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OCZ Reaper HPC Edition PC2-9200 2GB DDR2-1150 Review
Everybody enjoys having products that perfectly suit their computing style and needs. As an overclocker and enthusiast, it's hard to find many products that are designed specifically for us. High quality, unmatched performance, and the ability to push it to the limit is what I look for in almost all of my hardware components. Memory is one upgrade that will undoubtedly make your computer faster and allow you to multi-task more efficiently. Exactly what would a set of the OCZ Reaper HPC Edition PC2-9200 2GB DDR2-1150 memory do, performance-wise, to my computer? The stock speed of DDR2-1150 is much higher than the most common DDR2-800, so this memory is clearly for enthusiasts. With the unique heat-spreaders on this memory, the temperatures should be fairly lower; leaving room for overclocking. Let's see just how far we can push this set of OCZ Reaper HPC Edition PC2-9200 2GB DDR2-1150 memory and how it affects the overall performance of my system.
Closer Look:
The OCZ Reaper HPC Edition PC2-9200 2GB DDR2-1150 memory is securely packaged in easy-to-open plastic. The first thing I noticed was the heat pipe over top of the sticks. They almost look like handles for the memory. The back of the package has a little diagram showing you how the heat-spreaders work.
Once you get the OCZ Reaper HPC Edition PC2-9200 2GB DDR2-1150 out of the package, you'll notice they have the OCZ Technology logo on one side and a sticker displaying the stock settings on the other side. Take a closer look at how the heat pipe connects to the RAM and aids in heat dissipation.
Now that we've examined this unique heat-spreader, let's install this set of high performance memory.


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My husband was working on a Word document that needed to have paragraphs and subparagraphs numbered. As I'm sure you know, if you start inserting paragraph numbers without creating distinct styles, Word takes on a life of its own, and starts generating multiple styles. Eventually, every paragraph in my husband's document was numbered either 4 or 5, and each numbering had a different format. Since I enjoy word processing, my husband asked me if I could fix it. He confidently expected it would be a three or four minute job. Thirty-minutes later, I was still working on it. It turned out that the document was so horribly coded I couldn't fix it. Instead, I had to strip it to basic text and then re-code. The point of this is that some things cannot be fixed. They are so profoundly ill-conceived or damaged that they have to be scrapped and started from scratch. So it is with Obamacare: It is so dreadful, corrupt, and dysfunctional at every level that it cannot be fixed.
I was raised by a narcissist and can tell you, both from my experience and from having read up on the subject, that narcissists lack a sense of privacy. Or, more accurately, they lack a sense of your privacy. Their sense of their own privacy is highly developed. But if your parent is a narcissist, you are not allowed any physical or mental realms into which they are barred from intruding. They own you. To the extent that Leftist ideology has a great deal in common with malignant narcissism, it's scarcely surprising that Leftists don't have a problem with turning you inside out and making you their own. You are not a stand-alone individual; you are a subset of the narcissist's own grandiose sense of self.
Dennis Prager says most of what needs to be said about the appalling judicial decision in Colorado that threatens to send a man to prison for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Do you remember Lee Iacocca? Dan Akerson, GM's CEO does not. Pity.
Let's be clear. The historical St. Nicholas, on whom Santa Claus is based, was as a Greek from the region that is now Turkey. He was Caucasian, although he probably had a swarthy complexion. That's fact. Santa Claus is a 19th century American construct. He's pretend, so people can pretend him to be whatever the heck color they desire. My imaginary Santa Claus is a pleasant turquoise, just because I like it that way. This whole debate is as ridiculous as the notion that Jesus is a fair-haired, blue-eyed Northern European.
Spengler talks about what "land for peace" really means in the Middle East (or anywhere, for that matter).

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Tearing Down the Wall
by John R. Polito
Nicotine Cessation Educator
The final phase of nicotine dependency recovery is in either allowing sufficient time to pass so that thoughts of wanting to smoke -- reflecting the mountain of denial garbage we constantly fed ourselves over the years -- gradually fade away and stop haunting and replaying over and over in the mind, or accelerating the process by seeing the arrival of each as a golden opportunity to set the record straight.Hooked
Imagine residing inside a mind chemically dependent upon a substance that addiction experts contend may possibly be the most captivating of all. Although it isn't likely that any of us then knew or realized that our brain had physically grown millions of extra acetylcholine receptors, that it had de-sensitized select critical brain pathways from an endless onslaught of nicotine, or that nicotine was in command and control over the flow of more than 200 of our body's neurochemicals, we didn't need to know the details.
We'd each already felt the punishing anxieties of waiting too long between nicotine feedings. We knew we'd lost the autonomy to simply turn and walk away. Even though we'd tried to tune it out, we also couldn't help but hear the dull roar of the endless stream of new study findings telling us that each and every puff not only destroyed more of our body' ability to receive and transport life-giving oxygen, but that with it came a greater accumulation of the 43 carcinogens present in each burning cigarette. We knew that a time-bomb was building in each of us.
Although clinging to the security blanket that all we suffered from was some "nasty little habit," deep down we knew we were hooked solid. So how did our conscious thinking mind cope with the sobering reality that our brain was a slave to its own senseless self-destruction?Dignity's Denial
How did we look in the mirror each morning and maintain any sense of dignity, self-worth or self-respect while constantly being reminded that we were prisoners to dependency, decay, disease, and that today we'd move closer to completing the act of committing our own chemical suicide? It was easy - we learned to lie.
We each called upon our intelligence and conscious mind to help build a thick protective wall of denial that not only insulated us from the hard cold realities of daily dependency but behind which we could hide when those on the outside felt the need to remind us of who we really were and what we were doing. Our basic tools for building the wall were conscious rationalizations, minimizations and blame transference.
As soon as nicotine's urge commands began telling us that smoking was no longer an optional activity we each found ourselves forced to explain our involuntary obedience to them. Although nicotine's two-hour half-life inside our bloodstream was now the basic clock governing mandatory feeding times, we each became very creative in providing alternative justifications and explanations.
In our pre-dependency days we may have found honest pleasure in experiencing an unearned flood of dopamine accompanied by a nicotine induced rush of adrenaline but once the feedings became mandatory it didn't matter how we felt about them. Choice was no longer an issue. Even if we didn't fully appreciate our new state of permanent chemical captivity, many of us rationalized the situation based upon what we found ourselves doing.Building Protection
"I don't do things that I don't like to do," we reminded ourselves. "I smoke lots and lots and lots of cigarettes, therefore I must really love smoking," instead of "therefore, I must really be addicted to smoking nicotine." Not only were our "like" and "love" rationalizations easier to swallow, they provided a conscious defense against those encouraging us to stop. Yes, the first bricks in our wall of denial were now being cemented into place, and made thicker with each empty pack.
Some of us hid from our dependency by blaming our chronic tobacco use on what we described as tobacco smoke's wonderful smell or taste. This rationalization brick not only ignored the over 600 flavor additives that the tobacco industry uses to engineer an amazing spectrum of smells and tastes, it ignored the fact that hundreds of other plants, products and people smell good too but we have never once found the need to light any of them on fire and suck them into our lungs in order to complete the experience. But if man ever decides to soak any in nicotine, stand back, as the nicotine addict will likely be burning them soon too.
One brick was our sense that we were each somehow able to control the uncontrollable. Some of us purchased just one pack at a time, playing the endless mind game that tomorrow would always be our last. Some intentionally never made a serious attempt so as to avoid having to admit dependency. Others rationalized that since they only smoked a little more than 5 mg. of nicotine daily (about 5 cigarettes) they were either less addicted than others, somehow better than other smokers, or not addicted at all. And then there are our closest smokers - like my grandmother - who constantly tried to convince us that the cloud of smoke rolling out of the bathroom behind her really wasn't there.
The most fatal control rationalization of all is the fraud of "just one," "just one little puff!" Although a primary maxim of addiction is that "one is always too many and a thousand never enough," instead of picturing all of them and the return of our entire dependency and the endless destructive chain of feeding linked to it, we rationalized countless relapses by lying to ourselves that we were stronger than nicotine and that we could smoke "just one." Why waste time entertaining the repeating thought reflected by this brick when we now know it be a lie?
Each time our wall was pierced we simply added another brick. There was our "you have to die of something" brick, our "there's still plenty of time" brick, and even the rationalization that went as far as to counter tobacco's 50% kill rate by asserting that it really meant that "there is a 50% chance that smoking won't kill me."
We also have all of our "why we smoked" rationalizations. We told ourselves that it made the coffee taste better when in fact it deadened our sense of smell and drowned coffee's flavors in the 4,000 chemicals present in each burning cigarette. There was our "best friend" brick which asserted that a chemical with an I.Q. of zero was most loyal companion we'd ever had, even when smoking it had long ago deprived us of up to one-third of our functional lung capacity.
There was our boredom brick, our appetizer before every meal brick, our after each meal dessert brick, and the brick proclaiming the first cigarette of the day to be one of the best of all. Each such rationalization totally ignored the real clock driving the situation - nicotine's two-hour chemical half-life.
They ignored the fact that the average pack-a-day smoker will receive a command to smoke (an urge) about every thirty minutes regardless of which activity their denial wishes to credit. It ignores the fact that after sleeping through three to four nicotine half-lives we were left with nicotine blood-serum reserve levels that were somewhere down around our socks. Those first daily smokes should have been memorable.
Then there was our alcohol and stress bricks. Living in a world of dependency ignorance, very few of us knew that nicotine is an alkaloid and that both stress and alcohol are acid producing events. Instead of understanding how stress and alcohol can neutralize the body's nicotine reserves we rationalized that smoking reduced our stress and that we liked smoking more when drinking.
Let's not forget our romantic fixation bricks proclaiming that some of our best memories ever were based upon the presence of nicotine, and that somehow the moment or underlying memory would have been less significant if nicotine had not added dopamine and adrenaline to it. Wouldn't honest reflection have us asking how many of life's perfect moments were interrupted by a mandatory need to leave and feed, or by a mind pre-occupied with the need to do so?
And what about our quitting bricks? Pretending that we'd be quitting soon or going so far as to actually set a date would always make today's nicotine fixes far more bearable. When we failed to follow through or relapsed we could always reach for our blame bricks and lay the cause for our defeat upon family members that just couldn't handle the temporary anxieties associated with recovery. We could blame friends, a lack of support, a relationship, stressful times, financial hardship, other smokers, alcohol or even our job.Natural Erosion or Conscious Intervention?
The only limit upon the bricks within our wall was our imagination. Have you ever noticed just how challenging it really is to coax a smoker out from behind their wall? After years of construction it tends to be a secure and comforting place to hide from those seeking to impose their will upon us.
It is not necessary that any of us set out to consciously dismantle our wall of denial in order to successfully keep our dependency arrested. But what it may help to realize is that the bulk of our "thoughts" of wanting to smoke nicotine are likely a reflection of the very wall that we ourselves created.
As each thought arrives, will spending a bit of time reflecting upon its origin and validity help shorten this temporary period of adjustment called quitting, and diminish the number of excuses available to justify future relapse?
The day and moment is approaching when you'll awaken to an expectation of going your entire day without once wanting to smoke nicotine. Oh, you'll still have thoughts now and then but with decreasing frequency, shorter duration and declining intensity. They'll become the exception, not the rule. It may even get to the point where you'll greet them with a smile as they'll be your only reminder of the amazing journey you've made.
They say that "truth shall set us free" but here at WhyQuit we have an even better guarantee. It is impossible to lose our freedom so long as we refuse to allow nicotine back into our bloodstream. The next few minutes are all that matter and each is entirely doable. There was always only one rule ... no nicotine today ... Never Take Another Puff!Breathe deep, hug hard, live long!
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The Spirit Diggers have 2 ghost tours at the Historic Palmyra Museum in January. The first is on January 8th and the second is on the 22nd. The price is $30 per ticket, night vision camera rental is $5 and evp recordings are only $1.
With 7 floors between 2 buildings and an amazing history, you are truly in for a great experience. Ticket price includes a paranormal class, use of all of our equipment, and a ghost hunt guided by members of the Spirit Diggers Paranormal team. The Spirit Diggers are Ghost Adventures Crew members.
For ticket information and reservations, call 329-1723 or visit www.ectoplasym.com
We also have a ghost tour scheduled at the Winery at Marjim Manor on January 15th from 8 to midnight. Tickets are $40 each. The winery was featured on Ghost Hunters in 2008 and the Travel Channels Most Terrifying Places 2010.
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Each C5B 47 thermocouple input module provides a single channel of thermocouple input which is filtered, isolated, amplified, and converted to a high-level analog voltage output. This voltage output is logic-switch controlled, allowing these modules to share a common analog bus without the requirement of external multiplexers.
The C5B 47 modules are designed with a completely isolated computer-side circuit which can be floated to ±50V from Power Common (pin 16). This complete isolation means that no connection is required between I/O Common and Power Common for proper operation of the output switch. If desired, the output switch can be turned on continuously by simply connecting pin 22, the Read-Enable pin, to I/O Common (pin 19).
The C5B 47 can interface with eight industry-standard thermocouple types. Its corresponding output signal operates over a 0V to +5V range. Each module is cold-junction compensated to correct for parasitic thermocouples formed by the thermocouple wire and screw terminals on the mounting panel. Upscale open thermocouple detect is provided by an internal pull-up resistor. Downscale indication can be implemented by installing an external 47 megohm resistor (±20% tolerance) between screw terminals 1 and 3 on the C5BP panels.
Signal filtering is accomplished with a six-pole filter, which provides 95dB of normal-mode-rejection at 60Hz and 90dB at 50Hz. Two poles of this filter are on the field side of the isolation barrier, and the other four are on the computer side.
After the initial field-side filtering, the input signal is chopped by a proprietary chopper circuit. Isolation is provided by transformer coupling, again using a proprietary techniques to suppress transmission of common mode spikes or surges. The module is powered from ±5VDC (±5%).
A special input circuit on the modules provides protection against accidental connection of power-line voltages up to 240VAC.


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Disruptive Innovation: Bad For Some Old Businesses, Good For Everyone Else
from the also-known-as-'progress' dept
Of course, it may be open to an entirely different form of disruption. As Nick Bilton at the NYTimes recently pointed out, as his smartphone has been able to do more and more, he's beginning to think that wallets may be becoming entirely obsolete. There's almost nothing he still needs to carry on his person since nearly everything that used to be in his wallet can now be taken care of via his smartphone:
Printed photos, which once came in "wallet size," have been replaced by an endless roll of snapshots on my phone. Business cards, one of the more archaic forms of communication from the last few decades, now exist as digital rap sheets that can be shared with a click or a bump.It's not entirely obsolete, but Nick makes a compelling case that it's heading in that direction. To be fair, many of the new wallets seen on Kickstarter are, in effect, responses to this trend. The most popular styles appear to be "simplified" or "minimal" wallets that shrink down what you have to carry, so that you can just take the few essential cards with you. But, it's possible that many people will be able to get by entirely without a wallet in the not-too-distant future.
As for cash, I rarely touch the stuff anymore. Most of the time I pay for things — lunch, gas, clothes — with a single debit card. Increasingly, there are also opportunities to skip plastic cards. At Starbucks, I often pay with my smartphone using the official Starbucks app. Other cafes and small restaurants allow people to pay with Square. You simply say your name at a register and voilá, transaction complete.
But wait, what did I do with all of the other cardlike things, like my gym membership I.D., discount cards, insurance cards and coupons? I simply took digital pictures of them, which I keep in a photos folder on my smartphone that is easily accessible. Many stores have apps for their customer cards, and insurance companies have apps that substitute for paper identification.
This, in turn, reminded me of something else: about how disruption may destroy industries while making our own lives better in the process -- but that simple economics tends to do a bad job recognizing that. I've talked about how traditional economic measures might measure the wrong thing. So, if we're looking at wallets, for example, those in the wallet-making business might claim that this move towards the digitization/smartphonification of everything is "bad" for the "wallet industry." That's obviously silly, and most people aren't too concerned about the wallet industry. But that ignores just how many industries are being totally upended by the smartphone. Think of all the things you don't need any more due to the smartphone. A few months back, the Cato Institute put together a fun chart on "dematerialization" due to the smart phone, trying to make the argument that advances in technology, such as the smartphone, might also be good for the environment, since they lead to people needing a lot fewer physical devices, since they're all packaged into that tiny device in your pocket:
But this is something that we often struggle with from a policy standpoint. While no one claims to be missing "the fax" industry, lots of industries at risk of disruption will do all sorts of things to angle policy makers into blocking that disruption, by arguing about the economic impact of their own industries, and falsely implying that, if they're disrupted away, all of that money somehow "disappears" from the economy. But the nature of innovation is that we make things obsolete by making other things better and more powerful and changing the way we do things. The end result is, generally speaking (and, yes, there are exceptions), better for everyone, enabling them to do more with less and do so more productively. Whether it's a "wallet" or the entire list of things in the graphic above, progress has an amazing way of destroying old ways of doing business, and we shouldn't fear or worry about that, we should celebrate it.


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UC Davis physician featured in national health equity project
Research to explore differences in liver cancer mortality in Asian-Americans
UC Davis professor Christopher Bowlus of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and his liver cancer disparity research, are featured on the Health Equity Research Snapshot of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Bowlus' research was selected as one of seven newly funded projects underway at AAMC member institutions to represent the rich variety of populations and health outcomes that health equity researchers investigate. The projects demonstrate how research at every stage – from fundamental discovery science to community-based participatory research – contributes to closing or narrowing gaps in health and health care. Each team produced a video describing their research projects.
Asian-Americans have disproportionately high rates of liver cancer and liver cancer mortality. For this population, hepatitis B virus is the principle risk factor for the disease, mostly because it is transmitted from mother to baby in childbirth.
Bowlus and colleagues with expertise in molecular and genomic diagnostics, biostatistics and cancer health disparities, aim to discover potential biological reasons why some Asian-American ethnicities have higher mortality rates and present at younger ages with late-stage disease.
For their research, they will compare the viral factors associated with liver cancer prognosis in Laotian and Hmong individuals infected with HBV with HBV-infected Chinese and Vietnamese individuals. They will also assess the immune responses associated with liver cancer survival in the same groups.
Bowlus explained that better understanding of the biologic basis of disparities in liver cancer survivors among Asian American ethnicities could help clinicians better assess a patient's risk for liver cancer and could lead to new approaches to treatment.
For more information about the AAMC Health Equity Research Snapshot and to view the video, visit www.aamc.org/healthequitysnapshot. You can also follow them on Twitter at #healthequity.
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated center serving the Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of more than 6 million people. Its specialists provide compassionate, comprehensive care for more than 10,000 adults and children every year, and access to more than 150 clinical trials at any given time. Its innovative research program engages more than 280 scientists at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Jackson Laboratory (JAX West), whose scientific partnerships advance discovery of new tools to diagnose and treat cancer. Through the Cancer Care Network, UC Davis collaborates with a number of hospitals and clinical centers throughout the Central Valley and Northern California regions to offer the latest cancer care. Its community-based outreach and education programs address disparities in cancer outcomes across diverse populations. For more information, visit cancer.ucdavis.edu.


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FORMER SAS soldier and prison inspector Clive Fairweather has died aged 68.
Mr Fairweather was born and educated in Edinburgh and spent 34 years in the Army, rising from the rank of private soldier to Colonel.
During his military career he completed three tours with the SAS and was also security adviser to the Iranian and Jordanian Royal Households in 1970-71. He was second-in-command of 22 SAS at the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980.
His last job in the military was at Edinburgh Castle, where he was military security officer for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
He was appointed Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland in 1994 and held the job until 2002. He was made a CBE in 2003 for public service.
Mr Fairweather was a major fundraiser for military charity Combat Stress, which helps former service personnel damaged by their military experiences.
A spokesman for the charity said Mr Fairweather died at the Western Infirmary in Edinburgh yesterday.
Commenting on the death of Mr Fairweather, First Minister Alex Salmond said: "It is very sad to hear of the death of Sir Clive Fairweather and my sympathies go out to his family and friends.
"I got to know Clive well as Chief Inspector of Prisons through our joint interest in supporting the pioneering prison regime at Peterhead which was then under threat of closure.
"He had a fund of extra-ordinary stories about his time in the SAS, was always excellent company and worked hard for the public good in Scotland.
"As Chief Inspector of Prisons he brought to the job a unique combination of humanity and common sense which demonstrated how an enlightened prison regime would operate in the public interest.
"I will very much miss his contribution to Scottish public life."
Andrew Cameron, chief executive of Combat Stress, said: "It was with great sadness that we learned of Clive Fairweather's passing.
"Clive was a tireless servant of Combat Stress, and a wonderful advocate of our work and the issue of veterans' welfare and mental health. Over the years he raised thousands of pounds in Scotland to support Combat Stress's vital work and greatly raised awareness of the needs of Scottish veterans.
"Clive had a wonderful rapport with the veterans who we support and, as an ex-serviceman of considerable distinction himself, was trusted and respected by them. His energy and passion will be sorely missed and our thoughts are with his family and friends at this very sad time."


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The process of canonizing Pope John Paul II is almost complete and local Catholics are sharing thoughts. Father Troy Richmond from St. James Catholic Church in Washington says he is looking forward to a special service tonight. He says the service marks Divine Sunday and commemorates the beatification of the late Pontiff.
Father Richmond continues by saying that the sacrament of confession will be available, special prayers will be prayed and words from Pope John Paul II will be shared during the service. He says the canonization process first started shortly after Pope John Paul II's death in 2005 by Pope Benedict and the Bishops.
Father Richmond adds there is one last miracle that needs to happen yet before Pope John Paul II is fully canonized as a saint. The new title for the late Pope will be Blessed John Paul II. The special service begins at 7:00 tonight at St. James Catholic Church in Washington.


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Alternate Names
Amputation - leg - discharge; Below knee amputation - discharge; BK amputation - discharge; Above knee - discharge; AK - discharge; Trans-femoral amputation - discharge; Trans-tibial amputation - discharge
What Happened in the Hospital
You have had all or part of your leg amputated. You may have had an accident, or your leg may have had a blood clot, infection, or disease and doctors could not save it.
What to Expect at Home
It will take time for you to learn to use a walker, and a wheelchair. It will also take time to learn to get in and out of the wheelchair. You may also be getting a prosthesis, a manmade limb to replace your limb that was removed. It will take time for your prosthesis to be made. When you have it, getting used to it will also take time.
You will probably have pain in your limb for several days after your surgery. You may also have a feeling that your limb is still there. This is called
You may also feel sad, angry, frustrated and depressed. All of these feelings are normal. You may have them when you were in the hospital or when you get home.
Family and friends can help. Talking with them about your feelings may make you feel better. They can also help you do things around your house and when you go out.
If you feel sad or depressed, ask your doctor about seeing a mental health counselor for help with your feelings about your amputation.
If you have diabetes,
If you have poor blood flow, follow your doctors instructions for diet and medicines. Your doctor may give you medicines for your pain.
You may eat your normal foods when you get home.
Do things that will help you get stronger and do your daily activities, such as bathing and cooking. You should try to do as much as possible on your own.
When you are sitting, keep your stump straight and level. You can put your stump on a padded board to keep it straight when you are sitting. Try keeping it up to avoid swelling.
Try not to turn your stump in or out when you are lying in bed or sitting in a chair. You can use rolled up towels or blankets next to your legs to keep them in line with your body.
Do not cross your legs when you are sitting. It can stop the blood flow to your stump.
You may raise up the foot of your bed to keep your stump from swelling and to help ease pain. Do NOT place a pillow under your stump.
Wound and Stump Care
Keep your wound clean and dry unless your doctor or nurse tells you it is okay to get it wet. Clean the area around the wound gently with mild soap and water. Do not rub the incision, but allow water to flow gently over it. Do not take a bath or swim.
After your wound is healed, keep it open to the air unless a doctor or nurse tells you something different.
Inspect your stump every day. Use a mirror if it is hard for you to see all around it. Look for any red areas or dirt.
Wear your elastic bandage all the time. Rewrap it every 2 to 4 hours. Make sure there are no creases in it. Wear your stump protector whenever you are out of bed.
Ask your doctor or nurse for help with pain. Two things that may help are:
- Tapping along the scar and in small circles along the stump, if that is not painful.
- Rubbing the scar and stump gently with linen or soft cotton
Lie on your stomach 3 or 4 times a day for about 20 minutes. This will stretch out your hip muscle. If you had a below-the-knee amputation, you may put a pillow behind your calf to help straighten your knee.
Practice transfers at home:
- Go from your bed to a chair, your wheelchair, or the toilet.
- Go from a chair to your wheelchair.
- Go from your wheelchair to the toilet.
Stay active with your walker as much as you can.
Do not get constipated. Ask your doctor or nurse for advice about this.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor if:
- Your stump looks redder or there are red streaks on your skin going up your leg.
- Your skin feels warmer to touch.
- There is swelling or bulging around the wound.
- There is new drainage or bleeding from the wound.
- There are new openings in the wound and the skin around the wound is pulling away.
- Your temperature is above 101.5 F more than once.
- Your skin around the stump or wound is dark or it is turning black.
- Your pain is worse, and your pain medicines are not controlling it.
- Your wound has gotten larger.
- A foul smell is coming from the wound.
Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense.
Heck RK. General principles of amputations. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbells Operative Orthopaedics. 11th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2007:chap 9.
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Dennis Ogiela, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Thanks. What you all say makes sense. It was beinning to feel like I need to start in January to have beer ready for July.Steve
How in the world to pro brewers get the quick turn-around that they do. Is it possible for the homebrewer, and if so, what would it take?
another thing to consider that one of my pro friends claims is one of the big 'time savers' is that they use very fine filters - this allows them to move beer quicker to kegs rather than having to wait for them to settle naturally.
I am truly brewing lagers now with the intent that they won't get drank until June. That's the reality of lagers.
Quote from: gmac on December 07, 2012, 09:00:22 PMI am truly brewing lagers now with the intent that they won't get drank until June. That's the reality of lagers. I disagree with that. Average gravity lagers can be turned around only 2-3 weeks longer than an ale. I make a lot of lagers and primary them for 3 weeks and lager around 4 then off to the taps. (most pros are 2 primary, 2 lagering, then packaging or less).And not bragging, but to illustrate it ain't just my tastebuds that think so, I just got a 43.5 and a bronze medal for my oktoberfest at the Sunshine Challenge with 774 total entries and that beer was lagered for only 3 weeks and was on tap for 2 before I bottled some off the tap and sent.that is, unless of course you want the oxidized flavor that many folks confuse for maltiness since that's what they taste in imports. in that case, yeah, you'll need to wait 6 months or so


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Vegetable Frittata
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 2
Cups of Fruits & Vegetables per Serving: 1/2
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1/4 cup onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup spinach, chopped
- 1/4 cup mushrooms, chopped
- 3/4 cup broccoli, chopped
- 4 egg whites
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons shredded cheddar cheese (may also use Parmesan or Monterey Jack)
- pepper to taste
Heat oil in a small, non-stick, oven-proof skillet over MEDIUM-HIGH heat. Turn oven on to Broil. Saute garlic and onion in skillet for 1 minute. Add remaining vegetables, except spinach. Stir to coat with oil, cover, and reduce heat. Let vegetables cook over MEDIUM heat until slightly tender. Meanwhile, whisk egg whites, add salt and pepper, if desired. Add spinach to skillet and pour egg whites over vegetables. Cook until egg whites are firm, but the top of the mixture is still slightly uncooked. Sprinkle cheese over the top and place the skillet under broiler until egg whites are cooked through and cheese is melted (about 2-3 minutes). Serve.
Nutritional Information:
Calories: 89
Carbohydrates: 5g
Total Fat: 3.1g
Cholesterol: 1mg
aturated Fat: 0.5g
Dietary Fiber: 1g
% of Calories from Fat: 31
%Sodium: 314 mg
Protein: 11g
Editor's Note: This recipe, developed for Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) by Katherine Hoy, Ed.D., R.D., meets PBH and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nutrition standards that maintain fruits and vegetables as healthy foods. It is reposted with the permission of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. For additional healthy recipes and cooking tips visit: choosemyplate.gov


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U7 Digital Timer
Digital 3-Amp AC Outlet All-Purpose U7 Timer
The digital timer unit can be used to turn any electrical device ON and OFF at a scheduled interval while you are away from home.
It comes with a grounded outlet built-in, and can handle up to 3 Amps. It also features a battery backup (to save settings), rotating plug for vertical and horizontal outlets, manual override switch, and can program up to 8 on/off settings per day. It even has automatic daylight savings time adjustments. It also features a manual override switch, Eight ON/OFF programs per day and a daylight-savings-time feature. The indicator will glow when ever the device is ON. It is UL & CUL approved.
Just plug the Digital Timer into any grounded AC outlet. The Digital Timer comes with a grounded outlet built in, so you can plug any AC power cord into it. The timers turns the power on and off to whatever is plugged into it.
These are in perfect, brand-new condition. This will be professionally packaged using a blister pack. The uses for this product are endless.
First time use: Connect your digital timer unit into the wall socket. This will charge the internal battery if you are using the timer for the first time. Reset it by pressing the Master Reset button using a small pin such as a paperclip. This will reset the timer. All other programming functions can be performed without plugging the timer in to the wall socket.
The timer may have to be charged for 10 minutes prior to use if the timer display is blank. Press the Master Reset button after 5 minutes while the timer is charging.
To automate any electrical device
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Historians who are commemorating Elmton-with-Creswell's role in the First World War with the publication of a new book are appealing for information about four mystery soldiers.
Joint secretaries Pam Finch and Enid Hibbert, of the Elmton-with-Creswell Local History Group, have been compiling the book which includes the village's fallen heroes who lost their lives during the Great War from 1914 to 1918.
Pam said: "There are 94 men on our village war memorial and we've managed to get background on all of them apart from four names which have left us stumped. We can't find any ties to the area but we understand a lot of men who went to war worked at Creswell Colliery or on the railway and they may have come from elsewhere and lodged in Creswell."
The soldiers were Pte J.H. Deakin, Sgt H. Long, Pte R. Morris and Pte A.E Bell and despite thorough research including contact with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ancestry groups and newspapers no information can be found.
Research has however uncovered details of seven soldiers whose names have not been included on the village war memorial and they will be campaigning to get their details engraved.
The history group is compiling the book as part of this year's anniversary to mark the beginning of the First World War and they are also working on another publication about life in their village during the war years as well as a third book on the area's Second World War heroes. Anyone with information is urged to call Pam on 01909 721695.


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Occupational areas in which Spanish majors have been employed are teaching, public relations, state and federal service, foreign service of the U.S., the airlines, travel agencies, and in businesses dealing with Spanish-speaking countries.
|The Spanish Program has made changes to the major, minor and some courses effective Fall 2015. Students matriculated before Fall 2015-2016 (ie subject to bulletin years prior to Fall 2015-2016) will continue with old requirements as outlined under Requirements for the OLD major and minor (below).
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Degree Requirements for the NEW MAJOR in Spanish
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NEW students starting with the Fall 2015-2016 bulletin may major in 2 specialization areas: Spanish Language, linguistics, teaching OR Hispanic Literature and Culture. The new major requires 36 credits:
- 15 credits from 5 core courses:
SPN 201 (formerly SPN 104)
SPN 205 OR SPN 206 (not both, note: 205 is for heritage speakers only)
SPN 208 (formerly SPN 301) OR SPN 209
SPN 303 (formerly SPN 496)
SPN 310 (formerly SPN 223)
- 6 credits of SPN electives at the 300+ level
- 15 credits within one of the two specializations (one of these courses must be a capstone course)
(students matriculating Fall 2015 or later)
Degree Requirements for the OLD MAJOR in Spanish
(for students matriculating before Fall 2015)
General Program General BA
The BA in Hispanic Studies offers three possible concentratins depending on the interest and future goals of the students.
Literature Concentration
A minimum of 18 credits to include the following: (1) 1 literature course at the 300 level; (2) 2 literature courses at the 400 level; (3) 2 language courses above A SPN 301Z; (4) one civilization course.
Language Concentration
A minimum of 18 credits to include the following: (1) 1 literature course above A SPN 316; (2) A SPN 401 or 402; (3) 2 language or linguistics courses at the 400 level; (4) 2 additional courses as advised. A LIN 220 may be counted as one of these courses.
Secondary Education Concentration
A minimum of 18 credits to include the following: A SPN 401 and 403 and (1) 1 literature course at the 300 level; (2) 1 literature course at the 400 level; (3) 1 civilization course; (4) 1 additional course as advised. Does not award teacher certification. More information available at NYSED
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Major Concentrations
- Language courses include A SPN 302, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 410Z, 442, and 490-496.
- Literature/Civilization courses include A SPN 314, 315, 317, 318, 319, 322, 320, 323, 325, 326, 333, 344, 410Z, 414, 418, 443, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 453, 454481, 482.
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Degree Requirements for the Minor in Spanish
The NEW MINOR (students matriculating Fall 2015 and later) requires: A minimum of 18 graduation credits from coursework with an A SPN prefix above A SPN 200, including A SPN 303 (formerly A SPN 496), A SPN 310 (formerly A SPN 223), and one A SPN 300 level elective.
The OLD MINOR (students matriculating before Fall 2015) requires: a minimum of 18 graduation credits from course work with an A SPN prefix above A SPN 100, 9 or more of which must be in course work at or above the 200 level including A SPN 205 or 206 and 301 or 301Z.
Honors Program
The Honors Program in Spanish is designed to promote opportunities for advanced work to highly motivated, mature undergraduate majors and prepare them to do independent work. Students may apply for admission to the Honors Program no earlier than the beginning of the second semester of their sophomore year, and no later than the end of the second semester of their junior year. To gain admission to the Program students must have formally declared a major in Spanish and have completed at least 12 credits toward their major. In addition, they must have an overall GPA of at least 3.25, and 3.50 in their major, both of which must be maintained in order to graduate with honors.
Students must complete the 36 credits required for the major as well as a 4 credit Honors Thesis (A SPN 499) to be done the semester in which they graduate. Students are additionally required to take one additional course at the 400-500 level within the area of their concentration. This "additional" 400-500 level course does not increase the number of credits required for the major or for the Honors Program but only mandates that one of the student's elective courses be at the most advanced level in the area of their concentration. The Honors Thesis should be a 25-40 page research project directed by a faculty member of the Spanish program. Students interested in doing the Honors Program in Spanish first should express that interest to their faculty mentor.
Honor Society
The Spanish Program maintains a chapter (Eta Psi) of the national Spanish Honor Society, Sigma Delta Pi. Membership in Sigma Delta Pi rewards excellence in the study of Spanish language, literature and culture. The UAlbany faculty coordinator is Leonardo Correa, PhD (email@example.com).
The requirements for nomination are:
- The equivalent of three years of college level Spanish (this may include courses taken in high school), including at least one college course in Hispanic literature or civilization at the junior or senior level.
- A minimum grade point average of 3.00 in Spanish courses
- Three semesters of college work with an overall GPA of at least 2.75
- Graduate students must have completed one semester of graduate studies with a minimum GPA of 3.00
Combined BA/MA Program
The combined BA/MA program in Spanish provides an opportunity for students of recognized academic ability and educational maturity to fulfill integrated requirements of undergraduate and master's degree programs from the beginning of their junior year (brochure). A carefully designed program can permit a student to earn the BA and MA degrees within nine semesters. See "Combined Baccalaureate-Master's Degree Programs" in the Graduate Bulletin for details.
The combined program requires a minimum of 138 credits, of which at least 30 must be graduate credits. In qualifying for the BA, students must meet all University and college requirements, including the requirements of the undergraduate major described previously, the minor requirement, the minimum 90 credit liberal arts and sciences requirement, general education requirements and residency requirements. In qualifying for the MA, students must meet all University and college requirements as outlined in the Graduate Bulletin, including completion of a minimum of 30 graduate credits and any other conditions such as a research seminar, thesis, comprehensive examination, professional experience and residency requirements. Up to 12 graduate credits may be applied simultaneously to both the BA and MA programs.
Students are considered as undergraduates until completion of 120 graduation credits and satisfactory completion of all BA requirements. Upon meeting BA requirements, students are automatically considered as graduate students.
Students can apply for admission to the BA/MA program either on paper or electronically. Applications are available from the Graduate Admissions office in UAB 121, (518) 442-3980 or online at: www.albany.edu/graduate/application-forms.php. If applying on a paper application, write in "BAMA" and the language of choice as your program of study.
Students may apply for admission to the combined degree program in Spanish at the beginning of their junior year or after the successful completion of 56 credits. Students entering the University with advanced standing in Spanish may be admitted after satisfying the core requirements (A Spn 205 or 206, 207, 223L, 301 (or 301Z), 312, and 316). A cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher and three supportive letters of recommendation from faculty are required for consideration.
Courses In Spanish
For a complete listing and descriptions of Spanish undergraduate courses offered at the University at Albany, please visit the online Undergraduate Bulletin for a listing of Spanish undergraduate courses. See the Graduate Bulletin for Spanish graduate courses.
Courses being currently offered in the program may be found on this website under Classes and Schedules.


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The BBC show "Watchdog" looked at ice samples at restaurants to test for coliforms, which can indicate if water was recently contaminated by fecal material. The show found some of the samples at McDonald's and most of those tested at Burger King and KFC, the Liverpool Echo reported.
Representatives for the companies said they have strict ice-handling procedures and are seeking to ensure their standards are in place.
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Then, in practical terms, is it accurate to state that a dough with fat in it will reach a given temperature faster than a dough without fat? Thanks.
100% Flour High Gluten 583 g or 20.5 oz62% Water 361 g or 12.75 oz.6% IDY 3.5 g or .12 oz2.1% Salt 12.26 g or .43 oz10% Oil 58.5 g or 36 oz
I agree the oil could be a problem. That's a lot of oil for a pizza to be baked at such high temperatures.I wanted to make one technical clarification though about thermal conductivity. Even I have stated in the past that oil has a "better" thermal conductivity than water, but the word "better" was used to describe a more subjective quality rather than an objective quality such as the word "higher" would indicate. The fact is fat is a slower conductor of heat. That's why our body uses fat as an insulator. The reason it is a "better" conductor of heat than water when it comes to cooking is twofold. First, it has a higher boiling point so it can reach higher temperatures. Second, it is also a poor heat capacitor overall, so it takes less time/energy for it to reach a given temperature. In fact, although water conducts heat about 3.412 times faster than olive oil, olive oil stores about 2.124 times less heat per unit of mass below 100°C. However, that's per unit of mass per unit of temperature, so just as soon at the temperature rises above 212.4°C (414.32°F), the oil begins to store more heat than liquid water. Of course above 100°C at standard pressure water turns to gas, which lowers its specific heat capacity by about half, so depending on the the pressure in the dough during baking, oil becomes the dominant heat capacitor between 100 and 212.4 °C.The differences between oil and water are academic since what matters is the difference between dough with a little oil and dough with a lot of oil. The doughs I make have about twice the thermal conductivity and about 29% higher heat capacity than olive oil at room temperature. Although the water in the dough evaporates, my dough doesn't, so oil becomes more critical at higher temperatures. I estimate that the critical temperature gradient begins at around 473.63°F.- red.november
Just exactly how do expect the common man to understand this post? For the 3 rocket scientists here, it's prob great info, Go NASA. For the other 6684 of us, this means nothing. Sorry, not going to get a calculator out to make pizza dough. Lets take a poll and see how many even have the slightest clue of what you said. I really mean no harm but, come on, lets be real here.
Just exactly how do expect the common man to understand this post?
Last I checked he is not paid to dumb down his writing style so that all readers can follow his precise posts.
Any Ideas??
Could you illustrate that for me once more? I have a basic understanding where you're coming from but it's another slow night for me.


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Juju ODS Demo – The Home Version
A few weeks ago I gave a live demo during Canonical CEO Jane Silber's keynote at the Essex OpenStack Conference, which was held in Boston October 4-7 (See my previous post for details of the conference and summit). The demo was meant to showcase our new favorite cloud technology at Canonical, juju. In order to do this, we deployed hadoop on top of our private OpenStack cloud (also deployed earlier in the week via juju and Ubuntu Orchestra) and fed it a "real" workload (a big giant chunk of data to sort) in less than 5 minutes.
I've had a few requests to explain how it works, so, here is a step by step on how to repeat said demo.
First, you need to setup juju to be able to talk to your cloud. The simplest way to do this is to sign up for an AWS account on Amazon, and get EC2 credentials (a secret key and a key ID is needed).
If you install juju in Ubuntu 11.10, or from the daily build PPA in any other release, you'll get a skeleton environments.yaml just by running 'juju'.
Once this is done, edit ~/.juju/environments.yaml to add your access-key: and secret-key:. Optionally, you can set them in AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in the environment.
Now, you need the "magic" bit that turns juju status changes into commands for the "gource" source code visualization tool. Its available here:
(wgettable here)
You'll also need to install the 'gource' visualization tool. I only tried this on Ubuntu 11.10, but it is available on other releases as well.
Make sure your desired target environment is either the only one in .juju/environments.yaml, or set to be the default with 'default: xxxx' at the root of the file. You need 'juju status' to return something meaningful (after bootstrap) for status2gource.py to work.
Now, in its own terminal, run this, note that cof_orange_hex.png is part of the official Ubuntu logo packs, but I forget where I got that. You may omit that commandline argument if you like, and a generic "person" image will be used.
python -u status2gource.py | gource --highlight-dirs \
--file-idle-time 1000000 \
--log-format custom \
--default-user-image cof_orange_hex.png \
--user-friction 0.5 \
This will not show anything until juju bootstrap is done and 'juju status' shows the machine 0 running. If you already have services deployed, it should build the tree rapidly.
So next if you haven't done it already
juju bootstrap
Once your instance starts up, you should see a gource window pop up and the first two bits, the bootstrap node and the machine 0 node, will be added.
Once this is done, you can just deploy/add-relation/etc. to your heart's content.
To setup a local repo of charms, we did this:
mkdir charms
bzr init-repo charms/oneiric
cd charms/oneiric
bzr branch lp:~mark-mims/+junk/charm-hadoop-master hadoop-master
bzr branch lp:~mark-mims/+junk/charm-hadoop-slave hadoop-slave
bzr branch lp:~mark-mims/+junk/charm-ganglia ganglia
Those particular charms were specifically made for the demo, but most of the changes have been folded back in to the main "charm collection", so you can probabl change lp:~mark-mims/+junk/charm- to lp:charm/.
You will also need a file in your current directory called 'config.yaml' with this content:
namenode: job_size: 100000 job_maps: 10 job_reduces: 10 job_data_dir: in_one job_output_dir: out_one
These numbers heavily control how the job runs with 1 or 100 hadoop instances. If you want to spend a couple of bucks in Amazon, and fire up 20 nodes, then raise job_maps to 100 and job_reduces to 100. Also job_size to 10000000. Otherwise its over very fast!
We started the demo after bootstrap was already done, so the next step is to deploy Hadoop/HDFS and ganglia to keep an eye on the nodes as they came up.
juju deploy --repository . --config config.yaml hadoop-master namenode
juju deploy --repository . hadoop-slave datacluster
juju deploy --repository . ganglia jobmonitor
juju add-relation namenode datacluster
juju add-relation datacluster jobmonitor
juju expose jobmonitor
This should get you a tree in gource showing all of the machines, services, and relations that are setup.
You can scale out hadoop next with this command. Here I only create 4, but it could be 100.. depending on how fast you need your data map/reduced.
for i in 1 2 3 4 ; do juju add-unit datacluster ; done
Finally, to start the teragen/terasort:
juju ssh namenode/0
$ sudo su -u hdfs sh /usr/lib/hadoop/terasort.sh
You may also want to note the hostname of the machine assigned to the jobmonitor node so you can bring it up in a browser. You will be able to see it in 'juju status'.
Its worth noting that we had a fail rate of about 1 in 20 tries while practicing the demo because of this bug:
This causes the "juju expose jobmonitor" to fail, which means you may not be able to reach the ganglia instance. You can fix this by stopping/starting the provisioning agent on the bootstrap node. That is easier said than done, but can be scripted. Its fixed in juju's trunk, so if you are using the daily build, not the distro version, you shouldn't see that issue.
So once you're done, you'll probably want to get rid of all these nodes you've created. Juju has a tool that strips everything down that it has brought up, which can be dangerous if you have data on the nodes, so be careful!
juju destroy-environment
It does not have a '–force' or '-y', by design. Make sure to keep the gource running when you do this. Say 'y', and then enjoy the show at the end.
I'd be interested to hear from anybody who is brave enough to try this how their experience is!


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"You could put all the technical basketball that Joe Lapchick knew on the back of a postcard but it would take encyclopedias to contain all the knowledge that he had of basketball," said Bob Knight.
Lou Roethel, a former player of Lapchick's, said on Thursday, "The thing that Joe preached was class." Al McGuire also played for Lapchick with the Knicks and he used to say of his coach, 'Lapchick didn't know basketball. He felt it.'
"Lapchick never yelled at us," Alfieri said the other day. "He always made sense. He wasn't a windbag." Gus Alfieri continued, "He got us to play hard without screaming as so many of these coaches today do. How the hell did he do that? Lapchick used to say this to us a lot:" 'I want you guys to be five coaches on the floor. I want you to be out there, in a sense, coaching yourselves.'
Of all my memories of people who have helped me," Bob Knight coach of Texas Tech and the three-time NCAA basketball champion insisted, "none are greater than those of Mr. Lapchick."
"He was even better as a father than as a coach," his son Richard Lapchick said the other day, adding that his own extensive personal activism stemmed from his father's influence on him.
Lapchick was well respected for his motivational coaching style that focused less on mechanics than on eliciting peak performances from his players. Stressing a freewheeling offensive approach and smooth ball handling, Lapchick built winners at both the college and pro levels. As a player, Lapchick had sharp passing and shooting skills that made him one of the first great pro centers and helped his teams win several championships.
Barbara Lapcek (Czech spelling), Lapchick's only daughter, has "...vivid memories of the dignified man who lingered to sign autographs for kids in the old Garden." She also described her father in terms of "gravitas" and "humanism" and said the famous coach was not an "authoritarian" in his home with his wife and three children.
After ending his professional playing career in 1937, Lapchick became head coach at St. John's University, a position he held until 1947, then was the New York Knicks Head Coach from 1947 to 1956, and finished coaching back at St. John's from 1956 to 1965 - succeeded by Lou Carnesecca the following season. Overwhelmed by stress, Lapchick fainted during the second half of the 1944 final game. Lapchick wasn't just his players' basketball coach; he monitored their academic performance as well. In 11 seasons he steered the Redmen to a 180-55 record and two consecutive National Invitation Tournament (NIT) titles, both in 1943 and 1944.
Lapchick rested for only a month [after coaching the Knicks] before returning to St. John's to coach men's basketball for another decade until his mandatory retirement at age 65 at the end of the 1964-65 basketball season. He had several heart attacks that year. The season ended with the outclassed Redmen upsetting Villanova, 55-51, in an emotional NIT Championship Game. In his memory, St. John's created an annual preseason college basketball tournament entitled the Lapchick Memorial Tournament. In nine more seasons as head coach he led the Redmen to two more NIT crowns, giving them a record of four championship titles during his 20 seasons at St. John's.
Best known for his obsessive worrying and nervousness; Lapchick lived every second of every game as though it were the last tick of the clock. Stress-related problems ended his professional coaching career and caused an occasional on-court fainting spell and even a few heart attacks. Describing his failing health during his final season at St. John's, Lapchick told the Washington, D.C. based Evening Star: "I used to double up with chest pains. Sometimes I couldn't even talk to the team during halftime."
Joe Lapchick's last major win as a coach was his dynamic victory over Villanova in March of 1965, which resulted in Coach Lapchick's fourth and final National Invitation Tournament. This particular game has recently been selected as one of the fifty most memorable moments in the history of Madison Square Garden by MSG Cablevision.
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In 1947, Joe Lapchick passed up a then-astronomical offer of $12,000 per year to continue coaching basketball for St. John's. Opting instead to accept a job as coach of the New York Knickerbockers, part of the fledgling Basketball Association of America, which was only in its second year of operation at that point. Lapchick went on to lead the Knicks to eight straight winning seasons and eight trips to the playoffs, including three NBA Finals in a row from 1951 to 1953 with the Knicks. As it turned out, the 1953-54 Knicks were more than just a team of talented players; remarkably eight of them went on to coach pro or college basketball teams, a tribute to Lapchick's leadership and influence as a mentor.
[November 21, 2008] On behalf of the Joe Lapchick Character Award Committee, I want to express our appreciation to you and Dreamcatcher Global for all your efforts and work on the actual [trophy] awards and delivery of them. At the luncheon this week the [trophy] awards stood out and attendee after attendee remarked at the beauty of them. We cannot thank you enough for taking a concept and idea combined with a few pictures and creating such a striking [trophy] award.
The [trophy] awards were presented at a luncheon at Madison Square Garden to Coaches Dean Smith, Lou Carnesecca, and Pat Summitt. They were then presented that evening on theMadison Square Garden floor at halftime of the first game of The Coaches vs. Cancer Kick Off Classic. It was shown later on ESPN and I can tell you the [trophy] awards looked terrific. The fourth [trophy] award is headed to Springfield and the Basketball Hall of Fame.
We look forward to a long and continued relationship with you and Dreamcatcher Global. Thank you for your guidance, patience, and dedication to getting this done. Best Wishes Always, Dan Sacco, President Lapchick Committee.
- Self-taught coach - Basketball's most prominent elder statesmen - A man who helped shepherd the game of basketball from the 1920's into the 1960's - The first "big man" in basketball who earned more than $10,000 - The first coach of the New York Knicks - Integrated professional black players (including Sweetwater Clifton, the first black member of the Knicks, who played for Lapchick) - Two-time college Coach of the Year - Remembered for the mentoring he provided for such coaches as Bob Knight, Lou Carnesecca, and Johnny Bach - Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1966, twice. - Coach of four National Championship teams at St. John's University
After his forced retirement Lapchick turned to writing. In 1968 he authored "50 Years of Basketball", a book that was both a compilation of stories from Lapchick's early days as a player and an explanation of his coaching philosophy. From star player to successful coach to popular author, Joe Lapchick was an eminently influential figure who helped nurture the sport from its crude beginnings into its popular modern form.
Joe Lapchick died on August 10, 1970 of a heart attack in Monticello, New York, at age 70. The grave of Joe Lapchick is located at the Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers, NY.
Marble Classics had their in-house sculptor produce this 3-dimensional figurine of coach Joe Lapchick in a formal suite standing next to a young 10-year old male basketball player with a team uniform number provided by the client. The Lapchick Committee provided Marble Classics with a two-dimensional web graphic containing nothing but a black silhouette of their logo: coach Lapchick and a young player. Our artist then used multiple stock photographs of Joe Lapchick from his carrier as a basketball coach that clearly showed his facial expressions, likeness, attire and essence which was then artistically projected into an 18" tall set of figurines by our top sculptor Karoy.
As the iconic basketball figurines were being sculpted in clay, and throughout this sculpting process, the Lapchick Committee was provided with pictures of the "work in progress" for review to see if any changes were necessary, to satisfy our client, before it was shipped. This allows clients' of Marble Classics to check the status of their projects and make additions to the sculpture while it is being made, something few companies are willing to do. Once the final art piece is approved a mold of the basketball trophy figurines was made and then it was used to reproduce castings of the finished trophy award statues which were then painted with "aged" faux bronze, just one of our thirty plus classic faux finishes available.
After we presented the final pictures of the trophy awards for approval, our craftsmen then assembled the finished faux bronze basketball trophies, custom black acrylic base, and an uniquely engraved brass plaque attached to the front of each of the four Joe Lapchick character awards for 2008. Each individual trophy was then shipped to Madison Square Garden overnight to make it in time for the Joe Lapchick Character Award ceremony. The Joe Lapchick Character award trophies were received with great pride and honor by three legendary basketball coaches honored in the 2008 awards presentation - which had national media attention. Meanwhile, the fourth basketball award trophy is on its way to be installed in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Pat Summitt, Lady Vols head basketball coach, Tennessee "It is an honor to have been selected as the first recipient of the Joe Lapchick Character Award. He was a legendary figure on both the collegiate and professional level of our game," said Summitt. "I am humbled to accept an award which bears his name." Accepting the Joe Lapchick award on her behalf were Tennessee women's AD Joan Cronan and the Washington Post's Sally Jenkins (author of books about Pat Summitt and Dean Smith). Cronan cited Summitt for not only winning eight national championships, but also for graduating every player who played four seasons for her.
Summitt had planned to attend but couldn't after her freshman-laden Volunteers lost at their home opener basketball game Monday to Virginia, something Tennessee women's AD Joan Cronan half-jokingly called "a crisis," and she felt she could not leave her team for a day. Smith is known for requiring her players to point at the teammate who made the good pass, whether or not the shot went in, which may or may not explain her two National Championships.
Summitt has a career record of 983-182 in 34 seasons at Tennessee, making her the winningest coach in college basketball history. Summitt is also known for making her Lady Vols players sit in the first three rows of class, which may have something to do with her eight national titles.
Dean Smith, basketball coach at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, led North Carolina to 11 Final Fours and two National Championships in his 36 seasons there, compiling an 879-254 record. When he retired, he had the most wins in Division I history, a mark since eclipsed by Bob Knight. Ninety-six percent of the lettermen who played under coach Smith have graduated.
The Long Island native, former UNC star and current LA Lakers general manager (GM) Mitch Kupchak, in his tribute to Dean Smith recalled how some coaches promised recruits a starting role as a freshman, but that Smith promised he would look after Kupchak and make sure he got a degree, which was why he chose North Carolina, and prospered. "He told me basketball would take care of itself," Kupchak said. "All he promised was that he would look after me like a son and make sure I graduated."
Regarding the Lapchick Trophy, "This is a great award", Dean Smith said, "I never really think about awards, but this is something special," and finished by saying, "It's a great honor..."
Lou Carnesecca, St. John's Coach and St. John's graduate, New York City native, assistant coach under Lapchick and winner of 526 games as St. John's coach in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Coach Carnesecca, a young 83 year old, was enthusiastically greeted with a chant of "Lou! Lou! Lou!" by the friendly crowd as he went up to the podium to accept the Joe Lapchick Character Award.
Lou recalled that Joe Lapchick was so respected around the country that at a 1964 tournament at West Virginia he received a standing ovation from more than 8,000 fans as he walked out to the team bench before the game. "When you walked with coach Lapchick, you really were in the presence of royalty," Carnesecca said.
He went on to praise Lapchick, for whom he was an assistant at St. John's from 1957 through 1965. He recounted how after a game one night in the late 1960's, early in his reign as coach, at Madison Square Garden, coaches would go to the watering hole on East 45th Street called Danny's Hideaway to unwind. Carnesecca was feeling pretty giddy that night, whereupon Joe Lapchick, his predecessor, his mentor, and his friend handed him a business card that said: "Peacock Today, Feather Duster Tomorrow." That taught him, as the old business card suggested, that basketball coaches should never take themselves too seriously.
As assistant basketball coach to Lapchick for nine years and succeeding him following the 1964-65 season, Carnesecca continued to coach at St. John's from 1965 to 1992 (not including a detour to the A.B.A. for 3 seasons in the early 1970's). For 24 seasons he coached basketball at his alma mater, each ending with a post-season appearance, including the 1985 Final Four. Carnesecca finished with a record of 526-200 at St. John's and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 1992 and is still the University's leading ambassador in Spanish, Italian and New Yawkese.
"Carnesecca said, 'If you come here, I'll make sure you become a better man,'" Mel Davis recalled as the pitch that sealed his decision to go to St. John's. Coach Carnesecca said he learned important lessons about integration and blending varying personalities from Lapchick.
Lou Carnesecca finished his acceptance speech by theatrically pulling out his wallet and removing the same tattered piece of paper (almost 50 years later) with a message that he attributed to Joe Lapchick, "Peacock Today, Feather Duster Tomorrow." Carnesecca pondered what words of wisdom Lapchick might impart today, and he said, "If he was here today, he would say to the young players, 'Don't take the ball out of bounds because you'll never get it back.' "
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The most prestige basketball award that is attainable is the MVP, most valuable player, award. This basketball award signifies the most influential player on the team. This is significant because they say the basketball team would not have won the finals without this most valuable player. The most valuable player shows great shooting skills, assists, dribbling, blocks, steals, and team captaining. You can understand how challenging this position can be. The fundamentals of basketball and the importance of an MVP award is something our company understands and that is why we take pride in creating a unique MVP basketball award.
In this paragraph i will explain the different types of basketball awards that can be given. An assist basketball award is awarded to the player that helps another one of his players to score a point. Best sportsmanship basketball award is awarded to a person who shows fairness in the game, which sometimes even if it means costing them the game. The best defensive player basketball award is a person who applies so much coverage that the opposing team cannot move to set plays, and let alone score. A coach's basketball award is awarded to the coach that led their team to win in a league or tournament. Most points scored basketball award is awarded to the person who scored the most in a season or tournament. A rebound king or rebound queen award goes to the person that has gotten the most rebounds in a basketball tournament or game. Most steals basketball award is awarded to a player who steals the ball the most in a season or tournament from the opposing team. A most improved basketball award goes to a person who has improved the most significantly in a basketball team. Best shooter basketball award is awarded to a person who has the highest shooting percentage in a season or tournament. Most blocks basketball award is a person who has the most blocks in a season or tournament.
The finely sculpted bronze Joe Lapchick Character Award was brought to life in three-dimensional form by Marble Classics and boasts an extreme detail honoring and immortalizing one of the founding fathers of basketball. The 2008 inaugural Joe Lapchick Character Award trophy was established by The Joe Lapchick Committee which includes: Anthony Adorante, Gus Alfieri, Nick D'Agostino Jr., Mel Davis, Ken Liberman, Bob Livingston, George Raveling, Brian Russo, Dan Sacco, Michael Sacco, and John Warren. The Lapchick Award Committee commissioned Dreamcatcher Global and Marble Classics to design and create the custom awards trophy in the likeness of Joe Lapchick for their first of many annual events. This award is unique in that it represents the first trophy that gives recognition and brings long-due attention to people of character, leadership and social responsibility in college basketball. Coach Joe Lapchick is recognized posthumously for all of his lifetime achievements and devotion to basketball and for the positive influence he had on the players he coached and fellow coaches both at the college level and in the NBA. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) also supports the award in honor of outstanding coaches who have provided honesty, integrity, and achievement throughout their college basketball coaching career.
Joseph Bohomiel Lapchick was born at the turn of the century (April 12, 1900) in Yonkers, New York to Czech immigrants. As a boy in Yonkers, New York, he helped his struggling family make ends meet by scrounging for coal near the railroad tracks. At age 12 the youngster started playing basketball around his neighborhood, wearing a uniform his mother had made for him. Like many youngsters of the era, he stopped going to school after the eighth grade. While working as a golf caddy and in a factory, the 15-year-old found he could make $5 to $10 per night playing for local basketball teams. At age 19 he was suiting up for four different touring teams and pocketing up to $100 per game. "I played one manager against the other," Lapchick said years later. "I bargained with the managers for every game. When there was a clash of dates, I took the best offer."
As a ten year-old in Yonkers a young Lapchick was introduced to a new game that had worked its way down from New England: basketball. Lapchick picked up a basketball for the first time just two decades after the game was invented. It wasn't more than 4 years later that he dropped out of High School in 1914, which was rather common in that era, and soon thereafter pursued basketball professionally. At a staggering 6'5", he was a valuable commodity at a time when a jump ball was held after every basket.
Joe Lapchick even surprisingly played basketball with the likes of Babe Ruth, in an era of bygone protective knee padding and basketballs that were "oversized lopsided and blackened by dirt and old age," said Lapchick in his own words, balls that wouldn't last for an entire game. He was the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of his time. When the height of an average professional basketball player might have been 5'8" or 5'9". At a time when team captains often agreed to unlimited personal fouls, so fans could see the stars play [thus, the necessity of knee pads]. At halftime in the dressing room, under the Madison Square Garden main floor, it was not uncommon for Lapchick to drink a Coke and smoke Lucky Strikes cigarettes while his players bummed smokes off of him. There was no game clock or electronic scoreboard yet. Some old basketball gyms still used a chalkboard and a scorer who rewrote numbers in chalk asthey were tallied. The official scorer at mid court was also often the timekeeper as well. It was his duty to fire a starter pistol at halftime and at end of the game.
A pioneer with the barnstorming Original Celtics out of New York. A basketball team that was actually the second incarnation of the New York Celtics who had disbanded during World War I. The Celtics joined the American Basketball League (ABL) in 1926 and won two straight titles. So dominant were Lapchick, Nat Holman, and the rest of the Celtics that the league insisted the team disband. It did, in 1928. Lapchick and two other former Celtics thenjoined the ClevelandRosenblums, a team owned by a department store magnate who had named the team after himself. With Lapchick starring at the pivot, the "Rosenblum Celtics" basketball team won two straight ABL titles. However, the Great Depression forced an end to the ABL in 1931.
Conditions were spartan in those times. When a large cut on Lapchick's wrist became infected with uniform dye, a teammate rubbed off the scab with a towel and doused the wound with whiskey. Luckily for Lapchick, the treatment worked.
First in many ways, Lapchick had the first sneaker contract with a company that eventually become known as Footlocker and he represented them throughout his life. In his time, Footlocker was known as the Kinney Shoe Corporation until 1974 when they formally adopted the Footlocker name. In the photo you can see canvas a pair of old basketball shoes with the name of Joe Lapchick on the ankle patch.
Three Joe Lapchick Character Award Trophies were presented at "The World's Most Famous Arena," Madison Square Garden floor in New York at halftime of The Coaches vs. Cancer Kick Off Classic on November 20, 2008. Madison Square Garden was considered the center of the basketball universe from the 1920's to the 1960's spanning Joe Lapchick's career. The fourth custom award trophy is headed for the Basketball Hall of Fame.
With the "blessing" of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the National College Athletic Association (NCAA), the Joe Lapchick Character Award Trophy was presented the day of the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. The trophy award is sponsored by Nike, D'Agostino Supermarkets and HEI Hotels.
Utilizing a combination of the latest in state-of-the-art technology and time-honored sculpting and engraving techniques Marble Classics has the in-house ability to accomplish almost any custom trophy award imaginable! Our art department can recreate sculptures from the most basic pictures, drawings, corporate logos, and computer graphics and make out of them complex three-dimensional completed sculptural artworks. Our artists can sculpt busts and full figure statues of historical figures, government officials, corporate officers, celebrities, athletes and nearly anyone you would like to commemorate and immortalize with a special trophy award or custom sculpture of virtually any size. We look forward to every custom trophy award we get commissioned to create. Finished sculpted figures, busts, and other art forms can be reproduced by our art department in a wide variety of specialty mediums including a full range of metallic finishes: eye-catching bronze, aged silver metal, antiqued copper, or classic marble, black marble, red marble, and even wood textures, or have a custom finish created for you based on a color sample that you provide us. Once we cast a mold of your artwork it is then available exclusively to cast future trophy pieces on demand, when you need them most.
Joe Lapchick [NBA coach honored posthumously for his professional integrity] Character Award Trophy Presentation involved a trophy made of Joe Lapchick, the legendary early professional basketball player and successfull coach of the NBA Knicks and St. John's college. as the subject for a Faux bronze trophy casting with an engraved plate on a black acrylic awards base made of Aquaresin with an antiqued faux bronze finish on a black acrylic engraved trophy base. Karoy [a Bulgarian based sculptor], our Marble Classics Artist sculpted the Professional and College basketball coach Joe Lapchick and a young basketball player statue right next to him using a Plasticine maquette with an internal wire frame. Notice the matchbox for scale in the basketball statue photo. Eventually a modern concept maquette for the Joe Lapchick Character Award that was scrapped in favor of the more realistic sculpture concept: A basketball trophy version of the famous Hollywood Oscar award based on Joe Lapchick.
Marble Classics specializes in making unique and exclusive custom sculpted awards in almost any form and medium! We take special pride in creating one-of-a-kind beautifully detailed lifetime awards that help to memorialize and celebrate special moments and give recognition in our client's lives and for your highly valued special events.
"The Garden" is a fitting location for dispensing the trophy awards since Joe Lapchick not only coached there, as the first coach of the New York Knicks, but also played at Madison Square Garden when he was an Original Celtic round ball player which predated, by over 15 years, the Boston Celtics basketball team. That's at a time when balcony seating at a basketball game in Madison Square Garden would cost a mere 25 cents.
Joe Lapchick's importance in basketball history can't be overstated, first as a star professional player in the 1920s, a college coach in the 1930s, 1940s and 1960s, and a key figure in establishing the early popularity and integrity of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Permanently enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame initially in 1966, Joe Lapchick is in the Hall of Fame, both as a player with the Original Celtics in the 1920's, commonly regarded as the best center of his era, and as a coach. The trophy award, the idea of former St. John's player Gus Alfieri, was established to recognize basketball coaches who have shown the character and coaching ability of Hall of Famer Joe Lapchick, who coached at St. John's and with the New York Knicks.
In an era rife with recruiting transgressions and questionable behavior by coaches and players on and off the court, Lapchick's "ethical and moral ways" should be recognized, said Bob Livingston, who is on the board that selects future recipients of the Joe Lapchick Character Award. "There could not be a better time to focus attention on character in sports... and Joe Lapchick is the model for the person we should look to," said Alfieri, who was a star player on Lapchick's 1959 NIT championship team.
The trophy awards were given to three of the most decorated college basketball coaches in history, Hall of Famers with prodigious win totals. But their selection to become the first recipients of the Joe Lapchick Character Award had only a little to do with their victories on the basketball court. Instead, the trophy is awarded for showing uncommon character and integrity in basketball coaching and is given to recognize their impact on shaping people, both inside and outside of their sports programs, not just for winning championships.
"Some of the most important hours in my coaching career," said Bob Knight (West Point Basketball Coach), "were in discussions with Coach Joe Lapchick. He had an intellect that far transcended the game of basketball. He knew more about human nature and how to motivate kids than anybody I have ever known. The answers to my questions and the advice he gave me over a period of five years until he passed away in 1970 will always remain an incomparable treasure for me. If ever a man had a PhD in understanding human behavior it was him. He would be among the most intelligent people I have ever met, the most sincere people I have ever met and the most caring people I have ever met. My relationship with him is among the greatest experiences I have ever had. Nothing ever said to me meant more than when I took Clair Bee and Nat Holman to his wake and Mrs. Lapchick took me aside and said, 'while you didn't play for Joe you have been one of his favorite boys.' "
Gus Alfieri, author of "Lapchick: The Life of a Legendary Player and Coach in the Glory Days of Basketball." A 228 page non-fiction book published by Lyons on July 01, 2006. Gus played point guard under Lapchick for St. John's 1959 Championship team. He also coached state championship basketball teams at St. Anthony's High School on Long Island. During one winning streak his teams won 49 games in a row without a single loss and accomplished two state championships.
Mr. Alfieri holds a Ph. D. in American Cultural History. And successfully directed one of the premier teaching basketball camps in America. The All-American Basketball Camp has been in existence on Long Island for more than thirty years. He presently teaches in Stony Brook University's graduate school. He also writes a column for Long Island's Ultimate Athlete magazine, is a motivational speaker, a sports clinician, and offers instructional sports seminars.


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