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Hi Abu,floating_abu wrote:you have been hitting the Treeleaf line for a long time now, I am no fan of Jundo and would not take guidance from him myself, but the reality is this whole world sees things differently. Almost all of Treeleaf Sangha is here to defend the group, and if they find it useful, then who are we to argue that.
The topic is not about usefulness, it's about the Treeleaf controversy, which centers around the issue of 'online sangha', or at least that's the aspect currently being discussed.


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Lela Lorena Reid, 91, a homemaker of Thomasville, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 23, 1920 in Marengo County. She was a member of the Elam Baptist Church for 75 years.
Funeral services were Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 at Elam Baptist Church with Revs. Danny Ellis and Mark Dunn officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
She is survived by her husband, Roy Lee Reid of Thomasville; daughter, Barbara Reid (Robert) Smith of Thomasville; two grandchildren, Melissa (Woodie) Newton and Jaclyn Smith Browder; four great-grandchildren, Grant Newton, Andrew Newton, Justin Browder and James Browder.
Pallbearers were George Pugh, Richard Pugh, Joseph Pugh, Scottie Reid, Tommy Reid and Johnny Reid.
Condolences may be offered at www.obryantchapelfh.com.
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Read these two books in tandem and you realize that Bob Dole's role as poster boy for Viagra wasn't quite logical: Jerry Falwell would have made more sense. Talk About Sex details how the Christian right in the past generation has made sure that adults who teach sex education in public schools can't discuss sex with kids–unless they say what the right wants them to. A New View of Women's Sexual Problems describes how drug companies these days are manipulating the national conversation that adults have with other adults about sex. With new orgasm bromides in the works–this time for women–don't be surprised if the drug industry hires Phyllis Schlafly as its next celebrity promoter. After all, when it comes to talk about sex in the United States, there's a growing connection between religion and medicine.
As Talk about Sex describes in grim detail, the Christian right since the late 1960s has virtually shut down meaningful public school sex education in grades K through 12. If this is bad for young people in school, it may be worse after they graduate and grow up. Adults these days–particularly women–tell therapists and researchers about sex without desire, sex without orgasm, sex with pain, sex experienced infrequently and sex had not at all. Pharmaceutical firms are excited about these reports. They're eager to define women's sexual complaints as medical problems rather than social, economic or psychological conditions. A furious effort is under way to develop pills, pumps, patches and gels: distaff versions of the enormously profitable Viagra. Will these climax elixirs make women (and men) happier? Or will they keep people ignorant about the all-too-human complexities of Eros as they reduce sexuality to hormones and chemicals–while pressuring consumers to shell out zillions to the likes of Pfizer? Contributors to A New View worry about the latter scenario. And the author of Talk About Sex implicitly lays some of the blame for this dismal possibility on the Pat Robertsons of the world–those who've used religious rhetoric to eliminate sex-ed classes.
But wait, you may be saying: My child and my friends' kids do get sex ed. Yes, but have you checked the curriculum? In Talk About Sex, sociologist Janice Irvine reports that nationwide these days, about one in four US school districts require a sole approach: "Abstinence Only"–no sex until marriage. A raft of covertly religious lesson plans, many with innocuous titles such as "Teen Aid," hammer home the message. Many are supported by Christian right groups like Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women for America. Abstinence-only curriculums teach the names of body parts used to make babies, but are silent on how those parts might be used for pleasure while avoiding problems like sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancy. Teachers obsessively instruct adolescents (girls especially) on how to say no to sex but never on intelligent ways to say yes. They offer no counsel on distinguishing love from lust, and purse their lips at the latter. Birth control is discussed only in terms of its failures. Masturbation is a taboo subject. So is abortion. If homosexuality is mentioned at all, it is typically derided as an AIDS-infected "death style." Meanwhile, only one in ten classes teach what's called "comprehensive" sex ed, which is supposed to include objective information on contraception, condom use and homosexuality. But even in these classes, emphasis increasingly is on abstinence only. Many students report getting no information about subjects like how birth control works and where to get it.


text: The fall gaming season is upon gamers. This means wallets cry out in pain as gamers spend money like mad. The question is what should they buy day one? How fast will the price drop on some of these games? Its so tough to decide what to get with games like Halo 4, ACIII, Black Ops 2, Epic Mickey 2, 007 Legends, Dishonored, Resident Evil 6, Far Cry 3 and the list goes on and on.


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Paper Mario: Sticker Star team explains removal of RPG elements
Paper Mario: Sticker Star is a pure platformer that does away with the RPG elements of previous games in Nintendo's papercraft series. In the latest issue of the developer's 'Iwata Asks' panel sessions, the Nintendo president quizzed the team about Miyamoto's decision to shift towards a pure platform format. Check out their reasoning below.
Responding to Iwata's question, Kensuke Tanabe of Nintendo's software planning division replied, "Aside from wanting us to change the atmosphere a lot, there were two main things that Miyamoto-san said from the start of the project: 'It's fine without a story, so do we really need one?' And, 'As much as possible, complete it with only characters from the Super Mario world.'"
The move was backed up by focus testing it seems, as Tanabe added, "With regard to the story, we did a survey over the Super Paper Mario game in Club Nintendo, and not even 1% said the story was interesting. A lot of people said that the flip move for switching between the 3D and 2D dimensions was fun."
Vanpool representative Taro Kudo backed up Miyamoto's decision, "I originally saw it in a way that's similar to Miyamoto-san. Personally I think all we need is to have an objective to win the boss battle at the end of the game. I didn't think we necessarily needed a lengthy story like in an RPG.
"Instead, we looked at the characteristics of a portable game that can be played little by little in small pieces and packed in lots of little episodes and ideas. I always did like putting in little ideas, so I actually enjoyed it."
The team focused purely on Super Mario World's enemy set, and didn't add in any new friendly characters, except from multiple Toads of varying colours. Kudo expressed a fondness for the project's increased focus.
"Personally, the more restrictions there were, the more excited I got," he explained, "They may look the same, but we put in some elements in which their personalities are slightly different, so you can tell the difference and you think, 'Hey! Are you that Toad from back then?' Toward the end of development, I could feel that I became one with Toad! [laughs]"
So there you go, lots of Toad, lots of classic platforming, and lots of Super Mario World. But will you miss the RPG elements? Let us know below.


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A month's worth of shows has come to an end, and fashionable folk from all over the world are returning home from Paris. Lest they be too sad about leaving the City of Lights, we're here to remind everyone just how good the looks off the catwalk were.
We've already seen who wore what in New York and London, so now it's time to get some inspiration from the Parisian streets. Enjoy!


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I assume it was supposed to be a third volume in the Rhythm Master series of Glen Brown's comps , but since Hot Pot doesn't operate any more, is there any chance we have this third opus one day (via B&F revival ?) ?
I noted those tracks from the Glen Brown compilations on Greensleeve that were absent from the Hot Pot ones and still waiting for a reissue :
From : Boat To Progress! The Original Pantomine Vocal Collection 1970-74
– Little Roy Father's Call
– Glen Brown Tell It Like It Is
– Glen Brown Boat To Progress
From : Check The Winner The Original Pantomine Instrumental Collection 1970-74
– Ron Wilson* & Lennox Brown Scatter Lite Rock
– Glen Brown Glen Brown At The Crossroads
– Ron Wilson* Get Up
– Glen Brown & Glenroy Richards Mitchville Rock
– Bobby Aitken Mr. Baldhead Aitken
From : Dubble Attack The Original Pantomine Dee-Jay Collection 1972-74
- U-Roy No.1 In The World
– Dean Beckford Father's Call
– Godsons* This A Year Fe Rebels
– Berry Simpson Whole Lot Of Sugar
– I-Roy Festive Season
– Prince Jazzbo Mr. Want All
– Lloyd Young Butter Bread


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April 18, 1948 - February 25, 2013
Hortonville, NY
Joseph H. Walker, of Hortonville, NY, a longtime resident of the area, entered into peace at home on February 25, 2013, after a long, courageous battle with illness.
Son of the late Ralph H. and Lillian Nugent Walker, he was born April 18, 1948 in Bronx, NY. He moved to the area in the early 1960's from Cresskill, NJ.
A member of the Class of 1966 at Delaware Valley Central School in Callicoon, NY, he earned a BS degree from Cornell University and a MS degree from SUNY Binghamton. He worked as a computer technologist at Electro-Kinetics in Callicoon.
Joe was a proud veteran of the US Navy, serving aboard the USS Piedmont, during the Vietnam War. He was a dedicated Firefighter with the Hortonville Volunteer Fire Department. Joe found great enjoyment riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle and was a member of the Iron Butts Association.
He is survived by his wife, Theresa Kobylenski Walker, two step-daughters and their husbands: Jennifer Stewart (Christopher Akin), Amy Stewart (Gary Winglovitz); five grandchildren: Alexandria, Rayna, and Koby Akin, Avianna and Miles Winglovitz; his mother-in-law, Julia Kobylenski; four brothers: Daniel, James, Dennis and Kevin Walker; three sisters: Margaret Gray, Elizabeth Thompson and Danielle Edwards; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents: Ralph and Lillian Walker; his brother, Charles Walker and his sister, Jane Toscanno.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on February 27th at Stewart-Murphy Funeral Home, 34 Upper Main St., Callicoon, NY, with Firematic Services at 7:45 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held on February 28th, at Holy Cross Church, Rt. 97, Callicoon, NY at 11 a.m. Father Charles O'Connor will officiate. Burial will follow in the New Holy Cross Cemetery, Callicoon, NY.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hortonville Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 71, Hortonville, NY 12745, Sullivan County SPCA, 25 Rock Hill Dr., Rock Hill, NY 12775 or the Oncology Department at Wayne Memorial Hospital, Honesdale, PA 18431.


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School districts: Manchester maps and choicesEDITORIAL
April 25. 2013 12:13AM
Making more efficient use of Manchester's public school resources is a must, and one way to do that is through redistricting. The school board, though, keeps killing the idea. Something has to change.
Superintendent Thomas Brennan has proposed yet another redistricting plan. It would free up space in elementary schools by creating a central preschool, and it would feed elementary students to their closest middle school rather than have students spreading to all of the middle schools. Naturally, it is hitting the school board wall.
School board members have to answer to parents. Most parents don't want their children being forcibly moved to another school. They call their school board member, and the school board member opposes redistricting.
The parents' feelings are perfectly understandable. Who wants their children to be pawns of a massive bureaucracy? And yet redistricting of some sort needs to happen. The schools cannot afford to continue operating under the existing inefficiencies. At some point, school board members are going to have to put the interests of the students at large before their own electoral prospects.
There is another way. It will never happen, though. It would take even more courage from elected officials. It is school choice.
The obvious solution is to end this outdated district system and empower parents by letting them choose the school that best suits their children. Why should the quality and appropriateness of your children's education be dictated by lines drawn on a map?
If we want to dramatically improve city schools while making more efficient use of our scarce education dollars, the answer is to let schools compete for those dollars. We would see a transformation almost overnight. But that is a huge power to give up. Which is why parents will have to fight for it if they want it.


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text: Panini NFL Player of the Day Winner Gets to Hang Out With Hakeem Nicks March 21, 2013 | Tom Bartsch | Leave a reply Frank Rosato of New Providence, N.J., is the winner of Panini's NFL Player of the Day promotion. He gets to spend a day with Hakeem Nicks, including a private party at his home and a special signing event at the shop Attack of the Baseball Cards. Read More


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Steve Jobs writes: "Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat."


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The Wolves have decided to go independent, according to athletic director/football coach Matt Olesnevich.
St. Francis, which in the latest Florida High School Athletic Association's football assignments had been placed in District 2-3A, has decided to instead go independent, according to athletic director/football coach Matt Olesnevich.
The move comes nearly one month after Oak Hall announced it was going independent, citing size difference with the other schools, such as Ocala Trinity Catholic, a traditionally rich football program.
"We felt for the safety of our program, we needed to move to independent football for the next two years," Olesnevich said. "We had a lot of the similar concerns that Oak Hall had."
Of the original six schools in the district, St. Francis had the smallest student population at 241, followed by Oak Hall at 246. Trinity Catholic had the largest population at 501, followed by P.K. Yonge at 469. The district also includes Daytona Beach Father Lopez (408) and Tallahassee Maclay (367).
"We didn't want to go independent," Olesnevich said. "We were hoping the FHSAA would have made some adjustments to the district during the appeal process. But that didn't happen. So we decided to go independent."
Last year, both St. Francis and Oak Hall were in Class 2A, playing in District 2, and P.K. Yonge was independent. In the previous two years, Trinity Catholic played in the two-team District 3-3A, that included Fort White.


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Former U.S. Sen Bob Smith tops straw poll at annual CNHT picnic in HillsboroughStaff report
July 05. 2014 8:32PM
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Smith topped former state Sen. Jim Rubens in a straw poll of Republican candidates seeking to unseat Democrat Jeanne Shaheen as U.S. senator.
The poll was taken Saturday at the annual picnic of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers held at the American Legion Hall 59 in Hillsborough.
Scott Brown, the former U.S. senator from Massachusetts known for his more moderate stance, came in third. He did not attend the event. Brown, Rubens and Smith are vying for the party's nomination in the Sept. 9 primary.
The straw poll results were provided by Brian Tilton, spokesman for the Rubens campaign. He did not know the exact tallies.
Several attempts to reach Edward Naile of the Coalition, other event organizers and several candidates were unsuccessful.
The gathering drew an estimated 150 people - including Republican candidates for governor, both congressional districts, Executive Council and the state Legislature.
"People are pretty energized. People are very concerned with what's going on with our state's economy and our national economy," Tilton said.
Also discussed were concerns about "government overreach" and infringement on the consitutional and the right to bear arms, he said.
A Ruger Takedown Rifle and Ruger .380 LCP pistol were raffled off at the event.
"People are looking for candidates they can support - people who match their views on issues they care about," Tilton said.
Rubens discussed his concerns about deficit spending and growth in the federal government since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Tilton said.


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Tracy, CA
Larry J. Alvarez
Aug. 5, 1949 - Nov. 18, 2012
Larry J. Alvarez passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Sunday, November 18,
2012 at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, CA at the age of 63. He was born August 5, 1949 in Tracy and has lived in Tracy his entire life. Larry Alvarez was loving father, grandfather, brother, husband and friend that was proud and honored to be from Tracy, CA. He began his life in Tracy, attended and graduated from Tracy High School and then attended/ graduated from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor's Degree in business. He returned to Tracy to pursue his love and passion for farming and continue his legacy with the family business. Larry loved to be a farmer, his work was his love but loved his friends, loved all seasons, loved his family and especially his children. He served in the Army and National Guard Reserves, Larry was a member of St. Bernard's Catholic Church, member of Tracy Country Club, past Board Member of California Tomato Grower Association for 11 years, member of Road's Bean and Supply.
He is survived by his children Alesha Alvarez, her husband Gus Jimenez of San Ramon, CA, Mitch Alvarez of Stockton, CA and Joey Alvarez of Tracy, CA, his grandchildren Joseph Alvarez Jr of
Florida, Mateo Jimenez and Givani Jimenez both of San Ramon, CA, his dad Joe Alvarez of Tracy, his sister Patty Robidart of Pinole, CA, his cousin Jack Alvarez who was like a brother, his nieces and nephews John, Nick, Julie, Becky Robidart, Emily Rooney and Katie Katz. He is preceded in death by his mother the Late Brijida (Bre) Alvarez.
Fry Memorial Chapel, 550 South Central Avenue, is honored to serve the Alvarez family. Visitation will be held on Wednesday November 28, 2012 from 1-5 pm at Fry Memorial Chapel, on Thursday November 29, at 10:00 am a Chapel Service will be held at Fry Memorial Chapel. Final resting place will be at Tracy Public
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This cherry drop leaf table was probably made by a member of the Munn family of woodworkers in Deerfield, 1740-1780. It was owned by the Hoyt family in the Old Indian House. The shaped skirts at each end are applied and intended to accentuate the curvature of the legs. Two of the four legs are fixed and the other two move to support the leaves. Benjamin Munn (1683-1774) and his son Benjamin (1708-c.1788) were carpenters. The second Benjamin's son, also a Benjamin (1738-1824) and nephew Francis (1743-1818) were joiners.
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ROME (AP) — Italy on Wednesday marked the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Jews from Rome's ghetto amid deep anger over the late Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke and his Holocaust-denying final statement.
Priebke died Friday in Rome, where he was serving a life term for his role in the 1944 massacre of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside the capital. It was one of the worst atrocities of Germany's World War II occupation of Italy.
His death at age 100 has unleashed a torrent of emotion, because he left behind a document in which he not only defended his actions but denied that Jews were gassed in Nazi death camps.
His stance enraged Rome's Jewish community, which gathered Wednesday in Rome's main synagogue to commemorate the Oct. 16, 1943, roundup of Jews bound for Auschwitz and to warn of the continued dangers posed by Holocaust deniers like Priebke.
The head of Italy's Jewish communities, Renzo Gattegna, referred to Priebke in his remarks but refused to pronounce his name "to not profane this sacred place."
He said the Nazis were assassins of innocents.
"Their followers are assassins of memory. They will never win," he declared.
On Tuesday, a Senate committee passed a bill criminalizing such Holocaust denial — passage that was given greater impulse because of the outcry over Priebke's final words. The head of Rome's Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici, urged full passage of the bill in Parliament.
Pacifici said the uproar over Priebke had at least one positive outcome in that it showed the "beautiful face of Italy." Both civil and Catholic Church officials in Rome denied Priebke a church funeral and burial, fearing such an event could have turned into a pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.
Those fears were borne out on Tuesday, when plans by a fringe Catholic church to celebrate a funeral Mass for Priebke were called off amid clashes between Priebke's right-wing supporters and protesters in the city of Albano Laziale, south of Rome.
There remained the question of what to do with Priebke's remains, which reportedly were spirited out of the Albano church overnight and taken to a military air base. Rome's mayor and prefect announced that negotiations were underway with Germany to take them.
In Berlin, German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer confirmed there had been "informal contacts" with Italian authorities. He said he wasn't aware of anything that would prevent a German citizen from being buried in Germany but that it was a matter for Priebke's family and the Italian authorities to work out.
Wednesday's anniversary commemorations began at 5:30 a.m. with the sounding of the shofar, a ram's horn trumpet, to commemorate the moment when Nazi forces rounded up more than 1,000 Jews from Rome's ghetto and nearby neighborhoods and sent them by train to Auschwitz. Only 16 survived.
Two of them are still alive, including Enzo Camerino, 84, who was 14 when he, his mother, father, brother, sister and uncle were taken from their home at Viale delle Milizie near the Vatican.
In an interview Wednesday, Camerino told The Associated Press what happened next — a story he told Pope Francis in person during a private audience earlier in the day: how the family was kept at Rome's military college for two days, then taken by train and brought to Auschwitz in a railway car chock full of women, children and the sick.
"In the first years after, I didn't talk about it with anyone," Camerino said over coffee with his daughter Julia, who is named for his late mother. "Then we started going back to the concentration camps and I started to talk about the past."
He rolled up his sleeve to reveal the individual prisoner number that was tattooed onto the forearms of Auschwitz inmates: 158509. He also immediately recalled the prisoner numbers of his father and uncle, who both died in the Nazi death camp.
Asked how the recent furor over Priebke has affected him, Camerino said he felt little emotion but acknowledged the unfairness of life.
"For me, he never should have lived to be 100," he told the AP.
Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed.
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When construction started on the Motel 71 in June, 1948, it was a state-of-the-art building, the very model of a modern "auto court."
This past week, the local landmark for the past 63 years was demolished to make room for a medical supply business.
A local landmark for the past 63 years was demolished last week. When construction started on the Motel 71 in June, 1948, it was a state-of-the-art building, the very model of a modern "auto court." Motel 71 was created alongside Highway 19/71 by Dick and Hazel Dirlam, who designed it with all the latest 1948 conveniences and safety features. Originally the 15-unit hotel included just two wings: the 135-foot wing running parallel to the highway, and the 110-foot wing jutting off at an angle to the north. The western wing was added later. Each suite was 12 by 18 feet, with partitions of steel insulated with "rock wool" to make them as soundproof as possible. The cement floors were inlaid with copper tubes to provide radiant heat from a central hot water system, state of the art for 1949. To celebrate the grand opening, the Dirlams held an open house on April 13-14, welcoming the public to inspect "southern Minnesota's newest and finest auto court." The advertisement for the open house says, "Ultra modern in every respect . . . with the new Radiant Panel Heating . . . Tiled Bath Room in every one of the 15 units . . . Constructed throughout with steel to be completely fireproof and Luxuriously Furnished." Many local residents took rooms out of curiosity that first night. On April 13, the hotel was filled to capacity, two days before its official opening. The April 12, 1949 Redwood Gazette featured a full-page ad, with the various contractors offering their congratulations to the Dirlams. Among the companies that contributed were: • Fisher's Coast-to-Coast store, which supplied the plumbing and plastic wall tile, • Redwood Ready-Mix Concrete Co. • Engelen Steel Co., which supplied the steel framing. • Wolff's Refrigeration Service and Electrical Contracting. • Hanson Block and Tile • Byram Construction Co. • Citizens State Bank of Redwood Falls • Hylland Lumber Co. • Botsford Lumber Co. In addition, Redwood Falls Farmers Lumber and Coal used its wood shop to create some of the original room fixtures. (Interestingly, the Motel 71 opened just a week after the new, $20,000 VFW hall opened its doors across the street.) Over the years the Motel 71 saw several different owners, and gradually fell into disrepair. Earlier this year, the Motel 71 site was bought by Rice Hospital in Willmar, who will use it to build a new medical supply store for southwest Minnesota. "The location on the highway in Redwood Falls is great for our needs," said Sue Schlagel, of Rice Hospital last week. Schlagel said Rice Home Medical is still considering architects' designs for a 7,000 square foot store to be built on the lot in the next few months, although no deadline has been set in stone yet.


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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed he had been unaware of Michu prior to his summer move to Swansea City.
Michu, 26, proved prolific in La Liga last season with Rayo Vallecano and has been a revelation in the Premier League since making a £2 million move to Swansea, with Spain boss Vicente Del Bosque even talking of a potential call-up to the national team.
Ferguson, though, has admitted he had little knowledge of the player and feels his side may have missed out.
"Michael Laudrup is cherry-picking and the boy Michu was a first-class piece of business," he said on the club's official website. "Just £2 million and I'd never really heard of him. I should have a word with my scouting department!"
United take on Swansea on Sunday looking to restore their six-point advantage over second-placed Manchester City, but Ferguson knows Michu is capable of causing problems.
In quotes reported by the Sunday Mirror, he added: "The fact that Michu has had such an impact so early at least gives us the chance to assess him. He can play up front, of course, but he can also drop into midfield so that they can bring in Danny Graham.
"Not knowing where Michu will play gives us a problem. We have to be aware of his threat."
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Ferguson has been impressed by Laudrup's work and expressed his disbelief that a number of players had questioned the Dane's methods in a meeting with chairman Huw Jenkins.
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Looking at the clock. Staring into the distance. Short, nondescript answers.
A CEO recently told me how he'd frequently see this body language from an employee during their one-on-one meetings. Flat. Disinterested. Preoccupied. It felt lousy to witness, but it'd always been this way. He'd silently concluded that he was wasting both of their time.
"I want to know what's on his mind and how I can help, but these one-on-one meetings just aren't working," this CEO admitted to me. "I'm not really sure what to do except to stop having them."
To see if I could help, I asked him what questions he was asking. He shared them with me… and then it clicked.
The once hazy picture zoomed into focus: This CEO was asking the wrong questions. All of his questions were questions, no doubt. But therein lay the problem. Stock questions might be effective once or twice. But ask them during every one-on-one, every week, and over time, and the effectiveness of the question erodes. The person grows sick of answering the question. Or she doesn't think you really care to know the answer anymore. Before too long, she starts looking at the clock, staring into the distance, and giving you those short, nondescript answers.
To avoid this, you'll want to avoid the routine questions you lean on. Below are the four most common questions I've found used during one-on-one meetings that elicit dead-end, unhelpful responses. Take a look and see which ones you might be asking:
Ah, the perennial one-on-one meeting opener. It like a solid way to break the ice and initiate the one-on-one meeting. Yet it's unusual that you ever get an answer other than "Fine" or "Good" in response. While someone might truly be fine and good in reality (which is great!)… the conversation usually stops there. Anything personal you wanted to learn, any sense of rapport you wanted to create dies with the question, "How's it going?" This is because, as a society, the question "How's it going?" has become our automatic greeting to each other, so our answer to it has become just as automatic.
If you're looking for a casual, open-ended way to kick off a one-on-one, ask "How's life? " instead. It may not seem like a big difference, but it makes a big difference. "How's life?" gives permission for someone to talk more personally about — about what they did that weekend, how their family is doing, how their personal side project is coming along, how they're managing their workload. "How's life?" invites the other person to elaborate. Though, quite frankly, almost any other opening question than "How's it going?" to going to help you learn more about how someone is doing in their life.
It can be tempting to use your one-on-one session as time to get caught up on what's going on. However, keep in mind that this completely squanders the purpose of your one-on-one meeting, to begin with. A one-on-one meeting isn't a reporting session. It's not an accountability tool. A one-on-one meeting is your radar. It's your metal detector. It's one of the only ways you have to unearth what's actually going on in your team, and what an employee is thinking and feeling. You can get a list of deliverables in Slack any ol' time. Client problems, unforeseen issues with the product, messy team dynamics, unspoken personal frustration — this is only time you'll get to hear that stuff.
Some of you may be thinking, "Well, Claire, asking this question helped me get good insights into the team's problems." Yes, I'm with you. This question "What's the latest on X?" can be great if you're using it to segue into asking deeper questions. For example, perhaps you follow it up with, "What's most frustrating about how X has been going so far?" Or, "Where do you feel you need more support in working on X?" Merely asking "What's the latest on X?" falls flat if you use it singularly.
Ask something specific about the project, instead of asking for a general project update. Possibly my favorite question to ask to instead of "What's the latest on X?" is " Can you tell me about what's been most surprising about working on X so far? "If an employee has found something surprising, good chances that you'll find it surprising too. A surprising insight is always useful for you to form an accurate picture of potential issues bubbling up within your team.
The intention behind this question is fantastic. You want to help, you want to get out of their way, you want to figure what you can be doing better. However, this question is the worst way to signal that. Why? It's . It makes the person receiving the question do all the hard work of having to come up with the answer. It's also a very hard question to answer, especially on-the-spot and given that you're a person in a position of power. You're asking a person to critique you, "The Boss," across all spectrums and come up with something actionable for to do. If you do ask this question, answers tend to be, "Nothing I can think of right now," something vague, or an answer that involves something that you're already doing. Rarely do you get a precise, thoughtful to-do that you'll then go implement the next day.
Suggest something think you can be doing to help. Then ask, "What do you think?" For example: " I was thinking I'm being too hands-on on this project. Should I back off and check-in with you only bi-weekly? What do you think? " By being targeted in what you suggest — and suggesting it — you make it easier for that person to share the exact ways in which you can support them. You help your employees by suggesting what think you can do to help, first.
This is the vaguest of questions. The problem with vague questions is they invite vague answers. You prompt the person to offer broad suppositions and knee-jerk assumptions, instead of exact details and practical examples. Ask an employee "How can we improve?" and they think, "Hmm, from a business development perspective? Marketing perspective? Leadership perspective? Where to even begin?" Now, some employees you work with will be able to craft a distinct, rich answer from this question. But it's infrequent. And it's probable they spent a good chunk of time thinking about the answer ahead of time. For most employees who you ask this question to without any warning, you'll receive a variant of "I think things are pretty good right now" about 90% of the time.
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You may have cringed while reading this list. Many of you (including myself!) have found yourself asking all four questions, at one time or another.
No need to panic or be hard on yourself. You haven't inflicted irreparable harm to your team. Your sins are not unforgivable. Rather, I hope sharing the unintended consequences of these four questions nudge you to evaluate the questions you ask during your one-on-one meetings a little more closely.
The questions do the heavy lifting. The questions determine the path to which your one-on-one meetings will take. Ask thoughtful, sincere questions, and there's a higher likelihood your answers returned back to you will be thoughtful and sincere too.
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Weeds: Season Five (2009)
No one can accuse the show of shrinking from dark psychological themes: the leading character of Nancy Botwin (Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker) has spun more wildly out of control with each season...
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Okay, everybody, back to your shopping--there's nothing to see here.
Cliffhanger (1993)
As preposterous as this "
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remains one of the zestier big-budget action pictures of the nineties.
Last Action Hero (1993)
Considered a dunderheaded big-budget flop in its day,
Last Action Hero
looks considerably better now in its creative self-parody.
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Sets thoughts swirling about three bitch-goddesses: the teenage variety (namely Megan Fox's Jennifer), "success" in the commercial cinema, and that fickle mistress called hype.
The Hangover (2009)
The stupid fun of
The Hangover
is worth experiencing at least once.
Moon (2009)
Jones has a very interesting existential idea here, and though he frustratingly doesn't exploit its every possibility, he does give a great actor an opportunity for a tour-de-force performance.
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
The playful Generation Y story
(500) Days of Summer
goes against the grain by wisely substituting delusion for deception. Boy meets girl. Boy thinks he understands girl. Boy oh boy.
The Mel Brooks Collection (2009)
Gathers nine of the comedy icon's best-known comedy films, an impressive haul by any standard.
District 9 (2009)
District 9
City of God
War of the Worlds
hybrid proves overbearing and under-convincing.
Extract (2009)
Bateman reliably tickles in his signature role of a square who can't catch a break, and Wiig once more delivers subtly funny character work in a tricky role.
The Sopranos: The Complete First Season (TV) (1999)
Tony is as much an archetype of the American father as Homer Simpson, only just smart enough to be perpetually miserable.
A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël: Roubaix!!) (2008)
In working to keep the audience off-center...Desplechin artfully makes the well-worn family-weekend plot endearing again.
Lost: The Complete Fifth Season (TV) (2009)
A serially bold experiment in audience engagement and the ability to produce feature-quality genre entertainment...on a weekly television budget.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Musters only a few lackluster laughs...[but] has one trump card: it's a kid-friendly, "PG" film that celebrates museums.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas (V) (2009)
Rude, raunchy and given to comical violence, the show sets out to offend delicate sensibilities and to get tough ones laughing their asses off. Abandon political correctness all who enter here.
Rome—The Complete Series (TV) (2005)
Whether you're talking about an empire or a TV series, it doesn't get much bigger than
Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... Season One (2008)
Because Costello is himself so hugely talented as an eclectic songwriter and performer, because his taste is so impeccable, and because he is such a cultural magpie...
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Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season (2008)
Series creator Bill Lawrence has always toggled between the zany and the emotional, and the eighth season is no exception.
Terminator Salvation (2009)
The action sometimes conjures a thrill-ride's breathtaking quality or, in other words,
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The General (1926)
Keaton proves as endlessly clever and athletic as his screen surrogates...chock-full of hilarious sight gags, including bits of business that incorporate moving trains, cow-catchers, a bear (and bear trap), and a misbehaving cannon.
Clerks (1994)
Guaranteed to entertain actual "clerks" and those who have outgrown slackerdom to look back in bemused fondness at wasted time.
Chasing Amy (1997)
Smith has made a film with the potential to improve gender relations—without sacrificing his profane style.
Shorts (2009)
Just creative enough to keep kids glazed over with nominal interest, but it won't challenge them much...
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Undeniably manipulative, not only in its plot, but in its dramatization of it.
Fight Club (1999)
One of the seminal films of the 1990s...just as darkly funny, epic, and psychically wrenching as ever.
Brüno (2009)
Ribbing for your pleasure,
is crafted to cause a flurry of varied reactions, even within a single viewer.
Rocky: The Undisputed Collection (1976)
For everything else that's come down the road, nothing has been better to Stallone than his baby,
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
Does Chris Columbus owe somebody a favor?
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Has enough crisp sight gags, character moments, frantic mayhem, and musical interludes...to box the family crowd into a state of punch-drunk love.
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
A labor of love...so it's appropriate that the film should also be about love, the spanner in the works that allows humanity to triumph over machinery.
Food, Inc. (2009)
Usefully, it provides counter-balance to its own doom-saying with numerous suggestions of how to deal with the corporatization of food.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
'A remake
a hostage picture! Can both the good guys and the bad guys use Sony laptops?' Yes, they can.
Orphan (2009)
Comes close to the pantheon of so-bad-they're-good horror movies, but as they say, no cigar.
Bones: Season Four (2008)
Boreanaz and Deschanel keep the series percolating with their oil-and-water opposites shtick, defined less by chafing annoyance and more by mutual respect...naturally, these opposites attract.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1993)
Branagh's ambitious take succeeds as a cautionary tale about true monstrosity: hubris and man's inhumanity to man. But one man's operatic style is another man's unintentionally comical excess, and ...
certainly tempts fate...
Wolf (1994)
Mike Nichols' underrated 1994 hybrid not only of wolf and man, but also of satire and horror...an eccentric film that may well be regarded, decades hence, as a movie classic.
The Prisoner: The Complete Series (1967)
There is no escape from The Village: you're living in it.
Easy Rider (1969)
Remains a powerful tone poem about America at a cultural crossroads.
North By Northwest (1959)
Thrilling, funny, and romantic; it elevates popcorn adventure to art...defines the ideal use of star power....[and] marries deadly intrigue to out-and-out delight.
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A few months back, Deer & Deer Hunting ran an opinion piece titled, "Great Sport, Horrible God," by Rev. Zeke Pipher. Even if you're not a Christian, it was great advice on a strictly secular level. All of us, including me, should be careful to not take deer and deer hunting too seriously. (The sport, that is—not the magazine.)
There is, however, one more way that hunting is like a religion. As with any religion, joining is rarely a conscious choice. "To hunt, or not to hunt?" That is rarely the question. You're simply born into a hunting family or a nonhunting family, just as you're born into a Lutheran family or a Baptist family.
Actually, hunters are more like Hindus; converts are few indeed. Hindus don't proselytize; although there are apparently minor doctrinal differences on this point, you pretty much have to be born a Hindu. We hunters are like that, too. Instead, I say we should be more like Mormons or Baptists. We should get out there and evangelize.
I was lucky. I'm one of those rare people who began hunting relatively late in life. By chance, I already had some of the basic skills. I grew up on a farm—or at least a hobby farm. We butchered our own chickens and ducks, so I had a pretty good idea of where meat comes from.
I also shot lots of sparrows and blackbirds with my BB gun; that's what farm kids do. Later I graduated to an air rifle and a .22 rimfire; in eighth grade I even joined the rifle club. The indoor range was in a basement under our high school gymnasium. (This was a while back.) I was a lot scrawnier back then; I remember those borrowed match rifles as being very, very heavy.
Somehow, though, when I was finally ready to hunt something more useful than sparrows or blackbirds, it just didn't happen. The opportunity just wasn't there. I moved on to other interests, and spent the next couple decades living in big cities. For years, I rarely picked up a rifle.
In my late 40s, I finally left the city and moved to Wisconsin's north woods. Not long after, a friend invited me to try grouse hunting. It turned out to be great fun, and the few grouse I do manage to hit every fall are a special treat. But for me, grouse hunting would be a very poor way to live off the land. It's mostly just a hike in the woods. As a bonus, it's actually a great workout. Power walkers back in the city might carry hand weights; I carry a six-pound shotgun.
Between then and the following autumn, my friend Eric and I began talking more about deer hunting. Turns out there's way more meat on a deer than on a grouse. When Eric and Julie had us over for dinner, they made venison. So did some of our other new neighbors. It was delicious, and the hard work of hunting was part of what made it special. When we reciprocated with store-bought salmon or pork chops, it felt like we weren't quite holding up our end of the bargain.
If you've recognized my name at all, you know what happened next. I went shopping for another rifle. After I shot my first deer, Eric showed me how to field-dress and butcher it. Being a writer, I immediately started wondering if there might be a book in there somewhere. Together, Eric and I wrote Gut It. Cut It. Cook It.: The Deer Hunter's Guide to Processing and Preparing Venison. Now, a few years later, Eric's still the expert. I was strictly the writer and photographer on that project. But I'm learning.
I've also learned a few more things. I've learned just how unusual my conversion was; hunters rarely make an effort to recruit their nonhunting friends, neighbors, and co-workers. (Thank you, Eric!) Knowing our numbers are declining year after year, we do try hard to recruit new hunters. The problem, though, is that we focus nearly all of those recruiting efforts on children—mostly our own.
When we talk about recruiting new hunters, we use the word "recruitment" in almost the same way wildlife biologists do. Recruitment rates are all about how many young from hunting families will survive and grow up to be hunters. We have to get them when they're young, the theory goes. If we don't, it will be too late. They'll become addicted to video games, or maybe take up golf or drinking. They'll be lost forever.
Granted, there's some truth to all that. Still, we're missing out on an even larger pool of potential new recruits: other grownups. For some reason, we don't even try. True, there are exceptions. We're especially doing more to recruit women hunters, and that's good. But mostly, we're trying very hard to recruit eight and 10 year olds.
Believe it or not, plenty of adult nonhunters are ripe for conversion—possibly more than ever before. One reason is that we Americans are becoming more environmentally aware; most of us accept that, in the absence of other predators, hunting remains our best available means for restoring the balance we've disrupted.
A moment ago, I almost slipped and wrote "in the absence of natural predators." But we're natural predators, too. Most nonhunters understand this. Whatever they may think of trophy hunting, they feel OK about hunters who eat what they shoot.
Meanwhile, more Americans than ever before are making conscious food-buying decisions. They're paying more attention to where their food is coming from, and they're eager to eat organic, eat lean, and eat locally. (Organic, free-range venison, anyone?) They're not just eating granola and tofu, either. A few months back, a cover story in Publisher's Weekly described three key trends in the latest crop of cookbooks: an interest in sustainable, locally sourced food; a willingness to spend time creating meals that are more labor-intensive, but also more rewarding; and, most of all, cookbooks about meat.
The Meat Hook, a neighborhood butcher shop in Brooklyn, regularly offers evening cooking and butchering classes. Prices vary; a one-evening introduction to hog butchering runs $80. Better sign up now; there's a waiting list. And don't think these young urbanites aren't ready to get out and kill their own dinner. A Virginia entrepreneur named Jackson Landers offers a class called "Deer Hunting for Locavores." He has a waiting list, too.
They're all signs of the times. But for some reason, most of us hunters aren't seeing them.
Now, this is going to mean a few adjustments. These new hunters may not think just like you do. Most will care about venison more than antlers; they'll want to know about butchering & cooking, not Boone & Crockett. Deal with it.
Although they live next door or work in the next cubicle, they may not vote, sound, or look like you. They may be younger or older than you. They may think differently about a lot of things. What matters is that they're thinking about giving hunting a try.
They may overthink a few things, like the part about killing dinner. They'll have probably already decided that hunting can be more humane than feedlots, factory farms, and industrial-scale slaughterhouses. To make certain of that, they may get in more target practice than you do. They may already shoot pretty well, even if they've never killed anything but paper. Or, they may need plenty of supportive, patient coaching on this important detail.
Help them remember, however, that hunting is also supposed to be enjoyable. It's a way to get outside for some fresh air and fresh scenery; the process is as important as the product. This isn't just about killing dinner. It's supposed to be fun. To emphasize this, and to get your new hunting buddy started in a low-pressure sort of way, consider starting with small game. Squirrels before elk. Grouse before moose. Baby steps.
If you live in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, and if your new neighbor or co-worker is from New Orleans or New Mexico (or even, for that matter, from New Delhi or Nuevo Laredo), that doesn't mean he—or she—isn't a potential convert. Be open-minded about them; they just might be open-minded about hunting.
Golfers, skiers, backpackers, and boaters? Their magazines are filled with how-to articles aimed at absolute, total beginners. They welcome them with open arms. They go out of their way to invite them along on weekend outings. Maybe we should, too.
Metaphorically at least, maybe we hunters should be less like Hindus and more like Mormons or Baptists. Now, I'm not saying you should start knocking on doors and passing out copies of Deer & Deer Hunting. But when opportunity knocks, don't be afraid to bear witness.


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Fitch Ratings downgrades Puerto Rico's debt
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The last of three major credit rating agencies downgraded Puerto Rico's debt by two notches to junk status Tuesday.
Fitch Ratings praised the U.S. territory for responding quickly to economic challenges but noted the economy remains weak and its access to the bond market is impaired.
Puerto Rico's government says it plans to issue general obligation bonds soon, although it is unclear how much debt will put on sale or on what date.
David Chafey, chairman of Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank, said Tuesday only that the bonds would be issued in the "near term." He said Barclays, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets will be the underwriters for the bond sale.
Fitch said that Puerto Rico's bonded debt levels and unfunded pension liabilities are very high compared to U.S. states and that recent downgrades have led to a potential $1 billion in new liquidity demands.
"Puerto Rico's current management has repeatedly shown its ability and willingness to take quick action to address financial challenges and external market concerns," Fitch said. "However, underlying the need for these measures is the very difficult economic, financial and market situation that management continues to confront."
Standard & Poor's and Moody's downgraded the island's credit rating last week.
Puerto Rico has assured investors that it will not default on $70 billion in public debt. Puerto Rico's bonds are popular with U.S. investors because they are exempt from federal, state and local taxes, and its debt is held by roughly 70 percent of U.S. municipal mutual funds, according to Morningstar.
David Tawil, co-founder and portfolio manager of New York-based Maglan Capital, said Puerto Rico will now have to tap into a different set of lenders in the next few years, including hedge funds and banks.
"It is no longer your average municipal bond holder," he said in a phone interview. "It's going to be much more strategic, much more active type of investors."
Fitch announced its downgrade one day after Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla unveiled several measures to help boost Puerto Rico's economy as the island of 3.7 million people battles its eighth year in recession and a 15.4 percent unemployment rate, higher than any U.S. state.
Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta said she was disappointed by Fitch's decision, while Garcia's administration announced it was pushing back by almost one week a webcast to update investors on Puerto Rico's fiscal and economic plans.
Garcia has previously taken steps to strengthen the government's balance sheet, including increasing taxes and authorizing changes to struggling public pension systems.


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"Parker" — This plays like the bloodiest promotional video ever made for Palm Beach tourism. Stabbings, explosions and furniture-smashing brawls occur at some of the ritziest locations within the sun-splashed, pastel-soaked slab of Florida opulence. The city is the setting for a $50 million jewel heist as well as some revenge doled out with the usual machine-like efficiency by Jason Statham. As the title character, the anti-hero of many of the novels by Richard Stark (the pseudonym of the late Donald E. Westlake), Statham is stepping into a well-known persona. But he's not exactly pushing himself outside his comfort zone. Parker is the kind of thief who lives by a civilized, self-imposed code — one he expects others to adhere to, as well. But this is the same character Statham always plays: quietly cool, dryly British, powerfully lethal. Director Taylor Hackford's rather perfunctory action film is actually more compelling before it even gets to Palm Beach, as Parker makes his way from Ohio to Texas to New Orleans before reaching his final destination. After being double-crossed by his partners (including Michael Chiklis and Wendell Pierce) on a daring robbery of the Ohio State Fair, Parker seeks revenge by tailing them to their next job: hitting the auction of some major jewels that belonged to a late society maven. Jennifer Lopez co-stars as the struggling Palm Beach real estate agent who learns too much and wants a piece of the action, but playing weak and girlish isn't exactly her strong suit. R for strong violence, language throughout and brief sexual content/nudity. 118 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
— Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic


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Four UCSB student-athletes give their thoughts on the celebration.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UCSB Athletics is proud to promote the celebration of Black History Month as part of one of two recently created programs aimed at providing an outstanding all-around experience for Gaucho student-athletes and to reach out to the campus and Santa Barbara community.
The promotion of black history falls under the "BE Great" life skills program, which was recently unveiled by Director of Athletics Mark Massari and Executive Associate Athletics Director Diane O'Brien.
"We strive to be a positive influence in our community and recognizing diversity is a big part of that," said Massari.
As part of raising awareness of black history, some Gaucho athletes express their thoughts on the significance of Black History Month .
D.J. Posley, Men's Basketball
"For me, Black History Month is a celebration and recognition of the struggle that black people have had throughout American history. But it's not just a celebration of the struggles, it is a celebration of the achievements of black people in this country, achievements that have made my life better. Dr. King (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) is one of my heroes. The things he did set a precedent and got the civil rights movement going. Dr. King proved that important changes could be achieved through non-violent acts. In terms of sports, Jackie Robinson is a hero. It was hard for him because he was such a proud man, but he knew that he had to turn the other cheek and put up with some things to make it better for those who followed."
Kayla Smith, Women's Track & Field
"It (Black History Month) is recognition of achievement and progress, but also the realization that we need to continue working towards greater success. When an African-American can be in (elected) office it says a lot, but there are many more reasons to celebrate. I think it also helps us understand that we have a common goal of equality for all. The fact that it is a month is also important. If it were a one-day celebration, it would be easy to overlook, but a month cannot be overlooked and gives us a great opportunity to truly realize our successes, achievements, and where we need to go. A great example of someone who I look to celebrate during this month is Rosa Parks. Everyone knows the basic story of her standing up for herself, but in that period of time, it was really a great achievement."
Jesse Byrd, Men's Basketball
"Black History Month is a celebration of what my people have accomplished. It's an opportunity to take stock of what the American Negro has done for this country. Celebrating black history gives us time to recognize a lot of things. Right now is an important time in our history. What (President) Obama has achieved is incredible and it shows how far my people have come."
Whitney Warren, Women's Basketball
"I think it helps us show appreciation for all the hard work, courage and assertiveness that African-Americans took. It gives me the opportunity to appreciate and understand the struggles that people before me fought for when they were not able to reap the immediate results but in the long run I'm able to. I appreciate the struggles and pressures they went through and I didn't. I never had to go to sit-ins. I have a white mom and a black dad and when they were younger and looking for apartments, my mom would go and look and they would tell her they had vacancies and she would come back with my dad and they would say there were no vacancies. Or my dad would go and they would say no and then my mom would go to the same place and they would say `Yeah, we have vacancies.'
"My heroes? Aside from my parents, it's my brother. He sacrificed a lot. My brother always looked over my sister and I. My mom coached a lot and my dad worked a lot, but my brother taught me a lot. He led by example. He taught me to be loyal, to have a tight-knit family and that we would be there for each other."
For more on UCSB Athletics' BE Great initiative click here.
Black History Month is a national celebration that takes place each February. To read more about Black History Month, click here.


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Ray Bradbury and his Green Town Roots
By Ellyn Ruhlmann, Freelance Writer
Where was Ray Bradbury when the stock market came crashing down in 1929? Others, jobless by the millions, ate in soup kitchens and slept in cardboard jungles, and where was he? Ray Bradbury was on Mars.
Sheltered between the pages of Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars tales, nine-year-old Ray wasn't worried about his dad holding a job, or where his next meal would come from. He was worried about Ras Thavas transplanting his brain into the body of a giant ape. Other days he might travel to Oz to cavort with the likes of Button-Bright, and Ojo the Munchkin boy. All characters he pulled from library shelves in hometown Waukegan, Illinois.
"My idea of living was every Monday to run down Washington Street directly to the library … the Carnegie Library built by Andrew Carnegie at the turn of the century," Bradbury said in a 2006 interview. "I loved opening the library door and looking in and listening to all my friends in there. All the books talked to me, they all whispered. The stacks were dark and mysterious and wonderful."
It was at the library that Bradbury learned about magic and creatures fantastic, about mystery and the art of suspense. It's where he forged an intimate connection with Poe and other literary masters whose work would profoundly influence his own. Many of these early library memories still echo throughout Bradbury's stories, most notably his masterwork, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Nose down at one of the long tables at the Carnegie Library, caught in some wild caper, Bradbury was growing into one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of our time.
Outside, the world was still crumbling with the aftershocks of Black Tuesday, but Bradbury wasn't feeling them. He was always someplace else.
Poet of the Pulps
Bradbury grew up the third son of a middle-class family in Waukegan, a place named, he said, "with neither love nor grace"—later immortalized as Green Town in his novels. Canopied by trees and dotted with dandelions, this nostalgic old neighborhood lay hitched together by brick-paved streets, trains and a trolley, yet divided by a deep, woody ravine. In short, the ideal setting to indulge his craving for make-believe.
Ray and older brother Skip would make frequent trips not only to the library, but also the cinema, magic shows and, when lucky enough, a lakefront carnival. He recalls the pivotal night he encountered "Mr. Electrico," a carnival magician who could survive super-charges of electricity. Sitting front-row, Ray felt the unexpected tap of the magician's sword and the boom of his command: "Live forever!" After that, Ray started writing every day without fail.
His early outpouring showed a swirl of cultural influences, from Buck Rodgers to Jules Verne, King Kong to Hawthorne. ("A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am," Bradbury quipped. "But it burns with a high flame.") They were stories that eluded labeling. Not traditional science fiction or fantasy, these tales formed more of a hybrid genre, one tinged with poetic imagery and prose. Bradbury's classic library education had marbleized with all the graphic appeal of pop culture to create his unique style—a style that would lead Time magazine to dub him "Poet of the Pulps."
He published his stories in his own zine, Futuria Fantasia, before pulp magazines like Weird Tales began picking up his work. Over the years, Bradbury gained a steady following and in 1947 came out with his first anthology, Dark Carnival, the same year his short story, "Homecoming," was selected for the O. Henry Prize Stories. Bradbury had made the transition from what many considered lowbrow pulps to high-paying slicks. Mainstream critics had their eye on him, and were ready for the explosive bestsellers that followed.
Rocketing Fame
"A thing that begins when you're three and six and 10 and 12 winds up in your fictions when you're in your 30s," Bradbury observed.
Decades after he caught his first flare of inspiration from Burroughs' Mars novels, Bradbury composed The Martian Chronicles—his first tour de force. Again drawing from library classics of his youth, the author credited Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio for helping give structure to this book he calls "a half-cousin to a novel." Ylla and her kind with their yellow coin eyes—living just a planet away—took our imaginations on a rocket ride. The Martian Chronicles, as Bradbury later found out, even sparked the ambitions of real-life space travelers: the boys who would grow up to be Apollo astronauts.
A year later came The Illustrated Man, another loosely-knit collection of stories that wooed over the anti-fantasy literati. By this time, 1951, Bradbury and his burgeoning family were living in Los Angeles, and despite this newfound notoriety, he still couldn't afford his own office. So he improvised. Leaving his clamorous offspring behind, Bradbury would often sojourn to the UCLA library and ramble about, pulling inspiration from one tome or another. One day, he heard the clack of typewriter keys from below. Peering down into the basement, he found a whole roomful of typewriters, available to rent for 10 cents a half-hour.
"I got a bag of dimes, I moved into the typing room of the library, and I spent $9.80," said Bradbury in an interview. "And I wrote Fahrenheit 451. So you see, what a place for Fahrenheit 451 to be written, in a library! … Where it wasn't being burned." More than fifty years later, Fahrenheit 451 has sold more than five million copies and is still widely circulated—required reading in many English courses. Often compared to classics like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, the novel's messages about totalitarianism and the superficiality of mass culture still resonate today.
For years, Bradbury shrank from the science fiction label because he believed science fiction is the art of the possible, and he wrote of the impossible; he wrote fantasy. But in the end, this author, who learned how to terrorize from Poe and Shelley, whose work evinced chills on Alfred Hitchcock shows and among pulp fans everywhere, might best be remembered for Fahrenheit 451 because it's the only true science fiction book in his corpus. And as such, perhaps the most terrifying.
"I have to write these books and help change the future," Bradbury said. Yet, in practicing this art of the possible, Bradbury may have himself introduced new possibilities. For a book written back when TV was still a newfangled invention, Fahrenheit 451 demonstrates an almost eerie prescience. In Montag's world, technology eclipses humanity, shutting people off from each other with virtual reality, big-screen TVs and "seashell radios"—our iPods of today. A half-century later, much of Bradbury's foreboding has come to fruition.
Other Explorations
The year Fahrenheit 451 hit the shelves, 1953, media from radio to film began to till the rich fields of Bradbury's work. It Came From Outer Space appeared on the big screen that year, followed by other Hollywood adaptations, including The Illustrated Man and eventually, Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury's short stories also emerged on 1950's TV shows like Tales of Tomorrow, Suspense, Jane Wyman's Fireside Theatre and others. In 1980, Rock Hudson would star in a TV miniseries of The Martian Chronicles, and the author himself would later host his own TV series, The Ray Bradbury Show.
While show biz made hay with Ray, his talents overspilled into architecture as well. In 1962, he was asked to serve as consultant for the New York World's Fair, and to write and choreograph The American Journey, an elaborate educational display at the U.S. Pavilion. Bradbury also devised prototypes for "small town" shopping malls all across the country, including the innovative Glendale Galleria in Los Angeles and Horton Plaza in San Diego. And in 1976, the mammoth behind the Mouse, Walt Disney company, tapped Ray to help design and script the interiors of Spaceship Earth, EPCOT's geodesic focal point.
Bradbury had always loved pop culture, and pop culture learned to love Ray Bradbury.
Hometown Reflections
… From the age of twenty-four to thirty-six hardly a day passed when I didn't stroll myself across a recollection of my grandparents' northern Illinois grass, hoping to come across some old half-burnt firecracker, a rusted toy, or a fragment of letter written to myself in some young year hoping to contact the older person I became to remind him of his past, his life, his people, his joys, and his drenching sorrows. —Ray Bradbury, introduction to Dandelion Wine
By the mid-fifties, Bradbury was back living in Los Angeles after spending a half-year abroad to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of Moby Dick. Director John Houston sent a limo for him opening night, and he got a close squint at the Hollywood lights. Ray Bradbury was big time now. His books topped the bestseller lists. His name was a household name. Yet Bradbury felt increasing pangs for home, for his humble Green Town. He mulled wistfully over boyhood haunts, the spooky sprints through the ravine, trips to the coal docks, the green glow of bankers' lamps at the Carnegie library. And he wrote about them. This period marks a kind of homecoming in Bradbury's writing, the shift to autobiographical fantasy.
In 1957, he published Dandelion Wine, a poignant portrayal of one golden summer in Green Town, a year before the Great Depression. Crafted in a series of vignettes, the book offers readers a glug of Grandpa Spaulding's best vintage, conjuring images of boyhood pleasures, of wet, green lawns and new tennis shoes and lime vanilla ice. But Dandelion Wine is also a novel of loss. It's about your best chum moving away, and taking the last ride on a familiar trolley before city buses roar in. In Waukegan, the last trolley ran in 1947, and like 12-year-old Douglas at the end of summer, Bradbury fans feel the loss of this simpler era.
Summer cools to autumn, the author's favorite time of year, in Something Wicked This Way Comes, his next Green Town novel. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has just moved into Green Town, casting its pall over the once happy haunts of Bradbury's youth. As the carnival's mysterious carousel turns, either aging or age-reversing its riders, terrors mount. Suspense finally culminates at Ray's old source of refuge, the Carnegie Library. Here, 13-year-olds Will and Jim seek protection "somewhere in the recumbent solitudes" from the tattooed menace of Mr. Dark. But the boys, who started out as green as their town, quickly learn that the library—as Bradbury says—is a place of discovery.
Library Degree
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library every day of your life. —Ray Bradbury
Readers marvel that Bradbury, a wielder of complex themes and nuanced, metaphor-rich language, never made it to college. Like Hemingway and Faulkner, Ray Bradbury dedicated himself to independent study. He earned his own degree, largely in the library. And in return for this free education, Bradbury became a mighty advocate for libraries everywhere. Until health issues impeded, he made frequent visits back to Waukegan, and supported the Ray Bradbury Creative Writing Contest at the Waukegan Public Library for more than 20 years. When the city voted to demolish the old Carnegie Library building, it was Bradbury who stopped the wrecking ball. The landmark, now slated for a museum, will forever remain a chilling reminder of Dark's demonics.
Spin Bradbury's own carousel backward, and Dark and his carnival had their real beginnings with Dark Carnival, Bradbury's very first published work. Since then, he produced more than 600 short stories, novels, plays and poems. Unconventional in style and subject, Bradbury's work became enormously influential to the literary community, earning placements in four Best American Short Story collections. Writers like Studs Terkel believe the author's finest achievement came in his "rural remembrances of things past." Could Bradbury have found that letter he wrote, reminding him of his younger self? In the Green Town novels, all his boyhood experiences exhale with startling vividness. It's as if he felt the tap of Mr. Electrico's sword again, and wanted to pass along the charge.
"When people touch my books, they are alive," Bradbury says. "So that's the gift I give to them, and I want them to carry them back and forth to the library."
About the Author: Ellyn Ruhlmann is a freelance writer living in Grayslake, Illinois. One of her specialties is writing about libraries and their impact on communities. Ellyn is passionate about books and literacy issues, and holds a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Like Bradbury, she earned it largely in the library.


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OVB Outside Vertical Bar
VRCB Volatility Reduced Compression Bar
Brent Crude Oil (May '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 03/19/13 @ 107.77. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 02/20/13 @ 115.60. Downside Targets = 105.66 – 104.57.
- VRCB generated on Friday making new lows on the current move @ 106.90.
- May Brent Crude continued to drop lower this past week as the spread between itself and WTI narrowed to less than $14 for the first time since May 2011 before stopping just 7 ticks above the mid-point of my secondary support zone located at $106.83 (107.42 – 106.24).
- Although the weekly price action is decisively bearish and indicates that this past week's low should be violated, after impacting the daily SBB while ST stochastic's are at their lowest readings since June 22, 2012…the low day of the year traders should stand alert and expect a consolidation struggle near $106.38 – $104.67 that may present another low risk opportunity.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.37
- Projected Weekly Range: 3.72
- Projected Monthly Range: 6.89
WTI Crude Oil (May '13):
- Short Term Trends are bearish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 03/21/13 @ 92.35. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 03/07/13 @ 92.03. Upside Targets = 95.35 – 96.41.
- Close > High Of the Low Day generated on Friday. Possible Standard TREND REVERSAL to bullish at $93.95.
- May WTI Crude Oil partially confirmed an IT TREND REVERSAL back to bullish this past week with a range violation above $94.20 but struggled to find its footing through the rest of the week before finally logging a positive session on Friday for its best single day gain in six weeks.
- WTI should press higher as it has been the stronger of the two oil markets and break the $95 mark early in the coming week's trading session as part of a longer term push back towards $100.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.49
- Projected Weekly Range: 3.15
- Projected Monthly Range: 6.69
Natural Gas (May '13):
- Short Term trend is bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 02/20/13 @ 3.399. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 02/22/13 @ 3.406. Upside Targets = 3.556 – 3.590.
- Inside compression day generated on Friday.
- May Natural Gas continued to make strides higher throughout this past week on lingering cold weather in the northeast as it logged its 12th consecutive day of higher lows on Friday.
- Natural Gas did, however, close lower for the last three trading sessions of the week generating a weekly WIMP formation with a close in the lower half of the trading range.
- After penetrating the weekly RBB every day last week, this type of formation is typical of IT market tops but could take a week or so for a true and decisive break lower.
- Projected Daily Range: .106
- Projected Weekly Range: .243
- Projected Monthly Range: .504