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Show Yourself the Money
You'd think it would be hard to go broke on $1.1 million a year, which is what the average NFL player pulls down. The trouble is, the average NFL player retires in three-and-a-half years, and most blow through their retirement savings in less than ten. Which is why there's now an MBA program with one goal: to take these men from signing contracts to writing them
We've heard a lot about the dangers football players face on the field—the damage to body and brain that comes from driving your skull into an armored opponent hundreds of times a season. But there's another malady afflicting the NFL, playing out beyond the gaze of the cameras and the crowds. A 2010 report produced by a Dallas investment house found that aside from the richest of the rich, among the remaining 90 percent of NFL players, nine in ten of them would be insolvent within ten years of retirement. If that figure seems inconceivably high, consider that even at half that rate, the league is facing an epidemic. Pro football careers last on average just 3.5 years, most ending all of a sudden with an on-field injury, the athletes earning millions one moment and nothing the next. Before and after retirement, all too many of them are throwing their money at risky ventures, burning through their earnings, turning themselves into bright, barn-sized marks for any underhanded scammer or well-meaning bumbler.
Harry Swayne, a starting tackle on three different Super Bowl teams, now works as the Baltimore Ravens player-engagement rep, whose job it is to counsel and assist the athletes. He says retired guys call him all the time who are downtown drunk, crying, who have lost their savings and wives and can't afford child-support payments. "After the last play, a player's self-confidence is broken," Swayne tells me, his mellifluous baritone appropriately calming. "I literally have to give them money. I talk to them about their redeeming qualities and value as men."
It's not just the second-stringers and the guys with blown-out knees who are imperiled financially. Even the superstars are at risk. One of the recent titans to fall: Warren Sapp, the taunting, always yabbering pass rusher whose six-year, $36 million contract was one of the richest deals ever for a defenseman upon signing in 1998. Over thirteen seasons, Sapp was paid more than $60 million in salary and held endorsement deals with Nike, National Car Rental, and Swanson Hungry-Man. Yet when he filed for bankruptcy last year, his debts had reached $6.7 million, his checking and saving accounts holding a combined $1,165.35. Most reports sneered at his collapse, depicting a crass and irrepressible man-child incapable of hacking it in the adult world: He owed child support to five different women, had lost his 2002 Super Bowl ring, and owned 240 pairs of Air Jordans and a lion-skin rug. But the primary source of his debt, according to the filing: bad business deals, particularly an ill-advised venture, Urban Solutions Group, that built low-income housing in Florida during the housing bust.
Derrick Brooks, a former Buccaneer alongside Sapp, is now one of the "ambassadors" the NFL sends out to warn players about pecuniary pitfalls. He recounts taking a wash on a T-shirt company back during his playing days. He wrote a $35,000 check to a friend of a college buddy, but Brooks didn't do the necessary due diligence, didn't look over a business plan. He didn't even ask for a copy of the check. The man vanished with the money. "Lord, I banked it as a lesson," Brooks says. "The guy penetrated a very close network. The embezzler duped my friend as well. The swindle often comes as a slow leak, not a blown tire."
The NFL has responded to this increasingly publicized crisis with everything from mandatory symposiums for rookies to career-transition training for veterans. The league provides education on investment fraud and arranges off-season internships and "boot camps" related to future careers in broadcasting and the music and movie industries. It sends one hundred players each off-season to its own four-day business and entrepreneurial seminars at Notre Dame, Penn, and Stanford. But this instruction is meant not to spur entrepreneurship but, as a league official told me, to "reverse the curse" by forestalling it. Athletes are supposed to learn just enough there to realize that they're still Pop Warner when it comes to business. The very traits that enabled them to become professional football players—a cocksure belief in their own superiority, a fearlessness with risk—often creates foolhardy and dangerous investors.
While the NFL preaches patience and temperance, a new ecutive MBA program at George Washington University—the first MBA program designed especially with professional football players in mind—takes the opposite approach. Called STAR, an acronym for Special Talent, Access, and Responsibility, the program treats entrepreneurial inclinations not as a frailty to be reined in but as a weapon to be honed and deployed. The emphasis is definitely offense, not defense. Michael Lythcott, a successful entrepreneur who runs STAR's new business incubator, says the league and the play-it-safe financial advisers have neither cut down on the risky behavior nor addressed the real problem. He likens their approach to teaching abstinence in high school sex ed. Lythcott, whose mother founded Harlem's National Black Theatre, sees the plight of athlete investors as that of African-American entrepreneurs writ large—mostly that they operate outside the existing support networks and that they don't benefit from suitable financing, appropriately matched partners, and training that are all there for others. So this MBA program emboldens the forty-five students already enrolled in the first two classes to take their collective net worth of $300 million, their $2 to $3 billion networks of corporate sponsors and wealthy boosters, and to suit up for business now, before their stars begin to wane. It's a strategy no one has tried before, Doug Guthrie, the dean of George Washington's business school, tells me.
The people running the STAR MBA are good salesmen with a good sales pitch, but so far the NFL isn't buying it. A Wharton professor who teaches one of the league's sanctioned business seminars dismissed the GWU degree as "MBA light." Ed Butowsky, a managing partner at the Dallas firm that conducted the athlete-bankruptcy report, manages the money of a hundred professional athletes, insisting that these twenty- and thirtysomethings uncharacteristically forgo the flash and behave financially as if they are 60-year-old pre-retirees about to be on a fid income for the rest of their long lives. Of STAR's pro-business strategy, Butowsky says, "It's like allowing drug dealers to treat recovering addicts. You're giving these guys the drugs."
Last spring, I decided to see for myself what the STAR program was like. During the four days I spent at George Washington University sitting in on business classes, I witnessed speedy receivers and cornerbacks attack accounting books with yellow highlighters and 320-pound lineman take on the Kantian approach to business ethics. In a role-play ercise, Marcus Stroud, the two-time All-Pro defensive tackle, made believe he was the CEO of a glue company whose products had become popular with fume-huffing street urchins in Latin America. When E. J. Henderson, a Minnesota Vikings linebacker pretending to be an anticorporate activist, demanded that the company shutter its factory in Honduras, Stroud said, "Uh-uh, we ain't gonna jump the gun on that one, you feel me? Do the math right here: You close the plant, you've got 500 more kids on the street." Some of the players were joined in class by their wives—at the additional tuition cost of $99,500 per student—since a professional athlete's income and renown often constitute the family business. One morning, I watched Emma Dockery, the petite wife of Derrick Dockery, a towering offensive lineman several times her size, announce during the pre-class meal that YouTube helped her figure out a vexing aspect of balance sheets. In celebration, she ecuted a perfect cheerleader's double-hook jump.
_Photo by NYSE. From left to right: Isaiah Stanback, Michael Dean, Bernard Berrain and Anthony Adams visiting the New York Stock Exchange. _
Not surprisingly, the STAR instructors did not dwell on cautionary tales of financial failure, on the likes of Raghib "Rocket" Ismail, Terrell Owens, or Mark Brunell. Instead, they held up happy examples from the athlete-entrepreneur Hall of Fame—Magic Johnson, Roger Staubach, John Elway. Students were told repeatedly to think of their brand; I heard** **the word empowerment used a lot. One day a lineman raised a hand to express concerns about an assignment that would send students onto the streets of the capital to survey "general consumers." He was so big and black, he said, he worried his presence alone would unnerve people. "When you're running your own company," the professor responded, "will you still be big and black?"
Inspiring locker-room talks aside, the MBA program hardly seemed light. In six two-week modules spread out over two off-seasons, the athletes tackle** **the same curriculum as any other ecutive MBA students. They huddled together in study groups, working late into the night. And like any business school degrees, this one provides not just a crash course in accounting and leadership but a new set of connections, or a better sense of what to do with the ones these sports celebrities already have. During a break between classes, I talked to Jonas Jennings, an offensive tackle who played eight seasons in the NFL. He wore a pine green rugby shirt, and I felt like I was sidled up alongside a tree. When we discussed the number of players who were believed to go bankrupt not long after they left the game, he assessed the several guys around him, seemed to consider the percentages, and shouted to a former teammate, "Hey, man, I'm one of the few who made it!" He currently runs several businesses around his hometown of College Park, Georgia, near Atlanta's airport—a power-washing company, a barbecue-catering business, and soon a funeral home. He owns some real estate. But as a southerner who went to a state school there, he said he had enrolled in STAR because he could use a little northeastern elitism, a different framework for his business thinking.
Marques Colston, the New Orleans Saints wide receiver, seemed already to have internalized some of the STAR teachings. He explained to me that 85 percent of his net worth should be tied up in conservative stocks and bonds. But his energies, he said, were going to be focused on that remaining 15 percent, which he'd use for start-ups and private equity. "That smaller percentage, that's where you get your home runs."
At 29, Colston is a lithe six feet four, with squared shoulders and fingers so long they look like the result of centuries of evolution to create the perfect football-catching apparatus. He's also so preternaturally unassuming that it was hard to imagine him as the chief ecutive the MBA classes were grooming him to become. "Quiet Storm," his nickname, is tattooed on his triceps, and not as an expression of affection for the slow jams of Anita Baker and Barry White. "I know I'm not vocal," Colston told me during a field trip in which the students met with officials from the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition. "But I'm comfortable with who I am. I lead by what I do. And even in business, I can use my demeanor to my advantage."
Questions regarding the handling of Quiet Storm's net worth recently took on new meaning. In the weeks between the first and second STAR modules last off-season, just before the league punished his team for promoting a bounty program in which players were paid for inflicting injuries on opponents, Colston signed a deal to remain with the Saints: $40 million over five years, if he manages to stick around that long, with $19 million of it guaranteed. More than anyone else in the STAR class, he was at the critical risk-reward point in his financial life, the moment when the vultures would descend, when he would either begin to hemorrhage money or figure out how to preserve and possibly grow it.
About the multimillion-dollar contract, Colston said it hadn't changed how he sees himself. But even just weeks into the deal, he recognized that other people viewed him differently. Everyone he knows is aware of the exact figures, even if many of them believed that the entire publicly announced sum was currently idling listlessly in his bank account. In every conversation, he now sensed an underlying agenda—the ask—that was as yet unspoken but soon to be raised. The danger lurks because guys like Colston are listening and are eager to answer. They're actively seeking the home-run business propositions.
"I've got to leverage my career for the next venture," Colston said of his newfound wealth. "It's why I'm in the MBA program." An acquaintance of Michael Lythcott's, venture capitalist Corey Galloway, had already helped Colston form an affiliation with a company called Wat-ahh!, a brand of bottled water marketed to children. And Colston purchased his Pennsylvania hometown's American Indoor Football team, the Harrisburg Stampede. Colston said, "I'm looking for something else that will give me the same feeling, or some of the feeling, of playing football." A seventh-round draft pick out of Hofstra who already won a Super Bowl, who is the top target for one of the most dynamic quarterbacks ever to throw the ball, who had just inked a $40 million deal—what will happen to him as he tries to chase something comparable?
One evening after classes, I accompanied the athlete-students to The Palm steak house near Dupont Circle. The occasion was a fund-raiser for Rocky's Road, a charity serving local schoolchildren, started by two STAR classmates, Rocky McIntosh, a former Washington Redskins linebacker who had signed with the St. Louis Rams that summer, and his wife, Alessia. Earlier in the day, a George Washington professor had prepped the STAR MBAers, reminding them that foundations and fund-raisers serve as gateways to business opportunities. "Over the next stage of your career, you will have these chances in a crowded room to make a connection," the professor explained. "You don't have a lot of time when you meet people. Refine your approach; get your script together." I saw a few of the athletes at The Palm heed the advice. They roamed the room, maneuvering amid the displays of autographed jerseys, mini-helmets and other auctionables. In front of the caricatures of politicians lining the walls, they shook hands and introduced themselves to the moneyed people there.
I sat at a dinner table with several of the STAR students, including Bernard Berrian, a wide receiver who used to play for my hometown Bears. In 2008, after grossing roughly $2 million in salary over four seasons with Chicago, Berrian signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Vikings. Aside from the top picks in the draft, most players hit the jackpot only if they make it to a second contract with their star seemingly still on the rise. Rarely is there a big third contract. Berrian's second contract: six years for $42 million, with $16 million of it guaranteed regardless of whether he was ever cut or injured or whether the team demanded the deal be renegotiated downward, which it did. One of Berrian's tattoos is of nearly indecipherable script running up his sinewy arm.** **I am God's son, the golden child, it begins. "It's about redemption," he told me, "something I wrote after I left Chicago. It's about everything that came before."
In Minnesota, however, Berrian played not as if he had been delivered unto salvation but as if he needed saving. For the entire 2010 season, he caught a mere twenty-eight passes; through seven games in 2011, his total receptions reached just seven, for ninety-one yards. His last touchdown came in 2009, and even in the virtual world of fantasy football he ranked in 2011 as the 144th best player at his position. But Berrian never lost faith in his abilities or even accepted that the blame for his declining stats resided entirely with him. On Twitter during the 2011 campaign, he complained about being wide open and not being thrown the ball. At quarterback, the two-time castoff Donovan McNabb wasn't getting the job done. When a Minnesota state legislator ridiculed Berrian as an out-of-touch whiner, @B_Twice shot back. "I'm grown," Berrian told me. "I'm going to defend myself. So I tweeted that he could come down and watch game film with me to see how open I've been. I was like, 'Stand up and talk to me like a man.' How was I supposed to know he was a war vet who didn't have any legs?" The state rep also turned out to be one of the politicians helping to secure public funding for the team's new stadium. The Vikings promptly cut Berrian.
_Photo courtesy of William Atkins/The George Washington University. _
As a treat for the fund-raiser attendees, Rocky McIntosh and other current and former Redskins served the meal, which came in portions sized for the Hogs, Washington's famed offensive line: a surf-turf aggregation of eighteen-ounce steak and three-pound lobster, surrounded by an archipelago of whipped, fried, and creamed sides. The Redskins delicately secured bibs along the nape of each of the guests. Running back Clinton Portis bibbed me, and I thanked him, saying, "You guys are really going all out." But in a bizarro NFL way he took my small talk as a request for some "special" off-menu service.
"I know what you mean," Portis snapped, like a masseuse who truly just rubs down knotty calves. "I'm not going to do all that."****
We were joined at the table by Berrian's adrenalized business manager, Chris Rehnke, who also happened to be taking the STAR classes alongside his client. A lawyer by training, Rehnke grew up in Minnesota, but he met Berrian in Fresno, where he was running nightclubs. Rehnke assured me that B was super-excited about business school but was also 100 percent focused on playing football next year. As of this writing, no teams had reached out to Berrian, but Rehnke remained confident. He said B's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, might even use the business-school commitment to demonstrate just how much Bernard had matured.
Berrian, well practiced in hearing others speak about him in the third person, listened abstractedly, at one point turning to engage another student in conversation. Later, while I arm-wrestled my lobster, Berrian told me that he expected to play three to five more years. About his long-term prospects, he said he did some broadcasting back when he was with the Bears, and people have suggested he also consider acting and modeling. At 32, Berrian does possess rakish good looks, with high cheekbones, almond eyes, and sharply angled eyebrows that seem perpetually cocked in an expression of jaunty knowingness. I was with him when a lovely stranger passed him a note with a telephone number:
_Call me _
_—Felicity _
Berrian still owned a 2,900-square-foot Minneapolis penthouse, which had been featured in an issue of Sports & Entertainment Today, a glossy lifestyle magazine for athletes that was started by another STAR student, Danisha Rolle, the wife of retired defensive back Samari Rolle. The magazine spread shows bachelor Berrian chilling on a gold-colored leather sectional, Chihuly-like glass shining all around him and sitting poised before his piano. On the subject of the many monkey artifacts around the apartment, Berrian told the magazine, "I just like monkeys. Don't ask me why, I just do. I've got one monkey that's hiding and another one that's looking at himself in the mirror."
Raised in a town an hour north of Fresno in a strict two-parent military household, Berrian said he also was tough as far as rules with his own 10-year-old daughter. He explained that he was not the type to go broke just because the checks stopped coming. Even though he felt certain another team would eventually pick him up, he had been fine since leaving the Vikings. He'd always been relatively modest with his spending. After his big payday, he purchased just one crazy piece of jewelry, and his jeweler assured him he could repurpose it at any time if need be. In terms of business opportunities, he had to stay busy or else he'd go crazy with boredom. Early in his career, he sunk thousands of dollars into a venture fixing up and reselling old cars, but that didn't work out. How come? As Berrian told me, his partner was his then-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. But other investments had done better. In Minneapolis, Berrian was one of the first football players to test a new mouth guard that previously had been worn only by hockey players. He put money in that company, as well as in a package-delivery business and in a management outfit having something to do with an up-and-coming San Francisco bor.
He said he was now considering investing in a Minneapolis restaurant.
Jennifer Carter-Scott, who directs the side of STAR MBA that helps people like the McIntoshes start their foundations, overheard Berrian. "Restaurants—not good investments," she cut in.
"I know," said Berrian.
"No profit margins in restaurants," she trilled as a lesson to everyone at the table.
Berrian severed a bite-size parcel from his tract of steak. A minute passed. "I'm going to do the restaurant," he said.
A couple of weeks later—around the time that Peyton Manning decided to play in Denver, Tim Tebow headed to New York, and the league suspended the Saints head coach for the entire upcoming season—Bernard Berrian and Chris Rehnke headed to Los Angeles to pitch new business ideas. Rehnke drove down from Fresno in what he called his "rapper car," a black Escalade with glittering rims, picking Berrian up at the airport. I decided to meet them there. My hope was to glimpse whether there was any truth in STAR MBA's theory about the benefits of athletes being encouraged in their entrepreneurial efforts. Could an MBA and a business plan help someone like Berrian avoid the tragic fall? Could they keep him solvent, allowing him to preserve the lifestyle and prominence he'd come to expect from the world?
As it turned out, Berrian and Rehnke were selling an idea in L.A. of such ludicrously prodigious proportions that if ever realized, it would launch them into the promotions and media big leagues. They were angling to engineer what was then still the most highly anticipated and impossible-to-coordinate sporting event of the past several decades: the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. Not only would they manage to accomplish what no one else had and—by dint of their close contacts in both camps—bring together the two bors, but they also planned to circumvent traditional broadcasters and stream the event live worldwide over the Internet. To become these world-beaters, Berrian, Rehnke, and some other partners would simultaneously launch a marketing company and a production company. Rehnke explained to me the business relationship he'd established with Berrian: Bernard gave him his start as a manager, so he was going to cut him in on every deal that came his way. "I'm like COO, and B's the CEO," Rehnke said.
"Do all players have a Chris Rehnke?" I asked.
_"_No one else has a Chris Rehnke," Berrian chimed in. "It's always their homeys, their cousin. The first thing is, I have to trust you. I trust Chris."
Michael Lythcott happened also to be visiting Los Angeles at the same time, lining up investors and opportunities for some of the STAR students. He invited the three of us to join him one night at Soho House, a private club in West Hollywood. Lythcott, in a Yankees cap and cardigan, greeted us in the penthouse bar that he called Mt. Olympus. In a glass-encased deck overlooking the city and an expanse of billboard advertising _Game of Thrones, _we ordered drinks and chocolate-chip cookies, and Berrian requested a fruit plate. We toasted, and I saw sitting next to us Djimon Hounsou, the guy from Amistad—"Give us, us free!" We collectively gaped at Sofia Vergara. A parade of unsmiling waifs sashayed past, one of them a willowy figure with a sprig of dyed blue hair sticking out from wheatish tresses. "Man, that was Jaime King from White Chicks,"Berrian said of this last waif. I did a double take, not because I'd ever heard of Jaime King but because Berrian had just name-checked White Chicks.
_Photo courtesy of STAR MBA. _
Lythcott, with his moon eyes and fleshy cheeks, has the kindly looks of a teddy bear, and he displays none of the blinged-out affectations of some of the high-profile athletes he now assisted. Yet when I asked players in the STAR program what they hoped to do with their lives after football, a number of them said they wanted to be like Mike Lythcott, who now led me into a darkened room of low-slung tables to meet his buddy, "the real-life Tony Stark," Elon Musk. The PayPal founder rose to shake hands and shared with me that his SpaceX had an important launch to the Space Station in the coming weeks.
Musk and Lythcott met at Penn, and then they both hung around a regular poker game—not huge stakes, but the powerful men at the table would also discuss business, advising one another on their projects. They called themselves "The List," and eventually a rift formed between the millionaires and the billionaires after the group began vacationing together, heading off to ski resorts and islands, and they tried to split expenses—We can take my private jet, if you pick up the tab to gas it. "I was going broke just trying to keep up with them," said Lythcott, one of the millionaires and The List's only African-American. Part of what the STAR MBA degree promised was access to a version of The List. "When Lythcott says he freaking knows a billionaire," Rehnke hollered at one point, "he freaking really knows the billionaire."
The next morning, Berrian and Rehnke pitched their big idea at the Beverly Hills headquarters of Roar, a consulting company that raises capital and negotiates deals for entertainers and businesspeople. Lythcott is a Roar client, and he had set up the meeting. In a conference space in which the tables, cabinetry, and fixtures all conformed to the bowed shape of the room, Roar's founding partner and two of his senior managers at first seemed understandably dubious of the grandiose scheme, then somewhat intrigued and by the end surprisingly supportive. Berrian listened intently, taking notes on an iPad. He remained mostly silent but nodded or emitted a double click from the back of his mouth when a statement really excited him. On our way out, Rehnke was already bouncing on his toes.
For the day's second meeting, we headed west to Culver City to talk with Marc Scarpa, one of the city's top live-streaming-video producers. Scarpa does all the digital media for _The X Factor _and won an award for his real-time coverage of the Grammys. We had met him the night before, when he stopped to chat with his close friend Michael Lythcott on Soho House's penthouse roof deck. Lythcott made the introductions, and the meeting was arranged. I noted it as a lesson in how special talent and access goes down.
Scarpa's enthusiasm for the plan to orchestrate the fight of the century and broadcast it digitally far outstripped that shown by the men of Roar. "This could go down in history as something bigger than a sporting event," he declared. "It could change the way people watch and distribute sports." He offered to help pull it all together.
As we cruised back to Beverly Hills in the rapper car, I couldn't help share in some of the "and when he said" replaying of the conversation and in the dreamy speculations. I felt intoxicated just observing something utterly improbable turn into something at least moderately possible, and I didn't even have anything at stake. If I'd happened to be a person with a couple of million languishing away in some ho-hum mutual fund, I might have told Rehnke that I wanted in. I might have written a check on the spot. The urge made me recognize something: I didn't have a clue if what I was experiencing was how athletes made fortunes—or lost them.
I checked back in with Berrian and Rehnke months later, just as the 2012 NFL season was reaching its end. They were weeks away from entering their second year at George Washington University, along with a new horde of football players who would be STAR MBA rookies. Berrian spent much of the year preparing for a call that never came, working out with trainers, staying game-ready. He still planned to play in the NFL next season and possibly the season after that, and would be training accordingly.
Between the sprints and the weights, Berrian also kept a busy business regimen. The Pacquiao—Mayweather thing obviously flailed. Pacquiao lost two bouts to lesser opponents, reducing the demand for the fight, and Berrian and Rehnke had some issues on their end with a partner flaking. But they weren't ruling out the possibility of it eventually all unfolding just as they initially planned. In the meantime, Berrian had become an official partner in Rehnke's management firm, where he intended to ercise the long list of pro athletes on his cell-phone contacts as well as a newfound penchant for accounting. _(You go, business school!) _The two of them also started working with an app-development company and with a real estate developer who was opening a series of resorts in Belize. The restaurant Berrian mentioned back at The Palm steak house, a casual seafood spot, opened in Minneapolis in early 2013, and he and Rehnke envisioned franchises across the Midwest. Additionally, they and other guys from the STAR program joined a new athlete-filled angel investment group, a kind of clearinghouse for the "can't-miss" proposals that were usually pressed upon these guys in locker rooms and clubs. The group had reviewed numerous start-ups and so far had agreed to fund four, with an individual's maximum investment capped—lower risk—at $25,000.
Listening to Berrian list off this arsenal of business ventures, I remembered something I was told by John Karaffa, president of ProSport CPA, one of the legion of financial firms now targeting the professional-athlete demographic. Karaffa shared a theory with me about sports stars and their business ventures. He said the NFL guys perceive the world much like lottery winners, who come to believe that their one-in-a-million success means they're more likely to win at other games of chance. Maybe STAR MBA could help usher in a new breed of athlete entrepreneurs less prone to financial fumbles. They'll do their finance homework, study best business practices, and benefit from vetted lists of partners and consultants. As with any start-up, the odds of success remained long. The safer move would be something less entrepreneurial, or no move at all. But for most of these sports stars, business was the other game of chance they couldn't wait to play; demanding the ball, they raced headlong into the oncoming defenders.
Ben Austen is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine_. His last article for GQ, "Aubs Eat Boogers," explored the bitter football rivalry between Alabama and Auburn._


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Visit the exhibition! It features moving, jittering, vibrating objects. This is TRUE, go see for yourself how the bronze age shields are waving, the parade axes are shaking and the gold bowls threaten to tip over at the slightest movement in the floor.
But that's about the only entertainment you'll get in that exhibition.
As an archaeologist you'll probably be happy to see that the volume of finds in the exhibition has increased massively. Which is a good move - from the representative exhibition showing single objects as representatives of a style/type/time to a volume of objects competing to overwhelm you and to give an impression of the rather massive volume of finds, that actually exist.
And hooooraaaay, the amount of text has been limited to a minimum. My biggest pet peeve in museums is "books on walls". Thank you for getting rid of that.
If people want to READ to learn about history, there are more comfortable ways of doing that. Like taking a book to your armchair with good light, no disturbances but perhaps some dim music and a cup of tea. Books on walls in crowded museums CANNOT compete with that.
Instead, the text has been limited to a nice chronological overview you can always cling to when you get overwhelmed and dizzy of the masses of jewelry and weapons surrounding you on all sides.
Wonder why it's become fashion to use black as the background colour in museum exhibitions recently? Not very practical as it reflects the light and sometimes what you see most is the reflections of the lamps in the already very dark rooms. I've been informed that the darkness in the dark rooms is a technical fault - it's too dark some places. It will be taken care of (eventually...).[the dim lighting is intentional in some rooms only it has become too dim by mistake]
The exhibition is stocked with jewellery from all periods - it's overwhelming. But personification I think is what is lacking. The exhibition does not succeed in bringing the past to life. Where are the people who wore the jewelry, those that drank from the beakers, buried their dead, scraped the skins, made the sacrifices, fought the wars?
Perhaps a little contextualising wouldn't hurt. And yes, it can be done without adding more text, it just needs altering of the text and perhaps some storylines, some more effects, more drama?
Go and see the Barbaricum exhibition at Lunds Universitets Historiska Museum. Here you have a brilliant example on how to contextualize without overtexting, and how to create a setting that helps the visitor plunge into the past.


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AshLee F., 32, personal organizer, Houston, TX
Ashley H., 25, fashion model, Denver, CO
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Taryn, 30, heath club manager, Troutdale, OR
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ROCHESTER — While the state Department of Health and Human Services reports tobacco sales to New Hampshire youths have increased significantly in the last year, retail sales from both Strafford and Rockingham counties show they are below the state average.
The state's Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services (BDAS) reports recent tobacco compliance checks on tobacco sales to youths show an increase by about 5 percent overall, from 8.6 percent in 2011 to 13.2 percent in 2012. In 2010, the state average was at 7.8 percent.
In Strafford County, 11.8 percent of stores monitored in the process of selling to minors went through with the transaction and in Rockingham County, only 4.9 percent entered into the illegal transactions.
Tobacco sales are prohibited to persons under the age of 18 in New Hampshire.
Rob O'Hannon, former coordinator of SYNAR — a federally mandated effort which works to reduce tobacco sales to youths — said 291 tobacco retailers were surveyed across the state, where state inspection officers went to stores with minors and monitored their sales. O'Hannon said some clerks did not request identification from the planted minor and others, even after receiving identification that indicated the customer was underage, went through with the sale.
"A 5 percent rise is fairly significant," O' Hannon said, noting he believes the increase was due to a lack of staffing at the state Division of Liquor Enforcement and a mix-up in communication with those conducting the compliance checks. He added perhaps retailers knew there would be fewer checks this year as well, and were therefore less compliant.
BDAS Director Joe Harding said in a press release minors who use tobacco tend to also be more open to abusing alcohol and drugs. Data from the state's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which studies students across the board largely in local high schools, demonstrated that youth tobacco use dramatically increases their use of other substances. The results of 22,000 students surveyed in the 2007 YRBS revealed that 27 out of 28 high school students who smoked also reported drinking.
"While the results of the checks were well under the federal SYNAR requirement of 20 percent," Harding said, "this does raise concerns. Research shows that lower tobacco use by youths also decreases the chance that they will use drugs or alcohol."
In Rochester, the most recent YRBS survey from 2011 showed students were above the average of those surveyed who admitted to smoking a whole cigarette before the age of 13. According to the data, 15.2 percent of Spaulding High School and Rochester Middle Schools students said they had a cigarette, compared to the state average of 9.7 percent. The survey also showed 51 percent of students in the Lilac City believe it is very easy to get cigarettes.
BDAS and the state Liquor Enforcement Division said in the DHHS press release they plan to increase efforts to lower the number of tobacco sales to youths. These efforts will include increased coordination with local law enforcement and other educational efforts.


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|2011-04-14, 00:16
|Link #22621
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|2011-04-14, 00:42
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Senior Member
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Well, that kinda answered a bunch of questions I had, glad to have that much cleared out for me.
I still am not totally enlightened about the Meta-world though. I guess I should ask the main question I have about it:
Am I supposed to see it's plot only as a means for hints on the game board, or do I need to keep track of the magical plot in it? Like for example, should I ignore the fight between Will and Bernkastel, and only listen to what Bernkastel told Ange about what happened after Eva left the island as a clue? My main problem with that is Bernkastel and Lambdadelta, what about them? Are they ''not real'' as well?
Erika said to Beatrice: ''Well, alternate dimensions like this are actually becoming common in detective novels'', and then Beatrice says ''(forgot the name) doesn't make his debut until next year''.
And then there's the whole part where child-Ange is crying and Battler comes to tell her the story of ''what really happened'' (end of EP 7), this just really confused me. When did this happen?
Was Bernkastel's torture of Ange just a metaphor for kids bullying her in the aftermath of Rokkenjima's tragedy? Is a different form of Ange living in a different dimension(meta world), and the real Ange living in the real world, and BATTLER was telling the story to Meta-Ange, who has nothing to do with the Ange of the real world?
Was the whole court of illusions just a metaphor for Erika pinning Natsuhi as the culprit? Or are both scenes true, just the court of illusions scenario happening in a different dimension?
Stuff like that, basically.
Oh, and yeah I knew that Kyrie had said her baby was stillborn in EP 3, what I was saying is that I never saw it revealed that Battler was her son, basically, where it is revealed. But if she wasn't entirely sure it survived, that answers my question. I was just wondering how someone as smart as her could honestly not realize that her child was conveniently alive, and never heard from it again, not realizing it was Battler all along.
|2011-04-14, 01:08
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Mystery buff
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There are a lot of people don't think Ep7's Tea Party is reliable at all if you ask them. But yeah the meta world is ripe with metaphor. It's not all important though. It's a good idea to pay attention to the gameboards too. But I don't think you can call the gameboard more "true" than the meta world or anything. They're both sort of happening.
I've also heard it's been implied in EP8 that Lambdadelta and Bernkastel will appear in a later when they cry series if that helps any.
And that Ange probably represents Ange's inner child or something. Since she appears in Episode 8.
|2011-04-14, 01:16
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In other words, the whole Meta-World thing is just like the Catbox? In that case I guess I should just reread it from both perspectives when I have the time.
If Episode 8 really does reveal this much, I can't wait to buy it, I want to wait until EP 8 before I reread through the entire tale.
|2011-04-14, 01:22
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I won't bother to type the whole theory since it's probably going to be shut down entirely anyway but...
Basically I'm thinking Rokkenjima Prime doesn't even really matter.
"Reality" could be a girl who writes a book and showed it to someone in her class whom she has an interest to. That way trying to make said reader understand a message that's sorta "hidden" in the story.
That seems to me to make as much sense as a Rokkenjima prime we have between next to none and none at all information about. Even if that is wrong it at the very least allow me to try to see the story from a perspective of messages rather then anything, and it seems to be the goal of the arcs. Making us understand messages while playing a mystery murder game.
|2011-04-14, 02:55
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read toward the end of this
I think the EP3 interviews are also sorta relevant
read these
and this interview on EP 8
Be prepared.
|2011-04-14, 08:27
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Join Date: May 2009
Understand that R-Prime itself need not necessarily be the top-level fiction. To use your example, you could have something like:
Story Some Girl Wrote In Class > "Rokkenjima Prime" & Meta-World > Rokkenjima Stories > Embellishments of Stories
In your example of a "no Prime," R-Prime is not a developed universe, but more of a template in which the girl writing the story is drawing from. People, places, and events are all the same, allowing the Rokkenjima Stories to pull things from them (Battler and Yasu, Kinzo's mysterious condition, the Ushiromiya family and their business problems). It "exists," but the girl writing the higher-order fiction isn't concerned with fleshing it out, opting instead to use the Meta-World as a bridge layer where she'll develop her characters.
Of course, this could go on forever; you could insert an additional heretofore-unseen fictional layer above that one, and another above that, and perhaps a meta-reality layer on top of ours. But they're not as strongly supported as an R-Prime is by the Rokkenjima Stories, which is why I think a "no Prime" ordering is unlikely but not impossible.
It's very much a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude thing.
|2011-04-14, 12:23
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It's the "real world" of Umineko, if such a thing exists at all.
Basically the "reality" in which the Rokkenjima Incident happened and the world that discovered the message bottle stories and the world in which the subsequent stories were written and read.
If it exists.
|2011-04-14, 13:51
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There is other theories about the Meta-World as well. I'm not gonna go into hufe detail, but I believe that the meta-world is a bigger space on top of the 3-dimensional reality, where consciousness is more free form and has more control. Under my definition Higurashi and Umineko are linked through the same meta-world, just the stories told are greatly different based on the perspectives and restrictions put on them. (such as knowledge about how the Fragments work and restrictions such as the fantasy vs. mystery) For me, it's the meta-world story line that's important, but all theories of the meta-world seem to be more or less equal and it really comes down to personal taste and stance towards the story.
Check out some of my signature links if you want more in depth info on my theory.
|2011-04-14, 13:58
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The True Culprit
@R-Prime: Basically everything we've read about the Rokkenjima Incident is a story or manuscript that was read or written by characters like Ange or Hachijou. Therefore, there has to theoretically be a "Rokkenjima Prime" that is none of these "worlds" and is the actual truth of what happened. Whether or not the 1998(s) we've seen is part of Rokkenjima Prime is debatable.
|2011-04-14, 17:51
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Location: In the Meta- World... on Virgillia's bed.
"Yes, you may have your name change."
Few hours later, Natsuhi is notified of the change.
"Yasu! How dare you change your blessed name!? Who gave the right?"
Genji: "It was deemed by the master for her name to be changed."
"But that's madness!"
"It was deemed by Master himself."
"Well, fine! Go off and then!"
Now, to clarify, whether she knew Kinzo was her father or not, she still had benefits that she could exploit. Even a ten year old child would figure when she's getting special treatment, especially when they are bullied for it. And we all know that Natsuhi wouldn't argue against Kinzo.
And yes, I did read Ep7. It confused the heck out of me (I understood the events that transpired, the reasoning behind the events-- specifically, Yasu's backstory-- is what confused me), which is why I made up my own theory to make it all make sense in my head. Now, I understand that they could've switched randomly between names, thank you for that explanation.
Now please tell me how a girl "becomes a witch" and the servant "persona" stays behind, has her memory re-written, and becomes real. Furthermore, how does she create another boy "persona," practically talks to herself in public, and no one says anything about it?
Listen, I'm not trying to dispute anything. I just don't understand Yasu's backstory and YasuShannontrice doesn't help explain it fully.
|2011-04-14, 19:02
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It is normally a given that you do not see the author within the fiction. However it is very normal that you can still learn a lot about an author from their work. Ryuukishi is not a Umineko character. Also, normally authors aren't trying to make anyone find anything about the "real world". If they did, I'd at least expect it to be a bit more direct then Umineko. Generally speaking, I do not see outside of Ange an interest in finding a "single truth" about what "really happened" (if that means anything).
To me your order of things is almost the other way around.
<Author Level, whatever it is> obviously would be the highest level of reality, wether or not we actually see it within Umineko.
That produced arc 1, a fictional story that is intended to be discovered that is such.
At the end of arc 1 instead of having everyone visually dying, instead the scenes change to a "breaking the fourth wall" event where we see the characters talking about the story they were just in, fully aware that it is a story and wondering about it's genre.
That in itself isn't very uncommon. Many stories showed us, especially at the end, scenes with the characters breaking the fourth wall completely and talking about the story they were just in.
However in Umineko, these scenes actually become part of the story, and a story on their own. That is the meta-world, the world of breaking the fourth wall (except it's the fourth wall of the fiction within fiction they are breaking it seems). Obviously a "breaking the fourth wall level" cannot exist without the story it orriginates from.
As thus to me, the Meta-World is a third and much lower level then the main story. It does affect back however the main story.
Then the final and lowest level to me would be that so called "Rokkenjima Prime". To me it's like a byproduct of "the rest". It is only because we were gradually showed all the other levels that we wanted to find out an "absolute level" and that's Rokkenjima Prime. To give a very simple example of what it can mean, is that to me Yasu's personality is that of an author of a mystery story in relation to their work. She does things for reasons normally author woulds, but normally authors aren't in their fiction. As thus I am lead to believe that Yasu's backstory is only born out of trying to make sense on "how could a human being actually have the same personality as an author toward their work". (If you don't get what I mean by an author in relation to their work, well author make murders in their story cause it makes them more interesting, they don't have hatred or vengence etc for their "victims").
So to me it's like...
Author Level - Fictional Level - Breaking the Fourth Wall (meta world) - Rokkenjima Prime Byproduct of the rest.
Tho if I was to actually explain my thoughts concerning this and why I came to believe this, I'd write like 2-3 pages of stuff per point I made in this post.
|2011-04-14, 20:24
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And the story fits with what we know about Shannon in previous episodes. In other words her being, a servant for 10 years, and being a a bit of a clutz and her childhood promise with Battler. The Shannon Yasu talks to is her image of the ideal servant she wants to become and she emphasizes this constantly in episode 7 with her admiration of her and calling her the complete opposite of herself.
As for Kanon nobody actually sees her talking to herself. Besides Genji who doesn't matter. One explanation seems to be that they did notice, but that the thought of them being the same person seemed just as unthinkable of an idea to them as it was for us.
|2011-04-15, 08:26
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|2011-04-15, 13:50
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By the way, I was going over some of those interview links Judoh posted...
I'd still like to go back through EP3 and 4 and view it from Battler-Tooya's perspective...
|2011-04-15, 15:11
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Hell, how would Yasu even get a chance to ask that sort of thing of him? She's not a One-Winged Servant, yet, and neither of them know of their blood ties.
Eventually she discovers the fun of pranking, so she continues being a servant by day, and at night she dresses up in a witch costume and plays around, simple as that. She doesn't have any sort of multiple personalities, she's just a dedicated roleplayer, pretending to be two people in order to feel powerful and less lonely.
For that same reason, she eventually creates Kanon to help bandage her heart in-between lovers, pretending and dressing up as both throughout, and made sure their schedules didn't conflict and betray her secret. Telling Genji, Nanjo, or Kumasawa is pretty unnecessary; the second they found out, they'd have to support the illusion because otherwise Yasu would probably get fired and kicked off the island, which would spoil their master plan to return Kinzo his child and allow him redemption. Cue massive string-pulling to get everyone to not question Kanon's existence.
The Eva figure is nothing more but a personification of the Black Witch; the metaphorical final obstacle that Ange has to smash in order to complete her worldview. That's all.
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There are, however, a couple instances where that's not the case - for example, Rosa was presented as clearly acknowledging them both in EP2, outside the Chapel - but that's just sort of the author's ability to do whatever, because Battler doesn't see that and Rosa was probably recruited into a scheme by then. Same as the prison scenes in EP4.
Though, even if it's unnecessary, I think it's silly to think that Gensawajo was completely ignorant of Shkanon.
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October 2, 2012 Obituaries
ELDRED H. SCOGGINS Eldred H. Scoggins, U.S. Veteran, was born October 20, 1923 in Mangham, LA. He went to be with his Savior on September 30, 2012. He was a graduate of Bastrop High School and upon graduating, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He was a World War II veteran and served from 1943 to 1946. He was assigned to the USS Charleston Class PG51 gunboat and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific. The USS Charleston reclaimed the Attu and Kiska Alaskan Islands from the Japanese. These two islands had been taken by the Japanese following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. Scoggins was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and provider for his family and community. During his life he was a business owner, farmer, carpenter, deer hunter, and avid gardener. He was a lifelong member of Bartholomew United Methodist Church. 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Assignment 24-1
Comparative Planetology:
By now you have probably become an expert on comparative planetology. What is it? It is when astronomers study two worlds which are similar to help them understand the planets better. This week we are going to study the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
What do these planets have in common?
First of all, they are easy to see in a telescope or binoculars. They are bright, and they are both very pretty. Jupiter is a bit brighter than Saturn because it is bigger, as well as closer to us.
Jupiter and Saturn are the largest planets in the Solar System. Jupiter is 1318 times more voluminous than the Earth. This means it takes up 1318 times as much space as does the Earth. Saturn takes up 744 times as much space. Although Saturn is very big, Jupiter is actually much bigger. In fact, Jupiter is bigger than Saturn and all the other planets put together.
Because these planets are so large they have very strong gravity. The strong gravity sometimes captures asteroids making them moons. Both planets have more moons than the number of planets in the Solar System. Many of these moons are small and probably captured asteroids, but some are huge. Some of them are even bigger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.
The atmospheres of Saturn and Jupiter are almost identical. Both have high levels of hydrogen, helium and methane. Jupiter is almost twice as close to the Sun, however, and is much warmer. Because it is warmer, there are visible storms in the cloud tops. Saturn probably has similar storms, but they are deeper in the atmosphere where it is warmer, and where we cannot see them.
The first people who looked at Saturn with a telescope thought that it had giant ear like bulbs. This is because the telescopes they used were not powerful enough to see that what looked like bulbs were really rings. If you look at Saturn with your binoculars you will see that it is shaped like a lemon.
Saturn is not the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have rings as well.
Assignment # 1:
Name three ways that Jupiter and Saturn are similar.
Is Saturn the only planet with rings?
Visit https://kidsastronomy.com/solar-system/ to answer the following questions:
- List five fast facts about Jupiter.
- List five fast facts about Saturn.
Check your answer
Both Have Many Moons
Identical Atmosphere
Both Have Rings
Different Size
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For sale apartment of 90 sq. meters in the suburbs of Thessaloniki. The apartment is located on the 2nd floor and it consists of 2 bedrooms, living room with kitchen, one bathroom. Flat has corner layout has a forest view, has a forest view, also contains fireplace, parking, elevator, heating, storeroom.
Apartment – Thessaloniki, Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
80,000 €
888 € /m²
Total area: 90 m² Land area: 500 m² 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom
- Built in 2009
- 1 floor
- Total rooms: 3
- Sea at 600 m
- Car parks
- Forest view
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