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Adderall has become the drug of the moment in the NFL. Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner of the Seahawks are appealing suspensions for using it. Eric Wright of the Buccaneers is just starting his. Aqib Talib, Joe Haden and Tyler Sash recently completed theirs. Some players claimed to have prescriptions. A few players even earned exemptions or had their suspensions overturned. But others admitted outright to abusing the drug.
You don't hear a peep about steroids. Cocaine seems relegated to the classic rock channel. When a suspension comes across the wire these days, it almost invariably involves Adderall.
The confused public and media have interpreted this sudden epidemic in two ways. Perhaps players with prescriptions and preexisting conditions are running afoul of the NFL's overzealous drug policy because they were too foolish or lazy to apply for exemptions. Or, the players are really testing positive for steroids and street drugs and taking advantage of the NFL's privacy policies to blame their suspensions on a "socially acceptable" medication, something so safe and harmless that your nephew takes it.
To the rest of the world, Adderall is a notoriously abused pharmaceutical, a medication that transforms hyperactive children into productive scholars but becomes the upper of choice for stressed undergrads, overworked adults or partiers in search of a cheap, readily available high. In the NFL, as player after player gets suspended for allegedly using it, Adderall is being written off as a convenient excuse or an irrelevant fiction.
This is an NFL Adderall suspension article that takes a very novel approach: that NFL players are being suspended for abusing Adderall because they are abusing Adderall, not because they are trying to hide steroid abuse or cannot fill out forms properly. Prescription abuse has become a plague on college campuses and in the workplace. Recent evidence suggests that it has also become a problem in the NFL. For some reason, we would rather believe a conspiracy theory.
Here is a partial list of players who have been suspended, allegedly for Adderall, since the start of training camp, plus a few points of order to help sort out the complexities of the medication and suspension issues.
Tyler Sash, Giants safety, received a four-game substance abuse suspension in August pursuant to a failed drug test in March. Sash said that he was taking the drug "under a doctor's care for an anxiety condition" and did not know that it was a banned substance. He lost his appeal to the NFL.
Mike Neal, Packers defensive lineman, received a four-game substance abuse suspension and missed the first four weeks of the season. Neal produced a prescription for Adderall to treat an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The NFL accepted the prescription moving forward, but did not reduce Neal's suspension.
Point of Order: Most sources only indicate Adderall as a treatment for diagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. The pill is often prescribed for non-indicated disorders, including OCD and anxiety, but those treatments are not well-established, and many sports governing bodies (including the NFL) evaluate exemption requests based on such treatments on a case-by-case basis.
Joe Haden, Browns cornerback, received a four-game suspension in August. An anonymous report stated that Haden took an Adderall as a "pick me up" during a trip to Las Vegas. Haden called the incident "a very dumb mistake" after serving the suspension.
Point of Order: According to the National Football League Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, four-game suspensions are part of the Stage Two Intervention process. A player enters Stage Two Intervention by failing a previous drug test, exhibiting behavioral irregularities or simply failing to comply with the Stage One Intervention procedures after the first failed drug test. The policies for steroids and similar performance-enhancing substances are more stringent and subject players to a four-game suspension after the first failed test.
Andre Brown, Giants running back, tested positive for Adderall over the summer. When he proved that he had been receiving treatment for ADHD since 2009, the suspension was lifted.
Brett Hartmann, Texans punter, received a four-game suspension to start the season. That suspension was reduced to three games when Hartmann produced evidence that he was taking prescription Adderall to treat ADHD.
Point of Order: Appendix E of the NFL's Policy and Program for Substances and Abuses specifically addresses prescription medications. It clearly remands players who test positive for prescription drugs to Stage One Intervention and provides appeal language for players seeking a reduced sentence: "A player who is in the Intervention Program and who tests positive a first time due to the abuse of a prescription or over-the-counter drug will be eligible for a reduction from the applicable discipline unless his entry into the Intervention Program was due to the abuse of a prescription or over-the-counter drug."
In other words, the mechanism is in place to reduce a player's suspension in the event of a first offense for prescription medications, but the suspension presupposes that the player was already in the Intervention Program for something else.
The language of Appendix E appears to contradict language in the league's Steroid Policy, however, which lists Adderall among the "certain stimulants" included in that policy. According to some sources, the exact classification of Adderall is causing some confusion, as both the league and the NFLPA try to come to grips on a suddenly prevalent problem.
Aqib Talib, Patriots cornerback, received a four-game suspension in October, when he played for the Buccaneers. "Around the beginning of training camp, I made a mistake by taking an Adderall pill without a prescription," Talib said.
Will Hill, Giants safety, received a four-game substance abuse suspension just as teammate Tyler Sash was about to return from his suspension. Hill said that he started taking Adderall to treat ADHD last spring. "I know there are other people who do take it for like, to be up, to have fun, things like that, but some people really need to take it because if they don't take it, then what? " He also said that the team specifically warned him about Adderall when it signed him, but by then he had already been tested. Hill lost an appeal but is filing for a future exemption.
Eric Wright, Buccaneers cornerback, received a four-game substance abuse suspension after his appeal was denied this week. Wright said that he began taking Adderall in July to treat "health issues."
Point of Order: Players can obtain a Therapeutic Use Exemption for medications like Adderall, but it is not as easy as waving a prescription around. "The way our system works, it is difficult to obtain one," said NFL senior vice president of labor law and policy Adolph Birch in a recent USA TODAY interview. "There are certainly legitimate uses for Adderall, and if people have a condition that legitimately necessitates it, our doctors and advisers will give it. But it is a very, very detailed process to obtain one." The league requires players to seek second opinions and assigns specialists to review claims, necessary precautions in a world where scripts can be too easy to come by.
Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner, Seahawks cornerbacks, are currently appealing four-game suspensions. An initial report stated that Sherman ingested a cup full of diluted Adderall that belonged to a teammate. Sherman denied the report, and both players are claiming innocence, citing drug-testing irregularities.
Point of Order: The NFL Policy and Program of Substances and Abuse spells out the league's confidentiality protocols in precise detail. The NFL itself only announces suspensions, not the substances or infractions that led to those suspensions. Specifics invariably come from players, their agents or unnamed, and rarely unbiased, sources.
That last fact, coupled with the sudden explosion of Adderall cases, has led skeptics to write off "It was Adderall" as a convenient lie to hide steroid abuse.
There's a simpler explanation: Players are claiming to take Adderall because they are in fact taking Adderall. Some have a long-time prescription, others acquired recent (perhaps spurious) ones, and the rest are doing what a frightening percentage of our society is doing: abusing a pharmaceutical for professional or recreational purposes.
Brake Fluid for the Brain: Adderall is the brand name for a psychostimulant used primarily to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), often in young adults. It consists of a combination of four amphetamine salts. Chemically, it is classified as an amphetamine, but there are several key differences between Adderall and the "greenies" of yesteryear. The biggest difference: Adderall's stimulants target a specific part of the brain. "If you smack your forehead," according to Dr. Russell Carleton, a former ADHD counselor with a doctorate in clinical psychology, "it's that part of your brain. The frontal lobe."
Using stimulants to treat hyperactivity sounds counterintuitive, but Adderall stimulates the part of the brain that controls the other functions and keeps them from going haywire. "The problem with a hyperactive person is not too much on the gas pedal," Carleton explained, "it's that there's not enough brake fluid."
Used as prescribed, Adderall is an incredibly beneficial substance. Young people with attention and behavioral issues become productive students; distracted, fidgety adults can focus on their jobs. The phrase "used as prescribed" is key, of course. Many of us have used Percocet safely and effectively after surgery, but we also knew people eager to buy our leftovers when we felt better. Prescription cough medicine can get you through a bronchial infection, or it can turn JaMarcus Russell into a cautionary tale. Like any powerful medication, Adderall can be abused.
Adderall stimulates the mesolimbic reward pathway of the brain, which is a clinical way of saying that it can get you high, and can be addictive if not used as directed. It is classified as a Schedule II substance in the United States, which means the Drug Enforcement Administration considers it a high abuse-potential drug and restricts the size and scope of prescriptions. Abusers of Adderall, writing on drug counseling and therapy websites, describe an initial euphoria similar to 50 cups of coffee, or even the designer drug Ecstasy, especially when Adderall is used to excess or "prepared" for abuse by crushing and/or snorting.
These same abusers invariably go on to recount tales of habituation and dependence. Many start as prescription users. "My life has turned into an unhealthy, hellish cycle," reads one account at The Experience Project, "fill my script, binge until its gone, crash into a dark and debilitating state of withdrawal, recover to a basic functioning level, refill RX a.s.a.p., repeat." There are other harrowing tales: college roommates borrowing, buying and stealing from each other; harried parents turning to their children's meds for an occasional jolt, then losing control.
This brake fluid for the brain is sometimes called a "mental steroid" when it helps abusers zero in on otherwise-monotonous tasks for hours on end. It's a performance enhancer when it comes time to study (say, a playbook), and again when the weary user needs to be peppy and hyper-alert (say, when covering a wide receiver). It also has one additional appeal to potential abusers: "It washes out of your bloodstream, just like that," Carleton said.
Adderall is powerful, dangerous and ubiquitous, particularly among teenagers, who are often diagnosed (many would argue "over-diagnosed") with ADHD and similar syndromes. The rise of powerful prescription medications has led to the rise in "pharming," chemical experimentation that finds young people eschewing street drugs in favor of the easily obtained alternatives from the medicine cabinet.
It's a problem that has become prevalent everywhere in society, and it's naïve to think that the NFL is exempt. Quite the contrary: In a culture where men who think themselves indestructible take extreme risks in search of an edge or a high, the stuff doctors give 11-year-olds seems downright benign, even if it is on the NFL's banned list. "Some of these guys think it's candy," says sports medical expert Will Carroll, who does not buy the "didn't file the paperwork" excuse in the vast majority of cases. "The prescription is a red herring. There are guys who are either just dumb or just trying to get around the rule."
Myth Busting
Adderall Suspension Myth Debunking, Part One: Most of the players suspended for Adderall were prescription users who did not realize that they had to petition the NFL for an exemption.
Prescription medication declaration and management is not a surprising new problem that faces an athlete when he turns pro. Here are the NCAA's guidelines for obtaining an exemption:
"The NCAA allows exception to be made for those student-athletes with a documented medical history demonstrating the need for regular use of such a drug. Exceptions may be granted for substances included in the following classes of banned drugs: stimulants (including those used to treat ADHD) … The institution should maintain documents from the prescribing physician in the student-athlete's medical record on campus that include the diagnosis, course of treatment and current prescription. In the event that a student-athlete tests positive by the NCAA, the institution will be notified of the positive drug test, and at that time the director of athletics may request an exception by submitting required documents."
So any athletes who took prescription ADHD medicine entering college knew that they had to clear their prescriptions with their athletic director.
What about high school, when Adderall is so often prescribed? Both the school nurse and the special education director are informed of every ADD or ADHD diagnosis and prescription. The special education director is likely to have been the person who sent the child's parents to a doctor in the first place. The nurse needs to know about prescription medication because the nurse administers the medication -- responsible users don't walk around the hallways with Adderall in their pockets (that is almost universally against school policy). By high school, most young adults are active participants in the diagnosis, special-education classification and medication procedure. They know that ADHD medication is a "handle with care" and "report to authority" substance.
So the NFL player who was prescribed Adderall in middle school, sat through classification meetings about it in high school and submitted documentation to his athletic director in college, somehow neglected to inform the NFL about the medication and pursue an exemption? Shenanigans.
Players like Andre Brown (whose suspension was overturned) and Neal (who earned an exemption moving forward) were prescribed Adderall as adults. In such cases, the player does not have a lifetime of medication management to inform him, only the common sense to read a contract, consult his NFLPA rep or call the league's hotline before ingesting a stimulant. The language of Appendix E indicates that the mechanism is in place for players like Brown and Brett Hartmann to get their suspensions reduced.
At the same time, the NFL appears to be taking a skeptical approach to prescriptions that fall outside the range of conventional diagnoses, perhaps wary of an open floodgate of players who cajole stimulants from lenient physicians. A 12-year old who cannot focus on basic tasks may need medication. A 24-year old who doesn't like public speaking might have to gut it out in the name of a policy written to protect his long-term health.
Adderall Suspension Myth Debunking, Part Two: Most of the suspended players are just steroid users. Adderall is a socially acceptable drug, and since the NFL does not reveal the substance that caused the suspension, players can say whatever they want.
Certainly, having a prescription for Adderall qualifies as socially acceptable drug use. But take a look at the list of players earlier in the article. Only a handful claimed to have a prescription.
Aqib Talib explicitly stated that he was using Adderall without a prescription. That he was obtaining it illegally and, by definition, abusing it.
Joe Haden admitted that he was using the drug recreationally. As attempts to get out of trouble go, I took a pill to stay wired while partying in Sin City does not pass the grandma test.
Garrett Hartley, Saints kicker and Test Patient Alpha for Adderall suspensions, served a four-game penalty in 2009 after washing down half of a pill with Red Bull to stay awake during a long drive. He got the pill from some college friends. Again, driving under the influence of an illegally obtained stimulant is not a story you make up to elicit sympathy.
The Richard Sherman "crushed pill" story, whether true or not, is taken straight from the milieu of pharmaceutical abuse. Crush a pill, and you speed its absorption into the bloodstream and turn a time-release medication into something that packs a wallop. This is not the story you float to make the Seahawks locker room sound like a collection of ADHD sufferers victimized by the league's over-stringent policies. It sounds as bad as steroids, maybe worse.
If a player wishes to deflect blame, he could remain silent. He could claim a testing irregularity, as Sherman and Browner are now doing, or as Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams did when suspended for performance-enhancing drugs in the offseason. Heck, if they're going to lie, they could claim that the substance was marijuana, eliciting the kind of shrug that the 2011 suspensions of Redskins Fred Davis and Trent Williams received.
There is no socially acceptable reason for a player, or his agent, to conjure images of wired driving, Vegas all-nighters or pill-crushing, unless those are the ways this chemical is being used. NFL locker rooms, like high schools, colleges and offices, appear to have a handful of legitimate Adderall users and a disturbing, uncounted number of abusers.
The Wired Truth
Contrary to popular belief, most people do not "grow out of" legitimate hyperactivity disorders. "They just learn how to deal with it," Carleton said. "They learn how to correct for it in other parts of their lives." Many young adults are weaned from drugs like Adderall as they learn coping mechanisms that allow them to better focus and study.
But some people need medication through adulthood, and an NFL player that needed Adderall in 10th grade may well need it to memorize his first playbook and sit through position meetings. The Therapeutic Use Exemption process is a necessary part of league policies. "It's a loophole that has to remain open," Carroll said. "It's a real medical diagnosis. But there needs to be a credible process for a waiver."
That credible process must also remain stringent: second opinions, careful reviews, assurances that the latest prescription did not come from Doctor Vinnie Boombatz with a nod and a wink. This is a drug that can be abused to get amped or get high. It can be addictive. And if you review the lists of suspended players with open eyes, you see that some teams appear to be awash in it. Teammates at the same position, whose lockers are very close to each other's, have an odd habit of getting suspended at about the same time. Adderall spreads from locker room to locker room in high school, dorm room to dorm room in college, sibling to sibling to neighbor to (all too often) parent in households, one unused or improperly used prescription feeding many. Why would we assume that the NFL is different?
The rise in suspensions, and admissions, may simply be the result of rises in prescription use, recreational abuse and awareness. Pharming has a long history, but it only came into national vogue about a decade ago. "It's fashionable," Dr. Carleton said, noting that recreational drugs rise and fall in popularity. Today's NFL player grew up in an environment where young people swapped pills the way kids in the 1970s shared joints. When caught, they admit it, not because they're hiding steroids or trying to get sympathy, but because it's a truth that they don't find exceptional or shocking.
The players aren't taking the easy way out by admitting to Adderall abuse. We are taking the easy way out by disbelieving and trivializing their admissions.
The quicker we stop rolling our eyes about overlooked paperwork and steroid excuses, the quicker we can acknowledge prescription abuse as a serious problem, in our sports leagues and in our neighborhoods.


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3 Armed Teens Caught by Good Police Work
September 18th, 2012 by milwaukeepolice
On September 1, 2012, three juveniles, including one who was armed with a gun, went to the victim's residence in the 2500 block of West Roosevelt. When the victim answered the door, they displayed the gun and demanded his property. They subsequently took various property belonging to the victim, including his car.
The victim immediately notified police and a description of the vehicle was broadcast. District 5 Officers Chad Boyack and Richard Ticcioni responded to the area and spotted the vehicle. Officers Boyack and Ticcioni stopped the vehicle and found the three suspects inside. All three were arrested for robbery. All of the suspects have juvenile records withthe Milwaukee Police Department.
Thanks to good citizen cooperation and good police work, these three young criminals and their gun are off the streets.

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Pirates 9, Braves 18 What's a trip to Disney World without entertainment? Before the Pirates-Braves game even began at the Wide World of Sports complex, fans in attendance got to see a saxophone quartet, a mariachi band and a marriage proposal that included Goofy. The game was a little goofy too. Both teams lacked defense and pitching. Not lacking were the food and beer options. Braves fans were able to enjoy Atlanta beers on tap at their home field, including Sweetwater for a low price. Fans of tans were allowed to lay out their blankets on a lawn and watch the game. There was even a version of the popular costume character races. In a Home Depot-sponsored race, a bucket squared off against a drill, a hammer and a paintbrush. That was Brave. Next up: Gulf Coast doubleheader
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Here's a sign of how tenuous a hold House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has on his fellow Republicans: Seemingly every time he sounds a note of pragmatism, he has to follow up his remarks a few hours later to clarify that he's not conceding a thing.
A good example comes in my colleague Lisa Mascaro's story about an interview Boehner gave ABC News' Diane Sawyer on Thursday. In addition to reiterating his opposition to higher tax rates, Boehner weighed in on the fate of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
Noting that Republicans had pledged to repeal the law in 2013 if Mitt Romney was elected president, Sawyer asked, "Is that still your mission?" Boehner replied: "I think the election changes that. It's pretty clear, the president was reelected. Obamacare is the law of the land."
He went on to say that parts of the law "are going to be very difficult to implement and very expensive," and as the government looks for ways to cut the deficit, "everything has to be on the table." But when Sawyer said, "But you won't be spending the time next year trying to repeal Obamacare," the speaker did not disagree. Instead, he said: "There certainly may be parts of it that we believe need to be changed; we may do that. No decisions at this point."


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Post-game breakdown, video: Eastern Washington
Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport hosted its first UConn basketball game on Saturday afternoon.
It took awhile for the Huskies to give the crowd of 9,274 something to really cheer about.
No. 15 UConn gradually pulled away in the second half to beat Eastern Washington, 82-65. The Huskies improved to 11-1 overall.
"I felt the energy from the crowd," coach Kevin Ollie said. "It was just a great family atmosphere. It took them awhile to really start cheering because we didn't really give them an opportunity."
Here's a post-game breakdown:
-- Check out the attached video of sophomore Omar Calhoun's post-game remarks.
-- UConn relied on a balanced attack, as five different players scored in double figures. Senior Shabazz Napier scored nine of his team-high 15 points in the second half while junior Ryan Boatright (14), senior Niels Giffey (13), Calhoun (12) and sophomore Phil Nolan (a career-high 11 points) all made contributions.
No one took more than 12 shots.
-- After UConn played its first home game at somewhere other than Hartford or Storrs for the first time since 1987, Ollie was asked about returning there next season.
"I wouldn't be opposed to it," Ollie said. "But I can't speak because I'm not the only one making decisions. I'm part of the decision. I wouldn't think twice if (athletic director) Warde (Manuel) said let's go play another game down in Bridgeport.
"It's a great atmosphere and we're 1-0. Coach (Jim Calhoun) lost at the (New Haven) Coliseum and he shut that down real quick."
UConn lost to Syracuse at New Haven Coliseum in 1987. The Huskies hadn't played at another in-state arena until Saturday.
Napier is in favor of returning to Bridgeport.
"It was great," Napier said. "I think we should definitely do it. For the excitement, they started flicking the lights at halftime which is cool. It got the crowd excited.
"There's a lot of things Bridgeport can do that XL (Center) and Gampel can't. But at the end of the day, I love Gampel. I'd rather play in Gampel every single game."
-- For the second straight game, Ollie made a change to the starting lineup. Giffey replaced slumping Calhoun who came in shooting 28 percent (10-for-36) in the previous five games.
Both Huskies played well.
Giffey finished with 13 points, four rebounds, a career-high three blocks and three steals in 30 minutes. Calhoun busted out of his funk, sinking 5-of-9 field goals including 2-of-4 from 3-point range. He also had a team-high tying six rebounds in 20 minutes.
It was the first time that Calhoun came off the bench in his career. He had started all 40 career games.
"I know I've been struggling in the last few games," Calhoun said. "I spoke to coach and he told me to keep challenging myself and keep working and that's what I've been doing.
"... I was able to play a little better today. I'm just going to keep doing the same things I did and hopefully I can keep getting better."
-- Nolan, a 6-foot-10 forward, has thrived in his role as a reserve the last two games. He had all of his 11 points in the second half and added six rebounds. He went 7-for-7 from the foul line.
"Phil was great," Ollie said. "He responded the right way."
Freshman Amida Brimah replaced Nolan in the starting lineup for the Washington game on Sunday. Brimah played just five minutes and had a block and two rebounds against Eastern Washington.
"Anybody can start on any given day," Nolan said. "I'm not looking at it as a negative. I'm just looking at it as a positive and I'm trying harder."
-- In three of the last four games, UConn has shot more free throws than 3-pointers. That's a good thing.
The Huskies made 25 of 27 free throws against Eastern Washington and took a season-low 10 3-pointers, sinking three.
-- Eastern Washington coach Jim Hayford: "UConn is a really, really good team. They make you take care of the basketball. They put pressure on you the whole team. They're very disciplined. … You're going to have to beat them. They're not going to beat themselves."
-- The Huskies out-rebounded an opponent for just the fifth time this season, holding a 39-36 edge.
They allowed 10 offensive rebounds in the first half but only six after that.
"That's a good victory for us," Ollie said.
-- In a nice touch, Chris Smith, Oliver Macklin and Mike McKay, three former Huskies from Bridgeport, were introduced during a timeout.
-- Former Husky R.J. Evans, a Norwich Free Academy graduate from Salem, attended the game with his father. Evans is home for the holiday break.
Evans is playing professional basketball in England, competing for the Durham Wildcats.
"It's going well," Evans said. "It's different."
Evans recently returned from a sprained MCL. He's averaged about 14 points in the last few games.
"I'm back in the groove now," Evans said.
He's also attending school in England. He'll undecided about what he will do once his season ends in late April.
-- The crowd of 9,274 set an arena record for a sporting event.
-- Congratulations to director of basketball operations Kevin Freeman and his wife Nicole who had a baby boy on Friday. Freeman missed Saturday's game.
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What I'd like to ask is if anybody knows about an hardware USB-dongle for software protection which offers a very complete out-of-the-box API support for cross-platform Java deployments.
Its SDK should provide a jar (only one, not one different library per OS & bitness) ready to be added to one's project as a library.
- The jar should contain all the native stuff for the various OSes and bitnesses
- From the application's point of view, one should continue to write (api calls) once and run everywhere, without having to care where the end-user will run the software
- The provided jar should itself deal with loading the appropriate native library
Does such a thing exist?
With what I've tried so far, you have different APIs and compiled libraries for win32, linux32, win64, linux64, etc (or you even have to compile stuff yourself on the target machine), but hey, we're doing Java here, we don't know (and don't care) where the program will run!
And we can't expect the end-user to be a software engineer, tweak (and break!) its linux server, link libraries, mess with gcc, litter the filesystem, etc...
In general, Java support (in a transparent cross-platform fashion) is quite bad with the dongle SDKs I've evaluated so far (e.g. KeyLok and SecuTech's UniKey). I even purchased (no free evaluation kit available) SecureMetric SDKs&dongles (they should've been "soooo" straighforward to integrate -- according to marketing material :\ ) and they were the worst ever: SecureDongle X has no 64bit support and SecureDongle SD is not cross-platform at all.
So, has anyone out there been through this and found the ultimate Java security usb dongle for cross-platform deployments?
Note: software is low-volume, high-value; application is off-line (intranet with no internet access), so no online-activation alternatives and the like.
Tried out HASP dongles (used to be called "Aladdin"), and added them to the no-no list: here, too, there is no out-of-the-box (out-of-the-jar) support: e.g. end-linux-user has to manually put the .so library (the specific file for the appropriate bitness) in the right place on his filesystem, and export an env. variable accordingly.


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Jan 2013 - MAT Open House
January 6, 2013
January 6, 2013
Two Sessions: Noon-2 pm and 2-4 pm at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City - Astor Turret, 4th Floor. Please check in at the West 77th Street Entrance between Columbus and Central Park West
Attention Earth science grads:
Change lives. Teach science. That is the call of action for the Museum's new Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program, the first urban teacher residency program offered by a museum.
On Sunday, January 6, from Noon to 2 pm or 2 pm to 4 pm, we invite you to an Open House to meet faculty and staff, find out more about how our pioneering MAT program is structured, and go on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum campus. Prospective students, friends and family, and others interested in learning more about this program are welcome.
The MAT program is a full-time, paid Master's program with science and pedagogy coursework and real-world teaching experience. We seek a student body with diverse life and career experiences, such as recent college graduates, veterans, former participants in volunteer corps, and career changers. The program is open to college graduates with a bachelor's degree in Earth science or a related discipline or any bachelor's degree with a minimum of 24 credits in Earth science plus 6 additional credits in physics, chemistry, environmental science, or biology.
Guests will have the opportunity to hear from program faculty and staff, have questions answered, and go on a behind-the-scenes tour of Museum facilities.
Join the MAT mailing list to receive updates.
Open House Schedule of Events:
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WELCOME AND SIGN-IN (77th Street Entrance) - Guests will be brought to the Astor Turret on the 4th floor for refreshments, information, materials, and opportunities to talk to faculty and staff. Refreshments will be served throughout the day.
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Welcome remarks and program overview
Academic plan Q&A - Courses, academic schedule, and faculty
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I'm dl'ing this one. 9th's God's Stepson was the best remix album I have ever heard. I hope this one is as good, I need a quick break from Vicious Lies.
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something i made recently. didnt want to start a new thread for it. Check it out, let me know what you guys think
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Momentary Financial Crisis... And A Lesson In Unintended Consequences
from the watch-the-automated-trades-go-wheeeeeeeeee dept
Basically, there's a system for the NY Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ, called the Liquidity Replenishment Point (LRP), which is designed to stop electronic trading on stocks in freefall. The idea, of course, is to prevent the algorithms from going nuts. But, the LRP only works on those two exchanges, and we're in a world now where there are a bunch of other, electronic exchanges, that now handle an increasing percentage of stock trades -- and electronic trading on those exchanges is not stopped when the LRP is triggered. So, now things actually get worse, because orders that used to be spread more widely concentrate on these other exchanges by automatically jumping from the NYSE and NASDAQ to those alternative routes, and it can swamp those systems, which have a lot less money available. As Bloomberg explains:
While the system is designed to restore order on the Big Board, trading is so fast during times of panic that orders routed past the exchange may swamp other venues and exhaust buy orders, said Angel at Georgetown.And, speaking of unintended consequences, in talking about this very thing, Felix Salmon points to a blog post by Kid Dynamite explaining why the plan to cancel many of the errant trades is monumentally stupid and likely to create more unintended consequences in forgiving people for doing stupid things, and taking away incentives for others to step in and fix things:
That's when prices may plummet as orders execute against so-called stub quotes from market makers. Brokers can set the quotes as low as a penny a share because they're never expected to be used.
if buyers who step in later see their trades canceled, it removes all incentive for them to step in - and then you don't get the bounce back that we saw! Think about how much havoc it causes a trader who astutely bought cheap stock, then sold it out at a profit. He's now short! Or, he spent the entire day wondering if his order would be canceled, in a state of limbo. What's the alternative - that traders should just assume that the orders will get canceled, and NOT buy stock? Guess what - if no one buys, the stock stays cheap! SOMEONE has to buy, and that someone shouldn't be penalized in favor of remedying the ignorance of the seller who screwed up.Ah, setting off more unintended consequences in response to other unintended consequences. Sometimes you just have to let those who made a mistake take responsibility for their mistakes.


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More than 13 million atheists and agnostics and nearly 33 million claim no particular affiliation. About 20 percent of U.S. adults say they had no religious affiliation, an increase from two decades ago when about 8 percent of people were deemed so-called "nones," according to a new study released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. The group will be the subject of an upcoming PBS miniseries this month.
"But despite their nickname, the "nones" are far from godless. Many pray, believe in God and have regular spiritual routines," The Washington Post's religion reporter Michelle Boorstein wrote Tuesday.
About 37 percent of the religiously unaffiliated say they're spiritual but not religious.
From 2007-2012, the so-called "nones" have risen from just over 15 percent to just under 20 percent of all U.S. adults.
For the first time in recent history, the number of Americans who consider themselves as Protestant has dropped below 50 percent at 48 percent.
"Rev. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptists Theological Seminary in Louisville, saw a welcome clarity in the report, even if he didn't like the new picture in focus," USA Today's Cathy Lynn Grossman reported.
"Today, there's no shame in saying you're an unbeliever, no cultural pressure to claim a religious affiliation, no matter how remote or loose," Mohler told USA Today. "This is a wake-up call. We have an incredible challenge ahead for committed Christians."
Nones are also becoming a larger force in politics. "Nones" are largely Democratic, being 24 percent of registered voters who vote Democratic or lean that way, the study says, showing that "the unaffiliated have become a large and important constituency of the Democratic Party," Religion News Service reported Tuesday.
"Millions of Americans are discovering that religion isn't required in order to lead a moral and purposeful life," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association said in a statement Tuesday morning.
According to Pew, young people are increasingly less religious: 32 percent of people under 30 have no religious affiliation, compared to 9 percent of those 65 and older. And 72 percent of unaffiliated people support abortion rights and while 73 percent support same-sex marriage.
"College students and people starting families and entering new careers are coming out as non-religious in droves," Speckhardt said in a statement. "Saying that you are an atheist no longer carries the stigma that it did in years past. More and more are recognizing that you can be good without a belief in a god."
"I'm undecided as far as religion is concerned," Sean Taylor, 25, a college student who lives and works in Baltimore, told The Post.
He said about five or six years ago, "it came to me that when you look around you got Muslims, Christians, people over in China and people who say that their way of life is built around a certain belief and people who don't belief that are wrong.
"But who am I say something is right or wrong or whose religion or right or wrong," Taylor said in a telephone interview Tuesday with The Post.
"I wanted to sit back and take time to see what I'm comfortable," he said when asked how long he's identified himself as being unaffiliated. "There's a lot of religion out here."
Elaine Antkowiak, 80, who lives near Townsend, Md., was raised Catholic. She has considered herself religiously unaffiliated for years and right now would describe herself as atheist.
"I find it very hard believing. If there was a real God, things wouldn't be happening, like all of our service people being killed over in Afghanistan," she told The Post Tuesday before mentioning the toll serious injuries of two of her children have had on her family.
She said her husband is a head usher of a local church and her enjoys going, but she would only reconsider returning to Mass if structural changes occurred in the Catholic Church including allowing priests to marry.
To read the report
Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly, the national PBS television program, which partnered with Pew in the survey, will air a three-part series. The first segment debuts Friday and features "an overview of who these religiously unaffiliated people are and what they believe," according to Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.
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Waterbury resident Elena Doshchitsyna was among 25 Middlesex Community College students to receive academic achievement awards for earning the highest grade point average (GPA) in their field of study. Doshchitsyna was top achiever in the Ophthalmic Design & Dispensing degree program. Faculty and supporters gathered in the College's new Pavilion at Founder's Hall on April 24 to celebrate this achievement and encourage the continued success of each graduate.
Founded in 1966, Middlesex Community College (mxcc.edu) is part of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System. In all it does, Middlesex Community College strives to be the college of its community. By providing high quality, affordable, and accessible education to a diverse population, the college enhances the strengths of individuals through degree, certificate, and lifelong learning programs that lead to university transfer, employment, and an enriched awareness of our shared responsibilities as global citizens. MxCC, recently named a "Great College to Work For" by "The Chronicle of Higher Education," offers more than 50 degree or certificate programs at the main 38-acre campus in Middletown, the downtown Meriden Center, the shoreline, and online.
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The Race twin has a big center fin that is retractable and more rocker than the normal doors.d0uglass wrote:How is the racedoor sailed?- Is the big center fin retractable like the centerboard in a small sailboat?
Also, regarding ease of use, wouldn't the flat rocker of the racedoor make it catch chop worse than a directional? The only flat door style board I've ridden is a litewave wing, and that definitely has some chop snagging and spray-in-your-face issues in non-smooth water.
I think that worries about kite entanglement would be a bigger factor for me not wanting to race than worries about jibing and tacking a directional.
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Periodontal Exam
What it is: A routine cleaning and examination of your gums by your dentist to keep your teeth and gums healthy and free of infection and disease
What it measures: The connection between teeth and gums and inflammation around your gums
Why you need it: Women who have gum disease have up to a sevenfold higher risk of premature birth. There's also a chance you could simply be more prone to gum disease if you're pregnant or on the Pill. "Hormone changes seem to cause your gums to become more inflamed, although we're not really sure why," says Kimberly Harms, a dentist and a consumer adviser for the American Dental Association.
How often should you have it? Twice a year, but some pregnant women may need to see their doctors every three to four months. "If your gums are bleeding frequently, it's a red flag that you need to go in sooner," says Harms.
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) Test
What it is: A blood test that screens for an underactive (hypothyroid) and an overactive (hyperthyroid) thyroid
What it measures: Whether your thyroid hormone levels are normal
Why you need it: "Pregnancy and the postpartum period tend to bring on these conditions," says Dana Simpler, M.D., an internist at Mercy Medical Center, in Baltimore. Still, mild forms of thyroid disease may affect from 5 to 10 percent of all women. It gets worse: More than half of all these cases may remain undiagnosed. Feeling tired, being forgetful, and gaining weight—classic symptoms of being a new mom—are all signs of hypothyroidism. The opposite condition, hyperthyroidism, usually shows itself with a racing heart, trouble sleeping, or weight loss, which might be dismissed as anxiety or stress. If you're trying to have another baby, this is a crucial test, since a thyroid disorder can stop you from ovulating and increase your risk of miscarriage or premature delivery. If you're diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you'll be put on a synthetic hormone supplement for life; hyperthyroidism is usually treated with radioactive iodine to reduce thyroid hormone production.
How often should you have it? Once a year.
Complete Blood Count (CBC)
What it is: A blood test that evaluates how well your bone marrow and immune system are working
What it measures: White blood cells (high levels mean an infection), hemoglobin (low levels indicate anemia), and platelets (low levels signify your blood may have trouble clotting)
Why you need it: You're more likely to have heavy periods after having children, which can make you susceptible to anemia. "Just the other week, I saw a mom who'd been tired and short of breath for months," says Shari Midoneck, M.D., an internist at the Iris Cantor Women's Health Center, in New York City. "We ran blood tests, and she was severely anemic. I put her on iron supplements immediately, and after a week she said she couldn't believe how much better she felt."
How often should you have it? Every year.
Cholesterol, Pap and Skin Exams
Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Tests
What they are: Two tests that assess how healthy your heart is and your risk of heart disease
What they measure: A blood pressure "cuff" test measures how hard your circulating blood is pushing against the walls of your arteries. Cholesterol tests measure the HDL ("good" cholesterol), LDL ("bad" cholesterol), and triglycerides in your blood.
Why you need them: "Moms often think of heart disease as occurring later in life, but studies show you can have dangerous plaque buildup as early as your twenties unless you have a healthy lifestyle that includes a good diet, exercise, and no smoking," says Nieca Goldberg, M.D., chief of the Women's Cardiac Care at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City. Blood pressure less than 120/80 is ideal. But don't panic if yours is slightly higher. Simple lifestyle changes can often bring it down. Your LDL cholesterol should be below 130 and your HDL above 50.
How often should you have them? Blood pressure should be checked annually. Cholesterol screening should start at age 20 and be repeated every five years, but you'll need to be tested more frequently than that if it's elevated. Know you're at risk? Ask your doctor whether you should have the c-reactive protein test. It measures levels of a substance your liver makes called c-reactive protein (CRP), which can cause inflammation in the blood vessels, increasing your risk of heart disease or a heart attack. "I recommend it for women over thirty with two or more risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol, being overweight, and a family history of the disease," says Dr. Midoneck.
Pap Smear
What it is: A swab test to detect precancerous and cancerous changes in your cervix. Your doctor may also ask the lab that analyzes your Pap smear to check for the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted virus. Certain strains of HPV, when left unchecked, can lead to cervical cancer over time.
Why you need it: Just because you're married doesn't mean you don't have or couldn't get HPV—or cervical cancer. "You or your husband could have gotten the virus earlier in life, but it might not show up on a Pap smear for years," says Holly Nath, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University Medical Center. If the results come back abnormal, the laboratory may run an HPV test. If the Pap's abnormal, your doctor may biopsy suspicious areas on your cervix to check for precancerous cells.
How often should you have it? If you have a normal Pap smear three years in a row and you're in a monogamous relationship, you need this test only every three years, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But if you've recently had an abnormal Pap smear, or recently tested positive for HPV, you'll need to get one every three to six months.
Skin Examination
What it is: A visual exam of your skin by your doctor or dermatologist to check for signs of skin cancer
Why you need it: Malignant melanoma is the most common cancer among women 25 to 29, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. "Women also experience a lot of skin-pigmentation changes during and after pregnancy. Most of them are absolutely harmless, but it's something you definitely want a physician to look at," says Lisa Corum, M.D., a family physician based in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Your doctor will biopsy any suspicious moles or skin patches (a small sample of tissue is removed from the area and sent to a laboratory for examination).
How often should you have it? Each year at your physical.
Blood Sugar and Bone Density Tests
Fasting Blood-Sugar Test
What it is: A test that screens for diabetes
What it measures: The sugar in your blood after an eight-hour fast
Who should get it: Women who have a family history of diabetes, have high blood pressure, or are overweight (yes, that includes those who've packed on the pounds during or after a pregnancy). Those who are diagnosed with gestational diabetes have up to a 50 percent chance of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life. If you're diagnosed with diabetes, it most likely will be controlled through a combination of diet, exercise, and, if necessary, insulin injections.
How often should you get it? Most women should be tested at age 40, and then every year or two afterward. But if you've got any risk factors, most doctors recommend starting screening around age 30. Know you're at risk? If you're diabetic, ask your doctor about a blood test called the A1C, which measures the percentage of glucose attached to red blood cells in the bloodstream. If your A1C level is above 7 percent, your risk of complications from diabetes is much higher.
Bone Mineral Density Test
What it is: A test to check for osteoporosis, a disease that affects about 8 million American women each year and occurs when the bones become thin and weak
What it measures: Bone density, using a machine called a dual energy photon absorptiometer, or DEXA Who should get it: Normally, this test isn't recommended until a woman hits menopause. But you should ask your doctor about a baseline bone scan at age 35 if you have a family history of osteoporosis, are on thyroid medication, or are taking steroids to treat asthma or even eczema. "All of these medications accelerate bone loss," says Melba Ovalle, M.D., director of Osteoporosis Centers of America in Chicago and Orlando. This problem can also be compounded by lactation. If you don't get enough calcium during this time, your body takes it from your own bones to give it to your baby. If your scan reveals early bone thinning (a condition known as osteopenia), your doctor may recommend preventive measures ranging from weight-bearing exercises to calcium supplements to Fosamax, a medication that helps prevent further bone breakdown.
How often should you have it? It depends on your test results. If you don't have early signs of osteoporosis, you may not need to be screened again until you hit menopause.
Hallie Levine is a freelance writer based in New York City who has been published in Fitness, Glamour and Redbook.


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Last Night On Instagram: Rihanna Turns Up On New Year's Eve
You can only scroll through Instagram with one eye open like CBS for so long. Eventually you've gotta stop thumbing. Here's what you missed while you were catching Zzzs last night
Rihanna smoked one while partying on New Year's Eve
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5 Elements of an Effective HIPAA Audit Program Infographic
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
This week is National Health IT Week (#NHITWeek), but I think it might be better to call it National Health IT Infographic week. I'm not complaining. I love a good infographic. For example, I posted the Rise of the Digital Patient Infographic and the Healthcare IT Leadership Infographic – A 25 Year History already this week. I figured I might as well round out the week and post an infographic on EMR and HIPAA as well. Coalfire sent me the following infographic looking at HIPAA audits. I don't think most people realize the HIPAA audits that are coming. HIPAA audits have had a slow start, but I think the momentum is growing. If you're an organization that ever touches healthcare data, you better be ready. Enjoy the HIPAA audit infographic below.


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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC's 29th National Mediation Agreement and First with a 'Big Three' Automaker
DEARBORN, Mich. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and "Big Three" global automaker Ford Motor Company today signed a National Universal Agreement to Mediate (NUAM) to informally resolve workplace disputes through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) prior to an EEOC investigation or potential litigation when a charge of discrimination is filed with the agency.
The EEOC's 29th national mediation partnership with a large employer (mainly Fortune 500 companies) bolsters a multi-year trend of Corporate America signing on to the Commission's widely acclaimed mediation program one of the largest employment-related ADR programs of its kind nationwide, with more than 11,500 mediations conducted annually.
"The Commission hails the willingness of Ford Motor Company to work with us in partnership," said Commission Chair Cari M. Dominguez during today's signing ceremony at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. "Mediation benefits both parties by addressing employment disputes in a fair, timely, cost-effective, and non-adversarial manner."
Joe Laymon, Ford Motor Company's Vice President for Corporate Human Resources, said: "This is an opportunity to establish closer ties with the EEOC and provide an avenue to rapidly and appropriately address employee concerns."
Today's agreement marks the first time the EEOC has signed an NUAM with a major U.S. automaker. In addition to EEOC's 29 national mediation agreements with large employers, agency district offices have entered into approximately 500 local mediation agreements with companies at the state or regional levels within their respective jurisdictions. Expanding mediation is a key component of Chair Dominguez's Five-Point Plan to improve the EEOC's overall operations.
Under the terms of today's NUAM, all eligible charges of discrimination filed with the Commission naming Ford Motor Company as the employer/respondent will be referred to the EEOC's mediation unit, as appropriate. The company will designate a corporate representative to handle all inquiries and other logistical matters related to potential charges in order to facilitate a prompt scheduling of the matter for EEOC mediation.
Further information about the EEOC and its national mediation program is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov. Additional information about Ford Motor Company can be found on its web site at www.ford.com.
The EEOC enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which prohibits discrimination against individuals 40 years of age or older; sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Equal Pay Act; Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the private sector and state and local governments; and the Rehabilitation Act's prohibitions against disability discrimination in the federal government.
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Annual Meeting Coverage
Humanizing Information Technology: New Directions in Information Science Practice, Plenary Session 1
Steve Hardin is associate librarian in the Cunningham Memorial Library at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809; email: email@example.com
The nature of design, digital archives and portals were topics at the opening plenary session of the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The session, Humanizing Information Technology: New Directions in Information Science Practice, featured three speakers who approach the issues from very different perspectives.
Jodi Forlizzi, who works with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and School of Design at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), opened her presentation by asking, "What is design?" Her answer design is the "human power of conceiving, planning and making all the products that serve human beings in the accomplishment of their individual and collective purposes."
An earlier generation considered design problems as systematic problems to be solved. Later, there was a growing interest in input from users. Most recently, she said, we have started to acknowledge that the designer's implicit knowledge in solving the design problem is essential.
Forlizzi discussed the role interactive design plays in today's products. It is the process of defining product behavior, including artifacts, services, environments and systems. It engages emotions, evokes experience and fosters social and behavioral change.
Consider emotion and design, she said. Emotion forms the "basement" of our experience. It coordinates planned activity with artifacts and interfaces in the environment. It also evaluates the outcomes of activities.
How do products mediate the emotions we feel? They support our functional and aesthetic needs, yielding different emotional responses. These needs change as we age and change our values.
Forlizzi discussed a robot used to deliver medicines in hospitals the patients regularly decorate it. Something designed to be a tool has an unintended dimension in that it is also fun. We cannot really predict, she said, how someone will react to a product. We can only create the conditions levers for an intended experience. People will always have intended and unintended responses to products; that fact forces products to evolve in the marketplace.
CMU's Project on People and Robots deals with how older people interact with robots. How may a product look? How does it behave? How may it be used? Project participants want to make robotic products that people will use.
She showed a video on The Hug, a project concept. As people age, their physical and social space declines; opportunities for social interaction dwindle. So the researchers created The Hug a soft, huggable telepresent object. Seniors can use hug robots to talk and share hugs with others at a distance. Their hugs begin to slowly warm, creating a comfortable heat. They can even leave "hug messages" for each other. The Hug uses existing technology sensory technology supplemented by communication technology. Small motors provide small vibration. Thermal fibers make the product comfortable, radiating warmth.
In closing, Forlizzi said all this activity shapes our experiences and ultimately shapes human society and culture.
Next, Anne Gilliland-Swetland, an archivist at the University of California at Los Angeles, discussed digital asset management and electronic archives. Digital asset management, she said, frames institutional management activities strategically. When applying this approach, what the institution values most is use. When objects are digital, there are many more ways they can be used; they can be more useful than nondigital objects.
The worlds of digital asset management and electronic archives are overlapping, Gilliland-Swetland said. Digital asset management helps us think about these concerns in strategic ways. She included a personal anecdote. Several years ago, she was recruited from the University of Michigan to UCLA. Her new dean called her and said she'd been approached by Dreamworks, which was looking for assistance in developing a digital asset management system to be the core of a whole new enterprise. In particular, Dreamworks wanted to hire archivists. They wanted Gilliland-Swetland and colleague Marcia Bates to visit the Dreamworks studio and discuss what they wanted to do. At Dreamworks, they were shown concept art to be used in the movie "Prince of Egypt." Dreamworks was building collaboration with various archivists. Animation is very expensive, and a well-designed digital archives management system can help keep costs down.
After completion of a digital archive, there are promotion and distribution issues. Each user may need to retrieve and modify assets. Digital asset managers need to anticipate all the various users' different needs.
Traditionally, the role of the archive has been custodial. But that's changing, she said. In the 1990s, one commentator presented the idea that archives should move from being a storer of information to a presenter of older information. Post-custodial and noncustodial approaches say the value of archives is increased if they remain in an easily accessible location and format.
The digital assets management worldview includes the entire information life cycle, Gilliland-Swetland said. But all the stages of the life cycle occur at the same time.
Digital asset management is value-driven, she concluded. It doesn't draw hard distinctions between different sizes and shapes of archival objects. It deals with a layering of asset accessibility and needs. It also encourages users to use the content and create derivative work.
The final speaker in this plenary session was Brian Detlor of McMaster University, who spoke about library portals and enterprise intranets and the goal of setting up "knowledge portals." He views portals as more than just retrieval systems. They let people create knowledge and share it with colleagues. Libraries that have websites that permit these activities will be more useful than those that do not.
Detlor related that an irate librarian once asked him, "What does a business professor know about portals?" He said he has a good background in this stuff, actually. Chief information officers are real visionaries. Some are even quoting Vannevar Bush. It is exciting to see them "get it," Detlor said. He told the angry librarian the library could create a space in which people could turn to get information.
Just what is a portal? Detlor describes it as a site that provides a path to content and services through a single access point. Its purpose is to help people gain an integrated view of the information. Without a portal, people become comfortable with one or two information sources, he said; a portal lets people work smarter by automatically integrating new information sources. The portal improves information seeking. It creates strategic advantage.
Library portals, he said, are typically described as user-centered, customizable interfaces to collections of library resources. They can include broadcast search tools, electronic reference services (such as Ask a Librarian) and personalization features. They feature enriched content (such as author biographies, book reviews, tables of contents and book jackets) and virtual communities. Consider the Amazon.com world, he said. It provides those things he wishes his library would provide.
Library portals are more than Web-based front ends to library catalogs, he stated. They may be subject gateways and digital libraries. They are environments where users personalize and interact with library resources, using them not only to access information content but also to communicate and collaborate with others.
Detlor mentioned a working paper he helped write, "Fostering Robust Library Portals: An Assessment of the McMaster University Library Gateway" (available at www.business.mcmaster.ca/msis/profs/detlorb/Working_Paper_4.pdf). He said the report was well received; administrators used many of its recommendations to revamp the library website. One idea: reduce library jargon. The report also offers suggestions on better human-computer interaction (HCI). It recommends not structuring the site on the physical structure of the library, which he said is a common mistake. Another outcome was to raise awareness of librarians at McMaster and get them to spend time and resources developing the portal. Creating the portal is not just a one-time task, he said. It is a continuous project. If we don't do it, students will tend to use things like Google and Amazon.com to get their information.
Enterprise portals (intranets) are applications enabling companies to link internally and externally stored information. Enterprise portals provide users with a single gateway to personalized information needs. They include things like express search engines and links to internal websites. They may also feature real-time news feeds, links to external websites (competitors), automated content classification, metadata and update features. The content doubles every 12 to 14 months, so there is no way a human can keep up, he said. An automated approach is needed with librarians helping guide the process.
Detlor defines knowledge portals as personalized browser-based applications that let knowledge workers access information, collaborate, make decisions and take actions. Knowledge portals support knowledge work and signal the potential value of information.
There will be much more on the subject when Kluwer publishes Detlor's monograph, Towards Knowledge Portals: From Human Issues to Intelligent Agents, in 2004.
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CASTINE, Maine – Junior quarterback Phil Konopka (Shelton, CT) threw for 255 yards and two scores while rushing for two more touchdowns in a dramatic 38-35 victory Saturday afternoon (November 3) over Maine Maritime Academy in the New England Football Conference (NEFC) championship game. Konopka was the recipient of the William J. Mottola Award, which is given to the Most Valuable Player of the NEFC Championship game.
The Gulls battles back from twice from 11-point deficits and scored with 58 seconds left in the fourth quarter on a Mike Lane (Medfield, MA) 5-yard touchdown run to take a three-point lead and the eventual victory over the Mariners. The Gulls will find out where they play in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday afternoon.
Endicott improves to 9-2 overall and captures their first NEFC Championship just a week after winning their first ever NEFC Boyd Division title. The Mariners fall to 8-2 on the year and will wait to see if they receive a bid to the ECAC Tournament when the field is announced on Monday.
The Mariners took a 6-0 lead on their first possession of the game when Nick Bourassa (Jay, ME) scampered 51 yards down the right sideline on MMA's fifth play of the game.
Endicott got their first points of the game at the 2:27 mark of the first quarter after MMA fumbled on their own 28-yard line and was recovered by linebacker Nick Scozzaro (Wellington, FL). After a Konopka to Ryan Carino (Stratford, CT) 19-yard completion that brought the ball down to the 1-yard line, Konopka finished off the drive with a 1-yard plunge to tie the score. Dylan Rushe (Palos Verdes, CA) connected on the extra point giving the Gulls the 7-6 lead.
The Gulls converted another MMA fumble into points, just minutes into the second quarter. MMA was facing a second down and seven when they attempted a pitch off the left side but fumbled and Jordan Fields (Biddeford, ME) pounced on the ball giving Endicott possession at the MMA 22-yard line. Four plays later Dylan Rushe split the uprights from 35-yards giving the visitors the 10-6 lead.
After each team exchanged possessions, the Mariners got their running game in order and went 95-yards in 10 plays and then converted the two-point conversion to take a 14-10 lead into half time. Quarterback Matthew Rende (Augusta, ME) marched the Mariners out to the 50-yard line after pass completions to Todd Murphy (Middlesex, VT) for 22-yards and then to Michael Brennan (Manchester, ME) for 25-yards. After four Jim Bower (So. Paris, ME) runs, Rende hit Nate Duford (Claremont, NH) in the back of the end zone from 20-yards out for the score. Bower (29 rushes for 245 yards) converted the two-point attempt and with 47 seconds left in the half, MMA led by four.
The Mariners came storming out of the locker room and took a 21-10 lead on their first play from scrimmage to begin the second half. Matthew Rende (10 rushes for 62 yards) faked the option and ran the ball into the end zone from 54-yards out giving MMA the 11-point lead.
Endicott responded on their next possession with a 10-play, 60-yard drive that inched them back to within four points at 21-17. The drive was capped off by a Konopka to Taylor Allen (Westboro, MA) four-yard pass to the back corner of the end zone.
The Mariners pushed the lead back up to 11 early in the fourth quarter after an Endicott roughing the punter penalty that gave the Mariners the ball back on Endicott's 38-yard line. Three Jim Bower rushed later the Mariners were ahead 28-17.
Endicott scored the next two touchdowns and took a 31-28 lead with four minutes remaining in the contest. The first score came on a Konopka to Lane (32 rushes for 128 yards) 11-yard touchdown reception, which put the score at 28-23. Then the Gulls capitalized on MMA's fourth fumble of the day and marched 40-yards on six plays before scoring on a Konopka 1-yard plunge.
The Mariners fought back as they have all season as Nick Bourassa (8 carries for 69 yards) took the kick-off 31 yards to Endicott's 47-yard line. Three plays later, Bower took the ball over the left tackle and rumbled 30 yards into the end zone and gave MMA what seemed to be a game winning score at 35-31 with just 3:04 on the clock.
Endicott proved to be worthy of the NEFC crown and responded with a 9-play, 73-yard drive in just 2 minutes of action. Konopka completed five passes for 48-yards but it was Mike Lane who carried the load and rushed for 25 yards, including the game winner from five yards out with just 58 seconds left on the clock. The score gave the Gulls a 38-35.
MMA had one last drive to keep their NCAA hopes alive but a Matthew Rende pass to Nate Duford in the end zone as time expired was ruled out of bounds and the NEFC Championship was won by the Gulls from Endicott College.
Both offenses controlled the pace of play as they combined for 73 points and 829 yards. The Mariners rushed for 364 yards and threw for 78 yards while Endicott rushed for 132 and threw for 255 yards. The Mariners were hampered by three costly fumbles that resulted in 18 Endicott points.
Despite the loss, the Mariner rushing attack became the most prolific running attack in the DIII history. With their 364 yards on the ground, MMA broke Springfield College's DIII record for rushing yards in a season with 4,803. The previous mark was at 4,496 yards. Jim Bower also continued his climb up the NCAA Division III career-rushing list, moving into 6th place all-time with 5,917 career-rushing yards.
The Mariners defense was led by Andy Pulk (Lewiston, ME) who collected 12 tackles. Joel Chadbourne (Westbrook, ME) had 11 tackles while Wade Mondoux (Berwick, ME) had six tackles with two for loss.
Endicott was led on defense by Peter Bay (Darien, CT) who collected eight tackles while Oscar Moore (Lynn, MA) tallied seven and two forced fumbles. Peter Kallas


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It started with a box of Stylecraft. I had thought that I needed to purchase another batch of Stylecraft for the impending baby blankets that I needed to make but when I had searched every corner of my home, I realised that I only needed to buy three new balls. Money saved! Fabulous. (I should point out that finding yarn in every bag/space/corner of our home is something that I enjoy, but is enjoyed less by Andy.)
When I got up on the morning of December 17th, I knew exactly how I was going to make Jenny's baby blanket. I had been toying with the idea of making an Elmer blanket for a while, since seeing that she'd bought a little Elmer toy for the nursery. When I'd tried to translate his colours into yarn, however, I discovered that Elmer and his squares were incompatible with any yarn colours and whilst his squares looked good on him, I didn't feel that I could make a blanket out of the same colours and have it look good. With that in mind, I decided to be inspired by Elmer, but do my own thing with the colour choices. So, this is my Elmer-Inspired Baby Blanket.
Solid Squares are very therapeutic to make. I started churning out a few squares (sewing in both ends and trimming as I went) and then chucking them into my yarn bag. I didn't pay any attention to how many of each colour I had, when I got bored with one colour I'd just move on and make some out of another colour. When I had a decent amount of squares I laid them all out on the floor and arranged them a bit until they looked good, and started to sew them together. I LOVE crocheting squares together, it's one of my favourite things to do. Joining-as-you-go is good for instant gratification, but joining together afterwards is FAB. If you are going to use this method, I heavily suggest making all of your squares first and then join them all at once. So, take your first two and join them along one side, and then join the next two to that, and so on, until you have one long line of granny squares joined just along one side. Do this with all of your squares until you end up with five or six lines of "two squares joined together along one edge", and then start joining those together. Then when you have joined all of them (it will be flappy and holey by this point) join them all along the other way. THIS way, you only get a few ends to sew in.
The mistake I made was that I joined all my squares, and then realised that the blanket wasn't big enough and I had to add one short row and two long rows to my blanket.
This photo makes me laugh. On Christmas Eve, my dad was visited by the Most Boring Man In The World (this seems to be a yearly thing). Having been trapped for aaaaaaaaages with him in the past, we were wise to this and when he knocked on the door this year, me, Andy and Rachel all scarpered into the bedroom and hid there until he had gone. This took a Long Time. I made lots of squares and tried to teach Rachel to crochet (top right corner.) Ha. He went eventually and we were free again!
I made more squares on Christmas Day evening, sat in the dining room avoiding watching Doctor Who. (I know many of you will be fans of Doctor Who, but who's idea was it to show it on Christmas Day? It's a very long time to have to sit still and be quiet and NOT INTERRUPT THE TV on a day when you just want to chill out and laugh a lot with your family. Plus, it's really boring.)
On Boxing Day, I took them to Grandma's house where I finished doing all the joining, with an unfamiliar hook because this was when my good hook was still missing. We found it later in a seldom used kitchen drawer where Andy had tidied it away to. I really have no idea why, and he doesn't remember doing it!
Ahh, all joined. Lovely! It's so blankety now, I love it. It was difficult to give this one away, I can tell you.
Definitely needed a border though, definitely. I'd joined all of the squares with red (Lipstick), and so the back of the blanket looked fab with all the red ridges. I went once around the whole blanket with the same red, using half treble stitches. I had to invent a stitch for this, you see where the two squares meet? Usually if I am working in treble stitches, I do 1TR in the first corner space, and then do a decrease (2TRtog) between the first and second corner spaces, and then another TR in the second corner space. I had to create a 2HTRtog stitch for this one! I don't know if it's a real stitch or not, but it did the job. Now, it's a bit hard to see in these photos but I then went round it with Aspen, and then Turquoise, both in half trebles. when I got to the corners, I didn't want to make it holey so I increased a little on each round to make the border solid. I love the effect.
I'm SO HAPPY with the way this blanket turned out. So happy. When I have a baby, I am going to make one of these for my pram. It's my favourite baby blanket that I've ever made.
Look at the way the little holes line up! I'm telling you, I have a serious love for solid granny squares and the way their corner spaces line up.
I took it home this week to get some daylight photos of it, as the light here has been unhelpful to say the least. Washing line to the rescue! I only took two photos because it was freezing cold (and I was meant to be packing.). Thinking about it now, (now I've looked at the time stamp on the photos) these were taken four hours before the baby was born. Aww!
I think the back is just as wonderful as the front and I am taken with the idea that the one blanket has two different looks depending on which side. In future I may even do the joining on the front edge to leave the ridge there. I think that looks pretty.
And the photo that makes it all worth while:
Baby Jack, two days old, chilling on my blanket :-) Congratulations and well done Jenny, he's gorgeous and I'm so proud of and happy for you.
Blanket details:
I used Stylecraft Special dk in the following colours: Aspen, Aster, Cloud Blue, Sherbet, Spring Green, Meadow, Lipstick, Pomegranate, Clematis, Wisteria, Violet, Plum, Fondant, Shrimp, Lavender, Turquoise and Saffron. You can buy Stylecraft Special DK at Wool Warehouse (this is my affiliate link).
It took about two weeks to make all the squares and join them together, and then another week for me to sew in all the ends that were left over from joining. This would have been less if I hadn't had to add more squares.
The pattern is one that I made up in my head. I can't claim that it's my original idea, because it's a solid granny square and it's hardly a new idea. I did make up the way to make it on my own without reading anyone else's pattern. I still want to do a proper tutorial but I haven't had time to do this lately. If you are familiar with granny square making, the basics are as follows:
Chain 4 and join to make a ring.
Chain 6, and then work 4TR into the ring, chain 3 (this is for your corner), 4TR, chain 3, 4TR, chain three. Then work 3TR and slip stitch into the third chain of your initial chain 6.
For the next and any subsequent rounds, slip stitch or otherwise bring your yarn to the front (in the corner space), and chain 6. Work 2TR into that corner space, and then a TR into the top of each stitch. When you do your corners, work 2TR, chain 3, 2TR into the corner spaces. Once you've worked all the way around, work 1TR next to your chain 6, and then join into the 3rd chain of your initial chain 6.
I find it easier to have chain 3 spaces when it comes to joining granny squares, and they just make the square a bit squarer looking. Always start with a chain 6, this counts as your very last 1TR of your corner, and the chain 3 for the corner space. I find it neater this way.
After reading that, you will see why I need to update my "Solid Granny Square" pattern on the left of my blog! It's out of date and I've changed my method as I've become better at crochet.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The New England Revolution is returning to the MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time in four seasons after earning a 1-0 win against the Columbus Crew at Crew Stadium this afternoon. The win, coupled with results around the league, propelled the Revs up the Eastern Conference's standings where they will enter the MLS Cup Playoffs as the No. 3 seed.
The Revs will now play Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinal Series against Sporting Kansas City at Gillette Stadium in a game that is expected to be played on Saturday, Nov. 2. The Revs are returning to the MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2009 – head coach Jay Heaps' final season as a Revs player.
In today's game, Juan Agudelo put the Revs ahead in the 28th minute, playing a one-two with Lee Nguyen. Andrew Farrell played a ball into Agudelo at the top of the box, and he back-heeled a pass to the streaking Nguyen. Nguyen then played the ball flat across to Agudelo who slotted his shot past Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum.
The Revs made the result hold through the second half, limiting the Crew to only shots from distance. Revs goalkeeper Matt Reis made four saves en route to his fifth shutout of the season. He became the first MLS goalkeeper to play 10 or more games and finish the season undefeated, as his regular-season record set at 7-0-4.
New England is one of the league's hottest teams entering the postseason, going 4-0-2 in its last six games, including a 2-0-1 mark on the road in that stretch.
Major League Soccer will announce the full MLS Cup Playoff schedule in the near future, including match-ups, dates, kickoff times and television coverage. Stay tuned to mlssoccer.com for full coverage of the Revs' return to the postseason.
New England Revolution at Columbus Crew
October 27, 2013 – Crew Stadium (Columbus, Ohio)
New England Revolution 1, Columbus Crew 0
Scoring Summary:
NE – Juan Agudelo (Lee Nguyen) 28
New England Revolution: Matt Reis, Kevin Alston (Darrius Barnes 74), Jose Goncalves ©, A.J. Soares, Andrew Farrell, Diego Fagundez, Lee Nguyen, Andy Dorman, Kelyn Rowe, Juan Agudelo, Dimitry Imbongo (Scott Caldwell 80)
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Chad Barrett, Stephen McCarthy, Jerry Bengtson, Charlie Davies
STATS: Shots 6, Shots on Target 2, Corner Kicks 2, Saves 4, Fouls 20, Offsides 0, Passes 65.7% (204), Possession 32.2%
Columbus Crew: Andy Gruenebaum, Agustin Viana (Justin Meram 72), Josh Williams, Chad Marshall, Tyson Wahl, Bernardo Anor (Ben Speas 49), Tony Tchani, Will Trapp, Dominic Oduro, Aaron Schoenfeld (Ryan Finley 55), Jairo Arrieta
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Lampson, Chad Barson, Danny O'Rourke
STATS: Shots 14, Shots on Target 4, Corner Kicks 7, Saves 1, Fouls 13, Offsides 6, Passes 78.3% (437), Possession 67.8%
* Note that all statistics are unofficial as supplied by Opta
Misconduct Summary:
CLB – Jairo Arrieta (caution) 25
CLB – Agustin Viana (caution) 57
NE – Matt Reis (caution) 84
NE – Juan Agudelo (caution) 89
CLB – Dominic Oduro (ejection) 90
Referee: Hilario Grajeda
Assistant Referees: Paul Scott (AR1), Bill Ditmar (AR2)
Fourth Official: Chris Penso
Weather: 54 degrees and Sunny
Attendance: 17,505
Team Records
New England Revolution – 14-11-9 (51 pts.)
Columbus Crew- 12-17-5 (41 pts.)
- With the win, the Revs closed the 2013 regular season with a 14-11-10 mark and 51 points
- The Revs earned a berth in the MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2009
- New England will enter the MLS Cup Playoffs as the third seed in the Eastern Conference
- This is the Revs' first winning season since 2009, when the Revs went 11-10-9 in the 30-game season
- With 51 points, they posted their highest point total since 2005, when the Revs accumulated 59 points in the 32-game season
- The team's 51 points this season also marks the club's second-best season point total in club history
- The Revs enter the postseason riding a 4-0-2 undefeated streak, tied for the best current mark in the league … the Revs went 2-0-1 at home in the stretch, and 2-0-1 on the road
- With the win, the Revs improved to 19-29-11 all-time against Columbus
- This was New England's fourth-straight win against the Crew
- With three wins in three meetings this year, this is the first time in club history the Revs swept the Crew in a season series
- This is the Revs' first win in the Columbus season series since 2005, when New England went 3-0-1 in the four-game set
- Juan Agudelo scored his seventh goal of the season with the Revolution when he converted his 28th-minute goal … on the season, he has nine goals as two of his goals came while he was with Chivas USA before his trade to New England
- Juan Agudelo's goal was his first since scoring two in the team's 5-1 win over Philadelphia on Aug. 25
- Lee Nguyen recorded his seventh assist of the season on Juan Agudelo's 28th-minute goal … he had two assists in 2012, his first season with New England
- Usual left back Chris Tierney missed today's match with right ankle irritation … he exited last Saturday's match against Columbus in the 78th-minute with the injury … Tierney however, made the trip to Columbus and was a non-dressed player on the bench
- Kevin Alston made his ninth appearance – and sixth start – of the season, in place of Chris Tierney … it was his first start since Aug. 10 in Kansas City
- This was Kevin Alston's second start since returning from treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Andy Dorman started his second consecutive match and his third on the season
- Scott Caldwell was not in the team's starting lineup for the first time since July 27 … he had started the team's last 12 matches in the deeper central midfield role
- Jose Goncalves became the first Revs field player to start and play every minute of every game since Darrius Barnes started all 30 games and played all 2,700 minutes as a rookie in 2009
- Matt Reis capped the regular season with a 7-0-4 record, becoming the first goalkeeper in MLS history to go undefeated after playing 10 or more games
- Matt Reis concluded the regular-season posting a career-best 0.72 goals against average, which will be MLS' best mark this season
- This season, the Revolution posted its best road mark (6-6-5) since 2008 when the team went 6-6-3
- The team's 49 goals is the team's highest goal total since 2007, when the team scored 51 goals in 30 games … the Revs were the third-highest scoring team in the Eastern Conference after New York (58) and Montreal (50)
- The Revs ended the season with their team-record 14th shutout on the year … the club's previous best was 10 shutouts in 2005, 2006 and 2007 … the team's 14 shutouts will end the season second in MLS, behind league-leader Portland (15)


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Edward A. Ryan, III
Ed Ryan coordinates Fairfax County's gang prevention and intervention programs and initiatives. He works with local law enforcement agencies providing adjunct support services to suppression efforts. In addition, Ryan collaborates with the Northern Virginia Regional Gang Task Force and the community. The gang prevention coordinator position is part of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (JDRDC).
In conjunction with county and community organizations, Ryan provides gang prevention and intervention training. He also offers presentations and outreach to nonprofit, community, faith-based and business groups.
Ryan is the former gang prevention coordinator in Loudoun County. He also spent eight years within the Fairfax County Court Service Unit.
A graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Ryan has a master's degree in public administration from George Mason University.


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Artist profile: Cody Eich
It's really exciting to find artists with distinct styles who are able to take common themes and make them very much their own. One such artist is Cody Eich, currently at Studio 13 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I shot Cody a few questions about his work and he graciously took the time to offers thoughtful responses:
You're able to meld very different artistic influences together to great effect. What's your process like in putting it all together?
I've always loved contrast and balance. Generally, I like to use one form or color to compliment the other in some way. I also like breaking the rules. I like putting objects or shapes in my artwork that aren't normally there. Don't get me wrong, I think there are plenty of technical rules that need to be learned and followed by any tattoo artist, which are things that a fine artist or someone using another medium wouldn't necessarily have to worry about. I always think about how a piece will last over time as it ages, my linework and saturation of a tattoo, but I've always loved that there is no real "right" answer to the artwork in tattooing or in other creative fields, so I feel free in my work when I get to break the rules.
Where do you draw your inspiration and references?
I always say nature and the universe we live in are absolutely the most interesting art created by the most creative creator. The seemingly chaotic but complete order of nature and the relationship between every living things is absolutely astounding to me. Ordered chaos. So, I love using natural things as reference for my tattoos, whether it be a person, animal, plant, rocks and geology, or anything else. I find mechanical things or manmade things less interesting. That being said, I also worked at an engineering firm for seven years prior to tattooing, and I find myself inadvertently and sometimes purposefully drawing inspiration from plan sheets and other civil engineering based imagery. Things like topographic style lines, engineering linetypes from computer aided drawing programs will often pop up in my paintings and tattoos next to, or juxtaposed with, natural subject matter. Lastly, I am continually inspired by other artists, fine and tattoo based, and being new to the industry I have so much to learn still from people who have been doing this much longer than I have.
What point in your tattoo career did you feel that your own particular style broke through -- or did you begin tattooing your own art from the outset?
When I started painting before I was tattooing, I felt free to paint whatever I wanted because it was mine, and it was for me in my head. There were no consequences. With tattoos, it took me a bit to really put "my" mark on someone else. Because my clients didn't start off asking for geometric shapes and other design elements that I like using, my tattoos were very stunted until I was encouraged by the owners of Studio 13 in Fort Wayne to make the art I wanted rather than strictly what the client was asking for. From the time I started working there in 2012, they encouraged me to redraw my tattoos for clients before I tattooed them if I hadn't added my touch to the line drawings. Once I started getting some of these tattoos that were more my style out there, people seemed to like them, so it really encouraged me to push things a bit more and develop something unique that I wanted to do.
In a number of your tattoos, I see forms that look like constellations -- what's your intention behind them?
People always assume the shapes that you're talking about in my tattoos are constellations, so I sometimes just make up a name for them as if they are actually out there in space. I have only actually tattooed one real constellation ever. They are really just design elements that I started playing with as a way to put geometric, angular shapes next to organic forms in my artwork. Contrast.
I read on your Tumblr page that you will be making the move to Southern Ontario. Is that still in the works? Where can people find you in the next few months?
I am from the States, but am immigrating to Canada as my wife, Alisha, is from Canada. After we got married in December 2012, we filled out all the paperwork and jumped through all the hoops with that and were able to submit our paperwork in March 2013. I believe the average processing time is about a year, so I'm hoping that March of 2014 will mean I will be okay to live and work in Canada as a permanent resident. In the meantime I have been okayed to live in Canada while I'm waiting to work, so I live with my wife in Brantford, Ontario and return to the States every month for about a week and a half to work with the wonderful people at Studio 13 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I'm hoping to be working full time in Canada sometime around March 2014 and am adding people to a wait list for once this happens, so I can start scheduling appointments as soon as my paperwork goes through.
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Hip-hop star Nas' set at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on Saturday night included a celebration of his classic 1994 album "Illmatic" and the guest everyone was waiting for: Jay Z.
Nas started 15 minutes late at the Outdoor Theatre, but more than made up for it with a set that included every song from "Illmatic" and an appearance by Jay Z during a break in the song "The World Is Yours."
Jay Z performed "Dead Presidents," which samples the Nas line "I'm out for dead presidents to represent me" from a remixed version of the"The World Is Yours."
When Jay Z went into "Where I'm From," Nas backed him vocally until ending on the verse: "Who's the best MC's, Biggie, Jay Z and Nas?" to loud cheers.
Afterward, Nas continued his set that included hits like 2002's "Made You Look" and 1999's "Hate Me Now," which Puff Daddy came out for to perform his hook.
Elisa Marquez, 25, of Phoenix, said Nas' set was "what I expected and more" adding she really enjoyed Jay Z's performance during "Dead Presidents."