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Sinecatechins is used to treat external warts around the genital and rectal areas called condylomata acuminata. It is not used to treat warts that occur inside the vagina, penis, or rectum .
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription .
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of sinecatechins in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established .
Insufficient information is available on the relationship of age to the effects of sinecatechins in geriatric patients. It may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults or if they cause different side effects or problems in older people .
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are taking any other prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicine.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
Use the medicine only as directed by your doctor. Do not use more of it, do not use it more often, and do not use it longer than directed .
Wash your hands with soap and water before and after using this medicine .
This medicine is for use on the skin only. Do not get it inside your eyes, nose, mouth, vagina, or anus. Do not use on open wounds or on skin areas that have cuts or scrapes. If it does get on these areas, rinse it off right away .
Do not use this medicine on moles, birthmarks, or any other warts until you discuss it with your doctor .
Women using tampons should insert the tampon first before applying the ointment. If the tampon needs to be changed while the ointment is on the skin, avoid getting the ointment into the vagina .
Men who are not circumcised and treating genital warts under the foreskin should draw back the foreskin and clean the area daily .
Do not wash off the ointment from the treated area before you apply the next dose. When you wash the treatment area or bathe, apply the ointment afterwards .
Do not cover the treated area with a bandage unless your doctor has told you to. You may wear loose-fitting underwear after applying this medicine .
Keep using this medicine until all the warts have cleared up. However, you should not use this medicine for longer than 16 weeks .
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, apply it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule.
Store in the refrigerator. Do not freeze.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
This medicine may make your skin more sensitive to sunlight. Do not expose the area being treated with this medicine to sunlight, sunlamps, or tanning beds .
Avoid having genital, oral, or anal sex while the medicine is on your skin. Make sure you wash the ointment off your skin before you engage in any sexual activity. Also, the medicine contains oils that can weaken latex (rubber) condoms, or diaphragms causing them not to work properly .
Sinecatechins will not keep you from spreading genital warts to other people. Talk with your doctor about safe sex practices .
This medicine is not a cure for genital or anal warts. You may still develop new warts during or after your treatment .
This medicine may stain your clothes and bedding .
Do not use cosmetics or any other skin care products on the same skin area on which you use this medicine, unless directed otherwise by your doctor .
If your condition does not improve within 16 weeks, or if it becomes worse, check with your doctor .
Many patients experience redness, swelling, sores or blisters, burning, or itching after using this medicine. If you experience a severe skin reaction, remove the ointment by washing the area with mild soap and water and contact your doctor right away .
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Feb. 01, 2019
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/sinecatechins-topical-application-route/precautions/drg-20070630
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We look back at John Hodgman's conversation with George R. R. Martin author of the very popular series of fantasy books called A Song of Ice and Fire. The novels have been adapted for the acclaimed HBO series Game of Thrones. At the time of this interview, the fifth book in Martin's series, A Dance with Dragons, had recently been released. There are two more novels in the series and fans eagerly await their arrival.
Martin joins us to talk about killing off characters, creating new religions and dealing with the expectations of fans.
For a longer version of this interview, check out its original broadcast in 2011.
Jason Kottke of Kottke.org, a collection of some of the finest links the internet has to offer, brings us this week's culture picks. Jason starts us out by recommending Vol Libre, a short animation from 1980 that wowed people with its fractal-generated graphics when it was made and still impresses today.
Next, Jason recommends The Tommy Westphall Universe, an exploration of all of the television programs connected to St. Elsewhere and therefore relegated to dream status by the final reveal that St. Elsewhere itself was a dream.
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Columbus, OH— February 7, 2011—The Wexner Center for the Arts and The Ohio State University have been awarded a $782,300 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a multidisciplinary, four-year initiative focusing on the vibrant visual and media arts culture in Brazil. The grant will support trans-institutional curatorial research and programming across exhibitions, film/video, and arts education—all in the spirit of developing in-depth and sustained creative and intellectual exchange. Over time, the center's engagement with Brazil will include artist residencies and commissions, a film project and series, a significant exhibition and catalogue, lectures, scholarly symposia, and a postdoctoral fellowship to be shared with OSU.
In the fall of 2010, the Wexner Center was among a select group of museums and art centers across the country invited by the Mellon Foundation to submit an application. The Mellon Foundation has a longstanding legacy of supporting such renowned institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and others; this invitation to the Wex is a powerful endorsement of the center, its leadership, and its programs.
Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin says, "This grant could not have come at a more opportune moment in the life of the Wexner Center and the University, both of which are increasingly committed to innovative academic and cultural research, substantive international engagement, and transdisciplinary thinking and learning. We are gratified that the Mellon Foundation found the center's proposal to be at once grounded in professional expertise and sufficiently ambitious to propel fresh inquiry and discovery surrounding the role of creative expression in our increasingly complex global society."
E. Gordon Gee, president of The Ohio State University—which has undertaken an aggressive, comprehensive effort to internationalize the curriculum—says, "The Wexner Center's Brazil project underscores the university's international focus and our vision to integrate global dimensions into every facet of the institution. The intent is to leverage Ohio State's expertise to solve pressing problems, in our neighborhoods and around the world. We are thrilled that the Wexner Center, already a leading light in the realm of cross-departmental, cross-disciplinary efforts, will again blaze a path with this initiative."
The Wexner Center's Brazil project will be shaped in large measure by establishing intensive and ongoing relationships with key Brazilian artists, cultural thinkers and practitioners, academics, critics, and institutional peers in the areas of visual arts, film/video, and arts education. Together, these efforts will result in several manifestations, among them: an ambitious visual and media arts exhibition at the Wex in the 2014 season, related print and electronic documentation, an archival or repertory film project and series, and artist residencies for film and video artists. The center will organize scholarly convenings, as well as more accessible public lectures and seminars, to encourage transnational dialogue. Throughout the evolution of the Brazil project, the center will seek to establish new avenues for cultural exchange, critique, and commentary, and will—as appropriate—pursue broadcast-quality dissemination of programs via streaming video, social media outlets, and other online means. At the same time, while not under the auspices of the proposed Mellon Foundation grant, the center's performing arts department will likewise pursue projects involving Brazilian artists, companies, and institutions producing music, theater, and dance to further enrich the center's comprehensive engagement with Brazil.
The center will also work with Ohio State University faculty across several colleges, departments, and institutes throughout the duration of this project to fully realize the potential for curricular enhancement and academic course development, in part by engaging a postdoctoral fellow who would be an active member of the exhibition team and (time permitting) teach a single course in the Department of Art.
As a contemporary arts center that is also a vital part of a global university, the Wexner Center is uniquely positioned among other arts institutions to develop sustained and fruitful collaborations with artists and arts organizations around the world. Support from the Mellon Foundation provides a critical foundation for advancing these efforts.
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Despite its concrete walls, the Baltimore Harbor is looking a little greener with the addition of new floating wetlands. It's no secret that the water quality of the harbor could use a little help, but the bulkheads that surround the Harbor make it unsuitable for the traditional muddy shoreline restoration projects the National Aquarium's Conservation Team typically takes on. But where there's a will, there's a way!
Floating wetlands have long been utilized in retention ponds as an attempt to deal with excess nutrients from farm fields and landscaping, but only recently has this technology moved to tidal, brackish areas like the Chesapeake Bay. This concept is now being introduced to Baltimore's urban waterfront as part of the Healthy Harbor Initiative launched by the Waterfront Partnership, which includes the Aquarium and Baltimore City.
After several years of planning, it truly took a village to make this idea come to life. The installation of our 10 x 20-foot island on Wednesday involved a giant building platform, a crane, 450 plants, and close to 100 people! The island sits near the bridge that connects Pier 3 and Pier 4, behind the ticket booth of the National Aquarium. The floating wetland may look small, but it could well be a huge first step in meeting the Healthy Harbor Initiative of making the water fishable and swimmable by 2020. Check it out:
Floating islands have the potential to provide the same benefits as traditional wetlands, and this first island is a pilot to see if this could be a successful and cost-effective way to improve Harbor water quality. Natural wetlands act as filters that pull excess nutrients from the water, and we expect the plants in the floating island will act in the same way. In addition, the "scrubby pad" material that makes up the base of the island has the potential to host beneficial bacteria and filter feeders that will assist in nutrient uptake.
With help from the University of Maryland, we will be monitoring the water quality surrounding the islands and documenting the abundance of animals that utilize the new habitat area. Only time will tell if floating wetlands will be part of the answer the Healthy Harbor Initiative has been looking for, but preliminary results are promising.
The Waterfront Partnership has also installed a few floating wetlands by the World Trade Center. We hope these wonderful wetlands are the first of many to come to Baltimore's Inner Harbor! Check out our Facebook page for more photos.


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Recently I've changed the way I handle my schedule. For a while now I've been booking out months in advance, which is tough on me and my clients. So now I will no longer be booking appointments more than two months out. Instead, I will be making a list with spots for a limited amount of new projects each month: 7 large-scale/ongoing pieces, and 3 single-session tattoos. I want to make sure I have enough time to devote to each of my clients and am able to finish projects in a more timely fashion, so I'm going to try to be selective about what new projects I take on and only commit to things that I'm really excited about and that I feel will give me the chance to offer my best self as an artist.
Feel free to call my shop 212-736-3001 and ask about scheduling a free in-person consultation. I'm at the shop Wednesday – Saturday and always prefer to talk in person. In my experience a 5 minute conversation in person usually saves us both 5 emails and leaves both of us feeling more positive about the project. I'm really horrible at keeping up with my email load. I'm just one person that is trying to run a tattoo shop with 12 employees and manage my personal workload at the same time. I work on people. Not a computer and ask that you please don't get frustrated by the lack of a timely response in email (If you're coming to New York from out of town or are interested in getting tattooed by me at a convention or during one of my guest spots, please email me at info at adamguyhays dot com. IF YOU'RE LOCAL PLEASE COME BY IN PERSON.)
Once we've discussed a project in person, I'll take all your contact info and a deposit (Miniumum $100, cash only), which will guarantee you a spot for a given month. Before the beginning of that month, I will get in touch to arrange an in-depth consult and specific appointment dates. I think this will be easier on me and on my clients, and will make it possible for me to fit the pieces I'm really stoked about into my schedule. I'm looking forward to talking to y'all and hearing your best ideas for tattoos.


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SF plane crash 911 tapes reveal chaos
911 tapes: Calls guided help to injured ejected from plane
San Francisco firefighters who responded to the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport didn't reach the most severely injured occupants - ejected far from the fuselage during impact - until some passengers called 911 and begged for help, officials acknowledged Thursday.
At least four people, three flight attendants and a 16-year-old girl, were thrown from the Boeing 777 after it hit the seawall and broke apart in a fiery crash that left the tail, landing gear, engines and some of the rear cabin in pieces along the runway and field.
Rescuers were so focused on the injured in and around the fuselage that during the initial minutes of the response they were unaware of the critically injured people near the tail, which was about 500 yards from the fuselage, according to the 911 tapes and interviews with authorities.
The teenage girl, Wang Lin Jia, was eventually found dead near the seawall. The flight attendants suffered serious injuries to their back, head and abdomen.
"We just got in a plane crash," said an uninjured and unidentified passenger who called 911 from her cell phone, according to a California Highway Patrol recording. "There are a bunch of people who need help and there are not enough medics out here.
"There is a woman out here on the street, on the runway, who is pretty much burned very severely on the head and we don't know what to do," the woman said. "She is severely burned. She will probably die soon. ... She needs help."
The caller said she was near the tail of the plane, which broke off before the plane came to rest.
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"We have people over here who weren't found and they are burned, really badly," the caller said.
Another caller, identified on the dispatch tapes as Cindy Stone, said she couldn't get the attention of firefighters.
"There's been a crash at SFO and there are people injured on the tarmac and there are no ambulances, no ambulances," Stone told dispatchers. "We've been on the ground for, I don't know, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. We've got people on the tarmac with critical injuries. We're almost losing a woman here."
It isn't clear exactly how long after the crash Stone and the other woman called 911, because exact time stamps on the calls were not available, the CHP said.
Stone said fire trucks were on the scene, but that no one was available to treat the injured passengers.
"Lots of fire engines in the distance," Stone said from her cell phone. "Not one ambulance on the tarmac."
San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said her agency's command center first logged a call from airport field crews reporting the injured group of victims in the area of the tail 14 minutes after the crash. It's unclear, however, how long it took for that information to reach rescuers and for rescuers to reach the victims.
"About 14 minutes into it, (rescuers) were probably made aware that there were people in that area," she said. "But actually that's pretty early on in the incident. They've obviously got 300 other people."
Time stands still
Talmadge cautioned that during a major emergency, a short amount of time could feel like an eternity.
"It is like, 'What's taking so long, this has been forever, forever!' " Talmadge said, empathizing with those stranded on the tarmac. "I can completely understand that. But I can probably say that there is some (time-compression) going on when someone says they have been out here for 30 minutes and they don't see anyone."
The first rescuer arrived on scene within two minutes of the crash, Talmadge said. Fire engines dispatched from the airport's three firehouses arrived a minute after that, she said.
Command crews did not send ambulances to the plane because of concerns that it might explode. Instead, ambulances were sent to a nearby triage area and patients either walked or were carried there.
The first ambulances arrived almost immediately and additional ambulances from San Francisco arrived within 10 minutes.
Passengers on the tarmac may not have seen the ambulances, but that's not because they weren't there, Talmadge said.
Different appearance
"In the movies it would look a lot different," she said. "You would have ambulances pulling right up to the airplane from every direction. Not in real life.
"The ambulances do not become the treatment area," she added. "They become a transport vehicle. Triage is something that doesn't have a lot of red lights and sirens on it because there are people on foot, addressing each passenger."
Talmadge said rescuers - some of whom helped evacuate passengers, put out a fire and free trapped crew members - methodically worked through each passenger they came across as quickly as possible. Three passengers were evacuated by helicopter, she said. A second teen, 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, was found dead near the plane and may have died after being run over by a fire truck.
Triage efforts praised
The triage efforts by rescue crews, including identifying the most critically injured and getting them to the hospital quickly, were praised by trauma surgeons at San Francisco General Hospital who said the process ended up saving two lives, said Christine Falvey, a spokeswoman for Mayor Ed Lee.
Lee, asked Thursday about the Fire Department's response to the plane crash, said that first responders were trying to prioritize the most urgent needs in a chaotic situation.
"They were expecting a huge explosion," Lee said. "They were smelling gas as they got out of the trucks. They knew that if they didn't douse the fire quickly and get everybody out of that fuselage that they could easily be burned."
He acknowledged, though, that it may have taken emergency personnel longer to reach the injured passengers ejected from the back of plane.
"They did not know the numbers of people there," Lee said, "so it may have taken a little more time than we would have wanted to get to the passengers that may have been spread out further from the airplane."
Chronicle staff writer John Coté contributed to this story. Will Kane is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @WillKane


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Book Notice: Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White, Volume 2
Jonathan Hilton and Dean Ippolito, Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White, Volume 2. (Mongoose Press, 2011). $29.95. 320 pp. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos.
It seems we're suffering from sequelitis here at The Chess Mind. Every day at the Candidates is Groundhog Day, and then it's volume 2 on the Hedgehog followed by more of Wojo's weapons! "Wojo", as many American readers will know and many non-Americans won't, refers to the late Polish-Latvian-American GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz. A strong though not elite GM, Wojtkiewicz (generally referred to as "Wojo") was a very successful competitors in US Swiss-system events, and authors Jonathan Hilton (a USCF national master) and Dean Ippolito (an IM) attribute a fair amount of that success to his well-worked opening repertoire. Needless to say (nothing beats an oxymoronic phrase purporting to be superfluous!), Hilton and Ippolito (if we can use "Wojo", we'll turn them into "HI") believe that their readers can adopt these weapons and enjoy comparable success at their level on the food chain.
Volume 1 (reviewed here) covered Wojo's treatment of the Catalan; this time around it's Wojo vs. the King's Indian Defense (KID). (That leaves at least three major openings yet to come: the Gruenfeld, the Dutch and 1.Nf3 c5.) As with volume 1, they are again following in Boris Avrukh's footsteps, as both authors recommend the Fianchetto Variation against the KID. Surprisingly though, HI don't use Avrukh this time around, or at least he isn't cited in the bibliography. (Importantly, though, Bologan's pro-KID book from 2009 is mentioned, so they've done their due diligence on "enemy" material.)
There are three parts in WWWWW II, further divided into 14 chapters. Part 1 covers ...Nbd7 lines, part 2 hits ...Nc6 lines (there's only one chapter on the critical Panno Variation, which the authors justify in part by noting that it's a rare bird at sub-master levels [it's a substantive chapter though, fear not]) and part 3 includes everything else. Together with a short intro, a very helpful index of recommended variations and a player index, there are 320 pages on the Fianchetto KID - quite a lot.
Part of that length is accounted for by the "complete games" format, and it's not just the space taken up by the additional moves, but by the annotations that come even after anything resembling theoretical significance has passed. Another feature that adds to the book's length is their possibly excessive thoroughness. If Wojo had a game in the Fianchetto KID, HI seemingly include it no matter how dubious or theoretically irrelevant Black's play.
I'm of two minds as to whether this is a good idea or not. The plus is that most of us aren't going to be playing GMs, so it's worth seeing these second-rate lines get busted. There are several counter-arguments to this, or rather to the amount of space these second-rate lines get, but I'll just offer one that's perhaps in keeping with the philosophy of the pro-side: the second-rate lines Wojo faced generally came from 2200-2400 players. So what most of it really need are third-rate lines, the kinds of moves 1600-2000 players are likely to put out there!
So it's possible to quibble with some of HI's authorial decisions. I haven't had time to examine the book closely, but from browsing it and in part based on trust from volume 1, it looks as if they have done a pretty thorough job. Both Hilton and Ippolito use Wojo's lines in their own tournament play, and there's a fair combination of game citations, independent analysis and explanatory prose. It's sophisticated material, so I don't think this is a book for lower- or mid-range club players. If you're 1800, maybe 1900 and up and looking for an anti-KID line, this might be the book for you.


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Andy Nguyen posted a three-set victory at fourth singles Friday against the Bulldogs (Harvard Athletic Communications).
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Harvard men's tennis team showed off its depth Friday, as the Crimson rode victories at the final three singles positions to a 4-2 win over Ivy League rival Yale in the first round of the ECAC Men's Indoor Tennis Championship. Harvard is the No. 1 seeded team in the eight-team bracket.
The Crimson doubles teams were in full control to start the day, helping Harvard to yet another doubles point. The second team of Andy Nguyen and Nicky Hu posted an 8-5 victory over John Huang and Patrick Chase and Alex Steinroeder and Shaun Chaudhuri matched the second court's score at No. 3 with an 8-5 win of their own, clinching the first point of the match.
Casey MacMaster got the ball rolling for Harvard in singles action, polishing off the Bulldogs' Zachary Dean in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 on the sixth court. Hu was close behind with a straight-set victory of his own, putting Harvard up 3-0 in the match with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Martin Svenning at fifth singles.
Yale showed it still had some fight left, as it claimed the next two matches, pushing the overall score to 3-2. Marc Powers got the better of Chaudhuri at second singles, outlasting the sophomore in a three setter, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1. Daniel Hoffman did the same to Steinroeder at No. 3, collecting a hard-fought 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win. Harvard's senior captain Andy Nguyen finished off the match in dramatic fashion, earning a win in the third-set tiebreaker to clinch a 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (8) final, and the 4-2 win for the Crimson.
Up next for Harvard is host school Cornell. The Crimson and Big Red will hit the courts Saturday in a 6 p.m., start time.
Harvard 4, Yale 2
No. 1 D. Nguyen/MacMaster, Harvard def. Powers/Hoffman, Yale: 4-6 (DNF)
No. 2 A. Nguyen/Hu, Harvard def. Huang/Chase, Yale: 8-5
No. 3 Steinroeder/Chaudhuri, Harvard def. Dean/Saiontz, Yale: 8-5
No. 1 D. Nguyen, Harvard def. Huang, Yale: 6-3, 3-6, 3-2 (DNF)
No. 2 Powers, Yale def. Chaudhuri, Harvard: 6-7 (6) 6-3, 6-1
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No. 5 Hu, Harvard def. Fife, Svenning: 6-4, 6-4
No. 6 MacMaster, Harvard def. Dean, Yale: 6-2, 6-2


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We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries.
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From: Emma Carmichael
To: Stefan Fatsis, Dan Kois
The Hester play was a joy to watch, but the season's most dumbfounding moment of mass confusion had nothing to do with a trick play or good acting. On Monday night in San Francisco, a Candlestick Park transformer exploded and the entire stadium went dark, save for the lighting in the press boxes, the popping camera flashes in the stands, and the glint on the 49ers' cheerleaders' smiles. The Monday Night Football blimp's cameras recorded the whole thing from above: There was a turquoise flash off to the left and suddenly, the show lost its light. The announcers started to worry about what might happen in a crowd like this.
And even as relative chaos reigned around them, the Gold Rush cheerleaders somehow kept on dancing.
"That's not supposed to happen, is it?" a friend said after Candlestick went dark.
"Did you see the new Batman trailer?" I responded.
The Joker would have enjoyed the moment. The NFL is a totalizing workplace, coordinated and produced to a mechanical polish. The usual football broadcast requires just as much mindless repetition as the typical football play. A telecast without lights is as disconcerting as Devin Hester circling under a nonexistent football or Cam Newton's pirouette on Sunday, but the confusion about what to do extends far beyond 11 professionals.
The brief chaos on Monday night, inconvenient and potentially dangerous as it may have been, brought a halt to the routine. The result was surreal, a mood that the NFL doesn't always get or embrace. It was also fleeting. We like watching those trick plays on repeat because they're so very rare. Even when the spell cast by the NFL's meticulous control does break, order will be restored. The lights will come back on soon enough.
It's not easy to step outside the context of the NFL. The spell is powerful enough to keep players
rattling their own skulls, after all.
Who can resist? Long ago, there was an Oakland Raiders linebacker named Ralph "Chip" Oliver—a man that the late Al Davis once called "one of the very finest young prospects in football." Oliver played in the late '60s and left pro football in 1970, at age 26, when he disrupted the machine to join a commune. He said he was tired of being treated like "another slab of beef." When a May 12, 1970, story in the Bend (Ore.) Bulletin was published, Oliver had dropped 50 pounds on a vegetarian diet and was working at the commune's organic restaurant in Mill Valley, Calif. He lived in "an old Victorian mansion with about a dozen other persons" and had in his room, "just for the memory," an old pair of cleats:
"Pro football is a silly game. I don't need it any more," Oliver was quoted as saying in a copyrighted story in the Oakland Tribune.
"Football dehumanizes people. They've taken all the players and made them into slabs of beef that can charge around and hit each other. But where is their esthetic soul, the feeling they can accomplish high things?"
"The world I was living in, the world of making money, was leading me nowhere. You make money, you die at 70 and it goes in the form of inheritance. In pro football, I was only a machine. I don't want to be a machine."
Oliver was a serious hippie, a member of the One World Family of the Messiah's World Crusade, which only really asked that the entire world adopt communism, and he was a rare example in a very specific era (Dave Meggyesy and Rick Sortun also quit football that year). But he also had a basic appreciation of both reality and absurdity.
Play-fakery and a blown transformer remind us that there is a "silly game" underneath the carefully prepared program. "This is crazy," Ben Roethlisberger said to a teammate after Candlestick darkened again in the second quarter on Monday and the crowd buzzed, drunk, confused, and impatient. Brief as it may have been, I loved it, and I'd like to think Chip Oliver would have, too. It can be refreshing when the machine breaks down.


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UAlbany Women's Lacrosse Takes Care Of Business Against Boston University, 17-9
UAlbany Women's Lacrosse Takes Care Of Business Against Boston University, 17-9
BOSTON, Mass. – Bouncing back from a tough 9-2 loss against Stony Brook last week, the University at Albany women's lacrosse team imposed its will on Boston University in a 17-9 win, on Wednesday, April 3 at Nickerson Field.
Senior attack Rachael Burek paced the Great Danes by tying her career best of nine points on three goals and six assists. Senior attack Jess Antelmi recorded her fifth game of the season of four points or more with four goals on six shots. Junior defender Kathleen Lennon owned the draw circle, recording nine of the team's 13 draw controls. Lennon has now tallied 74 draw controls of the season, which ties the program's second-most draw controls in a season (held by Nikki Branchini in 2010).
A tale of two halves was the story of the UAlbany and Boston U. contest. The first half was written off as the offensive half, watching 19 combined goals scored and the Great Danes holding a 12-7 lead through 30 minutes.
Boston U. (3-6, 0-2 America East) opened the game with a quick 3-1 lead with just over 10 minutes gone in the game. BU's Tewaaraton Award Nominee Danielle Etrasco scored the team's first two goals and was followed by an unassisted goal from Elizabeth Morse to grab the early two-goal lead.
UAlbany (7-4, 2-1 America East) answered back with six consecutive goals in a nine-minute span to regain the lead, 7-3, with 11:06 remaining in the half. Antelmi scored back-to-back-to-back goals in a two and half minute span during the stretch.
The Terrier's Etrasco rallied back with two more goals of her own and was helped out by teammate Jill Horka's goal to cut the deficit to one, 7-6, with 9:40 left.
The Great Danes capped off the half by scoring the final five of six goals to extend their lead to five, 12-7. Burek tallied three goals in the run, including the final two goals of the half.
The second half of the contest was described as a UAlbany defensive showcase. The Great Danes held the Terriers to two goals on six shots in the final 30 minutes. The UAlbany defense forced six BU turnovers on seven possible clear attempts.
UAlbany used four different scorers in a five-goal span to expand its lead to nine, 17-8, its largest of the game. Sophomore midfielder Nichole Eamer led the charge with two goals.
BU's Morse tacked on one more goal on a free-position opportunity to cut the deficit to eight, 17-9, with 2:11 remaining in the contest. However, UAlbany held on for the final two minutes of the game to improve its conference record to 2-1, while Boston U. fell to 0-2.
UAlbany goalie Anna Berman had a strong performance between the pipes, recording eight saves on 17 chances in 60 minutes. Boston U. goalie Christina Sheridan had a game-high nine saves on 26 chances in the loss.
The Great Danes return home on Saturday, April 13 against UMBC at John Fallon Field. The game is slated for 1 p.m.


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