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Rutabaga Home Fries
|1⁄2 Large, peeled, quartered
|Sweet butter
|2 Tablespoon
|2 Medium, sliced thin
|Shiitake mushrooms
|5 , sliced thin
1) In a pot of boiling water, boil the rutabaga till it becomes tender.
2) Drain the rutabaga and put it back into the pot.
3) Let it heat up for 2 minutes to dry off the excess moisture.
4) Take the rutabaga out and slice them to the size of half dollars.
5) In a non-stick skillet, melt butter. Add in the onions and saute till they become transparent.
6) Next, add in the mushrooms. Saute till they soften.
7) Next, add in the rutabagas. Saute till they become crisp and brown.
8) Serve the Rutabaga Home Fries garnished with grated cheese, if desired.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 572 Calories from Fat 226
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 26 g39.6%
Saturated Fat 15.7 g78.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 64.5 mg21.5%
Sodium 100.8 mg4.2%
Total Carbohydrates 84 g27.9%
Dietary Fiber 18.7 g74.6%
Sugars 42.5 g
Protein 11 g21.8%
Vitamin A 15.3% Vitamin C 212.1%
Calcium 28.6% Iron 18.3%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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The Return Man, by VM Zito, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£11.99, 416 pages
The horde of zombie novels shambles on, growing in number day by day. One wonders how much longer this genre can carry on before it cannibalises itself. In the meantime, we have The Return Man, a fresh variation on a theme.
Zito's novel, highly accomplished for a debut, is set four years after an outbreak of zombie-itis has reduced half of the United States to an apocalyptic wasteland infested with the hungry undead. Henry Marco is the Return Man of the title, roaming Arizona putting reanimated corpses out of their misery and laying some personal ghosts to rest along the way.
Marco, accompanied by a Chinese secret service agent with a hidden agenda, is dragooned into taking part in a mission that might yet save America.
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A compact credit card reader from Bangalore-based Ezetap Mobile Solutions has received approval in India. The device, which also accepts signatures, works with an Android smartphone to mimic the functions of a point-of-sale terminal -- but it also "can be customized to specific business needs and also be integrated with the business' back-end system, thereby making the process very efficient," said Muge Yuzuak, country head for cards and personal loans at Citibank India, which is using the reader.
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The First Beat
I swear in the middle of the night
"Why me? Why do I always loose this fight?"
He left, and the one before, and the evil before
I convinced myself with knives that I was to be no more
The day I declared my last was paused in a brief moment
I saw her face, eyes, and her hand, hold badly I wanted to hold it
That night I placed my knife aside as it drew later
My memory would never fade of her
Just a moment with her made my heart stutter
She made it so easy to love her
I just wanted to be together
And I got my wish that I wished on a star
I promised I'd never let us be apart
Once her lips touched mine
I let go of any pride
The first time our lips meet
Is the start of the first beat
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There's something about having your "last baby" that makes you want to do a few things differently in raising them. The added pressure of wanting to make sure you do everything "right" and your baby has the "best" of everything is nerve wracking – it almost feels worse with the last than it did with the first. Do you have the best diapers? The best body wash? Lotion?
It's enough to drive you mad!
I find myself questioning so many of my choices this time around – and I've got double trouble for my last babies. Twice the fun! It's weird that some things I deemed perfectly fine for my son, I wouldn't dream of using on the twins. I even make all of their baby food. Cooking fruits and veggies like a boss. Who am I?!?!?! I don't know where the old Amanda went, but I do know that I'm looking for the best of the best for them. After all, I won't get another opportunity after this.
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We have demonstrated that the chemoprotective effect of fish oil (induction of apoptosis, suppression of both cell proliferation and colon tumor formation) is enhanced when a highly fermentable fiber (pectin), capable of elevating lumenal butyrate levels, is added to the diet. From a mechanistic standpoint, butyrate is a Histone Deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) known to alter chromatin structure. This is noteworthy, because global changes in chromatin structure, i.e., epigenetic landscape, are a hallmark of cancer. Since transformation of adult stem cells is an extremely efficient route towards initiating intestinal cancer, an overall goal of this proposal is to use novel Lgr5-LacZ and Lgr5-EGFP-IRES-cre knockin mouse models to examine the potential of combined dietary fish oil and pectin treatment to modulate adult intestinal stem cell- specific targeted apoptosis, changes in chromatin structure and non-coding RNA/gene expression profiles. This goal is supported by our recent observation that combined fish oil and pectin treatment modulates a subset of non-coding microRNAs and their target genes (mRNAs) implicated in the regulation of the colon stem cell niche and tumor evolution.
Aim 1 will quantify the number and spatio-temporal location of stem cells, DNA damage and targeted apoptosis in the colonic crypt at the initiation and tumor stages of colon carcinogenesis following exposure to chemoprotective diets containing fish oil and pectin. We have hypothesized that dietary fish oil and pectin combination modulates stem cell DNA damage by enhancing targeted apoptosis, in part, by suppressing regulators of stem cell self-renewal.
Aim 2 will compare high- resolution "chromatin-state" maps for the promoters of genes that respond to fish oil/pectin/carcinogen co- treatment in mouse colonic stem cells. We have hypothesized that fish oil modulates butyrate-induced chromatin dynamics/plasticity in the colon.
Aim 3 will further characterize stem cell non-coding microRNAs (and their targets), known to be modulated by fish oil/pectin/carcinogen co-treatment, in HCT116 human colon cancer cells and a mouse "organoid" stem cell model. We have hypothesized that fish oil and pectin combination uniquely suppresses growth of colonocytes/crypts by antagonizing the expression of genes which regulate stem cell signaling. The proposed experiments are highly novel and relevant because the impact of colorectal cancer chemoprevention agents on adult intestinal stem cell biology has not been determined.
We have demonstrated that the bioactive components generated by fish oil (n-3 PUFA) and fermentable fiber (butyrate) act coordinately to protect against colon cancer. The proposed studies will determine the epigenetic therapeutic potential of combined fish oil and pectin treatment on intestinal stem cel targeted deletion and chromatin plasticity/dynamics.
|Barhoumi, Rola; Mouneimne, Youssef; Chapkin, Robert S et al. (2014) Effects of fatty acids on benzo[a]pyrene uptake and metabolism in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells. PLoS One 9:e90908
|Donovan, Sharon M; Wang, Mei; Monaco, Marcia H et al. (2014) Noninvasive molecular fingerprinting of host-microbiome interactions in neonates. FEBS Lett 588:4112-9
|Chapkin, Robert S; DeClercq, Vanessa; Kim, Eunjoo et al. (2014) Mechanisms by Which Pleiotropic Amphiphilic n-3 PUFA Reduce Colon Cancer Risk. Curr Colorectal Cancer Rep 10:442-452
|Allen, M Jeannie; Fan, Yang-Yi; Monk, Jennifer M et al. (2014) n-3 PUFAs reduce T-helper 17 cell differentiation by decreasing responsiveness to interleukin-6 in isolated mouse splenic CD4? T cells. J Nutr 144:1306-13
|Knight, Jason M; Davidson, Laurie A; Herman, Damir et al. (2014) Non-invasive analysis of intestinal development in preterm and term infants using RNA-Sequencing. Sci Rep 4:5453
|Monk, Jennifer M; Turk, Harmony F; Fan, Yang-Yi et al. (2014) Antagonizing arachidonic acid-derived eicosanoids reduces inflammatory Th17 and Th1 cell-mediated inflammation and colitis severity. Mediators Inflamm 2014:917149
|Fan, Yang-Yi; Davidson, Laurie A; Callaway, Evelyn S et al. (2014) Differential effects of 2- and 3-series E-prostaglandins on in vitro expansion of Lgr5+ colonic stem cells. Carcinogenesis 35:606-12
|Cho, Youngmi; Turner, Nancy D; Davidson, Laurie A et al. (2014) Colon cancer cell apoptosis is induced by combined exposure to the n-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid and butyrate through promoter methylation. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 239:302-10
|Turk, Harmony F; Monk, Jennifer M; Fan, Yang-Yi et al. (2013) Inhibitory effects of omega-3 fatty acids on injury-induced epidermal growth factor receptor transactivation contribute to delayed wound healing. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 304:C905-17
|Monk, Jennifer M; Hou, Tim Y; Turk, Harmony F et al. (2013) n3 PUFAs reduce mouse CD4+ T-cell ex vivo polarization into Th17 cells. J Nutr 143:1501-8
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The father is 32 and the son is 8. In 16 years the father will be 48 and the son will be 24.
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Statement on Enhancing Radiological Security
This gift basket records the intent of Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States, who choose to join to secure IAEA Category 1 radioactive sources within their territory by 2016, consistent with the actions outlined below:
We the parties to this additional statement declare our commitment to secure IAEA Category 1 sources consistent with the IAEA's Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources and with consideration of Nuclear Security Series 14: Nuclear security recommendations on radioactive material and associated facilities and Nuclear Security Series 15: Nuclear security recommendations on nuclear and other radioactive material out of regulatory control, giving particular attention to the following activities:
Support a regulatory body whose regulatory functions are effectively independent of other functions, with the authority to oversee and enforce security at sites (legislation, regulations, inspections, human resource qualifications, etc.);
Establish a comprehensive lifecycle management plan (import/export controls, secure storage, orphan source recovery, disused source management, national registry, etc.);
Develop a comprehensive plan for sources out of regulatory control (Search & Secure), notification of neighboring countries and IAEA Incident and Trafficking Database;
Assess the domestic threat and develop a national response plan (exercised periodically);
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Provide rapid response to any attempted or actual unauthorized access to radioactive material (exercised periodically)
Cooperation with other States and multilateral organizations is encouraged to complete the above-listed radiological security measures.
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by Pamela Young, Published August 14, 2009
YPSILANTI — The Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (DMEF) has announced that four students in the Eastern Michigan University Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program won top honors in its 2009 Collegiate ECHO Awards.
Winning the Gold Award are Dianne Koval Butler of Brookeville, Md., Stacey Folsom of Brighton, Kristen Gaither-Aben of Petoskey, and Courtney Bliznik of Clinton Township. Team members will receive a cash prize certificate and recognition on the DMEF web site (directworks.org) and publications.
The EMU IMC program also had two teams that placed as semi-finalists: students Andrew Stimpson, Kevin Goh, Theresa Hamilton, Juvie de Koning were on one team and Rachel Royer, Lauren Vance and Shannon Bellefleur made up the second team.
The 2009 DMEF competition took place during the fall 2008 and spring 2009 semesters and attracted nearly 100 entries from colleges nationwide.
"EMU students exhibited outstanding marketing research, creativity and a thorough understanding of the role of direct marketing and social media in an integrated marketing communications plan," said EMU adjunct instructor David Marold, who taught the winning team in the IMC 608 Direct Marketing class.
"This award underscores the quality of our IMC students and our program's commitment toward student national recognition and advancement," said EMU marketing professor Matthew Sauber, who developed the course.
EMU's award continues its national winning streak. During last year's DMEF competition, EMU students Alyssa Koontz, Walid Khalil and Shawna Fleming won a Silver Award for their entry, It's What Your Business Deserves. The team was also awarded honorable mention among all graduate school entries for the Best Media Plan.
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Politicians and party leaders from across Northern Ireland and the Republic have condemned those who carried out Saturday's bomb attack in Omagh.
Constable Ronan Kerr, 25, was killed after a booby-trap device exploded under his car in Omagh, County Tyrone.
In March 2009, Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot dead as he answered a distress call in Craigavon, County Armagh.
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Fast National ratings for Thursday, March 25, 2010
The NCAA Basketball Tournament once again scored Thursday night against the scripted competition, although the return of "Grey's Anatomy" held up well enough against the sports coverage. The CW's return of "The Vampire Diaries" was a little less healthy than expected, and "FlashForward" continued to disappoint in its second outing since returning from hiatus.
CBS averaged 11.1 million viewers and a 6.9 rating/12 share in households for the night. ABC took second with 8.8 million and 5.8/10. Next came NBC with 6.02 million and a 3.8/6, FOX with 5.1 million and 3.2/5 and The CW, 3.1 million and 1.8/3.
The adult 18-49 demo title also went to CBS, which nabbed a 3.8 rating. ABC followed with a 2.8, then NBC, 2.6, The CW, 1.4, and FOX, 1.3.
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CBS: NCAA Basketball (10.9 million, 6.7/11 households)
ABC: "FlashForward" (6.2 million, 4.1/7)
FOX: "Bones" rerun (6.1 million viewers, 3.9/7)
NBC: "Community" (5.1 million, 3.3/6)/"Parks and Recreation" (4.5 million, 2.9/5)
The CW: "The Vampire Diaries" (3.2 million, 1.9/3)
18-49 leader: NCAA Basketball (3.6)
9 p.m.
CBS: NCAA Basketball (11.9 million, 7.4/12)
ABC: "Grey's Anatomy" (11.4 million, 7.5/12)
NBC: "The Office" (7.2 million, 4.3/7)/"30 Rock" (6.3 million, 3.8/6)
FOX: "Fringe" rerun (4.1 million, 2.6/4)
The CW: "Supernatural" (2.9 million, 1.7/3)
18-49 leader: NCAA Basketball (4.0)
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CBS: NCAA Basketball (10.5 million, 6.6/11)
ABC: "Private Practice" (8.8 million, 5.9/10)
NBC: "The Marriage Ref" (6.5 million, 4.2/7)
18-49 leader: NCAA Basketball (3.9)
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Runners from around the world, including several from northwest Ohio, are ready to show their strength at the Boston Marathon one year after a tragic bombing rocked the finish line.Matt Folk, owner of running retail shop, knows the in's and out's of the competition. He traveled to Boston last week to run in the Monday race.
"In one sense it'll be a mixed reaction, and in one sense you're going to be very nervous to get going," Folk said. "And in another sense, you'll be very excited because it is a large event."
"It's going to be special. If you talk to most runners in the area, it's something they would love to be a part of. Most runners in the U.S. would love to be a part of," Folk said.This year, even if you had a Boston Marathon qualifying time, it doesn't guarantee a runner's spot in the race.
VIEW: Complete coverage of race day in Boston "There's only a certain number of spots for people who qualify, and there was about five thousand people that didn't get to finish last year. They gave them the first priority," Folk said.The race has tightened security. Folk says an email was sent out to all the participants, explaining that they are doing away with gear-checked in bags. "In the past you were able to take a gear check bag, so you could have clothing on while your sitting around the start. They would bus it back to the finish for you," Folk said.Runners will need head to the start of the race in their running attire."It could be a big variable with the weather. If it's a cold day, that could be hard if you're sitting around shivering for 45 minutes to an hour before the race, " Folk said.It's a new rule that he says is understandable. The marathon experience this year is not about time for him, but to remember and honor those impacted from last year's attacks."The struggles we will go through fora few hours is minor with what they have to deal with everyday," Folk said.
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The Alarming Trend to Deprofessionalizing Medicine
Doctors are becoming less physicians and more "service providers." Patients are now akin to customers. In Canada, this may soon require doctors to kill certain patients on demand.
This has many societal ramifications, brought up in a very good column in the LA Times about a controversy about a Catholic hospital refusing to sterilize a woman because it violates Catholic medical ethics. From "Why a Catholic Hospital Shouldn't be Obliged to do a Tubal Ligation," by Fordham University bioethics professor Charles A. Camosy:
When healthcare providers are forced by law to violate the values that make them who they are -- because of the request of customers demanding goods and services in the free market -- it signals the end of medicine as a professional practice.
It makes medicine just another exchange of goods and services, and puts patients in the role of customers, ordering whatever they want from physicians. In such a world, an orthopedic surgeon would be forced to cut off a patient's perfectly healthy leg rather than insisting that his bodily integrity identity disorder be treated instead. Someone with only months to live could order a knee replacement. And nothing could stop those who are merely "tired of life" from demanding a prescription for a deadly dose of medication.
As I have been warning about for years, that is exactly where we are heading. The jurisdiction of healthcare is expanding from purely medical issues to what I call "consumerist" services, e.g., procedures using medical means for a not strictly medical purpose, such as to fulfill lifestyle desires or enhance happiness.
But I also oppose Futile Care Theory that allows doctors to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment. Isn't that deprofessionalization, too?
No. Life-sustaining treatment -- keeping a patient alive when that is what she wants -- is purely medical. It is not elective, but necessary to sustain life. (Hit this link for more details on the circumstances in which I think doctors should -- and should not -- be allowed to say "no.")
Camosy makes a strong appeal to allow Catholic hospitals to be Catholic:
If that [the above quote] sounds wrong to you, then you have to say there is no justification for refusing healthcare providers -- including Catholic hospitals -- the freedom as professionals to determine their own answers to these vexing questions.
If instead we single out religious hospitals and deny them this freedom, it would reveal that a very serious kind of discrimination is present in our culture. And it is the kind of discrimination that not only reveals contempt for the 1st Amendment, but also for the right of all to define and express their identity.
Here's the thing. The secularists don't think it is wrong to force doctors to participate in life-taking or religiously proscribed procedures. They want to force their utilitarian values on all of healthcare -- which is one purpose to which Obamacare is being put.
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Tomorrow Michael Ballack will be back doing what he knows best. There in the heart of Chelsea's midfield at the Emirates will be the imposing figure of Germany's captain, bringing his they-shall-not-pass presence to a side not lacking in strong characters. It is where Ballack wants to be, and right now it is where he has never been more grateful to be.
Two Sundays ago, Ballack walked out in front of thousands of fans in another stadium, Hannover's AWD Arena, but this was not for a game. In his hands, instead of a ball, Ballack clutched a wreath, which he placed in the centre circle in front of the coffin of Robert Enke, the German goalkeeper who committed suicide.
"I knew Robert since he was 13 because we played each other in East Germany, when he played for Carl Zeiss Jena," says Ballack. "He was one of the players that I had known for such a very long time. It was terrible for all the players. You lose a friend."
The two players were team-mates for the national side and would have taken the field together in next summer's World Cup finals in South Africa, but no one, neither team-mates nor family, was aware of the extent of Enke's enveloping struggle with depression.
Enke's team-mates had been there to support him in 2006, when his young daughter Lara died from a rare heart defect. What they did not realise however was that Enke continued to suffer from depression long afterwards, so much so that he was afraid that Leila, the daughter whom he and his wife Teresa adopted in May this year, might be taken from him if his anguish was ever made public.
Ballack pauses before speaking. "We never had the feeling that he had a problem like this," he says. "To not know that he has depression – that makes you feel helpless because you can't change it. This is a bad, bad thing. On Tuesday evening when we got the message in the team hotel, it was a shock. There was quietness and a lot of tears. Afterwards it was really good to give him the attention, to be able to say goodbye to him, to join the memorial. I was there in the church with the team and the manager.
"It's happened but I think we have to learn from this. There is the illness but also the combination with football and being famous. He was scared to speak about his problem because he was scared to lose his child, or his job. Or to confess to having a weakness to other players. People have weaknesses, we should accept it."
The relentless nature of football means that Ballack has little time to reflect on his grief for his lost friend, but must get back to playing. He returned to the Chelsea side at Porto in midweek. And he would not want it any other way. "There are more important things in life but for us professional football players, football means a lot," he says honestly.
Tomorrow's trip to Arsenal is ripe with significance. Chelsea have already beaten Manchester United and Liverpool in recent weeks, and could complete a rare hat-trick against an Arsenal side struggling with injuries. In recent seasons Ballack has played down the importance of these games against direct title rivals, perhaps partly because Chelsea have not done well in this type of match in the past three seasons. But now he has gone full circle, convinced they hold huge psychological significance for the victors.
"In the past I had the opinion that you could lose a big game to a big team and it doesn't decide the title," he said. "But winning gives you a massive confidence for the next weeks.
"If you beat Man United or Liverpool, you know the team worked well, you are in good shape, you beat the best team, you can beat the best teams in the league. It gives a sign to the other clubs but also to yourself. It is a big, big point in the season."
Since moving to Chelsea in May 2006 on a free transfer from Bayern Munich, Ballack has won two FA Cups and a Carling Cup. Not bad, but perhaps not quite what was expected at the time as Chelsea, under the managerial guidance of Jose Mourinho, had just completed back-to-back titles.
The German freely admits he came to Chelsea to win the Champions League, an ambition yet to be realised by both player and club, but acknowledges that Manchester United have been the better side for the past three years.
"I knew what to expect," he says. "To come to a great, experienced team, I did not expect it goes like this, easy, to win the league every year. The other teams are too strong for this. I came here to win trophies. To win the Champions League, that's why I came here. There is still a big chance with Chelsea, with this team.
"There is a really, really high expectation from everybody but it starts with the owner and it goes down to the staff, the coaches, to fans, to sponsors. That's why we changed a lot of managers in the past few years. If you see the games we have played, especially in the Champions League, I think we deserved to have won it once, at least. But we haven't done it so it is still the target and we are close to it." The expectation has accompanied Ballack since the day he arrived at Stamford Bridge. He came to Chelsea with an impeccable reputation, having built a wonderful career with spells at Kaiserslautern and Bayer Leverkusen, before moving to Bayern Munich in 2002. At Munich he won the league and cup double three times in four seasons.
He has played under four different managers in three and a half seasons at Chelsea. Having been the big name at Bayern Munich and at Bayer Leverkusen, he was content to take a step back and let others enjoy the limelight, although there are many who believe the 33-year-old is currently enjoying some of the best form of his already stellar career.
"I knew there were a few players next to me who are of the same level," he says. "That's why I have no problem to step a little bit back. It doesn't matter who's scoring the most goals or who is playing the best. I can still play better but I have improved, that's right. I am a team player. Of course everybody wants to play at his best but not everybody can be in a position where he is shining. That's the secret when you have so many good players."
One of new Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti's innovations this season has been the diamond midfield. Part of its success, and maybe part of the reason Ancelotti introduced it, has been the way it allows Ballack and Frank Lampard to function well in the same side. Yet while Ballack has finally found and settled into his role at Chelsea, it could still prove to be his final season at the club. He signed only a one-year extension last summer, and as yet there has been no indication from the club that they want it to continue. Ballack says he would like to stay. "I am relaxed. I will see how we come together, or not. That is the situation, there is no pressure from both sides. So we will see. I want to play as long as possible at the highest standard."
One thing he does rule out is a David Beckham-style move to the US. "I want to continue to play at the highest level. I think to go to America would be a sign, not just for the other people but for me as well."
Talk of a move to America demonstrates just how much the world has changed since Ballack was a boy growing up in East Germany, in a city that then bore the name Karl-Marx-Stadt. Ballack remembers his youth with affection despite the regime under which he was born. Politics meant little to him; football was everything. Ballack's athletic build was clear from a young age, but initially the authorities believed he was better suited as an ice-skater.
"They did measurements, that was the way they did it in East Germany, to see which strengths you had for each sport, from your body. They told my parents I had the physique for an ice skater. But all I wanted to do was to play football," he recalls.
Seeing his three children today wearing the uniform of their English school reminds him of his own very different education. "You had to stand up in school and say some things and stand still, and wear some uniform," he says. "Now I come to England and again my kids are in uniform, in a different way but they have to wear uniform. In West Germany you go to school everybody wears their own stuff."
He was 13 when the Berlin Wall came down, followed by the collapse of Soviet-style governments across eastern Europe. Yet the effects of growing up in the communist system still remain. For example, Ballack has no time either for religion or superstition. He has chosen to wear the "unlucky" No13 shirt, for club and country, ever since he moved to Bayer Leverkusen in 1999 when he requested the number even though it had been retired by the club in tribute to former striker Rudi Völler. "Other players don't want it but that's why I want it," says Ballack. "I have no problem with this. I am not superstitious. I like the number and one player in the team has to wear the 13. And it has to be a strong one because he has to deal with the number. Maybe because I grew up like this, we didn't even have religion in East Germany. I don't have any religion now. This is normal for me."
Ballack talks of his lack of religion and superstition with a grin and a shrug. For him, it is just the way he is, and has always been. He deals with reality, good or bad, and then gets on with it. A career in which he has won 97 caps for Germany has seen many highs, but just as many disappointments. He missed Germany's World Cup final defeat to Brazil in 2002 through suspension, and then played as Spain beat the Germans 1-0 in the final of Euro 2008.
He also owns Champions League runners-up medals, with Bayer Leverkusen in 2002 and Chelsea in 2008. Winning an international competition is the one thing he would love to claim above all else, but his phlegmatic character means he will accept it gracefully if it does not happen.
"I have never won the Champions League so I want to win it. The main target is to win an international title, that is why I came to Chelsea," he reflects. "If it doesn't happen, I would miss it. I have to accept it. I had a good career. As long as I play I want to fight for it. But if it that is the case then so be it. That's football."
Michael Ballack took the time last week to speak to a group of teenagers as part of the Chelsea Prince's Trust programme, which offers help for disadvantaged and unemployed 16-to-25-year-olds. Chelsea have been working with the Trust since 1999 helping hundreds of young people back into education, training and employment. A number of former participants are now employed by the club working on community programmes.
Frame game
Michael Ballack has little time to himself with three young children to look after, but his one indulgence is reading up on art. He is only new to the subject but is dipping into a few books to educate himself.
He said: "I like art books – everything that is involved with art. I don't paint. I start to look but it needs time. You have to get into it first and to understand it a little."
Ballack also admitted he prefers to live in London, rather than the Surrey countryside where most of his Chelsea team-mates live.
"England is a very international place – a lot of different religions, different nationalities, different cultures, and they all live together in this small place," he said.
"In my past [in East Germany] there were few people from other countries – a few Cubans, a few Russians. To me it is very interesting to meet other people from other countries, the way they think."
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