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Let's see, what have I gotten up to since last we spoke? Oh yes ... I became a doctor.
Not, admittedly, the useful sort of doctor who can prescribe medicines, take out your diseased appendix, or moderate your neuroses (although I feel I have from time to time performed that last cure for some of my students). I can't give you any advice about strange rashes that might recently have broken out all over your arms, but if you are being kept awake in the middle of the night with questions about the status of national theatre movements in the twentieth century, then by god I would be willing to point you in the right direction.
Yes, that is me in the center of the above photo, making my speedy way through a congratulatory line of professors from my department mere moments after receiving the diploma from the Dean of the Graduate School (the man in red in the bottom left). And, yes indeed, I am wearing a ceremonial velvet tam o'shanter, and, frankly, I think I am rockin' it. Not to mention the doctoral hood, which D insists I must wear as a hood over my head, in a manner which makes me look like something straight out of Tolkien (Sycorax the Cerulean?).
The highlight of the ceremonies? Well, perhaps it was a moment during the Graduate School's convocation when the chosen speaker, an expert on China, was reflecting on how little he knew about the country or its language when he first came to graduate school. At a certain point, he adopted a more somber tone to speak about his beloved mentors, who, he said, had themselves been graduate students in Beijing at the time of Pearl Harbor. With the outbreak of war, they were rounded up as enemy aliens and confined to internment camps. No sooner had the words "internment camps" left his lips, then my parents' cell phone went off. Embarassing? Excruciatingly. All the more so because my parents' ringtone is the sound of an exuberantly clucking chicken.
For a moment I wondered, in the recesses of semi-conscious thought, why I had never noticed that there was a flock of chickens in the courtyard of the Hall of Graduate Studies. Then, in horror, I turned around to see my father (who never carries the cell phone, and thus doesn't have that instinctive urge to turn it off at the start of solemn events), perplexedly patting his pockets to determine the location of the offending poultry commotion.
Or perhaps the highlight was the fact that I received my doctorate in tandem with a Beatle:
Sir Paul (or should I now call him Dr. Sir Paul?) was receiving an honorary doctorate in Music, and was subjected to an endless stream of terrible wordplay based on the Beatles canon.
Or, for that matter, perhaps it was the sight of the Forestry graduates, whose commencement headgear instantly made them my favorite of the professional schools:
Well, there are more tales to be told of post-commencement activities, including a visit to Mark Twain's house, but they will have to wait for another time. Meanwhile, I will savor the exhilarating joys of trying to figure out how to spend the gift-cards to bookstores that I received as graduation gifts. Mmm... new books.
Let's see, what have I gotten up to since last we spoke? Oh yes ... I became a doctor.
You know how I love a good list - of books and of films, in particular. Seeing a "best of" list makes my hands just itch to take up a highlighter and mark off the ones I have already read/seen, and to formulate grotesquely idealistic plans for devouring the remaining works.
Thus the implicit challenge in the titles of the books 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die was the red flag before the bull of my list addiction from the moment the tomes were published. I have been pursuing the completion of both lists for years now, and have made some significant progress, especially in the films list, which I have been conquering in roughly chronological order (I have been stalled out since in the mid-50s, I am sad to say, since the great dissertation crunch of early spring.).
This obsession was lent a new fervor when, a couple of weeks ago, I encountered a site that contains a downloadable spreadsheet of the "1001 Books" list. I had a spreadsheet before, I admit geekily, but nothing like this. This sucker allows you to mark off the books you have read, and tallies them up for you automatically. You then enter your age, and it tells you - based on your gender, and with an actuary's grim sense of prophecy - how many books you need to read a year in order to complete the list before you drop dead.
I need to read 16 a year.
"That's not so bad!" my mother assured me.
"It's more than one a month!" I mewled in panic. "And some of these books are, like, $%#*ing Finnegan's Wake!"
So my zeal for the list has been revived. I added a slew of the twentieth century books to my BookMooch wishlist, and took stock of the immense pile of "1001 Books" I already own. I began to consider (savoring the experience like a gourmand lingers over a scoop of foie gras) what the most evenhanded method of attack would be. I recalled Mee's new challenge, which asks participants to tackle the list in sub-lists of ten, choosing one from every group of ten in a grouping of 100 books from the list. But I couldn't confine myself to any group of 100. Sigh.
So here is my new approach (we will see how long it sticks):
- Divide the list of 1001 into groups of 20, chronologically.
- Choose one book to read from each group of 20.
- Starting with the earliest group of 20, progress through my chosen works. When I reach and complete the most recent group, return to step 2.
- Don Quixote - already halfway completed. Of course, that means I still have about 400 pages left to wrassle with.
- Tristram Shandy
- The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Ivanhoe
- The Charterhouse of Parma
- Walden
- Our Mutual Friend
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- King Solomon's Mines
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Lord Jim
- The Jungle
- Ethan Frome
- The Age of Innocence
- The Professor's House
- Swann's Way
- The Sound and the Fury
- The Glass Key
- Tender is the Night
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- Embers
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- The Memoirs of Hadrian
- Watt
- A World of Love
I have been blog-absent for several weeks, to my very great regret. What have I been up to in this period of dead air?
Well, first the absence-motivating event: my computer lost the ability to recognize its own power cord. After the academic year I've had, I frankly sympathized with its general alienation from even the idea of energy. But this alienation left me sadly computerless and internet-isolated for a couple of weeks, as I sent it away to be repaired. The latter end of this period coincided rather disastrously with the densest grading time of the semester, so by the time my computer was returned I had a couple of piles of assignments waiting to be analyzed and processed. Still, if the eMidlife iCrisis of my wee laptop had occurred just a couple of months earlier, during the Final Dissertation Push, the psychic consequences would have been infinitely more dire. So I feel strangely grateful that the old thing held itself together for long enough to see me through my own crisis time.
In the meantime, I attended my tenth high school reunion. I went to what might best be described in hyphen-saturated terms as an achievement-obsessed, all-girls, mildly-religious school, a school which is rumored to have been the primary source of research material for Queen Bees and Wannabees, the book that inspired the film Mean Girls. For most of the past ten years, amidst my college and grad school friends' tales of high school experiences defined by isolation and bullying, I had managed to construct quite a rosy mental picture of my own time in high school, one in which the term "academic rigor" made frequent appearances, the concept of "cliques" appeared not at all, and I fondly recalled the fact that I used to wear one of my several capes (I was a theater person, which naturally yields the corollary that I was, in a broader sense, a drama person) to school regularly without encountering any trace of public mockery or bullying. Would that I were so unselfconscious now.
It was only recently, while talking to a student who had attended our brother school (by which I mean the boys' school that was associated with our girls' school), that someone expressed skepticism about this rosy picture. His impression of my high school, which his sister was currently attending, had considerably more in common with Mean Girls than my nostalgic construct. Suddenly I remembered all sorts of things that might have been better repressed: the fights we had our senior year, for instance, about whether our "senior theme" should be "the military," a proposal which seemed to be largely motivated by a desire to parade about in fatigues hazing underclassmen. After that came the memory of having to repeatedly protest the addition of what Stephen Colbert might now call "On Notice" and "Dead to Me" boards in the senior lounge, on which members of our class could post the names of underclassmen who offended them, so that they could be shunned by the rest of the seniors. Or the recollection that we were so out-of-control tense about college admissions that we were actually forbidden to speak about where we had been accepted while on school property. Of course, boasting finds a way: as admissions letters trickled in, girls soon began driving their cars up the school drive with prominent college stickers affixed to their windshields and bumpers.
So I approached my reunion with some trepidation. What did I find when I got there? That there were myriad friends I had fallen out of touch with whom I was desperately happy to see. That I hadn't felt bullied in high school because I didn't have the slightest desire to be friends with the "mean girls." (And that these girls still didn't have even the inkling of a desire to engage in conversation with me.) That we were all fairly dispirited by the falling college admission achievements of more recent classes, but that this was because it seemed to us to represent a shift away from the academic rigor we all remembered (that part of my nostalgic construct, at least, was proved right), and a failure to recruit and retain the excellent teachers we had loved. That when a group of former high school acquaintances get together in their late twenties, the ring fingers of left hands attract an unseemly amount of attention. That, despite this attention, the "boys" at our brother school's tenth reunion seemed much more interested in showing off wives/girlfriends/fiancées, while we (by contrast) were busy flaunting our advanced degrees. That we are a highly, HIGHLY educated group of women. About half of my class showed up to the reunion, and I only met one person who was not in the process of (or had recently obtained) a degree higher than a bachelor's. She, to our very great admiration, was working on an organic teaching farm, and planning to start her own agricultural venture. And that, as my delightful friend E commented while we tallied up all the MBAs and MAs and PhDs and JDs in progress, "counts. I mean, really, doesn't it? She has a FARM!!"
In the aftermath of the reunion, D. joined me on the east coast, where he will stay with me (hurrah!) until shortly after my graduation in a week and a half. At the moment, I am with him in Philadelphia, where he has been called up to do some film work. I haven't set foot in this city for at least ten years, and luckily our hotel is smack in the middle of the historic district, so the last couple of days have mostly consisted of wandering desultorily around beautiful gardens and antique houses filled (bizarrely) with people dressed in Revolutionary garb who insist on calling me "Madam" and telling me tidbits from the biography of Betsy Ross. I hadn't quite realized (see how much I have learned from the anachronistic strangers!) that, when the maker of our first flag apprenticed as an upholsterer, it was not at all a common trade for women, since it involved quite a lot of very heavy labor. What's more, Ross owned and operated her own shop through several marriages, which was (according to my temporally dislocated new friend) virtually unheard of in New England at the time.
There's certainly more to be said, although I can't quite put my finger on what it is at the moment, but I have the vague feeling that this is rambling on a bit long for a single post (look how much bloggery I have stored up in my absence from you!). Other stories will have to wait for another time...


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Favorite Quotes from the film!
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Favorite Quotes from the film!
What are your favorite quotes from ASOUE?
Mine Are:
Olaf: What is this?
Sunny: I'm Sunny!
Olaf: I'm sorry, I don't speak Monkey. Banan-a.
Olaf: Now that we're a family, I can be the ultimate dad.
Olaf: Let's see, soda, soda, banana.
Sunny: Bite me.
Sunny: She is the mayor of crazytown.
That's all I can think of for now.
Olaf: on the back... flip-it
Olaf: look it up book-worm
Klaus: what's up there?
Olaf: the tower, which you are never to enter, under any circumstances (grimices)
I just cracked up again. That was funny. Funny. Funny.
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
Mark Twain
i like in the deleted scenes...
Olaf: I wrote that poem last week
Klaus: Shakespeare wrote that in 1609
Olaf: oh yes, i forgot
My favorite quote from that deleted scene:
Olaf: Is that a cell phone, you, me you.
More of my favorite quotes:
Sunny: What a Schmuk.
Olaf: Hello, Hello, Hello. I am your beloved Count Olaf.
Sunny: (gulp)
Olaf: This is where you'll be sleeping, Goodnight.
Viloet: But the sun is still up.
Olaf: (in a mocking way) But the sun is still up.
I can't remember the quote. But I loved the part when he walks down the stairs, and on the last step, he puts his right foot down and Sunny sees his eye tatto. Does anybody know the quote I'm talking about?
(when he's doing his "Electric Chair" scene)
"I think you might have to turn it up."
that part is hilarious!
Jim Carrey IS AWESOME!!!
I love when Olaf tries to take credit for the "Life is but a poor player" speech from Macbeth. I saw the scene in Oprah and was disappointed to find it missing from the film. Deleted scenes saved me though. That speech is one of my favorite of Shakespeare's and Olaf definitely put his own ... twist ... on it. Also, I enjoy any references to Sunny as the monkey, particularly when he goes to get the children soda.
"Soda, Soda, Banana."
Anything said during his acting demonstration, while his collegaues sleep, is hilarious and worth quoting.
i like it in the deleted scenes when Jim is yelling out to aunt josophine after with the rest of the kids ... hes like...
" AUNT JOSOPHINE, AUNT JOSOPINE, come on, come on, you can do it, come on,( like you would to a dog.) REACH, REACH, REACH!"
then after "Well, we've done all we can do!"
hmm, lets see if i can think of anymore.....
Deleted scenes, or outtakes or something
Whispers to one girl "i love you(or something)" whispers to other girl "We might have to kill her later!"
deleted scenes or sumthing
They are all pretty much asleep and the one guy is watching tv.
he starts to cry.
Hook guy: Are you crying
Bald guy:Its a sad commercial
Hook guy: its for razors!
ill add more if i can think of them later
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Firestone Flats Fire Holding at 1750 Acres – $1.2 Million Spent So Far [AUDIO]
Firefighters are making excellent progress on the Firestone Flats Fire on the Flathead Reservation, holding the fire at 1,750 acres.
Fire Information Officer Brian LaMoure said crews on the ground have been able to build a line all the way around the fire to keep it from growing.
"We surround the fire with a fire line, we take it down to the dirt, as we say," LaMoure said. "We have the Hot Shots out there, the firefighters and they literally pound the ground and scratch down to the dirt in building a line around the fire. Sometimes we do some backfiring or some burning ourselves, causing the fire to draw into itself so it takes away the fuel it needs to keep going. There's quite a few different strategies they have on the fire."
LaMoure said safety is their number one priority when fighting the fire.
"Safety, safety, safety, that's number one with us as it always has been," LaMoure said. "They say, how can we address this fire quickly and safely and nput it out as quickly as we can without it starting any more fires."
LaMoure said the fire is now 60% contained, and has cost over $1.2 million dollars to fight so far.
"We have 362 personnel working the fire," LaMoure said. "We have five aircraft, helicopters that are working the area. We have 18 engines and 12 pieces of heavy equipment, so we still have a lot of people doing a lot of good work on the fire."
LaMoure confirmed that the fire was human-caused, but the investigation continues as to who may have been responsible.


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The Problem
To illustrate the peculiarities of Cell programming, we use the Breadth-First Search (BFS) on a graph. Despite its simplicity, this algorithm is important because it is a building block of many applications in computer graphics, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, national security, genomics, robotics, and the like.
Listing One is a minimal BFS implementation in C. Variable G contains the graph in the form of an array of adjacency lists. G[i].length tells how many neighbors the i-th vertex has, which are in G[i].neighbors[0], G[i].neighbors[1], and so on. The vertex from which the visit starts is in variable root. A BFS visit proceeds in levels: First, the root is visited, then its neighbors, then its neighbors' neighbors, and so on. At any time, queue Q contains the vertices to visit in the current level. The algorithm scans every vertex in Q, fetches its neighbors, and adds each neighbor to the list of vertices to visit in the next level, Qnext. To prevent being caught in loops, the algorithm avoids visiting those vertices that have been visited before. To do so, it maintains a marked array of Boolean variables. Neighbors are added to Qnext only when they are not already marked, then they get marked. At the end of each level, Q and Qnext swap, and Qnext is emptied.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> /* ... */ /* the graph */ vertex_t * G; /* number of vertices in the graph */ unsigned card_V; /* root vertex (where the visit starts) */ unsigned root; void parse_input( int argc, char** argv ); int main(int argc, char ** argv) { unsigned *Q, *Q_next, *marked; unsigned Q_size=0, Q_next_size=0; unsigned level = 0; parse_input(argc, argv); graph_load(); Q = (unsigned *) calloc(card_V, sizeof(unsigned)); Q_next = (unsigned *) calloc(card_V, sizeof(unsigned)); marked = (unsigned *) calloc(card_V, sizeof(unsigned)); Q[0] = root; Q_size = 1; while (Q_size != 0) { /* scanning all vertices in queue Q */ unsigned Q_index; for ( Q_index=0; Q_index<Q_size; Q_index++ ) { const unsigned vertex = Q[Q_index]; const unsigned length = G[vertex].length; /* scanning each neighbor of each vertex */ unsigned i; for ( i=0; i<length; i++) { const unsigned neighbor = G[vertex].neighbors[i]; if( !marked[neighbor] ) { /* mark the neighbor */ marked[neighbor] = TRUE; /* enqueue it to Q_next */ Q_next[Q_next_size++] = neighbor; } } } level++; unsigned * swap_tmp; swap_tmp = Q; Q = Q_next; Q_next = swap_tmp; Q_size = Q_next_size; Q_next_size = 0; } return 0; }
On a Pentium 4 HT running at 3.4 GHz, this algorithm is able to check 24-million edges per second. On the Cell, at the end of our optimization, we achieved a performance of 538-million edges per second. This is an impressive result, but came at the price of an explosion in code complexity. While the algorithm in Listing One fits in 60 lines of source code, our final algorithm on the Cell measures 1200 lines of code.
Let's Get Parallel
The first step in adapting programs to a multicore architecture is making it parallel. The basic idea is to split loop for (Q_index=0; Q_index<Q_size; Q_index++)... among different SPEs. Then you access a lock marked by the protection of a synchronization mechanism. Locks work fine in cache-coherent shared-memory machines with uniform memory and limited threads, but scale poorly on multicore systems. Instead, we partition both the vertex space and the marked array evenly among the SPEs. Each SPE explores only the vertices it owns, and forwards the others to their respective owners. Function which_owner() returns the owner of a given vertex identifier.
Rather than synchronizing at a fine grain, we adopt a Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) approach. In BSP, an algorithm is split in steps, and all the cores execute the same step at the same time. After each step, there is a barrier; see barrier() in Listing Two (available at http://www.ddj.com/code/). At a barrier, whoever finishes first waits for all the others to complete before proceeding to the next step. The BSP approach is very common in the parallel programming community because it greatly simplifies the control flow and the communication protocols, at the expense of a negligible performance penalty.
Listing Two is a pseudo-C rendition of the algorithm in BSP form. The code is executed by each of the SPEs, numbered from 0 to Nspe-1. Each SPE examines the neighbor lists of each of the vertices in its Q, encountering neighbors that belong to different SPEs. It dispatches them, putting those owned by the i-th SPE in queue Qout[i]. Then, an all-to-all exchange takes place, which routes the vertices to their respective owners. Each Qout[i] is sent to the i-th SPE, which receives it into Qin[s], where s is the identifier of the sender SPE. Next, each SPE examines the incoming adjacency lists, and marks and adds vertices to its private Qnext as before. The entire algorithm is complete when all the SPEs find their Qs empty. This is done via a reduce_all operation, which performs a distributed addition of all the variables Q_size among all the SPEs.


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Greece's parliamentary election results are in, and now investors are voting on where they want to put their money.
After last weekend's do-over of a recent election that failed to yield a governing coalition, U.S. markets opened Monday on a positive note, relieved that the vote went to the conservative New Democracy party, which favors austerity measures that would keep Greece in the eurozone.
But by midday, that relief had dissipated a bit as stock market watchers started to consider what's next for the common currency. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 28.87 points, or 0.23%, at 12,738. However, the S&P 500 was up slightly by 1.28 points, or 0.10%, at 1,344, and the Nasdaq index was up 15.61 points, or 0.54%, at 2,888.
The markets' mixed messages suggest that investors are seeking security—and analysts are shaking the bushes, looking for those safe havens, whether in stocks, bonds or commodities.
Here's what the experts are saying about the best investments now that Greece has voted:
Read more about the Greek elections at AdvisorOne.
Fear, Uncertainty and Yogurt Are Friends to Stock-Pickers With a Long View
Stock investors beware: The New Democracy Party is in power, but nothing has really changed.
So says Martin Leclerc, chief investment officer and portfolio manager of Barrack Yard Advisors, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
"Greece remains corrupt, over-indebted and uncompetitive," says Leclerc in a statement. "There's little prospect out of its de facto bankruptcy unless the people of Greece demand and receive real reforms. That is unlikely to happen in the intermediate term."
With that gloomy outlook, where does Leclerc suggest that stock buyers invest their money?
"Fear and uncertainty is the friend of long-term investors because it lets you buy low," Leclerc writes. "Many great European companies are now selling at valuations not seen since the lows of March 2009."
Examples of Leclerc's European stock picks, which offer dividends of between 4% and 6%, include:
- U.K. large-cap retailer Tesco, which has grown earnings by 9% a year during the past five years. The company is in 14 countries, Asia accounts for nearly 20% of its earnings, and Tesco has a strong presence in its core U.K. market with a history of innovation and growth.
- Pargesa Holding, a Swiss-based mid-cap conglomerate controlled by the billionaires Paul Desmarais and Albert Frere. Shares sell at a 25% discount to net asset value, which is composed mostly of six publicly traded European blue chips that are also attractively priced.
- Van de Velde, based in Belgium, company with a $500 million market cap that has manufactured and sold undergarments for about a century. Shares are controlled by descendants of the founding families. The company has net cash, a high return on invested capital and roughly 10% annual growth since its IPO in the 1990s.
And finally: Greek yogurt, anyone?
Yes, the Greek yogurt race is heating up, according to both Dairy Herd and AdAge, which report that New York-based Chobani is currently the leader in the U.S. Greek yogurt market, followed by France's Danone and Greece's Fage brands.
PIMCO's Bill Gross Not Yet a Buyer of European Bonds
Europe is merely a "localized tumor," writes PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross (left) in his June market commentary. Bond investors should thus favor quality and "clean dirty shirt" sovereigns (U.S., Mexico and Brazil), along with intermediate maturities that gradually shorten over the next few years.
Also saying there are now too many sharks in the bond market, Gross on Bloomberg Television points to the surge in the Spanish 10-year bond. Yields are now near 7%, and Italian bonds are above 6%.
So is Gross a buyer of European bonds? No. Rates at the core are still too high and they need the private market to come back in, he believes.
"What Euroland and the EU and the ECB all together want is for the PIMCOs of the world and the Chinese to come back into the water," he says. "Is it safe? PIMCO and others sense a lot of sharks out there, a lot of fins protruding into the surface. It's not a safe environment as long as the EU and the global economy is de-levering."
Meanwhile, ITG Investment Research Chief Economist Steve Blitz sees no sign of easier monetary policy among the world's central banks.
"In the event of market disruptions after the Greek elections the world's central banks will, as always, do what is necessary to keep the financial system functioning. That is not the same thing as easing," according to Blitz in his Monday report. "Nothing the central banks end up doing will address the fundamental imbalances adversely impacting global growth, especially those imbalances driving the European economy apart."
Next Stop on the Troubled Eurozone Tour: Spain
When eyeing the future, investors will have to keep watching Greece—and pay attention to Spain, says Paul Christopher, chief international strategist with Wells Fargo, in a midyear outlook published Monday.
The European crisis remains the principal risk to global confidence. Although the Greek election results eased fears of a rupture in the euro zone, the prospect remains that a eurozone country may some day abandon the euro, Christopher says.
"Even the possibility of a eurozone split suggests that Greece, or possibly Spain, might choose to leave the euro rather than endure deepening austerity," he writes.
Christopher doesn't believe that Spain's financial problems run as deeply as Greece's do, however, and the cost of leaving the euro remains steep for Greece, Spain and indeed the entire eurozone.
"The Greek situation remains fluid, and political decisions could still split the zone," Christopher says. "Still, we believe the most likely scenario for 2012, and perhaps into 2013, is that eurozone leaders will respond to their strong incentive to address the union's immediate financial problems and the need for long-term economic growth."


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Experts are always raving about the benefits of exercise, and rightfully so, since the list is a long one. But no one ever discusses the drawbacks to your skin you have to put up with when working out regularly. I'm talking about chafing, pimples on your back, chest, and face, and blisters on your feet. Of course the benefits of exercise exceed these unwanted skin issues, but it doesn't make them any less annoying. Here are ways to prevent them:
- Moisture and friction are a deadly combo for us exercisers. If you wear loose clothing made of cotton, the fabric will stay wet and the constant rubbing is sure to irritate your skin and cause chafing in your sensitive areas. To avoid this issue, invest in some fitted exercise clothes that are made of wicking material such as merino wool or a polyester blend.
- Look for bras, tops, and shorts that are seamless and have no tags.
- Sweat and bacteria clog pores and cause pimples -- and not just on your face. Working out can lead to bacne, as well as blemishes on your chest, neck, arms, and tush. Since you can't prevent the sweating while working out (especially in the Summer), the wicking fabrics used to prevent chafing will also help prevent breakouts. They draw moisture away from your skin and allow it to breathe. Be sure the clothes that directly touch your skin are made of breathable, wicking material. When it comes to your face, make sure to remove any makeup before working out, and to wash it once your workout is over.
- After your workout is complete, get out of those sweaty clothes immediately and hit the showers. Use a gentle body soap or scrub that contains acne-fighting salicylic acid. Don't scrub too vigorously, since that can irritate your skin and lead to more pimples.
- If your workout routine involves a super sweaty cardio session followed by slightly sweaty strength training and then not-sweaty-at-all stretching, change into a dry bra and top between activities. I know that means a lot of moolah spent on clothes, not to mention more time in the laundry room, but it'll make a huge difference to your skin.
- With every new season, I like to buy a new pair of sneakers. To avoid blisters, find a shoe that works for your foot, and buy the same brand and even the same model when you need a new pair. Make sure your sneaks aren't too loose, as the constant shifting of your foot inside the shoe will inevitably lead to blisters.
- Since working out in new kicks almost always leads to hot spots and blisters, when breaking in new sneaks, do it slowly. Alternate workouts between your old and new pair for a week or two, and once you switch over completely to the new ones, start off with shorter workouts, and gradually build up. This will help avoid irritation on your feet.
- New sneaks aren't the only culprit when it comes to blisters. Moisture is another issue here, and when the skin on your feet gets sweaty, it rubs more easily on the inside of your shoe. To prevent this issue, wicking socks are a must to pull moisture away from your skin.
- Aside from sweat, outside moisture can also lead to painful blisters. Avoid jumping in puddles or small streams and skip working out in the pouring rain.
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Celebrities, Students, Teachers Join Forces to Celebrate NEA's Read Across America Day On March 3
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(En Español) From Seussville to Who-ville and Oh, those many great places in between, the Cat in the Hat will help put reading on the map! The 11th annual Read Across America Day—the party with a purpose that gets kids of every age excited about reading—is expected to draw more than 45 million participants on Monday, March 3.
"When children open the pages of a good book, reading can ignite their imaginations and open the doors to a reading wonderland," said NEA President Reg Weaver. "Whether it's a thrilling mystery or a fantasy set in a land far, far away, find a nook and be in the company of your favorite book this Read Across America Day."
NEA's Read Across America—sponsored by the 3.2 million-member National Education Association, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P., and more than 50 national partner organizations—is a year-round literacy campaign designed to motivate children to read by making it fun and culminates every year around the birthday of Dr. Seuss, the beloved children's book author.
Revving up their engines, three Cat-A-Van tours will hit the road to bring the gift of reading to thousands of schoolchildren. Covering more than 1,200 miles and visiting more than 18 cities, the tours will provide an estimated 12,000 books and thousands of cash grants to public schools and their libraries through a generous donation from NEA's Books Across America. Launched in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, Books Across America provides books and cash grants to public schools in need. More details on the program are available at www.nea.org/booksacross .
But the reading fun doesn't stop there! The Cat-a-Van tours will travel to Florida for "Read Across Spring Training," designed to bring reading fun to ballparks as Major League Baseball teams show they got game by hosting special read-ins for local children.
Since 1997, NEA's Read Across America has attracted some of the biggest celebrities in entertainment and sports to help children discover the joy of reading. Past celebrity participants include Morgan Freeman, Garth Brooks, James Earl Jones, Amanda Bynes, Serena Williams, Tiki Barber and Michelle Williams.
"Although children have many distractions like TV, video games and high-tech gadgets, nothing rivals the power of reading the written word," said Weaver. "The challenge is cutting through the competitive clutter to get children energized about reading. That's why Read Across America has been so successful at cultivating a love of books for young readers—it makes reading just plain fun."
Visit www.nea.org/readacross for more reading tips, book lists and information on local events happening nationwide. Photos, video footage, public service announcements and other Seuss-tastic downloads are available to the media by contacting NEA Public Relations at (202) 822-7823 or email@example.com .
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(MEDIA GENERAL) – Maybe this is the year the Great Pumpkin visits Linus in the pumpkin patch. 50th time is the charm, right?
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" turns 50 when it airs Wednesday night.
The holiday special is one of the noted classics spun from Charles Schulz's iconic comic strip. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" debuted Oct. 27, 1966, on CBS, created to capitalize on the success of 1965's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," according to TV Insider.
The Peanuts holiday specials have become a staple of Americana, watched by children in the 1960s, again as they became parents, and now with their grandchildren. Altogether, Schulz, along with executive producer Lee Mendelson and director Bill Melendez, completed more than 50 television specials and four movies over four decades, according to SFGATE.
Although the Christmas special is arguably more widely recognized, Mendelson and the creators considered "It's The Great Pumpkin" to be a bigger success. According to the FW, nearly half of all TV viewing audiences tuned into "It's The Great Pumpkin" when it debuted in 1966.
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COLORADO RAPIDS vs CHIVAS USA
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS PARK, Commerce City, Colo.
April 28, 2012 (WEEK 8, MLS Game #71)
7 p.m. MT (Altitude TV, ENG - FM 93.7, AM 1510; SPA - FM 87.7, TICKETS)
Looking to snap a three-game losing streak, the Colorado Rapids will face a tricky home test when Chivas USA come calling at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Saturday evening. The Rapids went down to a home defeat last weekend, a 2-1 loss to the LA Galaxy. Chivas USA are perfect away from home - but still winless and goalless in home games, after a 1-0 loss to Philadelphia Union last weekend at The Home Depot Center.
REFEREE: Kevin Stott. SAR (bench): Corey Parker; JAR (opposite): Jason Cullum; 4th: Matthew Foerster
MLS Career: 218 games; FC/gm: 25.8; Y/gm: 3.4; R: 58; pens: 44
- COLORADO RAPIDS - OUT: DF Anthony Wallace (L Achilles tear); MF Pablo Mastroeni (headaches); MF Ross LaBauex (sports hernia); DOUBTFUL: MF Jamie Smith (R knee ACL tear); QUESTIONABLE: FW Conor Casey (L Achilles tear); PROBABLE: MF Martin Rivero (R quadriceps soreness)
- CHIVAS USA - OUT: MF Marvin Iraheta (L knee ACL); FW Alejandro Moreno (concussion); PROBABLE: MF Ben Zemanski (R knee MCL sprain); MF Pete Vagenas (rib contusion)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: CHV: Oswaldo Minda
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: none
ALL-TIME (19 meetings): Rapids 9 wins, 32 goals ... Chivas USA 5 wins, 24 goals ... Ties 5
AT COLORADO (9 meetings): Rapids 3 wins, 18 goals ... Chivas USA 1 win, 11 goals ... Ties 5
RETURN MATCHES: 8/18: Colorado Rapids vs. Chivas USA, 7 p.m. MT; 10/20: Chivas USA vs. Colorado Rapids, 7:30 p.m. PT
3/26: CHV 0, COL 1 (Amarikwa 32)
8/20: COL 2, CHV 2 (Folan 13; Larentowicz 69 - Angel 36; Courtois 86)
- The Rapids have a five-game undefeated streak alive against Chivas USA. After a 2-1 Chivas win in 2009 at The Home Depot Center, Colorado won the next four meetings, before the teams played to a 2-2 draw last Aug. 20 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
- The road team has won five of the last nine meetings in the series.
- Coaches record: Oscar Pareja vs. CHV: first game ... Robin Fraser vs. COL: P2 W0 L1 D1
The Colorado Rapids saw their losing streak hit three games, falling 2-1 to the LA Galaxy on Saturday evening at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. The Rapids are in a three-way tie for sixth place in the Western Conference with 9 points from 7 games.
- The Galaxy took the lead in the 21st minute. David Beckham's pinpoint free kick found an unmarked Mike Magee to the left of goal, and he headed the ball back toward the center. Rapids defender Marvell Wynne nodded the ball inside the far post of his own goal.
- In the 39th minute, the Galaxy doubled their lead. Robbie Keane's through ball found Landon Donovan steaming into the left side of the area, and the U.S. international made no mistake on a classy angled finish inside the far post.
- But in the 63rd minute, Omar Cummings fended off David Junior Lopes for 15 yards to run onto a loose ball before hammering a rising blast past goalkeeper Josh Saunders.
- Then in stoppage time, Rapids substitute Andre Akpan went down under a challenge by Lopes, and referee Ramon Hernandez pointed to the spot. But on the ensuing penalty, Saunders guessed correctly by diving left and parrying away Cummings' attempt.
- Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja made one change to the team that suffered a 1-0 defeat by Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Field. Kamani Hill came into the side in place of Martin Rivero.
- COLORADO RAPIDS (4-2-3-1): Matt Pickens - Kosuke Kimura, Marvell Wynne, Drew Moor, Luis Zapata - Jeff Larentowicz, Kamani Hill (Wells Thompson 78) - Brian Mullan (Andre Akpan 88), Jaime Castrillon, Tony Cascio - Omar Cummings.
- The Rapids have lost three games in a row, matching their longest losing streak of a year ago, which they did twice - including at nearly the exact same time at the start of the season.
- "It's a tough one and it hurts because we had the PK and we had options and I think the boys deserved much more than that," said Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja. iSo we are going to suffer that pain, but at the same time I'm very proud about the effort of the players."
- Omar Cummings has scored three of the Rapids' last four goals, his goal vs. the Galaxy ending the club's 242-minute scoreless streak.
- But Cummings saw his penalty kick in stoppage time saved - the third saved penalty kick in 12 attempts in the league this season.
- "Omar scored a fantastic goal tonight. He missed a PK, but you'd put Omar to take a PK 99 times out of 100," said Drew Moor. iThe kid is absolutely gutted right now. But we've got such good players, we've got such a deep squad, we've got players coming back from injury; this team's going to be fine. We're not worried at all."
- Of the 10 goals the Rapids have conceded this season, four have started on set pieces - two from corner kicks, and two from free kicks.
- "We addressed it before, we addressed it during [the game] and we addressed it at the end," Pareja said. iIt's costing us points, but we're all responsible for it."
- Added Moor: "We just weren't organized. You can't allow that with someone like Beckham over the ball. We worked on it through the week and guys weren't on the same page. Whatever [Pickens] tells you to do, do it. We were caught unaware. It wasn't good enough - it needs to be dealt with. This team is too professional to allow goals like that."
- Conor Casey is finally expected to be available this weekend for the Rapids. After dealing with strep throat and a minor groin strain, Casey is likely to be in the 18-man gameday squad, though not starting.
- "Conor is good, he's playing with more strength," Pareja said. iI think we'll have him available for this weekend."
- With his next shutout, goalkeeper Matt Pickens will tie the Rapids club record of 25 clean sheets, currently held by Joe Cannon (now with Vancouver Whitecaps FC). The Rapids had shutouts in their first two league games this season.
Chivas USA lost for the fourth time in as many games at The Home Depot Center, again a 1-0 defeat, this time by Philadelphia Union on Saturday evening. Chivas USA sit in a three-way tie for sixth place in the Western Conference with 9 points from 7 games.
- The visitors took the lead in the 40th minute. Michael Farfan weaved his way around Chivas defender Heath Pearce and fired a low ball into the goalmouth. James Riley's muffed clearance fell to Freddy Adu, who quickly back-heeled the ball into an empty net.
- Union finished the match two players down. In the 75th minute, Union's Keon Daniel received a straight red for a studs-up challenge on Chivas USA's Ryan Smith, then 10 minutes later, Gabriel Farfan was sent off after a hard tackle on Chivas defender James Riley. That incident was followed by Union manager Peter Nowak entering the field, an act that earned him his marching orders.
- Chivas USA head coach Robin Fraser made one change to the team that defeated Toronto FC 1-0 at BMO Field. Paolo Cardozo came into the team in place of Ben Zemanski.
- CHIVAS USA (4-2-3-1): Dan Kennedy - James Riley, Heath Pearce, Rauwshan McKenzie (Casey Townsend 90), Ante Jazic - Oswaldo Minda (Blair Gavin 55), Paolo Cardozo (Juan Pablo Angel 63) - Miller Bolanos, Nick LaBrocca, Ryan Smith - Alejandro Moreno.
- Chivas USA lost for the fourth time in as many games at The Home Depot Center in the 1-0 defeat by Philadelphia. All four defeats have come by 1-0 scorelines.
- "We gave up a goal out of nothing," head coach Robin Fraser said. iIn the second half, we were better, more aggressive and got the ball into more dangerous spots. [But] I feel like this is definitely one that got away."
- Away from home, Chivas are perfect, with a 3-0-0 record. iWe were expecting after two wins on the road just to get the points at home, and it wasn't the case. Obviously very disappointed. We haven't been able to get a point at home, just yet," said Juan Pablo Angel.
- Angel made his first appearance since the season opener, coming on as a substitute in the 63rd minute. Angel had missed five games with a concussion.
- "It was great, I'm still trying to get minutes and pick up the tempo of the game," he said. iI've been away six weeks and I came into a game that was at a high pace, but I'm delighted to be back."
- The following day, Angel scored a penalty kick in a full run-out in a reserve match against Seattle Sounders FC.
- "The more he plays, the better he's going to get," Fraser said. "He's been out awhile and it's good to get him into a real competition. [Against Seattle I saw] sharp movement, good ideas on the ball, good timing of runs. It was important that he gets some more game minutes. Game minutes means you have to make game-speed decisions, and I thought that a lot of times his decisions were good."
- Over the last three matches - since his third of three consecutive starts on April 1 - rookie Casey Townsend had made just two late substitute appearances. In the reserves, Townsend had started playing a wide midfield role - he was lined up as a lone striker in his starts.
- "I like to think that I can play anywhere," Townsend said. iI don't want to be a one-dimensional player; I can do other things as well, but obviously I like to score goals and get in the box and that's what I'm here to do."
- Chivas USA goalkeeper Dan Kennedy still has yet to allow more than a single goal in any game this season.
- "It's hard to take positives when you lose, but there were lot of things that happened today that gave us encouragement for the following games," said Angel. iWe created chances in the second half that we haven't managed to create at home. We looked more dangerous and were putting more people in the box. But it's still extremely disappointing to not earn a point at home."


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He's be stupid not to really. The midfield is poor enough for him to break in to.
A bit of a turmoil in the last few weeks but let's not forget Ross has never fulfilled his potential , never other than a spark here and one there .Will he ever get there ? At his age the chances are getting slimmer .His only hope is that he get's his act together . For me at this moment I wouldn't blink if he went ,he needs to prove himself worthy of all the adulation on here .
Ross wanting to leave had nothing to do with Koeman. Just an easy narrative to blame it on Koeman as the bad guy. Truth is Ross just doesn't want to be here.
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Paniolo Cattle Company Formed by Parker Ranch and Ulupono Initiative
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Kamuela, Hawaii - (March 21, 2014) - Following a successful grass-fed beef trial on Hawaii Island, Parker Ranch and Ulupono Initiative announced the launch of the Paniolo Cattle Company, a joint venture aimed at statewide local beef production. The pasture-to-table enterprise taps into a growing demand for high-quality, affordable, locally raised beef.
Paniolo Cattle Company will begin with 1,400 head of cattle to be raised at Parker Ranch on Hawaii Island. This represents the largest commitment of grass-fed beef by a single ranch in the state and will increase the supply of grass-fed steers to the market by nearly 35 percent.
Parker Ranch provides calves and cattle management expertise for the joint venture and Ulupono Initiative contributes the intellectual capital to develop best practices for profitability and sustainable agricultural methods. Both entities have financial interest and will handle the commercial aspects of the business. Parker Ranch, headquartered in Waimea on Hawaii Island, is Hawaii's largest cattle operation, and the state's second largest landowner.
Ranching profitability has long been impacted by fluctuating costs of oil and corn. The price of cattle over the last decade has increased about 57 percent, while the price of feed has increased 129 percent, causing conventional ranching returns to suffer. Paniolo Cattle Company seeks to reduce costs substantially by animal husbandry based on sound pasture management.
"This joint venture is about trying to level the cost of beef, creating an at-home thriving cattle industry that is energy-efficient and protects us against volatility in fuel and feed costs," said Dutch Kuyper, CEO of Parker Ranch. "Restaurants, food markets and consumers want quality and consistency in beef, at reasonable prices."
The goal is to create a more robust local beef supply chain and ensure that a quality, consistent product is available to all Hawaii consumers, not just the high-end market. In the pre-commercial trial on Hawaii Island, conducted from September 2012 to May 2013, 80 percent of the beef was graded "choice."
Market research conducted by Ulupono indicated that Oahu consumers would make the shift to local beef if the quality was consistent and prices were reasonable. Ulupono has been exploring the grass-fed beef model for nearly four years.
"We view this as an equal partnership of capital and capabilities based on shared values, mutual respect, and a commitment to the future of ranching in Hawaii," said Kyle Datta, general partner of Ulupono Initiative. Ulupono Initiative is an impact investment firm focused on Hawaii operations that promote a self-reliant community.
Paniolo Cattle Company plans to expand statewide and has begun talks with ranchers on Oahu, Maui and Kauai to broaden the program's reach and benefit Hawaii ranchers, processors, and consumers in every county. The pace of expansion will be based on the market demand.
Kuyper and Datta said meetings with Gov. Neil Abercrombie and cattle ranchers were the catalyst behind pursuing a value-based brand that increases the sustainability of Hawaii's food supply and reduces the headwinds facing the local ranching industry. "The State understands the food security issues. We've gotten a lot of support and guidance from Scott Enright, State Department of Agriculture board chair," said Datta.
Paniolo Cattle Company will be involved in the full cycle of beef production, from grazing and finishing to working with processors and distribution.
In the initial grass-fed stage, cattle are free to roam and graze pasture until they reach about 800 pounds. The finishing stage requires active management to assure consistent nutrition to grow to 1,150 pounds, which produces high-quality meat that has the tenderness consumers seek. Paniolo Cattle Company will operate irrigated finishing forage pastures and employ rotational pasture techniques to achieve consistency and quality, an approach not widely practiced in Hawaii.
"Parker Ranch and Ulupono Initiative both share the core value of caring about our aina and we're committed to finding solutions that allow us to be here for the long-term providing affordable, high quality food for our community," said Datta. "The rotational grazing approach is a regenerative agricultural method that will improve soil health and increase pasture fertility. Converting pasture to higher yield grasses, and reinvesting in our natural capital will pay dividends for years to come."
About Parker Ranch
Parker Ranch was established in 1847 and is one of the largest and oldest cattle ranches in the United States. In 1992, it was left in a trust following the death of sixth generation Parker descendant, Richard Palmer Kaleioku Smart, for the overarching purpose of bettering the Waimea community on Hawaii Island. The trust was left to four beneficiaries—North Hawaii Community Hospital, Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Parker School and Hawaii Community Foundation. As a large landowner, Parker Ranch is proactively leveraging its resources to achieve a secure energy future, expand the sustainability of local food systems and improve the quality of life for Waimea residents. To learn more, visit www.parkerranch.com.
About Ulupono Initiative
Ulupono Initiative LLC is a for-profit impact investment firm that strives to improve the quality of life for the people of Hawaii by working toward solutions that create more locally grown food, increase clean renewable energy production and reduce waste. For more information about Ulupono Initiative, please visit www.ulupono.com.


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1. Heavenly Father, I'm thankful to Thee
For life and its wonders, the earth and the sea,
For fam'ly who love me and help me to be
The kind of a child who'll again live with Thee.
2. Each day I'm grateful for friends who are kind
And teachers who help me develop my mind.
The Lord in His goodness helps me ev'ry day.
I'll show Him I'm thankful by living His way.
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Making the Grade: An Interview with the Real 'Coach Carter'
- Annabelle Robertson Entertainment Critic
- 2005 12 Jan
Not everybody has the guts to stand up for what's right – especially against an inner-city community that's experiencing what it's like to be winners for the first time. But, when members of his high school basketball team failed to live up to their promises to attend class and maintain their grades, that's just what one California coach did.
On January 4, 1999, Ken Carter locked his entire team out of the gymnasium and sent them all to the library for study hall, creating a media frenzy. Academics, he said, had to come first. Besides, all the players and their parents had signed written contracts before the season, agreeing that the boys would attend every class, sit on the front row, maintain a 2.3 grade point average and wear coats and ties to school on game days. They also promised to do community service.
It was the only way, Carter said, that he could make his "student-athletes," as he insists on calling them, directly responsible for their future and teach them respect – for themselves and their teammates.
Respect, they certainly got. In their first season, after Carter's arrival as their new basketball coach, the team soared to a record 16-0 – giving everyone something to dream about. That's when Carter finally got the progress reports he had long been requesting from teachers. He was devastated to learn that at least half the players were skipping classes and failing.
Without hesitation, he locked the entire team out of the gym and started forfeiting games.
The incident, which almost cost Carter his job, is portrayed in the upcoming film, "Coach Carter," starring Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson. It's a true-to-life film, with all the language and issues that accompany poverty, loss and urban areas. But for some, "Coach Carter" just might provide a new way of looking at the sports vs. academics dilemma.
"This is definitely not your typical story, and Ken Carter is not your typical guy," Jackson said, explaining why he agreed to play Carter in the film. "Both the story and Ken are about teaching young people to expect more from themselves and to see beyond their present."
I recently met with the real Coach Carter, the man behind the film, when he came to Atlanta promote the film. Here's what he had to say:
Q: You had a very big role in the making of this movie. Tell me a little about that.
A: Well, first of all, I wanted the movie to be accurate. I worked with the writers, the producers, the director and the actors. I was a part of the movie process the entire time. Mr. Samuel Jackson just did a wonderful job as being the leader. He made all the other actors rise to the occasion, and they did a wonderful job. He led by example. He was never late, because I would have had him do push-ups. (Smiles.) He never stumbled – not one single line. And during all that – learning me, my hand rhythms and things of that nature -- he was still able to coach and mentors the other young actors on the set. That's why the movie is so intense and keeps you engaged at all times.
Q: Some people make movies for money, some for fame. You don't strike me as that sort of guy. What was your goal in making this movie?
A: Well, they called me – I didn't call them. But it was just a heartwarming story. You know, you're 80 times more likely to go to jail in our neighborhood than you are to go to college. Then 50 percent of our kids who enter as freshmen never ever graduate [from high school]. Drastic times take for drastic measures. I'm a real fun-loving guy, but I'm tough when I need to be tough. By no stretch of the imagination do I try and be friends with my players or have them like me. A lot of coaches want their team to like them, so they let things slide. But in the end, you're doing the student-athlete an injustice. Because, at some point in his life, he's got to be held accountable for his actions. Whatever the pros do, the college athletes imitate. And whatever they do, the high school athletes imitate. You see it all the way down to the junior high level and even elementary school teams. A kid scores a touchdown and he's got his John Travolta dance he's doing.
Q: Showboating, I call it.
A: That's right. And we address that in the movie. We address teenage pregnancy. We address alcoholism. We address drugs. But we did it in a very classy way – and it's all true. Now the liberties that were taken with the movie were very small, and those were just taken to protect the families and the kids. I didn't want to embarrass one single person involved. In fact, all the players and their families, the ones that were involved in the lock-out year, are actually in the movie as extras. My seven sisters – that is true. I have seven sisters and my plays are named after them. Diane and Ernestine, Cookie and Hettie Jean. Grace, Deborah and Linda. They're named after my personalities.
Q: You're talking about really important things here – important social issues – that have the power to transform not just the inner city, but all of the fabric of society. Pregnancy, accountability and sports over academics. What is happening in our society, in your opinion, that our priorities have gotten reversed?
A: There's no accountability. If a student-athlete is gifted, he's recognized early as being gifted. Then everybody starts to push him along and he doesn't have to be accountable for his actions. It goes from Pee Wee Football all the way through the pros. If you're gifted, you're gifted, and people just let you slide. But what happens to this person when he's 30? Even if he made professional sports, his career is basically over. And only one in every 500,000 kids gets a chance to play some kind of professional sport. There are less than 5,000 professional jobs in all of professional sports that you can make a living at. Less. But Microsoft alone has over 10,000 millionaires in that one company.
Q: So your message in this film is …?
A: That accountability, integrity, teamwork, leadership and being kind and a light will never ever go out of style.
Q: Are you hearing some of the things that Bill Cosby is saying? It's a similar message, isn't it?
A: It's a little different. I see the student-athlete where I want them to be. Period. And I take that, then we try to work toward that. People say, 'Coach, you got this big movie with Samuel Jackson in it. Ashanti. You're a big shot now.' And I say, 'Let me tell you the difference between a big shot and a little shot. A big shot is really just a little shot who kept on working hard.' You take baby steps. My goal at first was not to get the kids into college. My goal was just to get them to their next class. That's why the contract was so important, because it put parameters around it. They had to sit in the very front row, turn in all their homework, attend every one of their classes, do their community work, go to study hall. There was nothing in the contract related to basketball – nothing. All of it was academic. The parents signed it and I signed it, and that tangible piece of paper kept us all accountable.
Q: I love the line in the movie when the principal says to you, "You were hired to coach basketball. You need to do your job," and you respond to her, "And you're responsible for educating these kids. You need to do yours." Did you really say that?
A: Yes. The principal is responsible for 1,500 kids. And it's not anything negative that she was doing. I was responsible for 45 – the freshmen and junior varsity and the varsity teams. We were undefeated on all three levels. So I actually locked out an entire program.
Q: So in real life, you actually locked out three teams, not just one?
A: That's right. And all of them had to report to the library. Because if one of us was failing, all of us were failing. Because we're a team. And the bond that those kids built with each other – that will be lifelong.
Q: It's a huge concept, and when people see this movie, it really resonates. I think a lot of people are going to say, 'Okay! Everybody should be like Coach Carter!' But why aren't they? What has happened that schools and even parents aren't doing what you're doing?
A: It's just that people sometimes take the path of least resistance. It's as simple as that. It's easier to just get through the day, push them on through school one month, then another month push them on out the door, then do the same thing the next time around. We have to start educating our kids just like other countries are doing, so we can stay competitive in the world. I remember leaving class thinking I was one of the smartest kids in the country or the world – and that's the way our instructors taught us. They loved us, they nurtured us. There's a saying that it takes an entire village to raise a child. Well, I'm that child that Richmond, Calif. raised. And I want to be a living example of what can happen to a person if he has integrity in his life, if he has accountability, if he works with a team and is willing to follow then try to lead. And ma'am, most of all, the reason this movie came about, is because I say 'Yes ma'am' and 'No sir' every chance I get, and try to be kind, to everybody I meet. And I think that's what we're missing in our society.
Q: Who made you into who you are today? Did you have a Coach Carter in your life?
A: (Chuckles). Yes, I did. You know what? I kept it in the family line. I have seven sisters. That's actually true … and I have one brother, Avery, ten years older. He was my hero – totally. He was quite an individual, and still today he's my hero. So I never had to look outside our family. It was always there. I am the total sum of my family. Everything I am and everything I'm not is because of the sum of my family.
Q: Now you're a pretty tough dad, but in a way that I respect. I think you're a great model, but it goes against the grain. What was that like for you as a dad to go against the grain of people around you, as I imagine you must have. Heck, just staying married is a feat in and of itself these days – for anybody.
A: At the time, my son had a 3.7 GPA, but I locked him out with everybody else – 'cause we're a team. He didn't score every point. He didn't every rebound. So I locked him out just like everybody else. But at home, we never ever talk basketball. That's a rule. At home, I call him Damien and he calls me dad. But when we get in the car and go to the gym for practice, I become Coach Carter. All our players say 'Yes sir' and 'No sir' to each other – all the time. Because if no one in the school and in the community respected our team, we were going to respect ourselves.
Q: What does your son do now?
A: He was at West Point, and he's about to transfer to either Cal-Berkeley or Cal-State. He'll be at one of the two next year. He's majoring in business, but his love is medicine. He's going to be a cardiologist. I'm very proud of him. But you know, during this time, he caused so much pressure about being the coach's son. But he was bold and he was brave and he was able to defend himself against all that talk and the negative stuff that was happening. He came through fine. At some point, during the lockout, I was very concerned for his safety and mine, and the rest of our family. The people in our community were just going crazy over this undefeated team. [They were saying,] 'How can you take the top-ranked team in California and take them off the floor, Coach, because of grades? Because of academics? Just let the boys play.'
Q: It goes against everything that we believe, in America, where sports are king.
A: Yes, let them play and make it up later. But if we send this message now, that sports is more important than getting your education, we really have a problem.
Q: And we do.
A: Yes, we do. Our 45 guys made the library a cool place to be. In 2001, we won the governor's performance grant. We painted our school, fixed up the gym – I mean, we did everything. But we also wore coat and ties on game day. I went to practice every day in a suit and tie, because I wanted our boys to see a different inning. I believe, if you see it, you can be it. A retired schoolteacher in her 80s wrote me a handwritten letter during the lockout and sent me $1.50. She was on a fixed income. She wrote, "Young man, you're doing the right thing. Stick to your guns." She validated me and from there, it was on.
Q: It had to be hot, though. All the media coming at you, meeting the school board, the angry parents and teachers.
A: Yeah, but I'm real calm. I'm real attentive when it comes to coaching basketball. But I'm not the type to rant and rave. I think as a leader you must always be in control. I say, 'Young man, you're late. You owe me 2,000 pushups. And if you say anything, it's 4,000.' Those things have to be done before they even participate in any kind of practice or a game.
Q: What would you say is the worst thing that's ever happened to you and the best thing that's ever happened to you?
A: I don't think any bad things have ever happened to me. I just look at them as testimonials. If you don't have a strong test, you don't have a strong testimonial. I just look at the bright side of every single thing. I just know I'm going to overcome it. You can be big, you can be fast and you can be bright, but hard work will never go out of style. I just believe in working through problems – and I don't look at them as problems. I look at them as challenges. And I know, sooner or later, I'm going to conquer them.
Q: Are you a man of faith?
A: Yes, I am.
Q: Does that play a role?
A: Yes, but I also … you know, I listen to rap music. You have to be a lifelong learner. You have to learn what your kids are listening to so you can communicate with them. By no stretch of the imagination am I trying to be their friend or partner. I talk to them, though – some every single night. But there's always a separation – between coach and player, between parent and child. I hope people will contact me, though. I would like kids to correspond with me, about how to improve their grades and anything else.
For more information about Coach Carter and his non-profit foundation, which awards college scholarships to incoming freshmen and mentors junior high students, visit www.coachcarter.com.
Paramount Pictures' "Coach Carter" releases in theaters nationwide on Friday, January 14, 2005.


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