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I have a 3ft. x 5ft. framed print I got at K-Mart years ago & I have so many ask from a distance if it is a painting (is of a Spanish senorita) as it is so real looking & pretty & I love it!
Problem: over the years: It has gotten dust & grime on it & I would love to find a way to clean it without wiping out the picture! Just dusting is not enough!
Would appreciate any ideas/help.... or is it futile & I should just leave it alone?
christine1950: I shall try a brush.... though I suspect it has more than just dust on the surface now over the years.I know it may be silly to try saving this cheap paper reproduction... but I have always loved it & it really is pretty... have to get up close to tell it is not a real painting & the frame is pretty also! I wonder if when I purchased it, I could have sprayed it with something to give it a permanent finish that could be cleaned .. too late for that now though!
Do you have a Hobby Lobby? in your area? or even an Art Gallery? Just be honest with the dealers and tell them it is not expensive but you do like it and want to know how to clean it. Most will help you are. Do you have college that teaches art? Some colleges have art galleries also. Check the newspapers for art shows --just some ideas Hope this helps
Have you tried vacuuming the picture? Get out your dust attachment & vacuum. I regularly vacuum my oil paintings so why not prints?? You could also try a soft air blast like those keyboard/ camera dusters?


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NFL players in harm's way
Today's bigger, stronger and faster players are paying a heavy price for the ever-increasing violence on the field.
"Take a left right here," Merril Hoge told his driver, who was navigating the streets of downtown Pittsburgh during morning rush hour.
And then Hoge slipped, seamlessly, back into his monologue on so-called mild traumatic brain injury.
Check out the injuries Carolina LB Dan Morgan has sustained in his brief career.
"Some of the permanent aspects are dealing with bright light, sunlight and the overall fatigue of it," he said, talking on his cellular phone. "I still get headaches all the time."
Hoge paused briefly.
"Take a right at the light," he instructed the driver.
"The headaches don't seem to digress," Hoge continued, "but they haven't increased in severity, either. I feel sharp -- I've worked at it. But in a sense, I feel like I'm not quite where I was."
Still, the fact that Hoge was effectively multi-tasking, carrying on two completely different conversations almost simultaneously, is a major cognitive victory for the former NFL running back, now a respected ESPN and NFL Films analyst and the chairman of the board of the Western Pennsylvania Caring Foundation.
Nine years ago, Hoge was standing in his Lake Forest, Ill., kitchen, wondering why he couldn't focus long enough to deliver more than a few coherent sentences at a time. He had been hit by a Buffalo Bills cornerback -- just grazed, really -- in the Chicago Bears' fifth game of the 1994 season. But it was his second concussion in a month and, ultimately, it ended his career.
|They're getting bigger, faster and stronger, and they're wearing lighter and lighter equipment. When do we start building them too big and too fast? "
|--Mike Goforth, Virginia Tech head trainer
As he attempted to explain what he was feeling that gray October day, Hoge verbally stumbled and winced.
"You see what happens?" he said wearily. "I get lost. I have no idea what you just asked me. It's like I've got Alzheimer's."
The road to recovery was frightening and frustrating. He used to carry his phone number in his wallet because sometimes, even when he was just going to the mailbox, he couldn't always find his way back home. It took him three years to learn to read all over again.
Hoge is not bitter about the game that, quite literally, knocked some sense of himself out of his head. He believes it is a game well worth playing, despite the risks.
"I believe when you formulate the correct technique and administer it at the youth level, the less likelihood there will be of injury," Hoge said. "The advancements in helmets and equipment is seriously important, but brain trauma is going to occur -- it can't be stopped. Not unless they invent a helmet to put on the brain."
Study: Hitting a brick wall
TV ratings, along with other measures, indicate football is the most popular game in America. It is also the most routinely violent. According to a recent study, there were 497 brain injury-related fatalities in American football between 1945-1999.
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Getty ImagesPeyton Manning gets extra protection from his offensive line -- and his Revolution helmet.
Fantasy football fans may not recognize the name of James Hodgins, but he is a part of NFL history.
A fullback for the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI, Hodgins carried the ball once and gained three yards, in addition to catching a pass for eight yards. He was also the first NFL player to wear a Riddell helmet known as the Revolution.
The Revolution, according to company advertising, represented the first significant structural change in players' headgear in nearly 25 years. It was designed using the data produced by the first four years of testing by Biokinetics & Associates.
Today, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning wears the Revolution. So do Pittsburgh linebackers Kendrell Bell, Jason Gildon and Joey Porter, as do Miami cornerbacks Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain.
According to Bill Sherman, President and CEO of Riddell Sports, about 85 percent of the NFL's players wear Riddell helmets, the league's official partner. Sherman estimates that 15 to 20 percent of those players wear the Revolution, which retails for about $150.
"The acceptance we're seeing at all levels is exciting," Sherman said from his Chicago office. "The NFL is always the toughest place to get players to switch to a new product and we're seeing an increase as time goes on. Not only is it incredibly protective, but also quite comfortable."
Responding to the research data, the plastic protective shell of the Revolution extends lower, to the jaw area. The distance from the helmet shell to the player's head has also been increased and a new faceguard system has been employed.
"Do I think the Revolution helmet is a very positive step in the right direction?" Pellman asked. "Yes. Do I think it's where the science will end? No. It's like the progress of safety equipment in cars. In the future, you might see positions that are more vulnerable wearing different types of helmets."
The vast majority (75 percent) of those deaths were to high school athletes. None, however, occurred on an NFL field, where the athletes are bigger, faster and stronger. And yet, a recent Virginia Tech University study that featured helmets with acceleration sensors reported one hit on a linebacker that registered at 124 times the force of gravity. A typical fullback, researchers learned, will suffer 27 hits per game with impacts of 10 G to 111 G.
"Yes," said Mike Goforth, Virginia Tech's head athletic trainer, "we were surprised. That's like running your head into a brick wall.
"I'm as big a football guy as there is but, yes, it does concern me. They're getting bigger, faster and stronger, and they're wearing lighter and lighter equipment. When do we start building them too big and too fast? What happens when you don't have anyone left to play the games?"
The average NFL player, based on the initial 2003 rosters, weighs 245 pounds. The Seattle Seahawks averaged a league-high 249.8 pounds, and the Oakland Raiders had 10 offensive lineman tip the scales over 300 pounds, averaging 322 pounds per man. Before he was drafted from Syracuse in 2002, Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney ran the 40-yard dash in 4.38 seconds, an unprecedented time for a defensive lineman.
Dennis Smith, who played safety for the Denver Broncos from 1981-94, was voted to play in six Pro Bowls because he was such a ferocious hitter.
"Hitting another human at full speed is not a normal thing," he once said. "But it's my job and I have to do it."
Defensive players, judging by their behavior after administering big hits, seem to relish them. When Buddy Ryan was the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1986-90 there were alleged bounties on opposing quarterbacks.
Early this season, on Oct. 5, Dallas safety Roy Williams drilled Arizona running back Emmitt Smith, his teammate in 2002. Smith's scapula was fractured.
"I like to hit," Williams said, who also broke Kurt Warner's hand while he was blitzing in 2002.
Carson: 'That's your brain'
Harry Carson was a warrior who similarly inspired fear in opponents. He played inside linebacker for the New York Giants from 1976-88 and is a finalist for this year's Pro Football Hall of Fame vote. He paid a terrible price for that potential honor.
The entire thrust of Bill Parcells' brutal defense in the run to Super Bowl XXI was funneling the ball carrier to the middle of the field so Carson could make the tackle.
After his career, Carson pursued a career in television. He was on the sideline a few years ago doing an interview with Syracuse's Paul Pasqualoni when the head coach's name flew out of his head.
"Right in the middle of the interview, I forgot his name," Carson said from his Bergen County, N.J., home. "I would lose my train of thought. I would get anxious when they'd throw it down to me live. You're thinking, 'What am I going to screw up?'
"Toward the end of my career, I had to pick and choose my words very carefully. Words that I'd normally come up with, I'd see them in my head, but I couldn't pronounce them. I'd be searching for the word and go, 'Um, um, um.' It was somewhat embarrassing. I would listen to vocabulary tapes on the way to practice to retrain my brain."
Today, Carson still suffers from the effects of post-concussion syndrome. He still has his foggy moments, occasional headaches and lethargy, but said, for the most part, he feels good and continues to learn how to deal with the symptoms.
Regardless of evolving equipment safety, concussions, he said, will never decrease.
"No," Carson said. "It's the nature of the game. You have objects in motion and then, suddenly, they stop. Look at the egg. There's a collision and the yoke crashes against the shell.
"That's your brain."
Pellman: Searching for answers
Elliot Pellman was the New York Jets' associate team physician when wide receiver Al Toon was forced to retire in 1992. Toon was suffering from severe headaches and depression, but little was known about what had caused his condition.
Pellman sensed that it probably was related to the concussions Toon had sustained over his eight-year NFL career, but he didn't know much more than that. Post-concussion syndrome had not yet been identified. During Pellman's years of medical school, internal medicine training and fellowship from 1975-86, he had never received a single lecture on concussions.
He vowed to learn more.
|Legislation: Hitting the checkbook
Over the years, the most effective way to reduce serious head injuries has been through legislation. In 1976, the National High School Federation instituted a rules change that eliminated the head as a primary and initial contact area for blocking and tackling; essentially, spearing was prohibited. Largely as a result, "direct" fatalities, which peaked in 1968 with 26 deaths, fell to an average of three annually in the 1990s.
Since then, the league has attempted to discourage illegal hits with big fines. While playing for San Diego in 2002, New England safety Rodney Harrison, who has accumulated nearly $300,000 in fines during his NFL career, was suspended for one game -- losing a $111,764 paycheck -- for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Oakland's Jerry Rice. In addition, a fine of $50,000 was imposed on Philadelphia safety Brian Dawkins, and Darren Woodson of the Dallas Cowboys was tagged for $75,000.
While it had long been believed that NFL players had a shorter life span than non-players, a 1994 study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety found that football players died at a rate 46 percent less than that of the general population. Certainly, the overall fitness of the league's athletes works in their long-term favor despite the obvious health risks of their profession.
"At the end of day as a physician, you have to ask yourself, 'Did I do everything I could?' In my original work with Al Toon, I was confused and frustrated that I didn't know as much as I should," Pellman said from his Long Island office. "My quiet pledge to Al, and myself, was to start getting some answers."
Today, Pellman is the chairman of the NFL's Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. A $2 million project by the NFL that studied brain injuries from 1996-2001 and recently was made public is beginning to provide some of those answers.
The results, published in an ongoing series of articles in "Neurosurgery," a medical journal, are staggering. In those six seasons, there were 787 reported cases of mild traumatic brain injury. This works out to a rate of 0.41 concussions per game. Most came as a result of collisions between 17 and 25 miles per hour and the average impact was 98 G.
There was no trend of increased concussions through the six seasons; the number, according to Pellman, has remained fairly constant over the years.
Defensive backs suffered the most injuries (18.2 percent), followed by members of the kicking unit (16.6 percent) and wide receivers (11.9 percent). Quarterbacks, the subject of recent protective legislation in the league, suffered only 7.9 percent of those concussions.
Some 282 injuries were incurred on passing plays (39.1 percent), while running plays registered 31.3 percent and kickoffs 18.5 percent.
Interestingly, the majority of the injury-inducing hits occurred to the side of the helmet, not the front. And almost always, it was the offensive player -- not the striking defensive player -- who suffered the injury.
Researchers at the Ottawa-based firm Biokinetics & Associates studied videotape of 182 concussions and were able to recreate 31 of them in the laboratory with crash-test dummies.
"We answered a number of questions with the first two publications -- which areas of the head are most vulnerable and which positions are most susceptible," Pellman said. "This type of science gives us information that is clinically useful.
"From my vantage point, this study was unique for any sports league. The players will be the ones who benefit most and, hopefully, it will sprinkle down to the colleges and high schools."
While the experts were deconstructing film and recreating collisions in the lab, researchers at Virginia Tech were dialed in to the actual crashes on the football field. Led by team physician P. Gunnar Brolinson and project leader Stefan Duma, a mechanical engineer, the project covered the entire 2003 football season.
Eight helmets were equipped with sensors of the kind that trigger air bags in cars and they were rotated by position for two practices per week and for every game -- a total of 48 sessions that included 38 different players at eight different positions. During that time, more than 3,300 impacts were recorded.
"Fortunately, none of the subjects suffered a concussion," said Goforth, the head athletic trainer. "And, unfortunately none of them suffered a concussion -- if you know what I'm saying. Still, we were able to measure real-time impact."
While the G forces involved are eye-opening, Goforth said it was difficult to measure the cumulative effects of blows to the head.
"Which is worse, one blow at 124 G or 10 hits at 70 Gs each?" he asked. "It's hard to know. How much can the human body take, what's the threshold? We just don't know. That's why we need to study more. We're looking for further funding.
"Our hats are off to the Pellman people. Between their study and what we're doing, you're going to see some ground-breaking data in the future."
Recovering from the hangover
Harry Carson wasn't in the lineup for the Giants this season, but his old team handed out some punishing hits.
In the opener against St. Louis on Sept. 7, they knocked around Kurt Warner and he suffered a concussion -- he never returned to the starting lineup as Marc Bulger took the team to the playoffs.
|Trained to hit
When I was playing, I never worried about getting hurt or hurting someone. But as I look back, I wonder: was it right?
I recall one particular hit on then-Giants' quarterback Jeff Hostetler. I hauled in and got a great shot on him, and he stayed down. Initially, I had no idea how badly he was hurt because the offensive lineman were pushing and shoving me, claiming it was a bad hit. But there was no flag. It was a clean shot. And it knocked Hostetler out of the game for four-to-six weeks.
Afterwards, someone asked me what I was thinking when they wheeled Hostetler off the field. My only thoughts were, "He's moving, he's not paralyzed, so I don't care. That's the game. So be it."
It didn't matter to me then, and I never even bothered to second-guessed those thoughts until long after my career was over. But even still, I wouldn't do anything differently -- that's the game of football. Players know it's a tough sport when they sign on. If you don't throw your entire body into every play, you run an even greater risk of getting injured.
I only did what I was taught to do: hit the opponent as hard as I could -- cleanly -- and what happens, happens. I worried about little else than my performance on Sunday afternoons. And If roles were reversed, and someone hit me as hard as they could, I wouldn't blame them if I don't get up.
Six weeks after the Hostetler hit, we played the Giants again. He was back in the game, and when I hit him again, in the end zone after he threw a pass, he joked, "Are you trying to put me out again?"
He knew I wasn't, but that didn't mean I wasn't trying to hit him just as hard.
-- Mike Golic
On the same field on Nov. 2, the Jets' Wayne Chrebet suffered a similar injury -- and fate. He was placed on injured reserve 10 days later and never played again.
Warner, who backed up Bulger the rest of the season, has reportedly suffered three concussions during his career, but was cleared to play the following week against San Francisco. That Chrebet was prevented from playing for the rest of the season underlines the growing awareness of the dangers of head injuries. It was at least his fifth concussion, going back to his college career at Hofstra.
Chrebet hopes to play next year, but he's not sure.
"I'm not the final say," Chrebet told New York writers back in December. "You look at the risk involved there. I want to play, obviously."
Chrebet described the days after the concussion this way: "It's like you fell into a black hole -- you wait for the sun to come out again. It's a crazy thing. Every morning you wake up feeling hung over, like you had the worst night of your life."
Carson was in the stands when Chrebet went down.
"The guy goes across his head and I went, 'Oops ... concussion.' I called it," Carson said. "When Warner got hurt, I saw him fumbling and thought, 'He's not himself.'
"It's like rolling the dice -- it could happen to anyone. You can't look at one thing to stop concussions. You catch an uppercut with a forearm, a helmet-to-helmet and your head is going to go back. Your brain is going to sort of rattle around."
That's what happened to Hoge at Chicago's Soldier Field in his final NFL game. When he went down, the trainers ran out onto the field.
"Where are you?" they asked him.
Hoge didn't hesitate.
"Tampa Bay," he answered.
The trainers exchanged glances.
"Why?" they asked him.
"Because," Hoge answered confidently, "I can hear the ocean."
Today, Hoge's success after football is a tribute to hard work. After a few difficult years he was able to retrain his brain to perform normal tasks. Then, in 2003, he overcame Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The dark days, the struggle to make himself understood, the fight to discover who he was -- it's all in the past.
"To be honest with you," Hoge said earnestly, "I don't remember any of it."
Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com
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16.09.04 - By Matthew Hurley: When it was announced the Oscar De La Hoya would move up to the middleweight division and challenge undisputed champion Bernard Hopkins boxing fans began rubbing their collective hands together in anticipation of this years one true super fight. The only problem was the vast majority of those very fans gave the Golden Boy little chance of unseating the long reigning title holder. In fact some even called Oscar foolhardy, albeit brave, in his challenge of perhaps the best fighter in the sport. Then, in what was supposed to be a rather pedestrian tune up fight, De La Hoya looked horrible against Felix Sturm in his first bout in the middleweight division. The Nay Sayers were now all shaking their heads and wondering, not if Oscar could beat Bernard, but if he could simply survive the twelve round distance. So whats changed?
With the fight only days away its become obvious that Oscar is in a completely different mindset than hes ever been in his boxing career. Hes been in countless big fights before but, arguably, only against Julio Caesar Chavez has he seemed so supremely focused on the task at hand. Certainly there is a bit of gamesmanship going on in all of Oscars uncharacteristic tough talk, but there also seems to be a genuine sense that he is peaking just at the right moment. Of course a great training camp will mean nothing if Bernard wobbles Oscar right from the outset, but I dont think thats going to happen.
Bernard Hopkins is a great fighter, but he is not the wrecking ball many people were making him out to be when this fight was signed. He is a patient, calculating boxer with a good, but not overwhelming punch. He has a Marvin Hagler level chin, but he doesnt have Haglers ferocity. Hes also never been particularly fleet of foot and recent bouts have indicated that his foot speed continues to slow down. Oscar will take advantage of all of this by moving and giving the champion constant angles. De La Hoya would be foolish to engage the bigger champion in a trench battle but he will get inside, sling his shots and get out. The jab will also be a major factor. It doesnt have to overpowering, and it wont be, it simply has to be consistently constant.
Another factor that Teddy Atlas has brought up is that Bernard is not a particularly big middleweight. The size differential was initially thought to be too great for De La Hoya by his critics but Hopkins walks around at about 157 and will probably weigh no more than 158 when the opening bell rings. De La Hoya plans to come in at around 156. A couple of pounds can make a difference when one fighter is moving up in weight and it will dictate that Oscar keep his game on the outside but the size factor really isnt as great as it once seemed.
Bernard Hopkins is also a fighter who prefers his opponents come to him. He wants them to get inside and stay there so he can counter punch and establish a body attack. However it took him nearly eight rounds to catch the woefully overmatched Morrade Hakkar only a few fights ago. That fight may have been Oscars green light to challenge Hopkins. It was that lack of foot speed and inability to cut off the ring against an opponent who was scared to death and had not one punch in his arsenal to keep Bernard off him that really showed the few weaknesses in Hopkins repertoire. It was an awful fight and Bernard looked worse in that bout than Oscar did in his struggle with Sturm.
Still one bad fight doesnt necessarily point to a slippage in skills. It could simply be a bad night. The feeling here is that Oscar had a bad night against Sturm. He took his opponent lightly, didnt train properly and escaped with a close decision. Hopkins however is a man who is always in supreme condition and looks at every opponent as someone who is attempting to steal from him. His focus is constant, but still he could not catch Hakkar. When a fighter like Felix Trinidad or William Joppy engage him you can almost see Bernard grinning because thats where he wants the fight to be. Oscar wont do that and unless Hopkins has suddenly become adept at cutting off the ring he may not catch Oscar.
The big if when it comes to Oscar is his recent penchant for fading down the stretch. If his legs arent in supreme condition and able to carry him strongly for twelve rounds Bernard will ultimately catch him. But Oscar has a terrific chin himself and his passion and heart, two things often forgotten about this fighter, are on par with anyones in the sport. It allowed him to survive Sugar Shane Mosleys brutal body attack in the ninth round of their rematch and it will serve him well against the middleweight champion.
As this fight gets closer so too will the odds and so too will the predictions. At the outset this corner felt Bernard Hopkins just had a little too much for Oscar De La Hoya. Now, as we get ready for a great fight between two great fighters its the Golden Boy who I believe will prevail. It will be a closely contested fight and a fast moving bout and its that speed, that momentum that will carry Oscar to victory.
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A Tulsa author's book that created a buzz in the financial industry with its simple message about life's greatest gifts now has been made into a feature film starring Norman native James Garner.
"The Ultimate Gift" debuted this week with about 60 screenings across the country. The film is set for mass distribution in spring 2007. The fifth book by Tulsa businessman Jim Stovall, the slim novel is Stovall's first foray into fiction and was released with little fanfare in 2001. "I wrote this little novel and never thought much about it," Stovall said. "Then, all of a sudden, something happened and I still don't know what it was." Stovall said he got a call from a representative of Internet book seller Amazon who was curious why the company was receiving orders for 50, 100 or 500 books at a time. "The financial industry were buying boatloads of these books and giving them away," Stovall said. "Then it started selling really well in India and China. It's all been this organic, viral thing." The book has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 15 languages. It tells the story of a billionaire family patriarch who leaves his fortune to his greedy relatives, except for one relative, Jason Stevens, who instead receives a series of 12 life lessons that culminate in the ultimate gift. In the movie, Garner plays the rich patriarch, "Red" Stevens, and Drew Fuller is his young relative, Jason Stevens. "He has to go to a Texas ranch and dig postholes in the hot sun to learn the gift of work ... and throughout this whole year, he becomes a decent human being," Stovall said. "The 'Ultimate Gift' is becoming a better person." Like the character in his book, Stovall's journey to acclaimed author also had its share of life lessons. While at Tulsa's Charles Mason High School in the 1970s, he was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease at the age of 17 that derailed his aspirations to play college football. Stovall became a national champion weightlifter and aspiring Olympian, but those dreams were dashed by the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympic games. He completely lost his vision at the age of 29, and one year later he started the Narrative Television Network to provide accompanying narration to movies and television programs for blind people.
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Most in the congregation don't doubt that Donnie Earl Paulk has the Holy Spirit. He's heir to men who've had the Holy Spirit before him. This -- the plush office, the church academies, the television broadcast and the cathedral -- is his legacy, handed down from 10 generations of preachers and, ultimately, his uncle. Donnie Earl is a megachurch bishop in the making, a creation of the kingdom in which he was reared, and he's got all the right marks: the charismatic stage presence, the devotion of his followers, the eye for Versace suits and the heart for society's outcasts.
But there are other things about Donnie Earl that don't fit. And in the end, those qualities might make him more unimaginably successful than pastors before him. Donnie Earl is progressive where his predecessors were stodgy, young where they were old, hip where they were square. He aspires to host a spot on MTV, produce films, launch a record label and invite Lenny Kravitz to guest preach at his church. Once Donnie Earl takes over the south DeKalb kingdom of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, with its multi-million-dollar operating budget and its 7,000 members, he plans to extend his reach into a secular entertainment empire.
It's no coincidence that Donnie Earl's preaching style -- he uses "par-tay" as a verb and speaks of the Holy Spirit and a Lakers game in the same reverent tone -- is hitting a stride. Donnie Earl is tailored to fit a congregation that's inexorably changing. Twenty years ago, the church was 80 percent white. Now African-Americans make up at least 70 percent of the congregation, whites having moved on as the neighborhood around the church morphed and as church founders -- Donnie Earl's uncle and father -- ran into scandal after scandal. The result? More than any other metro Atlanta megachurch, integration is in full swing at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit. "It's probably one of the most racially mixed congregations that I've ever been in that large -- and probably ever will," says Scott Thumma, a megachurch expert. "It's a very unique place."
And no pastor within that place is as unique as Donnie Earl. Close your eyes and listen to him talk inside the mahogany-paneled walls of his office, and the voice brings to mind an upper-middle class twentysomething, well-versed in pop culture, ambitious yet soft spoken and white -- all of which he is. Close your eyes during church service, and you'll hear something akin to the James Brown of holy entertainment. He sounds slick and talks jive.
It makes good sense, both spiritually and economically.
Like entrepreneurs of the secular sector, the pastors of Atlanta's biggest churches rely on a specific lifeline: incoming congregants. And Donnie Earl is up against some formidable competition.
Metro Atlanta has one of the highest concentrations of megachurches (with 2,000 or more members) in the country. Only the suburbs of L.A., Houston and Dallas compare. One Atlanta suburb also happens to have three behemoths within uncharacteristically close range -- Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Decatur, New Birth Baptist Church in Lithonia and World Changers in College Park. Not surprisingly, the churches -- which measure power by number of members -- have been known to get feisty about attracting and keeping congregants. After all, the church's economic health (which, measured in tithes, can total more than $100,000 a week) hinges on how fully the pews are packed.
"We're all fishing in the same little pool," Donnie Earl says, "elbowing for room, crossing lines, checking each others' lures to find out who's catching what with what."
And remarkably, a white guy has managed to hold court with equally charismatic black preachers at nearby megachurches.
"Here go these white pastors that not only have a church that's predominantly black in a predominantly black neighborhood, but they live there," says Dana Dean, a 27-year-old black church member who considers the Cathedral a model for his own future church. "It's not just lip service. They've integrated themselves into the community. And it takes a lot on both parts. They could move away to a more affluent area and gain more momentum."
As for the black members, "I think it's a step for the congregation to submit to an authority that's a different color than them," Dean says. "There's a lot of places I can be, a lot of places that would make it easier to be there, because of the race issue. But the message here is so holistic."
He describes the church's message as "an ability to gain influence in world systems," meaning that it urges secular and segregated sectors to embrace religion and integration.
Donnie Earl believes he can deliver that message through an alternative to the traditional hustle. He says he's pulling in his line and packing his tackle, heading from the high ground to the low. One of his philosophies (his others include the one about how marijuana is no worse than cigarettes and how adultery is nowhere near the world's worst sin) is that in order to build a great congregation, its new members need not come from nearby neighborhoods and churches -- or even from religious backgrounds. They should come from the realm of skeptics and outcasts, the nonbelievers and the uninvited. He's looking specifically for minorities from all over Atlanta -- including gays -- to fill the empty seats.
Here's where some current congregants, especially the ones who've been attending the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit for decades, gasp. That's OK. It won't be the first time a pastor there has shocked. Nor will it be the first time an unorthodox marketing campaign has brought more congregants to the Cathedral.
The integration initiative didn't start with Donnie Earl but with his uncle, Bishop Earl Paulk.
In 1972, the year Donnie Earl was born, the bishop moved what was then a 200-member church called Chapel Hill Harvester from its Little Five Points home to south DeKalb, then a landing pad for white flight. Bishop Paulk was merely following his members to what was then untouched bounty. He eventually bought 100 acres and birthed a vision of greatness.
The vision soon would materialize, but in unexpected ways.
"Our church grew more than we ever anticipated," Bishop Paulk says, stretched out in a leather chair, ankles crossed, in his office two doors down from Donnie Earl's. "It went from a couple hundred to a couple thousand."
As the numbers changed, so did the colors. Within a decade of the church's arrival, affluent blacks began moving to south DeKalb, too. Simultaneously, the church's music turned a hair more gospel. The energy level of the sermons was pumped up. Dancing in the aisles was not frowned upon. And the sea of white faces slowly was speckled with more and more brown.
"The church became kind of a microcosm of what was taking place in the surrounding community," says Thumma, an Emory-trained theology professor who's studied megachurches -- and specifically the Cathedral -- for more than a decade. "The church did what not a lot of congregations do, which was to allow the influences of the community into the worship service."
By the time of Thumma's first visit to Paulk's church, in 1985, the bishop had appointed his first black pastor, Kirby Clements. Meanwhile, two neighboring churches, one Assembly of God and the other Baptist, relocated north. "They couldn't handle the integration problem," Bishop Paulk says. "So we bought them out and turned the buildings into schools."
The church compound eventually would become a one-stop shop for education, personal counseling, daycare, volunteerism, entertainment, you name it. It's practically a city unto itself.
"Whether we deserve it or not," the bishop says, "we are credited with the development of south DeKalb."
Regardless of who developed the area, the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit did manage to capitalize on it impressively. By the early 1990s, the church boasted 12,000 members.
"One of the geniuses of Earl Paulk was that he was willing to sense the needs of the community and adapt and shift his own vision to include what he saw the needs of the community to be," Thumma says.
Put simply, the bishop knew how to attract customers.
Bishop Paulk was set for success in 1991, when construction was complete on a 7,700-seat cathedral to shadow all cathedrals. Current tithes would more than cover the $260,000 monthly mortgage.
Then came a handful of women congregants and church employees alleging affairs with pastors and the bishop. Dissent spread among the congregations, and some members started leaving, urging an exodus. The bishop's lawyers replied by filing a slander and conspiracy suit. A few church members counter-sued, alleging misuse of funds. Larry King chimed in, inviting the bishop and one accuser to appear on live television. The bishop denied everything. His accuser -- who described a two-year sexual affair -- did not relent.
"We saw a lot of stuff that just looked suspicious then," Pam Slappey, a former church member and defendant in the slander suit, told CL last year. "We tried to tell everybody then that it was happening."
That was not good for business. Not with the paint barely dry inside the $12 million sanctuary and members bolting by the thousands -- and taking an estimated $90,000 per week in tithes with them.
Donnie Earl was not yet 20. His own father, Pastor Don Paulk, was caught in the tangle, having admitted an affair with both a young teacher at the church's school and a congregant.
Yet Donnie Earl's not bitter -- at least not toward his father. "I don't think what happened here had anything to do with morality," he says of the exodus. "It was an excuse for white racists to move further out into white suburbia."
Those people really left, he claims, when white teenagers started dating black teenagers.
In a way, he says, it also helped make the men on the pulpit real, enabling congregants to say: "As I struggled through my weaknesses, this man of God struggled through his weaknesses."
Donnie Earl may be stretching his philosophy to cover his family's dirty laundry. Yet longtime congregants like Raye Varney don't seem too bothered by the mess. "My assumption is that the guy on the platform is just as flawed as I am," she says. "Just because he's preaching God doesn't mean he is God."
Furthermore, no one can deny that Donnie Earl has emerged victorious after having dealt with such emotional trauma. He, too, is a victim of the scandals -- and his experiences can engender much sympathy from the thousands of congregants who didn't abandon ship. Perhaps directly because his forefathers broke the ice, Donnie Earl can now speak openly about such temptation as adultery. His audience applauds his easy-going style, although his uncle warns him to not make himself so vulnerable.
"They say I'm too candid in preaching," Donnie Earl says. "But the younger generation likes that. I think the non-church person appreciates that. I've cussed in the pulpit before. I think people appreciate the realness."
The young pastor taps the square toe of his $300 loafers on the edge of his leopard print rug. He is leaning back into his deep leather chair, nearly disappearing into its enormity. His blue eyes dart around his office, spoiling the cool calm on the rest of his face. "How do I package my ministry to these people?" he asks. "I become all things to all people. I've got to give them a little of what they want. I shout and dance a little bit. As we say, I've got to take them to church. It sounds sneaky. It sounds underhanded. But my heart isn't sneaky."
In many ways, Donnie Earl has followed in the bishop's stead, and yet the differences between them are glaring -- and partly owed to generation. The bishop has grandchildren older than Donnie Earl. Or, as Donnie Earl puts it, "The bishop's music is too white." On the flip side, the bishop and other elder pastors have been accused of certain impious acts to which young Donnie Earl remains impervious.
But what matters most is what Bishop Paulk and Donnie Earl have in common. Not only do the septuagenarian and the Gen X-er share a similar kinship with the Holy Spirit, but their business acumen is comparable, too. You can't maintain a megachurch with "the gift" alone. You need members, members, members -- and the moolah that accompanies them. Donnie Earl is the logical heir to the bishop's empire not only because he's got the Holy Spirit, but because when it comes to the money side of things, he just might have the Midas touch, too.
In the business of religion, the megachurch is the epitome of the American Dream; had Arthur Miller's Willy Loman been a Bible salesman, he'd have aspired to be a megachurch pastor. To comprehend the aspirations of such a pastor, it's necessary to understand the culture that reared him. Like the monstrosity of the shopping mall and ubiquitousness of the fast-food franchise, the rise of the megachurch is a phenomenon that is distinctly American.
Drawing on the 15 years he spent researching megachurches, Thumma claims he's never met a megachurch pastor who's in the business just for the money. Thumma, who started his life work after a visit to Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, says the crux of a megachurch pastor's calling is always saving souls -- as many as possible. Yet Thumma can't recall one leader who wasn't a shrewd businessman, either.
"It's a tough line to walk between," he says, "being a crass, consumer-oriented spiritual entrepreneur and being a true man of God."
But before there can be a pastor who dreams of a megachurch, there must be people willing to worship in one.
Raye Varney is one such person, although she's neither a Bible beater nor the type of woman easily wowed by charismatic preaching. A former Baptist, educated in English and drama, employed by the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts and residing in fashionable Brookhaven, Varney was drawn to the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in the 1980s because of its open-minded atmosphere and its reputable dance and music conservatories.
"There's not an opportunity like that at a church of 500," she says of the Cathedral's weekly productions and annual plays. "It's not your typical church cheesy."
On any Sunday, a gospel group and a jazz-influenced band take the church stage, backed by a 100-member choir and choreographed by a stage manager, walkie-talkie in hand. The service typically starts with four songs, more evocative of Broadway than baptism, and an interpretive dance by black-clad ballerinas.
The Raye Varneys, who seek a little hip-shaking entertainment with their weekly dose of psalms, will not be disappointed. Nor will the rest of the well-heeled, middle-class professionals -- mostly black and some white -- with whom sermons about personal empowerment ring true. It's all about inspiration for the well-to-do.
The Cathedral, therefore, fills a niche that its neighbors -- New Birth Baptist and World Changers -- miss. At New Birth, Eddie Long preaches near-traditional religion to a similar but slightly less upscale sect. World Changers, on the other hand, is home to a specific brand of "prosperity" preaching, in which the charismatic and aptly named Creflo Dollar promises his less-well-off constituents that if they contribute in tithes, they'll be compensated -- financially -- by God. It's the church of those who want to be millionaires.
There have been Cathedral defectors, however, and for obvious reasons.
"Clearly Creflo and Eddie Long and a couple other folks around there present a different understanding of the gospel," Thumma says. "But they're also black. That makes a huge difference, too."
The Cathedral has had a harder time keeping its edge. As a result, the church has grown increasingly creative in its campaign for congregants.
Enter Donnie Earl, doubtlessly the chosen one -- the personality who might take churchgoing itself to another level.
About six years ago, Donnie Earl -- then a self-described "dumb jock" -- was hit with a vision. He says he realized it was his life work to pick up where his uncle left off. It happened during a Pearl Jam concert.
Up until then, Donnie Earl had been content leading the church's youth ministry. He came home from work one night, flipped on MTV and saw Eddie Vedder's mastery over a crowd of 200,000 Woodstock goers.
"God pressed on my heart," Donnie Earl says. "He said, 'You can have that, but you've got to change things first.'"
Donnie Earl started by preaching the occasional sermon. He would read U2 or Lenny Kravitz lyrics, which he finds to be religiously inspirational. The congregants just stared.
He recalls how one of his cousins then came to him and said, "Look, I know what you're trying to do. But you've got to learn about propaganda. People will buy anything. It just depends on the packaging."
Now the mission is to slide a little bit of cool into every sermon. Donnie Earl intends to eventually incorporate all things seemingly secular into the realm of religion -- from alt rock to homosexuality. "Obviously, my inspiration comes from the Holy Spirit," he says. "But it comes from different places, too. It can come from watching MTV. It can come from watching 'Queer as Folk.'" If he can just manage to please both the conservative elders and the progressive -- and traditionally church-shunning -- teens, Donnie Earl thinks he'll be a success. And his victory will far exceed the boundaries of one little old megachurch in south DeKalb.
If a Southern white guy descended from generations of conventional preachers, an "unapologetically heterosexual" uber-male, can convince both blacks and whites and straights and gays of his sincerity -- and if he's able to instill his open-armed beliefs in the minds of the thousands reared, as he was, in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit -- then who knows? Maybe the religious and secular worlds he lives in will begin reinventing themselves in much the same way that he and his church has.
"We're raising a generation that will be politicians," Donnie Earl says. "We're raising a generation that will be educators. We're raising a generation that will be scientists. We're raising a generation that will be secular musicians, actors and actresses who you may see in a risque scene.
"It's OK to do that," he says, "to gain enough influence to say things and have people listen."
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