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Okay, what's up with all those starfish? The Hulk's starfish motif is the result of director Ang Lee's desire to hang some natural science on the Marvel Comics fantasy. ''Ang was interested in knowing, could this actually happen to a human being?'' says producer Larry Franco. Hence, extensive research by an MIT scientist reeled in jellyfish that turn green, sea cucumbers that grow thick, hard skin, and starfish with regenerative powers -- all attributes shared by The Hulk. If that sounds fishy, well...you're right.
Having The Hulk fight some hulked-out canines is cool. But a French poodle!? The script called for The Hulk to battle three mutated dogs. Dissatisfied with initial designs for the killer canines, Lee asked his art-school-bound teenage son, Haan, to take a crack. ''The one everyone liked was the poodle,'' says Lee. ''He has a good deformity.''
In the end, Banner disappears into the rain forests of South America. What's next? If there is a sequel (a big if for a film that reportedly cost more than $150 million), look for some different kinds of Hulks that have appeared over the years, each with a distinct personality. ''There is a green Hulk. There is a gray Hulk. And then there is a Hulk that is a combination,'' says producer Avi Arad. ''When you see The Hulk, you will think, 'My God, I can go 10 different ways from the way this one ends!''' If one of those ways could explain the cloud-of-energy thing, please let us know.


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Prior to joining The College, Costanza was Senior Project Manager at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Paris, a laboratory associated with the French National Scientific Research Centre, the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin. Previously, she was lived in Vienna and worked at the International Association for Cereals Science and Technology. Earlier she was employed as research officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
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In Linux Journal, November 1997, there is an article by Marc Allen about Linux running a gasoline station. Mr. Allen, an employee of the vendor of the system, Schlumberger, states: "We are, however, the only Unix-based one."
Not a bad story, but not completely true. At the gasoline station where my brother works, the whole system (pump control, sales, e-cash) has been working under SCO Unix for more than 1 year—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, running on a 80486 PC.
The company that makes the software is Sofitam of Belgium (Satam is the gasoline station equipment).
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I would like to point out that in the article called "Linux as a Proxy Server" by Peter Elton in the December issue of LJ there was absolutely no mention of Linux's built-in firewalling and proxying support. As I think most seasoned "roll your own" kernel compilers will know, Linux can do almost all of what Peter describes without resorting to any extra user-level daemons or utilities. I am speaking specifically of the kernel's IP Masquerading, Transparent Proxying, Accounting and Firewalling features. From the included Listing 1, it seems that Peter was using a very antiquated kernel indeed and perhaps these features did not exist. When writing about bleeding-edge operating systems one should do the proper homework to be aware of current OS features.
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I have been following LJ for over a year now and can't believe how good it's getting. I like the design changes, the way you shortened the "What is Linux" part, and every issue is a better mix of topics than the last one.
If you want to hear something funny, my brother works at a major American software company, and he tells me that developers there are bringing up the topic of porting their products to the Linux platform more and more frequently. Apparently there is a lot of Linux quietly installed around the world (enough to be seen as a significant market by a large American software player).
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I'm writing in response to the review of the "Microway Screamer 533" by Bradley Willson which appeared in the January issue of Linux Journal. This review is especially timely for me as the research group I work with is purchasing a new computer for development work, and the price and performance of the Alpha-PC running Linux are extremely attractive. As I started to read the article, however, my excitement quickly waned. Nowhere in the review of the Screamer 533 are there meaningful benchmarks. Moreover, the benchmark that the author put together is worthless for precisely the reasons mentioned in the article: so why include it?
The author would have done better for Linux Journal and Microway if he had included results from the SPEC benchmarks (SPEC benchmarks run on the Screamer 533, not benchmarks from Digital with the 533/21164A chip running Digital Unix in some form of an Alpha Station), the BYTE and Bonnie benchmarks and, perhaps, some of Microway's own programs. All benchmarks have shortcomings but they are much more useful to convince coworkers and bosses with than stories of fast cars.
Please Linux Journal, give us meaningful hardware reviews.
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I wrote to Ann Fried and asked her if she would make 533 benchmark numbers available on their web site. I have not received a reply yet.
For you, the article did not satisfy your questions and for that I apologize. I wrote the article for a less technical audience because of market demographics. There are simply more Intel/Linux users than Alpha/Linux people. The focus of the piece was to direct their attention to a machine they might otherwise overlook because of price, technical astigmatism or both. The academic and technical audiences generally have resources that allow them to own an Alpha and understand it, as you have demonstrated.
I realize that this does not help you sell the machine to management, and to that end I will continue to work with Microway to get some meaningful numbers to you.
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The last time I reviewed Color ID, it was a few updates behind. And so much has happened since. I really like the Color ID, and it has become an integrated app of my BlackBerry. Not only has it updated, but there's also a free version available as well, and we have a surprise.
Color ID is a fave app of mine, it's a very important and integrated app on my BlackBerry. I use it for family, important friends and coworkers. Ever since the first day I tried it, I found it so useful in knowing who's contacting me, being able to "triage" my emails, texts, and calls. Color ID is available in the BlackBerry Sync App Store for $5.99. This is a one time download price.
The description of the Color ID is as follows:
Know instantly who or where an email, sms or incoming call is from just from the colors of the flashing light on your Berry! Note: Your BlackBerry may require a battery pull after download.
Version 1.1.3 prevents the interruption of voice calls by disabling Color ID during a call. Upgrades from previous versions are free and encouraged.
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Easy-to-use interface with preview functionality
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Setup wizard for first-time users
I installed the Color ID on my BlackBerry Tour 9630, and it installed effortlessly. I did the battery pull after installing and when it rebooted, I found the icon as the CID. Clicking on it brings up a very colorful introductory screen. After that it prompts you to add a contact. But here's the even better and easier part of it. If you install Color ID, you can go to your contacts, choose one, click the options button, and you have a choice of: "Add to Color ID". This makes it so much easier if you have email and phone numbers already in the contact info.
If the information is not in the contacts, then you can add manually through the app. Go to the Color ID icon, click the options button and choose "Add New". You have the following options: Name; Email; Phone Numbers; Color 1; and Color 2. It's so easy to choose your colors, you can add more than one email and phone number as well. Each color has an assortment to choose from: red; pink; orange; yellow; green; cyan; blue; purple; white; and off. The blinking colors can be of any combination you'd like.
You can add all your important contacts in here, and also those you'd like to avoid as well. So over all, the app is really an essential add to your contacts since you can change the ringtone, but not the led light for each one. This gives you not one, but two to add. I would like to see support with the messenger as well, or BlackBerry pins. That would really be a great addition to it, but as it stands, it's very useful.
Customer service is great too, any issues are promptly answered and addressed. Over all, there's nothing to find wrong or any fault. Now for the news about the free version. You can find the free version of the app on BlackBerry AppWorld. The free version of Color ID only allows customization of two contacts. This is a great way to decide what you think of the app, or if you only have a few important contacts you want to be alerted of. To add more contacts you must choose upgrade. You can read more about the free version of Color ID by Motek Americas, Inc here.
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Stream Michele's single "A Couple of Forevers" here, and watch the accompanying visual below.
Check out the tracklisting to Better below…..
Chrisette Michele – Better (Tracklisting):
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4. Rich Hipster (Feat. Wale)
5. Love Won Leave Me Out
6. Interlude (In My Head Better)
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The UK's largest judicial services group with 1,200 staff and self-employed agents recovering £200 million per year on behalf of taxpayers, businesses and individuals through ethical and integrated court order compliance.
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Top Chef Just Desserts: That's the way the cookie crumbles
I'm enjoying Just Desserts more than I enjoyed the regular Top Chef, though in many ways I'm more interested in savory food than dessert. Although the Dessert contestants are pretty high-octane, they're also more emotionally honest, and there's a lighter, more playful feel to the whole thing -- perhaps because Gail Simmons is a warmer host than Padma and main judge Johnny Iuzzini is less self-important than Tom Colicchio.
Heather Chittum is out.
Gail Simmons's blog might explain the change in tone. She talks about how talented the chefs are and adds, "Whatever happens in the kitchen, whatever happens in the house, in the Stew Room...we will always treat our chefs with dignity, reverence and respect." I like the contestants -- even volcanic, unstable Seth, because he's so transparent, though I probably wouldn't want to share a kitchen with him. Funny how differentiated the group is already; by the third episode of Top Chef D.C., I still couldn't tell Steven from Ed.
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Episode two featured Sylvia Weinstock, a tiny little lady with huge black-rimmed glasses, famed for her wedding cakes, which are impossibly creative, elaborate, beautiful, sometimes crazy. (One that I saw online was in the shape of a chubby, curled-up baby. Seriously -- check Sylvia Weinstock out here.) The chefs were told to make wedding cakes. They had one and a half hours, and basic cakes were already prepared, so it was their job to create shapes, layers, towers, fillings, icings, fondant, decorations and flavors.
Wedding cakes are a specialized form, and some of the contestants had no idea how to go about making one. Seth refused to undertake the project, creating a small, pretty concoction he characterized as an engagement cake. Malika simply couldn't put her cake together; her buttercream was too soft. She placed the top layer off-center and created havoc trying to take it off; the whole thing began falling apart as the judges approached. Anyone who's ever struggled at home with unevenly cut layers and melting buttercream had to sympathize. Though Malika ended up with Seth and Eric in the bottom three, the judges said they liked her flavors: She'd made a coconut custard filling infused with cardamom. "It's not death," Weinstock commented as Malika tried to hold back tears. "It's only a cake."
The winner was Erika's mocha explosion. She was joined in the top tier by Morgan and Heather H, whose beautiful creation featured pale, delicate dogwood flowers.
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Lubbock County sheriff's Lt. Bryan Taylor says the bodies of a man and woman were found Sunday morning at a Lubbock home. The body of a second man believed to be the shooter was found at another residence. Taylor says his death likely is the result of suicide.
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Stemming from a three-part series originally shown on Canadian television in 2004, this documentary, directed by Michael Taylor, travels four continents and encounters a wide assortment of "real people" — ranging from scientists and professors to farmers and fishermen to architects and youth activists — whose everyday lives are increasingly influenced by the effects of global warming. There certainly isn't a skeptic in the lot.
Without undermining the urgency of the situation, the film radiates optimism that the human race can seriously explore its role in keeping Earth a habitable planet, and has already begun to do so.
As long as the political leaders who hold the power to implement a larger plan of action remain in "climate denial" (in the words of Stephen Schneider, a biologist from Stanford University), "The Great Warming," along with "An Inconvenient Truth," the other widely released documentary to address climate change this year, should be required viewing by all. Future generations' lives, and maybe even ours, depend on it.
Opens today in Manhattan.
And the fact that the film is being distributed exclusively by Regal Cinemas -- which is owned by a conservative Denver billionaire -- is encouraging evidence that the vital issue is no longer the exclusive domain of the Democratic left in this country.
Unlike Gore's film, this one does not start out with a lengthy attempt to persuade us that global warming is real: It essentially tells us that the emergency is universally accepted by scientists and anyone who doubts it has to be some kind of idiot.
After that, it jumps around the planet showing the catastrophic effects of trapped greenhouse gases: melting ice caps, rising seas, extreme weather, drought, famine, insect plagues, pandemics of new infectious diseases and all the rest. In the process, it manages to point out some elements to the equation that were not in the Gore film, such as the acceleration the process is likely to undergo in the next decade as the economic boom in Asia puts spewing cars in the hands of millions more of Chinese and East Indians.
The film is at its best, however, in its second half when it speculates how the coming climate change is going to put its brand on the first generation of the new millennium, and demonstrates how so many young and old people already are answering the call to arms.
We meet all sorts of innovative people addressing the challenge in myriad creative ways, including a family that has developed plans for huge "synthetic" trees that literally will suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. (Some 200,000 of them placed around the world could cure the problem)
The movie makes a big point of showing us how the Evangelical Christian movement is leaping on the global-warming bandwagon with the concept of "Creation Care," and predicts the Republican Party won't be able to duck the matter much longer.
A pared-down, American-skewed version of a 3-part Canadian TV series from 2003, docu is backed by a coalition of religious, scientific and environmental groups. The Rev. Richard Cizik, head of the influential National Assn. of Evangelicals, significantly states that since most of his denomination's 30 million members are registered Republicans, the party had better respond to their environmental concerns.
Docu, narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, roams all over the world to examine the impact of global warming. Unlike Gore's imagery, culled from various archives over the years, the filmmakers here rely almost exclusively on footage they shoot themselves. In the hands of lenser Michael Ellis, this strategy leads to lovely shots of, say, a Peruvian coastal village, but fails to bring home pic's dramatic points.
Where "Truth" juxtaposed shots of rapidly shrinking glaciers, "Great" shows Noravut elders against a shimmering Arctic seascape conversing about how their world has changed. The viewer, however, is not afforded a vision of what it looked like before. Footage taken in the Louisiana bayous before Katrina traces the erosion of natural barriers, but the destruction wrought by the hurricane is visualized via Tarot cards.
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Narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, it begins with a thumbnail picture of the factors that allowed mankind's race to flourish and spread to every corner of the planet, irrevocably altering — first incrementally, then more rapidly — the very face of the Earth.
Various experts estimate that the tipping point came at the end of the 19th century, when the balance of atmospheric carbon, which keeps heat in, began to increase and raise the Earth's temperature — the notorious greenhouse effect. The level of the oceans has begun to rise, polar ice caps have started melting and extreme weather conditions are increasingly prevalent from Peru to Palm Springs.
The film relies heavily on talking heads and goofy graphics, and the voice-over narration leans towards strained metaphors: The segment on climactic changes that could imperil the world's food supply includes groaners like Reeves' solemn assertion that "uncertainty is on the menu" and Morissette's allusion to Louisiana's "rich cultural gumbo."
But there's hard science under the cliches, and the filmmakers try to look beyond obvious manifestations of trouble — searing droughts, record-breaking tornadoes and hurricanes, soil erosion, flooding of low-lying cities and rural communities — to the more subtle but no less devastating consequences of even small changes in global temperature. They also acknowledge the difficulty of trying to persuade developing nations that they should bypass the energy-squandering luxuries Europe and the United States enjoy or forcing Americans to address their unquestioned reliance on nonrenewable and environmentally unsound fossil fuels without suggesting that just because it's hard doesn't mean there's no point trying.
If the film's most controversial assertion is that evangelical Christians, whose apocalyptic faith traditionally discouraged planning for the long-term future and whose conservative politics placed them at loggerheads with left-leaning "tree huggers," may play a significant role in the future of the environmental movement, its most useful point is that not only must something be done, but that there are things that can be done.
An impressive parade of scientists, meteorologists and grassroots activists assert that humanity is capable of adapting to a changing climate, building sustainable communities without sacrificing modern-day comforts and even reversing some of the damage already done.
"The Great Warming's" scope is breathtaking and more than a little daunting, especially because its solutions are rarely as compelling as its problems. One scientist describes his vision of skyscraper- high collectors that could remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the filmmakers obligingly fill a vast field with digital prototypes. But there's no talk of how to muster the political and economic capital necessary to realize such an enormous undertaking. The film's awestruck tone recalls 1950s visions of a future filled with floating cars and robot kitchens, as if the best way to combat atmospheric pollution were with pie in the sky.
That's where the evangelicals come in. With due respect to narrators Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, the real star of "The Great Warming" is the Rev. Richard Cizik of the National Assn. of Evangelicals. Cizik introduces the notion of "creation care," a biblical brand of eco-activism, saying, "To harm this world by environmental degradation is an offense against God." Although he acknowledges that evangelicals tend to vote Republican en bloc, Cizik explicitly criticizes the Bush administration for its inaction and holds out the tantalizing prospect that 30 million American evangelicals could turn the Republican Party into a powerful force for change. It won't be easy. After Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth, the author of "Serve God, Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action," makes his case to a group of Christian teens, one asks, "Don't the tree-huggers put nature above God?"
From a rain forest on Vancouver Island to the city of Piura, which lies on a costal desert in Peru, the filmmakers examine today's evidence of what is literally a sea change in our earth's climate. The narrative lingers on the sometimes painful but always evocative recollections by ordinary people of their experience of climate change and then, with a quick nod to the science and theory behind those changes, the moviegoer finds him or herself on the streets of Beijing or watching a solar powered wide screen TV inside the yurt of a Mongolian family.
This movie is filled with the kind of imagery and attention to details of the daily lives of people no different from you or me that empowers the film with its National Geographic richness and texture. You will want to take your children as well; they'll love the attention paid to a young generation of environmental caretakers from around the world.
We highly recommend seeing The Great Warming if you're a tree hugger or not, republican or democrat, industrialist, businessperson, homemaker, farmer or student, it will leave you entertained and with an understanding of the environment and the processes, which control it. Most importantly, you will come away with a sense that it is still not too late to avert The Great Warming.
"The scriptural teaching gives us direction to be responsible for God's world," said the Rev. Paul De Vries, president of the New York Divinity School, who joined other evangelical leaders on a conference call with reporters on Oct. 19. "He made it good, and whatever we've done with it to mess it up, we ought to be trying to clean up and protect."
De Vries joined leaders such as evangelical author Tony Campolo and the Rev. Gerald Durley, an Atlanta civil rights leader, in drawing attention to "The Great Warming," a documentary which opened in Charlotte on Friday.
The leaders issued a "Call to Action" statement and endorsed an initiative that includes ads on Christian radio stations and in religious newsletters. The statement reads: "The world's scientists are in agreement: Climate change is real, and we are largely responsible. America's religious institutions, corporations, environmental and opinion leaders have reached a consensus that we must recognize our moral responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth today, and for all future generations."
Other religious signatories on the statement include the Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners/Call to Renewal, Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and Sayyid Syeed of the Islamic Society of North America.
The Canadian documentary is narrated by singer Alanis Morissette and actor Keanu Reeves. It is showing at Regal Stonecrest at Piper Glen, 7824 Rea Road; 704-540-7558.
"The Great Warming" also is being screened at churches across America and has been endorsed by the National Council of Churches, Evangelical Environmental Network and the Coalition on Environment and Jewish Life.
The Great Warming
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DIRECTOR: Michael Taylor
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Theater giant Regal Cinemas is releasing the film in its top 50 markets this weekend, making the launch three times larger than for any other film of its kind, and highlighting the growing currency of the climate change issues in the mainstream.
Featuring elements of a 2005 PBS special Global Warming: the Signs and the Science, The Great Warming talks to key researchers and reports on social justice and day-to-day impacts as well as emission statistics. It's also populated with everyday people from the U.S. and the planet who are feeling the brunt of global warming, and/or finding innovative ways to tackle it.
"In the course of making this film, we were determined not to lose sight of our most important advocate, the person on the street," said producer Karen Coshof. "We wanted to make this issue resonate in every household, everywhere. To engage not only the intellect, but most importantly the emotion and will of every person so that they feel empowered to act."
The Great Warming has already attracted an unprecedented coalition of leaders in science, religion, business, environmental activism, and education. "These 'reds, blues and greens' are bridging historic gaps to support the message of this film," said Coshof. "The biggest reason they give is a belief in our individual and collective moral responsibility to reverse the growing threats to the environment, and to our health and quality of life."
Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was featured in the film. He said his newfound passion for "creation care" comes straight from God -- a conversion of sorts to the environmental cause. Now he tells other believers that if they are to be obedient to the Scriptures, there is no time to lose.
"Climate change is real and human induced, No. 1," he said. "No. 2, it calls for action soon. We're saying action based upon a biblical view of the world, God's world. And to destroy, if you will, to deplete our resources, to harm this world by environmental degradation, is an offence against God."
The movie stresses that point. It was produced in Canada and initially released in 2004 as a three-part series on Discovery Canada. Narrated by musician Alanis Morissette and actor Keanu Reeves, it begins by presenting the science behind climate change. In general, scientists estimate the atmosphere has about 30 percent more carbon dioxide now than in the 1800s. That's bad because increased carbon dioxide levels can change weather patterns, sometimes slowly, but always with consequences.
For instance, the increase in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide has caused average global temperatures to rise one degree in the past 100 years. Scientists predict temperatures to rise 2.5 to 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 100 years. And even though the change seems inconsequential, the slightest variation in temperature can cause a rise in ocean levels, flooding, drought and extreme cold or heat.
The primary cause of the increased levels of carbon dioxide, according to most scientists, is the burning of fossil fuels -- coal, oil and natural gas. When consumers burn those fuels for heat, transportation and electricity, they add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, which increases the warming capability of the natural greenhouse effect.
"We have a flow of carbon from the atmosphere through the living system and back to the atmosphere," Mike Apps, the senior scientist at Natural Resources Canada, said in the movie. "Where is this extra carbon coming from? It's not because the plants are breathing out more carbon. We're burning fossil fuel, and when we burn fossil fuel, we release carbon dioxide into the cycle."
Historically, evangelicals haven't cared much for talk about climate change. Cizik said that's because "environmentalism has a sort of a 'left wing tilt.'" Plus, many pastors have never preached about caring for creation. Once congregants begin hearing sermons about the environment, he said, they'll realize it's an important issue.
The response will become significant when evangelicals change not only their lifestyles but their votes. Evangelicals comprise between 40 percent and 50 percent of the Republican base. Cizik said he believes if the largest group in the Republican coalition would demand its leaders work on climate change, clean air and pure water, then GOP leaders would listen.
Up till now, however, evangelical constituents have hung back, and Cizik has written about his ideas as to why.
"… The disconnect between the recognition that there is an obvious problem and the willingness to adopt an obvious solution is explainable only by the fact that there are vested interests, political interests, who lobby against environmental action," Cizik said. "Second, there is an ideological predisposition against regulation. And third, [it's] simple inertia. But the first cannot be dismissed, and there are oil and gas vested interests who have a reason not to want to take action on climate change."
The movie, though, does provide an inlet for evangelicals to act on the issue within their own tradition -- and that's what has attracted churches nationwide. According to Cizik, evangelicals need to sense they can speak to the issue with their own voice. Once they focus on that, they will conclude that environmentalism is "not a bad word."
So far, that focus on letting evangelicals interpret the facts on their own has endeared the movie to Christian leaders. In an interview on Vermont Public Radio, producer Karen Coshof said she wanted The Great Warming to focus on solutions to the problem, not "just beat people over the head with a negative message." And one of her key messages involves the spiritual and moral sides of environmental concern.
Gerald Durley, the pastor at Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, became aware of that moral duty when he saw a screening of the movie last May. A pastor deeply devoted to civil- and human-rights issues, he said he was "shocked" to learn about the "self-serving demands that lead to massive fossil-fuel burning" and the lack of aggressive exploration for renewable energy sources.
In a letter about the movie, he wrote that since the faith community prides itself on being in the "prevention and healing business," environmental concerns must become integrated into its daily life and standard messages.
"These essential messages must be mandatory teachings throughout all faith traditions if we are to survive," he said.To that end, he has led his church in replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent ones, and he encourages church members to adjust thermostats to save energy. For him, it's all about simple solutions to effect a big change."All great movements are grassroots initiatives," he said. "I believe that's what happened during the civil-rights movement, and I believe that's what's going to happen now with the overall environmental movement."
But there are important differences between the films, differences that may allow ''The Great Warming'' to speak to mainstream American conservatives—and in particular evangelical Christians—in a way that ''An Inconvenient Truth'' never could. For one, there is no Al Gore figure in ''The Great Warming.'' Instead, fishermen, farmers, and ordinary residents of weather-vulnerable places on four continents describe their personal suffering as a result of global warming. For another, the film turns not to politicians or scientists, but to Christian ministers to do its preaching.
The basic sermon is delivered by the likes of the Reverend Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs at the National Association of Evangelicals, whose affiliated churches have 30 million members. ''To harm this world by environmental degradation,'' Cizik warns, ''is an offense against God.''
This casting of evangelicals in a leading role was no accident, says Karen Coshof, producer of the film. Her husband, director Michael Taylor, saw emerging environmental concerns among US evangelicals in the early days of work on ''The Great Warming'' and decided to seek them out because, the couple felt, ''this is the one element in American politics that could produce a sea change.''
The changes seems to have begun. ''The Great Warming'' is just the latest in a stream of recent calls to action against climate change that are either addressed to evangelicals or authored by them.
Since last spring, for example, more than 100 evangelical leaders have signed on to the Evangelical Climate Initiative. ''For most of us, until recently this has not been treated as a pressing issue or major priority,'' the document acknowledges. ''But now we have seen and heard enough.'' The initiative calls for reducing use of fossil fuels through committed, individual action and through urgent steps by the federal government—something that usually is viewed with distaste on the religious right.
Surprisingly, environmental appeals to evangelicals are also coming from prominent scientists, who are reaching out to those on the other side of the great divide over how the world was created. ''The Creation,'' a new book by eminent Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, is an open letter to a fictive Southern Baptist minister in which the outspoken exponent of Darwinian theory appeals for an evangelical-secular alliance against climate change. ''God's Universe,'' a new volume by Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich, argues that faith and science can coexist even in considerations of the nature of life.
Differences over such hot-button subjects as the literal truth of the Bible, the validity of the theory of evolution, and the existence of God remain bitter. But a growing chorus of voices on both sides is arguing for saving the planet first, and worrying about other issues later.
''Dear Pastor,'' Wilson writes in ''The Creation,'' ''You have the power to help solve a great problem about which I care deeply....I suggest that we set aside our differences in order to save the Creation.''
''I'm trying to do something radical, to come out of the tight circle of academic scientists to offer a hand of friendship to religious leaders, and to ask for help,'' Wilson said in a recent interview. ''I knew it was something few scientists could do comfortably.''
Wilson, a founder of global efforts to preserve biodiversity and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for books on human nature and on ants, has long been an outspoken secularist. Indeed, as some of his critics note, Wilson's unwavering conviction that life evolved through random mutations, unguided by a higher intelligence, helped create the extreme distrust of science among evangelicals that he is now trying to bridge.
Karl Giberson, a physics professor at Eastern Nazarene College, a Christian school in Quincy, says that Wilson's writings on religion and the origins of life have made him ''a well-defined enemy of the faith'' whose invitation to evangelicals to make common cause is comparable ''to Al Qaeda opening a doughnut shop and inviting George Bush.''
Yet Wilson has an advantage most of his colleagues in academia lack: He was raised a Southern Baptist in Alabama and retains a fluency in the folkways of evangelical Christianity.
Among conservative evangelicals, scientists like Wilson are commonly known as ''enviros,'' a derisive term associated with Big Government, atheism, population planning, and Democrats.
But Wilson, says Richard Cizik, has the capacity to break out of that stereotyping because ''he brings a spirit of humanity that is appealing...and he comes from the right place too.''
Cizik calls Wilson's effort ''a sincere outreach to us. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can ultimately change America's tepid response to environmental warming.'' That is possible because of the important place evangelicals occupy in the Republican Party's political base, he says.
Wilson's appeal has been warmly welcomed by some leading evangelicals. But they also stress that support for environmental stewardship has been growing rapidly in a faith community where it was almost anathema a few years ago. And as Cizik and ''Warming'' director Taylor both noted, evangelicals are increasingly embracing environmental preservation for their own religious reasons.
Paul Gorman, executive director of the Amherst-based National Religious Partnership for the Environment, says he believed even when the partnership began in 1993, with just a handful of evangelicals, ''that the evangelical community would come more fully into the environmentalist perspective—what they would call 'creation care'—when they had the opportunity from within their own distinctive teachings, traditions, and cultures to consider 'What does this mean to us? What does our Scripture tell us?'
''It is their own testimony, their own prayer and fresh understanding of Scripture,'' Gorman said, that is producing the current surge in evangelical interest in climate change.
Evangelical environmentalists cite numerous passages of the Old and New Testaments in support of their position. One favorite is Genesis 2:15, which says God put man in the Garden of Eden ''to dress it and to keep it.'' Another is Revelation 11:18, in which the heavenly elders call on God ''to destroy those who destroy the earth.''
Evangelical youth leaders and Christian college students are currently preparing a forceful declaration of their own, calling for legislation to curb global warming, urging evangelical leaders who have not embraced the cause to do so, and cautioning politicians that ''we are the voices of tomorrow's evangelical voters.'' For them, the inspiration for making creation care a top priority arises directly from the teachings of Jesus about human relations.
''This is a moral crisis,'' the draft declaration states. ''If we don't alter our actions, global warming is likely to kill millions of people....The most severely impacted will be the poor, and Jesus said that what we do to 'the least of these' we do to him.''
The declaration has not yet been made public. An activist who provided a copy of the document to the Globe said it will be released when it has 1,000 signatories. Currently, the activist said, there are more than 600.
Of course, not all evangelicals are signing on to the environmental movement. The possibility of evangelist-environmentalist collaboration—and of a split in the evangelical movement over environmental issues—was explored in a recent PBS documentary, ''Is God Green?,'' produced by Bill Moyers. The program highlighted growing tensions between evangelicals who have become environmental activists and those who still are solid supporters of the Bush administration's industry-friendly policies.
Yet some vocal evangelical skeptics of climate change have recently changed their tune. Pat Robertson, one of the best-known and most-caricatured preachers on the religious right, was a critic of assertions that a major climate change was underway. Then, in August, he declared that the blistering national heat wave was ''making a convert out of me. It is getting hotter, and the ice caps are melting...we really need to address the burning of fossil fuels.''
An important, if not obvious, commonality between Wilson and the evangelicals may be the deeply personal passion for the cause that the biologist shares with those who have been reborn in Christ.
This spirit permeates the pages of ''Serve God, Save the Planet,'' a Christian call to action by evangelist J. Matthew Sleeth, who was chief of a hospital emergency room on the Maine coast until he decided to work full time to win converts to the environmentalist cause.
Sleeth was an environmentalist before he was an evangelical, he says, and when he accepted Christ as his savior five years ago he assessed his environmentalism along with every other aspect of his previous life. He decided his recycling, carpooling, and energy-saving efforts fell far short of what God required.
''When I read the Bible, what I see is Christ saying: 'Love one another as I love you.' That supersedes everything else,'' he said. ''That has to extend to how am I treating the neighbor I have never met.''
Sleeth quit practicing medicine for money, wrote his book as a how-to guide for Christians who want to live more lightly on the earth, and became a traveling lecturer for the Christian environmental movement. He sold his house, gave away most of his possessions, and moved to Kentucky to save money.
The attempt to create an evangelical-environmentalist alliance ''is bringing together people from very, very different backgrounds who have a common need,'' Sleeth said. Now ''we have to make a plan to be just human beings, to serve God, to take care of the future. It's not going to happen by accident.''
"Global warming affects everyone regardless of religion, political affiliation or income level" said Carl Pope, Executive Director of Sierra Club. "Heightened concern about global warming's impact on the poor has united groups with concerns about poverty and justice, like the Sierra Club and leading religious institutions."
The Great Warming Call to Action statement -- signed by high-profile religious leaders from across the faith and ideological spectrum, key policy-makers, celebrities, environmental groups, and many of the most respected scientists in the world -- calls on our country to take immediate action to address climate change.
As part of this alliance, the Sierra Club has joined with faith groups like Christian Coalition and the Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism in seeking to engage a wide array of people, including those who are not yet global warming believers, around simple solutions that can help reduce the threat of global warming. The coalition is urging all Americans, especially those who are skeptical about climate change, to see the movie. In major cities across the country, practical efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are also being undertaken; letting decision makers at all levels know that global warming is an urgent priority.
"The Great Warming provides an excellent opportunity for dialogue and action about global warming," said Lyndsay Moseley, Associate Washington Representative for Faith Partnerships at the Sierra Club. "Our goal is to help people care for one another and future generations by being part of the solution to global warming, not the problem."
Members of the movement are hoping that The Great Warming will play a major role in converting climate skeptics, just as Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth helped open eyes with its charts and predictions. Reflecting the emerging voice of the evangelical community, The Great Warming reveals how climate change is affecting the lives of people everywhere. While the film presents a moving picture of a world changed by global warming, it also makes a business case for taking action. With hard-hitting comments from scientists, religious leaders, and public-opinion leaders the film taps into the growing public interest and the growing concern within the faith community.
The Great Warming will launch in Regal Cinemas across the U.S. November 3rd.
Yesterday, two dozen prominent evangelicals issued a joint appeal for President Bush to take the lead in sending a multinational, U.N.-backed peacekeeping force into the Darfur region of Sudan. They included not just liberal religious leaders but also several notable conservatives, including the Rev. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
Today, another broad coalition of evangelical leaders will begin airing advertisements on Christian radio stations calling for action to address climate change. Among them is the new president of the Christian Coalition, who has said he plans to "rebuild and rebrand" the conservative lobbying group.
These initiatives do not sit well with some grass-roots religious conservatives, who prefer to keep the focus on a tighter range of issues, principally opposition to abortion and same-sex unions.
"This new vision, taking on these liberal issues, was the straw that broke the camel's back for us," said John W. Giles, president of Christian Action Alabama, which was the Alabama branch of the Christian Coalition before it broke away from the national organization last month.
"When we heard the new president talking about his opposition to the death penalty and support for raising the minimum wage, we decided it was time to say, 'Hi-ho, Silver!' " Giles said.
The Christian Coalition's new president, the Rev. Joel C. Hunter, pastor of a megachurch in Longwood, Fla., declined to be interviewed. The chairwoman, Roberta Combs, said the board of directors has not taken a position on global warming, the death penalty or the minimum wage.
Although Hunter was listed on the Darfur appeal and the global-warming initiative as the Christian Coalition's president, he "is doing that sort of as an individual," Combs said. "These are his personal feelings." She added that the board plans to survey supporters before taking new stands.
"We will never leave our core issues, never," Combs said. "But as more people get involved and as younger people get involved, there are other issues that come to the forefront, and we will be open-minded to take a look at them."
Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., pastor of Hope Christian Church, a 3,000-member congregation in Lanham, was among the signers of the Darfur appeal. He said he knows that some evangelicals are concerned that their clout will diminish if they take on too many issues. But, like Combs, he pointed to the need to address subjects that matter to young Christians.
"I think you could call this a PR problem, because young people who are very involved in their churches understand the passion for these two issues," he said, referring to abortion and same-sex marriage, "but in the culture at large we can come across as wild-eyed bigots to some because we have only emphasized these things."
Broadening the agenda, "not to 99 things but to five or six core things," such as fighting poverty and providing aid to Africa, "helps improve our image and more accurately reflects the full panoply of our beliefs," Jackson said. "It's hard to say that those two things -- abortion and gay marriage -- are the only things God had in mind in the Bible."
To some evangelicals, however, the new issues are less clear than the old ones, which have led evangelicals to vote overwhelmingly Republican in recent elections.
"I definitely don't like the widening of the agenda, because it muddies the water," said the Rev. Michael Haseltine, pastor of the 2,000-member Maranatha Assembly of God Church in Forest Lake, Minn.
"Be good stewards of the environment? Sure, but how? These tree-huggers and anti-hunters think it's terrible to kill animals. Oppose poverty? Sure, but what's the best way to do it? We can't solve everybody's problems for them," he said. "Family and life issues -- abortion, sexuality -- they're much more clear from the biblical standpoint."
The global-warming radio ads are tied to a documentary film, "The Great Warming," that has been shown in hundreds of churches. "Environmental degradation is an offense against God," the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, says in the film.
Cizik has come under fire for his stand from some conservatives, including James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, who contend that it is uncertain whether global warming is a man-made phenomenon and what to do about it. But the Rev. Pat Robertson, who a year ago criticized the NAE for teaming up with "far-left environmentalists," has changed his mind. "It is getting hotter, and the ice caps are melting, and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air," he said in August.
The Darfur appeal was backed by full-page ads in yesterday's Washington Post and other newspapers, paid for by $575,000 in donations from two individuals who wish to remain anonymous, according to Jack Pannell, spokesman for the liberal evangelical magazine Sojourners. "Without you, Mr. President, Darfur does not have a prayer," said the ads, addressing Bush.
"This is an important day. You see evangelical leaders from across the political spectrum coming together to speak as one voice," Jim Wallis, Sojourners' editor, told reporters.
Conservative signers of the appeal made it clear that they did not intend it to be critical of the White House's efforts to end the crisis. "The president really has been doing more than anybody else, but the president cannot do it alone, and America cannot do it alone," said Land, who heads the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
"My total perspective on environmental issues and life in general was drastically altered," says the pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church. "This went beyond any political, racial, or gender issues - it is a moral crisis."
Dr. Durley has since shown the documentary on global warming to his congregation and invited ministers, rabbis, and imams to see it. He has gone on radio to discuss the crisis and is promoting sermons on the subject. A discussion he held with Atlanta children has been edited into the latest version of the film.
"The Great Warming" - a documentary made in Canada and narrated by actor Keanu Reeves and singer Alanis Morissette - tells the same disturbing story as Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." But it has become a strategic vehicle for reaching out particularly to Evangelicals, many of whom were unlikely to rush to see the Gore production. Some hope it spurs a tipping point in the attitudes of grass-roots Christians.
Many conservative Christians have held a negative view of environmentalism, some even calling activists "pantheistic tree-huggers." Along with the Bush administration, they have insisted that the scientific evidence isn't yet in.
The dramatic film travels the globe from China to Peru, Bangladesh to southern California, depicting the impact of climate change on human lives and detailing the scientific evidence. It also presents the voice of a new Evangelical leadership "converted" to the movement, in language the faithful can appreciate.
Richard Cizik, Washington spokesman of the National Association of Evangelicals, urges action based on the biblical demand for "creation care." Rev. Cizik had his own change of heart after listening to an Evangelical scientist from Oxford University lay out the scientific consensus.
The movie has been previewed in more than 220 churches in recent weeks, and last Friday opened in Regal Cinema theaters in 34 cities. Ads are being run on Christian radio and in church bulletins, and Evangelical leaders have provided the film's website with Bible study and discussion guides.
"We pray everyone will see 'The Great Warming,' " says the Rev. Paul de Vries, president of New York Divinity School, who prepared the materials. "Science has given us an extraordinary wake-up call, but scriptural teaching gives us direction to be responsible for God's world."
Another website was created in early October to enable those who have seen the film to question political candidates running for Congress about where they stand on the issue (www.questionsforcandidates.org).
The film has support from a broad range of groups, including the National Council of Churches (NCC) and Jewish organizations, which have their own global warming initiatives. The NCC, for example, recently released a report on how member churches can reduce carbon emissions and overall utility expenses. The American Jewish Committee provides cash incentives to its employees to purchase fuel- efficient vehicles.
A "Call to Action" statement on the film's website has gathered dozens of signatories from a broad range of faith leaders, environmental groups, scientists, policymakers, and celebrities.
But converting and galvanizing Evangelicals is a major goal. "Too often Evangelicals have focused on just one or two issues," says Dr. de Vries.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, a Florida pastor who is the new president of the Christian Coalition, agrees. Speaking just for himself on a recent "Call to Action" teleconference, he said, "I'm part of the religious right, and am one of those leaders who wants to expand the agenda." After viewing the film, his 12,000-member congregation formed a team to consider how to become more ecologically responsible.
The shift within Evangelicalism gained some momentum earlier this year when 86 Evangelical leaders issued a statement on global warming, saying climate change was not in doubt and human action was required. They were immediately criticized by other Evangelicals, however, and still are. Yet they can point to growing support.
"In a survey earlier this year, 66 percent of Evangelical people favored environmental legislation to address global warming, even if it cost as much as $15 per month per person," De Vries says.
Younger Evangelicals, in particular, are getting on the bandwagon, working on a draft statement of their own.
Some Evangelicals recognize the problem as a moral issue but still see it primarily as one of individuals taking action. Others insist it's long past time to call for policy changes.
"It's not just individuals turning off the lights, but whether industries continue to pump pollution into the atmosphere," says Tony Campolo, cofounder of a nonpartisan group, Red Letter Christians. "Unless government starts controlling industry better than it has, we are not going to have a solution to this problem."
With global warming affecting poor countries more than the developed world, Dr. Campolo says, there is a biblical imperative for a wealthy America, responsible for at least 25 percent of global carbon emissions, to act.
Such Evangelical leaders remain under fire from colleagues, but they are counting on the film to change minds, starting with pastors.
"Spiritual leaders are waking up to this broader responsibility, and congregations really respect what their local pastor says," Dr. Hunter adds. "Just as all politics is local, all spiritual growth is local. As more pastors are aware of this challenge, it will gain traction - and quickly, I think."
Durley is equally optimistic about the black church community. "There has been a raising of the veil of ignorance around this issue. As we talk to people throughout the South, they ask, 'How can we get mobilized?' "


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Petitioner was denied admission to the state supported University of Texas Law School, solely because he is a Negro and state law forbids the admission of Negroes to that Law School. He was offered, but he refused, enrollment in a separate law school newly established by the State for Negroes. The University of Texas Law School has 16 full-time and three part-time professors, 850 students, a library of 65,000 volumes, a law review, moot court facilities, scholarship funds, an Order of the Coif affiliation, many distinguished alumni, and much tradition and prestige. The separate law school for Negroes has five full-time professors, 23 students, a library of 16,500 volumes, a practice court, a legal aid association, and one alumnus admitted to the Texas Bar, but it excludes from its student body members of racial groups which number 85% of the population of the State and which include most of the lawyers, witnesses, jurors, judges, and other officials with whom petitioner would deal as a member of the Texas Bar.
Held: The legal education offered petitioner is not substantially equal to that which he would receive if admitted to the University of Texas Law School, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that he be admitted to the University of Texas Law School. Pp. 631-636.
A Texas trial court found that a newly established state law school for Negroes offered petitioner "privileges, advantages, and opportunities for the study of law substantially equivalent to those offered by the State to white students at the University of Texas," and denied mandamus to compel his admission to the University of Texas Law School. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed. 210 S.W.2d 442. The Texas Supreme Court denied writ of error. This Court granted certiorari. 338 U.S. 865. Reversed, p. 636. [p631]


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Mariners' Jack Wilson takes steps to remain healthy
Mariners's Jack Wilson knows full well he is subject to criticism for being injury-prone, but he's ready to change.
Seattle Times staff reporter
PEORIA, Ariz. — Oft-injured shortstop Jack Wilson knows all about the betting pools as to when he'll go down again.
He's fully aware his inability to stay on the field longer than a few weeks at a time since joining the Mariners midway through 2009 has become a running joke among fans. That even his own team now says it's taking steps to cover itself just in case Wilson is back on the disabled list before the season is even a month old.
Some players would be muttering angrily at the thought of their very ability to earn a living being made into such a spectacle. But Wilson says he not only understands all the comments and jokes, he actually finds them quite funny because of their accuracy
"I mean, they're 100 percent right," said Wilson, who appeared in a career-low 61 games last season because of a strained hamstring and broken hand. "The fact is, I have been hurt all the time. If I were them, I'd be wondering the same thing."
But Wilson's health isn't exactly a laughing matter, especially to him after a season in which many were questioning whether he wanted to stay in baseball. So he's done something radical about it.
Wilson couldn't do anything about the hand fracture, but figured the easiest way to stay on the field was to take the load off of aching hamstrings that have plagued him the past two years. Not just the usual spring cliché weight loss, where players report to spring training 5 or 10 pounds lighter, but a serious attempt at reconfiguring his body.
"It's just something I came up with on my own," he said. "I figured out that my hamstrings weren't handling me at the size that I was. So, I decided that if I got smaller and made my legs stronger, it might change some things."
Wilson embarked on a lower carbohydrate eating plan, involving healthier foods, while also cutting out all sodas in favor of water.
And perhaps most important, he stopped trying to bolster his upper body through workouts and instead pounded leg weights with a personal trainer like never before.
The result was that Wilson reported to camp weighing 177 pounds, down from the usual 195 to 200 pounds on a frame that wasn't all that huge to begin with. It's the most svelte he's been in a decade and Wilson hopes it keeps him injury-free, gets him to balls quicker and restores his reputation as one of the game's premier defenders.
And that latter part is important because Wilson, 33, entering the final season of a two-year, $10 million contract, says he wants to play another three to five years.
"I feel like I'm a better fielder now than I was five years ago," Wilson said. "Just with the things you pick up through experience and some of the pointers that the coaches give you over time. And now, with my body the way it is, I'm expecting that this will be my biggest year ever. Just because, now, I think I've finally found a way to be healthy again and I intend to stay that way."
Wilson's comments came a day after manager Eric Wedge said Brendan Ryan will be worked out at shortstop this spring just to give the team options in case Wilson goes down again. It's possible the Mariners might also trade Wilson to a contender in July if he does stay healthy, meaning Ryan, who played shortstop in St. Louis, would have to be ready to take over at that position full-time.
"Jack's had some issues staying healthy," Wedge said. "He's got to show us we can count on him physically. And Jack might even take some reps at second base."
Wilson greeted the comments just as he does the over-under jokes by fans about how many weeks he'll make it through this season without a DL trip.
"How can I possibly argue with that?" Wilson asked. "Look, I know it's true. I haven't been able to stay on the field. It's been a problem for the team. I know that it's been a problem and I've taken steps to fix it. Believe me, I don't want to keep going like this, either. But I can't blame them for being worried."
At least one thing looked different about Wilson on Monday and it had little to do with him taking turns at second base during a double-play drill, practicing flips to Ryan at shortstop. It came during live batting practice when Wilson, who has hit just one home run since his July 2009 arrival in Seattle, drove a Garrett Olson pitch well beyond the left-field wall, drawing howls of amusement from stunned teammates.
"It's funny," Wilson said afterward. "But one of the things with being this light is that everything seems quicker. I can move quicker to get after balls and my bat feels quicker, too."
Some folks figured Wilson might be ready to put his bat away for good last season when he mused openly about whether his body could continue to handle the rigors of major-league baseball.
"It wasn't smart to say it, but there are a lot of things that are said in frustration that mean absolutely nothing," Wilson said.
He added that his comments were not about him wanting to retire. Just questioning how much longer he could keep preparing himself each winter, only to be disappointed by yet another injury once the season starts.
"It has nothing to do with retirement," he said. "It means, if you do all this work, like I have now, and something happens, you've got to start wondering — how long am I going to spend 2 ½ months busting my butt in the offseason, coming out here and feeling great and then having this happen again."
Wilson rarely had such injury problems until very late in his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. So he has never felt the need to do the heavy-duty conditioning he gave his legs this past winter.
It's not exactly the kind of thing a guy puts himself through if he's planning to hang them up at season's end.
"That's not me," he said. "That's not the type of player I am. I love this game. I want to keep playing it. And I want people to see that."
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KAZ JAMES : Kids
With high profile support from the likes of Pete Tong and Fatboy Slim (who, incidentally, share the same management), the DJ's career is reaching fever pitch. He's recently been invited to perform at the Pacha Opening Party later this month and will join with Pete Tong for the Pure Pacha All Gone Pete Tong 2012 event.
The 'Kids' clip premiered a couple of weeks back and sees some youngsters venturing into a spooky wooded area; the ground carpeted by drying autumnal leaves. But what they find deep within the woods causes them to scamper - and fast - back to the grassy area they congregated in as the clip began. But will they ever be the same? You'll have to watch and see...
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