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Why did Microsoft kill the Forefront tools? In a nutshell, they weren't successful products. They failed because the market had moved on to other security approaches, such as the use of network appliances, instead of the server software approach employed in Forefront. That's the explanation from Hal Berenson. Now president of the consultancy True Mountain Group, Berenson had been Microsoft's general manager for Forefront UAG, Forefront TMG, and other security products.
"TMG was victim to a changing landscape in which the vast majority of the network-edge security business had moved to network appliance," he wrote in his blog. He notes that the traditional network boundaries that Forefront tools were designed for have largely disappeared, thanks to the migrations to BYOD, IPv6, and IPsec. In fact, Berenson says that TMG lost its "strategic value before TMG 2010 even shipped." (You never heard Microsoft say that while it was selling TMG 2010, of course!)
At the end of the day, killing off the Forefront products designed to protect a disappearing network perimeter makes perfect business sense. Microsoft is doing the honorable thing by providing mainstream support for three more years. But the sudden discontinuation of the Forefront product jolted customers.
At this point, my best advice is to move off Forefront TMG and the other tools. Although Microsoft doesn't have alternatives, you can look at adopting hardware firewall devices, which should also reduce complexity in the long run if you also use Microsoft security tools like DirectAccess. Some of these appliances also provide load balancing and authentication services, which are critical in a BYOD world.
In the end, Berenson says, you may be better off with the death of Forefront TMG and its brethren tools. You just won't feel that way for a while.
This story, "With most Forefront tools now dead, what's an Exchange admin to do?," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Just this week, HHS released its final rule governing exchange creation. The 644-page rule included the word "must" over 1,000 times and "require" more than 320 times. The rule gets so specific as to dictate what items a state must include on its exchange website and how its call center must operate. Under the regulation, any state hoping to create an exchange must first apply to HHS using its "exchange blueprint" template. Secretary Sebelius has sole authority to approve or deny the application. Additionally, any "significant change" must also be approved by the secretary.
The rule itself says that the "minimum functions [outlined in the rule] … are a floor not a ceiling." Proponents like Merritt argue that if a state doesn't create an exchange, the federal government will. Under these thousands of pages of regulations and frameworks established by HHS, there is no distinction between the two. States only have the option to further concentrate control in the hands of bureaucrats, not keep it where it belongs: between patients and doctors.
After all of this, even if a state wanted to create an exchange, it would be an almost impossible task. To create exchanges, states must receive approval from HHS by January 1, 2013, which is a little more than nine months away. States would need to rush to create a large Web portal that allows insurers to market their products, helps consumers shop for and purchase insurance and interfaces with various state and federal agencies to provide eligibility and enrollment decisions in hours, not weeks.
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Pterosaurs, flying reptiles that lived at the time of the dinosaurs, flew like paper planes by gliding slowly on tropical breezes, researchers say.
Scientists used fossils to help build models of pterosaur wing sections and tested them in a wind tunnel.
They found that pterosaurs would have been too slow and flexible to brave strong and stormy winds.
So it's thought the creatures flew slowly and landed gently to protect their paper-thin bones.
They think this might explain how some of the creatures were able to grow to be the size of a small plane!


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5x8" sketch moleskine, the one with pale yellow paper, gellyrolls, pitt pens, slicci pens
I am really happy about how this doodle is turning out! Before we left for Italy, I drew the grid and when I flipped open my moleskine one night in our hotel room I started to develop a new type of doodle. I drew the doodles over the course of two evenings. Finally yesterday I had a chance to spend a few hours in a cafe and started colorizing the design. It's really coming to life!
Here in Texas, we are welcoming the cool weather of November and parsing out Halloween sweets. November means Art Every Day Month (aka AEDM), an annual creative tradition hosted by the generous + talented Leah of Creative Every Day.
{This is my art for DAY ONE of ART EVERY DAY MONTH.}
2009: I did both AEDM and NaNoJouMo (click here to read about this challenge to journal every day facilitated at D'Blogala). For NaNoJouMo, I art journaled in an old children's book I called Tekenfilm. For AEDM, I focused on mandalas and doodles. Here's my 2009 wrap-up post.
2010: I did both both AEDM and NaNoJouMo again! For NaNoJouMo, I created a lot of art journal pages and backgrounds. For AEDM, I focused again on mandalas.
2011: For AEDM, I worked on art journal pages in an Exacompta journal. Here's a video flip-through of the journal. Then I switched to watercolors in the A4 moleskine. Here's an example.
The reason I'm going back through years past is to show you how much I love the November challenges and to gently nudge you to get involved. Decide to do it and you will be successful! I'll post my work here at the blog, at the Daisy Yellow Facebook Group, at the AEDM Flickr Group and adding my links to Leah's daily Linky Loves. You do not have to do a big project, you do not have to do only art journal pages or only doodles or only paintings. You don't have to do the same thing every day. It's very flexible and you will be SO PROUD of yourself if you finish it! You might even use the 61 Daily Paper Prompts as daily nudges or creative sparks to get going.


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By Mikhail Teverovskiy, PhD
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Protein biomarkers are widely used in histopathology for cancer diagnosis and therapeutic response prediction. They provide information on expression levels of proteins in the cells, allowing for the detection of particular cell activities associated with the disease state. Their role has been significantly amplified since image analysis and machine learning methods have been used to create multivariate statistical models for personalized predictions of cancer outcomes. These models combine clinical and pathological variables with quantitative features extracted from tumor-containing areas of imaged tissue sections or tissue microarray cores (TMA). Methodologies that integrate data from different sources into a mathematical model are known in life sciences as �systems biology.� 1, 2
The most common outcomes measured in biomarker diagnostic assays are 4 : a) cancer susceptibility, b) cancer recurrence, and c) cancer survivability. Cancer susceptibility refers to an estimation of the likelihood of cancer developing before the disease is diagnosed. When addressing cancer recurrence the goal is to estimate the chances of the disease relapsing over a five or 10 year period after treatment. Cancer survival or clinical failure models estimate the likelihood of metastasis or death caused by cancer.
Cancer biomarkers are identifiable, molecular level features. One of the key factors in developing successful predictive models is the selection of prognostic biomarkers, which are strongly associated with the disease progression. Another important factor is accurate and consistent quantitation of protein expression. Combining these two elements together guarantees accurate results.
Two prevailing techniques for quantitation of protein expression are immunofluorescence (IF) and immunohistochemistry (IHC). In both cases, a protein is localized by inducing an antibody labeled with either a fluorescent dye (IF) or with a special chromogen (IHC) into the tissue, where it binds to a target antigen.7 The stained IF slide is illuminated under a fluorescent microscope by a light with specific wavelength8 and the fluorescent dye emits light of a longer wavelength. The intensity of the emitted light is a measure of the concentration of the target protein. IF images are gray scale images with pixel intensity proportional to the radiance at a given point. In the IHC, a chromogen produces a colored reaction when the antibody binds to the antigen. Most common chromogens impart a brown, red, or blue color with saturation proportional to protein concentration. Unlike IF, IHC images are color images where positive and negative objects have different color (i.e. brown and blue nuclei).
In IF multiplexing, the tissue is labeled with several antibodies at one time, each paired to a fluorescent dye with distinct spectral characteristics. Separation of multiple biomarkers is accomplished via multispectral imaging of the tissue followed by spectral unmixing to obtain gray scale images that represent the expression of individual antibodies. In IHC multiplexing, several antibodies are stained in a single slide. In this case, the antibodies are labeled with chromogens producing distinct staining colors. Multiplexed IHC image is a color image where individual antibodies are distinguished by their staining colors.


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I yield to no man in my advocacy of the philosophy of "All the gear, all the time" (ATGATT). When I went down after being hit by a driver who ran a stop sign, back in December, I ended up in much better shape than I otherwise would have because I was in full gear. As badly as I got worked, not wearing all the gear would have ended up worse.
But still, there are limits, and I think Universal Pictures has transgressed those limits with this:
Yes, it's a replica of the Batman motorcycle suit that Christian Bale wore in "The Dark Knight". And it apparently isn't just a pretty piece of clothing. According to Universal, the suit is a real, functional set of leathers.
- Strong Cordura Mesh Base with Heavy-duty 4 way stretch Spandex inserts.
- Removable CE Approved Body Armor in both Jacket and Pants
- Highly detailed, removable lightweight interior lining.
- Form Molded Leather and Kevlar Armor Sectons [sic].
- Made from Quality Tanned Cow Hides
It looks like it even has knee pucks for racing. So, granted, it's functional, and with CE armor, provides appropriate protection.
But if you buy and wear a Batman motorcycle suit, I can't really decide if it's just super-geeky, or…teh ghey.


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Por Marianela Toledo | Florida Watchdog
MIAMI —Florida should be a treasure hunter's dream come true. Except it's not.
Its sand and sea hide riches of the past, thanks to the state's Spanish colonizers of the 1500s and treasure-laden ships that sank off shores.
Until recently, you didn't have needed to dig very deep to find valuable booty. With a metal detector, you easily could unearthed treasures left behind by forgetful beachgoers.
A Tiffany & Co. platinum wedding band worth more than $2,000, a 3/4-carat diamond ring, a 2-carat ruby ring and a mint-condition Rolex Submariner watch are just a few of the riches Gary Drayton recovered during his metal-hunting days. His best find was a 9-carat Spanish-era emerald ring.
But that may be the end of it for Drayton and his treasure-seeking ilk.
While it's legal to use metal detectors at Florida's Atlantic and Gulf Coast state parks, Drayton told Florida Watchdog, treasure hunters have to get permission from the park manager and hunt only on the dry, sandy beach between the high water line and the sand dune.
The Florida Division of Recreation & Parks Department of Environmental Protection says the restriction is to ensure the "preservation and protection of archaeological resources."
Now, it seems, cities are getting into the act.
St. Augustine recently decided to expand its restrictions by prohibiting the use of metal detectors on public property without the express consent of the city manager or the town archaeologist.
State treasure hunters are up in arms.
"If you lose your watch in the sea, even close to shore, I can't help you find it with a detector because I'm violating the law," Drayton said. "They can fine me and I can go to jail."
The laws were enacted years ago when the state began approving licenses for marine exploration.
If you hunt offshore, where big treasure awaits discovery, you will need a lot more than a metal detector. Along with special permits, there are numerous regulations and procedures to be met before you can even think about digging. If you actually do hit it big under the seat, the state's takes a 20-percent share of your booty.
Drayton said he doesn't get too worked up about the state's heavy handedness in hoarding left-behind objects of value because he's in it purely for entertainment.
Besides, his greatest discoveries didn't come from the beach.
"The first treasure I found was my wife, whom I met in Mexico, then my two adopted daughters and then America, the land of opportunity," Drayton said. "It has been since I got here I found treasures and opportunities everywhere."
Drayton has written six books on finding treasure with metal detectors. He also conducts conferences throughout the country.
Florida Division of Recreation & Parks Department of Environmental Protection did not return calls seeking comment.
Contact Marianela Toledo at [email protected] twitter @mtoledoreporter


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We've been waiting forever to preview Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the flick based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's awesome comic series.
Michael Cera stars as a guy who must defeat seven evil ex-boyfriends to win the girl of his dreams. Edgar Wright directs; the supporting cast includes Up in the Air's Anna Kendrick and Kieran Culkin.
Enjoy on Apple or via the embed below:
Scott Pilgrim opens Aug. 13, which feels so very far away.
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Jay Vetter is currently working on the production design for the FOX sit-com Unhitched (2008).
Vetter is the art director for Football Wives (2007), Fever Pitch (2005), The Punisher (2004), Me, Myself and Irene (2000), There's Something About Mary (1998), and Dumb & Dumber (1994), among others. He received the 1998 Excellence in Production Design Award from the Art Directors Guild for his work as an art director on the TV movie George Wallace.
Vetter is the production designer for The Heartbreak Kid (2007), The Ringer (2005), and Like Mike (2002).
He designed sets and lights for Tony Jerris' Tell Veronica! at the Hudson Mainstage Theater in 2002.
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By Carol Linnitt • Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 11:43
What a difference a decade makes - especially when it comes to government-directed communications policies regarding science, and especially when you're in Canada.
In 2003 a Canadian-American research collaboration, involving scientists from US universities and Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), began in the Eastern Arctic to track oceanic conditions and ice flow in the Nares Strait.
During its early stages, government rules regarding communication and publication about the project were meant to encourage scientific and academic freedom: "Data and any other project-related information shall be freely available to all Parties to this Agreement and may be used, disseminated or published, at any time," the agreement reads.
Now, under new restrictions imposed by DFO officials, scientists are prevented from sharing any information with a third party without the explicit consent of a high-ranking bureaucrat. According to the 2013 agreement, all technology and information related to DFO research, even if conducted in collaboration with outside parties, is "deemed to be confidential and neither party may release such information to others in any way whatsoever without prior written authorization of the other party."
For one American academic currently collaborating with DFO in the Arctic, this type of policy suppresses the free flow of scientific information and is a "potential muzzle." Andreas Muenchow of the University of Delaware is the avid blogger behind "Icy Seas: Scientific Musings of a Sailor in a Changing Climate" and fears the strict new policy will prevent him and other scientists from publishing about their project.
Under the new guidelines DFO managers decide how scientists like Muenchow use the scientific information they gather in their work, leaving the fate of scientific communication regarding the project in the hands of bureaucrats and not scientists.
After the January 29 memo outlining the new communications protocol was highlighted yesterday by Postmedia's Margaret Munro scientists like Muenchow were informed their work - if conducted in partnership with DFO scientists - is also subject to the new guidelines.
Any material prepared for publication must be approved by a DFO Division Manager before being submitted to an external source like a journal.
This document, released by an anonymous DFO insider on the blog Unmuzzled Science, details the new publication procedure:
DFO Communications Advisor Melanie Carkner originally denied any changes had been made to the department's publication policy after journalist Michael Harris originally reported on the story. Yesterday Postmedia's Munro reported Frank Stanek, manager of media relations for DFO, said the department was not prepared to comment on the rules.
Muenchow, in the meantime told Postmedia's Munro he will not be signing the new agreement that threatens his "freedom to speak, publish, educate, learn and share." He is currently working with the University of Delaware and DFO to renegotiate the agreement and today gave this statement to DeSmog Canada:
"This is a very delicate situation for me to be in at the moment, because the proposed Confidentiality Rules as reported by Margaret Munro in the Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and other Canadian papers are being negotiated between the University of Delaware and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans as part of a Collaborative Agreement.
As such, for now, I would not want to inject myself any further into a public debate over policy, even if these policies have the potential to impact my work. I think it is in my best (scientific) interest to let the negotiations process play itself out."
Muenchow, like so many other scientists in his shoes will have to be extra cautious from now on in, to ensure his academic freedom escapes Canada intact.
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Illusion of knowledge
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Muzzling Canadian Scientists
I find what the Harper Government is doing a little frightening - muzzling scientists, auditing and monitoring enviromental organizations, etc. Once a government starts tampering with our democratic rights and freedoms it can be a slippery slope!
ClimateBobL replied on Permalink
The Harper Government really fightening me - muzzling scientists, auditing and muzzling environmental organizations, "stream-lining" the environmental review process, etc. Once a government starts tampering with people's democratic rights and freedoms it can be a slippery slope.
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State Departments
I think they get involved in international contracts. Since they agreed with the U.S. government, they can't ups and change it.
Sad to hear that the Harper government is even worse than Bush.


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80s at 8 for 12-12-13
Welcome to the 80's at 8 blog, updated with each day's show content and music videos for all the songs we've played! If you can explain the connection between a pencil and a cassette tape, if the hardest decision you made on a daily basis was between leather and denim, if you passed notes rather than texted during class, or if you've been tempted to try a Captain Crunch and Mayo sandwich with pixie sticks, this is the show for you; it is the 80's at 8 Today's show kicks off with an homage to David Bowie's 1969 hit "Space Oddity", from 1983 it's Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
From1982 Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science" If you think of twins whenever someone offers you a stick of gum, if your initials are still sitting on every arcade game you dumped $100 and 100+ hours into, or if you can tell me what a slide rule is, you're in the right place; this is the 80's at 8, from 1985 Loverboy "Lovin Every Minute Of It"
From 1984 John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band "On the Dark Side" If you waited to make the move from cassettes to something else until 2005, and you only did it because your car doesn't have a tape deck, if you remember the days when UConn was a backup school before they got good at basketball, or If you remember when Shasta was for losers, TAB was a laboratory accident and Capri Sun was a social statement, you're on the right station; this is the 80's at 8, and from 1983 Berlin "No More Words"
Here is the answer to the timeline, in which year did the following things take place?
Imelda Marcos arrived as a refugee in Hawaii with 3000 pairs of shoes and 500 black bras.
Julia and Suzanne Sugarbaker teamed up with a few other Designing Women to give Atlanta a run for its money.
& Matthew Broderick taught high schoolers everywhere that the key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in 1986, and that year Prince passed along this song to the Bangles that he had originally wrote for Apollonia 6 two years before, and that's the reason no one remembers Apollonia 6... Here's "Manic Monday"
From 1981 Hall & Oates "Kiss On My List" If you've ever been the Gatekeeper to your friend's Keymaster, If you've ever done your part to help Bob Barker control the pet population, or If you've ever danced around a junior high gym to Buster Poindexter's Hot Hot Hot, you're on the right station; this is the 80's at 8, from 1980 Devo "Whip It"
From 1982 Joe Jackson "Breaking Us in Two" If you still dream of getting all your friends together and finding One Eyed Willie's treasure, if you've rather be a Greaser than a Soash, or if you still get cravings for an Orange Julius from the mall, this is the show for you, it is the 80's at 8, from 1983 The Motels "Suddenly Last Summer"
From 1985 ABC "Be Near Me" If you still remember when Scratch N Sniff stickers dominated every recess, If you still take relationship advice from VC Andrews, even though she died halfway through "Heaven", or If you still think that Starburst are a pale imitation of Bonkers, you're in the right place; this is the 80's at 8, from 1985 A-Ha "Take On Me"


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| theHuntgoeson chapter 1 . 8/28/2010
The smut and the football comedy are fun, but I especially like the way you emphasise how deeply Gene and Alex now love each other. And I love that beautiful final line - "For many years she had been afraid of death, but now as she faced it together with Gene Hunt, she didn't know why she had ever feared the other side of the stars."
| Malena Hunt chapter 1 . 6/23/2010
So warm, sexy, and funny! Left a big smile on my face. How wonderful to spend eternity living and loving with such relish. And with such a man! *sigh*
And oh god, that match did suck!
| Novindalf chapter 1 . 6/14/2010
I absolutely despise football, but I'll make an exception here :P
| Deweynumbers chapter 1 . 6/14/2010
So Alex went back and made the relationship work. Great understanding of the die-hard footy fan in the line 'We didn't win, Alex. Therefore we lost.' Like the way that they haven't given up 'real life' for the pub. An original little piece.
| sash queen of the jungle chapter 1 . 6/14/2010
This story is so sweet so beautiful and steamy. I love gene and alex being together it means that everything is right in the world. Love the idea that it's their house, their living room, and that it was a domestic scene which gene and alex were very comfortable and safe doing. Thanks for this is there at least a other chapter?


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East Carolina University.
A P i rat e 's G uide to
Tomorrow starts here.
A publication of the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center
Welcome Katie Winn About $10,000—that's what Katie Winn, the new North Carolina Campus Compact Vista will earn for a stipend in the next 12 months. In exchange, she'll spend 36 hours each week in the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center, coordinating the Campus Kitchen. Lot's of people might see this as a sacrifice, but for Katie, it's an opportunity. "I decided to become a VISTA because I wanted a chance to engage in service and get experience in what I wanted to do [in the future]. I think that what I want to do is focus on service-learning, so this gives me experience working in a college setting, experience with nonprofits, and experience managing the interesting relationships that happen between the two," says Katie. Katie will oversee kitchen operations, recruit and train volunteers to cook and deliver meals, and build relationships with the community organizations that receive Campus Kitchen meals. One challenge she'll face this fall is the development of educational programs that will coincide with delivery shifts. Such programs will add more depth to current community collaborations. In her first few days at ECU, Katie said, "I'm excited to see the Campus Kitchen program grow—to bring my dreams of it to fruition, and see the great things that can come from it."
Summer Snack Project What would you do with 1,600 apples? A few years ago the VSLC had to answer that question, and since then, hundreds of children at the Little Willie Center, Operation Sunshine, the Boys and Girls Club Jarvis Unit, and Police Athletic League have enjoyed fresh fruit and snacks during the summer months. Thanks to a partnership between the VSLC and the First Year Center, apples, chips, and cookies left over from bag lunches at orientation are distributed to summer youth programs instead of going into campus trash cans. The effort is aptly named the Summer Snack Project, and since it's inception, more than 4,000 apples and thousands of individually wrapped cookies and bags of chips have been donated. We've heard great stories about the food—the Little Willie Center staff made apple pies, and Operation Sunshine sent snack bags home with summer program participants to benefit their entire families. And of course, the chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies are always a big hit with the kids! The Summer Snack Project is just one of the many ways ECU supports our community. To learn more, visit www.ecu.edu/vslc, or stop by the VSLC to pick up a 2010/2011 Service Opportunities Guide.
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Volunteer Spotlight
Spotlight on Summer Associates Summers are usually quiet in the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center (VSLC), as our voluntary student staff works primarily from September to May. But this June and July, two summer associates have kept the office bustling with special activities. Requita Demery, a junior hispanic studies major, and Alexandria Fowler, a senior elementary education major, are the first ever VSLC Summer Associates—and they've made quite an impact. They've raised funds for the 2010 Million Meal Event, engaged incoming freshmen in volunteer activities for Give2theTroops, and supported the Fairytale Boutique. They've also made new friends with residents at Oak Haven assisted living. Requita and Alex volunteered 35 hours each week, and in return, will receive an AmeriCorps education award and stipend. Here's what they have to say about their summer associate experience.
Why did you apply to be a summer associate? Says Alexandra, "I thought it would be a great experience and a way for me to learn about the different opportunities to volunteer throughout Greenville. I also was looking forward to the leadership skills and working with various organizations on campus such as orientation and the Fairytale Boutique." "I thought it would be a great way for me to combine my passions for leadership and service. After working in the Center for Student Leadership [and Civic Engagement] last year, I really wanted to turn my focus to service to learn more about the opportunities that students have through the VSLC on campus and in the local community. Because I am a Greenville native, I enjoy giving back to my home community and it is exciting to see other students get motivated to serve," says Requita. What are your main duties as a summer associate? We assist with freshmen orientation; we recruit freshmen at the activities fair and supervise a service project as well. We volunteer with various programs such as: Give2theTroops, Oak Haven Assisted Living, Summer Snack Project, Campus Kitchen, Fairytale Boutique, Pirate to Pirate Mentoring, TRIPS and Million Meals. We tell students about the programs offered through the VSLC and in the Greenville community, so when they're on campus they know the different opportunities to volunteer. We hope to help incoming freshmen realize the importance of service and how much a small gesture can make a lasting impact on their community. We want to educate the ECU faculty and staff about the needs of first-generation college students in hopes of receiving more support [for] these students. We also want to encourage the implementation of programs for first-generation college students because nearly half of the incoming freshmen fit into this category. What have you learned so far? We realized that ECU students are very active in the community and there are endless opportunities for students to get involved. There are 120 community agencies that ECU is partnered with throughout the Greenville community, and there are many programs within the VSLC that students can participate in that have no transportation to get off campus. Are there any other thoughts you'd like to share? We have thoroughly enjoyed the activities we do with orientation, because it gives us the opportunity to meet new people. We get to share our personal experiences with the incoming freshmen and get them excited about their first year at ECU. We also enjoyed going to Oak Haven, because the residents were very hospitable and quickly accepted us as their new friends.
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained." --Helen Keller
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Spring Arbor
Spring Arbor of Greenville is a 24-hour residential assisted living home with an attached special care cottage for residents with Alzheimer's or a related dementia. Owned by HHHunt Assisted Living, Inc., their mantra is "our family serving your family with professional, compassionate care."
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Activity Director Walldine McGarvey keeps residents engaged in social, spiritual, and wellness activities seven days a week. ECU volunteers help out with everything from Penny Ante, to butter making, the annual holiday decorating, and a Mardi Gras celebration. In the past, Walldine has even scheduled a mock wedding, Elvis impersonator, and fashion shows. Intergenerational service with organizations like Spring Arbor exposes ECU students to the issues of aging, mental health, nutrition, and fitness, and it can help both students and seniors deconstruct generational stereotypes. Seniors may experience social, psychological or physical benefits as a result of interacting with college-aged volunteers (Green, 1998). Learn more about Spring Arbor at springarborliving.com or contact Walldine McGarvey at 252-3557003 to volunteer.
The Benefits of Service Every year, thousands of ECU students contribute more than 161,000 hours of service to communities around the world. They mentor youth, raise money for domestic and international relief efforts, build affordable housing, and visit with the elderly. Let's not forget the items they pack and send to our military members stationed overseas, and the love and care they give to animals waiting to be adopted. You may wonder, "what keeps our students so active in service activities, despite their academic workload and busy social calendars?" They tell us they want to add experience to their resume, network, explore career paths, meet new people, get credit for class, carry on a family tradition, or make a difference. Career prospects, wider social networks, extra credit, and personal satisfaction are all valuable benefits of service, but there's one other that many students, and volunteers in general, don't think about—participating in service can improve your health! In 2007, the Corporation for National and Community Service published a review of recent research titled the Health Benefits of Volunteering that suggested a strong relationship between service and health. "Those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer. Some of these findings also indicate hat volunteers who devote a "considerable"amount of time to volunteer activities (about 100 hours per year) are most likely to exhibit positive health outcomes (p. 3)." If you'd like to learn more about the correlation between service and health, the entire report is available at www.nationalservice.gov/pdf/07_0506_hbr.pdf. If you're ready to experience the many benefits of service, stop by the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center today.
Volunteers pose for 2010 Fairytale Boutique marketing materials.
Calendar of Upcoming Events
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Blood Drives Eastern Carolina Donor Center hours: Tuesday: 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm Wednesday: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Thursday: 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm First Friday of Each Month: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Address: 700 Cromwell Drive, Greenville or call 1-800-733-2767. Victory Junction Gang Camp Sunday, July 25 until Thursday, July 29 Contact Claire Rutan at 336-495-2016 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Volunteers will serve as family hosts, program chiefs (arts and crafts, boating, stables, etc.) and kitchen staff. Victory Junction Gang Camp Sunday, August 1 until Thursday, August 5 Contact Claire Rutan at 336-495-2016 or email@example.com. Volunteers will serve as family hosts, program chiefs (arts and crafts, boating, stables, etc.) and kitchen staff. Campus Kitchen Monday, August 9 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. To sign up visit the link below: http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/47-622248858119. Volunteers will meet in Todd Dining Hall to prepare and deliver a meal to the Ronald McDonald House. Muscular Dystrophy Association Summer Camp Saturday, August 14 until Friday, August 20 Contact Amy Pollock at 910-763-3114 or firstname.lastname@example.com Volunteers will pair up with a camper and participate in a variety of activities including fishing, swimming, wheelchair sports, and karaoke night. Don't forget to register for the 2010 University Million Meal Event! For more information please visit: https://www.ecu.edu/cs-studentlife/volunteer/ UniversityMillionMeals.cfm.
Michael Kratzer and Alex Fowler at the Humane Society of Eastern Carolina.
Blood Donation Fact While all blood types are needed during the critical summer months, Type O negative is always in high demand because it can be transfused to patients with any blood type, especially in emergency situations. Type O negative donors can make the difference between an adequate blood supply and a summer shortage. Give the gift of life-become a donor today!
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July Edition 2010
Judy Baker, Institutional and Community Development Consultant Jessica Gagne Cloutier, Service-Learning Coordinator Michael Loeffelman, Volunteer Coordinator Volunteer and Service-Learning Center Shawn Moore, Community Partner Coordinator Old Cafeteria Complex Alice Tyson, Office Manager 252-328-2735 (phone) 252-328-0139 (fax) Katie Winn, AmeriCorps*Vista Member www.ecu.edu/vslc firstname.lastname@example.com
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Jamie Scott makes up one half of London-based alt-rock duo Graffiti6 - a collaborative effort between Scott and his friend TommyD. Jamie stopped by the iHeartRadio studios recently to pose for some polaroids and let us get up close and personal with him through a series of off-the-wall questions.
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Why Knot ... ??
Bless you, Carin for asking because I will answer with the truth in how I feel about my Why-Knot-Kwilt blog ...
Bless you, Carin for asking because I will answer with the truth in how I feel about my Why-Knot-Kwilt blog ...
I actually deleted my blog yesterday afternoon and then thought twice about it last night and "un-deleted" it.
Honestly, I don't know if I have anything of interest to say any more... my heart broke when leaving Montana and having to leave my daughters behind due to legal matters which continue to this day ... two years later.
I'm not the same person I was and I do miss my blogging community ... but I know that most of my community of online friends have moved on without me and again ... what do I have to share? I try to be positive ... I do ... but to date ... two years into this new life, I feel I'm still trying to find a life and yet the battle for my reason for living sans my daughters continues. Foolish and dramatic sounding I am sure ... and I apologize for that. ... but it is my daily reality ... no one else's. I know for a certainty that we each carry our own burdens. I also know for a certainty that I am blessed in so many fortunate ways as so many others are not. However, my burdens are mine, just as each of you own yours. I put a smile on my face and deal each day, just as most of you do. I stay positive the best I can. I thank God each day I wake up and face a new day. But ... I am a different person... a different person with a different outlook on what is and is not a priority.
Every time I go to write on the blog ... well I either wish for what was, or what isn't any more. This blog for me was a creative, sharing, and comforting outlet. Many of you fed my creative soul with your kindnesses and your encouragement. I don't wish to dampen or disappoint. I don't wish to discourage or bring any one down.
I want to encourage, be kind, uplift and inspire ... I feel I'm getting closer to wanting this creative writing outlet, but wonder if it needs to be a different direction because I'm a different person now.
I know how my mother feels how about the blogging community .... Any advice?
My love to each of you and my sincere appreciation for the ask, Carin ... may God Bless you!
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Here's how the throttle body gets dirty. When an engine shuts down, hot exhaust gases and unburned fuel float to the top of the engine. As the vapors bake from the engine heat, they form black sooty carbon deposits inside the throttle body.
Follow the plastic duct from the air filter housing up to the throttle body. Remove the duct and locate the throttle cables and rotating mechanism. Rotate the throttle mechanism and spray the cleaning solvent around the inside of the throttle body. Give it a moment to work and then wipe out the crud.


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by Ignatz Ratskiwatski
Vancouver writer-director Keith Behrman grew up in the wide open expanses of Saskatchewan, Canada, and, although Flower & Garnet is set against the bleak beauty of Ashcroft, British Columbia, a semi-desert landscape in the Canadian West, the sensibility in this his debut feature is pure prairie.
A quietly affecting, if somewhat chilly, study of an emotionally repressed widower (Callum Keith Rennie) and his two children, 16-year-old Flower (Jane McGregor) and her eight-year-old brother Garnet (Colin Roberts), the film effectively conveys the wide open spaces between people that make communication so difficult.
Ever since his mother died while giving birth to him, little Garnet has had to bear the brunt of his father's complete inability to come to terms with the loss. Ed (Rennie) is a pick-up driving, working-class guy who'd rather drink beer with his buddies and fire off a few rounds from his gun than deal with the needs of a withdrawn little boy.
That duty has always fallen on the shoulders of Ed's daughter Flower, who has been both mother and sister to the little tyke, taking care of everything from preparing his meals and taking him to school to organizing his birthday parties and buying the gifts. An adult in most ways, Flower is completing the transition by starting to become sexually active. As she does, she insists that her father take more responsibility for Garnet. Nominally, he accepts - a botched fishing outing ensues - but it soon becomes apparent that Garnet is adrift in the gulf between Flower's withdrawal of attention and his father's distant emotions.
At first Garnet makes the best of things. He wanders around, observing - and in one memorable scene, even tasting - the physical world around him. Watching Flower's friend Ronnie (Dov Teifenbach) burn ants with a magnifying glass (Ronnie may be 16, but he's a very young 16), the sensitive little guy responds to Ronnie's statement that the ants don't feel anything by saying, 'If they don't feel anything, why are they trying to run away?' When, in an attempt to do the right thing by Garnet, his dad buys him a BB gun for his birthday, a series of events leading to tragedy is set in motion.
Writer-director Behrman - who has a number of award-winning shorts to his credit - is a natural behind the camera. A nearly wordless opening ten minutes of the film efficiently and economically give us all the back story we need while deftly sketching in character detail and nuance. He punctuates the emotional drama on display with beautifully rendered random shots of the world surrounding his characters, both reinforcing the isolation they feel and hinting at the possibility of redemption.
For their parts, his cast members perfectly reflect Behrman's vision. Rennie IS the middle-aged, weather-beaten, former Marlborough Man gone slightly to seed, a type this writer (a prairie boy himself) knows very well, while Colin Roberts is effectively opaque as the taciturn Garnet. The real revelation here, however, is Flower's Jane McGregor. She masters the difficult task of portraying a girl/woman with one foot still in childhood and the other in full, glorious womanhood. She will be seen again, you can be sure.


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The New York Giants unfortunately may not see starting linebacker Jon Beason for the rest of the preseason; as he is not expected to play for the team when they face off against the New York Jets this weekend and it's unlikely right now that they would then turn around from that game and use him in their preseason finale against the New England Patriots.
However, despite the fact that the team's starting middle linebacker will not see the field this summer, he's been feeling much better after suffering a ligament tear in his foot during OTA's back in June; an injury that didn't require surgery but just rest and rehab. Beason has been testing the foot by pushing off the foot and cutting with it and having no reported pain in it, another great sign. Beason said he's ready for the next steps and feels close to returning for the team.
"I feel like I'm really close, but I have to go out and do it," Beason said Monday. "I want to test it, that's gonna kinda confirm it for me.We're going through the progression, so today should be pretty aggressive getting after it and doing some things based off of reaction as opposed to anticipation, which is what we do on defense."
Beason was perhaps the key factor in the Giants second-half turnaround after he was acquired from the Carolina Panthers for a seventh-round draft pick this past October; as he recorded 93 of his 104 total tackles and one interception with the Giants and was rewarded with a three-year, $19 million deal after injuries has plagued him through the last couple of years during Carolina and lead to the trade to New Jersey.
While Beason has been out, the Giants for the time being have slid Jameel McClain over to the middle linebacker spot which has allowed rookie Devon Kennard to start the preseason on the outside and could end up becoming a starter for Week 1 if his strong play continues.
Beason said that it would have been nice to play in at least one of the team's preseason games before the regular season started, but ultimately, he said the goal is getting himself back onto the field for the team's opener against the Detroit Lions and feels like he wouldn't need much practice for him to get into game preparation.
"Going into it, to have the opportunity to play in the last couple of games was really a goal," Beason said. "That's really not my decision. They might say: 'Hey, it's not worth risking it to go out and play versus the Jets or go out and play versus the Patriots.' But you've had the opportunity, that's great. Or to be working back in practice that's really good, really promising for the opener against the Lions. I don't know if I need the practice.
It's good to kind of spin the wheels a little bit and get out there and get oiled up. I would love to have a full training camp and four dress rehearsals or five dress rehearsals, but unfortunately that's not going to be the case. Either way I expect to go out and be myself and play well and help my team win.''
One of the things Beason has done in the meantime to help take pressure off the foot is wearing a different sized cleat, going up from his normal 12.5 to a size 13. While it would be great to get Beason some practice reps against live competition, his presence in the regular season is what will count the most and if the Giants defense wants to continue the strong play that allowed them to finish eighth overall in 2013, Beason will be needed healthy in 2014.
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By Greg Sargent - "I am very much against that, and I think most of my members are," Pelosi said in an interview with me today. "I don't see any reason why that should be in any agreement."
The argument against raising the eligibility age is that it would leave hundreds of thousands of seniors without health coverage and wouldn't raise that much money for deficit reduction, since many of those seniors would go into Medicaid or the Obamacare exchanges, offsetting savings. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that it would save $125 billion over 10 years.
Pelosi echoed this complaint succinctly, saying: "Show me the money." She also said flatly that she didn't believe raising the eligibility age would be in the final deal, despite GOP demands: "I don't anticipate that it will be in it."
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Solar news packed this week's roundup while specialty chemical companies further move towards green products and processing…
East and West in solar hook-up
Chinese solar cells and modules producer Suntech bought a minority stake in Russian polysilicon producer Nitol Solar. Nitol will use the financial infuse to set up its new trichlorosilane gas plant which will be completed in 2009. The gas is a key material used in the production of polysilicon.
Signet's spicy investment
US silicon thin film solar modules manufacturer Signet Solar will build its second production facility in India with planned start-up in 2010. Signet's first plant in Germany is scheduled to start in 3Q 2008.
The buzz in solar market
The global photovoltaic market last year generated $17.2bn, reports San Francisco-based consulting firm Solarbuzz. Polysilicon production rose 30% but Solarbuzz said global capacity remains constraint.
Paper major inks recycling biz
International Paper (IP) will buy Weyerhauser's containerboard, packaging and business for $6bn. IP is actually more interested in the packaging part of the business so who knows, they might even ditch the recycling part…
By the grace of green
Specialty chemicals firm W.R. Grace has invested in green concrete materials company Ceratech. Grace said the investment is the company's latest expansion step towards green materials for the construction industry.
In ICIS news (which requires subscription):
Eastman Chemical will introduce its new green cosmetic processing called enzymatic esterification next month. Wacker Chemie is looking to produce amino acid cysteine using glycerine in place of the current feedstock glucose. The company said it is also ready, technically, but not economically to produce acetic acid and polyvinyl acetate from bioethanol. Wal-Mart will begin screening chemicals in their products for any adversed environmental effects within two weeks.
Recent green market studies:
Mintel says 36% of Americans in their recent survey are now regularly shopping for green products compared to 12% 16 months ago. People who never purchase green products has been cut in half over the same period. The question remains, what is the average Americans' definition of green products?
Datamonitor says sales of Fair Trade products across Europe, US, Australia & New Zealand, and Japan, will grow 16% between 2007 and 2012. Among the regions covered, the US has the largest fair-trade market worth L455.3m last year. In Europe, the UK remains the largest market valued at L395m followed by France and Germany. Fair trade certified products are products that meet agreed environmental, labor and developmental standards.


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WOW! That's one very long hiatus for me!!! I'm finally back posting from Adelaide from now on and will try to post a photo a week at least.
The ship found at Port Adelaide. The weather was so nice with clear blue sky. One of the photos I'm satisfied with but I don't remember whether I'm the one who took this photo or my friend took it ;p
Location: Port Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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London (UPI) Jun 26, 2013
Fear of spreading regional unrest, coupled with strong intent and financial wherewithal, is fueling a Middle East market for unmanned aerial vehicles, an analysis from market research firm Frost & Sullivan says.
"The lack of UAV capability in the larger Middle East states significantly influences regional power dynamics," it said. "For instance, the Hezbollah movement recently acknowledged its use of UAVs against Israel. Gulf Arab states are alarmed at the civil war in Syria and want to ensure that popular uprisings in North Africa do not spread to the gulf.
"They are also concerned about Iran's nuclear program. As a result, every large country in the region understands the need to acquire UAVs" for reconnaissance, surveillance and intelligence missions.
Although the interest in UAVs is growing, particularly in larger gulf states such as the United Arab Emirates, sources for the aircraft are few. Currently, the United States and Israel are the world's top exporters of UAVs, but both face obstacles to cashing in directly on growing Arab demand, the report said.
The U.S. Missile Technology Control Regime, created to stop the spread of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, also covers the export by U.S. manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles since some can be used to deliver weapons.
Possible Israeli exports would be a non-starter given its lack of ties with Arab militaries and history of armed conflict with the Arabs.
"The U.S. seems to understand the strategic implications of not catering to the Middle East and may be considering options to bypass MTCR or amend existing norms in order to tap the Middle East market," said Frost & Sullivan Aerospace & Defense Senior Analyst Mahendran Arjunraja. "One way to bypass the MTCR is by providing UAV 'services' instead of selling the equipment. When UAV capability is rented, the ownership of the equipment still lies with the supplier country.
The recent sale of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)-only UAVs (General Atomics's Predator drones) to UAE shows the United States is willing to relax restrictions to grab market opportunities.
"A large number of U.S. UAV companies are also forging ties with local partners," he said. "Forging ties with international companies while encouraging domestic development through offsets and technology transfers offers Middle East countries a shorter route to success" in obtaining the capability.
An alternative source for unmanned aerial vehicles -- Europe -- is not promising for the Middle East. Britain and France have limited UAV capability (Britain is a major customer for Israeli UAVs).
Aerospace companies in both countries earlier this month joined in urging a continentwide collaborative effort to develop and manufacture the aircraft.
The U.S. Congressional Research Service, however, recently wrote that European industries "appear to be focused on potential sales to non-military government and commercial customers."
Turkey could be an potential supplier. It has achieved "significant developments' in unmanned capability, among them its ANKA UAV.
"Efforts at indigenous capability will take some time to materialize and until then, Middle East nations will have to depend on foreign equipment," Arjunraja said.
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Vatti, with two-time Olympic gold medalist Malcolm Page calling tactics, prevailed in the IRC-B2 division of China's premier offshore regatta while Ubox took the top spot in the IRC-B1 division, after setting a record time for the Wanning to Sanya offshore race
As the sun was setting over the horizon on Sanya bay on Thursday evening, a day of close and exciting offshore racing was coming to a close. An 18-strong fleet of boats departed from Wanning earlier in the morning and sailed to Sanya in a tricky 60-nm race that would make tacticians scratch their heads and produce surprises and upsets.
After a slow start in Wanning due to the very light breeze, the fleet picked up pace as the winds got stronger until the race's first waypoint where they completely shut out. The fleet then compressed, the leaders came to a standstill, while the laggards had a a unique opportunity to close their gap in real time and notch up in corrected time.
As Malcolm Page commented, "today's long race was a tricky one. It didn't seem to be a leader's race. The wind would die and people from behind would pass through with more pressure, making things more difficult. Overall, I think our team improved every day, probably except for today where we made things a little bit more difficult for ourselves."
Ubox managed to keep their lead and went on to take line honours, crossing the finishing line off Sanya Serenity Marina after 9:16 hours, new record time for the race. Vatti were second in real time, with a time of 10:51 hours, but it was the two Dongfeng boats that claimed the two top spots. John Thorn and his Chinese crew got bragging rights over Brian Thompson, the British round-the-world record man, and his teammates by 6 minutes.
Despite taking third place in the offshore race from Wanning to Sanya, Vatti was the overall winner in the IRC-B1 division, thanks to her performance in the Sanya in-port races and her commanding victory in the offshore race from Sanya to Wanning. Vatti scored two bullets and a second in the the three in-port races in Sanya and crossed the finish line off Shi Mei Bay marina in Wanning, more than one hour ahead of second-placed 500 Wan.
For Malcolm Page, the Aloha Cup Round Hainan Regatta was an excellent opportunity to keep building the Vatti team. According to Page, "every day we took it up another level and became sharper. It takes a little bit of time to put three different nationalities on one boat but we were very successful. My Mandarin vocabulary is a lot stronger now and I'm sure the English level of our Chinese sailors is now much better. It's always good to get a good result and we now feel more confident for the Chinese summer season ahead of us."
Wang Lei and his crew onboard Ubox had a considerably easier time claiming overall victory in the IRC-B1 division. Entirely crewed by Chinese sailors, the Shenzhen-based boat scored two bullets and a third in the Sanya in-port races and then went on to completely dominate in the first offshore race from Sanya to Wanning. They crossed the finish line after 9:27 hours, four hours in real time ahead of second-placed Haiyi, or a bit more two and a half in corrected.
Ubox set a record time in the Wanning to Sanya offshore leg but, in a situation similar to Vatti's, the tricky conditions favored the smaller boats behind her. The race was won by Liangchuan, a 46 footer, that crossed the line two hours later but was ahead by 20 minutes in corrected time.
The IRC-B1 and IRC-B2 divisions proved to be the most competitive ones, providing the closest racing and setting the foundations for another exciting regatta in 2015.


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The Human Race: Lifecycle Of An Athlete
When athletes have reached their peak, how can the latest scientific research give them that extra edge over their competition?
In this week's programme, Health Check looks at how athletes and engineers are working together in the quest for gold, by monitoring every movement of the human body.
Some of the most cutting edge research is done behind the walls of the Institute for Research and Development for Sports Equipment, known as the FES.
Funded by the government, it opened 50 years ago, and is now probably the world's largest hub of technical innovation in high performance sport, housing a unique range of sports engineering projects.
As well as developing and constructing sports equipment in consultation with coaches and athletes, they also design and develop measurement tools to monitor an athlete's performance.
Claudia Hammond also visits the British city of Sheffield to see a video system which GB boxers believe is giving them a 25% advantage, and the $100 dollar computer game that sports scientists hope could lead to Olympic gold.
(Image: James DeGale with his Gold medal for the Mens Middleweight Final at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Credit: ALLSPORT/Getty Images)


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May 10, 2005
AMHERST, MA - After falling to defending national champ Middlebury College in the NESCAC title game, the fourth-ranked Amherst College women's lacrosse team earned an at-large bid to its fifth straight NCAA Tournament and will travel to Salisbury University this Saturday for one of four NCAA Regionals. The Jeffs (12-3) will face Washington & Lee University (14-3) in Saturday's second regional semifinal - game time is set for 2:30 p.m. - after Salisbury (14-0) hosts either Springfield College (12-5) or Eastern Connecticut State (12-6) at 11:30 a.m. Saturday's winners will meet in the NCAA quarterfinals Sunday at 1 p.m., also at Salisbury.
Amherst has marched through regional play in each of the last four seasons and reached three of the last five national championship games, falling to Middlebury in 1999 and 2001 before breaking through with the program's first-ever NCAA title in 2003. Senior Ashley Harmeling (N. Reading, MA) leads the Jeffs with 60 points on 42 goals and 18 assists and is a two-time InsideLacrosse.com Division III National Player of the Week and NESCAC Player of the Week selection. A First-Team All-America and the IWLCA Attacker of the Year as a junior, she shattered Amherst single-season records for goals (75), assists (52) and points (127) last season and currently stands second in the conference in points per game (4.29), third in goals per game (3.00) and sixth in assists per game (1.29). Joining Harmeling among the NESCAC elite is Alyssa Briody (Hopewell, NJ) with 54 points on 32 goals and a team-best 22 assists in a breakout sophomore campaign. She ranks third in the conference in assists per game (1.47) and fourth in points per game (3.60). Fellow sophomores Dana Kuper (Denver, CO) and Lauren Dudley (Baltimore, MD) and juniors Caitie Parker (Bethesda, MD) and Scotty Hanley (Baltimore, MD) bolster the Jeff attack as Kuper has 15 goals and nine assists, while Dudley and Parker have a matching 16 goals and four assists each and Hanley has chipped in 12 goals and four assists. Senior Cate Smith (Saint James, MD) and first-years Maddie Hoeg (Shoreham, NY) and Gretchen DeLuke (Lewiston, NY) have been solid offensive contributors off the bench all season. Sophomore Liz Wise (Scarsdale, NY) has been similarly impressive in the midfield, tallying 20 points on 14 goals and six assists to go along with 39 draw controls, 27 ground balls and 32 forced turnovers, while classmate Rachel Lewis (Denver, CO) has been a key component in the midfield, logging the most minutes of any Jeff this year. Senior co-captains Liv D'Ambrosio (Farmington, CT) and Jenna Swan-Gross (Philadelphia, PA) anchor the Amherst defense. D'Ambrosio has played nearly every minute between the pipes, piling up 143 saves, while Swan-Gross is one of the Jeffs' top defensive stoppers. Solidifying the defense are junior Laura Brown (Bethesda, MD) and sophomore Emery Sweeney (Darien, CT), who have combined for 63 ground balls and 53 caused turnovers. Sophomore Maggie Roth (Berwyn, PA) has been the team's top defensive substitute, coming off the bench in 14 of 15 games this season.
Washington & Lee enters the tournament ranked 13th in the nation after claiming the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championship with a 6-5 victory over Randolph-Macon College. Juniors Amanda Strickler (Lexington, VA) and Kate Lester (Wilmington, DE) and sophomore Kelly Evans (Lexington, VA) pace the offense. Strickler boasts a team-high 46 points on 21 goals and 25 assists, while Lester has 33 goals and a pair of assists and Evans has 25 goals and 10 assists. First-year netminder Sarah Tilbor (West Simsbury, CT) touts a 5.79 goals against average and 119 saves.
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On the surface, there's little that Errol Morris' Tabloid and Michael Rapaport's Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest have in common beyond the fact that they're both documentaries currently in theaters. The former is an exploration of the conflicting accounts of the 1977 "Mormon sex in chains case" offered by perpetrator/victim Joyce McKinney and the British press, with master documentarian Morris leaving behind the political focus of his last two films to return to his favorite topic of the eccentric and obsessed. (Though it's starting to seem that in Morris' view, everyone is potentially such a character.) The latter is actor and dedicated fan Michael Rapaport's directorial debut about A Tribe Called Quest's history, music, considerable influence, and eventual break-up. But the scandal sheet Rashomon and the bittersweet hip-hop portrait have been united by something unexpected as they've found their way into theaters—their subjects have noisily rebelled.
For Rapaport, the struggle's been primarily waged on Twitter, where back in December, before Beats, Rhymes & Life's Sundance première, ATCQ's Q-Tip announced to his hundreds of thousands of followers "I am not in support of the a tribe called quest documentary." "The filmmaker shld respect the band enough to honor our request regarding the film," he continued, alluding to what was later explained in more detail to the press as a conflict over whether the band would receive producer credit and a share of the profits. (Karina Longworth's interview with Rapaport in the LA Weekly adeptly outlines the conflict.) While Phife Dawg showed up in Park City to support the première, giving an emotional speech to the crowd post-screening, Q-Tip has continued a mixed-message campaign of both promoting and protesting the film in social media. He's suggested to MTV "the friction stemmed in part from the group's lack of control over the story, despite being listed as producers" and has told followers on Twitter the film is "not the full tribe story," hinting that, as was rumored, he might have had issue with the film's warts-and-all portrayal of conflicts between ATCQ's members.
Tabloid's Joyce McKinney, whose fame was far more fleeting than that of Q-Tip, has taken a more direct route to challenging the film in which she's portrayed: she's showed up, unannounced, at screenings, starting with Tabloid's New York City première at the DOC NYC festival, where she joined a bemused Morris onstage and chided the audience, "It hurt me when you guys laughed, because I thought 'They really don't know the story. They don't know the heartache and the fear and the trauma that I went through.'" She's since popped up at other screenings around the country, claiming her story has been "stolen" and that her intent is "to clear my name," though as the New York Times notes, "What she wants to clear up, however, is not so simple a question." Her objection seems to be with the film's allowing room for anyone else's account at all, though that's what it's about: No one is an entirely reliable narrator, least of all the fascinating, frightening McKinney. As for the lengthy comments left on many blog posts and articles about the film—claiming libel, slander, that Morris is being sued for millions of dollars and that the whole project is funded by a Mormon conspiracy—there's no easy way to tell whether they came from McKinney as well, but given how many of them exhort the writers to call her manager to get her side of the story, it seems fair to assume they at least came from an associate of hers.
To someone without stakes in the game, neither Tabloid nor Beats, Rhymes & Life appears to come with any crippling bias. Certainly neither is any sort of brutal takedown. Tabloid is removed almost to a fault, allowing everyone interviewed room to have their say and enough freedom to run themselves into walls. Beats, Rhymes & Life is admiring of its subjects while never glossing over their all-too-human sides and the destructive evolution of their group dynamic. But to say both seem fair is to raise the question of whether a documentary ever really seems fair to those in it, no matter how flattering.
In her preface to Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion wrote, "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: Writers are always selling somebody out." It's an often, probably over-quoted phrase, because it rings true, for nonfiction on screen as well as on the page. The agenda of a documentary filmmaker is to make the most effective film he or she can, not to best serve the film's subject or to guard that subject's feelings and self-image. A doc is rarely a true collaboration between its subject and its creator, despite that being offered as a subtext or as a reason to participate. ("We'll tell your story.") To allow yourself to be filmed is to turn over the stuff of your life to someone else, to submit to another narrator whose interests lie, foremost, in what will make the best film, regardless of how you come off within it. You may be the reason people come to see the film, but the film belongs to someone else.
And God knows, that's almost always for the best. In the case of these two films, a self-commissioned ATCQ doc would surely skip over most of the painful, fascinating personal entanglements in favor of more deserved (but far less interesting) back-patting. And one can only imagine what kind of film Joyce McKinney would choose to make of her own story. Judging from Tabloid's framing segment in which she reads from her own book, it would be a soft-focus thing filled with princesses rescuing their true loves from brainwashing cults with the power of their love, with nary a mention of rape.
At Sundance two years ago, another hip-hop doc, The Carter, premièred without the support of its subject Lil Wayne, who agreed to appear in the film only to later pull his support and file a lawsuit in an attempt to block it from release. He (or his management) reportedly wanted to have the scenes of drug use—pot and the rapper's beloved prescription-strength cough syrup—removed from the final cut. And Morris himself has clashed with a film's subject in the past, settling out of court with The Thin Blue Line's Randall Dale Adams after Adams sued him over ownership for his own life rights. (This despite the fact that most credit the film for Adams getting his conviction overturned.)
"When he got out, he became very angry at the fact that he had signed a release giving me rights to his life story," Morris explained on Wisconsin Public Radio in 2004:
And he felt as though I had stolen something from him. Maybe I had, maybe I just don't understand what it's like to be in prison for that long, for a crime you hadn't committed. … But as a filmmaker I also had a propriety interest in releasing a film, and making this film and producing a work that could be shown in theaters. I mean, one of the great jokes was that because The Thin Blue Line had gotten so much publicity, so much critical attention, he thought I was getting rich.
The subject of the French documentary To Be And To Have similarly tried to sue for both a share of the profits of the film and to protest being misled about the way his image was used—he was ultimately unsuccessful, to the relief of the French film unions who feared a win would set a precedent in which every doc subject would be able to demand payment for participation.
What's changing, beyond people hopefully getting over the assumption that anything but a lucky handful of documentaries ever make money, is that everyone is more sensitive over control of their own image and the price paid for exposure in this over-sharing, yet privacy-obsessed, age. As a society, we've become media-savvy enough to know both that there are more outlets than ever before to spread one's own version of the story, and that having a very public fight with how you're represented in a film may end up getting you more attention than the film itself. "What happens to the authority of a documentary when its subjects are able to disseminate their own alternate stories in real time, on the Internet?" mused Longworth in LA Weekly. It becomes something to question, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and doesn't necessarily undermine the film's integrity. In the chorus of voices in the new media world, we could always do with being reminded of who's telling the story we're taking in.


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Elisha Cuthbert's ex suspended from hockey for calling her 'sloppy seconds'
Sean Avery of the Dallas Stars has been suspended indefinitely from the National Hockey League after publicly referring to Elisha Cuthbert as "sloppy seconds." She's currently dating Dion Phaneuf of the Calgary Flames. While talking to reporters yesterday, Sean made the following off-hand remarks, according to Us Magazine:
"I am really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada," he said. "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about. Enjoy the game tonight."
After the National Hockey League suspended him for "inappropriate public comments," Avery — who served as an intern at Vogue this past year — now has to meet with Commissioner Gary Bettman, who will determine any additional penalty.
"I completely support the league's decision to suspend Sean Avery," Stars owner Tom Hicks said in a statement. "Had the league not have suspended him, the Dallas Stars would have. This organization will not tolerate such behavior, especially from a member of our hockey team. We hold our team to a higher standard and will continue to do so."
So, apparently hockey is a gentleman's sport now? Huh. I must be confused by all the punching and knocking out of teeth. Interesting. If that's the case, why not make the players wear tuxes and top hats? You know, keep things classy. Then, if your teammate makes unsavory comments about a former lover, you can slap them in the face with your gloves and demand satisfaction. Which is also why everybody gets a pistol. Hear, hear!
Thanks to Ryan who's been known to seduce a young lady or two with the simple twist of his monocle.