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DISA offers 'off-ramps' for military services' IT expenses
Wednesday - 10/17/2012, 5:51am EDT
The Defense Information Systems Agency is casting itself as an "off-ramp" for some of the costly technology functions the military services currently operate on their own. The agency's director thinks it's an attractive pitch as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are pressed to take money out of their IT budgets and redirect it to the basic tasks of training and equipping warfighters.
Lower costs aren't the only virtue the military sees in DoDwide IT services offered at the enterprise level. Leaders also expect to see gains through better situational awareness over their networks and making them more defensible against cyber attackers.
But from the perspective of Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, DISA's director, there's no forcing function quite like declining budgets: the abundant cash the military services used to have on hand to build and operate their own IT systems simply isn't there anymore.
"This issue with the money right now has helped push people together that weren't together before in the Department of Defense," he said. "Talk about joint. We're joint now."
There are billions of dollars to be saved though the consolidation of information technology services into DoD enterprise offerings under the DISA umbrella, Hawkins told the annual Air Force IT day last week hosted by AFCEA's Northern Virginia chapter.
Meeting of the minds
And there's a historical precedent for DISA and its predecessor agencies taking over the legwork that used to be handled by the military branches, he said.
"Back in the '70s and '80s, we took [military communications] off the map. You don't even worry about dial tone anymore, you pick up your phone and you know it's there. This agency that I'm now part of took that off the table," he said. "We want to do the same thing with IT. We want to take it off your table. Give it to us, and we will deliver those types of capabilities for you."
Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, director, DISA
Last week, Hawkins and the chief information officers from each of the military services conferred to discuss who should do what along the way to the shared services environment DoD pictures in its multiyear pursuit of a concept known as the Joint Information Environment.
He said he and the service CIOs are actively discussing how they can "off-ramp" their IT functions to DISA, which is already moving forward with enterprise services like email, SharePoint and portal services that are designed to serve only the users that need them and scale-up as more military organizations come on board. The continuing struggle, Hawkins said, is how to offer those services at price points that military organizations can't say no to.
"I used to sit in the Air Force and say that DISA was too expensive. I said, 'I wish I was over there and I'd show those guys how to do it.' Now I am over there," he said. "So we're working with the services to make sure we can find out where it is that we're a loss-leader for them. We're either going to clean that up or we're going to hand that over to the services to do. This is the number one issue I'm working within DISA. We have to make sure we're competitive when it comes to the services we provide to our users, whomever that might be."
Proven case for enterprise email
There is some obvious low-hanging fruit when it comes to running DoD's IT systems more efficiently though, Hawkins said. For instance, there are the Web portal systems various military organizations operate so that their users can sign in and access software applications. He said far too many of those systems are running on individual military posts, often duplicating one another's functions.
"It's 'box-ology,' and the attitude is we're going to protect the box and keep it at our particular base, rather than rolling it up to the enterprise and making it available to everybody once," he said. "We talk about enterprise licensing. That's another service we ought to be able to put up at the enterprise so everyone can use it. We ought to be able to meter our access to capabilities rather than paying for every single user to use them. We know right now that on desktops there are software capabilities we're paying for that just sit there unused year in and year out. We've got to provide that through a portal so you can get into it, use it, close it up and get out."
Hawkins said enterprise email, the first of DISA's large enterprise offerings, is a proven test case for cost savings. The Army estimates it will save more than $70 million next year by letting DISA take over its email service.
Likewise, DISA thinks it can save the military services a lot of money by letting them shut down legacy communications systems like point-to-point videoconferencing and transitioning them to secure Internet protocol networks accessible around the globe.
"That's the killer app when we look at everything-over-IP and start getting eliminating the VTC circuits that are on every base out there," he said. "We ought to be able to stream that video right down to an end device, just like everybody else is doing right now, and make that capability available to every one of our warfighters wherever he or she might be."
While Hawkins still is sorting through precisely which IT services his agency will provide and which military services it will provide them to, the Defense Department already has vested DISA with some specific responsibilities for enterprise services.
For instance, DISA will act as the military's central broker for cloud computing services. Hawkins said the brokerage service will reach initial operating capability by the end of this year and full operating capability by early 2015.
DISA has yet to spell out precisely how the broker arrangement will work and has issued a request for information to help find the way forward. Hawkins said the agency will need some time to figure out the new role.
Cloud market to grow
Some commercial vendors who hope to sell cloud services to the department have suggested the agency may have an inherent conflict of interest, since DISA is trying to create market-competitive cloud offerings of its own for DoD customers and simultaneously acting as a go-between for commercial companies who want to provide many of the same services.
But Hawkins said DISA won't try to use its broker position to corner the market for DoD cloud services.
"We have to make sure we're not the fox guarding the henhouse," he said. "It's not all going to go into a DISA (Defense Enterprise Computing Center). Much of it, and I can't tell you exactly how much, is going to go into the separate services' data centers. But we've got to first standardize the data centers, and that's what we're doing right now."
The standardization is happing under the auspices of a new DoDwide data center reference architecture that DoD chief information officer Teri Takai signed last week, Hawkins said.
First elements of DoD's Joint Information Environment come together in Europe
Road to interoperable DoD network starts with less-than-perfect solutions


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Court trials are a popular topic on TV shows. Most civil lawsuits, however, end before trial. Cases often end by the parties reaching an agreement through alternative dispute resolution, or by the judge's decision based on a "dispositive motion" such as summary judgment, or by the parties agreeing to dismiss the case.
During a trial, a judge or jury examines the evidence to decide whether the Defendant should be held legally responsible for claims made by the Plaintiff. A trial in which the judge makes the decision about who wins is called a "court trial" or a "bench trial." A trial in which a jury decides who wins is called a "jury trial." Civil cases are generally set up as a court trial; a party must specifically ask for a jury trial and pay an additional jury fee to the Court in advance of the trial. See MN Statute § 357.021.
Handling a civil trial involves many complicated steps, court rules and procedures, so we strongly encourage you to get help from a lawyer.
Generally, in a civil trial without a jury the Plaintiff presents her side of the case first. When the Plaintiff "rests" (finishes presenting her evidence), the Defendant then has an opportunity to present his side of the case. The common stages of a civil trial are listed below.
Opening Statements
When the trial starts, the Plaintiff's attorney (or Plaintiff if she has no lawyer) usually is the first to give an opening statement. She tells the judge a summary of the facts of the case, and what she intends to prove during the trial.
The Defendant can give her opening statement right after the Plaintiff, or she can wait until the Plaintiff has finished presenting her evidence. The Defendant's opening statement tells the judge her version of the facts, and sets the stage for responding to Plaintiff's evidence. The Defendant will also present "affirmative defenses," if any exist, to the Plaintiff's claims.
Witness Testimony & Cross-Exam
This is the main part of a civil trial, where each party presents key evidence (sometimes called the "case-in-chief").
The Plaintiff usually presents her case-in-chief first; she may call witnesses and experts to testify, and introduce physical evidence (like photographs, documents, or medical reports).
Presenting witness testimony usually follows this pattern:
After the Plaintiff finishes presenting her case-in-chief (after she "rests"), the Defendant presents her evidence in her case-in-chief.
Once the Defendant has rested, the Plaintiff will have a chance to respond to the Defendant's arguments through "rebuttal," a time when she can contradict the Defendant's evidence.
Throughout the trial, either party may make an objection about questions asked of witnesses, the answers given, or other evidence being offered.
Closing Arguments
In their Closing arguments, the parties "sum up" their cases. Both parties try to convince the judge that the evidence supports a decision in their favor.
Legal Briefs &Proposed Orders
The judge may require or allow the Plaintiff and Defendant to file written legal briefs arguing and applying the law to the facts of the case. The judge may also require one or both parties to file a proposed Order, which the judge may sign or amend and sign. Briefs and proposed Orders are challenging for a non-lawyer to prepare, but it may be possible to get samples and help with legal research from a law librarian.
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Unless the case is very simple, after receiving all of the evidence, the judge will usually take the case "under advisement" to take time to think about the evidence and law, and write a decision.
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High Point, NC – Conference Carolinas Women's Tennis Coaches have voted Erskine College as the top women's tennis team coming into the 2014 season. The Flying Fleet narrowly edged out the Falcons in the voting, who are picked to finish second. Erskine finished with 79 points and seven first place votes, compared to Pfeiffer's 70 points and two first place votes.
Pfeiffer is coming off one of their best seasons in school history. The Falcons ended their 2013 campaign in third place and boasting a 13-6 overall record, finishing 9-2 in conference play. With all three of the team's all-conference selections returning, the squad will look to avenge their exit in last season's conference tournament quarterfinals.
The Falcons will rely on reigning conference Freshman of the Year Valeria Mendoza, who finished 2013 with a 13-4 record in singles play, 12-6 in doubles action, and 8-3 in the conference. Mendoza was also named to the All-Conference First Team, one of two selections for the Falcons. Joining Mendoza on the All-Conference First Team was junior Taylor Lindsay, Mendoza's doubles partner. The pair finished the season with a 12-7 record in doubles play.
Lindsay finished the 2013 season with a 9-9 overall mark and a 7-4 record in conference play. Earning a spot on the All-Conference Third Team was sophomore Hannah Watson who closed the season with an overall record of 11-7 and a conference record consisting of seven wins and four losses.
Pfeiffer also adds talented freshman Olivia Nelms to the mix. Nelms will see much of the action in the top singles spot in her first year of competition.
The Falcons will be directed by first year head coach Justin Fainter who joins Pfeiffer following two successful years as the tennis coach at Roanoke College. While at Roanoke, Fainter received the 2013 ODAC women's tennis Coach of the Year award.
Limestone finished fourth in the poll with Barton fifth followed by North Greenville, Belmont Abbey, King, Lee-McRae College, and Converse respectively rounding-out the poll standings.
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Nona Lavelle Hall, 89, of Ecru, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born Nov. 15, 1917, in Pontotoc County to the late Henry and Julie High Horton. She was a lifelong resident of Ecru. She was a retired factory worker and a member of Horton Memorial Baptist Church. She was the widow of F.W. Hall.
Services were at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007, at Mortimer Funeral Home in Ecru with the Rev. James Lewis and the Rev. Owen Hitchcock officiating. Interment was in Ecru Cemetery. Mortimer Funeral Home handled arangements.
Survivors include one sister, Tee Horton Haynes of Bartlett, Tenn.; three sisters-in-law, Georgia Hall of Maben, Wiladean Horton and Juanita Quick; numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents; three sisters, Irleen Horton, Ines Bramlett and Weta Swords; and five brothers, Leon, John, Lee, Carlton and Keith Horton.
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France will employ underhanded tactics on Sunday in order to eliminate Richie McCaw and ultimately bring the All Blacks down.
According to Fairfax Media, France defence coach Dave Ellis has made it clear that the Tricolores will resort to some old-fashioned skullduggery in Sunday's final.
The French know that McCaw has been battling with a foot injury over the past 12 months, and believe that the All Blacks will struggle without their captain. Ellis said that it's an ugly but simple equation, take out McCaw, and you will take down the All Blacks.
'McCaw is major player. Somebody will stand on his foot, no doubt,' said Ellis.
Many have anticipated such tactics, with former All Black Buck Shelford writing in The New Zealand Herald on Friday that the French would come into this fixture with a dirty attitude in an attempt to unsettle the host team. Referee Craig Joubert will have his work cut out for him in a game where everything is on the line, as one instant of foul play could lead to a card and possibly decide the contest.
On the tactic to target McCaw's foot, Ellis revealed that it was a ploy of the French to attack New Zealand's key players, and that they had done so before.
Ellis said that the All Blacks crumbled in the 2007 World Cup quarter-final when Dan Carter left the field. Carter had been carrying a calf injury at the time, and Ellis suggested the French had something to do with his premature exit in that game. Ellis also pointed out that New Zealand were vulnerable without McCaw and Carter when France played and beat the All Blacks in Dunedin in 2009.
'That was one of the major factors in 2007 when we managed to make him [Carter] leave the field with injury. That was the turning point. He wasn't there in 2009 and neither was McCaw.
'There's other key players that if we can get to and influence, that'll have a knock-on effect. Some of them are their experienced players.'
Meanwhile, France prop Nicolas Mas has hit back at those calling his side a dirty team. Mas maintains that the All Blacks are also capable of some underhanded tactics.
'They are not angels, either. But that is the way the game is played. It is normal that games are aggressive,' he told The Telegraph.
'Two teams want to win and they will do everything in their power to win, and that's aggression and passion. You can't mix the two up. It is a complex sport and there will be a huge amount of passion involved.'


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Not completely up to date, but close enough...
It's that time again to start a new photo thread. Post away, guys!
(let's try to keep it to just a photo or two each, rather than a long series of photos )
Here are archives:
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition I
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition II
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition III
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition IV
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition V
A variation on the theme, aiming at smaller wardrobes
(broken links fixed now!)
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Not completely up to date, but close enough...
KMF - i thought i'd see least 20 backup bottles of Havana i see you are giving lot of love to Ungaro I as well!! love it!! stunning collection.
i always try and restrict not post without a picture and let the picture thread be all about..well, pictures!! hence, ill post a pic in sometime.
please visit my Blog: http://xxentx.blogspot.com/
Off Basenotes Sale: http://flacon.ambaric.net/viewtopic.php?p=193#193
Is that Chergui? I can't quite make out the label.
And your Light Blue is shy.
so far...still building. soon: +New Haarlem, Dirty English and Dior Homme Intense (in mail)
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i...181017088-1&zw how do I post pic in window? I see no attachment option.
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BN sales: http://www.basenotes.net/threads/300...avidoff-Bombay.
Off-BN sales (super rare CREED): http://flacon.ambaric.net/viewtopic.php?t=95
It looked like Light Blue in the back corner, but upon actually looking at the picture I can see that it's not.
For example
Use brackets instead of parenthesis.
I posted some pics some time ago in another thread, but it needs to be updated after some recent splurges.
Hi everybody! I'm 18 years old, and I developed my passion for fragrances this past fall (and it started with a $20 of Burberry London - my first "grown up" scent). I received Pure Malt and Pure Havane today.
How am I doing? Also, based on my tastes, any recommendations!?
Aside from my two TM's, I haven't paid more than $30 for a fragrance, but I feel like some serious damage to my wallet is imminent! Oh well, enjoying what I own makes me happier than a few dollars can for now.
There are some problems with part I, II, III.... There are some fantastic pictures , it would be shame not to see all of them over and over again..
The 'threads' part of the URL was missing, Here you go:
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition I
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition II
Post a Picture of Your Scents - Edition III
Le Temps D'Une Fete, Royal Hawaiian White Ginger Cologne, Vent Vert, Royal Scottish Lavender, Zohar by Ayala Moriel, Chloe, Voulez Vous by D'Orsay, Le De Givenchy, Quadrille by Balenciaga and Deneuve.
In the edition III has users with wonderful collections, i'm looking forward to the updates
This is a current photo of my beloved Tom Ford Private Blend collection Currently in transit are 250ml of Bois Rouge (new & full) and Tuscan Leather 250ml bottle with 50ml remaining in it. My DREAM is to one day own the 250ml decanter of Noir de Noir (no matter how much is in it). It amuses me that I have 100ml of Black Violet since it's my least favourite one
♥ Tom Ford Private Blends, Diptyque candles, Jo Malone, Frederic Malle, Auric Blends.
Please let me know if you're selling a bottle of Tom Ford - Noir de Noir
Thank you! It's still in the post but I had a sample of it and nope, I don't find it too masculine on me but then again, I love those sort of fragrances I prefer them over the feminine ones although I like both. Plus I think Italian Cypress is more masculine than Tuscan Leather. I'm one who thinks people should wear what they want instead of going by the male/female rules. If a scent is beautiful, then it will smell beautiful on no matter your sex.
♥ Tom Ford Private Blends, Diptyque candles, Jo Malone, Frederic Malle, Auric Blends.
Please let me know if you're selling a bottle of Tom Ford - Noir de Noir
My little beginners collection including discontinued back-ups:
Gloria, Loulou Blue, Organza Indecence, Feminitie du bois, un bois vanille, bois d'armanie, Coco, tuscan cypess, hypnotic poison and hypnotic poison elixir, Fuel for Life unlimited, Capri Island, my growing pile of perfumed court samples and the oldies - Exclamation (memory scent secondary school!), L'eau D'issey (Wedding day). Ebaying some I didn't really love - shalimar ode vanille, narciso rodriguez for her, grey vetiver.
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My buying spree is now over, I'm broke but it was worth it
♥ Tom Ford Private Blends, Diptyque candles, Jo Malone, Frederic Malle, Auric Blends.
Please let me know if you're selling a bottle of Tom Ford - Noir de Noir
@seaofghosts: lovely sea of awesomeness you got there! You must be one of the loveliest smelling person from the land down under.
Here's my messy collection both old and new.
Yes, that's a cable booster in my bathroom closet!
Gotta love the funky foil wallpaper that the previous owners choose.
Aha, thank you volley2! I do smell amazing, if I do say so myself.
(The fingerprints in the photo really show up and annoy me. I'll have to fix that and take another)
♥ Tom Ford Private Blends, Diptyque candles, Jo Malone, Frederic Malle, Auric Blends.
Please let me know if you're selling a bottle of Tom Ford - Noir de Noir
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My most updated collection as a 20 year old college student!
In no particular order:
Milesime Imperial by Creed
La Nuit De L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent
L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent
M7 by Yves Saint Laurent
Rochas Man by Rochas
One Million by Paco Rabanne
A*Men Pure Malt by Thierry Mugler
L'Instant De Guerlain by Guerlain
Jean Paul Gaultier by Jean Paul Gaultier
Fuel For Life by Diesel
Armani Code by Armani
Joop! Jump by Joop
Lucky Number 6 by Lucky Brand
Ed Hardy Love & Luck by Christian Audigier
Unforgivable by Sean John
Fierce by Abercrombie and Fitch
Hollister Jake by Hollister
Paris Hilton for Men by Paris Hilton
Cool Water by Davidoff
Escape by Calvin Klein
Hummer by Hummer
Ferrari Red by Ferrari
Top 5:
1) La Nuit De L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent
2) Lumière Noire pour Homme by Maison Francis Kurkdjian
3) Royal Oud by Creed
4) One Million by Paco Rabanne
5) Allure Homme Sport by Chanel
Anybody wants to share? =)
Hey Duckie! That looks really Poisonous!
It's been raining the whole week here. Stuck at home right now. A bit bored. Decided to take a photo of my collection.
Duc - that's magnificent!!
volley2 - I wish I could tag your pic! If there was a "Like" button here, I would have clicked it!
And this photo reminds me, I have to buy some Idole!
Thank you Sorcery! I have been off-loading a lot of my bottles, hence collection is less now as you can see. Sold those frags I won't be using anymore, mostly from impulse buying. hahahaha
Amazing collection volley. I would say it's an alpha collection, well almost if you can get rid of that terrible A*Men. Lol kidding. Wonderful collection and presentation.
@hedonist: Thank you! Still a lot missing though. I actually don't like that Pure Malt as you can see it's almost empty, below the mid-level of the star. hahahahaha
Wow, there are some very nice collections here, feels quite intimidating... Anyway, I did get a photo of my own, so here it is:
Alex, what is that right at the back? (Me to mple kapaki)?
Not bad, really, really old fashioned
Volley 2, I can see your Vetiver Tonka has got the place of honour! ;-) Which are the Serge Lutens you got there?
Hi Oslo! Serge Lutens are Santal de Mysore, Chergui, Ambre Sultan, Daim Blond, Cuir Mauresque as of today. =)
Thanks Alex - I really had no idea. Ive not seen it before.
Hey, guys, Thanks to you (and my rapidly depleting pocket book) I have several niche bottles now! Still growing......
My Top 5!!!
1. 1740: Marquis de Sade, Histoires de Parfums
2. Sweet Redemption, by Kilian
3. Tirrenico, Profumi del Forte
4. Je Suis un Homme, Etat Libre d'Orange
5. Derby, Guerlain
"Coincidence is God's way of winking." --Me
"It's alright to flirt with the idea of giving up, so long as you don't." --Me
@AromiErotici: and still there are days where i don't know what to wear.
The more fragrances i own, the harder is the choice...
Making my mind up aboud my SOTD is becoming a problem.


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Kingswood are hoping to end their 15-year drought against St Andrew's at City Lords on Saturday.
While College have played consistently well for much of the season, Saints have not lost to Eastern Cape opposition since a 17-13 reverse to Marlow away in July 2009. Saints crushed Graeme College 76-0 this year, while Kingswood only achieved a 27-11 scoreline against the same opposition.
One might say that past results count for nothing in derby days, but St Andrew's dominance has extended throughout the Eastern Cape, with victories against Dale, Queens. Selborne, Grey and Marlow. Kingswood have themselves shown consistency this season with wins over Stirling, Hudson Park, Dale and Port Rex.
Both sides like to keep the ball in hand and run from deep with their excellent forwards providing the backs with quick, clean ball, so defence will be vital.
The loose trios will play an important role on Saturday, with a big tussle between the two fetchers, Ryan Black (St Andrew's) and Chris Roberts (Kingswood). Kingswood will also look to captain Jason Collettt, Arran Briceland and No 8 Chad Matthews to give them the necessary edge in the collisions, while Saints will rely on the two Priors, Grant and Mark, for the necessary steel and hard nosed grunt that has worn down the best in the province this season.
The Kingswood backs, with their impressive centre pairing of John Hale and Chris Keets, will look to punch holes in what has been a resolute Saints backline, marshaled by captain Ryan Dugmore. The Saints backs are smaller than their College opponents, but have dealt with bigger opposition backlines with ease this year, only once conceding more than three tries in a game and blanking out the impressive Dale College backs.
Goal kicking could also be the difference between winning and losing, with the responsibility lying on the shoulders of St Andrew's hooker Dane van der Westhuyzen and Kingswood fullback Scot van Breda. Both have excelled in that department this season and any mistake within range may prove costly.
'We will stick to the same formula that has worked for us throughout the season and will rely on a collective effort from the team in order to win on Saturday,' said Kingswood coach Graham Carlson.
St Andrew's director of rugby Allan Miles said his side would concentrate on the set pieces and breakdowns as matches are won and lost at those two areas of play.
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Meadowdale girls beat Marysville Pilchuck in overtime
Lady Mavs hold off late Tomahawks' charge for fifth win in a row
Marysville Pilchuck had three chances in the final seconds of regulation and three more in the final seconds of overtime to defeat the Mavericks, but came up empty on all six and Meadowdale escaped with a 52-51 victory in a Friday night Wesco crossover game.
"I'm just glad to get out of here with a win," Parker said. "We felt like we gave a game away right before (Christmas) break and maybe we stole one tonight. It was one of those where I wouldn't have been surprised if that ball had fallen in for Marysville at the end. This was a tough one for either team to lose."
The Mavericks jumped out to an 11-7 lead after one quarter, but the Tomahawks took control of the game in the second period. Marysville allowed just four points in the quarter and took a 19-15 lead into the locker room at halftime.
"We went into man (defense) in that quarter and we just clicked and we wanted it," Tomahawks head coach Julie Martin said. "I think it was just effort and really fighting to want it."
Parker said that second quarters have been a problem for his team.
"Second quarters have been difficult for us," Parker said. "If you look at our lines, second quarters our opponents have had the best of us. We've had a tendency to get in foul trouble and we lose some flow. I think the biggest issue for us and if you go back and take a look at that, they were pretty dominant on the offensive boards right there and they were able to get some put backs. And we are very impatient on offense at times and that gets us into trouble."
Meadowdale stayed close for much of the third quarter, but the Tomahawks once again extended their lead late in the period with an 8-0 run led by Jenika Anglim and Jordan Bengen, who scored four points apiece during the run. Marysville had gone from being up just three to looking like it would be up 11 going into the game's final quarter, but the Tomahawks fouled Mackenzie Bretz with no time left in the quarter and Bretz made both free throws to cut the deficit to 36-27.
The Mavericks came out energized in the fourth quarter and went to a full-court press on defense that seemed to give the Tomahawks problems.
"We are a pretty good pressing team," Parker said. "I think we have been pretty good about not overusing it. In the past, I think we have overused our press and we've been pretty good about judiciously using it and I think you saw a really good example of that. We saved it and we saved it and then we were effective with it."
The Tomahawks turned the ball over quite a bit when the Mavericks immediately went to the press and though they never quite solved it, they did make some adjustments as the fourth quarter went on.
"They wanted us to rush so that we did have turnovers or did rush shots and things like that," Martin said. "It was just our composure of, 'we can do this. We are tall. We can pass it over this stuff. We need to get somebody in the middle.' Just breaking it was difficult for us which normally it isn't, so I think that kind of took the wind out of their sails a little bit."
The Mavericks also were aided by the second-half shooting of Julianne Kossian, who made three 3s after halftime and had a total of five in the game, finishing with 15 points. Alyssa Reuble added 12 for Meadowdale.
But perhaps the biggest performance of the night was made by Madison Parker. The box score shows that she had just six points, but she saved those points for when they mattered most.
She scored her first points of the game on a 3-pointer with 1:32 remaining in regulation that tied the score for the first time since the second quarter. Forty seconds later she gave the Mavs their first lead since the score was 12-9 early in that same quarter. Parker also scored two of the Mavericks four points in the overtime session.
Bengen led the Tomahawks with 21 points and Anglim had 12 for the Tomahawks.
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Meadowdale 11 4 12 21 4 -- 52
Marysville Pilchuck 7 12 17 12 3 -- 51
Meadowdale--Keely Hayes 0, Sara Fjortoft 4, Kearstin Franco 2, Angela Birchman 0, Alyssa Reuble 12, Jaclyn Barhoum 0, Julianne Kossian 15, Mackenzie Bretz 9, Madison Parker 6, Ndey Sonko 4. Marysville Pilchuck--Charlee Pilon 4, Megan Owens 0, Abi Otto 5, Jenika Anglim 12, Jordan Bengen 21, Marley Reynolds 6, Binta Bojang 2, Kylie Lopez 1, Stephanie Struthers 0. 3-point goals--Otto 1, Anglim 1, Bengen 3, Reynolds 1, Kossian 5, Parker 1. Records--Meadowdale 3-2 league, 8-4 overall. Marysville Pilchuck 2-3, 4-7.
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Northside soccer player Ashleigh Fairow has a lot going on for her these days.
The junior standout forward is not only the key cog in the Monarchs being postseason-bound this season, Fairow has emerged as one of the area's best players.
Fairow is second in area scoring with 28 goals and four assists for Northside (10-6-1, 9-4 East Central 2-A Conference), which concludes its regular season tonight at Topsail before entering the NCHSAA 2-A playoffs.
On top of that, Fairow sports a 3.6 grade point average. She will also have her 17th birthday Saturday.
But while Fairow has plenty to celebrate on and off the pitch, she is even more excited about her future. And what she hopes is in store for her is a letter in the mail accepting her into the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Fairow has already started the application process to join the Naval Academy.
"The process is really hard and it's overwhelming," she said. "I have all this school work and I am already starting my senior project. Next year, I'll be a senior. It's coming fast."
Fairow, a first team all-area player by The Daily News last year, wasn't originally interested in the Naval Academy. Instead, the daughter of a retired Marine wanted to play soccer at Charlotte after graduation.
That is, until Fairow was contacted by Navy women's soccer coach Carin Gabarra.
"They (coaches) saw me at a soccer tournament like in October or November, and they emailed me and were like 'We like how you play,'" Fairow said. "I've visited them a couple of times, I've been to a camp there and I've sat in some classes."
And Gabarra has visited Fairow.
"I met the coach Monday," Fairow said. "She flew down and came to my house. We talked about my future and what I was going to do. I'll probably go to the prep school first and hopefully the Navy after that.
"She said she wanted me on the soccer team and that's why she's going to push my application so far. That's taken some stress off because I was worried about committing (to the soccer team), but not getting in."
Fairow certainly wants to play for the Midshipmen's NCAA Division I soccer program. But what about the military aspect that comes with attending the Naval Academy?
Fairow thinks that side of things will make her a better and tougher person.
"I think I need to be a little more disciplined and I need to grow thicker skin," she said. "I might not show it on the soccer field, but off the field, I'm a pretty sensitive person."
On the soccer field, however, that's a different story. There's no getting to Fairow, who is a big reason why Northside will be in the state playoffs next week after winning just three games last year.
"Ashleigh is a dynamic scorer," Northside coach Jeff Cobb said. "She can do all the things and she's very successful doing them."
And Fairow's biggest attribute is her goal-scoring abilities.
Her highest scoring output came when she scored five goals on April 19 in a 10-1 win over South Lenoir. Fairow also scored three goals on March 26 in a 4-2 victory over league-leading Clinton and recorded another hat trick on April 9 in a 3-1 win over Topsail.
She scored the only goal on April 22 in a 1-0 victory at Swansboro.
Simply put, Fairow scores in bunches. Once she finds the net, there seems to be nothing that can stop the speedy forward who has the ability to take defenders on 1-on-1.
"I had a goal by the end of the season that I wanted to get 30 goals," Fairow said. "Right now I'm at (28), and that's pushed me more to get opportunities and score."
Fairow has enjoyed scoring goals. After all, she is a finisher with a finisher's mentality. Give her the ball and her mindset is trying to find the net.
But at the same time, Fairow doesn't just look for her own individual accolades.
She also wants Northside to continue its progression during her third season with the Monarchs.
"I want this team to get better," she said. "This will be my first time going to the playoffs for Northside soccer and I'm pretty happy about it."
The Monarchs had enjoyed a nine-game winning streak that put them atop the East Central Conference standings before they dropped their last two games.
Fairow, though, wants to get Northside back on the winning track, and she feels she can help the Monarchs do just that, not just with her goals, but also with her leadership.
"Before the game (6-3 loss to East Duplin on Tuesday), I was kind of mad at something that happened," Fairow said. "I think some of the girls feed off my energy and when I am not playing up to what I can … I think maybe I'll try stepping up my attitude."
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HAMPTON--Talk about a rude awakening- residents living at a Hampton apartment found raw sewage outside their front door Sunday.
Navara Henderson and Arwilda Barrontell 13News the sewage outside their two-unit townhouse at Heather Lake Apartment has been a problem since November.
'Sometimes it explodes completely and sometimes it's just a continuous leak of sewage, feces, tissue. Whatever you flush down your toilet is literally outside our front door,' said Henderson.
Despite dozens of phone calls to management, sewage continues to flow.
'They don't consider it an emergency because it is not in my unit, but to me it is an emergency because I can't get out of my unit.'
Neighbors tell us when the sewage backs up, apartment maintenance workers pressure wash the sewage away.
But they say the washing leads to garbage pooling under their cars in the parking lot.
'I want them to fix the problem, not cover it up, not wash it away, not come snake it, fix it,' said Henderson.
After nearly a week's worth of calls from 13News, Heather Lake Management agreed there's a problem, but they blame the tenants for dumping grease down their drains causing a blockage.
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Irinotecan Hydrochloride and Cetuximab With or Without Ramucirumab in Treating Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer With Progressive Disease After Treatment With Bevacizumab-Containing Chemotherapy
Colorectal Cancer
What is the purpose of this trial?
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as irinotecan hydrochloride, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as cetuximab and ramucirumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Cetuximab and ramucirumab may also stop the growth of colorectal cancer by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet know whether giving cetuximab and irinotecan hydrochloride together is more effective with or without ramucirumab in treating colorectal cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well giving cetuximab and irinotecan hydrochloride with or without ramucirumab work in treating patients with advanced colorectal cancer with progressive disease after treatment with bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy.
Participation Guidelines
- Age:
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Click here for detailed information about who can participate in this trial.
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- Last Updated:
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: a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring
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When Lillia learns that she'll be going on vacation with her best friend Treize instead of her mom, she's not sure how she should feel about it. Lillia's parents aren't exactly typical, having saved the world... oh, a dozen or so times. And Treize is a member of a royal family, so the restrictions on what he can do are a royal pain. But still, once she's actually on vacation, she starts to have a good time. Until - people start trying to kill them; they end up with a planeload of orphans; it turns out that Trieze is actually a PRINCE; and did we mention that people are trying to kill them? There are secret identities, aerial dogfights and twisting plots galore ahead as Lillia inherits the family talent for being in the right place at the wrong time!
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An UNDEF-funded project in Liberia works to empower rural women by providing speedy information and networking opportunities via radio and mobile technology. more >>
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Given the large volume of proposals, only applicants who advance to the short list will be contacted by UNDEF. This is expected to be in mid-2015. more >>
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Cameroon suffers from a shortage of communication and accountability between local elected leaders and their electorates in planning and implementation. This is why UNDEF funds a project to build participatory governance and including local communities in local decision making processes. more >>
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UNDEF funds the first initiative in Ukraine to introduce parliamentary procedures in the daily work of selected local Councils in all 24 regions of the country, including in the East, so as to increase the transparency and accountability of local self-governance. The project is selecting 24 local authorities, one for each region of Ukraine, to attend a School of Democratic Rules and Procedures. It will promote the adoption of amendments to the regulations of the relevant local authorities to introduce parliamentary procedures and democratic rules. more >>
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Ribery will take some beating imo
Ribery will take some beating imo
Needs to grow a chin, among other things. I know, he can have some of Bastian's
Hehe @ Ronaldo. It's funny to see a supposed "star" with acne.
How could anyone overlook Tevez
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Greatest monobrow since Maggie's enemy baby off the Simpsons.
Tevez came to mind straight away...
How could we forget Ronaldinho?
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Im with Xavier, this guys has that much money why are his teeth so bad....Originally Posted by roseboy64
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Code:47.3 W Coppinger to Heads Smacked the ball straight into the groin of Iwuajoku who has fallen over, miraculously with the ball still caught in his scrotal area! Out!
Rooney, Ribery and Tevez were both involved in horrific accidents as children, Rooney's excuse?
Ronaldo wouldn't be a contender for best looking footballer.
Unfortunatly he seems to get into the sack with some very nice looking women
He puts Shane Warne to shame.
His salary puts Shane's to shame too.
And is multi-lingul.
Ronaldo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shane Warne
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From the train station (7-12 minutes):
By bus: 79, 86 (on the left side of the train station) or 133 (across the street from the train statation), get off at 'Piata Romana' stop. Keep walking forwards, at the first small crossing you come across, turn right, on the 'Mendeleev' street, then at the first crossing turn right again on 'Biserica Amzei' street and go to number 22 (past Tonka bar, across the guard booth, which is in front of the French Embassy).
By Metro: from the 'Gara de nord' station one stop, to 'Piata Victoriei', change to the other line and go for one stop again, to 'Piata Romana'. From there, walk to the crossing, 1) cross the street on the opposite side ( left), 2) turn left at the next small crossing, 3) turn right at the next one, pass Tonka and get to the guard booth across the street from the hostel.
By taxi: a taxi ride to here is less than 10 lei.
From the airport (~40 minutes):
Express bus 783, which you catch in front of the airport and get off at 'Piata Romana' stop. Keep walking forwards, turn right at the next small crossing and walk straight until you pass Tonka bar and then find the guard booth, we are across the street.
Buses run from 5:00 till 23:00; the Express 783 runs non-stop, all night. You have to get the ticket from the booth, NOT on the bus. If you prefer a taxi - taxis are 1.40 lei/km, anything else is a rip off. The price from the airport is around 40 lei. You can get reliable taxis not in front of the airport but out in the parking lot, or out closer to the main street. You can find more information about taxis on our website, in case you need one.
LANDMARKS : the French Embassy, the Tonka bar.'Royal Canin' pet shop on our ground floor.
CHECK: the maps on our website (a bing map and a regular one).
N.B. For successfully reaching our location and to avoid getting lost and upset, please:
1. have the map with you (the map in the pictures section of the hostel);
2. have the exact address with you;
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I was looking for a glove that would fit my small hands without a lot of bulkâ??ordered size small and very happy with the fit and quality, especially for the price. They're a little long in the fingertips, but not by much. Men, you may want to size up; ladies, these are the snug gloves you've been looking for.Read All Reviews
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I have had these shoes for 3 months. When I took them out of the box, the right shoe had a gouge in the toe, it appears someone slipped with a grinder while manufacturing the shoe. I disregarded the defect figuring the toes are going to get scuffed up anyway. But now, the sole has come unglued on the left shoe. Done. Cant wear them any more.Read All Reviews
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Good visibility and decent airflow, my only complaint is that I cant find a replacement visor. I dropped my helmet and mine got chipped up but it is still functional.Read All Reviews
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Purchased these being budget minded. Nice looking gloves that fit well, but after maybe three rides the stitching on the thumbs started coming undone. Gloves are still wearable, however this doesn't leave me too confident on any kind of crash protection.Read All Reviews


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Go out and look at any star in the nighttime sky, and you are looking at an incomprehensibly huge hydrogen bomb. Go ahead. Look. I'll wait.
That tiny speck of light is a thermonuclear inferno. It's apparent puniness is wrought purely by the enormity of its distance from Earth. The sun, our daystar, is much closer. The energy streaming along its 93-million-mile distance will damage your vision permanently if you give it more than a glance.
Hydrogen bombs are, of course, made up primarily of hydrogen, which the high temperatures and densities at the star's core convert to helium. They are indeed the primary components of the sun and all its brother and sister stars. You should be amazed that humans know the chemical elements of the sun to a certainty. After all, we cannot go out and scoop up a cup of star to study its chemical properties. The discovery of the method by which we find out is one of the great triumphs of science. That profound process resulted from the work of many scientists over hundreds of years. Let's set the wayback machine for almost 350 years ago and find out what happened.
The first clue came in 1665 when Sir Isaac Newton took a triangular piece of glass called a prism and split the sun's light into colored bands. Apparently, the way we see light is an illusion. It is really composed of different bands, or wavelengths, of color.
In 1802, British chemist William Wollaston noticed that these color bands are not continuous. Dark gaps existed between some of the colors. That observation was perhaps the most important of all time for astronomical research, but Wollaston did not realize its significance.
Using better equipment than Wollaston's, German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer discovered that not only is the spectrum of light not continuous, but that it is composed of hundreds of discrete bands. He rediscovered the mysterious dark bands, which eventually were named after him — the Fraunhofer lines.
In 1857, a German chemist, Robert Bunsen invented a gas burner that produced a nearly colorless flame. (Perhaps you used a Bunsen burner in high school chemistry.) The advantage of the device was that when a scientist burned a chemical with Bunsen's device, the light produced could not be confused with the light from the chemical. Scientists could now see what colors chemicals produce when they are heated.
A co-worker of Bunsen's, Gustav Kirchhoff, studied the colored bands produced by such burning chemicals and found that their spectra are not continuous — in spades. Each pure substance produced only a few colored bands. Each chemical now had a color fingerprint, and scientists could analyze that color pattern to find out what anything was made out of.
But Kirchhoff went further in his study. He set up containers of various pure substances and shone light through them. He discovered that the substances absorb exactly the same color bands that they would have emitted if they had been burned. Those absorbed colors show up as black lines in the spectrum. Wollaston's mysterious dark bands had finally been explained.
It didn't take long for astronomers to exploit that technique. Swedish physicist Anders Angstrom noticed that the dark spectral lines produced by the sun exactly matched those of light that shines through a container of hydrogen. Thus, explosions beneath the sun's surface probably produce its light. As the light shines through the non-burning outer part of the sun, hydrogen absorbs some of the color bands. Hydrogen must be present in the sun.
Over the years, astronomers have refined their equipment and given us a pretty clear notion of what the sun is made out of. About 3/4's of it is hydrogen, and most of the rest is helium. It also has trace amounts of oxygen, carbon, neon, nitrogen, magnesium, iron, and silicon. Most of the rest of the elements that make up the universe are also present in very tiny amounts.
Similar results have been obtained for most of the rest of the stars and galaxies of stars that have been studied. And it all started when Newton decided to play with a prism.
Knowledge of the universe doesn't come from a single moment of insight. Understanding builds slowly over time. As Isaac Newton wrote, "If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." How lucky we are to be standing on his broad shoulders.
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2012, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems
Jingjing Zhang, G. Adomavicius
This article investigates the impact of rating data characteristics on the performance of several popular recommendation algorithms, including user-based and item-based collaborative filtering, as well as matrix factorization. We focus on three groups of data characteristics: rating space, rating frequency distribution, and rating value distribution. A sampling procedure was employed to obtain different rating data subsamples with varying characteristics; recommendation algorithms were used to estimate the predictive accuracy for each sample; and linear regression-based models were used to uncover the relationships between data characteristics and recommendation accuracy. Experimental results on multiple rating datasets show the consistent and significant effects of several data characteristics on recommendation accuracy.
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What do running, shoveling snow and sitting at your office desk have in common? These are all activities that you should not begin until you've stretched properly.
I know. Stretching before basic yard or office work sounds like overkill. But stretching can help you avoid aching muscles and painful injuries. In fact, you should consider stretching before many daily activities, including gardening, computer work or other repetitive stress tasks (i.e., line work at a factory).


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HAMPSTEAD — To say Ashley Oriol plays the game — whatever the game — hard and with no regard for her body would be an understatement.
Just check the medical records, which include three trips to the ER in the last year or so for the rising senior at Swansboro High.
During this summer's Topsail volleyball camp, Swansboro was unable to finish its match against
"When I struck my hand out it hit the floor," Oriol said. "I didn't feel it, but I was trying to get back up to play (and there was) instant pain and I started crying. She (Miller) just wrapped it up and I had to go to the hospital — again."
A few months at the same venue Oriol went after a ball and ended up with a concussion.
"At first my vision, the light hurt," she said during a break at a recent summer league session at Topsail. "But after that it went away quickly."
Volleyball isn't the only sport that's landed the 17-year-old Oriol having to see the men and women in the white coats.
Last year in a basketball game against
"She got clocked," Miller said. "We ended up calling 911 on that one."
Oriol said she suffered a "strained" neck, offering the observation with something of a shrug as she counted her medical menagerie while insisting that, no, she doesn't have her own bed in the ER.
"I don't know. Every single time it happens I'm just like, 'Oh, no, not again,'" she said. "That's how my mom's reaction is because every single time I call her she's like, 'Are you serious?'"
Sorry mom, but, yes, she is. Perhaps Oriol needs to put 911 on her cell phone contacts.
"That's right," Miller said. "Or we just need to put an
The reality, Miller and Oriol agreed, is that Oriol plays all-out all the time. She only knows one speed.
"She's a hard charger," Miller said.
And Oriol, who will be a key player for the Pirates this coming season in volleyball, has no plans to back off from her approach to the game — any game.
"If someone calls the ball, I will back off," she said. "But if no one calls it, I just want to make sure that it's not going to hit the floor, just reassuring that someone is there."
Along with her play on the court, Miller expects Oriol to be one of the team's leaders in what will be her second year on varsity.
"She brings a lot of leadership with her play, and that's a big thing right there," said Miller, whose club begins practice Thursday for the upcoming season. "She might be quiet on the court, but she brings everybody together."
Being a leader is a role that Oriol is more than willing to try to fill for the Pirates, who were 9-10 last year while earning a spot in the state 2-A playoffs.
"I mean I guess it's expected because I've been playing volleyball for her (Miller) and basketball for her for awhile. I know that as a senior we're supposed to be leading the team, so I'm just ready to take on that leadership," Oriol said.
Away from sports, Oriol is a leader, including being secretary of the senior class as well as a member of a "bunch of organizations."
"It's just natural for me to be a leader," she said. "It's not like it's a big issue for me. If I need to step up and be a leader, then I will. But sometimes if I need to back off and let someone else do the talking, I will."
Oriol was mostly an outside hitter for the Pirates last year, although she did see action in the middle as well.
"She was kind of an all-around front row player for us," Miller said. "This year we're hoping that we can move her to the outside (for) a permanent stay. She's a pretty good athlete. She does a good job mixing up her hits and finding the open areas.
"She's very active up on the net. Even last year when we had to move her around to the middle to outside, she gets a lot of hands on the ball. She also will go for everything. Even if it's not her ball, she's going to go ahead and go for it. She's going to throw her body for it."
While she plays multiple sports for the Pirates, volleyball is her favorite. She's played it since seventh grade, following in the footsteps of her mother, who played it growing up while living in
"I guess it was just natural for me to play it," Oriol said. "And then I was good at it. I just love it."
But why?
"I just like the atmosphere. Everybody's more like a team, and we come together after any play, good or bad. We always just pick each other up," Oriol said. "It's just like a great chemistry. I'm really excited for the season. We already have that chemistry going on."