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Oregon senators have unanimously voted in favor of passing a bill that would ban the sale or marketing of suicide kits.
The vote came in response to a 29-year-old Oregonian named Nick Klonoski who used a suicide kit to end his life in December. Klonoski ordered the simple kit, which contained a hood and tube, through the mail.
"After learning of a young man who took his life using a helium hood he bought, it became obvious that there were no checks and balances of marketing suicide kits," said State Sen. Floyd Prozanski, who sponsored the bill. "Minors had access to the kits through the Internet, and I personally don't believe we need to be marketing an object like a suicide kit."
Prozanski said that he supports assisted suicide for those who are terminally ill and have been counseled on ending their life, but not for young people who are depressed but otherwise physically healthy.
The Daily Beast reported that Klonoski was not terminally ill, and would not have qualified for lethal prescriptions available to eligible Oregon residents under the Death with Dignity Act. Oregon is one of three other states in which assisted suicide is legal.
"Any kid who suffers from depression after losing their first boyfriend or girlfriend and thinking the world is over has access to this right now," Prozanski said.
When Klonoski received his suicide package in the mail, it might have been anything: a simple white box decorated with a butterfly. But inside were the simple tools he would use to end his life.
And even after Klonoski reportedly used one of Sharlotte Hydorn's homemade suicide kits to end his life in December, the 91-year-old entrepreneur said she makes no apologies for his death.
"I cannot take all the sadness of the world on my shoulders," said Hydorn from her home in La Mesa, Calif. "I feel so sorry for the mama, but I'm not at fault. That's his choice, not my choice."
While Hydorn believes she's "making the world better" by selling the kits to people who want to end their life, she took the news of the Oregon bill in stride.
"If I never sell anymore kits there, that's fine," said Hydorn. "Oregon is Oregon, and they can do as they please.
"Since this bill came out, I've received many many orders from Oregon," said Hydorn. "They haven't benefited themselves, and now people are stocking up before the law closes on them."
Hydorn said the homemade kits, which she has been selling for four years, are intended to assist the death of those who are terminally or in severe chronic pain. But anyone can request the $60 kit, and she does not screen her clients before sending out the device.
Business doubled after Klonoski's death made headlines, according to Hydorn, and she plans on continuing to grow her small company.
Hydorn first became interested in assisted suicide after watching metastatic colon cancer take over her husband's body in 1977. He died in the hospital, instead of at home, where Hydorn said he belonged.
"It's always been in my mind that people should have the right to die at home with a family around them, not in a strange place surrounded by strangers," she said.
Hydorn was sure to look into the legal side of things before starting her mail-order business by making sure that she would not be implicated in any potential legal woes.
"The attorney told me, 'You're just the bag lady,'" she said. "So long as I'm not present when death occurs, and I'm not telling them to shut up and pull the bag down already, I am not accountable."
Hydorn Meets Humphry
Three years after her husband's death, Hydorn met Derek Humphry, author of "Final Exit" and founder of the right-to-die organization, the Hemlock Society. Hydorn believed in Humphry's mission and began to volunteer, and ultimately became a board member, for the organization.
"I assume her purpose is Kevorkian-like-- to help people with terminal illness feel empowered," said Dr. Ken Robbins, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin and director of psychiatry at Stoughton Hospital nearby.
But even if a person believes assisted suicide is ethical, Robbins said it is essential for a clinician to thoroughly screen patients to be sure they are not suicidal because of depression.
"You have to make sure they don't want to end their life because they are depressed because depression is treatable." said Robbins. "If the person goes through a good evaluation with a clinician, it's not that hard to decipher."
"If they have depression that is temporary due to the illness, or from the mental condition itself, part of the symptom is to feel hopeless," said Robbins. "People have to know that it will get better through treatment."
"For people in emotional pain, I don't know how anyone could argue that it is ethically appropriate to help them commit suicide," Robbins said.
Hydorn said people call or write to her to request a kit, which includes a customized plastic bag and a tube intended to be connected to a tank of inert gas. Often times customers provide little detail of their intentions. They usually tell her their name, the number of desired kits and the address where they'd like the kit to be sent. They enclose a check for the appropriate amount and sometimes include extra postage if they want the package delivered overnight or sent internationally.
Hydorn said she has received requests for kits from all over the world.
No Screening, No Follow-Up
After hearing of Klonoski's death, Hydorn said she went through her invoices to see whether she could find his written request. She could not find a letter from the name, Klonoski, but she did find a correspondence with an unclear recipient and address.
"It was a P.O. box," said Hydorn. "People can really give me any name they want. It could be Joe Blow and I wouldn't know the difference. I just have to trust people."
But Sen. Prozanski's office said the box sent to Klonoski, which was retrieved after his death, had his full name and home address written on the package. Hydorn's company, the Gladd Group, was clearly labeled as the sender of the package.
Hydorn also said that the Daily Beast insinuated that, along with her kit, she sends the recipient a copy of Final Exit, the how-to handbook for terminally ill people who wish to end their lives, written by Humphry. Hydorn said she does not sell the book, but Humphry told her that Klonoski had bought the book more than a year before he ended his life. Hydorn said many of her clients are referred by Humphry.
Frank Kavanaugh, a spokesman for Final Exit Network, said that the organization screens clients with physical and mental health exams to determine whether the network will help to supply information and counsel people on how to end their lives. Clients must be determined by a doctor to be in the last six months of their lives.
"One of the advantages of counseling is that, if a person makes it through preliminary checks, they're very carefully counseled to make sure what they're doing is successful," said Kavanaugh. "If you're not counseled, it can lead to a problem."
But, when asked whether Kavanaugh believes it is a problem that Hydorn does not screen her clients, he said: "I don't think she is being irresponsible. We don't have control of other people."
Some psychiatrists disagree. Dr. Eric Hollander, clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said it is critical that individuals with psychiatric disorders resist acting on suicidal thoughts or impulses by helping them view their situation in a more realistic perspective.
"The problem is that with increased access to such a device to terminate life, some individuals might be enabled to act on a whim or impulse to kill themselves, whereas if this was not readily available, patients might obtain help for their underlying mental disorder, or view their situation from alternative or more realistic perspectives," said Hollander.
But Hydorn doesn't see it that way, and the grandmother wipes her hands free of repercussions after her kit is sent out.
"Again, if someone gets hurt, I'm sorry, but that's their decision," said Hydorn. "Somebody closer to them than me could have helped that person. It's not my responsibility to help emotionally sick people. There's local help for that."
Not In it for the Money
The Daily Beast reported that Hydorn makes $98,000 per year through her company, but she said that fact is wrong. "I have no idea where they got that number," said Hydorn.
Either way, Hydorn said she is not in it for the money.
"I get emotional satisfaction out of being able to help people," she said. "My motivation is to help people. If they misunderstand that, then so be it, but I'm not at fault for other people's choices."
If you or someone you know has contemplated suicide, please call theNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Lines are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.


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The Recyclables: would you date one?
There's a new type of bloke on the block who's getting single women's knickers all wound up. I'm not talking about the sleaze, the playboy or the womanizing wonder-man who has more notches on his belt than Tiger Woods. This new subset of men I've discovered are far less appealing and far more widespread. Introducing the recyclables: eligible single men who've already dated half your social circle and have warts-and-all horror stories being told about them all over town.
Like New York Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez. After being dumped by Madonna, he dated Hollywood actress Kate Hudson and is now frolicking about with Cameron Diaz. He is never seen in a tabloid without a pretty blonde as a handbag and a smirk on his face.
While I have no doubt this man is built like a Greek God and has more charms than a Pandora bracelet, is he seriously that good? Do these (hot) women feel that there are no other men to date other than someone their friend (and half of Hollywood) has already done the dirty with? Is he a master player who knows all the right things to say? Or is it simply a case that there's simply not enough men to go around so we are forced to recycle...?more
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Jealousy's a bitch: When friends get in the way of your love-life
I once dated a gent who we'll call Mr. Ex. When we were alone he was Mr Perfect who would call me his "Princess" and actually offered to watch the film Clueless on our first date. (Strange, but true.) The trouble, I soon discovered, was that when we were out with his mates, he'd smash beer cans on his head, act rough and aggressive, drink his weight in vodka and ignore me the entire evening.
When I questioned his behaviour the following day, he explained that his mates didn't like it when he had a girlfriend so he pretended we weren't together when they're around. "During my last relationship, my girlfriend and I sat home every weekend on the couch," he told me. "I lost all the respect of my mates. It won't let ever happen again with anyone else. Including you" ...more
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The new female sport: husband hunting?
I'm not sure when husband hunting became a bona fide sport. But when biological clocks start to tick and loneliness sets in, the hunt begins. Clubs and pubs become a jungle of eligible males (or a string of disappointing dates) as women flash their assets and dart their eyes around in hopeful search of "the one".
But why? What's so great about getting married anyway?
According to authors Cynthia S. Smith and Hillary B. Smith of Why Women Shouldn't Marry: Being Single by Choice, the answer is not much.
"Why on earth should you allow a man to move in on you, bringing his demands and idiosyncrasies that force you to reshape your life into his image?" the authors And perhaps they have a point ...more
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Why break-ups hurt so much
"He made my life hell."
"She killed my self esteem."
"He cheated on me. Twice!"
"She kicked me out of the apartment and threw my stuff out the window."
"He was mean to my dog."
"I want her back!"
"Why doesn't he want me back?"
We all know the feeling of being in the throes of a break-up and still clinging onto the past. But, says Stephanie Klein, author of the brilliant break-up memoir Straight Up and Dirty, not getting over someone from your past is akin to carrying a corpse in the cargo of your boat while trying to reach a faraway destination.
So here's a quick question for Ask Sam readers: who here is carrying a corpse in their boat? Because, unfortunately, it doesn't matter what the other person did to piss you off or why the relationship ended, the fact is that, for some unknown reason, break-ups seems to hurt like a motherf---er, no matter whose fault it was. And suddenly the thought of letting go or moving on is a faraway dream akin to the invention of painless bikini waxes.
For those who've never experienced the pain and anguish of a relationship gone sour, constant jabs, such as, "So, have the two of you spoken?", "Has he moved on without you?" and "I saw your ex out last night and it looked like your ex was on a date," mean that ditching the corpse is made a whole lot more difficult.
"Who gives a toss?" you desperately want to scream back. "I'm F-I-N-E without them, thank you very much." Which is why it's important to stick with those who've been through the same thing. They're the ones who know that the minute the corpse is dumped into the water, things will instantly go from choppy and unpredictable to happy and smooth sailing.
Of course everyone has their own recipe for successfully dumping the corpse and moving forward ...more
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The games men play
The other day a friend of mine whom we'll call Dana, met a man at a bar. He was cute, muscular and tanned. He told her he was a banker. He bought her a drink. They talked for hours. She felt a connection. When he rang her the next day, she was elated. They set a dinner date for a week later. After two days of riveting conversation, he said he had to see her that night. She was flattered. At the bar that night he said he had a confession to make. Dark thoughts ran rampant through her mind. Was he married? Was he gay? Did he have an STD?
"I'm not really a banker," he told her. "I'm in sales. Are you going to leave now?" She didn't. But she wasn't impressed either.
"What the hell is up with modern men and all their games?" she asked me the following day. "I mean seriously. Lying about their job to impress a woman? Is it now about the size of their career not their brain or their hands? What's the deal?"more
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No more sex!? Why sex is out and celibacy is in
Here's a news flash in case you missed it: Lady Gaga has quit having sex. "I'm celibate," she recently told Britain's Daily Mail. "Celibacy's fine." Her reason? Quite simply that she's single and so she doesn't feel the need to bonk a random for the sake of it. "It's OK not to have sex," she said, "It's OK to get to know people."
Indeed it is. Yet, while her anti-sex declaration might seem at odds with her overtly sexual image, raunchy outfits and habit of gyrating on stage to lyrics so crude that some countries have blocked them from their airwaves, it seems she's not the only one going on a sexual diet.
Serial singletons the world over, who are tired of all the emotionless romps, seem no longer to enjoy casual sex, random encounters or drunken escapades in the name of a little "ooh ahh" as they once did. While it was once deemed to be "liberating", "empowering" and orgasmic to do the dirty with someone you just met at a bar, it has turned into Groundhog Day with forgotten names, awkward goodbyes and emergency STD tests the following day ...more
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"Things I wish I knew before I got married"
Last week, there was a hullabaloo over a recent study of women in their 20s carried out by More magazine, which discovered that women believe the ideal age to get married is 26. (Say what!?) And after a quick nip over at Google, it seems that everyone from 17-year-old Miley Cyrus to 29-year-old Kim Kardashian to the average working girl is desperate to tie the knot.
Many women I speak to make no secret of the fact that they are on the perpetual hunt for "the one". Cries of "I just want to meet my husband!" can be heard ricocheting across the office water cooler as single girls band together in search of the bloke who's going to buy them a diamond and say his "I dos" sooner rather than later.
But over on the other side of the nuptial coin, bitter marrieds and jaded spouses are grappling with another conundrum: how to deal with a marriage that doesn't seem to be all chocolate dipped strawberries ...more
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Can women entice a man to have an affair? And do bad marriages cause an affair? Or does an affair cause a bad marriage?
"Do you believe once a cheater always a cheater?" A girlfriend whispered the question to me the other day while we sat idly waiting for a bride and groom to walk down the aisle at a wedding reception. The couple, who were about to say their "I dos", are so sickly in love it's enough to make one want to gag - especially someone fresh from a break-up like my friend. Now she was wondering whether or not she should even entertain the idea of dating a man who had cheated on his last girlfriend.
Personally, I wasn't so sure. If someone can do it once, will they do it again? Or was the whole cheating escapade just a symptom of a bad relationship? And if so, will a good relationship prevent him from giving into temptation the next time around?
Professor of Psychology John Buri writes in Psychology Today magazine that it all depends on the type of affair taking place. He reckons there are four types of affairs, all with different reasons and consequences ...more
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Women want love; men need sex. So now what?!
There's a man I know; let's call him Paul. Over the years he's learnt that, to get what he wants - regular sex from a woman - he has to form some sort of a "relationship". And so he fakes one. Or two. Or five. All at once. He manipulates women into thinking that he is the perfect man by wining, dining and treating them with the perfect blend of chivalry and bad-boy-turned-good persona.
"I've changed," he purrs lovingly to each and every one of them. "And you've been the one to change me." Cue female hearts melting, skirts lifting and hearts breaking.
Paul doesn't rush these women. Oh no. He moves slowly and stealthily, knowing very well that slow and steady wins the race. Or at least another blow job.
"Wow, he's waited so long!" the unsuspecting women say, clapping their hands in glee, imagining themselves walking down the aisle and what their babies might looks like.
"He must really like me!" Or worst of all; "I think I might have finally found 'the one'!". And so they succumb to sleeping with him. And he laughs smugly to himself when another one bites the dust ...more
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Would you fake an orgasm in the name of love?
Orgasm. The very word goes straight to the jugular, reeking of sexual ecstasy, togetherness, sensuality and chemistry. But whether or not it's easily achievable in the bedroom is a whole other sexually charged story. Do couples have more or less than those with booty call buddies? Can you only have one with someone with whom you're truly in love? And the big, eternal question: how many women (and men!) really do fake it?
Ever since sex educator Shere Hite's shocking revelation that only 30 per cent of women are able to have an orgasm through sexual intercourse, men have been a little wary about all the "oohing" and "aahing" taking place in the bedroom.
Perhaps they've caught wind of the whispers that can be heard among women over coffee and cocktails that, sadly for many women, achieving an orgasm is a faraway dream existing only in Californication episodes and Jackie Collins novels. Or perhaps they've heard that feminist author Fay Weldon recently told women that, in order to keep a man (and herself) happy and satisfied, "faking it" is the way to do it ...more
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Do women need a husband checklist?
There's a lot of heavy pressure on the single, aging (or even young) women of this world to settle down. And fast. "You need a husband!" seems to be the common cry shared by concerned grandmothers and coupled-up friends who worry that their perpetual single girlfriend might end up alone and without a man - or worse - like a Bridget Jones Clone.
But what about those women who married incorrectly? Should they have rushed into it too? Are they better of with a husband who lies, cheats and hooks up with their sister behind their back as opposed to being alone, happy and still waiting for Mr. Right to whip them off their feet?
Such speculation is surrounding the wife (or soon-to-be-ex by the looks of things) of Tiger Woods. According to Shane Watson of the Times of London newspaper, Elin Nordegren was an idiot not to have had what she dubs as the "husband checklist".
While she cites both authors Lori Gottlieb who says we should just "settle" rather than have too many expectations in her tome, Marry Him: The Case for Settling For Mr Good Enough, and quotes author Joanna Trollope who reckons, "People have to throw away this absurd Vera Wang shopping list which says of a man that he has to earn GBP 100,000 a year, that he has to be able to cut down a tree, play the Spanish guitar, make love all night and cook me a cheese souffle," Watson says women actually need to have a list of rigid rules if they want to find happiness in the long run ...more
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Whose fault is an affair?
Disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer is in the news yet again. In case you missed it, he gave me plenty of fodder for this column a while back when it was discovered and reported by The New York Times that, behind his wife's back, he was bonking thousand-dollar call girls who were part of a prostitution service called the Emperors Club VIP.
The game was up (along with Spitzer's career) when police uncovered the illegal goings-on of the prostitution ring, not to mention Spitzer's multiple meetings with his favourite conquest, known as "Kristen".
"Kristen" was later discovered to be 22-year-old Ashley Dupre who has since gone on to release a music single, posed for Playboy and is now the writer of her very own sex column with the New York Post titled "Ask Ashley". (Geez, is this what it takes to become a "dating expert" these days?)
Now, thanks to author Peter Elkind, comes the book exposing everything that went on behind the sordid scenes. In Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Elkind claims that Spitzer's wife recently came out and said that the affairs might have been her fault after all. "The wife is supposed to take care of the sex. This is my failing; I wasn't adequate," he quotes her as saying.
Wasn't adequate? So it's her fault her husband had an affair with a hooker? For real?more
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Are relationships meant to last forever?
Are relationships really meant to last forever? Not according to Marilyn Monroe's 1955 film Seven Year Itch. Or actress Sienna Miller (who doesn't believe in monogamy and thinks we're all just animals). Or my recently divorced friend Sarah who is now dating a model 10 years her junior.
Let's talk about Sarah for a moment. After being married for seven years, having a child and then feeling lonely, depressed and "trapped" in her marriage, she decided that the thought of being in one relationship for the rest of her life was about as unappealing as a man who can't get it up.
"Who says relationships are meant to be forever?" she sniffed. "For me, it's more important to have three or four decade-long relationships, rather than just one long relationship that goes on forever" ...
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Hi All!! Well it has been quite awhile since I have posted anything. All I can say is teenagers eat up alot of your free time....Those of you with teens kwim right??? But I was able to find a little crafty time this weekend to create this card for this weeks MFT Challenge. Loving the way it came out and oh my this Theresa Collins Paper is soooo yummy!!!
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Two tour group companies are seeking dismissal of a federal wrongful death lawsuit filed against them after White Plains teen Tyler Madoff was swept out to sea July 4 while on a guided tour in Hawaii.
Golden, Colo.-based Bold Earth Teen Adventures and Kealakekua, Hawaii-based Hawaii Pack and Paddle LLC, claim the lawsuit filed by Tyler's parents in August in federal court in Honolulu was filed in the wrong court.
In motions filed Nov. 1 in federal court, the companies argue that the 15-year-old's parents, Michael and Marianne, entered into two contracts prior to the trip, binding them to litigate any lawsuit in Jefferson County, Colo., which is the county where Bold Earth is headquartered. A "Liability Agreement" was executed electronically "more than five months before the trip" and a "Parent Agreement" was hand-signed by Marianne "more than three months before the trip," the motions say…
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April 8, 2007
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
NEW YORK - Lauren Huddleston and Jessica Meyer both had two hits and scored two runs as Yale cruised to a 9-0 victory over Columbia to earn a split of an Ivy League doubleheader at Baker Field. Deanna DiBernardi pitched five innings and allowed only three hits to notch her third win of the season. Aimee Kemp pitched a five-hitter with four strikeouts to lead Columbia to a 2-1 win in the first game.
Yale (15-9, 2-6 Ivy) took control of the second game by scoring five runs in the second inning. With one out, Katie Edwards walked. Meyer and Huddleston followed with back-to-back singles to load the bases. Courtney Blachford then drove home the first run with an RBI single up the middle. Two Columbia (15-7, 5-7 Ivy) errors led to two more runs for the Bulldogs. Kyli Hanson knocked in the fourth run on a fielder's choice and Christina Guerland capped the scoring when she scored on a wild pitch.
DiBernardi, meanwhile, did not allow a hit through the first three innings.
Yale used the long ball to put the game away. Meyer homered in the third, Hanson went deep in the fourth and Edwards hit her second homer in as many days, a blast to left in the fifth that made it 8-0. Huddleston doubled later in the fifth, moved to third on a ground out and scored on Blachford's sacrifice fly to right to complete the scoring.
Keli Leong broke up DiBernardi's no-hit bid when she singled leading off the fourth.
The first game was a pitcher's duel between Kemp and Yale's Rebecca Wojciak, who allowed only two hits and struck out three.
The Bulldogs struck first in the first. Ashley Sloan drew a leadoff walk. Guerland followed with a single and when the ball was misplayed by Columbia's rightfielder, Sloan was able to score all the way from first.
Wojciak sailed through the first two innings, retiring all six batters she faced. Columbia, though, scored a pair of unearned runs in the third. Ciji Rich led off with a single, and Kim Krisman reached on an error. Both runners advanced on a ground out, and Danielle Pineda followed with a two-run single to left.
Yale had a chance to tie in the sixth. With two out, Megan Enyeart doubled down the left field line. Kemp, though, avoided further trouble by retiring the next hitter. Edwards singled for the Bulldogs in the seventh, but Kemp again worked out of the jam to notch her 11th win of the season.
Three of Yale's six Ivy losses have been by one run, and a fourth wasn't decided until the 10th inning.
The Bulldogs are back in action when they play a non-league doubleheader against Sacred Heart on Thursday at Dewitt Family Field beginning at 3 p.m.
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2007 NBA Draft MusingsPosted by rtmsf on June 29th, 2007
Note: If you're looking for the 2008 NBA Draft Musings, look here.
Some post-apocalyptic draft thoughts for your Friday, as we settle into a long summer of waiting for something to happen…
Championship or Bust in Portland?
- One and Dones. These players acquitted themselves quite well in this year's draft, which means they were getting good information from their schools and representatives. Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Mike Conley, Jr., Brandan Wright, Spencer Hawes and Thaddeus Young were six of the top twelve players taken. Not coincidentally, five of those were among the top seven seniors of the Class of 2006, according to Rivals (Chase Budinger of Arizona was the lone holdout returning to school, and Conley was rated #18). Javaris Crittenton and Daequan Cook were also selected in the first round, meaning that every college freshman who declared was taken this year. Although it's arguable whether the one-and-done system worked for college basketball (Ohio State – yes; Washington – no), we assert from a player perspective that it helped them exponentially in terms of marketability and readiness to perform at the next level. Every sports fan in America now knows who Greg Oden and Kevin Durant are – that wouldn't have been the case prior the one-and-done rule.
- Gator Rule. As we alluded to yesterday, the Florida Gators were set to greatly increase its all-time count of draft picks last night, and they did so with a flourish (see Joakim Noah's getup below), increasing its total from 10 to 15 overnight. Florida's five entries into the NBA last night – Al Horford, Corey Brewer (who looked like the happiest man alive), Noah, Chris Richard (we figured he'd get a look), and Taurean Green – ties UConn for the most draft picks in one year. What, no Lee Humphrey?!?! The Huskies also entered five in 2006. One question, though. Where was Billy Donovan during this celebration of Pax Floridana? Maybe Christine hasn't let him out of the house yet.
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- Conference Breakdown. The BCS conferences accounted for 39 of the 60 picks last night. The ACC (9 total; 6 first rounders) led the way, with the SEC close behind (8/3); the Big 10 (6/4), Pac-10 (6/4) and Big East (6/2) each showed moderate success, while the Big 12 fell behind the others (4/3). Considering that there were thirteen international players selected, that left only eight picks for the mid-majors. The highest mid-major player selected was Rodney Stuckey from Eastern Washington at #15; although Nevada also placed two players in the second round (Nick Fazekas and Ramon Sessions).
- Dumb Declarations. By our count, only four players from D1 schools who stayed in the draft as an early entry candidate were not selected this year (most notably, Shagari Alleyne, formerly of Kentucky). This shows again that players are improving at determining their real value (vs. perceived inflated value) before making the decision to jump.
"Why Didn't I Go Pro Last Year????"
- A Year Late, A Dollar Short. Three players from big-name schools were probably kicking themselves for not leaving school early last year, when their weaknesses weren't as exposed to the scouts. Duke's Josh McRoberts (offensive skills), LSU's Glen "Big Baby" Davis (weight issues) and Arizona's Marcus Williams (headcase) all would have been much higher picks last year. Now each must battle for scraps as second-round selections this time around.
- Parlez vous français? We always hate to see guys who put in their four years at college and were pretty good players, only to get passed over in the draft for Pau Gasol's little brother. So a special shout-out goes to Zabian Dowdell (Virginia Tech), JR Reynolds (Virginia), Curtis Sumpter (Villanova), Mario Boggan (Oklahoma St.), Ekene Ibekwe (Maryland) , Brandon Heath (San Diego St.), Ron Lewis (Ohio St.) and Kyle Visser (Wake Forest) for providing wholesome collegiate entertainment over the last half-decade. We were tempted to also include Mustafa Shakur (Arizona) here, but he seemed to disappoint more than inspire during his tenure in Tucson.
Oden Wins Championships; Durant Wins Scoring Titles.
- Final Thought. Oden vs. Durant was endlessly debated all season long. While we have to agree that we enjoy watching Durant play far more than Oden, that belies our bias against watching post men in favor of perimeter players in general. Still, Oden is the kind of player that championship teams are built around, and the Durants of history are comparitively light in the hardware department. We saw this played out in this year's NCAA Tournament, where Oden's team went to the national finals, and Durant's squad was out (embarrassingly) in the second round. Either way, we wish the best of luck to both of them, as they made college basketball a more interesting game for the year they spent with us.


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A team of Penn State Smeal MBA students spent their final semester in the program working with entrepreneur Sisay Shimelis on an aspect of his ambitious project to improve the quality of life for Ethiopians.
Shimelis, the founder, president, and CEO of NutrAfrica, seeks to lower the cost of the food staple, injera, for Ethiopians while introducing production methods that are both socially and environmentally sustainable. Injera is a sourdough flatbread-like food made from the East African grain teff, and it makes up a significant portion of many Ethiopians' caloric consumption. Traditionally, Ethiopian women and children cook the food over an open fire, which leads to respiratory problems—and is also causing deforestation in the region.
A key part of Shimelis' overall business strategy is to export injera to the American market—and that's where the MBA students come in. As part of the spring 2014 Applied Professional Experience (APEX), second-year MBA students Peter Chamberlain, Elizabeth Combs, Michele Harrison, Syed Khazi and Ian McSpadden worked as a team to create a strategy for expanding injera's presence in the American market.
A capstone component of the Penn State Smeal MBA Program, APEX links teams of students in their final semesters with companies and organizations looking to address specific business challenges.
The social and environmental aspects of the project were what initially drew Harrison to participate: "I have a strong interest in social enterprise," she said. "And I wanted to work for a smaller company where our project could have the greatest impact."
The team was tasked with developing the strategy and corresponding implementation plan -- including distribution channels, supply chain logistics, pricing model, web-enabled order processing, and more -- for bringing the NutrAfrica's injera product to the U.S. market from its manufacturing facility in Ethiopia.
"Our hope is, through projects like this, we can work to break down the walls between the colleges and provide our students with cross-functional experiences."
-- Dave Lenze, Director, Penn State Smeal MBA APEX Program
"Our primary goal was to provide Sisay with an implementable plan to use in the next steps of his company," said Harrison.
The ability to pay for injera is three times greater in North America than in Ethiopia, according to Harrison, so the U.S. market is key to NutrAfrica's profitability.
The team's first task was to investigate the market. Their recommendation to Shimelis was to gain traction in the North American market through existing Ethiopian diaspora.
Because much of the product's success hinges upon getting it into the hands of Ethiopian grocery stores and restaurants, NutrAfrica needed an IT strategy—including a website that could provide order processing capabilities.
For this task, Penn State Smeal MBA students enlisted some consultants of their own. They worked closely with a class of undergraduate students, led by Irene Petrick, senior lecturer in the Penn State College of Information Science and Technology. Through this aspect of the project, MBA students gained the experience of not only serving as consultants to a business but also working with consultants—the undergraduate students.
"This project has been an amazing experience of seeing how everything ties together cross-functionally."
-- Peter Chamberlain, Class of 2014, Penn State Smeal MBA Program
"The IST students worked over several classroom sessions with MBA team members on creating an IT strategy that would support NutrAfrica's entry into the diaspora community," said Dave Lenze, director of the APEX program. "Our hope is, through projects like this, we can work to break down the walls between the colleges and provide our students with cross-functional experiences."
The MBA student team presented their recommendations for NutrAfrica's North American expansion—including the IT strategy developed by their IST colleagues—at the end of April.
"This project has been an amazing experience of seeing how everything ties together cross-functionally," said Chamberlain.
"This project provided students with a international business problem that encompassed everything from marketing to supply chain to business model and strategy," said Lenze. "It was a great example of a real-world, messy, cross-functional business problem that we want our students to know how to approach when they enter the professional world after graduation."
NutrAfrica has a number of other ongoing collaborations across the University through Shimels' connections. He is working on injera product and process development with Greg Ziegler, professor of food science in the College of Agricultural Sciences. With Jeff Catchmark, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, there are teams addressing machine design and sustainable packaging. And Jeffery Erickson, associate clinical professor of law at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, has led a sustainable development law clinic that looked at the legal and regulatory issues facing the firm.
About the Penn State Smeal MBA Program
The internationally ranked residential Penn State Smeal MBA Program positions students from around the world for their future careers. The two-year program, based on the University Park campus, begins with a focus on business fundamentals. Through summer internships with top companies and concentration opportunities in areas such as finance, marketing, and supply chain management, students then personalize their Smeal MBA experiences to align with their career aspirations. Learn more at www.smeal.psu.edu/mba.


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I thought this book was good because it tells both the history and the mystery. Also, it makes you want to discover the truth. Last, it talks about fakes and how they are made.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries. I think people who need to know the truth would like it also.


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"If you've tired of the music scenes in Seattle and New York's East Village, the only place to turn is a Web server in Finland. The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki, provides a list of music sites that would rival a Vienna guidebook. It not only links you to jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages but covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research, theory, and opera as well. The site's only graphic is a diminutive Finnish flag, but with such an array of music you don't need much else."
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Serkan Özkaya
|Portait of the artist in his gallery
"I sometimes think that ideas are like butterflies, as Feyerabend calls them. They circle around in the air and anyone with a seeing eye can see them and it's just a matter of choice to decide to take the responsibility to execute and go for them. And then the artist is mostly an exhibitionist who wants to share or actually show them to others." - Serkan Özkaya
|Baker's Apprentice (2006)
|A Sudden Gust of Wind
Halil Altındere
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|My Mother Likes Pop Art Because Pop Art is Colorful (1998)
|Super Turk (2002)
Cengiz Tekin
|Natürmort (Still Life), 2007
"Unsurprisingly, this spirit and humor spills into Tekin's art, where seemingly typical, unremarkable people, locations, and situations are staged and tweaked by the artist to reveal the underlying violence, trauma, instability, and uncertainty that remains the reality for the Kurds of southeastern Turkey. Often they capture moments just before or after a violent act has taken place, but it is never clear what exactly happened (or is about to happen), why the act took place, or the identity of the victim or perpetrator. For example, in Tekin's 2007 photograph, Natürmort (Still Life), a man lies splayed in a field of wheat, his face obscured by the stalks. Dressed in blue, his attire mirrors the fiery sky that looms above the field, making him seem like a piece of the heavens dropped to the earth. The gun in his limp hand implies that a shoot-out or stand-off of some kind has just transpired–or could it be a suicide? Is the angle of the gun, still cocked and pointed up, a coincidence of the way he fell? Or is he still alive and playing dead in order to ambush his foe, or escape further fighting?" - http://blog.art21.org/2011/07/12/turkish-and-other-delights-cengiz-tekin/
|Potlatch (2009)
"Similarly in the 2009 series of three photographs, Potlatch, a flow of bank notes streams from an unidentified man's hands into the sky (again, that fiercely blue sky of southern Turkey!), into (or out of?) the gleeful hands of a group of young boys holding bags of toys, and the residential area that hugs the exterior of the ancient city walls of Diyarbakır, where many families, displaced by the fighting in the countryside during the 1980s and 1990s, resettled. In the manner of Tekin's other works, these photographs present more questions than answers: from whose hands are these funds flowing? To what purposes is it being used? Are the children of Diyarbakir benefiting from this influx of funds in a way that is lasting and meaningful, or is it just providing fleeting distraction? Is it really going to those who are most in need, who suffered the most from the violence, or is it just passing them by?" - http://blog.art21.org/2011/07/12/turkish-and-other-delights-cengiz-tekin/


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Rapper J. Cole didn't attract much attention during a recent photo shoot at an upscale Beverly Hills hotel. He had no entourage (a rarity by hip-hop standards) and appeared unassuming in a plain T-shirt and jeans. The only clear spoil of fame? A striking diamond pendant in the image of Jesus hanging from his neck.
Cole's invisibility was ironic given that the 28-year-old was soon to be co-headlining alongside Beyoncé, R. Kelly and Snoop Dogg at one of the summer's most high-profile music festivals. This weekend Cole will perform at Staples Center as part of the inaugural BET Experience — a three-day festival sponsored by the cable network that will take over the L.A. Live complex downtown and most of its venues.
But in Beverly Hills, the hotel guests were none the wiser. When someone finally approached Cole, it was hardly with the gaze of a star-struck fan. "Is it real?," asked the guest referring to the pendant. "Who designed it?" And, "Are you a rapper, or something?"
"No, I'm a doctor," Cole deadpanned before catching himself and softening his tone. "Just messing … I'm a rapper."
"Born Sinner," his new album, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week, is a compelling mix of Cole's low-key self grappling with the pressures and temptations that come with high-profile rap success.
In "Chaining Day" he raps: "Look at me, pathetic. This chain that I bought, you mix greed, pain and fame, this is heinous result."
"I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame," he said later over cocktails. "I was always conscious of not changing. I just started to embrace the fact that things will be different. Writing this album helped me do that."
"Born Sinner" proves the rapper, born Jermaine Cole, can meet the weighty expectations that come with being a Jay-Z protégé.
Cole's story is one of rap's best Cinderella tales. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised in Fayetteville, N.C., he waited until after he graduated college with a degree in communications (with magna cum laude honors at that) to chase his music dreams.
He worked up the courage to wait outside Jay-Z's New York office and hand him a CD of beats he produced in hopes of the hip-hop mogul using them for his own album. Cole was quickly shot down, but their paths eventually crossed and Jay finally took notice, eventually signing him to his Roc Nation imprint in 2009.
But Cole sat on the sidelines as the label struggled to find a single to launch him. He took matters in his own hands and issued a set of mix tapes, 2009's "The Warm Up" and 2010's "Friday Night Lights," which amassed an underground following and critical kudos. He then toured extensively, building his own buzz and a dedicated fan base from the ground up.
His debut finally came out in 2011. "Cole World: The Sideline Story" landed at No. 1 without a radio hit — taking him from underground rapper to a Grammy-nominated superstar.
Cole's new album, released last week, is built around sinewy, self-produced beats and clever rhymes about everyday life. The highly anticipated album has already sold 297,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Originally slated for a January release, the admitted perfectionist delayed "Born Sinner" for six months as he fine-tuned the album. To tide fans over, he released a pair of free EPs in the interim.
"I put a lot of pressure on myself," he acknowledged. "I think something's not good enough and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied."
Cole also raised the stakes by moving up the album's release date to compete with Kanye West's "Yeezus." "It was a quick, split-second decision," he said. "You're never going to get another opportunity to compete on this level."
The move, aside from showing his competitive spirit, is proof of a hard-won confidence. And that newfound swagger will be on full display Saturday when Cole will headline a bill that includes Snoop, Schoolboy Q and two of Cole's collaborators, Miguel and Kendrick Lamar.
"Born Sinner's" lead single, "Power Trip," features R&B artist Miguel and has been a mainstay on radio since its release in February. L.A. rapper Lamar appears on the album as well as does TLC's T-Boz and Chili. The last two contribute vocals to the second single, "Crooked Smile," a summer jam packed with a powerful message of self-acceptance and the potential to be a crossover, singalong hit.
But one of the album's deeper tracks is "Let Nas Down." Here he documents the struggle to find his voice between the underground world that championed him and the mainstream he's now part of. The song centers on his reaction to learning his idol, the uber-respected Nas, hated the commercial leanings of Cole's earlier singles. Nas has since jumped on the song's remix and assured Cole that he made him "proud."
"We just knew what we expected of [Cole] from his skill level, and what he represents to the new generation," said No I.D., the Def Jam vice president who Cole considers a mentor. "He grew and rounded out. He's definitely going to be in the conversation of classic hip-hop artists. Cole, as well as Kanye, Jay, everybody, is looking for those challenges to prove their greatness. He's just going to keep getting better."
As for what Cole thinks of the success that his new work has garnered?
"I don't know, man," he said, shaking his head, then pausing to think. "The hits that came, came from me and they are even bigger and better this time and even more 'me.' I don't know what statement that makes. I just told my story, my way."


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I want my lower half to look like this AT ALL TIMES.
Suddenly feel an inexplicable need to try out this legging + skirt combo, so genius and yet I never thought about it before? I AM CRAZY.


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Let's talk about revision control for a while. It's great. Everyone uses it. People love the power and flexibility it provides.
However, if you read about happenings from over ten years ago or so, we find that the situation was quite different. Seasoned developers were against revision control. They would flat out refuse to use it and instead just put everything on a shared network drive or used something crazier, such as the revision control shingle.
Thankfully we as a society have gone forwards. Not using revision control is a firing offense. Most people would flat out refuse to accept a job that does not use revision control regardless of anything short of a few million euros in cash up front. Everyone accepts that revision control is the building block of quality. This is good.
It is unfortunate that this view is severely lacking in other aspects of software development. Let's take as an example tests. There are actually people, in visible places, that publicly and vocally speak against writing tests. And for some reason we as a whole sort of accept that rather and not immediately flag that out as ridiculous nonsense.
A first example was told to me by a friend working on a quite complex piece of mathematical code. When he discovered that there were no tests at all measuring that it worked he was replied this: "If you are smart enough to be hired to work on this code, you are smart enough not to need tests." I really wish this were an isolated incident, but in my heart I know that is not the case.
The second example is a posting made a while back by a well known open source developer. It had a blanket statement saying that test driven development is bad and harmful. The main point seemed to be a false dichotomy between good software with no tests and poor software with tests.
Even if testing is done, the implementation may be just a massive bucketful of fail. As an example, here you can read how people thought audio codecs should be tested.
As long as this kind of thinking is tolerated, no matter how esteemed a person says it, we are in the same place as medicine was during the age of bloodletting and leeches. This is why software is considered to be unreliable, buggy piece of garbage that costs hundreds of millions. And the only way out of it is a change of collective attitude. Unfortunately those often take quite a long time to happen, but a man can dream, can he not?


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Great post Pump me up. You're right about everything. I had a FS speed2 19 mts SA and its effective range was 8 to 12 knots with a door. I sold the first day it hit the water and then the beach sand and i had to activate the 5th line, what a mess with all that bridles¡¡¡
In flight the LEIs are infinitely better than the foils. Now I have a Dyno 18 with a range 8-18 knots with 85kg and I can't be happier with this kite.
Last summer I flew alongside a FS speed3 21 mts in 8-9knts and was so slow and boring and I don't think at all it had the same high end they say when the wind picked up lets say 5-6 knots more the Fs guy had to went out to the beach he was clearly over power with a 137x42 board.
By the way it's a pity that this becomes a leis vs foils thread.


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Before the Skylanders series became a sales juggernaut for Activision, the publisher was looking into a partner. Given the kid-friendly nature of the game, they initially went to Nintendo, which could have made the toy-game hybrid a Nintendo-exclusive. Of course, that didn't work out.Toys for Bob co-founders Fred Ford and Paul Reiche told Polygon that in the early days of development, the pair made a presentation to Nintendo thinking it would play well with the company's image. Nintendo wasn't so sure."They spent a long time looking and looking," Reiche said. "They were just like 'we have never seen anything like this before.' I've always wondered about the full meaning of that comment [laughs]. We have no idea why [they passed]. Clearly, they have got properties well suited to this world. Why it is that they didn't rush in here will probably haunt them for the rest of their days."The concept has gone on to inspire competition from Disney with Disney Infinity. Nintendo even dipped its own tentative toe into NFC toy-games with Pokemon Rumble U. But Skylanders has been the banner-holder for the idea, and Nintendo could have capitalized with its own stable of characters."Nintendo could have kicked Disney's ass," Reiche said. "If I was running Nintendo I would have jumped on this."
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Doris Fisketjon, 85, a longtime Williston, N.D., resident died at the Bethel Lutheran Nursing Home in Williston surrounded by her family on Thursday, May 2, 2013.
Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 6, 2013, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Williston. Pastor Kay Reeb officiated and interment was at Riverview Cemetery in Williston.
Doris Bernice Nelson was born May 21, 1927, the first child to Andrew and Asbjorg (Lyderson) Nelson on the Nelson farm near Arnegard, N.D. She was educated in country schools and graduated from Arnegard High School in 1946. After high school graduation, she moved to Spokane, Wash., to bless a family as their nanny. Also while living in Spokane, she attended and received her license from cosmetology school.
Doris was united in marriage to Joseph Fisketjon in Idaho and to this union five children were born.
The couple resided in Spokane, Wash., where their first child was born and then returned to Watford City, N.D., where they farmed and she worked part-time in the Leiseth Funeral Home. While living in Watford City, their second and third children were born. They then made their home in Ray, N.D., where they owned and operated Ray Farm Supply and Joe's Food Market. Hard work was second nature for Doris and she was always serving the needs of others before herself. Their last two children were born while they lived in Ray.
Upon Joseph's retirement, they moved the family to Williston where Doris worked as head-cook at the Williston Junior High for 25 years. Doris devoted herself to the care of her family throughout her life. She was selfless and generous to a fault.
Doris was an active member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church and their women's groups. She enjoyed rosemaling, cake decorating, making lefsa, crocheting and upholstery work. She had an incredible green thumb, everything she planted grew large and thrived. With all of her activity, her first love still remained her children and grandchildren.
Doris is survived by her children and grandchildren, Janet Shipman of Minot and her children Tasha Buran and Collin Shipman; David (Luanna) Fisketjon and their children Jake Fisketjon, Paige Fisketjon; Jonathon (Lisa) Aisenbrey, Shanna Johnson, and Jacob Aisenbrey; Mary Jo (Ron) Neubauer and their children Holand (Danielle) Neubauer and Chantel Neubauer; Judy (Clyde) Vinger and their children Cami (Dustin) Morgan, Cristi (Jeremy) Wente, Cari (Benjie) Foss, CJ Vinger and Cory Vinger; and John (Michelle) Fisketjon and their children Andrew, Justin, Shelby and Darby Fisketjon all of Williston, N.D.; 19 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild; brothers, Neil (Maxine) Nelson of Arnegard, N.D. and Marvin (Stella) Nelson of Groveland, Fla.; sisters, Lyla Tweet of Fargo, N.D., Arlis (Gerald) Fritsvold of Chaska, Minn., and Betty Bartolomei of Grand Forks, N.D.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Joseph; sisters, Ida Evanson and Mabel Irene Nelson; two infant siblings, son-in-law, Jim Shipman; daughter-in-law, Lesli Fisketjon; brothers-in-law, Berneil Tweet and Vendal Evanson.
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If you think Mark Zuckerberg is just a prickly guy who did some questionable things to get to the top, here's an uplifting story.
In her new book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Sandberg recalls a breakthrough moment between her and Zuckerberg.
Sandberg says a cruel rumor was going around about her during her first few months at Facebook.
"I started telling Mark about it and, despite my best efforts, started to cry," she writes. "He assured me that the accusation was so untrue that no one could possibly believe it. And then he asked, 'do you want a hug?' I did. It was a breakthough moment for us."
Another surprising excerpt from Sandberg's book: she turned down an opportunity to be LinkedIn's CEO.


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Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent, who is awaiting trial for intoxication manslaughter for the car crash that killed a teammate, has been released from jail.
Brent's bail was revoked on June 27 because of two failed drug tests, but the Dallas Morning News reports that a judge ordered Brent freed on Sunday.
Brent crashed his truck on December 8, and his close friend and teammate Jerry Brown, the only passenger, died. District Attorney Craig Watkins said after Brent failed his second drug test while out on bond that Brent "needs to go to prison." But the judge apparently thinks Brent deserves to be free until he stands trial.
Although Brent is still on the Cowboys' roster, he is not expected to be permitted to play until 2014 at the earliest.


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From The Daily Pennsylvanian
January 28, 2009
"The Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Laboratory and the adjacent David Goddard Laboratories were designated a National Historic Landmark by then U.S. Secretary of the Interior John Kempthorne. The building is one of nine new landmarks Kempthorne added to a list of fewer than 2,500 buildings nationwide bearing the same designation.
"Kempthorne named the building a landmark for its significant contribution to architectural history "as one of the most important works of mid-20th-century American modernism" and a launching pad for the lucrative career of architect Louis Kahn, according to a press release.
"The building - the final part of which was completed in 1964 - marks Kahn's first to be named a landmark.
"According to University Architect David Hollenberg, approximately 10 months passed between the building's nomination and confirmation as a landmark. The proposal encountered some resistance, however, because the building's age is younger than the requisite 50 years."
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Scott Kelby shows you how to add highlights, remove strands, fix gaps, change color, darken a part line, and hide roots when retouching hair in Photoshop. In this episode, Scott will tackle adding highlights to otherwise dull hair.
Scott writes:
This is another one of those little things that makes a big difference, and once you take the few extra minutes to remove stray hairs, when you see portraits where the photographer didn't take the time, they stick out like a sore thumb. Luckily, this one is much easier and faster than you might think (as long as the stray hairs extend outside of your subject, which is usually the case. If they cover an eye, or extend onto their face or clothes, be prepared to become a very patient person).
Step One: Here's the image we want to retouch, and if you look closely, the subject's hair is...well...it could use some anti-static retouching—mostly on top, and a bit on the side, and there's one hair extending onto her forehead we should probably fix while we're there, too. Start off by duplicating the Background layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). We'll be doing all our stray hair removal on this layer (which not only gives us an out if things get really squirrelly, but it's a great way to see a quick before/after).
Step Two: Because we're going to have to trim right up to the sides of the hair, the Healing Brush isn't going to work well on this retouch—it would smear the edges when we got up close to the outside edge of her hair. So, instead, my tool of choice for this is the Clone Stamp tool (S), with a hard-edged brush, like the one you see me choosing here from the Brush Picker. Now, it's time to zoom in (to at least 100%) and get to work. (Note: If your background isn't an even color, you may have to start with the Healing Brush tool, and switch to the Clone Stamp tool as you get closer to her head.)
Step Three: The actual brush size you choose should be just a little bit larger than the hairs you want to remove, so don't just go with the size I'm using here for your other projects. Look at the hair strands and choose your brush size based on that—a little larger than the strand you're trying to remove.
Now, pick a starting point where you can follow around the head and not miss any spots (I'm starting on the lower-left side of the photo here). Here's what to do now: press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click once just outside the strand you want to remove, in a clean area without any hair. It needs to be pretty darn close, so the color, tone, and texture you're sampling here are nearly identical to what's around the strand you're about to remove.
Step Four: Start at the end of the hair farthest away from the head, and follow along the path of the hair, almost like you're tracing it, and stop when you reach her head (as seen above, right). The little plus sign to the left of my brush tip cursor shows you how close to where I'm painting I sampled (Option-clicked) in the previous step. Don't sample so close that you clone over yourself (and repeat some of the hair you're trying to remove), but get fairly close. If you make a mistake, just press Command-Z (PC: Ctrl-Z) to Undo your last stroke and try again. If you need to undo more than one stroke, press Command-Option-Z (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Z) up to 20 times to undo your last 20 steps (that's all you get by default). If you think you'll need more undos, then you and I need to have a talk (kidding!). Go to Photoshop's Preferences (under the Photoshop menu on a Mac, or the Edit menu on a PC), to Performance, and where it says History & Cache, type in a higher number of History States. It takes up more memory, but you get more undos.
NEXT: Now using this process, let's fix other problems in this image...
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Justin Bieber Naked Photos Leak
It finally happened: Naked photos of Justin Bieber have hit the Internet. What sort of salacious things do the nude pictures of Bieber entail? Is the infamous Jerry in full view?
Turns out, the shots are more silly than sexy.
TMZ nabbed the photos, which feature a buck naked Bieber covering his privates with nothing but a guitar.
They were taken at Bieber's grandma's house on Canadian Thanksgiving in October 2012 after the 'Believe' singer slept a little bit too late for the festivities. Biebs woke up after he heard his family and guests milling around the house and decided, as he's wont to do, to prank them in a big way.
Bieber supposedly strolled around the house in his birthday suit singing an impromptu, improvised song, crooning, "I love you Grandma / Hello Grandma / How are you, Grandma?"
Biebs' grandma thought it was hilarious, but nonetheless begged him to get dressed and get the guitar away from her -- and away from his junk -- until he had some pants on.


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'Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.'
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The Creators' Rights Alliance brings together the major UK organisations representing copyright creators and performers throughout the media - particularly, television, radio and the press.
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You created it: it's yours. This is a human right.
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There are a great variety of osteopathic manipulative methods. It is just as ridiculous to talk of manipulation, as though it is a specific entity, as it is to talk of medicine or surgery in the same terms. Just as the allopathic doctor, or surgeon, has a wide range of choice regarding medication or surgical procedure, so does the osteopathic practitioner have a wide range of choices regarding techniques and methods of manipulation.
Among the aims of manipulation are the restoration to normal of the supporting tissues such as muscle, ligaments, fascia etc. Then there is the normalization of movement and articulation, there is the use of reflex, mechanical, influence on the body as a whole.
Techniques can, roughly speaking, be divided into three groups:
Soft-tissue techniques. These are varied and involve any method that is directed towards tissue other than bone. Frequently soft-tissue techniques are used diagnostically, as well as therapeutically. Soft-tissue techniques may involve stretching movements across or along the lines of the muscular fibres and deep pressure techniques, as well as stretching and separation of muscle and other soft-tissue fibres, especially where muscles originate or insert into bony structures. Much soft-tissue manipulation involves working on fascia or connective tissues. These methods usually precede manipulation of the bony structures but can frequently achieve mobilization and normalization of joint structures on their own. This can result from the improvement of rigid or tense tissues, allowing a previously restricted joint to achieve a free range of motion.
A uniquely British contribution to this end was developed by the late Stanley Lief D.O., and it is in the use of this and other soft-tissue methods that attention is usually paid to the reflex areas that might influence the patient's condition. These might range from simple trigger points to more complex reflexes, involving internal function (Chapman's reflexes etc.). With soft-tissue techniques, diagnosis and treatment are often simultaneous. As the practitioner is palpating and assessing the tissue for signs of dysfunction, so is he treating and attempting to normalize what he finds.


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Of the 571 ballots cast for the 2014 Hall of Fame class, 136 (23.8%) chose to publish their ballots. This is Problem #1. I don't like how the BBWAA voted, but let's give some credit to those who did allow the BBWAA to publish them. But it doesn't mean they can't be mocked!
*Jeff Bagwell was left off of 23 ballots that filled out all ten spots.
*Of the 88 published ballots with Bagwell listed, 13 of those did not also include Biggio. Nine of those ballots had all ten spots filled.
*Of the 105 published ballots with Biggio listed, 30 did not include Bagwell.
*50 of the 57 ballots listing Barry Bonds used all ten spots.
*Surprise! Whoever voted for Armando Benitez and J.T. Snow chose not to publish their ballots.
*Newsday's Steven Marcus voted for three players: Greg Maddux, Jack Morris, Frank Thomas
*Honorary Voter Joseph Hoppel voted for: Jeff Bagwell, Greg Maddux, Mike Piazza, and Curt Schilling. That's it.
*The San Diego Union-Tribune's William Center voted for eight players including Barry Bonds, Fred McGriff, Tim Raines, and Alan Trammell...but not Jeff Bagwell.
*The AP's David Ginsburg voted for: Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Mike Piazza, and Frank Thomas.
*Honorary Voter Lawrence Rocca's ballot: Jack Morris, Hideo Nomo, Tim Raines, Alan Trammell
*Honoary Voter Alan Robinson's ballot: Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Fred McGriff, Frank Thomas
*La Voz Libre's Angel M. Prada's ballot: Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas
*The San Jose Mercury-News' Mark Purdy: Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Lee Smith, Frank Thomas
*Danny Knobler voted for Bonds, McGwire, and Alan Trammell, but not Biggio or Bagwell.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Notable BBWAA Ballots
2 comments:
- Chris Cupp said...
I think even Benitez and Snow were like "wait, someone actually voted for me?"
- January 10, 2014 at 11:04 AM
I want some of what Rocca was smoking. Or did he just wake from a coma have happened to have missed the last 17 years. Wow.
- January 10, 2014 at 7:38 PM
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Gematsu: "Malicious, Alvion's 3D action game for PlayStation Network, is coming overseas. The Japanese developer confirmed on Twitter that an English version is indeed on the way."
kay? it has an amazing art style but other than that it just looks like another hack n slash....whats the story, why should i care? bad reporting
English release =/= US release. Minna de Spelunker was in english via patch and it wasn't till another year and a half it was out in the US. Minna de Spelunker black was also in english and has no word of coming stateside.


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Breaking News
You gotta laugh just a little watching a 14-year-old radio talk show host blast homosexuality as a choice people make -- "no matter what Lady Gaga says."
Caiden Cowger says the homosexuality "problem" is out of control in his state of West Virginia. 30 kids in his county -- many of whom grew up with him -- have chosen to be gay.
Cowger says Obama and Biden are both personally responsible for turning people gay.
However you feel about the issue, the kid is doing West Virginia no favors -- he struggles with the English language during his rant, and for the most part loses the grammar war.


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One of the activities on our Summer Fun List is to make homemade crayons. Sweet Girl and I tackled this project over the past week and had a lot of fun! There are tons of tutorials out there in blog-land so I read a few and followed the basic directions.
First, you peel off all those little pesky wrappers. This took quite a few days. It was actually quite relaxing. Sweet Girl helped a little, but I did most of the work since it was a little tedious.
Then, we broke up all the crayons and separated them by color.
We baked them in the oven at 225 degrees for about 15 minutes until they were melted. Once the pans cooled, I popped them in the freezer for about an hour. The crayon blocks came out very easily once they were completely cooled.
We made both small and large crayon blocks (using a regular muffin tin and a mini muffin tin). They have been great for crayon rubbings and just drawing in general. They are very easy for little hands to hold!!


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Thursday, December 30, 2010
The End Of Social Issues & The Last Republican
Francis Fukuyama famously wrote an article later turned into a full length book "The End of History And The Last Man." Buy it by clicking HERE. Be forewarned: it contains a lot of Heidegger. To MC's mind, not a bad thing but surely not to everyone's taste.
His critics mostly misunderstood his thesis but proceeded to take it to task nonetheless.
Consequently, MC feels (a dreaded word, really) that its critics will do the same with this post. So be it. MC is up to the task.
What, then, are the social issues? The tiresome ones, of course. Abortion, same-sex marriage, and, well, that's it, isn't it?
Abortion will never be illegal in America. No, the analogy to slavery is not apt. Conservatives should shun ridiculous groups like Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. MCCL is mostly concerned about paying its ossified staff good salaries. They save no unborn. They take you for and treat you as suckers. Do not enable the charade to continue any longer. Give your money and time to the the Catholic church or any other legitimate group that reaches out to real women in real distress. You will be doing good. Don't forget to try to act like Christ either. Tough sledding but that's what you signed up for.
Same sex anything: it's over. Isn't it slightly creepy that some care about how others achieve sexual satisfaction? The marriage debate is real and MC is not for same-sex marriage but really, if civil unions flourish, who cares at the moment? MC favors social change organically, to use that silly word. Put it to a vote. Then follow what the people say. More or less, this is a good guide to social comity.
MC supposes this approach would defund the silly Minnesota Majority, which, apparently, exists only to raise money to pay its lone staffers Jeff Davis and Dan McGrath. Readers, send them no money at all. And voter photo id? A solution, as Joe Mansky said, in search of a problem.
The left was mightily disappointed in the lack of right wing outrage when DADT was repealed. Do they not understand that their favorite enemy, Dick Cheney, has an openly lesbian daughter in a committed relationship and has come out, so to speak, in favor of same sex marriage? In this Mr. Cheney is ahead of MC. Go figure! The military concerns, to be sure, are of a different order yet MC could not help but think that if those exceptional Israeli soldiers have no problem, why should we?
The point of this post is that no matter what one may think about this or that issue, the social issues as we once knew them are over. Indiana governor Mitch Daniels said as much recently and this generated a small boomlet in the the blogosphere. Michael Barone weighed in and dismissed it all as so much nonsense. The American people, the ones the left professes to love and care for but mocks at every opportunity, have moved on.
They want jobs, less government, less debt. The left can mock them all it wants in order for their dwindling numbers to feel better about themselves.
But, paradoxically, it is the American people who have now put the knife to social issues they themselves have outgrown. Can the blood suckers on both sides of the aisle do this?
One can hope.
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First of all, Jeff Davis works diligently at Minnesota Majority as a full time volunteer. He puts in 40 hours a week, minimum and draws no salary whatsoever. My own modest salary is about 3 to 4% of our typical annual budget.
Besides our core grassroots organizing and education mission, Minnesota Majority is behind GlobalClimateScam.com, HealthReformScam.com and is a principal organizer of the Minnesota Budget Solutions Coalition which produced the only comprehensive plan to solve last biennia's $6.4 billion budget deficit without raising taxes (MinnesotaBudgetSolutions.com), the No Cap and Trade Coalition (NoCapandTrade.com), and Election Integrity Watch (ElectionIntegrityWatch.com). That coalition backed a $50,000 voter education campaign, deployed thousands of poll watchers and 50 volunteers to staff an election incident reporting hotline.
Minnesota Majority has conducted the most comprehensive independent audit of Minnesota's election system ever undertaken, backed and got an election administration bill passed UNANIMOUSLY in both chambers last session.
We research bills and inform tens of thousands of members statewide on what their legislators are up to and provide tools to make grassroots involvement in the political process easier. We provide an annual, comprehensive legislative scorecard that covers the most diverse array of votes to give voters a clear picture of legislators' overall records.
We provide advice and assistance to other non-profits and are among the forerunners in conservative coalition building in Minnesota.
We're also among the principal organizers of the state's largest annual conservative gathering, the Jason Lewis Tax Cut Rally (TaxCutRally.com). Sure, John. We don't do anything but pad our pockets.
What have you been up to?
Dan McGrath
- December 31, 2010 at 12:52 AM
Could not disagree more
- December 31, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Rather than pick at the individual [and uncharacteristically unreasoned, IMHO] disagreements you provoke here, I would like to ask why you seem to believe that candidacies and governance have to choose one path or the other? Most Republicans share the same positions on the social issues AND the fiscal issues. Add in the "national security conservatives" and you have the third leg of the three-legged stool which is the Reagan coalition, and all are required to win. Most Republicans are all three, and there is no reason, IMHO, why we should bother to forsake any one of them except as a matter of momentary emphasis or opportunity. For example, I have long advocated that those for whom social issues are paramount should back fiscally conservative candidates so as to deprive government of the money and power to corrupt our social fabric. That's a pretty fair description of where we are at this point, yes?
J. Ewing
- January 1, 2011 at 8:28 AM