text: Bookmarks Meningitis - cryptococcalPrint-Friendly Cryptococcal meningitisPrevious imageEnlargeCloseNext image / NavigatorCryptococcal meningitis is a fungal infection of the tissues covering the brain and spinal cord (meninges).MeningitisMeningitis is a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord (meninges).ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article I Would Like to Learn About:Expand All Collapse All Causes Cryptococcal meningitis is caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. This fungus is found in soil around the world.Cryptococcal meningitis most often affects people with a weakened immune system. Risk factors include:AIDS AIDSHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes HIV infection and AIDS. The virus attacks the immune system. As the immune system weakens, the body is at...ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article Cirrhosis (a type of liver disease) Diabetes DiabetesDiabetes is a chronic disease in which the body cannot regulate the amount of sugar in the blood.ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article Leukemia Lymphoma LymphomaHodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of lymph tissue. Lymph tissue is found in the lymph nodes, spleen, liver, bone marrow, and other sites.ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article Sarcoidosis Receiving an organ transplantIt is rare in people who have a normal immune system and no long-term health problems. Symptoms Unlike bacterial meningitis, this form of meningitis comes on more slowly, over a few days to a few weeks. 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Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 344.Thigpen MC, Whitney CG, Messonnier NE, et al. Emerging Infections Programs Network. Bacterial meningitis in the United States, 1998-2007. N Engl J Med. 2011 May 26;364(21):2016-25.BACK TO TOP Review Date: 10/7/2012 Reviewed By: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc. Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed medical professional should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. 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The July 4 holiday brings a long weekend to enjoy some of Miami's best attributes, from art to museums to music to attractions.
Two major attractions are offering discount admission this weekend, and several museums are offering free days. Plus, it's the first Friday of the month with gallery walks in Coral Gables, downtown Miami, Coconut Grove and South Beach.
Are the kids already saying they're bored? Check out our list of 20 free and cheap things for Miami-Dade kids to do this summer. To keep up with latest news on deals, discounts and free events in South Florida, sign up for the daily Miami on the Cheap newsletter. For more tips on what to do this weekend, read the frequently updated Miami on the Cheap weekend roundup of free and cheap events.
Here are Miami on the Cheap's top picks for free and cheap weekend fun July 5-7.
$5 days at ZooMiami (and more)
ZooMiami is celebrating Independence Day weekend with its popular $5 days promotion this weekend. Admission is $5 for all July 4-7, plus there will be free samples of juice drinks and ice cream some days. If you'd like to see even more animals, patrons wearing Miami Heat gear get into the Miami Seaquarium for half price through July 7, but you must mention the Miami Heat promotion before you buy your ticket.
Free chamber music concerts
Music in Miami kicks off its Three Sundays in July 2013 series of free concerts at 6 p.m. Sunday with classical guitarist Jose Lezcano at Trinity Cathedral in Miami. Music in Miami's Woodwind Quintet will perform July 14, and a dozen musicians will join for a concert on July 28. Admission is free but donations are accepted.
Walk, talk, see art, play golf
Four regular art walks are this weekend, in Coral Gables and downtown Miami on Friday and Coconut Grove and Lincoln Road in Miami Beach on Saturday. As part of Gables Gallery Night, the Coral Gables Museum will be free Friday night, inaugurating three exhibits, including a unique mini-golf course and a collection of photos by locals of Coral Gables called Capture Coral Gables.
Beat the heat with free museum visits
The Gold Coast Railroad Museum is open free all day Saturday. The Miami Science Museums is free Friday night with a planetarium show. The Wolfsonian is free every Friday night, with a guided tour at 6 p.m. If you have a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card, you can get free admission for one person Saturday or Sunday to the Miami Children's Museum, Miami Science Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami or the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. In Broward, card holders can get free entry to the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum in Dania Beach.
Jazz along the Riverwalk
This Sunday is the free monthly Suntrust Sunday Jazz Brunch along the Fort Lauderdale Riverwalk, though you have to bring or buy your own brunch. But the jazz part is free. Musicians perform on three stages, and you can set up your picnic along the Riverwalk or buy food from local restaurants. You can hear Trilogy with Willian Pennhouse on the Esplanade Stage: Billy Bones with Justni Trapani at the Connie Hoffmann Gazebo and the Randy Corinthian Jazz Quartet at the Las Olas Riverfront.
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is it me or does iCloud Drive seem alot like Google Drive???
iCloud Drive brings cross-platform cloud storage
At WWDC 2014, Apple announced a new cloud storage utility called iCloud Drive. iCloud Drive will show your files and folders that are stored on your Mac or iOS devices complete with tags and will allow users to synchronize their files between their different devices.
Apple says that files stored inside iCloud Drive will synchronize across all devices and users can upload any file that they have. The service will work with iOS, OS X, and also Windows as well.
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iCloud Drive brings cross-platform cloud storage
Great feature, maybe but how much of that is going to eat into your data allowance with all that constant syncing!?!?!?!?
Yes, but if you don't have a landline or you're not lucky enough to have a broadband wifi connection at home, then what??? I don't think people are going to be to pleased to find out that every time they edit and change a document that downloads to their iOS device automatically!!! Obviously then people will have to make a choice between iCloud drive and another like Dropbox which only downloads docs and takes up data allowance when you choose to download them
I thought we were still in 2014, but there we are ; ) no seriously I think Apple could've worked it better making it Dropbox esq,
Opps, hit a nerve did I???
If Dropbox can think of it, then why can't apple???
Absolutely hit a nerve. 100% of my current emotional status is based upon random comments on the internet.
I'm sure Apple did think of it, and purposely left it out at this point. I think most people who use this would rather have everything syncing instead of partial documents everywhere.
I also haven't gotten a look at the APIs yet, but I'm guessing that CloudKit will handle this automatically. You won't get the document unless you've requested it by choosing to work on that document somehow (either a file picker, or acknowledging the "Handoff" icon in your OSX dock or Lock Screen).
This is how Microsoft does it with OneDrive and it's superior to how Dropbox does it.
Edit: Additionally, with the new extensibility framework Dropbox can integrate itself with apps (or vise-versa) much more deeply. So if you still don't like the iCloud way of doing it, it's still 2015 and you'll have even more choice than before.
I think we're be better off leaving your nerves alone lol.
Of course apple thought of it, who is to say they didn't! And in fact who's to say they did, I' could carry on like this all night, but I shan't
But I'll leave it like this...
Onedrive better than Dropbox anyone???
You should probably look "sarcasm" up on Wikipedia.
Also, to quote you a couple of comments ago, "If Dropbox can think of it, then why can't apple???". ... So you said they didn't.
I'm up for a holy war with OneDrive vs Dropbox. I'd much rather iCloud Drive work with a feature set closer to OneDrive than Dropbox.
However, I was specifically pointing to the deep integration OneDrive performs on Windows 8 in which you can pick (on a per-device, per-file or per-folder basis) if you want it available offline. And double-clicking a file (or otherwise opening it) causes OneDrive code to transparently load that file on your device.
Bam. Your problem. Solved.
Edit: And again, I would be pretty surprised if the Apple cloud APIs don't function this way. (And if they don't, I would hope they would eventually make them work transparently that way.)
oh stop, lol, I'm rolling around on the floor,
ahhhhhhhhhhhh, lol
When I can access them on Android, Chrome OS, and WP/Blackberry 10 let me know. Otherwise I'll continue to use other cross platform options
Posted via the Android iMore App!
This brings me in mind of Rene's document picker. For me, this can potentially get around the multiple email attachment problem.
Can anyone who can access the iOS 8 beta tell us if multiple files can be selected from Pages or Numbers in the Cloud and then shared?
The details of the interface were a bit sketchy at the keynote-probably because of the sheer volume of stuff that had to be covered.


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The songwriting & production work of Verse Music Group founders Curt Frasca and Sabelle has appeared on more than 150 million albums sold worldwide by artists including Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Prince and Seal.


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Despite winter break and the festive period these are busy times at Eintracht. A new signing has been made and the winter training camp as well as a test match are coming up.
New Eagle: Alexander Madlung
31 year old defender Alexander Madlung joins Eintracht on a contract running until June 2015. Madlung comes with the experience of 246 Bundeliga games (more than any player in the current SGE squad) at Hertha BSC Berlin and VfL Wolfsburg. During his spell at Wolfsburg he won the title and played Chamions League. Recently Madlung was out of contract. Welcome to Frankfurt!
After the indoor tournament "frankfurtcup2014" (takes place on Sunday the 5th of January) the team will head to Abu Dhabi for their winter training camp. The official restart of training is on January 7th, the team will then fly out to Abu Dhabi in the Emirates a day later. After around nine days the Eintracht delegation will get back to Frankurt (January 17th).
During their stay in Abu Dhabi the Eagles will meet fellow Bundesliga team Schalke 04 for a test match on January the 11th. The match will take place at Al Nahyan Stadium (12,000 capacity), kick-off will be at 16h local time (13h CET). A second test match during the Bundesliga break is planned, details will be confirmed soon.
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Is This What Symantec's Company Headquarters Looks Like?
By JLP | July 31, 2006
A little Monday morning humor.
What if Symantec's (the makers of Norton Anti-Virus software) company headquarters looked like this:
Topics: Humor | 7 Comments »
7 Responses to "Is This What Symantec's Company Headquarters Looks Like?"
Vlad Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 10:04 am
A plausible conspiracy theory…
Adam Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 10:16 am
Well, considering a recent finding by the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT)says that about 80% of new malware defeats popular anti-virus software, I would think they're software would actually be better if they also created the viruses. Here is a quote:
"At the point we see it as a CERT, which is very early on — the most popular brands of antivirus on the market … have an 80 percent miss rate. That is not a detection rate that is a miss rate."
"So if you are running these pieces of software, eight out of 10 pieces of malicious code are going to get in," said Ingram.
One of the ideas is, with there being only a few major anti-virus vendors at all the major retailers, it is relatively easy for a virus writer to test their code against those particular brands of software and find out how to evade it.
Single Ma Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 2:35 pm
That's pretty funny. I bet the reality isn't too far from this model.
Financial Freedumb Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Hah…hey, they can grow business by introducing a spyware and an anti-spyware division.
Dus10 Says:
August 1st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Adam: That's an amazing thought… anti-virus producers have about the same success rate as mutual fund managers!
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Bethel Heights Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2008
Pinot Noir from Willamette Valley, Oregon
Winemaker's Notes
Initial aromas of chocolate, plum, and raspberry over clove, wet earth and barrel spice. Lush raspberry and blackberry flavors emerge on the palate, balanced by crisp acidity and age-worthy, fine-grained tannins. As with most classic cool vintages in Oregon, this wine is approachable in its youth, but will reward those patient enough to give it some time to age in the bottle.
Critical Acclaim
The Wine Advocate - "The 2008 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley has a lovely bouquet, particularly for an entry-level wine. Aromas of cedar, spice box, rose petal, and an amalgam of red and black fruits leads to a medium-bodied, ripe, moderately structured wine with 1-2 years of aging potential. With ample spicy fruit, good volume, and a fruit-filled finish, it will provide considerable pleasure over the next 6-8 years. "
International Wine Cellar - "Bright ruby. Pungent, sexy scents of dried red fruits, star anise, allspice and rose. Lively and precise on entry, then gains flesh and breadth in the mid-palate, offering sweet raspberry and cherry compote flavors and showing no rough edges. The finish is juicy, seductively sweet and very long. A very impressive "basic" bottling that bodes well for the later-release single-site and reserve bottlings from this vintage."
Bethel Heights Vineyard Winery
Planted between 1977 and 1979, Bethel Heights was one of the first vineyards in the Eola Hills, a chain of hills in the center of Oregon's Willamette Valley. The estate winery was established in 1984 and currently produces 10,000 cases of wine annually, most of which still comes from the 50 acre estate vineyard. Bethel Heights specializes in Pinot Noir, but also produces Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc. View all Bethel Heights Vineyard Wines
About Willamette ValleyView a map of Willamette Valley wineries (will-AAM-it)
Named for the river that runs through the valley from Portland to Eugene, Willamette Valley is home to some of the best Pinot Noir vineyards in the Northwest. While along the same north/south line as Seattle, the Willamette Valley is protected from Pacific rains by the Coast Range on the western border and the Cascade Ranges to the east. Though sunshine is typically plentiful, rainfall can occasionally be tricky, and the wines here vary vintage to vintage. Within the Willamette Valley are are number of sub-regions, including McMinnville, Dundee and Yamhill.
Notable FactsThe valley is known for its Pinots – Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. With a climate similar to Burgundy – in rainfall, sunlight hours and other climate factors – Pinot Noir has flourished here. Pinot Noir in Oregon produces wines that are fruit forward, yet complex, some with good agebility.
Other than Pinot Noir, many wineries grow Pinot Gris and Chardonnay. Pinot Gris from Oregon is delightful in its texture and food friendliness. Chardonnay in the valley adapts well to the cool climate and produces lean, elegant wines.
About OregonOregon has long been an agricultural state, producing everything from hazelnuts to cattle. The Willamette Valley in particular is a fertile basin for all sorts of produce. Not quite pegged as a wine state, in 1965, a UC Davis graduate named David Lett decided that the Willamette's climate mirrored that of Burgundy in France. With that in mind, he decided to plant some Pinot Noir clones to see how they did. And a good gamble it was. The Willamette is now one of the only regions in the world to focus solely on Pinot Noir as its red variety. Also known for Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. The southern part of Oregon has been slower in delving into the world wine market, but has been making excellent strides with their Rhone style varietals, like Syrah and Grenache. There are also coastal regions producing promising wines.
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Happy WIAW..check it out over at Peas and Crayons blog!
So as I was eating a final breakfast at my Nanny's house yesterday, (which I didn't take a picture of because I didn't realize it was Tuesday..) I decided its really time to get back on track with eating healthy, whole foods
And in case you were wondering..my breakfast consisted of half a scone (wait a scone isan't healthy right..ya..) and fruit salad
Eating a bunch of cookies and potato chips amoungst many other delicious food items was fun while it lasted, but I definitely feel a lot better when I eat better..makes sense right? speaking of potato chips..have you ever had THESE
Middleswarth is a potato chip company that ONLY sells their potato chips in certain areas of Pennslyvania..my mom grew up for the most part in State College, Pennslyvania (where Penn State is), and every time we have gone to State College to visit, these potato chips are a must! And it just so happens that my Uncle brought a few bags for Christmas
We may or may not of hoarded the bar-b-q chip bag back to our hotel room..
And I just discovered you can order these on Amazon. uh oh
This post is suppose to be about getting back on track right? right
Enough blabber..so instead I'll show you what I had for breakfast THIS morning
Plain Greek yogurt with a dollop ( my friend HATEs that word haha) of almond butter, pumpkin butter, and some granola on top. delishhhh
For lunch yesterday I was craving salad, and my mom so kindly picked me up a salad from a local deli called The Linden Store because we have ZERO produce in our house right now
A veggie arugula salad with goat cheese, dried cranberries, and chicken deli meat, tossed in some low fat italian dressing..so delicious! I forget how much I love arugula lettuce
I also munched on some grapes while laying on the couch all afternoon #solazy
Duke was feeling sleepy too
Don't go stealing my Ugg's Duke!
He was so happy to see me it was so cute!
For dinner last night we had meat sauce that my Aunt made
I had just a wee bit of pasta with lots of sauce
And salad to go alongside
Instead of the usual 3 cookies for dessert I had a clementine and a mini peanut butter cup from Trader joes
So my plans to get back on track are to
eat healthy, whole foods
drinks lots of water
work out 6 days a week
yup sounds about right! speaking of working out I should probably go do that now because I have a mall trip planned later..gotta catch all the good after christmas sales!
Questions for ya!: Do you have any plans to get back on track after holiday indulgences?
Have you every had Middleswarth potato chips?!


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In case anyone thought that raising the debt ceiling would be easy, consider what House Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday.
"It almost took my breath away" when President Barack Obama said Wednesday at a White House meeting that he wants a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling, Boehner told reporters.
The U.S. government will likely hit its $16.4 trillion debt ceiling by the end of this year, and Boehner says he won't allow another increase in the debt limit without offsetting spending cuts.
Invoking Europe's debt troubles, Boehner said: "We have time to act. Why don't we act on our own?"
Also on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the debt limit "does not have to be a crisis." He said the Treasury has the ability to postpone hitting the ceiling until "some time" in early 2013.
Both sides are keenly aware of the consequences of another debt-ceiling spat. After last summer's standoff over the debt ceiling, Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. government's credit rating for the first time.
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Three fire crews battled a blaze in a garage of a home near Wells this morning.
Firefighters from Radstock, Paulton and Wells were called to the blaze at Short Lane, Litton, shortly before 8.30am.
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Still Alive—A Memoir
For nine months I swam like a tiny fish in my mother, then was born and did my best to take over the lives of my parents. First-born son, I ruled. Later, I watched them fading, dying. In turn, I co-created my own little fish, five of them, and now they accompany me through the process of late living, future dying. I still feel like a fish swimming—not in my mother but free in the ocean. My eldest daughter tells me she doesn't like my living alone. But I'm not alone—much of my company is now invisible because only remembered.
One friend, call him Buddy, still survives from my childhood in Lakewood, Ohio. Inheriting from his parents, he lives in the same house where we ate buttered Wonder Bread toast after school and pretended we weren't classroom rivals. At my family's house a few blocks away, we ate my mother's oatmeal raisin cookies. She said they were sugarless, so they wouldn't harm our teeth. In those days, saying would make it so. (She explained herself 65 years later, clearing her conscience before she died.)
Buddy says he doesn't travel because he likes to be always within a few steps of his bathroom, with all its requisite implements. When I saw him fairly recently he was remodeling another room, the library that had been installed long ago by his upwardly mobile parents. Exhibited on the shelves had been a blue glass Shirley Temple cream pitcher (earned in a Kellogg's or Post Toasties promotion), a teakwood Buddha from the opening of a Chinese restaurant, with a grinning plastic Confucius stationed nearby (Buddy's family liked dining out), trophies from travels and marksmanship competitions, and also a collection of books, including a Tarzan series from Buddy's childhood, the World Book Encyclopedia, and two of my novels.
But soon, when the contractor finished removing the dark panels and shelves, the library would be a den.
"A den?"
"A den, a den, a den," he said rapidly. "You think I have time to reread those old books, what with all the good shows, plus cable, plus my DVD's?"
"You used to . . . Remember in the summer we'd read a book a day and keep score?"
"I'm not so fond of reading lately. Maybe it's the macular whatchacallit. I've got this macular generation, plus working my way from cataract to cardiac. And I could tell you about my prostrate—oh boy. But otherwise I'm mostly fine. My den'll give me a leash on life."
I imagined him as an old dog on a new line. I said, "We used to give ourselves names from Thomas Wolfe, James Branch Cabell, Kenneth Roberts."
"Hey, I remember those days. The world was our oyster, right. But lately Bonnie did the reading, specially in our sunset years." He fell silent.
I said, "You miss her?"
"Sometimes, yeah." He sighed and cast his eyes toward the unfinished work. "Her birthday maybe. Other holidays. I'm gonna keep the ashes on that one shelf up there above my entertainment center. With the DVD's."
Buddy's teeth were regular and white, but not thanks to my mother's sugarless cookies. They were removable. He smiled as he used to.
Perhaps I'm only hiding encroaching senility by remembering the past and anticipating the future with relish. A screen for the inner, drooling, limping, shrunken, bent, squeaking Herb? Every year or so, I telephone my first college girlfriend and render thanks that her voice is still strong and clear even as she gives me news of the debilitation of her husband. Occasionally I also hear from a playmate of very early childhood days, writing from her retirement home in South Carolina and begging me to accept Jesus before it's too late. Out of old friendship, she wants to die knowing that I will not burn in hell. I don't have the heart to remind her that at age four we used to play hospital together, a game made in heaven for us because I had no sisters and she had no brothers and therefore we were intensely curious about the anatomy of the opposite and, frequently, opposing sex. On a need-to-know basis, she doesn't need this reminder.
I began to read the obituary pages because of what I told myself was an interest in stories, each obituary representing a condensed life. Then I began to notice that some of them, more of them, many of them were about individuals my age. "So young," I would mouth aloud. Now I still think it, although most of the perishing who earn obituaries in the New York Times are younger than I am, veterans of later wars than mine.
I regret the loss of enemies, too. Like friends, beloveds, and the famous, the hated fill a place in our hearts. On the one hand, I grieve for their consequent inability to repent. On the other, I lose with the death of an enemy the ability to take revenge. What's the use of hatred now?
What is happening with these losses is a gradual depopulation of my world. I don't want to become the goofy old guy heading out for coffee with the morning newspaper under his arm and his head filled with nothing but nostalgia, which, like jealousy, produces diminishing returns. History should be a continuing activity, leading into the future.
Youth may be wasted on the young, but age is also wasted on the old, who are often too preoccupied lining up their time-release pills to relax and really enjoy their diminishment. Time-release also applies to bodies and souls, even in those who think it doesn't. I don't sit in an undershirt over a microwaved supper in a lonely kitchen. Even if I did, it wouldn't be illuminated by a bare bulb as I read the newspaper, lips moving, using a nail clipper to cut out pieces to send to faraway and uncaring children. I do clip things, of course, but in a Starbucks where the light is better. And my compassionate offspring claim to be amused by my little notes in the margins. I also know where the scissors are, keep my driver's license current, and don't wear a senior bus pass on a shoelace around my neck.
In the morning, in the cafés where I insult cellphone blabbers by saying, "Thank you for sharing the sordid details of your life," I replenish my stock of disasters by reading the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. In particular, the ever-new, ever-deepening chaos of Haiti has become a long-running obituary notice for me. Fascinated all my adult life by that isolato of nations, I've returned gratefully to the scene for more than 50 years.
Haiti was the tragedy you could dance to. My first marriage decayed dramatically on that chaotic tropical island, among its songs and ceremonies. I had joined a group of Haitian friends with a pirate map on a treasure hunt. At a hotel in the village of Port-de-Paix, I found not Spanish doubloons but malaria. Anopheles bit me one night when a girl whispered from the road and I opened the shutters of my room to joke with her. She said she wanted to know if I was white all over.
Two of my remaining friends from that first long stay in Haiti, during what is now called the golden age—General Paul Magloire's brutality was casual, irregular, drunken, and merely greedy—died this year. I wonder who will be next. Two years ago, my son Ari held me up to help me breathe after I had eaten algae-poisoned lambi, a Caribbean shellfish I now avoid. Haitian beaches don't post warning signs during the red-tide season. They don't post warning signs about much of anything there, although risks to life are not unknown.
About Haiti, about my two marriages (one bad, one good; both ended), about my disappeared friends, I think I remember everything, although there's a tendency to selectivity—I remember more of the bad about the bad marriage, more of the good about the good one. A consolation of my experience with poisoned lambi was the proof that I can count on my children. With them, I am not alone in this world. Like Polonius, I try to pass on to them in exchange the wisdom I think I've accumulated.
A doctor pal in San Francisco eats very slowly, seeming to stop the world while he lifts his fork, glaring at it. We have always shared tales of adventures with women, and now we have returned to this familiar topic. The fork arrives at his mouth. He continues: "I met this nice person . . ."
I watch the fork begin the re-descent to his pasta. He is still balefully studying it.
"Do you like her? Is it love?"
He twirls and twirls. A few strands cling to the slowly revolving fork. He sighs. "I'm not ready to settle down again. Been there, done that."
The fork rises. He stares. I don't ask if he thinks the food might attack him. A tomato-affiliated strand falls onto his shirt. He shrugs. "Too much. I wasn't paying attention."
I nod at the explanation. He has a right to it. Parkinsonism is not easy to conceal. His thumb and some of his fingers are jumping as he puts his hand in his lap. He will not marry again. He will not rush food to his mouth. He will do his best not to drop his pasta. He won't practice surgery. But he will hide the shaking and stiffness as long as he can.
It's unlikely that an illustrated manual entitled The Joys of Decrepitude would find a grateful audience among folks seeking a gift for Grandparents Day. The comedy of falling apart, represented in self-help hardcovers with accompanying CD, "Let's Get Debilitated!," would not appeal. The Joy of Sex was illustrated with drawings of various isometric riffs and variations. Few would relish photos or sketches of novel postures for easing constipation. Nor would the makers of Depends and denture cleaners rush to advertise in Naptime: The Journal for Sunset Couples.
Another contemporary, a singer, has decided on a change of careers. "Always kind of wanted to act, so why not? Character parts, probably."
"You present yourself well," I say, telling the truth. "You always have."
He grins appreciatively, sensing sincerity. "Comedy, probably, maybe use my singing, too. Combine things. You call that a twofer?"
And then because we've been friends forever, or at least since college days when we called ourselves "the dynamic duo"—the writer and the singer—I offer him a silent nod.
"Okay, pal," he says, "I'm not leveling with you because you already know, so we can't call it leveling. Can't hack it anymore. Don't have the breath, the volume. The range is gone."
I tell him I have problems, too. Tell him some of them, the main one being anticipation. In our different ways, we're working toward the same conclusion, which does not involve singing or writing. We wish to sing or write along the way, until we get there. "Eventually, maybe next year or so, I can be First Dead Man in a show about undertakers," he says. "I have a great future in mortuary dramas."
"That's so last season," I answer in my best granddaughter imitation. I suggest he audition for a part in the next big biblical movie, Armageddon: The Sequel, starring Angelina Jolie in the title role as Arma.
Neither of us is ready to cry the end of the world, despite the market for it. The public festival of comedy and tragedy, bliss and desperation, still makes us want to get out of bed in the morning. And suddenly my friend and colleague in the survival trade breaks into the first lines of an aria from Boris Goudonov: "I am dying. Six years now I have ruled all alone. . . ."
In the opera, Boris reigns for only six years, but in life we think we can rule for more. My friend the singer and I are trying to learn that even in real life, there are limits.
The life-affirming joys of hatred and revenge invigorate a person like a surge of steroids. But, with age, the purity of passion can be disturbed by double vision. Therefore I obeyed an otherwise peculiar impulse to invite a former, seriously former friend to meet me at the Chameleon Café in my neighborhood. It was an inspiration that didn't rise to the level of a considered idea because it would not change my mind about the status of my former friend—a cheating, lying, conniving, remorseless sleazebag.
Extant was a grievance about a financial scam. In its aftermath, I used to host a dinner for other victims on the anniversary of a futile legal decision in our favor. Each year I would invite someone new who had been similarly afflicted by the same affable and charming operator; we would laugh, applaud, and toast the guest as he recounted his adventure, sometimes breaking glasses in our enthusiasm.
At the afternoon date with my former friend, I bought the lattes and organic bran muffins. After all, I was the host. It was only right. He looked haggard and shrunken, going through a serious divorce. He had married the lady at the time of our lawsuit and put most of his assets in her name, protecting them from his victims. (Perhaps she was also his type.) Now he brightened with pleasure at the assumption that I had "put our little business disagreement behind us." He made a tearing-paper, casting-out gesture.
I said that I was sorry about all the trouble in his life. His back, his knees, osteoporosis, divorce, child custody, asset division: all that must be difficult. On my next trip to Haiti—compassion flooding my soul—I might visit the voodoo priest who had put a curse upon his existence. I might ask him to remove it. I might also extract the pins I had inserted in the back, knees, and genitals of the dedicated ouanga, the black magic doll, I had hung in my closet.
I might do so if it was not too expensive to cancel a Haitian fatwa. Compassion is desirable, forgiveness is a virtue respected in many creeds; but betrayal of a friendship for dollars still seemed drastically discourteous. I told him I prayed events would look up for him in the distant future. That was a slip of the tongue; I meant to say near future.
"How's it going?"
"Not so . . . not so okay."
"Things will improve," I warmly replied.
"Gee, thanks."
"It's nothing." In fact, it was something. And yet, hearing him reminisce about our old companionship, I too felt sentiment welling in me. We used to drive to Big Sur, we pulled on wet suits and pried abalone off rocks when it was approximately legal, we pursued the bachelor life together, we discussed taking or not taking mind-expanding cactus brews. Those were the 60's, after all.
I also planned to tell him as we picked at the raisins fallen from our bran muffins that I no longer bore him any resentment. He had taught me something about human nature—that it was not to be trusted. Red in tooth and claw; nasty, brutish, and now short—only about five-foot-seven, in fact, due to calcium loss. But I couldn't speak these things aloud. Anyway, he was not a regular reader of Hobbes or Machiavelli. He was a human creature with a cheerful relish in his hustle through the city. My beloved and intelligent second wife used to suggest I try looking at him in the fluorescence of the Safeway meat counter, a glow she claimed would strip away the jolly surface to reveal inner character.
Only when his excess of grateful, damp-eyed feeling overflowed as we said goodbye did it occur to me to say: wait now, sit down again. You're a villain—I want to remind you of that. But I let the impulse pass. Bile brings acid reflux, a lasting aftertaste. So thank you, old pal. You enriched my life.
Next time, he said, the snack would be on him. Knowing I was watching, he jumped into his antique Mercedes 280 SL convertible—top rakishly folded down despite the fog—just as he used to, barely wincing from his arthritis. He waved a happy salute.
Old age is a shipwreck, DeGaulle wrote. But not necessarily. It can be a holiday in liberated reality after the vain, anything-is-possible fantasies of youth. As an eighteen-year-old soldier in World War II, I was convinced nothing could kill me. Now I'm not so sure. Blondes may have more fun, but grays have more responsibilities. Evidence of the slippery slope surrounds me. I need my rest and look forward to a nap after lunch—a power nap, of course.
There are hours of gray dreariness as I think of the friends summoned away, one by one, and nights when I awake suddenly to remember others. Those who introduced me to new ideas, those who confessed their ambitions, failures, and longings and to whom I confessed mine, some who were merely good company because we laughed a lot together, although surely that's not a "merely." I'll not list the women because the list needn't be a complete inventory of griefs and lonelinesses.
Scrapbooks, photo albums, letters in boxes, journals become instruments for nostalgia and pain. Perhaps they help to deal with reality, just as does the dentist's drill; unlike the dentist's drill, they excavate but do not clear away. Prolonged useless yearning, like jealousy, is a condition that does no work.
Proust, at the end of his monster effort to recover lost time, and by doing so to redeem it, tells of venturing out of his cork-lined present to a party where he hopes to meet again the friends of his past. Instead, he enters a nightmarish scene of garish crones, doddering relics, desiccated and lumpy masks of themselves. To him, dwelling in time past, this exemplifies Freud's definition of the uncanny: something that cannot be, yet is. He is horrified.
Then he notices a young woman. He speaks to her. He sees in her eyes her reflexive disdain: who is this geezer? And realizes what he has become.
In a North Beach coffeehouse, I take a table near a skinny California beauty with the just slight loosening at the belly that healthy skinny California yoga practitioners offer as part of their blessing upon the universe. She is reading a book in French with a pocket dictionary by her side. Ah, but life is beautiful! I can always chat up a woman who reads French.
My plan, eventually, if all begins well, if her fluency is sufficient, is to point out with sophisticated savoir vivre that I am definitely of another generation, in case she wondered. Even if I were twenty years younger, a relationship between us would still be inappropriate. But since I am beyond the twenty-year cutoff date, it would be ludicrous. Therefore (raising a Gallic finger on behalf of close attention) all she needs for the situation is a sense of humor, and we're in business.
What decent café reader of French could resist this appeal?
But before I advance to the envisioned triumphal conclusion, I notice in her eyes a certain look: this guy seems harmless . . . maybe a professor or something . . . whatever. I'm explaining to the Francophile that I'm a skopto-kleptobibliophiliac, pronouncing it slowly to see if the light of interest can be kindled. "It's a word I made up. It means a person who likes to steal looks at other people's books."
She doesn't say, "In that case, Franco-skopto-klepto-biblio . . ."
She says, "So you used to teach French before you retired?"
Like some healthy older guys, I awake in the morning young, virile, and filled with hope. Sometimes. After good nights. On the less good nights, heeding the middle-of-the-night call to bathroom duty, I glance in passing at the unfamiliar grizzled head in the mirror. I lie awake till dawn, listening for the first chirpings of the robins and sparrows of my childhood. I don't hear them because the birds have disappeared or because the little ear cilia that conduct sound toward the brain are now sparse and shriveled, thanks to wartime gunfire, rock'n'roll, and time.
Or I manage to return to sleep and dream of the lost wife who in memory still takes my arm like a happy lover. I awake and dismiss the three a.m. insomnia as vain and self-indulgent. I do some stretches, leg lifts, and pushups on a mat. I follow the routines of cold water on my face, a brisk stroll, coffee amid the anonymous good fellowship of a public place. For once more I am young, virile, and filled with hope.
Who was that man in the mirror? What is the grizzled beard doing on a face like that of my father? Those who plan to live long had better have a plan for answering such questions, but of course they don't. Once I jumped out of an airplane and asked the captain on the ground why, obeying our training, I had to kick the soldier on the stick ahead of me to get him out. "He's twenty-eight," said the captain. I was nineteen.
In 1956 I spent a summer in retreat from my desolate early marriage at Yaddo, an artist's refuge near Saratoga, New York. I ate well, whined to my companions, listened over and over to a Louis Armstrong recording that I recall as "Loveless Love" but that was actually a version of "Careless Love." Armstrong's thick happy articulation was a great comfort. Loud complaint appealed to me. I hit my Olivetti Lettera 32 portable typewriter with my pains.
Pouring words over trouble sometimes calms, sometimes flavors the fire with gasoline. Rehearsing rage, inventing, elaborating, remembering idiocies, remembering regret, blaming another, blaming myself, pleading, denouncing, sorting out, muddling, telling a story was fulfilling and exhausting. "Loveless Love" rumbled and growled in the recording equipment of my head. I had nightmares despite telling myself that self-pity was about as useless as jealousy. Love O love O loveless love.
Late in my term at this retreat, it dawned on me that we were guests, not inmates. I decided to walk into town like a normal decent person, carrying money in my pocket in case options for spending it presented themselves (beer, cheeseburger, postcards). There would be strangers in Saratoga Springs, tourists and summer visitors. I would amble among them like a living creature in a place of non-complainers. It was a pleasant hike to a main street with ramshackle but grand hotels, built with spacious terraces, from the days when folks came to take the waters at the spa.
But the sight terrified me—a nightmare vision of an entire population brought down by a curse. Everybody here was ancient. I had not left the grounds of Yaddo for nearly two months, and in the meantime the world had sunk into decrepitude. Wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, gaped mouths, a drifting crowd of the drooling and the crippled filled the street. They were strewn on the verandas like the debris of some magic catastrophe. Quick, I needed a mirror. Was I one of these palsied, shrunken, pitiful creatures taking lurching or shuffling steps if they walked at all, making little mouse snorts with the effort?
Then I saw the banner stretched above the street: WELCOME VETERANS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WARwho lives in San Francisco, is the author of the forthcoming My First Murder, among many other novels. In somewhat different form, the present essay will appear in a book in progress about aging and the passage of time. . It may have been their last gathering.
Thanks to abated panic, I noticed attendants, children, grandchildren. There were a few sturdy younger wives, too, and kindly and patient expressions on the faces of those pushing wheelchairs. I was released from fear, I felt warm and alert in downtown Saratoga. I found a tavern for a beer and a hamburger. I observed a pretty young woman, probably a student at Skidmore College with a forged I.D. (Where are you now, pretty young woman? Please write.) I hiked back to Yaddo, ready to make a final copy of my story, a story inspired by early romance, too-early marriage, grief for the child-victims of their parents, and the booming, thick-voiced roar of "Careless Love."
I'm studying the grammar of my future. Who I will have been when I cease to be is the sum of what I was. It's a congeries of verb tenses, future, present, past, and also conditional.
Still leading this conditional existence, I visit Ari in New York City and we ride bikes up the trail along the West Side Highway. I'm entertained by his concern as he keeps glancing back to make sure I'm not wobbling into traffic. I feel a surge of happiness in the river breezes, on a bike, May in Manhattan; the big-city joys of the strollers in their jeans, the joggers, the other bicyclists sailing along. Ari grins, winks. He is young, strong, filled with hope and ambition. At this moment, I too will live forever.
Later, when he meets me for dinner with his girlfriend, she does me the honor of not treating me as if I'm totally harmless. They bait me for reminiscing about times in the Village before herpes and AIDS. When they go off together (I say I'm sleepy), I decide to sit awhile at the White Horse Tavern, where Dylan Thomas took his last drink and where Norman Mailer, in 1958, in his alternating Irish-brawler and Texas-cowboy phases, told me he didn't like Israelis because they spoke Yiddish, that language of his childhood in Brooklyn. Either he didn't yet know that the language of Israel was Hebrew or, more likely, he was making a point about his adopted roles, or, most likely, he was simply announcing that he lacked any interest in the concerns of a non-headbutting Jewish writer from Cleveland. It was the era of Advertisements for Myself. We've both outgrown that particular quarrel, at least.
In recent years I also notice changes in my children. If Ari keeps glancing behind to see how I am managing as we bicycle, Ethan explains three times how to get to his apartment in Los Angeles, Ann telephones every day and calls her siblings if she doesn't reach or hear from me within a few hours. Judy hasn't gotten to the stage of adjusting pillows behind my head to make sure I'm comfy, but Nina did try to help me snap on a seatbelt.
I've passed the traditional cutoff point for elders and have no justification for persistence. Is it genes? Maybe my father's grandfather, who according to family legend, lived to be one-hundred-twenty-two, is the culprit. He was said to pass his later years dangling money on a fishing line out of a second-story window and jerking it out of reach when passersby bent to pick up the loot. I haven't yet bought my fishing equipment. I don't even have a cure for osteoporosis. Trying to teach others to nurture their old loves, hatreds, and ambitions is a mug's game, or a televangelist's.
Balzac (or maybe someone else) said that Paris is the paradise of misery and the capital of hope. I would like to nominate old age as something like this grand ancient city, a stalwart relic shared with the rest of the natural world. We begin in dust and end in dust, true; but in Haiti, new rocks appear in the terraced mountain fields, no matter how often the peasants clear them. In the ceaseless churning of the earth, fresh outcroppings grow out to replace the disappeared ones.
Alexander Dumas's children used to listen at the bedroom door as their old father, the most famous French writer of his time, made love to a succession of respectful damoiselles. No prurient interest; they were simply worried about his health. At a crucial moment, they heard one of the acolytes cry out in ecstasy, "Now, oh now, Monsieur le Dramaturge!"
Like my children, like everyone, I entered the world noisily, but most likely will go out in silence, nobody slapping my rump. Betweentimes, most of us do our best to stir things up in such a way that others—family, friends, lovers, even adversaries and enemies—accompany our departure with their thoughts. They may make comments. They may be preoccupied for a time with our images. They may glimpse reminders in the street, styles of walking or the familiar shape of a head. Flashbacks are evidence of our existence. Someone has a loving dream. Someone else dreams of revenge, waking to realize that it's too late.
Gradually, the memory fades. Perhaps there's a pang like Buddy's on his wife's birthday. In some cases, there's a historical record, or at least a stone or a plaque. The grave marker is what remains of most of us, not how we grinned at the smell of roast beef or touched a beloved with a yearning hand. Fortunately we're no longer in the neighborhood to notice how we have been forgotten.


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Crafts fair focuses on the community
HUNTINGTON -- Going to the annual Lions Tri-State Arts and Crafts Festival is more than a night out for Kriste Emonds of Proctorville and her mother -- it's a family tradition.
"We do this every year," she said Friday night. "We always come here to look for Christmas things, and we always end up finding nice things and spending a lot more time and money here than we meant to spend."
Emonds and her family were joined by hundreds of other arts and crafts enthusiasts at Big Sandy Superstore Arena Conference Center for the event, which is in its 36th year, said John Pinkerman, a member of the Lesage Lions Club, which hosts the event with the Southeast Lions Club.
The event raises about $10,000 annually for the clubs, Pinkerman said, and that money is evenly split between the two clubs. It is pumped back into the community in the form of donations and sponsorships of Little League teams, Boy and Girl Scouts, high school scholarships and a variety of other charitable purposes.
That's all the more reason to make sure the quality and quantity of the vendors at the event is top-notch, Pinkerman said.
"We want people to come here and find things that they wouldn't be able to find anywhere else," he said. "Really, the best thing that can happen is you come here, and buy something you really will enjoy because everyone wins that way. You get a new, unique and locally-made item, the vendors profit, and the community profits with each purchase."
The show features a wide range of arts, crafts and foods, with vendors from throughout the east coast and Midwest.
The club members also are living up to the challenge issued to them by Helen Keller nearly 87 years ago to be "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness," by providing free eye screenings and accepting unwanted prescription glasses.
The 36th Annual Lions Arts and Crafts Festival will continue from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2.
Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens and free for children 12-years-old and under.
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With so many quality pieces available to put together their offensive puzzle, the Houston Cougars have been hard at work throughout fall practice to find the right combinations of guys on the field. And while the proven players among the group – the Case Keenum's, Bryce Beall's, Patrick Edwards' and Tyron Carrier's of the world – are set in their spots, there are plenty of players vying for snaps behind some of the established veterans to provide depth and simply have a chance to contribute. That includes some of the true freshmen, which coach Kevin Sumlin alluded to after Saturday's scrimmage. [Read More]
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We continue our countdown to fall camp today with our positional breakdowns. Today, we'll delve into the receiving corps where UH has two veterans returning in seniors Patrick Edwards and Tyron Carrier, but will look for at least two others to emerge from a crop of young and inexperienced talents. [Read More]
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Video: Inside Roberta's Pizza
Get a look behind the scenes at the people and pizzas of Roberta's. More
Get a look behind the scenes at the people and pizzas of Roberta's. More
A little dark and bitter humor, to round out the week—happy Friday all! More
Or you might be, anyway. At the very least, Cooking Channel web series host Dan Pashman has some alternative slice chomping techniques for you to try out. More
Ready for a blast from the past? Check out these five pizza commercials from the '90s. More
What's next on the pizza frontier? Ordering delivery, direct from your car, the success of the Xbox 360 pizza app, new life for Pizza Huts and one very generous slice shop owner. More
Full disclosure: this is kind of a really creepy video. But if you're looking for some hardcore pizza weirdness...look no further than this loop of a couple enjoying a deliciously cheesy, baby stuffed crust pie. More
As most of us ramp up to one of the most epically involved cooking days of the year, pause for a moment and check out this episode of the Discovery Channel's "How It's Made" for a behind-the-scenes peek at a food on the other end of the spectrum—frozen pizza. More
Jon Stewart's epic anti-Chicago pizza rant on the Daily Show last week was the spark for an ensuing conflagration, a new excuse to reignite the age old Chicago vs. New York debate. This week, Marc Malnati, owner of famed Chicago institution Lou Malnati's Pizza, took a trip to New York and joined the fray. More
I stumbled across this brand new video today, and it instantly improved my work-dazed mood—a moment of real-life absurdity to get us all through these last days until the weekend. More
Our favorite fuschia-hued troublemaker from Saturday Morning Cartoons of times past returns to the screen on Cartoon Network. What's he up to this time? Pizza making. More
We all love eating pizza, but many of us are complete novices when it comes to making it ourselves (though to be sure, there are a number of you who are clearly very accomplished pizzaioli!). Regardless of your skill level, this POV-video, which spans shaping the dough to boxing the pie, gives some nice insight to the pizza-creation-process. More
Last week, I featured the sweetly inane Japanese advertisement for the Licca-chan Pizza-La employee doll (think Pizza Hut Barbie). Today, I have the pleasure of following up with another work of Pizza-La genius. More
Pizza-La is the highest-grossing pizza chain in Japan, with franchises located in 34 of the country's 47 prefectures. Their slogan? "All the taste and toppings you want on a pizza, straight from our oven to your door!" More
Today, Baking Steel, the creators of one of our all-time favorite pizza products, launched an instructional video featuring Kenji's New York-Style Pizza Dough recipe. Check out the video! More
Deciding what to eat for dinner in college / your totally adult apartment is one of life's greatest challenges. Seriously. There are a lot of different kinds of pizza and ramen out there. More
In this TedEducation video, Colm Keller uses math and physics to explain why folding a slice of pizza is the way to go. More
Pizza Hut Middle East, what is up?! First you have that crazypants Cheeseburger Crown Crust Pizza and now you're adding cream cheese stuffed and honey mustard chicken filled cones to the edge of your pizza? More
Though New York may lay claim as the cradle of pizza in America, many people would say that New Haven has the best. Certainly, there are a higher ratio of good to bad pizzerias in the area than there are almost anywhere else in the world. The question is, who's got the best? More
Stop me if you seen this one before, but the Houston Chronicle recorded this pig herding cows and enjoying some Dr. Pepper with her pizza. Apparently she's "been known to break into the ranch house and raid the refrigerator to messily slurp up raw eggs and leftover pizza." Watch the video after the jump. (For the pizza-eating part, fast forward to 2:47 or so.)... More
Hey, we know these guys! Paulie Gee (and Slice columnist Nick Solares) star in this video from Yahoo: Vitality. Good looking pies, too. Check it out after the jump.... More


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Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow me @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on my Twitter feed this week:Oh man. Forgot how much easier getting around to restaura... More >>
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In yesterday's list of the ten most essential books in my development as a food writer, I mentioned that I'm so behind in my reading that I can recommend only two books published in 2009: the Momof... More >>
As much as I'd like to assemble a Top Ten Food Books of 2009 list, I'm so far behind in my reading that I'd struggle to compose a Top Ten Food Books of 2008 list. Best I can do for this year is two... More >>
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According to both Weather.com and Accuweather, today's high temperature will be a measly 25 degrees. And it's not even officially winter yet. Think the temperature has to go higher than that? Ask thes... More >>
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Another day, another brewpub for St. Louis: Six Row Brewing Company is now open at 3690 Forest Park Avenue. The address was once part of the Falstaff brewery, giving this new venture a direct connecti... More >>
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina returns plenty of talent from a team that went 11-2 for a second straight season in 2012. But no position group has more holes to fill than linebacker.
The Gamecocks' top two players at both the Mike and Will linebacker spots last season were seniors – starters Reginald Bowens and Shaq Wilson, and backups Damario Jeffery and Quin Smith. Starting spur outside linebacker DeVonte Holloman also was a senior.
After signing three linebackers in last year's recruiting class, USC's coaches have commitments from four more for the Class of 2013, which will sign letters of intent today. The Gamecocks will get outside linebackers David Johnson and Mohamed Camara, and inside linebackers Larenz Bryant and Gerald Turner.
Bryant, who's from Charlotte, N.C., is the highest-rated recruit in USC's class, at No. 112 nationally, according to Rivals.com. He's the No. 4 inside linebacker. Turner, of Goose Creek High, is No. 23 at the position and No. 8 in South Carolina.
While the Gamecocks also landed the No. 3 and 6 in-state recruits – offensive tackle D.J. Park and center Bryce King, both from Dillon High – they had to supplement with lots of out-of-state recruits.
At 6-foot-1 and 215 pounds, Bryant's not particularly hulking for his position, and his spotty performance in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl "gives me pause," said Rivals national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell. But Farrell still believes Bryant can succeed at USC.
"When you look at him, you're like, 'This kid looks like a big safety,'" Farrell said. "But he's got a lot of instincts. He makes every tackle."
Running back Marcus Lattimore carried USC's offense for much of the past three seasons with his tackle-breaking tenacity, which can make an offensive line look better than it really is.
Maybe Mike Davis can eventually break tackles like Lattimore did, but having physical offensive linemen won't hurt Davis' chances. So Farrell thinks offensive tackle Na'Ty Rodgers of Maryland (15th at his position and 181st overall) is USC's most valuable recruit in this class. Rodgers is 6-5 and 278 pounds, and must gain weight.
"They need big, physical offensive linemen," Farrell said. "He's not ready to play right away, but in a couple years, he could be the guy.
Farrell is less convinced about Park, the 19th-ranked tackle. He is 6-6 and 335 pounds and enrolled in January.
"I just don't know if it's going to pan out," Farrell said. "D.J. Park is a huge kid who's got hands like pillows. But he doesn't flash as super physical. So are they going to be able to light that fire under him and make him physical? I think he's got a lot of potential. He's strong as an ox. When he gets his hands on you, it's over. Aggressiveness and physicality need to improve."
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