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Welcome to Heimlich Maneuver Day!
Choking is no joke. So how come the Heimlich Maneuver (also known as the Abdominal Thrust) is so funny? Is it because Heimlich sounds so much like Hind Lick?
Anyway, June 1 is Heimlich Maneuver Day. Made famous by the filmstrip shown in schools in the '70s and '80s, the one where a piece of chicken flies out of a boy's mouth after he starts choking at a picnic, the threat of getting Heimliched made us all chew our food a little more carefully.
American physician Henry Heimlich (snicker) invented his namesake maneuver in 1974, and the Heimlich was then made standard practice for helping choking victims by the American Red Cross. Not just for choking, the Maneuver is also commonly used on drowning victims before administering CPR.
According to Wikipedia, Henry Heimlich also promotes the very controversial and unproven practice of treating HIV by infecting the patient with malaria. I guess you can't win them all.
So let's give thanks to Henry Heimlich for inventing such an awesome maneuver! And here are a couple video guides to performing the Heimlich Maneuver and as a special bonus-- the Heimlich for dogs.
SU News
Syracuse Basketball Recruiting: Orange Offer Scholarship to 2017 Center Bourama Sidibe (TNIAAM; Orsenigo)
The 6-foot-10 junior is a native of Mali and plays for St. Benedict's Prep in New Jersey.
The continent of Africa has been a source of scholarship talent for the Syracuse Orange men's basketball team in recent years. From Baye Moussa Keita (Senegal) to Chinonso Obokoh (Nigeria), Syracuse has recruited its fair share of talent from Africa's various nations.
That pattern could continue with today's news, reported by Mike Waters of Syracuse.com, that Syracuse has offered a scholarship to Bourama Sidibe, a 6-foot-10 center in the Class of 2017.
The native of Mali has begun to garner interest from a number of major college basketball programs. Although he is not ranked among the Top 100 players in the 2017 class by any national recruiting service, Sidibe does hold other scholarship offers from Seton Hall, Kansas State, SMU, Memphis, Arizona State, VCU and Maryland.
As a junior at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J. this past season, Sidibe averaged approximately 13 points and 11 rebounds per game. He helped the Gray Bees to a 35-2 record.
Last year was Sidibe's first full season with St. Benedict's. He transferred to the prep school halfway through the 2014-15 school year. St. Benedict's is the same school that former Syracuse point guard Tyler Ennis attended.
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Jim Boeheim's biggest comeback came on golf course (times-union.com; Dougherty)
Among the 989 basketball victories in the career of Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim came this one March 27: The Orange, trailing Virginia by 15 with 9:39 remaining in an NCAA Elite Eight game, rallied for a 68-62 victory.
Best comeback in Boeheim's 40-year coaching career? Apparently not.
Boeheim, a guest Tuesday at media day for the PGA Professional Championship, relishes a rally he and retired University at Albany coach Richard "Doc" Sauers had in one of their many summers of golf at Wolferts Roost.
"We were five down standing on the 12th tee," Boeheim recalled of the match against retired referee John Cahill and former Skidmore coach John Quattrocchi. "They were pretty confident. They were talking a little bit, and we beat them on 18. They didn't even get to 18. It was the greatest comeback I've ever been a part of.
"Everybody thinks Virginia this year was a great comeback, which it was, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the comeback against John Cahill and John Quattrocchi by Doc and I. We've been talking about it for about 20 years, but we'll keep going as long as we're up on top here."
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Syracuse Sky Video: AXA (MONY) Towers, Oakwood Cemetery, Lakeview Amphitheatre (PS; video; Collins)
It's good to look at things from new perspectives.
And sometimes, those perspectives can be very, very high.
That's what 325 productions, a Central New York video production company, found out when they began filming the City of Syracuse.
The team took to the sky to capture aerial footage of Syracuse's most iconic locations, including the Franklin Square water tower, Oakwood Cemetery and Penfield Manufacturing. They're looming landmarks, remnants of another era, but they're important to Syracuse, the kind of places residents can point to on a map.
The video also includes sweeping footage of the glistening Inner Harbor and Lakeview Amphitheater, which opened last year.
Based in Syracuse, 325 productions provides video, photo and drone services to clients throughout the world.
