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Learning to Fly Again
I step inside Falcons headquarters as GM Thomas Dimitroff scrambles to get Atlanta back on top. Plus, Michael Sam and Oprah get it right, Robert Mathis gets it wrong and where (I think) the 2015 NFL draft and Super Bowl 52 are going
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga.— Many things to do today, the pivotal offseason of the Atlanta Falcons, the state of the 2015 NFL draft, why Michael Sam and new BFF Oprah did the right thing, Gregg Williams being in the perfect place at the right time, a former NFL general manager driving a basketball legend nuts, a tricentennial ruling the next Super Bowl bidding, a great documentary about a Lions quarterback/Kennedy pal/John Wayne co-star … but first, a story I want you to see, and the coolest photo we at The MMQB have ever run.
So we've started this 10-week series at The MMQB. It's about the history of pro football, with an eye on the future in every story we do. We dispatched young Emily Kaplan down to NFL Films in south Jersey to see a living, breathing NFL museum, the office of the late NFL Films impresario Steve Sabol, whose workplace was left precisely how he last worked in it, right down to his last lunch order. Emily Kaplan wrote vividly of the place, and photographer Jeff Zelevansky took a breathtaking GigaPan photo of the office—you can put your cursor on anything in the office, focus on it and POOF! There it is, full and vivid, on your screen.
Look at the notes Sabol took after a long session watching Bill Parcells coach. Focus on it. Put your cursor on the binder with the Parcells notes, and you'll see, down near the bottom of the page, what Sabol found after his Parcells experience.
"He's more than old school. He's a one-room schoolhouse with no lunch and no recess."
And that, dear readers, is what our goal is at this site: We want you to walk into Steve Sabol's office with Emily Kaplan and Jeff Zelevansky, seeing what they see, experiencing what they experience. That's our goal with the series, and with this site. Hope you enjoy it. Next: On Wednesday, Tim Layden's vivid story on the history of artificial turf, and how it's affected the game. There's a lot in there you would never think of.
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Good life lesson for the Falcons.
When coach Mike Smith and GM Thomas Dimitroff looked at their team in the last couple of years, there were things they didn't like much. But when you coach and manage a team for five years, and you win 56 games and lose just 24, and you make the playoffs four out of five years, you tend to say, "We're okay."
Said Smith: "Human nature, when you're getting positive results, is not to stress the negative. But when you get humbled, which happened last year, you've got to be realistic about your team."
As the house-collapsing 4–12 season of 2013 proved, the Falcons were most definitely not okay. The pass-rush stunk. The offensive line stunk. The secondary leaked. And every time they got into the playoffs—Smith's playoff record: 1–4—a team with a strong pass-rush and good secondary frustrated Matt Ryan and sent the Falcons home early.
And so, the night before the first round of this year's draft, Dimitroff sat in his Buckhead home, watching NFL Network with his son Mason (Mason: "DAD!!! They're saying your name wrong!") and pondered the mess his team was in.
"We have gotten to the realization we were able to win a lot of games, but not the Super Bowl," Dimitroff said. "And we realize how quickly a 4–12 season can change the perspective of a team-builder like me and a coach like Mike. For us, 4–12 has been productive vulnerability. We're very confident in our ability to bring our team back, but this draft is crucial to getting us there."
Atlanta had a boring draft, but a lucky one. The night before the draft, Dimitroff thought he had a deal with old friend Dave Caldwell, the GM of the Jaguars, to move from six to three … but it would have been a stupid deal in retrospect. Dimitroff had his heart set on Texas A&M tackle Jake Matthews, and he was fortunate Caldwell called him on draft morning and said, "We're out. We're staying put and picking our guy." Blake Bortles. Forget the speculation. Dimitroff wasn't going to pick Kahlil Mack. He was going Matthews all the way.
Now came the next piece of drama in the Atlanta draft room. New assistant GM Scott Pioli was a voice of calm in the room; he'd been urging Dimitroff to not be too eager to move back into the first round. Atlanta sat at 37, and wanted a pass-rusher—either a defensive end or an outside linebacker. The Falcons really wanted Ohio State linebacker Ryan Shazier, who went to Pittsburgh at number 15. That was too high for Atlanta. Then the object of their affection was defensive end Dee Ford, and he would have cost a third-round pick for Atlanta to move into the mid-20s. But Kansas City grabbed Ford at 23, and there went the two rushers Dimitroff liked. Instead of overpaying for a player he didn't love, Dimitroff sat and took high-risk/big-reward defensive tackle Ra'Shede Hageman of Minnesota. He didn't get a pass-rusher until pick 139, in the fourth round: Notre Dame outside linebacker Prince Shembo, whose career was clouded by an encounter with a girl he met at Notre Dame who later killed herself. The circumstance around her death—Shembo was never charged with a crime—caused many teams to steer clear of him, and he's a risk for the Falcons. But they were confident in the vetting of Shembo, and in his potential. So he's the man Atlanta hopes can be the edge-rush help for the aging Osi Umenyiora that the quarterbacks of the NFC South will grow to fear. But the 139th pick is not exactly Jadeveon Clowney territory.
The night before the draft, it was clear Dimitroff wanted one more impact guy out of this draft that he just wasn't able to get. "This league is about now, and it's about impact players," he said. "What did Marv Levy say? 'Depth is great until you've got to use it?' "
Soon after the season, Dimitroff and Smith had a summit meeting with owner Arthur Blank. "We have been the hardest on ourselves, and Mr. Blank was hard on us too," said Dimitroff. "But I welcome that. We deserved it. I'll be damned if I ever say adequate is okay."
Blank, who co-founded The Home Depot, told me: "In the NFL, what we've learned is a pat hand doesn't work. From my days at Home Depot, I learned good is the enemy of great. I told Thomas and Mike I was going to have faith in them, because they deserved it after five good years. But they worked at it. They had my plane for 322 passenger hours, not including the combine, going all over the country to find players we need. They've been very analytical."
Dimitroff added several analytics tools to the Falcons' offseason. The force plate, which measures athleticism and lower-body muscle usage, was important in an effort to gauge the strength of draftees … and to help the team teach offensive linemen to fire off the line in a slightly different way than they had been doing, to help reduce Lisfranc and calf injuries. Instead of firing out on the balls of the feet, linemen are firing out with the lower part of their feet, to even out the pressure on the foot and whole leg. Dimitroff has also used Fusionetics, which educates players about which of their movements increase the chance of injury.
"This is not in any way a quest to find excuses for why we went 4–12," Dimitroff said. "It is just us being mindful to try to do everything we can to keep our players healthy and at a top performance level. And give credit to Smitty—he's been on board with everything to try to be sure our players are playing at their peak."
Mike Tice and Bryan Cox have been imported as assistants on the offense and defense, respectively, in part to instill a toughness that has been missing. "We've got to get back to winning the line of scrimmage," said Smith. Matthews at right tackle, Hageman in the interior of the defensive line, and Shembo as an outside rusher … if those all work, the Falcons will be back strong in 2014. But if Matt Ryan gets whacked around like last year, and if Smith's defense can't pressure the quarterback, it'll be a battle again to stay out of the NFC South basement. And Blank won't be so patient then.
Speaking of naiveté---the ark, Peyton? With all the animals two-by-two? We're taking this as truth? For a guy who prides himself on reasonable preparation, believing in the Bible seems contradictory.
I don't know who this Vito Cammissano character is. Judging by the fact that Peter King can't write five words without mentioning Michael Sam, I thought for sure that he and Sam must be a couple...
Also, while I'm poking at Peter (don't get jealous, Michael), the fact that Greg Hardy has 25-30 guns is as irrelevant as the fact that Peter King stocks 30 beers in his fridge. Owning a gun doesn't mean that you will use it to harm anyone any more than owning 30 beers means that you will get drunk and smack your wife around. Hard for you to comprehend, I'm sure, but owning a gun (or 25-30) is perfectly legal in the Carolinas. Some folks drink beer, some folks shoot guns. Both folks can commit an act of violence on occasion, but I don't think you want the police to regulate your beer collection. So, Gettleman can do his due diligence regarding Hardy's gun collection, but if he's smart (yeah, I know he's from Boston; it's called an oxymoron), he'll recognize the legal authority of the 2nd Amendment. If not, Dallas can use Hardy. Shoot, they'll even buy him bigger guns.
Add in his derision of Milan Lucic saying, "I'm gonna kill you next year" after an important game, and one begins to wonder if Peter King has ever played a sport in his life. Heck, I'm wondering if King had an inguinal orchiectomy at an early age. I've heard your testosterone levels drop after 40, but should it really be totally depleted by age 56?! This is info that Michael really needs to know, Pete, before things get serious between you two....
Seems like just yesterday people were giving Mante Te'o (sp) a lot of grief
"I think it's very contradictory, and I'm someone who supported Michael Sam and understood the importance of his involvement in professional football; but he has certainly called into question to me everything about him, including what we saw on draft day," he said. "Everything seems orchestrated now. We didn't know that there was a documentary TV show already in the process of being filmed and now we do. Now we judge everything in that light and we have to wonder, was it genuine emotion? Or is this a part of a reality TV show?"
The above comment was made by Jason Whitlock of ESPN so you can forward your bigot and racist accusations to him. Peter made a very big deal about the televised moment of Sam's selection suggesting it would be shown over and over as seminal moment in sports and societal history. Despite the "documentary" tag, Sam was making reality TV for the OWN network and as everyone should know by now reality TV can be as scripted and rehearsed as any other TV show. Sam has the absolute right to be who he is and be proud of it..but his clandestine dealings with OWN paint him as a bit of charlatan
"It would be compelling to see Sam at home with his boyfriend..."
I gotta say, for the most part I've always been ok with gay people. I've hung out with them, worked with them, even danced at a gay club once just for the heck of it. No big deal. Whatever. So, in the wake of this whole Michael Sam love fest, I found myself reflecting back on the moment where I watched Sam breaking down in a gush of sobs as he learned he would be a Ram, and his boyfriend rubbing his arm and his back affectionately, and, after ending the call, Sam kissing his boyfriend.
It was a beautiful moment. I was touched. But in reflecting back I was also confronted by another emotion that I had apparently brushed aside: Ewww.
I get it. Gay people are people just like heterosexual people are people. We're all human. And would that we all were better about "live and let live". Anyone should have the freedom to experience love.
But it will NEVER be normal.
Furthermore don jones had to attend educational training. That is a 700 dollar word for brainwashing.
Peter, I think it was an absolute travesty that Don Jones got suspended for hi tweets on The micheal Sam incident. He is in entitled to his opinion and should not come with reprocussions. The NFL was wrong and roger goodell should be ashamed for succumbing To peer pressure. He is a coward. Whether it was micheal Sam and Vito or AJ Mccarron and that reality series moron he kissed. I tuned in to watch the NFL draft not a damn daytime soap opera. ESPN should be ashamed of themselves for the intentional pause when it was learned who the pick would be and cut to it.
Lifelong nonsmoker here...I love breathing smokefree air...But seriously...Dude, you're in BAR. Get over yourself. People drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in those places.
So much for the standard of university education these days (even if the subject is "Speech Communication").
Peyton Manning actually believes in the story of Noah's Ark!?!
What a buffoon...
Doesn't Wilf mean something naughty?
I doubt seriously that Eugene Sims, backup DE for the Rams has anything to worry about in making this roster. So that makes 4 must keeps IMO. Going to be a tough nut to crack for Sam.
I think its hilarious how all the sports writers and NFL are tip toeing around this Michael Sam issue, King included. I am skeptical if very few are really saying what they are truly feeling out of pure fear of being ostracized. This has so little to do with football, and everything to do with sensational media, and a ridiculous amount of political correctness.
"So I've been working a bit with a nutritionist, and after studying my diet (or lack thereof), she said, "No more lattes." The horror! We reached a bit of a truce there. I shan't give up my favorite warm beverage, but I think I can handle three a week, with brewed Italian roast the rest of the time. We'll see."
What?!? For what reason?
O.K. so I get it Michael Sam is queer. Can I call him queer in this era of PC? Do queers get their own showers in the NFL? Don't really care about him or the story. Quite frankly, tired of it like many people.
Bummer that people can still smoke in bars!? Are you freaking serious? ..That should be the proprietors CHOICE! Some places would allow smoking and other places would not allow it. Why can't both sides be happy? Its ridiculous that non-smokers just get their way without any public vote. I thought America was a democracy...It's only smoke, get over it you freakin' cry-babies!
I love PFF, but I don't think the article sheds much light on the best CB in football debate at all. If Sherman's not going up against the best, then he can't be called the best. You can speculate that he might be the best, but until he's tested on a regular basis, it can't be stated definitively.
Michael Sam: WHO CARES? Why is this such a big deal? If someone says something on the field to him, are they going to be fined? It's about football, not the player's sexuality. So tired of hearing about him
Drink coffee like a man, Mr. King.
Mr. King, I have been a regular reader of your column for over ten years, and the thing that keeps drawing me back to your work as a writer is the heart you put into it. You care about bigger things than the game you're describing. You strike me as a "people writer" more so than a "sports writer" and I hope you take that as the compliment it is meant to be.
But I have to say that this sentence, coming from you, really threw me: "He didn't get a pass-rusher until pick 139, in the fourth round: Notre Dame outside linebacker Prince Shembo,whose career was clouded by an encounter with a girl he met at Notre Dame who later killed herself."
Your phrasing diminishes the seriousness of the allegations, and I say this from a perspective that is not intending to condemn Mr. Shembo as guilty without charge or trial. Really, I'm not responding as a back-seat lawyer; I'm responding as a fellow writer.
I understand the need to be neutral and objective. I do think, though, that your choice of the phrase "encounter with a girl" glosses over the seriousness of the situation. In the least, it leaves you open to being yourself accused of brushing off what is a serious issue in collegiate sports: sexual abuse and a culture of violence against women.
As a longtime reader, I am confident that this was not your intention. At least, I hope not.
@armagecko Easy on the Michael Sam talk, man. I dunno if you're just critiquing Peter (hell yeah, please do that), but Michael Sam was a tough hombre in the SEC, so I'm not sure bagging on him in a seeming "toughness spectrum" is a good bet (again, I don't know where you were going with it). Plus, what's more physically imposing in the bedroom, a dude or a chick? Gay dudes as "soft" always strikes me as a naive stereotype.
And I support your gun treatise, but a beer has no ability to kill someone. A beer + a car, perhaps. But a gun, by itself, can kill. I guess you're making the argument that if you add an a**hole to either, bad things can happen...but a bad person + beer, vs. a bad person + beer + guns? Clearly, guns are more dangerous (I can't believe I have to even say that).
@scotto80 I was listening to Tom Nalen here in Denver talking about this as well and his comment was that if he was in training camp with Michael Sam and this film crew that he wouldn't go anywhere near him as he would be afraid that anything he said would have the possibility of being taken out of context and used against him in the media. He felt like it would be more honest if he wanted to document this situation that he would have been better off just going to camp like a regular rookie and writing about his experiences later instead as this won't cause the sort of 'observer effect' where the presence of the film crew fundamentally changes his camp experience.
@Fingernail Who's to define what is "normal"? And who cares whether the behavior is "normal" anyway?
@Kevin1 Not in most major cities - which is where PK clearly spends most of his time and believes everyone else should behave as city folks do, because he comes across as very condescending in his words.
However, I agree with the point about smoking - it's been proven to have no positive purpose in public restaurants, bars and other establishments, and the addition of public parks has been a positive development as well.
Actually, it is very much about what pre-W America used to be about: protecting individual liberties, celebrating individual expression and having a system of government for the People, by the People that respectfully takes no position on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, et al.
Lo and behold, the "new" GOP has eroded our Nation's freedoms in the following order: (1) by creating "figurehead" politicians like Reagan that don't actually lead- they just sell snake oil agendas like "no new taxes, ever" which foreseeably weakens the State; (2) "deregulating" the Media by "killing the Fairness Act" under the Reagan Administration now made "news" subjective- that is, "for sale" instead of simply reporting on the Public Interest; (3) by inculcating this fabricated "hyper-partisanship"- it provides Congress with a much more convenient "excuse" to not enact laws in the Public Interest- even "gifting" wholly unprecedented "blanket immunities" (see, "Halliburton Loophole") that turns Due Process, common sense and the Common Law on its head; (4) finally, of course, there is the outright GOP "contempt" for government, the Police Power of the Several States and rule of law.
You want make an "issue" of Americans celebrating liberty.
I take issue with your contrived lip service to Freedom.
You are as phony as the GOP's "Climate Change" denials in consideration of super-PAC bribes.
"After the event, even the fool is wise." - Viscount Symonds
Our Congress is on the take and not raising revenue necessary to meet tomorrow's challenges. If it doesn't want to, say, collect Federal Income tax from the NFL and other Corporations- then reogranize the debt with the EU and Russia- not rattle sabers for more useless military occupations that serve the Corporations you REFUSE to TAX in violation of the Constitution your "paid for" Faux News "contributors" invoke.
Enough lies and smoggy skies to make the People choke.
"You mean, like Nate Kaeding in the playoffs against my team?" - Rex Ryan
Damn you, Noodle Leg.
@ShaneLeonard You are so certain that everyone is as bigoted as you but are just being politically correct. How convenient. The truth is that the whole reason Sam's sexuality is a story is because of the "sensational media." The players don't care. Sam's teammates in college didn't care. The world has passed you by and you don't even know it.
@ShaneLeonard You are correct, but its what society is all about, in sticking with the subject but in another area, a tv channel cancelled a flip this house kind of show because they are known to be CXhristians but praised the show that had 2 gay guys. This is what society and sports has become, go with the hot topic even if it has nothing to do with the person's profession. This stuff has been going on since Political Correctness came along in 1992
Call people what they want to be called. Seems simple enough.
Their "own showers"? I get you are tired of it; I really do - and some people still like the story and think has relevance to their lives. We all gotta live here so, maybe you should employ the skip over technique. :)
You must be country folk with that kinda attitude mister!
@weir6 It's not about football or the player's sexuality. This is political correctness. This is the media playing their favorite game of finding some celebrity or athlete saying something about a minority that most Americans would supposedly find offensive and then hounding that man (it's rarely a woman and usually a white man) until he is broken.
The minority can be African Americans, Native Americans, women (yeah they are a minority for the purpose of political correctness), Jews, (the race, not the religion. It's ok to slur religions. See the hit Broadway musical "Book of Mormon".) The media reduced the 80 year old owner of the Clippers to a blubbering baby when they caught him on tape demeaning blacks. The got old CBS NFL pre-game show game picker Jimmy the Greek fired and on his way to an early grave for getting on tape, after he had been drinking, the "very controversial" statement that blacks were better athletes than whites. He added that he thought this was due to the way that they had been bred to be good slaves. You don't see where either statement is not at least debatable? Sorry for you.
In the end they will get Dan Snyder, too. Their pressure is relentless, and they are helped by some well known sports writers who want to be at least footnotes when the greatest book of civil rights history is published someday. Few sane people in the country really believe that Native Americans are offended by the Washington nickname of "Redskins." But to the media it's "Off with his head! and they can mount another scalp on their office walls." You say that the Native Americans are really concerned about their appalling unemployment rate? Sorry, the media isn't interested in anything that dreary. You ask "Where is freedom of speech and freedom of expression." No, those rights are only secured for political critics. So be wise and don't be caught saying anything that the media can hold against you. Like this comment.
@weir6 It's not a big deal, but King and his ilk have an agenda to push
You don't think it is a big deal, others do. It'll die down in a few weeks - that's the new cycle.
Me too, but the story will come to a "tragic" end in a few months when the Rams realize they have several great defensive ends, and that Sam isn't one of them.
@EdwardWhitelock Edward, hurry up and get out of PK's rear, Micheal Sam is wating on his turn.....
@liquidmuse3 @armagecko Micheal Sam was a tougher Hombre in the SEC showers......
@liquidmuse3 Advice #1: If you ever find yourself tempted to use the phrase "I dunno," it's usually best to shut the fruck up. As Mr. Twain implied, better to keep your mouth shut than to open it and prove you're an idiot.
Advice #2: If you're the least bit confused about my comments, read them again. It's not really that difficult, assuming you have an 8th grade education. However, given your comment that "a gun, by itself, can kill," I think the 8th grade might be too much of an assumption on my part. For the record, a gun by itself cannot kill anything... this side of the Twilight Zone anyway. Also, if you don't know any "soft gay dudes," then you have lived a VERY sheltered existence (and you clearly don't own a TV).
Advice #3: Stop taking everything so literally. Do you have Asperger's? No, I'm serious, dude. You need to get a check-up. If you're having trouble understanding my post and Peyton's graduation comments, you quite possibly may need medication. Or, maybe the cops simply need to confiscate your beer collection. Should you have any other comments, please review Advice #1.
@Translucent @Fingernail How about defining normal by looking at human biology? Anyone who took a high school health class can tell you that a male's genitalia is compatible with a female's, not another male's.
"Who cares whether the behavior is normal"? There are very good reasons not to encourage abnormal behavior. I don't even know where to start with that one.
@Translucent @Fingernail To answer your question, please refer to the bilbe....
@Mike26 @Kevin1 ..."proven to have no positive purpose in public restaurants, bars and other establishments,..."
1) I'd guess that bar owners who like serving the legion of drinking smokers consider allowing smoking to be a "positive."
2) Does something have to be "proven ... positive" to be allowed in public? Karioke bars will be in trouble...
Take a Valium.
@drudown @ShaneLeonard Dang, I thought your account had been disabled!
@JohnSmith25 @ShaneLeonard: While I agree that Sam is getting a lot of attention and the story has already worn thin until we get to see what happens in training camp - as have most beat-to-death stories at this time of the NFL calendar - but the reason he's getting so much attention is because it's a pretty big deal.
You may not agree with his sexuality, but the whole point is that it shouldn't matter. And by the reactions of many people, it still does matter to them. Sam obviously wanted to be himself and not live in fear of someone "outing" him. He gets to do that. Now let's see if he makes the team.
And no, I don't believe any NFL team will keep a player who they don't need. The NFL is a HUGE business, and they can weather some criticism if Sam is cut. There is no PC subplot to ensure that Sam makes the team. That would be very bad business.
@grstallions87 @ShaneLeonard What a load of tripe. Cable networks choosing not to associate their brand with people who have odious views is not political correctness. It's capitalism.
Not if you're not smoking :) --Are you one of those people that wants to live to be 100? My grandpa did and he smoked for over 70 years. By 95 he had seen all of his good friends pass and couldn't understand why people had to live so long. Something has to kill ya... Lung cancer didn't kill him either btw. Second hand smoke certainly won't hurt anyone, people who don't smoke get lung cancer. The "truth" campaign of course lumps those numbers into their statistics... People need to relax on smokers, they're people too. They make choices just like everybody else
@weir6 I should add that men can say things disgusting and shameful. I'm thinking of the day after the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion that killed civilian teacher Christa McAuliffe. Out at lunch the next day with a pretty large group of young engineers that I worked with, I was incredulous to hear them making dead teacher in space jokes. But I believe the media would not mobilize for war if a civil rights victim was not the subject.
Ha... what is that agenda again? Where is it written down? Who agreed on this agenda? One could say that everyone has an agenda to push, even/especially those who claim that others are pushing an agenda.
It's agenda pushing.
"How come PK gets to have an agenda? Soon everyone will have an agenda - it'll be anarchy" - Random Reference Machine is ONLINE and functioning at 8.9 percent...
@YuSuk : Second hand smoke isn't harmful? You really believe that? It's SMOKE! The cigarette does not magically decide whose lungs to invade. So you think parents who smoke with kids in the car are not harming their kids?
Sorry, it doesn't work that way, regardless of whatever conclusions you want to draw from your grandpa. FYI: one of my grandpas lived to be 96 and smoked cigars and drank whiskey on a daily basis. But I also had an uncle who died at 60 from lung cancer after smoking for many years, and after having quite for the last 10 years of his life.
Great for your grandfather that he was one of the 25% of smokers that did not die of a smoking related illness. I suppose you are too old to learn that anecdotal evidence is not meaningful.
Here's an idea for you. Find someone whose mother, father, sister, or brother has died of lung cancer and tell them "Something has to kill ya." That should work out well for you.
"Second hand smoke certainly won't hurt anyone, people who don't smoke get lung cancer."
First, that fact that non-smokers get lung cancer has absolutely no bearing on whether second hand smoke can hurt you. Zero. Second, actual epidemiological data says you are wrong. Of course, you probably won't believe that. Your inability to reason, understand causation, or even use common sense if obviously irreversibly impaired.


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2011 WSOP Main Event Day 5 End of Level 22 Update
While it may sound like all the big names headed home today, that is far from the case. In fact there are a number of notable names and memorable storylines headed into Day 6, including Ben Lamb's quest for a second bracelet in 2011 and the WSOP Player of the Year title, the romance and pwnage of poker couple Erika Moutinho and David Sands, and the unexpected success of WSOP-C National Champion, Sam Barnhardt.
It probably deserves mentioning that big name pros like Eli Elezra, Lars Bonding, Phil Collins, Bryan Colin, Christian Harder, Joseph Cheung, Frank Calo, JP Kelly, Sebastian Ruthenberg, and Allen Cunningham are in the mix as well. They are all looking up at the man leading the field, David Bach, who is seeking to join Scotty Nguyen as the only player to win both the $50,000 Player's Championship and the Main Event. He is the man on top with 4,706,000, but there are several others hot on his heels. Here is a look at the top ten unofficial end of day chip counts:
David Bach – 4,706,000
Pius Heinz – 4,699,000
Kyle Johnson – 4,654,000
Phil Collins – 4,109,000
Ben Lamb – 4,032,000
Aleksandr Mozhnyakov – 3,462,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg – 3,354,000
Lars Bonding – 3,352,000
Bryan Devonshire – 3,292,000
Thomas Grey – 3,262,000
And here is a rundown of the last of the action from Level 22 (Blinds 10,000/20,000 ante 3,000):
The Beat Goes on for Phil Collins
Phil Collins made a big run just before the dinner break, and he continued to build on that stack in the last hour of play on Day 5. Peter Gelencser raised to 46,000 under the gun, Daniel Retallick reraised all-in from middle position for 415,000, and action folded around to Collins in the cutoff. Collins called, Gelencser folded, and the hands were on their backs. Collins was well ahead with AK against Retallick's AQ. The board ran out AJ972, and Collins was up to 3,500,000. Collins continued to build his stack and ended the day with 4,109,000.
"I feel fantastic, on top of the world, right where I want to be," said Collins. "I was hoping to be at two or three [million], and I ended with four [million] which is great."
Collins had a rail full of boisterous and, admittedly intoxicated friends cheering him on after the dinner break. While their constant screams of "yeah" and terms related to "mashing" may have annoyed some, Collins loved the support.
"I love how much confidence my friends have in me," said Collins, "and how supportive they are in rooting for me. It doesn't really bother me, I was trying not to laugh actually, that was the only thing. They kept yelling every time I won a hand, so i just put my head down and tried not to do anything. I figured they'd quit when I started winning every hand."
Heinzelmann Doubles, Then Busts
Done to just under 400,000 after a frustrating level, Max Heinzelmann was all-in pre-flop with 77 against the QQ of David Bach. The flop came 6TT, leaving Heinzelmann behind. The 9 on the turn was no good for him either, but the river brought the 7 to give Heinzelmann a full house and a double up to 823,000.
It wouldn't be enough to get Heinzelmann through the day though, as he busted shortly before play concluded for the night.
In a pot that put him at the top of the chip counts by the end of Day 5, David Bach vanquished Heinzelmann. The two had clashed for most of the day at the same table before Heinzelmann raised to 40,000, Bach three-bet to 120,000, and when the action folded back around to Heinzelmann, he went all-in for 800,000 total. Bach called, but was behind with KK against Heinzelmann's AA. The dealer quickly dealt a flop of Q97 to give Bach a flush draw, and the action was paused at this point as the cameras were alerted to the hand in progress.
The turn was the 6, keeping Bach ahead, but the river was the 3, completing Bach's flush and putting him over the 5,000,000 chip mark. He would finish the day with 4,706,000.
Sands and Moore Double Up
Chris Moore is a tricky cash game player, but his creative play almost saw him hit the rail late in Day 5 action. David Sands raised to 43,000 in middle position and Moore moved all-in from the small blind for 449,000. Sands quickly called with AJ, while Moore held just 59.
Moore's nine-high improved to two pair after the 665 flop, and Sands failed to improve as the turn brought the 5 and the river the 4. After the hand, Moore was up to 910,000, while Sands dropped to 805,000.
Sands rebounded from Moore's double through an orbit or two later. Sands raised under the gun, Thomas Pedersen moved all-in from the big blind, and Sands called for his remaining 698,000 with KK. Pedersen trailed with JJ and Sands remained in the lead as the board ran out T52TQ. After the hand, Sands was up to 1,435,000.
Elezra Put to a Decision on the Final Hand of the Night
It was a drama-filled conclusion to the evening at Eli Elezra's table thanks to a big three-way confrontation between Elezra, Ben Tollerene, and WSOP bracelet winner Tyler Bonkowski. The three players saw a flop of K65 and Tollerene checked in the big blind. Bonkowski bet 67,000 from middle position, then Elezra raised to 162,000 on the button. Tollerene debated a minute or two before announcing he was all-in for 437,000 total.
Bonkowski deliberated a minute or two himself before reraising all-in, having Elezra's remaining 600,000 or so covered. Elezra immediately apologized to the table.
"Sorry boys," he told them. "This might take a while." He thought for a minute or two before standing, pointing to Tollerene and telling him, "I call you for sure. I have a big hand."
Eventually Elezra folded K-Q for top pair face up. He did have Tollerene beat, as Tollerene showed K9, but Bonkowski was ahead with AA. The T on the turn and the 2 on the river were no help to Tollerene and he headed for the payout desk.
Bonkowski ended the day with around 2.4 million.
Ruthenberg Ruthless
Sebastian Ruthenberg was right at home at the feature table on the ESPN Main Stage. Ever since taking his seat there after the dinner break, he found no trouble chipping up, including in a decent-sized pot against Jean-Robert Bellande.
Ruthenberg raised to 44,000 from under the gun and Bellande called behind him. The flop fell {Ks]T3 and Ruthenberg bet 60,000. Bellande raised to 150,000 and Ruthenberg called. The turn was the 6 and both players checked. The river brought the 2 and Ruthenberg checked again. Bellande bet 250,000 only to have Ruthenberg check-raise to 925,000 total. Bellande took some time in the tank before folding and dropped to 1,447,000, while Ruthenberg climbed to 3,294,000.
Thomas Grey Hits 3 Million
Sometimes big stacks are created by slowly grinding up, but sometimes two equal stacks clash and combine into one monster stack. This hand was more of the latter. Thomas Grey raised to 52,000 in middle position, and action folded around to Jeet Shetty in the small blind, who three-bet to 120,000. Grey called, and the flop was Q83. Shetty bet 150,000, and Grey called. The turn was the K, Shetty bet 300,000, and Grey called. The river was the 7, and Shetty went all-in for 772,000. Grey debated for two minutes before calling, and Grey's AK was good for the pot, as Jetty had 9T for missed flush and straight draws.
Grey was up to 3,300,000 at the end of the hand.
Get on the Bus
Tom Oldcroft qualified for the WSOP on a freeroll and that might just be a hint of the guy's frugality. If that's not, this is. Talking to Nolan Dalla during the last level of the night Oldcroft, who is 66, was discussing how he got to the Rio on the first two days when he was staying at the Riviera.
"I took the bus on Day 1 and 2. It's $3.50 for the Seniors rate and you can ride for 24 hours," said Oldcroft. "What am I supposed to do? You guys didn't send the limo."
Oldcroft finished the day with just under 400,000.
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2 Number of players remaining in the field who can take the lead in the WSOP Player of the Year race. Ben Lamb is four eliminations away from retaking the lead, but David Bach has a chance at the honor as well. If Lamb misses out on the final table and Bach wins the whole event, he would talk the lead in the race. Though, you have to keep in mind that the WSOP Europe will transpire during the downtime between the end of play at the Rio and the November Nine.
6 Number of times John Esposito has now cashed in the Main Event. Esposito finished 10th in 2004, 26th in 2001, 19th in 1996, 12th in 1995 and 11th in 1989. Esposito survived Day 5 on Saturday and now will look to improve upon his best finish.
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Great Britain coach Stuart Pearce will on Monday explain the reasoning behind his decision to end David Beckham's international career.
It was widely anticipated Beckham was going to be one of three over-age players in the 18-man London 2012 Olympics squad Pearce unveils at Wembley. Instead, he rang the former England skipper on Wednesday night to inform him he had not made the cut.
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Interim: Team 52's project for the Supercomputing 2012-2013 Challenge involves the epidemiology and disease host modeling of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis may seem like it is not an important disease that pertains to the U.S., however, it is becoming an increasing problem for us today. In addition to the outbreaks in the U.S., our troops are acquiring it overseas and returning with it. If we are not more careful, we may eventually have a full-blown epidemic with the soldiers returning home. A very large threat to us could be that the soldiers who have contracted it, and then return home, may not even be aware that they have this disease. This is especially important in the anti-biotic resistant strain that is now popping up around the world. We have accomplished most of the introductory work for this project and are now working on developing the models of this disease to run our code.
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THE Khorixas Town Council is planning to approach the High Court in a bid not to pay a former senior employee the N$90 000 awarded to him after an arbitration hearing.
Former finance chief Amingo /Honneb resigned from the council last year following a fallout between him and other senior management members during an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) investigation into an alleged fictitious tender in which the municipality lost N$300 000.
The N$90 000 settlement, which is the equivalent of six months' pay, was awarded on December 17 last year and was supposed to be paid on January 15.
According to highly placed sources within the council, the town's chief executive officer, Nicodemus Gaeseb, is approaching the High Court over the matter.
"The council will not pay /Honneb as he resigned without any pressure. The High Court must decide on the case," the senior official said on condition of anonymity.
Gaeseb refused to talk to The Namibian.
Augustinus Ben !Aebeb, senior regional labour inspector, told The Namibian that the labour office was also waiting to be served with appeal papers by the Khorixas Town Council.
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Underhood, the Cobra had a specially modified 5.0L High Output engine known as the GT-40. Special modifications included GT-40 cylinder heads that were developed long before 1993. These heads were originally planned for a 25th Anniversary Mustang in 1989 that never materialized. They had larger 1.84/1.54-inch valves with larger ports. Wrapped around the larger valves were heavy-duty valve springs designed for a higher rev and more aggressive roller camshaft. Special roller rockers complemented the GT-40 heads. Compatible with the GT-40 heads was a GT-40 induction system that included a 65mm throttle-body, 70mm mass-air sensor and 24 lb/hr injectors. A specially calibrated electronic control module worked hand-in-hand with the more aggressive powerplant.
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Driving lamps were deleted to save weight. Forget the sound system and rear seat, which were also deleted in the interest of weight. None of those power accessories found on the street Cobra were available on the Cobra R. Structurally, the Cobra R was assembled using convertible rocker panels for a stiffer platform. Reinforcement plates were welded underneath for added rigidity. Koni shocks and Eibach springs made the most of the Cobra R's handling.
Underhood, the Cobra R had a high-capacity cooling system with a purge canister to capture and release trapped air pockets. To further aid cooling, SVT fitted the Cobra R with an engine oil cooler.
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SEVERAL magistrates face dismissal after the Judicial Service Commission unearthed massive corruption and cases of misconduct during ongoing investigations. At least two of them have since appeared in court this month charged with criminal abuse of office.
Sources said five others - three of them from Mashonaland Central - are set to appear before an inquiry by chief magistrate Mr Mishrod Guvamombe for various offences.
The cases were discovered during the ongoing monitoring and supervision exercise involving visits by Mr Guvamombe's team to the country's provinces inspecting records at the courts.
Those charged with criminal abuse of office were Augustine Borerwe of Bindura Magistrates' Court and Stephen Mavuna of Kezi.
The two have also appeared before the chief magistrate's inquiry and now await appearance before a disciplinary hearing to be set up by the JSC head office.
Offences unearthed by the visits include corruptly releasing prisoners, letting prisoners go without following proper procedures and failure to send court records for review, appeal and scrutiny.
JSC secretary Justice Rita Makarau yesterday said intensive supervision was the commission's thrust to ensure high standards of professionalism.
"We are a new employer. That is our thrust as JSC. We have intensified supervision on magistrates," she said.
"We are surely on the ground and as we visit the provinces, irregularities are discovered and magistrates, where necessary, are being charged.
"Depending with the gravity of the offences, some are discharged while others are fined or reprimanded. Those convicted for corruption related charges face dismissal.
"There other rare cases of mere incompetence, which attract lighter penalties."
Justice Makarau said Mr Guvamo-mbe was in Mashonaland West yesterday as part of the supervisory strategy.
"As we speak, Mr Guvamombe is in Chinhoyi as part of the ongoing supervision exercise," she said.
Borerwe (43) last Friday appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mr Hosea Mujaya for allegedly releasing eight convicts on bail pending appeal when they had not filed any appeals at the High Court.
He allegedly committed the offence between 2009 and 2011 while still stationed at Guruve Magistrates' Court.
Mr Mujaya released Borerwe on US$100 bail and he will be back in court next week. Mavuna (30) of Kezi was arraigned before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Tawanda Muchemwa for allegedly causing the disappearance of court records, which were meant for review and scrutiny.
He allegedly committed the offences between 2009 and this year when he was still stationed at Plumtree Magistrates' Court.
Mavuna allegedly imposed sentences that required records to be sent to a higher court for scrutiny and review at the High Court.
It is the State's case that Mavuna failed to submit the records of proceedings and kept them in his office, leading to their disappearance.
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IPUMBU Shiimi, the Governor of Bank of Namibia (BoN), on Friday said he doubts whether any BoN personnel are involved in the latest fake money scheme. Three N$50, one N$100 and one N$20 counterfeit note were confiscated by the Police last week.
The discovery was made in the same week that a new range of banknotes was released.
On Friday, Shiimi urged the public to be vigilant. "The Bank of Namibia is warning the public to be on alert against counterfeit banknotes imitating the newly designed banknotes issued in circulation on May 15 2012."
He stressed that fake notes are of a very poor quality as the new banknotes have the latest security features to protect the notes from being forged. "This is why the detected counterfeit notes could hardly compare with the real notes."
Shiimi said it is important for people to familiarise themselves with the new notes to enable them to tell real money from fake notes.
The three main security features are a watermark, colour-shifting security thread and raised ink on the real notes.
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A suspect was arrested in connection with the incident.
Replacing Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi with Founding President Sam Nujoma on the N$10 and N$20 notes did not cost the Bank of Namibia (BoN) a cent, the central bank said recently.
The BoN had to print a new series of all banknotes anyway to ensure that there will be enough currency in the country for the next three years, Ndangi Katoma, the central bank's director of communications, said. The BoN will pay N$154 million for the new series, which has also been upgraded with enhanced security measures.
"It costs nothing to change the portraits on the banknotes," Katoma said.
"Because of the need to ensure currency supply at all times, this means that even if the security features on the new banknotes including the changing of portraits were not changed, the bank was still going to print money and incur the cost of printing money".
The new notes, the BoN did not want to say how many, have already been printed by a specialist company in Switzerland and one in France. Katoma said it is common practice not to name the printing companies due to the security risk involved, but added that they got the business "through a competitive tender process".
The BoN will only pay for the notes upon delivery at different times over three years, he said.
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But imagine how quickly that frustration could turn to fear if some of those drivers were robots running on software built to guide unmanned cars through city streets. Navigating such a complex environment is largely uncharted territory for artificial intelligence, let alone big steel.
"It's a little bit scary to think about (our robotic car among) other human drivers or other really large vehicles," Mike Montemerlo, senior research engineer at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab, said here Thursday.
Montemerlo is one of the lead scientists developing Stanford's newest robotic contestant in DARPA's Urban Challenge, a road race of artificial intelligence set for November. The contest is a follow-up to the defense group's 2005 desert race, the Grand Challenge. Stanford's "Stanley," a robotic Volkswagen Touareg, won the $2 million Grand Challenge in a milestone of AI in the 21st century. Finishing fastest, in under seven hours, Stanley was one of only five vehicles to complete the 132-mile Nevada desert course in 2005; the previous year, all of the competitors failed entirely.
Now, Stanford's AI team has built Stanley's successor, named "Junior" (after Stanford University founder Leland Stanford Jr.), a modified 2006 Volkswagen Passat wagon in a bright, German-manufactured blue. Montemerlo and team gave CNET News.com a preview of Junior and its technology at Stanford before the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where Stanford's Sebastian Thrun, AI director and head of the Stanford Racing Team, will give Junior its public unveiling.
Junior is still in the development phase, but the robot is already far ahead of its parent in terms of technology. (Stanford Racing Team plans to begin its testing phase in March.) Junior has to be smarter if it is to meet the stiff challenge of navigating city streets alongside other vehicles, including other robotic contestants and human-driven cars from DARPA.
In the desert race, Stanley only had to process terrain in front of it, like rocks or bumpy roads, because it wasn't driving among other robots. But in this race, Junior must be aware of fast-moving objects all around it, including its robotic rivals; and it must understand street signs, traffic lights and other basic rules of the road even when other robots are breaking those rules. As Thrun puts it, "The current challenge is to move from just sensing the environment to understanding the environment."
As a result, Junior must have much more sophisticated sensors that can "see" the world in a 360-degree view and process that data in as close to real time as possible. The Junior prototype, for example, has a new, high-definition lidar detection system by Velodyne, which spins around to give the robot an omnidirectional view of its surroundings. It also has a Point Grey Ladybug 2 video system, with six video cameras to capture near high-def video in all directions.
As opposed to Stanley, which built a 3D model of the world over time, Junior will attempt to use its more sophisticated sensors to create a picture in real time. The speed of response is crucial in a city setting.
Junior's software also must include new decision-making and predictive abilities that Stanley didn't possess. For one, Junior will need to be able to identify objects and make decisions based on that information. For example, if Junior were to encounter a curb, it would need to swerve around it to avoid a collision. But it wouldn't want to swerve in order to pass another robot if it meant crossing a double line because that would be breaking the rules of the road.
For that reason, Junior has new software components that deal with perception and decision making. One algorithm the AI lab has developed is for object tracking, which helps the robot understand when it sees a bike, car, curb, road markings or other moving objects. The algorithm will classify objects--e.g., that is a car moving 10 mph--and run that through a planning tool that can match the data to rules of the road in order to make a decision about how to proceed.
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- Most people do wear seatbelts. What's more, it only affects the saftey of the person who chooses not to. Joe may die from not wearing a seatbelt, but he's not more likely to cause an accident. From my daily experience, drivers on cellphones are much more likely to cause an accident. I can't wait until they get robotic vehicles!
Also, the future of automated highways will probably have cars with systems like those described in the article, but I also see them having communicating with the vehicles around them. Your car may be able to notice another car changing lanes and react, but it's better if the two cars communicate and cooperatively plan their movements. You'll always need the automated system to deal with cars that can't communicate and unexpected circumstances, but communication will greatly expand safety.
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A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators pressed the Obama administration on its policy on China's dealings with Iran.
The letter, signed by 10 senators and first reported last week in Foreign Policy, lists foreign entities—most of them Chinese—dealing with Iran's energy sector.
The senators called on the Obama administration to implement a law passed last summer that expands sanctions to third parties dealing with Iran's energy sector.
"We cannot afford to create the impression that China will be given free rein to conduct economic activity in Iran when more responsible nations have chosen to follow the course we have asked of them," said the letter, which was initiated by Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).
The Obama administration had unsuccessfully sought exemptions for China and Russia in last year's legislation; instead the law includes a national security waiver.
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For the third time in a row, President Goodluck Jonathan, has again asked the National Assembly to give him the nod to extend the State of Emergency in the North East States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.
This is as the House of Representatives Tuesday urged Federal Roads Maintainance Agency (FERMA), and the Nigerian army sappers and others to urgently repair and fix the Gamborun- Ngala bridge, which has serious economic implication on the lives of the people of the town in Borno state and the their Cameroonian counterpart.
The bridge was damaged by Boko Haram insurgents Monday, May 5.
Invoking Section 305(6)(c) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which empowers him to place such rule, President Goodluck Jonathan sought the approval of the the House of Representatives, in a letter to Speaker of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, dated May 5, 2014. He explained that this was because the "security situation in the three states remains daunting, albeit to varying degrees, in the face of persistent attacks by members of the Boko Haram sect on civilian and military targets with alarming casualty rates."
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Me-Mow is an assassin that appeared as a major character in the episode "Jake vs. Me-Mow." Pendleton Ward has confirmed that Me-Mow is a fan-made character, and is included in the show because "it's so cute and it was drawn by a tiny kid."[1] She is a second-class assassin of the Guild of Assassins and is trying to kill Wildberry Princess to become a full-member assassin. A note was stabbed to Wildberry Princess' doorman, which said, "we are going to assassinate you." During the episode, Me-Mow poisons Jake with a syringe full of green liquid that is capable of killing a dog fifty times the size of Jake. Jake grows his liver to fifty-one times the size of an average dog, stopping the poison. Me-Mow stated when she failed her assassin's test that she would have to wait a year to retake it.
Me-Mow is a tiny white cat with cream/tan colored striped fur. She has large pink eyes, a mouth with pointed teeth, and razor sharp claws. Her tail is unusually long and prehensile, and she used it to carry a test tube of red liquid, which is an antidote to her poison. Her tail can puff up during attack mode. She carries a syringe, that has a picture of her face on it, filled with green poison. She keeps a dagger in her mouth or throat.
Besides her skills with stealth, as well as having a hidden dagger inside her mouth, she is extremely agile - able to jump great heights and scale objects with ease. She is also skilled in concealing herself, and is capable of climbing sideways on surfaces.
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- She is wrapped in linen, like a mummy, and similar to the other assassin Scorcher.
- After falling off the cliff, Me-Mow appears on the bird, implying that she survived the fall and will probably appear in another episode.
- When Me-Mow jumps onto the tree branch, she has her dagger in her hand. Just afterwards she coughs it out of her throat, implying she was not intended to have it out before.
- In the original drawing, Me-Mow appears to be the same size as Jake. However, in the show, Me-Mow is very small, being able to fit inside Jake's nose. However, Jake has shrunk himself to about Me-Mow's size in other episodes.
- Me-Mow did not have a tail in the original drawing.
- The fan who created Me-Mow is named Gunnar Gilmore.[2]
- Me-Mow keeps an antidote so she can poison others and make them kill for her, offering the antidote only if they do. However, when Jake is in this situation she says that she is going to betray him (while sleeping). Jake's hand is in his nose when she says this, but he does not react to the statement (though his hand did react when Me-Mow readied her claw).
- As with most characters of unusual sizes, Me-Mow's size is inconsistent throughout the episode. Her size varies from being as big as Finn's hand to small enough to fit in Jake's nose with plenty of extra space.
- Me-Mow is wordplay for the sound that cats make (meow).
- Me-Mow's mouth, when she is in attack position, is round and resembles that of a leech.
- Me-Mow appeared as "Mow-Me" in the Adventure Time comic, Issue 5, where she appears on Adventure Tim's chart labelled as Lawfully Evil.
- She is male in the Latin American dubbing.
- In the official Adventure Time Encyclopædia, Hunson Abadeer breaks the fourth wall by stating, "On an artistic level, Me-Mow's appearance seems primitive, almost as if a child designed her. But I digress." This is probably a reference to the fact that she's a fan-made character.


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Under the leadership of Luis H. Camacho, MD, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) recently opened its new Oncology Medical Clinic to provide evaluation and treatment of medical oncology and blood disorders.
"Dr. Camacho's extensive expertise in the area of research will be a tremendous benefit to our oncology patients, as well as to the entire St. Luke's Health System, as he monitors quality and advances clinical research initiatives," says Margaret M. Van Bree, DrPH, Chief Executive Officer of St. Luke's and Senior Vice President of St. Luke's Episcopal Health System.
He also serves as Medical Director and Research Director for the Cancer Center at St. Luke's, which in 2011 was once again awarded a three-year Accreditation with Commendation from the Commission on Cancer. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Scientific Immunotherapy Committee and a member of the Special Projects Study Section of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Camacho serves on the CanCare Medical Advisory Board and is a member of St. Luke's Cancer Center committee and the Hematology/Oncology section. At the state level, he is a Director-at-large on the Board of Directors of the Texas Society of Clinical Oncology and holds an Alternate Delegate position on the HCMS Delegation of the Harris County Medical Society.
A member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Scientific Immunotherapy committee and a member of the Special projects Study section of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Camachoalso is a member of the CanCare Medical Advisory Board St. Luke's Cancer Center committee, and the Hematology/Oncology Section. He has received federal and private peer-reviewed funding from the National Cancer Institute, the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, and the Goodwin Foundation.
Dr. Camacho received his medical degree from the Military School of Medicine in Bogota, Columbia and migrated to the United States in 1992 after completing his graduate training at the National Cancer Institute/Hospital Militar in Bogota. He received a master's degree in Public Health from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Sciences. After completing his graduate training, he joined the Hematology/Medical Oncology fellowship program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center/Cornell University Medical College and trained with the Developmental Therapeutics Service until 2001, when he joined the faculty at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Before joining SLEH, he was a member of Oncology Consultants in Houston in 2007 as Director of the Department of Research.
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