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While lovely rock siren Debbie Harry had the drinks and cocktails sorted out, it seems that the main course by Chef Andy Warhol is still simmering to perfection! Taken and signed by Michael McKenzie, the snap was a promotional photo for the opening of the Warhol Museum in 1979. It was called "Are You Still Hungry?" and labeled edition number 7/175. The photo was sold at a Christie's auction in June 2008 for the hammer price of $63.
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Video: Rick Voirin covers the 10 leadership skills that are essential for leading in a VUCA world.
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- Developing a deep global perspective, not just how to shake hands with another culture, but how does it think and do business and why?
- Becoming a global leader, able to lead in a complex world, able to lead from the c-suite and to lead collaboratively
- Understanding how to disseminate and execute strategy
- Increasing business acumen by understanding how a business makes money and how it grows and how to leverage global financial opportunities
- Strengthening decision-making skills
- Becoming a responsible corporate citizen by understanding and reacting to the global problems facing business
- Understanding the drivers and opportunities for innovation and gain insights to the leading thinking that is happening now that will shape the future of business
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Week I: Develop a deep understanding of the dynamics shaping the global business landscape, gain insights into the evolution of the world economy, and examine how products, markets, consumers, and competition have changed over time and continue to change. Explore cultural perspectives and their implications for business, and develop successful strategies for intercultural leadership. Gain a broad business context to better understand and explore new opportunities created by emerging financial power brokers.
Week II: Examine the changing nature of strategic choices in the new competitive landscape, and construct a framework for strategizing and thinking about competitive advantage. Explore the business implications of the latest developments in technology, biotechnology, bioengineering, and health care. Assess your role as a business leader in understanding and addressing the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact of business decisions on customers, employees, shareholders, communities, and the environment in all aspects of your operations.
Virtual Intersession
Access the latest web technologies to communicate with your instructors and other attendees to continue your learning experience. Begin to apply your new skills in your organization, and you will be encouraged to share your experiences and questions.
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Week I: Explore unique demands and expectations of senior leaders. Experience the power of collaborative leadership and develop skills to lead more effectively in a global and virtual world, to lead the work of change, to nurture other leaders, and to create a culture of sustainable innovation. Feedback from your peers and colleagues will help you gain insights into personal strengths and identify development opportunities. One-on-one coaching will help you interpret and integrate this feedback and create an individualized development plan.
Week II: Gain highly pragmatic analytical skills, tools, and concepts to apply in your organization. Learn successful leadership skills from a CEO's viewpoint, including how to detect patterns and anticipate shifts in the business environment, how to make more effective decisions, how to innovate at an organizational level, and how to create and establish a new business model. Create working strategies to ensure that you realize your leadership development goals—and that your learning continues beyond the program.
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The Advanced Management Program (AMP) is designed for senior managers and executives with at least 15 years of professional experience, who have responsibility for corporate or divisional strategy and its implementation.
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- Saudi Aramco
- The Boeing Company
- U.S. Department of Defense
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The Advanced Management Program (AMP) incorporates unique, engaging learning activities that go beyond basic role play or field trips. You will learn by doing. Our methods are proven to engage both sides of the brain and create a lesson that sticks and may be re-applied in other settings.
Our learning experiences take you outside of your comfort zone and place you in new, often surprising environments, during which you will discern the analogy to your day-to-day work.
Journalism Experience: Guided by a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, you'll fine-tune your communication skills by becoming a magazine writer for a day. You'll attend a press conference and conduct interviews to learn how perspectives and assumptions can drive storylines. | |
Duke Basketball Experience: Working with Duke's coaching staff, on the Duke basketball court, you'll become a member of a highly competitive, high performance team. You'll learn to deal with conflict, team building, and leadership. Our coaches will teach you how to transform organizational values from a mission statement into a state of mind. | |
The Innovative Apprentice: In a realistic board room atmosphere, you'll compete for a chance to be The Innovative Apprentice. In teams, you'll create a realistic business strategy for a local charity, and all proposals will be judged by Randal Pinkett (pictured), winner of season four of NBC's The Apprentice. See more photos on Fuqua's Facebook page. | |
Pit Crew Challenge: This experience takes you into the fast lane. You'll join the pit crew for a former racecar driver, and your team will race to change 4 tires as quickly as possible. Working in such an unfamiliar environment, you'll draw on classroom lessons to learn new tasks, coach each other, and work as a team. | |
Integrative Medicine Program: We'll focus on keeping you on the go, without sacrificing your long-term health. At Duke Integrative Medicine you'll concentrate on your physical and mental well-being and you'll learn simple exercise and nutrition techniques. You'll also learn effective stress reduction methods and preventative treatments to stay healthy so you can perform at your highest level, both professionally and personally. |
Faculty Profiles
The AMP Orchestrator: Rick Voirin serves as the thread that pulls the Advanced Management Program and its learning content together. He weaves sessions together into a meaningful whole—he is the AMP Orchestrator. | |
Islam and the Global Economy: Duke Professor Timur Kuran is an expert on the economics of the Middle East. You'll learn from him about how Islam has influenced, and continues to influence, the economic performance of the Middle East. | |
Weathering the Global Economic Crisis: You'll learn about surviving tough economic challenges during the Advanced Management Program. Instructor Ram Charan literally wrote the book on the topic. | |
Global Asset Management: You'll discuss the implications of the new financial brokers and institutions on resource allocation with Fuqua Professor Michael Brandt. He shares his research on portfolio risk management in the context of value creation and destruction in emerging and mature markets. | |
Understanding Value Transformation: Fuqua Marketing Professor Gavan Fitzsimons examines the intentional and unintentional effects of marketing actions, and how much of a consumer's decision making occurs outside conscious awareness. In his class, you'll learn how small strategic changes can dramatically affect your brand. | |
Values Based Leadership: Ted Ryan is a Consulting Professor of Ethics who brings years of experience in organizational consulting, coaching, and development to AMP. Ted will help you become a "values entrepreneur" - a leader who will achieve superior business results through building a highly ethical culture. | |
The Connection Between Wellness and Executive Leadership: Dr. Shelley Wroth leads a team of practitioners who are integrating traditional medicine with the practices of personalized health planning, nutrition, and self-care. You'll work with Shelley and her team to learn strategies for optimal health and to enhance the connection between the body and mind. These new skills will help to keep you on the go, stay healthy and perform at your highest level, both professionally and personally. | |
Personal Innovation and Creativity: Bob Kulhan dives into exercises that foster trust, commitment, and focus. He teaches you how to open your mind to new thinking in a safe environment for innovation. Bob is an Adjunct Fuqua Professor and full-time improvisation actor. | |
Cutting Edge Technology Trends: Tony O'Driscoll is Executive Director at Duke Corporate Education and has spent his career studying the effects of technology on leadership and business processes as a professor and consultant. In his class, you'll dive into the new world of social media and gaming, and learn how these and other technologies are playing an increased role in today's business. | |
Innovation and Competition: Fuqua Marketing Professor Debu Purohit explores the areas of innovation and competition. The session introduces a framework to understand how innovations are adopted in the market and then explores the strategic interdependence across firms that have developed the innovations. Through case studies, lectures and exercises, participants learn how to introduce new products to customers. | |
Values Based Leadership: Professor of the Practice of Management, Joe LeBoeuf, served 34 years in US Army, retiring as a Colonel. He then spent 12 years on West Point's Leadership Faulty, including running West Point's Graduate School. Joe is in his 9th year at Fuqua where he teaches several leadership courses, both elective and core, and is the Faculty Advisor to the Coach K Fellows program. Joe knows "what it takes" to effectively lead diverse teams. During his class you'll go on a personal journey to discover your values and leadership identity while you align them with your behavior at work. |
Cutting Edge Trends: BioMedical: Dr. Hunt Willard has been the Director of the Institute of Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University and is currently the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences in the School of Medicine and the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. During his class you'll learn about cutting-edge trends in the biotechnology and biosciences arena, especially in the data-intensive world of genomes and personalized medicine. As you explore these disruptive technologies, you'll be challenged to scan for weak signals and to think deeply about what implications they'll have for your business. |
Photo Album
View photos from a previous AMP session on Fuqua's Facebook page.
When you graduate from the Advanced Management Program (AMP), you join a select group of leaders who have learned to see and engage with the world in more complex and comprehensive ways. We are committed to helping you continue your personal learning journey, and to connecting you to the larger community of AMP graduates.
AMP graduates are valued members of the Fuqua community and are provided the following benefits:
Access to and listing in The Fuqua School of Business alumni directory
Invitations to Duke activities in your region
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Maybe this would be helpful to others. Which tender summer bulbs are easy and which are difficult to grow? By tender I mean the kinds that are not hardy in most colder climates. Since this is the time when they show up in stores it would be useful now. Maybe we can make a list. I'll start with mine:
Dirt easy (as in, plunk them in and they'll grow) :
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I suspect that this list is affected greatly by climate. I consider caladiums to be dirt easy here! You have to wait until the soil is thoroughly warm, but other than that, they're extremely easy to grow, though not winter hardy. Other easy ones for my zone 7 garden: Difficult: virtually impossible: |
I'm a sucker for all Amaryllids, but I grow mine in pots, mostly indoors. Cannas and Glads are super easy to grow, but are not on my "must have" list because I despise digging and storing for winter. One of my favorite tender bulbs is Habranthus or Zephyranthes, commonly known as Rain Lilies. They look fabulous grouped in pots, and for me, they bloom shortly after being thoroughly watered in summer. I grow them in my east facing window. I currently have a pot of light pink ones, but I'm on the lookout for yellows and whites, too. Another beauty is Sprekelia... though not always easy to locate, they're worth growing for their lovely red, odd shaped flowers. I use them in my Amaryllid breeding program. For eye-popping color and shape, Scadoxus can't be beat! The most common variety, multiflorus, may take a while to get going, but once they bloom, they look like little firecrackers going off! A most awesome bulb! Ixia and Sparaxis are nice flowers, easy to grow... as is Acidanthera. This is the first year I'm trying a Pineapple Lily, and last year I grew a lovely dwarf white Calla. Most any tender bulb can be potted up and grown in the north... just bring it in before it gets cold, and treat it like a houseplant over winter. If they're resting, water very sparingly. |
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What does it take to make a superhero? Usually it's some combination of civic pride, derring-do, and an unfortunate accident that leaves you with superpowers or a significant amount of money that you use to purchase weaponry. Or, if you're Blake Griffin, it's a turkey, bacon and avocado sandwich from Subway. Eat fresh.
Yes, Blake Griffin is a superhero now, thanks to a new short-run series that sees the sandwich magnate's celebrity endorsers join up with the Justice League to battle evildoers. A natural fit.
In Blake's edition, our hero is at Subway when he realizes he's going to be late for his "dunk show." Can't be late for the dunk show, whatever that is. Maybe he should hire an assistant who will tell him not to waste time at a sandwich shop when he is supposed to be putting on a dunk exhibition, but never mind that.
Anyway, Blake's late for his dunk show when NASCAR driver Carl Edwards offers to speed him to the gym, which seems illegal. On their way, Blake and Carl encounter Superman fighting Gorilla Grodd and offer their assistance. They defeat the telepathic ape, the Green Lantern speeds them to the dunk show, which Blake wins because you can win dunk shows, I guess. Carl and Blake celebrate with their uneaten subs.
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors: How to spend your valor points
Patch 4.2 is in full swing by now, with most players having unlocked either the Shadow Wardens or the Druids of the Talon for the various vendors. Many guilds are already working on heroic modes, and even more are fighting their way through the raid to one degree or another.
And what does this all mean to us warriors? Well, it means new gear, for one thing. The past couple of weeks, we've discussed gear you could pick up in the Firelands raid itself as well as via reputation rewards and unlockable vendors (and a quest chain). Now, it's time to discuss what you can buy for valor points, since we're getting close to the third week and you should have been able to pick up some points as well as had a shot at Occu'thar.
Before we go into the big list o' loot, I wanted to say that a couple of weeks in, I'm feeling like I'm getting a handle on how warriors perform in the Firelands raid. It's like I figured: Once again, warriors need to get geared up to equal other DPSers. I feel that for right now, arms DPS is the easiest to sustain, then SMF fury, and finally TG fury. I expect TG will pull ahead once I'm using a couple of Firelands weapons. On a fight like Rhyolith or Staghelm, I can sustain more DPS than on an Alysrazor or Shannox, where I have to target switch more, move around to chase down mobs or avoid damage and even interrupt. I think perhaps the nerfs to fury were more than was needed, but we'll see once a couple more weeks are gone and we're talking about set bonuses and Firelands level weapons.
Speaking of set bonuses, let's start talking about valor point rewards.
Before we go too far, please remember that aside from tier pieces, valor point purchases can be upgraded to heroic versions with Crystallized Firestone. No more being stuck with a ranged weapon way below the rest of your gear.
The tank's arsenal
First off, you should keep in mind that only three of the five pieces to the tanking and DPS sets are available for valor points, so I will only be discussing those three pieces. Shoulders and helms still require you to kill bosses. Still, there's a reasonable amount of gear available for points. (Two of those pieces, the gloves and the legs, also drop off of Occu'thar.)
Let's talk about tanking pieces first.
There are a very solid set of tanking bracers available for valors, the Bracers of Regal Force. Not only do they compare very favorably to the last tier's heroic bracers, they're itemized differently so you could keep the mastery bracers for a high block set and use the Regal Force for a pure avoidance set, with that dodge and parry. The tanking ring, the Deflecting Brimstone Band, has high strength and mastery but less dodge than the previous tier's tanking ring of choice, the heroic Bile-O-Tron Nut. With the heap of expertise, the BoTN is also itemized for threat, but I'd have to say the Deflecting does a better job of spreading out threat stats with avoidance/mitigation stats by emphasizing mastery. These are pretty solid options for your tank looking to spend some valors.
The ranged option, Deflecting Star, is solid, but I don't think I'd buy it right away. Compared to the Crossfire Carbine, which most tanks probably have ... Sure, you'll get stamina and parry, but at the cost of mastery. Mastery is both a mitigation stat and a rage generator for tanking warriors (at least ones who take Shield Specialization), and so while I'd argue that the Deflecting Star's high parry and stamina does make it better than the Crossfire, it's not better enough that I'd make it a priority for my valor purchases. Time enough to buy it when I am running out of things to buy.
For a tanking neck, the Stoneheart Necklace is superior, in my opinion, to the Firebound Gorget in pure stats. The Firebound remains attractive if you're building a mastery stacking set for pure block, but otherwise, the Stoneheart's a better neck. However, the Firebound drops off of trash, so it's something you could buy or farm for, saving points for later. It comes down to what pieces you already have. If you've gotten a lot of Firelands drops already and don't need to pick up tier as fast as possible, the Stoneheart may be the best investment of your points. I do really like the parry/mastery combo on the Stoneheart.
Finally, there are the tier 12 tanking pieces. You can't get your four-piece set bonus via valors, but you can get your two-piece. It's an interesting one to consider, especially if you can manage to combine it with the two-piece tier 11 set bonus. Threat is more of an issue for warriors than for some other tanking classes due to how rage works (less so once Vengeance builds up, of course, and not a crippling issue by any means), and this set bonus gives you a nice DOT to help with initial threat. The pieces available to you via valor points are the Chestguard, the Legguards, and the Handguards of the Molten Giant. The Handguards are cheapest, but since both the hands and legs can drop off of Occu'thar, I'd recommend picking up the chest first and giving the other two a couple weeks to see if they drop. I like the itemization on all three pieces, with dodge, parry and mastery in liberal amounts.
Valor point options for DPSers follow the same pattern, of course, with a ring, a throwing weapon, a set of bracers, and three pieces of tier 12. Since I'm contrary even to myself, I'm going to talk about tier 12 before the other drops this time. Why? Well, why not?
The three pieces of the Molten Giant Warplate available via valor points are the Gauntlets, the Legplates and the Battleplate. Since our DPS tier set needs to do double duty and try and be viable for both arms and fury, it has a harder job ahead of it, but the two-piece T12 set bonus is pretty spec-neutral. However, it's not talent-neutral. If you have a point in Booming Voice, the duration drops to 9 seconds, and if you have two points, it drops to 6 seconds. With the GCD still in effect for shouts, this means you'll get less effect out of this set bonus if you spend two points in Booming Voice. So in attempting to make it equal for arms and fury warriors, Blizzard's actually made the set bonus better for arms. I don't think it's enough to make folks spec out of Booming Voice, because frankly, there's not all that much room in fury anyway. But you might see people drop to only one point in the talent, depending on how the set bonus interacts with it. Is a 9-second duration enough to avoid the GCD downside? (In short, is having the effect for 14 seconds with the GCD enough to offset losing the extra rage from being able to shout every 30 seconds?)
Purchase priority is pretty much the same for T12 DPS. The Chestplate is the most spec-neutral of the three pieces and would be my first purchase, if I weren't terribly impatient. Since I am, I bought the gloves. Bad me. Bad!
The Gigantiform Bracers are solid for pretty much any DPS warrior. A TG warrior might leave them where they are, while SMF might reforge mastery, and arms might already have enough hit and reforge for crit. This is why I think reforging may have been the biggest change in the game for classes with multiple specs that perform the same role differently, because while all three possible DPS warrior specs have different stat priorities, a piece like this can be shaped to fit each.
Giantslicer has the exact same stat spread as the Voodoo Hunting Bow but is superior to that weapon, as one would expect for a significant ilevel increase. The Crossfire Carbine, which is also used as a DPS ranged weapon for warriors, has expertise and mastery instead, making it marginal for TG warriors but probably superior for arms warriors, who probably are fine on hit. It's not that Giantslicer is bad; it's just not what I would look at spending points on first.
Finally, the Stoneheart Choker is a crit/exp neck with solid strength. If you're capped on expertise, reforge some off, and you're good to go. Pretty much every spec likes crit, and if you're SMF or TG, crit means more flurry, which is always good.
Next week, we'll look at how to DPS every boss in the Firelands -- and, more importantly, how not to die while doing it. As soon as I work out that second part myself. (I die a lot.)
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firstname.lastname@example.com SPRINGFIELD – For moms-to-be and new moms, Mercy Medical Center's Family Life Center for Maternity recently opened Baby Cafés in two city locations. "We provide a warm, inviting, comfortable environment with trained, professional staff to discuss any concerns a woman has and to offer advice and support on breastfeeding," Alice Hodge, RN, BSN, CLC, parenting education coordinator at the Family Life Center said during an interview with Reminder Publications. Hodge is joined by Jacqueline Jones, MS, IBCLC, RLC, Sharon Livingston, RN, BS, IBCLC, Sarah Nacewicz, BS, IBCLC, RLC, and WIC peer counselor Anna Sepanek, CLC, who rotate sharing their expertise from 10 a.m. to noon on Mondays at the Mercy Care Forest Park Clinic, 475 Sumner Ave., and on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon in the childbirth education room in the main entrance to Mercy Medical Center, 299 Carew St. "If moms have concerns about their baby's weight, we can also weigh the baby before they breastfeed here and then again after to determine the weight transferred," Hodge said. For moms who prefer a bit of privacy while breastfeeding, a pretty gold screen next to one of the couches is also available. The Baby Café at Mercy Medical is done in soothing blue tones and features couches, café tables and chairs, a lending library, nursing stools, a white miniature rocking chair, coffee, tea and light refreshments. The Baby Café project is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Program. Promoting breastfeeding is recognized by the CDC as an important obesity prevention strategy, according to Hodge. The overall goal of the grant is to improve the continuity of breastfeeding care in Massachusetts by enhancing community-based, post-discharge resources for women and their families. To achieve this goal, funds have been provided to nine local initiatives, serving 17 Mass-in-Motion communities that aim to provide education, peer mentoring, access to post-discharge care, and/or other supportive services specifically for breastfeeding mothers and their families. Hodge noted that on each mom's first visit, a gift bag is given which can include a baby book, hand lotion, baby toys, a teething ring and bib. "Each gift bag is unique," Hodge said. "We also have a special gift raffle each week. Gifts can range from cosmetic bags and baby clothes to sleepers, bibs, T-shirts, socks and baby shampoo." Hodge added that partners, children and grandparents are also welcome to drop-in with the new moms or moms-to-be. Hodge hopes that moms will learn from each other and share their experiences and challenges. "The Baby Café is not meant to be a lecture," she said. "It's a sharing of the group." Hodge noted that the benefits for breastfeeding are "enormous" for both mom and baby. "Breastfeeding is really important for their overall health," she said. For more information on the Baby Cafés, the first such offerings in Western Massachusetts, call 748-7295 or visit www.mercycares.com. Interpreter services are also available, according to Hodge. |


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A growing number of high-achieving students are contemplating a year off before college - known as the gap year - as a break from the pressures to gain admittance to top colleges. Mindful of that pressure, more schools are promoting gap years more aggressively. High schools now hold gap-year fairs to teach students about the option, and companies and consultants that place students in gap-year programs are expanding.
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EDINBURG, TEXAS - The University of Texas Pan American is now home to an important historical collection from one of the most influential Congressmen of all times.
The Legendary mission native Eligio "Kika" De La Garza is no longer actively involved in politics but his more than 30 years of unprecedented work as a United States Congressman will forever be part of out nation's history, no one more proud of the former Texas District he's had on our country than the UTPA and South Texas Community. UT Pan American is the institution where 85 year old started his education when it was Edinburg Junior College. On this day, UTPA Administrators, students, staff, alumni donors and others gathered at the University Library to celebrate De La Garza and witness the unveiling of his congressional papers. He's humbled and honored.
"I started in Edinburg Junior College and who would of ever though that I'd be here today, thanks to a my family and my friend."
After receiving his law degree, De La Garza represented the Rio Grande Valley in the Texas Legislature for more than 12 years. He then served as congressman from 1965 to 1997 during residential administration spanning from Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton. He is best known for being the first Hispanic to head the powerful agriculture committee and successfully introduce legislation that helped farmers and the local economy. He hopes his work is an inspiration especially to students.
UTPA President Robert Nelsen says the University is proud to be the home of De La Garza's Congressional papers. The Collection consists of 400 linear feet of archival material that will be a valuable historical resource for many in the years to come.


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PJ Yesawich Jr. leads a group conversation on strengths and weaknesses within a digital community. Here are some thoughts…
Creating a digital Kalu Yala community through social media will expand and generate outlets to find people who want to work on the project. The Internet is a perfect place to come together with like-minded people and attain what you want. A recent feat of this is Betty White getting on Saturday Night Live. However, it's necessary to keep the digital representation of Kalu Yala authentic.. it's not all just smiling faces!! The Internet is kind of like a multicultural, multifaceted brainstorm on a global scale. If you don't get feedback, then you don't get better.
Another aspect to think about when using Internet as a urban development tool is the increased public accountability of a place. Independent business owners and people working to promote their businesses are less likely to make a wrong move when they know their dirty laundry could be aired all over the World Wide Web. Kalu Yala should also take advantage of having 2,000 fans on Facebook by actually contacting them and connecting with them on a personal level, distinguishing between who really cares about making Kalu Yala great and those who follow Kalu Yala as a trend because their buddies say it's cool.


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Using a "Leapfrog LeapPad Explorer" on a Mac - trouble shooting
Have you recently purchased a 'Leapfrog LeapPad Explorer' for your little one, for Christmas this year? Thought locating it was the biggest problem...unfortunately for some this is just the start of the problem. Your next one is going to be downloading those free Apps and registering the LeapPad through a downloadable application called 'Connect'
First of all, open it BEFORE Christmas and set it up as it is not a 5 minute job (if it doesn't work ie "Connect is unable to communicate with the LeapPad", it may take several hours!) and once your little one has it in their sticky paws, they want it to work NOW!
I would suggest you go to the Leapfrog site and download Connect from the site, don't use the discs. From both mine and others experience, you end up removing the software installation and downloading from the site anyway!
Next, if you have any antivirus software installed and Firewall, you need to disable them whilst you register the LeapPad and download the free Apps - don't forget to enable them when you have finished. Even with a Mac, you need to turn the Firewall off to do this as the settings on your Mac will prevent the LeapPad connection.
If you are using a Mac, even turning off the Firewall, this may not be enough to enable Connect to run as you may still need to manually set up your IP Address. So this is how you can do this, it's easy when you know how :o)....:
You will need to manually set up your ip address by following the steps below:
To set a static IP address on a Mac, please follow the instruction below:
1. Turn on the LeapPad and connect it to the computer
2. Open System Preferences by clicking on the icon in the dock.
3. Go to the "Network" control panel under the "Internet & Network" category.
4. Select your ethernet connection (LeapFrog) from the list of available connections on the left side of the control panel window. Then click "Advanced" in the lower-right corner of the window.
5. Click on the "TCP/IP" tab at the top of the control panel window.
6. Choose "Manually" from the drop-down list at the top of the window.
7. Enter the static IP address, subnet mask, and Router numbers as follows:
IP Address: 169.254.99.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 169.254.99.100
8. Click "OK" to save your settings and connect through the static IP address.
I have added this on this forum as I bought my LeapPad back in August, following the Tesco's offer and know loads more of you guys did. I thought I'd share this as it might save you the hours and hours of swearing, troubleshoot Googling, swearing and several glasses of wine whilst you feel this urge to pick it up and chuck it hard against the wall!
Have fun and if you do have any problems, PM me and I will try and help as I tried setting my LeapPad up on both a Mac and a normal PC and both drove me mad but I found several fixes along the way and at last, it's all done :o)
- thanks this will save time on xmas day
- Many thanks. Saved me much time. :-)
- i want to set up the leappad for my grandson before christmas. but i have a pc and my daughter who will mostly be dealing with apps etc has a mac. my question is this. can i set it up on my pc and will my daughter still be able to connect on her mac. thanks for any help you can provide. happy holidays.
pam - pam2i want to set up the leappad for my grandson before christmas. but i have a pc and my daughter who will mostly be dealing with apps etc has a mac. my question is this. can i set it up on my pc and will my daughter still be able to connect on her mac. thanks for any help you can provide. happy holidays.
When you download 'Connect' either from the disc supplied or the software of Leapfrog's website, all that is doing is allowing you to register the LeapPad and download the free apps. The software asks whether it is for a Mac or PC. It may be that you both want to have the software on your systems as you can buy further 'apps' from Leapfrog and then both you and your daughter can buy them off the site. As I have used both PC and Mac to set up the LeapPad, both are now interchangeable.
The only thing you need to do when registering the LeapPad is to tell your daughter the details of the account name and password you set up on the Leapfrog site. That way, once your grandson has the LeapPad at his home, it can be connected (via Connect software) to your daughter's Mac. (She may need to follow the instructions I listed on this ^above^ to manually set up her IP Address - or if she has a newer Mac, it may work OK by just turning off the Firewall (turn it back on when finished ;)
Just a tip with the PC, make sure any antivirus is turned off as well as the Firewall. I work in IT and it goes completely against the grain but this was what interfered with the PC's ability and other people seem to have had the same problem. (Again, just make sure it's all turned back on again when you finish)
I hope this helps but please let me know if you have any problems.
Have a wonderful Christmas and fabulous 2012.
Ellie - Hi,
I've tried doing everything you suggested here but it still doesn't connect. Any other suggestions/tips?
Thanks. - I've done the above, but I think my issues (Mac osx10) maybe deeper. The application won't even start up. It simply throws up the logo then says Starting up... but just hangs. Any thoughts or help greatly appreciated
- Hi there,
The only other thing, without seeing what your system is actually doing is to check your screen resolution - it needs to be the same configuration that Leapfrog box states.
Both the Firewall and Antivirus need to be turned off.
You can email Leapfrog for bespoke technical queries: at [email protected], they can send you an application which will copy the Leapfrog programme files and .ZIP them so that you can send them for technical analysis. It takes a couple of days but they will then tell you, step by step, what you need to do and then you wont have any further issues with it.
Hope that helps and Happy Christmas. - My 10 year old daughter done it for me in 10 mins x
- What settings would I need for an additional device?
- I'm sorry but it will not connect with my Mac :0(
- I have done EVERYTHING to try and set this leappad up for my daughter (who is not impressed that she couldnt play with it on her birthday) Ive turned my firewall off i hit connect and it gets stuck with 1 percent left to run??????? Help, i have emailed leappad who are very slow at responding! It is very frustrating as normally i am a wizz at solving these kinds of things!
- I'm in the same boat as jamestrusler.... can't get the LeapFrog Connect to start up. Just sits on "Starting up...." forever. I have Mac OS 10.7.4, did the IP address thing, no Firewall or Anti-virus running, updated Flash. How could it possibly be these difficult!!! Anyone get it to work with the Starting up problem???
- Hi, I'm having this problem now ! I had already installed it all and it worked perfectly on my pc through windows. However we no longer have that computer, and have recently bought a MAC. Ive downloaded the "connect" but when i connect my leap pad explorer to the mac pro it is saying it cannot find it and to switch off and try again!!! I have done this about 20 times in many different ways and nothing is working! You say i need to disable the firewall? how do i do this? and what else do i need to do?
I look forward to hearing from you !
A very stressed mum of an impatient 3 year old ! :-) - I have the same problem. It used to work for me, but ever since I installed the latest mandatory upgrade to LeapFrog Connect it no longer works with my Explorers. It still works with the Leapster 2. Looks like many of us are having the same problem.
- Great advice, thanks. One question: how on earth did you figure it out?
- Damn. As with NoeValleyJim, the latest update has broken it.
- Thank you SO much for posting this!! I have no idea how you figured it out but I am quite certain I would never have gotten this to work otherwise. I'm a Mac user and I tried installing it three or four times but the program kept grinding to a halt. I followed the steps for entering the IP address and it worked like a charm. You are AWESOME! My son and I both thank you!!
- No dice. Using 10.7.4 and leappad 1. Every time I plug it into the USB port, it changes the IP, subnet mask and router addresses to different ones.... I had this leappad connected to a PC, but now only have my Mac. Any other ideas? Thanks in advance for your help.


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Facebook to Take Over Instant Messaging Service WhatsApp
by Dale WrightSocial networking giant Facebook has revealed that it will buy popular messaging app WhatsApp for $19bn (£11.4bn) in a deal comprised of cash and shares.
The acquisition means that Facebook will pay $4bn in cash, $12bn in shares, with a further $3bn in restricted stock to go to WhatsApp's employees. Facebook and WhatsApp have both stressed that nothing will change for the messaging company – it will be able to operate in exactly the same way without interference from Facebook. There won't be ads on WhatsApp and it's still going to be very cheap to use.
Facebook taking over WhatsApp isn't a surprise really: it's primarily about eliminating the competition. Droves of teenagers are moving away from using Facebook to favor the instant messaging app. However, what is surprising is how much Facebook paid for the acquisition. $19bn is a lot of money by anyone's standards and many critics are already suggesting that Facebook has overpaid for WhatsApp. Nearly two years ago, Facebook bought Instagram for $1.1bn – an amount that seems like loose change now. Facebook obviously has a strong business plan of how it will make the WhatsApp buyout worth every penny.
What is Facebook's plan for WhatsApp then? We can only guess, of course: Facebook's not likely to announce its strategy. WhatsApp has over 450 million regular monthly users, but this isn't simply an attempt to grow Facebook's audience. Like we mentioned, WhatsApp has a hold on a younger demographic than Facebook, and its audience comes mainly from Europe. Facebook's partnership with WhatsApp is about diversifying its audience, and trying to get a hold of the 'youth vote'.
Younger users of social media are also more likely to be open to engagement. This is the key point: more engagement means that Facebook is more attractive to advertisers. Sure, WhatsApp won't be getting adverts, but if Facebook is going to become more integrated with the messaging company, there's going to be some serious advertising money in this deal.


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Jul 19th 2011 11:50AM And further confirms that shaman are better than druids.
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May 21st 2011 9:20PM Don't forget that Ele Shaman are having the same difficulties! Managing the flameshocks just to have piss poor Fire Novas is a major pain.
Yes we have Earthquake but that was nerfed so heavily in 4.1 it's almost as futile.
I have found myself using Chain Lightning more and more for AoE and praying for Elemental Overload.
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May 13th 2011 1:15PM What are the chances we'd ever get a "raid finder" built like we have the "dungeon finder" now? Obviously raids are meant to be well organized before hand but PuG raids do occur and a finder feature for it would give some life (and hope) for players on less used servers. Just a thought.
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May 12th 2011 7:04PM Ele Sham still needs some PvE help!
The AoE changes that were made with 4.1 turned out to be a major nerf and were difficult to master and I'm sick of my full tier 11 self being out-dps'd by damn heroic geared mages. The extreme difference in classes is very frustrating. Oh well, at least we're not druids.
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I'm trying to set the iProperties value Mass. I'm using a placeholder block to cut down on the graphics load, but I still want the part to reflect the correct weight load and weight distribution. I'm starting with the flollowing code:
child block as :block, quantity = 4
iProperties = {{"Mass", 8}}
end child
the value shows up here
but not here
how do I pass the value through?
Not sure why this isn't working for mass properties. The same technique seems to for custom properties, e.g.
iProperties = {{"test", 200.0}}
Then a custom property is added:
iProperties are stored in the Inventor document/file (IPT, in your case). If you switch to the ClientGraphics implementation of the block, there will not be a document behind it.
You may consider adding the Parameter/Rule to keep the value of the mass.
I'm not sure what you mean by "adding the Parameter/Rule to keep the value of the mass".
What are ClientGraphics?
Do you have an example of how I would go about doing this?
What do you mean by "keep the value of the mass"?
Create new Design that extends block:
Design BlockWithMass : Block Rule Density As Number = 10.0 Rule Mass As Number = Me.width*Me.height*Me.length*Density
Parameter Rule Mass1 As Number = 0.0 End Design
Create the child list in your assembly:
Child block As :BlockWithMass , Quantity = 5
width = child.index
height = child.index
length = child.index
origin = Point( child.index*2, 0, 0)
Mass1 = 8.0
End Child
Please note that Mass is a Rule (which is calculated from the block size), and Mass1 is a Parameter, that can be specified during creation of the BlockWithMass
Mass of the block 3 will be determined as:
Intent >block_3.mass
--> 270.0
Intent >block_3.mass1
--> 8.0
Intent >
what does the iv_setProperty method do/how does it function?
The first argument to the function iv_PropertyPut should be an Intent Part. The implementation tries to find the Inventor Document that owns the property.
In your case, Block will not have the Inventor Document behind it, so Intent will try to find the Document in Block's parent.
If you're not able to set the mass using the default iProperties rule, as a workaround you can implement your own that calls the Inventor API, for example:
Method UpdateMass(Mass As Number) As Boolean
Dim invApp As Any=%%InventorApplication
Dim activeDoc As Any=invApp.ActiveDocument
If activeDoc<>NoValue Then
If activeDoc.DocumentType=Inventor.DocumentTypeEnum.k
Dim massprops As Any=activeDoc.ComponentDefinition.MassProperties
Return True
End If
End If
Return False
Catch Error
Return False
End Try
End Method
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The FOX Network has revealed their broadcast teams for the upcoming NFL season. Back again as the number-1 team are Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Pam Oliver. New to the booth this season is former Chicago Bears Head Coach, Mike Martz. Martz will team up with Ron Pitts to form FOX's number-7 team.
Also noteworthy is that former ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews will assist the lead group on Thanksgiving and throughout the playoffs.
The Martz hire is interesting. He's weird enough and smart enough to have a positive impact on the broadcast, but can he convey his thoughts with feeling? I've always found him to be rather bland, arrogant and emotionless during his press conferences. We'll see how he does.
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On January 17, 2014, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, with respect to the previously announced proposed acquisition of The Jones Group Inc. (the "Company") by affiliates of Sycamore Partners, L.P. and Sycamore Partners A, L.P. (collectively, the "Sponsor"). In addition, an exemption was available for the proposed subsequent transfer of ownership of certain of the Company's business lines to separate controlled affiliates of the Sponsor. The grant of early termination satisfies one of the conditions for consummation of the proposed acquisition. The proposed acquisition remains subject to other customary closing conditions, including approval by the Company's shareholders, and is currently expected to close in the second quarter of 2014.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements about the expected timing, completion and effects of the proposed merger, and all other statements made in this Current Report on Form 8-K that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, these forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "may", "will", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", or "project", or the negative of those words or other comparable words. Any forward-looking statements included in this Current Report on Form 8-K are made as of the date hereof only, based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and subject to applicable law to the contrary, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the projected results in such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others: any conditions imposed on the parties in connection with the consummation of the transactions described herein; approval of the merger by the Company's shareholders (or the failure to obtain such approval); the ability to obtain regulatory approvals of the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement on the proposed terms and schedule; the Company's ability to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers following the announcement of the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby; the ability of third parties to fulfill their obligations relating to the proposed transactions, including providing financing under current financial market conditions; the ability of the parties to satisfy the conditions to closing of the proposed transactions; the risk that the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement may not be completed in the time frame expected by the parties or at all; and the risks that are described from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, filed with the SEC on February 22, 2013, in other of the Company's filings with the SEC from time to time, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and on general industry and economic conditions.
The Company believes these forward-looking statements are reasonable; however, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations. Any or all of the Company's forward-looking statements may turn out to be wrong. They can be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
This communication may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed acquisition of the Company by affiliates of the Sponsor. In connection with the proposed merger, the Company has filed a preliminary proxy statement and other related documents with the SEC. The Company intends to file a definitive proxy statement with the SEC. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, THE COMPANY'S SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, INCLUDING THE COMPANY'S DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT, CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED MERGER. The Company's shareholders will be able to obtain, without charge, a copy of the definitive proxy statement (when available) and other relevant documents filed with the SEC from the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. The Company's shareholders will also be able to obtain, without charge, a copy of the definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents (when available) by directing a request by mail or telephone to The Jones Group Inc. Investor Relations at 1411 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, telephone number (212) 703-9819, or from the Company's website, www.jonesgroupinc.com.
Certain Information Concerning Participants
The Company and its directors and officers and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company's shareholders with respect to the proposed merger. Information about the Company's directors and executive officers and their ownership of the Company's common stock is set forth in the proxy statement for the Company's 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on May 15, 2013. Shareholders may obtain additional information regarding the interests of the Company and its directors and executive officers in the proposed merger, which may be different than those of the Company's shareholders generally, by reading the proxy statement and other relevant documents regarding the proposed merger filed with the SEC. Investors should read the definitive proxy statement carefully when it becomes available before making any voting or investment decisions.


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It seems like everything else is ok with the computers, they just won't load MSN. So what page is loading if things are alright? |
The home screen comes up blank on both computers. It says MSN in the address line, but the screen is blank. I have not ran any scans yet, but will do that soon. |
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I discovered MSE hadn't run for a while, so I ran it and then MSN came up. Apparently MSE fixed it! Thanks! |
It's not going to hurt to run those scans, if you have time, they may clean up things you don't even realize you may have. Joe |
Since I have never used MSE and it is a suite I have to ask, does it clean cookies? My first thought was that site cookies had expired on the two systems. DA |
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I use it it does not clean cookies. |
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MSN changed their home page I believe to nbcnews.com or some such. A craft forum I am on people were complaining about the MSN home page not coming up and someone said they now changed to that. Then today was at a friends and she has paid MSN and said she was able to do something to re-direct it back to the old MSN page when she opened her borwser or some such so it's not just you. Mary |
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my concern here in this thread is that you stated your MSE has not run "for a while" Why? it should be set to run regular, why hasn't it been running? That would be my major concern. You need to get that sorted out ASAP. Is it getting the daily definition updates? Done a malwarebytes scan recently? |
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What is MSE? Microsoft Security Essentials. A free Anti Virus program. Joe |
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Gorches: Head injuries make football feel more like 'deathball'
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Pallbearers place a coffin with the body of Kansas City Chiefs NFL football player Jovan Belcher into a hearse after a service at the Landmark International Deliverance and Worship Center Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 in Kansas City, Mo. Belcher shot his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at their home Saturday morning before driving to Arrowhead Stadium and turning the gun on himself. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
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There's not much I love more than watching football on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in the fall.
I'm more of a pro football fan, but there's nothing wrong with a good college game, too — especially if there's a Southeastern Conference team to cheer against, but I digress.
And high school football is quite enjoyable to watch, though covering it can be a challenge sometimes.
But it seems like every couple of months there's more depressing news about a former or current football player that makes me rethink my love for a sport that is ruining lives more frequently than ever.
The latest in a growing trend of football-related — and very likely football-causing — incidents is Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdering his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, and then driving to Chiefs team headquarters, confronting his coaches and GM, thanking them for everything they did for him before taking his own life with a gunshot to the head.
How can you not think about other recent football suicides — Junior Seau in the spring, Dave Duerson in 2011 and Andre Waters in 2006. The difference is that this time, it was a current player who didn't have as many years of physical abuse on the football field behind him.
Belcher was supposedly a level-headed guy who lost his mind for a short period of time, then realized what he had done and decided the only logical thing to do was take his own life without thinking of the dozens of lives he changed forever.
Reports have come out that he actually kissed his wounded girlfriend on the forehead seconds after shooting her, and said he was sorry, before driving five miles and shooting himself in front of GM Scott Pioli, head coach Romeo Crennel and linebackers coach Gary Gibbs, saying "I got to go ... I can't be here" just before pulling the trigger.
Belcher was actually a member of Male Athletes Against Violence, a group that campaigns against violence toward women by athletes. So what would make a presumably good guy go against his beliefs?
It was a skewed, immoral decision leading to lives ruined, all because of the violent nature of football.
Now I know what some of you will say: They know what they're getting into and they get paid very well to deal with the injuries. But I'll counter with the notion that they don't realize what they're getting into and no amount of money makes up for the head trauma that batters brains into mush.
We can't say for sure that there is a direct link between the Belcher incident and head trauma, but it's been reported that Belcher had issues with alcohol, pain killers and recent concussions. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
The NFL and NCAA has tried to compensate for head trauma by penalizing players more. The NFL had increased fines and suspensions for helmet-related hits that are deemed unnecessary, but that doesn't solve the problem. It punishes players for the problem, but you can't fundamentally change the game of football.
In fact, football hasn't changed in five decades. Players hit the same way now as they did 30, 40 or 50 years ago.
Dick Butkus once knocked multiple quarterbacks out of a game in the 1960s. Mean Joe Greene from the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers "Steel Curtain" defense wasn't named as such because he hit you softly. In 1978, Oakland Raiders defensive back Jack Tatum's infamous hit paralyzed Miami Dolphins wide receiver Darryl Stingley. In 1985, Bears linebacker Wilbur Marshall once hit Detroit Lions quarterback Joe Ferguson so hard with his helmet in the chest that Ferguson was laid out on the ground for minutes like he was dead.
The only thing that has changed is the size and strength of the players. Linemen now are 300 pounds or more, but can run to 40-yard dash in 4.6 seconds or less. Linebackers such as Brian Urlacher and Ray Lewis are 20-30 pounds bigger than their past counterparts, like Marshall.
It's all about math and the formula E=mc2. Energy equals mass times velocity squared. Simply, the force players are producing now is more than it was then for the same crowd-pleasing hits, meaning brains are being rattled harder.
How many suicides do you hear about in other major professional sports? How about players dying early due to excessive injuries? It doesn't really happen in baseball or basketball, but it's a way of life — or more accurately a way of death — in football.
Let's rename it deathball, though that name already describes a videogame that combines elements of football, soccer, rugby and handball. Coincidence? I think not.
Doesn't it make you want to send your 8-, 9- or 10-year-old son out to play football?
Northwest Indiana has three Pop Warner football teams in the national finals in Florida this week — Gary, Southlake (Lowell) and Michigan City — and they deserve kudos for getting that far and earning a nice week off school at Disney World. But those kids are taking their lives in their own hands — or maybe it's their parents' hands. It's not tag or flag football for them. They're hitting each other as hard as little kids can. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) can gradually build up and can start at that young age when brains and bodies still aren't fully developed.
Yes, you guessed it. This is leading up to me saying that Pop Warner football should be disbanded. With all the studies coming out on CTE and the stories about former and current NFL players living a culture of death due to accumulated stress, the only logical way to prevent future trauma is to eliminate the sport at the lower levels and work your way up to extreme changes in higher levels — more extreme than increased fines and suspensions.
Then again, the world has become a culture of death and maybe deathball fits right in.


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