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Mission Bay Cluster schools, K-12, are involved in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which teaches students to learn about their place within the community and be involved though community service.
A community planning survey tailored to K-12 students was done and student leaders will be analyzing the results and presenting their conclusions to the community at planning workshop sessions from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at PB Middle School, 4676 Ingraham St., on Dec. 11.
Also, preliminary results are in for the so-called SoftGIS Survey developed by Finnish researchers currently based at San Diego State University. The unique, online map-based survey has collected information about how people use PB day to day, what they value about the community and what they'd like to see improved.
"We have brewing what I call the 'perfect storm' for community planning in Pacific Beach," said Chris Olson, Pacific Beach Planning Group member, about the upcoming Dec. 11-13 community meetings presided over by the American Institute of Archtiect's Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT).
"Planning experts are working with people invested in the community and we also have some grant funding coming in to help us do what we need to do," said Olson. "We've been gathering the most data and information we can about what people in the community think the direction of our beach area should be. We're putting it into a format that can be presented at these Town Hall meetings."
Following up on a community Town Hall meeting held at Mission Bay High School in June, the SDAT team is returning to listen to community input and work with stakeholders to make progress toward creating a more sustainable urban neighborhood along the beachfront.
Pacific Beach's current community plan was developed more than 20 years ago. Data collecting for the community plan update in progress began in the summer.
Olson noted there were many interesting points — and some surprises — in both surveys.
"A lot of it (SoftGIS Survey) from the adult perspective focused on the Garnet Corridor, still our most-visited area, which those surveyed said has the most potential that we need to work on," Olson said.
Another "hot spot" in Pacific Beach that survey respondents were especially concerned about are the gateways into the community, including Interstate 5 on the north end.
"People said the entrances into the community are ugly and need some fixing up, some aesthetic improvements," said Olson. "People love the beaches, but they don't like the constrained boardwalk area there or the blighted area in southern Pacific Beach along the ocean."
On the student survey side, Olson said half the students in PB schools live "somewhere outside the community" from far-flung areas across San Diego County.
"Students said what they liked most about PB was the restaurants, stores and businesses," Olson said, adding what that group felt were the biggest community problems were "trash and homeless people."
The biggest need in the community?
According to students, the answer was a "movie theater."
"That's what the kids say they want," Olson said. That and "more bike and skateboard paths."
The student survey though did turn up at least one unexpected result.
"Students said they want more trees," said Olson, adding the community's youth were more far-sighted than anticipated.
"The things that concerned them were affordable housing, habitat and ecosystem renewal, energy and water supply," Olson said. "They're thinking about the big picture. That was interesting."
Olson said respondents for the SoftGIS Survey for adults concluded that PB's great potential is not fully realized.
"It's great that we have all this information to work with," he said. "Now we have to do something with it."
Community Town Hall meetings on PB's community plan update and on the AIA effort to find ways to make PB more environmentally sustainable, will be held Dec. 11 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 13 from 6 to 8:30 p.m., both at PB Middle School at 4676 Ingraham St.
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International AIDS Conference Returns to the U.S.
July 20, 2012
It's finally (almost) here. AIDS 2012, the 19th International AIDS Conference will convene in Washington, DC, July 22-27, 2012. The Opening Ceremony will be held on Sunday, 7:00-9:00 p.m. (EDT). The theme of this year's conference is "Turning the Tide Together."
AIDS 2012 marks the return of the International AIDS Conference to the United States after 22 years. Conference organizers essentially boycotted the U.S. because of the U.S. law and policies barring entry to the U.S. -- for travel and immigration -- by individuals infected with HIV. This heinous and scientifically unsound travel and immigration ban was repealed in the legislation reauthorizing President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and actually lifted when those regulations went into effect in 2010.
Leading up to the conference, on Wednesday, July 18, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched Together We Will End AIDS, a new report containing the latest data on numbers of new HIV infections, numbers of people receiving antiretroviral treatment, AIDS-related deaths and HIV among children. The report also gives an overview of international and domestic HIV investments and the need for sustainability.
Click here for more information on the UNAIDS report.
The Kaiser Family Foundation will provide online coverage of AIDS 2012.
Click here for general information on the conference. At the website you can also read and sign onto The Washington D.C. Declaration: "Turning the Tide Together: A Declaration to End the AIDS Epidemic."
Hundreds of Advocates, Service Providers, Policy Makers Attend AIDS 2012 Pre-Conference on Gay Men and Transgender People
This article was provided by AIDS United. It is a part of the publication AIDS United Policy Update. Visit AIDS United's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
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Good morning. I'm David Greene. Last week, we told you about a spat between a 12-year-old boy selling lemonade and his 61-year-old neighbor. Doug Wilkey of Dunedin, Florida, said young T.J. Guerrero's lemonade was an illegal business. For one thing, all the press attention has the lemonade business booming for T.J. As for Mr. Wilkey, well, the Tampa Bay Times reports that he is now under investigation. City officials were tipped off that he's using his home address for his own business without a license. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Eastlake's Ang Boyd (left), who scored the game's only goal, and Janelle Prado celebrate their team's victory over Carlsbad for the Division I girls soccer championship.
She balked at the number, eyes bulging as her hands rose to her face, blanketing her mouth in disbelief.
"Are you serious? You're kidding right?" JoJo McCaskill asked. "Seventeen saves?"
Top-seeded Carlsbad (14-3-6) fired off a barrage of shots, but Eastlake's senior goalkeeper fended off each and every attempt as Ang Boyd scored the game-winning goal to propel the Titans past the Lancers 1-0 for the San Diego Section Division I girls soccer title Friday night at San Diego Mesa College.
"(JoJo) was outstanding," Titans coach Scott Burress said of McCaskill, who claimed her eighth clean sheet of the season. "She makes it look easy and has spent all season being in the right place."
So was Boyd. The senior forward's first-half goal provided the Titans with their first section girls soccer title.
"We're making history every step of the way," McCaskill said.
Eastlake (15-2-6) took only seven total shots — about a fourth of what the Lancers tried — but capitalized.
McCaskill and the defense preserved the cushion as time ran out.
The Titans' victory avenged last season's semifinal loss to Carlsbad, the defending champion.
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Why Airline Mergers Are a Nightmare for Travelers
Last year United drove its customers crazy as it tried to line up its systems with Continental's. Now customers are complaining about the effects of the marriage of Southwest and AirTran. Scott McCartney looks at the details.
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Overall waterfowl population drops in California
There are waterfowl that find the conditions in California to their liking so they take up permanent residence. Others migrate to northern breeding grounds in Canada and Alaska.
To ensure a somewhat decent count of waterfowl populations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will count birds in Canada and Alaska. The results will be available this month.
California biologists and pilots have completed the annual waterfowl survey for birds that have taken up permanent residence, and the results were just made available.
The total count is down. Last year, there were 558,600 ducks just hanging out and having little baby quackers. This year's total amounted to 524,500. The decrease is mainly attributed to lower numbers in gadwall and cinnamon teal.
On the good side, the most abundant duck in California, the greenhead mallard, increased 21 percent, from 314,700 in 2011 to 381,900 this year.
The survey covered nesting habitat in and around northeastern California — the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Suisun Marsh, Napa-Sonoma Marshes, the Delta and even some foothill areas.
These counts, combined with the results of the USFWS counts, will set the framework for season dates and bag limits set by the feds and followed closely by the state.
Is sale legal?
I see it all the time on advertising websites. Someone inherited a bear skin rug or a hunter got tired of his big elk mount or 4-by-4 buck on his wall.
So, it gets advertised. Is it legal to sell?
No. Under state law, it's illegal to sell, trade or barter that item. Additionally, it's illegal to purchase that critter. It also doesn't matter whether that animal was harvested in California or legally taken in another state or country.
So, you have a mount or bear hide you no longer want. What do you do?
You can give it away. Perhaps a museum or service club would take it off your hands.
Current fishing
It's the Fourth of July holiday week. While other states are baking in temperatures way above normal, we've had a fair and mild summer.
Just about every waterway throughout the north state is going to be loaded for this holiday week — most for water recreation. Fishing success will be down, but the holiday week will end and pressure will return to normal with better catching to come.
Salmon: There's been a continuing great bite at Bodega Bay for those riding a party boat or launching boats at Doran or Westside parks. There are lots of salmon. Those sailing out under the Golden Gate are finding salmon anywhere from N Buoy up to Point Reyes. Most are up to 18 pounds, and there are big smokers in the mix.
Salmon have a tendency to move around, and those going out Noyo Harbor at Fort Bragg find the bite good one day, slower the next.
Loon Lake: The lake level is excellent, still nearly 90 percent. It's also a lake that's at a high-enough elevation where you won't fight a bunch of water recreationists. Trollers are limiting by hauling a grub or worm behind a dodger.
Stay in the top 15 feet of water, and you should have no trouble getting bit.
Folsom Lake: While catches of trout and king salmon remain a decent option, it's going to be doubly tough this week. Expect the water to be heavily roiled with recreationists. If you're willing to fish the first couple of hours at the crack of dawn, you might get in some quiet fishing time, and chances will be good of getting into a bite.
The bass bite remains decent, too, fishing off points. Bass are hanging in 15-20 feet of water. Early mornings, topwater gear could get bit, as will cranks and swimbaits. Otherwise, drop-shot plastics.
Camp Far West: Regardless where you point your boat, it will be impossible to get away from water skiers and jet ski-type watercraft. The only option is to get out early. There are several small bass — one to 1½ pounds — that are willing to grab plastics. A variety of colors will entice a bite. If you're staying the night, fire up the lantern, soak stinky stuff, and you could pick up a nice stringer of catfish.
Hell Hole Reservoir: The lake level is excellent, still more than 80 percent. Head to the upper end, troll or soak eggs, a crawler or Power Bait, and you could get into a trout bite. Troll around the Powerhouse, down 40 feet or so, which means downrigger time, and you could limit on 15-inch kokanee. You can haul deepwater gear around the dam and pick up a mackinaw.
Lake Amador: There's still a wayward trout being caught, but few are trying for the holdovers. Trout are looking for cooler water so head to the upper end, where water is coming into the lake. There are bucketmouths going eight pounds, grabbing plastics. If you're camping, pick up chicken liver or slice up a hot dog and put it on the hook after the sun goes down. Chances are you're going to nail a catfish.
Lake Camanche: Good for day use this week if you don't have camping reservations. They have a new campground, too. Eagle Beach campground is located on the east side of the peninsula in the Rabbit Creek arm. It's a boat-in campsite so forget trying to get in with your RV. There are three single and four double sites available.
Despite it being summer, decent trout catches are being reported. Two anglers fished around the dam-causeway, hauling Rapalas, and showed off a hefty stringer of trout, the largest hitting just under six pounds. Most anglers, however, are soaking Power Bait in chartreuse, rainbow and garlic, along with a nightcrawler, down a good 40 feet.
Lake Pardee: The lake is still in excellent condition, only three feet or so below the spill. Most trout catches are being tallied by trollers. Some are working the main body between the river mouth, the face of the dam and in front of the rock wall. Others deadhead up the river and troll around Twin Coves, Deer Island and Columbia Gulch. Trout and kokanee are being tallied, and trollers are setting gear anywhere from 30-60 feet.
This lake also has a tremendous bass population, overlooked by many anglers. The south end is kicking out big numbers of smallies, and some are hitting four pounds. There's also a largemouth in the mix. Cranks, swimbaits and plastics should get you well bit.
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Lakewood Middle School will be celebrating International Walk to School Day on Nov. 1.
Lakewood Middle School will be celebrating International Walk to School Day on Nov. 1.
More than 40 countries and every state in the U.S. will have schools participating in the annual event.
According to Lakewood Middle School event organizers Carolyn Mayhew and Nancy Gassman, the event has been organized to encourage the creation of a "more walkable world" and they would like members of the community to join in the walk alongside students and parents.
"While walking to school was commonplace just a generation ago, traffic jams around schools are now the norm. And our school situation of location (out) in the country affords no safe walking or biking route to the school or safe training paths for our schools' cross country and track students," Mayhew said.
According to Mayhew, students are losing out on opportunities to receive regular physical activity and are then losing out on health benefits by being driven or riding to and from school.
"On International School Day, students have a special opportunity to celebrate the fun of walking," said Mayhew.
On Nov. 1, Lakewood school buses will be unloading Lakewood Middle School students at the north high school parking lot.
Students will be guided by local community municipal officials, police departments, local doctors and healthcare members, parents, teachers, the Jordan Lake Trail Board and more, she said.
The path will follow from the high school parking lot to the back door of the middle school, where principal Kellie Rowland will be waiting to greet entering students.
"We need as many parents and volunteers as possible - to bring your own flashlight, and line both sides of the path between the two schools as a luminarium for the students to walk," said Mayhew.
Volunteers should arrive at the north high school parking lot before 6:45 a.m. Volunteers should park in the student parking lot.
In the event of rain, the Walk to School Day will be rescheduled to Nov. 11.
Volunteers should contact Mayhew or Gassman before the event to confirm their participation.
Mayhew can be reached at 616-374-8441, or contact Gassman at 616-706-0378.
Walk to School Day was established in the United States in 1997. The idea was formulated by the Partnership for a Walkable America, which is a national alliance of individuals and organizations dedicated to making walking safe, easy and more enjoyable.
According to Mayhew, the event is sponsored by the Michigan Fitness Foundation and Michigan Department of Transportation through a partnership entitled "Safe Routes to School."
"What a fun, healthy, unique activity for the kids to take part in," said Mayhew.


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CoB Students Win Again
The Accounting Information Systems Educators Association sponsors a student paper competition to recognize outstanding work by graduate students in accounting information systems. Masters students from James Madison University have won this competition three times since 2010.
In the spring of 2012, Megan Cook & David LaRosa's paper won the competition and had their paper published: "One Ticket to the Matinee Please: A Case Designed to Teach Students Accounting Software (Peachtree) Skills," AIS Educators Journal, Vol. 6, 2011: 59-65 with M. Cook, D. LaRosa and D. Hayes.
Both Megan and David attended and presented at the AIS Educator Conference.
In 2011, four papers were submitted for consideration. Mary Antcliff, Ryan Doren and Lauren Harris' paper won the competition. Their paper was published as well: "A Case to Provide Students Practice in Basic and Advanced Functions of IDEA Software," AIS Educators Journal, Vol. 7, 2012: 69-73 with M. Antcliff, R. Doren, L. Harris and D. Hayes.
Ryan Doren attended and presented at the conference.
This spring, Paul Hong won the competition with his paper, "Separating Cats from Dogs Can Save You Trouble: A Case Created to Enhance Students' Abilities in Identifying Employee Red Flags and Incompatible Duties." Paul will have to present at the conference in Laramie, Wyo.
"Paul did a great job in the Independent Study course that he wrote the creative, separation of duties case paper for," says Dr. David Hayes, who worked with Paul on the paper. "He was self-motivated and created a good working paper that he will be presenting at the AIS Educators Conference for comments."
The Student Paper Competition is intended to recognize outstanding work by graduate students of accounting information systems. The student(s) submitting the winning paper receive a $1,000 cash award upon attending the AIS Educator Conference and presenting the paper.
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If At First You Don't Succeed As A Patent Troll, Just Sue Again
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But why worry about that when it can just sue again?
Yes, even as it's appealing the initial loss, the company has sued the same companies a second time using a nearly identical filing. You can see both filings embedded below. Feel free to do a diff on the two, but Patent Examiner summarizes the two cases this way:
This new lawsuit against MasterCard and Visa concerns both "contact" and "contactless" smart cards (the former are inserted into a card reader, the latter only need to be placed in proximity to a reader), while SmartMetric's first lawsuit against the credit companies only referred to contactless card systems.So, basically, after losing, they're just trying to expand what they claim the patent covers. It's hard to see this as anything more than a standard patent troll shakedown of a company that doesn't do anything demanding cash from the companies who do things... even when those things are obvious next steps that were discussed decades before the troll came on the scene.


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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is proof that art-house films can be as clichéd and soggily sentimental as the big-ticket items playing at the multiplex. The comedy-drama follows a group of British retirees at a ramshackle hotel in Jaipur, India, and it stars just about every aging English actor who didn't make it into a "Harry Potter" movie and a few who did. For that reason alone, "Hotel" will be a hit among upscale 50+ audiences, since no one else is making movies for or about them. But it's predictable fluff, sometimes pleasantly so, at others times irritatingly.
Based on the 2004 novel "These Foolish Things" by Deborah Moggach and directed with sturdy dullness by John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love," "The Debt"), "Hotel" briskly introduces us to its main characters and their problems. Evelyn (Judi Dench) is a recent widow struggling to learn to live for herself. Doug (Bill Nighy) and Jean (Penelope Wilton) are an old married couple, he shyly adventurous and she complaining. (Wilton's even more persnickety here than as Mrs. Crawley on "Downton Abbey").
Madge (Celia Imrie) is a randy strumpet looking for a rich man; Norman (Ronald Pickup) is an old goat looking for a quickie. Graham (Tom Wilkinson) is returning to India to seek a long-lost love (there are complications). The most problematic character, Muriel (Maggie Smith), is a vicious fusspot who arrives at the hotel to get a new hip; she has never had a good word to say about any person of any color other than a good English gray, and you don't believe she's about to start.
There's a touch of "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Rajasthan" to "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." The assembled cast oohs and ahhs at India's Day-Glo colors, jammed streets, and general sensory assault, then draws up short when the hotel is reached. It's a work in progress, to put it kindly, and its owner-manager is a hyperactive young striver named Sonny. Dev Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire" does what he can with the role, but it's written just this side of brownface. (His girlfriend, played by the lovely Tena Desae, works at a customer service call center, and that's the best the movie can do to acknowledge modern India — the voice at the end of a Westerner's phone.)
Similarly, the British actors work hard and invisibly to turn their character types into actual people. It's an uphill push, despite their gifts. I would probably pay cash money to watch Bill Nighy read from the tax code, and, given Ol Parker's script, that might be an improvement. The most preposterous development is Muriel's transformation from a racist old biddy to the climactic scenes' gracious dea ex machina. It's as if she went in for a new hip and came out with a character transplant.
But that's how "Hotel" resolves its conflicts — tidily and with resort to unexpected deaths, last-minute declarations of love, and 180-degree emotional flip-flops. It plays, but you'd have to be desperate to buy in. I don't begrudge the film's target audience for that desperation, or for a desire to see the search for fresh meaning in one's final acts portrayed onscreen. And if you've seen a gem like 2006's "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont," you know it can be done with honesty, delicacy, humor, and power. By contrast, "Hotel" plays like the Disoriented Express.
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The list of new cotton varieties below is not complete, as several seed companies are still in the process of evaluating experimental lines for release in 2010. Any descriptions of the varieties below are provided by seed companies. Some varieties included are in a second year of release and/or may have only been offered in introductory quantities.
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PHY 367 WRF — This early maturing variety has excellent early season vigor, root knot nematode tolerance, high yield potential and good fiber quality. It is another variety stacked with both WideStrike and Roundup Ready Flex.
PHY 565 WRF — A mid- to full-maturing variety with high yield potential, PHY 565 WRF is a new variety selected for broad adaptation and good-to-excellent fiber quality. This option for growers is stacked with WideStrike and Roundup Ready Flex.
PHY 525 RF — Is a mid- to full-maturing variety selected for broad adaptation, high yield potential and good-to-excellent fiber quality. This variety should appeal to growers looking for a Roundup Ready Flex-only variety.
PHY 375 WRF — Although availability was limited in 2009, PHY 375 WRF has become a leading upland variety across the Cotton Belt. In fact, it was the No. 1 planted variety in the Delta region in 2009. PHY 375 WRF is a WideStrike and Roundup Ready Flex stacked variety. This indeterminate, early maturing line has the capacity to keep growing in stressful environments and matures quicker than other varieties when the crop is protected from early season insects. The excellent vigor and growth habit leads to a high degree of yield stability and fiber quality atypical of early maturing cotton varieties.
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Dyna-Gro is offering one signature variety for 2010:
DG 2570 B2RF — An early mid-maturity upland variety that has shown excellent seedling vigor. It is smooth leaf cotton that has an open architecture with an associated robust plant growth. It is a medium-tall variety averaging about 42 inches in height. This variety has medium size bolls averaging about 6 grams. DG 2570 B2RF has shown very good drought tolerance and good storm resistance. It has also shown excellent tolerance to Verticillium wilt and Fusarium wilt. Overall in all trials, gin turnout has ranged from 39-42 percent, fiber uniformity has ranged from 83percent to 85 percent, micronaire has ranged from 4.4 to 4.9, fiber length has ranged from 1.12 to 1.15 inches, and strength has ranged from 29 to 31 grams per tex.
Overall plant performance of this variety was determined to be very adaptable throughout most of the cotton growing regions and especially well on lighter soils under heat stress and droughty conditions. Limited data has show very favorable yield responses on clay soils. No-till production practices also compliment this variety. DG 2570 additionally responds very well to irrigation for enhanced yields.
Americot, Inc., offers Americot and NexGen brand cotton. Americot is developing new varieties for the Mid-South that will be released over the next two to three years. The next generation of Americot varieties will be improvements on current varieties, with better fiber traits and yield potential.
One of the most popular Americot varieties is AM 1550 B2RF, which will be planted more extensively in the 2010 season. It is targeted for the North Mississippi River Delta area. This Bollgard II/Roundup Ready Flex cotton has an early-mid maturity and is a semi-smooth leaf cotton. Its average staple length is 35.6; strength, 27.5; and micronaire, 4.5. It offers excellent yield potential and a solid fiber package. AM 1550 B2RF is widely adapted, performs well in the Mid-South and is well-suited for irrigated, high input acres.
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Bayer CropScience is evaluating four Bollgard II/Flex and four LibertyLink/Bollgard II varieties for 2010 release. According to Jeff Brehmer, the LibertyLink technology can address the growing glyphosate-resistance issue in cotton fields east of Texas. "We look to enhance or expand what we've found in FM 1845LLB2 and FM 1735LLB2. The LibertyLink system with Ignite herbicide has proven to be very successful. One of the key things we see is that farmers spraying the right rate at the right time are highly satisfied with the results."
Brehmer added, that FM 1845 LLB2 "was in the top 20 percent of all the varieties tested in the South."
Croplan Genetics
Croplan Genetics is offering the following five existing cotton varieties for 2010:
CG 3020B2RF — A very early-maturity, smooth leaf picker variety with excellent yield potential and premium fiber quality. Best adapted for lighter textured soils in a dryland to low water management system. Micronaire 4.1, staple 36.1, strength 27.6.
CG 3520B2RF — An early-maturity, semi-smooth leaf picker variety with excellent yield potential and premium fiber quality. Fits well in medium to heavier textured soil types and performs well in both dryland and irrigated systems. Micronaire, 4.2, staple 37.3, strength 27.5.
CG 4020B2RF — An early- to mid-maturity, smooth leaf picker variety. Broadly adapted across soil types in irrigated systems and on heavier soils in dryland systems. Micronaire, 4.2, staple, 37.6, strength, 28.
CG 3220B2RF — An early- to mid-maturity, smooth to semi-smooth leaf picker variety. Broadly adapted across soil types in dryland and irrigated systems. Micronaire, 4.4, staple 36.7, strength 28.8.
CG 3035RF — An early- to mid-maturity, smooth to semi-smooth leaf picker Roundup Ready Flex broadly adapted across soil types in dryland and low-irrigated systems. Micronaire 4.5m staple 35.8, strength 29.2.
For more cotton variety information, see http://www.croplangenetics.com.
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One of Peru's top Catholic universities will continue to call itself Catholic and pontifical, despite a Vatican decree on July 21 aiming to strip the titles after decades of ideological tension. Lima's Pontifical Catholic University of Peru will preserve its title as long as the institution "considers it relevant," said university director Marcial Rubio. The Vatican has accused P.U.C.P. of causing "serious damage to the interests of the church" since the 1960s, when a Peruvian priest and instructor at the university, Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., right, founded the institution's guiding principle of "liberation theology," promoting social justice and pan-Latin American solidarity. P.U.C.P. is an "institution created in Peru, governed by Peruvian law, not canonical law," Rubio said. "This is the official name by which we are known domestically and internationally," he added. "The university's assets are the property of the P.U.C.P. and are protected by the Peruvian constitution."
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Why Alibaba Is a Big Deal
Alibaba is gearing up for a U.S. IPO that could raise $15 billion, just shy of what Facebook sold when it went public. The Wall Street Journal's Thomas Di Fonzo explains why Alibaba is so big.
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Anisimov scores to back Bobrovsky, Blue Jacketsby John Manasso
NASHVILLE -- Columbus Blue Jackets center Artem Anisimov was making small talk after the morning skate about how his pregnant wife is due with the couple's first child any day. As soon as she texts him that she's going into labor, he's getting on a plane and flying home.
With one game left on a three-game road trip, the Blue Jackets might not want to let him leave.
Columbus has won four out of its past five games, including a 1-0 victory against the Nashville Predators on Saturday at Bridgestone Arena. Anisimov has scored the game-winning goal in each.
"Since coming back from the Olympic break, his game has been very good," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said of the Russian Olympian. "He's a trustworthy player, a smart player. So, defensive roles, penalty kill, but what we're seeing now is that offensive side of him, and we know he's a talented kid, passer, shooter.
"He's scoring some huge goals for us."
Anisimov's goal Saturday was his sixth in six games and 19th of the season, a career high. Anisimov, who declined to speak with reporters after the game, had scored a goal in four straight games, a streak that was snapped in a 6-1 loss Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Columbus got the game's only goal with 6:25 left in regulation. Anisimov led a 3-on-2 rush, dropped the puck for defenseman James Wisniewski and headed to the net. Anisimov got the puck back and stuffed it around 6-foot-5 Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne.
"Give him the puck, let him do his thing," Wisniewski said. "He's got great hands, so for him to be able to go from forehand all the way to backhand, even a big goalie like Pekka, is hard to get post-to-post like that."
Columbus' Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves in his first shutout since Jan. 10, his third of the season. With 28.8 seconds left and Rinne pulled for an extra attacker, Bobrovsky, coming from the far post, robbed Colin Wilson as he attempted to stuff the puck at the goalmouth. Wilson, who has not scored in 24 games, had the net open to the near side but instead shot at an angle into Bobrovsky, who gloved it just in front of the goal line.
Two of the NHL's best goaltenders were on top of their game. Bobrovsky, the reigning Vezina Trophy winner, stopped 18 shots through two periods, and Rinne, a Vezina finalist in 2011 and 2012, stopped 20; he finished with 35 saves.
Rinne, playing his third straight game after returning from a hip infection, had to be at his best when Viktor Stalberg took a double-minor penalty for high-sticking RJ Umberger at 6:55 of the second period. One of Rinne's best saves came on a slap shot by Boone Jenner that Rinne got a piece of with his blocker.
"[Rinne] is a great goaltender," said Richards, who worked as an assistant with the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League when Rinne played for that team. "And it was one of those where our goalie was great in the first and then we started to take over the game and their goalie needed to be good in the second and the third and he was.
"It was one of those games where you're wondering, 'Is anyone going to be able to beat either one of these guys?'"
The penalty on Stalberg helped turn the momentum of the game, the coaches said. Nashville had four shots in the second period to Columbus' 15; the Predators then had two through the first 10 minutes of the third.
Nashville's Barry Trotz said as a result of that penalty Columbus "ground [us] down a bit."
Nashville, which did not have more than 21 shots on goal in either of its past two games, had 14 in the first period. The Predators did not connect on their lone power-play chance, continuing a streak of futility to 15 straight with the extra man in the past four games.
One of the best scoring chances of the first period came with 5:43 left when Columbus center Ryan Johansen, the Blue Jackets' leader in goals with 25, broke in on a 2-on-1. Rinne knocked down Johansen's wrist shot with his glove.
Columbus (33-26-5) is even with the Detroit Red Wings in the race for the final Stanley Cup Playoff wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, though the Red Wings own the berth because they've played one fewer game. The Blue Jackets were playing without three injured regular defensemen: Fedor Tyutin (ankle), Nikita Nikitin (upper body), and rookie Ryan Murray (knee), who will miss at least the remainder of the regular season.
"I thought the guys were great tonight," said Richards, who shuffled his lineup somewhat, scratching wings Cam Atkinson and Matt Frattin.
The coach opted for more physical players, Blake Comeau and Corey Tropp, and the change appeared to work. Tropp had a second-period fight with Nashville's Eric Nystrom.
The Predators (26-28-10) are 1-5-2 in their past eight and have lost four straight in regulation. Nashville had one goal in each of its past three games.
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Brokeback Mountain
Oddly, I found myself comparing Brokeback Mountain to Munich, which I saw the week before. The comparison began because both films were at the top of a lot of mainstream reviewers' lists of the best movies of 2005 (though less so the alternative reviewers), and I couldn't quite figure out how anybody would put Munich above Brokeback Mountain, because though neither film is perfect, Munich is, despite an opening sequence of brilliance, a mess, while Brokeback Mountain could have been far more of a disaster than it is. I continued to think about the films together, because each tries to challenge its audiences to think about the world beyond the film -- each is, to some extent or another, a Statement as well as a movie. Munich is a bundle of forced moments, stereotyped characters, and spy-movie cliches, along with some subtle acting and a few really excellent scenes (whoever hired Tony Kushner to work on the script deserves accolades, because some of the dialogue is magnificent. I just hope he's not the one who came up with the inexcusable, ridiculous, tasteless, grotesque idea of juxtaposing an angst-ridden sex scene with the executions of the athletes on the airfield, as if everyone's sins could be atoned for with a good orgasm). There are Hollywooded coincidences and questionable scenes in Brokeback Mountain, too, but not with the frequency of such scenes in Munich, and the worst of Brokeback Mountain isn't remotely as bad as the worst of Munich.
Brokeback Mountain could have been ridiculous. It could have been sappy and so earnest as to ooze good intentions all over the audience. It is, instead, remarkably restrained in tone. The only thing not repressed in the film is the landscape, which is vast and almost pornographic in its loveliness. The open world of the mountains and forests contrasts well with the closed, closeted, claustrophobic interiors. (The production design of Brokeback Mountain is particularly fine, with the decades passing in small changes of decor, though the furnishings remain cloying and even ghastly, regardless of the decade, regardless of the characters' income bracket. The only beauty is in the mountains, the place of freedom and contentment.)
When I first heard that Brokeback Mountain was being directed by a straight director from a script by straight writers and starring straight actors, I had a kneejerk moment of annoyance -- what could such a gaggle of heteros really know about the basic situation of these characters? It was a stupid, fleeting thought, but it nagged at me nonetheless. Good artists can imagine their way into all sorts of experiences beyond their own, and I've long thought gender and sexuality shouldn't limit artists of real worth. Indeed, I wish more straight writers would write about gay characters, at the very least because most of the straight writers I know have some gay friends or acquaintances, and yet the world in their fiction is entirely, and even obsessively, heterosexual.
What I didn't realize before seeing it, and perhaps should have, is that many of Brokeback Mountain's strengths may derive from the effort of heterosexuals to imagine their way into the situation they sought to dramatize. I'm not entirely comfortable with this idea, because after all the job of writers and actors and directors is to imagine things well. I find it frustrating whenever straight actors are praised for their "courage" and "bravery" for taking on gay roles, as if it isn't the point of their job to behave realistically in imaginary circumstances, or as if actors don't ever have to be in romantic scenes with people they don't feel the least bit romantic toward, and might, indeed, in reality even loathe; or as if gay actors don't give convincing portrayals of straight people all the time. And yet there are pragmatic reasons why for these particular roles, it made good sense to cast straight actors. Film shoots are short, and they have to be efficient. From a director's point of view, it's useful to have actors plays these roles who do not have any experience being romantic with other men, because the characters are struggling against their own desires, against the strangeness of the situation for them, against their own views of what is acceptable and appropriate. Brokeback Mountain is less a "gay movie" than it is a movie about people in a vehemently heterosexual culture, a culture of clear gender roles and traditional masculine/feminine values, where the fate of any love that strays beyond those rigid borders is tragic. The film may benefit, then, from the imaginative efforts of people who have the option of taking that culture and those values for granted. Which is not to say that other sorts of people couldn't have done just as well, but that Brokeback Mountain is a fine example of artists using their own knowledge and experience of the world to think beyond that knowledge and experience, to use the tension that naturally comes from such thinking and acting to great effect.
There are, of course, people who don't like Brokeback Mountain, and they're not all homophobes, by any means. Some people don't like it because it isn't subversive enough, because the characters don't fight against their culture and show how the queer masses can rise beyond oppression, because it fortifies the idea that homosexuality is tragic, because there are lots of stories of queer people that don't get this sort of attention, because it's just another Hollywood love story. These criticisms deserve to be listened to, but I think they're misguided.
Maybe such criticisms are not misguided if you live in a place where two men can hold hands in public without being attacked. Maybe they're not misguided if you're the sort of person who has lots of gay friends and your gay friends have good jobs and good lives and lots of disposable income, the sorts of gay people who subscribe to Out and pay close attention to the fashion articles. But when you live in a place like rural New Hampshire, where even your most open-minded friends are still amazed that gay people can care as much about each other as straight people, and where you can drive into a Dunkin Donuts parking lot and see a truck with a bumpersticker reading "AIDS kills fags", and where you're nervous just going to see a movie like Brokeback Mountain because you hesitated to tell a few acquaintances what movie you were driving 50 miles to see, and you know somebody in the audience is going to groan or make some remark when the two men kiss ... well, then this is a movie you tend to be grateful for, and amazed that it's better than you ever dared hope it would be. I wish I could thank everyone who worked on this film, because even though, yes, some of the audience was audibly uncomfortable with the first intimate scene, by the second half of the film the audience was utterly silent. The man behind me who, as the lights went down, said to his wife, "I'm really very nervous about this, I'm not sure about this, I don't know, but the reviews have been so good, and, well..." said to her afterward, "The reviews were right," and he sounded both moved and relieved. That simple moment gave me more hope, joy, and even comfort than I would have gotten from a more confrontational, less traditional film. Someone who had seemingly never thought about how painful, how destructive it is to have the way you love branded as disgusting, repulsive, unnatural, to have the person you love seen as an abomination -- now he had glimpsed that. A less tragic story might have made us all feel better about our ability to be accepting of each other, but it wouldn't have communicated why such acceptance is important with the same force and clarity. The sensitivity, commitment, and skill of the filmmakers created a work of art that opened a space for everyone in that theatre to think about how they live their lives, the choices they make, the sacrifices, the prejudices. It opened a space for at least a moment of communication between ways of living that do not often get a chance to truly communicate, and to feel their way away from destruction.


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The Texas Rangers announced they will raise the height of the rails at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as part of new safety initiatives at the facility following the death of fan Shannon Stone.
Stone, a 39-year-old firefighter from Brownwood, Texas, fell over the railing in left-center July 7 as he attempted to catch a ball thrown by outfielder Josh Hamilton. The drop was about 20 feet, and Stone died from injuries sustained in the fall.
The Rangers said that despite the fact the rails exceed safety code, they are raising the heights of all rails in the front row of seating to "the highest standard in the United States at this time," according to the club's release.
"The safety of our fans is our top priority," said Rangers CEO and president Nolan Ryan, who was released from the hospital Tuesday after undergoing tests that determined there were no new developments in the recurrence of a previous heart condition. "The initiatives we are announcing today for Rangers Ballpark in Arlington will help to ensure that we meet that priority."
While the work is being completed, the Rangers also have added signage and new rules for fans. Signs reading: "Do not lean, sit on, or stand against rail" will be installed (in all capital letters) on the railings in front of all outfield seating and on all upper-level seating, including the two suite levels.
The club will make pregame announcements on the public address system and on the scoreboard reminding fans of these initiatives, and there will be security and customer-service staff watching fans near the rails to enforce the policy.
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Sol 37 (Sept. 12, 2012) was Curiosity's last day of characterization activities for its robotic arm. The sol's activities included a vibration test for the device on the arm that processes samples of soil, or powdered rock, collected by the scoop or drill. This device, the Collection and Handling for In-situ Martian Rock Analysis, or CHIMRA, has chambers and labyrinths for sorting, sieving and portioning the samples before the arm delivers them to analytical instruments.
The Sol 37 characterization activities also included imaging of the rover's observation tray by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (raw image at http://1.usa.gov/SeDdsY).
In addition, Curiosity's science instruments performed observations and measurements, including Mast Camera observations of the Martian moon Phobos passing in front of the sun.
Curiosity continues to work in good health. Sol 37, in Mars local mean solar time at Gale Crater, ended at 7:54 a.m. Sept. 13, PDT.
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Cache Size: Cache containers must now be of the one quart size or larger. No "nanos", matchstick containers, or film canisters will be published.
Cache Content: All caches must contain a logbook (not log sheet) and items for trade. Fast food toys will be added to the list of items disallowed inside caches.
Permissions: As all land is owned by someone, all cache owners must obtain permission from the landowner in writing and fax or email this to me. This will be kept on file for the duration of the caches existence. *fax number to be added to my profile*
New Saturation Guidelines: The .1 mile rule still applies to caches placed within public parks. There is a new guideline for "linear" trails (sometimes referred to as "power" trails). This guideline states that caches must be placed no closer than 3-4 miles apart and must be in a location that will "wow" your fellow cachers.
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I doubt you'll fool anyone with this, its WAY too good to be true.
- 1:27 PM, April 01, 2009
- welch said...
"Physical logbook: your physical log must contain more than just a signature."
I'm sure this part will be dropped soon, groundspeak is too smart to try and enforce things it has little ability to actually do.
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A 'lil HooHaa
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Texas Giant Salvinia Effort Reaches Boaters, Raises Awareness
TPWD Continues To Fight Invasive Plants, Gears Up for Zebra Mussels
AUSTIN – Survey results show last year's giant salvinia public awareness campaign by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reached more than half of boaters living within 60 miles of four East Texas lakes targeted in the effort and that 96 percent of those boaters said they were "more likely to clean their boat, trailer or gear as a result of seeing information or advertising."
Giant salvinia is usually spread unknowingly by people moving their boats from lake to lake. The plant "hitches a ride" on boats, motors and trailers. The invasive plant was first discovered in Texas in a small pond near Houston in 1998. It has been reported in 17 Texas lakes, including some of the state's most popular recreational water bodies: Toledo Bend, Sam Rayburn, Caddo Lake, Sheldon Lake, Lake Texana and Lake Conroe.
Last spring's "Hello Giant Salvinia, Goodbye Texas Lakes" campaign media buy generated more than 28.5 million audience impressions amongst boaters, anglers and the general public. Efforts included floating messages on buoys near key boat ramps, fish measuring rulers with campaign messages, online web banner ads, social media, gasoline "pump toppers" and billboard ads near key lakes, and even an amusing TV ad featuring "salvinia monster" trying hitch a ride with a hapless boater.
Given the success of the salvinia awareness effort, the department is now considering a similar initiative for zebra mussels, another serious invasive threat that is not yet widespread in Texas. The non-native mussels multiply rapidly and attach themselves to boats, piers, cables and other objects. Zebra mussels can block water treatment plant intakes and pipes, as well as cause declines in fish populations, native mussels, and birds.
"We are actively seeking partners to help make a zebra mussel awareness campaign a reality," said Carter Smith, TPWD executive director. "Although currently only established in Lake Texoma in Texas, this exotic invader is on the doorstep of the Metroplex region and could eventually spread throughout the Trinity River system toward Houston."
Meanwhile there has been some good news in Texas regarding giant salvinia. Herbicide applications by TPWD and its partners, plus two cold winters that froze plants back, and a rainy high water year in 2010 that killed or flushed out invasive plants, have caused a decline in Texas lake surface acres infested by exotic plants.
On Caddo Lake, for example, giant salvinia increased from less than 100 acres in 2007 to almost 1,100 acres in 2008, reaching more than 3,000 acres by fall 2009. Fortunately, giant salvinia coverage on Caddo dropped to approximately 600 acres in spring 2010. Similarly, invasive water hyacinth on Caddo was estimated at 1,354 acres in fall 2008, was near 2,000 acres in 2009, but decreased to 720 acres by 2010.
However, experts expect that eventually the exotic plants will come back and once again pose greater threats, possibly this summer when warmer weather creates ideal growing conditions.
While TPWD and others continue public awareness efforts, mechanical or physical controls and the application of EPA-approved herbicides to control invasive plants, potentially promising bio-control efforts are also underway.
That includes plans to raise large numbers of salvinia weevils to eat the plant on Caddo Lake and other affected Texas waters. This bio-control agent from South America has helped reduce salvinia populations on several continents. Through a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant, salvinia weevil rearing facilities have been constructed in Karnack and Jasper to mass-produce the insects for ultimate release.
Funds made available through U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison made possible the newly formed Center for Invasive Species Eradication to be managed by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. The center is a partnership between AgriLife, USFWS, TPWD, the Caddo Lake Institute, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and Louisiana State University, among others. The facilities managed through this partnership should help increase the numbers of insects needed to control salvinia populations in Texas and Louisiana.
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A populist confection with ambitions to high art. A hodgepodge whose messiness has generated both raves and criticism. A colorful throwback that is also surprisingly modern and relevant. David O. Russell's "American Hustle" is a series of entertaining if at times frustrating contradictions, an idiosyncratic piece of work that has nonetheless managed to succeed in the marketplace.
A movie, in other words, much like its creator.
Russell is, by many of the high standards the term implies, a cinematic master, capable of juggling tones like few others and creating movies about meaty subjects to boot. Movies like "American Hustle" are a triumph because in so many regards — aesthetic, actorly, their sheer outrageousness quotient — they represent what's possible, not just what's accepted, blending caper and character (not to mention zany hairstyles). They stand out because directors like Russell managed to devise memorable art in a medium that requires the approval and dollars of others.
Russell does this, as conversations with him and many more than a dozen of his collaborators from the 20 years since he made his debut with "Spanking the Monkey" suggest, by being attentive to detail, by being passionate, by being single-minded. He leaves no character or narrative stone unturned and fights for choices when many would have long put down their weapons.
He also does this by being difficult, by being blunt, "by being David," an oddly telling description of his mix of traits. On a day when Hollywood crowns its best, Russell — nominated for best director and screenplay for the second straight year — remains one of the great characters working within, and sometimes struggling against, a largely corporate system.
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The first time I met Russell was in 2010, on the eve of the release of "The Fighter." He was nervous, sitting down to dinner with Mark Wahlberg in a Manhattan restaurant. "The Fighter" was his first completed movie in six years. (The last one was "I Heart Huckabees," so you can imagine why.) Over the course of the conversation, Russell's better angels (attentiveness, a willingness to reflect on his life) collided with his lesser ones (a coiled intensity and hypersensitivity, parsing, as he does, questions he thinks may be off-base or offensive).
I saw him a few more times over the course of that season, his confidence growing as his stock rose. In 2012, I met him at a Toronto International Film Festival party after the "Silver Linings Playbook" premiere. The movie had played like gangbusters, and Russell was reveling in the moment, inviting me to sit with him and chat about the film over a few drinks. He talked exuberantly about making the film, manifesting a passion so strong he — unlike 90% of directors I've encountered — was still feeling it months after he finished the movie. He wanted to talk, talk and talk about it some more. The conversation ended an hour later only when I had to excuse myself for another event.
I spoke with Russell six or seven more times throughout that season, as he touchingly expressed how his son's emotional difficulties had prompted him to make this movie. Bradley Cooper, the film's star, told me that the director wears his "heart on his sleeve," and this was the best expression of that trait.
Last December, for the third installment in his so-called reinvention trilogy, I spent five hours at Russell's home away from home, an estate-cum-editing facility in Mount Olympus, high above Hollywood. Those five hours were not, it should be said, all spent with Russell. Three of them were spent waiting for him; the director was late, and then some, for our interview. During the wait, more than one person in the house endearingly referred to "D.T.," David Time. He would later explain it as the behavior of a man so focused on the task in front of him he had a hard time imagining other ones, even if those were ironclad obligations. A publicist who had worked with Russell had a different take when I told her what happened. "Three hours? That's good for David."
Talking with him is a unique experience. The conversation does not always follow a defined track. Some who have engaged with this professionally have called it chaotic and been thwarted by it. Collaborators on two different movies compared it to jazz, the mathematic structure by which most directors lay out their movie, in his case heaved out the window for something more free form.
Russell's on-set behavior is similarly from the gut, its plan not always apparent, though many who've worked closely with him say that one shouldn't be fooled; he knows exactly what he wants out of a scene. He will have the camera aim at where he feels it needs to go in the moment, instead of shooting an industry-standard progression of takes. (Russell lights the whole set, giving the actors freedom to move.) As he is in life, there is an almost obsessive attention to detail — he will arrange the chair you are sitting in to suit what he thinks the conversation requires — and, on set, memorize the script beat by beat so he can recite it back to any member of the crew at any moment, a move that has proved scary, though no doubt useful in making sense of the chaos.
He will also never sit behind the monitors, standing next to actors and talking between and over their lines, urging them on with new lines he's improvised even as the cameras are rolling.
This coming at actors, exposing them to his own infinite-possibility map moment after moment, scene after scene, can be imposing. Some, like Cooper and Amy Adams, have told me they love it; it keeps them off-balance and constantly seeking new character dimensions. "With a lot of directors you draw a map of the character and then work within that," Adams said. "With David I could draw a map of the character and then he'd say, 'you're not even in the right universe.'" Others, like Melissa Leo, have said they have a harder time with it.
The narrative on Russell is that he's a changed man from the at-once hotheaded and over-deliberate first decade of his career. The man who famously got into a fistfight with George Clooney on the set of "Three Kings," who achieved YouTube ignominy after throwing a tantrum (and other things) in the direction of Lily Tomlin making "I Heart Huckabees," who conducted such a busy internal monologue on his film choices that Wahlberg once sat him down for a life intervention of sorts, he's — well — changed.
Certainly, with three films since 2010, Russell had cast aside the mental gnaw that has inhibited productivity. And Tomlin, at least, told me last year that she had buried the hatchet and would gladly work with Russell again. He is, by all appearances, a little wiser and a little more willing to look at love and romance in his work itself.
But in other ways he remains who he is. He can still be prone to anger over small things. (Key to dealing with that, one producer said, is realizing "that the subject of that anxiety is not the source of that anxiety.") A stubborn sense of control has not gone away. Told on one recent film he needed to cut pages for the film to be shot in the time budgeted, he refused and simply shot much faster than most people would have.
Certainly Russell's vision is best served when he is given wider berth, and he now has either the freedom or the sense to make sure that happens. He has answered on these last three films to less traditional entities — Relativity Media, the Weinstein Co., Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures — not make-it-by-the-book studios. (As this article was being finished, Russell dropped out of a project at Disney-owned ABC.)
When he was commissioned by Sony Pictures in the frothy aftermath of "The Fighter" to take a crack at the script for the video-game adaptation "Drake's Fortune," Russell spent a year working on it, crafting an international epic about a family of thieves that had little to do with the game and its solitary quest. He turned it in with high hopes, but Sony executives did not like the script, which clocked in at more than 150 pages and eschewed the conventional action-thriller they wanted. The director held his ground. So did Sony, and the project went away.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Feb. 4, 2003) - Head coach Ed DeChellis' game plan called for East Tennessee State to pound Virginia Military in the paint and under the basket. Apparently, the Buccaneers were attentive pupils this week in practice.
Setting a career-high in scoring for the second time in three games, junior forward Zakee Wadood (Lonoke, Ark.) scored a team-high 29 points and fellow junior Jerald Fields (Gainesville, Fla.) added 21 points and a team-high nine rebounds as the Bucs snapped a two-game Southern Conference skid with a 93-76 league victory over the Keydets Tuesday night in front of 3,329 fans at Memorial Center.
With the win, ETSU improved to 12-8 overall, 6-3 in Southern Conference play, while VMI fell to 6-14, 1-8. The victory allowed the Bucs to stay tied for second place with Davidson in the SoCon's North Division.
"The game plan was to get the ball to me and Jerald," said Wadood, who enjoyed his fifth 20-point game of the year and the eighth of his career. "In our first meeting with these guys we killed them in the post in the second half, so coach emphasized that all week.
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However, after the break the Bucs continuously forced the ball inside and the Keydets were forced to either give up easy buckets or foul.
Instead of waiting until the second half on Tuesday, the Bucs' perimeter players continuously passed up open looks at the basket in favor of dropping the ball off inside to players like Wadood, Fields and freshman Ben Rhoda (Dayton, Ohio), who made the Keydets pay with layup after layup.
Despite the effective game plan, VMI still hung close in the first half and trailed just 45-40 thanks mostly in part to the play of junior Radee Skipworth. The 6-foot-6 guard scored a game-high 33 points, setting a new career high and eclipsing the 1,000 point mark for his career.
Skipworth now has 1,010 points for his career and is the 29th player in VMI history to reach that scoring milestone.
Yet Skipworth's efforts were not enough, as teammate Richard Little was the only other VMI player to reach double figures with 10 points. In the meantime, the Bucs methodically built their lead over the next 15 minutes of play and led by as many as 21 points at 82-61 with 5:04 left in the game.
Fields, who also finished the game with four blocks and two steals, said the Bucs needed this victory to get an emotional lift after back-to-back losses to Davidson and Chattanooga.
"It was a great win for us because we hope it will get our confidence back," Fields said. Along with Fields and Wadood - who also pitched in four blocks, four assists and two steals to go along with his 29 points - the Bucs got 15 points from freshman guard Tim Smith (Newport News, Va.) and 11 from Rhoda.
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