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We took off for Mother's Day because that's what you do.
But Saturday, I worked my butt off. Planting mostly. Put in the next round of beets, carrots, string beans. Planted for the first time the watermelons. Hoed the potatoes. Boy, those nut grass plants are prolific!
I transplanted the lettuce for the first time using the Jevons method. I was surprised how well they took being transplanted. I'll have to take special care of them today and tomorrow as the heat here in South Jersey will be wicked.
Talked to one of farmer friends who said that his leek was shot from the early weather, the spinach was in between pickings and the Boston lettuce was give and take for the weekend.
We open up on Saturday at the Burlington County Agricultural Market in Moorestown. Our CSA is 15 members strong and we look forward to serving them this year.
Can't take this heat this early. Luckily I have sprayed for the flea beetles and the whiteflies. They love this weather!

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Looking little like the violent kidnapper/rapist he was alleged to be, Ariel Castro appeared in a US court Thursday to hear charges of kidnapping, rape, assault and murder that could result in the death penalty.
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Ariel Castro (podium-L) at Cleveland Municipal Court in front of judge Lauren Moore(R). Castro appeared in court Thursday to faces charges that he kidnapped and raped three young women and held them in his home for a decade. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP
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Cleveland, AFP – Prosecutors may seek the death penalty for the Ohio man charged with kidnapping and raping three women and violently terminating their pregnancies.
"I fully intend to seek charges for each and every act of sexual violence, rape, each day of kidnapping, every felonious assault, all his attempted murders, and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies that the offender perpetrated against the hostages during this decade-long ordeal,'' Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty said.
"My office will also engage in a formal process in which we evaluate to seek charges eligible for the death penalty,'' he said.
Earlier, unemployed US bus driver Ariel Castro was ordered held on an $8 million bond on charges he kidnapped and raped three women and held them in his Ohio home for a decade.
Police radio from Castro's home, giving first word that the women had been found
Castro was arrested on Monday after 27-year-old Amanda Berry managed to call out to a neighbour who kicked in the door to the suspect's Cleveland home and rescued her and the six-year-old daughter she bore during her captivity.
Police arrived on the scene and entered the house, finding two more women, 23-year-old Gina DeJesus and 32-year-old Michelle Knight. All three had been snatched in separate incidents around a decade earlier.
The 52-year-old from Cleveland, Ohio did not enter a plea and stood with his head bowed while the court set a large bond of two million dollars per case, effectively ensuring that he will remain in detention. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/
Arguing for an astronomically high bail bond that would effectively ensure that Castro is not freed pending his trial, county prosecutor Brian Murphy told the court that the suspect had "manipulated and deceived."
"Two of the victims incurred a horrifying ordeal for more than a decade, a third for close to a decade, and the ordeal eventually resulted in a little girl believed to have been born to one of the women while in captivity.
"And also, along with captivity, there were repeated beatings. They were bound and restrained and sexually assaulted, basically never freed to leave this residence," he said.
Castro kept his head bowed impassively through much of the hearing, chewing on the collar of the dark-blue uniform issued to him during his detention.
Castro's brothers – 54-year-old Pedro and 50-year-old Onil – were also arrested on Monday following the women's rescue, but prosecutors say they have found nothing to link them to the kidnapping case.
Castro, a former school bus driver whose family hails from Puerto Rico, has been described as a friendly neighbour who raised few suspicions but who also kept to himself, rarely if ever allowing anyone inside his home.
One man who did visit him, local musician Ricky Sanchez, said he had seen no reason to be suspicious.
"Let me tell you something, that guy was the nicest guy, you know, one of the nicest guys I ever met," Sanchez told AFP.
"You can't tell, you know? What happened here, I'm just in shock, you know? It's just like, I can't believe what is happening. I mean the guy is such a nice guy, you know?"
Sanchez said he visited the home more than 17 times, and had seen a young girl he was told was Castro's granddaughter. He had noted that the door had multiple heavy locks, and once heard noise from the basement.
"I ask him 'What is that? What is that noise?' 'Oh, that's just those dogs that I have down here."'
podium – a small raised area where someone stands to give a speech, conduct an orchestra, give out awards, etc. แท่น, พลับพลา
municipal – of a town, city or district with its own local government เทศบาล
kidnap – to illegally take someone away and make them a prisoner ลักพาตัว
rape – to commit the crime of forcefully having sex with someone against their wish ข่มขืน
decade – a period of ten years ทศวรรษ
prosecutor – a lawyer whose job is to prove in court that someone accused of a crime is guilty อัยการ
charge – to accuse someone officially of committing a crime ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
violently – very strongly and severely อย่างรุนแรง
terminate – to end or stop something ทำให้สิ้นสุด
pregnancy – the state of being pregnant, having a baby developing inside การตั้งท้อง
intend – to plan to do; to want to happen ตั้งใจให้เกิดขึ้น, วางแผนไว้
felonious – relating to or involved in crime เกี่ยวกับอาชญากรรมที่รุนแรง, เกี่ยวกับความชั่วร้าย
assault – attacking someone violently การทำร้ายร่างกาย
murder – the crime of intentionally killing a person ฆาตกรรม
aggravated – of a crime that involves further unnecessary violence or unpleasant behaviour การทำร้ายร่างกายจนได้รับอันตรายสาหัส
commit – to do something wrong or illegal ทำความผิด
offender – a person who is guilty of a crime ผู้กระทำความผิด
perpetrate – to do something that is harmful, illegal, or dishonest ทำผิด, ทำชั่ว
hostage – a person who is the prisoner of someone who threatens to kill them if they do not get what they want ตัวประกัน
ordeal – an extremely unpleasant experience, especially one that lasts for a long time ประสบการณ์ที่แสนสาหัส
engage in – to take part in a particular activity เกี่ยวข้อง มีส่วนร่วม
process – a series of actions that you take in order to achieve a result แนวทางปฏิบัติ, กระบวน, วิธีการ
evaluate – to form an opinion about something after thinking about/examining it carefully ประเมิน
eligible – allowed by rules or laws to do something or to receive something มีสิทธิ
unemployed – not having a job ซึ่งว่างงาน
(bail) bond – an amount of money/property left with or promised to a court which allows a person arrested for a crime to go free temporarily before his/her trial กรมธรรม์ค้ำประกันผู้ต้องหา
arrest – (of the police) to take someone to a police station because they are believed to have committed a crime จับกุม
neighbour – someone who lives near you, เพื่อนบ้าน
suspect – a person who is thought to have committed a crime ผู้ต้องสงสัย
rescue – to save a person or animal from a dangerous or unpleasant situation ช่วยชีวิต
bear (a child) – to give birth to a child ให้กำเนิด, คลอดลูก
captivity – the state of being kept in a confined space; the state of being kept as a prisoner การถูกกักขัง, การถูกจองจำ
scene – site; a place where something happens or happened สถานที่เกิดเหตุ
snatch – to take or get something quickly คว้า
incident – something that happens, usually something bad เหตุการณ์
plea – a statement made by somebody or for somebody who is accused of a crime คำให้การแก้ฟ้อง
bow – to move your head or the top half of your body forwards and downwards คำนับ, น้อมศรีษะ
effectively – in reality ตามความเป็นจริง
ensure – to make certain that something happens or is done ให้การยืนยัน, รับรอง, ให้ความมั่นใจ
detention – the condition of being forced officially to stay in a place การกักตัว
astronomical – extremely large มหึมา, มหาศาล, ใหญ่โต,
pending – waiting to be dealt with, settled or completed ยังค้างอยู่, ซึ่งยังไม่จบสิ้น, อยู่ในระหว่าง
trial – the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone has or has not committed a crime การพิจารณาคดี
county – the largest political division of a state in the US - like an amphur in Thailand เขตปกครอง
manipulate – to control something or someone to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly ชักใย
deceive – to persuade someone that something false is the truth หลอก
victim – someone who has been harmed, injured or killed as the result of a crime เหยื่อผู้เคราะห์ร้าย
incur – to be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation ประสบกับสิ่งที่ไม่ดี
horrifying – making you feel extremely shocked, disgusted or frightened สยองขวัญ
beating – an act of hitting somebody hard and repeatedly, as a punishment or in a fight การตีซ้ำๆ, การฟาดซ้ำๆ
bound – tied ผูก มัดไว้
restrain – to stop somebody/something from doing something, especially by using physical force กักขัง, ยับยั้ง, จำกัด
residence – a place where someone lives ที่อยู่อาศัย
impassive – not showing any feeling or emotion ซึ่งไม่แสดงอารมณ์
chew – to bite food into small pieces in your mouth with your teeth to make it easier to swallow; to bite something continuously, for example because you are nervous or to taste it เคี้ยว
collar – the part around the neck of a shirt, jacket or coat that usually folds down ปกเสื้อ, คอเสื้อ
issue – to give or provide something แจกจ่าย
link – a connection การเชื่อมต่อ
hail from – to be from a particular place มีภูมิลำเนามาจาก
suspicious – a feeling that someone or something cannot be trusted — มีความสงสัย, ด้วยความสงสัย, สงสัย, พิรุธ
local – in or related to the area that you live, or to the particular area that you are talking about ท้องถิ่น
shock – a strong feeling of surprise as a result of something happening, especially something unpleasant; the event that causes this feeling ช็อค, ความสะดุ้ง, อาการช็อค
multiple – many มากมาย
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430 of 524 people found the following review helpful
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Inspiring Life Story...Somewhat Less Than Complete,
By Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (2008 HOLIDAY TEAM)
This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
U.S. Senate hopeful Barack Obama has an inspiring story to share, and yet he doesn't simply rest on his laurels in this critical evaluation of his life and in his continuing search for himself as a black American. He wrote "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" almost ten years ago, but his stock has obviously surged since his star-making speech at the Democratic National Convention last month, perhaps to the chagrin of Hillary Clinton...unless she is dreaming of a Clinton-Obama ticket in 2008! Growing up mulatto in Hawaii and Indonesia, Obama discusses trying to come to grips with his racial identity through a period of rebellion that included drug use, becoming a community activist in Chicago and traveling to Kenya to understand his father's past. It is in Kenya where he discovers a nation with forty different tribes, each of them saddled with stereotypes of the others. It is also in Kenya where he recognizes the dichotomy that has been his lifelong existence between the graves of his father and his grandfather. His description of this defining moment is worthy of a passage in Alex Haley's "Roots".
Obama is also candid about racism, poverty and corruption in Chicago, and he pulls no punches in his account of this period. Because the book stops in 1995, it does not get into much detail on his learning experiences, culminating in both missteps and triumphs, as a state legislator. For all the value the book provides on Obama's history, I would have appreciated a more substantive update than the preface on the last decade, as he gained political prominence in Illinois, so that we understand more why his time in the spotlight has come at this moment. Perhaps that will be Volume 2. I was also disappointed he spent so little time writing about his mother and the influence her side of the family has had on him, a narrative gap Obama acknowledges and over which he expresses regret in the preface. Perhaps inclusion of such details would have made for a less compelling story from his originally intended Afro-centric perspective; but at the same time, I think a more balanced look at his own racial dichotomy would have made his story resonate all the more given where he is now. Obama is open in the preface about using changed names and composite characters to expedite the flow and ensure privacy of those around him, but it does somewhat lessen the impact of his story when one starts to wonder who was real and who was a fictionalized character. Regardless of these literary devices, this book is still a very worthwhile look into the background of someone who is on a major upward trajectory in the current national political scene.
357 of 461 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
What about Mom?,
This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Hardcover)
Barack Obama is obviously an articulate, intelligent man; but his "story of race and inheritance" may leave readers scratching their heads at times. The story of his life, the son of a Kenyan man and a white woman who divorced when he was a young child, is atypical. His father, an extremely book smart man, polygamist, big talker and eventually sometimes embarrassment to the family who was known as the Old Man to his many children, seems an unlikely source of the "dreams" of which the title speaks. The author met his father but once, when he was ten years old. Dr. Barack Obama was already married (p 422) when he met his namesake's mother while studying in the States. He returned to Africa alone, married again (and again) and had more children. His mother then married (and later divorced) an Indonesian man and they moved to Djakarta, where he spent his early years until moving in with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii. He ended up in Chicago, where he signed on to help organize African-Americans to work together to gain funding for projects to improve the quality of their lives and those of their children. Three years and much success (after a bumpy start) later, he headed off to graduate school, but not before finally attending services at a large, popular, local church. Readers may wonder if, during the several page section rounding out Part 2 (Chicago), he may have experienced some sort of spiritual awakening: the signs pointing ambiguously to "maybe," making one wonder why the event was included at all. The latter thirty percent of the book covers his first trip to Kenya (his father having already passed away) and his interactions with a convoluted web of relatives: aunts, uncles, cousins, and half and step siblings: the details of which, although unusual, will probably be of no more interest to readers than the tales of their own genealogical connections (a family tree would have been clarifying). Although Dreams From My Father is a good story about a smart, well-intentioned, accomplished man (with complicated family connections) who has lived an interesting life, its hard not to question his focus on his (absent) father in lieu of his mother.
148 of 197 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Kodansha globe) (Paperback)
I highly recommend this book to almost everyone. It should really get more attention!
The writing is thoughtful and interesting, and the subject matter unique. The book follows Barack Obama as he grows up and defines himself and his view of the world, as he finds the community that he wants to count himself a member of. In the end that "community" is really the community of humanity, but this book takes you on Barack's journey. The author examines his heritage of white, midwesterners on his mother's side and later in the book explores the world of his father, a Kenya of the Luo tribe who came to the U.S. to study. Three parts of the book I found especially well done. First, the evocation of what it was like to be in Barack's head as a young black man with few black role models in his life and the difficult philosophical (internal) conversation of the African-American community defining itself in white America. Second, his work as a community organizer in Chicago really dealt well with the complex problems of declining inner cities. Third, the idealization of his absent father by both himself and his mother and the gradual discovery of the real character of his father and grandfather. Overall, this book was about his struggle to be true to himself and to figure out what that meant.
90 of 119 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Book is Good, but not what is advertised,
This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
Please, don't get me wrong, I loved this book. Obama's style and matter-of-fact realism is both refreshing and, at times, inspiring. The only reason why this book isn't 4+ stars, is because of the expectations that this book leads the reader to believe.
What I mean is that by reading the summary and back cover, the reader expects to experience a man torn between two cultures and belonging to neither. And while Obama does clearly illustrate his trepidation with associating himself with either culture, from the very beginning we learn that Obama, for all intents and purposes, held his black heritage in a different regard. He was not torn so much as distraught, growing up in a 'white' world unfamiliar with his black background. From reading this book, the reader does not get the sense of Obama'a sturggle with his white roots. The story is rather a search for answers on how to live as a black man in a white world. I believe that Obama missed the chance of opening the doors to a wholely different and misunerstood world of children of differing cultures. In this 'melting pot' that we call America, there is a constant struggle between race and ethnicity and Obama could have set himself up as an educator, a leader of those who had no home. Yet, from the beginning, Obama was at home in his black heritage, but he just was looking for the key.
31 of 40 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Random House Large Print) (Paperback)
This reviewer decided to read Barack Obama's 1994 revised autobiography "Dreams from My Father" in the fall of 2008 since he was one of the US presidential candidates in 2008. This revised version of the book was released in 2004.
Autobiographies are very useful means to learn from the author's experiences. Autobiographies by authors that were highly successful in their lives, or had a major impact on history, can provide information revealing as many of the valuable lessons the author has learned and recorded for the benefit of the reader. Autobiographies also reveal how authors think. Overall: the author only believes everything in terms of his liberal dogma beliefs. He is highly critical of blacks that want to just get along and fit into the mainstream. He advocates "social justice", a euphuism for mob justice. He only rationalizes lawless behavior and will not label anything bad except what contradicts his liberal dogma beliefs. He believes that all the black problems are due to the whites. The cover of the Three Rivers Press paper-back version states that it is: "A Story of Race and Inheritance," and indeed it is. The author presents all of his experiences and acquired knowledge in terms of race and a quest to learn of his Kenyan dad's background. These two issues thoroughly permeate the entire book. He interprets every experience and thing he knows of in terms of liberal sociological and psychological teachings. It comes through, often seemingly illogically, in his interpretation of every experience and thing he acquires knowledge of on almost every page of the book. At the end of his Columbia University days, he decided to become a community organizer (or social activist). The author had previously transferred from Occidental college (Oxy) to Columbia University in New York city since most blacks at Oxy wanted to get along with and be successful in the mainstream and were not interested in social activism. He viewed Columbia as being "in heart of a true city, with black neighborhoods in close proximity." Oxy is located near Pasadena, a highly enviable and pristine town near Los Angeles, noted for its prosperity and resistance to crack-pot ideas and politics (from what this reviewer knows of that town). The author describes the Oxy environment as being similar to Hawaii, "The students were friendly, the teachers encouraging," and the author labels any such behaving blacks as "compromise." While at Oxy, he preferred to associate with: "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated." And the author appeared to be diligent about being as alien and uncivil in society as he could be with this group of clones of his maternal grandfather. The harsh and bleak realities of portions of New York City that he stayed in and visited while at Columbia compel the author to cease using drugs and practicing other related dissipations that he indulged in while at Oxy. In other words, he fits very comfortably into the harsh and bleak areas of the NYC environment, but could not tolerate the relatively plush, prosperous, and pristine Pasadena environment. This attitude appears to this reviewer as being a very familiar symptom of firm blessed-be-the-poor type beliefs, whose roots comes from the Roman Catholic Church, which is the mother of socialism (minus the church's assorted deities). The author has little else to say about his Junior and Senior years at Columbia. The highlight of his stay at Columbia is a visit from his mother and his sister, to check up on him and to show her daughter all the sights to see in the city as well as other locations in the continental US. After college, he became a research assistant in a consulting house to multinational corporations -- with the intent of staying only long enough to pay off his college expenses. He described himself as "spy behind enemy lines," still in the mind-set of an hostile alien. He was the envy of the other black employees at that firm and they were proud of him but disparaged of his plans to become a community organizer. After he was promoted to financial writer, he left the company (and it leaves him in excellent financial condition) to pursue his community organizer interests. His initial community organizer work proves to be unprofitable (and leaves him in poor financial condition). Then he interviewed with a Chicago based community organizer (highlighting that he looked very out-of-shape and unkempt, and was Jewish). The community organizer asked him, "Hmmph."..."You must be angry about something." The author replied: "What do you mean by that?" The community organizer answered: "I don't know what exactly. But something. Don't get me wrong -- anger's a requirement for the job. The only reason anybody decides to become an organizer. Well adjusted people find more relaxing work." So this preferred career choice showed that the author had developed a large measure of anger about race. His dad (Barack Obama, Sr.) was from Kenya. His dad was resourceful and intelligent enough to get a scholarship to attend college in Hawaii. That is where he met his white mother (Ann Dunham). He digressed to describe her parents (Stanley (family familiar: "Gramps") and Madelyn (family familiar: "Toot") Dunham) and their backgrounds. It is his white grandparents who perform a major portion of the author's upbringing (the cover photographs show that author bears a striking resemblance to his white maternal grandfather - the text makes no mention of this). His white grandfather always preferred the company of blacks as he was something of a wild rebel and simply did not fit into main (white) society. This likely influenced his daughter's decision to marry Barack Obama Sr.. His daughter's marriage only lasted a short while. Barack Obama Sr. Received a scholarship to do graduate work at Harvard, so he just left the author at about age two and his mother in Hawaii with the grandparents and went to Harvard. He turned downed a more generous financial offer from another university in New York city that would have allowed the entire family to go there but he preferred the prestige of Harvard - but with its less generous financial offer. So he went to Harvard by himself. Meanwhile, Stanley Dunham received a long and harsh letter from Obama Sr.'s severe father (Hussein Onyango) denouncing the marriage and it became apparent to her from the other contents of the letter that Barack Obama Sr. was still legally (or by local tradition) married to his first Kenyan wife and so she divorced him since she did not approve of polygamy. Before the marriage, Barack Obama Sr. had told Ann Dunham that he had separated from his first Kenyan wife that he had been married in a traditional village marriage. The narrative later explains that polygamy is a Kenyan tradition (ditto the rest of sub saharan Africa) and when a Kenyan marriage ends, the children go to the father, if he wants them. African traditions are like laws and are treated as having more authority than civil laws (the book does not discuss this matter but you cannot miss it if you know any Africans or have visited the continent). Hussein Onyango was vehemently opposed to that marriage since he had become very familiar with western culture (he had immersed himself in it when the British showed up in order to learn their ways and to learn how to defeat them) and knew that no white woman would put up with a polygamous African husband. His long and harsh letter to Stanley Dunham effectively torpedoed his daughter's marriage to Barack Obama Sr. once she had read it. After Harvard, Barack Obama Sr. went back to Kenya with his next American white wife (Ruth, 2 children) while still married to the first Kenyan wife (2 children). He worked for the local Shell oil division and then used his connections to get a government job in the Ministry of Tourism. It lasted until his well known imperious manner got him into trouble with Jomo Kenyatta himself. He had to scrape by on handouts until Kenyatta died and then he got another government job in the Ministry of Finance. Meanwhile, he routinely became drunk so that his third wife Ruth left him after his first DUI car accident that killed the other driver (a white farmer). The author only saw him for a few days while he was living in Hawaii (when his dad came to stay to recover from his first major auto wreck). He then had a young fourth wife (1 child). Later his dad got killed in his final auto wreck. This missing dad later motivates the author to search out information about him since he was never really raised by him at all and only sent him a number of short general type letters. His dad was spread too thin from one continent to another, one wife and the children by her (not "her children" according to Kenyan tradition), and with other wives and the children by them. Therefore, he ended up not being an effective real-time dad to any of the children he fathered. Only one of the author's male Kenyan relatives realizes that polygamy simply does not work. The author was somewhat shattered by what he found out from his relatives in Kenya about his father. The author's mother married an Indonesian student (Lolo) after divorcing Barack Obama, Sr. and moved to Indonesia with the author. His step-father fathered his half-sister Maya. The author's step-father took a genuine interest in his development and upbringing, teaching him how to survive and cope in a hazardous, corrupt, and wretched society. This training appears to be the basis of the author's unrivalled political skills. This marriage lasts until the author's mother decided that this husband was too cooperative with that country's corruptive practices to get by (her impractical idealism clashed badly with his practical reality methods) and did not like how the author was being treated in the local schools (since Asians are intolerant of racial differences). The author's step-father tried hard to provide for and shelter his family -- at a level far above the norm for Indonesian society, but the author's mother resented it all since none of this conformed to her ideals of absolute ideological perfection. One can afford to have these ideas, courtesy of a rule-of-law society, such as in the US, whether these impractical ideas work or not, anywhere at all -- but not in a social Darwinist type society, such as Indonesia, where no one can survive on the ideals of absolute ideological perfection. So in the end, ideological incorrectness ended the marriage. The author labels his step father as a compromiser, despite all the survival skills he taught him that he very effectively uses for politics. On the other hand, the author's mother was, to some degree, justified to object to the corrupt practices present in Indonesian society since that is what make a third world country a third world country. This reviewer has encountered a number of people from the third world who were raised on social Darwinist principles. They always look only after themselves, they will take advantage of you every time you have to work with them, they take credit for your work, they hide information you need - even if you have requested it, they walk all over you, they make you appear to be useless, and in the end - they cause you to be booted out. The author's mother then took her children back to Hawaii (when the author was about 10 years old) to have their grandparents raise them while she was working on her social work and then divorced Lolo. That's right, her social work was more important than than raising her children. Sound familiar? The Dunhams seem to have been already immersed in the lower end of US self-serving, self-righteous, and all about-me social behavior. Back in Hawaii, his maternal grandfather's boss used his alumni connections to get the author admitted to Punahou, a private secondary school in Hawaii. The author completed grades 5 to 12 at Punahou. A notable incident there was a white high-school friend's discomfort at an all-black party that made the author feel as if he was regarded as societal alien by all whites and this angered him very intensely. This incident appears to stir up his festering anger about race. Later, his grandmother insists on being driven to work on a day following an incident where a black man had harassed her at the bus stop. This incident cements his anger about race. The book even explains how he developed his renown smooth-saying abilities (from pages 94-95 of the Three Rivers Press and Crown Publishers paperback versions): "...and one day she" (referring to his mother) "had marched into my room, wanting to know the details of Pablo's arrest. I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." So there you have the explanation for his smooth-saying: an effective tactic, that uses a courteous demeanor and reassuring smile to trick people into being satisfied with whatever he was saying (while hiding his anger). Moreover, he explains that is also an effective means to deceive (trick) people. No wonder he defeated Senator Clinton in the democrat primary in 2008. She was merely a talented deceit-sayer. On the other hand, her opponent was a much more talented and seasoned smooth-sayer and deceit-sayer. This also explains why he manages the amazing feat of continuing to maintain his associations with radicals of all types while maintaining his popular appeal to the mainstream (it looks like the Lolo taught survival skills). Those two pages of the revised 1994 autobiography grabbed the reviewer's attention more than any other portion of the book since they explain so very much about this author. Until about three fourths into the autobiography, he views western religions (but not eastern religions) with some disdain except that he enjoys the singing and music (that is, the entertainment). During his community organizer career period in Chicago, a number of people he was working with advised him to see a very popular minister (a Rev. Jerimiah Wright, Jr.) who was very effective with getting social type work done. So he went to see Jeremiah Wright at the Trinity Baptist Church. The narrative radically changes its character here to portray Jeremiah Wright as a saint. Jeremiah Wright is the only adult male he describes positively and non-critically that he experienced up to 1994 in the book. Rev. Wright explains his background and how he got to be where he then was to the author. He explains that he sampled Islam and activist issues, but in the end, he decided to return to his religious "Christian" origins and obtained a PhD in the history of religion. He explains that the Trinity Baptist Church emphasizes African history and scholarship. While visiting the Trinity Baptist Church that day, the author picks up a silver brochure entitled ""Black Value System" - that the congregation had adopted in 1979. At the top of the list was a commitment to God, "who will give us the strength to give up prayerful passivism and become Black Christian activists, soldiers for Black freedom and the dignity of all humankind." Then a commitment to the black community and black family, education, the work ethic, discipline, and self-respect." This black religious activism blends more-or-less homogeneously with the authors secular activist ideas and beliefs. The author highlights a portion in the brochure that encourages the pursuit of income but discourages the pursuit of class status. This specific anti-socialist principle explains the sustained growth and success of the church and the success and prosperity of the church's members. Other black activist churches limp along with their socialist baggage but the Trinity Baptist Church long ago dumped this specific socialist baggage it may have had and this apparently caused it to enormously prosper. Ingenious! Rev. Wright also describes his social work and this impresses the young author since that is what he was focusing his career on. This motivates the young author to follow a suggestion by Rev. Wright to attend one of his sermons in the Trinity Baptist church a short while later. The author has a so-called "religious experience" during the very first service, no doubt boosted by Rev. Wright's inflammatory black activist rhetoric. If you watch any of those sermons on YouTube, you will see Wright's radical inflammatory black activist rhetoric (G-- D--- America!, etc.) and how it puts the Trinity Baptist congregation into a rapturous state of ecstasy and joy. And in one of those videos, he gets the congregation so stirred up and excited, that one of the church officials has to rush up to Wright from behind to merely touch him, as if to reap the benefit of touching a god. Now that's entertainment! - and a incredibly very false religion too! Before that point, the narrative mostly criticizes the state of the blacks in this country, blames all their problems and pathologies on everything and especially the whites but except themselves, and there is nothing good he does not condemn and nothing bad he does not rationalize and justify to himself. He even witnessed a street shooting (two black punks chasing a third) in Chicago that he has to dive out of the way from, but proceeds to rationalize the shooters deadly conduct once the action has passed. The narrative resumes its prior dogmatic tone after passing by the effusive description of Rev. Jeremiah Wright (who seems to be an idealized version of the author's not-so-ideal father). Scattered in a few spots in the book, he singles out President Reagan with seething contempt and scathing criticism (pages 133 & 203). Near the end of his Chicago community organizer days, he decides that politics would be a more effective means to achieve his community organizer related objectives. He then decides to enroll in the Harvard law school, where he was extremely successful. The author describes several trips to Kenya to visit his dad's relatives in the last portion of the book. His female half-sisters and aunts tried valiantly to describe how the Kenyan traditions oppress them but he could only see their complaints due to the white colonists. Colonialism never erased any of the African traditions in any African country since they are so very intensely institutionalized. This portion of the book is very interesting but the author interprets everything in terms of liberal dogma and this detracts from it. Later, the author is married by Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the Trinity Baptist Church. The book shows that once he wins the election, he will surely appoint judges that believe in "social justice" and will rationalize and excuse every imaginable act of lawlessness. Reading the 1994 autobiography was a thoroughly unpleasant and down-throwing experience. I have never read a book that was as unpleasant as that one. Even "Quotations from Chairman Mao," stuffed with nothing but highly repetitive totalitarian dogma is more uplifting than "Dreams from My Father." The author is obviously very articulate and has excellent powers of recall (he seems to possess a photographic memory) but there is far too much negativism, endless brooding, and bitterness in his thinking. And all that negativism is all written down in "Dreams from My Father." The book more or less provides the foundation that proves that the mixed raced society in the US is a total comprehensive failure. Well yes, his dad thoroughly abandoned him, his mother often left him with her parents to do her self-fulfilling self-righteous social work overseas, and his liberal grandparents did most of his upbringing. But he grew up mostly in Hawaii, except for a brief time in Indonesia (where he was well provided for), attended mostly private schools in Hawaii (courtesy of the "connections" his maternal grandfather was able to exploit), and graduated from an renown and respected college, and was a successful high achiever at the prestigious Harvard law school. So he was generously provided for, not necessarily by his parents, but by the people left to raise him. This enabled him to capable of becoming highly successful at earning a living. So he had a much more privileged upbringing than most people in the US had but had a similar very faulty upbringing that many others have had in the US. The mixed race upbringing instilled much anger in him and it does not seem that he knows entirely how to live. And the author was the successful winning candidate to become President of the United States. And the news media overwhelmingly cheered him on as if he was the messiah (or 12th mahdi, depending the point of religious reference that applies). And finally, how will all that anger inside come out while he is the US President? The book suggests that in whatever it will be, this anger will come out smooth and sugar coated, but with nothing but terrible consequences inside. One could argue that his the authors views have changed since the book was revised in 2004 but that wasn't very long ago. The book explains the foundation of the author's opinions and beliefs. As for rating the book, it is well written and detailed, and provides excellent insights into the author's thinking and experiences (a 5 rating). However, what it reveals is very negative and the book drones on and on throughout with the author preaching his dogmas and all of this makes the book a very unpleasant read, but it was a valuable experience (a 1 to 2 rating). So I gave it an average 3 rating overall. The narrative does not flow chronologically and the account needs to be pieced together as in the manner of solving a puzzle. That is a common literary style and I did not use that for the rating. Anyone that carried out their "civic duty to vote" in November 2008 ar any other time in the future should read or have read this book beforehand no matter how pleasant or unpleasant they may find it to read. It will be a basis for a much more informed experience than all of the useless noise emanating from all of the political campaigns.
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Not what I expected - but in a good way,
This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
I first heard Barack Obama's command of the English language in his address before the Democratic National Convention. His speech brought to mind leaders of the past who had the eloquence and passion to light a fire in people with words alone. When I saw his book, I bought it to read more of his firey, inspirational leadership. What I got instead is an insightful, sometimes painfully honest apprisal of the beginnings of that leader's life, and it surprised me. This book was written when Sen. Obama was just out of Law School. He was offered a publishing deal after being elected the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. What he wrote is a memoir that is very obviously written by a brilliant young man. I say brilliant because his observations and examinations on racial constructs and communications in America is astute and deeply personal. As a bi-racial man growing up in both white and black America, his viewpoint is unique and his eyes were wide open. I say young because unlike most memoirs written after great accomplishments and long careers, the voice of this story is at the beginning of what may be greatness, not the end. Obama gets a chance to look back and examine his formation, and in doing so gives a beautiful and wonderfully full 'state-of-the-union' as regarding race. It's not the same old stuff, and it is. It felt like my favorite college professors who could make you stop in the middle of a class and realize that you just saw something you thought you knew in a whole new light, and you could never see it the old way again.
45 of 59 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Worth the read, but slow to start...,
This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
I chose to read this book because I am very interested in Obama as a presidential candidate, and logically wanted to get to know him a little better. His memoir gives a really good picture of his life and has helped me understand where he is coming from in his politics. That said, this book was a little slow to start and a bit hard to get through, partially because he is a bit verbose throughout. The good news is that the excerpt of "The Audacity of Hope" in the back was not in the same vein as this book. So, I'll still read the second book without hesitation.
42 of 55 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay, but not great........,
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This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
I would have liked the book to delve into his personal life more. It seemed to just skim the surface.Of course,it was written several years ago. He has certainly led an interesting life, but I was left wanting more.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Read this in its context,
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This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Hardcover)
This book has received a lot of scrutiny from Obama's detractors since he ran for president. It has also disappointed a lot of his fans.
This was written when Obama was much younger than he is now, so it should be read as a memoir about a reflection on family, race, identity. The book was clearly written by a man who knew he was going to go into politics, so it is not without its agenda. Despite this agenda (which is not overbearing), it still reads more like an honest self-reflection from a man starting to make his mark on the world. The honesty is unparalleled by any biography of an American politician I can think of (please tell me if I'm wrong) and that is very refreshing. Those looking for any sort of insight into his policy ideas while president can use some inductive reasoning to fill out what ever they want (He's a socialist! He wants to cut taxes! He wants to raise taxes.) This should be avoided because his views since this book have changed on a lot of things. What you can see is how astute his observations are about a wide variety of people gained from his consistent outsider status. Given that he was relatively young when he penned this, one can only assume he has only matured farther. Problems include some muddled prose when he tries to "out eloquence" himself (a criticism he admits in the preface to a newer addition), a lack of a family tree (it is a book about family), and about a fifty extra pages. If you read this book for non-political reasons, you will enjoy most of his prose, observations on Americans, and honesty about himself: a young man of unusual origins struggling with an identity and lack of a father figure.) I would recommend reading it like this instead of digging for out-of-context snippets to further your preconceived notions of him (Messiah, drug-abuser, communist, racist, best politician ever, etc.)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Dreams From My Grandfather,
This review is from: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Hardcover)
There were three major parts to Barack Obama's story. His childhood in Hawai and his journey to Kenya were interesting. His work in Chicago as a activist was unimpressive and the narrative dragged and was confusing in this section. His grandparents on his mother's side were the stable force in his childhood and were very accepting of their biracial grandson. Barack's mother seemed to pursue her own interests. His father was not in the picture. The strongest part of Barack's story was his meeting with his African relatives and his reflections on this
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Ted MillerThings are good for UCLA this summer. For one, in advance of preseason practices, the Bruins can recline by the pool and reflect on having defeated USC in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1997-98. That span, by the way, is also the last t...
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Ted MillerESPN draft guru Todd McShay has published his NFL mock draft 5.0, which includes analysis of several scenarios for each team , and he projects four Pac-12 players being selected in the first round. But that's not what's interesting. What's inte...
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Ted MillerIt appears that the Pac-12 could produce two top-10 selections on Day 1 of the NFL draft on April 25. It's also a bit unusual that both play defense in a conference known for offense. So who should be picked first: Oregon defensive end/outside lin...
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Ted MillerWith just a week to prepare for the nation's best defense, USC's backup quarterback Max Wittek played pretty darn well. His performance was encouraging in a 22-13 loss to No. 1 Notre Dame on Nov. 24. With over a month of preparation for the Sun Bo...
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How well does The Cochrane Library achieve its objective—to provide accessible and credible evidence to guide decision making in medicine and public health? And how should we measure success or failure? Regular users of The Cochrane Library will have a view of its quality, and we hope that you think that it's good and improving. One of our tasks as the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee (CLOC) is to report to the Steering Group of The Cochrane Collaboration on the performance of the Library and its Editor in Chief.[1] In general we are satisfied with both. But we thought it important to try to introduce some objectivity into the evaluation of The Cochrane Library by devising a set of metrics. Together with the Cochrane Editorial Unit we have done so, and they are shown in Table 1 along with their values for the past three years. We welcome your feedback on the metrics we have devised. To be useful, metrics must provide information on progress in relation to the aims of the Library. In addition, it must be possible to measure them precisely and relatively easily. They must also change over time at a speed that is useful—not as fast as hourly but not as slowly as five yearly.
The number of new reviews is clearly an important measure and has ranged between 402 and 449 per year for the previous four years with no clear time trend. The extent to which the Collaboration achieves its aim to update all reviews regularly also seems an important measure as reviews must be updated to be useful. The number of reviews updated has been fairly constant, ranging between 479 and 524 per year for the previous four years with no clear time trend. As the Library is cumulative the total number of reviews is increasing, but the proportion that are up to date (updated within the past two years) is steadily declining—from 39.8% in 2009 to 35.8% in June 2012. It's worrying both that the figure is low and declining, given that Cochrane Reviews are living documents, readers expect Cochrane Reviews to be up to date, and review authors commit to maintaining their reviews every two years in order that the findings remain accurate. As we can see, it does not seem possible to achieve the original aspiration of the Cochrane pioneers. In April 2012 the Editor in Chief proposed that there should no longer be an expectation that every review would be updated every two years. Some reviews cover questions that are of historic interest only—with interventions that are no longer used, or covering comparisons that are considered to have been adequately evaluated. This implies that all reviews will need to be labelled appropriately, but they may not require updating. This will leave a smaller but better prioritised pool of reviews that need regular maintenance, perhaps more frequently than two years in some cases. We will modify the metric for next year to be the proportion of reviews that need to be updated that have been updated.
Metric |
2012 |
2012 (extrapolated where possible) |
Projected increase 2012-2011 |
2011 |
Increase 2011-2010 |
2010 |
Increase 2010-2009 |
2009 |
Number of new reviews published |
210 |
420 |
1.0% |
416 |
-7.3% |
449 |
11.7% |
402 |
Number of updated reviews published |
241 |
482 |
3.0% |
468 |
-10.7% |
524 |
9.4% |
479 |
Total number of active reviews |
4,905 |
5,097 |
8.1% |
4,713 |
8.9% |
4,329 |
9.4% |
3,958 |
Percentage of active reviews that are |
35.8 |
36.5 |
0.6% |
36.3 |
-3.5% |
39.8 |
Number of registered authors |
22557 (calculated in Jan) |
22,557 |
11.4% |
20,246 |
-4.2% |
21,123 |
17.0% |
18,057 |
Number of registered authors from |
4,943 |
4,943 |
13.7% |
4,346 |
11.8% |
3886 |
1.3% |
3838 |
Percentage of authors from low- and |
21.9% |
21.9% |
0.4% |
21.5% |
3.1% |
18.4% |
-2.9% |
21.3 |
Mean time (months) from protocol |
30.1 |
3.4% |
29.1 |
Median time (mnonths) from |
23 |
0.0% |
23 |
Full text access |
1,980,715 (to end of April) |
5,942,145 |
37.0% |
4,337,045 |
9.6% |
3,957,567 |
13.9% |
3,473,141 |
Amount of substantive feedback |
34 |
68 |
-11.7% |
77 |
-8.3% |
84 |
-22.2% |
108 |
Impact factor |
5.912 |
-4.4% |
6.186 |
9.4% |
5.653 |
Number of citations |
29,593 |
8.1% |
27,366 |
18.5% |
23,102 |
Media mentions |
1,715 |
3,430 |
-35.0% |
5,277 |
33.3% |
3,958 |
15.3% |
3,434 |
One of the most important measures of Cochrane content is its methodological quality and adherence to best current standards as described in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.[2] At the moment we do not have a measure for this, but the Collaboration has recently developed minimum standards for the conduct and reporting of reviews,[3] and these will be incorporated into the metrics in the next year.
Producing systematic reviews is demanding work, and the more authors that there are to contribute to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews the better. So our metrics include the total number of registered authors, and because the Collaboration wants to increase the geographical and linguistic diversity of its contributors we have included the proportion of authors from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The latter is an example of a metric that has to be calculated manually, in this case by Claire Allen and colleagues in the Cochrane Operations Unit. This metric is a case where we might set a target. Should we perhaps aim to increase the proportion of authors from LMICs from 22% to 30% by 2015? We would like your views.
It seemed to be important to include a measure of timeliness and efficiency of review production in the metrics, and we selected the time from publication of a protocol to publication of the review. The average is a slow 30 months, but this figure includes a number of older reviews with very delayed publication, so the median is a better measure—and stands at 23 months. Is two years a reasonable time to take to publish a review? This metric is, of course, a measure of both the time taken by the review authors to undertake the research and also the work done by editors and peer reviewers. We should perhaps include a metric of the time from submission to publication of the completed review, a stage that is more under the control of Cochrane Review Group editorial teams.
The main point of The Cochrane Library is that its reviews should be accessed and used to improve the quality of health care and policy. Usage of the full text of Cochrane Reviews is thus a very important metric, and it is pleasing that it is high and increasing rapidly. We opted for usage of full text rather than hits on the website because it better reflects serious usage. The amount of feedback received might have been included under the heading of content, but we chose to include it here because people must access and use the website in order to send feedback. As feedback represents a form of post-publication review and as the Library is interested to increase debate, the amount of feedback is disappointingly low, and we are implementing ways to try and increase it, partly by simplifying an over-elaborate and slow process. In future we should also measure responsiveness of review authors to published feedback.
The Collaboration wants the Cochrane Library to have as much impact as possible, and so we have included measures of impact—with the impact factor in pride of place. Most readers are probably familiar with the impact factor, which has become very important to academics in many countries in the past two decades, but for those who do not know it is the number of citations of articles in a publication divided by the number of citable articles. To be more precise and to use the example of the impact factor for 2011 it is the number of citations in 2011 of articles published in 2009 and 2010 divided by the number of citable articles published in 2009 and 2010. Despite its importance to some academics, the impact factor has many problems and increasingly is gamed by editors.[4] The impact factor matters to a publication as one measure of its use but also because it influences whether academics will submit work. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews' impact factor of about 6 puts it among the highest ranked publications and is adequate for most academics to be happy to publish there. Because it is possible to have a high impact factor and publish very little (indeed, reducing the amount they publish is one of the strategies used by editors to increase their journal's impact factor) we thought it important as well to include a metric of the total number of citations. This is impressively high. As another measure of impact the Collaboration is seeking ways to measure the use of Cochrane Reviews in clinical practice guidelines.
Our final metric is the number of times that Cochrane Reviews are mentioned in the media (measured using a consistent methodology over the previous five years, and including Google News). The Collaboration is interested in influencing the broader world, including patients and politicians, so this is a useful measure although it has fluctuated considerably over recent years and can be highly sensitive to small numbers of extreme outliers. This was exemplified by the 2011 review of zinc and its role in preventing and treating the common cold,[5] which attracted a level of media interest that was unprecedented and out of proportion to its clinical importance.
We hope that you will agree that the metrics we have selected are meaningful and useful, but we will be very grateful for feedback on these metrics and suggestions for others that we might consider and the reasons why.
The Cochrane Library Oversight Committee: Lisa Bero1, Godwin Busuttil2, Cindy Farquhar3, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos4, David Moher5, Magne Nylenna6 (deputy chair); Richard Smith7 (chair), David Tovey8
1Lisa Bero, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco, USA; 2Godwin Busuttil, Barrister, UK; 3Cindy Farquhar, Postgraduate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland, New Zealand; 4Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Head of the Health and Family Planning Systems Programme, ICDDR B, Bangladesh; 5David Moher, Clinical Epidemiologist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa, Canada; 6Magne Nylenna, Head, Norwegian Electronic Health Library, Norway; 7Richard Smith, Director, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative, London, UK; 8David Tovey, Editor in Chief, The Cochrane Library, London, UK
How to cite: The Cochrane Library Oversight Committee. Measuring the performance of The Cochrane Library [editorial]. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2012 Nov 14;(11):ED000048 http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/details/editorial/3620281/Measuring-the-performance-of-The-Cochrane-Library.html (accessed Day Month Year).
1. The Cochrane Library Oversight Committee http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/CochraneLibraryOversightCommittee.html (accessed 10 November 2012)
2. Higgins JPT, Green S (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 [updated March 2011]. The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available from www.cochrane-handbook.org.
3. Cochrane Editorial Unit. Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR). http://www.editorial-unit.cochrane.org/mecir (accessed 10 November 2012)
4. Seglen PO. Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. BMJ 1997;314:497.1 DOI:10.1136/bmj.314.7079.497
5. Singh M, Das RR. Zinc for the common cold. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011;(2):CD001364. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD001364.pub3
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Vols tackle major challenge in improving defense
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)
Tennessee is focusing on fundamentals in its attempt to improve a defense that statistically ranked among the worst in school history last season.
The first area of concern is tackling, something the Volunteers didn't do often enough or well enough a year ago.
''To line up and play defense, you've got to be great tacklers,'' safety Byron Moore said. ''If you can't tackle, it doesn't matter what scheme we put in or what play we call if we can't get the man on the ground.''
Tennessee allowed the most points (35.7) and yards (471.4) per game of any Southeastern Conference team last season. The Vols hadn't allowed that high a scoring average since 1893, when they gave up 42.7 points per game while playing a six-game schedule. Tennessee hadn't given up that many yards per game since at least 1950, the earliest year its sports information department has that statistic on file.
The Vols return at least eight players from that defense who made at least six starts last season. That figure moves up to nine if you include defensive back Eric Gordon, who remains on the roster but didn't practice with the team last week while addressing some unspecified off-field issues.
That list of returners is headlined by linebacker A.J. Johnson, who had 138 tackles last season and ranked fourth nationally with 11.5 tackles per game. Moore ranked second on the team with 86 tackles and tied for the SEC lead with five interceptions.
But Tennessee won't upgrade its defense unless all the returning players perform much better. That starts with improving on the most basic of skills.
''Obviously we've got a lot of work to do on our tackling,'' new defensive coordinator John Jancek said. ''That's pretty obvious to everyone who was out here. We're missing a lot of tackles.''
Tennessee is switching to a 4-3 defense this season after a disastrous experiment with a 3-4 alignment last year. For the first part of spring practice, new coach Butch Jones' staff has concentrated more on improving fundamentals than installing the new scheme. That figures to continue next week as the Vols return from spring break and resume practice.
''It doesn't do you any good to have a bunch of calls if they don't know how to tackle, they don't know how to run to the ball or they're not doing the things necessary to play great defense,'' Jancek said. ''I'm not even worried about that. I want them to learn how to play the game with the tempo and passion we want to have on defense. Once we establish that, then we can implement things.''
The players understand this emphasis.
Moore agrees the Vols have to improve their tackling. Asked whether tackling was a weakness of this defense last year, Moore offered a blunt response.
''Last year, I think everything went bad, so anything could be considered a weakness,'' Moore said.
Indeed, Tennessee's defense struggled in just about every area last season. The Vols ranked 13th out of 14 SEC teams in sacks per game (1.42) and run defense (188.8). They gave up 4.8 yards per carry.
The Vols realize they have a long way to go. They got another reminder after their first spring scrimmage.
''I think we started out good at first, and as it went on, I think we started to doubt,'' defensive lineman Marlon Walls said of the scrimmage performance. ''That's been our M.O. for this defense for the last few years.''
This isn't necessarily cause for alarm.
Jancek noted this isn't the first time he took over a defense that needed to improve its tackling. He previously worked as a defensive coordinator or co-defensive coordinator at Cincinnati, Georgia and Central Michigan.
''I'd say it's pretty normal, was to be expected,'' Jancek said. ''I'm not shocked by it, put it that way.''
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