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János Bolyai
Born: 15 December 1802 in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania)
Died: 27 January 1860 in Marosvásárhely, Hungary (now Târgu-Mureş, Romania)
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János Bolyai's parents were Zsuzsanna Benkö, from Kolozsvár, and Farkas Bolyai, from Bolya (near Nagyszeben). János was born in Zsuzsanna's parents home in Kolozsvár (now renamed Cluj in Romania) but soon went to Marosvásárhely where his father Farkas had a job at the Calvinist College teaching mathematics, physics and chemistry. Farkas Bolyai always wanted his son to be a mathematician, and he brought him up with this in mind. One might suppose that this would mean that János's education was put first in the Bolyai household, but this was not so for Farkas believed that a sound mind could only achieve great things if it was in a sound healthy body, so in his early years most attention was paid to János's physical development. It was clear from early on, however, that János was an extremely bright and observant child [7]:-
... when he was four he could distinguish certain geometrical figures, knew about the sine function, and could identify the best known constellations. By the time he was five [he] had learnt, practically by himself, to read. He was well above the average at learning languages and music. At the age of seven he took up playing the violin and made such good progress that he was soon playing difficult concert pieces.It is important to understand that although Farkas had a lecturing post he was not well paid and even although he earned extra money from a variety of different sources, János was still brought up in poor financial circumstances. Also János's mother was a rather difficult person and the household was not a particularly happy place for the boy to grow up.
Until János was nine years old the best students from the Marosvásárhely College taught him all the usual school subjects except mathematics, which he was taught by his father. Only from the age of nine did he attend school. By the time Bolyai was 13, he had mastered the calculus and other forms of analytical mechanics, his father continuing to give him instruction. By this time, however, he was attending the Calvinist College in Marosvásárhely although he had started in the fourth year and often attended lessons intended for the senior students.
In 1816 Farkas wrote to his friend Gauss asking him if he would let János live with him and take him on as a pupil so that he might receive the best possible mathematical education. Certainly it would have been a wonderful education for János and it is interesting to speculate what benefits might have come to the world of mathematics if he had accepted the plan. Gauss, however, rejected the idea. When János graduated from Marosvásárhely College on 30 June 1817 it was not clear how he might obtain a good mathematical education. Neither of the universities at Pest or Vienna offered a good quality mathematical education at this time, and Farkas could not afford to send his son to a more prestigious university abroad. The decision that János would study military engineering at the Academy of Engineering at Vienna was not taken without a lot of heartache and soul-searching but in the end this route was chosen as the least bad of the options. This is not to say that the Academy did not excel in teaching mathematics, for indeed the subject was emphasised throughout the course. János remained for one further year at Marosvásárhely College attempting to gain entry to the Academy at Vienna at the highest possible level which he achieved.
He studied at the Royal Engineering College in Vienna from 1818 to 1822 completing the seven year course in four years. He was an outstanding student and from his second year of study on he came top in most of the subjects he studied. He also had time to become an outstanding sportsman, and he continued to take his violin playing seriously and performed while in Vienna. His mother died on 18 September 1821 but he was able to continue his studies. When he graduated from the Academy on 6 September 1822 he had achieved such outstanding success that he spent a further year in Vienna on academic studies before entering military service. Of course he had received military training during his time in Vienna, for the summer months were devoted to this, but Bolyai's nature did not allow him to accept easily the strict military discipline.
In September 1823 he entered the army engineering corps as a sublieutenant and was sent to work on fortifications at Temesvár. He spent a total of 11 years in military service and was reputed to be the best swordsman and dancer in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army. He neither smoked nor drank, not even coffee, and at the age of 23 he was reported to still retain the modesty of innocence. He was also an accomplished linguist speaking nine foreign languages including Chinese and Tibetan.
Around 1820, when he was still studying in Vienna, Bolyai began to follow the same path that his father had taken in trying to replace Euclid's parallel axiom with another axiom which could be deduced from the others. In fact he gave up this approach within a year for still in 1820, as his notebooks now show, he began to develop the basic ideas of hyperbolic geometry. On 3 November 1823 he wrote to his father that he had:-
... created a new, another world out of nothing...but he still added a few lines later that it was not created yet. By 1824, however, there is evidence to suggest that he had developed most of what would appear in his treatise as a complete system of non-Euclidean geometry. In early 1825 Bolyai travelled to Marosvásárhely and explained his discoveries to his father. However Farkas Bolyai did not react enthusiastically which clearly disappointed János. Bolyai was posted to Arad in 1826 and there he found that Captain Wolther von Eckwehr, one of his old teachers of mathematics from the Academy in Vienna, was also stationed. Bolyai gave him a draft of the materials which he was writing on the theory of geometry, probably because he hoped for some constructive comments from him. However it would appear from Bolyai's later writings that he got nothing from von Eckwehr, in particular he never received the manuscript back.
In 1830 Bolyai learnt that he was to be sent to a posting in Lemberg. Early in 1831 he set off for Lemberg but visited his father in Marosvásárhely on his way. By now Farkas had come to understand the full significance of what his son had accomplished and strongly encouraged him to write up the work for publication as an Appendix to the Tentamen which was close to publication. Bolyai later wrote:-
Had my father not happened to urge or even force me at Marosvásárhely, on my way to duty in Lemberg, to immediately put things to paper, possibly the contents of the Appendix would never have seen the light of day.What was contained in this mathematical masterpiece? After setting up his own definitions of 'parallel' and showing that if the Fifth Postulate held in one region of space it held throughout, and vice versa, he then stated clearly the different systems he would consider:-
... denote by Σ the system of geometry based on the hypothesis that Euclid's Fifth Postulate is true, and by S the system based on the opposite hypothesis. All theorems we state without explicitly specifying the system Σ or S in which the theorem is valid are meant to be absolute, that is, valid independently of whether Σ or S is true.Today we call these three geometries Euclidean, hyperbolic, and absolute. Most of the Appendix deals with absolute geometry. By 20 June 1831 the Appendix had been published for on that day Farkas Bolyai sent a reprint to Gauss who, on reading the Appendix, wrote to a friend saying:-
I regard this young geometer Bolyai as a genius of the first order .To Farkas Bolyai, however, Gauss wrote:-
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work ... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years .There is no doubt that Gauss was simply stating facts here. The clearest reference in Gauss's letters to his work on non-euclidean geometry, which shows the depth of his understanding, occurs in a letter he wrote to Taurinus on 8 November 1824 when he wrote:-
The assumption that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is less than 180° leads to a curious geometry, quite different from ours [i.e. Euclidean geometry] but thoroughly consistent, which I have developed to my entire satisfaction, so that I can solve every problem in it excepting the determination of a constant, which cannot be fixed a priori. .... the three angles of a triangle become as small as one wishes, if only the sides are taken large enough, yet the area of the triangle can never exceed, or even attain a certain limit, regardless of how great the sides are.Bolyai did not remain long in Lemberg for in 1832 he was posted to Olmütz where he was now a captain. The discovery that Gauss had anticipated much of his work, however, greatly upset Bolyai who took it as a severe blow. He became irritable and a difficult person to get on with. His health began to deteriorate and he was plagued with a fever which frequently disabled him so he found it increasingly difficult to carry out his military duties. He retired on 16 June 1833, asking to be pensioned off, and for a short time went to live with his father.
After spending a while with his father, Bolyai went to live on the family estate at Domáld which the family had inherited from Farkas Bolyai's mother. He had met Rozália Kibédi Orbán and they lived together at Domáld from 1834. They did not marry, however, since the law insisted on money being deposited before a marriage could take place and Bolyai could not afford the money. He had two children with Rozália but his pension was insufficient to allow the family to live in comfort. He seems neither to have managed well what money he did have nor to have kept the estate in good order. It seems that Farkas Bolyai did not approve of Rozália, was unhappy about his son's financial position, was unhappy that the family estate at Domáld was not being properly cared for, and was unhappy that his son was damaging his good name for Farkas was a highly respected member of the community.
Certainly Bolyai continued to develop mathematical theories while he lived at Domáld, but being isolated from the rest of the world of mathematics much of what he attempted was of little value. His one major undertaking, to attempt to develop all of mathematics based on axiom systems, was begun in 1834, for he wrote the preface in that year, but he never completed the work. What he did write concerned geometry and there are several ideas in this unpublished work which were ahead of their time such as notions of topological invariance.
In addition to his work on geometry, Bolyai developed a rigorous geometric concept of complex numbers as ordered pairs of real numbers. This he did because the Jablonowsky Society in Leipzig had put out a call for papers on the topic. Both Bolyai and his father submitted papers but neither were well received. János's paper was called Responsio and it was written to answer the question of whether the imaginary quantities used in geometry could be constructed. Bolyai chose to argue that the question was wrongly formulated, not perhaps the best way to find favour with judges. He argued that it was not their construction that was important, rather it was their definition and role in geometry which were significant.
In 1846 Bolyai moved from the estate at Domáld to Marosvásárhely. This meant that he was closer to his father and this seemed to make relations between the two even more strained. In 1848 Bolyai discovered that Lobachevsky had published a similar piece of work in 1829. Kagan writes [14]:-
János studied Lobachevsky's work carefully and analysed it line by line, not to say word by word, with just as much care as he administered in working out the Appendix. The work stirred a real storm in his soul and he gave outlet to his tribulations in the comments added to the 'Geometrical Examinations'.In 1852 Bolyai left Rozália, whom he had married on 18 May 1849 believing that the law had now changed due to the Hungatian declaration of independance, and splitting with Rozália at least had the advantage that relations with his father improved. He gave up working on mathematics in his last years and instead tried to construct a theory of all knowledge. There are interesting ideas contained in the sections on linguistics and sociology.
The 'Comments' to the 'Geometrical Examinations' are more than a critical analysis of the work. They express the thoughts and anxieties of János provoked by the perusal of the book. They include his complaint that he was wronged, his suspicion that Lobachevsky did not exist at all, and that everything was the spiteful machinations of Gauss: it is the tragic lament of an ingenious geometrician who was aware of the significance of his discovery but failed to get support from the only person who could have appreciated his merits.
In spite of his mental agitation amidst which János put observations to paper, he preserved enough objectivity to highly appreciate the work of his rival. In his comment to Theorem 35 he remarks that the proofs of Lobachevsky concerning spherical trigonometry bear the impress of genius and his work should be esteemed as a masterly achievement.
Although he never published more than the few pages of the Appendix he left more than 20000 pages of manuscript of mathematical work when he died of pneumonia at the age of 57. These are now in the Bolyai-Teleki library in Târgu-Mureș. In 1945 the Hungarian university in Cluj was named after him. The Romanian University of Cluj which had been the King Ferdinand I University, was renamed Babeș University (after the Romanian natural scientist Victor Babeș). The two universities combined to become the Babeș-Bolyai University in 1959.
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- Janos Bolyai's birth house and original grave
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The United States of Football
Tru Dat
by Sean Pamphilon
On January 13th, 2012, I was in a San Francisco hotel
with one of my dear friends, Steve Gleason. He was a
long-time New Orleans Saints special teams ace,
(2000-2007). He was a yoga loving, long-haired,
counter-culture fan favorite, who became a New Orleans
icon. He married a local girl, made the city his off-
season home, lived in modest places and mingled freely
with the every man.
He became a local legend September 25th, 2006, after his
punt block on the first series back, re-opening the
Super Dome, after Hurricane Katrina.
As one of the locals in attendance described to me, "It
was the biggest beer spill in history."
Seriously, a man blocking a punt in a football game
actually kickstarted an entire region and gave a morale
boost that transcended sport.
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meeting click here
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I met Steve a year ago through a mutual friend, whom he
had battled with on the football field. I had just
learned Steve had been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's
I had spent the previous year working on a film called,
"The United States of Football" and spoke to Steve about
being part of the documentary. On the second day we
met, in March 2011, I was hooked on the energy that is
Steve Gleason and we decided to do a film about he and
his wife Michel, as they "stare(d) into the eye of the
tiger," and face his diagnosis with a dignity and
uncommon grace.
Steve and I are co-directing his film and also creating
a video library (legacy time capsule) for his children
(Michel gave birth to their first child, Rivers, in
Words simply cannot define they way they approach their
lives. They are beautiful people.
On this January 13th Saturday night before the playoff
game with the San Francisco 49ers, I was filming for a
few documentary projects I have been working on for the
past two years. Steve is a small part of my USOF film
because two of the main people profiled (NFLPA Executive
Committee members Sean Morey and Scott Fujita) fought
hard for him to ensure he wouldn't get screwed by the
disability system for former NFL players. Of which, a
former player told me "you have to be paralyzed for them
to give you disability."
It's a system so flawed that the NFL was called on the
carpet in front of congress in 2009. At the time
congresswoman Linda Sanchez (interviewed in the USOF)
spoke of the NFL being like the tobacco industry, with
absolutely no moral compass. Who is responsible for
taking care of these men, she wondered.
A main character in the USOF film, Kyle Turley, was also
inspired by Steve Gleason's diagnosis. Turley wrote a
beautifully sad song, "Fortune and Pain," which is a
tribute to the many men who played tackle football and
are now suffering it's effects. Kyle states with
dejection in his voice and heart that if the league
would only do right by men who were "hurt on the job,"
these men would gladly sacrifice their bodies if they
didn't feel discarded and used on the back end. If the
maladies that manifest after their five-year post-
retirement insurance runs out, they are screwed. Kyle
was diagnosed as CTE symptomatic (Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy), which eventually leads to a downward
spiral. CTE usually doesn't reach it's full bloom until
a players early 40's.
For most players, this is many years after they retire
and their insurance has run out.
Recently, I interviewed Dave Pear, a former All-Pro and
Super Bowl Champion, who has fought for his disability
for 30 years. He made about 600k in his six-year career
and claims to have spent approximately that same amount
on medical bills since he retired. When we sat down for
our interview he splayed on the counter a handful of
long screws and bolts that had previously been
surgically implanted in his body.
"That's the reality of football for me," Dave Pear said
as he stood for half of our interview because the pain
was too much from the chairs we sat in.
On this January 13th night, before this playoff game
against the 49ers, as per usual, Steve and I had access
to all things Saints. Drew Brees showed up outside the
team hotel before dinner, greeted Steve with a hug,
glanced at me and said, "Hey Sean."
The best part about following this team all year is that
I wasn't looked at as one of them, the media.
Familiarity and standing next to Steve Gleason, afforded
me a level of trust.
Less than 36 hours before kickoff, I had decided to go
back home to the Bay Area where I grew up and sit two
feet behind the bench, on the sideline of an NFL playoff
game. I had been on the sidelines working for
approximately 15 games over the years (many at
Candlestick Park), so I knew how to "act like I've been
there before." Still, it was an unbelievably beautiful
day. T-shirt weather in January!
I would have been just as happy watching the game in HD
on my couch, but I was stoked to be with Steve watching
a game and talking a little football. I'd speculate
about a play and he would point out things I never
considered, before they would happen. I used to cut hi-
lites at ESPN, but Steve understands the subtle detail
and nuance of football as if it were a language in which
he is fluent. I've been a religious NFL fan for 35
years, but when players say `you don't know unless you
played,' you should know they are telling the truth on
many levels. We don't have their football brains and we
never felt their football aches and pains.
On this January 13th night I would get an education I
was shocked by and truly wanted no part of. It has
forever changed the way I will watch football. But the
fact is, I will still watch, each and every Sunday,
Monday and now Thursday because I am committed to it in
a way that has outlasted any of my personal
I gave up gluten. I gave up sugar. I gave up caffeine.
I gave up cigarettes!
But I simply cannot give up football.
Earlier in the season, I was with Steve Gleason behind
the bench, two yards away from Drew Brees, as he threw
for four touchdowns and ran for one, against the
eventual Super Bowl Champion, New York Giants. Before
that Monday Night Football game I told Steve that Drew
was going to throw for five Td's and the Saints would
win by 20. As we were walking out of the SuperDome,
Steve looked at me with a wide smile and shining eyes,
"Only won by 18, Fly," he remarked. He nicknamed me
"Fly" because of my ability to silently blend into the
scenery when shooting our film. I have never been
considered "sneaky," but when you document intimate
moments with a camera you should think of yourself as
wallpaper, not a sound system.
Within seconds of Steve's jab, Saints rookie running
back Mark Ingram took one to the house from 35 with just
over a minute left and the Saints won by 25. "Well
done, Fly," Steve-O remarked as we left the Superdome.
Being around this team was hella fun and never felt like
like working.
After one of Brees' big plays, Saints defensive
coordinator Gregg Williams looked right in Steve's and
my direction and said, "I've been around a lot of shitty
quarterbacks. Our guy is pretty good!" Williams said
this with an emphasis that honestly made me laugh out
To date, that is my favorite behind the curtain moment
of my entire Saints experience.
My favorite moment overall was very public. On
September 25th, 2011, 73,000 people in their seats got
to witness Steve do the "Who Dat" chant on the five-
year-anniversary of his blocked punt re-opening the
Super Dome. My 13-year-old son Alix and I were but a
few feet away-cameras rolling-documenting the moment,
working together. It was the most meaningful moment of
my 20-year career. I had been out of town shooting
three different football documentaries and spent nearly
half my time on the road, for months. The opportunity
to give my kid that once-in-a-lifetime moment was
incredible. I let him cut school and we both wore
Steve's #37 jersey's. As we passed by the Saints logo
in the middle of the field, the hair on my arms and legs
were electric. I had three layers of goosebumps and
when I looked at my wide-eyed son, his camera so steady
and focused, my eyes welled up with pride.
Two days later, Drew Brees would sign a personalized
ball for my boy ("Alix, Welcome to Team Gleason.Drew").
The only other time I had a player offer any form of
memorabilia to my boy was Ricky Williams giving him a
helmet and game ball. I didn't do this because I'm a
jock sniff. I did it because I wanted my son to feel
connected to the projects that kept me away so often.
For me, being around the Saints was intoxicating. I had
been in locker rooms and team facilities throughout my
career in sports television. But often times as a media
member you were treated like an intruder vs. a welcomed
guest. Being in their locker room felt comfortable and
familiar. Walking down the hall at the team facility
and chatting up Jonathan Vilma, was casually cool. I
told him I lived in Brooklyn for 13 years and was a
temporary Jet fan. I lamented the trade, but wished
"JV" -as Steve called him-well. Vilma couldn't have
been classier. Great smile, awesome energy, legit eye
contact. "This is the type of dude you root for," was
my immediate impression after literally a conversation
of less two-minutes. I'd been around him as an observer
when he was dealing with other people and he was the
same guy as when my camera was fixed on him. Solid
If Jonathan Vilma ever paid a man $10,000 to hurt
another man, I need a cancelled check or a verified cash
payment by two witnesses. When I studied journalism at
Boston University they taught us that we needed two
impeccable sources if we were going to make public
anything that could ruin a man's reputation and put a
tag of "criminal" or "thug" next to his name.
If the Jonathan Vilma I met did what whoever leaked this
crap says he did, you could cut his jersey in tiny
pieces, put it in a cereal bowl and feed it to me
slowly, while selling it on pay-per-view. Call it
intuition, if you will. But until I see proof that he
did this, I rest secure in the fact that this man was
raised correctly and doesn't roll that way.
If I am wrong, put the milk in the bowl and throw
Fireman Ed's high school jock strap and replica 42 Jets
jersey in, mix it well and give me a big spoon.
If I am right, spread that jersey around and give it to
every media member who smeared his name without a shred
of proof (beyond leaked information from 280 Park
Avenue). For whatever reason, if people are famous or
make money in this country, we revel in their failure
and assume the worst of their character. Somehow it
makes us feel better. We celebrate and promote the
stupid and vilify those most willing to piss on the
And the standards of journalism I was taught, makes me
feel twice my middle age, from another world, in a
distant time.
On this January 13th,-as we had done earlier in the
season,-I met up with Steve Gleason at the Saints hotel
the night before the game. Once again, I had exclusive
access to some of the most compelling material I have
been privileged to shoot. A true expansive look behind
the curtain. The main meeting of the evening was led by
the incomparable Joe Vitt. Vitt is the assistant head
coach and the linebackers coach. In addition, he is the
most fired up and tunnel vision focused motherfucker I
have ever met in football. He swears like a sailor, so
I'm sure this description would make him smile. Each
time I saw him at these games or meetings, he took
special time to come over and connect with Steve, but
also with every member of Steve's crew-Fly's included.
Joe Vitt is an old-school football lifer and
unbelievably charismatic. But when Steve Gleason would
show up, Joe sincerely paused and put football on the
back burner. He is an unrivaled storyteller, a genuine
man and you would love him as an honored guest at your
dinner table.
In the interest of full disclosure on the night of
September 24th when Joe Vitt gave his speech he asked
that the camera's be turned off. I got the first two
off within ten seconds. And the third, which was on top
of his projector, I nervously had to reach around him to
it turn off.
Gregg Williams never asked for such courtesy.
I've been shooting three documentaries over the past two
years and any time a subject asked me to turn my camera
off, it was off before they finished their next
sentence. That's the way I roll.
Earlier in the season, Vitt introduced Steve before an
inspirational speech Gleason gave to the team, which no
doubt, forever impacted anyone who was tuned in and
paying attention. The next day, the Saints came from 11
down in the fourth quarter-against the Houston Texans-
and won on the 5th years anniversary of the Superdome
re-opening after Hurricane Katrina.
The night after the Texans game, Saints general manager
Mickey Loomis and coach Sean Payton presented Steve
Gleason with a Super Bowl ring for the 2009 team, even
though he played his last down of football in 2007.
Another Saints icon, running back Deuce McCallister was
afforded the same honor.
Deuce and Gleason; two of the guys who helped shape the
foundation, but didn't get to taste the champagne.
On this trip, Steve-O and I stayed up with a group of
his friends into the wee hours. We all laughed so hard
our ribs hurt. It was a great visit. We told stories
into the evening, talked about the next days game and
made predictions about the outcome.
Mine wouldn't be so on the mark this time.
Playing it cool, aside, I did look forward to this game
because you can hear a football game on television, but
you can't really feel football through your plasma
screen-even with the microphones on the field or inside
players shoulder pads. And when I went to Saints games
with Steve, I could feel the crowd and palpable energy
and flavor of the SuperDome. But this game was at
Candlestick Park.
In the early 90's I was on the sideline for a 49er game
and Cowboys wide receiver Alvin Harper caught a 20 yard
out pass pattern, near the sideline. As he caught the
ball he got jacked by a 49er defensive back. I could
hear the pads collide like two collapsing bumpers in a
high speed car wreck. I could feel the vibration of the
ground, as they careened out of bounds, landing just a
few feet away. I could hear their grunting and the
release of air from Harper's body. I could hear the
exultation of the defender.
In that moment I could feel the way football really
sounds and I loved it.
I couldn't give care less if Harper got hurt. I was in
my mid-20`s and was entertained.
It was also my first season in my fantasy football
league. Ten years later, I still hadn't won a
championship. By this time, I would be rooting for
players to get knocked out of games early, if the team I
was playing that day was starting said player. I didn't
want them to blow out their knees or anything serious.
But a forearm and getting knocked unconscious? Didn't
bother me at all because they would play the next week
against someone else's fantasy team. Or they would go
on injured reserve and I figured they'd get paid anyway.
I had no idea about the significance of head trauma and
neither did the players. I'm not saying they wouldn't
have played anyway. But if a single person understood
the gravity of this issue and didn't share it, they
should be thrown in jail.
Like most football fans I didn't care if these guys got
hurt because "they make all that money and they know
what they got themselves into."
I didn't know that the NFL has split contracts and many
players lose a lot of their salary if they don't make it
through the season. Still, as a 25 year-old New Yorker,
struggling to pay my rent, I honestly wouldn't have
cared. I just didn't know any better.
But 17 years later, on this disturbing January 13th
night I couldn't help but care.
Was it because I am 42 and no longer got hard-ons
watching gladiators landing "kill shots?"
Was it because I don't go to games with a painted face
and scream obscenities at underperforming players in
front of young children? Or because I haven't paid-for-
autographed Fathead's of my favorite ballers to stick on
the wall in my home office?
Or was it because I have friends I love dearly who
played the game and got their "bell rung" so many times
that I fear they won't remember their children's faces
by the time their kids have kids?
Yep, I'm pretty sure the last one was the reason I
wasn't smiling.
You see, I was sitting next to Steve Gleason in the back
of the room as Gregg Williams screamed `fuck' and
`fuckin' countless times when instructing his men to
hurt other men. Williams wasn't considering the fact
that many of those men have children and all of those
men are somebody's son.
"We make no apologies for the way we play the game,"
Williams said in a tone which suggested that he actually
had the balls to put on a uniform and do the very things
he was ordering his players to do, much less be on the
receiving end of the blows he was ordering up.
I don't have those balls.
You don't have those balls.
And Gregg Williams most definitely does not have those
It's a cowards play to send someone off to do your
malicious bidding. I'm sure many of his players would
have told him this if they weren't scared to lose their
jobs or look like bitches in front of their teammates.
Or if they weren't 25 and couldn't possibly have a fully
developed perspective on life.
"This is a production business," Williams said
emphatically when he began his speech. He repeated that
mantra again and again, during the balance of his
impassioned, profanity laced diatribe.
Nearly two months before this story broke, I was sitting
in a room with a full-frontal picture of the way
"Bounty-Gate" really looked and sounded. Reading about
it in the paper or hearing talking heads drone on about
it-incessantly for the past several weeks-gives you no
idea of the way it really goes down.
And it's comical that so many mainstream journalists
kept asking players if it's like this on their teams?
Who's going to honestly answer a dumb fucking question
like that?
This is the same media who will tell you James Harrison
is the second coming of Darth Vader, when this is the
way he's been taught the game his whole life. Instead
the talking heads sit around blowing smoke, insisting
they know what's in Harrison's head when he's playing
the game of football. Look at the replays of Harrison's
three fine-able hits against Cleveland Browns players,
Watch the Colt McCoy hit and understand that Harrison
could have put him six feet under if he put all his 6
feet 270 pounds into McCoy. Fact is, when a
professional football player wants to hurt you and he
has a clean shot, he runs right through your ass.check
the tape. Harrison didn't run through anyone on the
hits he was fined for.
I asked McCoy's teammate Scott Fujita, himself a
linebacker, if Harrison's hit on McCoy was illegal or
"No and No. Bang-bang play. Colt became a ball carrier
and threw it at the last minute."
After Harrison's "Black Sunday" hits when he said he
considered retiring, Fujita pointed out that the league
was selling pictures of the hits on their website. Did
they kick any of that back to James to help pay for the
That would be a sarcastic, rhetorical question on my
part. Hell no, they didn't.
The second question we should consider is simple. Why
is it that offensive players (especially running backs)
dip their heads all the time without financial
consequence? Isn't a defender supposed to match that
pad level or gain leverage and go lower? If they don't,
they take a helmet to the balls or sternum, get lit up
and have their peers laugh their asses off a few days
later in the film session.
In the era of the NFL's attention to health and safety,
has any offensive player been publicly shamed or league
indicted and fined for initiating contact with the crown
of his helmet?
Why is that? Perhaps because the media fosters a world
of `good guys' and `bad guys` and we're all too
distracted or self-absorbed to do thoughtful research.
Former Saints All-Pro, the outspoken Kyle Turley would
liken what Gregg Williams did to dog fighting with the
players being the canines. If you were in the room, as
I was, it was clear who was the puppet master as he
passed out money for forced turnovers and big plays. He
did not reward anyone that night for perpetrated
violence. But he did point to beneath his chin when
bringing up 49ers quarterback Alix Smith and in a
chilling tone, paused and said, "First one's on me." At
that moment he rubbed his fingers together in a way that
cannot be mistaken.
He was ordering his players to maim in as many ways
possible. Plain and simple.
He was the only one in the room willing to go into his
pocket to reward it.
Anyone who blames the players for this behavior is
clearly missing the point. Just as in sexual harassment
cases, it's the person with the power, influence and-
most importantly-control, who dictates the behavior.
Yes, the players could have said, `no', but Americans
play "follow the leader" and these men have families to
feed and many dudes willing to come off the street to
sacrifice their body for team and do it for less. The
fact is the majority of men who play in the NFL are paid
league minimum, with non-guaranteed contracts. How do
these-mostly 20-something-year-old-men make a stand in
this situation fraught with enormous peer pressure?
How does one take a stand against a coach who so clearly
controls their destiny?
And did they ever consider the possibility that maybe
their names were being called out in the other team's
locker room? Perhaps their heads were on the block, as
On this night of January 13th, the Saints defensive
coordinator's message was delivered loud, clear and with
specific meaning.
"This is a production business.This is how you get
respect in this league."
This defensive meeting was right after the team meeting.
I shot part of the team meeting, but it wasn't going to
be a scene in Steve's film because he wasn't speaking
and what we filmed from earlier in the season, couldn't
possibly be topped.
On September 24th, 2011, the night before the 5th
anniversary of the Dome reopening, Steve Gleason stood
before the 2011 Saints-most of whom were never his
teammates-and put his heart on display.
"We all have fear, right," he told the assembled team.
There was a pause, "Right," Steve reiterated with his
lip quivering, nodding his head, looking around into as
many eyes as he could. The energy of the room shifted
with the teams tacit acknowledgement that they too are
men of flesh, bone and blood. They too, are not immune
to the realities of hand to hand combat. The meaner,
tougher-and sometimes dirtier they are-the more they are
valued. In this sense, football truly is counter to the
best interests of our culture.
Conversely, it's the very reason we love it.
In his San Francisco speech, Gregg Williams specifically
was calling out players with concussion histories and
telling the men in his employ to "attack the head."
Again and again, Gregg Williams implored his team to,
"Break their will."
"You break their will, you break their skill."
But then it became something else. He started talking
about 49er receiver and return man, Kyle Williams. He
specifically mentioned his concussions and to go after
the guy. FYI, this is the same 49ers player who the
following week would famously fumble twice in the NFC
Championship game. In the paper, Giants players were
quoted as saying they specifically went after the lithe
Williams because of his concussion history.
Essentially, Gregg Williams is not entirely unique.
He's just the one who was arrogant enough to continue
when he was told to stop and eventually, he got popped
for it. In his apology statement he said, "we knew it
was wrong."
If he knew it was wrong, why did he keep telling his
players not to apologize for the way he instructed them
to play the game?
But on January 13th what caught my eye and ear was how
open this dialog was. The idea of purposely maiming
men, targeting their heads, when information has been
out there for a couple years now about the long-term
affects of brain trauma. Sadly, many of the players
choose not to educate themselves about the toll the game
really takes on them. If you really know what you are
doing to yourself, would you keep doing it? There's a
difference between career suicide and the journey of
slow suicide, many players embark on when they stay in
this game at the highest level for too long.
One of my closest friends-who played professional
football for a decade, has been post-concussed for the
past two years and had to retire because of the affects
of head trauma. When he couldn't go anymore, he didn't
get sympathy. In fact a few of his teammates claimed he
"knew too much," which had left him scared and unable to
play with the reckless abandon, which defined his career
and kept him employed.
The truly scary thing is that a tragic number of players
keep their brains in the sand as they race down the
field with the heads on a swivel. It's been about a
decade since Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered Chronic
Traumatic Encephalopathy in the brain of former Steelers
center and Hall of Famer, Mike Webster. It's been less
than a year since Dave Duerson blew a hole in his chest,
preserving his brain, so people in our culture would see
the light. It reminded me of the monk who protested the
Vietnam War by lighting himself on fire.
Only this time, Duerson's death is already forgotten by
many. He made the mistake of killing himself during the
player lockout. All fans could focus on-at that time-
was getting the gladiators back on the field to
entertain them. Duerson made his money. He knew the
Screw him.
Actually, Dave Duerson didn't know the true risks
because no one told him. Hence the reason why hundreds
of former NFL players are currently suing the league.
Dave Duerson knew he had CTE and his brain matter
confirmed it.
Anyone who plays football in the modern era has no
excuse for refusing to educate themselves on this issue.
Any parent who has a young tackle football playing child
with an underdeveloped brain is committing apathetic
child abuse, if they do not educate themselves on this
And some coaches-who send the best of the best out to
slaughter-should feel deep shame when they choose
greenbacks and game jerseys over the flesh of a man who
has a family to go home to.
What is a traumatic brain injury? What is CTE?
Read up, son!
Did Gregg Williams ever consider on that January 13th
night that a former player who played balls out- kicking
fear's ass on a weekly basis-was sitting, slumped in a
wheelchair within earshot? Does he know that it's a
statistical likelihood that Steve Gleason's ALS was as a
result of head trauma from crashing into other football
players at high speeds, since he was in the 8th grade?
Gleason emphatically states he could have gotten ALS if
he were an architect. The odds say that's about eight
times less likely than if he played football.
Did Gregg Williams ever see the eyes of these men whose
heads he was calling for after they got their lights
blown out as their limp bodies hit the turf?
Has he seen wives nurse their broken husbands, who hid
their injuries as a badge of honor and for their career
I have held their hands and rubbed their backs as they
cried, talking about losing their "best friend."
Has Gregg Williams seen the damage done to men who can't
remember the names of faces of those who love them? The
one's whose life and savings are sapped up in medical
bills because the league fights tooth and nail to deny
disability claims?
Could he not see Steve Gleason that night because Steve-
O was in the back of the room?
Or did he not see the man in the wheelchair because he
simply wasn't looking?
In the interest of full disclosure: If this story
hadn't broken and been made public, I would not have
shared this it. I would not have compromised my
personal relationships and risked damaging Steve
Gleason's relationship with the Saints. I would have
crafted these words and sentiments for another forum,
perhaps years down the road.
If it weren't for the fact I feel deeply that parents of
children playing football MUST pay attention to the
influence of men who will sacrifice their kids for W's,
I would not have written this.
If it weren't for the fact that a man of conviction and
conscience, Scott Fujita has been publicly attached to
this scandal on the day he brought his newborn daughter
home from the hospital, I would not have written these
truths. FYI, his name was leaked directly from the NFL
offices to three HUGE sports journalists, one of which
broke the "scoop."
I'm not calling them out by name because nobody pays me
to be an asshole.
To date, there has been no evidence Scott Fujita ever
paid a man money to hurt another man. The fact that
he's willing to admit paying for turnovers (fumbles,
int's, etc.) is cause for possible suspension.
Seriously? If you met him, you would know he wouldn't
sacrifice his well-earned reputation of social activism
and authentic charity work, while reveling in the
destruction of another human being.
But every time his children google him, this stain
(regardless of whether it is retracted) will follow him
and he will have to explain that daddy really isn't one
of the bad guys.
In releasing this material, I have severely strained my
relations with Michel and Steve Gleason, whom I
sincerely love. They had no part in this material
becoming public and I may have to find another producer
to finish our film project. This was a film which made
me have to learn to shoot my camera while crying. This
is a film that guitarist Mike McCready from my favorite
band, Pearl Jam has committed to doing the music for.
No joke. It's that deep. It's that powerful. It's
that big of an opportunity potentially lost.
Some will call me releasing this audio for fame or money
grab. True haters will call it exploitation.
People of character and conscience call it was it is;
..and so it goes in The United States of Football.
Post-script notes:
Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis have admitted to being
complicit simply because they did not put a stop to it.
There's no denying it happened on their watch while they
were in the building. But on January 13th-in a room far
down the hall-they were nowhere to be seen. And I've
had two player sources directly tell me that Gregg
Williams would often boast of having a "fuck you
clause," in his contract. This gave him total control
of the defensive side of the ball. I guess the analogy
would be like when Buddy Ryan was the defensive head
coach of the Chicago Bears.
I haven't seen this contract, but if Williams wants to
refute his players claims, then he should make his
contract public. After all, we all know how much money
the players make because the media cannot help but
remind you.
And man-crush aside, #9 was nowhere in sight when all
this went down. But on January 14th, I expected him to
take me one step closer to Disneyland.
The Saints failed to break the 49ers will and in the
waning moments, Karma in the form of Vernon Davis,
kicked the shit out of Gregg Williams' game plan. His
will was knocked out by the 49ers skill.
Williams insisted in that meeting, "We don't apologize
for the way we play football."
But then it became public and that's exactly what he
did. And he threw his defense and the Saints franchise
under the bus, in order to break his fall.
In the interest of full disclosure:
The only reason why I beeped out the audio for the names
of the Saints players is because they were getting paid
for performance bonuses, $200 for turnovers was the
biggest haul I heard. This is a LONG-held league wide
practice and in the mind of any reasonable person
without an ax to grind, in no way should it be mentioned
in the same sentence as a "Bounty."
PERIOD. End of Story.
-Sean Pamphilon
April 4th, 2012
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Ok, I know knitting needles aren't terribly expensive in the first place, but here is an uber cheap way of making your own for under 50 cents a set. Last year, the 8-year old girls at church begged me to teach them how to knit. Supplying needles for ten girls was a difference between $50 for 10 sets of store-bought needles, or only $5 (plus one hour of my labor) to make them. Well worth it to make them in my opinion. Well, this Saturday our church is doing a knitting class for the women, so I decided to make some sets to encourage more people to give it a try (and of course they get to keep the knitting needles as a perk).
- ♥ 12" Wooden craft dowels of desired thickness (Hobby Lobby carries these for $1.99 for a pack. The 1/4 inch thickness comes in a pack of 12 dowels)
- ♥ dowel caps for your chosen size of dowel or polymer clay to make your own caps
- ♥ pencil sharpener
- ♥ fine grain sandpaper
- ♥ soft dry cloth
- ♥ wax (I used a tea light)
- ♥ wood glue
- ♥ acrylic paint (optional)
Step One:
Using the pencil sharpener, sharpen one end of each dowel.
Step Two:
Sand the dowels. Start by dulling the sharpened point into a nice blunt tip. Sand the entire dowel from tip to end.
Step Three:
Using a clean, dry cloth, wipe down the dowels to remove the wood dust.
Step Four:
Wax the needles generously from tip to end. I used a cheapo tea light for convenience purposes.
Step Five:
Use a clean, dry cloth to smooth and wipe away excess wax. Rub until the cloth glides smoothly. You don't want sticky needles. The purpose of the wax is to condition the wood so it is nice and smooth.
Step Six:
Paint the dowel caps if desired.
*Note: If you can't find dowel caps to fit your dowels, then use polymer clay to form little balls. Press the balls of clay onto the flat end of the dowel to mold the dowel end. Remove clay cap from dowel and bake in oven as directed to set clay.
Step Seven:
Glue the caps to the ends of the needles. Use wood glue for the wooden caps or E6000 for the polymer clay caps (just use a small dab).
I took them for a test drive to knit these hats for my 3 year old and baby girl on the way.


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My parents just friended me on facebook.
I think I'm accidentally to blame for this. I sent my Alaska photo album (oops, still didn't post those here…one day!) to them via email, and I think that magically included a friend request. I say that because it claims I sent a friend request to my dad and he accepted it…yet I never did such thing. Gah. I quickly made all the good bits of my profile hidden. They know I'm an atheist, so that's not an issue, I just tend to have pervy/swearing status updates, which I don't want them to see. Lame, right? My mom was the kind of person who got upset when I said "That sucks" in high school…which is especially stupid since she and my dad swear all the time. Ironically the first time I swore in front of her was during the Presidental debates when McCain made his idiotic Bear DNA quote.
Me: *at TV* Oh, fuck you! …oh shit what did I just do
Mom: Yeah!!
Me: *phew*
Now I can say "crap" without her cringing. I'm such a grown up!
Anyway, thanks to Stephen for linking me to the most hilarious and appropriate website ever: Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.
Oh, and just as a side note…I think some people from the blog have been trying to friend me, but I probably have no idea who you are. So if you figure out where I am on facebook and friend me, at least include a message saying "I read you blog" or "I comment as ____" so I have an idea. Otherwise your friend request will sit in the eternal purgatory of "Pending."
Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go jump off a cliff.


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LOS ANGELES - Now that they've saved the world on film, "The Avengers" are teaming up for a motion-control video game.
Ubisoft Entertainment announced a partnership Thursday with Marvel Entertainment to create a game based on the popular Marvel superhero posse. The game will be titled "Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth" and will be released for both the upcoming Wii U console from Nintendo Co. and the camera-based Kinect system for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp.
"The idea that we're making a motion-control version of `The Avengers' is a unique proposition if you compare that to superhero games of the past," said Tony Key, Ubisoft's vice president of sales and marketing, in making the announcement to The Associated Press. "This is the perfect type of game for that because these characters are very action oriented. They're always fighting and throwing things."
"Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth" will focus on such characters as Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk fending off an invasion of genetically altered Skrull aliens. The title will feature more than 20 characters from the Marvel universe and would be based on the "Secret Invasion" comic series, not the recent film.
No release date was announced, but Key said the disc-based title is expected to launch after Nintendo debuts the Wii U later this year. The successor to Nintnedo's Wii will feature high-definition graphics, increased online capabilities and a touch-pad controller. He said more details about the game would be unveiled at next month's Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The game will be the latest addition to Ubisoft's motion-control arsenal. Previous titles released by the Canadian publisher that rely on gesture-based devices include the artsy shooter "Child of Eden," street brawler "Fighters Uncaged," superhero dueler "PowerUp Heroes," the "Your Shape" fitness franchise and top-selling "Just Dance" series.
"Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth" will mark the first time that the "Assassin's Creed" publisher has developed a game based on a franchise from Marvel, which was purchased in 2009 by The Walt Disney Co. The developers previously worked with "Avatar" director James Cameron to craft a third-person 3-D action-adventure game set on the planet Pandora.
Sega created each of the games pegged to the films of "The Avengers" forerunners, including last year's "Thor: God of Thunder" and "Captain America: Super Soldier," but there was no console game released this year alongside director Joss Whedon's blockbuster "The Avengers," just the mobile game "Marvel's The Avengers" and Facebook title "Marvel: Avengers Alliance."
Fans freaked out last year over unofficial footage and concept art posted online of a first-person "Avengers" game that was reportedly in development by THQ Inc. The footage of Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and Thor battling the infamous Skrull was yanked by Marvel from YouTube. A representative for Marvel declined to be interviewed for this story.
Traditionally, games based on Marvel movies have been released around the same time as their super-powered counterparts to benefit from parallel buzz. The open-world action-adventure title "The Amazing Spider-Man" from Activision Inc. is set for release June 26, ahead of director Marc Webb's film of the same name on July 3.
The big-screen adaptation of "The Avengers" starring Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye has smashed box office records, earning $207.4 million domestically in its opening weekend.
"For us, that obviously raises the brand itself to an even higher level, and that's good for our video game because we have an opportunity to reach a broader audience than just the guys who love comic book characters," said Key, who added that "Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth" would be family friendly despite the game's focus on fighting.
Marvel's superheroes have been a dominant presence throughout the history of games. They most recently assembled for the Capcom brawler "Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3" and the Activision Inc. role-playing sequel "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2." Gazillion Entertainment is currently developing a free-to-play online game featuring them called "Marvel Heroes."


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MARQUETTE, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University hockey team plays its final Central Collegiate Hockey Association road series this weekend (Feb. 22-23) at Bowling Green State. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m. both nights from the BGSU Ice Arena.
NMU is 13-15-4 overall and 7-13-4-1 in the CCHA. The Wildcats sit in ninth place in the CCHA with 26 points. The 'Cats are coming off a loss at Michigan Tech and a CCHA series split at Michigan State last week. The two teams below NMU in the conference standings are Michigan and Michigan State.
Senior forward Matt Thurber (5-24) leads NMU with 29 points. Sophomore forward Reed Seckel (12-10=22) and junior forward Stephen Vigier (5-12=17) also have over 16 points. Seckel leads the team with 12 goals while sophomore forward Ryan Daugherty has nine. Junior goaltender Jared Coreau is 13-15-4 on the season with a 2.63 goals against average and a 91.8 save percentage.
BGSU is 12-15-5 overall and eighth in the CCHA at 9-12-3. The Falcons are five points ahead of NMU in the standings and have won four of their last six games. Ryan Carpenter (13-13=26) and Dan DeSalvo (3-17=20) lead the offense while goaltender Andrew Hammond is 8-10-3 with a 2.52 goals against average and 91.7 save percentage. BGSU split at Ferris State last weekend.
The Falcons lead the all-time series 39-37-8. The two teams met five times last season with NMU winning three games, including a sweep in Ohio. The Falcons won the final two in the CCHA Tournament to end NMU's season for the second year in a row.
Last weekend, NMU split a series at Michigan State. The Wildcats picked up their first CCHA road win of the season on Friday with a 5-3 win. The Spartans had a come-from-behind 4-2 win on Saturday. Thurber and Seckel each scored two goals and added two assists on Friday. Junior forward Erik Higby had a goal and an assist on Friday. Coreau had 31 saves on Friday and 39 on Saturday. Senior forward Brian Nugent had an assist on Friday and a goal and assist on Saturday. It was his first goal of the season. Three of Nugent's eight career goals are against Michigan State.
Thurber has seven multiple points games this season. His 24 assists lead the CCHA and is tied for fifth in the nation. Coreau has over 30 saves in 16 games this season. NMU is 6-0-1 when scoring more than four goals. NMU is 0-8-1 when allowing four or more goals.
Northern is 4-12-1 on the road this season, including 1-10-1 in CCHA play. The one conference win was at Michigan State (Feb. 8) and the tie was at Miami (Nov. 10). NMU also defeated Nebraska Omaha (Oct. 20) and St. Cloud State (Jan. 4-5)
NMU has played in five overtime games and are 1-0-4-1. The one win came over Alaska (Nov. 23). The lone shootout win was the next night against the Nanooks. Senior defenseman Scott Macaulay has the only overtime game-winning goal.
100.3 FM "The Point", the official radio station of the NMU Wildcats, broadcasts all hockey games. Wildcat hockey can also be heard on Eagle 107.3 in Escanaba and Eagle 96.7 in Newberry.


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On Twitter, just because you follow someone, that doesn't mean that person will follow you back. That's just how it works.
Aoi Sola is one of Japan's most popular adult video actresses. She also has a huge following in China. No wonder she has over 300,000 Twitter followers. People love Aoi Sola.
A 40-something man continually tweeted to her, "I am a fan of yours; please follow me," "Please consider following," "How's work? Your English is getting better. Please follow me," and, in English, "Please follow me."
According to website Tokyo Reporter, the man supposedly took legal action against Sola.
Initially, it was thought that this man was only obsessive about Sola. However, he made the same "follow me" pleas to a variety of Japanese celebrities and politicians.
Oddly, the reason why the man apparently so desperately wanted Sola to follow him was to learn what actually happened when the Chinese government recently banned Sola from the country's satellite TV shows. Her sexy personality (and history) is controversial in China.
Hopefully he'll find out all he needs to know in a much needed restraining order.
Porn star Sola Aoi targeted on Twitter after tiff in China [The Tokyo Reporter]
(Top photo: yone69harajuku | Instagram)


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A New Jersey woman admitted to beating her mother to death with a baseball bat in their home Wednesday morning, police say.
Hopatcong police said the suspect, Mirna Bolanos, 30, called 911 to report her mother was harassing her, then hung up.
When officers arrived at the Flora Avenue home, Bolanos was outside on the steps and told them she beat her mother to death with a baseball bat.
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- 4 Beds
- 4 Full, 2 Half
- 4,941 +/- Sqft
- Reduced Price
Open Houses
Property TypeResidential – Duplex
SubdivisionArrowhead At Vail 10
Listing Date12/22/18
Year Built2019
Lot Size0.58 Acres (25,265 SqFt)
Parking2 Car Garage, 1/2 Car Additional
Property Description
Mountain Modern new construction is now complete! Lives like a single family with private entrance, garage, and patios. Exposed wood & steel beams, gourmet Sub-Zero/Wolf kitchen, 3 stone/steel fireplaces. 2 Master suites, one on main level. Custom details and finishes throughout. Spectacular golf course and Game Creek Bowl views. South facing with year round sun! 2 spacious living areas. Soaring ceiling heights & ample storage throughout. 2 1/2 car garage. Steps to bike path, skiing & clubhouse.
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- Cable Available
- ESTAR Exhaust Fan
- Fireplace - Gas
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- Multi-Level
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- Radiant
- Ceiling Fan
- Electric
- ESTAR Equipment
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Around the corner from Bachelor Gulch, the final village of Beaver Creek Resort is Arrowhead. Homes range from slope-side condominiums to elegant single family houses. Arrowhead has a charming village and ski lift base, private Jack Nicklaus golf course at the Country Club of the Rockies, and private access to the pristine waters of the Eagle River. Arrowhead offers an appealing alpine environment in a private gated community with convenient access to the rest of Beaver Creek and the nearby town of Edwards.
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