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Arizona accidently over-sugars a coffee belonging to someone else. The other java lover, a woman named Lauren (guest star Hilarie Burton), swipes the cup that truly belongs to Arizona. Quid pro quo, right? The coffee thief happens to be a brilliant craniofacial specialist who has been flown in to help with an infant whose brain is growing on the outside. Arizona gets uneasy when Lauren appears to be flirting with her. She blurts that she's married. As it turns out, Lauren already knows all about Dr. Arizona Robbins.
You know that trick where a magician saws a lady in half? Well, one unlucky illusionist found out the hard way that it's not a great idea to use a chainsaw especially when the woman you're carving up is your wife. The magician's other assistant yelled their safe word, "Titanic," but things still went horribly wrong. Now the big trick for our favorite docs is putting this lady back together.
Meredith, Richard and Shane do damage control as best they can on the sawed-up lady. The magician's other assistant is in love with the wounded woman. They have been together for some time. Meredith tells the magician and his assistant (the still-in-one-piece one) to get over their differences. The woman they love needs them. The magician knows that his wife needs to be with the woman with whom she shares true love. This moment of clarity hits home with Richard. More on that later.
Bailey has been cleared to operate, but she's locked herself in her genome lab. Callie desperately tries to get her to open the door. It's just not gonna happen. Bailey robotically ignores all the pounding on the door. Everyone thinks Richard is the only one who can get through to her. He knows that's not the case. The other docs try to corner Bailey when she takes a bathroom break. The intervention fails miserably. Bailey isn't talking to anyone. She silently goes back to her work.
Derek's patient is a young girl who needs brain surgery. His attempts to explain the procedure are interrupted by the patient's rambunctious little brother who gives Heather wicked whack to the head. Alex assists on the girl's surgery. He's still trying to get over his feelings for Jo, but keeps running into her. As for Derek, he worries that his new son will be a monster like his patient's little brother. He worries about Zola. Meredith assures him that if their daughter can get a neurosurgeon to wear a princess crown, she'll be able to hold her own with the new kid.
April deals with an intoxicated college girl with severe abdominal pains. The patient's equally-hammered gal pals aren't making it easy to get a diagnosis. As it turns out, the girl consumed a drink made with liquid nitrogen. Yum, right? As April repairs her patient's torched-out tummy, she apologizes to Jackson for how she behaved towards him. These two seem to be getting back to a good place. But Jackson has been blowing off Stephanie lately. He kisses her hard at the bar as if to prove he's still into her.
Richard realizes that the only person who can help Bailey get out of her funk is the one who loves her most. Ben catches a flight to Seattle. He sees that his wife blames herself for the patients who died. She's been testing herself over and over and over. She feels dirty all the time. Bailey breaks down in Ben's arms. She truly believes those patients died because of her.
Owen continues to watch over Ethan. Everyone is waiting for the young boy's dad to come out of his coma. Owen sends him back to the hotel with his grandmother for a few hours. Ethan overdoses on some pills while he's there. Cristina tries a radical move to wake the dad. It doesn't work. When Ethan awakens, he admits that he doesn't feel like he has any parents. His grandmother tearfully admits she can't look after her grandson anymore.
Cristina knows that Owen wants a kid. She's seen how much he cares about Ethan. Owen assures Cristina that the only thing he wants is her. As for Alex and Jo, they agree to steer clear of each other. Later, Jo is seen arguing with Jason/Chest Pecwell. Apparently, cohabitation isn't agreeing with them. Alex sees just how bad things have gotten when Jo shows up on his doorstep with a beaten and bloodied face.

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I "updated" WIN10 to the 1709. IFW will not take a full system disk backup without "Byte-for-byte comparison failed".
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I restored a WIN10 1703 backup, and again updated Win10 to 1709 and IFW to 3.12 to be sure the updates ran properly.
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Housing market highlights over the last week include; positive news from the National Association of Realtors, an update on interest rates, and mortgage application volume. Additionally, we discuss an update on the halting of foreclosures by some banks and ending with thoughts on due-diligence.
Realtors: Pending Home Sales Rise
The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales increased for the second month in a row. The index rose 4.3% to 82.3% from a downwardly revised July. NAR chief economist, Lawrence Yun discussed home affordability being responsible for the rise saying, "Attractive affordability conditions from very low mortgage interest rates appear to be bringing buyers back to the market". Despite the increases over the last 2 months the Pending Home Sales Index is still 20.1% below August, 2009.
I agree with Lawrence Yun, home affordability is overshadowing the economy in home buying decisions for many. While job growth is the ultimate confidence booster for many, the rise 2 consecutive months is a good sign. Further, we may see a small boost in pending home sales resulting from FHA guideline changes (see mortgage applications below).
Interest Rates Drop Further
After rising for 2 weeks, then stabilizing, Freddie Mac reported a new record low for interest rates. The 30-year fixed rate dropped to 4.27%, marking the second consecutive decline. The 15-year rate declined to a new low of 3.72%. A year ago, the 30-year was at 4.87% and the 15-year at 4.33%.
With core inflation staying very low, rates have been drifting back down over the last 2 weeks. This along with home values double-dipping in many markets is causing home affordability to increase. It seems impossible that rates can continue to decline but the last 2 weeks has proven otherwise. The Federal Reserve is now considering combating the economy with an inflation strategy. That may signal the end to perpetually low rates.
Mortgage Applications: Purchases Soar
This week the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that its Purchase Index soared 9.3% from the prior week, lead by a 17.2% increase in FHA applications. Conventional applications increased 3.6%. This data is for the survey ending October 1st. Refinances declined to 78.9% of total mortgage applications a drop from 80.7% the prior week.
Purchase applications spiked because borrowers rushed to get applications in before the October 4th FHA deadline when new requirements took effect. These new FHA requirements pertain to increased down payment and credit score requirements. I anticipate that refinances will grow against purchases after the last 2 weeks of rate declines. Despite the volume of refinances in recent weeks it seems many people out there still have the ability to refinance.
Foreclosure Mess UPDATE
Bank of America extended its foreclosure suspension nationwide, while Ally Financial, JP Morgan Chase, and others suspended in 23 states. The freeze is temporary but leaving many wondering whether the suspensions will impact home prices positively or at least slow the potential upcoming declines. Wells Fargo and HSBC have since communicated that it will not be suspending foreclosures, while other banks such as PNC have admitted to communicating with their lawyers over the issue.
Many people were not surprised when suspensions started as it has been rumored for quite some time that foreclosure processes were flawed. The question remains how home values will be affected. Bank of America was increasing its foreclosures significantly this year leaving some thinking that home values could be impacted. With JP Morgan Chase and Ally only halting in 23 states, it's more likely that values will be buoyed little if at all by these banks' move. If anything the impact will likely be more competition by investors with a few less homes per market to big on. I'm expecting more banks to announce they're temporarily halting as well.
Waiting on the "Fat Pitches"
I had a good conversation with an investor recently about waiting on the "fat pitches" on investment property offerings. The problem with many investment property sales is the extremely low barrier of entry into the industry. Many people are offering deals on investment properties backed more by hype then by a track record. Also many markets are being touted as "go-to" markets when risks remain high. For example if you knew that REO makes up 66% of all real estate activity in Atlanta, would that cause you to think twice about evaluating property there? It should. Waiting on the "fat pitch" is, of course, a baseball term suggesting not to swing at everything you see. Knowing the current housing crisis isn't going away tomorrow should cause you to spend considerable time on due-diligence. But at the same time not missing the opportunity to lock in low rates and low prices. It becomes a happy medium of being a skeptic and not waiting too long at the same time.


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PROPERTY DETAILSFeatures: * Beautiful Views - Good Road Access *
Address: 5693 Patrick Drive, Kingman, AZ 86401
Parcel ID: 313-10-442
Size: 1.15 acre
Dimensions: 161' x 310'
County: Mohave
State: Arizona
OWN IT TODAYCash Discount Price: $5,500 $4,999
Option 1: $199 Down, $150/month for 38 months
Option 2: $199 Down, $250/month for 21 months
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This 1.15 acre lot is located in Kingman, Arizona and the address is 5693 Patrick Drive, Kingman, AZ 86401. Kingman is located between Las Vegas and Flagstaff. Kingman is 123 miles from Las Vegas and 148 miles from Flagstaff and is located on the longest remaining stretch of fabled US Route 66.
Nearby attractions are Las Vegas, Lake Mead, and the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Lake Mead is about a hour away, where you can fish, swim, hike, Jet Ski, and enjoy boating. This property has great temperatures all year long due to the elevation of 3450 feet.
The GPS coordinates are 35.28867, -113.89019. Taxes per year are only about $45 a year. Title transferred on a Warranty Deed. I also offer a 30 day money back guarantee, so it's literally risk-free.
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PROPERTY DETAILSAddress: 5693 Patrick Drive, Kingman, AZ 86401
Parcel ID: 313-10-442
Size: 1.15 acre
Dimensions: 161' x 310'
County: Mohave
State: Arizona
Conveyance: Warranty Deed
Terrain: Level
Access: Dirt Road
Power: In the Area
Water: Would be by Well or Water Haul or Water Delivery Services
Sewer: Would be by Septic
HOA Fees per Year: None
Taxes per Year: $45
GPS Coordinates (center) at the road: 35.28867, -113.89019
--- Northwest Corner: 35.28886, -113.89123
--- Northeast Corner: 35.28886, -113.89020
--- Southwest Corner: 35.28841, -113.89123
--- Southeast Corner: 35.28842, -113.89020
Elevation: 3450 ft
Legal: GREATER KINGMAN INDUSTRIAL PARK#2 LOT 6 BLK O SEC 17 2215
Zoning: A-R Agricultural - Residential
RV Restrictions: 14 days max each occupancy, 30 days total for calendar year. If longer is desired, the RV shall be connected to an approved wastewater disposal system, and obtain a special permit.
County Contact Information: ---For more information, call Mohave County Planning & Zoning at 928-757-0903
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Lou's teachers had the best idea. I tried to get it together for my own class on the last day but gave up. I have it in my plan book to get it together much more in advance next year.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
end of the year- preschool style
Posted by Beth- the mama bee at 3:30 AM
Labels: end of the year, preschool, spring
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- crunchyfarmbaby said...
Cute! :) I do something like this for my 5th graders at the end of the year using pre-cut foam squares and stickers/decorations. They love going around getting each others' "autographs."
- May 19, 2012 at 8:18 AM
- MemoryMom said...
We did this same sort of thing this year but on one sheet. I took a picture of the whole class and each child signed each one.
- June 18, 2012 at 7:03 PM
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(Reuters) - Electronic payment services provider ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW.O) said it will buy its peer, Online Resources Corp ORCC.O, in an all-cash deal with an equity value of about $126.6 million to expand its footprint in the online banking and bill payment sectors.
ACI Worldwide will buy Online Resources for $3.85 per share. Based on 32.89 million shares outstanding, according to Reuters data, Online Resources' equity is valued at about $126.6 million. The per share offer is an 83 percent premium to Online Resources' closing stock price of $2.10 Wednesday on the Nasdaq.
ACI Worldwide said the deal is valued at an enterprise value of about $263 million, which includes the redemption of Online Resources' preferred stock.
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Online Resources processes more than 245 million bill payment transactions annually. The company's bill payment solutions connect more than 9,000 billers.
For the last 12 months ending September 30, the companies combined generated pro forma revenue of about $860 million.
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- Senegalese film "La Pirogue" is the only film from sub-Saharan Africa selected for Cannes
- It tells the story of a boatload of African migrants seeking to reach Spain's Canary Islands
- Director Moussa Toure said making the movie was deeply affecting
- African films, particularly from Senegal and Burkina Faso, have previously done well at Cannes
The glitz of Cannes on the French Riviera is a world removed from the hellish conditions endured by the hundreds of illegal immigrants smuggled from Africa to Europe every year.
But Senegalese director Moussa Toure is confronting attendees of the world's leading film festival with their story of desperation in "La Pirogue," his first feature film in 14 years.
"La Pirogue" -- a pirogue being a type of flat-bottomed boat commonly used for fishing in West Africa -- tells the story of Baye Laye, a boat captain who hails from a fishing village outside Dakar. It follows his ordeal after he agrees to take a pirogue containing 30 men to Spain's Canary Islands in search of a better life in Europe.
Toure said the film was inspired by the fact that, in his experience, virtually every Senegalese family had a member who had left by boat for Europe.
"It's an everyday reality in my country," he told CNN, in French. "In Dakar, young people attempt these journeys practically every day because they have no hope for their future in Senegal. They are often educated young people with qualifications, and they pay a lot of money to be smuggled out of the country, because they have no choice."
According to UNHCR figures, there were 5443 "irregular arrivals" from North and West Africa by sea in Spain in 2011 -- down from 32,000 in 2006. With the vessels poorly equipped for the arduous journeys of hundreds of kilometers, fatalities are commonplace.
When Toure discovered his young mechanic was among those who had made the voyage, lasting two months in Europe before being discovered by authorities and sent home, the director pressed him for his experiences, which subsequently informed the film.
The film was shot over two months in Senegal. Many of the actors, just like their characters, could not swim, making for some tense moments, said Toure. "We had dangerous moments because we were filming at the mouth of the Saloum River and this is where it meets the sea. I was secretly terrified that we would capsize like often happens in real life. I was especially scared for those (the actors) who could not swim."
Moussa, a former electrician who shot his first short film in 1987, has been focusing on documentaries for the past decade. Working on "La Pirogue," his third feature, was deeply affecting, he said, and the result had made his wife cry "like I've never seen her cry before".
The film, a French-Senegalese co-production, is one of 20 films selected for the "Un Certain Regard" (A Particular Outlook) section of the festival, designated for original and innovative movies seeking international recognition.
Toure's film is the only sub-Saharan African movie in competition this year, but African films -- particularly those from Senegal and Burkina Faso -- have fared well at the festival, especially over the past decade.
In 2008, the French-Liberian co-production "Johnny Mad Dog" won the Prize of Hope at the festival, for its depiction of child soldiers at the end of the Second Liberian Civil War. It was based on the novel "Johnny Chien Mechant" by Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala.
In 2005, "Delwende," directed by Burkina Faso's S. Pierre Yameogo, won the same prize when it was screened. It told the story of a woman accused of being a "soul eater" and subjected to trial by a council of elders after a child died in her village.
The year previous, "Moolaade," by the late Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembene won the "Prix Un Certain Regard," while in 1990, Burkina Faso's Idrissa Ouedraogo won the Jury Grand Prize for his film "Tilai."
African cinema also has a strong presence at Cannes with South African and Nigerian delegations at the festival's film market. Their attendance is intended to showcase both countries' film industries and the investment opportunities they represent.
Nigeria boasts one of the world's biggest film industries -- affectionately known as "Nollywood" -- alongside Hollywood and Bombay's "Bollywood."
Most of its output consists of pacey and vibrant video-format B-movies, which have immense popularity across the continent despite their shoe-string budgets. But recently a new generation of filmmakers has been seeking to elevate the industry through a movement they call "New Nigeria Cinema," involving stronger story lines, higher production values and a more authentic depiction of African experience.
Toure is no stranger to film festivals; last year he was president of the documentary film jury at Africa's largest film festival, FESPACO (the Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso).
He said he was optimistic about the future of African cinema. "I think there are great stories coming out of Africa and there are many people who are talented. Those who govern us do not get involved and leave cinema at the mercy of filmmakers," he said.
Follow the Inside Africa team on Twitter: @CNNInsideAfrica, Presenter Errol Barnett: @ErrolCNN, online producer: @StephanieBusari, Writer: @tim_hume


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GO to New Orleans without trying the po' boy? One might as well visit Paris without tasting a fresh baguette. Or tour Athens without sipping ouzo.
A po' boy, for the uninitiated, is a massive sandwich on French bread crammed with roast beef, ham, shrimp, oysters, meatballs, sausage or even French fries. It's unlike any hoagie, grinder or submarine sandwich you've ever had.
Some say the bread is the secret ingredient. G.H. Leidenheimer Baking Co., New Orleans' best-known bread supplier, daily sells about 50,000 loaves of their light, crisp-crusted French bread to po' boy proprietors. A standard 32-inch loaf, which has a distinctive alligator-skin pattern on the crust, can be cut into three or four sandwiches. The bakery makes as many as four deliveries a day to some customers, in vans emblazoned with the slogan "Sink ya teeth into a piece of New Orleans cultcha — a Leidenheimer po-boy!"
The po' boy legend — like so many Southern legends — begins with two brothers, Bennie and Clovis Martin, bakers and former streetcar drivers. In 1929, during a months-long streetcar strike in New Orleans, they handed out free sandwiches made from leftovers to the striking drivers. As one would approach their restaurant near the French Market, one brother would yell to the other, "Here comes another poor boy." The name stuck and the sandwiches, which later cost 10 cents apiece, became so popular that carhops would carry orders to customers parked blocks away when the restaurant's lot overflowed.
In the 75 years since its invention, the po' boy has inspired many inventive variations — and strong opinions. When I came to New Orleans with my family in May, I set out to find the best. But I didn't want to leave anything to chance. I consulted reviews, surveys and guidebooks before arriving. Then I asked the top po' boy makers to weigh in on their competitors.
I also just asked around. During our first taxi ride, I explained my mission to our cabby, Tony, who quickly rattled off 20 of his favorite po' boy joints. But I persisted: Which one is the best?
"Ain't no best," Tony said. "They all good."
I'd have to agree. But, adjusting for bias, here are the po' boys that the experts — myself included — agree are even better than good.
Domilise's A temple to food, this New Orleans institution serves several award-winning po' boys. The line goes out the door and into the street; inside, it hugs the sandwich counter, following a path worn deep into the tile floor. Take a number, scan the menu on the wall, place your order and maneuver your way to the bar for a drink — maybe a Barq's root beer or an Abita lager.
At lunchtime, there are five perpetually filled tables and wall-to-wall "to go" customers mingling in the aisles. My wife, Nancy, and I sat at the bar with our 3-year-old daughter, Hannah. Nobody seemed to mind. When you're finished eating, one of the five women at the counter will add up your tab longhand on a scrap of paper.
On the advice of a food guide, I ordered the off-menu po' boy with fried shrimp, Swiss and roast beef gravy, which turned out to be my favorite of the trip. The delicate, lightly breaded shrimp occasionally popped out of the sandwich, but none went to waste. The mix of tastes — shrimp, gravy and hot sauce — proved unexpectedly delicious. When I ran out of napkins, I licked my fingers. It's that kind of place.
Domilise's was also the farthest off the beaten tourist path — a 15-minute hike from the St. Charles streetcar line. The neighborhood goes from upscale to dicey in a few blocks, so a rental car might be the best transit option. The trip is worth it.
Mother's This restaurant churns out 100,000 pounds a year of its claim to fame — black ham with crisp, caramelized crust. The Famous Ferdi Special, Mother's most popular sandwich, is named for customer Ferdi Stern, who asked for a little ham on his roast beef po' boy. The Ralph is a Ferdi with cheese, and the John G piles on turkey too, making for a monster. All traditional po' boys come "dressed," New Orleans-speak for all the fixins — shredded cabbage, pickles, mayonnaise, Creole and yellow mustard. Tomatoes are frowned upon.
We ordered our po' boys to go. Back at the hotel, I gleefully assembled my roast beef po' boy with "debris" — the slow-cooked roast beef that falls into the gravy while cooking. Yes, that is roast beef with roast beef on top. I forked the debris, which came in an 8-ounce foam cup, onto the sandwich one bite at a time. After the euphoria of my first taste, I realized we'd forgotten napkins. I wiped my hands on the bedspread and plowed onward.
Locals like to denigrate Mother's because it fills with tourists from the high-rise hotels in the central business district and sets its prices accordingly. The $13 soft-shell crab po' boy, in particular, makes the locals blanch. But most sandwiches cost from $5 to $9, just like at other places.
Johnny's Po-Boys By my count, Johnny's had the most po' boys on the menu — 50 — of any place I visited. Besides all the basic models, variations include the BLT, bacon and eggs, crab cake, French fry, country fried steak and tuna salad.
I ordered Johnny's Special of roast beef, grilled ham, American and Swiss cheese. It was a messy delight.
Purists scoff at the touristy French Quarter location and oddball variations on the classic sandwich. But even the Martin Brothers, progenitors of the po' boy, were known to serve the occasional bananas-ketchup-mayo special order. And a loyal clientele has been filling up the no-frills Johnny's since 1950.
Franky & Johnny's The noisy Garden District restaurant often called "a living history of New Orleans" sells po' boys that are consistently voted the best in the city. The seafood versions — shrimp, oyster, catfish, crawfish, soft-shell crab — are the main draws.
Unfortunately, Franky & Johnny's was the last po' boy place I visited (and the third on that particular day). By that time I was filled to the gills. Despite the waitress' advice, I passed on the fried fish and crustaceans, a mistake for sure, and tried the po' boy made with smoked sausage, the same links used in its red beans and rice.
Good or bad, I couldn't tell you. Certainly under other circumstances I might have had a stronger opinion — and the judges I consulted did — but at that point I didn't want to see another sandwich for a month.
Uglesich's This lunch-only joint in the Garden District, pronounced YOU-gul-sitches, has been called a "culinary mecca" and a "decrepit" dive by reviewers in the Zagat restaurant guide. You could spend a weeklong vacation sampling every dish on the Louisiana seafood menu and still want more. That is if you could stomach the line that regularly stretches out the door and around the corner. (Locals say it moves quickly, which it did for us.)
Uglesich's, known for many things, takes pride in its oysters, showcasing shucking championship plaques on the wall. I ordered the oyster-shrimp po' boy, Uglesich's most popular, and it didn't disappoint.
It was here that I learned the fine art of po' boying — that is, keeping all the filling inside the sandwich until you're finished eating it. The trick: Cup the sandwich on three sides while biting the top.
Central Grocery Customers sit face to face on stools at three counters in the middle of this Italian grocery, where the shelves are stocked with pasta and olive oil and the smell of garlic and sausage fills the air. There's only one item on the menu: the Sicilian-flavored muffuletta sandwich. This close cousin to the po' boy was invented here in the 1920s.
The Frisbee-sized muffuletta (pronounced MOOF-a-lotta) is loaded with ham, Genoa salami, mortadella, Swiss or provolone cheese and dressed with olive salad. The olive dressing is what separates this sandwich from your average hoagie.
I stopped by Central Grocery in the French Quarter on the way back from Jackson Square with Hannah. The only decision to make was whether to order a half or whole sandwich. The whole — a flat, round sesame seed Italian loaf cut into quarters — was as big as my head. We took it to go.
When we unwrapped it back at the hotel, my wife's eyes grew wide. "Wow," Nancy said. "Good thing you only got one." Without the olive salad the muffuletta would have been just another sandwich. But with it, it was awe-inspiring. "Wow," Nancy said again and again as she bit into the muffuletta. Wow, indeed.
Parasol's The plan was to stop at Parasol's, open until 10 p.m., at the end of the day to get a po' boy to go for our plantation tour the next day. Owner Jeffrey Carreras assured me my roast beef po' boy wouldn't last that long. Not because I'd devour the sandwich before morning, he said, but because the Parasol po' boy is meant to be eaten immediately. The toasted bun, juicy roast beef and fresh shredded lettuce won't keep overnight, he said. I insisted.
He was right. In the morning, I ended up throwing away most of the po' boy after it leaked through its wrapper and coagulated into a sopping mess.
To prove his point, Carreras fixed up a bite-size version of his mainstay roast beef po' boy before we left the restaurant. I should have realized then that the gooey, steamy sandwich wouldn't travel well. I had trouble just getting it from the plate to my mouth without it gloriously falling apart in my hands.
Parasol's began in 1953 as a bar in the converted front porch of an old house in Uptown. The restaurant, in a room behind the bar, came along later to offer pub grub to the regulars.
Hitting every po' boy joint in greater New Orleans might take a year or more, so I know I missed a few gems.
Some people rave about R & O Pizza Place in Metarie, known for its meatball po' boy with melted mozzarella and red gravy served on hot Italian seeded bread. I hear Liuzza's in Mid-City makes a peeled barbecue shrimp po' boy that's to die for.
In Uptown, Casamento's makes a mean oyster po' boy, and Jacques-Imo's deep fries its roast beef — that is, the whole sandwich is deep fried, bread and all. Crabby Jack's in suburban Jefferson adds a touch of panache with its roast duck, rabbit and salmon po' boys.
Next time. For now, I'm full.
Eating well
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Chateau Hotel, 1001 Rue Chartres; (504) 524-9636, http://www.chateauhotel.com . I stayed at this historic French Quarter hotel with 48 rooms and a courtyard; breakfast is included. Doubles from $79.
Most po' boy sandwiches cost less than $10.
Domilise's, 5240 Annunciation St.; (504) 899-9126. A newspaper article mounted on the wall carries this headline: "So outdated it's glamorous." That about sums up the place. Off the beaten path and finger-lickin' good.
Mother's, 401 Poydras St.; (504) 523-9656, http://www.mothersrestaurant.net . It's big and popular (there are more than 100 tables) with a no-nonsense staff, but the flavor makes you forget all that.
Johnny's Po-Boys, 511 St. Louis St.; (504) 524-8129. About 50 po' boys on the menu, all of which require extra napkins.
Franky & Johnny's, 321 Arabella St.; (504) 899-9146, http://www.frankyandjohnnys.com . Often voted the best in the city by locals. Go for the catfish.
Uglesich's, 1238 Baronne St.; (504) 525-4925, http://www.uglesichs.com . Locals line up at this packed, lunch-only dive that's known for its oyster dishes.
Central Grocery, 923 Decatur St.; (504) 523-1620. The muffuletta sandwich, a close cousin to the po' boy, was invented here in the 1920s. The olive salad dressing makes it stand out.
Parasol's, 2533 Constance St.; (504) 899-2054, http://www.parasols.com . The restaurant pumps out po' boys that have been dubbed works of art.
— Brady MacDonald


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Peter Tattersall, PhD
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Genetics
Departments & Organizations
Molecular Virology: Virology Laboratories
Yale Cancer Center: Virus and Other Infection-associated Cancers
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development
Office of Cooperative Research
Dr. Tattersall received his B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 1968, and his doctorate from University College, London, England, in 1971, for studies on parvoviral DNA structure, replication and S-phase dependence, carried out at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), now Cancer UK. Then followed two years of postdoctoral fellowship at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, in Nutley, New Jersey, where he worked out the structural protein strategy of these viruses, and then two further years in Yale University's Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department, where he formulated the rolling hairpin model for parvoviral DNA replication.
In 1975, he returned to the UK, working at the ICRF's Mill Hill Laboratories on parvoviral interactions with differentiating cells. He moved back to Yale University in 1979, initially on the faculty of the Department of Genetics and then in Laboratory Medicine, where he was appointed professor in 1993.
His laboratory continues to focus its efforts on understanding the basis of selective oncotropism of rodent parvoviruses for human tumor cells, and the molecular mechanisms by which mammalian parvoviruses target and enter particular cell types, express their genes, take over their host cells and replicate their own DNA.
Education & Training
|University of London (1971)
|BSc (Hon)
|University of Glasgow, Molecular Biology (1968)
|Yale University
|Roche Institute of Molecular Biology
Honors & Recognition
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2007)


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Ethiopia Continues to Develop under EPRDF
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent – THE SEOUL TIMES
|Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi
The government of Ethiopia could easily be engulfed on a major scale by ethnic and religious turmoil just like Sudan. Or radical Sunni Islamic zealots in Somalia could be causing mayhem by exporting their brand of "hatred" to fellow Muslims in Ethiopia. However, Ethiopia, despite being multi-ethnic and multi-religious, continues to thrive under the leadership of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
The EPRDF under the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, have managed to galvanize a desperate situation because modern day Ethiopia is developing rapidly. The reason for this development is because the EPRDF have put great emphasis on modernization and stability. This can be seen by the expanding education sector and the continuing growth of new universities and the same applies to developing the road system and infrastructure of Ethiopia.
The legacy of the Mengistu regime which collapsed in 1991 was deplorable and the EPRDF had to virtually start from scratch. This applies to the democratization of Ethiopia, modernization, and creating a system which benefited the people of Ethiopia.
While Ethiopia started on a path of democratization and modernization many neighboring nations remained in chaos. This applies to the ongoing crisis in both Somalia and Sudan. Meanwhile, Eritrea is hardly developing on the right path; on the contrary, this nation is alienating itself because of its role in Somalia and other dubious foreign policy ventures.
If we turn the clock back, it is apparent that many centralized nations which were communist, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious, failed to survive the political environment of the 1990s. This notably applies to the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; meanwhile, it must be remembered that minorities in China are massively outnumbered by the majority ethnic Han.
Added to this, is the hostile environment because millions have been killed since the 1990s in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and other nations. Despite this, the EPRDF is open to all ethnic and religious groups and this political party clearly understands the need to respect all ethnic and religious groups in Ethiopia. Therefore, ethnic and religious tensions have been contained because of the role of the ruling party and the ongoing democratization of Ethiopia.
Of course, the 1990s and early 21st century for Ethiopia have not been easy. This applies to the war with Eritrea and ethnic and religious tensions which sometimes become ignited because of various factors. Also, the threat from Somalia is real because Sunni Islamists threaten to destabilize Ethiopia and allow global jihadists to spread both internal and global terrorism.
Also, the infrastructure was very weak under Mengistu and at the same time the population continues to grow rapidly. Despite this, the EPRDF is clearly focused on creating a sustainable economy and expanding opportunities for all Ethiopians irrespective of ethnicity or religion. Given this, fresh hope is on the horizon because recent years have seen high economic growth rates and many new sectors are starting to bloom.
In recent weeks, Meles Zenawi hinted that he may leave office and he may or may not do so? Whatever he and the EPRDF decide, it is clear that the EPRDF is a functioning political party and Meles Zenawi, like all politicians, is replaceable despite wisely guiding Ethiopia during difficult times.
After all, the EPRDF functions to serve all Ethiopian people and Meles Zenawi functions within the EPRDF. This once more shows you the democratic nature of the EPRDF and how it sole purpose is to serve the Ethiopian people under the democratic institutions which have been put into place by this political party.
For many Ethiopians and EPRDF members, they are hoping that Meles Zenawi will remain in power and that he will guide the EPRDF in the next general election. However, his vision, and the vision of the EPRDF is based on developing and modernizing Ethiopia and for this reason the majority of Ethiopians supported the EPRDF during the last election. Therefore, while this issue is topical, it pales into insignificance when compared with developing Ethiopia.
Therefore, Meles Zenawi and the EPRDF can be trusted to do what is best for Ethiopia. After all, the foundation stone for a prosperous Ethiopia is being firmly laid by the EPRDF and this "stone" applies to all Ethiopians, irrespective if Christian, Muslim, a follower of traditional beliefs, secular, or whatever.


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NEW YORK -- In a pre-game ceremony this evening, Yankees third baseman, Alex Rodriguez, will be honored as the 2007 Player of the Year and AL Outstanding Player. Selected in a secret ballot of all Major League baseball players, Alex will receive the Players Choice Awards for a stellar offensive season in which he became the youngest player in Major League history to reach the 500 home run plateau. Alexs teammates, LaTroy Hawkins, a member of the MLBPAs Executive Board and a Players Trust Representative, and Ross Ohlendorf, will represent their Major League peers in presenting Alex with these awards.
Alex has accumulated a record eight Players Choice Awards in his career, including recognition as 2002 Player of the Year. His 2007 dominance at the plate helped keep the Yankees within reach of the playoffs, by leading the Majors in home runs (54), RBI (156), runs scored (143) and slugging percentage (.645).
In Alexs honor, the Major League Baseball Players Trust will award a $70,000 grant to the Boys and Girls Club of Miami, home of the Alex Rodriguez Education Center, which houses a computer laboratory, classrooms and a teen center. 2007 Players Choice Award winners in all categories will designate charities to receive grants totaling $260,000 from the Players Trust. Since 1992, the Players Trust has recognized the outstanding on-field and off-field performances of Players Choice Awards winners by contributing over $3 million to charities around the world.
Through the Players Trust, Major Leaguers contribute their time, money and celebrity to call attention to important causes affecting the needy and to help encourage others to get involved in their own communities. In partnership with Volunteers of America, the national human service organization, the Players Trust created and helps administer the Action Team, a national youth volunteer program currently inspiring the next generation of volunteers in cities throughout the United States. For more information on the Major League Baseball Players Trust, please visit www.MLBPLAYERS.com.


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The hotel restaurant was closed. So we ate at the bar. It was early August, and I was in town visiting a former NFL lineman. Call him Max. It's better not to use his real name.
During his time in football, Max was hit in the head. A lot. He since has endured nine brain surgeries. He has trouble remembering things. Serious trouble, like the main character in the movie "Memento." Max and I were both carrying notepads, but for different reasons.
At the other end of the bar, two guys discussed mixed martial arts.
"I'll tell you what -- ever since MMA came around, I can't watch boxing," said one. "It's too boring."
There was a game on. Saints-Cardinals. The first contest of the NFL preseason. Max had his back to the television. Once upon a time, he was an avid hunter. He owned a successful business. Today, he's unemployed. Pretty much broke. Lives in a trailer outside his brother's house. He probably shouldn't drive, probably shouldn't own guns. He gets angry. Has a hard time sleeping. He misses his family. His estranged wife and children are afraid of him.
On the television behind the bar, a Cardinals receiver caught a pass. A Saints defender dutifully drilled him, slamming the receiver's helmet into the turf. I wanted to look away. The guys at the bar cheered. I was drawn to the replay, slow-motion and high-definition, the whiplash bounce of the receiver's skull. I wondered how much of the play he would even remember.
Max turned his head. He had an appointment scheduled for the next morning at a nearby brain clinic. The doctors know him by name.
"Look at that hit," he said. "In the old days, I would have gone, 'Oh, man, great hit.' Now, I see it differently. I can't watch this s---."
Neither can I.
* * *
This is going to sound strange. This is going to sound especially strange coming from a sportswriter on a sports website. But here goes:
This fall, for the first time I can remember, I won't be watching football.
I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss sack dances and perfect spirals; leggy cheerleaders in long boots and creeping stadium shadows in the late afternoon; self-serious, mansplainin' studio analysts and the flexing, glowering Fox football robot. I'm going to miss thrilling to Tim Tebow's game-winning overtime touchdown toss in last year's playoffs; I'm going to miss giggling at, like, 75 percent of his other passes.
Mostly, I'll miss the escape.
Life is tedious. Life is hard. Life is bills and work and getting stuck in traffic. More than other sports, football provides an alternate universe, almost perfectly self-contained, a refuge from what Marxist historian and West Indies cricket writer C.L.R. James once called "the sordid compromises of everyday existence." Tune in, turn on, set your fantasy lineup, drop out. Like a soap opera, football's weekly narratives are both engrossing and inexhaustible; like reality TV, nothing about the sport seems quite real. Not even its inherent violence. I mean, everyone knows that football physically destroys its participants from the outside in -- breaking bones, smashing shoulders, shredding ligaments. It's just that no one really cares. We feel sympathy, not empathy. We've made our peace, the way we've made our peace with all of the terrible things horse jockeys and runway models do to their bodies in order to stay thin. A football player goes down, writhing in pain. A trainer jogs in from the sideline. Cut to commercial. The end. The entire scene is routine, mundane, packs as much emotional punch as the arrival of the old "Madden NFL" ambulance. Oh, well. Price of admission. This isn't flag football. Don't want to get hurt? Go play intramurals, brother!
Brain damage is different.
Brain damage destroys lives from the inside out. Destroys not only what people can do, but also who they are, now and forever. The harm is usually invisible, like an IED buried inside the skull, until it becomes plain. I can't make peace with it. For much of the past two years, I've been reporting and writing on football's concussion crisis -- which is less a crisis than an everyday state of affairs, and hardly limited to concussions. (Big hits, little hits: They're all an unavoidable part of football, and they all add up). I've met parents mourning the death of their teenage son; former players who get lost driving around their own neighborhoods; scientists describing in microscopic detail how proud, intelligent men become hollow, half-mad husks. I've learned that the NFL can be callous, and fans even more so, and that for many people, ignorance is bliss, even when it involves the health of their own children. Slowly, over time, I've found myself worrying more and enjoying football less; recently, I've come to feel that seeing people ruin themselves for entertainment's sake -- so my Saturdays and Sundays are a little more fun -- isn't just sordid. It's ghoulish.
For me, at least, there is no more escape.
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I can't watch football because of Ann McKee. We met in the morgue, at a VA facility outside Boston, where the brains come, freezers and refrigerators ringing a steel table, as clean and cold as the nearby scalpels.
McKee wore surgical gloves and a blue plastic bib. She held a white plastic bin. Inside was a human brain, immersed in preservative fluid, yellow-green and translucent. It looked pickled.
"This is from 29-year-old individual," she said. "There's been a shrinkage of the brain. It will be dissected and made into slides."
Another bin.
"This is a retired NFL player. It shows atrophy. Shrinkage of the cortex. Shrinkage of the deep cortex."
Another bin. Another former pro.
"Very small temporal lobes. This looks like CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a mind-ravaging disease associated with repetitive head trauma]. Wow. Pretty amazing. I think this will be a good case."
McKee was speaking as a research scientist. As a football fan -- as the kid sister of two brothers who played the sport -- she knows the larger truth. There are no good cases. A neuropathologist and co-director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, she started off years ago looking at the brains of punch-drunk boxers, slides of stained neural tissue placed under microscopes, the last, silent testaments of men who died young and troubled.
Her first football brain was a revelation.
"It was a wow moment," she said. "I saw the same changes in young boxers. To see that someone is 29 and has this disease, to see the complete degeneration? You begin wondering."
"Older people can get erratic and violent, attacking their bedmates and nursing home nurses. People say they're just old. But when younger people do that, it's like they're a psychopath. Then you look at these brains and it's like, 'It wasn't really him. It was the disease.'"
Other organs can be transplanted and replaced. Our brains cannot. They are us. Our thoughts, feelings, sensations, reflexes. Football hits cause trauma, pulling the brain like silly putty, stretching and shearing nerve cells. Some hits cause concussions. Some do not. The damage accumulates over time, regardless: Boston University researchers estimate that the average high school lineman takes between 1,000 to 1,500 hits to the head each season, some at forces equivalent to or greater than a 25-mile-an-hour car crash. The end result can be found in the white plastic bins, and in McKee's office, where stacks of slides are piled like freshly-folded laundry.
Former Philadelphia Eagles safety Andre Waters, dead at 44 from shooting himself.
Former University of Pennsylvania football captain Owen Thomas, dead at 21 from hanging himself.
Former NFL safety Dave Duerson, dead at 50 from shooting himself – purposely in the chest, so that his brain could come here.
The Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy has released test results for the brains of 20 deceased football players. Nineteen showed evidence of CTE. McKee has many more brains to examine, and hundreds more pledged to the center by athletes who still are alive. Some days, she can hardly keep up. "Honestly, I can't read the stuff I'm supposed to read," she said. "I'm treading water really fast."
Because the brain floats inside the skull, there is no magic helmet that will make football safe. Smack an egg carton with a baseball bat: Would bulletproof Kevlar packaging keep the yolks from sloshing around? Currently, CTE can't be detected in the living. Scientists are working on tests, biomarkers and brain scans, ones that don't require scalpels. A diagnostic method is not forthcoming.
As McKee puts it, the brain is deep space.
"The more you get into it, the more it's an incredible universe," she said. "There's so much we don't understand."
While attending medical school, McKee suffered a bicycle accident, flipping over her handlebars. She hit her head. Some older women stopped to help. McKee told them she felt fine. She was fine. She got back on her bike. It was unrideable. She walked seven miles home, rolling her busted bike alongside.
The next weekend, she took her bike to a repair shop. They told her it wasn't broken.
McKee was shocked. Unnerved. Football increasingly makes her feel the same way. She grew up rooting for the Green Bay Packers. She remains a devoted fan, has a framed 1968 team yearbook in her office. Recently, though, she stopped attending local high school games, something she once loved. McKee is a mother. The hits were too hard to stomach. Even watching the Packers makes her pause.
"It's a guarded enjoyment," McKee said. "You watch the game, but you're kind of holding your breath."
I'm tired of holding mine.
* * *
I can't watch football because of Gil and Michelle Trenum. And because of their son, Austin.
Two years ago, Austin suffered a concussion during a high school football game. An alert trainer pulled him off the field. Emergency room doctors checked him out. He went home. He seemed OK.
A day and a half later, he hanged himself.
There was no suicide note. There were no warning signs. Austin had no deep, dark secrets. He was a happy, healthy kid. A good student. Popular and well-liked, the type of young man you hope your daughter brings home on prom night. He loved his parents, his girlfriend, his two younger brothers. He was planning to go to college; on the last day of his life, he was planning to watch a Washington Redskins game.
The Boston center examined his brain. They did not find CTE. They did find a multifocal axonal injury, damage to the fibers than connect the brain's nerve cells. Doctors strongly suspect the injury led to Austin's sudden, inexplicable decision. His family was devastated. His friends, too. An entire community. Football went on. Gil and Michelle have since become advocates for concussion safety and awareness. Grieving parents seek them out, anguished phone calls and emails coming from people they've never met. I've written about the Trenums. I admire them. Consider them friends. They are the bravest people I know. Still, they hurt. They live with a hole. It will never be filled.
"Even when we have a good day, we still know he's gone," Michelle says. "We can be happy. We can laugh with our friends. But we still know."
Football damage is like a rock dropped in a lake. The human cost radiates outward, concentric circles of pain. Duerson. Ray Easterling. Junior Seau. Each man had a family. We all do. Loved ones suffer twice, in death and in life. These are the words McKee uses to describe the clinical symptoms of CTE: Impulsivity. Disinhibition. Volatility. Problems with depression and emotional control. And this how Hall-of-Fame lineman Mike Webster, later diagnosed with the disease, spent his final months on Earth: living in his truck, squeezing Super Glue on his rotting teeth, shooting himself with a Taser gun in order to sleep and sniffing ammonia to stay awake.
Sometimes, Webster would call his friends and family, disoriented, needing directions to his own home.
"All I see is trees," he would say.
I know a woman named Monet. Her father played in the NFL. Her cousins. Two of her brothers. One of them is having problems. Relationship issues. Bad decisions. Erratic behavior. He thinks he has CTE. His family agrees. They babysit him. At work. At youth football practice, where he's a volunteer coach. They try to make sure he's never alone. He has no clue. They don't want to hurt his pride. I know another woman, the wife of a retired player. Her husband bounces checks. Can't hold a job. Forgets to pay the same parking tickets a half-dozen times. At home, he will open the refrigerator, make a sandwich, and then place the leftover meat, cheese and condiments on top of the fridge. His wife cleans up the mess. She always does. She's exhausted. She sometimes cries for hours. Everything keeps getting worse.
"When she married the big, beautiful football player, I don't think anybody bought into this," says a close family friend. "I know you buy in for the long haul. But it don't think anybody bought into the scope and magnitude."
This, too, is football. Just not the football they televise on weekend afternoons. The closest thing might be HBO's "Hard Knocks," which sometimes shows players at home -- eating dinner with their wives, playing in the pool with their children. The families are young. They always seem happy. I wonder if they know what might be coming, the scope and the magnitude. I wonder if they see Mike Webster's trees.
* * *
I can't watch football because of my nephews.
One is 23. He's a smart kid, tall and handsome, just starting out in life. Maybe I'm biased, but he ought to go far. He played college football. He has the knees of a 50-year-old. I pray that's the extent of his long-term damage. My other nephew is 14. He was the ring-bearer at my wedding. He's one of the smaller kids on his youth team, yet somehow plays on the defensive line. He spends a lot of time getting pummeled. He recently told my wife that he has been concussed before, and that a lot of his teammates have, too; he said this matter-of-factly, with something approaching pride, as if brain trauma is both the natural order of things and the wristband that grants access to an exclusive, manly club.
I wish I could be so blithe.
Earlier this year, I met filmmaker Sean Pamphilon. You probably have heard of him. He's the guy who released audio of former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams exhorting his charges to "kill the head" of opposing players. He also is the director of "The United States of Football," an upcoming documentary that explores football's place in American culture. The film is largely built around Pamphilon's sprawling attempt to answer a single question: Should I let my son play football? Over lunch, Pamphilon told me he has been working on the project for more than two years, interviewing everyone from medical experts to Pittsburgh Steelers defensive linebacker James Harrison to the wives of dementia-addled former players. He told me that he still loves football, but can't watch it the same way. He told me that he hopes his junior high-age son chooses not to play the sport when he gets older -- and that any parent who lets their child play tackle football without at least getting educated about concussions and brain trauma is essentially committing apathetic child abuse.
Knowing what I know, it's hard to argue his point.
Biologically speaking, boys and young men are particularly vulnerable to football-induced head trauma. Their brains are still developing. At the same time, they are the least-protected players in the sport. Case in point: Last December, Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy was concussed on a brutal, helmet-to-face mask hit. A team trainer misdiagnosed the injury and allowed McCoy to continuing playing, putting the quarterback's life at risk; afterward, the league placed certified athletic trainers in above-field press boxes to watch for missed concussions, while NFL Players' Association executive committee member Scott Fujita called for the sideline deployment of independent neurologists. Can high schools afford the same safeguards? Can Pop Warner leagues? I doubt it. According to the National Athletic Trainers' Association, only 42 percent of high schools nationwide in 2010 even had access to a certified athletic trainer educated in concussion care.
The studies are disturbing. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons reports that between 4 and 20 percent of college and high school football players will sustain a brain injury during the course of one season; many experts believe that number is wildly low due to undiagnosed and unreported concussions. A 2009 survey of high school trainers found that more than 40 percent of concussed athletes return to play too quickly, and that 16 percent of players who lost consciousness after being hit returned to the field the same day. Researchers at Purdue University recently found evidence of hit-induced brain changes in both concussed and non-concussed high school football players. A Virginia Tech study measuring head impacts among 7- and 8-year-old football players found that some hits generated more than 80 g's of physical force -- equal to the blows delivered in college football.
Four years ago, former high school quarterback Drew Rickerson was rolling out when an opposing linebacker clobbered him with a helmet-to-helmet hit. Rickerson suffered a concussion. He had no idea. Dazed and disoriented, squirting water from a bottle over his shoulder instead of into his mouth, he stayed in the game for nine more plays; five days later, he couldn't feel his limbs nor roll over in bed. His mother, Jean, took him to a trauma center. Regular neurology appointments followed. Misery, too. Drew missed two weeks of school. He couldn't understand television shows. Couldn't remember how to play video games. Felt utterly exhausted after walking 200 yards. Back in class, he fell asleep at his desk; usually an excellent student, he struggled to complete simple math problems. "It scared me," says Drew, now a college student studying physics and engineering. "Our team went to the state playoffs. I wanted to be out there so bad. But I was out of it. I wasn't myself. Sometimes I would wonder: Am I going to be like this for the rest of my life?"
It took months for Drew to fully recover. Others aren't as fortunate. I've been talking with a guy named Hank. He's in his 30s, like me. Once, he was the captain of his high school football team; today, he suffers headaches and memory lapses. He's worried about CTE, says some of his old teammates share the same problems, the same fears. He doesn't want to publish his full name, not so long as prospective employers can use Google.
In July, he wrote this to me:
… I remember my sophomore year, I began two-a-days practices with the varsity guys. I was a linebacker so they put me in hitting drills with the other linebackers. I was a 5'10, 165-pound, barely 16-year-old going up against 6'2, 225-pound 18-year-olds who were being scouted by colleges.
One of our LB went to Hawaii on a scholarship, another to UC Berkley.
One drill, I was supposed to tackle the senior starting center. He hit me so hard I couldn't see straight.
I played inside linebacker sophomore year. After the season, I became very very depressed. I didn't know why. I figured it was just a part of being a teenager, you know, hormones and things.
But I mean really depressed. I remember asking one of my defensive coaches for help, that I wasn't feeling well emotionally. He looked uncomfortable with the idea. He told me to get some exercise and that would fix me up.
Head trauma never entered my mind. I couldn't fathom playing football had anything to do with my emotions.
Now I suspect it had a lot to do with it …
Dr. Robert Cantu, one of the nation's leading sports concussion experts, argues in an upcoming book that children under 14 years of age shouldn't play collision sports. When I spoke to Cantu this spring, he said that his recommendation likely would "piss some people off." I'm sure it will. I'm also starting to wonder if Cantu goes far enough. College football is a multibillion-dollar, taxpayer-subsidized business. A Texas school district recently opened a $60 million prep football stadium. That's a lot of public investment in head trauma. In a recent issue of Sports Illustrated, a youth football coach wrote that the only time he gets "questions about safety is when it's a first-time kid and Mom is concerned about him playing tackle football. I tell parents that at six years old, they're not tackling, they're just pushing each other. If we get them at six and teach them how to play the game, when they're 10 and 11 they'll be a lot safer … a lot of parents are putting their kids in flag football leagues. Those parents are doing their kids a disservice." I think that's crazy. All of it. We're not talking about adults. We're talking about children. Pee-wee leagues and high schools and colleges alike act en loco parentis. Their first duty is to keep kids safe. To cultivate young minds, not destroy them.
Recently, I've been asking people: Would you support high school boxing teams? College scholarships for MMA?
Of course not, they say.
Then how can you support football?
People look at me like I'm crazy.
* * *
I can't watch football because of Linda Sanchez. She's a congresswoman from California, a member of the House Judiciary Committee. During a 2009 Capitol Hill hearing on concussions in football, with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell slouching meekly in his seat, she likened the league to the tobacco industry.
For decades, Big Tobacco said cigarettes were harmless, backing up that claim with junk science and bogus expertise, working very, very hard to obscure and discredit medical and scientific evidence to the contrary. The league seems to have followed the same playbook. In 2003, the head of the league's brain trauma committee -- former New York Jets team doctor Elliot Pellman, a Mexican medical school-educated rheumatologist -- dismissed a study linking multiple concussions with depression among former players. Twice, the committee published papers claiming that concussions were not "serious injuries" and that there was "no evidence" that concussions produced "permanent or cumulative" damage. Independent scientists strongly disagreed, finding fault with the NFL committee's sloppy methodology and suspect conclusions. But never mind that. When forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu dissected Mike Webster's brain and subsequently published a groundbreaking article in the academic journal Neurosurgery concluding that football-related head trauma causes CTE, Pellman and two other committee members wrote a letter to the journal attempting to invalidate his research. In fact, it wasn't until 2010 that the NFL started warning players about a link between concussions and long-term brain damage -- three years after former league concussion committee co-chair Ira Casson gave the following interview to Bernard Goldberg of HBO's "Real Sports," later replayed by Sanchez at the Judiciary Committee hearing:
Goldberg: Is there any evidence, as far as you're concerned, that links multiple head injuries among pro football players with depression?
Casson: No.
Golberg: With dementia?
Casson: No.
Goldberg: With early onset of Alzheimer's?
Casson: No.
Goldberg: Is there any evidence as of today that links multiple head injuries with any long-term problem like that?
Casson: In NFL players?
Goldberg: Yeah.
Casson: No.
"I'm an attorney, and one of the first questions that came in my head was, 'Gee, why would the NFL try to downplay that you can get hurt with concussions?'" Sanchez says. "It's because they happen during work. They're a work-related injury. It's very clear that the league didn't want liability."
Currently, about 3,000 former players and surviving family members are suing the NFL, essentially attempting to hold the league liable. I have no idea if the plaintiffs will win in court. I know they have a moral case. I also know that the various lawsuits -- and really, anyone who cares about football should try reading a few -- make it awfully hard for me to feel good about the sport, about all the rationalizations that go in to being an informed, socially-aware football fan:
Getting hit in the head is bad for you? Duh! Those money-grubbing, ambulance-chasing ex-players knew what they were getting into. Now they're complaining? Tough luck. Why can't they just leave football alone?
No. Just no.
OK, fine. They didn't know. Today's players do. And guys like Troy Polamalu are fine with the risk, cool with harming themselves. Who am I to feel differently?
As the writer Charles Pierce put it in his piece on Grantland, "We ought not to allow people to be destroyed -- either all at once, or one concussion at a time -- for our amusement. Doing so makes us amoral. Hell, it makes us vampires." I think that's about right.
Football is culturally irreplaceable. It teaches important, lifelong values, like teamwork and self-sacrifice. It satisfies our deep, dark bloodlust. It gives young men an outlet for aggressive impulses.
Non-contact sports teach the same thing. Working at an after-school job teaches the same thing. For bloodlust, we have Hollywood and "The Real Housewives" franchise; for channeling young male aggression, we have "Call of Duty." None of the preceding involve brain trauma.
Hey, you can suffer a concussion driving a car. Or riding a bike. Life is risky. Football is risky. Sure, we should minimize the risk. But doing so is enough to keep on enjoying the sport, right? Accidents are tragic. But they happen.
True. Only here's the thing about football, the thing that separates it from everything else, that makes the sport exciting and dangerous and fun, the thing that's so hard for me to reconcile. The hits aren't accidents.
They're pretty much the point.
* * *
I'm going to miss football. I already miss enjoying it. Sure, I'll still follow the sport -- a highlight here, an article there, a check of the stats and standings. And yes, I'll still write about it, too. It has that kind of gravitational pull. I don't begrudge anyone who feels differently, nor judge anyone who wants to sack out on a Sunday afternoon, lost on Planet RedZone. All of us are informed by different experiences.
Mine have brought me here.
It's a pretty lonely place. Football's popularity seems to grow every year. I wonder how long that will last. A few weeks ago, my colleague Will Leitch asked in the pages of New York Magazine if following football was morally wrong, concluding that "there are no big TV contracts or player salaries without fans tuning in. We're all part of the problem." Are we? Am I? I can't say. I only know this: There's definitely a problem, an ugly one, and I've seen too much of it to keep watching.


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Pimp My Zimmer started life in Essex and is now taking hold in other areas of the country. Not only does it provide a fun and engaging activity for residents – it also pays a huge part in reducing the number of falls.
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I left last night jhbuild compiling all GNOME modules, included meta-gnome-proposed, to find this morning it failed on libtelepathy because of missing darcs in my system. Installed it and watched it work until it came to another module needing bzr, installed again, and then, a few minutes later, another module complained about missing mercurial. And so far, so good, but this makes 6!! (if not more, it's still compiling ) version control systems needed to compile GNOME unstable, that is: CVS, subversion, git, mercurial, darcs and bzr.
While I have nothing against people writing/using their own tools for whatever they want, it started to look to me, exaggerating, of course, like the Linux distro market, where, if we continue the trend (fortunately, the number of distros is not increasing, like it did a few years ago), we'll be having almost a distro per Linux user. So, although I don't know in detail all of these VCSs to really understand why they all exist, is this really needed? Wouldn't it be better to have 2 or 3 very good VCSs that fit most people's needs? If not, I'll write my own


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This final film was a huge disappointment. I don't even rank it higher than DoS, which means that of the 3 Hobbit films, only Unexpected Journey has pleased me.
Contrary to DoS though, so much is cut from the theatrical edition of BoFA that there is still hope for a much improved extended edition of film 3, and after some recent interviews with Boyens and Jackson, we have a pretty good idea what sort of great stuff will be appearing in the EE. Having said that, there are many things that struck false notes here, and they will not be remedied by the EE.
What I did not like about film 3:
Alfrid- Jackson's Jar-Jar, but even worse. One of their best characters, says the brilliant Phillipa Boyens, she is so pleased with him.
The magnificently boring People of Lake-Town and the enormous amount of screentime they got.
The excessive focus on and the way of displaying Thorin's dragon sickness
Dol Guldur- Galadriel vampire, worse than in FoTR, who would have thought it. Also, Saruman cowers before Sauron and the fight with the Nazgul disappoints
The way Smaug Dies, the made up dialogue and action here is silly.
The way the battle ends, the way Azog and Bolg die, the way none of it makes any sense.
Legolas in general
Hated the absence of Beorn
No idea why they even omitted Thorin's funeral, or Dain's crowning, but it's all confirmed to be in the EE, along with much more of Beorn.
The fact that one old Lake-Town fisherman kills 3 BRED for WAR GUNDABAD ORCS with his fishing rod, and how every dwarf stands for 5 such Gundabad monsters. Ridiculous.
The brevity of the return journey. Jackson did not do the return journey any justice.
I felt the whole battle seemed so unreal and devoid of tension. I wasn't expecting it to feel so flat. Also wished there would have been more side-by-side fighting between Dwarves and Elves, that was sort of the point of it all.
Finally, I thought the appearance of the eagles to be extremely short, I was expecting some more here. Over in a flash.
What I did like:
Smaug's attack on Lake-Town was great, and enough of it as well.
Thorin's farewell speech with Bilbo and Bilbo's reaction to his death was superb.
Balin in general
The design of some of the Trolls, just a shame they were all so useless, seems hard to imagine.
Thranduil was excellent once again, or at least Lee Pace was. I do think they made him far more of an antagonist in this film but on the whole I have really enjoyed Lee Pace's Thranduil. And his magnicent warmoose.
It felt rushed, but at the same time, I did not feel as if I wanted to see much more of this. The film overall feels so poorly handled by Jackson and Boyens that it's hard to see how even a significantly improved EE, containing vital scenes, will help cure what is a deeply malfunctioning film, both as an adaptation, and on its own. Jackson finishes off completely in his style. We'll always wonder what would have happened if Del Toro stayed on ( not that Del Toro is a flawless filmmaker, but it would have been different).


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The names "smali" and "baksmali" are the Icelandic equivalents of "assembler" and "disassembler" respectively. Why Icelandic you ask? Because dalvik was named for an Icelandic fishing village.
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