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Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers annoying his daughter with gospel music
Scott Avett playing "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" while being wrestled by his little girl…
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Nicole from MA says:
Oh this one made me smile. I have done this to my patient piano-playing father many times. Good memories. :)
elise says:
LOVED this! my husband and i love to playfully aggravate our kids. we're trying to decide what exactly constitutes exasperation in eph. 6:4. :)
Katie Roche says:
I especially love the glare she gives whoever's on the camera toward the end. As if to say, "This is all your fault, you know."
Gloria Furman says:
I laughed so hard that my kids needed to see what I was laughing about. So I played the video for them and my 4-yr-old daughter said, "He obviously isn't good at piano. He should learn to play the guitar."
Nicole says:
kids are cute and all, but if one did that to me while I was trying to play, I would be SOO pissed off.
Colin says:
Poor little girl is being punished just for having a little something called "taste".
Lauren says:
The Avett Brothers are my FAVORITE band. This made me chuckle. Thanks!
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Babs says:
wow. I must be a curmudgeon. BRAT!
Ron says:
I hate gospel music. Yuck. Don't waste that perfectly good talent. Scott Avett is still the man, however.
PhilA says:
I think the little girl is smarter than her father – trying to wake him up from his delusions :-P
Shauna says:
I think it's a beautiful song, they did it at the concert I went to on Wednesday and whether you are a religious person or not, it was gorgeous. This is just a little girl who misses her Daddy and would like attention (like all little girls do.) Why are you hating on people's religions PhilA?
Julie says:
Ha! This is nothing….you should see my little girl. She would make his daughter look like an angel. Too cute, btw! You can't help but smile when you watch this. A father's love for his daughter is a beautiful sight to see. And the singing was pretty good too. :) Love the Avett Brothers!!
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"Daddy, don't play!"

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ST. LOUIS – The Laclede Group, Inc. (NYSE: LG) ("Company" or "Laclede") today announced an agreement with Sempra U.S. Gas Power, a unit of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), to acquire the parent company of Mobile Gas, serving 85,000 natural gas utility customers in Alabama, and Willmut Gas, with 19,000 customers in Mississippi. Laclede is acquiring 100 percent of the outstanding equity of... Read More
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The following is my latest paper:
Sensory Error without Malfunction
I introduce a distinction between two kinds of sensory deficiency: limitations and errors. Sensory errors are due to biological malfunction, while sensory limitations are evident in the course of normal functioning. Although I think this distinction is an important one, I have a worry about the view that sensory error presupposes biological malfunction. The worry is that many errors seem to arise under normal viewing conditions—in the absence of factors suggestive of malfunction.
The following is easily my best paper:
Sensory Capacities (w/Ben Bronner, new draft 4/27/2016)
We argue for the existence of non-cognitive discriminatory powers in nature. Our argument depends on a novel account of what is required for an organism to possess sensory powers. Our account of sensory powers has several advantages over a more traditional approach tracing back to Aristotle. The most significant virtue of our account is that it captures fundamental presuppositions of a powerful explanatory paradigm in the biological sciences.
On the Generality of Experience: A Reply to French and Gomes (w/Neil Mehta) forthcoming in Philosophical Studies
According to phenomenal particularism, external particulars are sometimes part of the phenomenal character of experience. French and Gomes (forthcoming) have recently attempted to show that phenomenal particularists have the resources to respond to criticisms raised by Mehta (2014). We argue that French and Gomes have failed to appreciate the force of Mehta's original arguments. When properly interpreted, Mehta's arguments provide a strong case in favor of phenomenal generalism, the view that external particulars are never part of phenomenal character.
Was Aristotle a Naive Realist?, forthcoming in Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (currently working on final version)
I raise some doubts about Mark Eli Kalderon's claim that Aristotle's theory of color perception is a version of naive realism and defend an alternative interpretation. (Written for a conference in Sweden organized by the research programme Representation and Reality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition.)
Are Color Experiences Representational?, Philosophical Studies 166 (2013), 1-20
The dominant view among philosophers of perception is that color experiences, like color judgments, are essentially representational: as part of their very nature color experiences possess representational contents which are either accurate or inaccurate. My starting point in assessing this view is Sydney Shoemaker's familiar account of color perception. After providing a sympathetic reconstruction of his account, I show how plausible assumptions at the heart of Shoemaker's theory make trouble for his claim that color experiences represent the colors of things. I consider various ways of trying to avoid the objection, and find all of the responses wanting. My conclusion is that we have reason to be skeptical of the orthodox view that color experiences are constitutively representational.
Burge's Defense of Perceptual Content, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 88 (2014), 556-573 (w/Ben Bronner and Alex Kerr)
A central question, if not the central question, of philosophy of perception is whether sensory states have a nature similar to thoughts about the world, whether they are essentially representational. According to the content view, at least some of our sensory states are, at their core, representations with contents that are either accurate or inaccurate. Tyler Burge's Origins of Objectivity is the most sustained and sophisticated defense of the content view to date. His defense of the view is problematic in several ways. The most significant problem is that his approach does not sit well with mainstream perceptual psychology.
Visual Prominence and Representationalism, Philosophical Studies 164 (2013), 405-418 (w/Ben Bronner)
A common objection to representationalism is that a representationalist view of phenomenal character cannot accommodate the effects that shifts in covert attention have on visual phenomenology: covert attention can make items more visually prominent than they would otherwise be without altering the content of visual experience. Recent empirical work on attention casts doubt on previous attempts to advance this type of objection to representationalism and it also points the way to an alternative development of the objection.
Everyday Thinking about Bodily Sensations, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (2010), 523-34 (w/Dorit Ganson)
In the opening section of this paper we spell out an account of our naïve view of bodily sensations that is of historical and philosophical significance. This account of our shared view of bodily sensations captures common ground between Descartes, who endorses an error theory regarding our everyday thinking about bodily sensations, and Berkeley, who is more sympathetic with commonsense. In the second part of the paper we develop an alternative to this account and discuss what is at stake in deciding between these two ways of understanding our everyday view. In the third and final part of the paper we offer an argument in favor of our alternative.
The rational/non-rational distinction in Plato's Republic, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXVI (2009), 179-197
My attempt to show that Plato has a unified approach to the rationality of belief and the rationality of action, and that his defense of this approach is a powerful one.
Reid's Rejection of Intentionalism, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy IV (2008), 245-263
The result of my efforts over a number of years to understand what Reid's distinction between sensation and perception amounts to. In the final section I argue that Reid has a coherent view on the nature of color, but an incoherent view of perception.
Finding Freedom through Complexity, Review of Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?, in Science 319, 22 Feb 2008, 1045
The Platonic Approach to Sense-Perception, History of Philosophy Quarterly 22 (2005), 1-15
This paper isn't so much an attempt to defend a thesis as an attempt to outline what I take to be a distinctive approach to sense-perception that is shared by Platonists as different from one another as Plato, Plotinus, and Schopenhauer.
Third-Century Peripatetics on Vision, in Lyco of Troas and Hieronymus of Rhodes, RUSCH vol. XII (2004), edd. WW. Fortenbaugh and S. White, 355-362
Later Peripatetics routinely invoke emanations from sense-objects in spite of Aristotle's insistence that visible objects as such do not release anything into the medium of vision. However, we need not suppose that these later Peripatetics are drawing on the effluence theories of the Atomists or Empedocleans. I suggest that they are developing their own account, which has its roots in Aristotle's remarks on vision.
Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Role of Color Appearances, Ancient Philosophy XXIII (2003), 383-393
Alexander of Aphrodisias posits differences in color appearance that do not reduce to differences in what color is perceived, and appeals to these color appearances in his account of how we perceive certain spatial properties of objects.
Reid on Colour, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2002), 231-242
For a more up-to-date statement of my reading of Reid on color, see "Reid's Rejection of Intentionalism" above.
A Puzzle concerning the Aristotelian Notion of a Medium of Sense-Perception, Die Phil. der Antike Bd. 14 (2002), 65-73
Once upon a time I attempted to find a coherent notion of a medium of sense-perception in Peripatetic writings. I failed.
Appetitive Desire in Later Plato, History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (2001), 227-237
In his later works Plato alters his characterization of appetitive desires in order to secure the conclusion that there is a genuine unity to the class of appetitive desires. This alternative to the view in the Republic is pretty cool.
Berkeley, Reid, and Thomas Brown on the Origins of our Spatial Concepts, Reid Studies 3 (1999), 49-62
I argue that Reid successfully undermines Berkeley's suggestion that the acquisition of our spatial concepts is an intelligible response to our bodily sensations. Thomas Brown's attempt to respond to Reid by appeal to sensations of the overlooked "muscle sense" fails.
Democritus against Reducing Sensible Qualities, Ancient Philosophy XIX (1999), 201-215
There is evidence that Democritus produced a number of reductive definitions of sensible qualities, accounts of colors, flavors, and the like that identify these properties with microphysical properties of objects. There is also evidence that Democritus resisted a reductive approach to such qualities. This paper is an attempt to reconstruct Democritus' worries about the reductive approach.
What's Wrong with the Aristotelian Theory of Sensible Qualities?, Phronesis XLII (1997), 263-282
An attempt to show that Aristotle's view of sensible qualities isn't so bad after all.


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Affordable Care Act addresses cost of preventive services
Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 23, 2013
Yet many people simply don't know there no longer is a fee for such services, said Dr. Richard O'Brien, professor emeritus at Creighton University and the former dean of Creighton's medical school.
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Hansen: Ruins of Omaha gangster underworld buried beneath Union Pacific
Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 23, 2013
But it happened, swears Creighton University senior Connor Hussein, who spent his summer internship at the Douglas County Historical Society researching the Bell Hotel. Connor, age 21, will speak about the Bell during the historical society's Murder, Mysteries and Mayhem event today.
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Nebraska and Iowa taking different health care paths
Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 23, 2013
The gap in coverage in Nebraska puts that goal in jeopardy and likely pinches hospitals such as the Creighton University Medical Center and the Nebraska Medical Center, which will lose some federal money on the assumption that they will be treating fewer uninsured people. The gap could pressure clinics for low-income families, which have more requests for appointments than they can book.
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South High Hall of Fame to induct five alumni
Omaha World-Herald, Sept 21, 2012
1936 Lt. Gen. Leo J. Dulacki retired from the Marines in 1974 after 32 years of active service. He is a war hero and an outstanding leader of troops, as attested by his many promotions, assignments, medals and awards. His schooling includes an undergraduate degree from Creighton University.
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D.J.R. Bruckner, 79, was a writer, book lover
Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 22, 2013
D.J.R. Bruckner, who attended Creighton University, was a Rhodes scholar and had a long career as a writer and journalist, died Friday in New York.
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How they met: Helping each other through 40 years
Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 21, 2013
Peterson received his bachelor's degree from Willamette University before attending Creighton University School of Law. Peterson has spent his legal career at the Jackson County District Attorney's Office.
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Coming back from Tiruptati where she had obviously gone to seek blessings as she usually does whenever she starts something new, noted producer Ekta Kapoor was in a good mood last night at the launch of her new show Kumkum Bhagya on Zee TV.
The show which stars Shabbir Ahluwalia, Sriti Jha, Mrunal Thakur and Faisal Rashid has the story of a simple, all women family based in Mumbai and how the mother who runs a marriage hall named Kumkum Bhagya wants to see her two daughters married and well settled.
Here is what Ekta had to say about her show and more...
"It is difficult to say whether Kumkum Bhagya is a family drama or a love story."
"It is very tough to talk about the show with so many characters and to assimilate them together in one story is difficult but it is a format breaking as a show. I cannot even say whether it is a love story or a family drama.
The essence of the show is that in life you meet many people who will touch your life through various things, different moments and different people will come and go and there are going to be different stages of love and relationships but the one person who sticks by you at your worst is the one that matters and if that person is the one who is weaved in your destiny through the Kumkum that is in your maang then that's a relationship to actually cherish for life and you never know that. Destiny for women at least till she gets married is different and after marriage destiny changes because it is linked with someone else."
"Kumkum Bhagya is inspired by Sense and Sensibility."
"It is inspired by the classic novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen which I liked when I saw the film based on it and then I started writing it in my own way. I changed scripts, writers when I thought that the base of the story was wrong so then I changed it all over again. When you write something but if it doesn't come from inside it doesn't work as a story. I think I left the classic long behind when me and my writers weaved a very different tale out of it."
"I make all my shows from the heart."
"Actually when I make a show the first thing I try to do is block out all external influences or what anyone thinks about the show. Shows have to be made from the heart and I love the characters, I feel part of this home in the show, part of the street that the family stays, I am part of their lives. Kumkum Bhagya is not a typical show in a typical zone and I am not even able to tell you whether it is a family drama or a love story. I am actually out of my comfort zone with this show. I thought there are so many family dramas on TV and yet there are so many stories which are not being told because at some point they are all complying to the typical rules of Television. We have made this show with a lot of heart and are hoping that the heart of this show reaches out to various hearts, various people so if I am expecting or hoping them to like it and I would rather use the word hoping."
"Every show has the same story told differently."
"There is nothing new in the show. Actually there are no new stories. In fact there are just seven stories which are repeated everywhere. What is new is the emotions and characters otherwise it is the same story which is depicted in different ways. If we have two people coming from a small town background and they are aggressive it becomes a Romeo and Juliet story and if we place the same two people in high society then it can turn into a European film. The way stories are told matters, it doesn't matter if the stories are the same. I hope when you see the show you will understand the essence of it. There are similar high points in different lives. The big game here is not to make different stores but to tell the same story differently."
"None of my shows have messages but just a thought."
"I never try to give any message to the audience via my shows. There is always a thought, a philosophy behind each of my shows not a message. In this show the philosophy is that emotionally and in any which way if anyone stays with you in good times or in bad times he is important for you. Kumkum Bhagya is all about making the best of your life and not looking the other way and wanting what others have."
"For me audience is most important."
"At the end of the day my show which runs for eight years because people watch it and if I could I will run it for 20 years if the audience is watching it. For me if the audience be it anybody - a dadi, a youngster, a housewife, any family member who is spending half an hour watching my show then I don't mind working 2 days or more on it. Films will keep on happening but I have decided to give more time to TV now since for me the choice of my Television audience is more important."
"With this show we have 'K' back in the title."
"Kumkum Bhagya was the title of a show we produced for down South and it had a very nice feel to it. This show however has a different concept and story and here the name of a marriage hall is Kumkum Bhagya. With this show K is back in my life and I hope success too comes back to me. I didn't think about it when we decided and after deciding the title we saw that K is back. These days all TV shows have typical titles which are lengthy and are adapted from songs from Hindi films which is so regular so we thought why not do something different."
"Pavitra Rishta doesn't need anyone's help."
"The show which replaces Pavitra Rishta and takes over the 9 pm prime time slot will also be shot on the sets of Pavitra Rishta which has moved on to another set. Pavitra Rishta set was very lucky and I wanted that luck to rub in on Kumkum Bhagya! At the same time Pavitra Rishta too is very important for me but Pavitra Rishta doesn't need anyone's help now as it has reached another level altogether. On whether this show will be as successful as Pavitra Rishta I don't know. I want it to happen but if it will or not I don't know."
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"Keep in mind that the agent may have spent considerable money upfront to market the listing," says Sam DeBord, managing broker at Wiegand & DeBord in Seattle. "In that case, there may be more hesitance to allow a seller to cancel a listing in a short amount of time without finding some way for the agent to recoup their costs."
Photos, labor and a few ads can easily reach $1,000 or more right off the bat, DeBord says. If the broker can't sell the home by the end of the contractual period, then most brokers "understand that those costs are unrecoverable." But if the seller tries to terminate the agreement soon after listing, a lot of brokers are likely to feel duped, DeBord says.
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This kind of solidarity just doesn't exist within the euro zone. Buruma is hazy about how exactly European politicians can convince their citizens of the wisdom of hanging together to avoid hanging separately. But there's no choice, he writes:
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Coming into the 2011 season, many figured Denny Hamlin would be the man to beat right out of the gate. Leading the standings into the final race of the year in 2010, Hamlin came up short in the championship hunt last season, but gave Jimmie Johnson his biggest threat to date.
However, 2011 has not gone according to plan for Hamlin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team. Fifteen races into the season last year Hamlin had four victories. On Sunday, he repeated as the winner at Michigan International Speedway, but it was his first victory of the season.
"We were truly dominant one year ago in this race," Hamlin said. "We were a second to third place car. In the fall we finished second. But today we actually were a little worse. But we got a win. That's very uplifting for me, is to win when you don't necessarily have the best car all day, but you have the car good at the end when it really counts."
That is exactly what Hamlin needs to get him back in the hunt for this year's Chase. Entering the day 12th in points, Hamlin was not in a Chase position and had no wins to earn him the Wild Card spot. Yet by taking the win on Sunday, Hamlin's Chase hopes were rekindled as he moved into ninth in points.
"From here on out, we know we're one win away from having a Chase spot," Hamlin said. "My goal is still to get in the top five in points. If I wouldn't have dug us such a big hole at the beginning of the year, we really could be possibly fighting for trying to lead the points going into the Chase. But we just started so far behind, it's going to be tough to do that."
Hamlin was able to score the win thanks to the fast work of his Mike Ford-led pit crew. While the race appeared as though it would be determined yet again by fuel mileage, a caution flew with only eight laps to go and brought the field to pit road. Hamlin's team was able to beat Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards back on the track and hold off the late-race charge from Kenseth.
"It was nice to be able to race but I didn't do a great job in the restart and I spun my tires," Kenseth said. "Denny saw me hanging back a little bit and took off. Once he was clear it was really hard to pass, especially on a short run like that. The track gets all black and slimy from this new tire. My car wasn't real good on a short run anyway. I didn't have enough to get around him once he cleared us there."
Kyle Busch, Paul Menard, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer, Mark Martin and Brian Vickers rounded out the top 10.
The final caution of the day came after contact between Hendrick Motorsports teammates Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. cut the tire on the No. 88 Chevrolet. A few laps after the contact that sent Earnhardt into the wall, the right front tire blew on Earnhardt's car and sent him hard into the outside wall.
Finishing the day in 21st, Earnhardt Jr. was not too pleased with how his teammate raced him, saying he tries not to be careless and does not like "putting up with carelessness."
"He come up there, he knew I was up there, but, he was just running hard," Earnhardt Jr. said of Martin. "If they tables were turned, I would have been smarter and give him plenty of room than he did me. He is older me, been racing forever and knows a lot more than I'll ever get or he has forgot more stuff than I'll never know. Still, I take better care of people than that."
Martin, on the other hand, simply said he made a mistake and he does not believe the issue will cause a problem between the teammates.
"I don't have a history of having problems. I don't think I have one now," he said. "I think we will get it sorted out. I feel like I give everybody on the race track respect. I made a mistake."
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DGC tennis captain, who also happens to be the secretary of Tanzania Tennis Association, Inger Njau, said the event would involve singles and doubles' events for gender balanced players with age bracket of under 8 and 18.
Each participant would be required to part with entry fee to the tune of 3,000/- and the deadline for entries is November 12 at 18 hours.
The tournament comes hot on heels of another junior event staged for the first time at the Kijitonyama Tennis Club courts last weekend.
The forthcoming tennis tourney is expected to provide an opportunity for players to exhibit their prowess, particularly those who flopped in last week's event.
Meanwhile, Njau lauded the successful organisation of the junior championship, saying it is bound to inspire teens to compete with increased frequency.
"The turnout was encouraging. A total of 145 junior players from Arusha, Morogoro, Coast Region and Dar es Salaam participated! We have never had such a big turn up," she said.
"A good number of parents were following the matches. In other words the interest for the game is really on the increase," she added.
"If a good number of the young ones will keep the interest, in the future we might have many good players in Tanzania," so says Njau.


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After seeing the photo thread, it got me wondering what my fellow Tom Bihn enthusiasts are using in their camera bag. I'll start!
My Camera is a Nikon d3100 dSLR.
My lenses are an 18-55mm AF-S VR with a 3.5-5.6 f/stop and a 55-200mm AF-S VR with a 4-5.6 f/stop. Due to me having a d3100--the auto focus forces me to use the AF-S lenses to have the camera do the focusing for me. (I really didn't know much about cameras when I bought mine--learning more every day!)
I'm thinking about get a 50mm lens--as they seem to be very versatile--however since my camera is a DX and not full framed, it makes the image close to 75mm. Perhaps the 35mm would work better.
Anyways, looking back to your replies!


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March 2013 UPDATE: Rony is now a DJ and dating another model]
Here at Meadowlands Matters, we periodically mix it up on weekends with a "Where are they Now?" on former sports complex performers.
In the spotlight today is Rony Seikaly, who played for the Nets in 1997-98 and 1998-99.
Seikaly, per this Forbes piece, is now a DJ and musician in the Miami area. Nice that he found something interesting to do, since until now he's mainly just been a professional basketball player, real estate entrepeneur, and husband of former Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Elsa Benitez.
After 10 years as an NBA starting center, Seikaly was acquired by the Nets in February 1998. As a Nets beat writer at the time, I remember both the odd circumstances of both the trade and his ill-fated Nets "career."
As the annual NBA trading deadline nears, general managers usually are able to tell the media either just before or at the deadline if the team has made no moves. But in this case, we had to wait after the deadline for word from then-GM John Nash.
And then it came: the Nets had picked up Seikaly and Brian Evans from Orlando for Kevin Edwards, David Benoit, the late Yinka Dare, and a first-round draft pick.
It was not surprising that Evans, Edwards (over the hill by then), Benoit, and Dare didn't do much for their new teams (in fact, Yinka was cut by the Magic three days after the trade). So the deal really came down to Seikaly for a pick (which turned out to be Matt Harpring).
It seemed hard to believe that the Nets had to pay so little for Seikaly – well, until he arrived. Seikaly had foot and ankle injuries that kept him sidelined for several weeks after the trade, and he shot only .317 from the field in nine games as a part-timer off the bench.
But Seikaly showed signs of life in limited playoff time against Chicago, the Nets had Seikaly's rights for another season, and it figured that the long offseason might cure what ailed him. In fact, a lockout delayed the start of that 1998-99 season for three months.
It didn't help. This was the winter of John Calipari's discontent, as the team anointed by none other than Michael Jordan as "the next big thing" in the Eastern Conference came apart at the seams once the lockout ended.
Keep in mind that Seikaly is a native of Beirut, Lebanon who attended high school in Athens, Greece. Literally, a man of the world. And by the time it was time to resume playing games, Seikaly wasn't ready. He missed the first four games, got modest minutes in five games, and was back on the shelf for a month.
By the time Seikaly was reactivated, Calipari had just been fired after a disastrous 3-17 start. When Seikaly wasn't flying to Miami to get hyperbaric chamber treatments for his injuries, he was shooting the breeze with the beat writers about all sorts of topics (not all NBA players are quite so well-rounded, to say the least).
Seikaly seemed mystified by his reactivation, which came in Toronto for new coach Don Casey. I recall Seikaly once looking over to press row after a brief appearance with a quizzical look, as if to say, "Why am I in this game?" The Nets might as well have been asking an assistant coach to suit up.
So this was how it ended for the 9th overall pick in the 1988 draft out of Syracuse:
- nine points shy of 10,000 for his career that included 6.424 rebounds and 607 starts;
- nine total games in 1998-99 (same as 1997-98 for Nets) for his $4.3 million paycheck, with no baskets in two Meadowlands home appearances and with losses in all but one of those nine overall games;
- one basket in 15 field goal attempts over the final eight games of his career.
But just as then, you get the feeling that – well, Seikaly is doing just fine, thank you. Basketball's just a game, after all, and it's a greaty big world out there.


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Former Chargers doctor gave Ambien to Junior Seau, experts say he should not have had it
SAN DIEGO - Team 10 has exclusively obtained pictures of pill bottles inside Junior Seau's home the night he committed suicide, and a nationally-known expert is raising serious concerns about Seau's doctor.
Dr. David Chao prescribed Ambien to the former Chargers star, despite warning signs like insomnia and depression.
Team 10 also found out Dr. Chao allegedly partied with the football star.
Seau killed himself in May 2012.
Team 10 reviewed the medical examiner's photos of pill bottles found inside Seau's home, and the toxicology report, which found zolpidem tartrate, commonly known as Ambien, in Seau's blood.
The drug maker's instructions say the sleeping pill should be used with caution by patients "exhibiting signs or symptons of depression."
His family described signs of depression exhibited in Seau before his death in an interview with Nightline in 2013.
"I think there are so many symptoms we all witnessed, um, the mood swings, the depression, the insomnia was terrible," said ex-wife Gina Seau.
The photos show there were two Ambien bottles found in his home. They were for prescriptions of 10mg, and each bottle had 30 pills.
One vial was empty, and the other bottle was missing pills.
The second vial was prescribed 15 days before Seau's suicide.
Nineteen pills were missing in 15 days.
On that 15th day is when Seau killed himself.
Seau's family claims he was depressed in a lawsuit filed against the NFL and helmet makers.
The lawsuit says Seau had wild mood swings, irrationality, forgetfulness, insomnia and depression that got progressively worse over time.
"There were mood swings that came randomly (and) they started to get worse," said Seau's son, Tyler, in the Nightline interview.
"I will never forget what he said," said Gina. "He said,'Gina, I am so low... It's so dark right now… I can't pick up my surfboard and get in the water."
The family donated Seau's brain to the National Institutes of Health.
NIH research showed definite signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE.
It is the result of violent head trauma.
Numerous medical experts say CTE leads to depression.
"In a case as in Junior Seau, who is suffering from a variety of problems manifested by confusion, depression, improper atypical behavior... you don't prescribe a drug like Ambien," said Dr. Cyril Wecht, a nationally recognized as an expert in forensic pathology.
"You may be placing that patient at greater risk to doing something to himself, such as committing suicide," Wecht said.
Two years before his suicide, Seau drove his car off a cliff. At the time, Seau said he simply fell asleep.
His former girlfriend told media it was a suicide attempt.
"Studies show that people who take sleeping pills are anywhere from two to 18 times more likely to commit suicide," said Dr. Dan Kripke, a professor emeritus at Univeristy of California at San Diego.
Kripke is a psychiatrist who has studied the effects of sleeping pills, and is considered one of the pre-eminent medical experts on the subject by his peers.
"It is clear that these drugs in normally prescribed amounts cause trouble," Kripke said.
"That prescription for that period of time was, in my opinion, improper and it was medically negligent," Wecht said.
The former Chargers doctor prescribed the Ambien to Seau, years after Seau left the team.
Chao started with the Chargers in 1995. Seau left the Chargers in 2002.
Multiple sources refused to be interviewed on camera, but told Team 10 they saw Chao and Seau partying at San Diego bars in the years after Seau left the Chargers, and also after Seau retired from the game in 2010.
The medical examiner's report also states Chao was Seau's doctor at the time of his death.
Wecht said given their relationship, Chao should have known to not prescribe Ambien to Seau in that quantity for two months.
"He should have been aware of some degree of depression," Wecht said.
Team 10 asked both doctors if Seau's suicide had anything to do with the Ambien prescriptions.
"In my opinion, the prescription of Ambien to Junior Seau was a significant contributing factor," Wecht said.
"I don't know," Kripke said. "He is not my patient."
"I think it is unwise for physicians to prescribe sleeping pills ever," Kripke said, "in particular it's unwise to prescribe them for people who are depressed or have brain damage… but it is still accepted practice." (*See editor's note at the end of the article.)
"Who commits suicide? People who are depressed right?" Wecht said. "You don't have to be a physician to know you are pushing the patient towards suicide."
Chao, through his attorney, declined an on-camera interview. His attorney, Robert Frank, provided this statement:
Statement of Dr. David Chao, through his attorney, Robert Frank, of Neil, Dymott, Frank, McFall & Trexler APLC:
Junior Seau was found to have a form of CTE on study of his brain by Dr. Russel Lonser, NIH chief of neurosurgery and lead scientist who studied the brain. Dr. Lonser concluded, "physicians are unable to diagnose CTE in a living person." The connection between symptoms of CTE and CTE is "poorly understood."
Per the San Diego County Medical Examiner, who performed the autopsy and studied the cause of death, Dr, Craig Nelson said Junior Seau "had no known suicidal ideation or confirmed attempt," as of the time of his death. According to Dr. Nelson's autopsy report and the death certificate, Junior Seau's episodic short term use of use of Ambien was not a factor contributing to his death.
USCD trained forensic psychiatrist and former California Medical Board consultant, Dr. Clark Smith, reviewed the facts surrounding the death, including the short term use of Ambien prescriptions. He saw "nothing out of the ordinary." He confirmed that "Ambien is an FDA approved medication commonly prescribed by physicians to treat sleeplessness associated with depression."
That Junior Seau considered Dr. Chao to be one of his best friends is well-known. The Seau family recognized this by having Dr. Chao as a pallbearer at the funeral just over two years ago. Dredging up the past with inaccurate insinuations and innuendo is uncalled for now. Seau's family, friends, and fans that loved him have been through enough.
Chao's medical license is currently on probation with the California Medical Board for what the board called "gross negligence" against patients and "dishonesty or corruption." Despite the probation, the board just renewed Chao's medical license last month.
However, the medical board in the state of Illinois decided not to renew Chao's license. A spokesperson told Team 10, "Illinois refused to renew his license ... after learning of the action taken against his license in California."
Team 10 spoke with Dr. Smith, who was referenced in Chao's attorney's statement about the story.
Dr. Clark Smith said if there was a history of chemical dependency, like drugs and alcohol, Ambien should be used with caution, or not at all.
Dr. Smith reviewed the same medical examiner records that Team 10 provided to Chao's attorney and the experts interviewed for this story. After reviewing the documents, Dr. Smith told Team 10 he felt 42 pills in two months "did not represent abuse of Ambien."
When asked about Junior Seau's issue with chronic insomnia, Dr. Smith said he would have recommended non-addictive medications.
(*Editor's note: The headline states, "Former Chargers doctor gave Ambien to Junior Seau, experts say he should not have had it". The quote with the asterisk was added to the story after initial publication to clarify the headline and quote both experts who told 10News Seau should not have been taking Ambien.)
Timeline for David Jee Wei Chao, M.D., and Junior Seau
1990 – 2002: Junior Seau plays for the San Diego Chargers
April 1994: California Medical Board issued Physician's and Surgeon's Certificate to David Jee Wei Chao, M.D.
1995: Chao employed at Oasis Sports Medical Group, Inc. The principal owner is Dr. Gary Losse, who also is the San Diego Chargers head doctor.
1995: Chao is arrested and pleads guilty to a "wet reckless" charge related to driving while under the influence of alcohol. (Editor's note, an earlier version of the timeline contained an error on Chao's two cases involving drinking and driving, which are only misdemeanors.)
November 1995: Doctors Losse and Chao perform surgery on San Diego Padres pitcher Greg Harris.
December 1997: Harris sues Losse.
September 1998: A Chargers news release says Losse was relieved as the team's physician. Chao becomes assistant team physician for the Chargers.
March 1999: The jury finds in favor of Harris. The verdict in case number 716706 said Losse was medically negligent and Harris won a $6 million verdict in 1999.
March 1999: SeaWorld performer Jeff Warner sued Chao after his ACL surgery. Allegations in the third amended complaint in case number 729388 state Warner went in for ACL surgery, but instead Chao performed "PCL" surgery – or surgery on his posterior cruciate ligament, instead of his anterior curciate ligament. (The suit was later settled under confidential terms.)
October 1999: Abby Rueckert files a lawsuit against Chao accusing him of a botched shoulder surgery.
August 2000: Losse's client files a lawsuit that alleges Chao wrote narcotics prescriptions to Losse with no oversight. Chao was later cited and fined by the California Medical Board. Citation No. 10-2001-127021 states Chao "failed to maintain adequate and accurate medical records of a patient/colleague that was treated by you…" The fine was for $1,000.
2001: Chao is named head physician for the San Diego Chargers, and his name and picture are published in the team's media guide in subsequent years.
February 2002: Abby Rueckert wins her lawsuit against Chao and is awarded $500K. In case number GIC736923, Chao testified, "… there was a dissection of the artery, it required a graft."
Around March 2002: Chao gives his consent to settle the Warner case, and the terms are confidential. This was not revealed until a video deposition in a later case, Engler vs. Chao, GIC 870982, in 2008. Under oath, Chao stated, "A type of consent was given," to settle the Warner case. (Editor's note: Chao's attorney, Robert Frank, of Neil, Dymott, Frank, McFall & Trexler, APC, stressed his client did not pay anything to settle and that he was dismissed from the lawsuit.)
2003 – 2005: Junior Seau left the Chargers to retire, but later changed his mind and went to play with the Miami Dolphins.
March 2003: A class action lawsuit is filed against Chao and others. In part, the suit accuses Losse of practicing in an "impaired state." (Filed by attorney Marc Stern, case GIC806908 is still pending 11 years later.)
May 2003: Chao performs surgery on 15-year-old Whitney Engler. (She later sued for medical negligence.)
2006 – 2009: Junior Seau plays with the New England Patriots.
August 2006: Chao arrested after Chargers banquet for driving under the influence. It is his second arrest for DUI. He would later plead guilty to misdemeanor charges. (Editor's note, an earlier version of the timeline an error on Chao's two cases involving drinking and driving, which are only misdemeanors. Chao's attorney, Robert Frank, said this case has been expunged.)
January 2007: Lawsuit filed against Seau by two women over an alleged incident in a bar. Chao was present. The case was later settled.
February 2007: Thomas Fagan has knee replacement surgery by Chao. Fagan says the surgery resulted in the loss of his leg, and he sued Chao the next year.
February 2007: A patient identified by "M C" had knee replacement surgery by Chao, who accuses him of medical negligence. Medical Board records say Chao "failed to monitor" the diabetic patient.
May 2007: A patient identified as "E A" had hip surgery by Chao. Medical Board records say Chao committed a negligent act in his care and treatment of the patient.
May 2007: A patient identified as "K A" had hip surgery by Chao. Medical Board records say the patient "exhibited a laceration of the common femoral artery and vein and copious blood loss."
November 2007: Chao's patient David Egan claims the doctor cut off the blood supply to his leg during hip surgery. Medical Board records say Chao "committed repeated negligent acts in his care and treatment" of the patient, which resulted "in significant blood vessel lacerations."
May 2008: In a court filing, Dr. Losse said he had addiction problems and was receiving prescriptions from Chao without any examination by the doctor. Losse's declaration for cases GIC806902 & GIC806908 states he "repeatedly received opioids, as well as Ambien, from the Oasis 'in-house pharmacy'." (Oasis is the name of the business where Chao practices medicine.) Losse's declaration also states he "received prescriptions for opioids from other physicians, Dr. Chao (and another doctor), without undergoing any examination by those physicians."
2008: In his first deposition in the Fagan case, Chao says he could not return to Scripps Memorial Hospital to care for his patient. Court records in case number 37-2008-00077411 quote Chao as saying he was "driving to Los Angeles" to see his mother. He later contradicts this testimony.
May 2009: Chao's attorney provides redacted receipts that show Chao was at a nightclub named "Belo" and bought a bottle of vodka the night Fagan needed a doctor following his surgery. Court records related to case number LC090723 (a different lawsuit in 2010), show Chao and his assistant, Anthony Durfee, were offered a settlement by Fagan's attorney, so the unredacted receipts could be kept confidential.
June 2009: Fagan settles with Scripps Hospital for $1.395 million. Fagan's attorney made settlement offers of $250,000 each to Chao and his physician's assistant, Anthony Durfee. The offer was eventually accepted by Durfee, and court records show Chao did not give his consent to settle (Case No. LC090723).
December 2009: The California Medical Board accuses Chao of alcohol abuse and unprofessional conduct.
2010: The consulting psychiatrist for the San Diego Chargers, Steven Sobel, M.D., evaluates Chao for the Scripps Memorial Well Being Committee, according to Medical Board records. The records show Sobel determined Chao, still the Chargers head doctor, "does not abuse alcohol and that he is not an impaired physician." The 2010 evaluation is described as an update to an evaluation in 2008, according to the board's records.
July 2010: A patient identified as "M E" has knee replacement surgery by Chao. Medical Board records show the surgery was for the right knee.
October 18, 2010: Junior Seau drives his Escalade over a Carlsbad cliff.
November 6, 2010: A patient identified as "D E" had hip surgery by Chao, and had blood loss of 1800cc, according to Medical Board records. Chao "either failed to properly place the retractor or improperly utilized the capsular scissors… resulting in significant blood vessel lacerations," the records say. (Nearly the same language was used by the Medical Board to describe patient David Egan post-surgery in November 2007.)
November 10, 2010: "M E" has knee replacement surgery by Chao on the left knee. Medical Board records show between November 10, the day of the surgery, and November 15, Chao's "whereabouts are unknown." The records state there are no notations in Chao's records or hospital records on which doctors should have covered his patient's care in his absence.
November 19, 2010: Medical Board records show "M E" had a "definite pseudoanuerysm," or a hole in the artery following the surgery with Chao nine days earlier. (*Editor's note: the original timeline did not have the correct medical term, which is now directly quoted from the documents.)
December 2010: The California Medical Board amends first complaint to add "dishonesty or corruption" to allegations of gross negligence by Chao in the care of patients. The board says Chao failed disclose his convictions of driving under the influence of alcohol when he applied to be a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) for the Division of Worker's Compensation.
January 2011: Arbitration awarded to Kathleen Adams of $2.2 million in a highly publicized case.
March 2011: Chao settles with Adams for confidential amount.
July 2011: Medical Board holds a hearing on dishonesty and corruption accusations regarding Chao's QME application disclosures.
February 13, 2012: Chao prescribes Zolpidem Tartrate (Ambien) 10mg, 30 tabs for Seau.
April 7, 2012: Chao prescribes Ambien, 10mgs, 30 tabs for Seau.
May 2, 2012: Seau commits suicide at his Oceanside home. Chao identifies himself as Seau's physician to the medical examiner. (The autopsy report would later show the Ambien in Seau's blood concentration was "consistent with therapeutic use.")
July 2012: Jury awards Engler more than $5 million and later adds punitive damages of $500,000.
Summer 2012: Scripps Mercy and Scripps Memorial recommend revoking Chao's hospital privileges.
June 2013: Chao and hospitals reach an agreement, and Chao relinquishes his privileges.
May 9, 2013: Medical Board publicly reprimands Chao for not disclosing his two convictions on QME applications for Division of Worker's Compensation. "Respondent did not understand the wording of the application required that he disclose either conviction" for drinking and driving, the records say. The board also says it had already accused Chao of doing this twice, when he did it a third time on his 2010 application.
August 2013: Illinois Medical Board refuses to renew Dr. Chao's medical license in that state. A spokesperson told Team 10, "In the case of Dr. Chao, Illinois refused to renew his license on 8/13/2013, after learning of the action taken against his license in California." It would be several months before Chao's license was placed on probation in California.
April 2014: Chao placed on probation by the California Medical Board but can continue to practice medicine.
Read the medical board documents here: http://bit.ly/1ko3Tv0