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2004 Mets Draft Q&A with Gary LaRocque

NYfansonly.com recently sat down with Mets' Scouting Director Gary LaRocque to get his thoughts on the Mets 2004 Draft. Find out what Gary has to say about Philip Humber, Scott Hyde, the potential of first base prospects Mike Carp and Jim Burt, the draft pick that he feels could be the suprise player of the draft, and a whole lot more. NYF Premium Members can find out right now!

NYF: How would you rate the Mets' draft this season in comparison to the other teams, and why?

LaRocque: I do not compare with other teams. Nor do I compare any player we drafted with anyone in our organization. We wouldn't draft them if we didn't feel they had potential. What I could say is that we're pleased with out early results. We did sign 25 of the players we drafed and we're still negotiating with a few of the higher draft picks. A majority of our selections were pitchers. We looking forward to seeing how they develop.

NYF: How would you rank Philip Humber among all the Mets' pitching prospects currently?

LaRocque: I don't rank them. I could say stuff wise he has a good curveball, a good feel for his change-up, and has command of all his pitches. Humber knows how to pitch. He has a good makeup, poise, and mound presence. He has pitched and done well in big games.

NYF: Who is the biggest "sleeper" prospect drafted and why?

LaRocque: Once we draft them they aren't sleepers anymore. It is still too early to tell. If you consider a 5th round pick a sleeper I would say Nick Evans. We were pleased to get such a good HS bat in such a late round.

NYF: Catcher Aaron Hathaway is widely regarded as a top-notch defensive catcher. How good could he be with the bat? The Mets are heavily stocked with good hitting catchers. Can Hathaway be the most complete catching prospect in the organization? How does he compare to Michael Jacobs, Justin Huber, and the rest of the Mets' catching prospects?

LaRocque: All I want to say about Hathaway is he's a very aggressive defensive catcher whose bat we hope will come along. We are also happy to have Marino Santana (just promoted from GCL to Kingsport last week)and Flores (in GCL) giving us a trio of fine, strong armed, defensive catchers.

NYF: Can you give us some insight into Scott Hyde's game? What is his potential?

LaRocque: Just signed him last week and assigned to Brooklyn. Good projection, very competitive. Has good arm strength, loves to challenge hitters.

NYF: The Mets seem to like selecting Long Beach State relievers after selecting Josh Alliston in 2001, Carlos Muniz last season, now Neil Jamison. How does Jamison compare to Alliston and Muniz?

LaRocque: (Laughing). It does seem that way but Long Beach State is a top program so they have a lot of exposure so their players will get drafted. We haven't signed Jamison yet but are hopefully we'll eventually get it done. Best pitch is his fastball, and is a good competitor which is what one looks for in a releiver.

NYF: 1B Chris "Mike" Carp seems to have some more projection in him than Jim Burt Jr. simply because of their age. How do the two compare with the rest of the first base prospects in the Mets' system?

LaRocque: Burt comes from a big time college program so is well polished. Carp is coming out of high school. Both have positives. We like the way Carp handles fastballs. We're interested to see how these two players play out. As for where they fit in with our 1B prospects, I just would like to say we're happy that we have so many 1B prospects to talk about.

NYF: Of the draftees selected at the outfield position this year (Brahiam Maldonado, Joshua Wyrick, Martinez Allen, Parris Austin, Kyle Brown, Tim Smith, Caleb Stewart, BJ Suggs, etc), who do you think could be the best of the bunch and why? Could any of these players, in your opinion, be Major League caliber outfielders (starters)? If so, which ones?

LaRocque: It is too early to tell. I would like to say that when I joined the Mets we had only one legit stolen base threat. Now we have about two on every team, most of them outfielders and most of them have high batting average and power potential as well.

NYF: Do the Mets currently have any intriguing draft-and-follow prospects that we should keep an eye on this season? And which of those players intrigue you the most?

LaRocque: We are keeping a close eye on Brad Meyers all summer and will continue to follow his progress. He is committed to a 4-year school but he wouldn't be the first to forego such a committment to attend a junior college so he can be signed as a draft and follow, or re-enter the draft the following year. He's a complete package, possessing three plus pitches: fastball, curveball, and change-up.

NYF: While most teams have their #1 picks signed by now the Mets year after year don't sign their top picks until much later. How come?

LaRocque: I don't want to talk about other teams but we feel that we usually sign all of our top picks and that's what matters.

NYF: There is talk that many teams have pre-draft deals, or call prospective draftees and ask them if they will accept this amount or money or they won't draft them. Is this legal?

LaRocque: All a team could do is ask a prospective draft pick, his family or his agent what would it take for him to sign a pro contract. The player could tell the team it will take this amount or money, or this round, or this has to be part of the deal. I can't answer for other other teams but the Mets have always abided by the rules.

NYfansonly.com would like to thank Gary LaRocque for taking the time to answer these questions about the Mets' 2004 Draft.

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The Ricky Williams Dividend

On the eve of the start of training camp the league is abuzz with the recent news of Ricky Williams departing the world of pro athletes and setting sail for "a passage to Bankok." I suppose the rigors of life in the NFL were simply too much for Williams which is in part understandable given the sacrifices of time, family, privacy, and likely to some extent sanity that top pro athletes make.

It will be an interesting case study to be sure to see the episode of "Where Are They Now" regarding Williams in a decade or perhaps even sooner. Who knows where Williams is at the moment. Likely halfway to Thailand where "greener pastures" await his arrival so that he can begin his descent into a more sedate state.

If that does not do it for Williams, then it will certainly be a mystery as to why this has all unfolded the way it has. His stated preference for bailing from the limelight of athletic celebrity life and joining the minions of potheads around the world certainly presents a hearty contrast.

The recent word is that Williams did not depart the NFL and the Dolphins because of a failed drug test for marijuana. Rather, that he failed the test, or engaged in behavior causing him to fail the test, as a result of his decision. Whatever.

How much Williams' departure alters the landscape in the AFC East remains to be seen. While it stands to reason that Patriot fans are likely somewhat indifferent, Bills' and Jets' fans are likely more encouraged as to the ramifications.

This situation likely will not help the Bills as much as has been bandied about amongst fan sites and in the media. Ricky Williams was a running back who's performance never lived up to his hype. He had one superlative season and that was in 2002. Other than that Travis Henry's past two seasons have exceeded any of Williams'.

In his other four seasons Williams never achieved double-digit touchdowns, eclipsed the 1,400 yard rushing mark, or averaged any better than 4.0 yards-per-carry which is below average for running backs let alone the top rushers. Williams was much more in the Eddie George category than in the Priest Holmes, LaDainian Tomlinson, Ahman Green, or Jamal Lewis category.

Which brings us to point number two, namely that everyone is writing off Travis Minor as a viable replacement. Now common sense and reason indicate that it would not be wise to lay much money on Minor becoming the next Barry Sanders, however Minor has always filled in admirably when called upon to do so. I think he will be a real fantasy football steal this season.

His career average-per-carry exceeds Williams' by half a yard and his average-per-carry last season exceeds Williams' by 1.2 yards. Granted, Minor has not exactly had an abundance of carries to evaluate him on, however, his long runs are not exactly of the track-and-field distance variety indicating that he is simply a good solid rusher who can be counted on for four or five yards.

I am not at all sold that his replacing Williams may not in fact be a positive development for the Dolphins. As well, if Williams has been playing in the past with all of this now come to the front emotional and psychological baggage, then how much will it help the team to have a rusher in there that has a true zeal for the game and for playing football remains to be seen.

Furthermore, the Dolphins clearly bring an improved passing game to the table this season helping to increase the viability of this more traditionally sized running back Travis Minor. Again, whether or not this occurs remains to be seen.

Here is why the departure of Williams will not assist the Bills all that much. Last season the Bills were beaten by the Dolphins on 17 and 20 point Dolphin scoring performances. If the Dolphins score only 17 and 20 points again, then if the Bills do not win, then it will surely not be a good sign for this team.

The Bills offense versus the Miami defense will once again be the contest on the field and that has little to do with Ricky Williams. If the Dolphins cannot amass in the 17-20 point range with Minor running the ball, then it will certainly be surprising. As well, Sammy Morris, who is very "Williams-like" in terms of size and averages although minus the overall experience and carries is there to assist.

Bills fans who are quick to assume two easy victories to the Dolphins now as well as a demise of the Dolphins as a result of this recent news and change would be well advised to consider the above. The Dolphins will likely once again be right in the thick of things yet the same yard shy of the ultimate success that they have been throughout recent history. They should be competitive, will likely make the playoffs, yet will not seriously challenge for the AFC championship or even come close as usual.

Fans concerned about the Dolphins would be better advised to keep a tight eye on the developing Ogunleye situation first.

On a side note, fans seem to be curious how the recent signing of Jason Gildon will assist the Bills in their quest to be competitive this season. Just as with Jeff Posey, Gildon comes in from playing in a 3-4 and therefore in a different role. Just as with Posey, Gildon's performances should not be assumed to improve through the transition. Gildon's best contributions will be made in situations where he enters the game as an additional pass rusher, not in place of one of those already on the field.

This signing will actually be an interesting development given the lofty statements made by the front office as well as by the coaches as to the viability of the Bills' play this season. If Gildon ends up replacing Jeff Posey or even Denney/Kelsay on some passing situations, this will spell out a clear lack of confidence on the part of the team for the present starting roster prior to Gildon's having joined the team.

Gildon joins the team with his accolades as a pro-bowler long behind him and entering this season with three straight seasons of declining production and having turned 32 today and clearly past his prime. Gildon and his 6 sack performance last season in a 3-4 will likely not exceed Posey's 5.5 sack total of last season in the Bills' current defensive configuration. Posey, at 29, still has some upside remaining while Gildon does not. The Bills would be better suited to continue to start Posey all other things remaining equal heading into the season.

Gildon's contract was not outrageous and does not bind the Bills beyond the current season. Given the extra and heretofore unused cap space that the Bills have, this decision is a non-factor financially or cap wise. However, Gildon's days of double-digit sacks are gone and fans suffering from delusions of that recurring will be disappointed.

Again, Gildon used as an auxiliary pass rusher would likely be the most beneficial to the Bills. If he ends up replacing Posey or starts at LDE, then surely that will not act in support of the team's statements that they are fully confident in Chris Kelsay and/or Ryan Denney as the solutions at LDE. Nor would it boost recent media notions that the Bills have one of the best linebacking trios in the league if one of their OLBs is so easily replaced by an aging vet exiting his prime and one with barely the performance line of another in the midst of his prime and three years younger.

The Gildon signing was a decent signing that will not impact the overall competitiveness of the Bills on the season. Gildon will more than likely be a role player in pass situations only. The honor of improving the overall competitiveness of the team still befalls the play of the Bledsoe-led offense. If the Bills are to succeed this season, then they will have to go from being the dead last offense in the league easily over the last 14 games last season, to at minimum an average offense and likely somewhat above that even. On paper the skill-position talent is there spelling out "other issues" if this does not occur.

As stated in past pieces, this will also have to occur versus some extremely difficult and seasoned defenses and almost immediately once the season begins. In both of the cases above, the Ricky Williams scenario as well as the recent signing of Jason Gildon, neither situation helps the Bills offense nor Drew Bledsoe, nor even the offensive line for that matter, perform to the level that they will need to perform to in order to turn the Bills into a respected team once again.

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Salem State was hanging around in the first half, and although Fitchburg State held a 4-2 lead toward the end of the first stanza, the Falcons were missing shots and did not look crisp on offense.

Sometimes one goal can change everything in lacrosse, and Ali Laferriere's bang-bang pass to Jaimee Lutz with one second left in the half not only put the Falcons up a little more comfortably with the three-goal lead, but spurred the offensive surge that would come in the second half.

Nine seconds into the second, Laferriere went coast-to-coast after winning the draw, storming in and scoring with ease. The 10-second momentum burst spanning the two the halves changed a two-goal game into a convincing 6-2 advantage.

"I give all the credit to Salem, they fought for it in the first half and wanted it as much as we did," Laferriere said. "We realized we had to work hard at this and got into halftime and said this is not how we play lacrosse.

"We had to step it up and play our style, and we clicked in the second half, making better passes with better shots. We got in our groove and our rhythm."

Salem would get one back, as Amanda Nihan took advantage of possibly the only bad play by the Falcon defense, a turnover at its own doorstep.

The Falcons flipped a switch from there, scoring the next six goals to make this contest look like a practice.

Laferriere (5 goals, assist) started the run with 20 minutes left, orchestrating her bob-and-weave moves through a crowd to get the four-goal edge back.

One minute later, Andrea Comeau (2 goals, assist) took the feed from Brianna Dunn and pulled off a nifty spinning goal, making big trouble for the Vikings.

The surge kept coming, and with 17:13 left, after peppering the next with three shots during the possession, Lutz finally wore the Viking goalie down, scoring with an over-the-top shot to make it 9-3.

The spree continued as, a minute later, Comeau held the ball on a stoppage at the 12-yard line and dumped it to Kayla Panek at the post, who scored on an effective blast.

The six-minute onslaught ended 12 seconds later with Laferriere executing another coast-to-coast play off of a draw that made it 11-3.

With 12:37 left, Corinne DeSimone put the icing on the cake with a nice cut to the net, completing the day's scoring.

Salem took 23 shots in the game, but not many on target, as Fitchburg State senior goalkeeper Liz Darrigo only had to make nine saves. Darrigo was a perfect 6 for 6 on free position shots.

"We talked about being tight on our defensive coverages and having strong defense and communicating with each other," said Maddie Driscoll, a junior defender. "That's what we did today, we communicated well."

With Salem State now out of the way, the Falcons look to Bridgewater State, a team that has owned the MASCAC since its inception, and has always earned every single conference tournament berth to the NCAA tournament.

Bridgewater handed the Falcons their only conference loss of the season, 14-7 on April 2 at Elliot Field. The Bears, Falcons and Westfield State shared the MASCAC regular-season title this season.

"We've beaten Bridgewater before, and they've beaten us, and it going to come down to who wants it more," Laferriere said. "We want it real bad this year."


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Today's News

  • 50th anniversary: Loyd and Judy Poe Cheak

    Loyd Cheak and Judy Poe were married Jan. 9, 1962, at Waddy Baptist Church by Rev. James Smith.

    The couple has one son, Loyd Cheak Jr. of Finchville, and two daughters, Teresa Harris of Waddy and Melissa (Gill) Pullium of Graefenburg; three granddaughters, Cindy Harris of Franklin, Crystal Harris of Waddy and Brooke Cheak of Clay Village; and one step-grandson, Blake Pullium of Waddy.

    Judy Cheak is a retired office clerk from the Shelbyville Water and Sewer, and Loyd is a retired dairy and tobacco farmer.

  • 50th anniversary: Banta

    Jearld Dean and Mary Frances Lay Banta of Pleasureville will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year. They were married on Jan. 24, 1962, in Shelbyville.

    They have six children, Mike (Susie) Banta of Bagdad, Judy Fallis of Shelbyville, Phyllis (Keith) Jamison of Eminence, Gary (Vicki) Banta of Pendleton, Scott Banta of Pewee Valley and Sheila (Todd) Lyons of Eminence. They also have 20 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.

    There will be a reception 5 p.m. Saturday at the Bagdad Ruritan Club in Bagdad. All friends and relatives are invited.

  • Ann-Blair Thornton at Miss America pageant

    Miss Kentucky Ann-Blair Thornton (right), granddaughter of Bill and Ann Borders of Shelbyville, poses with her fellow winners of the 2012 Quality of Life Awards at the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas last week. More than 40 members of the Borders family traveled to watch Thornton, who did not make Saturday night’s semifinals. Other scholarship winners with her here are (from left) Miss Michigan Elizabeth Wertenberger and Miss New Hampshire Regan Hartley.

  • Wowzer Mouser: 5-of-6 3-pointers power Titans

    After Collins girls’ basketball practice last Wednesday, senior forward Becca Mouser put up 100 3-point shots.

    Two days later that extra practice appeared to pay big dividends.

    Mouser made 5 of 6 3-pointers on her way to a game-high 21 points to lead the Titans to a 50-30 victory over crosstown rival Shelby County this past Friday night.

    “Becca shot the ball lights out,” Collins Coach Phillip Conder said.

  • Sharks swim to good times

    Sixteen Shelby Sharks swam well during the weekend in the Carmel (Ind.) Swim Club’s 2012 Dollar/Thrifty Winter Invitational at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis.

  • Titans overcome revved-up Rockets

    Collins boys’ basketball coach Chris Gaither’s objectives for his team entering Friday night’s showdown with crosstown rival Shelby County were fairly simple.

    “Our first three goals were – we get Brian Stone the ball,” Gaither said. “Our second three goals were – we get Dez Marshall the ball. Our third three goals were – to take care of the ball until we can pass the ball to Brian Stone or Dez Marshall.”

  • Shelby County School Board: Digital data boards help track students

    The Shelby County Board of Education rang in the New Year with its first meeting of 2012 on Thursday.

    The board opened by electing Eddie Mathis as its new chairman and Doug Butler as the vice chairman. After that and some recognition in honor of National School Board Month, the board quickly was down to work.

    The staff opened with a report on data boards, which are often discussed during meetings, especially those that involve test scores.

  • Shelby County Public Schools: First glance at budget for 2012-13: Grim

    The Shelby County Board of Education received some grim news with the first look at its 2012-13 budget.

    The draft budget, which is a state-mandated review of projected receipts and expenses, was presented at Thursday's meeting and with it came an appeal from Superintendent James Neihof that the board members talk to the county’s leaders in Frankfort about continuing cut costs in education.

    In his report, Neihof said the state needs to get back to the funding level it provided in 2008.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2012: Reinforcing a legacy

    Celebrations in Shelby County this long weekend recapped how Martin Luther King Jr. led the country during a difficult time of progress. But those same celebrations served as a prompt to those in attendance that King's work is far from finished.

    "Ultimately his message was one of change in America," said DeVone Holt, who spoke at the first Whitney M. Young Job Corps Educational event and basketball tournament. "He wanted to change how white America looked at black America and how black America looked at white America.

  • Shelbyville City Council: Annexation ordinance not ready for review

    The Shelbyville City Council will have another short agenda this week, but it could be altered.

    As of Tuesday afternoon, the council had just one item to take up, the correction of a clerical mistake on the ordinance that increased the pay scale of the fire fighters.

    "It's just something about the hours that firefighters work, because they work different hours than normal jobs," Mayor Tom Hardesty said.

    The amendment to the ordinance, he said, doesn't change the pay scale for anyone.


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Showing posts with label Google Sitelinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Sitelinks. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

How Google Sitelinks are Created and Managed?

Google site links helps users to get more idea on what the site or blog is actually about and  Google site links are generated automatically for better user experience.

Here an example for sitelinks. Search Google for "SEO Help Blog" keyword and we can see sitelinks listing. This helps users to get an idea on what the Blog is about and the users can click directly to the page they need without navigating to find the most useful topic. Added, only the best site or blog gets sitelinks and they provide a better visibility to search users about the importance. For sitelinks screenshot, see below,

As well, if the Blog or webpage author is much popular then you can see sitelinks for the author name search "Jagadeesh M", as seen in screenshot below,
We don't know exactly how Google algorithm works, including sitelinks and they the factors are internal to avoid users from manipulating search results. But still out of several examines and experiences we can understand how it works. Here is a list that can give you an idea on how it works.

  • The Blog or Site that mostly lists first for a specific keyword(s) creates Sitelinks.
  • Search engine friendly structured navigation.
  • Reasonable organic search traffic.
  • Good Blog or site visit from search results.
  • Site or blog age and frequent content update.
  • Good amount of useful internal links / outbound links.
  • Inlinks from quality sites or blogs.
This list may be a small part that helps creates sitelinks but these are important that works all time.
By now as you know Google do not provide option to add sitelinks since it is generated automatically but Google provides site or blog owners and webmaster to remove / block sitelinks which they feel not needed. Google Webmaster tools can manage links in Google sitelinks. Hope you know about Google Webmaster tools and you might have configured you site or blog with it. In Google Webmaster tools we have an option "sitelinks" in "site configuration" navigation that can be found in left hand side of the dashboard.
Expect now you got an idea how sitelinks works and if you don't have one to your site or blog, start working on it and if you find your existing sitelinks are to be managed, then work on Google webmaster tools sitelinks option.

Ask your SEO / SEM / SMM Questions in Search Engine Watch Forums . You will get answers from me and fellow search engine industry leaders. Best!


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PREMIER: Adsense testing new ad functions

Have a look at the ads that i just saw 2 minutes ago in the header of this blog. They are your standard AdSense for content, Text and Image ad unit, 728×90 leaderbord format.

Adsense testing new ad functions Adsense testing new ad functions

I think this is a premier layout, and i would love to see Jen say a word or two about them.

Jeremy just told me that this has been in tests for some time now, BUT i never saw any similar ads, anywhere else, up until now.

Can anyone point out some other pages discussing the issue ?

Update: A discussion thread at Digitalpoint.

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Cristian Mezei

I am myself.

6 thoughts on “PREMIER: Adsense testing new ad functions”

  1. Hi,

    on my site, I saw this kind of ads sometimes in the last few days. It’s a site in german. Maybe it will be a new feature after testing this kind of ads…

  2. Jen just posted in some topic i wrote in SEW and DP and told that this layout has been in tests for about 1,5 years.

    Yahoo has also been testing this new layout.

    My 2cents: I never saw them before, and i browse the web like for ages now. It means that they had a very low distribution patters “some time ago”, and now they have an outstanding low one ? :)

  3. I am sorry to say that I also have not seen or even read anything about these ad’s as well, they look intresting I have to say and I would also love to give them ago, thank you for showing us mate.

Comments are closed.


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Washington --

Progress toward integrating America's schools since the landmark Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago is being chipped away, and it's no longer just a black-and-white issue.

Latinos, the largest minority group in the public schools, are less likely to have white classmates than other students are. In New York, California and Texas, more than half of all Latino students go to schools that are 90 percent minority.

For black students, the South now is the least segregated section of America. Outside of Texas, no Southern state is in the top five in terms of most segregated for black students. But more than half of black students in New York, Illinois, Maryland and Michigan attend schools where 90 percent or more are minority.

Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA and author of "Brown at 60" about the Supreme Court decision, says the changes are troubling, with many minority students receiving poorer educations than white and Asian students who tend to be in middle-class schools.

Educational policy since the 1980s has largely ignored race, he says, with an emphasis instead on accountability measures that assume equal opportunity can be achieved in separate schools.

When people ask if there is any great advantage to sitting next to a white person, Orfield said, his answer is no. "But there is a huge advantage to being in a middle-class school where most of the kids are going to go to college and almost everybody is going to graduate and you've got really good teachers who know how to get you ready for the next education step and you've got a class of other students you can learn from."

Although segregation is more prevalent in central cities of the largest metropolitan areas, it's also in the suburbs. "Neighborhood schools when we go back to them, as we have, produce middle-class schools for whites and Asians and segregated high-poverty schools for blacks and Latinos," he said.

For students like Diamond McCullough, 17, a senior at Walter H. Dyett High School on Chicago's South Side, the disparities are real. Her school is made up almost entirely of African American students. She said her school doesn't offer physical education classes or art, and Advanced Placement classes are only available online.

"Our school is named after a famous musician, Walter H. Dyett, and we don't even have band class no more. We don't have a music chorus class. We barely have the basic classes we need," McCullough said.


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Shepard Fairey, the 38-year-old street artist who's famous for plastering city landscapes with his stenciled images, looked across Larkin Street the other day to find that someone had vandalized one of his posters.

The anonymous miscreant had scrawled a large dollar sign on Andre the Giant's forehead along with tears streaming down the giant's fat cheeks.

Fairey took personally the graffiti on his graffiti. He interpreted the message to be, as he said in mock horror, "Oh, that Shepard Fairey, he's sold out!"

Fairey shook his head and added, "Some people define things as cool not by the amount of integrity they have but by how underground they are."

And Fairey, much to the chagrin of his aging punk-rock admirers, is no longer underground. The Angeleno, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992, has opened several design studios, conceptualized guerrilla marketing campaigns for clients such as Pepsi and Mountain Dew, and is married, with two children.

Yet he first earned notoriety in the late '80s for his obtuse "obey" stickers that featured a mug shot of the late wrestler Andre the Giant. Fairey has called the stickers "an experiment in phenomenology," one in which he hoped viewers would be so confounded by the absurdity of the image they would question other visual messages they come across in their daily lives.

He was standing outside White Walls Gallery in the Tenderloin when he noticed the marks on his poster, three days before the opening of his solo exhibition, "The Duality of Humanity." Even though he has shown in galleries for years and attracted a following of wealthy buyers who enjoy his brand of art, Fairey achieved mainstream attention only this summer, after he designed what's become an iconic poster of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

The image has been interpreted by critics as either capturing the inspiration Obama embodies or as just downright creepy in its propagandistic depiction of the political figure. The portrait, in muted tones, takes cues from socialist realism and is reminiscent of posters created to celebrate Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Fairey has enjoyed this debate. "The illustration does have roots in propaganda art," Fairey said. "I also want it to seem like a patriotic image, but not be seen as too countercultural. ... It needed just enough mainstream ingredients to transcend."

While the Obama prints have inspired an eBay cottage industry (some are going for $150 or more, if signed by Fairey), the "Duality of Humanity" show has been scheduled since 2006, said gallery owner Justin Giarla.

The week before the show, Giarla was taking phone calls almost nonstop from potential buyers, some snapping up works sight unseen. The largest piece sold for $85,000, a few for $25,000 and several others for $15,000, Giarla said. Two days before the opening, Giarla reported they'd sold all 150 original pieces, and had sold an additional 25.

"We're way sold out," as Giarla put it.

The "Duality" pieces, all created within the past two years, are heavy on images of war, propaganda and capitalism - but all are infused with humor. Fairey purposely used a red-black-cream palette, the color scheme most associated with Soviet-era posters. Initially, the images are meant to suggest a conformist message; on closer look, they signal a biting commentary or a slight joke.

"It's asking people to question everything they're confronted by at first glance," Fairey said. "Propaganda hits you in the gut. And it's proven to be effective."

In one poster, which looks as if could have been designed during the U.S. Work Projects Administration of the 1930 and '40s, Uncle Sam beams down at the onlooker while cradling a pile of skulls bearing the phrases "human rights" and "civil liberties." Along the edges is the phrase "Do as he says not as he does."

For another, Fairey designed a mixed-media collage with the same lavishly engraved aesthetic found on a dollar bill. Instead of a pyramid and eyeball, the centerpiece is an American bald eagle perched on a gas nozzle.

"You don't question the authority," Fairey said of his creation. "You submit, because you think, 'It's so intricately designed, it can't be questioned.' "

Fairey's work can appear simple to create, and his uncomplicated political metaphors give his critics (usually writers with academic or fine arts credentials) an opportunity to label him as a ham-handed pop artist. Yet that's not much of a critique to a self-described populist.

"I could teach any 15-year-old to do what I do," Fairey said. "I learned everything I still do when I was 15 - stenciling, photocopying, printing. But that's what punk rock is about. Your technical ability doesn't limit your ability to impact people. That's empowering to people; you don't need to be an impresario."

During his weeklong stay in San Francisco, Fairey and his assistants splattered posters on about 30 spots in the city. At one point, they climbed a billboard and were startled by an apartment dweller who stuck his head out a window and asked them what they were doing. When the resident saw the Obama images, Fairey said the resident responded, "All right. That's cool," and closed the window.

Staring at the graffitied poster of Andre the Giant outside the White Walls Gallery, Fairey recalled his admiration of Nirvana during the "Bleach" album era. He said he remained a fan after the band made "Nevermind," even though some of his friends disavowed Nirvana as a pop culture sell-out. To Fairey, the band had merely reached more people while keeping its musical ideals intact - "facilitating awesomeness on many levels."

He listed a number of charities and good causes he has donated to with proceeds from his art, and mentioned that the sale from one piece at White Walls would go to charities for American and Iraqi children.

Inside the gallery, he looked around and said, "The irony is there's stuff in here that's not in my price range."

"The Duality of Humanity: New Works by Shepard Fairey" runs through Oct. 4 at White Walls Gallery, 835 Larkin St., San Francisco. (415) 931-1500,

Shepard Fairey's Web

Shepard Fairey

1970: Born Feb. 15 in Charleston, S.C.

1989: Designed stickers that read "Obey" and "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" as an "experiment in phenomenology" - an attempt to "reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment."

1992: Graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I.

1997: Co-founded BLK/MRKT Inc., a design studio in Los Angeles specializing in guerrilla marketing, using street-art techniques to promote brands such as Pepsi, Hasbro and Netscape.

2003: Opened Studio One, designing album covers for bands such as the Black Eyed Peas and movie posters for "Walk the Line."

2004: Co-founded the Los Angeles pop culture and street arts bimonthly Swindle magazine

2007: Opened solo exhibition "E Pluribus Venom" at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York City to critical praise.

2008: Featured prominently in the underground arts documentary "Beautiful Losers," which premiered at South by Southwest.

2008: Designed posters for presidential candidate Barack Obama with approval from the campaign.

- Justin Berton


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When Cupertino resident and nationally acclaimed fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood got the word that she would be featured this month in the fourth season of "Craft in America," a Peabody Award-winning series on PBS, she felt humbled.

"I came of age in the '60s," Underwood says, "back when thread and fiber work was considered ghetto art." But Underwood saw fiber work as a powerful and authentic connection to her Huichol Indian ancestors on her father's side. She says, "As an art student at San Diego State in the early '80s, I realized it was a political move to drop painting and pick up thread."

Since the series first aired in 2007, "Craft in America" has sought to tell the comprehensive story of craft in American culture and history, by telling the stories of individual artists across a variety of media. In so doing, the program makes a strong case for craft as a societal nexus for both heritage and innovation.

The "Threads" episode explores how the seemingly benign act of textile crafting can become a soapbox from which to express powerful beliefs relating to justice, equality and environmentalism. Along with Underwood, fiber artists Faith Ringgold, Randall Darwall and Terese Agnew are featured, with work that spans story quilts, fiber collages and woven textile design.

Ringgold's story quilts are but one of the means by which she shares her credo that "Anyone can fly." She's also a painter, an author, a teacher and a feminist organizer, and her mosaic designs grace the 125th Street subway stop in Harlem. Ringgold calls quilting "a useful medium," and indeed, her quilts could keep a person warm at night. But the rich colors, brightly imagined details and moment-in-time scenes of African American family life challenge the notion that craft and art must reside in two separate worlds.

The segment on Massachusetts weaver Randall Darwall provides the viewer with an appreciation of the deceptively simple term "setting up." He twists miles of yarn into skeins that are then individually dyed and then tied together, one knot at a time, before they go anywhere near a loom.

It's an exacting and tedious process but one that speaks to his commitment to achieving his vision for the multihued blankets, scarves and shawls he creates. As he quips, "Why use five colors when 50 will do nicely?"

When asked why she got into quilting, Wisconsin's Terese Agnew pulls out a thermometer and shows it to the camera; the external temperature is 14 degrees. "It was just plain cold," Agnew says.

But beyond the warmth and care conveyed by a hand-sewn quilt, Agnew realized that she could offer up a political commentary from the threads in her hands. A showstopper piece in shades of black and gray features a textile worker leaning close to her sewing machine. The "drawing with thread" is beautiful in its own right, but when the viewer realizes that every inch of the quilt face is made of tags cut from clothing made in overseas garment factories, the work takes on a different weight.

Underwood's journey to prominence in the craft world included a two-decade teaching stint at San Jose State. Her mastery of the form of weaving has allowed her to innovate with content, creating work that she terms "an expression of spirit, land and struggle." The child of migrant workers, much of Underwood's work refers to the immigrant experience, whether it's a rebozo constructed from panels showing the controversial yellow illegal immigrant crossing road sign, or a "borderline strip" woven of barbed wire and bandannas.

"My father wove on a loom until I was 6," Underwood recalls, an expression of his Huichol heritage that was subsumed after he immigrated permanently to the United States. "And now I have to pick up the thread."

Craft in America: Threads: 8 p.m. May 20 on KQED.

Nancy Davis Kho is a freelance writer in Oakland. home@sfchronicle.com


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ALERT VIEWER DEAD PRESIDENTS: Drama. Starring Larenz Tate, Bokeem Woodbine, Chris Tucker and Keith David. Directed by Allen and Albert Hughes. (R. 120 minutes. At the Royal and other Bay Area theaters.)

The writers-directors known as the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, who created a startling visual drama about contemporary urban life in "Menace II Society," return to the big screen today with "Dead Presidents," a grim, extremely violent and uneven story set in the Vietnam War era.

As skillful and unrelenting as they are at depicting in-your-face violence, the 23-year- old movie-making twins are awkward with key themes in "Dead Presidents." It's an overly ambitious effort that strains to work as a coming-of-age drama, a 1960s period piece and a searing comment on the way African American GIs went largely unappreciated for their war efforts. In addition, it's a film about the lure of crime -- and that's the Hughes brothers' strongest card.

The title refers to the pictures of U.S. presidents that decorate paper money. The plot pivots on a carefully planned yet desperate armed robbery that becomes a tragic fate for the film's hero, a young man named Anthony. He's a likable Bronx kid whose life turns hopeless after two tours of Vietnam.

What the film promises in its eerie opening scenes about the hopes invested in the big heist becomes canned and anti-climac tic when the chips are down.

The film juggles too many elements. "Dead Presidents" wants to shed light on larger issues about the Vietnam War in the black community, but in so doing it loses momentum. It's not quite preachy, but close.

The Hugheses may simply be too young to effectively tackle a story about the deep tragedy of Vietnam and its effect on African Americans. The war sequences, for example, are overly staged (filmed in Florida), and references to the black power, anti-war movement back home are almost polite, and without passion.

"Dead Presidents," though, deserves some credit for trying to portray what happened to many black GIs who left home as kids and came back as men changed forever by combat. And by drugs and lost limbs. Yet the sense of outrage that black men fought "the white man's war" and gained

nothing for the black community never fully comes across.

Larenz Tate, who played the ruthless O-Dog in "Menace II Society," is Anthony. We meet him as a good-looking, affable high school kid with college in his future and a little bounce when he walks. He hangs out in a pool hall whose owner is a numbers game operator (Keith David of "Clockers") and employs him as a runner. But Anthony is no criminal.

Anthony's best friends are a jokester named Skip (Chris Tucker, "Friday") who brags that pimping runs in his family, and a wiseacre but earnest Hispanic boy named Jose (Freddy Rodriguez). Anthony is sweet on Juanita (Rose Jackson), with whom he shares a loss of virginity in an amusingly tender moment. Predictably, Juanita gets pregnant.

In a plot twist, Anthony enlists in the military, but we're never sure why. In Vietnam he serves in an elite reconnaissance platoon and experiences nightmarish destruction of human life. He fights alongside Skip and Jose (despite the unlikelihood that they'd be in the same outfit), and watches another guy his age, Cleon (Bokeem Woodbine), become a murderous madman in the jungle. The violence here is disgusting, giving one the sense that the brothers want to bully viewers.

Two tours of Vietnam bring Anthony home to a radically changed world. The streets have turned mean. A pimp has a powerful influence on Juanita and the kid Anthony fathered, drug addiction has a hold on the 'hood and the crazy Cleon has turned his Vietnam demons to work as a preacher. Anthony's job as a butcher brings him nightmares of the wartime carnage, and his life starts to unravel.

The film is well-acted, and the Hughes brothers frame suspenseful moments with real skill. Veteran actor Keith David is a powerhouse as the numbers man who is forced to play a far more dangerous criminal game. The Hughes- produced sound track features music by Sly & the Family Stone, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, the Spinners and others.


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There was a lot to learn from the release last Friday of reports on clergy sexual abuse in the American Catholic Church. The much anticipated document from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York stated that 4,392 priests (4 percent of the U.S. total) sexually victimized 10,667 children during the past 52 years. The report noted that 81 percent of the victims were boys, with two-thirds being teenagers. Most of the abuse occurred in the 1970s (70 percent of the offending priests were ordained on or before 1970), with significant declines by the 1980s and 1990s. In a separate report also commissioned by American Catholic bishops, the National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People, composed of lay persons, chastised the bishops for how they dealt with child-abuse allegations over the years.

How do we put these numbers in perspective? Tragically, the best available data from both the federal government and a number of independent researchers suggest that sexual victimization of children is neither rare nor confined to the Catholic Church. In fact, about 20 percent of American women and 15 percent of American men report that they were victims of child sexual abuse, with about 80 percent reporting that the abuse was perpetrated by a family member. Sexual abuse by other groups of men who have regular unsupervised contact with and power over children appears to occur at levels similar to those associated with priests. About 5 percent of school teachers, for instance, have sexually victimized a student; 15 percent of Americans report being the target of sexual misconduct by a teacher while in primary or secondary school. Apparently, other groups also need to conduct their own John Jay study.

We naturally expect better behavior from religious leaders such as priests than from other men, however. Furthermore, we expect that church officials would deal with sexual abuse allegations with concern, responsibility and stellar ethics. Tragically, we have come to realize that some priests and bishops behaved very badly.

The frequent recent reminders of the clergy sexual abuse problem in the American Catholic Church can't feel very good for anyone. Victims and their families are often retraumatized and thwarted in their attempts to heal and move on with their lives. The 96 percent of priests who have not abused children as well as average Catholics in the pews once again feel saddened, depressed and angry. They must find ways to make sense of such horrific behavior among their clergy as well as defend their faith tradition from frequent attacks, ridicule and jokes.

The often remarkable and impressive pastoral work of the Catholic Church helping the poor and marginalized of society in its efforts to create a more humane, just and ethical world and to follow the Gospels and the teachings of Jesus have been severely compromised. Many wonder if the church can ever regain or re-earn its moral authority.

Actually, there is hope for a better and stronger American Catholic Church. The church has an opportunity to develop a model program for policies and procedures to protect children and families from potential exploitation. Some of these improvements have already started:

-- Awakened laity: The emerging Voice of the Faithful and other Catholic lay groups have recently demanded more checks and balances and accountability in their church.

-- Lay review boards: These new boards operate in all dioceses and serve as another excellent step in the right direction. I serve on several of these boards, which include women, parents, abuse victims as well as mental-health, legal and law-enforcement professionals, along with some non-Catholics. These boards review all allegations of misconduct not only by priests but by all church employees.

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-- Psychological screening and treatment: Screening and selection of applicants to the priesthood (who now generally enter seminary around the age of 30, compared to their teens during previous generations) improve the chances of psychologically healthy men entering religious life following more mature psychosexual development. Today, the church can use state-of-the-art research and clinical techniques to minimize potential sex offenders from entering the ministry and act quickly when someone engages in sexual misconduct.

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Ten Tiny Breaths (Ten Tiny Breaths #1) by K.A. Tucker

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Publication Date: February, 2013
Publisher: Atria Books
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Four years ago Kacey Cleary’s life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, holding her boyfriend’s lifeless hand and listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. Armed with two bus tickets, twenty-year-old Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. Struggling to make ends meet, Kacey needs to figure out how to get by. But Kacey’s not worried. She can handle anything—anything but her mysterious neighbor in apartment 1D.

Trent Emerson has smoldering blue eyes, deep dimples, and he perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable and Trent is determined to find a way into Kacey’s guarded heart—even if it means that an explosive secret could shatter both their worlds.

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This book wasn’t really what I was expecting.  I was expecting your typical New Adult (NA) Romance story and I was wrong.  While this book has some definite elements from a typical NA Romance, it goes so much deeper than that.  It’s packed full of emotion and issues and dealing.

Both main characters, Kacey and Trent, are pretty messed up in their own way.  They each have hidden pasts that they have tried – and failed – to deal with in unique ways.  Throughout the story, we see both struggle and finally deal with their traumatic pasts.  There is definitely growth of characters in the novel.

There is one major twist in this story that I think is pretty easy to figure out after a certain point.  I, myself, guessed it a little over halfway through the book.  However, even though my guess was correct, it didn’t really ruin it for me when the book eventually reveals the twist to the reader.  I had my doubts, of course, and there was the anticipation of when I was going to find out for certain.  So, even though a lot of readers will probably pick out this twist, I don’t think it affects the enjoyment of its reveal.

While this book was good and it kept my interest throughout (I didn’t want to put it down at times), I just don’t feel much excitement over it.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I read it, but I feel it only deserves 4 stars.  There were just little things that prevent me from fully loving it enough to give it a higher rating.  It was very close to earning a 4.5 rating, however, but in the end it’s a 4-star for me.

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Benitez's side were beaten 3-1 on penalties after they were held to a 1-1 draw by 10-man Hull City at the KCOM Stadium.

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