Patriot League Track and Field Student-Athletes Set to Compete at NCAA East Regional

May 22, 2013

NCAA East Preliminary Round Central
Men's Qualifiers | Women's Qualifiers

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Twenty-one men and six women from Patriot League schools will try to advance to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships when they compete in the 2013 NCAA Division I Track and Field East Preliminary Round from Thursday-Saturday at North Carolina A&T's Aggie Stadium in Greensboro.

The top-48 ranked athletes in each event in the region - which encompasses all schools east of the Mississippi River - qualified for the Preliminary Round. The top-12 finishers in each event from the East Regional this weekend will join the top-12 finishers from the NCAA West Regional to advance to the 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. from June 5-8.

Two Patriot Leaguers are trying to make return trips to the NCAA Championships, and both Navy junior Zach Duncavage and Bucknell senior Leonard Joseph come in highly-seeded in their events once again. Duncavage is the seventh-seed in the discus, while Joseph is the 10th seed for the hammer throw. The discus will open up the weekend's field events at 10 a.m. on Thursday, while the hammer throw will be competed on Saturday at 10 a.m. Bucknell's Leonard Webster, who is seeded 38th, will join Duncavage in the discus, while the Patriot League features two high seeds in the hammer throw with Army's Nicholas Snoad coming in at 14th.

Duncavage placed seventh in the discus at the 2012 NCAA East Regional to advance to the NCAA Championship, where he placed 16th and earned USTFCCCA Second-Team All-America honors. Joseph just made it to the NCAA Championship last year by placing 12th in the hammer throw at the East Regional, and went on to earn Honorable Mention All-America recognition by placing 17th at the NCAA Championship.

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Eleven of the men's competitors will be in the field events. On Thursday, Bucknell's Kevin Keller (37th seed) will compete in the long jump at 1 p.m., while Navy's Mark Vetere (16th) and Ryan Kochert (30th) are in the pole vault at 4:30 p.m. Army's Jacob Drozd (20th) and Navy's Jay Stell (23rd) compete in the javelin on Friday at Noon, while Lehigh's Adeolu Adesida and Patrick Ciez will conclude the weekend in the high jump on Saturday at 6 p.m.

The men's track events will be highlighted by the 10,000-meter run which includes three Patriot Leaguers. American's Mark Leininger (19th), Navy's Chris Galvin (24th) and Colgate's Chris Johnson (28th) have all qualified for the race which will be held on Thursday at 9:40 p.m.

Lehigh's Devin Monroe (34th) will race in the 400-meter run at 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, while Army's Clyde Wilson (35th) and Navy's Joshua Kingsland (44th) compete in the 800-meter run at 8:35 p.m. On Friday, another event featuring two highly-seeded Patriot Leaguers will be the 110-meter hurdles at 5:30 p.m. with Bucknell's Christian Lupica (21st) and Army's Kyler Martin (25th). Should any of those five runners advance, they would race in quarterfinal heats the following day.

Army's Mark Castelli (39th) will race in the 3000-meter steeplechase on Friday at 9:30 p.m., while American's Mark Allen competes in the 5000-meter run on Saturday at 8:45 p.m.

While the women's side features six qualifiers, two are seeded in position to possibly become the first female Patriot Leaguers since 2008 to make it to the NCAA Championship. Lafayette's Rachel Pena is seeded 10th in the hammer throw, which will be held on Friday at 10 a.m. Navy's Maressa Guynn is the 13th seed in the discus on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. They will each have Patriot League company in their events, with Lehigh's Jimil Ataman (27th) and E'Lana Lemon (30th) in the hammer throw and Navy's Lauren Allam (40th) joining her teammate in the discus. Navy's Alix Membreno (34th) will also compete in the javelin to give the Mids a League-high nine overall representatives at the NCAA East Regional Championship.

Army and Lehigh each follow the Mids with five representatives. Army's Scott Geary also finished in the top 48 in the men's hammer throw and discus, but elected to participate in West Point's graduation exercises instead of head to the East Preliminary Round. Bucknell has four student-athletes, while American has a pair and Lafayette and Colgate each have one.

For more information, including a full schedule of events and live statistics, go to NCAA East Regional Preliminary Round Central

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Migraine, Chronic Back Pain Tied to Higher Suicide Risk ? WebMD

Hopelessness, disability may play a role in feelings of despair, study finds

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By Dennis Thompson

HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- People who endure chronic migraines or back pain are more likely to attempt suicide, whether or not they also suffer from depression or another psychiatric condition, according to a new study.

"Clinicians who are seeing patients with certain pain conditions should be aware they are at increased risk of suicide," said study co-author Mark Ilgen, of the Veterans Affairs Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"Although undoubtedly psychiatric factors are important, there might be aspects of the pain that in and of themselves increase a person's risk," Ilgen said. "There might be something about someone with significant pain that puts them at increased risk."

The wide-ranging study, published online May 22 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, involved more than 4.8 million people who received care from the U.S. Veterans Health Administration during fiscal year 2005. Researchers identified those suffering from chronic pain and tracked them for the next three years to see if any died from suicide.

The research team then looked for associations between suicide death -- the 10th most common cause of death in the United States -- and clinical diagnoses of chronic pain conditions, such as arthritis, back pain, migraines, neuropathy, headaches or tension headaches, fibromyalgia and psychogenic pain.

They found that all pain conditions except arthritis and neuropathy were associated with elevated suicide risk. But when they took into account the mental-health problems that chronic pain patients also had, the associations reduced for all but three types of chronic pain: back pain, migraines and psychogenic pain, which stems from psychological factors.

Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a retired Army colonel and psychiatrist living in Washington, D.C., said the study clearly reinforces the anecdotal link between pain and suicide.

"It makes sense that pain is a risk factor for suicide," she said. "Often, suicide has several different things going on, but pain can be the straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of a person's decision not to go on."

Therapists performing a suicide-risk evaluation should consider adding a question regarding pain to the standard questions aimed at suicidal thoughts and planning, she said.

"It's not a standard question: 'Are you in pain?'" Ritchie said. "I would ask, 'Are you in pain?,' or 'Is pain an issue for you?'"

Psychogenic pain increased people's risk of suicide the most, followed by migraines and back pain. Psychogenic pain is chronic pain caused or exacerbated by mental or emotional problems, and Ilgen said it is a rare and not well understood condition.

"We think that's not so much about psychogenic pain per se, but the fact that the pain itself is poorly understood and may be poorly managed," Ilgen said. "There's not a clear treatment plan for that type of pain. It's likely that patients with this type of pain may be frustrated with their care and more hopeless and more at risk for suicide."

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Ari Folman animates Robin Wright in 'The Congress'

CANNES, France (AP) ? Hollywood is hell.

That's an idea to set tongues wagging at the Cannes Film Festival, and it's the distinct impression left by Israeli director Ari Folman's head-spinning part-animated feature "The Congress."

Fittingly, Cannes provided the inspiration for the director's dystopian vision of the entertainment business, which stars actress Robin Wright as, well, actress Robin Wright ? a 40something performer whose career is on the slide.

Folman conceived the kernel of the film when he came to the festival in 2008 with "Waltz With Bashir," his Academy Award-nominated animated film about his experiences as a young Israeli soldier in Lebanon in the 1980s.

The director said he was walking through the bustling movie marketplace at Cannes when he saw an elderly woman.

"And my sales agent asked me, do you recognize this lady? And I said no," Folman said. "And he told me her name and I was shocked, because she was this goddess American actress from the 70s. She was in her 70s, and no one recognized her. And this is Mecca for cinema, this place!

"And I thought, she's got in front of her, everywhere, the image of her young, stolen forever in the movies. And here she is and she has to live with her image forever young, but she's getting old."

Folman diplomatically declined to name the actress. But he said the episode gave him a way to realize a long-held dream of adapting "The Futurological Congress," a satirical sci-fi novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem in which pharmaceutical overlords keep the population hooked on hallucinogenic drugs.

In the movie, Wright agrees to become a "scanned actor," a digital avatar owned by her studio. The digital Wright can be endlessly, agelessly used in new movies ? the studio makes her "Agent Robin" in a sci-fi action series ? while the flesh-and-blood person grows old in obscurity.

The film's live-action first half is an entertainingly bleak depiction of Hollywood, with an on-the-ropes Wright berated by her agent (a delicious Harvey Keitel) and bullied by her studio boss (a malevolent Danny Huston).

Wright has been called brave for taking on issues of aging and image so directly. But Folman said he didn't see it that way when he offered the role to the actress after sitting across from her at an awards ceremony and thinking she looked sad.

"I think it's a great role," he said. "She is Robin Wright, she is Agent Robin in the movie, she's an animated character, she's an old Robin at the very end, she sings two songs ? it's a great role.

"Although Harvey Keitel told me one day on the set, 'Man, she is so brave. You could have offered me the world, I would never do what she does in this movie.'"

Wright has said she doesn't think she is playing herself, even though she and her screen character share a name and many biographical details, including roles in "The Princess Bride" and "Forrest Gump."

Once Wright has been digitally scanned, the movie switches to animation as the character visits a conference at a luxury hotel ? where her films screen endlessly and she goes unrecognized ? and learns of a sinister plot to make the power of celebrity even more addictive.

The movie's audacious shifts of tone, and its swirling, psychedelically tinged animation, have elicited diverse reactions at Cannes, where "The Congress" opened the Director's Fortnight competition.

Many saw it as original but uneven. It's inarguably a strikingly original work by a director who is both amused and despairing about the modern entertainment business.

Folman, a genial, bearded 50-year-old sporting a gold medallion and an earring, says he fears the sort of movies that inspired him ? the director-driven American cinema of the 1970s ? is dying, soon to be found only in cinema museums.

And don't get him started on 3-D, CGI and the other digital tricks that, Folman thinks, are ruining movies.

"The role of the director is completely different (today)," he said. "Until recently the urgency on the set to make a movie was huge. Today, it's only part of the job, because you can fix everything afterwards. The set is blue screens, and then you build it and you can fix it. And sometimes it's for the good, but I can give you examples where it's terrible.

"My favorite sci-fi movie ever is 'Blade Runner.' This film was done with hand-made crafts."

For the movie, director Ridley Scott "built the sets ? it's wood and paper and plastic and aluminum. I see this movie every few months on a big screen at home and it will live forever.

"Same guy did 'Prometheus' last year. Who saw it?"

Folman is keeping the flame burning for an older form of cinema ? but it's a slow and laborious process. "The Congress" took five years to make, and slightly under an hour of animation required two years of work by animators in nine countries.

"I try not to look at myself as this nostalgic (person)," Folman added, pausing a second before adding: "But."

"I don't say we will have scanned actors. I think the human side will win. I am a true believer in that.

"But if I look at my kids and the way they use everything ? iPads and electronics and everything ? I have to be honest with myself and say, if my kids, in 15 years' time, see a movie with scanned characters, they won't give a damn."

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ari-folman-animates-robin-wright-congress-120523130.html

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With A Media-Rich Platform To Stand Out From The Messaging Pack, MessageMe Hits 5M Users In 2.5 Months [Interview]

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Mullets and more: Worst 'DWTS' costumes

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Anna Chan TODAY

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Few ballroom outfits will top the atrocities that were Marie Osmond's doll outfit or Bristol Palin's gorilla suit, but nevertheless, it seems the costume department at "Dancing With the Stars" tries each season.

We get that it's a tough gig -- the designers and seamstresses have to whip out multiple outfits a week, practically at the pace of "Project Runway's" challenges. They can't all look awesome! But can't they look a little bit better?

Here's a look at some of the more questionable costumes from the season. (Note: Kudos to whoever is dressing co-host Brooke Burke this season! She's never looked better!)

Which outfit do you think was the worst?

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Xbox One architecture panel liveblog!

We're not done from Redmond, folks. Microsoft's Major Nelson is hosting a panel of Xbox One architects, and we're going to bring it to you. Join us for the liveblog!

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