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Russell Brand: Scandalous (UK - DVD R2)
Our Marcus reviews the scandalous new Russell Brand tour on DVD...
After the fallout from the media storm that came from the message left on Andrew Sachs' answer phone by Jonathan Ross and Ol' Russ, the stand up comedian is back with his new tour Scandalous, and here on DVD (just in time for Christmas) we get to see the return of Russell Brand. Will he do the usual celebrity manoeuvre and avoid talking about all the events that had the British news up in arms over his actions? Will he hell!
Swaggering confidently onto the O2 stage to AC/DC's 'Back in Black' after a montage of images from the news reports of October 2008, Brand shows immediately that he hasn't had the wind knocked out of him after the uproar. He's as open and friendly as ever, mingling with the crowd while a bra is thrown at him and a girl flashes her boobs to him. This is his audience and all sixteen thousand of them are here to worship at the altar of Ol' Russ (okay, maybe not all of them, some were probably there to see what he had to say for himself).
I actually went to the opening night of this tour within the slightly more humble walls of the Reading Hexagon, but re-visiting the stand up on a scale so much bigger it has to be said that Russell Brand's stand up act is one that works no matter what size crowd he's catering for. His immediate acknowledgement of the Sachs affair gives the crowd exactly that they wanted straight away and his ability to put us all in his shoes for the stories shows a naturally brilliant comedian at work.
Brand comments on how his ego had problems coping with the Ten O'clock news being all about him, hilariously singing 'I am the news, I am the, I am the news, I am the news!' along to the theme tune. He also highlights how he had problems knowing what to wear for the news men waiting outside his house 24/7, and of course, even with a very honest apology for the whole thing, he still swipes his own legs away with insights of what was really going on in his head.
But of course it's not all about the BBC radio show's untimely end (man I miss that show). We get even more insight into Brand's other endeavours, including when he hosted the MTV VMA's in the US of A. Giving us a listen to the original intentions for his hosting plans before calling President Bush a retarded cowboy got a lukewarm crowd reaction and took a change of pace. He gives us his thoughts and feelings on how the newspapers report on him, the death threats he received (and brilliantly replied to) on email and his 'confusing bath' fantasy with Dame Helen Mirren all arriving with great timing, great Brand-esq use of language, and of course plenty of laughs.
The thing with Russell Brand's act that a lot of his haters seem to be blind to, is that he has no problem welcoming us into his world and he makes it feel personal. This isn't a series of made up stories or ridiculously over delivered jokes. This is someone who breaks that barrier and makes you feel like one of his friends. He talks about all the stuff you hope he'll talk about and he does it in a way that is all his own. Yes, he can be crude, yes he can sometimes go a step to far (as proven), but it's all part of his charm and even though historically I've found his stand up DVDs nowhere near as good as his radio shows and even TV interviews, coming out at other end of the Sachs scandal has allowed him to bring that more personal approach to the masses and it works wonders.
I'm not gonna try and paint this up into more than it is. It's a fairly well edited stand up show in TV style standard definition that is really only doing its job and isn't out to impress. The stage spends a majority of its time with the basic Scandalous banner on the back screen with a black stage and a single purple light above Brand (as well as basic stage lighting), so all in all this is exactly what you'd expect and have seen in the many other stand up DVD out there, doing only what's required.
Once again, only presented in Dolby Digital 2.0, the disc isn't out to do much beyond giving us Brand's dialogue clearly and it does a fine job. The audience doesn't feel too big of a presence and is never over powering when the good gags come, so once again, this is a stand up DVD doing its job just as you'd expect.
'Frank and Explicit' (43:34 SD) is a bloody great interview with Frank Skinner and Brand. It's as detailed about Brand's career as it is absurdly spiritual and we get a nice insight into Brand's feelings on his profession, a hint at what's to come (no more dressing up like a gothic scarecrow) and even a little more on the Sachs affair. This sort of thing isn't new for Brand but once again his answers and ramblings are delivered with a comedic honesty that somehow doesn't make him look bad.
'Private Glancer' (12:45 SD) is a short and sweet behind the scenes look at back stage footage, odd gigs around the world, and jokes between him and some friends. It all builds up to the O2 gig and while it's never focused or detailed it's a nice fly on the wall experience.
Lastly there's a CD-ROM option to look at the tour brochure.
I can listen to Russell Brand talk his way through things until the cows come home and I'm happy to say his new DVD is a fine example of his work. For those of you who adore him, you will of course be happy with what's on offer and for those who want to hear him explain himself after the big events in the news you'll be pretty happy too (or inflamed depending on what the newspapers made you feel back in 2008). Either way, Russell Brand always manages to cause a reaction and I'm glad to report, for me, once again it was plenty of laughs.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Well I must admit that I do not really like him - I do not see the appeal.
But I still read the review as I still want to keep open minded about things....
But I still read the review as I still want to keep open minded about things....
No more dressing up like a gothic scarecrow?
The end of an era! I feel somewhat saddened... It was an iconic look.
The end of an era! I feel somewhat saddened... It was an iconic look.
It seems like I've really hurt your feelings. Surely someone who's a fan of Russell Brand can take more than that.
Go on then. If you think that, and you've a perfect right to think that, why waste your time clicking on the link/review? Is it just to let everyone know you don't like Russell Brand, some a masochistic thing or a bit of both?
"There's a review of Russell Brand's new stand up DVD. I can't stand Russell Brand but I'm going to read review anyway, and post 'he's as funny as cancer' at the bottom to let everyone know 'what I reckon'.
Job done fella. What else don't you like?
"There's a review of Russell Brand's new stand up DVD. I can't stand Russell Brand but I'm going to read review anyway, and post 'he's as funny as cancer' at the bottom to let everyone know 'what I reckon'.
Job done fella. What else don't you like?
Russell Brand is a comedian? That's news to me, he's as funny as cancer.
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 9th November 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Interview, Featurette, Tour Brochure
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Hamish Hailton
Cast: Russell Brand
Genre: Comedy
Length: 79 minutes
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DURHAM � Duke�s Seth Curry made it up and down the court, and that alone was an accomplishment for the senior guard Thursday night.
Now there will be quite a bit more for Curry to do to get up to speed in the next week.
Hobbled by pain in his right shin, Curry was out of sync at times in a 69-45 exhibition victory against Division II Winston-Salem State at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
�Happy to get out there,� he said. �The first time I�ve played 5-on-5 in about a month and a half.�
It showed as Curry shot 1-for-9 from the field (0-for-4 on 3-pointers).
Coach Mike Krzyzewski said it was Curry�s first significant action since Sept. 10.
�It�s more for him to just get minutes,� Krzyzewski said. �I�m not worried about him (from a playing standpoint). � I�m concerned about how he�ll be afterward. I�m not surprised he didn�t come and blister the nets.�
Curry said the pains began in the summer.
�I just didn�t have my rhythm,� he said. �It shouldn�t be long. I should be able to get more practices in. I didn�t want my first actual game to be the way I played (in this outing).�
Mason Plumlee�s 19 points on 7-for-7 shooting from the field paced Duke, which opens the season a week from tonight against visiting Georgia State. By then, the Blue Devils hope Curry will be closer to rounding into form.
�That�s his first day back,� Plumlee said after the exhibition. �That�s not an easy thing for him to do. He�s only going to get better.�
Curry, who started all except two games last season, entered the game less than four minutes after tip-off. He missed his five first-half shots and didn�t connect from the field until a layup with 6:14 to play.
�It�s good to get out there and play with my teammates and get competitive,� Curry said.
Krzyzewski attributed some of Duke�s disjointed offensive play to Curry�s absence from the rotation in practices.
�If Curry is there and you start three seniors, everything is going to look a lot better,� Krzyzewski said.
The Blue Devils were 1-for-17 on 3-pointers, with freshman Rasheed Sulaimon missing his five attempts. Ryan Kelly finished 0-for-7 from the field. Still, Amile Jefferson�s 13 points and Sulaimon�s 12 points meant the true freshmen accounted for 25 points.
Winston-SalemStateshot 16.7 percent (5-for-30) from the field in the first half. Wykevin Bazemore finished with 11 points and 17 rebounds.

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nfl_bigbents_200.jpg Ben Roethlisberger said in London on Tuesday that he is motivated by the chance to win more Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers than the four won by Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw.
Roethlisberger was in London to promote the Steelers' Sept. 29 game against the Minnesota Vikings, which will be played at Wembley Stadium. The Steelers quarterback was asked by the London media what motivates him and his response was tweeted by Steelers public relations director Burt Lauten.
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What motivates @steelers QB @_BigBen7? "I want to pass Terry Bradshaw by getting more Super Bowl wins. That's our expectations in Pgh."
Bradshaw emerged victorious in all his title-game appearances during his 14 seasons with the franchise. Roethlisberger has two rings in his nine seasons with the Steelers, losing in his last appearance as Pittsburgh fell to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV.
Roethlisberger, 31, needs three more Super Bowl wins to surpass Bradshaw, who became the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls.
Roethlisberger broke Bradshaw's Steelers all-time passing yards record last season and finished the season with 29,844 yards in his career. He can own two more of Bradshaw's records this year: career pass attempts (needs 140 more) and touchdown passes (22 more).
While in London, Roethlisberger participated in a fan forum and also visited some of the city's famous landmarks, including the Big Ben clock tower, with which he shares a nickname.
Roethlisberger will travel to Ireland later this week to visit with Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, who is the former United States ambassador to the country. The quarterback will handle the coin toss at the flag football game Rooney annually hosts on July 4.
"I got to go to the Ambassador's residence last year and see what he does there, but it will be great to go back," Roethlisberger told the team's website. "Plus we get to see the game he puts on for July 4 and I will make sure I do a good job flipping the coin."


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A Pratt woman recently received a phone call, supposedly from her grandson who was stranded in the Philippines and needed money to get home. The voice sounded a little like her grandson — the caller said his mouth had been injured in a car accident. She knew he would not make the first call for help to his grandmother, but a "niggling" doubt remained. She called her daughter-in-law, who confirmed that the young man was not in the Philippines.
The scam has been around for years, and individuals have been taken for a few hundred to thousands of dollars. Once you wire money by Western Union, you can't get it back and you can't find out who received it, because in Western Union transfers the recipient remains anonymous, according to 419scam.org.
If the situation were real, the person in trouble could contact the U.S. embassy or consulate, which would provide emergency travel documents and an airline ticket back home, which would have to be repaid later.
There is no legitimate reason to ask others to provide funds by Western Union.


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Well, that was close.
If the "Dexter" vs. "How I Met Your Mother" matchup in the Elite Eight of Hulu's Best in Show is any indication of how testy the Final Four is going to be, we're going to need to provide some padding. The Showtime staple barely edged out Barney Stinson and friends in the closest vote to date.
And to ensure that we're giving you all the time you need to cast your vote in the last round (which kicks off next Monday, March 28), we're extending Best in Show through April 3, with the grand champion announced on Monday, April 4. So will it be "Community" or "Chuck" versus "House" or "Dexter?" Hitfix.com Senior Editor — and his 5 percent of the vote — is here to dissect the madness of the third round and help break down the Final Four.
Hulu: "Chuck" is getting a substantial late push after barely surviving its Round 2 matchup against "Supernatural." Do you now think this show has a legitimate chance to overtake the juggernaut that has become "Community" in the next round?
Alan Sepinwall: "Chuck" had an easier match-up this time. In the real world, Modern Family is much more popular than Supernatural. Online, though, sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre shows tend to arouse more passion, so I'm not surprised the "Chuck"/"Supernatural" race was much tighter. I really don't know how "Chuck"/"Community" is going to go. "Chuck" is a show whose fans love it so much they helped save it from cancellation two years ago, but "Community" has as obsessive and fiercely loyal a fandom as any comedy I've seen in a long time. My gut says "Community," but in a squeaker, and I'd put the winner of this match-up as the favorite for the final round.
Going into the tournament, did you think the Final Four would shape up basically like this? Is there any show that has shocked you by its lengthy run?
"Community" seemed a fairly obvious call from its bracket, and I figured either "Chuck" or the winner of the "Fringe"/"Supernatural" Round 1 matchup seemed likely to come out of that bracket. I'm a little surprised "House" has done so well, though pretty much every match-up has pitted it against a show with a smaller (albeit sometimes more vocal online) audience. The real shocker to me, though, was "Glee" not getting out of Round 2. Everyone I know who saw the bracket as constructed figured it had the easiest path to the Final 4 of any show, given the draw and the size and passion of the Gleeks.
Should "The Office" take notice of its sound thumping in the Elite Eight? Does this forebode a nasty turn in critical reception when the show is left Michael Scott-less?
I'm having a hard time finding people who don't think the show should end when Steve Carell leaves. Though at this point, I almost feel like the show has the potential to be better in the short term without him, as it's been getting a little tired the last few years.
"Dexter" vs. ""How I Met Your Mother"" was one of the closest votes in the history of Best in Show. Was it tough to narrow down these shows when the criteria for greatness — one a gritty, pay-TV slasher; the other a standard network comedy — is so disparate?
Once we got out of the first round, there were a lot of apples and oranges comparisons that had to be made. In that case, I just went with the show I was still enjoying more, regardless of the very different styles they offered.
How big of a coup is this "Dexter" win for Showtime? Could its un-PC, violent — but gorgeously written and well-acted — show could build up enough name recognition to beat a funny, all-ages comedy that most people know and a lot of people like?
"Dexter" fandom has done a very impressive job of mobilizing itself. It helps, I think, that lots of people watch the show on DVD rather than Showtime, which would mean their most recent exposure to the show was the Emmy-winning season 4 with John Lithgow, rather than the murkier season 5 with Julia Stiles and company. But if you look at the Final 4 as a whole, the only show left that's a mass-appeal hit is "House"; everything else is a show with a small, crazy-passionate audience.
With your Elite Eight choice of "Mad Men" gone, which of the Final Four shows do you think most deserves the title of Best in Show?
Definitely "Community", with "Chuck" second and the other two off in the distance.


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Just ONE macaron (fraise bien sur).
If the sudden hot weather keeps up and I keep eating like this I'll have to head for the Paris Plages a toute a suite!
Carol, they all look so delicious ! Adore your painting of Charlotte Russe, it is just DEVINE !!ReplyDelete
Angelina strawberry jam is excellent
I didn't know they made a charlotte aux fraises. I am eager to try it when back to Paris !
I think it's Angelina's 'whoopie pie' version of a Charlotte. It has nothing to do with the variety of strawberries at all.
I had it tonight in a moment of temptation..meant for tomorrow's shoot.
The desserts look so delicious! I've been to Angelina's twice and much preferred the Galeries Lafayette branch. How about you?ReplyDelete
I went for the 1st time to Angelina-Galeries Lafayette and many times to the original..
I think I'm inclined towards where both Audrey and Coco got their chocolat chaud on rue de Rivoli Milla
Oh Carol, merci for these beautiful strawberries. In a few minutes I'll be completing tonight's dinner with my own simple, but so delicious strawberries and cream.
Isn't berry season wonderful around the entire world?
yes indeed it is Frances
Though I think Paris makes a bigger thing of it. I saw giant strawberry earrings yesterday in celebration.
I hope the heat wave has stopped in NYC!
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Strawberry invasion. lol
Oh My. These berry recipes looks divine. I just want to get my hands in all of them.
A macalon or a macalong !!
I know a bakery here that makes a macagéant but it's not very good.
However there is a MacDonalds in Ballarat, (Victoria, Australia) which offers macarons in 5 flavours for $2 each (1 euro...)!! But they are made at a local cake shop I believe...very good too!
How wonderful are your photos of patisserie in Paris. I should have lashed out more on the times I was there!
Gwendoline in Australia
Don't worry Gwendoline,
I'll 'lash out' for you!!


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Betty Jean Sapp
83, of Monroe City
Betty Jean Sapp, 83, of Monroe City, Missouri and formerly of Hannibal, MO, died at 12:25 p.m. Sunday, December 16, 2012, at Monroe City Manor Care Center in Monroe City.
At Betty's request cremation rites have taken place. There will be no services. The James O'Donnell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Betty Jean Sapp was born at home on June 13, 1929, the youngest child of Lester and Laura Gordan Bird in Ralls County, Missouri.
She married her soul mate and the love of her life, Earnest U. Sapp on August 9, 1947, and they had 57 happily married years together. He preceded her in death December 14, 2004.
She is also preceded in death by her parents, three sisters, one brother, several nieces and nephews and a brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
Mrs. Sapp graduated from high school in 1946 in New London, Mo. The Sapp's owned their own business and worked side by side for over 25 years. She loved the outdoors, gardening, going fishing and traveling with Ernie after their retirement.
Online condolences may be made at www.jamesodonnellfuneralhome.com
Betty Jean Sapp
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Oak Ridge athlete Guito Ervilus nearly committed to USF last week when Bulls' coaches were in Orlando for a visit with the 6-foot-5, 230-pound athlete. He waited, however, and on the final day of his official visit to the Tampa school this past weekend, Ervilus finally caved and committed to the Bulls on Sunday.
Ervilus, whose commitment closed the door on a trying year for the versatile Oak Ridge star, picked USF, in the end, over UCF and FIU, but there were far more possibilities that weighed on his mind after the season ended.
He had missed most of his senior season while rehabbing from a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) he suffered early in spring practice. He played just four games, but most of the 30-plus schools that offered him were still awaiting his decision.
Ervilus, who will play defensive end at USF, was unavailable Sunday night, but Oak Ridge head coach Elijah Williams has been along for the ride and he's a proud coach right now. He has three players heading to play NCAA Division I-A college football – DB Andre Scott and LB Deyonte Henderson will sign with Marshall – and still another in WR Rayshawn Jackson could eventually latch on with Memphis, if his visit goes well this coming weekend, Jan 27.
"They are all qualified and that is the most important thing to us right now … to get these kids in college," said Williams, who just finished his third season at Oak Ridge. "We may end up with seven or eight kids in college overall and that's just huge for this school. It was my goal when I came in here.
"It's not all about winning the game, but getting kids in school and getting them on the right track."
It was not a problem keeping Ervilus on the right track, but there were some derailments. Williams, a former Florida Gator, could draw on his own recruiting experiences out of Milton High in 1993, and to help provide insight for Ervilus, who faced some disappointments in finding the right school.
"It was more between USF, North Carolina and Kentucky at one time … UCF and FIU came in late," Williams said Sunday night. "At first he wanted to leave Florida. He had pretty much told all the Florida schools, 'Nah, I'm not staying in Florida.' "
As things do in the world of college football recruiting, however, the situations changed. Ervilus was a heavy lean to North Carolina, but when Butch Davis was fired, and then the entire Davis staff was let go following the hiring of Larry Fedora from Southern Miss, Ervilus was left back at square one during the first week of January, less than a month away from National Signing Day (Feb. 1).
"He got thrown a monkey wrench when they got rid of the whole staff," Williams said. "When he talked to the new coach there didn't seem to be that same vibe he was getting before and he decided he wanted to explore some other schools.
"It was hard to figure out what he wanted to do. Guito don't say much, but I think he wanted to stay close to mom."
So he was down to USF, Miami and still considering Kentucky, where he had visited in November.
"He wasn't going down to Miami," Williams said. "Mom wasn't having any of that one."
No matter, he didn't even have a Miami offer.
Williams said UCF then came into the picture recently and he was thinking hard about the Orlando school.
"But he really liked USF," Williams said. "It basically came down to being between UCF and USF."
Who said there isn't a rivalry between those two schools? It's there, and this recruiting battle just throws another log on the fire of an intra-state battle that will be renewed and continuously fueled with the Knights joining the Big East Conference.
And as for Ervilus' knee damage?
"I think he's better, mentally. Physically he was ready to go months ago," Williams said, "but mentally, he wasn't quite there at first. In that first game back, though, when a guy came in and hit him right on that knee and he figured out that he could get up and nothing was wrong, he knew everything would be fine.
"He's playing basketball now and he's ready to go."
He's a key component on the Pioneers' hoops squad, which looks to go deep into the Class 7A playoffs. Oak Ridge is 11-7 with District play coming up the same week as signing day.
Ervilus is the third Orlando-area commitment to the Bulls this season. USF also has Olympia DT James 'J.T.' Hamilton and Winter Park WR Dvario Montgomery on board. All three of those players are ranked in the top 14 of the Sentinel's 2012 Central Florida Super60 prospects rankings.
The Bulls have done well in Central Florida recently. USF has 10 Central Florida products on the roster.
They are junior-to-be safety Mark Joyce from DeLand, Hamilton's cousin sophomore LB Corian Hamilton from Olympia, sophomore OT Darrell Williams from Orlando Evans, junior DB Patrice Pierre of Kissimmee Liberty, redshirt-freshman OT Max Lang from Orlando Boone, redshirt-junior CB Brandon Salinas from Oak Ridge, redshirt-junior DT Demi Thompson of Lake Mary, junior QB Baylin Trujillo, another Oak Ridge product, and redshirt-senior punter Justin Brockhaus-Kann from Winter Springs.
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at email@example.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Os_Recruiting and Facebook at Orlando Sentinel Recruiting.


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In a not-so-shocking turn of events, Chris Brown returned to Twitter for real over the weekend, just about a week after he took his Twitter toys and went home in the wake of a vulgar exchange with female comedian Jenny Johnson.
While his nearly 11.7 million-person @chrisbrown following remains intact, Brown is otherwise starting with a clean slate: All tweets prior to a simple "#CarpeDiem" sent Monday have been deleted.
(Those who delete the past are doomed to repeat it? Fun-seekers can only hope. Wait, that's not very fair ... did we say that out loud?)
Meanwhile, over on Instagram, where Brown's username is too vulgar to publish here, on Sunday he posted what many are referring to as an "intimate" picture of himself and Rihanna with the caption, "What would music today sound like if these kids didn't exist?"
MTV argues that it would probably sound, um, a lot like it does now.
Rihanna chimed in via Twitter on Sunday with a — surprise — topless shot of herself wearing a gold collar necklace, with the curiosity-piquing caption, "He told me, 'you better not give it away.'"
Chris Brown and social media. The gift that keeps on giving.
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Double Face
Double faced fabrics are easily reversible as they have two attractive surfaces. As we offer a variety here at Mood, many have the same face on each side or they vary in pattern or color. These fabrics can easily be used for reversible garments including dresses or skirts. It should be noted that unlike double cloth, the two faces of this fabric cannot be separated.


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KENNEWICK, Wash. — A potato beetle researcher recommends farmers alternate crop rotations and insecticides to avoid building up insect populations that are resistant to the chemicals.
University of Maine associate professor of applied entomology Andrei Alyokhin shared his tips during the Washington Oregon Potato Conference in Kennewick, Wash.
Alyokhin advises using crop rotations and alternating different insecticide applications instead of continuous cropping or repeated applications of the same insecticide.
Treating problem areas is better than treating an entire field, Alyokhin said.
The goal should be to have a small enough population of insects that they won't cause much damage, Alyokhin said.
"The job is not to kill every single insect," he said.
When two parent insects that are susceptible to an insecticide mate, all progeny are susceptible. When two resistant parents mate, all progeny are resistant, Alyokhin said.
The progeny of a susceptible parent and resistant parent is usually less resistant than the resistant parent but not as susceptible as the susceptible parent.
The likelihood of resistant offspring declines as resistant insects mate with less resistant partners, but some progeny can still be resistant, Alyokhin said.
"If there is some kind of reservoir of susceptible insects, then you are in good shape," Alyokhin said.
Using as little insecticide as possible is important, but Alyokhin emphasized using the full label rate of insecticides when it is needed.
According to Alyokhin's website, the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee classifies chemicals according to similarities in their chemical structures and how they kill their target pest. Different chemical groups are designated by numbers and subgroups with letters, such as 1A or 1b or 4.
Alyokhin recommends rotating numbers more than letters. If another application is needed, hitting insects with the same chemical eliminates susceptible survivors but increases the chances of one resistant insect mating with another and producing resistant offspring.
Rotation won't always work, but is the best option, Alyokhin said.
Farmers who suspect they have a problem should contact a university extension specialist or crop consultant, Alyokhin said.
"Try being vigilant, not relying on spraying the same insecticides over and over again and do not cut insecticide rates," he said.


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Microsoft's Comparison To Linux In The Server Market Conveniently Leaves Out Free
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24%Now, this might strikes some of you as not sounding right. After all, most of have have noticed that Linux servers seem to be pretty damn common throughout the world. Most of the biggest online companies in the world use Linux, and it's difficult to think of an online startup that doesn't use Linux. Charles Arthur breaks down how incredibly misleading this is:
Linux Server market share in 2005. [source]
Predicted Linux Server market share for 2007 (made in 2005). [source]
Actual Linux Server market share, Q4 2009. [source]
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The White House began losing control of the health care debate during Obama's July press conference. The final question in a conference that had been dedicated to health care turned onto the arrest of Henry Louis Gates by a white Cambridge police officer. The president's unwise decision to 1) answer the question and 2) declare that the Cambridge cops acted "stupidly", threw the White House off of its health care strategy -- and upset the Obama "fairness in racial issues" brand.
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Are you kidding? This doesn't have the seriousness of the Gates arrest and aftermath, but it's just the perfect "slip" that's needed for a president who likes being seen as "parent-in-chief" perhaps more than commander-in-chief. This is, once again, another example of Obama-as-Cosby -- chastising an unruly member of the hip-hop generation. That Obama, a black president, clearly comes down on the side of the pretty white country music queen is icing on the cake.
Could it be a coincidence that Obama had lunch Monday with Bill Clinton -- the man who created the political tactic known as the "Sister Souljah moment" -- which, yes, ended up targeting a rapper to the benefit of one Democrat?
Of course, all this depends on Obama using the word, an ABC reporter sharing it with the Twitter-verse and things going from there. Why would Terry Moran help out the president that way? Or maybe Obama just decided to use the unusual -- for him -- word and see what happens. Maybe he didn't expect Moran to leak it, but just assumed that it might get out somehow.
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If you're taking a break this holiday weekend to attend the N.C. Holiday Flotilla at Wrightsville Beach, plan to leave early and stay late.
Construction on the Wrightsville Beach drawbridge, which is one of five projects around the state where lane closures will stay in effect during the holiday weekend, means getting on and off the island will likely take longer than usual.
"It is what it is, and there's nothing we can do about it," said Linda Brown, the event's chairwoman. "I hope it won't deter people from coming, and I don't think it will. They just need to understand that it might take a little longer to get on the beach."
Brown estimated about 50,000 people watch the fireworks and boat parade, which takes place on Saturday.
To handle the traffic, Wrightsville Beach will have extra police officers on duty.
From 7:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, both bridge lanes will be used to funnel traffic off he island, with flaggers returning one lane to inbound as needed.
"We feel like that will help relieve some of the stress off of the beach for periods of time," said Tony Wilson, Wrightsville Beach's interim town manager.
Lane closures on the bridge began Oct. 1 and will continue until the end of March as workers replace the steel grid deck.
"We are at various stages of construction, and none of the work that we started is complete," said Wanda James, NCDOT's assistant resident engineer on the bridge work. "We're going to have to keep it down to two lanes, and that was anticipated when we let this project."
The rehabilitation project of the drawbridge — including the replacement of an emergency generator, an upgrade to the lift machinery and repainting of the structure in addition to the work on the grid deck — began in December 2011 and is expected to wrap up in fall 2013.
In total, the construction will cost $7.9 million.
Some who live and work on the beach disagree about how the work is impacting life there.
Dick Reece, a Wrightsville resident, said he rarely experiences delays when he crosses the bridge, in large part because he tries to travel in the middle of the hour, when the bridge is typically down.
"I wouldn't want (construction to happen) during the summer, but they're supposed to be finished by March or April," he said.
Cindi Anderson, who works for a home cleaning company on Wrightsville Beach, said it took her a half hour to cross the bridge on Monday, putting her behind schedule for the rest of the day.
"It's been a pain in the butt since they started working on it," Anderson said. "...They pick the worst time to work on something."
Snow's Cut Bridge in Carolina Beach will also be down to two lanes throughout the holiday weekend.
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Citrus greening disease occupies a big part of Bob Rouse's thoughts these days.
The citrus horticulturist at the University of Florida's Southwest Florida Research and Education Center at Immokalee, thinks he and his colleagues, as well as the state's growers, will be wrestling with it for a long time to come.
"We're going to have to learn to live with it," he says. "I wouldn't bank too much on a solution from biotechnology within the next 20 years. If we had a GMO today that would work on it, it would take 10 years-plus to get permission to use it in the field. First, we'd have to test it, then get EPA's permission to put it in the environment."
And, whether the public would accept genetically modified citrus is another unanswered question.
But with any biotech solution beyond reach, for the time being, Rouse says, growers have to combat greening with already-available tools. He thinks the best option, in many cases, is an intensive micronutrients program, possibly combined with vigorous pruning.
"As long as the leaf is green and functioning, the tree is fine; where the leaves are functional, the tree will keep going. We discovered that where micronutrients were working, root density could increase on a diseased tree.
"Most growers didn't know what to do when greening first appeared. They stalled a couple of years and got into a recovery mode."
In 2008, Rouse began testing trees at the experiment station that were almost 100 percent infested with greening. He was intrigued by the observations by Maury Boyd, a southwest Florida citrus grower, who believed a micronutrient cocktail involving as many as 14 compounds could extend the productive life of greening-ravaged trees.
"Was there something unique about Maury or his location? We wanted to find out. Obviously, something was working. That's what we learned in the last four years. Our experiments all have controls. Some trees are untreated; other trees get some of the components in this mix, but have one thing or two things left out.
Recent discovery
"On control trees the phloem is blocked. Where the micronutrients are applied, the phloem is mostly open and functional, for whatever reasons. We just discovered this last season."
Exactly why the pathway opens up with doses of nutrients remains a bit of a mystery.
"We want to look into the individual nutrients and see which ones are contributing to this.
"Could it be that the heavy metals are doing it? We don't know. Or, are the additional nutrients growing the phloem faster than the disease can destroy it? We'd like to find the answers," Rouse says.
All this makes him think the most workable answer for greening right now is to rehabilitate disease-stressed trees rather than replant them.
"We can rehab a tree in one to two years, rather than the seven it takes to get into production if we replant. And we avoid the costs of replanting. Some may worry about the cost of the nutrient mix— but you're going to have to do it, anyway on replant trees.
"In two years, the tree will have enough fruit to repay the costs. These trees will go back to their original size the next year and in two years you'll harvest a crop of Valencias. With Hamlins, it may be only one year."
That idea goes against the philosophy of destroying the pest or disease before it destroys the crop, Rouse says.
"With replanting, the illusion is that you're going to get rid of greening. But, it's here — and it's going to be here. Neither tree removal nor anything else is going to get rid of greening. So, the objective is to live with it, to be productive in the presence of greening."
The greening bacteria are spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. Efforts to control the psyllid with insecticides can work, but the vector is tiny and mobile, making eradication unlikely, he says.
"With greening, the roots are dying because the top of the tree can't support them. As the root area becomes less and less, you have continued dieback from the top. The roots can't get nutrients to the top, so it's a cycle. If you remove the diseased top area, you get rid of the bacteria, but it's already throughout the plant.
"When you prune the tree, the more severe the pruning, the more vigorous the regrowth."
That led Rouse to investigate pairing pruning with the micronutrient cocktail in an effort to rebalance greening-infested trees.
Want to balance top, roots
"We want to balance the top and the roots so they can grow together and support each other," he says.
"The top supplies the roots and the roots support the top. The reason the roots are dying is because the top end can't support them. What we did was buckhorning — extreme pruning that removed most of the top to make it regrow."
Pruning like that is what growers do after severe freezes to encourage regrowth. The difference, Rouse says, is that the root system is not damaged because of the freeze.
"If we can rebalance the tree and grow back the root and top together, we can use the nutrient cocktail mix we've seen is effective and really feed and bring the nutrients to the top of the tree.
"But we're also feeding it with foliar sprays, with liquid fertilizer to encourage new regrowth. We're using both macro- and micronutrients — key micronutrients, along with N and K, very little P, and some phosphite added. It has some fungicidal activity and is a very good carrier of nutrients into leaves."
How long will the rehabilitated trees last?
"Right now, no one can say," Rouse says. "Psyllids are attracted to young growth. The more we learn about greening, the more we learn we need to investigate. This project just keeps getting bigger and bigger."


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 7, 2013) – The ETSU volleyball team will send three of its players overseas this summer to compete in the ninth annual 2013 European Global Challenge, hosted by Bring It Promotion (BIP) July 10-21 in Pula, Croatia.
Senior Megan Devine (Kingsport, Tenn.) and junior Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.) will play on the BIP-Southeastern Team, while sophomore Jessica Schafer (Dekalb, Ill.) will be on Team BIP.
The four-day tournament will host junior national teams, youth national teams, and elite women's club teams from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Slovenia, Russia, Romania, as well as the United States. Each tour will include practices, training matches, a competitive tournament, and sightseeing, as well as great cultural experiences across Europe.
The BIP-Southeastern team will begin in Budapest, Hungary to sightsee, practice, and compete against Vasas Sports Club (2013 Hungarian Cup Champions). From Budapest, the team will travel to Pula, Croatia for the European Global Challenge opening ceremonies. Tournament dates are set for July 15-18, 2013. All tours will conclude in Italy with a day trip of sightseeing through the amazing canals of Venice before participants return to the United States. The BIP-SE Team is made up of 10 student-athletes from NCAA Division I, Division II, and NJCAA institutions and will be coached by Daniel Magnusson (Ljungby Volleyboll Klubb, Sweden) and Meghan Sherman from the University of Georgia.
Team BIP consists of six Americans and four to five European players, who will be coached by Jerry Hulla of Bemidji State University. The team will play in the same tournament as BIP-SE from July 15-18.
For more information about the tour, please visit http://www.bringitusa.com/gc13/.
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Trigun and Seitokai Yakuindomo. Trigun is simply awesome, and Seitokai always makes me crack up.
I've already watched Oreimo like 5 times and will watch it again. it's just a very happy and pleasant show.
Rurouni Kenshin, FMA:Brotherhood, and Inuyasha. :3
Whoops, went MIA for a whole second.
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I've already watched Oreimo like 5 times and will watch it again. it's just a very happy and pleasant show.
Haha u sure love some oreimo
Did he just walk up...slowly...and ban me? @GoldTStar117
Revolutionary Girl Utena is too much fun and symbolically engaging to watch just once, or twice, or thrice, or....
Emerging from a coma, I end up watching FLCL eighteen times.
Thirty minutes later, I watch a few choice episodes of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Then some Baccano!, with an emphasis on the opening song.
Then some The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, cause that stuff is crazy.
And I've been sorta meaning to re-watch Cross Game at some point, but I still need to wrap up Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, Kaiba, and (now for something completely different) A Certain Scientific Railgun, so poignant baseball themes will have to wait.
Rurouni Kenshin!
it never gets old!
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya movie as well as Angel beats.
I've watched multiple times and own:
Ghost in the Shell, SAC 1 & 2
Black Lagoon
Blood: The Last Vampire (NOT blood +)
Phantom: requiem for the phantom
My Bride is a Mermaid
Outlaw Star
Eden of the East
Elfen Lied
Princess Resurrection (drink whenever the kid dies)
Vampire Hunter D
X (original OVA)
Wicked City
Project A-Ko (all of them -- hilarious)
Last Exile
and a few more
and looking to get:
When They Cry
Madoka Box
Oh! Samurai Girls
Ah! My Goddess
and a few more
Anime is great for several reasons: Characters are very expressive when drawn. Stories are intricate but complete when in a 13/26/52 episode format and most of the shows don't have the chance to go downhill (like X-files when David Duchovny quit or Stargate when they started getting spaceships, etc). You don't notice the actor's ages in long-running shows. You get more violence, more sex, more settings and more stuff in general than physical actors and sets can/are willing to do. The quick production turnaround times draw out interesting authors and allows for more intricate storytelling since one group of authors can't keep up the time tables. It really is great stuff.
Chihayafuru basically for the incidental music
Bodacious Space Pirates just fun + first marathon after joining CR
Toradora! story pulled me in
The World God Only Knows theme music first then funny
Mysterious Girlfriend X just got hooked by the twist in the story
Say "I love you" & Kimi ni Todoke just an old romantic
I've definitely seen all of bebop at least 10 times, and the last couple episodes like 15 or something
Agree on Chihayafuru, even when I know who wins the matches somehow in the moment I forget. The art, music and expressions are great, love hearing the karuta calling, the sound of the cards being swatted away.
Agree on Bodacious Space Pirates, so much fun, great music, fun space battles you can watch over and over, great voice acting.
Agree on Mysterious Girlfriend X, you wouldn't think so but again the voice acting, the artwork, the music, the humor, can watch it again and again.
Agree on "Say 'I love you'" the opening music gets me going every time, reliving the emotional moments of Mei and Yamato, beautiful artwork, great soundtrack...
Anything in the Bakemonogatari franchise, Bakemonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Nekomonotagari, the music and soundtrack, witty banter, fun and colorful characters both as drawn and as portrayed, battles, toothbrushes... they fly by the dialog and words on the screen so fast that you pick up something new every time you see it.
Vividred Operation, just so much fun with the transformations, the battles, the beautiful artwork, the silly push me jokes...
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, the artwork, music, voice activing, humor, emotions... the same scenes get me every time which makes no sense knowing about them but they are so well done that they get me anyways.
Madoka Magica, the way it is done it is amazing again to relieve all the reveals, all the character introductions and exits, the emotions, the battles, great music and soundtrack, beautiful artwork especially during the fights, just so original!
BTOOOM! the music and fights are just too cool, emotions, artwork, I get into it even though I know the outcomes.
Teekyuu, fast paced short humor every time you watch it you pick up something you missed in the mile a minute dialogue.
Wooser, again a fast paced short, so funny!
Boku no Imouto wa Osaka Okan, love the Osaka dialect humor, wonderful seiyuu (plays Nyarko-san), love her voice, den ga na man ga na! Those ending songs!
Kokoro Connect, again the emotional moments, the music sets the mood so well, the artwork, the humor, OMG, the humor...
Sakurasou no Petto na Kanojo, again the humor, the characters, the music, the emotions, such a whipsaw of humor and sadness. Love the music and the soundtrack.
Kotoura-san, the ultimate whipsaw of emotions from ultimate tragedy to such fun. Amazing soundtrack, such funny ED songs.
And more! I love rewatching anime in case you can't tell...
I would have to say bleach, yuyu hakusho, soul eater, elfen lied way to many to name
Code Geass
Fairy Tail
Shakugan no Shana
Offline! Life is getting busy!!
Code Geass because of how well the story is written and I always learn something new when I watch it again


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Presenter pairings include Kerry Washington and Diahann Carroll, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Deschanel, and Allison Janney and Anna Faris
Four pairs of television's biggest performers have been unveiled as additional presenters for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. These presenters include Emmy nominee Kerry Washington and Emmy Award winner Diahann Carroll; Emmy nominees and leading funny ladies Tina Fey and Amy Poehler; Zooey Deschanel and Emily Deschanel; and four-time Emmy winner Allison Janney and Anna Faris.
The Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live across the country from NOKIA Theater L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. on the CBS Television Network.
Nominated for her role in the ABC series "Scandal," Washington is the first African-American woman since 1995 to be nominated in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She will present with groundbreaking iconic actress and four-time Emmy nominee Carroll, who currently appears on the drama "White Collar."
Following their Emmy-nominated performance as hosts of The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Fey and Poehler, who are nominated for a combined 11 Emmys, will join forces again as presenters this year.
Though Zooey and Emily Deschanel share the FOX network for their shows, this will be the first time they share the Emmy stage together as presenters.
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The Federal Reserve faces new pressure to explain why it lets banks trade raw materials and control supplies after congressional witnesses said regulators can't really grasp what lenders are doing in industrial businesses.
Officials from the Fed and Commodity Futures Trading Commission may testify at hearings in September, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown said in an interview yesterday after witnesses told his Senate subcommittee that commodities operations owned by lenders are hurting customers and endangering the financial system. He'll also seek testimony from bankers.
"Should the public generally be forced to feel around in the dark to figure this stuff out?" Brown, an Ohio Democrat, said during the hearing. "This is too important," he added later. "It does significant potential damage to the economy."
The Fed said last week it's reviewing a decade-old decision to break down barriers between finance and commerce by letting banks deal in physical assets like metal and oil. A reversal could put commodity units of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley in jeopardy.
Witnesses at yesterday's hearing in Washington said financial regulators can't effectively oversee units in industries that fall outside of typical banking or foresee the risks they pose to taxpayer-backed firms.
"To expect the regulators to understand the web of relationships that exist here is not rational," said Joshua Rosner, a bank analyst at New York-based Graham Fisher & Co., which advises clients on investments in the financial industry. Regulators failed similar tasks in the years leading to the 2008 financial crisis, he said.
Commodity Risks
Risks in banks' commodities businesses can be managed by limiting them to frequently traded products and setting curbs on volume, Randall Guynn, head of the financial institutions group at law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, said at the hearing. Regulators also can require minimum amounts of capital and liquidity, he said.
"It would be the unusual bank examiner who understands the commodities markets, oil markets and oil tankers, and so forth, but they do have tools that they have used and can use to try to control this risk," Guynn said.
Barbara Hagenbaugh, a Fed spokeswoman, and the CFTC's Steve Adamske declined to comment on the prospects for a future hearing.
Yesterday's hearing featured questions from Brown, Democrats Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, in front of a full audience. Brown said he's concerned that lenders may be put at risk when volatile commodity markets move against them or disaster strikes one of their operations.
Making Choices
"What do we want our banks to do? Make small-business loans or refine and transport oil? Issue mortgages or corner the metals market?" Brown said at the hearing's outset. "Taxpayers have a right to know what's happening and to have a say."
Brown is among lawmakers who say banks can drive up prices when they control both the physical products and the financing. Merkley said the arrangement may allow banks to "put a thumb on the scale" to influence supply and demand, and bet accordingly.
U.S. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who leads the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said lawmakers may use his panel's subpoena power to examine banks' trading and ownership of physical commodities. Levin said he may hold his own hearings if he isn't satisfied with the outcome of Brown's effort, which can't compel testimony or demand documents.
Aluminum Market
The CFTC told firms involved in commodity warehousing to retain internal documents and e-mails related to the businesses, the New York Times reported, citing people who had reviewed the requests.
The beverage industry has complained that banks and other warehouse owners are manipulating aluminum supplies and slowing deliveries to drive up the price. Costs were inflated by $3 billion worldwide in the past year, Tim Weiner, a global risk manager at brewer MillerCoors LLC, told the panel in prepared remarks.
Goldman Sachs, the most profitable Wall Street securities firm before the 2008 financial crisis, posted a rebuttal to some of the criticism on the company's website. The firm said about 95 percent of the aluminum used in manufacturing comes from producers and dealers outside the London Metal Exchange warehouse system in which banks participate.
Enron Redux
Banks may have adopted the model for trading both physical commodities and derivatives used by Enron Corp., adding "more and more risk" to the financial system, Warren said at yesterday's hearing. Enron, was the world's biggest trader of power and natural gas before it collapsed in 2001 amid an accounting fraud, and some former employees pleaded guilty to charges they tried to manipulate power prices.
Moves by banks to deepen their involvement in physical commodity trading and assets "suggests this movie won't end well," she said.
The 10 largest Wall Street banks generated about $6 billion in revenue from commodities in 2012, including $1 billion from dealings in physical materials, according to data from analytics company Coalition Ltd. Goldman Sachs ranked No. 1, followed by New York-based JPMorgan.
Biggest Players
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are the biggest Wall Street players in physical commodities. Goldman Sachs held $7.7 billion of commodities at fair value as of March 31 and New York-based Morgan Stanley had $6.7 billion, according to regulatory filings. JPMorgan had $14.3 billion in physical commodities as of March 31, according to a filing.
Critics "don't provide a shred of evidence to support the view that these potential dangers are likely to be realized," Guynn said at the hearing. "The connection between banking and commodities is not a new development."
The knowledge that banks gain from participating "helps the prices in the derivatives markets and the pricing in the physical markets to converge, which is actually a good thing," he said.
None of the banks discloses how much revenue or profit comes from commodity trading or break out the contribution from physical assets. The Fed has been "less than forthcoming" about its oversight of the units, Brown said.
Regulatory Limits
Saule T. Omarova, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said she doubts regulators are capable of overseeing businesses outside of normal banking.
"It stretches regulatory capacity beyond its limits," Omarova said in an interview. "No regulator in the financial world can realistically, effectively manage all the risks of an enterprise of financial activities, but also the marketing of gas, oil, electricity and metals. How can one banking regulator develop the expertise to know what's going on?"
Rosner said the federal backing of U.S. banks gives them a funding advantage that can distort markets. The result could be guarantees that extend beyond the financial industry, said Arthur Wilmarth, a law professor specializing in banking and financial regulation at George Washington University in Washington.
"If you allow banks to get heavily into commerce, then pretty soon you're going to see the safety net wrapping around the entire commercial sectors that the banks are involved in," Wilmarth, who wasn't a witness at the hearing, said in an interview. "They clearly are taking a lot of risk on it, and if something went really bad and endangered the survival of a major bank, I think the federal government's going to be there" with emergency lending or liquidation measures.
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STOCKTON - Considering she long ago accumulated all the credits she needs to get her diploma, it might seem surprising that Martie Acob has chosen to stick around for her entire senior year at Chavez High School.
STOCKTON - Considering she long ago accumulated all the credits she needs to get her diploma, it might seem surprising that Martie Acob has chosen to stick around for her entire senior year at Chavez High School.
But Acob, 17, is in no rush to leave. A member of the National Honors Society, Acob is taking Advanced Placement English, is in a new San Joaquin Delta College psychology class offered at Chavez, is serving on the student council and is participating in five clubs.
"It's just a lot of bonding time with my friends," Acob said of her senior year. "There wasn't really anything to do outside school."
This year, it seemed more conceivable than ever that there could have been an early exodus from Stockton Unified of high school students who had more than enough credits to graduate ahead of time.
The reason was simple: In 2011, the district lowered its credit requirement for graduation from 230 to 210, a change made for fiscal reasons tied to California's budget woes and the state's complex rules for funding public education. The Class of 2013 is the first affected by the reduced credit requirement.
But no exodus has occurred, and though some educators express concern that the change might have made it too easy to graduate from Stockton Unified, district officials say the reduction actually has been positive for many students.
"I don't think this necessarily dumbs down the curriculum or dumbs down what the kids are getting," said Superintendent Steve Lowder, who was not with Stockton Unified when the credit requirements were reduced.
Stockton Teachers Association President Ellen Old is not convinced. Old said it has not been "long enough to know how this plays out" and added, "Even though it might be expedient, I don't really see how it's actually preparing our kids."
The reduction in required credits did not alter Stockton Unified's core-curriculum requirements for its students - classes like English, math and social studies. The core requirements, according to district officials, are the ones students struggle the most to fulfill. As a result, they say, it really is no easier now for marginal students to graduate than it was in the past.
As for thriving students, Edison Principal Brian Biedermann said he tries to "talk them down" when they ask to leave early. He said students who want to leave early are required to have a post-graduation plan - college or a job - before the school will sign off on an early departure.
High-performing students also have plenty of incentive to continue in high school even after they have enough core credits to graduate, Stockton Unified officials say.
Those incentives include an increasing number of college-credit classes offered at Stockton Unified high schools, the opportunity to take electives in areas of interest and the chance to participate in internships tied to students' particular career aspirations.
Two of Acob's high-achieving and credit-heavy friends, Maricar Doctor and Sophia Vorak, fall into the latter category. Both attend Chavez's health academy, and both are spending some of their senior-year school time working at medical-related internships.
"Internships give us an opportunity to see what field we want to be in so when college starts, we know what we want to do," said the aptly-named Doctor, who is interning at a downtown diabetes clinic. "It's hands-on."
Some students, though, are bothered by the reduced graduation requirement.
"I feel like it's giving people an easy path," said one, 17-year-old Chavez senior Jessica Zaragoza. "Graduating from high school should be something you earn, not something that's given to you."
Stockton Unified's change left it with the lowest credit requirement among the largest districts in San Joaquin County. Lincoln Unified and Lodi Unified both require 230 credits. Tracy requires 220. Manteca requires 225 at its traditional high schools, 275 at Lathrop and Sierra highs, which operate on block schedules.
In Stockton Unified, Edison and Chavez both operate on block schedules, which allow students to take more classes and amass more credits during their high school years. But at least for now, the credit requirements at Stockton Unified's block schools are the same as they are at the schools operating on traditional schedules.
Lowder said his former district, Hemet Unified, made the same change as Stockton Unified to its credit requirements two years ago during his tenure in the Southern California district. Lowder said the change did not harm Hemet students and also is unlikely to have a negative effect in Stockton Unified.
"As a kid in high school, I know I took extra periods all the time just because I wanted to," Lowder said. "I don't really think this is the beginning of the demise. ... I think we're going to have the same kind of experience here that we had in Hemet, which was a positive experience."
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.