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Arizona's tough new law -soon to become official onJuly 29, is already having onedesired effect. It's drivingeven long-time residents, al-beit illegal, from that state ofperennial sunshine to otherlocales where the living iseasy and the cotton is non-ex-istent, but where meatslaughtering/packing busi-nesses are in abundance.

Jimmy, who wouldn't givehis last name for fear ofPhoenix cops chasing him allthe way to his new home,said that he arrived only re-cently to a small town justoutside of Houston, Texas,and he has already noticed ahuge difference. "The climatehere is better than Arizona's,it's cooler for one thing. Thepolice are also much coolerthan the ones in Phoenix. I'veheard that if the cops stopyou, and you've been, per-haps, drinking, they don't ar-rest you and take you to jail,they call your family and askthem to come pick you up.Do you think that would everhappen in Arizona?"

Jimmy was talking, ofcourse, about the new SB-1070, a controversial piece oflegislation that will requirepolice officers to ask for aperson's legal status if thatperson is stopped for a trafficinfraction, or for some otherproblem with the law. Sup-porters of the new law insistthat only those who commit acrime, whether traffic or oth-erwise, will be asked for theirpapers. Opponents of the law,however, are fighting it be-cause they say the new lawwill cause law enforcement toprofile people, especiallythose who are dark-skinned,and who may speak Englishwith an accent. Countlessdemonstrations by thousandsof people have fought for thelaw to be rescinded.

Susie, Jimmy's wife, saidshe likes the different ambi-ence, where the people areAnglo, but, much friendlier

than those she dealt with inPhoenix. "We lived inPhoenix for about 13 years,our children were born andraised there, but, we never re-ally felt comfortable. Therewere always angry stares and,apparently, racist attitudes.Here, we can breathe morefreely, because we know thatnobody's going to come andbreak down our door."

To make the trek to thatsmall community, which shallremain unnamed, Jimmy andSusie sold everything theyhad accumulated in 13 yearsof living in Phoenix. Theysold refrigerators, they soldtelevision sets for as little as

$5, but, there were certainthings they couldn't sell.Those, they just abandoned."All we wanted was to getout of Phoenix as soon aspossible," Jimmy said. "But,now, we're in a new land, anew place, a nicer place,where we're treated withmore respect. We evenchanged our names to fit ournew environment. But, Iguess I'm kind of worried,because other illegals inPhoenix are hearing abouthow nice it is over here, andthey're planning to follow ourtrail.

"I don't mind, of course,this is a free country and peo-ple can live anywhere theywant, as long as they don'thave the immigration cops ontheir trail. What I'm worried

about is that soon there aregoing to be so many peoplelike us here, people withoutpapers, that the communitymight get upset and start act-ing like the people in Ari-zona. I'm sure not everyAnglo in Phoenix wanted usout of there, but, there weretoo many of those whowanted us to leave. So, wedid. But, you know what? Ithink those who wanted usout of there, really did us afavor.

"It was rather sad, havingto leave Phoenix," Susie said."After all, we dedicated ourlive to that community. Wefollowed its rules, and we

obeyed its laws. Our childrenwere being educated in itsschools, and we supportedthe economy with our hard-earned dollars. But, whenyou're no longer wanted.When millions of people areclamoring for you to get out.When they look at you withsuch hatred. What else canyou do, but, pack it up andstart a new life. Jimmy al-ready found a job, in a meat-packing plant. It's verydifferent from the work hedid in Phoenix, which wasmostly farm work. But, he'lladjust, I'll adjust, and ourchildren, 15 and 12, will alsoadjust. But, we're also work-ing on becoming legal resi-dents. I only pray that we'llbe given that opportunity. Welove America!"

Undocumented people inPhoenix already leaving for

cooler pasturesby Joe Olvera (c), 2010

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Paramedic

Defined:A paramedic is the highestlevel emergency medicaltechnician. These emergencymedical professionals aretrained to provide patientswith the most advanced carebefore a patient is admittedinto a hospital. They mayhave to revive or stabilize apatient on the way to theemergency room. Paramedics

often work alongside otheremergency medical techni-cians and emergency responsepersonnel, such as firefightersand police officers.

Educational

Overview to Be a

Paramedic:In order to become a para-medic, formal training and li-censing is required. Studentsmust complete the early lev-

els of emergency medicaltraining, EMT-1, EMT-2/3.Upon completing thosecourses, students must com-plete a paramedic program,which may last up to twoyears. During the program,students must also completeon-site training. After com-pleting the program, studentsmust pass written and practi-cal exams to receive a license.The El Paso Fire DepartmentTraining Academy and EMSOnline Training Plus gradu-

ated 21 El Paso Fire Fighterswho completed the Paramediccourse to become newly certi-fied Paramedics. The courseincluded classroom instruc-tion and skills training on var-ious aspects in becoming alicense paramedic, some ofthe courses included patientassessment, pharmaceutical,advance and pediatric cardiaclife support, advance airwaymanagement, IV infusionmanagement, trauma andmedical emergency care,

EKG assessment, OB-GYN,HAZMAT emergencies, andweapons of mass destructionwith mass casualty triage. Theparamedic class was the firstof its kind to be done by apartnership of the El PasoFire Dept. Training Academyand EMS Online TrainingPlus making the ParamedicClass 1 a success. The Para-medic class will now beginthe next phase of preceptor-ship with current EPFD Para-medics for on the field

evaluations. These newly ac-quired certified paramedicswill be given a responsibilityto go out to the community toprovide advance emergencycare at the highest level givenon the streets of El Paso. Sav-ing lives and administratingemergency medical care to allwho call upon them is the up-most goal. El Paso should beproud to have these men andwomen serving as the newParamedics for the El PasoFire Department.

EL PASO FIRE DEPARTMENTParamedic Class 1 Graduates

Capt. Raymond Carreon Jr. Lt. Richard Varela

FST Matthew C. Morrison FST Ricky J. Pando

FST Enrique Saucedo FF Gilbert Alvara

FF Rodolfo Becerra FF Jake Canavan

FF Daniel Hernandez FF David Hernandez

FF Michael J. Lara FF Peter L. Liechti

FF Albert Lujan FF Lorenzo Marquez III

FF Matthew K. Mendoza FF Joel Najera

FF James E. Nicholson Sr. FF Manuel Ortiz

FF Zachary J. Renteria FF Jennifer Rubio

FF Calvin Zielsdorf

EL PASO FIRE DEPARTMENT Paramedic Class 1


Some of you may have read that former Governor Dolph Briscoe

died a few days ago. Briscoe was the Governor of Texas from1973 until 1979.

I happened to read an article related to the late Governor thatwas written in the Houston Chronicle. The article basically ex-plained how some events in late 1970 and early 1971 created somuch public discontent with Texas government at the time thatvoter backlash put new faces in familiar offices.

The main scandal that gripped Austin at the time is referredto as the Sharpstown scandal. In the months just prior to the legislative session that con-vened in January of 1971, it was revealed that certain high level politicians and state widebanking industries had become entangled in a web of corruption. During the session of1971, several events occurred that exposed a great network of payoffs for political favors.

After the session ended, many political careers came crashing down as a resultof the scandal. Even the Speaker of the House, Gus Muscher, was indicted for corruption.He was the only one.

Although the scandal originated in the Houston area, the story actually involvesEl Paso.

During the legislative session of 1971, many aspects of the scandal became veryapparent to certain House members. Although the extent of the scandal was very serious,for a majority of members it was business as usual; except that is for a very small group oflegislators.

That group became known as the Dirty Thirty. Its membership included twospecific House members very familiar to El Pasoans: Representative Paul Moreno andRepresentative Tom Craddick. Throughout the session, this group of representativesfought legislation that was in their opinion tilted in favor of special interests.

It is ironic indeed that 33 years later, Moreno would battle Craddick (theSpeaker in 2003) on issues that were just as controversial as in 1971.

One other El Paso connection to the scandal came about in the general electionfor Governor in which Briscoe the Democratic nominee. There was so much public dis-content which resulted in candidates running for Governor who were not in the main-stream of Texas politics.

Ramsey Muniz was a candidate for the La Raza Unida (LRU) party. The LRUwas considered a radical party by many bordering on militancy. The LRU held its conven-tion in El Paso and was attended by many prominent El Paso politicians. In the actualgeneral election, the independent Hispanic party pulled many votes away from the Demo-cratic candidate, Briscoe, which almost handed the office to the Republicans.

Finally, as a result of the unethical activities exposed during the legislative ses-sion, a complete rewrite of the House Rules was undertaken. The changes primarily weremade to insure that unethical legislative actions would not occur again.

One such action involved the Appropriations Committee (designates where taxdollars are spent). The committee held a secret meeting in which a part of the TxDOTbudget was dedicated to the construction of a private road on the property of another com-mittee chair. If not for the actions of the Dirty Thirty, this might have passed.

In the words of Paul Harvey, now you know the rest of the story.

Chente QuintanillaState Representative

Passing ofGovernor Briscoe

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I think it's a great news thatthe United Farm Workers Or-ganization is encouragingthose who claim that undocu-mented workers are takingaway jobs which they coulddo, to pick up the helm anddo farm work. The Union,which was started by the lateicon, Cesar Chavez, is chal-lenging the complainers to dofarm work. It stated that itsworkers are even willing totrain those who would dofield work; to take their placeamong the vineyards, the po-tato fields, the acres ofonions, and sundry othertypes of field work whichmust be done for our nation tosurvive, for our nation to havefood on its tables. Even co-median Steven Colbert is ris-ing to the challenge, and he'swilling to work the fields.

Believe me, it's not easywork. I know, because when Iwas younger, I did that typeof work. After having finishedmy stint at Columbia Univer-sity in New York City, whereI learned to be a t.v. reporter, Iwas relegated to the offices ofthen-KROD-TV, Channel 4.As El Paso's first Chicano tel-evision reporter, I was all setto conquer my fear and to ex-pose my dark face on televi-sion sets across my beautifulcity. But that didn't last very

long. I just wasn't cut out tobe on t.v., and, I certainlywasn't cut out to be a First.Not too long after I hadstarted working at Channel 4,I quit the station.

At the brush of midnight,on a dreary El Paso night, Isneaked into the t.v. station towrite my letter of resignation.Of course, not before filling

the gas tank on my car withthe gas card the station hadgiven me. I finished my letter,left the keys to the station andmy gas card on my desk, andsneaked out, in a cowardlyway, I suppose.

The next day, I left forCalifornia, where I was deter-mined to become a farmworker because I wanted to

learn. My first gig was at thisfield of sebollitas - where thepicking was ripe, fast, andgood. I had some help, ofcourse, but the entire fieldwas given to my disposal.That was tough work, whatwith me bending over thegood earth to pick the chalots,and placing them in buckets.The money was good, the feelof the earth beneath me wasinvigorating - that is, untilthat sun blistered my entirebody.

Later, I tried to work withCesar Chavez's union. But,jobs were scarce because hewas in a battle with the Team-sters Union for contracts.Chavez's jobs, of course, wentto those who had been withhim from the very beginning,but, none for us new-comers.I did work a couple of fields,but the pay was miserable.Thus, I opted to go with theTeamsters. I had no otherchoice. Besides, I rememberChavez siccing the BorderPatrol on us because the com-petition was that fierce.

When I started working forthe Teamsters, my pay in-creased tremendously. At thet.v. station, believe it or not, Iwas earning $90 a week, and,to boot, then-PresidentRichard Nixon had frozensalaries, thus, no chance ofgetting more pay. With theTeamsters, however, I wasearning up to $350 per week.I not only picked grapes, but,I also worked potatoes, andworked in an onion packingshed. But, picking grapes wasmy favorite thing to do.

There's something aboutgetting up at the crack ofdawn, wolfing down somepapas con chorizo burritos,and drinking a steaming cupof coffee. Later, we wouldjoin a caravan of vehiclesmaking their way to thefields. Once at the place wewere going to work, themorning was cool, the earthawaited us, and we were anx-ious. Ah, but, wait! As soonas that old sun beat back themorning breeze, that's whenwe earned our pay. The sunbeat down on our backs in amerciless way. Continues on page 6

So, you want to be a farm worker, huh?by Joe Olvera (c), 2010


Weather Trivia:July is El Paso’s second hottest month of the year behind June.What is our average high temperature for the month?

Answer: B - 95

I got a question from a reader that I though was very

good. The question is this: "Why do forecasts differfrom one meteorologist to another?" This particularviewer was referring more specifically to all of the localtelevision weather forecasts. This was not the first timeI heard this and talking to my other meteorologistfriends in the media, it's seems pretty common espe-cially from weather savy viewers.

Putting together a weather forecast can be fairly quick(about one hour) or a bit more time consuming (severalhours or more). It all depends on how much time you

spend analyzing weather data, your experience forecasting in the particular town orcity and your knowledge of what you are looking at.

For instance, The National Weather Service puts out two daily forecasts for theentire area. These forecasts give the high and low, precipitation probabilities, windspeeds and explain what kind of weather is expected over the next several days.Outside meteorologists can look at this data and use it completely, partially or notat all. That is why I say putting together a forecast can be fairly quick - we can justbasically cut and paste.

Another way to forecast is to actually analyze many of the weather computermodels (around 10) that we receive on a daily basis. These models get updatedthroughout the day - some more often than others. These various models can taketime to look at and analyze. At times, one model may predict a cold air mass com-ing while another one predicts it will stay warm. One model may predict lots ofrain, another very little rain. These weather computer models can also change fromone model run to another. For instance, one day a particular model can show a coldfront coming in tomorrow night. This same model the following morning mayshow the cold front pulling up short of our area and not even being a factor in ourtemperatures. So, it all depends on what model a meteorologist looks at and howmuch credibility he gives to the models.

Knowledge of the region and education is important as well. Having a grasp onhow storms move through this area and how the mountains and elevation play apart in our weather is critical. Experience (time spent living in this area) forecast-ing in a particular part of the country is also a big plus.

So, it all depends on how much time is spent preparing and analyzing and whatthe particular meteorologist thinks will occur with the atmosphere. Weather is notan exact science and we all miss the forecast from time to time, but at least youhave an idea of how we go about it.

By: “Doppler” Dave Speelman

WEATHER 101Why the Different

Forecasts?

“Doppler" Dave Speelman is the chief meteorologist at KVIA-TV in El Paso. You can watchhis forecasts at 4, 5, 6 and 10 pm on ABC-7 (channel 6 cable). If you would like DopplerDave to address (explain) any weather issues you can email him at [email protected].

A. 92B. 95

C. 97D. 98


President Barack Obama has nomi-nated Larry L. Palmer, Ed.D. a for-mer assistant to UTEP PresidentDiana Natalicio, to be the next U.S.Ambassador to Venezuela.

Palmer, who has spent much of hisprofessional life in education and theforeign service, worked at The Uni-versity of Texas at El Paso from1989-91. During that time he wasnamed a Pearson Fellow, an honorbestowed on individuals with an out-standing record of national and/or in-ternational public service. Hisportfolio included advancing theNorth American Free Trade Agree-

ment (NAFTA), creating faculty andstudent exchange opportunities inuniversities throughout Mexico, andserving as University consultant forinternational affairs.

Palmer isthe president and CEO ofthe Inter-American Foundation, aU.S. foreign assistance agencywhich channels funds to nongovern-mental organizations in Latin Amer-ica and the Caribbean to promoteentrepreneurship, innovation andself-reliance to empower impover-ished communities.

Most recently, he spoke at the open-ing reception for Pictur-ing GrassrootsDevelopment: An Exhibitin Celebration of theInter-American Founda-tion’s 40th Anniversary atthe UTEP CentennialMuseum in October2009. His relationshipwith UTEP remainsstrong and Natalicioserves as an advisorycouncil member for theInter-American Founda-tion. He also was aspeaker for the Univer-sity’s Millennium LectureSeries in 2008.

“Larry Palmer’s nomina-tion by President Obamaas U.S. Ambassador to

Venezuela is great news,” Nataliciosaid. “The expertise and experiencethat he’s gained during his distin-guished career in the Foreign Serv-ice, including two years at UTEP asa State Department Pearson Fellow,have prepared him exceedingly wellfor this important assignment. Am-bassador Palmer’s many UTEPMiner friends join me in wishinghim a smooth confirmation processand success in this fascinating newpost.”

Obama recently nominated Palmerand three other men to ambassador-ships, which still must be confirmedby the Senate. Palmer would repla-cePatrick Duddy, who began servingas ambassador in Caracas in August2007.

“I am proud to nominate such ac-complished and dedicated individu-als to fill these important roles,”Obama said. “They will be valuableadditions to my administration as wework to confront our challenges athome and abroad.”

Palmeris a career member of theU.S. Foreign Service. He served asU.S. Ambassador to the Republic ofHonduras from 2002 to 2005, and aspresident of the 41st Senior Seminarbefore becoming the Charge D'Af-faires in Quito, Ecuador from 1999to 2002.

Palmer acted as vice consul in theDominican Republic from 1982 to1984, and then as personnel officerin Montevideo, Uruguay and Asun-cion, Paraguay, from 1984 to 1986.He worked in the State Departmentas staff assistant to the Assistant Sec-retary for African Affairs from 1986to 1987 and then as counselor for ad-ministration in Freetown, SierraLeone from 1987 to 1989.

Palmer left UTEP to serve as person-nel officer in Seoul, Korea, from1991 to 1994 and went on to becomecounselor for administration in theDominican Republic from 1994 to1998.

Born in Augusta, Ga., Palmer gradu-ated from Emory University in 1970,and completed his graduate trainingat Texas Southern University(M.Ed., African History, 1973) andIndiana University Bloomington(Ed. D., Higher Education Adminis-tration and African Studies, 1978).

Prior to joining the Foreign Servicein 1982, Palmer served as a PeaceCorps volunteer in Liberia, WestAfrica (1971-73); as assistant direc-tor of financial aid at the Universityof Virginia in Charlottesville (1973-74); as a professor of history at Cut-tington College in Suakoko, Liberia(1974-76); and at Wake Forest Uni-versity in Winston Salem, North Car-olina (1978-81).

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After packing the grapes into a box,we had to carry the boxes to theedge of the row, and struggle towalk on loose soil. We did this timeafter time after time - you get mydrift.

Before too long, our backs werebreaking, sweat ran down ourspines, the sun caused headaches,and we still had more than sixhours to go before the day wasdone. But, hey, we were tough, andwe did it, we survived. At the sametime that it was difficult, it was in-vigorating. I felt my muscles grow,I felt my endurance developing,and, at the end of the day, I felt mypockets bulging with money,money which was going to be spentin San Francisco, my next destina-tion.

I hope those people who accusefarm workers of taking jobs whichcould be theirs, would really takethem up on the offer - take theirjobs, why don't you? Let's see whatkind of survivors you're going tobe. Believe me, my friends, farmwork is no picnic. But, hey, it helpsput food on tables - everybody'stable. That's what it's all about, isn'tit?

Sin Fin

FArm WOrkEr...Former UTEP Staff Member Named U.S. Ambassadorto Venezuela


Top Ten All-American ClassicsTop Ten All-American ClassicsSharon mosley

Want to get more bang fromyour fashion bucks? Then getback to the basics by investingin quality updated classics thatwill give you plenty of style.Getting dressed any time of theyear will be a cinch. If you havea closet filled with the "core es-sentials," then you can easilyadd some personality pieces andaccessories. But first you've gotto start building your wardrobeby laying the foundation.

Here are 10 All-American

favorites to get you started:

— Jeans. Unless you are

one of the few people that don'tlike to wear jeans, this is oneitem that has been a classic fash-ion staple in most people'swardrobe since the '50s. Most ofus grew up wearing them andstill love wearing them today,even when we dress them up fora party. Re-evaluate your denimwardrobe every year. There areso many new styles and washesavailable that you may want totry several pairs. I usually buytwo new pairs of jeans each sea-son — one to wear with flatsand a dressier pair to wear withheels.

— The jean jacket. An-

other denim classic. Fit is keyhere, however. Forego the "old"look of the boxier jackets andshop for more modern silhou-ettes that are fitted and not asshapeless. I also like jean jacketsthat are made with softer denim,so that they don't feel stiff anduncomfortable.

— The tank top. Now

more than ever, the tank top isone item that you can neverhave enough of in yourwardrobe. It's the quintessentiallayering piece. Wear them oneon top of the other. Buy these inboth long and short lengths andin a wide variety of colors.

— The T-shirt. Another fashion basic to buy in

multiples. Nix the baggy, stretched-out and fadedones. Instead go for the fit-ted versions to wearalone or under jack-ets, shirts andblouses. I like towear T-shirts in"thinner" fabrics when Iwear them as a layeringitem; I wear heavier cottonsor jersey ones when I wearthem on their own.

— Menswear pants. Whether they're flat-

front cotton chinos or classic twill trousers, we allneed a few pairs of "go-to" pants that are comfortableand will work with everything else in our wardrobeswhen we're NOT wearing jeans. Stock up on these inneutral colors, and you will always have versatile op-tions in your closet that you can rely on. My "neutral"is black, but gray, khaki, beige, white or cream are allgreat options.

— The pencil skirt.Gotta have at least one ofthese. And don't worry if youdon't have great legs. Theseslim skirts look great inlengths that cover the knees.Wear them in the summerwith strappy sandals and T-shirts. In winter, wear themwith jackets, dark opaquetights and boots.

— The sheath dress. Think Audrey Hepburn

and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and you'll get the reasonwhy this little number has always exuded charm andstyle through the decades. Whether it's in a sophisti-cated black or a colorful pop-art print, you can't gowrong with having one of these fabulous finds hangingin your closet.

— The cashmere sweater. Buy these in

solid colors, and you'll have style for life. In a cardi-gan, they can be worn over a sleeveless dress in thesummer. Or in a crew-neck version, they can be wornover jeans for a casual weekend look. Don't underesti-mate these basics, which can instantly give yourwardrobe a little touch of luxury for years.

— The classic blazer. A workhorse classic

for your closet, this jacket is a must-have for profes-sional wardrobes as well as casual ones. While the sil-houettes will change from year to year, the moretailored, minimal blaz-ers in streamlinedshapes will be yourbest bets — they caneasily transition fromthe office when wornwith skirts andtrousers to the week-end when tossed overjeans and T-shirts.

— The trench

coat. My all-time

favorite topper. It's theclassic coat that you

Jeans have been an All-American classic

in wardrobes for decades. This year, the

cropped jean is one of fashion's biggest

trends seen on the fall runways at Isabel

Marant. Photo courtesy of Stylesight.

can wear year-round — inwaterproof fabrics forspring and summer and inheavier wools for winter.My collection includes ared silk one I wear duringthe holidays and a raincoatwith a detachable fur lin-ing I wear all year long.

Sharon Mosley is a formerfashion editor of theArkansas Gazette in LittleRock and executive direc-tor of the Fashion Editorsand Reporters Association.

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DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren

DEAR ABBY: Last year,my husband of 36 years died.My pastor came over a fewdays later to help me clean upmy yard because my husbandwas a pack rat. I did not real-ize that some of the items Ithought were junk were valu-able. My pastor took theitems, sold them for scrapand kept the money for him-self. He also took my hus-band's truck to his shop,stripped it and sold the parts.

I have tried callinghim but he won't answer orreturn my calls. I tried talkingto him after church only tohave him shut the door in myface. I have written him a let-ter -- no response.

Abby, I don't wantto take my pastor to court.I'm beginning to lose myfaith. What should I do? --LOSING MY FAITH INKINSTON, N.C.

DEAR LOSING YOURFAITH: My gut reaction isto scream, "Call the cops!"The man you have describedis a wolf in shepherd's cloth-ing and it could save othertrusting widows from beingfleeced as you have been. Ifyou can't bring yourself totake that "pastard" to civilcourt, at least report thesethefts to the judicatory or re-gional board of your denomi-nation so they can deal withhim.

**DEAR ABBY: I have beenmarried 30 years and havehad issues with my mother-in-law since before the wed-ding. She didn't want me tomarry her son and has criti-cized my hair, my weight, mychild-rearing, etc., during myentire marriage. Of course,she never says these things

when my husband iswithin earshot. I did-n't discuss it withhim because wedon't see her often.

We'replanninga one-week visit with them, and my50th birthday will occur dur-ing the visit. My husband toldme I could do whatever Iwanted on my birthday andmentioned including his par-ents. I told him I didn't wantto spend the day with themand now he's mad at me.

I realize this mayseem petty to you, but this isa milestone birthday that I'mnot really looking forward to.What do I do? Do I "suck itup" and deal with her pres-ence on my birthday or standmy ground? -- DREADINGIT IN ALAMOGORDO,N.M.

DEAR DREADING IT:Remind your spouse that heSAID you could do anythingyou wished on your birthday,and that you didn't realizethat telling him you wantedto spend this milestone with-out his parents would upsethim. Then tell him that be-cause he feels obligated to in-clude his parents, of course,you won't object -- as long ashe's willing to celebrate theoccasion the way YOU wouldlike after you return from thevisit.

P.S. It's too bad youdidn't tell him his mother was"gunning for you" decadesago, because he might havebeen able to nip it in the bud.

**DEAR ABBY: Many yearsago my wife conceived achild with an old boyfriend

who had been after her forquite a while without myknowledge. I adopted thechild after he left her.

I have tried to con-vince my wife to tell ourdaughter the truth for med-ical reasons, but she refuses.She feels if she tells ourdaughter the truth, she will bedisgraced forever. What isyour opinion? -- LOVES MYDAUGHTER IN WASHING-TON STATE

DEAR LOVES YOURDAUGHTER: Your daugh-ter should have been told thetruth years ago -- and it isstill not too late to do so. Myconcern is that she may even-tually hear it from some otherrelative or a close familyfriend who assumes she al-ready knows. These kinds offamily secrets invariablyhave a way of slipping out,and better that your daughterhear the story from hermother than someone else.

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DearAbby

The Savage Truth on Money

How Bank Accounts of

the Future Will Cost YouTerry Savage

Once upon a time, the bankswanted your business sobadly they actually gave youa free toaster as an incentiveto make a deposit. That's atime few remember — a taletold by elders to amuse theyounger generation.

It's one thing to stop givingincentives; it's quite anotherto start charging you for theprivilege of depositing yourmoney. Yet that's just what'saround the corner — the endof free checking, freecashier's checks and the pit-tance of interest you might begetting if you leave a balancein your checking account.

In its place, you could findyourself paying fees foreverything from "inactivity"to debit transactions. You'llhave to consider a complexseries of tradeoffs in order tostash your money safely andconveniently in a checkingaccount.

For example, you could be re-quired to keep a significantbalance in your checking ac-count to avoid a $15 monthlyfee. That means "hiding" yourtrue balance from yourselfwith an extra $500 or moresitting in an account thatdoesn't earn interest.

Or you might have to haveyour paycheck or Social Se-curity check direct-depositedto avoid a monthly fee. Orconsolidate your bills by pay-ing your utilities using yourcredit card — so you onlyhave one or two large checksto write every month — inorder to avoid fees for excesschecks. Depending on yourbank, direct debit of mortgagepayments or car loan pay-ments could keep you underthe fee-paying transactionlimit.

The point is that you'll have topay attention and be creativeto save money on somethingyou used to take for granted.

The banks are just gettingeven for the recent laws thatlimit overdraft and late feeson checking and credit cards.It's been estimated that itcosts from $250 to $300 ayear for a banking institutionto maintain your account. Andif the spendthrifts aren't goingto pay the extra costs theyincur, then the charges will bespread to those who scrupu-lously avoid overdrafts, usedebit cards and always paytheir credit card bills on time— and even in full.

Credit-card issuers are seeingcharge-offs in the double-digitrange — and someone has tomake up for the billions thatare written off amidst soaring

consumer bankruptcies. Nowthose substantial costs arebeing passed along to all ofus.

The end of "free checking" isonly the first step. The nextstep is to do away with papercompletely — or pay a fee.I've long suspected that oncethey got all of us paying billsonline, they'd start chargingfor that service, too! We'resaving them money if theydon't have to process paperchecks, so we should actuallybe rewarded. But this is notabout reason — it's about re-couping the costs of doingbusiness.

Is there anything you can doto fight back against thesecharges? Here are a few sug-gestions:

— Consider credit unions orcommunity banks. You mayhave overlooked these smallerinsured institutions, whichhave the capability of being

more flexible and offeringpersonal service. The tradeofffor lower fees or free check-ing is that they may not havea wide network of ATMs. Ifyou make frequent with-drawals, the fees could costyou more each month than acharge for maintaining achecking account.

— Use a money market mu-tual fund. Most of these ac-counts are invested inshort-term government securi-ties, so they are very nearly assafe as bank money marketdeposit accounts. They allow you to write alimited number of checkseach month at no cost. So youcan charge all your smallerpurchases on your credit card,accumulate miles or pointsand then pay the bill fromyour account.

Be aware of the number ofchecks allowed each monthand the minimum dollaramount per check.

— Use your debit. Right now,banks are only considering acharge every time you useyour debit card. But they'refighting against proposed fi-nancial reforms that wouldcut the merchant fees they getwhen you use your debit card.If those fees are cut, banksmay start charging you forusing your card. But in themeantime, debit is efficientand a good way to avoid writ-ing paper checks.

— Roll over a portion of yourIRA. You probably have someof your IRA in a conservativemoney market account withyour mutual fund company. Ifyou roll over just that portionof your IRA to a bank CDIRA, you may have a largeenough balance of deposits atyour bank to avoid fees com-pletely.

What's really important nowis that you read all those fineprint notices that come inyour billing statement.They're hoping to slide thenew fees past you — ...Continues on next page


Sustainable Living

Food on a Global ScaleShawn Dell Joyce

We Americans complain bit-terly about the rising cost offood. Most Americans don'trealize just how good we re-ally have it in the land ofplenty. In countries wherepeople make much lessmoney, they spend a muchhigher percentage of their in-comes on food.

Wealthier industrialized na-tions spend a small percent-age of their weekly budgetson food. According to theEconomic Research Service,we spend only 5.7 percent ofour total household budgetson food. In the U.K. and Den-mark, people spend about 10percent, compared with 40 to50 percent for people in lessdeveloped nations. Azerbaijantops the chart at 50.4 percent.

In their delicious book, "Hun-gry Planet: What the WorldEats," photographer PeterMenzel and writer FaithD'Aluisio document theweekly food budgets of 24 in-ternational families in full-color photos. A family ofeight in Guatemala spendsabout $75.70 in grocerieseach week. The averageyearly income is about$4,000, making groceries thegreatest expense for mostfamilies. Most families growa good portion of what theyeat and barter with the excess.

Meanwhile, back in the states,a family of five can spend awhopping $242.48 per weekon groceries out of an averageincome of $35,000 per per-son. Though the cost soundsmuch greater, if you includeincome and other expenses,Americans eat the cheapestfood in the world — and lotsof it.

We humans need about 2,000calories per day to be healthy.We've moved from an averageof 2,358 kilocalories availableper person each day in 1965to 2,803 kcals in 1999 to aprojected 2,940 in 2015, ac-

cording to the World HealthOrganization. But not every-one has equal access to theall-you-can-eat buffet. In de-veloping countries, only2,681 kcals per person wereavailable each day in 1999,while industrialized countrieshad 3,380 kcals per personavailable each day.

D'Aluisio writes: "Here wehave the great irony of mod-ern nutrition: at a time whenhundreds of millions of peo-ple do not have enough to eat,hundreds of millions more areeating too much and are over-weight or obese. Today ...more people are overweightthan underweight."

In the U.S., 72 percent of menand 70 percent of women areoverweight. Cheaper fooddoes not translate into health-ier food. In fact, our currentagricultural policy is to subsi-dize corn to the point that it isridiculously cheap and ubiq-uitous in our food system —so cheap that we even burn itas fuel for our automobiles, acrime against humanity whenyou consider all the starvingpeople who could be fed.

Corn is one of the cheapest

food additives and the mosthighly subsidized crop in theworld. This mountain ofcheap corn is used primarilyin processed foods. Corn andcorn syrup products as sweet-eners can be found in almostevery product on supermarketshelves, and they are primaryingredients in most fast foods.That makes processed foodsmuch cheaper than whole,natural and nutritious foods.Plus they don't spoil asquickly as fresh produce andtaste better to humans, whoare already evolutionarily in-clined toward sweet and fattyflavors.

Looking back at ourGuatemalan family citedabove, their weekly diet con-sisted mainly of potatoes, riceand beans, and vegetablesfrom their garden. Meat wasadded to a meal less thanonce a week. The Americanfamily ate mostly processedfoods — such as canned

soups, frozen meals, pack-aged cookies, cakes andcrackers — and lots of meat.Another major difference iscooking. The Guatemalans eatevery meal at home, and oneperson spends most of hertime cooking, preparing andpurchasing ingredients formeals. Americans eat 1 in 3meals at home.

How can we curb

our national eating

disorder?

—Eat local! When we eatwhat is grown in our own re-gions, we eat healthier foodsat the peak of their freshness.This is better for our healthand the environment, and italso boosts local economies.

—Grow your own food! Vic-tory gardens helped ourgrandparents survive the warsand Great Depression. Savemoney at the grocery by skip-ping the imported produce

and processed food.

—Eat lower on the foodchain! Meat is a threat to ourhealth and environment. Treatit as a condiment, and pur-chase locally raised meatsfrom farms you trust. Go tohttp://www.EatWild.com andhttp://www.LocalHarvest.orgfor more information.

Shawn Dell Joyce is anaward-winning columnist andfounder of the Wallkill RiverSchool in Orange County,N.Y. You can contact her [email protected]. To find out more aboutShawn Dell Joyce and readfeatures by other CreatorsSyndicate writers and car-toonists, visit the CreatorsSyndicate Web page atwww.creators.com.

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Food is still cheap in the U.S. compared with the rest of

the world.

Continued from page 8...and hoping that you'll thinkit's too complicated tochange things like auto-matic payments or directdeposits so you won'tmove your account.

But if enough of us com-plain, you can be sure thatsome creative bank mar-keting director will createan ad hailing the return of"free checking" to attractdeposits. Don't count onany toasters, though. Andthat's the Savage Truth.

Terry Savage is a regis-tered investment adviserand is on the board of theChicago Mercantile Ex-change. She appearsweekly on WMAQ-Chan-nel 5's 4:30 p.m. newscast,and can be reached atwww.terrysavage.com. Sheis the author of the newbook, "The New SavageNumber: How MuchMoney Do You ReallyNeed to Retire?"

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FOCUS ON THE FAMILY with Dr. James Dobson

GIRLS WITH ADHD MAY NOT BE HYPERACTIVE

QUESTION: My daughterhas some of the symptomscommonly associated withAttention Deficit Hyperactiv-ity Disorder, but she is a veryquiet child. Are some ADHDkids withdrawn and sedate?

DR. DOBSON: Yes.ADHD is not always associ-ated with hyperactivity, espe-cially in girls. Some of themare "dreamy" and detached.Regrettably, they are some-times called "airheads" or"space cadets". Such a childcan sit looking at a book forforty-five minutes withoutreading a word. One teachertold me about a girl in herclass who would lose everyarticle of clothing that wasn'thooked to her body. Nearlyevery day, the teacher wouldsend this child back to theplayground to retrieve hersweater or coat, only to haveher return fifteen minuteslater without it. She had for-gotten what she went after. Aboy or girl with that kind ofdistractibility would find itextremely difficult, if not im-

possible, to get home nightafter night with books and as-signments written down, andthen to complete the work andreturn it in the next morning.

Frankly, the "far-away" child worries me morethan the one who is exces-sively active. She may beseen as a good little girl whojust isn't very bright, whilethe troublemaker is morelikely to get the help heneeds. He's too irritating toignore.

Those who are andare not hyperactive have onecharacteristic in common. It isdistractibility. Even thoughthey flit from one thing to an-other, the name attentiondeficit hyperactivity disorderis not quite on target. It's bet-ter than the old term ("mini-mal brain damage"), but thereis also misinformation in thecurrent designation. The prob-lem is not that these childrenhave a short attention span. Attimes, they can become lost in

something that greatly inter-ests them to the point thatthey aren't aware of anythinggoing on around them. In-stead, they have an insatiableneed for mental stimulationduring every waking moment.The moment they becomebored with what they aredoing, they dash off in searchof the next exciting possibil-ity.

One father told meabout his four-year-old sonwith ADHD. He said, "If youlet that kid get bored, you de-serve what he's going to do toyou." That applies to millionsof children.

**QUESTION: What are thespecial needs of a compliantkid -- one that goes along toget along? Does he have anyspecial needs?

DR. DOBSON: That's agreat question, and the answeris yes. When one child is astick of dynamite and theother is an all-star sweetheart,the cooperative, gentle indi-

vidual can easily be taken forgranted. If there's an unpleas-ant job to be done, he may beexpected to do it becauseMom and Dad just don't havethe energy to fight with thetiger. When it is necessary forone child to sacrifice or dowithout, there's a tendency topick the one who won't com-plain as loudly. Under thesecircumstances, the compliantboy or girl comes out on theshort end of the stick.

The consequencesof such inequity should be ob-vious. The responsible childoften becomes angry overtime. He has a sense of pow-erlessness and resentment thatsimmers below the surface.He's like the older brother inthe parable of the ProdigalSon told by Jesus. He didn'trebel against his father. Hestayed behind and ran thefarm while his irresponsiblebrother squandered his moneyon fun and games. Who couldblame him for resenting littlebro? His response is typical ofthe compliant, hardworkingsibling.

I strongly recom-mend that parents seek to bal-ance the scales in dealingwith the compliant child.Make sure he gets his fairshare of parental attention.Help him find ways to copewith his overbearing sibling.And, within reason, give himthe right to make his own de-cisions.

There's nothingsimple about raising kids, isthere? Even the "easiest" ofthem needs our very best ef-fort.

**Dr. Dobson is founder andChairman Emeritus of the

nonprofit organization Focuson the Family, Colorado

Springs, Colo. 80995(www.focusonthefamily.org).Questions and answers are ex-cerpted from "Complete Mar-

riage and Family HomeReference Guide" and "Bring-ing Up Boys," both published

by Tyndale House.

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Q: This is the second marriage for both of us,

so we're trying to merge our furniture in our newapartment, which we want to be modern. I'mplanning to have slipcovers made for the sofaand one armchair of mine, but my fiance hastwo black leather chairs that I don't know whatto do with. They are very "guy." I need advice.

A: Here's your answer in black and white. Lit-

erally.

The pictured room sums up a smart way to go ina contemporary-feeling room: Set a black-and-white color scheme. You're half there anyway,with those two black leather chairs, since there'sreally no way to cover them successfully —slipcovers tend to slip around on leather.

Blackand whiteis a fail-safecolor scheme, espe-cially with contemporarystyle furniture (this is all fromCentury Furniture,centuryfurniture.com). What makes thisroom work so smashingly? Continues on page 14



One stroke of genius color,bright apple green, and atten-tion to details, such as theblack welting on the whitesofa slipcover.

Black and white is also aneasy color scheme to pull off.No worries aboutmatching/blending colors. Butyou do have to be disciplinedand not go wandering off intoother colors that diffuse thestark contrast.

To keep the scheme crisp andcrackling, you must stick toblack blacks and whitewhites, so they'll play bril-liantly against the one othermajor color you choose —which also must be bright andstrong in order to hold its ownagainst the polar opposites ofblack and white. Lipstick redwill work; ditto, shockingpink, OSHA yellow (the colorthey use to mark highwaylanes) and, as you see here,screaming green.

Q: We have a narrow entry

hall. It needs something, but Idon't know what to do with it.

A: Mirrors! There's your

one-word solution. A largemirror on opposing walls willmake it into a grander en-trance.

But nearly every entrywayalso needs a place to drop

keys, mail and such. Youcould hang a shallow shelfunder a mirror. Or hunt up apiece of mirrored furniture —a narrow console or a slimtable that can fit in yourspace. You get a double bene-fit since the mirrors create theillusion that everything istwice its size.

By the way, mirrored furni-

ture is back in style, reflecting— ahem — a return to glam-our in decorating. Moreover,mirrored furniture works withvirtually every other style offurniture and in any room inthe home. From the most tra-ditional sitting room to thebedroom and bath, mirroredcommodes are often used inpairs, as end tables or flank-ing a bed.

Most mirrored furniture datesfrom the 1930s to the 1960s,so you're talking vintagerather than antiques. Many ofthe original pieces came fromwell-known French designers,including Andre Arbus,Gilbert Poillerat and MaisonJansen, a design house datingback to the late 19th century.

Recently, new pieces havestarted showing up at thegiant furniture market in HighPoint, N.C.,aimed at design-ers and homedecorators whowant relief fromtoo much"brown" furni-ture. Larry Laslois one top de-signer who'sbeen playingwith mirrorssince the turn ofthis century. Andto great effect:

"Adding mir-rored piecesbrings in light,reflection and

energy," said Lorraine Wohlof Elle W Collection antiquesin New York (read more ofher interview with style writerLeslie Gilbert Elman at de-signnewjersey.com).

Rose Bennett Gilbert is theco-author of "ManhattanStyle" and six other books oninterior design.

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A vivacious contemporary living room is black and white and smart all over. Photo courtesy of Century Furniture.


Rose Bennett Gilbert

Q: We have the smallest liv-

ing room imaginable, kind ofa square alcove off the entryhall. No problem, really, be-cause we spend most of ourtime in the great room, but Ican't just leave the living"room" empty. Oh, and there'sno window except across thehall. I'm baffled.

A: What you have here is

the case of the disappearingliving room. Your house wasprobably built in the early1990s when architects andhomebuilders thought thatliving rooms, as we've knownthem, were about to becomeextinct. They were being donein by the increasingly infor-mal lifestyle of the Americanfamily, who, like yours, pre-ferred to put their feet up on

the furniture and relax infront of the entertainmentcenter.

It became a self-fulfillingprophecy. Betting that we did-n't want to "waste" the space,the industry built homes withonly the slightest nod to aseparate living room. All theattention — and squarefootage — went to the familyor great room.

But stay tuned: To paraphraseMark Twain, rumors of theliving room's death wererather exaggerated. They'reback and beautiful in newhomes today.

That doesn't solve your prob-lem, but look here — de-signer Lillian August hassolved this issue. In a few ge-nius strokes, she's created aviable living "room" in whatwas undefined space.

First, she anchored the furni-ture arrangement around thatimposing mirror, hung lowover a simple wall-mountedshelf, to take the place of anon-existent window.

Then she used an area rug to

stake out the dimensions ofthe room. On it, she arrangedthat large cocktail table,which is centered between thesofa and chair. (Lillian Au-gust designs for HickoryWhite Furniture, www.hicko-rywhite.com). A large plant,pair of vases and pair of birdprints confirm the illusionthat this, indeed, is a real liv-ing room to entertain andrelax in.

Q: Hate air conditioning?

A: Many people say they

do. I'm not one of them, mindyou, but even so, I am an in-stant fan of the remarkablefans developed and recentlyintroduced in the U.S. byJames Dyson. Already richand renowned as the inventor

of the cyclonic bagless vac-uum and the hand-dryer thattakes off like a jet plane,Dyson — make that "Sir"Dyson — has engineeredpieces of elegant modernsculpture that are "way cool,"literally.

His "Air Multiplier" fanshave no blades. They stand onweighted bases. Turning theirround or elliptical headsbenevolently from side toside, they send out a strong,even flow of air from smallholes in the perimeter. It's jet-engine technology, Dyson ex-plained this week to the NewYork press corps. No blades,no danger — the first newtake on fan technology in 125years.

If you can't believe your eyes,just listen to your coolingbody say "Ah." But yourbudget might say "Ouch." AirMultipliers run between $299and $329, but it's worth it justto see the disbelief on yourfriends' faces.

More cool ideas introducedthis month include an alarmthat warns when your base-ment (or wherever) is flood-ing and a home safe that'swater- and fireproof (bothfrom First Alert,firstalert.com). Also, La-Z-Boy Furniture is introducingan online room planner thatlets you design in 3-D, in-cluding wallpaper, fabrics,paint colors, as well as furni-ture arrangements. No moreshoving stuff around. Hus-bands of the world, rejoice!See it after Aug. 26 atwww.La-Z-Boy.com.

Rose Bennett Gilbert is theco-author of "ManhattanStyle" and six other books oninterior design. To find outmore about Rose BennettGilbert and read features byother Creators Syndicate writ-ers and cartoonists, visit theCreators Syndicate Website atcreators.com.

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George Varga

In a country-music worlddominated by cookie-cutter clones

and dial-a-number formulas, Tim Mc-Graw is a welcome anomaly.

He's a proud "Southern Voice," to cite the title ofhis 10th and latest studio album, but transcends theusual stereotypes of his chosen artistic genre.

For starters, this Louisiana native and Nashville resident is anavowed Democrat, which (at least in country music) is about as rareas right-wing rappers. In the wake of the devastating fury of Hurri-cane Katrina in 2005, McGraw publicly blasted then-President Bushfor the White House's failure to offer better and faster aid to victimsof the disaster and suggested Bush be fired or resign.

McGraw donated all the proceeds fromhis 2006 New Orleans concert withhis wife, vocal star Faith Hill, to Kat-rina relief efforts. More recently, heand Hill spearheaded the "NashvilleRising: A Benefit Concert for FloodRecovery," which was held June

22 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.In addition to the superstar cou-

ple, thefundraiser featuredeveryone from Miley Cyrusand Lynyrd Skynyrd to Carrie Un-

derwood and Brooks & Dunn.

"The damage that we've seen to people'shomes and the effect that the flooding has had

on their lives is unimaginable," McGraw and Hillsaid in a recent joint statement. "But we've seen the

spirit of our community firsthand, as volunteers, churchgroups and our local business leaders rally to help. We all needto continue to support those in need in any way that we can. ..."

McGraw, who turned 43 on May 1, is by no means a musical inno-vator. But he seems equally comfortable in a variety of stylistic set-tings. He recorded with Nelly on the hip-hop star's hit song "Overand Over," and has duetted on stage with Kid Rock. McGraw's othercollaborators range from such country-music stalwarts as Asleep atthe Wheel and Johnny Paycheck to pop legend Neil Di-amond and, of course, Hill, McGraw's wifeof nearly 14 years.

Taylor Swift, whose 2006 debut single,"Tim McGraw," paid homage to him, wasan opening act on the 2007 leg of McGrawand Hill's joint Soul2Soul II tour.

The two-year concert trek grossed$141 million, the most ever for

any country-music arenatour.

Tim McGrawcontinues to suc-ceed in both thecountry music andacting fields.

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car magnate watches his per-sonal and professional life hitthe skids because of his busi-ness and romantic indiscretions.

The Last Airbender 07/01/10Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nationstied by destiny when the Fire Nationlaunches a brutal war against theothers. A century has passed with nohope in sight to change the path ofthis destruction. Caught betweencombat and courage, Aang discovers

he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all fourelements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and herbrother, Sokka, to restore balance to their war-torn world. Rated PG for fantasy action violenceStarring: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, JacksonRathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi, Cliff Curtis, Sey-chelle Gabriel, Katharine Houghton

Knightand Day06/23/10

A wholesome, Midwest-ern woman accidentallygets involved with an in-ternational super spy andis forced to flee the coun-try with him while heprotects a dangerous newpiece of technology. Starring: Tom Cruise,Cameron Diaz, MaggieGrace, Peter Sarsgaard,

Marc Blucas, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, Olivier Martinez,Stream, Nicole Signore

The Sorcerer'sApprentice 07/14/10Balthazar Blake is a master sorcererin modern-day Manhattan trying todefend the city from his arch-neme-sis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can'tdo it alone, so he recruits Dave Stut-ler, a seemingly average guy whodemonstrates hidden potential, as his

reluctant protégé. The sorcerer gives his unwilling accom-plice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and to-gether, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces ofdarkness. It'll take all the courage Dave can muster to survivehis training, save the city and get the girl as he becomes "TheSorcerer's Apprentice."Rated PG for fantasy action violence, some mild rude humorand brief languageStarring: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, TeresaPalmer, Toby Kebbell, Nicole Ehinger, Peyton List, MonicaBellucci

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9:45pm SHREK FOREVER AFTER(PG)10:05am 1:05pm 4:05pm THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE*(PG-13) 10:15am 11:00am 11:45am12:30pm 1:15pm 2:00pm 2:45pm 3:30pm4:15pm 5:00pm 5:45pm 6:30pm 7:15pm8:00pm 8:45pm 9:30pm 10:15pm TOY STORY 3 (G)10:10am 1:10pm4:10pm 7:10pm 10:10pm TOY STORY 3 - REAL D 3D (G) 10:30am 12:00pm 1:30pm 3:00pm 4:30pm 6:00pm 7:30pm 9:00pm 10:30pm

The TwilightSaga: Eclipse 06/30/10In "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,"Bella once again finds herselfsurrounded by danger as Seattleis ravaged by a string of mysteri-ous killings and a maliciousvampire continues her quest forrevenge. In the midst of it all,she is forced to choose betweenher love for Edward and her

friendship with Jacob--knowing that her decision has thepotential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire andwerewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bellahas one more decision to make: life or death.Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence,and some sensualityStarring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner,Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone, Eliza-beth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Dakota Fanning

Coming Soon

Schedule good for Friday July 9th & Saturday July 10th

Despicable Me 07/09/10In a happy suburban neighborhood sur-rounded by white picket fences withflowering rose bushes, sits a blackhouse with a dead lawn. Unbeknownstto the neighbors, hidden beneath thishome is a vast secret hideout. Sur-rounded by a small army of minions,we discover Gru, planning the biggestheist in the history of the world. He isgoing to steal the moon! Gru delights

in all things wicked; he vanquishes all who stand in his way.Until the day he encounters the immense will of three littleorphaned girls who look at him and see something that noone else has ever seen: a potential Dad.Rated for rude humor and mild actionStarring: Jason Segel, Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Will Ar-nett, Julie Andrews, Danny R. McBride, Kristen Wiig, JackMcBrayer, Jemaine Clement

Predators(07/09/10)

Fear is RebornThe most dangerous killers on theplanet... but this is not our planet.A group of elite warriors arehunted by members of a mercilessalien race known as Predators.


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But McGraw isn't limited tojust music. And when itcame time to make his fea-ture film debut in 2004's"Friday Night Lights," hedidn't pick the typical warm,fuzzy, "aw shucks" rolemost country stars makingthe transition to the bigscreen might have opted for.Instead, he portrayedCharles Billingsley, an em-bittered, alcoholic fatherwhose abusive behavior to-ward his son in "FridayNight Lights" wasn't re-motely likable.

The role may not have beenthat big a stretch, though,since McGraw has statedthat his stepfather was anabusive alcoholic. (It wasonly in 1978, when he was11, that McGraw learned hisnatural father was Frank"Tug" McGraw, the MajorLeague baseball reliefpitcher who would die frombrain cancer in 2004. Mc-Graw's hit song that sameyear, "Live Like You WereDying," was dedicated to hisfather and the two made aBud Lite TV commercial to-gether in 2000.)

McGraw went in a differentdirection in his role last yearin the surprise box-officeblockbuster "The BlindSide," in which he playedOscar-winner Sandra Bul-lock's very wealthy, very

conservative Republicanhusband. His latest movie,"Love Don't Let Me Down,"is due out in the fall. It wasshot in Nashville and castshim (again as a husband)opposite Gwyneth Paltrow,who plays a faded countrysinger trying to make acomeback with his charac-ter's help as her manager.

McGraw, whose self-titleddebut album came out in1993 on Curb Records, is inno need of a comeback. Hisalbum sales to date equal 40million and counting. Yet,when Curb released his"Greatest Hits 3" collectionin 2008, just two years afterhis McGraw's "Greatest Hits2" came out, he not only dis-tanced himself from "Great-est Hits 3," he publiclydenounced it as a transpar-ent exercise in greed. It wassuch an "embarrassment,"he said at the time, that heencouraged his fans not tobuy it.

Such candor is rare in anystyle of music, let alonefrom one of the biggest-sell-ing acts of the past decade-plus.

But McGraw is nothing ifnot candid and unafraid tofollow his own path, even ifhis broadly appealing songsrarely venture into musicalterritory he and his listenersaren't immediately comfort-able sharing.

"Country music has a lot ofrules," he told a Time maga-zine interviewer in 2004. "Itcan be frustrating, but thekey is figuring out whichones matter and which onesdon't."

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Quick DrawMcGraw

Garth Brooks was the na-tion's top country-crossoverartist when Tim McGraw re-leased his self-titled debutalbum in 1993. A decadelater, Brooks was two yearsinto a hiatus from touringthat continues to this day (al-though, last December, hekicked off a series of exclu-sive solo concerts at a LasVegas casino/hotel). Mc-Graw, meanwhile, has sus-tained his position as one ofthe most popular country-music artists to emerge in thepast 15 years. Here's a look atMcGraw, by the numbers:

Date of birth: May 1, 1967

Albums recorded to date: 10

"Greatest Hits" compilationsreleased: 3

Albums sold to date: 40 mil-lion-plus

Number of chart-topping sin-gles: 31

Number of radio airplays forhis records over the pastdecade: 7.8 million

Number of awards: 50-plusand counting, including threeGrammys and three People'sChoice awards, 10 AmericanMusic Awards, 11 CountryMusic Association awards,14 Academy of CountryMusic awards and — in 2000— one Father of the Yearaward (from the National Fa-therhood Initiative)

Number of daughters: Three(Gracie, 13; Maggie, 11; andAudrey, 8)

Number of wives: One (FaithHill)


Calendar of upcoming events for El Paso/ Southern New Mexico are from July 9th thru July 15th. 2010If you want your upcoming event listed in SPOTLIGHT’S Out & About section, please send all your relevant data by e-mail to: [email protected]

NORTHEAST/

CENTRAL‘Viva El Paso!’Friday, July 9, 2010‘Viva El Paso!’ — The sum-mertime pageant returns toMcKelligon Canyon Am-phitheatre for its 33rd seasonat 8:30 p.m. Fridays and Sat-urdays, June 4-Aug. 7, offer-ing an array of multicoloredcostumes, electrifying musi-cal production numbers, andlegendary characters. Theoutdoor musical extravaganza

highlights the four major cul-tures of the region, throughdrama, song and dance, thathave called El Paso home:Native American, SpanishConquistadors, Mexican andWestern American. Tickets:$18.20 general admission.Dinner show: $24.35 ($14.05age 12 and younger). (Ticket-master) Information: 231-1165 or viva-ep.org.

The Diaries of Adam

& Eveby Mark TwainAdapted by Kate KeyserDirected by Lynne Du Mond@ El Paso Playhouse

Will open on Friday, July 9 at8:00 pm and run until Satur-day July 24thShow times are Fridays andSaturdays at 8:00 pm And Sunday Matiness, July11th, and July 18 th at 2:00pmTicket prices for this produc-tion are $7.00 for adults, sen-ior citizens and Military$5.00 for studentsReservations can be made bycalling the theatre at 915 5321317 or email [email protected] & Mini season Tick-ets for our 47th season arenow available either at thebox office or by mail.

Don't forget to sign up for theGuild, it's free and gives youa chance to vote for your fa-vorite show and actors.

LOWER

VALLEYmusic Under the

Stars — The 27th summer

concert series, Music Underthe Stars World Festival, pre-sented by the City of El PasoMuseums and Cultural Af-fairs Department, featureslocal and international per-formers 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.Sundays at the Chamizal Na-tional Memorial amphithe-ater, 800 S. San Marcial.Admission is free. Informa-tion: 541-4481 (MCAD),532-7273 (Chamizal) or elpa-soartsandculture.org. MusicUnder the Stars fans oftencome early for picnics andcookouts. Lawn chairs andblankets are the norm, andgrills are available — as arefood and drink booths. Grillspermitted in park, but not

within the amphitheater itself.No glass containers or petspermitted at park. Free park-and-ride shuttles availablefrom El Paso Zoo to

Chamizal and depart regu-larly 6:30 to 10 p.m. • July

11 — Sleepercar (Ameri-cana)

‘Cinderella’ — The

YMCA ballet program pres-ents the classic fairy tale at its

annual recital at 7 p.m. Fri-day, July 9, at Chamizal Na-tional Memorial, 800 S. SanMarcial. Admission is free.Information: 532-7273.

Ysleta mission Festi-

val — The annual fiesta is

July 9-11 at Our Lady of Mt.Carmel Church, 131 S.Zaragosa (at Alameda).Ysleta Mission which is thesecond oldest practicingchurch in the United States

and the oldest mission inTexas. Proceeds from the an-nual festival go towardsmaintaining the mission andsurrounding grounds. Admis-sion is free. Information: 859-9848 or ysletamission.org.

EASTSIDETeen Latinitas Coun-

cil. Saturday, July 10, 2010

Time: 3:00pm to 4:00pmTEEN LATINITAS COUN-CIL – July 103:00pm to 4:00pm

Judge Marquez Public Li-brary610 N. YarbroughLatinitas Magazine will hostan orientation for teen writerson July 10. We are seekingfemale high-school students,ages 14 to 18, interested inwriting to contribute to Teen-Latinitas.com, the first digitalmagazine by and for Latinayouth. We are currently ac-cepting applications from fe-male high-school studentswho seek hands-on experi-ence to get published in a na-tional award-winning onlinemagazine. If you are inter-ested or have any questions,please contact us at [email protected],239.5051, or www.Latinitas-Magazine.com.

AX duoTuesday: Smokeys / Viscount/ 8-12 amWednesday: Smokeys /

Zaragosa / 9pm-1amFriday: Smokeys / Zaragosa /5:30-7:30 pm Friday: Oasis Lounge Bistro /9pm-1amSaturday: Wingshack /McRae / 9 pm- 1 am

WESTSIDE/

DOWNTOWNAlfresco! Fridays —

The annual outdoor concertseries is 5:30 p.m. Fridays atArts Festival Plaza (betweenEl Paso Museum of Art andPlaza Theatre). Admission isfree. Information: 541-4481,536-0600. • July 9 — Exito

(Tejano)

EL PASO GHOST

TOUrS introduces the

history, legends, and lore ofDowntown El Paso.Our tour guides will take you

to areas that have reportedparanormal activity and showyou evidence of the hauntingsof the Downtown Library,The Plaza Theater, area Mo-tels, and a Confederate Ceme-tery.Tickets are $10+tax on JULY10TH from 8pm to 10pm.EL PASO GHOST TOURS1-877-GHOST-10

www.elpasoghosttours.com

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‘The 25th Annual

Putnam County

Spelling Bee’ – UTEP

Dinner Theatre closes its sea-son with the zany musicalJuly 9-25. Showtime is 7 p.m.Wednesday through Saturday;dinner matinee performance is1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 11;non-dinner matinees are 2:30p.m. Sunday, July 18 and 25.Tickets $26-$38 dinnershows; $12-22 non-dinnermatinee. Information: 747-

6060.

Farmer’s market at

Ardovino’s Desert

Crossing — The market

opens for its 8th season 7:30a.m. to noon Saturdays

through mid-October. Infor-mation: (575) 589-0653, ext.6.

El Paso Anime Con-

vention 2010 — UTEP’s

Anime Society will host its6th annual convention pro-moting Japanese Animation inthe this summer at UTEP Stu-dent Union East, featuring anArtists’ Alley, Cosplay (Cos-tumed Display), panels andworkshops, gaming, videoscreenings, karaoke, prizesand more. Dates to be an-nounced. Information: 613-4459 or elpasoanimecon.org.


PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Stay awake and aware wher-ever you go. Otherwise, you can count on spending sometime looking for what you lost. Whether it's your keys, yourdog or your heart, you will find it pretty quickly. The trick isnot to let too much time pass between losing track of what'syours and seeking it with all of your attention.

A solar eclipse in Cancer begins the week. When the sun isin shadow, even for a short time, we react like small chil-dren whose mothers have left the room. Logic dictates thatmom will come back. Still, something deep in the emo-tional core wonders: Will she? The lesson in this transit isto ride out the uneasy feelings and identify them for whatthey are — passing emotions. We don't have to identifywith them if we don't want to.

ArIES (March 21-April 19). You've read about magic andhave heard stories about miracles that regularly happen. It allsounds improbable. Keep up the diligent work this week. For-tune favors motion. You will make most of your luck your-self, but not all of it. So stay open-minded, and do ask forhelp from unseen forces as you move ahead.

TAUrUS (April 20-May 20). This week highlights your am-bition. With your high level of personal and professional de-termination, you will cause another person to go deeper,learn more and perform better. Is this person on your team?Maybe so. But even if that is the case, this person will even-tually also be your competitor.

GEmINI (May 21-June 21). You'll be pondering a risk. Yourconcerns about what might happen if you take this chanceare valid; however, they are unlikely to come true. That is,unless you dwell on them endlessly. In that case, you aresure to make a few of them occur. So focus on what youwant instead of on what you don't want.

CANCEr (June 22-July 22). You can see various shapesand forms in the clouds — angels, dogs, trees. But really,they are just clouds, drifting, changing and always movingon. Your thoughts are like this. You can interpret them oneway or another, but you don't have to. If you don't identifywith them, they still roll along.

VIrGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There are sections of your worldthat are usually separated — not on purpose, it just happensthat way. For instance, maybe your work colleagues don'tknow your family friends. This changes. Different parts ofyour world collide. It will take a few key introductions to getthe melting pot boiling.

LIBrA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Don't worry about or compareyourself to others. You are unique. And this time is unlikeany before. So really, there is no way to compare. Instead,own your actions. Take charge of your attitude. Commit toyour path. Passion and conviction are your success keys. Youwill have an infectious effect on everyone around.

SCOrPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The theme is cooperative rela-tionships. Through your compassion, you have gained theloyalty of those around you. And now you reap the benefitsof what you have sowed. It will be easy for you to movethrough your week, as you will have all the respectful assis-tance you need. Often, you won't even have to ask.

SAGITTArIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Some places have sucha vibrant energy that you can just tell something good isgoing to happen there. Opportunity always springs fromsuch a place. There are big benefits to hanging out in the"right place." The longer you stay the more likely you are tobe there at that magic moment called the "right time."

CAPrICOrN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Whatever ails you, whenyou are inspired, you can overcome it. The people who makeyou feel happy will be nearby. Some of these people youdon't know yet. But you can tell they are important to yourwell-being because you immediately feel uplifted, intriguedand perhaps comforted by their presence.

AQUArIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Physical exertion will be partof the fun. You'll be encouraged to keep going even whenyou're not sure you want to. Listen to your body, and let itspeak more loudly than any other person's voice. Friends andcoaches and even doctors cannot really know how you feel.Trust your own intuition about your body.

ACROSS1 Dog-team command5 Director Frank ___10 Booted14 A Guthrie15 Districts16 Flag17 FL vacation site19 Actress Lanchester20 In addition21 Anatomy class model23 What some willows do25 Diva specialty26 Misdeeds29 Mine line32 Inherited items

35 Starter for lord orboard36 ___ Rico38 Kind of cat39 Spenser’s sidekick40 Vapid41 Persian fairy42 Skater Midori43 Blush44 Al Roker prediction45 ___ Haute, Ind.47 Part of CBS48 Amusement park fea-ture49 Get the ___ out!51 Anorectic

53 Bahamas cruise stop57 Liberate61 Meadows62 CA vacation site64 Another 41 Down65 Legalize66 Getz on tenor sax67 Degree: suffix68 Shows courage69 In a foul mood

DOWN1 Doll’s cry2 “Exodus” author3 Side dish4 School assignment

5 The C in C-Span6 “We ___ not alone”7 Pod pieces8 Scrabble tiles holder9 Cigar residue10 Addison’s partner11 SC vacation site12 Approximately13 School biggie18 Islands in the Seine22 Newspaper trademark24 Strikes26 Gooden game of ‘9627 Track-shaped28 LA vacation site30 Starter’s alert31 Papa, to some33 Weird34 Dance moves36 Vaudeville missile37 Gymnast’s reward41 Margaret or Diana43 Harvest46 ___ Pieces48 Pug’s place50 Meted52 Linda and Helen53 Spanish dessert54 Glass maven Lalique55 Author Jaffe56 Peter or Ivan, e.g.: var.58 Chorister59 First or second, e.g.60 Medieval field hand63 Blackwood four-pointer

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Trying to create a life without stressis futile. Some stress is necessary — the right kind of stress.You'll be empowered by the knowledge that you have hardwork ahead of you, but it is not impossible work. You are ca-pable and able. Also, you have a choice, and you are free tochoose differently at any time.


IT’S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

Be a golf

Here’s a question for you: If,by some magical operation, youcould make your arm ad-justable in length and shapedinto a golf club — a sort ofgolfing Wolverine — wouldyou do it to hit the ball better?Sounds like a lot of trouble, butit might be easier to do thanyou think.

Recent researchdone by Alessandro Farne andLucilla Cardinali at the FrenchUniversite Claude BernardLyon, shows that human brainscan be convinced to treat tools(aka golf clubs) as if they wereactual body parts.

“We believe this ability ofour body representation to func-tionally adapt to incorporatetools is the fundamental basis ofskillful tool use,” Cardinali said.

“Once the tool is incorporatedin the body schema, it can bemaneuvered and controlled as ifit were a body part itself.”

When a club is not a club Just as your immune system

is based on a kind of “spatialxenophobia,” so your feel sys-tem treats foreign objects witha suspicion that leads to an in-termediate step of evaluatingthen controlling the object.Think of how awkward yourmovements would be if youneeded to evaluate your hand,leg or arm each time you usedit. This extra step is inefficientand presents one of the majorbarriers to good golf.

If you view your club as ahitting instrument, separateand distinct from you, thenyou are doomed to overthinkand overmanipulate your tool.Continues on page 27

The “no club, just you” concept makes theclub simply an extension of the arm. In this case, there is a90-degree angle to this player’s arm that will be straightenedto 180 degrees at impact.


Q: I wear long sleeves, a big hat and loads ofsunscreen when I play golf, so I never tan, but Iknow I need vitamin D and I don’t get much sun.Any ideas? — B.R.

A: As you know, you need vitamin D to stayhealthy. It’s important for bone and muscle devel-opment, both of which are essential to your golfgame.

Here’s what the Vitamin D Council says aboutits namesake: “If well adults and adolescents reg-ularly avoid sunlight exposure, research indicatesa necessity to supplement with at least 5,000 units(IU) of vitamin D daily. To obtain this amount

from milk, one would need to consume 50 glass-es. With a multivitamin, more than 10 tabletswould be necessary. Neither is advisable. Theskin produces approximately 10,000 IU vitaminD in response to 20 to 30 minutes of summer sunexposure.”

So you can either drink 50 glasses of milk orroll up your sleeves, take off your hat and use thesun for 30 minutes, then reboot everything andslop on the sunscreen for the rest of the round.

(To Ask the Pro a question about golf,e-mail him at: [email protected].)

Buy a cow or get some sunASK THE PRO

“Since Tiger turned pro,the guys who were the best juniors haven’tbeen the best pros. They’re so full of them-

selves thinking, ‘All these (agents) arebeating down the door trying to talk to me!’

They don’t put in the work.”

Rocky Hambric, owner of a sports management company

QUOTE OF THE WEEK



But when you think of the club as part ofyou, your brain calculates the movement of,say, your 73-inch arm (33-inch arm plus 40-inch club) instead of a 33-inch arm plus analien object.

There are two things you must do to ensurethat your brain adopts the golf club as its own: (1)Consciously conceptualize your club as part ofyour body, and (2) repeat this concept using fullintention and full attention every time you take aclub in your hand until it becomes automatic.

It sounds easy, but take it from somebodywho has given over 50,000 lessons — mostgolfers spend their entire golf career thinkingthe club is a “foreign instrument of hit.”

ABOUT THE WRITER

If you exercise the “no club, just you”concept often enough, your brain will createacreage where there is no distinction between youand your club. When you change clubs, yousimply shorten or lengthen your arm.

Dr. T.J. Tomasi is

a teaching

professional in

Port St. Lucie,

Fla. Visit his

Web site at

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THE GOLF DOCTOR

Teflon Tiger and what could bethe sports story of the century

In a story slower to devel-op than Ben Crane’s pre-shot routine, Teflon Tiger isedging closer to center stage.

When Tiger hit the tree lastNovember, the cops thoughtthey had a clear case of DUI,but as Steve Helling, authorof the new book “Tiger: TheReal Story” reports: “Thepowers that be didn’t want totangle with Tiger; they justwanted the situation to goaway. … The refusal of thestate attorney’s office to issuethe subpoena irritated manyof the officers within theFlorida Highway Patrol.”

A few months later, at thisyear’s U.S. Open, the FBIcalled the FAA and told themto pull air rights for a smallplane trailing a banner thatsaid, “TIGER: ARE YOU MYDADDY?” Golf Magazinequotes FAA spokesman LynnLunsford as saying, “The FBI

doesn’t typically get involvedin stuff like that unless there issome type of criminal activity.”

Does Teflon Tiger getmore breaks than the “small people,” as the rest of us arelabeled by BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg? So far itlooks that way, but the realtest of his Teflon coating willcome when it’s time for thefeds to interview him abouthis relationship to Dr.Anthony Galea.

Doctor HGHDr. Anthony Galea’s assis-

tant Mary Anne Catalano wascaught in September crossingthe border from Canada intoBuffalo, N.Y., on her way tomeet Galea, who was aboutto treat Santana Moss, aWashington Redskins starwith an injured knee,according to The BuffaloNews. It also reports that

a search warrant affidavit un-sealed by Canadian authori-ties said Galea treated 23 ath-letes in eight U.S. cities, supplying many of them withHGH.

Ah, but it is our businessTiger has admitted that

Galea treated him for a knee injury on four separateoccasions at his house inOrlando, so he may be calledas a witness at Galea’s trial. Aconviction could send thedoctor away for 20 years, sothis is serious stuff. The U.S.attorney with jurisdiction inBuffalo said: “At this junc-ture, any of the persons whoare alleged to have used thesesubstances are consideredwitnesses and not targets.”

That’s good news for Tiger,who has thus far managed todeflect rumors that suggestHGH usage with terse answersand hard looks. But under oath

he might have to admit tosome embarrassing things onthe witness stand, where feder-al prosecutors cannot be dis-missed with answers like“none of your business.” Inany case, the situation couldget sticky — even for theTeflon Tiger.

TEEING OFF

Full intention occurs when all your body systems (visual, audi-tory, motor, etc.) are dedicated to a common goal or intent. Ofcourse, learning can happen by simple trial and error, but that isthe slow and least efficient way to learn to swing a golf club cor-rectly. It’s like trying to open a lock by guessing the numbers tothe combination.

Goal-setting, on the other hand, lays out the map that makesthe journey quicker, more efficient and much more pleasura-ble. How can this be so? It’s all in your chemicals.

Goals are the tools “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can

achieve,” said champion goal setter Napoleon Hill, adviser totwo presidents. In fact, you can’t find a self-help expert whodoesn’t recommend goal-setting. Set a goal, such as learningthe grip, and even before you accomplish it, it becomes part ofyou — an extension of yourself.

But to be effective, goals cannot be vague, as in, “I want to bea good golfer,”or “I want to win the club championship.” Full Intention Goals(FIGs) must be clear, distinct and glitchless.

Neurochemistry of FIGsWhen you pursue a goal with full intention, you’re flooded

with reward chemicals called endorphins, and they drive youforward toward the attainment of your goal. They are producedin the pituitary gland and are expressed through the neurotrans-mitter dopamine, the secretion of which creates the sensation ofpleasure.

When you are successful in your pursuit of FIGs, you areawash in feel-good dopamine, and when you suffer setbacks, theabsence of the chemical makes you feel upset, anxious or mad.Basically, you pursue the goal to get the reward and when youfail, dopamine shut-off causes you to redouble your efforts to at-tain your goal.

Thus your FIGs are an integralpart of an elegant brain process that rocketed humans to the topof the food chain in a blink of the evolutionary eye, so you can’tafford to ignore this resource when you are trying to learn yourgolf swing.

Personal dopingSetting and pursuing your golf goals puts you in charge of the

biggest drug emporium on the planet: your brain. The drugs youproduce in-house are so powerful you’d need a prescription atthe drugstore. But when you follow the laws of learning, you’rein charge of filling your own Rx, and that is by far the fastest andmost effective way to grow your golf brain.

Fourth law oflearning golf:Full intention

BIRDIES AND BOGEYS

Old guys ruleSometimes we forget what a great game golf is, but Tom

Watson is always around to remind us— just as he was at this year’s U.S.Open. At 60, he was paired with 18-year-old Ryo Ishikawa and 21-year-old Rory McIlroy. Watson is 39 yearsolder than McIlroy and 42 years olderthan Ishikawa — what a game.

By the way, Watson finished tiedfor 29th, Ishikawa tied for 33rd andMcIlroy missed the cut! Old Tom beat’em both! WATSON

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What’s lower on theclass index than suing thefoundation run by golf’sgreatest player, over atournamentthat Daly received a spe-cial exemption to play in?How about in effect suingthe sick children repre-sented by the foundation,sick children who had ab-solutely nothing to dowith his injury?

The only way Dalykeeps showing up on thePGA Tour is through spon-sors’ exemptions, but it’ssafe to say there is one tour-nament he won’t be giftedinto next year — TheHonda Classic.

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Race: Dollar General 300Where: Chicagoland SpeedwayWhen: Friday, 7:30 p.m. (ET)TV: ESPN2009 winner: Joey Logano

SPRINT CUP CAMPING WORLD TRUCKSNATIONWIDE SERIESRace: Lucas Oil 200Where: Iowa SpeedwayWhen: Sunday, 1:30 p.m. (ET)TV: SPEED2009 winner: Mike Skinner

Race: LifeLock.com 400Where: Chicagoland SpeedwayWhen: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (ET)TV: TNT2009 winner: Mark Martin (right)

One of the traditionalevents as the NASCARcircuit returns to its homebase in Daytona Beach,Fla., for the second trip totracks across the country,is a state-of-the-sportpress conference with theNASCAR chairman.

Brian France met withthe media at Daytona In-ternational Speedwaylast week to talk about avariety of topics affectingthe sport. He didn’t offerany major announce-ments, but here are someexcerpts from his re-marks.

On the economyand its effect on theNASCAR industry:

“I don’t want to have abig discussion about theeconomy and all that. Theeconomy is what it is. It’sstill difficult. It was diffi-cult six months ago. Itdoesn’t appear to haveimproved much for ourfan base, a lot of our cor-porate customers. That’ssort of the bad news.

“The good news is we’vegot 400 different sponsorswithin the sport. Most ofthem are renewing theirsponsorships. It may lookdifferently, but they’re re-newing their sponsor-ships.

“The car manufactur-ers, despite a very diffi-cult climate for them,have made a lot of im-provements in their ownbusiness models and aremore stable. They, aswell, are reinvesting inNASCAR for the long-term. So that’s good.

“I think the other thingthat’s happened to us,and it’s probably hap-pened to a lot of indus-tries, is when things aretough, and we all feel likewe’re in a storm, it’s notas easy as it used to be.What happens is you geta chance to be more self-critical of yourself. …

“Even though there aredifficulties with the eco-nomic climate that we’rein, it kind of forces you ina good way to look atyourself, to work togethercloser so you can get abetter result in the longrun.”

On any possiblechanges to the format ofthe Chase for the SprintCup:

“We like a playoff-styleformat for sure. It distin-guishes us in motor-sports, number one,distinguishes our na-tional divisions numbertwo. And, number three,the big design is to haveplayoff-type momentsthat only can be, in anysport, created whenthere’s a lot on the line atany one moment. That’swhat the essence of Game7s, eliminations and allthat are.

“We’ve always had inmotorsports a challengewith that because there’sa continuity issue becausethere are 43 teams. No-body can win a winner-take-all scenario. And wehave to balance the bodyof what you’ve done as adriver across the board.…

“What we’re talkingabout is enhancing it in away that will bring outmore of the winning mo-ments, the big momentsthat happen in sports.And if there’s a way wecan do that, and there area couple of ways, we’regoing to give that a lot ofweight.”

On the decline in TVratings despite lots of ac-tion on the track:

“We moved start times[for races] back out fromwhere more viewers areback to an earlier start

time. We knew thatwould have a short-termimpact until our fan basecould get a benefit fromsort of a centralized starttime for most of theevents.

“In the short run, thereare less people watchingat 1:00 [p.m.] than thereare at 3:00. You had theWorld Cup; still have theWorld Cup going on. Youhad a very, very popularWinter Olympics. … Wehad more competitionthan even a normal busysports calendar. They’ve

had big moments, bigstory lines. If you recallback in our Vegas race, Ithink that hockey gamedid a 21 share or some-thing in the WinterOlympics directly againstus. We didn’t have thatthe year before.

“Then the economy cer-tainly plays a role, moreso to us than anybodyelse because we ask ourfans in the big event busi-ness to stay longer, drivefurther, buy hotel roomsand alike as part of whatit takes to come to our

events. That’s why thetracks and just abouteverybody in the industryhas tried to help that sit-uation out by loweringprices, working with ho-tels, restaurants, any-where where they mayspend money, to be reflec-tive of that.”

On the displays of emo-tion, on and off the track,that have come as a re-sult of the “have at it,boys” approach that offi-cials have taken thisyear:

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NASCAR Chairman givesmedia an update on‘state of the sport’

NASCAR chairman Brian France speaks to the media Friday prior to qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero

400 at Daytona Int’l Speedway. (NASCAR photo)


Volvo refreshes the C30 for 2011Volvo cars have always beensynonymous with safe cars -safe, boxy, conservative cars.Well, over the years we haveseen Volvo drift away fromthe boxy styling with softer,sportier lines and it has been anice welcome. In 2008,Volvo really looked in theother direction with the intro-duction of the C30 hatchback.This is about as different aswe have ever seen fromVolvo.

For 2011, Volvo freshened upthe exterior lines of the C30,including adding a muchmore aggressive front end.

The Volvo C30 is a smalltwo-door hatchback with ahuge rear glass hatch thatgives the car a unique look.Not just unique for Volvo, butfor all the cars on the road. Ihate to say it, but the firstthing I thought of when I firstsaw the rear of the C30 wasthe old Gremlin and Pacer ofthe ‘70s. Not that the C30 isugly, but that glass hatch is so

huge!

Overall styling of the C30 isactually quite nice. The newfront end makes the C30 lookmore serious yet still carriesthe family resemblance. Withthe C30, Volvo is trying to dosomething that all the othercars in its lineup have failedto do – attract a younger audi-ence. The C30 is aimed atcouples between 25 and 35,and who are new to the Volvobrand.

Being that the C30 only hastwo doors, don’t go confusingit for a sports car. It isn’t. Itshares the same underpinningas Volvo’s smallest sedan, theS40, although the suspensionhas been retuned to make itfeel a bit more sporty. Theride of the C30 is a littlefirmer, and it handles betterthan an S40, but it’s stillfront-wheel drive and doesn’tfeel like a sports car.

Under the hood, the C30 alsoshares the same engine from

the S40 – a 2.5 liter tur-bocharged five-cylinder en-gine. Dubbed the T5, thisengine makes 227 horse-power. As might be expected,in the lighter C30, this power-plant really gives this hatch-back some pep, with hardly ahint of turbo lag. In fact, youmight not even know it’s tur-bocharged, with power com-ing on so smoothly. The basetransmission is a six-speedmanual, but a five-speed au-tomatic, which is what thetest car had, is optional.

Inside, the C30 seats four

people. And while the backseat isn’t recommended forlong journeys or really tallpeople, the C30 accommo-dates rear passengers betterthen some other four-seaterslike the Audi TT or Mini

Cooper. Up front, the dash-board takes on the familiarstyle found in other Volvos –a slim, waterfall style centerstack that looks really cooland ahead of its time. Con-trols are always a little differ-ent in Volvos, and the C30 isno exception. But they areeasy to use once you figurethem out. The front seats,with their orthopedic design,are extremely comfortableand supportive.

Two trim levels are availableon the C30 – the T5 and theT5 R-Design. The T5 is thebase and includes 17” wheels,

power accessories, and a CDaudio system. Move up to theT5 R-Design and you’ll get18” wheels, a sport body kit,and better audio system. Tak-ing a page from the Scionbook, there are lots of acces-sories available for either trimlevel.

Of course, when talking aboutVolvo, the word ‘safety’ al-ways comes to mind, andeven this little C30 lives up tothe Volvo reputation. Thereare front and side airbagsalong with anti-lock brakes,stability control and tractioncontrol – all standard. Avail-able as an option is Volvo’sBlind Spot Information Sys-

tem (BLIS) – a neat setup thatuses cameras on both sides ofthe car to see if another carhas entered your blind spot –if one has, BLIS warns thedriver. My tester didn’t haveit, and actually I didn’t feelthe C30 needed it – rear vi-sion out of the C30 is excel-lent.

Its obvious Volvo is trying toreach that younger crowd – acrowd that likes Mini Coop-ers and Volkswagen GTIs.The C30 is a nice alternativewith its unique styling andimpressive safety record.With a starting price under

$25,000, the 2011 Volvo C30is already in dealer show-rooms.

- Christopher A. Randazzo

By The Numbers:

2011 Volvo C30 T5

Base Price: $24,600.00Price as Tested: $34,099.00Layout: front-engine / front-wheel driveEngine: 2.5 liter turbocharged inline 5-cylinderTransmission: 5-speed automaticHorsepower: 227 hpTorque: 236 ft-lbsEPA Fuel Economy:21 city / 30 highway mpg

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1. Kevin Harvick2,684; Leader

2. Jeff Gordon2,472; behind -212

3. Jimmie Johnson 2,459; behind -225

4. Kurt Busch 2,439; behind -245

5. Denny Hamlin2,400; behind -284

6. Kyle Busch 2,376; behind -308

7. Matt Kenseth2,322; behind -362

8. Jeff Burton2,319; behind -365

9. Tony Stewart 2,251; behind -433

10. Greg Biffle2,234; behind -450

11. Dale Earnhardt Jr.2,177; behind -507

12. Carl Edwards 2,170; behind -514

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“I like it personally. Ilike the emotion. [I’m] alittle less worried aboutwhat we’re going to do[to drivers]. They alwayshave the sponsorshipstuff. It’s not easy forthem. They have to beaccountable to a com-pany that has a big in-vestment in them.

“It wasn’t like we’rethe guys that like to justput a cap on everything.Rather things evolve. …We’ll admit if we’ve over-regulated in certain situ-ations, and I think wedid. …

“But we like wherewe’re at now. We likewhere we’re going.”

Sprint CuppointS


NOTEBOOK

Earnhardt homage a winner

The first race for the Nationwide Se-ries’ new Car of Tomorrow, likely will beremembered more for its contribution tothe Earnhardt family saga than anythingrelated to car construction.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race in aNo. 3 Chevrolet, sporting the blue-and-yellow colors of Wrangler, his late father’slongtime sponsor.

T-shirts and souvenirs with the car’slikeness were the rage at Daytona, andthe win was immensely popular, butEarnhardt Jr. insisted in his winner’s in-terview that he’s done driving under hisdad’s car number.

“I will never do it,” he said. “I’ll neverrethink it. I’ll never consider it. I thinkthat it’s important for everybody to knowthat that’s as concrete as it gets. I’ll neverdo it again.

“I enjoyed it. It’s hard for me. It’s a bal-ancing act between you and the publicand myself and my own feelings. …

“It’s such a tough deal. It’s real emo-tional for me preparing for it and puttingit together. Is Rick [Hendick, his currentcar owner] OK with it? Did Rick mind? IsRichard [Childress, his dad’s car owner]happy with his role? Is Teresa [Earn-hardt, his step-mother] truly OK? It’s justso hard to know how everybody feelsabout it.

“I just want to come race. I just likecool-looking cars. This was a cool-lookingcar. I always loved the scheme. That’s allthat mattered to me, was just the scheme.I just love the car. I wanted to race itonce, and I did. …

“I don’t ever want to do it again. AndI’ll never change my mind, ever.”

Dale Earnhardt Jr. with ‘never again’ No 3.

(NASCAR photo)

A: The nominees were announced lastweek, and the list of 25 includes 20 whowere on last year’s nominee list alongwith five newcomers – Dale Inman, T.Wayne Robertson, Jerry Cook, Jack In-gram and Fred Lorenzen.

Inman is the longtime crew chief forhis cousin Richard Petty and also won achampionship with Terry Labonte.Robertson, through his role as a seniorvice president at R.J. Reynolds tobaccocompany, raised the profile of NASCARwith the Winston sponsorship of theelite series. Cook is a six-time Modifieddivision champion who went on to be-come a NASCAR official. Ingram is the“Iron Man” of the series now known asNationwide, where he was a two-timechampion, and Lorenzen is the Cup cir-cuit’s original “Golden Boy” and a win-ner of 26 races.

But the majority of the inducteeslikely will come from the 20 who werepassed over last year. Tops on every-one’s list is David Pearson, a three-timeCup champion and winner of 105 races.Many in the sport believe it was a greatinjustice that he was omitted from theinaugural class as he’s regarded as thesport’s most talented driver ever by lotsof those who raced against him and sawhim race.

Raymond Parks, who passed awayseveral weeks ago, will be on manyshort lists this year. His resume lookssomewhat weak on the surface, as hewon just one championship as a carowner. It was the first of the series nowknown as Cup, back in 1949. Parks’greatest contribution to the sport wasthe way he ran his race teams back instock car racing’s infancy. He employedthe best of drivers and mechanics. His

cars were immaculate every time theyappeared at a race track, and he fieldedmultiple entries at tracks up and downthe Eastern seaboard before droppingout of racing to make money instead ofspend it.

Glen Wood, who at age 84 is still ac-tive in the sport, deserves serious con-sideration in the eyes of manyknowledgeable racing folk. He was astand-out short track driver who wenton to transform his family team into aNASCAR powerhouse. In the 1970s,David Pearson ruled the superspeed-ways in Fords and Mercuries from theWood Brothers’ shop in Stuart, Va.

Darrell Waltrip seems like an obviouschoice. As a driver, he was articulateand successful, just what NASCARneeded as it began a strong growth pe-riod and began to attract mainstreamfans and sponsors. He won 84 Cup racesand three championships, and contin-ues to represent the sport as a TV com-mentator.

And if Waltrip goes in, it would seemonly fair that one of his main rivals,Bobby Allison, be right there too. Alli-son, the 1983 champion and an 84-timewinner as well, represents what manylike best about NASCAR. He was a hardworker, fiercely independent and asdedicated to racing as they come.

Got a question about NASCAR? AskRick! E-mail your question [email protected]

Who to look for in NASCAR Hall of Fame class of ‘11 ASK RICK!

“How is the fieldshaping up for the

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