 27 goals in their 22 matches, they were shutout seven times and scored one goal on seven other occasions.
"I used to think that scoring goals was all about skill," Stumpf said. "Others believe that scoring is all about passion. I'm now convinced that it is equal parts of both and I want this team to play with both skill and passion."
UCSB opens its regular season on Friday when it hosts Cal State Northridge in a non-conference game at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
The game against Northridge is the first of three consecutive home games to open the year for the Gauchos. They will also host Cal State Bakersfield (Sunday, Aug. 22 at 5:00 p.m.) and Saint Joseph's (Friday, Aug. 27 at 5:00 p.m.). Santa Barbara then embarks on a stretch of five consecutive games away from home, playing at San Francisco (Aug. 29), Minnesota (Sept. 3), Loyola Marymount (Sept. 10) and UCLA (Sept. 12). The Gauchos will also play Marquette in Minneapolis on Sept. 5.
UCSB returns home on Sept. 17 to host Weber State and Sept. 19 to host Oklahoma. Following the final preseason road game on Sept. 24 at Fresno State, the Gauchos open Big West play at UC Riverside (Oct. 1) and Long Beach State (Oct. 3). Their first league home game will be on Oct. 8 against Cal State Northridge. The game against the Matadors, the second of the year, will open a run of five straight home contests. UC Irvine (Oct. 10), UC Davis (Oct. 15), Pacific (Oct. 17) and non-conference foe Seattle (Oct. 21) will complete the home slate for the year. Santa Barbara will end the regular season with road games at Cal State Fullerton (Oct. 24) and Cal Poly (Oct. 29). The game against the Mustangs will be a renewal of the Blue-Green Rivalry.
Season tickets for the 2010 Gaucho men's and women's soccer season are on sale now and this year's packages include tickets for the 2010 College Cup, being hosted by UCSB on Dec. 10-12 at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. Season tickets start at just $75 and include one ticket to all home men and women's regular season games and one College Cup All Session ticket. UCSB staff and faculty can purchase their season tickets for a reduced rate of $50.
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I've been dieting since early October, just recently began exercising/working out on a regular basis... so far so good. I weighed 195 when I first started, and today I'm at 175. I was actually at 205 lbs this past May, so I've came along way.
Initially, 175 was my goal but now that I'm there, I'm looking to get down to 160 and then add some muscle weight back up to 175.
Anyway, I had a few questions. I'm looking to join the Air Force, which has weight restrictions (175 for my height)... I need to clear that at least by ten pounds. Basically, I'm still needing to lose a little.
Since I've just recently started to do a heavy work out, should I think about drinking protein shakes? At this point, I really don't want to gain any weight, but I would like to burn away the fat. Is this a good idea or not?
Also, my buddy is finally starting to get into a health kick. Probably weighs about 250 (at about 5'11/6'0")... needs to drop significant weight. He's already thinking about buying protein shakes for his workouts. I told him he would probably want to avoid it since he is wanting to drop a bunch of weight. Someone else told him that it would turn the fat into muscle, but I'm not real sure about it.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Barbara Walters Still Off The View, Returning in Three Weeks
Barbara Walters isn't "scratching too much" from chickenpox, but she says she won't be back at The View for three more weeks.
Walters phoned into the ABC talk show Wednesday. Calling from her home, she reported that she's weak but not in any pain.
She was hospitalized on Jan. 19 after fainting and cutting her head at a party in Washington. The 83-year-old has said she had the chickenpox and a temperature at the time, but didn't realize it. She suffered a concussion and got six stitches. She was released 10 days later.
She announced Wednesday: "I'm not itching away."
Then she marveled that the best remedy for itching is an age-old one, saying: "We have Facebook, Twitter and calamine lotion."
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Third "Tree Branch" Bench
These benches - so simple and primitive - are carved directly from trees where the natural limb growth provides the legs. The underside of the tree has been carved out to decrease bench weight, and add more definition to the top and legs. This piece just makes me smile. If you have access to woods, however, just see how many trees you can find where there are four limbs that would act as legs were you to make a similar bench. It's a tricky exercise, and one that made me appreciate this bench even more. Second quarter of the 20th century.
Wood: Cypress
Province: Shandong
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Focus Placed On Head Injuries
ST. MARYS — If awareness of head injuries had been as focused six years ago as it is now, parent and tennis coach Brice Brenneman says he might have worried more about the three sports concussions his son suffered while in high school.
"The first one was a routine heading in soccer," Brenneman said. "He came home, got sick, fell asleep. The first one the doctors treated as a fluke."
The second and third concussions were treated more seriously, however, leading doctors to recommend he wear a foam padded helmet to play sports.
What the three incidents had in common was that heading a ball or colliding with a player are routine incidents in sports. Most players head a ball and never have a problem. Brenneman wondered, however, if doctors today would have recommended his son stop playing.
"Perhaps today we are more cautious than we were then," he said.
Awareness of head injuries has increased to the point that three years ago, the Ohio High School Athletic Association began requiring students to have a physician's permission to return to play or practice after showing symptoms of a concussion.
This year, the Ohio legislature followed suit, passing House Bill 143, making it a law that coaches and referees are responsible for taking students out of games when they show signs of concussion.
The National Federation of High School Associations announced Monday that 700,000 coaches and others involved in high school athletics have taken their course for recognizing concussions in only two years.
According to the Center for Disease Control, concussions are among many traumatic brain injuries young athletes are susceptible to, and can lead to lifelong impairment in memory, behavior, learning and emotions.
During the last decade, emergency treatments for traumatic brain injuries for youth in sports has increased by 60 percent, mostly in bicycling, football, basketball and soccer — rates are highest per athlete in football and girls soccer.
"This is definitely an important topic that's been generating a lot of interest with increasing concussions," St. Marys Athletic Director Doug Spencer said.
"Some you just can't prepare for."
He said coaches are required to get their sports medicine certification and any new information that comes along, he forwards to those coaches.
In addition, the district goes through a lot of expense to prevent injury. Every helmet costs $200, and every year the district pays $5,000 to re-inspect and recondition the equipment.
One hurdle in tracking how prevalent the injuries are is the lack of a tracking system broken down by sport for how many concussions athletes face each year.
Last year, the OHSAA began keeping track, giving Ohio as a state a look at where athletes are suffering injuries, said Tim Stried, spokesperson for the OHSAA.
What the numbers revealed was that, at least in Ohio, football is not the worst offender when it comes to concussions.
Wrestling had the highest number of concussions at 111, and football came in second at 102. All other sports, statewide, had 25 or less head injuries.
As for why wrestling had so many head injuries, Stried said the cause was undetermined. It could be that wrestlers are getting bigger or stronger, he suggested, or they could be hitting the mat with a lot of force.
Stried said the key to preventing injuries going forward won't be about legislation, it will be about coaches stressing the fundamentals. In football, that means teaching students to keep their heads up when they tackle.
"We're also trying to make everyone aware that student needs to come out immediately, whether or not they have a concussion," Stried said, noting students should only continue play once they are cleared by medical personnel. "Sustaining one (concussion) is not typically life threatening."
Amy Brown, St. Marys Memorial High School trainer, agreed school officials do everything they can, but not all concussions are preventable or life threatening.
"When we were kids, they'd tell us, 'Just shake it off,'" she said of the changing regulations. "Now, we know there's greater risk of problems down the road."
She said some of what appears to be an increase in concussions is actually probably because of increased awareness of the symptoms, and therefore, more students getting treatment.
Even with proper training, however, recognizing a concussion is tricky. In her time with the school, Brown said she witnessed multiple concussions, but for one softball player, the only symptom was a headache that persisted for weeks.
Other symptoms for players can include lightheadedness, dizziness, visual problems, and "seeing stars."
As for what might be the next step in preventing concussions, Brown said she doesn't know what that would be.
"Believe me, if a specific football helmet prevented concussions, everyone would have it," Brown said.
Brown noted referees and coaches are doing a better job pulling students out of play when they show symptoms, but there's no way to know when it will happen.
As for Brenneman, his son has no lasting effects despite three concussions, and he said he's glad his son had the opportunity to play the sports he loved.
"He never did head a ball again, though," he said.


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Hollowed Existences
~spoiler warning~ What would have happened if Bella hadn't jumped?...
I sort of just started this little story for fun because I wanted to see as to where it might go. hehe xD. The chapters are going to be short, why? I don't know. My brain doesn't tell me its reasoning most of the time but I bet it has something to do with the fact that if i squished it all together it wouldn't sound right. Thats my guess. hehe xD. Oh and of course, I don't own Twilight, New Moon, or any of the characters. They are all Stephenie Meyer's creations. ^_^
1. Chapter 1
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I stepped out to the edge, keeping my eyes on the empty space in front of me. My toes felt ahead blindly, caressing the edge of the rock when they encountered it. I drew in a deep breath and held it… waiting.
I smiled and exhaled.
Yes? I didn't answer out loud; for fear that the sound of my voice would shatter the beautiful illusion. He sounded so real, so close. It was only when he was disapproving like this that I could hear the true memory of his voice—the velvet texture and the musical intonation that made up the most perfect of all voices.
"Don't do this," he pleaded.
You won't stay with me any other way.
"Please." It was just a whisper in the blowing rain that tossed my hair and drenched my clothes—making me as wet as if this were my second jump of the day.
I rolled up onto the balls of my feet.
"No Bella!" He was angry now, and the anger was so lovely.
I smiled and raised my arms straight out, as if I were going to dive, lifting my face into the rain. But it was too ingrained from years of swimming at the public pool—feet first, first time. I leaned forward, crouching to get more spring…
Just then a roll of thunder sounded and it was then that I finally realized what I was doing. I finally took notice of the weather. The sky was one of the darkest shades of gray I had ever seen. The wind was coming in gusts and billows so strong it sometimes caught me and almost made me fall over. Then there was the sea, oh as I looked out into the turbulent sea I began to feel the fear and the shock. I didn't know much about tides but I knew enough to know that with the wind being as it was and the waves crashing so violently, the rip tide would surely have drug me under and killed me.
I sank down to the ground and began to cry. If I had died, where would that have left Charlie? Renee? I could see their mourning faces so clearly that it pained me. No, I couldn't leave them yet, not yet. They would rather have me, even in my shell like state, then not have me at all.
All the things I have carelessly done over the passed few weeks suddenly came crashing down on me. So many times I could have died and it was sheer luck that I hadn't. I made a vow right then, a vow stating that I wouldn't end my life… my existence, just because of some careless, thoughtless mistake.
I turned on my heel and headed back towards my truck. I would go back home, I would go back to my shell. That way I would survive at least. A daughter who was still alive in a sense was still better than having no daughter at all. I just hoped that my parents would see it that way as well.
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